New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1927, Page 2

i 2 Federal Trade Commission An- alyzing Practices of Industry ton, s ed share o tederal trade Four mise to have e new siness s engaging in D. com concern unfair ir-re 1y investi ot on's own initia upon complaint of a competitor practices, or con investizations, w isston it GOAL OF INQUIRY * ations indicate L new slicy on a policy All these investigations { pected to have a more exte just | sult on what the consumer Repr roduced The before the close of the last Congress, | his product than have bes ury rose to in Chi with whatever changes present in- cago, thre igations may for a particular firm which formerly Drevious day Practices of Manufacturers took most of the ti Fed- but Oklaho The investigation into the meth- | eral Trade Commission t ods of charging prices is capable of SUEET working great changes in the con- reaching 92 While city umed in an duct of industry. Three methods of quoting and charging prices on ar- ticles sold in widely separated mar- HAUNTED HOUSE 1S ar. mple of this s the prac- | P paper tt today’s q t your abllity to remember Manchester that r bedstead that vi thors and their wo to leadh SEoigh s and the walls of What style of wr sending 1t to the locality in which [2HS Hhe WaUs of which act i ! it is bought p . Meridenites grinned “YOU-EOL-10- Forhn Dooneit fIl others follow the practice of | | =XONIES ELMNEY o2 Lo iding to the basic price at a cer- | yp. s S Lo . or at several distributing |y SHEHTEE (8 8 Derep! points throughout the country, the o0 e i cost of transporting the commodity | Jop\ viar e 4 on | from this 05 PO Ao Che l”"“}“' ter Kowalski and Henry Maslar. s Chick: Ta|l e Lol Bed Rattles, Walls Vibrate ho is Robert some DR RS . o Yes, sir,” Davis, th ho wrote “P: tso s The “Pittsburgh plus” system, | : B LR " |spokesman for the party lling 0 crossed t > whiohfahe Bederals feade SGomm s 5o ithetinepeation) bed did vi- 1G abol- ined and ordered ago, illustrates this sion con brate and so did the walls, In f tions wi ow in use manufactur- | hot and hum A rese are the delivered price jubilant, ¢ on- N. B. Herald) th otory base method, tinued war ‘ the Sept. —The apd the basing point methods e states in the e r for an in-| = Ny is companies which dis- | . . Y mo ro ation 119 e e proauets i ~arious | eriden Skeptics Satistied Press sion. states quote prices in which no al- ich pro- | lowance is made for the difference| w ” T aching effects in tran: tion costs to the vari- | Repm'ts ere 1Tue » householder | ous markets alled the “de- | — | Now YOU e buys livere five o facturers employ the ,nly’,fm (_[I ,‘]?‘,“‘ reatd -‘m G licy of quoting uniform prices at e e last night fron cy JR0EnE Jun expedition to Manchester with the factory, with freight ck S Eheiab K ONE 1dded according to the locality cwspape aser. This is termed the | o0 P ase method.” The most | ppes) 1 ished l!‘“{{«* x'wv' e +the whole house seems to v ¢ . system r it, a steel company p. S eus bisator b e ir’,lol o L et PASSEN ing prices charged on commadition| maycet price, and added to it the | known as Globe Hollow resurvoic at SENGERS UNHURT AS manufactiired it one place and 014 roight costs from Pittsburgh to the | 150 pring str One member of | T o ‘H‘ over : (vr:_.'vm,\ in widely & r’“r\om' ot purchase. Thus this com-|gyr party got on the bed TRA!N IS DERMLhD arated marke - v, which had plants in various|was no question in his mind a Is ‘;‘l”“n":""""“”:”r‘" ’:“;"‘Y':‘“]”'”‘_‘ , would sell the product of its |the vibration or the ra‘il A = vorna mamifa Ly Cctaller, ~hjcago plant, for example, to a Hundreds Have Narr Escape e | Chica 1t ‘ngineers at Scrue arrow Escapc and the consumer—or should the|cpjeago consumer, and charge him | LIRS O S manufacturer to set the o .ione rates from Pittsburgh to | The publicit ven When B & M. Montreal Express ¥ at can resell | qpi o house, Davis continued his product? afais to Home Buvers many’ people that las Leaves Tracks, H 1 > be proteeted fedoral frade commission OVRer began charging admission Airplanes flew over the scene to from the tmong States DuPo vils harmf These investi, by Commissioner A 1ed to determine e which desi ts upon y be based st two vene in In fact, duc inters and worthle liefore Congr not be; have Representative Clyde Kelly Pennsylvania will re-introduce Lill to eliminate price-cutting trade-marked articles in the on o irlés S, of th certain to be introduced in the which will con- | ¢, likely Motors, eel Corporation, and lepredations of stoc to involve " entieth Congres: December bills de manufacturers to set retailers mu and bills de te commerce securities s for n passed. Dencen wise four a in some the pro- ions of big bus- be made the economfc E il to fair competition or to the cosumer? To Determine Economic Facts proposed legislation | ¢ Bills relating to at questions igned to permit price t sell their pro- gned to prohibit | retail price. fraudulent have been time, but Tllinois United price system,” a consumer buying Xibe Dhotos Gt D e the product of a firm located close MO WAy engiteers d at hand helps pay the transportation | 1OLSe 19 nepect It b costs of sending the product to dis- 71T &6 SOUE SCERIIE the | {ant purchasers, for the manuac- |5, i FAPEE 3 AUEEE ROV turer must divide his transportation i Myers, his ¢ itor s out that unddar the “delivered photographs of engineers’ discussion of the s equally over every unit of his enon that house set The investigation of price main- p oo <peeme e cear- to cut the prices on ordinary arti- cles used by everybody, such as soaps, tooth pastes, ete., below those yuoted by the manufacturer as the | her nerves and she was iorced leave. / DYING FROM HEAT Three Fatally Stricken in Record- the on train remained s only at The investigation of General Mo- tors, United States Steel, and the ! DuPont interests is not being made with the aim of prosecuting any of of | these concerns for violating anti- | laws, but solely to determine, on | for the benefit of congress in draft- Xt ing legislation, whether or not such combinations threaten to create or nd continue economic evils. Breaking Heat Wave In Chicago and Middle-Western States, Sept. 8 (A1 following prostrations an thousands swel Chicago here | count Bristol Manufactur commodity, so that the losses a Bal- {1¢qpe of rock. It was at first be- Carye timore firm, for example, SUStains \)jovod that the vibration misht b - n sending its product to Los Ange- | caused by water that had seoped un- safe wde up by the gain in end- | gerneatn its foundation th ¢ drid e product to Washington, D. nearby reservoir. escape Tl The house is now occupird ly engine rolled ]n ,hr‘{- is d‘r;n 1\ ;r‘\(d"';‘h i:‘“: lold son. Mrs. Viullermet lived in it north was tied up | whether or not it et siness e T allow drug stor for exampl ConjlagisiontBUme RNt i W ! 8 & 2 queer antics proved too inuch fc cause of th Tuds N |the government by the Pan-Ameri- ( A [Hunter, " Durd Colo: WA uccess \’cun Petroleum company. auses C[IOH Scott high Toledo, Ohio; | The additional interest claimed WCBH, Univ of Miss. Ox. London, Qnt, Sept. 8 (P—The by the government is on the award- | Washington, Sept. § (P—Seven ford. Miss: WCOM, City of Man- sht committee which arranged jed sum for May until the date of |teen radio stations were dropped Chester, chester, N. H.; WHIi London-to-London voyage of th® | payment. Cancellation of the EIk from the roll of the federal radio ¢hamber of commerce, Belefontaiie, airplane Sir John Carling issued & |Hills leases was upheld by the |commission yesterday, either by Ohio; WKBM, John Wilbur Jon: tat nt today expressing confi- | United States supreme court on the |their own request or for failure to New , N WKBU por ience that the flight of Capt. Terry |grounds of fraud. apply for renewal of theif licenses. |St v K. Armstrong, Tully and Lieut. James Medcalt | The list includes WREO of the WTAZ, Thomas J. would be a success and that t.he‘ A meter to measure the force of | Reo Motor Co., a 500 watt pla at .ambertville, J.; Carling would reach the Croydon |a swimmer's stroke has been in- nsing, Mich.; Station WDBK, a!WHTO, W. J. Thomas Broadeasti to s ho = GARLING PILOTS 1 | HNOW THEIR WAY irom . ea h t 1 14 ab “Both pilot : ole of Treland and E touches of drama attached of the BT to sail in “The from they part “The course mapped out for the was not one fre- 11 a about § stern s ring adver: “the Sir J 0-Lor be over its ort, bring th are venture over Wex southern I the south. of Monon though oc ind the rorthern route. pr passi A You tomorrow w rress of lefinitely ng far Harhor G © here. F by airmen hting pilot, the trip aviators aller by rd the reportec steamers.” t expe well message w ce by Captain Tully to ved in the terms ing the World Iy served ag a | the message i patrol today. us this time n which o off on a ould hear litions about dard time. ir schedule called for them the western coast of Ireland | m., London time, which | over Croydon it seven hours latef asionally o'c ohn lon em ford, Ireland, 0 plane 1 by 1 lon from 8 a. m. rgland. One is that they planned a small vil- in which Medcalf was born. This vil- on the direct airline between Irish coast and London. | se would take them over | central Wales and approach London Both pilots have | landed at Croydon many times and xpected no difficulty from that ented by ocean liners. The steam- or lanes are farther to the south, al- tramp steamers s use the more or this reason it locally that the | would be | radio from GOVERNMENT IN NEW Asks Paid on Oil Taken from Elk Lo: S Hills Naval Oil Reserve. m Ar SUIT AGAINST DOHENY 250,000 Paul J the the Pa company by and Will Be Sold at Public Intercst on Money | a3, Sept. § (P)—Federal | McCormick n under submission the suit of | government against the E. L. s to collect approxi- 0 interest on $13,- paid the government on oil the sent from naval oil -American Flight Committee Confident of this morn- ndard time. e winds and other " the statement Carling, monoplane, destination, Croy- castern the read: has | Pe- Pan- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927. 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