New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 10

from his organization wha | HARVES"N NEws ’n 15 & great task to handle tll!:ews::g:c ‘ |market quotations, - the . | which for closing ‘prices R Imrted a'fow minutes after the ; mar- ket closes. T suppose that some davw (Continued from First Page) | llf are transactions in tw = individual stocks, with the | ures on sales, high, low and closing | bid. The handling of this item alone | day several pages of information o'lmlght stagger the uninitiated yet it what has happened since you rolled out of bed in the morning, and puts | is handled by us as a routine matter | | while the news report goes on ds‘ into black and white a story picture |usual. of the activities of men and women | the world over, and what has hap- pened in business, finance, and go srnment which may alter your de tiny and the destinies of a nation, | or pass you by. The story may be | full of sunshine or streaked with the grimness of death. 0 business or profession labors <0 hard to get accuracy into its out- put as the newspaper editor. !n\ nothing else does the man who dD»:Sl the work have to depend so largely upon the truthfulness and the| onesty of motive of those who yield | what we call the news. A newspaper | is produced amid the greatest seem- ingly hurly burly, in a race against | time and competitors. Getting out a newspaper is a great and grand un- | dertaking. The greatest error on the | newspaper editor's list is the being | beaten out on a news story. If there | s a news story the newspaper must 10t only have it but must get it to | reader and get it to him first. Making History. “In making such a picture for the ! newspaper reader The Associated Press is the largest single organiz tion. What it is doing, what it has besn doing, has well been called ‘the recording of history in the making. Tn the future when writ know what went on in this day of ours they will turn back to the| newspapers of today of necessity as | ere is no other record, just as we rn back to newspapers of past rs to find out what went on from y to day. If the newspaper todays loes not fairly report what is going n the man of the future will be misled, “How does the Herald gat all this? It may be a bit puzzling! ost agency in world coverage of ews is The Associated Press. Tt has dome the work many years but no one knew much about it. Latel the label A. P. has followed | papers con |and so they have th {tor is alway rs want to | “In the distribution of news we | use various media best suited to the |locality. We use wireless where | ire are not possible. Mos! ly the telegraph and telephone are used, In telephone circuits one reac r in the bureau gives the new and copy- |ists with head phones in member {paper offices take down the matter direct on the typewriter. In this Way many scores of papers are sery ed, each of which could not stand the cost of a telegraph wire and operator. A speed of 70 w ords a minute is not unusual. Our tele- graphers are the most expert in the business and we have more than a thousand of them. Théy apable of sending or re ng 2,000 words an hour. Be: sending circuits we have th h auto- matic printers on which the speed is 60 words a minute. se circuits are being put in in every direction, but we do not displace men because wally want more news, doubla circuit Norse circuit opera- ready for an emer- sency. We have a great body of {loval knights of the keys of whom he reading public never hears. Some ' |of these men have been with us 30 vears and for them and for the rest {0f us when we get gray in the serv- ce thers will be a retireme tem to take off the worry |often comes with old age. Printers at Herald Office “These automatic printers are | wonderful machines, turning out 30, 0 words a day. They are well worth inspection at the Herald office. | The Associated Press has done much in working out problims of transmission on them and so e cient are they that the demand is| |growing for use of them by business |concerns for inter-oftice communica- Soon, they, like radio tele- . will be no novelty. service, and t t sys- which One | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1927, tion of automobiles altogether. Taxes | provided, contrary to the terms of on automobiles bring the state an|the permit. After a controversy income of about Sl 750,000 a year. |which attracted state-wide interest LIRGE AREA OF e e PROPERTY IN DANGER |ed by the building commission, and {an application was filed for a per- mit to build, with alterations of the (Continued From First Page) Miss Naples, would conform to the restrictions in the neighborhood. The | remonstrants appealed to the board | of adjustment and the ruling of that | body was that the plans were not | several months, due to the contro-|those of a single dwelling, whereup- ¢ as to whether it {5 a single|On an appeal from the decision was| taken to the superior court. The ap- vers dwelling or a two or three-family structure, and well dried out by the elements, there | of Hungerford & Saxe represents being no windows in place. The dry | Miss Naples, and Attorney Donald lathing crackled before the blaze and | Gatfney represents the remonstrants. within & few minutes of the discov- e ry of the fire, the entire upper sec- tion was a mass of flames. Fanned ¥ a SHiff breeze, the tongues of fire aped high in the gir, licking out could a great distance around. The sky was aglow and the | snow-covered roadways and yards in | I the vicinity reflected the flames sowl t Gh l T m distinctly that residents of the neigh- | I Brrllp[l()ll 10 Lnannet trafiic borhood hastened to locate the scene B : Gt | Costing Gonsiderable An unoccupied, new house, owned et ST by Mrs. Anna Lee and adjoining the ' building on the east, took fire w London, Feb., 16 (A — Shipping nd was badly damaged despite the ‘1nnrnuq estimate that the dense of the firemen to prevent the | g0 o Sl :’,[f;‘“g’::a:",‘ly ”Pzz"ff channel for five days caused enor- Schilling, was threatened, while the |MOUS 105ses, not in life or damags home of Attorney Harey H, Milko, |10 Vessels, but in time, They figur:| witz on Vance st was in danger, |that the time lost through the \e roof breaking out in a blaze sev- | holding up of vessels in th eral times. Occupants of other houses | Thames estuary alone was worth a | on Vance and Hart streets were pre- | million pounds. pared to leave, fearing the flames| The worst of the fog, unequalied ould reach their homes. One fami- (in 25 years, appeared to be over discovering a blaze on the front | this morning, the mists having veranda, caused by a_fiying ember, | shitted to the west and become hastened to extinguish it just as a patehy. Many ships which had company of firemen turned the hose | peen held at their docks were ab! in that directlon, and the family Te- |1 gart. Unless weather forecast. ceiving a wetting, Streams of water | o "2r0” all wrons, cross-channel were played on the roofs and walls | g, vjsey both sea and air, will be e edly Pre-i running on normal echedule again s T e in a few hours. Iment as throngs gathered from all | > fflg‘bfl\lf\d s']“ce las0 IY\d.fl, sections of the city to watch the bat- |2MOnE the vessels held up being tle which the firemen finally won, [the Cunard llner Aecania, on the but only after one of the stiffest |VOVage from & TS senve struggles they have had in some |ice of the Imperial Alrways had to tiina. be suspended for the first time original plans, which, it was said by | consequently it was | Peal is still pending. The law firm | blanketed the English | JUGOSLAVIA QUAKE TAKES 100 LIVES {Tremors Felt in 20 Places at| the Same Time Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Feb. 16 (A | —Only the fact that the regions shaken by the earthquake in Jugo- |slavia were sparsely settled pre- vented an extremely heavy death {list in the series of tremors early {Sunday morning. Late reports from the affected areas in Herzegovina, | | Bosnia, and Dalmatia, indicate that| [the loss of life will not exceed 100, |contrary to first reports. The num- | ber of houses that collapsed is esti- | mated at 200. The government s taking all | possible measures for relief of the victims, but communications are | still impracticable and only a few |doctors with emergency medical | supplies have been able to get to the | |scene by airplane. All the tremors—19 or 20 of them | —came within an hour, just before | |aawn Sunday, but the damage will take weeks to repalr. Raflroad |tracks were completely ripped up in | many places, as well as telephone and telegraph lines, and this has { prevented accurate details on which |to base an estimate on the damage | The Dalmatian ports of Ragusa and ‘pah'o suffered mos} together the hilly territory along the coas! for many miles. | A rupture in the bed of the | Adriatic with a consequent shifting under the surface of Herzegovina, is id by the Belgrade seismological station to have caused the shocks | | MISS MEYEN SHOWERED | A miscellaneous shower was held |in honor of Miss Margaret Meyen at |the home of Mrs. Roy Kilbourne on | Bain street last evening. The affair was in the form of a Valentine party land Miss Meyen was the recipient |of many beautiful gifts. She w {become the bride of Richard Black- burn of West Hartford in April | SETNe ey Jage -Allen’s BASEMENT STORE HARTFORD These Clearances in the Basement Store Are Gala Events For Hartford Women! Final Clearance of Winter Dresses and Coats Assortments of Broken Sizes and Styles But Tremendous Values All CLOTH DRESSES $5m Formerly Priced to $29.98 ,Go at date line of an item as a mark of | Now as to the news report the source of the item, its assurance |thing we are proud of an of quality. The Assoclated Press ; el ce it was inaugurated. DENISON FOR JUDG [ n }Cffnfi‘:"j‘;?‘;;0;‘8“17“2'3}_{0“. o| That shipping disasters have| Washington, Feb. 16 (Pl—Repre- ot R oot | been few is attributed to the |sentative FEdward E. Denison, re- at is| that it is as accurate as possi )Ifl‘ s0 does its utmost to have the story of the news happening accurately told. “The Associated Press is a mutual, | cooperative organization composed | han 1200 newspapers in with members in our island possessions and in America. It has working agreements with other news organizations In | other countries. It serves as a’ clear- | 2 house for news for its members, and as an organization goes out to cover the world on the spontaneous | happenings of the day. ler is obligated to make available to the Associated Press its own reglonal news for the benefit of all other members. Herein is the co- aperative feature, It ds always on the walch, knowing no holidays, no no end of time on the Its cireuits are working re all the time, » Assoclated Press stock, pays no no news, collects, and | news solely for its mem- hip, and in writing the news zives no opinion on the subject mat- | ter nor knowingly colors the word- ing to an extent which would bias | the facts. Its intent is to give facts and let the reader think for himself. Cost $7,000.000 Last Year “The Associated Press has been described as the greatest cooperative cffort in the world and it has noth- ing to sell and no profit to mak Tt cost more than $7,600,000 las vear to collect and ‘distribute the news to its members. Wire 46,500 Miles Long “In the world series of 1925 we had a telegraph line from the base- vall parks which was 46,500 miles long and on which 800 operators | copied the play by play story as| dictated to the sending operator. All | these newspapers were sight unseen | on the ball park stands. As com- | pared with radio this may not seem such a great feat but the A. P. wire | was carrving a story in written | form. On the radio you heard the | ck of the bat and the umpires call and the patter of the apnouncer. But all this was but a flash in the | air and if you wanted to read about | the game you had to get a paper. | Tiditors sent the copy from our wires to the compositors and rush- «d the story to press so that the | crowds fn the ball park had scarcely risen in their scats at the end of the gams hefore millions all over the country were reading the story. And so it is with other great sport- | ng events, football especially which makes €0 great an appeal to the people that games are covered on a | play by play basis, 60 Words A Minute. “One of our daily circuits is 1,915 miles long on which are automatic | printers, and it runs from York to Washington, nta, Jackson- ville, Key West and Havana carry- ing a news report a rate of 60 words a minu Some of our trans- continental circuits to the P coast n Chicag 0 by routes o as to embrace news in the « “A Terald Sundays, has no dividends, fic ariou ©s on tho solid ery is it is for him and the rest On large meni! not only one, news, but often the full report of t which In itselt will f a wirg to bring in the daily on thé running tracks try and in Cuba. In b papers may h ~hich are llnked parks A member eball s all P ith paper the ba obtains South | Each mem- | o make it in the great rising, on- rushing cou stick- ing to the fact, ion to get into the n iated Press has won the confi {0t public men the world over. | People nowadays do more think- ing for themselves about what they | |read in their newspaper and they are less skeptical of its truth, If every man put into his every-da. work just as much effort as A P men put into their news stories to have |the truth there, world would be the gainer. The A P pledges itself| [to give you readers an unbia port of the world's doings each day. It is an organization of newspape |each of which wants to tell the t lin its columns. Coming back to the first {there is more to the gett a paper than ge tting a piec [and rushing it into print. get the news right, you must hustle | with it, and you must get it to the reader while it is ne and that means get it to him fi TAXATION PROBLEMS FRANKLY DISCUSSED (Continued From First Page) The commissioner said he did not expect the proposed law to pass as stands in the bill but that he | wanted all tax officials to consider |the suggestion because of the large number of automobiles that now e: pe taxation or are incorrectly| |valued. The bill provides for valua- tion on a Dasis of weight but the commissioner said he would not oppose the use of a uniform book of second hand values. Commissioner Blodgett suggested abandonment of the present rule of fair market value for real property |and the substitution of reconstrue- tion costs with allowance for de- preciation, The commissioner said one trou- ble with the present tendency to value property nly a portion of its real value was that this made for a higher tax rate and that with such a rate personal property tended to escape taxation. He cited ces from the tax history of ort to show the equity of his proposed new rule. He said the t statute should have been ed 30 years ago and that the prevailing sentiment in ities would favor proportion tion rather than market value, ommissioner the sking the legisls xation and that f com | bringing {one of You must | ‘still” alarm was it in and almost fact that the impenetrable mists immediately afterward Box 118 at : 2 Hart and Linwood strees was rung, |Prevented —even attempts to sal, companies 1, 6, 2 and No. 2 [2nd there R B0 service ladder. A Jerome street bus |0 tie up at doc nad possed through Hart sirect s e few minutes before the a sound- ARRESTED AFTER GRASH G et e s e i o there | was no sign of fire. A local attorney | said today he passed the Naples hou: about five minutes before the alarm was sounded and he did not | see the slightest indication that Hv:‘ ding was burnir | Incendiarism Suspected | oble, who was at home| ¢ with a cold, responded to e alarm and directed the fight against the flam He said it was the most spectacular fires he tnessed and h dmitted to- t he feared for the other | ONC b ! dwellings In the vicinity, for | 18N road, Kensington, fire had such a start and the|S°ctlon of Ml and offered such a minimum of it the handicap was Violation of Road Rules Hitting Fellow Townsman's Car. Arthur Wall of Christian Lane, Berlin, was arrested by Officer Thomas J. Feeney this morning on the charg of the road, on between driven by Stanley of a colil- his automobile and King of the t the inter- South Main as a result S » rate of 15 Al {or 20 miles an hour and King w Relative to the cause, Chiet Noble | FI¥ing south on South Main strect aid it is possible that someone was |2t about the same spced shortly Smoking in the building and care. | A(LeT § clock when Wall turned to lessly dropped a match, and it is also | “.",'f.’,l el possible the firs was deliberately set. | FinE's' car was jammed a : el il i | telephone pole and both sides ba cion towards anyone in particular, [ damaged. - Two windows in he said, but the fire has t s |[VSRs Amashadhs tue dpack ances of the work of an incend Chiy wag (damaged, about ailie: First Deputy Chief E. F. Barn e :"3”‘1*12! and Building Inspector A. N. Ruth. - pearance in i o g noon, going through the house from bl cellar to top floor. Chief Barnes | sald the fire started, according to | DIES IN HERg ST YEAR indications, under the stairway lead- | ing from the second to the third | floor, in the southeast corner. The stairs were almost totally destroyed nd Chief Barnes pointed out that a | fire, fed by dry wood and fanned by | the drafts from the open windows, | 1 very casily shoot up through o | he top floor and spread to all cor-| rsiof the building in o very short|3 lesident of ihis city for 65 ye ime. There Is no question in his|during which time she has held a nd, he said, but that the blaze was | Prominent place among the ihe city, died at the home anddaughter, Mrs. Peter of Hartford this morning ive despite her ad- vanced & and r regular visits fire | Lo see her nicce Mrs. h man of Kensington on several occa- She num many of the sidents among her r surviving o grand- De of on a polt | court tomo: | Mrs. Anne McEnroe Had Spent 65 New Britain, - roe, $0 years old, was the house, dircctly be- | a window, Chicf Barnes found cans, of the kind used for stor- ne, gasoline and s. They were blackened by vhether they thrown out of | house or not not kn Chief nes took them to the re | Kensf tation, that they may or is. Her oth 1ay not ¥ some bearing on the |t are her so fire, laughters, Mr Loss May Reach $10,600 N D The damage to ! ples house| Funeral services will be held Fri- is estimated at bet 000 and at 9 o'clock at St $10,000. Chief Ba hurch, Har 1 there is 31 Iding, 1t said it out by the owr % H. the contra ngton re Dohren- —_— poriod of constmetian et | Another Investigation of Mr, Dohr rsed | Conn, Rum Scandal Likely y comme n e f vew Hav sibility tod ¥ ¥ in second jury in- final house, which v and not 1 to the Chi nes of uld not 1 PIRST “LIBLETY" LOAN 215 B, C. e mp iring asked by Honse Suhjec Cily o carry on the So far as is first time the etate borrowed mopey from in- nance a war Bl‘rl(n Resident Held For A"r‘gedi After | of violation of the rules | Wall was driving north on | + | high school met yest Years of Her Life As Resident of | older | rela- | publican, of Illinois, was recom- mended to President Coolidge to- i day by Representative Wood of In- | diana and Tilson of Connecticut, re- publicans, for appointment as fed- |e judge to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George E. lish of Eastern Illinois. OUT OF TOWN MARRIAGES William Charles Solergren, divor- | ¢, of this city, and Mrs. Bertha | Sipple Peck of Bristol, a wido e married in Middletown, Jan ary 2, by Rev. A. C. Perkins, and Stephen Powers of 40 Woodland street, this city, and Miss Wanda Fitz of Middletown, were married in that city, January 1, by Rev. C. A. Derwig, according to return certi- ficates filed today at the office of the town clerk CENTRAL JR. H. S. NOT¥ The clubs of the Central Junior day afternoon | in their respeetive clubrooms. Most clubs dre electing officers and get- their work started. The school | - club is getting ready for the next issue which when issued will be a great surprise to the pupils of that |} 100l. This school will close ne Tuesday in observance of Washir birthda R TO SPEAK Denlinger, profes- the Connecticut | e at Storrs,, will DR. DENLING Dr. Henry K. sor of history at Agricultural colley {be the speaker at the Rotray club | tomorrow. Dr. Denlinger has been | with the Swarthmore Chautauqua | here several times. He has spoken | eral times in city and is| !\\ulfl‘ly known here, | ALD. FALK ACTING MAYOR Alderman W alk of the sec- ond d is acting mayor t | Mayor Weld is ill at his home, May or pro tem. Wiliam It the general as 3 ich he is a member, and Alder- man J. Gustav Johnson s attend- | |ing the legislative session as a spee- or. Mayor Weld filled the office unday, Judd was acting mayor Monday, Johnson was acting mavor yesterda and today alk steps in, | making the fourth executive in as many days. ten 5 N AZIZ GROTTO MEETING The reguiar monthly meeting of Aziz Grotto will be hold in Grotto | hall Friday evening. Jred W. Frit- | on of New Britain, and Richard | Konter of Brooklvn will speak on | A Trip to the Top of the World.” | AVOID DIZZY SPELLS § well. Always tired leauty tossed aws o be beautiful and cp young the system must be frec rom poisonous backwash of consti- pation which often sos dizzy spells. 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