New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, NEW BRITAIN DATLY HERALD, P ALL SETTLEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE SMOKE AND WATER DID CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO OUR STOCK AT THE FIRE SATURDAY NIGHT ghtning Struck Hard—So Has the Blue Pencil .a"i The L \lN THE PRICE REDUCTIONS OF THE Biggest Smoke and Water Sale EVER HELD IN THE HISTORY OF NEW BRITAIN Starts Tomorrow Morning at 9 o’clock Extra Salesgirls Will Be on Hand Every Department This Makes Thursday, Friday and Saturday Days of Opportunity for You This Sale Will Last Until Saturday Night Early Fall Goods Included in This SALE Sale Positively Ends Saturday Night Every Article in the Store Aew Britains Shopping Center Has Been Reduced Every Price Slashed to Below Cost Figures prospects that the present preferred shares would be placed on a dividend basis. St. Paul, Missour! Pacific and Chicago Great Western lines also im- proved. Chile Copper 6s reached an- other top price at 109. 'French gov- ernment issues recovered about a point. Oversubscription of the Balti- more & Ohlo raflway's $75,000,000 bhond offering was reported. Listed on the curb market, the new bond com- manded a slight premium, NEAR LYNCHING IN N. Y. Only Timely Arrival of Police Saves Man From Death at Hands of In- furiated Mob. | New York, Aug. 13.—Police today saved Joseph Stegliski from being lynched by an East Side crowd which |became infuriated when the man as- saulted his wife and daughter, frac- turing the daughter's skull in knock- |ing her to the sidewalk. When the ‘|\nllu arrived the ecrowd had dragged &trgu-ki from his home and was try- 4l||z to obtain from the driver of a | truck a rope with which to hang Steg- | 1iski. |with her In reference to a raise and | recommendation would be made to [but later was exonerated in general llhc common council as the board has ‘snflsimm. nu right to !mrvrnfl the pay of an)ony charges he was accused of perjury HELEN WILLS WINS HER SEGOND ROUND Delcats Mrs. Falk-- Other Matches Summarized Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 13.—Miss Helen Wills of Berkeley, Cal., playing- through champion, today won her sec- ond round match in the national women's tennis championships by de- feating Mrs. H. P. Ialk of Elberton, N. J, 6—0, 6-—0. The Californian displayed masterful stroking and dazzling speed. Mrs. Ialk threatened only once when in the third game of the final set she brought the score to deuce and then made the vantage point only to lose the next two points and the game. At no other time was the champion | forced to display her variety of puzzl- ing shots which won her the national title last year, Summaries of women's national ten- | nis singles championships: Sccond round—Miss Helen Wills, | His scalp was torn by blows from Berkeley, Cal, defeated Mra. H. P.[the crowd and he required surgical I'alk, Elberon, N. I, 6—0, 6—0. |treatment. The daughter was said to Miss lLesiie Bancroft, Boston, | have slight chance of recovering from feated Mrs. Anna Fuller, Rye, N. Y., |the injuries inflicted by her father. Nfl TRAFFIC STAM]S 'or white caps, which Ilv(mrhl for summer w of the traffic squad was also discussed but ll\r‘ |u|nm|wlum‘ln did not !uc) as HKIWANIANS WILL ‘"‘1"5',_”';;:,';( b ;‘r;(,»;;"w.r;;g;zgv;:o;; New Britain and Hartford Clubs (o Have Game r for members $115 Apiece Too Murh for Out- ; fits, Police Board Thinks !provision in the city charter which |allows the city to for uniform ‘ain when Kt duty on their re- cauipment. — Commissioner Par! oon made At the mceting of the |not authorize the payment of this bill board of police commissioners held |The caps cost $2.50 and the officers Jast evening when it was votad not to | Will be obliged to pay for their own purchase umbrellas or stunds because | The board voted to recommend to of the excessive price dvmanded. As |the cominon council that it be author- a result the tralfic stand, which has| ized to enter into a contract with Mc- been doing duty days at the covner Gunigle & Tounge of Boston for the | in tront of the National bank, will be installation of approximately 14,000 | packed and ghipped to its owner with- fect of six conductor cable to cover {n a short time. [the underground police signal wiring. ; The board also received an applica- Chiet Witllam C, Hart nformed the 1 Be i “\wittam: Sullivan, 84 years members of the board that a stanh| ot BB D TR ome a | AnY members with ball playing ability, complete costs §115. The board had O\ Of 15 Huyes street o hecome & 13,5, pection with the ball game it supernumerary officer. He will be ex- | i purchasing five and the [ was announced that practice will be planned on purchising . " amined at the next meeting of ! guestion of purchasing ouly three for Reavi the |11 for the game tomorrow evening use at West Main and Main stree LA |at 6:30 o'clock and on Monday and South church corner and East Mair | Tuesday evenings. All practices will and Main streets was discussed, Com- | be held at Walnut Hill park. missioner Lange sald that if the bparc men will not be New Britain polic ing sun or the protected from the s At the regular meeting of the Ki- | wanis club held at the Burritt hotel this noon, Coach Stanton Ashley of the Kiwanis baseball team announced | that @ game had been scheduled with [the Hartford Kiwanis club for next Wednesday afternoon. The game will | be played at Walnut Hill park and will get under way at 5 o'clock. | Coach Ashley said that a tentative line-up had been made but that there [ were still a number of positions for “FLYING GOP” SHOOTS de- i Joseph Ward, chairman of the dele- conld not purchase the five originally who. will represent thg local planned for then none should be bought. He considered the price prohibitive and thougut that by next summer they might be cheaper. Clerk Joseph McGrail stated that there not enough meney in the hoard's ap- | propriation with which to purchase five stands. It was finally voted that | the clerk write Waring and Hawkins, makers of the stand, informing them | that the price was too steep and that the present stand, used on condition, would be returned, Commissioner Parker made a re- port for the discipline committee in reference to the Hayes-Skicrkowski touble. Mr. Parker with Chairman David Dunn and Chief Willlam Hart held a short executive sossion, previ- ous to the board meeting, at which time the facts in the case were ex- plained. Mr. Parker reported Hayea, who is alleged to shused by Skierkowski, a good manner before the and handled his case in a commend- able manner. Skierkowski, he said, apologized to Hayes for using abu- | eive language and the twn supernum- | erary officers left the gathering in a congenial mood. Mr. Parfer stated that the commit- tae recommends that the reprimmand by the officers was sufiicient punish- ment. Qn motion of Commissioner lange the recommendations was ac- eepted by the board Chief Hart informed the board that Mre. Mary Metty who has been matron | The ot police headquarters for the past 23 |aa Vincent years, has asked for an increase in[ed, and She now receives 830 a month, least side. , and does not find this a suf- | ficient amonnt to live on. After a dis- eussion t was decided that Chief Hart | records in @nd Chairman DWe® should eonfer After his McAllister is N New Robert” Mc circles as | his ability |shot and s lmobile thie |after a | blocks, Yor his reinstat charge fror ed {threats of 4 that Officer | lation. have been | per w cted in a jobserved ol committee | . ttee | ood. The parked on could start rived and b | 1ailed to shot which tives, purspit of | him more | where the ¢ men in | eharge of th Allister, “the flying cop” as a sprinter, ea riously wounded one auto- anotl spr MeAllister's two men came within three weeks of | [ liquor investi of McAliister side when tye and soon they ente halt McAllister the Joseph Gandio, ALLEGED AUTO THIEF | Also Captures After Sprint of Five Blocks in York City. 131" known in bes ew Aug. captured more tha zapture f and int of ement follow n the police ation in demanding il arrest for prohibiti was on duty on two e itering 1 the ne policeman 1 an the str the motor, oth men fled. Me A Wi dropped one nan blocks the other than fivs hase began, Othe meantime had he wounded man, w not expected to live. prisoners who was hoth Fighera They we several indoor athletic investigation on Another atrolman vhich ghe antomnkile Refor ster are tired of the MeAllister then continued his deseribed themselves charged attempted grand larceay. McAllister had set gation (club at the convention of the Ixiwanis | ciubs of the New kngland district, { which will be held at the Hotel As- pinwall, Lenox, Mass, September 23, | 24, and read a communication from the committee in charge of the | convention. They urged the local {club to send along a number of their | members in addition to thee delega- sport | tion, which will consist of Joseph ise of | Ward, chairman, Harry Howard and y today | Eimer Dape. A, . Marsh gave a ehort the tour of the Grangers who will come to this city from Peekekill, N. the | Yo Sunday. He said that although no local organization, except the grange, had been asked to help in arranging for the arrival of the grang- ers that a number of them had vol- | unteered their aid. Arrangements | had been made for the members of | they Kiwanis club to drive the stakes for the camp which will be at Walnut | Hill, he announced. 1t was decided to flave the members of the Kiwanis club do this work tomorrow after- noon before the baseball practice is | hetd. It was voted to institute a new s in arrangement at the meeting club in order that the memt become more ac- This arrangement be at the next meeting of the talk on n fi of us dis- after a was on V10~ the up- n were ghbor- d them e they 0 they one | fugl- | club quainted | tried out club. of the iy will may vring from police- taken | ho was pt REPORTS £3,000 THEFT Bostonu, Aug. goods valued last night from the wound- | Skirt Co. Benjamin Silber, manager on ,h..in ported to the police today. En- with (trance was gained through the cellar. A girl's sweater and comb were found xorid |in the rooms leading the police to be- events, |lleve a woma® may have assistgd the “quor burglars, at $3,000 were stolen American Coat & at- | of the | 13.—~Woolen and eilk | one of her Chinese costumes. so far as the Chinese nail guards, to protect their nails from breaking. Mlle. Spinelly, the famous French actress, is shown here in Every little detail is complete, even worn by the nobility of China [Italian Aviator Forced To Return to Orkneys The As Stromne, By Islands, Ang 13.—Lienutenant the Ttalian |aviator left here shortly after eleven o'clock this morning in continnance of | | his transatiantic flight in the wake of [the American army aviators, Aftery |being out less than an hour Licuten- ant Locatelli returned to Stromness, He had found the feg conditions such as to®make it inadvisable to continue. Locate FIGHT CALLED OFF, Chicago, Aug. 13.—The tem-round boxing contest between Jack John- son, former heavyweight and Tut Jackson, of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, schedulgg for East | Chicago, champion, | Ind., Friday night, was calle off today. Governor Branch of Indiana opposed the match, not be. cause"the participants are negroes, he said, “but for reasons the public will very well understand.” He ordered it stopped Child Swallows ( 0in and Dies, Cleveland, over medical Ang. 13 science in a save the life of Helen Batcha, mopths old, who several days ago trieh to swallow a penny that lodged in her throat. She died today at a hospital. An operation to remove the cpin that slowly shut off the child's breath was Iimpossible because of swelling. battle to She was taken to a hospital. Steglis- Bayard, Short Hills, | ki, who is a longshoreman came home . B, F. Stenz, Gar- [dgunk and attacked his wife end 6—2. | daugnter. Boston, Mass, | SRS e i Leroy, New : MILLIONS HOMELESS Mies 7083 of New York de- teated E. Cole of Lawrence, | Mass., [ At Least 50,000 Others Are Drowned Miss cago defeated of Staten Island, \’I‘fl N. J., defeated M den City, L. I, 6—3, Miss Edith Sigourney, defeated Mrs. Itobert York, 6—8, 6—3. Mrs. B. 4-6, 6.4, 6-3. Marion F. Leighton of Chi- Miss Edith B. Han:l.“ 1210, 6-3. | Miss Mary K. Browne of Los An-| geles defeated Miss Penlope Ander- | son of Rye, N. Y., 6-2, & | goodnHa-s MR.f v Mra.Cores B, ange, N. J, def Blake of Lenox, In Terrible Floods Which Are De- vastating China. Tlie Associated Prews Shanghai, Aug. 13.—Millions have been rendered homeless and at least 50,000 persons have been drowned in floods which are sweeping widespread |areas of China submerging tens of |thousands of villages. Thousands of E.|refugees are pouring into Peking. It lis impossible to get even an approxi mate estimate of the fatalities but ed Mies Mildred Willard of {50000 1s said to be a conservatiss Sackett n‘ Fast Or- cated Margaret Mass., , 4-6, 6-3. Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup of Wilming- ton, Del defeated Miss Mary Case of Orange, N. J., 6-0, 6-0. F. V. Roser of Brooklyn, N, Despite Science | - Death won ! Manioa, Penn., 6-4, 6-1. | otimis. Miss Katherine . Porter of Phila- | | delphia defaulted to ) s Katherine | Gardner of Boston. DR CANNON Is HELD Sears of Boston de- Lee Mumford, Must Stand Miss Eleanor feated Miss! Ieabella ! | New York Physician Trial As Result of Girl's Death in His Office. New York, Aug. 13.—Dr. Hadley T Cannon,, arrested last week charged with homicide after the death in hie office of Miss Monica Maloney, 24, of Brookline, Mass., after an fillegal op- eration, was held for the grand jury today. Magistrate House fixed bail ar 810,000 after criticising severely the D MARKET New York, Aug. 13.~Activity in semi-speculative rail issues marked to- day’s early bond trading with foreign fesues showing a tendency to recover trom yesterday's profit-taking. New high records for the vear were estab- lished by Firsco Income and adju | ment 6s on reports that plans were | under way for a revision of the com- |pany’'s capital structure These were «aid to provide for additional issues of | action of another court in permitting preferred stock rather than an in- | Dr. Cannon's release on $3,500. ball crease in bonded Indebledness, with |soon after his arrest.