New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 5

FUR COATS NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1924. Fur Coat Sale That Will Startle All New Britain. Buy Now For Next Year For tomorrow we are going to slash the prices on every fur coat in stock. Prices that will simply amaze you. Not many in the group but a few choice coats that are excellent bar- gains. Prices on fur coats next year will be much higher than they were this year—so here’s your chance to buy your NEXT YEAR’S FUR COAT AT A VERY LOW PRICE MARMOT MINK FUR COATS Former price $129.50 Fur Tail Trimmed $79.50 FRENCH CONEY ' FUR COATS Former price $79.50 $45.00 Former price $49.50 $25.00 HOMING PIGEONTS ' BLACKMAILERS' AID New Yorker Ordered to Tie $1,000| to Bird's Leg | New York, I'eb. 20.—A homing| pigeon was delivered yesterday to William Borheck, a wealthy Long Is-; land City dry goods merchant, with al note directing him to attach $1,000 to | the leg of the bird and release it to! fiy to the alleged blackmailers. Facing the most unusual plot in the history of the police department, Cap- tain John Gallagher, in charge of de- tectives seeking the bird conspirators, said last night he would use a polico | airplane to trace the senders of the pigeon. He plans to lct the bird go this morning and then have it chased by an aviator-detective to its home. Mr. Borheck is one of the three proprietors of Henning-Borheck-Hey- | ser, a firm operating the largest retail dry goods store in Long Island City, His home at Whitestone, N, J., is one of the finest there. It was guarded last night. The store, located at 354 Mushing avenue, in the Astoria scc- tion of Long Istand City, takes in vir- tually a whole block. Taxi Driver Brings Note Yesterday, some time between noon and 1 o'clock, a yellow taxicab drove up in front of the store, The chauf- feur attempted to park his machine directly in front of the main door, but was ordered to halt up near the cor- ner, He got under way and stopped at the designated spot. He then climbed out of his seat and opened the ¢ab. Reaching in he produced « small white box, carefully wrapped in white paper, with a letter on top. The flap of the envelope was fastened around one of the strings of the box | and was stuck down in place, Bearing his “fare” the chauffeur en- tered the department store, He glanced around seeking somebody to | relieve him of the box, which was about the size of a hat box. A floor- walker approached him and asked what was wanted. “I have a box for the boss —— Mr, Borheck,” sald the taxl driver, pass. ing it over. The floorwalker recelved the parcel | and asked if there was not a recelpt | to be signed. “No,” said the chauffeur, “there's nothing to be signed. , Just give it to | inspiration to red: the boss.” ‘The employe carried the box down the aisle to the rear of the where Mr. Borheck's private offices cr, it is reported from are olcated. He announced the ar- rival of the parcel and Mr. Borheck, busy at the moment, did not pause to examine it as it was put on hls‘and it is expected the his eye and he procceded to see what ENGLAND CONSIDERS was in it Pigeon Startles Merchanmt. Disregarding the letter, apparently because he overlooked it, Mr. Bor- heck tore open the wrappings. He found a pasteboard box and ripped the cover off it. He rose from his chair in astonishment. The box con- tained merely a rather plump and exceedingly bright-eyed brown pigeon which cocked an inquiring eye up- ward at the puzzled merchant, “A joke,” thought Mr, who was about to call for some one to transfer the ncwcomer to comfortable quarters, Then he ticed the letter, The message said: “Unless you deliver $1,000 by this bird your life will be in danger.” The threat from the air was un- signed, It was written in ink, and the writer had disguised his or her hand by slanting all the letters back- ward. The paper had been torn from a cheap pad of linen stationery, IPor some rcason, Mr, Borheck's con- vietion that- the advent of the bird was just u joke bLegan to fade out right there, and he notified the As- toria police station, Detectives from that post and from the Hunters Point station went to the store to investi- gate. Police to Send Out an Airplane. “Captain Gallagher was notified and Mr. Borheek, carrying the bird, went to the Astoria station. He refused to talk to mewspaper men. The bird was left in custody of the tain. Captain Gallagher decided that it was a job for the aero squad. He pointed out that' a homing pigeon would always “home,” and that if it were released today the chances were an airplane could whirr along back of it. Then when the pigeon swooped down at its journey's eyd the airplane could cither park in the front yard or notify.the po- liceman on the beat to take up the pursuit, Reporters who went to the store in an effort to ascertain whether Mr. Borheck had had any trouble with any one were met by Mr., Hennige, who sald that no reason cxisted for any one wishing to cxtort money from his partner. He admitted that every- body at the storc had been consid- erably upset by the incident and sald that applications might be made for permits to carry weapons. no- THE COPPER INDUSTRY New York, Veb, In contrast to the plans of Anaconda Copper and : operations be- it low price of the carnings, cause of the pr metal and unsatisfuctory store | Magma Copper company’s new smeit- Arizona, will 5. The acity of copper, itput may be start operations about Marck smelter’'s nominal about 25,000,000 pounds of desk. Later on, however, it muglnlmrn greater, v w -~ v seén SEE US AT 3 e B THE SHOW Borheck, | more | FRENCH SEAL FUR COATS With Collars and Cuffs of Seal, Squirrel, Skunk and Fitch $69.50 — $95.00 « $115.00 GENUINE RACCOON FUR COATS Former price $225.00 Big Shawl Collars - $165.00 NORTH'N MUSKRAT FUR COATS Former price $129.50 $75.00 All of these coats are 45-inch or full dress length coats, with big flare sleeves and luxurious shawl collars—belt- ed, loose or side-fastening models, with plain or figured silk linings; all sizes—BIG VALUES. ENERANCHISING ACT U Passed, Male and Femalg Yoters Will Balance London, Feb, €9.—1If the bill to en- |franchise all women at the age of 21, which is being discussed in the house of commons today is enacted, the | number of male and female electors in Great, Britain will virtually balance, Jccording to the estimates of the bill's promoters, | Under the present law franchise to women of electorate numbers about of whom about 5,000,000 & 1t is figured that anotheg would be added by the adoption of |the Dbill ‘making 13,000,000 voters of each sex, | It is known the laborites favor the measure and likewise a great number of the liberals, whose election mani- festos declared in favor of treating the women on equality with the me Ex-Premi¢r Asquith the liberal lead- er, who was formerly un unbending opponent of woman suffrage In any form, but who changed s views durs | ing the war, has pronounced in favor [of the present proposal. The scrvatives mostly oppose it . The government is understood to [have wosured its supporters before- hand that it would not treat the bill 8 a minfsterial measure but would e it its blessing and lcave it to the free discretion of the house, | The women members of parliament aré dividéd on the bill. - Miss Dora- thea Jewson, labor member for Nog- wich, in her maiden specch, seconded the measure, She urged the house of commons t¢ follow in the footsteps of the British oy possessions, such as Canada and New Zealand, and even tsome of the eastern territories, sucl {as Madras, Bombay and Burma, i giving an equal franchise to women A diffcrent view, however, was tak- en by the Duchess of Atholl, vative. She declared against granting the ballot to young women when they reached the age of twoenty-one, I cause she said such an exte the franchise at the present time would give the women voters a ma- jority over the men'and would appear to be an attempt by the women to take adv ge of the fact that 750, 000 men had been lost during the war. Mrs, Margaret Wintringham disagreed with her conservative sister in the view that to pass this bill would be taking advantage of the men. She said a great argument for giving the women 1] vote in 1918 was their work during the ISABELLA CIRCLE BANQUET limiting the or over, the 21,000,000 women, 5,000,000 | con- conser- ston of labor, war, Annual Event to Be Held at Burritt , Hotel on March 17 with Ex-Con- gressman Loncrgan as Speaker, Isabella circle, National Dar of Isabela, will hold its annual quet on the eve Marc the Burritt hote e atte will be lJimited to d it rvations has will mgressman 1 pris Squire toastmistress. gust wiil be in is expected that t) elaborate social fur dueted under the auspices of the cir- | STUDEBAKER PROFITS Net Profit During the Year of 1027 Totalled $18,342.222, Quarter Million. Net profits of 1923 New York., Feb. 29 the Studebaker corporation in totaled $18.342 an increase of approximately $250,000 over the pre- ceding year. Total sal however amounted to about $3 600. Earn- ings for the year were equivalent 1o about 23 per cent on the 009.000 outstanding common stock as com- | pared with a return of 29 per cent on $60,000.000 in 1922, Ovperations in 1923 were financed comfortably without bank Joans, A. 1. Erskine, president, reported to stockholders Expenditures of more than $10.000.- 000 were made for plant improve- ments. Increase of | vvcvv'vvvvvvvvvvvmvwvtvv:vwvvwwvvvvwwvv ."V"""'Q;"""WV"'V‘\‘WW"WVOQ‘V‘VWWU'M"‘ PRACTICALLY THE LAST CALL Ladies’ and Misses’ Fur Trimmed COATS 1*10-'15-25 NEW! These Beautiful Spring BLOUSES With collars and cuffs of Phil- lipscloth, the material that Van Heusen collars are made of. Dainty New English Broad- cloth, Dimity and Voile Models $1.98 Lach fresh, crisp in over 50 of smartest waist styles we have seen for several seasons. Blouse and Tuck-in styles with I Pan and ars, Some trimmed with tucks, s faggotted, some oratded, cfe s for women 46 to (4. Very rcasonably priced at $1.98 Coats to be sacrificed tomorrow at the cost of the fur collars and cuffs. The season’s smartest modes in the soft, lustrous materials found only FUR TRIM- for misses, one Ove toll « ~ N MINGS, SMART STYLES; sizes j women and stouts; values up to $65. $8882880880880880089080080080000080000008060.8. FEIVTITCIVIIPITITITTIPIVICTTTTTITPTPVTIIVVEVPIPPVG S0 88808000880000 8000800080 888880008000800000008080 Hundreds of New Smart Hats $5.95 Just out of their wrappings and shown for the first time tomorrow, these hats are the last word in new modes and colors. Styles for the miss or matron, simple sport-like models, flower or feather-trimmed hats for all time wear, in Milan, silk or hovelty straws—in copen, sand, . black, wood, brown, purple, red, orange, ete. MEBBD808800000808880980088028080800008808000008088880800008888088880008808080808000000080880880088 New Spring Dresses s Saturday Sale A real dress bargain is in store for you tomorrow— dresses that formerly sold as high as $25 are included in this lot, together with new dresses bought especially for this sale. Canton crepes, satins, poiret twills, novelty tricoshams, checks, pleated panels, drapes, ribbons, buckles, lace, beading, and all new spring features in styling. All sizes, for misses and women. . """""V""""'"""VVV"'V"'C:AAAAJAA&AAAMAAIbh‘bmbfi-& 00000000 NEW SPRING NEW SPRING DRESSES | DRESSES $14.95 | $19.95 Continuing our sensational sale of $19.95 A new purchase of the latest spring and $25.00 dresses for $14.95. modes. New styles, new trimmings, new There are afternoon dresses, evening &€ materials, new colors, loads of lovely styles, dresses and: dinner dresses, dresses for § straightline and bouffant models, pleat street, or business, dresses with the new £ flounces and panels, new drapes, lace, ribbon Chinese braid and ornaments, hew basque € trimmings, beads, embroidery: in canton styles with clever frilled skirts, straight line § charmeen, flat crepe, satin face cant dresses, such becoming styles in sizes for g georgette, silks of new weaves, sport women and misses. 2 and combinations. fabrics $LLL885088800000000000000000 s802200000 8880080000808 08000800000080088000800900080800800000880000805080000004 NEW BRIDE AND BRIDESMAID DRESSES have just been received. A lovely collection. Your inspection is invited. We cary without a doubt the largest assort- ment of bride’s and bridesmaid’s dresses i Britain.