New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1928, Page 15

(LUB TO PRONOTE CONMUNITY SPIIT G E Society Sponsors New Omninuoumllemgton .\ewinlfflm Feb. 25 — Organiza- tlon of the Newington Young People’s Community club has been started under the direction of Rev. John A. Moir, pastor of the Newing- ton Center Congregational church, The purpose of the club is to bring about a better community spirit among the young people and to in- crease the interest in church activi- Ues. A committee has been chosen to take care of the details of or-| ®anization by the Christlan Endeavor. of the church, which is sponsor for the new club, The commiftee is composed of Bally Rowley, Geraldine Hurd, Candace Pittainger, Alden | Woodruff, Bruce Leslie, Paul (amp,[ Herbert Welch, and Harvey Hurd. | Membership in the organization | will not be restricted to members of the church, according to the com- | mittee. It is hoped that there will be many other young people who will Join, The committee will hold a mecting | in the parish house on Tuesday eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock 25 Members of the Christian En- | deavor and the Newington Congre- sational church will unite in & union service at the church on Sunday eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. John A. Moir, pastor, will be the speaker and | & quartet will render several selec- | tions. The quartet is composed of | Miss Sally Rowley, Miss Candace | Pittsinger, Paul Camp, and Herbert | L. Welch. The monthly meeting of tiic offi- | cers and teachers of the Sunday| school of the Newington Congrega tional church will be held in the! parish house on Friday evening. A | supper will be served before the | business meeting. | Mrs, Mabel A. Ficher is confincd to her home on Frederick street | with an attack of the grip. Richard H. Erwin, Jr., returned today from the New Hampshire State | Normal school at Keene. He will | end a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, R, H. Erwin. Mrs. J. H. Latham of Thcodore strect is confined to her home by llness i BERLINNEWS (Continued from Page Seven) board of the church will also meet with the Wesleyans. A supper will| be served at 7 o'clock which | members of both organizations will | attend. The Modern Woodmen will meet | Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Ath- letic hall for the usual weckly meet- ing. On Tuesday cvening the Knights of Pythias will hold an anniversary | by wagons becuuss [out my w celebration and banquet at Com- munity hall. Members of the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters and their families are invited to attend. Following the banquet a short entertainment program will be iheld, after which dancing will be en- ™| Joyed. COAL OPERATORS' VIEWS PRESENTED Gonle foday With Seoate Sub- Committee in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 25 (UP)— '0al operators today presented their | controversy between views in the the United Mine Workers of America and the operators of bituminous workings to the senate interstate commerce sub-committee investigat- ing conditions in the strike sones of Pennsylvania. J. A. D, Morrow, Pittsburgh Coal Company, told the | investigators that all of his proper- tics were open for a survey, He invited the senators to accompany him to mines at Pricedule and Arn- old, Pa, and later visit some distant workings that can only be reached of impassable roads. The senate committee in its first two days of investigating were con- ducted on a tour by Phillip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of America. Won't Go Under Benator Wagner,«lemocrat, want- ed to enter onc of the soft conl mines but his other colleagues, Senators Gooding, republican, Ida- ho, Wheeler, democrat, Montana, and Pine, republican, ©klahoma, re- fused to go under ground. Joe Lubresky, evicted striker ot" | Harmarville, Pa., yesterday told the | committee he had lived in company houses seven years and one year age went on strike. was ordered to move within three Bave “At the time I was sick in bed and the d fter he were ordered becamie ill with pneu- monix.* Lubresky said, crying. “We had to move though, and some friends took us in automobies to union barracks. They laid my wo- |man and myself on the floor, wrap- ped in blankets. Thero stove and it was cold Five days later the woman was no and damp. died, leaving me with three children.” Lubresky told the investigators he | now supported his three children on $2.50 a week donated by the union and some donated groceries. The senators asked concerning ! communists in the mining camps but there were conflicting answers. No definite answer was given. One striking miner told the sube committce that members of an or- | ganization called the Pennsylvania- | | Obio Relief committee were “Reds” i but that the organizers were trying to gain control of’ the union and were not advocating violence, $6 and 85 A Day. At the Kinlock mine, New Ken- sington, Pa., owned by the Valley j Camp Coal Company of Cleveland, We recommend— Baltimore American Insurance Capital .............. $1,000,000 Surplus 1927 Earnings .... (equal to 23% on Market Price). president of the | Last December he | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1928. hie, J. H. Schweinberg, superin- | tendent, testified he paid the sheriff | of Westmoreland county $7.60 a day for every deputy sherift furnished | for mine guard work. 8enator Wheeler called in E. M. Keeple, deputy sheriff in charge of the guards. Kepple testfied he re- celved §6 a day and his asgtants | $6 a day each. = Says Harry Thaw Is In Another Lawsuit New York, Feb. 256 UMW—The Eve- ning World today says suit for breach of contract has been started | ugainst Harry K. Thaw by Arthur B, Reeve, novelist, and John 8. Lopes, acenario writer, as a result of Thaw's | ventures as a motion picture pro- | ducer. Reeve and Lopes said they had | been engaged by Thaw's manager to write 13 two-reel film stories at $500 cach dealing with an exposure Qf | spiritualism, Later Thaw was in- duced to abaudon this undertaking, they sald and launched on a plan | to film the story of his own life. Two of the spiritualism films were wade at a cost of $150,000, the World says, but these never were sold, technical staff signgd for both film ventures but Reeve and Lopez say 12'stories they wrote. {Relatives of Wives of Ex-Mgharajah Belie Story Bombhay, India, Feb. 25 (M—Near | relatives of the two wives of Tukoji Actors were engaged and . a | | they were paid for only the first ofT $300,000 ROBBERY IN CHICAGO TODAY Five Mea 'hke Three Payrolls, From Train Chicago, Feb. 23 M—Three pay rolls reported to total $300,000 were taken from a Grand Trunk local train today by five robbers who stopped the train near Evergreen Park, southwest of Chicago, bombed the rear end of the mail car and made thelr escape. The payrolls were those of the Buda Motor Works, the Ingalls #hepherd Works and the Whiting Corporation, all of Harvey. Armed guards were at the station at Har- vey waiting to escort the payrolls to the plants when the train pulled in shortly after the robbery. | The train “was a local Chicago at 7:45 a. m. at Port Huron, Mich. at 9 p. | The train was stopped by haif a dozen nien who flageed the engineer at St. Mary's cemetery about one- quarter of a mile from livergreen Park. Four men, two m {and two government agents were re- {ported in this mail and express car. | Firing more than 50 shots to in- timidate the guards and about 100 passcngers, the robbers entered the mail and express car, blew the safe, scooped up the currency and made and ar Rao, former Maharajah of Indore, |today contradicted published reports {that they had consented to his mar- ng Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Se- {attle, Wash, The¢ also sald that Tukoji Hao's stepmothers and sisters ure oppesed | ,to the wedding. | The junior maharani is still fast- ;ing. being overcome by grief. It 1s understood some of the ma- | | petition the viceroy In regard to the | myrriage. SUES TO COLLECT BOND Reeking to collect on a bond, the |E. 8. Kibbe Co., through Joseph G. | Woods, has brought suit for $£1,000 |damages against G., alias John, So- kolik. The plaintiff claims that the defendant furnished a bond, guar- anteeing to muke good for Chest Chichowski in case it should be ne- cesmary. It is alleged that judgment was secured in an action chowski and that no payments have {been made on the bond. Constable ¥red Winkle served the papers. | As the result of an | { ain road on December 5 last, Martha Dudoich of Plainville, through B. J. Monkiewicz, has brought suit for | $500 damages against Thomas Han- non of this city. Deputy Shoriit | DAD FOLLOWS SUIT Alllance, Neb., Feb. 26. — Hic four sons having marricd four eis- ters, Dad Sisley, 70, made it unani- {mous by marrying the girls' moth- { er. The mother of the “boys” died |threc months ago, while the bride has been a widow for scveral years. took place ten years ago. 3,334,175 cv.ee.. $21.20 per share Average 1927 earnings of 33 representative fire insurance companies 10% of current market price~of their securities. By comparison, Baltimore American is earning 23% on market price and should show considerable price improvement on this basis. Circular on request R. W. WATKINS & COMPANY | NVESTMENT - SECURITIES 21 Lewis Street, Hartford New Haven 153 Court St. Waterbury 108 Bank St. New London 3829 State St. WE DO "NOT ACCEPT MARGIN AGCOUNTS — harani’s relatives are preparing to | against Chi- | untomeblile ! iaccident on the Plainville-New Brit- | Matthew Papelak served the papers. | The first union of the two families | | P —Mra, Susan J. their cscape in an automobile parked nearby, The train proceeded {l(df\' ABUSED ABANDONED WIFE GIVEN DIVORCE DECREE Unusual | Mrs. Blancato Alleges Cruelty and Distress Before Her | Husband Left Home. | Mrs. Rose jwas gr 1 a divo | Bluncato, ulso of New Iritain, by {Judge L. P. Waldo Marvin in the su- | pertor court yesterday. She charged habitual intemperance and intoler- ble cruelty and was represented b |Attorney Harry' Ginsburg, The ac {tion was uncontesfed. | It was alleged that the after abusing his wife period, walked out of their home on Gilbert street the latter part of 1926, \leaving one of their three small | children scriously ill, There was 1o and little clothing. The child | died, the cold and extreie hardships | tollowing the departure of the father being held responsible. He did not | return to his home for the funeral | nor has he returned since. Previously, when Blancato was | sentenced to jail for 6y days as | vesult of his actions, the court stuted that the case was one of the most repugnant it had ever dealt with. PURIH CELEBRATION Zionist District and Hadassah Chap- : from Joseph 1food ter to'Unite in Observance March 4 At Winter Street Synagogue. The New Britain Zionist district, with the local chapter of Hadassuh. | will hold a Purim celebration day evening March 4, in the vest | rooms of the Tiphereth lsracl Syn: | gogue on Winter street. The Had sah chapter is arranging the lunch- n at which the traditional “Hamon-tash” will be scrved The speaker of the evening will be the editor of the Jerusalem Duily, Dot Hayom, Ittamar Ben Avi, the |son of Eliazer Ben Yehuda, author of the new Hebrew diction- ary. Mr. Ben Avi as he is general- ly known, through still a young man, has had an interesting carcer. Tn addition to his journallstic abilities Ben Avi is a brilliant and €loquent orator. The meeting is open to all and arrangements are being made | for 250 guests. | | | | ‘West Brookfield, i Dane, 99, Brookfields' oldest resident, an- nounced today that she has sold to Henry Ford two old phaetons, the | older of which has heen shipped to Detroit to bo placed in Mr. Ford's {museum of antiquitics. Onn @ bullt about Eeventy years ago and one more than fifty years ago. (UP) — Peter | Kyriakos found a eenfine p |necklace, valued at $20.000, lost ft Ito police In a wrangle with a pawn- !broker, and it was sold at auction [for $505. Peter went back to Llack- [ing Dboots. Chicago, Feb i | Plainview, Nebs 25 (UP)— Considerable dispute is on hetween business men over which one origl- | nated the "(‘anh only” system: of | immnm adopted throughout F |view last week. Feb., 2 It's worth while to have a Bank connection with an institu- tion ke The New Brtain Trust Co. Your Funds are Safe and you know full well that the careful and conservative management found here, is what you would expect and de- site in the protection and hardling of your deposits. New Britain Trust Co. I clerks | 10 Blancato of this city | husband, | for a long | the | 45 until 1940, view cemetery, Wall Street Briels W York, Feb. | gains in lumber {ments and orders are noted in the weekly analysis of the National | Manufacturers Association, based on [ reports from 324 softwood mills for |the week ended Feb, 18. The hard- | wood group reported gains in pro- | duction and shipments but a slight decreage in orders. Unfilled orders iof 221 south pine and west coast | mills were 664,254,132 feet againat 156,500,200 feet the previous week. 25 ®—Continued | There is every prospect that 1928 will be a good year generally for public utility companies, sald Philip | Gossler, head of Columbia Gas & | ic Company, on his departure | for Cuba. | | January count; production of s which furnish about %0 per cent of the world total was 135,- 438 short tons against 138,121 tons in December and 138,808 in January, {1927, the American bureau of metal statistics” reporta. . G. Dun & Company reports 453 commercial failures in the United States this week against 502 the week before and 444 a year ago. ONCE PROSPEROUS, 85. Poddler Feb. 25 (M—A man Broadway only as and who eked out a meagre living peddling novelties, was found dead this morning at the bottom of {the stairs in the Times Square sup- way where had had been wont to New York, known along { “Austin” sleep. | teer tion and onc who obviously had known bLetter days, but it was not juntil & group of his fellow peddlers rounded up to identify the body that it was found he was Austin McCormack, reputed former well-to- do Roxbury, Masa,, saloon keepér and World War veteran. He was about 44 years old. One of the peddlers whom Austin {had taken into his confidence re- | vealed his identity to police. From several of them police pieced to- her the following story of his life: Before the war McCormack was a saloon keeper in Roxbury and made considerable money. He enlisted in a home-town outfit when war was eclared and went to France. He was gassed and wounded. , Returning home after the armis tice to a nest-egg of some $50,000 he made several unprofitable invest- ments and lost most of his money Leaving Lis wife and two children in Roxbury he came to New York but was unable to find work. v he was forced to start peddling on |the streets, taking treatment for his Ith meanwhile at the United States Veterans' hospital In the Bronx where he was advised to seck a warmer climate. His lack of funds precluded that step. His condition continued to grow worse and for the past two weeks he had slept in a doorway at the | hottom of the subway stairs, whera his body was found. Police wald. pending an autopsy, they belleved the death due to heart disease. His friends said McCormack has |a brother, J. R. McCormack, em- |ployed in the office of the corpora- | tion counsel of Boston. His wife and {two children are believed still to he [living in noxhurv Mass lceland Moves to Get Complete Independence Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb, 25 () 1l parties in the Iccland parlia- | ment have agreed to the desirabil- ity of cancelling the present treaty of personal union with Denmark | thereby obtaining complete inde- pendence, | The movement for cancellation of the treaty, which is not revokable is partly due to Iceland's | wish- to have her representation abroad in her own hands. Tecland I by a personal bond upon under the | government of King Christian. with Norway, came under the rule of Danish kings, but when Norway far back as 1381, Iccland, together | was separated from Denmark in 1914, Tecland remained under the rule of Denmark. Since Dec. 1, 1918, it hag been acknowledged as & sov- | eTeign state and is united with Den- mark only through the identity of | the sovereign. Deaths Charles E. Harrington Charles E. Harrington, aged 74, stepdaughter, Miss H. Edna Beers of 566 Orchard street, New Haven. The funeral services will be held from the parlors of Beecher, Ben- nett & Lincoln, 100 Broadway, New Haven, Monday efternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment will be in Fair- this cit Joseph A. Haffey UNDERTAKER M 1623-2 Church Oppusite 8. Mary' Residence 17 Semmer $t.—1025-3 NOW_ THAT SPRING ARE El‘!l‘)fi!,"nmlflll BOLLERER'S POSY SHOP Al W. Main S, Prof. Bidg. Tel. “production ship- | lead by | DIES AS PAUPER | orable annual report. Former Roxbury Man Worked, Final- | {Tim Rol Bear (U 8 Bteel . is united with Denmark As! , Travelers Ins Co . dled yesterday at the home of his| |Am Sumatra . { He seemed a man of some educa- | TRADING STARTS AT BRISK PACE Nidland Slwl d Cmdiln Pacilic Go Up S i New York, Feb. 25 (M—8tock ' prices moved irregularly higher at the opening of today's market, with trading starting off at a brisk pace. Midland Steel products preferred quickly moved up 43 points and Canadian Pacific 1%, while a num- ber of other popular rails and in dustrial improved fractionally. National Blscuit fell back a point on the first sale, Bullish activities became more pronounced as the session pro- gremsed under the stimulus of pool operations and short covering, but . several issues continued to meet large blocks of stocks on the rallies. There was little overnight news to influence the price movement. In- ternational Nickel opened with ai block of 2,500 shares at 79, up -4, but quickly lost most of its gain. Wabash common opened 2 3-4 higher at 62 1-2, or more than 10 points above the recent low, on a single transaction of 2,000 shares. Lambert attained a new peak for the year and moderate gains were recorded by Goodrich Rubber, U. &, | Rubber first preferred, Packard, American ‘Express and Victor Talk- ing Machine, the last named re- sponding to the inauguration of divi- dends and the. publication of a fav- Wright Acro- nautical broke 5 1-2 points to €9 3-4 on selling presumably inspired by the announcement of a new type airplane motor, and Curtiss Airplane dropped 2 points. Foreign ex- | | changes opened irregular, with Ster- | ling Cables slightly $4. THE fiflnhl.’l' AT 11:30 A. M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) High TLow Close Al Che & Dye 149% 149 149% Am Ag Che pd GH-. - Amerlcan Can 765 Am Loco . i firmer around Am 8m & Re Am Sugar ... Am Tobacco . Am Woolen Anaconda Cop Atchison Balt & Ohio. Beth Steel Calif Pet . Ches, & Ohio CRI & Pao Chrysler Corp Congoleum Consol Gas ..131% 593 55 13 191 | 9% Dodge Bros A l! 4 Eric RR Fam Players .116 Fleischmann .. 69 Freeport Tex . 71 Genl Asphalt . 763 la(.nl Elec .. Hudson Motors Int Comb, Eng Int Cement Int Nickel ... Int Paper . Ken Cou ..... Mack Truck .. 98% Marland Ofl 34% Mo Kan & Tex 37% Mont Ward ..133% N Y Central ..159% NYNHG&H €Yy North Amer... 60% North Pacific.. 956% Pack Mot Car 59% Pan Am Pet B 40 Phillips Pet .. 37% Radio Corp ... 931 Remington R4 28 Reading ......100 Binclair Ofl . 20 Siuthern Pac . 118 Studebaker Texas Co ... N Tex Gulf 8ulph 71% 118% Underwood ....67% Union Pac L195% Union Carbide 137% United Fruit 139% UB Ind Alco ..111‘& U 8 Rubber . 3 139% 613 2 18% Wabash Ry . Weating. Elec Willy Overland 183 Woolworth . .18035 1791, Wright Aero . 73 69% LOCAL STOCKS {Furnjthed by Putnam & Co.) Indurance Stocks. Aetna Casualty Aetna Life 1ns Co ... Aetna Fire .. Automobile Ins . Hartford Fire . National Fire Phoenix Fire 880 550 L1070 ..800 Conn. General )Illullcturing \lm‘ka Am Hardware Am Hosiery Beaton & Cadwell Bige-Hfd Cpt Co com .. Billings & Spencer com Billings & Spencer pid .. 3 Bristol Brass . 5 Colt's Arms Eagle Lock . . Fafnir Bearing Co ....110 Hart & Cooley Landers, F .... N B Machine . N B Machine pfl Niles-Be-Pond com North & Judd .. Peck, Btowe & Wil . Russell Mtg Co . Bcovill Mfg Co . Standard Screw . Stanley Works . Torrington Co com . | Union Mfg Co Public Clllltk’a Wll Conn Elec Bervice . Conn Lt & Pow pfd . Hfd Elec Light . NBGas... Southern N E Tel + TREASURY BALANCE Treaspry Balance, $67,90 BJG SKYSCRAPER New York, Feb. 25 (UP)—Etate | Senator Reynolds has filed revised plans for a 64-story skyscraper to rise 809 feet. His original plans, he |found. called for a structure a few feet ,shorter than the Woolworth | hundsng and Reynolds made This! “The Telegraph Florist of New -n-lc".urhmet add two siories. PUTNAM & CO. Members New York & Hartfond Stock Exchanges. 31 WEST MAIN ST., NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW. 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