New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1923, Page 2

keeps the story What a chance for a picturg—and how easy it all is the Kodak way. “Click”’ the shutter goes and the story stays—for all time. Kodaks, Kodak Film, Eastman at’s our way. The new Kodak catalogue §5 at our counter — The — Dickenson Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN STREET T Our New Women's Department will be ready to move into about September 1st. We are clearing our stocks of Summer Apparel in preparation ftor d have marked everything in this gr_en REMOVAL SALE At Great Price Reductions! Note These Few Values Entire stock of Silk Pleated Skirts, values to $25. Now $9.95. About 10 Fall and Pure Worsted Suits. Values to $45. Now $15.00. Balance of Voile Dresses — In- cluding many white ones ir- respective of former prices— $6.95. About 15 Poiret Twill Dresses. Values to $30.75. Reason for this—sizes 16 to 36—§16.75. HORSFALLS 93-99 Xsylum Street Martford. “It Pays to Buy Our Kind” 'PERSONALS Thoms J. Kelly, who has been con- fined to his home by illness for the past few weeks, is convalescing. Dr. Harry Protass and George Bayer will spend the week-end in New York city. Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Barker gone to Maine for a two weeks' va- eation. Cornelius J. Curry is seriously ill at the home of his brother, Martin J. Curry, of Summer street. Mrs. James M. Butler of 29 Spring #dtreet is fpending a week at Stony E want you to in- quire about our school. other folks what. they know about us and then pay us a visit, Give your boy and girl the train- ing they need. WRITE FOR CATALOG ({1 cmsn“ss W B¥963 main st iy WEW BRITAIN, CONN, THE WAVERLY Indian Neck, BRANFORD, CONN. Popular Seashore Resorts Terms .and reservations on application, §. A. Hicbel, Prop. MARGARET TRAVER _Teacher of Pianoforte 158-13 for Terms, Etc. have GEDDES REPORT BRANDED UNTRUE Commissioner Comes fo Defense of Ellis Island New York, Aug. 17.—~The straight iesue of truth was raised by Commis- sioner Henry H. Curran yesterday against Ambassador Geddes for his report on conditions at Ellis Island, Discussing the cabled report, he called it colored throughout with personal opinion or part of an apparently de- termined British propaganda against the island. In many of its details, he declared it flatly untrue. He concurred in the ambassador's suggestion for structural improve- ml;_filies_l full stock, always on hand | ments and for larger sums for upkeep of the plant, but added: “Even as things are today there is no real hardship. We are running a good hotel here. It would be only a gateway to the United States if the. right kind of people came to us. Eng- lish folk we get all seem to want plages apart from the others. That, perhaps, i8 what prompted some of the ambassador's suggestions, but we must treat them: all alike, No Dirt Around. “‘His suggestion about dirt is abso- lutely not true. I have policed up around ‘barracks and I have | com- manded baracks. I know this place is clean except in the immediate neighborhood of those immigrants who throw rubbish about faster than any force can pick it up. Some Americans who use our parks are guilty of the same thing.” Roberts E, Todd, Major Currans predecessor at the Island, refused to discuss the Geddes report in detail when he arrived from Italy in the Counsulich liner Presidente Wilson yes- terday, but he did agree with the ambassador's suggestion that more money should be spent on the upkeep of the Island's buildings. “Last year congress appropriated only $100,000 for this purpose and $23,000 was expended in repairing roofs alone. This year, I understand, only $100,000 is available for all im- migrant stations, or $50,000 for Ellis Island. That won’t pay for new paint.” Congress has held down the appro- priation for the island, although fig- ures made public yesterday show that the immigration service made a profi} last year of more than $1,000,000, This month an extra 25 cents was added to the lodging fée for those detained at the island, making it 60 cents a night, which the steamship companies must pay. For tNose sieep- ing there oi their way to other countries the charge is $1. Go 'Phrough Quickly. Commissionier Curran treats the Geddes report in no gentle manner. “You remember the old song, ‘You Gotta Quit XKicking My Dog Around'?” he said yesterday. ‘“‘Well, this seems to be a part of the game of kicking Uncle Sam's dog, and those who want to kick usually pick on Ellis Island. One of the guards here showed how we feel about it. I met him the other day looking very gloomy, and asked him his trouble. “‘Oh, nothing,’ he answered, ‘ex- cept that I have to stand here and let immigrants walk on my toes, kick me in the shins and spit in my face, and all T can say to them is .“Thank you.'" “The whole tone of the ambassa. dor's statement is to make this a place of tragedy and grief. Well, there's tragedy here. . But out of every 100 immigrants examined 99 are admitted. They go through here in jig time and they seem happy while they’re doing it. And there's comedy here, a lot more of it than tragedy. Talk of separating families! ‘Why the other day I happened to see a Greek come into the special board rcom where they were examining his wife and little girl. He ran in and kissed the child. The matron asked him why he didn’t kiss his wife. ‘Oh,’ he replied, ‘T kissed her on the boat last Saturday.’ “These people are not all eaten by the gloom of these ‘diabolical hell holes and eages.’ Ninety-nine per cent of it is pure comedy, the story ends right and they go their ways and live happily ever after. ““The one per cent of tragedy 1is caused in part by the steamship com- panies bringing those they know are inadmissible and in part by foreign governments who take no pains in se- lecting those they send us, The Nor- wegians, Swedes, Germans and Italians go right throngh because they are well picked on the other side. The same, unfortunately, is not true of our British immigrants, SUES FOR LOANS Wife of J. E. Liggett Alleges Ehe Has $84,267.75 Coming From Compéany and Starts Court Action For It. New York, Aug. 17.—Violet Colby Liggett, wife of John E. Liggett, for- mer tobacco merchant, brought suit for $84,267.75 for loans against her | husband and his former partners in the firm of Liggett & Drexel in a summons and complaint flled yester- | day. | Mrs. Liggett was a musical comedy | actress when she married the tobacco | merchant, in 1914. Mr. Liggett's fa- | ther made a large fortune in tobaceco in St. Louis and he was connected | with the trade for many years. The | firm of Liggett & Draxel was dissolved |in January, 1919, and the business as turned over to a partner, George | Naphen, now connected with Cu- niss & Co., 14 V street. The plaintiff says she lent her hus- band’s firm $7,000 in cash and $9,000 | worth of jewels bstween January 28 and March 13, 1918, and that she also | tent securities worth $68,267. The de- fendants named are her husband, John E. Liggett: Anthony J. Drexel |and George F. Naphen, partners | Liggett & Drexel Mrs. Liggett says these loans were| made with the agrecement they should | be returned in a reasonable time and | The securities were to | | vpon demand | be used as collatéral for the firm to | ¢btain 16ans, The plaintiff contends teen returned, despite mands. in| { NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, WILL S00N BE ABLE T0 BUILD SILK PLANT Negotiations Between Government and Du Pont Concern About to Be t‘kndwed It Is Announoed. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 17,—Nego- tiations will be consummated in their entirety within’ two days, and the E. I. du Pont de Nemours corporation of Wilmington, Del., will then be able to proceed without any interference on the part of the government toward erection of a $4,000,000 silk fibre plant here, Major P, J. O'Shaughnessy, representative of the war department, announced here yesterday. Th announcement came following a Thé announcement came following a nessy, 1. A. Yerkes, president of the du Pont Fibre Silk company and local interesta. / This is taken to mean that the suit of the government against the Nahs- ville Industrial - corporation, which sold the du Pont corporation their site at Old Hickory, near here, will not be one of the obstacles to the deal's consummation. Fraud in the sale of the site is charged by the government. 2 AMERICA'S ONLY RUBBER _ PLANT GROWS IN TEXAS Guayule Only Plant of Its Kind Is Found in the Big Bend Country ¥ Alpine, Texas, Aug. 17.—The only rubber producing plant known to grow uncultivated in North America is found in the Big Bend country of both Texas and Mexico, along the border, and the only factory in the United States equipped to make rub- ber from the raw latax is in Brewster county, Texas. A factory was esta- blished at Marathon about 156 years ago, but for the past several years has been idle. The plant from which rubber may be made is the Guayule, and grows abundantly in this section of the country. Large quantities have been destroyed by prairie fires and neglect, but much continues to grow without attention. Apparently it will thrive in rocky barren sofl where nothing else will sprout. The Guayule has no résemblance to the rubber trees and plants of tropi- cal countries. It growsin the form of a small bush or shrub and when ma- ture is about four feet high, resemb- ling slightly the Texas greasewood bush. Its leaves are small, tough looking, and have a slight similarity to those of other rubber producing plants, The milky julce, known as latax, from which the rubber is made is in a layer under the bark or skin of the shrub, extending from the root to the topmost branch, The latax is separate and distinct from the sap of the Guayule, which flows through #he plant, The method of extracting the latax differs from that used in tropical countries where the trees are tapped and the julce oozes out. The fluid is pressed from the entire Guayule plant. ARGUMENT ABOUT PLAYING PE-LING Which Is Ong Name For Mah Jong, We're Told New York, Aug. i /- Through counsel, Lew L. Harr, .‘endenl of the Pung Chow company, announced yesterday he was ready to knock the scepticism of his brother, John, and the = China Review, which at- tacked him in a recent editorial, for a pile of ivory Mah Jong counters. “Both say I didn't learn to play Pe-Ling from Li Hung Chang,” he said. “But if they'd looked at my autograghed photo of the great Chi- nese statesman they would change their tunes.” That is what both John Harr and the China Review have done, disput- ed Lew's clairg that he learned the fine points of the ancient Chinese game from the late viceroy. John Harr, in a suit for $10,000 damages against Lew, says Lew Harr never went to China until 1919, 18 years after L4 Hung Chang died. John particularly challenges a statement made in a Pung Chow company advertisement in Vanity Fair, which carries over the signa- ture “L, L. Harr” the story of how Lew learned Mah Jengg. “Twenty years ago in Peking great Ohinese statesman, Chanf, showed me a game,” Mr. Harr wrote In explaining his com- pany has americanized the game un- der the name Pung Chow. “He called it Pe-Ling. * * * A gorgeous game. The venerable Viceroy spread before the me gleaming ivory titles, painted with_ miniature bamboos, birds and dragons. * % * For two years I played con- stantly with Li Hung Chang, drawn deeper and deeper into the depths of this new and inexhaustible game.” When the Mah Jongg craze recent- ly swept the country Mr. Harr got into the swim. He wrote a book. “How to Play Pung Chow.” Then he organized a’'company to make Am- erican manufactured sets. John Harr said he was declared on the company and later was shouldered out when business began to prosper. He brought suit through his counsel, Thomas 8. Ormiston. In his affidavit John Harr scoffs at his brother’s claim he ‘‘was instructed by Li Hung Chang in 1903.” “As I am aware my brother had not been in China until 1919 I know this is a fraudulent and misleading statement,” he said. ‘“‘Besides, as the China Review points out, the Chinese statesman died in 1901.” John Harr made it plain in his avidavit that he didn’t like the idea of this advertisement and alleges ir- regularities in the transfer of the as- sets of the original company, which was incorporated in New York, to the new company, which is organized un- der the laws of Delaware. The China Review, the organ of the China board of trade, disputes several points in the Pung Chow ad- vertisement. Under the heading “Mah Jong and Spiritualism,” the editor says: “If our ‘authority’ says he met Li Hung Chang in Peking 20 years ago Li Hung { AUGUST 17, 1923, and played the game constantly with him for two years, he must have met and played with Li Hung Chang’s ghost. Unless the historians report- ed the fact prematurely, Li Hung Chang dled in 1901 at the age of 79, He died two years 'before this ‘American ‘authority’ met him in Peking.” 1 The editor aleo points out that Ning-Po, which Mr. Harr refers to as a “province,” 18 a city. Replying to and disputing a point where Mr. Harr says Mah Jong dates back to the times of Confucius, the Chinese editor says the uthority ought to know better than drag Con- fucius and L4 Hung Chang into his money-making schemes.'” Elery C. Huntington, counsel for Lew Harr, sald his client inadver- ently had erred in saying roughly that it was 20 years ago that he met the Chinese statesman, when the exact time was nearer 25 years. BRIBED IN VAIN . Cop Offered $500 by Bootlegger Re- taliates by Arresting Offender, Who Has $1.20 in His Pocket. New York, Aug, 17.—After being offered $500 as his share in a lquor transaction, provided he would prom- ise discretion, Patrolman Charles Jablouky arrested Frank Kane at Forty-first street and Ninth avenue vesterday. Kane posed as a Federal prohibition agent and showed a fraudulent badge and credentials bearing the signature of David H. ‘Blair. As a Federal agent Kane said he preferred to be known as Paul Drady, He told the officer that . he was walting on Forty-first strest to. inter~ cept a truck load of beer and'planned to obtain money trom the driver of the truck. When arraigned before Commissioner Samuel Hitchcock Kane had $1.20 in his pocket. He was held in 8600 for the Grand Jury. DAMAGES LOCK Gopher, With U. S. Naval Reserves Aboard, Libelled For Damages By Canadians After 'Accident ‘Washington, Aug. 17,—The gunboat Gopher, carrying Ohio naval reserv- ists on their annual cruise, has been libelled for $5,000 and seized by Can- adian authorities, thé navy depart- ment was notified yesterday, because a lock in the Welland Canal was dam- aged during passage of the ship on her way to Montreal. No details of the accident were given, The réeservists were held on the ship for several hours after libel pa- pers were served, but their release was ‘effected and the American con- sulate i{s endeavoring to obtain re- lease of the gunboat to continue the cruise. We Clean Everything Under the Sun General Housecleaning A Speeialty NEW BRITAIN WINDOW CLEANING CO. 338 Main St.—Tel. 888 - MUSIC COMFORT CONTENTMENT During the cool hours at dusk, sit comfortably back in restful reverie. Let music banish care and worry—Ilet it guide your thoughts into channels of romance, beauty and sentiment, with a beautiful NEW MODEL GRAFONOLA. SUPERIOR, BEAUTY and TONE SPECIAL TERMS SATURDAY '] DOWN, BALANCE on EASY WEEKLY PAYMENTS Factory Guarantee on All Machines Sold We Have a Few VOCALION PHONOGRAPHS That Will Be Sold At a Special Price. 12 Record Selections Included 75 Saturday Only ALL THE LATEST AND MOST POPULAR RECORDS NOW ON SALE A FEW USED MACHINE BARGAINS John A. Andrews & Co.. 132 MAIN STREET The Big Furniture Store NEW BBITAIN ‘TABS" GIVE AWAY $1,000 Newington and Hartford Institutions Bénefit Through Generosity of New Bmhl(ug'n Temperance Soctety. At a special meeting of the Y. M. T. A. & B. society last night 1t was voted to donate $200 each to the Home for Crippled Children in New- ington, §t. Agnes’ Home in West Hartford, the Children's. Aid society of Hartford, St. Francis' Orphan Asy- lum at New Haven and the Hartford Orphanage. Last Sunday sums of $5600 each were donated to the Polish Orphanage and the Children’s Home. The $2,000 represented in these dona- tions is the amount of a capital award offered at a recent falr, but never claimed. Negroes Able to Manage Own Affairs, Says Spenkevt: % Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 17.-—8e enty busklnfn the United States op- erated by negroes were cited by R. W. Wright, a negro banker of Phila- deiphia, in an address at yesterday's gession of the national negro business league as demonstrating the ability of the negro to manage financial enter- prises and take his place in the com= mercial and financial world. In all probability modesty was né vented by a primitive woman who was ashamed of her arms or her legs. Pure Food Laws brought about & revolution in most foods. But they aid not apply to Baker's Extracts. They were pure long before these laws were enacted. At all good stores. 177 MAIN STREET STUNNING HAT. That Hint of Autumn Hats of -Lyons Velvet and ve<lvet combined with silk, Hats of duvetyn and duvetyn combined with velvet. , A complete representation. of the favored fall shadings, including many all black. - Balance of Summer Sport Hats regardless of former prices $1.00 and $1.95 Gotham Gold ‘Stripe Stockings Stockings That Wear No. 100—A Full Fashioned Silk Stocking with cotton feet and tops in twelve different colors ......... $2.00 RENIER, PICKHARDT & DUNN| 127 Main St. Opp. Arch St. Tel. 1409-2 TO CLEAN OUT The Balance of Our Handsome Skirts $12.98 ALL OUR HANDSOME PLAITED SKIRTS Values to $19.98 ALL OUR SUMMER DRESSES MUST GO AT EXTREME LOW PRICES AT SILK SWEATERS—Styles, 98 Tuxedo, Jacquettes, Sleeveless and Slipons—Values up to $10, Himberg & Horn Established 18 Years 392 MAIN ST. 10 R. R. ARCADE WRIST WATCHES, WATCHES, DIAMONDS JEWELRY OF ALL KINDS