New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1926, Page 17

‘\*EW BRIT\I’\ DAIIY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926. GIFT SHOP RUINED BY NIGHT BLAZE Damage of $1,500 in Store' at 280 Main Street Harry Bashlow's novelty and glit shop at 289 Main street was burned out last nigrt, the entire stock be- ing ruined and the store soaked with water during a stubborn blaze that was discovered at 9 o'clock by Super- numerary Officer James M. McCue. Officer McCue rang Box 5 at Main and Commercial streets, bringing out the fire department. Chief Noble said this afternoon that the cause of the fire has not been determined. It secemed to have started on a shelf about in the cen- ter of the store, and it spread to all sides, obtaining a good start before it was discovered. ‘The estimafed damage to the storc and stock is approximately $1,500, and there is considerable smoke damage to the optical store of Aaron Pinkus next door. Mr. Bashlow, who had been in South Manchester in the afternoon, returned as the firemen were fighting the flames in the store. | He was unable to explain the origin of the fire. He had been in the store in the morning. Fire destroyed an uutomobile and | _ garage owned by Robert Drachen- berg of 59 Newfield avenue Saturday night, the damage being estimated at several hundred dollars. It is be- lleved a short circuit in the wiring of the automobile started the blaze, which was beyond control when the fire department arrived. At 8:21 o'clock an alarm was sounded from Box 51 at Hoines avenue and West Main street and a short time later another alarin for the samo came in from Box 313 at Myrtle | and Burritt streets. Officer John O'Brien called No. company of the fire department to a | fire in-an ash bin in the rear of 56 Smalley street at 1:25 Sunday morn- ing. Walter Drobnis is the owner of the property. The fire was ex- tinguished with chemica Sunday morning at 9:45 o'clock (o, No. 3 was called to a chimney fire at the home of Park Superin- tendent R. B. Wainright, 18 Stecle street. No damage was done, Saturday night, No. 2 company went to the Arbour storehouse on Whiting steet and extinguiched a 5 smoldenng fire in some refuse of the | fire that_ caused $50,000 carly In (hs morning. CHILICH DEFIANT FAGING LONG TERM (Continued from First Page) damage in. Two Inches,” and he stepped out of the box and started for his place in the pen. "“Why,” he said as he reached the prosecuting attorney seat, between two inches and six inches. | straight,” and he | You can’'t see stamped Into the pen, while the prosecuting attorney merely smiled. Fires “To Impress” Victim Sergeant O'Mara testified that he and Officer Feeney went to Stamford Saturday and brought Chilickl to this city. % o'clock Sunday morning, Dec. 12, and after bufing a pack of cigarettes and inquiring about the schedule of “the Arch street bus, put a .32 calibre revolver up to Fredericks and de- manded money. Fredericks gav him the money he had in his pocket || and Chilicki then ordered him into | the back room. Someone came in about that time and Chilicki covered | this person with the revolver. Fred- ericks resisted and Chilicki fired a | shot into the floor to impress I'red- ericks and when it did not have the | desired effect, Chilicki fired a second J shot, alming it at Fredericks' leg tunning through tha rear door, Chilicki jumped into his automobile and drove to Stanley street, where a spring on the car broke and he was forced to abandon the machine. | He was given a ride up town and after going to his room at 40 Church street and destroying photograpi ard other bglongin he wrote @ note, directing that his clothing be given to the Salvation Army. He then boarded a trolley car to Hart- ford and took a motor bus to I’rovi- dence, R. I. He was driving through Stamford in a car h dence, the scrgeant testified, when he wes n into custody by two polic who were suspicious of himy Lie was unable to tell hen them the name of the owner of the | car. At polico headquarters he was recognized from the photograph on a circular sent out by the local po- | Hee. Fredericks' | fell out of which was found in store, another which Iredericks’ clothes at New Britain General hospital, and two others which Chilickl had when arrested in Stamford. One of the latter had a mark on it, indicating that an at- tempt had probably bcen made at me time or other to discharge it, thout success, the sergeant sald, Officer Feeney gave similar testi- mony. Dr. Daniel W. O'Connell testified that he was called to New General hospital and attended Fred- cricks, He found a flesh wound in the left side, below the heart. To determine whether or not the wound was internal, Dr. O'Connell had X-rays taken. The X-ray showed nothing, so the treatment since then Lias been for the flesh wound, I'red ericks is still under Dr. O'Connell’ care, going to his office for dre: ings. A bullet fell from Frederick's clothes at the hospital, but Dr. O'Connell was unabld to identify it the others shown him. ricks Tells of Hold Up After giving Chilicki which he 1 his was ordered to open the r. which he did. Then ted him irto the back and told him ke h a good \ piug 1 pleaded with s« £ have a fire | ‘“you don't know the difference | He admitted that he went | into Tredericks’ store shortly after | stole in Provi- | Sergeant O'Mara showed & bullet | ‘ Britain | the gun down from its position. H»I fired ong shot into the floor and the other shot struck me and I fell do“n Then Officer Wagner came 1 don't know whether the | force of the shot knocked o dov\n or whether Chilicki pushed m I was in a closet and a little laler 1 1 |“u taken to the hospital.” In reply | to Prosecuting Attorney Woods, Fredericks sald he had never seen Chilicki prior to. the day of the shooting, to the best of his recol- lection. | Fircman Heard Disturbance | Fireman Conlin testified that he went into the store and Officer Wagner went in and soon backed out. TFredericks called to Wagner, “there he goes” and as an automo- | bile started down Kensington street | Wagner fired several shots. | Officer Wagner told of i |covered by Chilicki's revolver, of his chase through Rentschier street, Buell street and South Main street. When he overtook Chilick, | the latter was standing behind a | Standard Ol Co. truck east of Main street crossing. His revolver being empty, Officer Wagner was | unable to attack, so he bLacl away | and notificd police headquarters. In | the meantime, Chilicki disappeared. Gives Fugitive Ride in Auto Meddrick Perry of 307 ‘n'.rnc(, formerly a policeman, tcsfl»‘ | fled that he was backing out of his | yard about /] o'clock when his | son told him a man was running towards ‘them, Thinking the man | | wanted a ride, Perry waited for him. | It proved to be Chilicki and he asked | {for a “Iift.” Mr. Perry told him he | was going to St. Joseph's church, | | whereupon Chilicki got into the car | and on arriving at tha church, thanked Peyry, lighted a cigarette and walked towards the center. The next day Perry learned of the rob- bery and shooting and notified the police of the incldent. Ile was posi- tive Chilicki was the man to whom he gave the ride. Over the week-and Chilicki, ac- cording to the police, did not dpn(dr‘ worried over his plight. He N,k, | freely about the Fredericks’ robber: {and shooting and fnsisted that T [\vould mot have shot had Fredericks obeyed him, When he left his room labout 7:30 in the morning he did not intend to rob, he said. He went | |into the etore at the foot of Arch | street to buy clgarettes, but on enter- ng he suddenly decided to commit | |the robbery. Thrqughout the ques- | {fioning by the police, Chilicki |scemed reconeiled and philosophical, {but when his sister called yesterday {he Lroke down aud wept. At another me, he “jollied” Officer Dennis | Nealon about the d when the| \mm, riding a blc chased him | Ar.d other boys who were playing dice. ? being | and | he | | | Steals Auto in Providence After &hooting I'redericks and | o king his escape through the aid Perry unwittingly g him, hilicki went to his room and pre- | pdred to leave town. He went to! | Hartford by trolley and to Provi- | |dence by bus. Ho stayed at a Provi- dence hotel for three days and when | his money was spen |automobile owned by Philip Glotz- man of Providence and drove to) | Worcester, arriving Thursday morn- | ing. At the Hb in that city he |read of the shooting and became in censed, he told the local police, at [the report that other robberies in | New Britain were laid to him. He intended to return here and sur-| |render, 0 fhat he would not be, {hunted for crimes he did not com- |mit, he said. A police sergeant in Worcester | whom he asked for help directed | {him to the polics station and he | was given an order for lodging at a | | mission housc. Tha mext morning | | he drove to Springfield and the pro- | i prietor of a gasoline statlon gave | | him three gallons of gasoline after | Istening to a “hard luck” story. | Reaching Hartford sl n- | {tended to return to New Britain and axked for employment in a v ant opposite the Hartford passcnger | {station, but was told there were no vacancies. Hc obtalned a quart oil and several gallons of gasoline in exchange for some tools and a box of writlng paper in the car.| | starting towards v Britaln, ¥ |changed his mind about giving him- | self up bec ke reasoned, | might be blamed for other 50 he drove to Meriden, Accor fo the police, Chilicki said he went | down the tu H'pnw and did not pass | through | he obt ined more gasoline | ehange for a spare tire and in |ford he bee nvolved in a s !traffic jam and two motarcyele of- | ficers questioned him. i Recognize Chilickl From Photo At poliec headquarters was photograph of Chilicki and his de- seription, Ofiicer Thomas J. IFeency lccated the photograph the of the shooting and several copies made | {up for circulation about the state. | The likeness is so true that the Stamford police rcalized n an 1 stant that thelr man was wanted | here. Chilicki, realizing he was ught, readily admitted his guilt. Yesterday, Chilicki insisted that he had no part in any other crimes jin connection with which his name | has been mentioned. Manager Dar tt of the Capitol theater saw him | the police station and said he is | | positive he is not the gunman who jrobfed him. Darrcit's assailant b companion Goodrea North Burritt bus drive identified Chilicki who held him up tv days, but Chilickl in 13 wrong. “H held him up,” comment. Fredericks readily icki. “What did ot stre s Goodreault | if he eays T| was the gunma identified Chil- cou shoot him , Chicf Tlart asked ChMicki. “Tt | vour own fault,” Chilicki re-| plied, addressing Fredericks. “If | you did what I told*you to do, T! would not have shot youw. You're not supposed to put up a battle when you're being held up.” [ On the trip from Stamford to this city, Sergeant O'Mara end Of- fleer Teeney gtopped at Bpldgeport the police there having asked to see ! | Chilicki. They are satisfied, though, | that he is not wanted there, Fred McCarthy, assistant manager of the | Wooster hawling alleys in Hartford after .qu’:vr"xnuf-u said he did not | believe him to have been one of a frin who held up two clerks and .o | n 1r 1 o'elock Snnday morning, | <11 and tank #8400, Chilicki hine 0 un Qe wber { It would open the | had Stanley |0 |tall and Harry F. ! sometimes jto have said, g0 wrong. | sharp | over | Queen Marie, | another | playmates | man, having several | Pacitic lines in Texas and Lonisic at Kinney's shoe store, 66 Church street, Hartford. SEVATOR HEFLIN MAKES CHARGES : (Continued from First Page) | conspiracy charge on which they ‘were acquitted unless there had be an ‘“arrangement” before hand a suring either acquittal or a mistri: He quoted newspaper storigs ing that while the jury wa ‘241- ering its verict its members whre i singing and “shooting dice.” “One of them insisted on a verdict for acquittal way in the night,” he| continued. “He asserted he would not allow the others to sleep and turned on the phonograph. “I know some2 things about t} cagethat I am not going to say now. s of the nation ey knew the inside story. Hits Wall St. Journal. He then turned his attack on the Wall Street Journal which he said attacked him for his recent sen- | ate speech about the Fall-Dohel “If I needed anything to bear out| the righteous of my intention: he said, “I wowld nced no Lester proof than an attack from tha Wall Street Journal.” He suggested take the oil conspiracy case against nclair outside of i the District of Columbia for trial. You can't get a jury in Wi | ington without someone relate blood or marrfage to friends o defendants or the said. He suggested also that Robinson, who Attorne Admiral K. epresented 1 negotiation [the retired I hould be stricken t u.' the navy. HING FERDINANG NOW ANKIOUS TO ABDICATE (Continued from First Page) told his ministers, “I want e entirely from public lif Tho secret couneil at which king made his wish known w tended by Queen N Avercscn, Jan Bratiano, d “the from who s uncrowned king of R ! Coanda and several other leading political gres “Whatever months or {may have to live, and I v (the learned professors that question,” the king is reported “I wish to devote to the care of my health and perhaps make the prophesies of the experts years He then continued with an position of his views in a most cided manner for a man who a few | days the At ago was reported to be within shadow of death. the present time there is a quarrel at the royal palace the succession of po supported by DBrati- ano and Prince Stirbey, the latter's brother-in-law, wants a place on the regency which is now made up of Prince Nicholas, the president of the supreme court and the patri- arch of the Rumanian church. CHILD LEFT BY MOTHER ASKS HART 10 FIND HER Touching Appeal From Little G in Poland Who Hasn't Even Bread To Lat Left by ber mother at the 2ge of of | two years, a girl living In Poland de s addressed an appeal to Chief W. C. Hart of the police department, have him endeavor to loc the mother. “I necd bread and don't have a the glrl writes, and i part of the letter she at noting ve their n'n”\n £he understood, she wri her mother once lived at “40 Horc: and Chief Hert will I er inquirs in the norfiwe ction of the city to clieves the writer refers Horace street of her sadness her 20 P 66, died wreh road Greenwich, Conn., Dec. Christopher N, Greer at his home on the Old CI here today after a long illness. He was born in New York city and! made his home in R Y. berore coming to Greenwich several years ago. Mr. Greer was connected with the Los Tajos Mining company in Mexico and was a well known horse- trotting and race horses. He is survived by his widow and three sons. WOULD YORBID PRE: Washington, 1 2 peal of all sections of the Volstead act rogulating the right of physi- cians to prescribe intoxicating liquo or medicinal purposes was proposed in a bill ntroduced today hy Senator Hawes, demeerat Missouri. NOTED R. R. MAN DIES Los Angeles, Doc. 20.—P— W.| R. Scott, president of the Southe an CRIPTIONS (Pr— Re- died here suddenly today from heart attack while visiting the lwos Angeles of AMATEUR PLAY S $2, | Rev. John F. Donaluge. pastor of 8t. Joseph’s church, made the an- nouncement in the church yesterday that the performance of “Maytime fn Erin” by the amateur players n(l the, church at the Lyceum theater | t week, had netted ahout $2,000 This money will be turned into the | new convent fund. TO r\flRl ST ":\\K ) Memphis, Tenn., Deé. 20 (A—Wi T. Griffin, Memphis inspector of de- tectives, announced today that| Courtney Glisson, missing bank! teller. has heen located and will be under arrest by Christmas Day. Glisson disapp-ared several weeks @n. leavire o chortage announced as newdy $300,000, I 3 !Clancy of 45 Bond street today. the senate should | direct the government prosecutors to | ghe | Ttie rderstand | to| | Leahy City ltems D lodge, No. Order, Sons of St Thompsonville Tuesd install of Kitchener lodge. m—n will leave Jr. O. U. lat 6:15 o'clock. A daughter was born at New tritain General hospital last night Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rosenweig 2 Burritt street, born at New Britain tal last night to Mr. {il Morrison of Berlin. W Bri and team wi'l go| i~ 1 of Gene Members of A. M. hall to son v ral hos Mrs. Ne as born at M hospital to Mr Mrs. born today hospital A N Mr. danghter PBritain and Mrs. was General [ai} Ivt. cards at Hall's, Arch St. at| to | dent of 164 Dwight | 7’1 s‘lreel Briefs et Sales by overseas dealers of Gen 3m1 corporation in the first this year Increased °r cent, 86,596 cars | 0 in the same period of { e an Sugar company reports net profit of §939,254 for the vear cnded September 30, equal after preferred dividends to 38 cents a share on the common stock, com- pared with $1,712,982 or $1.16 a share on the common the year be- icit of $1,363,312 re er dividend payment a deficit of $1,559,584 the gy W oil dend of 34 a shar ber 20 18 e ashington Qeclared a divi- , payable Decem- to stock of record December hree months ago $1.50 wus | The pofics were notified today of | {the return of the operator’s license of Guttlech Brandt of 191 Jerome | street The regular meeting of the Ro | Ar be num w ining at 8 o'clock. Thomas McC: a member of the 1 football team at Catholic ity, is home for the Christ- mas holiday {navy department in the oil leasing| ¥'s cemeter Ida M. Wheelock Mr: I Wheelock, 63, widow of George B. 11 coln street, died this morning at her h o was a past council- lor of neil, Daughters jof Lib five son ”’lr')!l W dlu\s ni Bristol, Ld- Robert M. An- Andrews, and clock, all of this city, . Cas2 of Collinsvill Dunbar lsons and two as born in Winth | i Por ng r"r\n'~ Wed- t 10 o' The 14 at el fternoon, officiating. cemetery v P.. in Ross rai itilam will be | ward Tobert Charsky | Hdward Robert Charsky years old, of 15 Roosevelt empl of Tlolmes Bri Iy v after m died at his | He sudde home W orn in son of and {Charsky., He was a ber Goerman Baptist church. Besides his nts he leaves three Mrs, Martha T"'uhrman of ntsviils Miss., Miss I Miss and thr Charsky Satur noon Newington, #tt A Anna (Komei=) o sisters, Walter Charsky of this c will be h 2 o'clock A | rvices "]'n 3 terpoon | Erwin chapel. { of the |ehureh, will be in Falrview pastor offic n il cemete Fmma Yoscak Yoscak, 13 years a Mrs, Pe ort died neral hospital iowing an operation Britaln General hospi- Emma ves- ay the noon ‘m Now [ tal, | high school stu- rents and a ces will L 9 o'cl Burial | sister. | hetd 1 will that ‘ Villiam %ol ) or Wil st Main stroc ard Cas Funeral servi of Hartford, fo | were held this at the home of A. Connecticut Boulev ford. It armon Potter officlated. Burial was in Fair- view cemetery. of this city, noon at 2 o'clock Drizgs of 101 Bart- 1y Mrs. Mary Augnsta Smith. R services for Mrs. Smith, widow Seyn r ere held at the home of her 't nry P. E his afternoon. pastor of ch, © I"airview Aug of £mi dang street ional ¢ as in cemetery. Mrs. Stephen Leahy neral services for Mrs. Jennj wife of Stephen Leahy, were this afternoon at 1 o'clock at Erwin chapel. Rev. William Ross, pastor of the Baptist chure officiated. Interment was in Fait view cemetery, Fu ,__.—__._.————-m Josenh A.Haffey| . UNDERTAKER Phone 1625-2 Opposite St. Mary's Chure Readence 17 Summer 81.—1625-3. BOLLERER’S POSY SHOP Erer- Tinest roping wreaths, et of Order grosps for Christmas decorntions o) elegraph Tl B30 Britain, prot. ist of nag il New 9 “The held Tuesday eve- | Wheelock of 317 | of ttey of | LEGIONNAIRES PAY Plags Wreaths on Shalts at y Conrt of Honor | A Christmas remembrance to Britain's soldier dear of the World War was made yesterday hy mem- | bers of, Eddy-Glover post, No. 6, American Legion, at the Court of Honor nce to Walnut Hill park from the home of ti Washington street lock yesterday onnaires proce: court where the simple of hanging wreaths on the each of which repre- one who paid the supreme ea took place star mothers and members tamilies and a small group s of the city wiose meni- carry them back to the of 1918 when telegram irived telling that - had been added ‘big par- Trudg on 1 the Le fler 1 o afternoon, Gold | of their of citi ories stirrin after one to the ade” took part. A biting wind and a stir Rave the an impr that broug! ay )'STOCK PRICES ON THEUPHARD TREND ‘Heavy Profit Taking Reported | unchanged at 5 per cent, TRIBUTE T0 DEAD |Am Tel & Tel ain boys first entel 1 the dead of win- n( the intensa cold, no n was carried out. - earerhlr el ol wees tha anickly passed from pillar to pi and in a short moments, e small pillar, mute proxy for a ora stalwart youth, was bedecked wi a Christmas token, a tribute from those who “can never forget.” The wreatis hung, Itev. Willlam Alder aplain of the post, ed a briet prayer exhorting the hty to bless the scene and the which prompted it and ask- a Christmas blessing on the li and the o ceremon, H. dead. concluded, the a sembly dispersed leaving the Cou nor in dts stlent com- nion with the spirits of the de- RMY AND NAVY MEN DIRECT P. 0. TRAFFIE (Continued from First Page) .to assure there will te natural when es of mail in & ort time, that sor s will b ©d, and unnecessary loss 10 senders may be avoided by insurance | I ges are properly packed. | “There is certain to be some little congestion in the lobby during the In order to reduce this to a inimum we have arranged to have the local representatives of the army be insur d great ma dlation of traffic, en will help patrons in their uest for proper win and pre serve order generally Parcels arc not acceptable as wrapped in stores, but must be more securely sealed and bound or f will be sidetracked: by nece: Postmaster Erwin warns. Post cards with the exception of government cards, must have two-cent stamps and no cards with tinsel may be mafled unless cnclosed in an en- Persons mailing many nas card. frequently forget to mps on all, which fact was attested by this morning’s pile of u stamped cards and letters en route to the dead letter office at Wash- ington. Christmas scals are not M in Some Issues New York, Dec. 20 prices surged forward today despite a rather heavy volume of profit tak- ing in eevcral of the standard rails and indpstrials. With call and hun- dreds of millions of dollars being distributed in dividend and interest payments this year-end, speculators for the advance renewed their of- forts to attract an outside following, particularly in stocks which hold promise of special dividend or mer- | ger developments. . The unexpected cutting of a $200,- 000,000 melon by the United States steel corporation last week aroused | high hopes of similar action in priced stocks of other high grade industrial and railroad companies with large undivided profits. cation of an optimistic 1927 fore- cast by Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric n. in *“odd lot” business of 10 to 60 shires was construed as an indica- tion of panding public interest in the market, Atchison, which had sold down 2 points in the early trading, made up its loss and touched a new high record for all time at 170, buyi Baldwin Locomotive towards th close of the session. United Drug was bid up 4 points to 17215 and 1s followed into new high ground ding common and second pre- | Canadian Pacifie, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit, Interborough, Corn Products, Eastman Kodak and Warren Bros., ing over 6 points. THE MARKET AT 2:30 P. M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) High Low Close All Che & Dye 148% 145% American Can 53% 5413 Am Car & Fdy 10815 102% Am Loco .... 110% 109 m Sm & Ref 145% 144 Am Sugar ... 83 1497% 1083 Am Tobaceo . Am Woolen Anaconda Cop Atchison Bald Y.oco & Ohio. Steel & Olio & 5 P I & Pa Cop Chrysler Corp Coca Cola Colo TFuel Consol Gas Corn Prod Cru Steel Dodgs Du Pont De Nem ie RR 1st pfd Players Rubber sphalt lec 81% Motors ..153% Gt North Iron Ore Ctfs .. Gt North pfd Hudson Motors I Central . N1 0 &G . Int Nickel Int Paper am 567 Lehigh V Louis & Nash. ck Truck Marland Ol Mid Cont . Mo Kan & Tex 34% Mo Pac ufd .. 94% Mont Ward National Lead N Y Central NYNH& Nor & Wes North Am North Pacif Pack Mot Car 543 93% 15 140 H 45 1451 441 | Pan Am Pet B Pennsylvania Plerce Arrow Radio Corp Reading s R Southern Pec Southern Ry Siandard Oil .. Stewart Warner tudebaker TeXas 'CO ... 111% | |Texas & Pac frowned upon hut should be on the | used to seal the back of letters, and if the seam of parcel wrappings, parcel is there! made fi class il. Cards should be mailed not an Wedne: to insure de- as Day on ch there is but one delivery. HUTURL BUY lDl 16 S0LD Meadel Sicklick and - Atty. Harry Milkowitz Buy Structure At Main and Walnut Strects Corner. Mendel Sicklick wry 1. Milkowitz to otiations for the purchase of the Mutual building at the corner of Main _and Walnut stree from Irank U. Shield and Os Ben- | nott. The reported price is $1 | 000, The deal has been in progr for the past few w The Mutual bu stores on the ound floor and of- s on the second floor. It is con- .\I/lwrm! a valuable business location. and Attorney completed ne fan S. ling contains BANK GIVES BONUS | The directors of the Commercial Ty company voted today to zive Christmaa bonuses to all of their amployes st | A WALES LINE | Meriden, Conn., Dee, 20 (P--No | change was reported today in the | conditisn of H.-Wales Lines, who I erit Ny i1l at his home at | Tleasant street, LINGTERS Tobacco Prod .10 Reynolds B ..119% Unfon Pac ... 165% United Fruit . 121 U S Ct Ir Pipe 234% U S Ind Al .. T9% U § Rubber 633 U S Steel .... 159% Wabash Ry .. 43% 4 Ward Bak B 1% 31 3 West Elec T05% 601 [ White Motor . 57% 57 Willys Over 3¢ Woolworth .. ! 423 189 LOC Asked 700 510 Aetna Casualty Actna Life Ins Aetna Fire Automobile Ins ... Tiartford Tire National Fire Phoenix Fire 3 Travelers Ins, Co. . neral .. Manufacturing Stoc ks, Am Hardware ¢ Am Hosiery : Beaton & Cadwell . \ Dige-Hfd Cpt Co. com 0 Billings & Spencer corn — sllings & Epencer pfd Bristol Brass .. Colt's Arms ex Lagle Lock o Tafnir Bearing Co Hart Cooley Landers, ¥ N B Machine N B Machine pfd Niles-Be-Pond com North & Judd Peck Stowe & Wil « Russell Mtg Co. . (P —Stock money | Publi- | Company, | helped to maintain bullish enthusi- | The sharp increase reported | A heavy | g movement also developed in | the last named jump- | 148 | 543 | | Torrington Co com ex 13 | Conn Elec Service ex ’”‘u | change PUTNAM & CO. Members New York & Hartford Stock Exchanges 31 WEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE 2-1141 Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co. Rights Bought and Sold Thomson, Tenn & e Burritt Hotel Bldg.. New Britain Telephone 2580 MEMBERS NEW YORK AND HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGES: Donald R. Aart, Mgr. We Offer: 10 Shares Hart & Cooley Co. We do not accept Margin Accounts. EDDY BROTHERS & & HARTFORD NEW BRITAIN Martford Conn. Trust Bidg. Burritt Hotel Bld,. Tel,2-7180 Toi, 3420 We Offer: FEDERAL WATER SERVICE CORP. o Preferred to Yield 7% BORDEN COMPANY COMMON STOCK During the year 1925 this Company paid off all its preferred stock at $110 a share. This should mean an in- fleaie‘m the common dividend and rising prices in the market. Fuller, Richter, Aldr'ch & Co. 81 W. MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN MEMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE Hartford Tel. 2-9161 New Britaip Office Tel. 1253 New London Office Tel. 3786 ovill Mfg Co. Standard Screw . Stanley Works ex Stanley Works pfd .... 61 .. 106 75 63 |government it had been valued by & chartered accountant at $5,500,000, {but after the transfer its assets over 21 lits labilities was placed by another ES laccountant at less than $6,000,000, Union Mg Co. . . { The report points out that while Public Utilities S {the United States is now suing the former alien custodian officials for the difference between the actual value of the company at the time of the sale and the sale price of $4,- 000,000, “apparently no action has been taken by the United States to sct aside the sale as having been made to other than an American eit- en, in violation of the trading with the enemy act.” | The World cites instances o fal- \leged irregularities discovered by the comptroller in a number of other cases. The investigation according to the newspaper, took one year and cost approximately $200,000. The comptroller points out, the world says, that more time must be taken to learn all about some of the trusts. and that the exact facts about others may never be known, ‘! COP HAD BEEN DRINKING “The securities taken over were so |Supernumerary Jones Found Unfit seattered through banks and trust | companies throughout the states that administration was expensive and difficult. | “Individual trust accounts are in- | complete. “A half millio undistributed assets t a prior custodian was withdrawn from the treasury in violation of the | trading with the enemy act. “Large expense accounis compen- sated for small salaries. Govern- ment employes rode in private cars at the expense of trust funds. “Apnual reports did not list the entire force on the payroll.” The great bulk of the property however, was fully accounted fo according to th ereport, which is quoted as gt “It appears that any misuge of trust funds or any serious mismanagement of 1 t propert has been connected with a compar atively limited number of cases or Conn Lt & Pow pfd . Hfd Elec Light ..... N B Gas . Boston—Exchanges Balances $44,000,000. York—Clearing Ilouse, ex- $558,000,0005 balances 87 000,000; New $111, El]l]lll]fiE IS ADVISED (Continued from Tirst Page) Tor Duty While on Beat and 1s Suspended by Ohief Hart. Chief W. C. Hart of the police department yvesterday suspended Supernumerary Officer Tred Jones on the charge of drinking while on duty. He will be given a hearing y the board of pol; commission- ors, the time to be decided later. Two young men reported to Ser- geant Rival at police headquarters |about 12:40 Sunday morning that they found the officer on Broad street, against a pole, and they had moved him to a store nearby. Ser- gean P, A. McAvay brought him in and a physician examined him and reported he had been drinking. Chief Hart said the officer told him he took a drink of liquor from a man and it affected him. He returned to duty recently after a suspension {for a minor infraction of the rules of the department. ht Postuoned Until Tomorrow Morning San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 20— ~—The hop-off of the army's Pan- | American flight was postponed to- cussed in some detall. It points out | day hecause of a muddy field and that emploves of the alien property | fogey weather until 0 a. m., tomor- custodian drew salaries from the | row Rosch carnoration. though they were on the payroll of the custodian’s | [office. Tt also asserts that before the 'corporation was taken over by nxh ? dollars in alleged nsferred from extens » report, proceeds to take vp several hundred such cases, The American Mefal and Chemical | TFoundation cases are detailed briefly, but the Bosch Magneto case is dis- | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS