New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1924, Page 3

MAJORITY BELIEVE PROHIBITION HELPS Unitarians Hear Reports regard-} ing the Dry Laws ' 1 Press, [ The opinion that prohibition amendment had been benefit to industry was expressed 93 per cent of a list of business nen who replied to a questionnaire conducted by Courtenay Guild of oBa ' n, editor of the Commercial Bulle- who reported the result to the nitarian Temperance society at its nnual here today The other seven cent could no sood in the dment Mr, Guild it Information from * rial concerns, co vilroad execu- The A Boston, ) meeting per an producers, banker: ives, publishers, warehouse yroprietors He pe- ived 146 replies from various parts of the country. More and mill owners. severe punishment viola irs of the liquor laws was gencraily ccommended and many of the i of i wers urged deportation of alien be I leggers, IFour railroad e helpfulness of the executives testified to t while a fifth said sperienced and distur than \olstead One coal pon veral others exp tion that conditions he cidedly, Oply 12 ivored revision of the Mrs, William the woman's or law enf the women untit wed to b Iers a beeam “Whtn they learn to turn and into his road had with drink- prohibi- that trouble i tion ance under the p s of the prohibition a4 improved de- the 146 Volstead act, | Cambridge, | committee | ! of replies Tilton natic reement, in a society Wress be- said that politics tore tempern would not connt hey e political re- “political doers.’ emotion said s mer sentiment wetion,” she ¥ will count ments women morc This wn by greatly, Jogical than the fact are that at in Washington committee for ed to flirt with was sl the ans’ national ment refn “ | e | hoer resolves | for law ¢ ar coquette with mere Woreement,” ; way B aste Wint«g-zréen WEESAVERs | They refresh | " the mouth and breath + d |asleep only Especially delicious Sample Shoe Store 193 Main St. Forced to Vacate action, ~ | oring Habor et VEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1924, PHONES IN THE U. §. More Than 11 Million of These Time | Saving Devices Are in Use in This Country. Washington, May 19.-—The number of telephones in use in the United States inereased from 11,716,520 December 31, 1917, to 14,347,395 on th same date in 19 Statistics made public today by the department | the | of commerce also discloses that rate of increase was 22.4 per cent, while the population was increasing at a rate of about 7 per cent, arly every state in the union, the statement said, recorded substantial increases in the number of telephones in operation. The greatest sectional ns were reported from New Eng- land and the Middle« Atlantie states, which comprise New York, New Jer- sey and Pennsylvania, their combined increase for the five-year period being at the rate of 34.6 per cent, compared | with 17.5 per cent for the remainder of the country. Florida, with 62.5 per cent established the highest rate of increase for a single state, and New Jersey was second with 50.7 per cent. NEW POLITICAL PARTY Movement For One is Started By Pro- gressives in Wisconsin Wis, May political organization, the Wisconsin conference for progressive political was inaugurated at a confer- yesterday of representatives of and other organizations. The conference went on record as fav- blishment of a new national party and clected delegates to convention of the national body in Cleveland in July and thesfarmer- convertion at St. Paul next Madison, 19, A new farm, labor month A of the curred on the question of representas tion in the body and represcntatives five leading railroad labor unions of the withdrew from the meet- ing. withdrawing union repre- septatives claimed that their entire rizations had not been given a chance to send delegates andsthat the convention was called for other pur- a group to fur- Senator la division conference oc- The poses than or ther cand Iollette for president. the acy of WALLACE EDDINGER WEDS Iakes s Lawra Teading Lady, Margaret As His Bride Wallace Fd- who Lot Angeles, May 10 and Margaret been co-starring recently in Los Ageles, married Saturday night after their performance at the Majes- Theater at the home of Tom Wil- trical producer, it was learn- Lawranee wore 1 wds show that 1 license was issued Saturday morn- ing to Wallnee Fddinger and Marga- Muni-—Miss Lawrance's name in private life. Bddinger's age was glven as forty-two and that of his brides as The wedding was per- Mila Tupper Maynard Marrviage licensa re twonty.s formed hyMrs. of this city, even RODY PETRIFIED IN GRAVE Mass., May 19.—~Workmen employed in - she Swampscott Ceme- tery today removed from a grave the citirely petrified body of a man which was placed in the vault in 1876, Over the top of the casket was a glass plate and those who saw the hody declared the man looked as if he had fallen a few days ago. Tynn, PEASLEY TAKES OFFICE Waterbury, May 19— Judge Fred- ek M oY was YN!\ sworn in indge of the superior court the being administered by Freeman acting elerk of Judga Peasiey has assignment to conrt at tomorrow I'es a in I of office " superior court cady received pre. 18 over the superior New amdon starting there Next to THE FAIR on | ROBS WEST END HOUSE AS FAMILY 1S OUT IN YARD| Bold Thief Steals Jewelry and Money | in House on Corbin Avenue The boldest robbery yet committed by the thieves who have been creating 80 much excitement during the past several weeks by their activities in the west end of the city occurred Saturday afternoon gn broad daylight when the | home of Paul A, Stahl of 260 Corbin | avenue was entered while the family | was just outside the house, The fami- Iy had been in the rear of the house, having come out the back door, but walked around to the front. While | there, the thief entered by the back door end took a diamond platinum ring, & wrist wateh, a small sum of money and a baby's bank. The Stahls saw (he man as he was leaving the house and wera able to give the police a good description of him. A thorough search was made of the neighborhood, but no trace of the intruder could be found. Saturday night a man who fitted | the description given the police was| located on Commercial street, but: when he was brought to the Stahl roma for identification, they said that he was not the man. END LONG FLIGHT Australian Aviators Make Complete | T ¢ Circle of Continent in Ninety Flying Hours, H | -Aviators Me- completed Aus- in 90 Melbourne, May 12 Intyre and Goble today their 8,500-mile flight around tralia, accomplishing the feat fiving hours. Escorted by a fleet of welcoming airplanes they alighted on the summit | of Saint Kilda to the accompaniment of cheers from enormous crowds )il\-' ing the foreshore. The voyagers were | officially greeted by federal and state | ministers and army and navy repre sentatives, and later were guests at a civie reception The fight was undertaken to survey the ¢oast for defense purposes, to seek | nossible aviation bases and to colloct data concerning the effect of tropical condftions on aisplanes, THYE FATR YO EXPAND Notice to vacate by July 1, having Leen given by the owners of the building in which her store is located, | Mrs. Joseph Levy, owner of the 8am. nle Shoe store, has decided to go out of business. The store is located next to The Fair, 'The owners of The Fair have decided to expand and they wiil take over the space now occupied by the Sample 8hoe Store, Mra, Levy has been in business in this one location for 13 years. Mer store has been a success from the start, She fs & woman of exceptional business judgment and has siceess fally competed with men engaged in similar lines, WANTS COPPER TARIFP Washington, May 19.—A six cents a pound tariff would be placed on all forms of copper under a bill proposcd foday by Representative James, re. publican, Michigan, Such protection, e asserted, should be given to enahle COPPEr Mines 16 pay & living wage and to give back to mine owners a “small part of their investment,” BOAT OVERTURNS By T™e A 12188 Prem, Manfla, May 19.—~Reveral native Passengers are believed to have lost their lives as a result of the burning of the small inter-inland steamer Calle C.at Tiigan bay off the Island of Min. dana, word of which reached here to. day. The eficers and crew of the steamer wes saved, Store closed all day Tuesday to arrange shoes for big final sale. Wonderful bargains. Details in tomorrow’s papers. We are going out of business | and women had to be rescued by po- | FINALS TONIGHT - WILL ATTEMPT ALIBI | CRORSUS, R, STEPS 00T UNWED BUT A “MRS.” Boxing Championships Are To Be De- This Will Be Harry Moffman's De- Seven Year Old Boy Tenders $20 Bill German Lecturer in This Country Says cided At Meeting of Olympic Aspir- | | ants at Boston Tonight. | Boston, May 19.—By a last minute decision of the officials the finals in two classes will be fought out tonight in the national amateur boxing cham- | pionships at the Arent which this vear also are the final Olympic try- outs. In former years it has been customary to run off preliminary ! nfatches only on the first twe nights of | the tourney, leaving the finals in all classes for the last night. Under the revised arrangement ! #inals will be reached ip the heavy- weight and 112-pound classes tonight. Tomorro\rl night the 118 and 175- pound clampionships will be declded and on Wednesday night the four re- maining classes. There are sixteen entries W the heavyweight division. Ons of their number ,who is considered a formid- able contestant {s Sergeant Iester Mayie of the army team, a full blood- ed Indlan, whose home is in northern Michigan, SEEK PYROMANIAGS Brooklyn Police Believe That Couple of Fire Bugs Are Responsible For Series of Fires, New York, May 19--Twn pyro- mantacs were sought by the police to- day as responsible for three incen- diary fires in Brooklyn and the Bropx. One of the men sought is known as the “baby carriage fire bug,” suspected of having started a score of fires in the lower East Side a few | months ago. The means he used in starting fires in Fast Side tenements, | igniting hed elothing in baby ear- riages, were adopted in two Bronx terement fires which drove forty fumilies to the strests. { In Brooklyn the incendiary poured gasoline on the porch of a three story | dwelling house and started a fire from | which nine small ehildren and six men | d lice and firemen, JORS IN THE ARGENTINE British Unemployed M™ay Be Sent There For Railroad Work Rome, May 10, —- The suggestion | that part of the unemployed popula- tion of England might be sent to Ar- gentina and might be employed there along railway lines owned by Eng- ish companies, was mada today by Voscount Ullswater, first British d. gate to the iInternational emigration conference, in an interview with Dr, Thomas Lereton, Argentine minister | of agriculturs and also a delegate to the conference, Dr, Lereton expressed the opinion that the difference in . language and religion between the Englishmen and the Argentines would not prove a hindrance, pointing out that Welsh and Trish colonies axisted in the Chuut territory of Argentina, where they prospered and got on admirably with the native inhabitants. Viscount Ullswater had asked assurance on this | point before aftempting to reach a definite understanding. It was de- cided to have the question examined by experta, panels of 100 man’s defense, is said, will be an alibi lonely road with her mother and her automobile stuck in the mud, and she hailed a passing motorist for sistance, and was shot and killed a few minu later when she resisted the j tempts to attack arrested six weeks ago. fense in the Bamer Murder Case in New York, New York, May 19.—Selection of a jury for the trial of Harry Hoffman, motion picture operator, on a charge of first degree murder in connection witth the slaying of Mrs, Maude Bauer March 25, was started today in Staten Island. A. Hoffman, wan and thin, was taken trom the county jail to the sherift's | office in the court tot wo deputies. house handcuffed District Auorney Fach said the prosecution would call about 113 wit- nesses in its efforts to constructa chain of Hoffman, circumstancial evidence against The jury will he selected from two talesmen cach, Hoff- Mrs. Bauer was murdered on a in Chelsea while driving two children, She climbed into his sedan an's her. Heffman was DEAD IN WRECK IN CARY, N.C, Raleigh, N. C., May 19.—Seven per sons were reported killed late Sunday in passenger trains on the Seahos Line Raflway at ary seven miles from | Raleigh, . coll between two Air a head-on on at Theater and Ticlet Seller Does a | “Salesman Sam" Back Dive, A 320 bill is not a rarity to get excited when person sees one, but thing about a seven y handing in such a bill when he is unaccompan causes suspicion. A sm to the ticket office 3 last night a hie did so, he prof payment The ticket s and turnad the Officer Edward Kiclay, ed him and took him 1} was learned from his parents that he he money, An investiga- had $50 of his 1way for him- thing about a there is some- ar old boy for a ticket that walked > Scenic " As $20 bill in “One suspicious to. Traffic who question- hoy tion showed t )y money hidden sclf in hous PARTY FOR irthday surpr turday Crowell MRS, ZENNER. was ten honor home ashington ttily dec- party in the eve o 1l of Alber Ihe rooms n pink Following t game, Ww at unche wnd joyed n beautiful of many NEGRO DEMOCRATS MEET The conferenea of negro to at Balti- in New York city |June 19, it was announced today by Oscar H. Waters, chairmam of the n tional negro democratic committee Al Ted 1 be 1 nation s meet or any-, | Such Prefix is Great Help to Single { Women, New York, May 19.—Although she is unmarried and declares that she “probably never will be,” Miss Estelle Scheyer, German art lecturer attaches the prefix of “Mrs.” to her name whea she travels. A opted German law permits it she said on her arrival yes- terday on the steamship Leutschland, It is a great help to the unmarried woman in the business filed to be known as “Mrs.” she said and saves her considerabla annoyance when she travels. She was registered as “Mrs.”” Scheyer on her trans-Atlantic trip. Miss Scheyer will deliver a series of lecturcs on the “blue four” paiaters of Europe at Smith college. She said also would advocate that all young women assume the title of “Mrs.” om arriving at the age of twenty-one, recentl; MURDER-ARSON CASE New York, May 19.—A jury was being selected in Brooklyn supreme court today for the trial of William & IFord on charge of first degree murder arising out of the death of six per- sons in a fige which destroyed a house in Bath Beach on October 16 last. Justice Faber presided. Ford and William Anderson were indicted ifter Agderson, according to the po- lie 4 the fire was set as a result of Ford's desire take revenge om George I, Kleim, one of the victims, W ta The Herald has a remarkable clas- | sified ad section, | The OF Fishin’ Hole It's about the time of year when the song of the stneam comes hauntingly through the office window, or may be heard above the noisy traffic of the streets—casting its spell; luring the work-weary back to its rippling borders. y Regardless of the ear vou buy or the price ¥ ou pay there is no greater value than in a Buick double service six cylinder, DELCO IGNITION. 120 in. WHEEL BASE (riding quality assured). FULL FLOATING REAR AXLE (Additional safety, because wheels cannot come off ), BUICK SINGLE DRY DISC (L . Easiest clutch now in use.) : UPHOLSTERY guaranteed to last twice as long as the cloth used in building any other sedan. This means economy and a greater resale valoe. 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