New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1924, Page 25

100 Hour Eadurance. Run OVERLAND Model 91 . Stock Touring LEAVES CITY HALL 8 A. M. MONDAY Sealed Motor Four drivers, working in 5-hour shifts Stops Only For Fuel — Route — New Britain and’ Bristol Watch Future Ads 4 for prizes to persons guess- ing correctly the number of miles covered and the average number of miles _ per gallon of Good Gulf " Gasoline. IN SERIOUS CONDITION By The Asociated Pr Salem, IIl, Sept. 26.—~8heriff Vogt “Texpressed fear today for the condi- tion of Mrs, Elsie Sweeten, confess- ed poisoner of her husband, in a love pact with the Rev. Lawrence M. Hight who poisoned his wife, VSITED TODAY Closing Scene of Philadephi's Big Celebration W R NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, New Yorker Arrested in New Haven for Theft New Haven, Conn, Sept. 20— Glen A, Anderson, of 200 West 54th Street, New York, was arrested here last night for the Stamford, Conn,, and Amsterdam, N. Y. policg charged with embezzlement. Miss Rabetta Busey also of New York, is held on a technical charge of breach of the peace. It is charged that Hendersop and another man named John J, Warner, acting stock brokers, accepted bonds vauled at $1,000 from Mrs. Elizabeth Cook of Stamford and bonds valued at $4200 from Johanna Cook of 76 Grove street, Amsterdam, with the under. standing that théy would transfer them from one company to another, It is alleged by the police that they sold the bonds and did not turn the money over to the rightful owners, Miss Busey, according to the police, has admitted that she forged checks ‘when ordorad by Henderson. War- ner has not been arrested. Philadelphia, Sept. 26 scene for the concluding day's cele- bration of the 160th anniversary of the meeting of the First Continental Congress and the 200th annlversary of the founding of the Carpenters’ company shifted today to Historic Valley Forge, where the encamp- ment of Washington's army will be enicted by the veteran Company M, First Pennsylvania militla, com- posed’ of many distinguished phy- siclans, bankers, teachers and bu: ness men. The forenoon was devoted to & sight-seeing tour of the Valley Forge Memorial park, the guests of the Carpenter's company being tak~ en over the grounds in motor cars, During the afternoon commemora- tive exercises will be held at the Wa- terman monument, in front of the ‘Washington Memorial chapel. As these exercises proceed the audience will e ‘“Washington's Troops” in their colonial uniforms,| drilling on the grounds. At the close of the exercises representatives of the city of Philadelphla and of the Carpenters’ company will. place wreaths at the base of the Water- man monument in honor of. the sol- diers who died on the encampment Then a courfer will be seen rid- ing through the triumphal arch to- ward Washington’s headquarters. The drilling soldiers will converge toward the headquarters and, will be joined by the visiting military. commands, the history of whose states reached back to the Ameri- can revolution. The courler, who is supposed to be coming from Philadelphia to announce the oc- cupation of the city by the British, will be- met by a group of “revolus tionary generals” including Washe ington, Lafayette, Von Steuben, Mubhlenherg, “Mad Anthony” Wayne, impersonated by officers of Com.|that a masked and armed robber pany H, who held up Miss Hester White, A rteview and retreat will con-lyoung daughter of ¥. Edson White, PROMISE PROTECTION ——— Peking Got. Military Head Seeks to Reassure Foreigners By The Associated Press. Peking, Sept. 26.—General Wu Pei-Fu, military chiet of the Peking government, today issued a procla- mation declaring that the fullest protection would be afforded the lives and property of foreigners. " The forelgn legations at Peking yesterday sent memoranda to the Chinese forefgn office and to Gen- eral Chang.Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchurla, declaring that should forelgn lives be lost or should the property of foreigners be destroyed, the Chinese authorities responsible would be held to acgount. The warning was sent in view of the bombing of the border town of Shanhalkwan by a Manchu alr squadron and because of reports that General Chang was planning an air raid- on Peking. Think Masked Bandit Was Really a Girl Chicago, Sept. 26.—A suspicion clude the celebration, after which Mayor Kendrick will ley Forge headquarters. Figure of Death as Warning to Walkers New York, Sept. 26.—Death with outstretched hands greeted jay- walkers {ast n:ght at I'ifth Avenue and Forty-second street, one of New York's husiest corness, Carrying out the Idea.of Barron Collier, special deputy ¢ corraissioner, a trane- parent I odorned on four sides ©8,.0f death was erected pseetion to warn against reets in A careless While the' thousands of pleasure cars and buses roiled by, the lamp flashed at régular intervals such warnings as “you are- mine, — jay “I want you, careless man!” and “walt a minute, save a present the visiting commands with silk flags simflar to the origiaal 13-starred flag used by Washington at his Val- president of Armour & Co., in the family home at Lake Forest, while the house was filled with party guests last night, may have been a woman was given the police today by Miss White, The bandit took only the girl's jewels, a necklace and two rings. . The robher's volce was low and his hands small and gloved, she told the police. Rich Potash Deposits Are Found in Dead Sea Jerusalem, Sept. 26.—Recent in- vestigations indicate that the Dead Sea may become the greatest finan- cial asset of the government of Pal- estine. Tt has been found that the waters of the sea contain -a very strong precipitate of potash which, by a siihple process, can be extract- ed at an expense of about $5 a ton. Including transportation charges and governmental tax the product ean be delivered at the port of Haifa at a cost of $15 a ton, it Is estimated, against the price of $30 now obtain- ing for potash in Europe, ' Pioneers They are pioneers as surely as the men who blazed trees. They have struck trails to new comforts for you to enjoy. Ahead, they tuim, cry out the news, point you the way. Whatever their findings—richer-toned piarios, fadeless fabrics, new foods—they discovered them for you. They describe them in advertisements, relating what interests you most. All that hands, earth, dogged science can yield, ad- vertisements offer you. Your home furnishings, your food, clothes, car, business supplies would never have been yours without advertisements, messages of pioneers. Their trails climb farther each day. Do you follow? Read the advertisements. Read them every day. 'OVER 10,000 HERALD X doubt from th DISTRIBU Advertising is the pioneer’s axe that removes all e buyer’s path TED DAILY THE HERALD HAS BY FAR THE LARGEST CIRCULA- TION OF ANY PAPER PUBLISHED IN NEW BRITAIN The Herald is the Only New Britain Newspaper With An Audited Circulation i it CHECKING UP ON FORGED ISSUES New York Bankers and Brokers " Looking Over Securities New York, Bept. 26, — A caréful scrutiny of securities was made by banks and brokers today following the disclosure yesterday that bogus bonds'issued in the name of a com- pany which does not exist had been put up as collateral for loans, The amount of the bonds possibly may total $600,000, according to au- thorities investigating the fraud. This sum was based upon knowledge that the bonds, printed upon a stock form which may be purchased by lithographers without restriction, may all have been of the $1,000 de- nomination with 500 of them issued, Those brought to light have'been for that amount and the lithographer from whom they were purchaséd said sales of the forms were between 250 and 500, d One broker reported a loss of $5,000 from purchase of five of the pleces of paper at face value, while another had accepted four of them ag security for a loan of $3,500. The bonds bore the name, of the | +'Bteel and Tube Company of (North) | America,” belng similar in appear. ance to those of the “Steel and Tube Company of America,” which was | merged with the Youngstown Sheet | and Tube Company ‘14 months ago. | Three persons were questioned in connection with the fraud, all of them members of Le Bon Ray Cor- poration, which was restrained by a supreme ‘court injunction last July from marketing its own securities. Alden Miller, one of those ques- tioned, sold the five bonds bought by | a brokerage house; He said they had been taken from”two men as security for a note, Hair Net Sales Go On In Spite of “Bob” Craze | Washington, ‘Sept. 26.—Despite | bobbed hair vogue, hair nets are being sold to, the American public at the rate of 1,413,000,000 annudl- ly, according to figures presented to the convention of Retail Drug- gists in sesslon here. Annualesales of other leading “aids to beauty” articles are: 65,047,000 parcels of | cold cream; 240,902,000 boxes of | talecuin and face powders, and 17,- 856,000 packages of rouge, Trainman Killed on Coolidge’s Special Baltimore, Sept. 26.— The Cool- idge special, taking President Cool- idge and his party from Philadelphia to Washington Jast night was halted in Baltimore when M. D. Blaine, a brakeman, was kilied as the train reached the Harford avenue hridge on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks, e Blaine was knocked from the train and almost decapitated. The train was going about 45 miles an hour. | Officlals of the Baltimore and | Ohio road sald ha probably was | leaning from the side of the train | and was struck by one of the bridge supports, Wall Street Briefs Offering of $15,000,000%st and re- funding mortgage 6 per ¢ent bonds of the Florigh East Coast rallroad, due 1974, is made today by a syn- dicate headed by R, P, Morgan & Co. at 96 to yleld 6.22 per cent. Kuhn Loeb & Co, 1s distributing privately $16,760,000 Pennsylvania rajirond general equipment . trust 4% per cent certificates at prices averaging an income yleld of 4.70 per cent fot equal amounts of all maturities. National . Steel Car company earned nét profit of $268,383 in the year ended June 30 in contrast to net loss of $118,000 in the preced- ing year, Operating profit was $608,8615 against $142,888 @& year ago, ’ The Studebaker Corporation's net profit after taxes in the current quar- ter will exceed $2,000,000 with sales of about 18,000 cars, according to A. R. Erskine, president. He said September production would reach 9,000 ears and October's schedule wus 14,000, approxi- mately the capacity of the company's plants, Sales and profits in the fourth quarter would show much better re. sults than the third quarter, he stated, and might exceed any similar period in the corporation’s Listory, The yleld in speculative indus- Jrials and a few rails in yesterday's stock market was not considered by observers as an indication that se~ vere or long-continued reactions was likely in the near future. Dee- laration of a number of divigends, more favorable reports of railroad earnings and record freight move. ments for the year, all pointed to substantial activity. in the basie lines of business. ’ The New York Central's net operating income in August declined to $5,548,777 compared with $7,- 262,000 in thé same month last year., Gwoss revenues decreased more than $6,000,000, Net' oper- ating mcome for the first eight months of 1924 was $41,523,500 against $54,719,140 a year ago while gross fell to $243,141,381 from $286,455,123. An offer by the Texas Co. to pur chase at present posted prices all oil which it holds in storage for producers in north and central Texas was an- nounced today. Storage charges amounting to tkree cents a barrel per month will be absorbed where: the of- | fer s accepted by October 10, Several mont pro- azo the Texas Co. started to ate Tuns on its pipe lines, pur- sing 50 per cent of the oil and stor- ing the remainder. The pro-rating or- der was lifted on August 28, Southern Railw net operating in- come of $2/78,133 reported for August was a gain of niore than $500,000 over August last year although gross rev- tes of $12,079,380 decreased about $700,000. Net operating income for the cight months of 1924 was §17,596,505 against $17,691,058 a year ago. Gross aggregated $32,932, a drop of about $6,500,000. Braths Benjamin Zucker. Benjamin Zucker, 44, of 66 Jubi- lea street, died at his home last night following a long illness. He has con- ducted a grocery store on Smalley street for many years. He is survived by his wife, a son, Philip, and a daughter, Fannie. He also leaves two brothers. The funeral was held this afternoon from his home at 2 o'clock. Rabbi Rosenberg conducted the services. Burfal ‘was in Beth Alom cemetery. Mrs, Margaret O'Connor. Mrs. Margaret - O'Connor, wife of James O'Connor of the Parker & O'Connor company, died at her home last night. She had been {ll for a long time. The funeral will be held Monday morning from her home, 77 Seymour street, at 8:30 o'clock, followed by a funeral mass in St. Mary's church at 9 o'clock Burial will be in,$t. Mary's ceme- ter; Fred Doucette | Fred Doucette, 19, son of Mr. and | | Mrs. Arthur Doucette of 127 Booth | funeral will {9 o'clock. Mary's cemetery, street, died at his home last night. Besides his parents he is survived by several brothers and sisters. The be held tomorrow morning from the home, with a fu- neral mass in St. Peter's church at Burial will be in St | 5 Funerals Jeremiah Griffin The funeral of Jeremiah Grifftn will be held from his home, 31 Hul-| burt street, tomorrow morning at | o'clock, followed by a high mass of requiem in the church of | St. John the Eyangelist at 9 o'clock. | Burial will be ¥n St. Mary's ceme- tery William Webb The funeral of William Webb was eld at 3 o'clock this from Erwin chapel. Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe officiated and burial was in Fairview cemetery. [ E W e o | | afternoon JOSEPH A. HAFFEY Funeral Dircctor | i R6hinson, Assistant 3 ncation—565 MAIN ST Opposite St. Mary's Church Tel.—Parlor 1625-2 Residence—17 Summer St. Tel. 1625-3 B { { PRSI ©YRTES EXPRESS YOUR SYMPATHY ith FLOWERS /| 'FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1924, WALL ST. REPORTS High Low Close Am Can ...,. 131% 120% 120% Am H & L ptd 66% 66% 66% Am Bmelt ..., T4% T73% Am Bug . 47 46% Am Sum . % % Am Tel & Tel ,127% 127 Am Wool ..., 57% 66% Anaconda 3% a1 Atchlson .... 106% 105 ALGIt & WI.. 16% Bald Loco ...,128% Bal & Ohlo .. 63% Beth Steel ..., 43% Bosh Mag . 29% Cen Leath ... 14% Can Pac . J48% Ches & O .... 86% Chi Mil & P 13% C Mil & 8t. P ptd 22 Chi R I & Pac 34% Chile Cou ..., 32% Col, Fuel . 4% Con Textlle ... 8% Corn Prod Ref 36% Cru Steel .... 56% Cuba Cane Sug 14% Cosden Ofl ... 26% Dav Chem ....50% Brle i.iennes 8% Erie 1st pfd . 37% Gen Electric .264 Gen Motors ., 15% Gt North pfd . 66% Insp Copper .. 25% Int Nickel ... Int Paper ..., Kelly Spring .. Kennecott Cop. Lehigh Val Marine pfd ... Mid States Ofl.. Mis Pac ... New Haven . Nat Lead . Norf & West ..126 North Pac . 663 Pacific Oil . 48y Pan American. 53% Penn Railroad 447% P&RC&I.. 4T% Pierce Arrow.. 10% Pure Oll . Rep I & 8 Ray Copper. .. Reading ..... Royal Dutch Sinclair Oil.,. South Pacific. . South Rall, Studebaker « .« Texas Co . 40% Texas & Pacific 38% Trans, Oil 4% Union Pacific .141% 140% United Fruit., 212 + 2113 U 8 Ind Also.. 71 — U 8 Rub ~ 36Y% 35% U 8 Steel ..., 109 108% Utah Cop 1Ty - Westing .. 63% 63% - Willys Over ... 8% 8% 8% LOCAL STOCK QUOTATIONS (Putnam & Co.) Bid Aetna Casualty .......590. Aetna Life Ins, Co, ,...720 Aetna Fire ... 585 Am Hardware « 79 Am Hoslery .. . Automobile Ins . <0520 Bige-Hfd Cpt Co. com .109 Billings & Spencer com § Billings & Spencer pfd ~ 9 Bristol Brass . Baa% Colt's Arms r.....000s 23 Conn Lt & Pow pfd ....103 Eagle Lock . .100 Fafnir Bearing Co v... 95 Hart & Cooley .. s 100 Hartford Fire Hfd Elec Light Laiders, F . National Fire N B Gas .. N B Machine N B Machine pfd ..... 79 Niles-Bemt-Pond com . North & Jud ...... e 42% Peck, Stowe & Wilcox. 26 Phoenix Fire ... Russell Mfg Co . Scovill Mtg Co . S N E Telephone . Standard Screw Stanley Works Stanley Warks pfd ... 27 Torrington Co com Traut & Hine . Travelers Ins . Union Mfg Co . Yale & Towne . Beaton & Cadwell. HEAYY LOSSES REPORTED Russian Floods Have Done Damage | of More Than 10,000,000 Rubles | to Mdustrial Plants Alone, By The Associated Press. Leningrad, Russia, Sept. 26—First | estimates of the havoc wrought by the flood following Tuesday's storm placed the damage to industrial 122% 63% 2% 27% 14% 148 86 13% 21% 34 2% 2% 3% 6% 56 14% 28% 9% 27% 3% 263 15% 64% 26% 18% 51 18% 471% 7% 126% 65% 1% 53 4% 45% 10% 22% % % - riasitintld Asked 600 730 595 80 40 530 110 8 12 10 24 105 108 110 620 198 67 596 88 11 83 33 43% 28 520 70 235 138 130 107 28 393 10 915 35 67% 90 ,905 661 . 80 | property alone at 10,000,000 rubles The losses to private property have not yet heen estimated. The shops, schools and theaters have beer reopened, street cars are running and martial law has been withdrawn. A statement issued by the local | Soviet thanks the citizens for their courage and for the help they ren- dered to the authorities during the crisis, Campbell Re-elected Kiwanis Governor Lenox, Mass., Sept. 26.—Walter J. Campbell of Springfield was re-glect- od governor of the New England district of the Kiwanis International at the annual convention which end- ed here yetserday afternoon. ILieu- tenant Governors by district follow: Western Massachusetts, David J. Shaw, Pittsfield; Maine, John 8 Scavey, of Auburn-Lewiston club: ; Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Robert M. Green of Bos- ton club; Central Ma; usetts and Rhode Isi We F. Morse of Woonsocket, R Connecticut, Ar- thur . Crampton of Hartford. John 1) ons of Springfield, re- cretary-treasurer. Port- ne was awarded next year's convention, v lastern was QUESTION SIGNATURE Washington, Sept. 26.—The ques- tion of a married woman's right ta sign her malden name to govern- ment checks will be reopened before Comptreller General McCarl at the request of the interior department, it was announced today by the na- tional woman's party headquarters, which has been contending for the PUTNAM & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange * Members Hartford Stock Exchange 31 West Main St. Tel 2040 Sept. 30th is State Tax Day ‘We offer tax free bonds as follows: 28,000, United Masonic Temple BIAg. wyy:mocmvumm.« Yield 6.50 Public Service Elec. & Gas . 530 Staten Island Edison Corp, . Conn, Light & Power Co. .. ... United Xight & Power Co, i, Belmont Bullding ..v.vvueia JUDD & COMPANY change New Britain—Burritt Hotel Bldg., Tel. 1815 Hartford—Conn. Trust Co. Bldg, Tel. 2-6281 We recommend and offer: American Hardware Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Common Landers, Frary & Clark Stanley Works Price on Application IEDDY BROTHERS && | HARTFORD NEW BRITAIN Hartford Conn. Trust Bldg. Burritt’Hotel Bldg: Tel.2-7186 “Tel. 3420 We Offer— Thomson, We Offer— YALE & TOWNE Burritt Hotel Bldg., New Britain MEMBERS NEW YORK AND HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGES Donald R. Hart, Bigr. PENNSYLVANIA POWER AND LIGHT 7% Preferred To Yield 7% fenn & Co: \ Tel. 2580 STANLEY WORKS UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER ¢ Prices on Application . We do not accept Margin Accounts JOHN P. Waterbury Danbury Middletown G. F. GROFF, Mgr—~Room 509, City Items Dr. and Mrs. Frank Zwick have returned from their wedding trip to Rochester, Wisconsin, Friends of Guy Fitch will be glad to know that he is resting comfort- ably at the New Britain hospital after an operation performed by Dr. Rowley of Hartford, Britain general hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. Felix Sfezapamin of West street. Police have been notified that the licenses to operate motor vehicles of Edwin K. Adums of 181 Maple street A daughter was born at the New | 58 KEOGH Members Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York STOCKS BONDS Direct Private Wire to New York Bri Newd‘m at’l Bank Bldg~Tel. 1018 and Arthur Labler of 164 Hartford avenue have been returned by the commissioner of motor vehicles, | A complaint was recelved at po- lice headquarters last night that there wa sa crowd of young men | fighting in front of the Midway on West Main street. When the police arrived, the men had disappeared. | CLEARINGS D BALANCE. New York exchange §820,000, bal- ances, $92,000,000. Boston exchanges, $61,000,000, bal- ances $26,000,000. U. S. TREASURY STATEMENT. U. 8. treasury balance, $413,126,296. “You've Got All Afternoon” “Wait your turn” is the order for bus riders on bright Saturday afternoons in New York. The bus is & combination tally-ho, lovers’ roost and sun parlor for thousands, and after I the noontime office closing crowds gather quickly at Washing- ton Square for the long ride up Fifth avenue and beyond. Trom H. BULLERER'S 1Y 3% CHURCH 81 privilege. The date of a new de- § cision by Mr. McCarl, however, was s described as uncertain. \ ! ¥ sHOP 4 TEL. 886