New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1928, Page 2

'0FFER $196.31 PRISE | FOR FLIGHT 10 MOOK | But to Collect Money Man Must Also ! Fly Back From Lunar i Planet, | | Paris, Feb. 3 (UP)—A $1988.61 | prize today was waiting to be col- lected by the man who can find & ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—UP—Negotl- | way to fly to the moon and back. ations for & new Franco-American | The French astronomical soclety treaty of arbitration have been suc- | consented to supervise sclentific cessful and the document, including | study of the problem, and to award a declaration against war as an in- | 5,000 francs annual prize offered by strument of national policy, will be | Robert Esnault Pellcterie and Andre signed here next Monday. The day | Hirsch for the best contribution to- will mark the sesquicentennial of | ward its solution. M. Pelleterie ex- the first treaty between the two | plained that the problem was to be countries. taken up in a serious way. substitute for Root “It's no Jules Verne fantasy,” he The new pact will substitute for said, “though many years of ex- the Root arbitration treaty which | erimenting may be necessary to will expire February 27 and will be | find a kind of a rocket that will be followed by a revision of similar | powerful enough to continue its agreements between this and other ! flight after it leaves the earth's at- foreign countries. mosphere, to land at the moon, and The preamble of the treaty con- to return. The entire problem hinges tains the declaration against war, an | o0 the fuel question. I belleve expression of hope that eventually | Scientists eventually will succeed in all governments will abandon armed | S0IVIng it by manipulation of inter- conflict in favor of peaceful settle- AMolecular enerzy.” ment of all disputes. Under the | treaty, however, should a con- | Girl Grabs Car Bumper, troversy arise between France and | Avflids Serion. fl‘m the United States that Sarah Urso, aged 5, of 183 Wash- fails of | diplomatic treatment, the arbitration | Sarah Treb 28C & 00 8 TELC | right front fender of a touring car formula must be approved by the Amspiain senate. lowned by James J. Curran of 31 |Glen street and driven by his wife, NEW TREATY WITH FRANGE S DRAWN Docamest Will Be Signed in Washington Next Monday In addition, the agreement bars from arbitration any disputes con- |y yjjijan C. Curran of the same cerning purely domestic affairs, in- | address, at 3:45 o'clock yesterday volving the interests of third party | s¢teroon, and suffered an injury 85 {8 Mpares dociaine, to the head. The little girl seized The new treaty will interlock With ¢no front bumper and held on until the Bryan conciliation pact. Many |Mrs Curran brought the car to & clauses of which bind the United |giop. States and foreign countries to ef- | Reporting the accident to Detee- forts toward peaceful termination of ‘(l\'e Sergeant McCue, Mrs. Curran mutual problems. In the case of |said she was driving south on High France the Bryan treaty, which is street with Miss Mary A. Tormay offective until denounced by either of 30 High street and Miss Loretta signatory, stipulates that neither McKeon of Kensington and the will declare war until a year after |child ran from the sidewalk in front conciliators have failed to reach an [of a parked truck at 238 High adjustment, Istret. Mrs. Curran applied the| To Be Signed Monday brakes on her car but the child was| The treaty to be signed Monday |directly in its path and it was im-| ‘includes mention of the Bryan pact |Possible to avoid striking her. Mrs. and 1t is the intention of the state Curran took the child to New Brl-| department to incorporate its pro- |tain General Hospital later and sent| visions in arbitration agreements to Dr. Frank Zwick to attend her. | be signed with other countries which | Mrs. Curran and Miss McKeon are| are not parties to Bryan treaties. members of the faculty of the Postponement of discussions for a | Washington school, where Miss Tor-| separate Franco-Amcrican treaty to |May 1s principal. outlaw war, as proposed by Foreign | » Minister Briand last year, wiumrir: .Smashing of Window | Is Called Accidental | sult from signing of the new agree- ment. Secretary Kellogg countered |, | o7 \aq entered by Prosecu- ting Attorney J. G. Woods in the the Briand suggestion with another | that multilateral treaties be arrang- | i icase of Gustave Battaglia, aged 24, ed to include other great powers |Cp 7e7 w . . but that has met with French objec- |0F 737 Weat Maln street, in pohite| D i i fa o ete T e el etk 4 ess driving. Mr. | reply soon to the latest French note |5,ve that Battaglia’s car left the which set forth difficulties found by | road and smashed a window in Hen- that government In the Kellogg pro- |ry Moran's store on Main street, op- posal because of France's in sistence | posite Myrtle street, during the snow that only “wars of aggression” be storm early Sunday morning, but outlawed. there did not appear to have been |eriminal intent and the damage has Birth Control Hushand |been settled satisfactorlly. Attorney . . «p_ | A. A. Greenberg appggred for Bat- Divorced by His Wife 'icia. Rome, Feb. 2.—(UP)—A husband The continued case of Mary Ra- who practiced birth control lost his ranowskl, aged 21, of 1193 KEast| wife today when the local courts street, was continued until Febru-| granted her a separation on the ary 18. The young woman will be | ground that she had a right to bear returned to the state hospital at| children. |Norwich when certain formalities “A husband Insults his wife by have been attended to and in the forcing her into sterility,” the court meantime she is under care of the ruled. probation department. The decision s regarded as a so- clal and juridicial precedent that | Elect Col. Lindbergh will be binding. It conforms to the ‘ T B (" dh bl et 'o Become Groundhog D he Manciel pelne, whilch ) o rrewille, Fay 9, 8- (0D) = holds voluntary sterility among marricd people to be an offense Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been | Middletown | Hartford NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928, Proposed Schedule of Water Rates “WILL [’ IF Bluntly Rejected by Finance Board The proposed schedule of charges for water service and consumption submitted to the board of finance and taxation last night by Chairman W. L. Hatch of the water commission 15 as follows: | 1,—~For each service there shall be a charge for the service and meter, per annum, as follows: For a service with a %° Meter . %" Meter 1% Meter ..ov0 1%" Meter 2* Meter 3% Meter 4" Meter ¥ Meter 87 Meter $4.00 1.00 10.00 16.00 24.00 48.00 72.00 144.00 wes 240,00 2.—In addition thereto, for all water drawn there shall be charged For the firat 40,000 cubie feet of water per annum, or any part thereof, the Domestic TRLO Of tuovorosrsrronserinnessnanennnnnns For water in excess of 40,000 cubic fect and under 400,000 cubfe feet per annum the Inter- mediate rate Of .........iiienresitncnans For water in excess of 400,000 cubic feet per annum the Manufacturing rate of ........, $.07 per 100 cu. ft. $.1¢ per 100 cu. ft. $.10 per 100 cu. ft. ESTIMATED METER SERVICE INCOME Capacity Proposed Cu, feet Service Per Annum Charge 40,000 $4.00 66,800 7.00 120,000 10.00 240,000 16.60 400,000 24.00 800,000 48.00 @ 1,260,000 72.00 20 2,400,000 144.00 1 240,00 13 Present Number 4626 2662 391 76 87 17 Income $18,504 18,664 3,910 1,216 2,090 £16 3,020 3,880 240 $61,239 Usage Year 1927 No Takers 6920 3844 33 7337 Annual use 10,000 cu. ft. 77,624 30,363 158,658 Payment Domestic 77,624 16,360 1,320 Divisions Class Intermed. Domestis Intermediate Manufacturing Mg, 16,008 11,880 145,458 266,645 94,304 26,888 100% 85.3% 10.19% Schools and consumers getting free water not included 145,458 54.6% COMPARISON OF NEW BRITAIN WATER RATES WITH RATES OF OTHER NEW ENGLAND CITIES Quantities cu. feet per annum Municipal 4 400,000 cf 1,000,000 cf 2” Meter 4” Meter $340.00 $745.00 440.00 908.00 310.00 625.00 600.00 1,500.00 470,00 1,025.00 230.00 550.00 620.00 1,550.00 300.00 750.00 260.00 625.00 450.00 900.00 320.00 625.00 350.00 775.00 5,000 cf % Meter $5.00 11.00 6.00 7.50 9.00 11.00 10.00 15.00 6.00 2.00 10.00 8.60 40,000 cf % Meter $40.00 60,00 48,00 60,00 72,00 85,00 62,00 45.00 48.00 72.00 80.00 62,00 New Britain present New Britain proposed Bristol Springfleld Waterbury Meriden Pittsfleld Worcester Norwich New London Private Companies New Britain present New Britain proposcd New Haven Ansonia Torrington Bridgeport Stamford 5.00 11.00 12.00 8.00 10.00 14.00 11.00 WATER RATE INCREASE PIGEONHOLED BY HALL (Continued from First Page) 40.00 60.00 60.00 72.00 84.00 64.00 100,00 340,00 440.00 370.00 440.00 440.00 374.00 640.00 908.00 840.00 700.00 850.00 785.00 1,125.00 There {s an income of $216,000, which will take care of operating expenses, Chairman Hall attacked the sys- tem of bookkeeping used by the water board, saying that the old sys- tem was much more easy to under- stand. Chairman Hatch explaiged that the system now employed is a & future time, when it is ready to ask an immediate bond issue. The budget of the water board was legislature. “Yes,” stated Chairman Hall, “that system was inaugurated to take care of Hartford.” He stat- 745.00 | standard one and was favored by the | ugainst the law of nature, impairing the public interest as well as a | wife’s or husband's rights. clected to become a groundhog. The Quarryville Groundhog lodge, an organization the members of which all boast of February $ as lout the proposed new work, includ- then pared down, in order to leave ed in the bond issue sought. The capital account was made $135,000, ed that conditions would be much better if the law were not in ex- istence. (The proposed schedule of new ELECTED PRI DENT their birthday, has decided to elect Rome, Feb. 2.—(UP)—Deputy |Lindbergh to an honorary member- Giacinto Motta, director of the Ship although his birthday is Feb. Banca Nazionale Credito, has been ruary 4. vlected president of the National As- | Fifty-two members of the Ground- soclation of Electrical Industries, to [hog orgamization which obtalned succeed Senator Ponti, who resigned. national recognition some months —_— ago through magazine articles, to- HAS INFLUENZA !day appeared at the lodge rooms Gardone, Italy, Feb. 2.—(UP)—— |prepared to take up their annual Gabriele D'Annunzio, world famous |Vigil beside the hole of one of lhel poet and aviator, was in bed today |little animals which are reputed to suffering from influenza, contracted forecast the weather of the mnext after attending a memorial service six weeks. at the local cathedral on the anni-,; The first act of the lodge was to versary of his mother's death, ‘consider the election of Lindbergh. Beware of Your Cough or Cold When it Hangs On There's danger for you when your cough or cold sticks and hangs on for days and weeks. t is real danger. 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UNABLE TO HARRY Former Mabarajah of Indore in Diu_Str_ailsollm Bombay, British India, Feb. 2(P— The vernacular daily newspaper Sandesh snyw that the fermer Ma. barajah of Indore has asent this telegram to his private secretary in regard to his intention to marry Miss Nancy Miller of Seattle, Wash. “Inform all if marriage with Miss Miller cannot take place X shall die.” The paper also saya that the former ruler having up to the pres- ent failed to arrange for the Ameri. can girl to be initiated into Hindu- ism has been urged to turn Islam, Embrace Islam A telegram has been sent to him and Miss Miller suggosting they em- brace Islam “which alone can end your present deplorable controversy | and offer peace of heart and soul i¢ | followed in the true faith.” “Islam offers protection to em- perors and beggars alike,” the tele- gram continues, “It can lead them to spiritual and worldly loftiness.” The sender, who is a Punjab Mos- lam, asks the former Maharajah to reply by wire so that arrangements for the conversion can be made. This otfer from Islam sources aroused reformers among the Mah- rattas, & non-Brahmin community who receive converts of any caste or race into their fold and the secretary of the movement has sent a message to the former Maharajah urging him to be strong. The secretary sig- | nifies that the Mahratta community |18 prepared to accept Miss Miller as a Mahratta, . Although his own people appar- ently will not receive Miss Miller, the offers from these other sources {1t is thought will give the former Maharajah an opportunity to sur- mount the present religious diffi- culties to the marriage. Meanwhile the former ruler and |the American girl are remaining at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, and despite {rumors of his plans, his intentions | appear as uncertain as ever al- though it seems unlikely that the imarriage will be abandoned. | FIND BULLET IN SKULL Denver, Colo.,, Feb, 2 (UP) — A |skull with a builet hole high tn the |torenead was unearthed here by two men digging in the floor of a tire shop. The skull was wrapped in papers dated May 7, 1880. It was ibelieved the paper was published ,m Kansas City, | SHADOW LAWN TO BE REBUILT ‘West Long Branch, N. J., Feb, 2 (UP)—S8hadow Lawn, for two years the summer White House during the administration of President Wil- son and which burned a year ago with®a loss of $700,000, will be re- built. Hubert T. Parson, president of F. W. Woolworth & Co., said to- | day that he had completed plans for {conutrucunz the new home. It will |be similar to the original ahd- cost at least $1,000,000, Parson said. {Find Giant Bomb Under Home; Arrest Two Men Chicago, Feb, 2 (M—Two men have been arrested following the finding yesterday of a giant powder bomb under the home of William J. Byrne, head of the Byrne Bag com- pany. A defective fuse probably |saved his wife, and thelr seven chil- dren, for the bomb contained a pound and a half of powder. Those held for investigation were | Dr. Charles F. Bongiorno, an osteo- |path and James F. McCahill, a |former employe of Byrne. Both de- nied knowledge of the attempted bombing. Police learned of differ- enoes between McCahill and Byrne, over $18,000 McCahill believed dus him trem his former emplayer. McCahill is understood to have claimed the $18,000 as the result of a lawsuit Byrne won and in which McCahill figured promimnently. Saves Life of Dog by Swimming Through Ice Mew Bedford, Mam., Feb, 3.— (UP)—S8wimming more than 100 yards through the ice floes of the Acushnet river, Harold C. Fisher, a chautfeur, brought to shore a small dog which had been drifting on an ice cake toward the open sea. Frantic efforts had been made to rescue the dog. but all had falled until Fisher arrived. Returning to shore, where he was cheered by a large crowd, Fisher ran to his home, took a rubdown, and in half an hour was driving his em- ployer’s automobile. 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