New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1924, Page 15

LEGION HEAD MAY VISIT GRAND LIST PASSES ESTIMATED AMOUNT Linder and Paonessa Pleased Vith Grand Total The grand list was completed this morning and was shown to Mayor A.| M. Paonessa who, after glancing at} the grand total, exclaimed to Apprai-| sal Engineer Thomas Jinde { “Greai! That certainly is a pleasapt | surprise.” i) Mr. Linder admitted that it was%a, surprise and¥said he was pleased that | the. figure runs beyond the $93,500,- 900 mark, that he set for Chairman | Bdward ¥ Hall of the board of finance and taxation when_the latter | had asked for an approximate figure. | The budget for next year was fixed with a $95,500,000 figure in mind. Just how much higher the list will te, Linder and the mayor refused to say, telling newspapermen that they would learn Friday when the grand list is released for publication. Forbids Cobbler to Erect ) [ Shop on Winthrop St. | A petition signed by a number of property owners in the vicinity of Winthrop street, was left today at the oflice of Building Inspector John C.| B Gilchreest, asking that the inspeetor| o\ o nonth, if plans now under refuge a permill for the’ erection of | gevelopment with Tiddy-Glover cobbling shop on Winthrop street, | 410 carried out to a finality, which Saglio Sivillio, 475 Arch street,| phe national commander is plan- proposed to build. The inspector has| ing o tour of the ecastern section of already rejected the application and | {he United States during the manth it Sivillo wishes redvess he must ap-|of March. He is expected in Connee- real to theb uilding committee If this | gjeyt procedure is followed the protest ""*und Eddy-Glover post has been a adjacent property owners will b"l.\"urml the right of way in his ente brought before the commission. In-|tainment. 4 spector Gilehreest said today. | —— John R. Quinn, National Commander, Expected To Be Guest of Eddy- Glover Post John R. QuUMin, national comman- der of the American Leglon will ad- | Eliku’ Burritt hotel about the middle |lcader at the new hotel and In Birth Rate in Chicago §... quinn Chicago, IPeb, High rents are | partly responsibl: for a decreasing | birth rate in Chicugo, according to a | report of State Health Commissioner | Tsanc D. Rawlings. The report shows | 19.4° births for each thousand population as against Wrths o | 1 11,7 deaths - against | The rest of the state has a birth rate-of 10,5 and a death rate of 12.3 per, thousaud, REFORMERS’ MEBTING of Officers After Year's Activities, Tomorrow Evening. NEW BRITAIN IN MARCH | dress & meeting of the Legion at the | | post about the middie of the nmnlh‘ It is planned to banquet the Legion | legion- | Blame High fienw lT(;r Drop |naires from all over the state will be | given an opportunity to attend and | of |Civic Safety League To Hear Reports | | The first annual meeting of the | | Lientenant H. B, Wyait is in charge of the advance party which will go on 'ahead to make preparations for the navy's contemplated acrial north pole dash in the glant dirigible, Sheman- doah, if plans for the flight not | abandoned. . are City Items Panl Jun";, at St. John's hall, Feb, 28, —advt. Mrs, I3, Dubowy of 59 Smalley street | entertained last night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. N, Dubowg of Griswold | strect, who celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary yesterdoy, Victrolas and Pianos, Henry Morans | =—advt. The weekly social of A, G, Ham- mond camp will be held at the home of Mrs. Anna kgan of 288 Broad street from 2:15 to 5 o'clock Thurs- day afternoon. Top couples forward and hack at St. John's hall, Feb, 28.—advt, A reguldr meeting of the Catholie Daughters of America will be held Lthis evening at § o'clock in O, 17, A, M. hall, “So This Is by Bermic John Venice,” special fox Krug: Brunswick A. Andrews & Co. trot record. advt, | The Kenilworth club will hold its regular monthly smoker this evening, in addition to the final round in the Ciyic Safety League of New Britain | pool tournament, There also will be a | country in the last month. will be held at the Y. M. C, A, to-|radio concert gnd refreshments will [ple wanta clean sweep in government LAKE TESTIFIES Inventor of Submarines is Called In As Witness In Defense of “Sunshine Homes” Offices, Milford, Conn,, an inventor and manu- facturer of submarines, testified in Bronx court today as the first witness for the defense at the trial of his fel- |low officers in the Sunshine Homes |.Co., of Bridgcport, Conn,, larceny. The accused are charged with having pocketed funds obtained | from persons for whom they had cgn- |tracted to build portable concréte homes at $1,000 to $2,000' each. Although Mr, Lake was treasurer of the Sunshine concern, he was not in- ciuded in the grand larceny charges | preferred against Robert C. Laffert, | president, and two other.officers, | . The witness explained he sactually | was the mechanical end of the cor- poration” and had almost nothing to {do with the finances, Mr. Lake told of his discovery of | “insulated concrete” which fe de- |seribed as *“epoch-making,” thinking it the means of solving the housing problem. He also exhibited drawings of the truek he invented for hauling | concrete blocks from Bridgeport to | New York and which figured prom- inently-in the trial, READY FOR 111G | Hiram Johnson All &17 to Hit Cool- | idge Campaign ¥:ftorts, Cleveland, O., ¥eb, 6.—Senator Hiram Johnson, who has just finished |a stumping tour of the central west, | passed tHrough here late last night |and was met at the railroad station by Senator George H. Bender, his Ohio cagipaign manager, “His oratorical war ehest is packed with shots for the Coolidge mdminis- tration,” Bender said. Bender also quoted Mr, Johnson as saying: “I know absolutely that T am justi- fied in saying T will carry this state, 1 am delighted to contest' Ohio with the Coolidge delegation-at-large, headed | by Attorney General Dgugherty. “Thare is absolutely no doubt about Califdrnia. T will carry Indiana. Michigan will be with me, T am not | worried about Kansas and am hope- | ful of Wyoming, We will win in Or- egon, | “There has been an entire change lin the political atmosphere in this The peo- AUTO h";)“»—(".,;‘\;—\\‘l',nNI:.\Il.\\' morrow evening with supper at 6:30 | be served. Prizes in the pool matches | —the republican voters especially. Reports will be made by The sixth annual show of the New | Lo galhe A w. Upsbn, Secretary B, ette, and Treasurer Severin Brituin Automobile dealers will open )y Ar={ johnson. Wednesday evening at the State mory on Arch strect and will contin-| = gy Kkerk will be Rev. R, N, Gilman ve yntil Saturday cvening. Twenty-fop fhe Stanley Memorial church and three exhibitors will take part. Attorney MHarrison B. Freeman, coun- | for the Martford ftederation of DRIVEN 10 SUIGIDE | 0'clock ——, |Men Who Beat Cops Sent New Yorker Saps_ Ho Whs Helng| To Jail This Afternoon Appeuls entered in the police court | by Jumes O'Keefe of 115 Clark stroet and Paul Poplauski of 284 Allen Hounded by Police in Louise Law- son Murder Case, street were withdrawn this afternoon | New York, 1'¢b. 26.-~The police re« land the men were sent to the Hart rd word today. from the Newark, | ford juil to serve their sentences. The J. police that Jogeph 1Meming of [two men reecived sentences of 60 this city had committed @uicide there |days and costs as the result of a fight because “ho ‘Wwas being hounded” injat the Presto lunch with five police connection with the recent sensational [ men, several weeks ago. Additional murder of Louwlse Lawson, music|sentences of 60 days suspended were student in Wer fashionabie apartment | imposed at the ne time, here, ‘ Teddy Tomasaitis of 30 Hartford Detectives werp sent to Fleming'sfavenue vacated his appeal also and home here, where it was said he had |went to rtford to serve a 10 days tormerly been employed as a bartend. | sentence fmposed for a vielation of er in a New York hotel, According to | the liquor law. He paid the fine of the communication leming asserted |$150 and gosts that was fmposed, he was craged because of the activities S of the pajice. |Section of Church St. Is Inundated by Thaws Newarkg N, J.,, Feb, Detective | Sergeant Gonion, who is investigating | A Derson cither has to hive a bath- the suleide of Joscph Fleming, of New | Ing suit or a rew boat if they want to York, said today that Fleming had | travel on the sidewalk in front of the suffered frém delusions of persccution, | Unfon Works on Church street, ac- Floming left a note whigh read: | Ording to complaints made o the “Joseph ¥Fleming, 580 12159 police about the condition of the side- m"‘ New York \:;AZJ-' walk at that point The manhole —— there is plugged and the water from - {the melting snow and fee has flooded e Plent t \ c,,::, “‘::",, ,‘r',,'!.l,,',f I [the sidewalk so that it is impossible for assault| to pass. The police notified the pub- 0 P e e th “ and battery and brought before lnw"’: works department, Judge B e “What is you et sy E and what are you KIWANIANS WILL SING, | For the first time since the New asked the judge. - g ty | Pritain Kiwanis club has started hold To which the prisoner replied, name is Sparks. 1 am an electrician | N8 meeting, the members will be given an opportunily to sing tomor- f charge th battery.” A 'i':,',,;!f_"rfi,:,f,\,:" Y vaititr, | row, and President Charies W, Haw. sald, “Put this man in a dry cell."— | kins will be able to determine wheth- Bnd ASisahent, | er the vocal ability of club members is an asset or a liability, The meeting will be in the nature of a general good time, witl, music and special menu. There will be no speaker. The sossion will be held at the Grotto hall at 12:15 o'clock, A | men from Hartford will attend | GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER L1 | New Haven, Feb, Governor ’;nv-l Mrs, Templeton were the guests of Second Co. of Governors Foot- | guards last night and while they took | an active part in the festivities of the occasion thefr thoughts were on their | youngest daughter who earlier in the ¢ had been taken iil. The governor advised that Miss Templeton was | suffering from appendieitis and was t: ave- name, occupation charged WAth?” Strolling 5 [ will be awarded, Grand right and hall, Feb, 2 dvt. | Miss Dorothy Sunderland ‘of 411 West Main streqt, who has been | seriously 11l at her home with monia is reporte”) as considerably improved. | No canvasscrs at Hall, —advt, | A dump fire on Glen street, was extinguished by Engine Co. No. 6 this morning when it answered a still |alarm at 8:00 o'clock. | Prof, M, J, Kenney will prompt, 8t. | John's hall, Feb, 28 —advt, “Arcady,” latest 17ox Trot, Colum. bia RRecord. John A, Andrews & Co. | =advt, | Bl 4 left, 8L John's Elks' "air, Elks' yed Susan at St. John's hall, Ieb, 28.—advt. “Dream Daddy,” Drunswick record & Co.—advt, 16 prizes, whist John's hall, I'eb, 28 Soeclal Fox Trot, John A, Andrews and bridge, ~ndvt, His Memory's Pailing Everybody in the village knew Ras- | everybody talked |tus Johnson and | to him He was working one day for a | member of the Ladics’ Ald soclety, land as he was about to go home, she | sald pleasantly: I "1 hear, Rastus, that you've seen the time when President Washington was in offic Is that true?” Raste® rolled the whites of his eyes and smiled a sad, but reminis. leent smile “Well,” he said, “ah used to it, but dat was befo’ pro‘bition |into ‘fect.”—Los Angcles Times, seed went Vor Fashion's Sake “1 didigt know you were a huntress, Marjoried” 1 “I'm not ood gracious ! wouldi't kil run_\‘(hinz for the | world, This beastly gun goes with Ithe costume.”™. e | | | delegation of .'}f:' n frequent telephonie contaet with the | Waterbury hespital Ty Veryill, Atlanta Judge pending 0 one The 'S SLIGHT ¥ Haven, Feb, reicased from was before Vel as today charge 1917 and was sentenced custody of a sheriff | charge grew out of thefts fr in connection with his pure stamps for a collection. V member of a well knows Eric on a of a in ases ¥ill is family That Old Decoy ! A clergyman who eccasionally substitutcd for a brother preacher in ar country parish scan | datized on observing the old deacon, who had been col ting the offering quidtly abstract a coin before present ing t at the altar rai After servdee he called the old man into the vestry and told him, with |some emotion, that his crime Jad | been discovered . | The deacon looked for | moment Then a sudden light dawned lon Wim “Why, sir mote was plate puzzled a that off mean L} nk president of | 1os #l Tied reps show above taking a stroll in Berlin, r vyon don't r of mine? Why that for the last 15 plc’'s Home Journal. Henry Robinson, b athcas coniotesion years | om malls | Fruit Florida fhow t Madison Square A to pluck aplenty may be seen at the hed in New York city den of Paim Beac) some choies shows Mrs 19en o about nuts. pneu- | Phote | | The press of the United States croat- ed an unreal Coolidge candidacy, and | the glamour created by the newspa- pers through shouting for the Mellon | tax plan has ‘worn off." WON'T MOVE OFF¥ICES Washington, 1eb, 26.—There is no I plan under conslderation for removal of the Washington offices of the ship- | ping board or emergency flect cor- | poration to New York, the board in- formed the senate today in response to a resolution of inquiry. | o NG TO ST. MARY'S New Hawven, Feb, 26.—Rev, Walter | Lyddy uassistant pastor.at St: Donate’s | chureh has been trangferred to St | Mary’s at New Britain, VOR PENSION SES Washington, Feb, 26.— The house 8t. pensions committee today voted o re- |unnouncement of definite plans port the 1"uller bill, increasing month. ly pensions of Civil War veterans from $50 to $72 a month and widows of veterans from $30 to $36. LATOLLETTE IN MICH, Lansing, Mich., Feb. 26.—S8ufficient pctitions to place the name of Benator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, on the re- publicin preference ballot in Michl- {gan, were flled with Seceretary of State here today. The primary will be held April 7. | . Beaths Henry Nelson Whaples, Henry Nelson Whaples, Jr., died at his home in Elm Hill last evening. He was 66 years of age and a car- penter, He 18 survived by a widow, his father, one daughter, Miss Olive, a stepgon, Nelson A. Brown, and a sis- ter, Mra. Jennie Cooper. g Funeral services will be held at 30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Edwin chapel. Rev. Mr. Brantley of Hartford will officiate and burial will be in Fairview ccmetery, Bemard Grogan Bernard Grogan dicd at his home, 110 North street, this merning fgl- lowing an illness of mix weeks' dura- tion. He is survived by three daugh- ters, Catherine, Mary and Julia; two Berpard and Michael, and two grandchildren. The funeral arrange- ments are incomplete, sone, Mre. Benjamin H. Thomas. The funeral of Mrs, Benjamin H Thomas & 305 Cherry street was held this afternoon Wwith services at the ome at 2 o'clock and at the Edwin chapel at ) o'clock. Rev. John L Davis officiated and interment was in Fairview cemetery CARD OF THANKS 1 wish to thank my friends and neighbors for the kindness and sym- pathy shown me during my recent be- reavement in the death of my bloved | brother, John August Elander. T es- | peciatly wish to thank the Tegner | Bame, order O. of V.. and the stock | room of Mussell and Erwin's, and also | for the beawtiful floral offerings re- ceived | | EDWARD ELANDER {(JOSEPH A. HAFFEY Vuneral Director Parlors 38 Myrtle St Service Exceptional, 1ads Assictant Tel. Parlor 1825-2 Hesidence 17 Summer St —1625-2 New York, Feb. 26,—Simon Lake of | " WALL STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTS Stock Quotations Furnished by \ Putnam & Co. New York, ~ Feb. ~Conflicting | price movements took place at opening of today's stock market with | gains and losses about evenly divided for grand |in initial sales. Heaviness again crop- | |ped out in the copper group, Am {ean Smelting dropping nearly a pol American Can, American Locomofive and Houston Oil made substantial fractional gains in the early tradin Standard “industrials and moved within narrow and irregula | limits in the early trading. Virginia Carolina Chemical issues, which were weak yesterday on rumors of a Do s'blefeorganizgtion, made partial re- covery today, the preferred gaining a | voint, bt Central Leather ssues con- | tinued to lose ground in reflection of a poor 1923 earnings report. Norfolk & Western advanced 1 5-8 and Amer- ican Zinc, International Business Ma- | ehines and Associated Dry Goods ex- | tended their early gains to a point or more. Coca Cola dropped 112 points and Producers & Refiners, 1. Ior- eign exchanges opened frregular, Noon he morning trade quiet. Bear traders encountered sub- | stantial support when they attempted {to depress the stundard issucs and th general list stiffened perceptibly | fore noon. 8hort selling continued, however, in certain specialties, Central Leather common dropping 1 1-2 and the pre- |ferred 1 3-4, the latter touching 1-5, a new low. record for the year. Coca Cola also touched a new low at 69, an overnight droped of 1-8. Strepgth of the Motor and Independ- ent Bteel shares was a feature, Stude baker, Chandler, Stromberg Carbure- tor, Stewart Warner Speedometer, Mack Truck, Sloss Sheffield, Crucible fand Gulf States St selling 3-4 to 1 8-4 points above yesterday's final gures, Virginla CaroMna Chemical {preferved extended its gain to 1 s {and Tnternational Business Machines (to 2 1.8, Trading in rails was slug- | gish, although strength developed in |Atlantic Coast line, Rock Island and Chesapeake & Ohio, Call money open- | ed at ¢ 3-4 per cent, The year's lowest prices were reach- | ed gy & half dozen of the copper shares in the active selling which began after mid-day on the amouncement that | Anaconda had' pasged its quarterly | dividend. Anaconda fell 3 points 1o | 34 3-8 and Inspiration lost 2 1.4, This | selling undermined the market many industrials falling sharply with Gen- |l eral Electrie, National Lead and Ti | water Ol dropping 2 to 3 1-2 points, Norfolk and Western was a notable exception rising to 110 1.2 the year's best, a The closing was heavy, Trading | became lvelier in the final dealings, |bear traders increasing their offerings |in various sections of the list. Ana- conda extended its loss to 4 points, | Omission of the Anaconda copper di- i\idrnd at today's meeting of the di. {rectors unsettled today's stock mar- ket after an early period of moderate |strength, Copper shares broke 1 to 4 | points and losses of a point or more [took place in a an\lwr of ogher ac- tive issues. Sales dpproximated 500, 000 Whares, Curb Neview | was | be- | | New York, Feb. 26, « The formal for readjustment of capitalization of | Radlo Corporation of America, in- |eluding a change in the par value of its shares, and the announcement fi regarl to dividend prospeets of the |preferred stock, made those {ssues features in the trading in the indus- !trial group. The common stotk made again of % to 4 5.8 and a small | fractional gain was made in Radio preferred on fairly large trading. | Dubilier was another strong feature, |moving up one point and there was a further advance in 8, 8, Kresge. Vord Motor of Canada was also strong and |made a sharp advance, Durant Motgr llho"f‘d a firmer |some issues being under pressure and showing losses of one to five points while a few were in demand and ral- lied when leading stocks declined. Standard Oil of Indiana rallied after a fractional loss, vd over one point but became steady later. Borne and Scrymser was in supply, losing yesterday's gain, New York Feb, abroad continued to exert influence on forcign bonds, made further gaing in today's carly dealings. mainder of the list was irregular, with trading featured by sharp rally the Virginia- Carolina chemical issues, which de- clined to new yeeterday, and by the advance Ad- justment 5s and Norfolk Western convertible 68 to new Bigh priees for the year. Although- t) Virginia- Carolina and 7 with warrants, regained most their recent losses, selling of the 8 without warrants causel a break from 3 pointe, On several odd lot turnovers, the new Japanese §%s reached a new [mark at 93 3.5 N he 1 low levels or Seaboard & s of high High 40y 1134 165 T Low 4“0 111 165 JAm Bt Sug Am Can Am Cr & Vdy Am Loco Am Sm & Re Am Sg 1L em Am Sum Toh m Tel & Tel Am Tob Am Wool Ana Cep Atle Ty & ¥ AtGuif & W1 Bald Leco Raltimere & Beth Stecl Con Textile Can Pacific Cen Leath Co Ches & Obio Chi Ml & =t 1" Chi Risl & 7 Chile Copper Chino ¢ Con Gas Corn Pro Crucibie Cuba Cane . & n Re Sugar 16 | Endicott-Jonn | e Erie 1 Ger Gt Goodrick 13} pra Electric Motars jot North phu ne, Petrolcum me were irregular, Vacuum Oil yield- | | News from a favorable which UTNAM & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange Member Hartford Stock Exchange | 31 West Main St., Tel. 2040 We Offer— New Britain Machine Common JUDD & CO. 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Insp Copper Int Mer Mar prd Allis-Chalmers Pacific O Nat Lead Pan Am Pierce A Ray Co Reading Rep I & ml DN Y Oi Pac [ 1 | Foreign Exchange ] e — demand 4 - % [ 12 P&t Foreign ex- in cents: 9 ca- banks 4.25 1.2, 43 cn- demand de- Holland, demand Den- itzerland, 12.6%; de- de- York casy Britain ) 8 4.26; ltaly, demand [ Be Nor demand 15.5¢; ® Spain 1.70 rmany South South Studebak North Pure ( Texas ( ¥ den demand .5 demand Pac il demand Poland Czecho-Slovakia ¢; Jugesiavia, demand Austria, demgnd 4 Ru- dethand .53 o de- 1 12.10; Montreal N Int Nicke Kelly Spr Kenne Lehigh Mid Texas SEERS INFORMATION ton, | 26.—Upon motic Nebra ury oard former r Norris, reput today ca nterior I treg and t the senate te information as Weésting h inet officers tion of STATEMENT L T AsURY 1015 BRINGS SUIT FOR 5100 been entered Hin, Dorbuck The ac- ty court the Attach- 1 by Constable Attorney Thomas J. ts Dorbuck GLETS CONFIDLENCE Yo m Wind helus repres POPE HONORS GEN. WOOD Fen. 26.—Governor Genersl ¥ from in ree- wrviees received