New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 2

CANDY FOR XMAS ! The Day for Quality Sweets BELLE MEAD SWEETS WHITMA! DURAND'S HUYLER'N 1 Pound, 2 Pounds, 3 Pounds, 5 Pounds Mail Orders Given Special ' Attention THE | DICKINSON !' Drug Co. L next ! 169-171 MAIN ST. Choose Your Gifts For Men LI H B Yo too— for we ha stocks 8o arranged that rapid ping is easy —and interfere with our Call today for e our doesn't serviee Hosiery, P House Robes, and Buckles, Neckwear. Shirts, jamas, Gloves, Slippers, Belts Umbrellas. HORSFALLS 93-99 \dsylum Strect Hartford, “It Pays to Buy Our Kind” Merry Christmas to All Ye London Shop Tailors 13 MAIN STREET “Iet Us Clothe You We Know How." - e ——— Jack Dempsey’s Daddy Is Held on Liquor Violation J CcoLDS GRIP Colds, Grip and Influenza | j Fortify the system against by taking which destroy germs. act as a tonic laxative, and keep the sys- tem in condition to throw off all attacks of Colds, Grip and Influenza. The box bears this signature &3 NEW BRITAI HOW POLAR FLIGHT MAY AID FARMERS Trip Might Obtain Date Concern- ing Weather Prospects Washi cust scientific gathered by Arctic re- regard to | the importa data that might an extended st gions wou se in weather f th United | L bulletin from the weadquarters of | Geographic in | expedition pro- by the U, S navy vey the Washi t Nationa gard to the posed to be society pring irection of Der | tinues the tin, | 1 atsturbances that v thousands of of our weather is not . bulle to us. Thus ¢ is made up moving ‘lows’ subnormal and made ¥ the lines barometrie pr 1re many ireular and imiliar to roughly tical States weather Technique of Weather “Accompanying these winds, hot and snow—the chief factors that ither. rgely in detecting as they show up o1 northwestern bor- rv. learning thetr | figuring daily maps hures Predictions disturbances cold and min or up eur we ake casting consists disturbances ern and out the | pat) follow | hec and tempe birth farther nort g tem- Anges scilitate zions, and tor peratur weather fore Unknown Iegion Tmportant “In the scar ings tory W Ippery Daily Reports Valuable @ 7e the problems be satisfactori to the could solved.’ air skippers undoubtedly INSURANCE RATES ot Gity Remaing in Class B, Fire, Underwriters Advise ingineer Caldwell of the New nd Insurance Exchan has ten advising that since the city lacks 23 points of the minimutm num- ber required to place it in Class A rat- ing, thi as a Class insurance city will econtinue us regards firc ed 51 out ad it be ilding Engineer C: We New Britain iwelling house the city still rates in Class I credited with 147 out of a total points, The fire depurtment is allotted points out of th and bused upon the conditions found at the time of the inspectio credit the New Britain fire department with 51 out of the possible ‘In order for the ficd us A it must be credited with a minimum of 170 potts, which you note ¥ 23 points more that with which New Britain is credited at the present time. As there are only nine more poir secured un- 1epartme that have uded and classified mum property and f rutes ol nd that Leing 60 points, city to be classi thar ts which can nt you w city department | idoubtediy ts will have to water supply, fire de alarm system, as well cegarding building con- and ha proveme in the purtment, fir us regulations struction J ust put report it national board we to the city of New recommendutions eport are necessary ng."” WANTED: SIX FOOTERS England is Experiencing a Shortage of a8 5001 inal by the intend specify Britaly what tadne for u Class A Footmen Whoe Stand at Regulation Height, London, Dee, 24.—Eng nine in Yot Ivertisement A chalf of “a only two applics royal house- was seversl inche case in K rope’s Smployme t Americ clors snap managers explain ires and movies best of Eng d take them off to thy Americans, halls of proper and’s footme endants of on of the shortage footmen of yvie theat splendor Eight Persons Rescued During Fire at Winsted Fireme [ To Our Patrons and Friends | THE LATIMER LAUNDRY hes you a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year DAILY HERALD, MO NOREDUCTIONIN | ON 1923 MARKERS (Auto Owners Must Get New| Numbers or Submit to Arrest 4. — With scven remaining in the Hartford, Dec. more business days year thousands of motor vehicies re- main to be registered to bring | total of early registrations up to last winter's figure, Unless applications are received in greatly increased vol- ume this week, a great many who desire to continue to operate their |automobiles through the winter will be crowded out if they are counting on a last minute effort to secure their registrations, with the result that they se their m highways after the registration rush affording ample opportunity to all who desired to arrange their regis. trations to do so, the department will not ask the police to extend the pe- riod se of 1923 registrations, The 1924 markers will go into effect at midnight, December , and per- sons operating motor vehicles with 28 mar thus st. offices of the ridgeport, New Haven, New Lon- Waterbury, as well as the office at the capitol reported Jast week that applications did not come in as rapidly as desired. The same has heen true in previous years, K great majority of applicants leav- ing the matter of their car registra- tions to the last few days of the yea fuct makes the line of appli cants so long that many persons who could have applied weeks earlier often resent the fact that they are obliged to wait in line for some time can reach the registra. lon and main which |hefore they tion elorks, [ AT :Ofl'crs to Give Blood to Man Who Sent Him to Jail o A who said Thomas Le¢ named L., Wool- attorney of Los Paris, Dec mar former district had sent him to prison in the cu the hotel Woolwine is i1l and L pint of blood to the d him, Rap er, was not accepted, dy My offered to giv California here where man who once prosecut pell’s offer, y ow ided to rom the little hotel s the Woolwine fam- of several volunteers s the doctors had take the blood maid who atte the rs after that time will be | department | \DAY, DECEMBER 24, 1923. RUM RUNNERS MAKE | IHMENSE_ PROFITS {Despite Captures ~ “Business” Proves Lucrative New York, Dec. 24.—The war of government forces on Rum Row, seat | of history's greatest smuggling opera- tions, an activity that since last Jan-| uary, has provided many thrilling stories of piracy, tragedy, comedy and battle, has netted a rich haul in ships, liguor and men. Conservative, unofficial estimates of | the seizures by coast guards, customs and treasury department agents, pro- hibition agents and policemen develop | the following list: | Small rum-running speed boats Deep sea craft . bié Seaplanes 150 10| 1] 40 375 | | €ases of liquor .. .27,000 In addition to the se | guards caused more than 100 runners to jettison their cargoes, averaging 50 The monetary loss to smugglers | through these captures is estimated fll' about $5,000,000, but they only laugh at this, claiming the loss to be but “a drop in the bucket” compared to the gain of successful operations. | Rum-smuggling, begun on a small | | scale off the New Jersey coast in 1921, | | was extended all along the Atlantic| seaboard in 1922, and the first big an- chorage of rum-carriers established | in the waters south of Ambrosg Light- | ship last January established the now famous Rum Row, a location desi le | for the runners of Long Island as well as for those of New Jersey. Nineteen rum boats, including three steamers were parked on the Row at the height f the January trade, and since that ime there has been ast one rum carrled out there doing busi- Total Resources $15,562,322.84 always at le | Coast guard boats launched the ampuign against the runners in the| | first month, seized at Icast a dozen of | |the craft, and smuggling became a | hazardous game. | | Federal agents ashore began con- | | certed operations agalnst the motor- truck runners, and many rich prizes foll inte their hands. Still the business continued, The gaps made in the run- ners' rank by captures filled like a | hole dug in dray sand, Captures in- creased in number, smuggling increas- | ed in volume | In the summer months a seaplane | was employed by the runners on the long Island shore for scout work, One day the seaplane, disabled, made a forced landing near a coast guard | station and was captured Some of the bigger craft of smugglers bhecame venturesome and were caught cloge inshore, ing wag unfolding two months | when the coast guard cutters on rum | patrol sighted the Tomoka, & British | schooner, about six miles off the Jer v beach They chased her through 20, overhauled her and took her captain and erew, and “Rummy Bin" | McCoy, the King of rum smugglers. A week later the Dragon, a palatial cabin cruiser equipped with radio wireless, was captured. She is said to been the mother boat of the swarm of small runners, her duties being to warn them of impending | dunger and the whereabouts of the government craft , The latest seizure the Dutch auxiliary hond, ended the ca port nsed by “Mannie” Kessler, bootlegger king, the shore rival of McCoy Kessler Is at Atlanta to gerve a term for conspiracy to violate | the prohibition laws the then Morn ings account in this all deposits. have Saturday. schooner er of the consequence, Zee- trans- the 7 74 = Our Heartiest Greetings For a Real Merry Christmas and A Most Happy New Year SLEDS--SLEDS--SLEDS Better get yours for Xmas NOW Last Year sleds were Scarce HERBERT L. MILLS HARDWARE 336 MAIN STREET SAVINGS BANK o NEW BRITAIN Organized 1862 . Surplus $810,520.79 THE BANK OF AND FOR THE DEPOSITORS This bank wishes all A MERRY CHRISTMAS. | Insure to yourselves A MERRY CHRISTMAS for future years hy depositing regularly to a sav- MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK. 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