New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1925, Page 6

New Brltaln Herald :1:« d after noon, December 81, 8ome those who abided by this local HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Hartford regulation were arvested when they drove to Now Britain, Toued Dally (Sunday Excepted) et kN AU Herald Bldg. 61 Church Street i Britain drivers with '24 markers on their cars up to 9 a, m. ol New Year's might have been ar BUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 & Year rested had they traveled to Harttord $2,00 Three Muath e i with their cars. i v, as they Butered at the Post Office at New Britato | thought, to abide by the law anid a8 Becond Class Mall Matter, & Some motorigts, local regulations at the same time, displayed both *25 and t markers on Business Oftice Edito Rooms helr cars the afternoon of De- cember 31 and part of New Yea 1y, By The only profitaile advertislig mediuin t this method of playing n the City, Ciiculation booke and | |jkawise press roum always open to advertisers plate shall be displayed on the fron Member ot the Assoclated Press. lisy 1 on the front The Awsoclated Press 1 oxciusively en. | O T@Ar upon any motor vehicle i titled to the use for re-publicatic operation upon the public highways il news credited to it ot ¢t ” L Al v of the stute news put To confirm with the state law strictly it evidently for r at ight Decembor 31—and there m autoist who is using his ca 1th « ulation. Our are based upon this audit are many such—to step from lis m chine when the bells ring and the vhistles blow, pry loose the old markers and substitute the new, Ihe legislature could amend the The Herald tily 10 New York at Il tand. Timee | /AW 10 permit a slight twilight zone | Bquure; I Entrance angd thus make it easier to comply Grand Ce: 4204 street. UPHOLDING THI: PRESIDENT | wiich, as the Courant BY ONE VOTE serves, can have no 1 rightly o Post suin are 1eft Bigh in a court unless the judge happens and dry in thele efforts toward ad- | to sympathize with the exasperated i The senate | autoists. sustained t ) ol 'resident Cool- = == 1dge . t NEW HAVE SHOULD KEEP HANDS OFF I en overridden had it not *. 1. Bardo, general manager of b $ N Dial h . New York, New Haven and Hart- | Will alter that fact, of & ( n WBO ford railroad, s quoted as saying wis ated nother term and |y, g yong is wiling to again take | is a "l 1k 0 e o the management of its Con- present Scnate, M. Dial had voted | oot eompany, which aithough | for the salary ill at the 1ast | o069 by the New Haven, is in the | liands of trustees appointed by the | 1 t ! distriet court, And TFour hundred thousand shares of ) arge is the Connecticut company in stock‘f 18 owned by the Iroad, with a par | 5 book vz f $40,000,000 \\rrn'; wor of i pledged with the U, 5, secrct vould the' treasury as partial security for He probably expects to be a loan of $7,400,000 under the fed- rewarded” for his action by an ap- ral transportation act. v his handsome con- Connecticut , company has been in the market to be sold to ie has every re about the futur ing purchasers have been scarce, subserviency based or th y have not been particular ars its head upor impressed with the future of the | gives postal ital mome at t ok trolley car industry, or they hav workers somcthimg t B regarded the price asked for the No meed to ask them what they . o v 400 high, or they have think, however. They won't blame e o 0 o6 might be lacking— the exasperating result upon Ahe |, o T o jue been no line of | 000,000 gallons, Which represented bill to 2 Yet it is diflicult to think that m, would < two-thi obody, or no corpora onneeticut company and its ghts under its charter i the price politics that anywhere asked for it were not too high. That termed ‘“cheap.” probably is the crux of the situation. Mr. Dial was th y D ok Ten years from now may see tec- esident. voting to sustain. the Pr mendous changes in the Connecticut Where was Senator MeLean of | o 4 T v be operating more Concetigut during this MM |1 usses than trolleys, for instanc Did vote to “sustain t Were a purchaser possessing tl He did not. Mr. MeLean Was |, o ooe o6 popular esteom operat- | he pepublicans who voted the business would probably P e s v inerease bill and for e satisfactory. i1 D'resident. And this after 1t would be'virtually impossible necticut phOWAINE the ') cticut company profitably if a Pres of the po high price were paid for the rights sloguns D ! with of ownership. Tares are as high as iscuo a o they can be ked up without ruin- whet s B ing the business altoget! and a P is g el s, Wi ‘ e s aimed i t Mr. Mclea i of de- or w pression. How far hecticut 1 ta nloyes s isa Tre€ o mpany has rece remains to country and v UYL R 4o seen. A favorable showing might criw i some purchasgrs to make Senutor Bran= ). pecjves known. arg 5 Reg PSS 1 t alle ividus of who voted for the measure which the ) poogp iy jg actually shown to be thie guinst ‘ necticut comps unwise measure Jals L ge t st status that & = Attor ana . ag 1 v tr ¥ rep were mu tor £ Lrough reperenssion 4 t about throug saal eiloris o vould he anything w\ora- _many A subject and | pp nings are sl etter for urged that his vi1o be to sim U 5 1 A to © TOCAL AUTHORITIES e o AND AUTO MARKERS Bra i e . hat s hav authort the 1 owners, The 1egis to enu gu s in conflict ture will do well not to | with the state law 1 g auto- | fluence toward such a . mobile mx \ statement with |t which we are glad to BUILD MORE THEATERS DESPITE RADIO & the moment when t eal managers i still in the state of both cities may a state of |1 gations of the coma as Here are [he state law gards the law supposed to fes t} markers must be on tomobiles December 31 after midn gave motorists ur 9 a, m. on is also moving Turther uary 1 to e from | stead o markers. | “roar! \ Hartf Aut ling to | .o Hlic testim y eourt, permitied | planned for | & syndicate Is to rush’ construction | hia Ll is against the law, which | | sa¥s *not more than onc number | 1 standing | | by the big New York theater man- | | | with the new theaters being built. | And anyway, they know very well, l'as everyone else does, that radio i | nere to stay and no amount of talk | duction of gasoline during Novem- [ ver, the Jast month for which Agures | perdent ty of | during the month was 23,850,000 | gallons a day. some willing purchaser, but either | production was 17,000,000 gallons a e sumption during November. But | Nu h of ty=third street The idea of the theatrical promos e Facets and Fancies| Soy BY ROBERT QUILLEN Lig metropolitan productions to pleces scems not to be borne out by thelr own actions in constantly build- ing new theat ready can scat a million or more people in its playhouses at one time, Not only are more theaters being cw York, however, but A radio dealer in New York w,v\ it upon himself to make an investi- | gatlon wmong hi& customers as to whether radio was keeping them from uttending the legitimate theu- | ters, He relates that he found majority of radio fans did not @ | tend such high-priced shows as the | Zicgfeld Follles and productions of that class, and not because of the radio at home, but because of the cost of admission. When they went to theater it Svas to vaudeville or the picture shows, and they still attend- ed quite regularly, which was proven by the fact that the s many moving picture theaters of good quality as ever before and that the | atter ance appears (o ro in at top with the law and avoid the urge m‘nu(u]:, and whenever there is a fall | inflict special local regulations | in attendance it is not due to radio | but to conditions generally. effects of radio” is no fit employment what they say doesn't fit ir age JUGGLING WITH FIGURES OVER GASOLINE According to the report of the U. §. Department of the TInterior, “records were broken” in the pro- | hand. The production was | 25,400,000 gallons a day. are The daily average of consumption And then, despite the fact that “records were broken,” the report adds that the high record produc- tion was for May, 1524, when the| day more than in November. Production, it appears, continued 2,000,000 gallons in excess of con- stocks De- despite this, the report of gasoline on hand at refinerie cember 1-totalled a decline of 1 only an 18-day supply at the current rate of domestic demand. a great A year ago, the report {ndicates, | v on the was a hi-da and on November 1, 1924, a 47-day supply. By the time you huve read this far | some mystery will dawn in connec: tion with these fig iplus supply de- instance, can the dically if “all records crease so T for production were broken since | May? And how can the surplug de- ase from a 47-day supply at the | start of November to an 18-day sup- at thg erfd of the month when | production was n consumption? Are 000,000 gallons more exporting huge quantitie WHEN SELING SNAKES, offic! PLAY SAVE o interest in the i We read with Herald that a safe way to in Connecti- poisc cut is that in & poisonous snake t that ir ~poisonous the “pertectly round.” We also note that H. S. Wolley, a g naturalist, x'v‘mml\» that in the plates on t a poi R bottom of the body run straig around from the head to the tip of |y\joore the tail, while in the harmless snake they are of “herringbone pattern.” The naturalist says that by the {wo things It is casy to tell the na 1 ptile one may face on t4King 2 jaunt through the woods in the summer time. It probably is an easy thing for fofficers Mr. Woolley or other nature students nd B citizenship and 1 s are mot in or near a snak ed snake's b preservatior emerg generally Kee between s and the fangs of all snakes isoever other nig after a hea we dreamnt snakes and lo-not remember idying their we did of REAL ESTAY with flurries of snow onsum Al anti ¢ Stanisiaw and Wladyslaw DPlochar- | of High stree iis Maxen to tempe leri and Emma Kowalski, g asis Valiuke Mar al Industrial Park, i a city that al- | miny g%, but politics isn't one of 2 A husband hus no chance, If he decides to hold out, he s held up, English-speaking of additional playhouses in Philadel- | will remain friends, Blood 1s thick- Chicago and Boston. er than oll. | I8 lasting and far reaching; ' And s0 when Mary Ann, my nlece, {but the mortgage s just as prosalc as cver. ¢ Congressional Record is sol- emn enough, but the congressional rocord is funny. “funding opers language, | to pay a debt. Another time when man gets the | word is when he says: ; Il buy a closed one. Some women curl their own hair : " have husbands To argue about the alleged “evil | 1yyvcoe vocabuli The ecross word puzzle is doomed. best minds are call 1t “helpful.” beginning to & & | home from the dance, dear? ¢ “Them Wall strect 1 wish T knew | s are crooked. 10w to play their game.” The only truly is the one who knows he is | going to get licked, | | Two can live as cheaply as one, but it's hard on the grocer who lets them charge it. ‘s in a name? Well, ther to begoverlord of the inde- | movie concerns, a cemt | they town after lunch, v girls no longer natural {8 because act too darned natural. act have a bath for each bedroom, may wait until turday night. = el ultra-radical’s Id=a of fair play is to let a smali country wrong one with impunity. ample of distinction 1 sounirg own | Muscle Shoals to keep Wall strect | from getting it. How, for |UP With Erippe,” said the wite ' { he s (Protected by Associated Kditors, %n%gm op A Golden Rule of Matrimony By Wallaco M, Bayllss l'\r always had profound respect I'or those who do our teachiug, Contending that their true effest Took up her normal training, grease; Much honor she'll be galning.” One day when to a friend of mine About her I was crowing, He sald: “Alas, you should xcplne Instead of silly blowing; | I"or knos you not that ieachers get | Left in the marriage gamble? y let them Men pass them by; t sweat; { Alone through life they ramble At once about poor Mary Ann I spent much time in worry. But peedlessly. She found a man And grabbed him in a hurry, lgeart, Pray tell me how you mate, smart \\l!h | And 1 was empty pated.” To Be Precise ‘goodnight’ when he brought you Betty: “No - goodmorning. i dward H. Dreschnack. Liberal Terms Brown: “Do you see that fellow over there? Well he hands out life terms."” Gorham: “Oh, so he's a police- man?" Brown: “No, he's a ‘dollar a week' furniture salesman,"” Work and Plezzure By Kid Boots No matter how hard a thing is to | do, its plezzure if it dont seem like work, Most fellows would think they was having a grate time if they ran for a hour without stopping in a jimnazium with running pants on, but as soon as you expect them to run a errand even for 5 minnits they wawk there and back as slow as they can and even then they feel ing a plezzure, ‘Wen your father comes home at nite and wont take enybody to the movles because he says he feels too bum after werking all day, if some- body calls him up after supper he's | libel to go erround to the bowling alley and bowl for 8 hours with fearsc heavy balls and never stop smiling. This shows as long as you think youre having a good time, maybe you are, Werk is no diskrace, and by the | way some people act thats all there | Is in favor of it, We're Publisaing 1t Irene: “There goes Gertrude. They say she's engaged to young ENelson. I wonder what the outcome | will be.” Ahigail: “It's not the outcome she's interested in, it's the incom 25 Years Ago Today From Paper of That Date | room o Idcal employes of the Russwin Superintendent Morans | is good work. Ithodes has been cutting the foot of Arch ice on the pond 18 of the observing Observer |y cen a poisonous and | opinio As a result of the shake- a narrow slit,” | n Saunders made nd Grnr;;f‘ A. Sta uth € r.n;‘l»z.x(lmn‘ churcl: W has 4 membe - cording to records made ing chosen auditor and W, trustees for ELECT NEW OFFICERS were vleeted: Marguerite Kenney (Catherine vice-president, Sullivan. | My | This place is not a lover's | You cateh your own fish. Soon or Observations On The Weather Souther comfortable dis- cloudy and slightly flesh of our tender | Thursday warmer tonight, | neavily bea stery, New York: partly cloudy rain or snow north portien | armér In central and south | it incorrect, Pleasant weather pre- | not, frankly, understand. When we receive an envelope back we look again at the original contribution to see who was wrong. When the address on the envelope | corresponds with the address on the contribution, and the check ather | comes back, then we ‘are frank (o valls ger other seetions east 1 eastward to Ve ed as far south as Florida t; Charles and Kate re St this vicinity —Ruth Oliphant, Conveniences Prospective hoarde “Do’ you have hot and cold water in this Farmer's wife: “Yes, hot in the summer, cold in the winter, —Henrietta Schwab. Somelimes a speaker has to talk | at random because he has me;mred‘ uo memorandum. Wally the Mystic He'll Answer Your Questions, Somechow A mystic mind is Jicaven's gift Designed to give a friendly lift To puzzled folks, so write to me; I'Il help yow very willingly. . e Dear Wally: , it was so nic I Kkissed the little lady twice. Today she will not speak to me. What s the matter? C. Q. D. Dear C, Q. D.: You made a mess In kissing her, would be my guess. | Tt's probably, my boy, that she | Ts sore because it wasn't tiree. This Is Not Ilsll Day Dear Wally: T would like a shelk; | times a | | The inspector said nothing of the | {incident and it never would have| Thes kind- who calls nine week. Oh, Wal try to grant my wish! | 1"l sign myself, Miss Goldie Fish, r Miss Fish Do not losc hear m late ’ | You'll hook a sucker with good bait. Short and— “Yes, sir, but make it snappy.” —Mrs. Edith Wood. The Editor's Gossip Shop We still get about three or four | checks & week from the post office | marked: “Not listed in the direc- | tory Why some contribufors should be 80 careless as to leave off thelr ad- dress or, in writing an address make is something we_can- say that the gontributors who are 1 said: “That girl's as slick as Sald It “Dear niece, pride of my Said she, "I made men think they're Mildred: “Did Tom Kkiss you mizzerable, This shows as soon as | you haff to do & thing it stops be- toothpicks down | b P thelr eyes open, The Tricky Triolet Counter L Fhl ) Rock-a-Bye Baby She put him to sleep, And she rocked him, I saw; He said not a peep As she put him to sleep, Into slumber so deep That T watched her with awe, 8he put him to gleep, * With a right to the ja ‘. =Frank M Dugan, Old Story — in New Words What the school girls of this generation: call “sweet papa” love, the former generation called sweet puppy love, (Copyright, 1926, Reproduction Forbldden) COMMUNICATED WOULD LIKE TO LAY HANDS ON IDIOT INTERFERING WITH RADIO Editor New Britain Herald, New Britain, Conn. Dear Sir:i— In the interest of radio, and radio fans in the vicinity of Church and Stanley streets, who llke to listen in, enjoy a good concert, and mind their own business, will you kindly publish this letter, Someone, apparently located in doing all he can—and succeeding— in putting almost every receiving set out of business. Apparently he has some sort of a spark coil arrangement in operation and is laboring under. the delusion that he is sending code of some sort, He's on the job every night without fafl, Generally he starts about an hour after Springfield has' commence ed to send—that is, one can get Springfield in nice shape for about an hour, Then at 7 or 7:30 he starts in with his devillsh work with short stabs 31\ the ears which he gradually vafies into long drawn out flendish shrieks. Along about the time when the nearby stations are signing off, and one thinks he might be able to pick up some lone station in the far west this bird is at the height of his plea: ure. By that time it Is one oon- stant roar like a waterfall. One ing set out of the window. I've thought of doing it many «times— so disgusted do I get. Dont’ let anyone tell me it is bat- tery noise: There are times when everything is | quiet—probably when this maniac s | called to supper, or goes downstairs for a pall of coal. Any other time, however—well try to shake him! Very truly yours, DISGUSTED. TALKS HIMSELF INTO 25 YR, PRISON TERM 16 Yecar Old Hobo Insists He Was | no?:r, But Officlals ubt His Word Council Bluffs, Towa, Jan. 7.—Ray Snodderly, 16 year old hobo, who talked himself into a 25-year peni- tentiary sentence for a Council | Bluffs robhery and shooting, will be | taken to prison today, although offi- cers are convinced he had no part in the crime. Five-year old Minnle was asked yea visifor if he migR kiss her. She looked dubiously at his| led face, then sald: Snodderly entered a “full and vol- | untary confession” of the robbery | and shooting of twe men, represent- | ing himselt as “Scar Finger Ted,” a | member of a gang gf robbers oper- | ating in and about Chuncil Bluffs and Omaha, Neb.across the Missouri river from here. He started talking after ke had applied for lodging at the city jail a cold night recently. Percy Lainso, sheriff, said he had | established that the boy was in Kan- sas City, Mo., when the robbery oc- Ernrrml. An effort will be made to obtain a pardon. " REFUSES $300 REWERD Customs Inspector at $35 a Month f ¥inds Iarge Sum and Then Ac- cepts Only Thank: |, Manila, Jan. 7.—Vicente Lumanug deserves the palm for honesty, | modesty and unselfishness. He is a customs inspector at a salary of $35 a month, Recently a big steamer carrying an excursion 4 world, touched at Manila. Vicente, | busy with his duties on the docks, | found a purse that contained $8,000,' | A card inside revealed the owner's ! name and Vicente sought her out on | board her ship and returned the property. Furthermore, he persist- ently refused a reward of $500. | become known had not the grateful ‘wpman sent a letter to the customs authoritics, complimenting thxm[ | upon their nonest servunt. | Lexington -Policc Chief Lexington, Mass, Jan, 7.~—Chicf | wounded early today 1o a battle with | bullding oceupied by a Co-operative A bullet lodged in the offi- cer's leg but the injury was not seri- | ous. On his way home from duty Chief Leavit notice | fire, apparently without result. The four men escaped in an automoblie. ‘Koretzi:licved to Be Dying in Penitentiary Stateville, I, Jan. T.—~Recovery of Leo Koretz, promoter of th& Bay- ano ofl scheme in which relatives and friends invested $2,000,000 and who is suffering from diabetes in the Lis death is not imminent, prison hoepital attaches sald today. | Koretz has lost twenty pounds and his voice has dropped to a whisper =0 carelcss ave [ast asleep With |according to the prison physician. |the above nelghborhood, is certainly | might just as well throw his receiv- | or the fault of my set.| and flowers sin Central Market was built in 1876. other v How long she does not remiember, one. She except that there was an old wooden ing a p: shanty therc. Cigars, cigaic corn-cob ha nothing but the old briar will do. anpund the Wounded in Gun Fight | lof. Police Edward Leavit was| |'for men he found loitering about a | the loiterers afd | when he went to investigate they | opened fire. The chief returned the | |stage and.are soon to visit America. Albert, Francois and Paul Fratellini, | Miss Katie Dale Mitchell has been selected as the “Queen of Georgia,” in a Centennial celebration held in Waycross, Ga. The capital grandmothers knew Mrs. Helen Normanton, now old Betsy. Tor Betsy Hall of Wash- her way to America, fights for what ington, D. C, g slave before the Lincoln era, has sold “yarbs,” sage for years to win adm long before the admitted s, nor ma e no appeal for Betsy— Isn't this picture the cat's whiskers? At any rate it ought to be, for it is a photo of “Oh, Minley Surprise of Gay- brook,” a first prize winner at the National Cat club’s cham- | pionship show at Cr stal Palace, London.* F'rance honors those who bring her fame, whether it is in science, war, literature, or the stage. Here are the three Fra- Penitentlary here, s doubtful, bul Itellinj brothers, recently decorated wit} |for their contribution to French art. In the few weeks of confinement \hrought the a The three brothers ha art of pantomime to a high place on the French she believes is right. She fought on to the Tinglish bar, being the first woman She has just won an¢ an even mgreé notable has succeeded in obtain- ort to America, in her len name. Her husband’s name ) I’'hoto shows her in her h the Legion of Honor Left to right they are