New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 3

COLD WAVE MOVES TOWARD THE EAST Wintef W_eather Claims 10 Lives, in West Dec. 17—Lower peratures today heralded the move- ment eastward and southward of cold wave that cost ten lives in the Rocky Mountain states and brought | sub-zero blasts of ice apd snow to the northwast, The far wast and fhe reglons of | the rockies were hardest hit, Enow and low temperature pre- valled along the Pacific coast from the Cansdian bordeér to the normally warm sections of California. Belling- ham, Washington, echools were closed becAuse of the cold which hovered about the zero point and e#now was falling on the Mojave des- ' ert in §outhern California Drifted snow blocked traips in the northern rockies, where the mer- cury dropped as far as 32 below ze10 at Great Falls, Mont. Elscwhere In the reglon temperatures ranged from 12 to 28 below zero. Cocoa There ate twenty- five to thirty dif- ferent grades of cocoa beans, but Baker's Cocoa is made of high- grade beans only. That is one reason why it is better. Walter Baker&(o.Ltd. LATARLISHED 1787 Dorchester Mass. Montreal.Can. BOONLET OF CHOICE RECIPES STNT FREE 1 06 P 6 1 05 P S S P S S5 9 SR P G SR P R R R SR U SRR R “DO YOUR CHRISTM AS SHOPPING EARLY” During Our Special Christmas Offer We Will Give a Set of Attachments VACUUM CLEANER . THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER torn- | Monfa ‘findlnctly attributable to tht storm, Four persons were killed when a tram car was struck by a Great Norlhern passenger traln in a bhiz- |zard. Two children were suffocated |1n a fire at Bozeman while their momn was Christmas shopping. An fce coated windshield was held re- | spopsible for the deaths of two | young women and two young men |lt Bterling, Colo, where a Burling- | ton passenger train struck their au- | tomobile they speeded homeward after a dance, Rotary plows were used to clear tracks in the Glacier National Park [ reglon, where drifts ten feet deep locked trains . The fcy blasts extended into Utah Néw Mexico and Colorado with snow falling or forecast for today, The plains _states were |ln|'e's of sub-zero' weather. Enow and sleet was general over Kansas rand Missouri while Nebraska ther- mometers hovered ahout the zero point. Bnow was forecast for today and tomorrow in lowa, Des Moines had a fall of 14 degrees in four hours 1agt night In the Great Lake region last night had frozen early leaving an lcy coating that was helng covered by snow today. Colder weather with snow was forecast Wire communication in the mid- west was not much affected by the slaet " CONVICT GROWS RICH Harry Snodgrass, Who Played Piano Over Radio, Will Be Released With | 81,500 Given by Fans feeling rains today | Jefterson City, Mo, Dec Harry M. Snodgrass. convict of the Missour! state penitentiary who has | gained nationwide fame as the | "King of the Ivories,” by his piano plaving from state radio station | WOS at the etate capital here, will leave the prison next month with a well filled purse. Officlals of the radlo station, who announced a week ago that €nodgrass would be released on January 186, said radio fans in all parts of the country sent the con- viet-musician approxim $1.500 and more Enodgrass rece wide contest as the radio entertainer. Te was eent to prison Louis in 1923, to gerve three years on conviction of taking part in an attempted holdup 17— ately ly won a natipn- most popular from St June $400,000 FIRE LOSS. York, Dec. 17.—Damage e& timated at $400,000 was caused eafl vnlw when fire ewept through th r box factory ot Schwar rt in lower Manhattan pocket nearby was fhreatened for 2 dred time. Two hn rees owned Ryialte 1 company GOULDING TO ENTER ouver, B. C, Dec. 17—Georgs of this city, holder of gev. | nounced today that he would enter the Millroge A. A. games to be in Madieon Squara Garden, York, late In January NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1924, STARTING FIGHT ON FREIGHT RATE Tralic Bereau to Enlist Help of | Merchants — 'l er at home for t | prohibit 4 In an effort to save halt a mil- | .llon dollars annually to New Brifain | hippers, the traffic burean of“the chamber ofd commerce took last night to raisc $1,000, New Brit | | | we are endeavoring to ralss to pro- | ‘-hnum range from $26.00°to $200, | steps | order of' the chamber of commerce, ain's share of the money to be ysed | in hiripg ccursel to fight the pro- | posed frelght | rate New England * The increases will avelage 15 per cent, and this fn- |crease, it was sa'd at the meeting, | will ralse prices of New ,England | products 80 much that western buy, ers will be forced to look elsewhere | for thelr goods. The manufacturing concerns in this city are alive to the gituation, thelr traffic men last night express ing themselves strongly against the | increase, byt it was felt that the merchants, who will be much as the mauufacty 'be interested In the fight Appeal To Be Broadcast Inereases from . should LA meeting of 1ocal merchants wag |those termini. act- | and |onded by Je | it was voted that this should be call- | unanimously voted that the bureau , De- | suggested by Miss 1. M. Hurle ing secretary of the chamber, ed for the morning of Monday, cember 29, The bureau voted that the following letter bs gent to manu- facturing concerns in this city and that Willlam § Robipson, assistant | traffic manager of the Stanley Works should draw up a similar one to be torwarded to the merchants “The interstate commerce commis- slon has ordered a general investiga- tion into all ¢ s rates in and ount ot New Engl 0 the territory west, of the Hudson river “The rallroads have sibmitted to the ghippers, rates that they ' pro- | pose to put fnto effect. These rates | will increase our traneportation costs in and out of New Britain to ap- proximately 15 per cent “The effect of these proposed in- be far 2. avery shipper and recejver of goods, moving under class rates, will be We estimate that creases will reachin lirectly effected it w41l represent to New Britain ship- pers and reccivers of freight, ap- proximately $500,000 < 18 2 very matter—not alone manufactyrers, hut to the merchants, “If thess rates are permitted to become effactive ern consumers have informe that they will he fore s\r source of sup- ed would serious to the stries eq to 100k near- as the P their purchasing | Conneeticut “The New organization ply. of traftic repre- of trade, cooperating with | similar organizatie ctates of Pennsvlvania, New and New Jersey will employ el and rate statisticians to coun- attend and to prepa mation as will be needed in protect pers and pper's wit- nesces, re such infor- ing the interests of the sk $200 Down and No Fur- ther Payments ruary. Until Feb- (feeeted ,,Jvmns a day [ recelvers effected “The success of this plan will de. port recelved from thoss directly er. | fected. This support s -hsolmw\l necessary If this work is to be under. | taken, | ‘New Britain has heen asked' to contribute their share, which we conalder should be about $1,000, Therefore, we appeal and urge you | to eontribute toward the fund that | Gomes Out Adainst French Prc- mier's Policies tect our {nterests. - Contributions Faris Dec 17.—Millerand has [ ed his campaign against the ot government in earnest. At nquet of 1,20 covers attended by members of the Natlonal Republican | “These funds must be ralsed im- mediately, “Checks ehould be drawn to the | New Britain, and matled to Miss H M. Hurley, acting secretary, cham. '“481¢ last evening the former pre ber of commerrs, New Britain, J¢0t and premier delivered a lengthy G fighting spe which was cheered ; to the echo, in which he outlined his Oppose Hartford-Waterbury Busse: plans and i all republicans to Much opposition devetoped to the |ioin him in forming a center bloc proposed . line between Water- with the object of controlling the | bury and rtford, the general opin- French parliament lon of those present being that there | a Myjlerand defended the policies | was not enough traffic to warrant It \which had been pursued under his |and that it might. cut down the ,amingstration, mantaining that, un- | patronage of the raflroad between ) thq gdvent of Premier Herriot | those pofnts and lead to the curtall- | ¢ 04 haa pee Ihabtiace ment+ of rail passenger and frelgh! uas worth more, taxes were Ug‘\'-‘—rl [service. At present, there are 13 .4 .the poliry toward Germany. each way betwaen though eostly, was about to bear | Hartford and ‘'Waterbury, and the g0 bureau ‘expressed {tself as satisfied " b w2 The present government he handl- with the service furnished between ed without gloves, declaring ft “threatens the order, finances and | urity of t ecountry,” it was | dominated by the revolutlonary so- | ialist party’which had declined to assume an appcarance of power but which possessed the substance The government, he had been confront ted cheaper, On motion of Mr. Robinson, o F. Atwater, it was rer |eend a committee before the direc- tors of the chamber of commerce or a hearing on the subject and to recommend that the directors take suitable action, as the hurean feels that the inauguration of bus service {3 not justified There will be a hearing on the three petitions. for thig gervice next Monday in Hartford, and the action of the local chambar will probably taks the form of sending a delega- tion to protect agalnst granting & franchise Joseph R, Andrews president of the chamber of com- | merce, was present and said that he would call a directors’ meeting for T'riday noon. Leon & Cor! presi- dent of thes bureau, appointed Mr cont the isappeart in the f rong publ romm feeling arouse untst danger, it had conjured up tha clerical bogey “Lat us take off our hats to thi claimed fas] twents SHORTAGF IN FUNDS zentle- | Robinson, E. J. Gaffney and Joseph ana | goods 1in England Traffic league | |a dollar ea S8 T R TS D R TN B DD s T B Bl g Woman Clerk in Gloncectsr Water . Leitch as the committes to go befors the directors Dept. $aid To Have Co The members of the g 880 Friberzlement and Left City reen ex 4 with the railroad and trolley f 1t serv. ice betwgen here and Hartford, and | they voted that ths members of the should be notified by the | The traf- | Tee cham secretary of this service. fic men present gaid that th too many trucking concerns business batween this ity and Hart- ford and that, in the main, they were | vnreliable and as fast as the New Haven read and Connecticut | sh & wore doing | ti clerk, was | | Keefe, an assistant charged with of the an not mount, Gift For Miss Curtin It was voted that the membars of ler the trafflc bursay should to be given to Miss | Mary Curtin, the secretarv of chamber, who Is w seriously in appreclation of her work cn be halt of the bureau. 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