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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1024, Auto Washing Machine, Latest GUNCREWS READY FOR RUM SHIP WiR Govt, Evidently Means Business | This Time Philadelphia, Aug 14.~=Unusual ae- tivity and rigid eensorship of all news a section of the League Island navy yard last night as the United States coast guard seftied down to preparation for its campaign to sweep the rum fleet from the At- Buy an Electriec Iron at this Greatly Reduced Price SPECIAL IRON SALE THERMAX ELECTRIC IRON Reg. $5.00 Value —$3.95 — — 95¢ 1w $1.00 Down Guaranteed Per Month THIS OFFER LASTS FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY The CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO. spread over lantie, thousand men, se- busied themselves grooming the sleek destroyers, sturdy mine sweepers and speedy coastal motorboats for the hour when they will put out to sea to establish an armed barrier along the coast against the Illegal traffic in liquor, narcotics and aliens. Throughout the day, mechanies labored upon the war eraft putting on finishing touches that will enable them to endure the rigors of sea pa- | :f,: ',","“”, :,':,,",,,,R:",“ 'n.:,:‘:,:,“':;:,, . Here's a keep clean tip for tourists! It comes from E. G, destroyers. | Epeneter, Omaha, Neb, As he sits at the wheel of his auto Twenty Destroyers rambling along the highways behind with the spare tire his linens Twenty destroyers of world war | are being splashed freely by the motion of the car. Epeneter is type, some with the star on their | shown getting his daily wash ready. FOR BOGZE RUNNERS guard fleet, The secondary squadron 18 composed of two mine sweepers, {0 Snap ]mo lt | Atlantic City Rafflcs Boldly Tells of | Crechosiovakin Woman's Execution Her Escapades—Used Several Dis- | To Take Place Now That Her Child | [ L while scout work and near shore | more at | Washington, Aug. 14.—Attorney| Kuises—Entertained Saloon at Mid. Has Been Born—Killed Hushand, patrol dutles will fall to the motor 4 " eraft, of which three hundred are | New York, Aug, 14, — The coast | General Stone has instructed United night and Ordered Bus. | States attorneys at coast and border expected to be utilized. Twenty-four [KUArd today assigned 400 freshly re hases for the fleet are sald to be | cruited ablebodied seamen for training planned along the coast, with three |\ reparation for the impending war Ui r Gations. hter. on Rum Row, No further informa- All the destroyers are capable of [!ion could be obtained on plans for apeeds of from 25 to 30 knots an |conducting what may he the greatest hour, and mount batteries of three |2ttempt yet made by the government | or four-inch quick-firing guns, with |10 destroy ilquor, narcotic and alien R ok kA7 shine | smuggling Into this country from ves- \ points to employ the tariff act of 1922 | against whiskey runners whenever | possible, because this act provides for a more severe penalty than does the national prohibition act. Under section 593 of the tariff act smugglers of goods, including whis- key, are liable to imprisonment in a federal penitentiary and a fine of guns as | auxillaries, $5,000, while under the prohibition Meore than eretly mobilized, PHONE 230 and have our representative leave one at your home. | | bring ashore lquor and narcotics from smuggling vessels, 400 Recruits Enlisted FORD ENTERTAINS TRIAL DATES :slnmnnx At His Wayside Inn and'|Assignment of Clvil Cases in Oftyl ‘ Holds Public Reception For 2,000 Middlesex Residents, South Sudbury, Mass, Aug. 14— Henry Ford entertained 2,000 farmers of Middlesex county at Wayside Inn, |and, mindful of the appetite of the average farmer, notified them to pro- vide their own lunches. The enter- tainment program read: “To every Middlesex farm, welcome, “Tme Wayside Inn gives hearty wel- come to Middlesex farmers and their familles on their fourth annual picnic Court Are Made for Coming F Weeks, The following is the assignment of] trial dates made at the short calen dar session of the eclty court: Tues. day, August 19, Clarence Erickso; |against George Margentino, at 9 a, m, (jury) trial; Wednesday, Au- gust 20, at 9 a. m, Lash Motor Coj against Lena Gorbach; Sebastianc) ‘l)urlo against Paul Mangiafic; Thurs-] |day, August 21, at 9 a. m., Herman |Ditman against Adolph Reinas; Joe | Sankoski against Stanislaw Kluas, al miles or Brunn, Czechoslovakia, Aug. 14, — The execution of Frau Merla Hanlka . 14.—~Margaret Osindyy 2. 95 a08 :!‘” ur: P | o rtne murder of her husband, which ASONAEY) WAOIE DU 3 L& ber | WAS recently delayed until she gave and lives in Atlantic City, told of her i,y 4o ohjld, will take place soon, career as & member of a hold-up gang | according to an announcement of the here yesterday in police headquarters | authorities. The day after the child as she smoked a clgarette, | was born 20,000 Czech crowns arrived “Did I wear a wig?" she echoed |at the prison where Frau Hanika is Chief Tatem, “I wore more than one. | confined with instructions that the 1 had to change my appearance to be money should be turned over to the on the job with the gang 1 was con- } infant, a girl, when she reached the nected with,” |age of 18. | sels anchored 12 | sea, Censorship Ordered o Haok ¢ e The censorship has been estab. flicers attached to the New York lshed to prevent the plans of the fleet |station although reticent, hinted at surprises for the rum runners | bacoming known to spies of the smug- | P! A gling Interests. campalgn strategy already worked Commanders Hamlet, in leut, It also was learned that a squad- charge yon of airplanes is heing quietly today announced that all news con- cerning the fleet's |equipped to serve as ohservers in the | activities would |iry navy's operations. be withheld until “something is complished.” ac- | The unprecedented enlargement of | The “enemy” forces operating over the coast guard now under way was authorized by congress in accordance the sea lanes to points off the coast are said tp be backed by powerful village and IPriday, August 22, at 9 with a plan suggested by President |Coolidge. B=sides the war craft trans- financial groups abroad, Reports have been received supposed landing of a liquor cargo from a submarine; another concern- ing two mysterious “shadows” re- sembling undersea craft running submerged in photographs of the Hudson river taken recently by avia- tors, and of the use of seaplanes to HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT But he knows that our Pasteurized milk is the best for him be- cause his mother told him so. She says “Pure Milk For My Whole Family.” ESEIBERT & SON 437 PARWK ST PHONE- 1720 NEW BRITAIN, CONN. MAKE SURE ITS SEIBERTS * 3 HADDOCK Fresh Shore » 9¢ ®»16c " SWORD FISH Block Island w22c »40c " MACKEREL Fresh Caught FLOUNDERS | WHITE FISH OPE? b 200 Ib 550 Fresh Caught FISH of the petting 300 fast speed boats. The de- | {has been increased to laws the punishment of the smuggler is much less certain and the penalty lighter. The advisabllity of employing the tariff act has been discusked at several conferences during the past few months., Action was taken by the At- torney General today after he had received a brief report from Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant | attorney general in charge of prohi- bition work, in which she character- ized the prohibition act as having “no teeth in it"” where smuggling of ! liquor into the United States was con- cerned, Two prosecutions under the taeiff act, Mrs. Willebrandt stated, has just been carried out successfully in the Southern District of Texas. They were the United States against John L. Nounes, arising out of the seizure of the ship Cherokee, and the United States against Ben 8. Granger. In |these cases the sentences ran about 18 months in the penitentiary, with fines of $5,000, Mrs. Willebrandt reported that all of the defendants were ‘“prominent and deflant smugglers, and in my opinfon resuits in the cases illustrate the advisability of spreading the use of section 593 of the tariff act as a deterrent against clandestine landing of liquors. ferred from the navy, the service is | stroyers are equipped with three and four-inch guns. The enlistment quota | of the entire service, normally 4,500, 7.500. More than 2,000 officers and men have been recruited in the last six months, %0 BELIEVED KILLED Knights Landing, Cal, Has Terrific Fire—Number of Victims Not Yet Ascertained. Knight's Lapding, Cal, Auz. 14— Because of the intense heat from the smouldering ruins of the River Farms barn fire, which yesterday is/ believed to have taken about 20 lives, | excavation work to recover charred bodies will not be possible until Fri- day or Saturday. Although it has heen learned that about 50 men were in the barn when the fire started, only seven have re- ported to officers that they l‘:caped. TRADE REPORT. Figures of Business Dealings Between England and Oltaly. Rome, Aug. 14.—Statistics of trade between Italy and England during the first flve months of the current year were published yesterday. They show that Italy imported goods to the value of 838,000,000 lire, but export- ed goods only to the value of 291,000,- 000 lire. The difference was due al- most entirely to importations of Eng- lish coal, amounting to 2,800,000 tons. Italy spent for various kinds of wool 46,000,000 lire, for machinery 42,000,000 lire and for cotton fabrics 35,000,000 lire. The Italian exports| to England were silk valued at 103,- 000,000 lire, artificial silk 41,000,000 lire, cheese 3,000,000 lire, gloves :‘fi,-l 000,008 lire, and eggs and poultry 2,- 000,000 lire, More British Troops Are Being Held in Readiness Malta, Aug. 14.—One of the three Dritish battallons here has been or- dered held in readiness to proceed to Egypt on a few hours’ notice, London dispatches yesterday said the admiralty had ordered a battle- ship to Alexandria and two other ves- 6¢ls to Port Sudan in consequence of teh attack on British troops. ITALIAN VILLAGES FLOODED. Molan, Aug. 14.—Torrential raine " STEAK COD | STEAK BLUE HALIBUT Fresh Eastern bl12¢c 40c have fallen in the neighborhood of Lake Maggiore and Varese. Stresa, Varese and a number of villages have been flooded due to the overflowing of many streams. Serious damage has been done and telegraphic and tele- phonic communication has been inter- rupted. The authorities of many towns have asked for assistance and supplies. CAPITOL STARTING SUN. NIGHT »16¢ BUTTER FISH 92457 SALMC Fancy Silver b 3DC ROUND CLAMS In Shell b28c¢ Direct From Lakes, Riv- ers and Oceans to You. A Complete Variety for Your Selection. Special Shows For Children Each Day, CLAMS Implicated with the girl in the al- | leged: hold-up of ,a saloonkeeper is|&rmy captain and, according to the | county Farm Bureau and Extension Stephen Thurber, Jr., son of a former | court records, she plotted with a man | ." He was held in | early this year to rid herself of him | e Y because she was tired of him. wife, on the stand, declared that she wag not in love with her accomplice and contended that she had always | been faithful to her husband but was | obcessed with the idea that she must " obtain freedom vows. $1,000 bail on a charge of assault and battery on Ernest Hammel, the ealoon | keeper, when he refused to ‘‘coine | across.” | It is charged by the saloon man that the two entered his place at mid- night and ordered beers, After being served, the girl told the saloon man that Thurber was a government agent. She sald he was willing to settle mat- ters for $100. According to Hammill the girl held a revolver at his side and sald, “Do you know we are government agents?” The saloon keeper told the police he replied, “I don't care what you are, you won't play this monkey business with me,” and then grabbed the revolver from the girl, and when her friend interfered he knocked him | down. YALE SUMMER SCHOOL New Haven, Aug. 14—The Yale school of law, summer session today announced a total enrollment of 126, an increase of 26 over the previous year. Eight students are enrolled in the graduate course including several professors, prospective teachers and three prhcticing lawyers. Sixteen of the students are studying for the bachelor of laws degree and will complete the requirements at this year's session, COTTON MARKET. Washington, Aug. 14.—Cotton con- sumed during July totalled 346,671 bales of lint and 40,884 of linters, compared with 350,277 of lint and 39,683 of linters in June this year, and 462,654 of lint and 45,933 of linters in July last year, the census bureau announced today. THE SUNLIGHT WINDOW CLEANING CO. General House Cleaning Store Fronts, Window Cleaning At Your Service, Call 1180 CINDERS FOR SALE A. H. HARRIS —General Trncking— 99 WEST ST. TEL. 2079 CROWLEY BROS. INC. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street Estimates cheerfully given on all fobs Norwalk Tires The leader in quality and the only Tire that is protected with U. S, Government Patents, insuring uniform quality. NEW LOW PRICES ARE JUST OUT Rackliffe Bros. Co., Inc.. PARK and BIGELOW STREETS TEL 2013 husband was an Frau Hanika's The from her marriage “Athletic Heart” Boston—The common idea that se- vere athletic training produces an en- larged been shattered by the report of X-ray studies made on American and Can- adlan youths who took part 25-mile American marathon. of thelr hearts was found to be nor- mal and their lung capacity likeyise. The experiments were made by the staff of the Peter Bren Brigham hos- | pital here. heart—‘‘athletic heart — has in the The size When In Hartford Dine With Us LOBSTERS, .CRAB MEAT, SHRIMPS, OYSTERS, STEAMING CLAMS Honiss Oyster House Co, Temporarily Located At 25 CENTRAL ROW, Hartford Opposite Parsons Theater |9 a. m; under the auspices of the Middlesex ;a. m,, Abraham Levine and | of neighbors and fellow workers to lay emphasis on play rather than on work.” “Bill” Loring of Wayland present- ed Mr. Ford with a grub hoe made in Foxboro in 1794, Mr. I'ord told him it was just the kind of a grub hoe he had been hunt- ing for all over the state of Michigan. Then he carried it over to another | corner of the garden and showed it to his friend, Harvey Firestone, with whom and Thomas Edison he is plan- ning several jaunts about New Eng- land. Mr. Ford declared that - men will lve to be 125 years old at least, and that coffee, tea and tobacco would be legislated out of existence, not by law but by common sense, and announced that he was building an old side- wheel mill at the inn, the flour from which will be “real.” Modern white bread, he declared, was not fit to eat. | service, a get-together 5 25, at 1 p. m., John Jacob Hakaham Traverday; Tuesday, WATER WORKS SUPT, DIES New London, Aug. 14. — Afte; lingering illness of Rowell trouble, Idward and Light at Co., passed away at one o'clock. He was veteran the Spanish-American war. An electric heating device has b at the lower end. headlight generator to the heaters, which fit pipes ‘ike shells, supplies over e R R S A AT Two-Family House on Union street—This is a location which is very central and it is very difficult to pick up a two-family house here. It is less than five minutes walk from Main street and near all the factories—See us ahout this property.—Money to loan on mortgages. CAMP REAL ESTATE CO. 272 Main Street Phone 343 Rooms 305-6, Bank Bldg. THE OLD HOME TOWN NO-NO- ) SAY ONE BITE MEANS A BAKER ALGUST BLOPP MADE A GOOD SALE TODAY-WHEN HE GOT RID OF A DOZEN MONTH OLD DOUGHNUTS TO A STRANGER WHO RAN OVER. FROM THE NOON “TRAIN ~ others against Harry Alex: Monday, August against Sep4 (tember 9, at 9 a. m, Carmelo Faz- | zina against Louis Landau and others. T a several weeks, | marked by frequent attacks of heart! Gorman,| superintendent of the Groton Water, his home, 20 Latham street this morning| of een i developed to p®event locomotive sand pipes from becoming wet and clogged The locomotive power | the §