New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1923, Page 2

9 BILLS SIGNED A3 CONGRESS DIES ;Hardmgs Pen Hand Kept Busy-| No Session for Nine Honths Washington, March § today faced the now unaccustomed prospect of nine months without a { congress. G7th congre and incidentally, PIERRETTE A new San.Tox Complexion Pow- der of wondrous fragrance, It is soft and velvety in texture and charms the skin to beauty. Pierrette stays ony Price Tic session The history sossions, congres {or time | tive halls The exodus of memb members the who tolled thro with its four to shoot ictually spent in the legisla- ers and former sen and house the sessions was in full swing tod while Washing- ton was trying to accustom himself to the comparatively drab and prosaic life ahead. | | of | & PIERRETT i COMPLEXION POWD h\nvnmwawm The Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN STREET Sine die adjournment came yester. day with the bang of the senate gavel sharply at noon and that of house six minutes later final session conspicuously lacking in |the thrills of the pre-adjournment | hours of some other congresses, The closing in the house, however, had the usual colorful qualities | song and sentimental hand. impromptu quartet of | | leries to a lusty swelling of the chorus. credits bill, during the closing hours, New Fancy Front Scotch Sweater Jackets Hartford’s best variety most distinctive and patterns — just arrived Moderately Priced. “UNCLE JOE” CANNON. ————— e 55 of these receiving his signature aft- er his arrival at the capitol about half an hour before adjournment, fittle was accomplished by either sen- ate or house on the last day. After ng “swan" speeches by Senators ‘relinghuysen and Sutherland, and a [tribute to Benator Williams, by hi | colleague, Senator Harrison of M ippi, the senate tried vainly pass a few minor bill It ran into 15 minute filibuster by Senator Dial, H. Hibbard and daughter,|democrat, which wa Arch street left today for the adjournment gavel. City where they will spu)dl “Uncle Joe” Retires. “Uncle Joe” Cannon, who retired from public life yesterday, was ex- |tolled by several of his colleagues on the floor of the House just before ad- journment. Represkntatives Hicks (N. Mrs. Grace M. Smith of this city |Y.) and Sis nn[()\hisv mm];r- sh(‘or[ ;d- is having a large home erected on|dresses citing Mr. Cannon's long and Weymouth Road, Southern Pines, N.|fathful service and wishing him | “health, happiness anc speed.” Odp('n alleys at the Casino tonight.| tncie w”\“\ : nmmI t(sgdc?;;};eral imadvt the time, but appeared a few e Miss Lillian C. Mitchell of 215 Maple | afterward. The vi:mon th: Z."\mzqr:\:;: street entered the Hartford hospital|hership arose and applauded for sev- yesterday to have an operation per-|eral minutes. When Uncle Joe, who formed for foot trouble by Dr. Paul|was leaning on the arm of his secre. P. Swett. tary, saw what was going on he beat L‘dlsuns and Sonoras. a hasty retreat, But many of his col- & Co.—advt leagues noticed that his eyes were There will be a regular meeting of \mojst and he was searching the executive committee of FEddy-|pockets for a handkerchief Glover post Tuesday evening at 8| M, Hicks said he was born just two o'clock. at IFox's theater building. days after Uncle Joe first came t Ukuleles, ete. C. L. Plerce & Co.|Congress and “we are both living or —advt, the same day.” Mr. Sisson said eve Hartford, “It Pays to Buy Our Kind” City Items Open alleys at the Casino tonight. | —advt. & Mrs. B. Helen, of Atlantic the weel. Meet me at Schmarr's for dinner.-— ’ advt. Gulbransen Player Pianos, Morans' —advt, C. L. Pierce Your reputation as a hostess suffers unless you use the best flavoring ex- tracts. Preserve it by using Bakew's. All grocers.—advt, For Colds, Influenza and as a . Preventive Take Jimmie Jingle S Each day of blessed week The best of food ought {0 seek. —Statler’s Bread every you The First and Original Cold and Grip Tablet The box bears this signature Thurs. Fri. Sat. s had passed into | t a new record for f\HI]l'l“ at in the extent the after a brief of informalities, | with a section of the marine band on The rendition of old favorites by an members warmed the whole house and most | of the spectators in the crowded gal- \ On the business side of the pro- gram while President Harding signed a total of 99 bills, including the rarm to| terminated by | to |4 s e i e | b e o 0B body whoe knew ['necle Joe had learned to love him and that he feltit a high honor to have been assoclated with Imn in the house, an honor he "would always treasure," DOLLAR A GALLON FOR GAS IS WHAT LA FOLLETTE FEARS | |lll~ Investigating Committee Says Some Way Must be Found to Break he country | 8. O, Co/s Grip on Industry, b.—A dollar o the prospect held up for the consumer in the re. port of the Lalollette ofl investigat. ing committee to the senate, unless means are taken to break what the | report declares to be a complete dom- | Ination and control of the oll indus- |try by the Standard companies, If a few great oll companies are permitted to “manipulate prices” dur- ing the next few years, as they have been deing since 1920, the report pre- sented yesterday said, the people of the country must be prepared before long tb pay “at least” that price, Among eight measures recommend- d by the committee to curb the evils found were establishment of a wuni- form accounting system for oil com- panies, to show costs and profits; compulsory monthly reporting to a government agency to show the quan- tities of crude oll and its products in storage and transportation; ment of the ownership of pipe lines from companies transpprting the oils; ond prohibition or regulation of the exportation of petroleum, Investigation“looking to contempt prceedings before the supreme court in all cases of “implied” or expressed |egreement to fix prices arbitrarily or | restrain trade, also was recommended | as was institution of grand jury pro- | ceedings wherever price manupulation is attempted, DIES IN GRAND RAPIDS | Mrs. Willinm Mack, Formerly Miss Mary Williams, Passes Away—Re- | mains to be Brought Here. Washington, March {®kallon for gasoline is Mrs. Willlam Mack, who, before her | marriage was Miss Mary Williams of 158 Dwight strect, died at 3:10 o'clock | this morning at her home in Grand Rapids, Mich,, relatives were inform- ed today, She leaves, in this city, her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Williams; three sisters, Misses Grace, and Anna Wiiliams; and brother, | Harry Williams. She was 23 years of ege and a graduate of New Britain High school in the class of 1915. Be- | fore her marriage she was employed in the life premium department of the Travelers' Insurance Co., Hartford. {The remains will be brought to this | eity for interment. | ALLIES ARE BLAMED Duesseldorf, March 5. (By Associat- ed Press)—The Germans hold the Ruhr Allies indirectly responsible for the disorders in Essen ‘early Sunday morning, when several hundred pa- trons of a larze cabaret were robbed by fifteen or twenty armed men. Armed mobs, said to be unemploy- ed, caused disturbances in various | parts of the city by looting food stores, | The expulsion of the security poliee, the Germans point out, has left the | city practically without protection, land the marauders took advantage of this situation. The municipal police force, which is to replace the security police, is not yet completely organized. Sunday morning's disorders brought ‘homc to the Allies the fact that un- CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years his | BUS FOR HIRE Private Parties, Ete, ERNEST NYQUIST City Avenue Tel, 14 H2- Z The Selby Arch-Pre- server For- Women —The— W. G. SIMMONS Corp. 85 West Main St. Branch of Hartford is only one common sense meths od of correcting eye faults and that i< to have them examined by an cxpert. We are properly cquipped to give you a perfect diagnosis of your eye trouble and we will make glasses to re- lieve you, Frank E. Goodwin Eyesight Specialist TE! 7 MAIN ST, divorce- | Rebecca | | ance Society. D ——" To lmow how good a cigarette really can be mad employment in parts of the Ruhr s increasing, especially in view of the vacations given to the mine workers, ENFORCE BLUE LAWS Ll g Three Big Organizations Combine to Fight Booze, Drugs, Sunday Shows, Swl‘mlllng. Prize Tighting, ctc. country's oldest and most substantial reform organizations have their. financial resources and mapped |a plan of campaign agalnst prohibi- | tion repeal, race track gambling, prize fighting, salacious literature, Sunday theatrical performances and traffic in narcotics, the New York World declared today. The new organization according to| the World, is to be known as the In- ternational Reform Bureau of the World Temperance League. fillated bodies are said to be the in- ternational bureau founded more than 30 years ago by the late Rev. Wilbur I*, Crafts; the World Prohibition Foundation and the National Temper- Headquarters are de- | clared to be planned in Washington. | The organization, according to the | World, will have more than $300,000 | | with which to begin its campaign.! Virgil G. Hinshaw, one time president of the World Prohibition Foundation, is sald to have been elected general secretary. Elks Will Celebrate Birthday on April 2 New Britain lodge, No. 957, B. P. O. Elks, will hold a banquet and dance in connection with its anniver- sary excrcises Monday night, April 2, at the Elks' home. Governor Tem- pleton, a member of Waterbury lodge of Elks, will be invited to attend and a speaker of national fame will be se- cured. The banquet will begin at 7:30 o'clock. The commiteees in charge consist of the following: Banquet, James H. Cur- tin and Thomas W. Crowe; speaker— Dr. Henry Martin, Ernest N. Humph- rey and Harry C. Brown; invitations— John W. Lockett and William . Deers, V//mw ceasing throb? —ready to “give up?” Then aches, dizzy spells, annoying and irritable. vour neighbor ! Mrs, Josepir Bachand, St., says: “W it disordered my kidueys, leaving them weak. My back wehed o pained when 1" bent over and I had bearing-down pains just_over 5 eys. My kidneys Boted T used different kidney remedies but they did me no good. Doan's Kidney Pills, from the Milier-Honson Drug Co, re- lieved me in a little while, lating my kidneys, and m-k my back strong again.” THE BI(:GFST THRILLER OF THEM ALL New York, March 5.—Three of the | pooled | The af-| Chances are a cold br a chill has weakened your kidneys* Poisons have accumulated that well kidneys would filter off. s little wonder, then, you have constant bachache, head- sharp, rheumatic twinges—that you feel Don't wait for serious kidney trouble. back your health while you can. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills, Doan’s have helped thousands. They should help you. Ask “UseDoan’s” Say These New Britain Folks:" DOAN’ At all Druggists, 60c a box. Foster-Mil burn Co,, Mfg. Chem,, Buffalo, N 11, 0. . AND AUXILIARY PLAN | ST. PATRICK'S CELEBRATION Observance of Feast Day of Patron of Ireland to Take Place Tomor- row Night at Judd's Hall, Rev, Willlam A, 'Harty branch of the A. O. H, and the Ladies Aux- {liary to the A. O, H, will observe the feast of St. Patrick temorrow evening with a soclal in Judd's hall on Main street, bennnlnc, at 8 o'cloglt. + The social will open wllh remarks by President Robert Murray of the men's organization and by Mrs, James O'Brien, president of the wom- en's branch, Among those who will contribute vocal numbers to the eve- ning's entertainment are: Miss Car- rie Dorsey, Willlam Scheyd, John J. Kiniry, Miss Mary Igoe, John O'Brien and Joseph Haffey's troupe. James Degnan will favor with a recitation, Refreshments will be provided and dancing will, be enjoyed after the program is carried out. 24 MILL TAX IS RATE 10 | BE LEVIED IN SILVER CITY Meriden Board Fixes Seventeen Mill| | Rate in Second District and } | eSeven in Dlirst, | Meriden, March 6.—The board of apportionment and taxation Saturday set the 1923 city tax rate at seven- teen mills in the second district and | seven mills in the first district and | appointed a committee consisting of { Charles F. Rockwell, Wilbur F. Par- | ker and Arthur F. Lane to urge the legislature to_reconsider the bill au- thorizing a $390,000 bond issue to meet the debts incurred at the time | of consolidation. This bill was re- | jected Friday in the house of .rep- | resentatives following an unfavorable report of the. finance committee and will be acted upon in the senate either Tuesday or Wednesday. Jn an official communication _to the press the board of _apportion- | ment and taxation explained that the debt must We paid and that it was incurred through the peculiar conditions attending the consolida- tion of the town and city. This re- port pointe@ out. that $345,000 of the debt was incurred by the toWn and $40,000 by the city, and that $215,000. was school expenditure, while $55,000 was for payment of state, county and military taxes. BUDGET EXCEEDS QUOTA FOR COMMUNITY DRIVE Directors Face Problem of Adjusting Appropriations by Slicing $5,000 Oft Requests of Nine Organizations At the meeting of the executive committee of the United Community corporation to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Chamber of Com- merce rooms: the budgets of the nine crganizations in New Britain to .re- Il M Grip Left You a Bad Back? OES your back ache day after day with a dull, un- Are you worn-out, and discouraged why not look to your kidneys. bladder irregularities, and nervous, ‘“blue” Get Gustave A. Raschat, Prop. shoe repair shop, 713 Stanley St., says: “My Kidneys becnme weak and acted irregularly. This did not alarm me much until the Kldney secretions became highly colored. My back became weak and ached considerably. 1 used Doan's Kid- ney Pills and they soon put my kidneys in normal condition. back stopped a nd I have never had n simllar attack. 1 be- lieve Doan's have cured me.” KIDNEY PILLS “THE NINETY AND NINE” — SAVE COAL — ROTARY ASH SIFTER LARGE ASH CAN GALVANIZED COAL HOD This Week $7.00—Complete—$7.00 These are all first® class articles. HERBERT L. MILLS E ARDWARE ceive aid froln this organization, will be “pruned down' 85 that the soclety may keep within the set quota of !lso,noo for this year. Leon A, Sprague, secretary of the corporation, stated this morning that the budgets of the nine organizations have been submitted to him and they total over $68,000. There is also a deficit of about $1,500 of the present year to be carried over into next year and as a result the various budgets will have to be cut gbout $5,000 in order not to exceed the limit. An attempt was made last year to raise $40,000 but the entire sum was not secured, The campaign for this year will open on Monday, April 2, and will continue for one week. James north is director of the campaign. 336 MAIN STREET Bridgeport Orphans Have Dinner of Venison Today Bridgeport, March 6.—The children of Bridgeport and Norwalk orphan homes ate venison for dinner today, the gift of the state of Connecticut. T'he deer, a buck weighing nearly 200 pounds, was shot and badly wo\u!(led by an unidentified person Saturday near Beardsley park at this city, and later it was killed by order of the game warden, Upon permission grant- ed by John W. Titcomb, superintend- ent of fish and game, the meat was distributed between the two orphan- ages. Rachmaninoff § :-K‘ ‘fox. Theatre March 7 Attend this concert and note the individual qualities that distinguish this great pianist. Then go to any dealer in Victor products and hear the Victor Records by ‘Rachmaninoff. Note how faithfully his renditions are por- trayed on the Victrola. “HiS mm__n)_ voice” Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden, New Jersey SCENE FROM “THE NINETY AND NINE" o —. He plehd up the smoking revolver and assumed blame for & erime he never committed. He did it for & follow him, but she was already engaged to another. irl and expected her to He took the downward path after escaping on a locomotive and years later was recognized by driving an engine through miles of blazing & rescue the inhabitants of a village. The story is told in “The to inety and Nine,” with Warner Baxter as the boy and Gertrude Astor as the =irl FOX’S THURS.—FRI.—SAT Miles of Forest Fire ! Burning Villages ! Hero Drives Train Through Burning Forest ! A Film That is True to Life !