New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY F‘EBRUARY 15, 1924, Boston Store DONNELLY, MULLEN CO. Spring Sale { Silk Dresses = Boston Store DONNELLY, MULLEN CO. COAT, SUIT and DRESS SALE Coats $5 Formerly Sold Up To $15.75 About 20 coats in the'lot, suitable for im- mediate or spring wear. Sport Coats, some are silk lined, plain colors and plaids; one of the best values we have ever offered. Saturday the Last Day of the Clearance Sale At the Notion Counter | Premier Collar Bands, in | all sizes. Our Annual Clearance 9 c Gilt Edge Darning Cot- ton in black, brewn, gray, blue and white. Our An- nual Clearance Basement Specials ing, 36 in. A lz%c White marquisette Cur- :lains with ruffles and tie acks to match $2 .49 White voile ruffled rose and black edge Curtains with tie backs; suitable for bedroom and dining room, 2 1-4 yards wide $2 .39 Ruffled marquisette Cur- tains with tie backs, also ruffled Serim Curtains with tie backs, 2 1-4 yards wide Figured, dotted and bar- red Scrim Curtain mater- ial also cross barred voile, all of very fine quality yd. 25C LINENS AND DOMESTICS SALE OF BEDSPREADS Novelite Bedspreads with blue, gold and rose stripes. 63x90 $2.98 72x90 . . $3.19 81x90 . . $3.79 90x100 $3.98 Fancy Turkish Towels in a I’;";riet,v of ;olors, heavy, absorbent an soft ea, 390 Long Cloth of extra fine quality, in two special lots 190 and 250 wide Fort Mills Sheets, excep- | tional, durable quality, 81x90 | These famous Irish lin- | ens, full bleached and hem- stitched in pretty floral | patterns. These remark- able Jow prices for our An- nual Clearance Sale— Hemstitched 66x66.. $6.98 Hemstitched 66x86.. $7.98 To be hemmed 70x70 $4.49 To be hemmed 70x70 $3.98 Napkins to match, 20x20 Pure Linen Huck Towels ‘l;emstitched with patterns esigned for monograms .. ea. 89c Stevens Linen Crash, known by all for its good wearing qualities, bleached and unbleached, in lengths | from 1 to 5 yards, all re- duced to half of its original valye, Silk Mull Comforters, fill- | ed with Itll(‘e finest cotton, | with a silka- line border. . $4098 These Blankets are cozy | and warm, bordered in pink and blue Needle Books containing various sizes of superfine needles, gold eyes. Qur An- nual Clearance Comprising a group of exceptionally charming well styled models at a value giving that will exceed any this season. Charmingly adorned with Flowers, Embroidery, Bead Applique, Lace, Rib- bons and simple self-shirred, self-tuck- ed and plaited motifs; sizes 16 to 42. TOILET GOODS Listerine, an antiseptic, deodorant, prophylactic wash, large size, 7 fluid ounces. Our Annual Clear- ance LAMP SHADE DEPARTMENT If you have failed to visit our lampshade department you have denied yourself a treat of the first water and would be wise to resist no longer its undoubted attraction. Here you will find lamps to harmonize with mood or moment and vary- ing in color from the multi-colored brightness of a Spanish fiesta to the soothing softness of Beauvais tapestries. Yet, beautiful as they are, they do not forget the practical for one instant, while their desirability is fully rounded out by their wondelful economy, Choice of Any Fur Trimmed Coat ON OUR RA(.K\ SATURDAY FOR $16.75 \ulues To SJS. 50 "Military Silk Braid, in | 'HANDKERCHIEFS all widths and colors, An- Ladies’ fine quality Hand- nual Clearance Sale kerchiefs, embroidered cor- ners, 1-4 in, hem. Annual 5c to 25C Yd. Clearance 4 25 for (3 Middy Ties in satin and Sale ... Sals P13 | Ladies’ All Pure Linen F. LN ’ crepe, large assortment of | Handkerchiefs, colored bor- The l‘awq (m'I'Mhlehc | colors. Annual der., Annual Corset, 8 in. wide, and | Clearance Sale, ea. 290 12£c slightly boned for hip sup- — WASH GOODS s Silk Striped Shirting, all |~ Clearance \ulc port. Clear- ance Sale. . 2 00 | . Lingette and Buty Chyne made of | fact color stripes, 36 in. in plain colors and striped, wide, 59¢ value. Annual Bm“me» : : side very desirable for slips and Clearance Neet, a fragrant antisep- tic cream that removes hair harmlessly, will not irritate the skin. Our Annual Clearance All new Spring models in the loveliest new high colors, large variety of styles, sizes 16 to 42, Ladies’ fine quality bodice and band top Vests, light weight, regular and extra sizes, Our Annual Clear- ance 29c and 350 MEN’S DEPT. Men’s extra fine quality silk stripe madras Shirts, Knitted Suits and Jersey Suits | & 5 patterns. Our Annual : (e $1 .89 Ladies’ Full F""‘i“‘d Mens Flannel Shirts, at- Silk Hose, Phoenix make, uczed WIIIM‘S. 0::‘ f:!l wel’l made, colors aki an ey include’ every shade gray. Our Annual Clear- that will be worn for the | ance $l 09 ‘ coming season; black, cor- \all:o' 3. o dovan, white, steel gray, O R L bobolink, nude, airdale, tan, Blouses, “Onyx” make, in both neat #yd attractive bark, silver, belge and sombre COLORS Black Navy COLORS Tan Curlex Electric Curling Iron, the Curlex will oper- ate efficiently on either dir- ect or alternating current at any voltage between 105 and 120 volts, can also be used as marcel waver, A guarantee with every iron. Special at Our Annual Clearance Sale Corsets Ferris Maternity Good Sense Corset, recommended by medical authorities, Qur | Clearance $4.50 HOSIERY SPECIALS Ladies’ full fashioned Silk Hose, made with dou- ble sole, and high spliced heels, black and all the new spring shades. Our Annual Clearance S, $l j 1 5 Electric Light Bulbs, 25, 40 and 60 watt; every one perfect, and guaranteed to give satisfaction, Our An- nual Clearance Sale Ladies’ fine quality Sport Ribbed Hose in black, cor- dovan, gray and camel hair. Our Annual Clear- 45 c ance Sale .... pr. T0 GRANT AUTONOMY T0 GERMAN COLONY Soviet Russia to Give Yolgt Sell Government Berlin, Jan. 15.~<8oviet Russia is about to give autonomy to the Ger- man colonists on the Volga, and will make the community, which has al- ready been orgamized by the Volga strong pink contil, lingerie uses, yard wide, :_I'astic and {ront garters, A ! o earance Sale nnua e.mnce Sale 58(: NASH FouriDoor Coupe Six Cvlin styles; also wriety of col- ors and patterns. Our An- nual Clearance T of men swimmers escorted her in the water, She kept a pace of 27 strokes a minute, except when stronger curs {rents compelled her to increase it to 80, and her course was approximate- | ly direet, Ior food Miss lln,nhnn took black have been similary reduced under the [ can only exist in virtue of excessive disorganized and unsettled conditions | demands made on India by dishonest brougm about by the political up-| or incapable governments; demands heaval and the famine. which the India government cannot ACQUITS INDIA OF BLAME FOR DRUGS ‘Suys Eastern connlry Not Re- sponsible for Narcotics in U. §. reasonably reduce until it is in a posi- = |tion to satisty itseif on clear evidence that the quantities asked for are un- [ duly large.” | coffee, orange juice and a vegetable Pointing out the impossibility of concentrate, tossed to her from time | control in a country where the raw | to time in nursing bottles, When | material is grown, the writer says she touched bottom in the broad | that it is the factories where drugs shallows on the Argentine side she are made that should be placed under 'fulfilled, without any seeming diffi- adequate supervision. culty, a conditi hat to win her| A real menace 1o the world ¢ Mr. | prize she must w until she reached | Campbell sees in the “wholly illegal |dry land and uncontrolled production of opium , The young woman scarcely in China, where more than 80 per rested after her exploit, going the cent of the total erop of opium is same alternoon to attend a girls' ath- | grown.” lctic meet as blithe and vivacious as even ders Gormans, a part of the Soviet federa- tion. Of the §00,000 German colon- ists still reported to be alive in Rus- sla, Dr. Otto Fischer of Hamburg, who is well acquainted with thé con- dittons in Russia, says at lcagt 600,- 000 are in great gistress. The majors ity of these colonists are Catholics. Half of the German colonists in Rue- sla arc long the Black Sea and the remainder are on the Volga, in the vicipity of Saratoff, Some doubt is cxpressed by the German press as to whether the Ger- mans in Russia along the Volga ean e won over 1o the soviet standard by giving them autonomy because of the estreme hardships they have syffered under the Bolshevist r ne, and the disorgauization apd death visited up- on them by famine the requisi- tioning of their grain and cattle by the seviet government Germans first emigrated 1o the ga arca 150 years later the German aloag the Black Rea there has been a & ation of these German-Russian colonists to the United States, especially to Kan- #as and North Dakota. Many of them also have gone 1o the Argentine A new famine is ow facing 1h Volga Germans, and tie Berlin Cath- ovlic paper Germania is carrying an appeal for the colonists. The ex- tremely high price of all sorts of tex- tiles in Russia and the bad economic ®ate of the Volga Germans make it lm"uwlhl* for most of the colonists buy clothing. Many children eas pot attend school because of the lack of clothing, and even the clergymen are reportcd to be so poverty-siricken that they have no suitable clothing to %ear in the churches. Both the Catholic and the Protes- Vol- scttied L years colonists Of recen tant German colonists have elung to| their refigion in Russia in spite of the | agninst martgrdom Bolshevist agitation an ¢hurches and the ago and 50 years; Londen, Feb, 15.—Charges made in certain quarters that the government of Great Britain and of British India are ultimately responsible for the abuse of narcotics in opium and similar drugs are pro- duced in, and exported from, Britain's castern dominion, are answered by John Campbell, representative of the India government at the Geneva oplum conference of August, 1923, who contributes an article in the cur- rent Asiatie Review on “The Opium Guestion and America.” Mr. Campbell makes the categori- cal statement that “India does not export opium to the United States, and only the most trifling quantities at very irregular In(n als, 1o coun- tries on the Aw an continent; neither does India export opium to Engiand or to any other country for eventual re-export to the American continent. Moreover, no Indian cpium finds s way to America by any chagnel whatsoever except pos- sibly sugh trifling quantilies as may ve umu:mm by the crews of ships trading between I'ar Eastern ports and ports in the United States, in- dia does not now, nor has she at any time, exported dangerous drugs to America either dircetly of indirectly The writer declares that the India government has for years steadily pursued the policy of selling oplum as far as possible direct to govern- ments of other countries, and so far from pressing its opium on any coun- a condition mport that thr Qun"in .-ku] for is reason- able; that the importing government must certify that the oplum is re- quired for legitimate purposes that it must assume tive and moral responsibility of seeing that the opium imported is not em- | ployed for purposes of abuse As & of | result, India now sells roughly three- priests and preachers and they have|fourths of her opium exports direct clung to their mother tongue and eus- | toms. Marienthal, the community ¥ habitants hefore the soviet regime. T #ow has only 4,000 and other cesters | Cathotie | where Russia, had 12,000 in-jthe « to responsible governments, and has refused to allow exports rases it was thotoughly satisied that criificates produced unve were tiabie He continucs Opium America because and ! the administra- | {guayan side, and smoggling J GIRL SWIMMER T0 TRY GHANNEL SWIM Miss Lillian G. Harrison, Aged 20, . Hopes to Make New Record Buenos Aires !'! 16-—Miss Lillian G. Harrison, the 20 year old Anglo- Argentine girl who swam across the River Platte December 22, UN first person to accomplish th set another record by h"lng the first of her sex to swim the English Chan- nel. She is planning, with the back- ing of the Argentine Athletic Federa- tion, to leave for England in May and attempt the crossing during the English summer Entique Tiraboschi, the Walian- Argentine swimmer who swam the channel last summer and who accom- panied Miss Harrison & part the listance across the Plate, believes she will succeed in her new venture. The distance she had to swim across the big South American river was 26% milés in a direct line, somewhat less than the channel swim, and, accord- ing te Tiraboschi, the rents are no more difficult to master than the Mate eu ., thoug) older. Tirabose an unsuccessful attempt to traverse | the Plate about two years ago, was foileg by them M Harriso 7,000 pesos, two medal for her feat ed the distance ir what ¢ hi himsels won cash prizes of cups and a She accomplish- 24 hours, 19% | minutes, which is claimed to be the | world's record for permanence in the | water by & woman swimmer, as well as for distance morning from Colonia, on the Uru- Jandad the next Plata, cast of Her father accom- morning near La Buenos Aires. panied her fa & iaunch, while relays | , hope to channel cur. # gold ! She #tarted In the | Im { Pan_American if she had only returned from an or- dinary swim. She did not seek sleep | until her usual bed-time hour. | “I did not train for this event by dimming much,” Miss Harrison told an intervies “1 trained for it by taking Swedish drill three times a week for several months, What I wanted was endurance, for 1 know how to swim. But I did net let my muscles get too hard. 1 left oft the drill a month before the date for rossing the river A year ago 1 swam for 21 hours downsiream, but 1 was more exhausted that time than 1 believe my muscles were then too hard.” thie Typed Love Letters Give Shock to Social Mentor Paris, Feb, 1 Andre Fou- quieres, who is universally accepted in France @ highest authority on social ¢ has been asked his ruling whether a membe cie ts ter m the if t s strietly lim proper fe £ tesy exact that written is impossit letter might be more in- mere fections? Such bad form ! in that it allows the supposition that it may have been dictated to a third person.” Los Angele«fl tioi(iufltion Lease of Llnd to Doheny | Los Ang - The eity | eouncil vo to institute mediat action to test the Tegality of year lease oh Seven acres of muni owned harba district land ver 5. L. Doheny's ! troleum company by the ission, | harbor comm | L. B. MORAN, f. 0.b. I'actory Pioe Disc Wheels and Nash Self-Mounting Carrier, Standard Note These Attractions! Original Nash de- sign. Low-swung body in either rich maroon or sky- blue color. Four broad doors, vanity case, smoking set, two reading lamps, fine jeweled clock, rear-view mirror, instruments under glass panels, large trunk, vase, platinum finish hardware, heater, automatic windshield wiper, kick plates, silk curtains. .4nd the finest kind of smooth, flexible, vigorous performance. Come see our special exhibit of the Four-Door Coupe. FOURS and SIXES Models range from $915 to 32190 f o.b.factory 313'; Church Street 52-54 Elm St. Authorized Nash Service Station A J—— %