New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 2

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" Let one of vour resolves be to drink more milk. It's a pleasing heaith habit and will resuilt in a building-up of your energy for the smonths to come Try Our Grade A Nursors Milk For Your Bahy Prink More Milk United Milk Co. PUPILS APPROVED School Commission 0. K.'s Daily Distribution Among Children f selling milk to pu- hools came before tee and on recom- ommiitee on health was voted to tr buildings soon The committee on 1lth recommended at the last meet- t permission Y iven to pro- 1%, Gaffney, chairman objected to going until the more in- subcom- of four ¥. Monroe 1 445 pupils rehase k The que the pub t s m arter New Year's. committee, sale of milk | possession o the school = 2 quarts can was expluined tha sufticiently cost to the sci lepartment andling milk report to ¥ that the pint bottle. This e school depurtment to provide | milk without cost he city, fficient to reakage und o i good take ciden- is s teartierd)l committe {mended that Principal 1. the Senfor Higly school and Superin- tendent of Schéols 8 H. Holmes be |allowed to attend tre National intendents’ associ convention Chicago, Iil., from 24 to the expenses of the two educa s to be by the department. It was voted to delegate Messrs, Slade 1 Holmes to the d Chidd Wants Education the meeting the board Giannonoto of Ouk street, petitioned that. something be done Su- ruary borne comention to . LEADERS IN SERVICE! FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR DEPOSITORS THIS INSTITUTION WILL BE OPEN ON THE FOL- LOWING EVENINGS FROM 78 TO TRANSACT A : NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923. assist her in educating her little girl |because of illness. Transfers were re- who is unable to attend school be- ported as follows: Catherine O'Leary cause of lameness, making it difficult [from Nathan Hale to Rockwell for her to walk to the nearest pri- |school; Grace Gilbert from Rockwell mary schos She was present at yes- |to Nathan Hale school; Margaret terday's on of the board and Kelly from Osgood Hill to Nathan | | bo: thought til suitable vided for school gam unch of the taxp been put into the p 000 having been required work 3 Gaffney not favor any action at this time o chairman felt that it might avoid unneecessary trou- ble if nothing was done by the school committee until next year at least. Judge Gaffney had becn informed that the board plans to sow grass ) other measures that will sist in drying up the field. Increase Evening Teachers' Salary An increase for the teachers in ening schools was g their i raised from $2 to 83 did Th laid her case before the school com-|Hale school. These reports were mitteemen. Tt was voted to refer the ;adopted and recommendations ap- case to Superintendent Holmes with |proved. power to take such steps as he may — deem advisable. Criticizes Willow Brook Park Committeeman E. O. Kilbourne who some time ago made an unsuccesstul cffort to secure for the Senior High school the use of bleachers from the Willow Brook park when the playing field of that park was declared unfit —_— | for a football game, yesterday brought | _, 5 . [ 4 [‘Omo | hefore the committeg the condition of | Fjye Sh G tlgl] F [ before th ¢ ive Shot in Gunfight in | Mr. Kilbourne wanted the commit- . . L e s R R Minneapolis Post Office *’ ard asking tnat something be done o put the field in better condition or S s 3 | to abandon the present site and con- Minneapolis, Deec. 15. — Norman | struct a playing field where the con- | «Req” Ryan, alias Slade, escaped | dition of the soil would make it pos- Ganadian convict, was shot and cap- sible to lay out a better one. tured, and four other persons were He explained that the schodl com- jnjured in a gun fight between the| mittec had taken favorable action police and five alleged bandits in | somc time ago on & recommendation | fpont of the Minneapolis post office | the park board be asked to ©s- | jagt night. | tablish o playing field and since the — pour of the bandits, three of whom | had gone inte the-matter he ;pe gaid to have broken out of the it should not be dropped un- | pepitentiary at Kingston, Ont., Sep- grounds had been pro- | temper 10, last, with Ryan, escaped | He said that ,fter exchanging shots with the of-| rs" money had | ficers, One of them is believed to | ject, over $75.- have been wounded, | for the The pistol fight, curried on while | the police tried to hold back curious crowds, eame at the end of a day| when extra pelice of the twin cities had been stationed in all banks in an ffort to round up the desperadoes. The convicts were traced to Min- neapolis through Michigan, Illinois, | South Dakota and Wisconsin by Ca- | nadian officials. A squad of detectives | was stationed in the post office when | it was learned they were receivlnz‘ mail through the general delivery window ! Last park at 8r and was | wound e. & d to two was led from the post n reaching the street, companion in an automo- »ss the street. That bandit| fire as did three others who | down the street in another motorcar. The bandit in the first car leaped out and ran down an alley, | pursued by the firing policemen. He | cseaped hut is believed to have been | hit. The three in the second machine | ulso escaped Norman Schaff, a patrolman, was t throngh the lung and stray bul- wounded Gustay ¥rickson ul and his 16 year old son, an confessed, the police said, that 1d escaped from Kingston, that ovember 5 he held up the Grand ank in St. Paul and 5,000 and that with other | night in which it 's scale is comparatively 1o swung Changes in Teaching Staft The resignatio of Mrs. Burns Rawlings, Grade VII, Burritt Junior High school, was re- ported, as was also that of Clifford ", Dodge, gen shop work, A leave of absence remair f the school y recomme Miss Sarah Meigs, principal of Lincoln school, on account of illness, Mrs. Harold Dempsey 15 in charge of the attendance department in the ab- Helen Elithu r th GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Monday December 17 Thursday December 20 Friday December 21 Saturday As Usual. Monday December 24. gunmen he had been operating in various parts of the United States since their escape from Kingston. The Canadian officers nearly cap- tured the gang recently in Detroit, Mich., but the men eluded a trap set for tmem in the Detroit post office. KORETZ MAY HAVE LED DOUBLE LIFE Police Secking Woman With Whom He Has Lived Chicago, Dee. 15.—A woman with | whom Leo Koretz, alleged promoter of a $5,000,000 Panama ‘“‘oil bubble,” is thought by investigators to have posed as “Mr. and Mrs. Al Bronson,” for the past four years, is being sought. The janitor of an apartment build- ing has identified a photograph of Koretz as that of a man known as Bronson, who frequently met a wom- an in a suite he had rented. The janitor also identified some of the fur- niture found in Koretz's offices as from the Bronson apartment, The wife of a wealthy theater own- er, said to have lost $35,000 in invest- ments in the alleged fake project, was called for questioning by state attor- neys at 1 o'clock this morning, but what the inquiry was expected to de- velop was not disclosed, The grand ju vesterday was re- ported to have voted i‘wo true bills charging Koretz with larceny and op- eration of a confidence game and in- voluntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed against him by three all women, who claimed 00 was due them in notes signed by Koretz. editors, | A trust company, named as receiver, | seized the expensive automobiles and | other available valuables of Koretz, whose alleged peculations of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 are covered by assets of about $750,000. Part of the assets is a restitution fund raised | by Koretz's family and friends from between $300,000 and $400,000 he gave them in “extra dividends,” short. ly before his disappearance, Detectives seeking the place of refuge of Koretz have abandoned theories that he fled in a scagoing motorboat or an airplane and are | watching relatives of Koretz in Aus. tria and Czecho-Slovakia, whose ad- dresses were found in his desk. Bank accounts of Koretz, | | ! MECCANO—the Finest Structural Toy in the World Herbert L. Mills HARDWARE 336 MAIN ST. You Will Do Better at AXELROD’S We Are Out of the High Rent District Special 15% Discount on All KODAKS FREE Tested which | House several weeks ago ran into the hun- | Thermom- dred thousands, were reduced by De- cember to a few hundred dollars, it | Cters (ac- | has been disclosed by an examinatior | tual value of bank records by assistant statc's|$1.00) to attorneys. 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