New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1924, Page 4

BlG HOTEL WILL i BE CHURCH 100 NeweYork’s New Structure to B e Novel ne New York, April 18.—A fifteen sto- ry hotel and church will soon be byilt around and over the old Calvary Bap- tist Church on West Fifty-seventh . street, while the congregation will continue to sit in their a seats Bunday after Sunday. The con tractors have announced that the wings which form the main part of the hotel and the roof can be brought into being without interfering wif) the use of the auditorinm The magnificent auditorium of present church will remain as i been since the church was huilt over 70 years ago, but the present gallery will be enlarged and a second one constructed so that the seating capac- ity of the new church will be 4,000 Wings on either side of the present church, and 12 stories immediately above it will be built and leased for operation as a hotel for Christian peo ple. Cost of the improvements will he about $2,000,000, but it is expecied that the hotel will turn in enough rental to the church to enable it to considerably widen its scope of activi- ties, A radio broadcasting station, “the largest in the world,” according to Dr John Roach Straton, pastor of the church, will be one of the featurcs of the new building. INCREASE IN DYNAMITE SMUGGLING IS NOTICED Being Teken From British North Borneo to Philippines—{Used for Killing Fish. Manila, April 18—Smuggling of dy- namite from British North Borneo in- to the Sulu archipelago is increasing despite the efforts of the Philippines customs authorities. The dynamite is chiefly used by the Moros to kill fish in the waters of the southern is- lands, although the practice has been prohibited by law for many years. The Moros, who are’ familiar with all the small coves and harbors, are able to evade the customs authorities who have only a limited patrol serv. ice In that region. 1In their fast vintas (native sailboats) the Moros are able to load their cargoes of dynamite, and frequently a shipment of opium, on the Borneo coast and under cover of darkness slip across to one of tHe small fslands in the Eulu group, only & few miles away. Only in rare instances are these smugglers caught customs official sy, KAISER'S PARADE GROUNDS Organization Has 38,000 Members in Germany and the Pups Are Put Through Their Paves !POLIGE DOGRAINED ON | | Berlin, April 18.—One of the Ber- ' parade grounds, where ex.Kaiser William used to review his crack regiments, has been taken over for he training of police dogs, by the utscher Schaeferhund Verein. 0 members of the so- in virtua wn and city in Germany and There are weelkly meets are held to teach | new tri and at the p the old dogs in trim. st members of the organization are ate individuals who really have nothing at all to do with pelice work but take erest in the drills and competitions merely as a matter of port Inch patience is required to teach the beginners obedience and discipline and for this course alone eight weeks are required, the ng dogs being in the hands of professional trainers usually are aided in their work v the owners of thedogs themselves i fter the elementayy grade is d most of the dogs are put a course designed to protect s from attack by man, either in the street or in their mas home me dogs too are to attack imaginary criminals who are usually young men engaged as dum s for this work and who vear enormous padded suits which es them the appearance of big fat n or deep sea divers all ready for work. Glasgow Courts Return Cross to Italian Priest London, April 18.—After several vears of litigation in Glasgow courts, a Byzantine cross, inerusted in jewels and valued at mors than $,1000,000, has been ordered to be returned to !the parish priest of a church in the 'province of Aquila, Italy, to which it once belonged. | There were two claimants to the {property, an Itallan ice cream shop |assistant of Glaskow, named Attilo !Franche, and the priest of the parish in Aquila. The eross disappeared from teh ehurch in 1918 and was not heard of until May, 1921, when Franche of. fered it for sale in Glasgow. Franche's story was that he found it in the ruins of his family stle after the carthquake at Messina. The court, however, did not see anything in common with the earthquake and the eweled cross, JANITORS FOR HIGHER RENTS Derlin, April 18.—There are 10,000 apartment houses in Berlin without porters, according to the Porters' union, which contends that the for- mer caretakers quit their jobs because the house owners were not able to pay for their serv Berlin ha 000 apartment houses, | say the porters, who have come out strongly in favor of the government mitting an increase in rents, The overnment has promised relief, SURVEY PARTY 10 AP OUT FOREST U. §. Govt. Men En Route for Remote Colville River Basin Nenana, Alaska, April 18.—Through |the bitter weather of late winter in the Arctic Circle and the peril of an | unsettled, unknown region, a party of ithe United States Geological Survey, {headed by Dr. Philip Smith, is | bound for the remote Colville river basin. This probably is the most hazardous | |mission ever undertaken by this |branch of the government gervice. | The purpese is to fill in a big blank !gpot on the may of Alaska, contain- 35,000 square miles of unexplored | {wilderness, and also to determine by | Mineralogical tests the scope of an oil-bearing structure known to exist between Point Barrow, on the Arctic coast, and the Colville bhagin, According to Gerald FltzGerald, topographical engineer with the party, the barren stretech 1s uninhabited exeept along the Arctic shores, where isolated bands of Eskimos eke out a living by beach-combing. The coun- try i3 devoid of timber, but overlain by tundra moss save where streams | cut the structure and reveal coal beds and oil seepages. It is a territory calculated to test the statmina of the most hardy explorer. FitzGerald has jpenetrated fa renough in the direction to learn that game apparently |is negligible, except for ptarmigan and an occasional colony ef beaver and muskrat. Without timber, the party will be compelled to rely on exposed coal for fuel, and lacking that, on the meager supply of gasoline and alco- hol they can transport, of the wilderness by way of the Col- ville river to the Arctic ocean. He explained that the party would have to depend on being picked up by a stray whaling vessel and conveyed to | the regular lines of steamer travel at | Nome. If no whaler appears, the explorers will cast their lot with the Eskimos and live along the coast un- til relief is sent The region to be explored is be. lieved to contain vast deposits of oll. A lake filled with bitumen has been discovered near Point Barrow, and the survey party will try to determine the origin of this oil and its com- mereial imporfance, The expedition .was organized with the care of a Polar journey. No sur- plus was carried, either in men or materials. Dr. Smith contracted with a company to transport his supplies to the headwaters of the Alatna in the Alaskan Rockies. At this point the party is to plunge into the wil. | derness esides the dozen dog teams, knoc®-down canoes were taken to be assembled and used when the streams are free from ice Dr. , Emith hoped to reach the headwaters ‘f!f the Colville about May 1, so that age:-Allen & Co, Direct Wire—3005 BASEMENT NEWS - NEW SILK FROCK For Afternoon, Evening and Sports Wear An excellent opportunity to purchase one of these dresses (which actually sold for as high as $45.00) at an extraordinary saving.« Materials include georgette, canton crepe, the new silk alpaca, crepe Elizabeth, printed canton and flat erepe. Colors: Madonna blue, black, maize, Chinese yellow, tile and others. A good assortment of sizes. ‘| of the University of Illinois. It ie an Before leaving here, recently, Dr. | Smith said he expected to come out | the principal explorations ecould be made in the brief Arctic summer. The geologists and topographers in the party include Dr. J. B. Mertie, R. | K. Lynt and Harry A. Tait, Four jaides complete the personnel, 9 YEAR ROAD BAN LIFTED London, April 18.-—After a ban ex- | tending over 229 years taxicabs will | now be allowed to use the rcads in Hyde Park for getting to and from |other parts of .London. The law which prohibited the use of roads in the park is dated 1695, and the terms | of the notice read, “Several persons of | quality were affronted by persons who (rode in hackney ecarriages, wearing | masks, etcetera. Complaint thereof (being made to the lord justices, an | !order was made that no hackney car-4 | riage be permitted to go into the said | Hyde Park.” COURSE IN COMMUNITY WORK Urbana, I, Aprik 18.—A course designed to train men and women as Chamber of Commerce or trade or- ganization secretaries, has just been | introduced in the college of commerce innovation and believed to be the first tried in a large university.s Dean Charles M. Thompson has taken personal charge of the class, which is studying a course he pre- pared following his observations of the actnal workings of ecommercial clubs and Chambers of Commerce, YOU POOR KID, WHY ARE YOU SO SKINNY? Don't your mother knotw. that Cod Liver Oil will put pounds of good healthy flesh on your bones in just a few weeks? Tell her every druggist has it in sugar-coated tablet form now so that you won't have to take the nasty, fishy tasting ofl that is apt to upset the stomach. Tell her that McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tabletes are chock fullsof vita- | mines and are the greatest flesh pro- ducers and health builders she can find. One sickly, thin kid, aged 9, gained 12 pounds in 7 months. She must ask Clark & Braiperd Co. or Dickinson Drug Co. or any good | druggist for McCoy's Cod Liver Oil | Tablets—60 tablets, "60 cents—as pleasant to take as candy. 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