New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 3

| mittee and the mayor agreed that - 1825 2 month was sufficient. that Mr. Carlson's mileage averages | Q Imost 500 miles monthly the year | U around, while the plumbing and | { Councilman Bartlett pointed out clectrical Inspectors make about 600 miles, yet the latter are allowed $40 | « month. It scemed incquitable and he favored allowing Mr. Carlson $40 a month. Mayor Weld spoke highly arlson’s faithfulness and | v and said the city would bene- | fit greatly if all employes had his | Councilman Samuel Sablotsky m;'flmmi fons. The committee ap- | the sixth ward started what appear- | Proved an increase from $25 to $40 | S Fo e L e e tar e in Mr. Carlson’s case, without formal | the ry committee of the com-|Yole 8 the matter is not a ealary mon council is concerned at leust, | COMMittee matter, Mr. Carlson wil be advised t Irese the wereased at a meeting of the committee la Lol 0 presant the ncr Comes‘()ul Openly at Meeting of Salary Committes as NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927. 610 ILLION PAID FOR U. 3. POSTAGE 16 Billion Stamps Used in This Gountry Last Year (BY RODNEY DUTCHER) NEA Service Writer ‘Washington, Dec. 15 — More than 16,000,000,000 postage stamps were | moistened last year in the Unite States and the citizen who didn't lic; |the penatty privitege, about 65,000 ! tons. e N IFFE STAYS sending unsolicited articles through | | the mail for sale is increasing to the | ! point where legislation to prohibit | ! !it 1s demanded. He points out that | g . " ! [and that the vecimient o wnaes- e | LEVIDE'S Pilot Hastens Back to| obligation to return the article or | { England |remit the prico regardless of any | threatening follow-up letters. | New York, Dec. 15 (P—After a -day visit to this country, Cap- | Money orders worth an average of $8.50 apiece were handled in In Walter G. R. Hincheliffe, former pilot for Charles A. Levine, sailed | the fiscal year to the number of for England early today on the | 195,000,000 and a value of $1,7: 00. A wide variety of fraudulent | schemes came to the attention of 1000, night, when he declared in favor of the recommendations of the board of police commissioners for salary committee +bill in the future. | Mayor Weld and members of the | favored an o at least 130 was so many lic of the average. About 12,000,000,060 ordinary, let- S #hOTt | (ho department, resulting in fraud | orders against 239 concerns and in- Cunard liner Berengeria. Hincheliffe’'s arrival {n Boston | Monday gave rise to reports that he make arrange- d come here to increases for the chief, captain, licu- | placing all eity hall employes, with tenants and sergeants, and criticized the board of fire comm “not being Mmen enough” the request of the firemen for an in- crease in pay of 50 cents per day. Mayor G. C. Weld. who attended the meeting on invitation of Chair- man Maxon, obliged to request Councilman ¢ ¥ to “let me say a few word atter the coun- cilman had held the floor for sev- eral minutes and still gave no indi catlon of an infent to relinquish it The mayor said he believed tha fully 90 per cent of the salary in rred which will be requested ave but he cannot reconcils nding of the taxpayers’ money creasing salaries of city offi- and employes, with the exist- d conditions. Person- uld like to great increa sight of t ople money same the would carning less present than “I do not sce any salary in- creases this year for anybody, much as 1 would liks to have some in- cqualities corrected,” he said. Factory Employes On Short Hours Councilman W. G. Gibney me tioned that factory employes are not receiving ine: d ages but re working short hours, while the city smployet have not had thelr in- come reduced. sky replied that it is improper to compare city employes, especially firemen and policemen, to factor hands. “Why not?” inquired Coun- cilmen Larson and Gibney. Councilman Sablotsky replied firemen, for instance, cannot be late for roll call or they will he punish- ed, and the men having charge of the fape on which alarms are re- corded are in danger of being fined several days' pay for making mis- takes. Councilman Larson replicd that factory employes cannot report late many times without heing spok- en to about it, even though they are “docked.” “Well, Y worked ftn the factory once,” Councilman Sablotsky re- plled. “I was late about five morn- ings a week and T was not fired for it. I finally quit because there was e pockets are actually themsely at money they w how t not enough money in the job. I was | a hurry clerk and once T shipped an order of goods to the wrong place, @nd all T got was a call down for it.” Councilman Larson replied that ¢ tory employes were dealt with lenlently when labor was plentiful hut conditions have changed of late years. Councilman Gibney remarked that hurry clerks do not have charge of shipping in the factories now. Cites Firemen's Daily Risks Councilman Sablotsky asserted that factory employes do not endan- ger themselves in their daily work to the degree that the firemen take risks when going to a fire and work- | ing at fires. “When that bell rings and those men go out, they never know whether they will come back or not,” he said. “They have familics depending on them but their first thought s to fight the fires for you and me. In the factories there ar <0 many safety devices that a man can hardly hurt himeelf in any way.” Councilman Warner replied that it Councilman Sablotsky would fol- | low him around the Stanley Works for & few hours he would find him- self in some rather hazardous places. As the dispute waxed warmer, Councilman Sablotsky adviscd the committee members who believe the firemen have good positions, to leave their factory positions and join the fire department. Relative to the clothing allowance of $55 which the police commission- ers recommend for the policemen, Councilman Sablotsky eald a private citizen can pay $22 or even $15 for a sult or an overcoat but a police- man's overcoat costs approximate $50. He told of simple manner in which damage ean he done to a nniform. “Do you know that practically every back yard in the eity is inspected at night by po- licemen, who go through mud and | else in the dirt and everything dark?” he asked. T don’t know anything about the back yarde but I know that some front verandas are inspected,” Councilman Gibney replied. Says City Money s Wasted The amount of money involved in salary Increases should not be per- mitted to work against the fndivid- uals who are deserving of consider- atlon, Councilman Sablotsky said. In the police department, the proposed increases would entail approximate- ly $5000, and many times that could be saved in the department of public works alone, he said. “I do not mean this administration or any administration in particular, but it s a fact that many thousands of dollars are wasted, thrown aw Some of this could bé used to give the firemen and policemen and other deserving city employes raises, to keep them contented and show that their services are appreciated.” As he touched on the paving of Glen sct, formerly Court, Mayor Weld remarked that the councilman was not speaking on the matters before the committee. He told the councilman he felt the Jatter's arguments were absolutely unreasonable, and as for the refer- ence to the small amount of money involved in proposed salary in- creases, the mayor said he did not care if only a fraction of a fraction of a mill on the grand lfst were rep- reented, he could not ose sight. of the fy the iner 8. son’s Allowance Increased aneilman Donald L. Bartlett, chairman of the committee on eup- plies and printing, discussed the al- lowance for transportation in the of Sealer of Weights and M ures Carl A. Carlson and the com - the out of B comimttee on the intcrest the mem- | Councilman Sablof- | the comparatively | Hungerford | the exception of .day laborers, on salary list, and on motion of | Councilman Gibney, it was voted 1o jmake the recommendation to the | {council, ths proposed ordinance to! |be prepar ration Counsel I Kirkham. This proposition hus 1 |before th L before but |of passage. re ar | ployes in it all whose {controlled by the hoar ithem and the common council has no power over them as re compensation, it s said Councilman C. H. sided at the meeting, members present were M Councilman Sublotsky, W. G. Gibney, W. W. Greene, J. A |Larson, 1. N. Robertson and W. & en ds Maxon pre | Warner. Weld Compliments Committee Mayor Weld complimented the bers are taking in their work. He | 1said the committee wndonbtedly ha |come into possession of consider- {able information rvlative to the po- sitions with the salaries of which | the thembers are concerned, |the plan whercby the various bers visited the departments made inquiries 15 commendabic, [Thn committee in turn thanked the {mayor for giving up an evening to |discuss the salaries, 'i Weld Opposes All Petitions Mayor Weld to | favor of rejecting for ealary |the ground that indust iness conditfons are such payers cannot stand dens. | The'mayor expresse t lit is necessary for hir this |attitude. He admitted the liks=lihood that there are descrving persons | who may sufer result of | stand, 1f it 1s approved by the coun- el The salary discussion ook on an unprecedented interest among clerks in the building today when it |came known that last night's meet- ing received the information that fone female clerk in the building, | whose name does not appear on the | salary list, receives $40 a week. She is employed as a bookkeeper, Sev cral departments are not required o list their employes salary, and in {this way the salary has been paid for more than a year without be- |coming public knowledge, The |deputy city clerk, the deputy tax | collector, sealer of weights and | measures, and some of the (ngineers |employed by the receive less than $40 a week, which fact was the |subject of animated discussion to- ‘vlfl)'. [Fighting Teacher Has Many Scraps Booked New Haven, Dec. 15 (P—Nade Tasst, the fighting school teacher who came to America recently from his native Cavezzo, Italy, by way of South America, s receiving offers to fight in job lots now. | Tassi is a light heavyweight and fn four fights in Connecticut has come through all of them with flying colors. Recently he won from Mur- ray Gitlitz on a foul. {) | Now a New York promoter wants him to go to work but the stipula- ! tion fs that Tassi must fight hoth at he Brooklyn A. C. arena and in hiladelphia. He is supposed to fight In Brooklyn, hut isn‘t keen on the Philadelphia scrap although it is likely that he will take both of them, Tassi 18 the youth who cables home to his mother after very fight and it may be that he discovered that cable charges from Dhiladel- phia would be much higher than Brooklyn—thus the reluctancy to ap- pear in the Quaker City. increases that tax- additional bur- that as a PLAN ALUMINUM PLANT Rome, Dec. 15 (UP)—It was re- ported that the Aluminum Company of America plans to ercct a factory in Italy, using the vast vavsite de- posits in Istria, and profiting hy the | learns from the | The rand to use | owners, 121,000 were delivered, | sovernmental cheap waterpower available. “I think it’s about time ! I spent a dollar or two on her.” Ribbon Watches in ex- quisite cases, $11 to $125. | act that conditions do not justi- | ters were mailed, inasmuch as the government issued th; many two- cent stamps, More than 25,000,000, 400 picces of mail were handl bill for postage per Departr cent Office réevenue, one annual report of Postmaster General Harry S. New. The department handled about 65,000,000 special delivery fiixed 88,000,000 amps to the ind sold due 00,600 al cards postage value of 1,800,000,000 pos |and 3,100,000,000 stamped envelopes. | In addition to the Lindbergh and other air mail stamps, the depart- ment issue commemorative two-cent stamps during the year which you may not have scen. hese stamps all depicted Revolu- onary scenes, commemorating the of White the defeat represent- atoga and t's Sesquicentennial of inae. > with the fignre of a Gree Boy clad in the militis time, 100,600 irgoyne with a letters were inerease of Postmaster € tributes to the ir postage by 1ail advertisers who used no return address on the cnvelope or relied on obsolete and {ncorrect mailing lists. dcpartment destroyed 12,700,000 1 letters containing circulars and riising wmatter. The ment is trying to get mail advertisers to Lring their mailing lists up to dat return eards. Abhout $113.000 fn loose moncy as found in undeliverable envelopes £72,000 was restored to {h Tass) A million and more letters wers found to contain money checks and other enclo: to the value of $5,200,000 stamps, of val- total somn More than 450,000 parcels and ar- es of merchandise were handled Ly the dead parcel post service of which more than 165,000 were unad- dressed. Of the total unclaim pisces, 67,000 de- 2671 tie stroyed as worthless and auctioned off for $108,000, Expansion efforts of manufacturers and produce dicated by a 10 per cent inercase in mail to foreign countries, which imounted to more than 35,000 tons. 1t 18 estimated that 440,0000,600 vieces of mail were mailed free hy establishments under representing | of the Post | letters, | fiscal | Plains wih an ar- | dividuals. New mentions one pro- | moter who admitted handling over | a period of years a total of $100,- Mrs. Irances Wilson Grayson or ents for a transatlantic flight with (00,000 extracted from his victims, Miss Mahel Boll or an endurance and urges all victims of mall frands | iight in Levine's transatlantic plane, | to make prompt complaint to the ' Columbla, | department, He said, however, Fewer pornographie publications | taken to relivve an af! sought admission to the malls, pre- ae | sumably because of rigld enforce- ment of the law against obscene | | hooks and magazines. “More conservative | decently suggestive ing adopted by publishers called romantic perfodicals, Forelgn shipments :ney have been destroyed “many orders have been issued forbidding the forwarding of mail addressed for delivery to foreign | dealers in obscene matter.” | Postal inspectors nvestigated 106,000 cases, ncluding 33.000 regn- lar post office inepections, 19,000 parcel post irregularitics, 17,000 ser- vice matters, 6000 complaints of fraudulent. obscene and other {banned matter, 10,600 instances of loss, theft and damage, and 12,000 burglaries, fires and accidents. Arrests for postal crimes were rearly 8700 and convictions 2330. Fleven {mportant mail robberfes were reported in which $686,060 was stolen and $444,000 recovere this trip wa ck of quin: y was tened, fact that a daughter Mrs. Hinche parture to by the has bren ho since he left nd Hincheliffe yesterday visited Cur- tiss Fleld and inspected a Stinson | Detroiter monoplane similar in de- |sign to the plane in which Edward | S. Schlee and Willlam Brock flew | across the Atlantic and to Japan last | fall. Reports were that he was con- | | templating the purchase of one of | |these planes for an attempt at a | record flight from London to India {or across the Atlantie. Officers Are Elected by A. G. Hammond Auxiliary At the regular meeting of A. G. Hammond Auxil held last evenin mory, the follo & elected: President, senfor vies Cora May: and less in- | titles are be- of so- says of in- and in the state ar- | offic Mrs presiden junior vi president, | chaplain, Mre, patriotic instructor, | Mrs. Catherine Hills; conductor, Mr Gladys Johnson: ¢ t conductor, Mrs, Carrie Schn d, Miss Helen Carlson; assistant guard, Miss Co. Has $48.80 Assets '\ 1" jooor. pianist, Mrs, Violet Hartford. Dee. (®—Connecti- secretary, Mrs, Jessie ¢ insurance com- (el Mrs. Jennie Ander- | artered in 1836 by the color trers, Miss Dorothy embly has just had its books | [ eonard, Nellie ' Heini, Miss| ed by Insurance Commis- | pyances Staubloy and Miss Ma ¥ Howard P. Dunham who finds its 21 policy 1 adequate- | Iy protected oint installation of the offic Th ny swhich s known as !y G, Hammond camp and ° Harwinton Mutual Fire Insur-{,nq A e Company has assets of $48.80, iy of Br 1 notable comparison with the lar: h company the state which hoasts $43 000, The company operates in the town of Harwinto Deposit notes taken for premi- | (hicago, Dec. 15 (P —The United | ums and assessments made 0 | g | 1 0| States Flag association which re cover any losses which are Incurred. [ ountly protested against the use of There were: no loss the American conneetion Since 1874 the com d policy fees of losscs ever paid State’s Baby Insurance be a| 15 of | 1xfliary Hadsell camp and auxil- | stol. J U. 8. 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