New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1924, Page 3

( Fl]@ll COMPANY'S | * EXTENSION PLANS Yill Expend Nearly 150 Million This Year Detroit, Jan, 2—Extensive improve- | ments of waterways looking to the de- velopment of an all-water route from Green Island, N, Y., to Detroit; com- pletion of a plant started at St. Paul, | Minn.; an addition to the Kaneas City assembly plant, and extenslon eof business throughout the South and ‘West, are among the items named in a statement by the Ford Motor com- pany iIn its expansion program for 1924, announced here yesterday. An officlal of the company, close to Mr. Yord, was anthority for the asser- tion, that the statement covered im- provements which would call for an expenditure of from $110,000,000 to $150,000,000 during the year. Regarding other extensions which will be made by the company, the statement says: “Plans have ‘been completed and construction is to be begun early in the year on a mew assembly plant at Philadelphia. “About February 1, production is to be begun at the New Hegewitch plant at Chicago, where, in addition to the assembly of 600 cars and trucks per day, all closed ‘car bodles required in the Chicago distriet will be manu- | factured. ! West Coast Well 3 | ““The west coast is regarded as es-| peclally well prepared to handle the| large volume of business expected to| 1924 as a result of additions made to| i | | | ONLY 427 MILES OF RAILWAY IS BUILT But Large Amount of New Equip- ment I§ Ordered Chicago, Jan. 2.—Statistics which have been compiled by the Railway | Age show that the construction of Inew railway lines in the United States continned to be very small in 1 but that there is a marked increase in the construction of second track for the purpose of double-tracking lines of heavy traffic. The new lines built consisted of only 427 miles. With the exception of the years 1920 and 1922, this is the smallest. mileage ever reported. On the other hand, there were 684 miles of line double tracked as compared with 196 miles in 1922 and 143 miles in 1921, There were abandoned and torn up 129 miles of line and there were 384 miles abandoned but not taken up. This was a reduction as compared with the record of recent years and indicate that for the first time since 1915 there was a small net Increase in the total mileage of rail- way lines in the country. Fewer Cars Ordered. There Was a reduction during the year in the number of locomotives and cars ordered by the railways. The number of locomotives ordered from the builders was 1984 as compared with 2600 in 1922, The number of freight cars ordered was 9471 as com- pared with 180,154 in the previous year and the number of passenger cars ordered was 2160 as compared the Los Angeles assembly and mani- iy, 2392 {n the previous year. facturing plant during the past year. “The ¥ord expansion program for the south is reflected in the comples | tion In 1928 of the new assembly and body plant at New Orleans and | an addition to the Atlanta, ., plant. | Other .extensions are contemplated for the south during 1924. “An addition will be built to Kansas City assembly plant increas ing its floor space 168,000 square feet, and a new sales and service branch at Halt Lake eity, on which construction |anti-saloon league, who is under in-| has begun, will be completed in April.” The increase in production of by- products from the Ford plants is also covered in the statement. In this connection it Is announced that new Arthur 8. Tompkins would fix that! coke ovens, now under construction ot the River Rouge plant here, in| which coke and its by-products will be manufactured at low tempera-| ture process, will be put into opera-| tion. i Cement Plant. There will also be put into opera-| tion at the River Rouge plant, it is ssserted, & cement plant which will| his home in this city yesterday in his General Villa Nueva G make 1000 barrels of cement dally from blast furnace slag. This ce-| ment will be used in the bullding operations of the company. At the Highland park plant ef the company here, it is planned to ex- tend manufacturing units and in- crease railroad facilities. A new body factory and wood dis- tillation plant will be put into opera- tion early in the yoar at Tron Moun. tain, Mich. finished for automobile bodies and in| addition, wood alcohol, wood tar, £a8, | |6y of the Amerlcan College of oil, and charcoal will be manufactur- ed from the pjcces too small for use | in automobile body manufacture, | Increased production is also fore. | cast for the company’s plant at Flat| Rook, Mich., which manufacturers| wumobile lamps. The Ford wheel plant at Hamilton, O,, the statement suywy, will be increased to keep “abreast of growing requirements.’” Waterway nent In regard ,to . the proposed all- | water route from Green Tsland, N, Y, during the present month in the su-| to Detroit, the statement says: | “Bulldings for the new. Ford plant | ot Green Tsland, N, Y., are now com- pleted and production. of gears, ra diaters and other parts, begun last vear, will be expanded as additional machinery is installed. Extensive im-. provement and development of water ways in‘the Green lIsland district is aledo under way, looking 1o an all. water route to Detroit.” Turkish Editors Acquitted By Independence Tribunal Constantinople, Jan. 2.—The tri- bunal of Independence, or counter. revolutionary court, today acquitted the three Turkish editors carly in December and charged with treason for having published a letter from Aga Xhan, of Indla, on the tubject of the calipbate. Aga Khan is spiritval head of the Mohamme. dane o India, Bast Africa and Cen- tral Asia. The editors are connected with the newspapers Tanin, Ikdam and Tevhid Evkiar, The tribunal which acquitted the cditors recently ventenced Toufti Bey, head of the Turkish bar to five years at hard labor on a (reason charge for sond. Ing a letter to the caliph telling him that his resignation would be disas- trous to the dynasty and the coun- try. Conn, Labor P’deralion Leader Is Optimistic New Haven, Jan. 2.— Seventy-five per cent of the 25,000 ynempoved in this state will soon be at work ac- cording to P. ¥. O'Meara. president of the Connectient Federation of Tabor. The new year, in My O'Meara's estimation holds a bright outlook for general business and for 1abor. “The cost of living are about the vame as one year ago which it is not Hkely there will mueh re- duction In prices nor In wages for a long time," he stated “Wages are falrly 004 and there will be a gond demand ior labor at present rates ; While living are Wigh the peopls have 1arger purchasing power.” he casta a Youth of 19 Arrested as | Clothing Store Burglar | Norwalk. Jan. 2—Albert Schults, | 19, is under arrest charged with par- tictpation In the robbery of the Mur.! phy Mrz. Co. and a local ciothing| store, for which alse four others hnm' been arrsted. There wers overal robberies hére and the five men are thought to have been in them. Schults was held in $3.000 for the superior | eourt term in February by Judge Fandes today | |don). arrested | The orders placed for equipynent in the latter part of 1922 were, however, extraordinarily large and in conse- quence there was a very large in- erease in the amount of equipment built and placed in service In 1923, e/ Set Date for Trial of Anderson on January 14 New York, Jan. 2.—Willlam H. An- |derson, state superintendent of the | dictment for forgery and lareeny in |connection with league funds, will go [to trial January 14, it was announced by District Attorney Banton. Mr, Banton said Supreme Court Justice date on January 7. Marcy, Prominent as Surgeon, Dies, Aged 86 Cambridge, Ma Jan, 9.-Dr. |Henry Orlando Marecy, noted surgeon and former president of the Amer- [lean Academy of Medicine, died at (Dr, | 87th year. He was credited with bringing into use in surgery the buried animal suture (kangaroo ten- He served in the Civil war as |assistant surgeon and was appointed {medical director of Floridu and later | medical director on Sherman's staff in the Carolina campalgn. Dr. Marcy was president of the American Academy of Medicine in | 1884 and of the American Medical British Medical assoclation and a fel. | geons, State Will Condemn the Anson McCook Property Hartford, Jan. 2.--Attorney Gen. | eral Frank 1. Healy sald today that it | he expected to file papers in condem- ' |nation proceedings against the Me- Cook property at Niantic, which he wHI institute for the state, sometime preme court for New London county, The condemnation proceedings will Ibring %o a head a long fight between | the state and the McCook family { represented by - Exceutive Secretary | Anson.T. McCook, for a portion of | the land owned by the family adjoin- |ing the Beaside State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, at East Lyme, Additional land is needed the sanatorium for its work, and addi- tional beach spare is very much de sired, according to Senator Irwin (', Atchison, chairman of the committee which reported the I bill hy condemnational HEAR $1,500 ACTION, Bridgeport, Jan. 2.—~A jury in the | muperior court today heard testimony in the suit of the Rridgeport Land {and Title Co. against the executors of {the astate of Bamuel 1, wha claim $1,500 for commission in secur- stomer to buy Stormficld, the the famous Amcrican hu- Redding, Conn Clemens, morist at SKI JUMPER KILLED. Turin, Mtaly, Jan. 2.--The death is confirmed of Giuseppe Perlo, one of Taly's best ski jumnpors, whe was re portad missing vesterday while train- ing for the Olymple games body was found today at the foot of a precipicc. Perlo was formerly a captain in the Alpini MINNESOTA RF Hamburg, Germany former American sota, which yesterday lashore on Minsener off Wil helmshaven, has freed and proceeding into that port OATED. Jan steamship was sand been The Minne. reported Pity the Poor Man ! Magistrate - Youn nre stealing 20 reams of fool gallon of ink. Have you a Prisoner--Yes, your henor a novelist. 1 simply collecting material my chunge was for new story. Ex His ¢ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' 2, 1924. REBELS SEEKING T0 " CUT OFF FEDERALS Want to Stop Communication With Capital { By The Acsociated Press, | Vera Crnz, Jan. 2.—An encircling | movement with the object of cutting {off all communication between the | Obregon government in Mexico City and the outside world has been Initi- {ated by the insurrectionary forces in | | the various parts of the republic, |cording to information emana from rebel sources here, | | The rebels claim that the extent of | | these operationg thus far has already |thrown the Obregonists to the de- | |fensive. The followers of Adolfo e | la Huerta say the federal government | |lacks sufficient forces to assume a | | counter-offensive, " In addition to the movements upon (the capital from the east and west, "undn-r enerals Sanchez and Estrada, | respectively, the rebels peint to the drive from the south by insurrection- ist columns under General Figuerca, | | who revolted in Guerrero. To the| | northeast of the capital General Ca- | | vazos is said to have been suceessful | in his advance on Pachuca and to| | have occupied the real Del Monte, | one of the most important mines in | Mexico, sitvated in the vicinity of | Pachuca, | Newspaper ‘correspondents with | the rebels on the Vera Cruz front re- | port. that these forces have received |orders to resume their advance | | against Mexico City. To fnvilllau-[ this movement it will be necessary to | repair the rail lines which the rebels ‘lela.xm were destroyed by retreating | federal forces at San Marcos. | Vederals Withdraw { Washington, Jan. The retire. | |ment of Mexican federal forees from | {Tehuacan was announced in a tele- | {gram received here today from the Irevolutionary headquarters in Vera |Cruz. The message said: | Notwithstanding the efforts that | were made to entice forees of the im- | | position into a trap prepared for them between three attacking columns, in pursuance of a strategle plan of Gen- erals Sanchez and Maycotte, they could not be made to advance any further than Tehuacan for ”H'(‘"‘ days. When they were apprised of |our enveloping movement they took to hasty flight, abandoning Tehuacan and reconcentrating in Puebla, | “Our forces also shamefully .1wrr~m-’ {ed the column of Generaly Almazan and Topete in the neighborhood of | Tecamachaloo. | | “RNevolutionary columns are pre- | paring to advance against Puebla at the arching | head of his column, directly toward Mexico City.” Girl Dies of Burns in Providence Providence, It, Jan, 2.~Helen Jane Chadwick, student in fll'“ Woman's college of Brown university, | died here yesterday morning of burns roceived when her dross fgnited whils | |College Here the timber will ba | gegooiation in 1592; a member of the she was burning rubbish in the yard of her home. Miss Chadwick wae a prominent under-graduate, and was | one of the moving spirits in the Ko-| mians, the college dramatic society. | she n graduate of the Lowell | (Mass.) high school. Fall Willing to Return [ To Give His Testimony | Washington, Jan, 2. -Former See. retary Fail of the interior depart- ment has notified the publie lands committee that aiffough he has been ordered hy his physiclans to go to {Florida to recuperate from illness, he will return here at any time the com- mittee may direct in connection with | its Teapot Doame investigation. The notification was sent to Chalrman | Lenroot | JORNSON DOES NOT WORRY | | California Semator Undisturbod By | Vord's Declaration for Coolidge Savannah, Ga Jan. 2 E. & Faller, a Savannah attorney, asked Sepator Hliram Johnson of Califernia what he thought about Henry Ford having announced himself for Conl idge for president. Mr. Fuller was the original ¥Ford man here and the Detroit man‘'s action was a keen dis appointment to him. He has received | the following I-tter from Senator Johnson, which says [ “Thank much for vour letter of don‘t thi worry lightest of recently you very K degres | t 1 e we necd in the ahonut Coolidge Ford's adiocacy Presiden HUGE STEK CARGO COMING Traine Carrying 812,000,000 Shipment on Way tn N, ¥, Chicago, Jan Vour specia Pour trains worth of silk luable ship nt, witl Rurlington Thursday from and will he et. The haggage operated on train rrying largest and ment to erose the in Chicago today the most antine ar rive raliroad The consignment Orient by wav o attie run through to New York silk ia being transported cars and the trains are than regular th from being and came the faster passenger tim run Seattie 1o Chi chedn'e Al sixty-e ve-half hours he forty-six cars " re are ta acompanied by tw ty-five roads of the sitk shipm y train is armed haretotnr guards. Canadian ral have carried mnch LA Ll cmed fire swept factory THREE ALARM N Y New York Live B2lievie hospital 1 « danger last night the Eastern Chair on 23th hall. the Tuenty howe and pres dan of 160 srues n when a company wtreet back graduate oy respond -4 ented the b et of Osborn tees hom . © apparatus alarms pread r o thr aze from |ing So efficiently did the firemen work that occupants of an adisining fene- ment, although roused, were not forc ed to leave their homes Tee Blankets save fee, but do not | allow it 1o cool the objects put in the | box, becanse only in melting does jcs {enol thiings brought in contact with | I Laura A. Wadsworth, Formerly Mrs. Demos, To Leave January 5 For Winter Cruise to Warmer Climate Laura A. Wadsworth, who was until a few days ago, Mrs. Laura A. Demos and who has just been granted a di vorce from her husband, George P. Demos, a Church street restaurant owner, has made arrangements to turn the Court street hospital of which she is the owner, over to a substitute and leave January 5 for a trip to the Mediterranean. The marital difficulties of mos family have been in the head- counter charges and even went so far one time as the New Britain police court, Recently MrsgDemos brought suit against her husband for divoree, charging intolerable cruelty. A days ago the divorce was granted, Mrs. Demos being given permission to resume her maiden name, that of Laura Wadsworth. It is understood Mr, Demos also made a cash settle- ment. The custody of the child was left to be settled between the former husband and wife, and a conference was held this afternoon for that pur- pose. Mrs. Demos has secured p e on the liner Patricia of the Fabre line and will sail Saturday morning for a three months' trip around the world She will stop first at Madeira in the Azore Islands, going from there to Alglers, Palermo in Sicily, Naples, Alexandria and Egypt, Jappa, Bierut, Syria and Greece, Returning she will stop at Athens and Naples, going from there to Italy and spending some time in Rome, thenee through France and Belgium and possibly the British Isles before returning to New York. WANTED IN TEXAS Vort lieved to he One Wanted in Worth as Forger. 2.~—A8 a result of from the Hartford, Jan the receipt of a telegram police authorities in Fort Worth, Tex., Prosecuting Attorney John [ Bonee in police court tod requested a continuance to Saturday in the case of Edwin DePatie, held here as a fu gitive from justice, The prosecutor explained to Judge Day *‘un ditlon papers are being pr¥pared and that an officer from Fort Worth is ex- pected in Hartford before Saturday DePatie, the local police learn, has been indicted for alleged forgery of a check for $16,000 extra. $500,000 WINNIPEG FIRE Winnipeg, Jan. 2. ~Battling in ten below zero weather, firomen last night fought one of the most disas- trous fires in recent years, which started in the Teese ahd Persse wholesale groeery w hous: five story structure, Eearly estimates placed the loss at more than $500 . 000, “ Desks, Chairs, O ASHTON, Pros. 2180, - .1, top aien on v offor outfit § 108 a en'l'r'\v ot rondith he o 18P i %’Cfl ies 38 uvn‘ - : e b L :m'" M-, l'!?fl p'f'?l 1OWCASPS " weil age h iables_ehaire 5381 TW and geeand land slore o iven. LA _Ontarn,__ ¢ For S ’ $195 me Aigh grade A8 ” s wn 4 weas “eher s place velom 11 nET ® o arseh_Pans T the De- | few | PROVES INNOCENCE ON WINTER CRUISE | rines of the § | English Mu rested in New York New York, Jan. 2 ing resemblance to Major Norman | Percival Bailey, English officer sought for the murder of his wife, at Hove, erday. After undergoing a severe grilling. | ne won his release by showing author- | carrier, | ities his American passport, issue ar, and his certificate of gradu- |ation from a German university. He carried a llbrary of philosophic books Mclntyre's appearance correspond ed almost exactly with the deserip- tion of Major Bailey received by the ship's officers and New York police Age, height and color of hair and eyes were the game. He had similar dental peculiaritics and body kcars Melntyre said his wife and his father, F. M. MecIntyre, lived i Thermal, and that he, himself, was a resident of DesMoines before he went to Europe Reports that Major Bailey 5 with an American girl led officers to question Miss Helen Sted man, who stood by and reassured McIntyre during his ordeal. She said she had gone abroad with a group of college girls to study European eon- ditions and was returning to Ther- mal, Cal Arrest Hartford Man On Charge of Murder Lebanon, N. H, Jan. 2.—Dement Hanchuk wus held without bail for the grand jury on a cha o of mur- der after he had entered a formal plea of not guilty in ghe thunicipal conrt yesterday in connection with the shooting of Eddy Leah Han chuk, a former resident of Lebanon and veeently employed as a machin ist in Hartford, came here and made inquiries as to the elreumstances of Leah's marriy October to the woman from Hanchuk had been divoreed September, He then went to brickyard where Leah was employed and according to the police fire four shots at Leah, who fell dead The poliee said he had told them he shot Leah because the latter had stolen his wife and baby traveling last whom in a AUTO HITS LITTLE BOY Charles F, Scott of 1493 street reported to the polien morning that while driving street he struck eight years of not badly hurt but was removed to the New ain General hospital where an X-ray will he taken to determine the exztent of nis injuries Stanley this Park Higgins on They've a Badl Taste fruits of vietory that the applies of allies Wash The won are discord o T il wnt B088" WIENLR and resfaurant Citizens, 2118 Oniano. Rakeries (¥ @olng wond hunineas mglll il in 7 weeks’ 10w Hn boyglense 3800 cash 4150 Lorain ay ('lmbfllnn;rlf ‘onf. Wigh Patent Pp— rderer Not Man Ar-|Greafest Armada Ever Gathered| —Bearing a strik-| ‘ngland, on December 7, Carlyle Me- | the Intyre, of Thermal, Cal,, was detained | | lines too many times to require repetj- |28 A suspect for several hours upon | | tion. They have included charges and | Mis arrival in the Orea, y: H | | | { 100 WARSHIPS OFF Under U. 5. Fiag Jan Mor: 100 warships, constituting the est armada ever to be gathered der the American flag, 1 today winter manueuvers at Panams When assembled in southern wa ters, the fleet will consist ¢ tleships, four lght cruisers, stfoyers, 11 submarine one anrplane estroyer tenders, tenders, five mine layers and vessels, ineluding repair, hospital ships, The der the command of Admiral Robert .. Coontz and $7 airplanes, Washington, 5 hat . one airpla tender three submarine | fuel altached to it will b On the west Califorr New Arizona, Nevida nd New York will steam out 1 Pedro together and e will joined in the by coast M the battleships | Maryland, | Mississippi, Caribbean the MOHICAN MAPLE WALNLT CAKE Fach 20c¢ THE . - | OHICAN MARKET Pennsylvania and Tennes- light cruiser Omaha, two tenders and 32 destroyers with the battleships off San Diego. The aircraft tender, Aroos- teok, the submarine tenders, Beaver, Ortolan, and Widgeon and 11 subma- type also will sail from battleships see. The destroyer will fall in San Diego From the Atlantic the tattieships Wyoming, I"orida, Arkan- as and Utah, the light eruisers Rich- mond and Milwanker the balloon ship Wright, two destroyer tenders ind 31 destroyers will put to sea and their forces at a rendez- the South Atlantic coast. a tim the transports and Chanmont will leave Va., with an expeditionary 3600 marines who are to par- in the mannevers in Panama ‘ulebra Island, points on ate \ous At the Henderson Quantico, force of ticipat Ex-Farm Lahorer Mayor of Toronto Jan. 2.—William Wesley farm laborer, was elect- Toronto yesterday by a of 16,000 over womas Church, who was defeated for the first time in his 24 years as & office holder. 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