New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1923, Page 13

BOSTON ALONE 1S G000 WIRE SERVICE Sfrike Reported Demoralizing "Phone Utility Elsewhere Boston, July 2,—The strike of tele phone operators in five New England states for wage increases and a seven hour day entered its saventh day to- day with service in Lawrence, Provi- dence, Pawtucket and Woonsocket al- most demoralized and with reduced service in several other cities and towns. In greater Boston where union ' operators have been split into two camps, one fighting the strike and the other upholding it, service continued almost normal. Boston strikers planned a mass meeting on the Com- mon today. The temporary truce between the warring unions in Boston pending proposed conferences between leaders was broken off last night by the non- striking union local 1-A, formerly af- filiated with the telephone operators’ department of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers, but whose charter was revoked by Julia 8. O’Connor president of the de- panment. Leadérs of local 1-A charged that Miss O'Connor at a meeting yesterday of Boston Central Labor union had cast reflections upon members of the non-striking union. The t definite action by other unfons affiliated with the American Federation of TLabor came yesterday with the announcement that union taxi drivers here would vote Tuesday on the question of refusing to trans-| port workers to exchanges while the | strike is on. Drivers have asserted that they have been compelled to vio- late regulations of thelr union in driving workers to the exchanges. Improvement in Springfield Springfleld, Mass, July 2.—Con- tinued steady improvement in loc¢l service was reported today by officials | of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. here who said that all operating positions on the switch- boards are now fllled though to a large extent'by student operators. All Quiet in Worcester Worcester, . July 2. — Everything quiet in both camps of the telephone strike was the report given out to-| The operators had their daily; day. meeting and the strikers reported they had received in the mail chegks from the company for the pay due Qhem‘ when they went on strike. The com- pany opened a special pay station for them last week but they refusd to go | there for their money. The company gave notice to its subscribers today that it will adjust its charges on re- ceipt of notice to the local manager on the extent of service. Dog, Beheved to Be Mad, Is Shot at Hartland Hartland, Conn., July 2.—A dog which had acted strangely and had bitten two horses and 10 dogs, was shot here today. The head was sent to the experiment station at Haven and the animals bitten placed under restraint, for observation. The dog belonged in Riverton. This Year’s Cotton Crop Forecast at 11,412,000 Washington, July 2.—This year's cotton crop was forecast at 11,412,000 bales today by the department of ag- rioulture. The forecast was based on the condition of the crop on June 25 which was 69.9 per cent of normal and on the preliminary estimate of the area under cultivation at that time which was 38,287,000 acres or 12.6 per cent more than last year's area on that date. Motion for Retrial of Croker Suit Is Denied | By The Assoclated Press. Dublin, July 2.——Retrial of the suit| brought by Richard Croker, Jr., con- testing the will of his father, one- time Tammany Hall chieftain, has been denied. Thus the verdict re- cently returned in favor of Mrs. Bula Croker, the widow, upheld. Officers Are Picked to Make Pathfinding Trip ‘Washington, July 2.—Lieuts. ford Nutt and Clarence E. Crumrine of the army air service were desig- nated today to make the “pathfinding trip” as a preliminary to the proposed flight around the world. They will gather data- on landing facilities, weather conditions and other quest- fons involved. To Visit U S. Lady Rocn-m Wilshire, one of the most beautiful titled women in FEngland, is coming to visit Amapr ica soon. New | as sole legatee, is| cit- | |and Industrial |first six months of 1922, and .ll grounds. GIETS ua KLETT, RETIRING JUDGE Remembrances From New Britain Bar and Police Members of the New Britain Bar as- soclation, officials of the New Britain| police department and representatives of the press gathered at a speclal session of the city court at 2 o'clock this afternoon to pay a tribute to George W. Klett retiring judge of the New Britain police and city courts, Probate Judge B. F. Gaffney de- livered an appropriate address on the notice of the retirement of Judge Klett from the police and city court benches. In his remark Judge Gaff- ney said, “Judge Klett lacks no con- fidence in those who know him best.” He stated that Judge Klett as a judge has faithfully performed his duties in the interest of the city and the state and has erected a monu- ment through his wgrk which will stand as a testimonial to the man. “The lawyers of the city have gath- ered,” Judge Gaffney said, ‘not to | transact their usual business this aft- ernoon but to pay an honest tribute to the Hon. George W. Klett as re- tiring judge of the police and city courts.'” At the conclusion of his address and on hehalf of the Bar association Judge Gaffney presented Judge Klett with a.handsome traveling’ bag and a gold fountain pen and pencil. Chief Willilam C. Hart on behalf of the New Britain police department, pre-| sented Judge Klett with a golf hag.: | brief case and a package of golf balls. | Judge Klett in responding said “I am touched and proudly gratified at this manifestation of regard.” He told of his work in connection with the police and city courts and”stated | that .there is no position in the court which holds with it as much respon- sibllity as that of judge. Judge Klett 1lhunked the members of the bar and {the police department for thelr gifts| ’and at the conclysion of his address| | pald a glowing tribute to the mem-| bers of the press to those who wi ere | reporting when he first entered the| court some 28 years ago to the pres- ent day reporters, who he said have 'uf the last of the soldier guards who | wm STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTS High Am Bt Bug . 81094 Am Can .... 8714 848, Am Cr & Fdy..156 166% Ac Cot Ol .... bB% [ Am Loco ......182% 181% Am Sm & Re., 55% 53% Am Sug Rf cm.. 67 67 Am Sum Tob .. 17% 16 Am Tel & Tel.. 1203 110% Am Tob .. 143 141% Am Wool 833 807% Ana Cop . 39% 38 Atc Tp & S8 F., 98% 96% At Gulf & W 1., 13% 12% | Bald Loco .....1187% 115% Balti & Oha 4% 2% Beth Steel B. .. 44 417% {Con Textile . % 7 Can Paclfic ....145% 142 Cen Leath Co .. 21 108 Ches & Ohlo .. 59% 578% Ch Ml & 8 P., 19 17% Chi RR I & P.. 24% 22% Chile Cop 26% 25% Chino Cop. v 1884 18 Con Gas oo B8 568 Corn Prod Rf ,.124% 122 Cru Steel . 639 611% Cuba Cane Sugar 11 10 Endicott-John ., 64 631 Erie 11% 108 | Erfe 1st pfd ... 183 17 Gen Electric 176 172 |Gen Motors ..., 183% 12% Goodrick BF .., 233, 22% |Gt North pfd ., 643% 6215 Insp Copper .., 28% 28 Int Mer Marine . 5% 5% BUILI]INE PERMITS DECLINE IN JUNE Value $40,000 Less Than in Same Month Last Year In the month of June 104 bullding permits were issued for bullding op- eratlons totalling in value $144,499, an amount which was approximately $40,000 less than that of June, 1922, The building operations were classi- fled as follows: 43 frame bulldings, $82,1656; 19 brick bulldings, $30,161; 42 alterations, $32,233.Total, 104 per- its, $144,490. 16 Tenements Added Sixteen tenements were added and one store was built. Ten complaints were investigated while inspections numbered 127, Electrleal Inspector Cyril J. Curtin made 142 inspeetions during the month of June, which was one of the busiest months of the year in the electrical inspector’s office. There were 09 permits issued, 35 being for work in new buildings and 50 in old structures. , Inspections were made in 36 garages, one gas station, three fac- tories, 12 stores, three dairies and ilmmlng' establishment. GIFTS FOR EMPLOYES | Eastman Kodak Company Will Give Approximately $1,700,000 to X8|y, Moo Mar ped 24 221 | | Workers Wage Dividend Plan, | Pacific Ofl ..... 34 32% | S | Int Nickel D14y 11y Damal e Rochester, N. Y. July Int Paper . . 3614 343 Eastman Kodak Co., will give ap-|Kelly Spring T'r 33 3014 proximately $1,700,000 to its employes| Kennecott Cop.. 323 today under the wage dividend plan.|Lehigh Val .... 57 Tifteen thousand employers in all‘\fld States Oil. ., parts of the world will benefit. Stock; Midvale Steel dividends amounting to $4,500,000| Mis Pac ....... also will be distributed. IN ¥ Cen ..... In addition to these two {tems N Y N H & H.. $200,000 will be paid in stock divi-| Norf 7% West ., | dends to employes on 10,000 shares|xNorth Pac .... 66 which George Eastman, treasurer, sat| Pure Oil A8 aside for employes who had been/Pan Am P & T 59% vi O Y re.|Penn R R ..... 42% TTiraten Whent Lincuintivas Snott |l s oonseijtun jyesrslostnoze: | SEUiE (M fe sty 46?2 i T Wi LW o 1924 CHAUTAUQUA ASSURED | Fittsburgh Coal 60 Ray Con Cop .. 1014 With 350 adult tickets and 50 jun- { o at Tord theater when |ior tickets pledged for next year and gz;d';!i'q ‘41“; Low 30 Close 8184 87% Mary Catherine Frank, Miami uni- versity co-ed, Oxford, O., broke the | world’s collegiate women's record for | the 440-yard run in the annual track | meet. She made the distance in 1 minute 15 3-5 seconds. “LINGOLN GUARD” 15 DEAD William H. Hall of England Believed 103 to Be Last of Those Who Guarded Washington, July 2.—The passing| were on duty been most falr in their writings and | reporting of police court events. | CITY ITEMS. Did you get your Independence | Day flag at Franklin square Filling | | station? Mrs. Kate McDonough sold through the Camp Real Estate Co. a one fam- ily house at No. 361 Broad street to Stefan Lukaniec. Adolph Koranke sold today through [the Camp Real Estate Co. a three | family house at 46 Newington avenue to Olaf Larson and Hannah Larson. | Stella Rebekah lodge will hold a regulay meeting Friday evening. | Free 18 inch silk flags to every 5 gallon gasoline purchaser Tuesday and Wednesday at Franklin square | | Filling Station, | There will be no meeting of the| | Daughters of Isabella tonight. Dur- ing July and August only one meet-| |ing will be held during the month, that coming on.the third Monday. | | Winthrop Council, Sons and | Daughters of Liberty, will hold a | regular meeting this week. A dispen- sation has been granted for July 18, at which time the nomination and election of officers will take place. A marriage !icense has been is- sued to Roy Cameron of 20 Rentschler street and Miss Ruth Wuchert of 54 Seymour street. The condition of Mrs. Anna Carlson of 24 Grand street, who was struck by an automobile Saturday afternoon, was reported as critical at a late hour this afternoon, | PERSONALS Miss Anna Goldsmith has returned from Baltimore, where she aftended | the national convention of Hadassah. | 2 Benedict Durham of South Main street has returned to his home after spending two weeks' vacation in | Sharon. | = | Misses Marguerite and Gertrude Walsh of 270 High street have gone to | Boston, where they will spend the next two weeks. | Miss Anna Bailey of South Main | street is staying at Pollyanna cottage, | Momauguin, for the summer, as the guest of her sister, Mrs. Grace Gaghan. Militarism Is Blamed [ i For Conditions in China By The Associated Press. Canton, July 2.—Militarism is di- rectly responsible for the chatotic condition of China, according to a4 manifesto issued by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, It said in part: “The ‘Chinese people have suffered long enough under the heavy burden of militarisin which has brought civil war disunion and an- archy. The recent deplorable bandit cutrage on the trunk railways, though | startling the outside world, is to long | suffering Chinese only another inci- dent of innumerable similar happen- ings in places little known, and s an- other count iin their indictment against their oppressors. | Fifteen Lynchings Occur | During First Six Months | Mobile, Ala., July 2.—In the first| |six months of 1923 ending June 30 there were 15 Iynchings in the United | States, according to the yecords com-| piled by the Tuskegee, 7Ala., Normal Institute, This is 15 number 30 for fhe 21 less| than the number 36 for the first six| months of 1921. Of those lynched, two were whites and 13 were negroes. One of the latter was a woman. The numbers of lynchings in each stntP follows: Arkansas 1, Florida 7, Geor- | gla 2, Louisiana 1, Mississippi 2, Mis- | souri 1, Texas 1. | less than the New Hampshire permits divorce on | tinue “because of death” the pension | | of William H. Hall, open, affixed to the boxes. |the contract signed by 30 local guar- 7 v s antors, John Marshman, superintend- | Goom " of Rt 19id ent of the 1923 Swarthmore Chautau- | g ™ boias qua, left for Willimantic this m()rnflscu(h Rail S S ing with the assurance that Chautau- Studebaker Co qua will return to New Britain “"‘\H’lexas Co year. The number of tickets already | voo & pacific 18 | pledged is about half the amount to |5 5.0 " prog It be sold. Transcon Oil .. 57 Union Pacific .. 12814 United Fruit .. 162 162 United Re 8t .. 713 70 Bpathfl |U's Food Prod 2% 2% [L' S Indus Alco 435 41 ¢ , - | U 8 Rubber Co 42 40 New York, July 2.—General Henri U S Steel ..... 91% 80% ;’:15:”-\ hugycinp‘(.r‘\urnu:]. one-armed Mrs. Angelina Robino. U S Steel pfd .. 1181 118 soldier of France and one time com-| i i Utah Copper 571 56% mander of the Rainbow division, who | AT Angelina Robino, 17 year old | T i 4 L o Maple | Willys Overland 6 5% arrived yesterday, today attended a| Wife of Roberto Roblno of 16 Maple| o 3 ) ay & a led' & Vew Br! Westinghouse . 538 52% i . Taw | Street, died at the New Britain hos- g’ luncheon in his honor at the New q - e 1 National Lead . 111 1104 York stock exchange as the guest of pital ,\‘nstnm‘a'). B(:sh es her husband | * & Presidont 8. 1.. Cromaell, The general | She 1s survived by an infant child, who is the guest here of the Ralnbow | 1er parents, Mr. and Mrs, Peter| division, whose annual convention he | G28llardo and two sisters and a will attend An Indiar polis July 15, brother in Hartford. The « funeral LoToan was held this morning at 9 o'clcok from 8t. Joseph's church where a CIHCInnatl Ba" Cluh mass of requiem was celebrated by HOI‘IO o o | Rev. J. Leo Sullivan. Burial was in L) LOyal Rooter | Mt. St. Benedict cemetery, Hartford. Cincinnati, O., July -~The flags et at Reland field, home of the Cincin- | nati Nationals were at half mast to- day in honor of "Al, the milkman" the king of local rooters, who died Saturday. “Al”, whose name was Albert| Schoensleben, had his own seat in the bleachers and became known to the fans by his practice of rewarding | highly meritorious plays with a | bouquet of flowers. President Lincoln was shot was re- ported to the pension bureau today in a cablegram from the American con- sulate at Hull, England. The mes- sage notified the bureau to discon- 22 85 31% 9814 41y 174 1615 5% 1265 Civil war veteran, served in the 12th Illinois After the war he rdturned his birthplace, Hall cavalry. to England, Wall Street Dines Famous French Army Officer Today = (Putnam’ & Co.) Bid 770 Asked 780 57 50 140 12 16 13 27 113 5 68 80 161 69 95 Aetna Life Ins .. Am Hardware 56 Am Hoslery .. cae 40 Bige-Hfd Cpt Co com..135 Billings & Spencer com. Billings & Spencer pfd Bristol Brass . . Colts Arms ... 25 | Conn Lt & Pow ptd ...110 Tlagle Locky. i cviuscess 71 | Fafnir Bearing . ees 62 | Hart & Cooley oo T8 | Hfd Elec Light . .158 | Landers Frary & Clark. 67 |7 R Montgomery com.. J R Montgomery pfd..107 N B Gas N B Machine ...... 4 5 12 11 Funerals - Frank Slapski. The funeral of Frank Slapski was held this morning from the Sacred Heart church at 8 o'clock. A solem high requiem mass was celebrated by (N B Machine ptd .44 49 Rev, Father Tanski, who also con-| nryjjas-Bement-Pond com. 45 47 ducted- the services at the grave in Peck, Stow & Wilcox.. 31 33 Sacred KA anate | Russell Mitg Co ....... 60 Mrs. Catherine Titzgerald CoovlL ].‘lféfi‘pi‘(’me oo, e The funeral of Mrs. Catherine F"z'}stnndnrd Screw p ' 160 | gerald of 28 Seymour street, will bp}s'sn)fly Works ... .63 65 _held tnmm‘rowv morning at 9 "fl“k'stanley Works ptd .... 27% 28% Al ‘V‘I:g’,: El’,‘,','&':r, Burlal Will | rorrington Co com .... 44% 46% i i Traut & Hine .. Travelers Ins Co , $85,000 Fire Loss When HElaRiis CoR: Paper Plant is Burned Somerville, Mass,, July 2.—Fire de- stroyed the Sherwood aper com- vany's factory heeér early today, caus- ing a loss estimated at $85,000. The lecked Mrs. Hollingshead, her daugh-|watchman, according to fire depart- ter and two servants in a closet and [ment officials sald he made an effort robbed the house of liquor valued at | to telephone an alarm but failed and $15,000, according to the police. | was forced to run to the station. Inside The Three-Mile Limit 87 SHULTS OI{I‘[ ITS BOND, William Shults, 22 years old, of 820 Main street, was arrcsted in Meriden lest night for unlawful discharge of | fireworks. He failed to put in ap- | pearancg at court this morning and his bond of $13 was forfeited. ('.‘\MPAIGNING ¥ R J(lHN.‘c’U}\ 8t. Jaul, July 2.—Three U. 8, senators will begin campalgning in Minnesata this week for ‘\Ingnus‘ Johnson, farmer-labor candidate, fur\ senator at the election July 16. dl i g i | “530 ol U. 8. TREASURY STATEMENT. U. 8. Treuury balance. $425,798,652. INDIGTMENTS RETURNED Grand Jury Investigating Affairs of E. $15,000 LIQUOR THEFT. Chicago, July 2.—8ix liquor ban- dits invaded the home of H. T. Hol-| lingshead, a prominent business man, M. Fuller & Company Submit Sealed Findings Today. New York, July 2.—The federal grand jury conducting a further in- quiry into the affairs of E. M. Fuller| & Co., bankrupt brokers who recently pleaded guilty to bucketing orders, today returned four sealed indict- ments, Grand jury action followed a long| conference of Assistant U. §. Attor- neys Joyce and Milward with customs| authorities who yesterday seized pa- pers declared to be material to the case, from the baggage of Mrs. Nel- lie Sheehan McGee, former wife of| Fuller's partner, WV, F. McGee. Mrs./ MecGee arrived from Europe yesterday on the Aquitania, MAKES RE(‘ORD C l{l 1SE. U.'S. S. Maryland Goes 5,900 Miles, | From Norfolk, Va.,, to Seattle, Wash. Beattle, July 2.—Cruising from Nor-| folk, Va., to Seattle, 5,900 miles, the | U. 8. 8. Maryland made the longest sustained speed run ever achieved by a battleship, according to Commander ‘W. W. Galbraith, executive officer of | the ship. The Maryland made the trip in H‘ days, 23 hours and seven m|nutes‘ | Bhe will become the flagship of Vice | Admiral H. A. Wiley, commanding division five of the battle fleet. NORWICH WOMAN A SUICIDE. Choice liquors have been confiscated from several British steamers, by U. S. government dry agents. This shows how a| Norwich, July 2,—Mrs. Esther Sha- derrick lifted many cases from the White Star liner Baltic at New | piro, who had been mentally de- York following the Treasury Departmengd’s ruling that foreign ves-| pressed for some time, according to sels may not have surplus supplies w 1"\m the threeantls Himite. | o o O o e e e s Notes the British government seals, which revenue agents broke jeaves h,:yhm,,:, ;:.’,b.;, e sons and three daughters. i PUTNAM & C Members New York Stock Exchange Members Hartford Stock Exchange Stanley R. Eddy, Manager 31 West Main St, Tel. 3040 We Offer 100 STANLEY WORKS 100 NORTH & JUDD JUDD & CO. 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