New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1925, Page 3

WAGING FIGHT T0 IV HURDEER Widsor Women Rasng Funs| o Fight Case - ) 7 Chicago, Jan. 8.—~Russell Scott, at one time a wealthy Canadian busi- ness man, and recently convicted ot murder by a jury,whlch fixed hls penalty at death.for slaying Joseph Maurer, drug clerk, during a holdup, today heard his father, Thomas Scott, relate to him how two young women in Windsor, Ont., are waging a campalgn 10 raisemoney to save him from the gallqws, Bcott, who was Indicted with his brother Robert, who was never ap- prehended, wiil appear in court to- morrow on his motion for a new trial. At one time he pleaded gullty but withdrew the plea when the judge Indicated he expected to sen- tonce him to death. During his trial, Scott's attorneys attempted to show that his brother and not the defend- ant kiljed the clerk. Scott's father sald the two young women are Miss Maud Gauthler, a school teacher in Windsor, and Miss Agnes . Hermon, formerly Scott's stenographer. They have arranged & geries of dances In Windsor to raise further funds for his son’s defense, the first of them to have been held last night,"the father sald.y The father asked the assistant state's at- torney today to postpone further ac- tion until the women bave been giv- en an opportunity to money, but this request was refused, Dog Dies Trying to Save Babe in Burning House Louisvillé, Ky, Jan, 3, - When Mps. Henry Zenor went to a neigh- bor's to horrow coal ofl to revive a fire In the kitchen stove yesterday afternoon she left Mary Alva, her 4 months old daughter, in charge of a dog, the family pet. . Mrs Zenor returned te find the Jiouse In flames. A youth attracted by the barkingsof the dog, had rais- od an alarm. Efforts to reach Mary Alva were futile and the dog, refus- fng to quit his post, perished with the baby. City Has No Money for Removing Snow and Ice It the board of public works is required to expend money for the removal of snow and ice, it will be necassary to call a special meeting of the board of finance and taxation tosprovide funds since the appro- priation for this work has already bene expended for other purposes. HEARING ON SALABIES : The salary.committee 6f the com- fmon councll’ will hold {ts second hearing Monday evening when the following schedule will be carried out: Public works department, 8 Po'clogks Ieaith -department, 8:30 ‘v'clock: butlding ‘commisston, :8:45 o'clock; charity department, 9 o'clock. MONEY DEPOSITED IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT | ralse more | PARIS” EXPERIENCES MOST SEVERE STORM _due Interfors With Shipping And ' Ties Up Communication in Northern France Parls, Jan. 8,~The gale which swept Parls and , Northern France yesterday continued during ' the night, the velocity of the wind here reaching 100 killometres (about 62 miles) an hour. Boats from Havre for Caen, Trou- ville and Honfleur were. unable to sall and all fishing boats were forced to return to port. At Dunkirk navi- gation was brought to a standstill. Cherbourg's lowem quarters were flooded, due to the heavy rains. No ships sailed from Brest, while Mo- Jene Island and the lighthouses were cut oft, the island’s inhabitants lacking food. Concarneau was simi- larly stricken. Reports from Lorient say the steamboat Saturn broke in two and sank. At La Rochelle a smack went down after striking a rock, and a sloop was crushed by two heavier sailing vesscls, Boulogne reporis that the cross channel packet. Ed- mond Laborles stranded, but was re- floated with the ald of tugs. A wirefess distress call was re- ér Dahomey, 20 miles south of Pen- march, 'on the Brittany coast, ask- ing for a tug. On the 14 telephone lines between Parls and London only three are functioning and all the lines con- | necting Paris, Brussels and Mayence are damaged. | The national meteorological of- | fice belleves the storm will continue {all of today and probably Into . the | night. IN. B. Dry Cleaning Corp. * In Its New $60,000 Home The rapid growth of the New Brit- aln Dry Cleaning Corp., is lllustrat- cd by the recently completed $60,- 000 plant at 416 West Main streef. | Founded in 1912 and incorporated [two years later this . concern has | made rapid strides towards success luntil now it has the most mod- |ern plant of its kind in the city. {More than $10,000 worth of hew | equipment has been ‘installed here and the most modern methods are |to he put into practice, according td {R. J. Klotber and A. F. Eichstaedt, | president and secretary, respectively, .jof this concern. More than: 10,000 feet of floor |space accommodate the. cleaning | room. dyeing room, pressing room, | carpet cleaning dopartment garages, |and office, in this new and spacious building. The public is Invited to inspect the plant at all times and visitors will be personally conducted through the vavious. dep: ats by officlals of the compan: CHORUS GIRLS WEEP London.—One of the most popular !numbers of “The Silken Lady,” a new musical show here, fs called “the weeping chorus.” All ‘of thse | sirla in the cast sing'and weep, and |the climax to the ‘act is a tremen- 9| dous fall of tears from the eves of | painted animals on a back drop. 2elved at Marseilles from the steam- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1924. S NO MARKERS FOR INTERSTATE LINE Stoeckel Refuses Plates Tor New | York-Boston Busses —_— 1 The Interstate Bug Corporation Mias been refused automobile licenses | for a fleet of cars to operate be- | tween New York and Boston, the re- | fusal being made under Commission- | er’' R, B, Stoeckel’s Interpretation of | a law under which he claims ke has the privilege of stating what kind of reglstration shall be made, The courts issued an order re- straining the commissioner ' from refusing licenses to the bus com- pany and ordering police to allow the operation of its cars with 1924 markers in the meantime, Two cars operating between Boston and New York by way of Berlin, were stopped, their Mbivers arrested and fined re- cently, and an appeal from that court judgment is now pending, When application was made for public service markers, commonly known as “0" markers, Stoeckel re- fused issuance ordering application for “J* or jitney markers. As a preliminary to issuance of these Inlnrkera a certificate of public ne- | cessity and demand must be goiten trom the public utilities commissien and as this has not been done, no markers would be {ssued yesterday. Stoeckel clairas his acton is in ae- cordance with the letter of ths in- function with orders markers fs. | | sued, but does rot restrain the com- | | missioner from specifying the type | | which necessarily Includes the pro- | | cedure followed out by other “J" | marker applicants. 5 TARIFF WAR LIKELY | to Be at Each Other's Throats, | { | Commercially Speaking. | By The Assoclated Press. | Berlin, Jan. {tween France and Germany fis | viewed as an early eventuality in | consequence of the deadlock in the | negotiations between the French |and German . delegations which | have been going on in Paris for more than a month: As there appears to be no pros- pect of a formal agreement before Jan. 10, when the customs and other conditions imposed, by Ger- | many by the peace treaty automat- ically expire, the French delegates | have proposed a preliminary fct. To this the Germans are said to | have agreed, provided such transi- tional treaty shall not be based on the existing trade restrictions, they suspect that the French steel and textile interests would devote | an additional period of customs im- ! munity to a wholesale unloading of | products in the occupied areas. | /Phe ducal family of Marlborough | of England “prospered by raising | sheep, having 20,000 head at one time. !storm, which yesterday | France and Germany Are Expected |8 | 3.—A tariff war be- § as | . ST MERCURY WILL RISE T0DAY, 1S REPORT of Most orm of Yesterday One Serious in Years, Scaboard Towns Report | New York, Jan. 3.—~Weather bu- | reau forecasts early today indicat- ed that the winter's heaviest snow- descended unexpectedly upon the Atlantic sea- hoard, might reach the proportions of that of February 20, 1921, when 12.2 inghes of enow fell. The fore- | casters predicted that the storm would end 'teday and would he fol- lowed by rising’ temperatures and cloudy weather, The storm, which started carly yosterday morning and continued | unabated throughout the day, did | not spare any section of the eastern | states, A 68-mile gale piled 15-foot | waves on the beach at Atlantie City | and drove shipping dangerously | close to shore, Street traffic and | wire service in Baltimore and Wash- | ington were seriously crippled, and ' IN ESTA 10,696 square feet ing Room, Drying ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 3rd, 1925 WILL BEAR INTEREST FROM THE THE BANK OF SERVICE Open Saturday Evenings 7-9 similar reports were recelved {rom‘ points all diong the coast, Snow In large wet flakes began to spréad & white blanket upon this ity at 5:30 yesterday morning, and by 10 o'clock {ast night had plled up to a depth of 10 inches, A 35-mile. an-hour gale drove the flakes in a blinding swirl into the faces of pr- dostrins and lmpeded traffie, To spite of the efforts of 700 motor plows, 600 trucks and 18,000 shovel- lers, the streets were badly clogged this morning. CITY CAR CHANGE PROPOSED g Consideration is being glven by members of the common councll to a proposed charter change transfer- ring ownership of all city cars to the garage commission, the purpose of this amendment being to vest in the commission authority over all machines owned by the city, Under existing conditions the mechanie has no power to order the storage ‘of a mgchine for a needed repalp before the car is actually unfit for use. If the amendiment is adopted the gar- age commigsion will rent out ma- chines to departments at a stated fee per hour, “THE OLDEST DYE HOUSE THE CITY” BLISHED 1912 “THE OLDEST DYE HOUSE IN THE CITY” in its new $£60,000 building, dedicated to the serviges of the people of New Britain and vicinity. 10,696 FEET OF FLOOR SPACE of floor space accommodate the Carpet Cleaning department, Dyeing Room, Press~ Room, Cleaning Room and Of- fice in this new spacious huilding. OVER $10,000 IN EQUIPMENT More than $10,000° worth of modern equipment is installed in thi claim to be the mo oity. s structure, which we justly st up-to-date of its kind in the NEW FILTERING SYSTEM Outstanding in equ tem for cleaning garments. ipment is the new filtering sys- This system assures you of having garments returned as fresh and new as if they had just been purchased. Every ounce of fluid passing through vour clothes is CLEAN. Gone is the old fashioned method of cleaning thousands of garments with the same greasy, dirty fluid. taken the place of Now, the filtering system has the old method, in the most modern plants, and at a great expense we have installed 1t here. at our plant. See this system in operation PLANT OPEN TO PUBLIC ~ Qur plant is at all inspection. wateh vour garme times open to the public for We request that you step in and nt as it passes through each department and see how carefully and aptly it is handled. s 24{-HOUR SERVICE We are emphasizing our twenty-four hour service, Our fleet of trucks is at your call at all times. For your convenience we have a branch office at 96 West Main street w 'here you may leave your work and receive this service, TONG WAR THOUGHT REASON OF NURDER Schenectady Chinaman Found Slain in Home Scheneetady, N. Y., Jun. 3. —Tom Sheck, 40, Chinese merchant, was found dead In the kitchen in the rear of his place of business here this morning. Two bullets had pene- trated his body, apparently fired at his back, and police belleve he was murdered. Police sald he was a member of the On Leong Tong. Bcheck was a federal prisoner re- leased on bail. He was charged with violating the federal parcotic law and was to go on trlal Monday in federal court here before Judge Frank Cooper, Police quizzed Chinese in the neighborhood but found none who sald they saw any one leave Scheck's place ofter the shooting, although CARPETS DRAPERIES LACE CURTAIN BLANKETS, ETC. PriIONE 1323-2 DELIVERY SERVICE O] several said they heard shots, Police said Scheck apparently had been shot while he .was standing near the gas range in his kitch preparing a meal. One bullet pene. trated his body, entering the back aod leaving the chest. The second shot entered between the hips and lodged in the abdomen. Scheck I the second Chinese to be killed here In the past few months Lal Chow Wong, laundryman, member of the Hip Sing Tong, was killed in his laundry October 9, GOSSIPING MUST END, WOMAN SECRETARY SAYS New York's Woman Secretary of State Lays Down Rules For Her Office Albany, Jan, 3,~~Gossiping among women employes of the secretary of state's department at the capitol must cease as the result of regula- tions imposed today by New York's first woman secretary of state, Mrs. Florence E. Knapp. Using to advantage her exper- lence in enforciog d among her girl students at the College of Home Economies at Syracuse versity, Mrs, Knapp within 48 hourw of her mccession to office posted three new regulations. They are: “Nine o'clock in the morning is thehour at which the office opens. Pleass report promptly. “Gir) employes of this department please will refrain from visiting during oftice hours. “Applications for stationery and office supplies must be made to the office messenger.” Deaf Mute Accuses His Wife of Nagging Him Chicago, Jan, 8. == Arraigned for non-support, in the eourt of domestio, relations, Allison Reynolds, 56, & deaf mute, through an interpreter, accused his wife, Jennie, also a deaf mute, of “continual nagging." His wife, he sald, scolded him in the deaf and dumb sign language be- cause he did not make more money. The judge continued the case, promising Reynolds a job and asking Mrs. Reynolds to be a little more tenient. The New 1 of the $60,000 HOME NewBritainDryCleaningCorp. NOW OPEN AT 415 WEST MAIN STREET THE MOST MODERN PLANT OF ITS KIND N THE CITY 24 HOUR SERVICE GUARANTEED SPECIALIZING IN DYEING AND CLEANING OF MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GARMENTS CLEANED, PRESSED AND REPAIRED TWELVE years of service to the people of New Brit- ain have built us a reputation that is indestructible Our most modern facilities are at your disposal and our reputation for exacting work, that has followed us through the years past, we hope to retain, through your patronage. | New Britain Dry Cleaning Corp. 415 WEST MAIN STREET Branch Office, 96 West Main Street