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the Western style of jumping he em. ploys,” Coach Littletield said. “Only the remarkable spring of his legs ‘gets him by.' If he improves on his form next year, Harold Osborn may well look to his laurels as the high jumping king of the universe.” Hagard has one more year of in- ter-collegiate competition. ‘PIG WOMAN'S' TALE CAUSE OF ARRESTS (Continued from First Page) IN GRAND OPERA Portland American Gompany Has (_)wn Programs Portland, Oregon, Aug. 138 (A)— Noblest traditions of the American Indian are to be given the public through the medium of grand opera when the new opera “Winona” is produced here by the Portland American Grand Opera Company in November. The scene is a fitting stage. Tt was over the Old Oregon Trail that Saca- Jjawea, the Shoeshone Indlan woman, led Lewis and Clark to the successful culmination of their exploration to the Pacific coast, and over which Willie Gets Exclted Carpender, bareheaded and nat- tily dressed, was nervous but' con- | tained. Stevens, wearing heavy | lensed spectacles and chewing his mustache, was disconcerted by his |own hands, and finally sat on |them. He nearly collapsed later poured the eintrepid ploneers in | when taken to jafl, after commit- their cowered wagons, | i ment by Judge Cleary. . Bruce Knowlton, president of | “'myoy jearned that, although two the opera company, in announcing | ool By 0T 0l T ced against plans for the production, said noth- | TRIFOHS R0 HER R ing has ben allowed to intrude on |, o "\ ao only one each’ had the realms of pure Indian legendry |00 "I 0® PO LI Garpender and_music. ; .| with the murder of Mrs. Mills and 'Character, sit 8 a = iy, end ] | stevens with that of Dr. Hall. cal themes found in the archives of : 3 e isa historical societies and principally in | One other person, ! | the government records of the|Phillips, formerly a night watch-| Smithsonian Institute at Washington | man, has been arrested in the case were employed in weaving the story | a8 a material witness and is free and composing the score,” said Mr. |in $2,500 bail. Admits Taking Bribe Knowlton, A chorus of sixty or more will be San Francisco, Aug. 13 (M—The Chronicle says that Henry L.| | | { | | | | for La PERSONALS City Items Miss Mary Dunn of Beaver street has returned from a vacation spent at Hampton Beach, N, H. Misses Mae Murphy and Katier- | ene Meehan are on their annual va- | cations. Miss Sadie Okenquist, stenogra- pher in the office of Constable Fred Winkle, is spending two weeks at camp at East Northfleld, Mass. { A daughter was born at New Brit- | ain General hospital yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DiMichael of | | 17 Smith street. A son was born at New Britain General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. James Manning of 51 East| Main street A son was born at New Britain | General hospital today to Mr. and | |Mrs. Frank Flsher of Arch | street. . Mr. and Mrs. Sliva and children ofy34 Beatty street leave Sunday for a week at Point-0'-Woods. Miss Catherine and Susic Roon are spending their vacation at Lake Sunapee and the White Mountains. Miss Theresa Lettiere of Hartfors |_ 15 spending a fe'v days with : KRcse Berkowitz of Camp stre Roger McDonnell of, New Jers 565 years old boy living on Alden | as caught in a chicken coop in the rear of a house at 53 Miller street about 9 o'clock this forenoon | 8 and was turned over to Sergeant | is visiting at his former home in this | g'\fara. The boy insisted that a clty. |other boy chased him and he ran he Misses Gladys and Amy Carl- {in¢o the coop to elude him. He was n, Hulda Johnson, Helen McGuire, | yurned over to the prohation-ofticer. May and Louise Hall left today| pDavia Brown of 43 Dewey stret e Congomond. reported to Captain Kelly this after- | e noon that $3 and a hank containing Burdicks Visit Henry 39 were stolen at his home this D 9, week. JFord’s Famous Inn|™iry. common counclt committes Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Burdick of 63 ;on licenses will meet at 7:30 this Grove Hill have returned from a |€vening at Room 201, City Hall two weeks' motor trip through SR e o Maine, New Hampshire and Mas: NE W chusetts, They traveled - thronh | WINGTON NEWS Concord and Lexington and went up | e Vincent Battista of No. Cam- the coast of Maine following the shore roads. While going through| Vil Massachusetts the New Britain tour- |bridge. Mass, was arrested Wednes- ists stopped at Sudbury and visited on the Berlin turnpike. Bat- I Dickman, former New Jersey state before Justice of Wall Street Briefs Earnings of the American Suma- tra Tobacco Co. for the 11 months ended June 30 are reported by the company as - $1,178,411 after ex- pense taxes, receivers’ fees, etc., which equals $5.75 a share on the common stock. The Pacific Gas and Electric cor- | poration has called a meeting of | stockholders for Oct. 11 to vote on 2 proposed four for one splif-up of the common stock, the elimination ot the original $100,000 preferred stock and a corresponding increase in the first preferred issue. of the Typewriter reholders Noiseless will vote on & increase in stock from Plans call for shares of Class * stockholders at $35 a share. Remington corporation | pt. 16 on a proposed e Class “A” common to Substantial the ten increases in the sales of largest chain ganizations in the United States for | the first seven months of this year as well as for the month of July are shown by a complication of their reports. For the seven months the was $300 171 against $2 357,204 For r were $ 989,- 655,434 in July last Skelly Ofl Co. reports the bringing | 000 shares. | store or- | [ENTHUSIASM ON EXCHANGE C00L Confidence Is But Partly Re- stored This Afternoon New York, Aug. 13 (®—Bullis | enthusiasm for high-priced indus- | trials and specialties was chilled by |the unexpected increase in the New York federal reserve rediscount rate, with the result that stock | prices broke sharply soon after the | opening of today’s stock market and then made irregular recovery on the appearance of a strong investment demand for high-grade rails. Spec- We Offe 100 UNION JUWEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN~ o Tel. 2040 L Q MFG. CO. yield about 99 ulative fears that the higher bank rate would lead to a restriction of eredit for market operations led to | rather heavy selling for both ac- | counts, early declines of one to ten points being scattered over a rather | | wide list. Confidence was partlally restored, however, when another strong buy- | ing movement developed In Atchison | common, which crossed 149 to a record high for all time and nearly | | four points above last night's close. | | Nervousness characterized the | trading in the industrials and spe- | clalties, although United States Cast | {Iron Pipe lost by the end of the | | third hour and recoveries of two to | | four points from the low levels took | ace in a number of other issues. Burritt Hotel Bldg.. New Britain | | | | PRICE ON AP WE DO NOT ACCEPT Thomson, Thenn & To. MEMBERS NEW YORK AND HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGES Douald R. Hart, Mgr. 100 shares Stanley Works Telephone 2580 PPLICATION MARGIN ACCOUNTS Henry Ford’s Wayside Inn, which {tista was brought in yesterday of a discovery well in | The good news on General Motors money to| the as during s they Teport to be a very interesting | the Peace C. S. Barrows and fined place. The party consisted besides |for reckless drivin Mr. and Mrs. Burdick of Mr. and | - Mrs, J. Earl Burdick and son, Rus-| Mrs. Mabel ieber of Fred- of 008 Stanley streot [ erick t has returned after spending a few days Rt the cottage of Mr. and Mre. B, J. Hubert at Morningside, Milford, Conn. 1, Hagen Enters Western To Regain Standing Indianapolis, Aug. 13 (A—Walter | Hagen will play in the western open golf championship here Aug. 2 The storm which hit this section of the sta |did con: crops here. C erable damage to farm 8. Barrows states (Continued from First Page) “aid | al- | Structure Wil Within Three Weeks, Approval of the recommendations of the school accommodation com- mittee awarding the general con- tract for the construction of the Vance street school at a bid of $203,060 was given by the school board at a special meeting held in the school department office yester- day afternoon. Warren, Holmes, Power & Co. of Lansing, Mich., architeets, was the | choice of the committee and its rec- | ommendations to that effect were | Somerville, N Aug. 13 approved by the board. The heat- [San Irancisco pol today ing contract was awarded to F. Raff asked by Senator Alexander Simp- & Co. of Hartford at a cost of $20,- |son, spectal prosecutor of the Hall- 042; J. L. & A. M. Flerberg Co. of | Mills case, to get statements from | Hartford reccived the contract for |Henry Y. Dickman, former New | plumbing with a low bid of $11,616. | Jer trooper, now serving a | The Billings Electrical Co. of this |term in the United States disciplinary | eity was awarded the electrical con- | barracks on Aleatraz Island ‘ tract. Its bid was $5.804.00. Senator Simpson made the request | Chajrman P. F. King announced 'jmmediately after having been in- | this afternoon that ground for New |formed that the San .Francisco Britain’s latest school in the Mon- | chronicie quoted Dickman as having roe school district will be broken |admitted that he accepted money within three weeks. {to disappear during the Hall-Mills The board granted the echool ac- |inyestigation. comodation committee permission 10 | propping the question of wit- sell a house, a shed and a barn On |negsos and other preparations for u the property where the school I8 to | aliminary hearing this afternoon be located. The committee Was In-|o¢ (o men, charged last night with structed to act with the advice of | iy murger, Simpson, refused to. use the i he - ¢ v]:: corporation council on the mat {a Somerville telephone in kending [the mesage and ordered his chauf- feur to driye him out of town. { He sald that the war department | | had offered to return Dickman to | |New Jersey and that he would ask | | for such action immediately. chestra will interpret the score. In- | trooper, now serving a term in the dlan balets are in praparation for | United States disciplinary barracks | the event. Alberto Bimboni, New |on Alcatraz island, San Francisco | York, is the composer, and Perry bay, has admitted that he had ac-| murder in New Jersey. “0f course, I took shut up and get out,” STREETS l]l: GITY paper quotes Dickman having | | pay as a state trooper still owing The prisoner also declared that a former maid in the Hall home | New York, New Haven and Hart-| pjcxman. | ford rallroad and all trains were| pyickman's knowledge of the said to be running on their usualicase j5 considered so important the Boness. negotiations already ‘have been 24 hours later than the most terrific ed from reliable authority storm these towns are said to have| " ' had for a good many years, gutters, | ordivod, \iils BAye driveways and cellars suffered con~ | o yort Ut T e m T gumes ways because of deep washouts. A SR cith | Tow < i cork. | 280 in New Brunswick, N. J. with| ow sranit i Potilagton ok |the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, el SR Ay ) " | six months after the murder in an In Southington there were no f \ k American says today. treet lights from ¢ o'clock untll al-}ur"gginet. think it was the police | b A who kidnapped me, smuggled me | WILL BREAK GROUND {into New York, and somewhere on | s quoted ving. One of the first things they to e my finger prints, Eapect That Construction of New | though those had been taken dur- night and tortured me. When I got home I was sick from their treat- ment.” | Belleves in Wife Yet before Mrs. iled for Europe, but he did not believe she had any- | thing to do with it. Mills is also quoted employed and an orchestra of fort from the Portland phony Or- S. Williams, Minneapolis, librettist. | copted money to disappear e | investigation of the Hall-Mills sald. “If T hadn't, why would I| have left there with two months' | than in previous etorms. has not told many important de- | No trouble was reported by the |%ails known both to her and to| Plainville and Southington pro-| con 8 B% SN te New bably suffered the most. Coming Jersey, the Chronicle sald it l“fll’n~i siderably, In many cases motorists | i 4coxion husband of the choir were unable to get into their drive- | 11 t% *eton MO8 B0 Lol D S o ot iz | offort to get a_ confession of _the e BN | murder from him, the New York Long Tsland, and tortured me in| o n effort to pin the killing on me,” | FOR VANCE ST. SCHOOL | » was ing the first investigation after the Be Started | murder. They questioned me all| Mills said his kidnapping took place in F v, 1923, shortly { “I don’t think my wife thing wrong with the rector, ng, any- Will Question Dickman i N (Pr— were | NEWFIELD—ROMAN. The marriage of Miss Anna New- field, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Brennecke of 25 Rhodes street, and John Roman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Roman of 114 Daley av- enue, took place Wednesday morn- ing, at St. Mary's church. Rev. Father McCrann officlated. They were attended by Miss Elizabeth Newfleld as bridesmaid, and Edward Bachman was best man.’ The bride was attired in a gown of bridal satin trimmed with chantilly lace. She carried a bouquet of roses and lilies of the valley, The bridesmaid carried a bouquet of Coolidge roses. Mr. and Mrs. Roman will reside at 41 Rocky Hill avenue. Comic Strip Heroines | Get Living Prototype New York, Aug. 13 (P—Miss Car- | [toons, ‘a very-much-alive-young | |woman, has been chosen to typify the heroines of all comic sf ‘ps. | She is Jewel Lakota, ighteen | |years old, of Eilzabeth, N J., and she was elected the newly or- | ganized American assoclation of | cartoonists and caricaturists for hor ability a3 an amateur cartoonist and |her interest in cartoons. Beauty also 3 o may have entered into the choice, as Veteran Stenographer |00 " o0 fGET dhitied’ s whoto: Asking Retirement sraph. Hartford, Aug. 18 UP) — The ap-| The cartoonist association in- plication of Leonard W. Cogswell |cludes most of the leading cartoon- of 5 Everett street, New Haven, |ists in ll% membership. With its in- official stenographer of the superior [CePtion, it was felt that a girl to court of Fairfield county, for re- |WYPIfy cartoons should be chosen and tirement has been recelved at 'h,\“.l))hllcilumw were invited. office of the board of control. The application states that Mr. Cogs- well has been an official stenog- | rapher in state ocourt for wmore |Street to than 40 years. His first work was|Car oing eust € last in the common pleas courts, The |evening, William Jacobs of this city applichtion will be presented at the | Crashed into the rear of a car owned i | and driven'by John Mikulkas, which Xt t f the board of con- &N Y bl g | was said to have been parked with- (out lights or brakes. The collision A 3 | sent the second car clear across the Haggard’s Coach Sees |istrest: and ‘ovar the sidewnlke onth Him Oshorne’s Successor |the lawn of Wilbur Hasiin. * Both Austin, Tex., Aug. 18 (P—Rufug |Cars were slightly damaged. De- Haggard of Texas university, who | tective Thomas J. Feeney found no et a world's intercollegiate recora | CAUse for arrest. of 6 feet 7 1-4 Inches in the run- T ning high jump, is destined to soar to greater heights, in the opinion or | Customer: Gjyde Littletleld, Texas university | Swiss cheese? coach. Grocer: Yés ma'am. Norweglan, “Haggard really hasn't mastered 'Canadian or domestic?~—Colliers, | DRIVES CAR ON LAWN Turning suddenly out of John pe being struck by a on Park stret ALI, SORTS Have you any real | | Joseph Jamecko. He was a student |morning at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's vete | was in He told the local committes t he looked upon the western open as | the next best opportunity to Netain his high position. Other prominent golfers Jim Barnes, Gene Sarazen, Bill Mehl- horn, Johnny Farrell, Jock Hutch- inson and Bob MacDonald — v participate, as well as some of the best amateurs in the west and middle west. The event will be for 18 to be played on the first day and o similar number on the sccond. The 60 lowest scorers will be elig- |we ible for the final day, when two driver. rounds will be played. | The Highland Golf Country | Mrs. Nellie Eddy club stage the tournam {Luce have returned | relatives at Bristol ¥ that a large pa blown over, ruinix Re t of his corn wi s | part of the crop. ons of the to crops, considerable. necessary for contractors, [ Reports from other seet 5 n i especially corn This morning it W. Golden & end out a cre men to r sections of the line, of new water system in Maple Hill, where the soft earth had sunk in. Long stretches along Robbins av- cnue left dangerous openings which to any automobile H. to pai of pipe holes, re a menace and Miss Anna| after visiting y, Rhode nd nt Canada possesses nearly half the |Island. water power in the world is epending the| with Miss Britain. I Miss Sally Rowle: Indian Neck Johnson of New NS WILL LEAVE FOR STAY AT CAMP | | At Least Two Weeks Will Be .(pflnl’ At Shore By Disabled [I‘-S')Idl('rfi‘ week at Elsie | VETERA Deaths Vincent Jamecko Jamecko, 11 years, 11| months and days old, dled last night at his home 144 Grove street. He was the son of Mr. and M | Vincent at the Sacred Heart school. Besides his parents he leaves a brother imir, and a sister Marion. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 7:30 o'colck at the Sacred Heart church. Burial will be atthe Sacred Heart cemetery. New Britain men who were among | ans of the World War and who are to attend the an- | nual Disabled Veterans Camp at Ni- | |antic this year, will gather tomorrow ‘noon at City Hall prepared to leave {for & two week's sfay at the shore. | | About 15 local men are” expected to | attend the camp this year, 10 of whom have already signed their ap- plications. | The camp in former rs has| been conducted for a month, but lack of funds this year has cut the stay for the disabled veterans down | [ to two wee All those eligible will | |take advantage of this opportunity [to have a vacation free of charge at | | the seashore, | The local men will be taken to [the camp in individually owned auto- | | mobiles which are being furnished | through the offices of Mayor G ner C. Weld. The camp is open to all dieablea ans in the northern part of Con- necticut including Hartford, Tolland, Litchfield and Windham counties. It is one of the most successful projects ever promulgated for the ex-service men and is in charge of Director Aubrey L. Maddock of Hartford. Any of the local veterans who are unable to leave for the camp tomor- row and who would like to go a | | week from tomorrow for a week, can be enrolled by leaving their names with Ex-Mayor George A.| | Quigley at his Main street office. | | the Disabled Vetel TFrank Wankus Frank Wankus of Shutt avenue, 30 years old, a Lithu: died at the New Britain General hospital this morning at 10:08 o’clock after a short illness. Funeral arrangements in charge of Stephen Roper are incomplete. | e Funerals e o — Mrs. Mary Rose services for Mrs. Mary of John Rose of 14 will 'be held tomorrow Funeral Rose, wife Broad street, | church. Interment Mary's cemet g Mrs. Rose is survived by her hus- band, three daughters, Mrs. Stephen Lynch and Miss Catherine Rose of New Britain and Mrs. Edward Robb of Catskill, N. and one son, Henry, of this city. A niece, Miss Marie Helsin, also made her home with the deceased. Two sisters sur- vive, Misses Margaret and Catherine O'Brien. will be in St. Helen Corbett Olmedo | > peFuneral services for Helen Cor- Alleged Chicken Thieves Who died at tno. mar‘cnsant stroct | Arrested for Southington eral hospital yesterday morning will | o meoer o s aged 13 of 198 z igh street, and William Dobruck, heheld tomorrow morning at 8:80 ged about 20, of 88 Silver street, ’;I"“’:k"mm her late home 137 | \are taken into custody this fore- sfi;:":“;h:::}:e:t““d“”Rgn‘rlulm\;llljr?. e B a0 h Ql‘ Mabvi o s ® | O'Mara and will he turned over to Bl AT QNN ORI SLEry the Southington authorities, who - |lege that chickens were stolen by Albert J. Lippke the young men late last night, from Funeral services for Albert J.|2 COOp on projerty of Mrs. Frances Lippke of 11 Greenwood street wiil |Plugolenckl of West street, South- be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 |ington. o'clock at the German Baptist| Acocrding to the complainant, the church. Rev. George neck, | YOUNg men went to her home and tor, will officiate. Bural will be |démanded liquor. She refused them VoW CEABLETY. and they took ten chickens, she says. They say, however, they only took {two. This forenoon, the complain- lant s sald to have accepted $10 | |trom the men in payment for the |chickens. Mrs. Herbert H. Gedney Funeral services for Mrs. Herbert Gedney of 353 Garden strect, Hart- ford, were held at Grace church in that city this afternoon. Burial | Hartford. FRIDAY THE 13TH New Britainites who tried to start | their cars this morning and found themselves unable to do so, may [nave blamed the conditions onto the | date and let it go at that. Possibly [ohers who received unexpected visit |from their poor relations from. the coun who me for a week, or whose notes came due at the bank, or who slipped on banana peels or had other kinds of hard luck, may also have taken a squint at the ¢l- cndar and accepted theéir misfor- tunes philosophically, Today fs Friday, the ‘18th, said by the super- | stitious to be a double hoodoo, & | combination_of Friday, the unlucky |day of the Meek, and the 13th, an |unlucky number. But the writer of this article was born on Friday, the 18h, and it didn't make any differ- ence, to him, Joseph A. Haffey UNDERTAKER Phone 1625-2, Opposite St. Mary’s Church. Residence 17 Summer St,~—162; BOLLERER’S POSY SHOP TO FRIENDS WHO BAIL YOU CAN SAY “BON VOYAGE” WITH FLOWERS BY WIRE 89 W, MAIN &T.. PROE. BLUG. TKL. 686, he Telegraph Florist of New Britain” late yesterday afternoon s |and’ clams. I'to ling form on the way { Belford creek, once a | effected today by representativ Creek county, Oklahoma, which flowed 300 barrels in the first 24 hours from only five feet of sand. The tract, topped the sand at 2,708 fect. It will be drilled further within a few days. Priv figures te complils of official | shows that assets ofjoint | nd banks for the year ended 0 had increased during the twelve months $94,133,943, making the total $648.248,127. Mortgage loans in effect for all the joint stock banks increased $95,476,000 to a to- tal of §600,149,8 A profit of $3,206,836, after taxes and depreciation but before deple- tion, is reported by the Utah Copper company for the second quarter of | this year. This equals 2.03 a share, par value $10, share earn- ings of $1.92. In the preceding quarter. Profits for the first six months were $6,426,603 before de- pletion. against RUM WAR RAGING ON FLORIDA COAST Runners, Hijackers and Govt. Agents in Fatal Fights Atlantic Highlands, N. J., Aug. 13 (A—Rum runners are picking ber- ries and hoeing potatoes, while the decks of their slim, swift craft, once piled high with smuggled liquor, are daily buried beneath catches of fish | There is virtually no ridicule any | morfe of the government's attempt stop rum smuggling in Hook waters, Lost to Spead Boats { The percentage turned against the | 1 runner when the first Coast | Guard boats capable of fifty-two | A dozen fast chasers, of one kind or another, are on duty and seven | of them keep nightly vigil over the | short stretch between Sandy Hook | and Fort Wadsworth The liquor boys admit thetr has passed and every Indication sup- ports them. Many of their boats are now used in the fishing trade, others are idle and some abondoned. Water Front Idlcness Boat yards, here, and in Leonar- do, Keansburg, Belford and High- ands, no longer hum with activity. Single screw pleasure craft are t s but there no hurrled demand for yatchs with Liberty engines and triple screws Time was when any old boat wit a “one lunged” engine was K00 enough for tho Jersey fisherman. Today he operates the speedy craft left over from the days when the “hoys” made four trips a weeek to Rum Row. Side Roads Quict Leonardo Lagoon is quiet at nights. There is no sputtering of speed boats in and out of the quill marshes and heavy trucks no long- er idle or rumble on side roads thriving ar- tery of the liquor front, 1s not di- sturbed by one boat at night. Many of the rum runners tried their hand at gambling before they went back to fishing and hoeing. One of the big operaters multiplied his profits many times in Florida, and another has ‘aken up quarters in the Bahamas, but with the pro- fits of most of the others it was a case of “easy come easy Ro.” Sandy | T Lynn Shoe Factm; Trouble Is Settled Lynne, Mass., Aug. 18 (P—Amic- | able adjustment of a walkout of lasting machine operators from a number of shoe factories here was of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union and the Lynn Shoe Manufacturing Bureau. The operators resumed work today. The new wage scale will be de- termined at a conference of oper- ators and manufacturers tomorrow. Cheats Electric Chair By Starving to Death Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 18 (P— Tom Stribling, aged negro, has cheated the electric chalr in the Arkansas state prison here. Under sentence of death for s ing ‘@ young negro whom he charged wronged his daughter, Stribling, 65 days ago began starv- ing himself to death. He took food brought to him and when the guards were not watching threw it down a drain. Prison officials did not know of actions until two days ago when he wag taken to the prison infirmary. He died last night well, in the center of 780 acre | o | Coco Cola | Dodge ‘[Gflnl which announced the distribution of | a 50 per cent stock dividend to its | stockholders yesterday, appears to | have been discounted by the recent | advance of that stock, as it opened 11, points lower, ex ding its loss ;'f\ seven points by touching 197, and | | then hovered around the 200 mark Wall Street Opening New York, Aug. 13 (P—H uidation inspired by the ur ed increase in the New eral reserve rediscount rate, and the | | traditional “selling on the good news” following the announcement | | of the 50 per cent stock dividend on | General Motors imparted a decided- |1y reactionary tone to prices at the opening of today's stock market. Geperal Motors opened a point low- er at 20215, Dupont broke 41 HARTFORD Hartford Conn. Trust Bldg. Tel.2:7186 q WE OFFER NEW,BRI /- BurrittiHotel 81dq -reu.'aozoe’la g b T §# New Britain Gas Light Co. £ 50 Shares | points and net declines of a point or two were recorded in the first | few minutes of trading by U. & | Steel common, American Can, Am- erican Smelting, Hudson Motors | Baldwin Locomotive. ’ While Wall street generally was | of the opinion that the higher re- | | aiscount rate her not aimed | primarily stock speculation but | | merely reflected the expanding de- | THOMSON & 11 Wall Street mand for funds in connection with increased industrial activity and heavy crop movements, trading in | | the stock market was of a nervous character. New York Stock Exchange New York Cotton Exchange New York Produce Exchange Forelgn exch opened ir- New York Coffee & Sugar Exch. regular, with French francs show- | ing indic: of having reccived | good over-night support. | The severe collapse in prices of | some of the speculative favorites, | central motors going down to 195 { and Du Pont broke down the resistane which the standard rail- | roads hal exhibited for a time. At- lantic Coast Line, Reading, Southern Railway, Canadian Pacific, Norfolk | and western and Chesapeake and Ohio were supplied freely at sharp | nges fons NEW BRITA tt Hotel Building T McKINNON New York City MEMBERS Chicago Board of Trade Chicago Stock Exchange Indianapolis Stock Exchange Winnipeg Grain Exchange IN BRANCH Telephone 1815 and 1816 FRANK LEE, Manager DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE SERVICE TO ALL MARKETS Listed stocks carried on conservative margin 235% | concessions. Short covering AY’U}" | % 69 scale buying caused a gradual up- turn before midday, General Mo- tors getting up to 200 again and Du | Pont to 201, The renewal rate for call loans was maintained at 4 1-2 per cent. Ind Al Rubber . U S Steel . | Wabash Ry | Ward Bak B West Elec White Motor Willys Over Woolworth LO Us i U | 46 | 36 69% Close 6115 High Low All Chem and Dy Am Can Am Car and Fay .. 100 Am Loco 104 Am Sm & Ref 141 | Am Sugar 73 |Am Tel & Tel .148% | Am Tobacco ..118% |Am Woolen ... 27 An Copper 50% Atehison Bald Loco Balt & Ohlo Beth Steel Calif Pet Can Pac 5 Cer De Pasco 71 Ches & Ohio 145 CM&SP.. 229 R I & Pac Chrysler Corp 361 ...161 1342 58% 1361 59% 13614 60% | 100 104 1387% 100 104 (Furnished I Insurance Stocks Bid 790 510 660 Asked | Aetna | Aetna Aetna asnalty Part Pald Life Ins Co Aetna Full Paid Aetna Fire Automobile Ins Phoenix Fir Conn General ........1 Manufacturing Stocks Am Hardware Am Hosiery . 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Radio Corp Reading Sears Roebuck Stnelair Ofl Southern Pac Southern Ry .121% Standard Oil . 481 Stewart Warner 75 Studebaker 5474 Texas Co 58% Texas & Pac . 56% Tobacco Prod .105% Union Pac ... 187 United Frult v 115 Colo Consol Corn Cru 300 ¢ 4% | Genl 80% 138 . | Southern N. | Southern N TREASURY Treasury STATEM balance. ....$188,621 New York— 000; balances, Boston— E: balance $48,000,- 79,000,000; Diplomatic Homes Abroad To Be White Buildings Washington, Aug. 13 (P—In the construction of new diplomatic buildings abroad, the government is planning to adhere to the “white building” program of the capital ¢ity which had its inception in the White House. Chairman Porter of the house foreign affairs committee believes that under this policy it will not be long “before a white building will be looked upon as an American | butlding.” 14 96 56 21 106% 156 % 115 “It also will aid our tourists who, upon arriving in a strange port or foreign capital, will guess at once that the white structure is the American building,” said Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter also favors making the terior of each diplomatic butlding 1 exhibit of American decorating and furnishing Wyoming Warden Finds Man-to-Man Talks Aid Rawlins, Wyo. Aug. 13 (A—A former “two-gun” Western sheritf, warden of the Wyoming peni- tentiary here, is turning criminals back into the “straight and narrow ath” by man-to-man talks on the “folly of their ways." Long trailing of cattle and sheep rustlers, outlaws an stage robbers in which gun tles were mixed aplenty, taught warden Hadsell that “man-to-man” talks with criminals It out their hidden virtues. He regularly has personal conferences with every one of his 200 prisoners. He says he talks to them, not as warden to convict, but as man to man, and the convicts soon believe in his viewpoint. “But let a prisoner lie to me nd he will be puni d; if he tells the truth, I am lenient with him,” declared warden Hadsell, who says that nearly seven five per cent of charged prisoners have “gone straight.” Australia’s net gain in population through immigration in 1928 umounted to 30 Willlam Faversham, noted actor; was chosen to play the Christ in the Hollywood, Cal, Pilgritage § and then was dismissed. Now he sayi he was hired only for publicity puts poses, and Is preparing to bring sult This picture shows him made.