New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1924, Page 11

WITNESS DESCRIBES ATTACK ON MISSION Chinese Bandits Make Their Raid Early in the Morning By The Associated Press. Peking, Jan. 9.—First details of the wounding of Professor and Mrs. Bern- hard Hoff, Américan missionaries and of the kidnapping of their co-worker, Mrs. Julina Kilen of Northfield, Minn., were given today when a description of the bandit raid on the mission at Tsaoyang, Hupeh province, several days ago, was forwarded to a member of the same mission here by the Chinese cook of the Hoffs. Five or six bandits descended on the mission compound where the mis- sionaries, having heen reassured by the magistrate that they were safe trom molestation, were sleeping, ac- cording to the cook’s story. “It happened about three o'clock in the morning,” the cook said. “I heard one of the bandits ask a school boy where the foreigners were and the boy said he did not know, whereupon the bandit shot and killed him. Pre- viously a soldier had asked the Hoffs - and the others to go to a nearby camp for safety, but, fearing the soldiers were mutinous, they refused. “I had hidden and at daylight I crept to the rear of the foreigners’ house and .found the Hoffs on a bed. Professor Hoft was suffering and tak- ing water with a spoon. Mrs. Hoff had been shot in the shoulder, but could speak and asked for bread and then for medicine, which I could not find. The bandits seized me and compelled me to follow and serve them. “Two days later I saw Mrs, Kilen on horseback, but I was not permitted to speak to her.” The cook escaped later and pro- ceeded to Tungpeh, Honan province, ‘Officers of the American legation of Peking are in Honan province, spurring local Chinese officlals to greater efforts in pursuit of the ban- - dits holding Mrs. Kilen. The Hoffs are in a hospital near Tsaoyang. Y. W. C. A. NOTES The regular monthly meeting of the Business Girls' club will take place tomorrow evening. Supper will be served at 6 o'clock and the com- mittee in charge has planned a pleas- ing program to follow, consisting of readings by Miss Margaret Porter and Miss Dehm, Miss Edith Gunther and Miss Katherine Gunther are the members in charge UECTURE ON POULTRY Professor Juck Crawford of Yale university will lecture in the Camp gchool auditorium, Janvary 17 at § o'clock on “On Liking Poetry.” The lecture will be givon under the a pices of the New Tritain Teachers' wiub, Professor Crawford is a popu- Tar lecture, - CONTRAST BINDING Bindings of gray or tan or black outline all the edges of some of the newest tailleurs, Thin Men Skinny Men Run Down Men Nervous Men You probably know that Cod Liver Oll is the greatest flesh producer in the world. Because it contains more Vitamines than any food you can get. You'll be glad to know that Cod Liver Oil comes in sugar-coated tab- lets now, so If you really want to put 10 or 20 pounds real healthy flesh on your bones and feel well and strong ask Clark & Brainerd or Dick- inson Drug Co. or any druggist for a| box ot McCoy’s Cod Liver Oll Tablets, Only 60 cents for 60 tablets and if you don't gain five pounds in 30 anrl‘ Bristol warehouse, are believed to be your druggist will hand you back the money you pald for them. It ism’t anything unusual for a per- son to gain 10 pounds in 30 days. Thursday FISH SPECIALS Friday NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1924 Cares for First Dead ELIHU* BURRITT HOTEL LOOKING AHEAD FOR FUTURE OF AMERICA o (Continued from First Bage) | Elias Baker, Manager, Makes An- nouncement of Formal Opening | Date of New Hostelry ties, with priority in development to! rivers and eanals where substantial | traffic may be expected, including de- velopment of the 8t. Lawrence water- March 4, has been decided | Elihu Burritt hotel. This statement way."” ety ‘ e 2 | was made toiday following a meeting Barnes Outlines Views, [of the New Britain Kiwanis club, by do;‘{;fl'{:"a“‘:i ‘f‘,&’“‘;fl‘;‘;‘;?:‘:fi :"‘,’n'::: | Elias Baker, who will be manager of ltself, maintain and advance the pro-| "3 PO cesses of industry which write them. | AT Buker arrived in the city foday selves into individual employment and | ’tl]?: ;:‘;b::nfln ]:‘F\”,l“‘;‘;i:‘:)"“;;(h“l‘l; ;Z:"“’;‘.‘_‘f““" and the national PrO%°| remain until hie moves into the hotel. “Transportation has, itself, stimu- The opening night, March 4, prob- lated the earning power of all other|&Pl¥ Will be devoted to stockholders industry,” he said. “Fair play re- u‘nd o(ln-rs_ interested, while the quires that we should fnquire whether Chamber of Commerce annual ban- it has been justly treated, and seir.|4uet Probably will come a few days Interest requires that we shall elimi. | 1ater: The Kiwanis ciub already has nate such relation of unfaipness..if|been booked for mectings there every there be any, in order that capital and | '¥ednesday noon. The Business and investment may be relied upon to| Professional Women's club expects to enter this field with increasing needs.” have a bl_g time there some evening Hines Sounds Warning. n!mrtly after the opening date and Mr. Hines told the delegates that Everyman's Bible class committee on repeal of the rate-making rule of the | Bible cluss conventions plans a ban- transportation act, without any sub-|duet at the hostelry on the evening stitute being enacted would mean | ©f March 22, “that the very essence of the afrir-| The building is ncaring completion mative part of the legislative machin- | "W, nothing remfuining but,a few ery for regulating the railroads and | f\nishing touches, while it is stated insuring the public adequate railroad the upper portions have been com- service 1s to be eliminated.” . No|Pleted cntircly. The men employed change in the law 1s necessa he|on the conStruction work will finish sald, “to accomplish reductlons in|Oon February 25 and the furniture will | rates to the oxtent that railroad|@rrive and be placed at that time. costs are reduced,” and he declared | M Baker will devote his time from he “eould think of but one group of | then until the opening day perfecting the public that cen find an adequate | hi8 organization. motive for advocating such a change Mr. Baker stated today that he in the law, and that is the group that Would select his staff as far as pos- wishes to sce private operation fall so | $ible from New Britain, as to make government operation a necessity COTTON GIN R Washington, Jan. 9.—Cotton ginned prior to January 1 totalled running bales, including 234, round bales, counted as half bales, 15,639 bales of American-Egyptian, and 776 bales of Sea 9,697,830 running bales including 166,072 round bales, 28,498 bales of American Egyptian and 5,069 bales ORT OIL PRICE CHAN Independence, Kansas, Jan, 9,—The Prairie Oll and Gas Co. today an- nounced an inerease of 12 to 256 cents ! in the price of Kansas, Oklahoma and Northern Texas crude oll, effective at once, Tulsa, Okla., Jan, 9—The Prairle Ol company today advanced Mid-Con- of Seat Island ginned to J tinent crude ofl prices 25 to 50 conts | 'A5t year, the census burcau depending upon the grade. The in-)¢d today, | creases are ten cents greater per bar- rel than those posted recently by the Texas company, Notice is hereby given that FRANCISCO ZAGARELLA has sold his restaurant business lo- cated at 100 Washington street, to PASQUALE LEONI WOULD BAR REBEL PAPERS 1By The Assqelated Press. | Mexico City, Jan, 9.-~via Laredo-— While President Obregon has declared he will not interfere with the free- dom of the press, the labor organiza- tion is intent In its purpose to ob- struct publication of papers attacking the government. Even the newsboys' syndicate has been asked to join the movement and not to sell papers sup- porting the enemy. SEINE FLOOD CONTINUES | Parls, Jan. 9.-Damage from the Seine flood continues. One of the plants supplying current for the sub- | way and street cars is inundated. The boller room of one of the largest au- tomobile works was put out of com- | mission by the scepage of the water, | Fifteen thousand persons were made | jobless. Smugglers’ Wealth London—Coins of the reign of Ellzabeth, Charles I and James I, which have been found in an old a smuggler's hoard. They number more than 2,000 and are of varying denominations from shillings up- wards. Fancy Newport Mackerel Ib 18¢ SAYBROOK FLOUNDERS .. .. FRESH BOILING PIECES NATIVE FROST FISH CHAMPLAIN SMELTS DRESSED EELS CAPE SCALLOPS .. FRESH OPENED OYSTERS FRESH OPENED CLAMS ROUND CLAMS LITTLE NECK CLAMS . 16¢ .35¢ .35¢ 65¢ 38¢c 28¢ 25¢ — 11 FRESHLY SMOKED FINNAN HADDIE .. Fresh Mince Meat nassiy sreav, ot 10C T H Mo MAF WHEAT RYE OR GRAHAM BREAD 2 H E ICAN RKET upon ! |as the official opening date for the | in Dixmude Disaster Photo shows the city of Sciccia, Sicily, where the first body from the destroyed French dirigible Dixmude was brought. The wreckage of the dirigible, according to cable reports, lies just be yond the city. Iishermen from this city found he first bodies. INDUS RIVER DAM " LARGEST IN WORLD ;To Be the Central Unit in Large Irrigation System | London, Jan. 9 The world's | largest dam, the central unit-in an ir- rigation scheme so vast in its concep- tion as to make even Americans who are accustomed to gigantic irrgation and engineering projects marvel at its | immensity, is being built on the Indus river in India. American government irrigation works in western states such as the Roosevelt dam, seem small in | cemparision to Indus River project {near Sukkar, in the province of Sind. The Indus dam, which will be known as the Lloyd barrage in honor of Sir | George Tloyd, governor of Bombay, will nearly be a mile long. Two bridges | will be built upon it, one at a low level |slightly above the alignment of the |river banks and the other at a high [level. The railing of the high |bridge will be 70 feet above the | foundations or as high as the tower of the Woolworth building in New York, The foundation stone of the dam was |1aid on October 24, 1023, and 20,000 | workers are employed, but the project [will not be completed, even under favorable working conditions, until June, 1930, Then the |conserving the flow of the Indus by means of 66 massive steel gates, each Island, compared with | Two freight engines collided in railroad yards near Orangeburg, S. C. Five members of the train crew were killed. said collision. CE level | work of regulating and | They Could weighing 50 tons, will be possible. While the dam i8 being built another wriny of workers is busy constructing a gigantic network of canals which will carry water over an area almost as great as England, Tmmediately above the dam seven | canals will carry the silt laden water | 's of the Indus over the wide| arcas of the province of Sind. The| Rohri camal will be 205 miles lonz.]‘ with 2,300 miles of branches. The | central ricé canal, 87 miles long will| irrigate 500,000 acres of the finest | rice growing lands in India. Similar | waterways will radiate in all direc-! tions from the central reservoir. Three of these canals will be wider than the Suez canal. | When the Lloyd barrage is finally | completed, the Province of Sind| through which the lower Indus flows, | is expected to share the prosperity of | the Punjab, which is due mainly to| the successful irrigation of the up- per reaches of the river., Vats areas of arid desert land will become rich | fields of rice, cotton and wheat; there | will be large movements of natives {from the densely populated districts | of India, and the sparsely inhabitated | banks for 300 miles along the lower course of the Indus will become a hive of industry and form another great granary for India and the British Empire. The whole scheme is being financed by the government of Bombay the es- timates calling for $60,000,000, of which 817,600,000 will be spent upon the dam. It is calculated that the net annual profit to the government will be 14 percent, LIZARD SKIN SHOES Lizard skin shoes in light colors are very popular for southern wear, They are durable, not casily solled and are very easy to clean. THURS. DOUBLE FRI.-SAT. An entire city was toppling about their ears . . . buildings were crash- ing with a noise like thunder . .. and flames were licking with long tongues at the ruins . . . yet in that tremendous moment their eyes and hearts were opened, and to the man came the realization that his dream was about to come true. You'll thrill at the wonderful spec- tacle while you smile in sympathy with the appealing romance of this unusual screen story. You have never seen a screen drama like it! i’ f For Baby’s Cough A ¢ sottle Allen’s Lung Healer Is Wonderfully Effective. mothers who hesitate to give r babies strong medicine we wish emphatically that Allen's Healer is as harmless as honey. hild of once drank a whole without harm. It contains no and less than one per cent five cotic 1icohol DOSAGE FOR CHILDREN. 1o 2years, 1-1 teaspoonful, 1. years, 1-2 teaspoonful, teaspoonful. years, 1 teaspoonful. 1310 16 years, 1 1-2 teaspoonfuls. " AND BODY BUILDER CONTAINS NOT OVER 1% ALCONOL Sold in Bri Miller-Hanson Drug arc approximate doses, dose will do no harm, but a needless waste, : Made in Lynn by H ALLEN CO., Druggists, 67 Whiting Street, New Britain by Clark & Co., Nation Pharmacy, Co. City Drug an will nerd Store, WHITE MEN THRIVE IN AUSTRALIAN - TROPICS Modern Medical Opinion Says That \ Men, Other Than Negroes, Can Live in Southern Climate _R)’dnoy. N. 8. W, Jan. 9.—Medical opinion has done something toward settling the controversy that has rag- | ed around the gquestion of whether the northern portions of the Austra- lian continent are suitable for settle- ment by the white race. The discus- sion was apropos of the Australian “white policy,” under which all col- ored races are excluded except per- sons who were domiciled here prior to the legislation, and a few admitted under special trade agreements, Advocates of the introduction of cheap colored labor on an indenture system, or contracts for periods of years, have contended that northern Australia, being tropical, afforded a n’t Pass on Same Track Photo taken after Children After |climate for which white men were constitutionally unfitted. To exclude races able te develop this territory was, they argued, a dog-in-the-mang- 'r policy. But medical opinion now says white people not only can live in the tropical north, but thrive there, A recent pamphlet issued by the mmonwealth health departmeént ated that after a generation's trial fairly could be said that white men could work in the tropical areas of Australia without thc labor of col- {ored races. In this tropical life, it was added, the British were holding their own | with the other white races, “As workers in the sugar belt,” | stated the pamphlet, “the British have proved that in speed and endur- |ance they are the equal of any other | race.” In this tropical life, it was added, the British were holding their own | with the other white races. | “As workers in the sugar belt,"” stated the pamphlet, “the British have proved that in speed and endur- lance they are the equal of any other race.” In the centess of population as far | north as Townsville, men of British nationality predominate overwhelm- ingly. In the tropical sugar districts northward, there are numbers of Ital- fans and smaller numbers of Greeks, Spanfards, Kussiun, Maltese and other nationalities, The castern races are | represented chlefly by Chinese, once | present in cousiderable numbers, and in lesser degeee by Jupanese and by natives of India. MOIRE AND LACE White* moire combined with silver lace is a® unbeatable combination for dance and dinner frocks, Beware ! Watch Out For CAPTAIN APPLEJACK CAPITOL—MONDAY FEATURES By Public Demand EY School—10¢ LADIES’ BARGAI MATINEE THURS. This Coupon and 10¢ Will Admit Any Lady To Best Seat At the Palace Thursday Matinee, January 10th