New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 4

R, ES AT i Juiy ket Lt Santor of Sherman's Fumons ‘ .. New York, Jan. 6—Brig. Gen. 3 Jay 8weet, U. 8. A., retired, yoteran of the Civil and Spanish avars and of several Indian ecam- paigne, died on Wednesday night at ‘the Officers’ hospital, Fort Totten, L, I, where he had been taken a fortnight before from his home at the Hotel Endicott, Columbus ave- nue and Eighty-first street, Man- hattan, suffering with pneumonia. At the time he retired from the army, in 1909, General Sweet was the only active-list survivor of those who marched with General S8harman “from Atlanta to the Sea.” He was the first officer to enter the enemy's fortifications at Savannah, where that city was captured. Enlisted as Mere Boy General Sweet was born eighty-| one years ago in Kent, Conn,, a son of the late James 8., and Aurilla Duncan S8weet, He was one of seven children, While living iy Bingham- ton, N. Y., he enlisted at the age of | seventeen in the 137th New York Volunteer Infantry as a second lieu- | tenant. In the next year he was transterred to the Twelfth Corps of | the Army of the Potomac and made | a first leutenant, and a few months later became a captain. He was wounded at Gettysburg, and took part also in the battles of Chancel-| lorsville and Fredericksburg. { On the march through Georgia | with 8herman, Captain Sweet forced | the passage of a river for his corps train on & bridge of fence rails. Fol this he received on the fleld the per- «sonal thanks of Major Gen. John W. Geary, his division commander. in Several Indian Campaigns After being honorably mustered| out at the close of the Civil War,| General Sweet ontered the regular | army as a sccond lieutenant. He| served in Indian campaigns against Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches, Kiowas and Apaches, He also sur- veyed and marked out the Custer battlefleld. While in the far west he was made a captain, He was on recruiting service at 8t, Louis from 1887 to 1899. during Which time he was promoted to be a | major in the Twenty-third infantry.| He joined his regiment at Jolo in the Philippines and in 1900 was appoint- | ed governor of the Third Military| district, cemprising the Sulu Archi- pelago. Major Sweet was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-elghth In- fantry in 1903, which he joined in the Philippines. A year later he re- turned to the United States and for the next two years had charge of the department of Dakota. In the autumn of 1906 he went with his regiment to Cuba and was stationed _ in Matanzas, where he stayed until he retired three years later with the rank of brigadier general. General Bweet is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Marla Sweet Baker, with whom he made his home at the Hotel Endicott, and by a grandson, Willlam Sweet Baker: also by two sisters, Mrs. Phoebe Mines of Re- v 19,000 tons, one tanker of 11,000 and | burg has soon ready for launching |one motor ship of 5,000 and one of donde Beach, Cal, and Mrs. Mary Hunt of Rochester, N. Y. and af brother, Frank B. Sweet of Ithaca, N Y. Vuneral services will be held at ¢ . m. today in the officers’ chapel, Fort Totten. Burial will be in the National cemetery at Arlington, Va. SWEDISH SHIPPING HAVINGBIG BOON During 1938 Tonnage Will Be Greatly Increased Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 6 UP— Sweden's mercantile tonnage will be increased considerably during 1528, Not less than 150 thousand tons of new ships are expected to be ready next year to fly the blue and vellow cross flag on the ocean. In Hamburg, thes new motor lner| “Kungsholm” will be completed as a sister ship of the famous “Grips- holm” and a valuable addition to the fleet of the Swedish American Line. In Denmark three ships are being built for Swedish companies, and the Swedish shipbuilding industry also is busy building ships for Swedish or foreign orders. The big shipyard in| Malmo, the Kockkum, building two tankers of 13,000 tons each, the | biggest in their kind in the world. Both ships are chartered for 10 years by an American oil company. In the famous Goeta shipyard at Gothenburg one tank motor ship of two tankers of 13,000 tons are be- ing built. Four of these sl ready are chartered by the Anglo Saxon Oi! company. The Eriksberg wharf in Gothen- | 9,000 tons and in Oscarsham two motor ships of 6,000 tons are being built, English Work Horses Increase in Decade Torquay, England, Jan. 6 UP—The day of the horse as a transport agent may be over in America, but in Eng- land he’s still a factor, Professor G. H. Wooldridge, president of the Na- tional Veterinary Medical associa- tion, declared here. Although tiere has been a decline in the number of horses, Professor Wooldridge said, there were more horses working in London last year than there were in 1913. Professor Wooldridge cited the fact that horses were used extensively in the Army maneuvers on Salisbury plain, where the mechanized army was op- posed to the cavalry. INSECTS FIGHT WEEDS, London, Jan. 6 (®—8everal divi- sions of insect shock troops are to be rushed to New Zealand to help farmers there to fight the fast spreading rag-weed which is -de- stroying fruit crops. British sciene tists have been making tests at Har- penden research station to find out which insccts, beetles and caterpil- lars have the biggest appetites for || the obnoxious week. ACCEPTANGE BANK RAISES DIVIDEND Company [ncreases Anoeal Rate From $4 to $8 New York, Jan. ¢ M — The In- ternational Acceptance Bank, Inc., increased the annual common divi- dend rate from $¢ to $6 a share by declaring a regular quarterly divi- dend of $1.50 dr at the rate of 13 per cent. per annum on paid in capital. The bank réported total re. sources on December 31 of $130,- 591,971, an increase of 23.6 percent in one year and acceptances out- standing of $47,117,538, an increape of 39.6 per cemt. The Q. R. 8. Music company de- clared a quarterly dividend of §0 cents on common agalnst previous quarterly dividends of ¢5 cents ana also a preferred dividend of 1 3-4 per cent. The name of the company was changed to Q. R. 8. company. The Harriman National bank de- clared an extra dividend of 6 per cent in addition to the regular semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent yesterday and the Harriman Securi- ties corporation declared a dividend :cf 10 per cent, payable to ®tock- holders of the bank who have a beneficlal {interest in the corpora- tion. The extra dividend has been paid semi-annually since 1921. The Brazilian Traction, Light ana Power company declared a quarter- ly dividend of 1 3-4 per cent on ordinary stock against previous quarterlies of 1 1.3 per cent. Stock- holders approved splitting present $100 par shares into four no par shares and the offering of new stock to stockholders at $100 a share in the ratio of one new for each five held. The National Liberty Insurance Company declared an extra dividend of 20 per cent and the regular semi- annual dividend gt 10 per cent, the Baltimore Ame?un Fire Insurance Company an extra dividend of 6 per cent and the regular semi-annual of 6 per cent and the People's National Fire Insurance Company an extra dividend of 6 per cent and the reg- ular semi-annual dividend of 5 per New Players = $295 cent. The Mutual JTevestment Company announced an extra distribution of one-half of 1 per«cent on Class A tes of the Mutual Investment , putting thesie certificates on & 6% per cent basis. Earnings for 1927 were 11.5 per cent on the face value of outstanding certificates After regular and extra distribu- tions, the trust reported a surplus of ¢ per cent or 40 cents a share. The Square Deal Investment Cor- poration' of Newark voted a § per cent stock and & 1 per cent cash dividend. The Irving Savings Bank declared a quarterly dividend.at the rate of 4% per cent, per annum which will be credited to depositors as January 1 and be payable after January 1%. Money deposited up to January 13 will draw interest from January 1. The disbursement was the bank's 173rd consecutive dividend. The Orpheum Circuit Inc., will defer dividend action on common stock until after merger with the Keith-Albee interests. In future dividends will be declared quarterly instead of monthly, NEW MEXIOO SHELTERS DEER Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 6 UM—Large fenced ranches in New Megico are being converted into game pre- 'serves, some with the aid of the state game and fish commission and others by private enforcement. It is estimated that 1,000 fawns were raised within Circle Cross ranch stures mnear Alamogrordo this A vemarkable discovery bas come | from France and the results are almost asamasing as the benefits which Radium | mives to cancer sufferers and Aspirin | gives to headache sufferers. 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Science has rightly given emulsified cod-liver oil as in Scott’s Emulsion, a place of premier im- portance as a help to perfect baby’s nutrition and to furnish its growing organism with a needed abundance of rickets-preventing and growth-promoting vitamins. Young children who are not absorbing a full abundance of essential vitamins, should receive as an - added food-ration, regular doses of easily assimi- lated, pleasantly flavored, emulsified cod-liver oil in the form of Scolfs Cawlsion PLANS OIL NERGER Negoitos Begn for Pt of Callorgi Petolenm § (PM—Negotia- tions have been restined looking to the acquisition by the Texas Cor- poration of the California Petroleum Holmes, presi- dent of the former company, {8 in California_jo inspect the California Petroleum properties, and it is ex- pected that the tramsaction will be closed upon his return to New York. Jacques Vinmont, president of Cal ifornia Petroleum, was quoted in dis- patches from Los Angeles yesterday as saying, upon his return from New York, that negotiations were still in It was learned here that the deal is well advanced, however, and that no hitch New York, Jan. Corporation. R. C. the preliminary stage. is expected to develop. At the offices of the Texas Cor- poration it was said Mr. Holmes was in the west and that no statement could be made in his absence. The report STATION Ps@ circulated yest: day that the recent resigmation of Amos L. Beaty as chalrman of the Texas Corporation resulted from a disagreement with other interests in the company over the for the acquisition of the Jif Petro- leum Corporation, s Was not confirmed. The d ors of the Texas Corporation have mnot chosen | Mr. Beaty's suocessor. The Texas Corponflo‘ and the California Petroleum Corporation some two years ago carried on nego- tiations looking to a merger, but were unable ta agree on terms. The present discussions, it is understood, contemplate the outright purchase of the California Petroleum Corpora- tion by the Texas Corporation. The Texas Corporation has out- standing $181,060,000 of $25 par capital stock. The stock closed on the Stock Exchange yesterday at 54. The California Petroleum Corpora- tion has outstanding $49,505,175 of $25 par capital stock," the price of which at the close on the 8tock Ex- change yesterday was 24% a share. The Texas Corporation has author- jzed about $68,000,000 of unissued stock, which would be ample, it is believed, for the acquisition of Cali- fornia Petroleum. A consolidation of the two companies would create {a unit with a par value capital of more than $230,000,000. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FANOUS ‘UFER SUES FRON CELL Jesse Pomeroy Denies He's Cruel to Animals . Boston, Jan, § (M—Jesse Pomeroy, world famous “lifer” who walked through the gates of the state prison at Charlestown a 17 year old boy, nearly 51 years ago, is the plaintift in a $5,000 action here in which he seeks to prove untrue, charges that he has been cruel to afinals while in confinement. - Pomeroy is conducting his case from his cell with the aid of two lattorneys who are representing him before the Buffolk superior civil court. . The defendant is Alice. Stone Blackwell of Dorchester who as the first witness in the case told the court that “she felt it a public duty” to write a letter to a Boston news- paper in 1925 in opposition to a par- don for Pomeroy. The letter described Pomeroy's crime as much worse than that of Leopold and Locb and repeatedsa rumor_that Pomérey, when allowed the companionship of a kitten, “had skinned it alive.” Attorney John F. Daly, counsel tor Pomeroy, told the court that the suit was brought to “spike a le* and declaved that anigmals have been Pomeroy’s only friends since incar- ceration. . Ml Blackwell admitted she could not tecall where she first heard the kitten and that she had never written prison officials to deter- mine the truth or falsity of the statement, She contends that her writing was privileged in the nature of fair com- ment and criticism 'of Pomeroy’s record. Miss Blackwell has long been prominent as a leader in women's movements. 8She was graduated from Boston University in 1881. For many years she was identifid with the Woman’s Journal published in this city, of which her mother was editor and later with the Woman Citizen into which the earlier publication was merged. Miss Blackwetig honorary presi- dent of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters. 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