New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 15

24 STATE OFFICERS HUNT FOR STUDENT (Continued from First Page) and the detectives as that. of a “crank,” and the letter was given no_consideration. In discussing the new search be- &yn today, General Foote stated the stafé troopers would work in a man- ner. which would enable them to cover every foot of territory within the 20-mile radius. He favored the theory that the girl had not gone outside this area and belleved that the careful search might disclose her fate. Secveral new clues obtained yester- day proved valueless upon investi. gation, and detectives said :oday they were still without any tungible report as to the girl's movements after she left college on Friday the 13th. Washington, Jan. 21 (UP)—Police investigated reports today that a girl resembling ¥rances St. John Smith, who vanished from Smith college, Northampton, Mass., cight days ago was seen in a restaurant here last Wednesday. The proprietor and three women | employes of the restaurant, said the | girl entered with a man about 21 or 22 years old, who ordered food. The girl, noticeably pale, fainted in her chair and was revived by attendants, She drove away with the man in an enclosed car. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 21 (UP) —Western police today searched for Miss Louise Clark, 21, Westminster college student here, who has been Soon after some mounted {ing in automebl| cycles, took the | Bcouts, almost every organizatien in Ham joined the scarch for the student, The plans called for the search of every road, stream, woods and dwelling in the side. State Detective Daley Lisut, James H, Mahoney of state polics, made thelr headq ters at the Leeds barrecka miles from the city. They smaid would bo in direct communicatien with the searching parties at all times, The search was to be carried on for 48 hours and'the state pelicsmen were ordered to make oamp ever darkneas overteek they would be in pesitien to the hunt without less ot time at break tomorrow. The efflosrs recting the scarch peiated out $the police parties were ezoeptionally moblile as the horsemen oeuld cover roads which would be impamable for. automobliles and cycles. STUDIOS TO CLOSE Hollywood, Jan. 31 (UP) = Mack Sennett studios will close down next week not ta reopen uatil April 1 when new quarters in San Fernan- do valley will be ready, it was an- Some 200 employes will be thrown out of work. Warner Brothers and Universal are other large studios now shut down, “I am a commer this Bank and can point to at least cial depositor of a dozen valuable gratis services this Bank performs for me.” New Britain Trust Co, When you spend a dollar why not save 10> You cer- tainly woild not miss it and at the end of 1 928 you would have a tidy litle sum earning interest for you. Ask for one of our Dime Registering Banks | ment was called at & Miss Ann Potuskis was featured at the Antanas Vanagas concert last. ovening at Lithuanian hall on Park street. Her vocal seloctions, “O Kaljs Grasu,” “Jal Nerupejo” and “Trys Besutes” were very favorably recelved, Miss Petuskis recelving many curtain ecalls. The (concert was conducted in honor of Antanas Vanagas, leading Lithuanian com- pos¢r who is now on an American tour, FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET MADE U mprovements fn Serviee on Program lor 1938-29 Among the several requests which the fire board will include in its budget for the fiscal year are for a new fire station and a company of men to go with it; a city service ladder and a company of men for Station No. 3, which will be to take care of the northwestern section of the ci six new men on the regu- lar force and fire alairm boxes for all the public school buildings. These items were approved at a special meeting of the fire board last night. 8everal of these ftems were in- cluded in last year's budget, but were not allowed. The matter of fire preo- tection for the western section of New Britain is one which has been sponsored for several years, Last vear the fire board requested the school- board to install special fire alarm boxes in the schools which will be used only if the schools arc on fire, but the board of education did not see fit to appropriate money for this move. Many of the par- ochial schogls have special fire boxes. The cost of the installation of hoxes would be $3,326. A decrease has been noted in the regular budget for such jtem as supplies and salaries. It is $ 5456 or $12,683 lower than the amount granted the department last year. Other speclal requests include $1,- 000 under a group insurance plan, gold and silver stars and bars for firemen, and a new car for the as- sistant chiefs and master mechanic,, The costs of the new items'in the budget would be as follows, the board members estimated: New fire station, company and equipment, $80,000 ladder and new company for No. 3, $29,000; six new men to in- crease efticiency of force, $10,400% alarm boxes for schools $3,325; and group insurance premiums, $1,000. Service For p It was decided to go through with the plan under discussion for the past six months relative to awarding men according to their years in the service, Officcrs in the service who are wearing gold buttons would re- ceive a gold award and those wear- ing silver buttons would receive silver award. A star will be awarded for every 25 years of scrvice and s| bar for every five year: According to the plan the chiefs will receive the following award: Chief Noble, gold star and one bar; First Assistant Chief Eugene Barnes, | one gold star and two bars; Second Assistant Chief Souney, gold star and | republican prisoncrs who escaped: one bar. Flectrical Superintendent George Cooley will receive the highest honor when he will be awarded two stars for 50 years of service. Moses in Favor of an All-American Waterway Buffalo N. Y, Jan. 21 (UP)— ‘Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire today stood squarely behind an all-American waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean. The preeident pro tempore of the senate, who is supporting Becretary of Commerce Hoofer for the presi- dency, made his stand in no uncer- tain terms at an international good will banquet here last night at which Justice Willlam R. Riddell of Toronto was the Canadian repre- sentative. “I eahnot beliove,” said the sena- tor, “that it would be just to the yers of the United States that we ahould contribute of our hard- wrung resources to the construction of a waterway over a territory which we cannot police and let the future take care of the results. INDUSTRIAL OCOUNUIL MEETS. The history and development of the Foremien's club eennected with the Industrial council af the' New Haven Y. M. C. A. were explained at a meeting of the New Britatn Indus- trial council at the lecal “Y" last evening by representatives of tho! Néw Haven organization. Boren Iver- sen, president of the New Haven Foremen's club and connected with the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., spoke on the history and organisa- tion of his club. A. L. Silliman ex- plained the educational advantages offered threugh cooperation of the Yale facuity and buildings. .Supper was served at 6:30”¢'clock. Reports of committees comprised the buik lof the business meeting. I' ! [ - A daughter, Patricia, was born on December 31 to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Daly of Washington, D. C. Mr. Daly, formerly editorial writer of the New Britain Herald, is dramatic critic of the Washington Post. Try our Combination Lunches. :l‘fn. Lunch Room, §7 Church 8t.— Company No. 7 of the fire depart- ! :09 Jast evening to extinguish a grais ¥ré on Rox- bury road. B - Bernard Steln ‘has been awarde & oontract fto build a new office bullding for Morris Cohn at 21 Main street. The building is to cost ap- proximately $100,000. Excavations are now being made by Angelo L. Tomasso. The plans were prepared by Max Unkelbach. A daughter was boru at New Brit- ain General hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Waiton of Plainville day, and died a few hours after birth. SENSKTIONAL REPORTS AND BACH ONE IS FALSE Woman Reported Dead, Mother of Triplets and Sick But Nowe is Right New York, Jan. 21 ¢P)—A series, | of mysterious incidents had Dr. and Mrs. Paul Gross of East 58th street, bewlldered today An undertaker called at the Gross home with all the paraphernalia necessary for a funeral. Hé sald he had come in response to a tele- phone call. Mrs. Gross had just imured him there was a mistake somewhere when a registered nurse appeared, saying she had bheen sent ‘hy a registry to care for b maternity case. Again Mrs. Gross explained there was an error. A short while later there again was a knock on the door and a minister sald his services were requested at a fuferal, Just after the departure @f the ! minister, Dr. Gross, a lecturer at the {Vanderbilt clinle, arrived home after a hectic afternoon spent in running down a telephone message that his wife had been seriously hurt in an accident. The mystery took still another iangle when a newspaper was in. formed by telephone that Mrs. Gross had given birth to triplets. The newspaper's informant said she had been the mother of six other chil- dren, three belng scts of twins. LEGION BOWLING LEAGUE Fourteen Posts to be Represented in Circuit Which Opens Play Next Friday Night, Fourteen American Legion posts will be represented in the mnewly organized Hartford County Ameri- can Legion Bowling leagie accord- ing to the response to the call for a meeting held in this city last night &t the home of Eddy-Glover post on Washington street. Representa- tives from the following posts were present and submitted a team to enter the competition: Southington, New Britain, Plainville, Berlin, Bris- tol, ‘Hartfprd, Unionville, Simsbury, ‘West Hartford, East South Manchester, Windsor, Wind- sor Locks and Thompsonville, The league games will be started next Friday night. Each team will bowl & home and home match with the other in the league. The league will be divided into two sections, the East and West and at the conclu- sion of the playing schedule, the winners of both sections will meet on neutral alleys for a playoff, Political Prisoner Is Liberated From Jail Dublin, Ireland, Jan., 21 P— James Nugent, a wounded poltical prisoner, was liberated from 8t. IPricin’s military hospital shortly after midnight in an cscape which was accompanied by a pistol duel. Two armed men cropt into the » {dimly lighted hospital ward on hands ‘and knees and bundled Nugent into street clothes. When the guard was roused by the noise of their | movements, the men opened fire on him with revolvers. The guard threw himself on the floor and re- turned the fire, but the three men escaped. Nugent was one of a number of from Mountjoy prison in 1925 and was recaptured in Clonmel, Decem- ber 21 after a fight with detectives ! during which he was shot in the hip. Estimate of Board of Finance Being Realized Hartford, Jan. 21 UM—The state hoard of finance before going out of existence last year estimated that during the biennium ending June 30, 1929, $33,921,000 would be re- jceived hy the state in “receipts avallable for all general purpomes.” In the first quarter of six months !et that biennium from July 1 to 1Deceraber 31, 1927, more than one- third of this amount has been realiged, figures supplied today by the state department of finance and control showing that $13,755,171.43 came into the treasury in such re- celpts. The department emphasizes that this money is listed as “available for all general purposes,” becauso other receipts in the first quarter, amounting to over $6,000,000, are set aside for specific purposes, over $5,600,000 going to the highway de- partment. ~ ' ' Hartford, | The State Trade school basketball team lost 'a hard.f Farmingtea Valley High achool game to Lewis High schoel of Southingteh at the Sonthington tewn hall last night | 32-17. Both teams started fast and the acore was 10-9 in favor of lewis High at the end of the first quarter, ond period and to }9-1¢ duting the third: The last gquarter was even. Smith and Nelsen led the scering for the winners and Anderson for the locals. The teams shot only § out of 28 foul tries. It was the third loss of the week fer the Trad- ers, The summary: Lewis Migh Scheol 4 FL M. 4 L] 1 L] 13 o Slodcwume 4|was a growing dispesition on the | 1ipart of trades to regain the recent | Richtmyer, 1t . jAnderson, ¢ .J 13 Frost, rg 3 4 17 Personal fouls, Pond 3, Ritchmyer, 2, Anderson, Frost 2, Abel—9; King Smith & Nelion, Hopko 2, Badge- 4—18, Technical touls, Richtmy- er 2, Frost. Badgely. Pond 5, Richtmyer 5, Anderson 3, Frost ¢—17; Smith 2, Nelson, Ho, ko, Badgely 7—11. Referce, Cassidy. Timers, Knowles and Smith, Scorers,. Smith and Delehanty, NAYY BOARD DELIBERATES "Report of Finding on 5-¢ Will Not Be Published For at Least Three ‘Weeks, Boston, Jan. 21 (UP)-—The re- port of the naval board of inquiry into the 8-¢ disaster probably will not be made public for at least three weeks. The court, which began taking testimony on January 4, concluded its hearings late yesterday. After deliberating over the evidence, it will make its report to Secretary of Navy Wilbur. Before being sub- mitted to the navy chief, however, ithe report must be reviewed by the 'judge advocate general's office, the bureau of construction and repair and several other'departments. Closing arguments were made by | Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. | Doyle, representing the personnel of ithe 8-4, and Commander Leroy 'Reinburg, counsel for the coast i guard. Doyle blamed the destroyer. Paulding for ‘the collision which !sank the 8-4 with a loss of 40 lives |oft Provincetown on December 17, declaring that the destroyer was tunning an {rregular course inte Provincetown without proper look- uts. Reinburg countered with the statement that if there were sub- marine warnings in the vicinity the accident would have been avoided. Nineteen Radio Stations To Broadcast Cosgrave New York, Jan. 21 (UP)—Nine- teen radlo stations throughout the east and middlewest will brosdcast | the address of Rt. Hon. Willlam T. Cosgrave, president of the Irish Free Btate, from Chicage tonight. The address which will be & dis- ,cussion of present economics and in. dustrial conditions in Ireland, will be carried througktout the greater part of the nation by the metwork of the National Broadcasting Com- pany. At 9 o'clock Central Time, Roger Faherty, president of the Irish Fellowship club, the organisa- tion which is giving a dinner in honor of the Irish Free State's chiet exccutive, will introduce Cosgrave. The following stations will put the address on the alr: WEAF, New York; WEEI, Bostun; WIAR, Provi- dence; WTAG, Worcester; WCEH; Portland, Me.: WRC, Washington; WGY, Schenectady: WGR, Buffalo; WWJ, Detroit; WGN, Chicago; KS8D, 8t. Louis; WRHM, Minneapolis 8t. Paul; WOC, Davenport; WHO, Des Moines; WOW, Omaha; WFAA, Dallas: KPRC, Houston; WHAS, Louisville, KVOO, Tulsa, Okla, Convicts Cut Off Nose Of Overseer in Revolt Allahabad, United Provinced, Is dia, Jan. 21 M — One hundred con- victs in the provincial jail assaulted {their warders and cut off the nose lot their overseer in a revolt which ‘was suppressed today. Twenty of the convicts took re- fuge on the, roofs of the city. The warders fired at them, killing one and wounding 16. All were even- tually overpowered, although & number of jallers were hurt in the uprising. SUSPECTS RELEASED Chicago, Jan. 21 UP—Under bonds 6f $20,000 each, James Kirk and his wite, Marion, charged with the mur. der of Betty Landsiedel ten day age were rcleased vesterday. The young woman was found slain in her luxurious hotel, apart- ment, strangled and bound with tape. The police arrested the cou. ple, friends of the slain weman, and later charged them with mur. den when fingerprints like Marien | Kirk's were sald to have been found on the tape. Later the poiice said they found ne fingerprints. FORECLOSURE ACTION Seeking foreclosure of & mértgage and possession of mertgaged prem- fses at Brown and Burritt streets, Anastasta Stec, threugh B. J. Mon- kiewics, has brought suit againgt Bronislaw Showrenskl. Deputy Sher- i Matthew Pupclak served the papers and attached preperty to the value to $4,000. READ WERATD (TAMIFIRD FOR BEST RESULTS |Pack Mot Car {¥ B Machine prd . ARE WEEK CLOSES Fractiosal Advances fn Several . Industrial Issues: New York, Jan. 31 UM—Prices were firm at the opesting of the stock market todsy with large fractional advances in some of the pivetal in- and Feundry, American Bmeltiog, aad Canadian Pacifia and Atchison amosg the rails. Mathieson Alkall had an initial gain of about a point The recovery in prices gained mementum as large buying orders appeared in the motors, public utili- ties and raliroad equipments. One block of 10,000 shares of Westing- house Electric changed hands at 07 1.4, up 3-4, followed by a fur-| ther advance at 373, a new high record. Montana Power man up nearly ¢ points in the first few minutes to & new peak at 119%, ' Abitibl Power attained a new top at | 116%, up 1%, and Hupp Motors recorded a similar gain In establish- ing a new peak above 37. There atiffening of money rates as an in- @lcation of an increasing commercial | demand for funds, rather than sole. | 7. |1y as an effort on the part of the federal reserve banks to restrict the volume of credit available on securie ties.collateral. Pools were again ac- tive in & pumber of {issues, brisk gains® being recorded in the early trading by Hudson Motors, National Biscult, U. 8. Hoftman Machinery, Internmational Match preferred and Continental Can. ; THE MARKET AT 11:30 A. M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) Low by High Close RURURKBUENYY Al Che & Dye 154% — Am Ag Che pa €5% American Can 73% Am Loco ... 113% Am Sumatra . 62 Am 8m & Re 17¢ Am Tobacco . Am Woolen . Anacenda Cop Atchison ..., Balt & Ohio. % ;;% 18% Calit Pet ... Cer De Pasco C R & Pac Chrysler Corp 3 Colo Fuel .., 79 Consol Gas ..12¢ Cora Prod u.. 69% Dav Chem ... 43% Dodge WBros A 19% Erie RR ... Fam Players . Flelschmann .. 71% Freeport Tex .103% Genl Asphalt . 90% Genl Elec J183% Genl Motors ..133% Hudson Motors 82% Int Comb, Eng 52% Int Nickel .... 957% Int Harves .,.240% Int Marland Ol .. 36% Mo Kan & Tex 38% Mont Ward ..133% N Y Central ..162 NYNH&H | North Amer. North Pacific.. 58 % Pan Am Pet B 43 Phillips Pet . 42 Plerce Arrow.. 1 4% Radio Corp ... Remington R4 24% Reading ......103% Bears Roebuck 853 Sinclatr Ol ... 20% Bouthern Pac .121% Std Ol N J . 37% Std Oil N Y . 30% Stewart Warner 82% Studebaker 58% Texas Co ..... 5¢% Tex Gulf Bulph 76% TYm Rol Bear .129% Underwood .. 71% Union Pac .. 1903 Unten Carbide 141% Upited Fruit . 138% U 8 Ind Al 106% v Rubber 5% 98¢ 243 1024 85% 121% % U% 1021 86 124 2935 81% 54 761 12815 70% 190 141 138% 105 893 1473 6% 18% 185% 83% 4% 76% 129% 718 1903 141% 138% 106% 598 H4T% 065 183 185% 83% West Elec ... Willys Over .. 13% Woolworth .. 185% Wright Aero .. 8¢ LOCAL STOCK MARKET (Furnished by Putsem & Co.) Insurance Stocks. - Bid Asked 880 885 805 410 825 1060 820 1690 8 90 98 3 3 15 31 85 115 53 28 32 32 21 2 53 113 (1} % 24 Aetna Casualty .. Aetna Life Ins Co Aetna Fire ...... Autemobile Ine Hartford Fire . National Fire Phoenix Fire Travelers Ins Conn General .... Am Hardware . Am Heslery Beaten & Ca Bige-Hfd Cpt Co com 93 Billings & Spencer com .. Billings & Spegcer p1a 2 Bristol Bram 10 Eagle Lock Fatnir Bearing Co . Hart & Cool Landers F N B Machine Niles-Be-Pond com . North & Judd .. Pock. Stowe & Wil Russell Mtg Co . Scovill Mg Co . Standard Screw .... Stanley Works . Torrington Co com . Members Now York & Hertford Stack Bxchanges 31 WEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN TEL 2040 HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE3-1341 We Offer: Aetna Life Insurance Price on Application. Thomson, Tenn & Ca 55 West Main Street New Britain Phone 2580 Members of New York and Hartford Stock Exchange Edward L. Newmarker, Manager We Offer:— New Britain Machine Company Common NEW BRITAIN Burrilt Hotel Bld3. We Offer: 100 Colt’s Douald R. SHOE WORKERSARE STLL ON STRIKE Labor Commissioner Arrives to] Effect Settlement ' Haverhill, $1ass., Jan. 21 (UP)— |With approximately 7,500 shoe | jworkers still on strike, steps were | to be taken here today in an effort | to effect an early settlement of the | walkout which has virtually crippled | the city's principal industry. | U. 8. Commissioner of Labor| Charles G. Wood has arrived here | !from Washington to aid in bringing factory operators and union leaders ,to an amicable agreement. | After he had conferred with James J. Rooney, chairman of the |district council, and Daniel Fitzger- ald, general secretary éf the Shoe ‘Workers' Protective ynion, the heads of the various locals were | asked to attend a meeting today. At this session, it was under- stood, a definite decision would be | reached @s to whether strikers | should resume work Monday. | Wood suggested that the Union | members, who went on strike carlier this week in protest against wage cuts of 10 to 35 per cent, re- turn to their benches and allow | ithem to wake a thorough investi- | cation of the wage situation in the | |Haverhill shoe industry. After this| investigation, he proposed to make | 'whatever recommendations he deem. | ed advisable. New Angle | A new angle on the strike situa- | tion was revealed last night when the ‘shoe operatives of the Rickard Shoe company and its subsidiary, the Claremont Shoe company, re- ceived their wages. All received pay under the 1927 |scale, as had been expect:d, except for the niggerhead operatives, who 1928 rates. Union officials were notified imme- | diately and ordered the niggerhead zoperlll"cs to leave their benches. Later, however, the niggerhead| workers were told to report for work today but to leave at 9 a. m. to attend a mass meeting at Whlrh: their problem would be considered. Considerable unrest was reported today in the Haverhill 8hoe Manu- facturers’ association, member fac- tories of which have declined to pay | EDDYBROTHERS &G Members Hartford Stock Exchonge HARTFORD - |cided to move to Mariboro it wages under the 1927 scale. Several factories were reported on the verge | Price on Application 50 Fafnir Bearing 100 North and Judd Prince & Whitely Established 1878. Members New York, Chicago and Cleveland Stock Exchanges. Burritt Bldg.—69 West Main St.—Tel. 5405 Hart, Mgr. We offer a few shares of New Britain Gas Light Co. - the 1927 rates sought by. strikers. It was pointed out that mest of these factories had pending erders representing many thousands of del- lars, and that a continued suspension of operations would entail a setieus financial loss. Marlboro, Mass., Jan. 21 (UP)— The Duane S8hoe company of Haver- hill, one of many affected by the strike in that city, has definitely de- was announced here today. At the same time it was disclescd that the Marlboro chamber of com- merce had purchased the old Mid- dlesex bo. factory, formerly owmed by Rice and Hutchins compaay, and that it would "Jease this bullding to * the Duane company on a 10-year basis. > The Duane company will meve to this city immediately. It will em- ploy about 200 hands at the start, with a daily production of 1000 pairs, El Paso Golf Tourney Opens With 40 Entrants El Paso, Tex., Jan. 21 UB=Twe | score professional golfers were @s- signed to three-somes here today for. the opening of the second &nmual El Paso open. MacDonald Smith of Great Neek, L. I, and Tommy Armour of Wash- ington, natienal’ open title helder and Jefendiag champion, were among the favorites on basis of practice rounds. . Pairings for the 36 holes today. found Smith assigned to play with Blilie Burke of New York and Joe Lally, local professional. Armemr drew Willle Hanter of Los Angeles and Joe¢ Turnesa of New York. As-. other three-some expected to At- tract a large gallery was comperiged of Bobby Cruickshank, New York: Frank Walsh, Appleton, Wis, aad Leonard Schmutte, Lima, O, g The schedule called Sor 18 holte this morning and the mme pumber this afternoon, with a similar pre- gram tomorrow. Prize meney totale " | 83,200, were paid under the conmtroversial | Man and Wife Charge Intolerable Cruelty A state referee will hear the case of Anna 8. Moquin and Ernest Mo~ quin, man and wife, of Bristel, ea¢h of whom asks a divorce frem other on charges of cruelty, according to a @ecred’ of Judge L. P. Waldo Marvin I8 superior court/yesterday. The quins_were niarried Juse 4, 1099, and they have fout eniigren. [ 4 ADS| READ WERALD CLASSIFIED ADS|of breaking away from tht associ-jand Willlam N. DeResier 890 ation and resuming work Monday at sel for the husband.