New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 16

REPORTED LAGEING b Pulls 10 Reach Hall Way Nark—| § 1 ¥ SHATOH Subscrbed | e 1928 community chest drive | @4 not look so promising when final feports for today, with only two more days to report, failed to bring he desired mark to halt the quota. Today's meeting brought the total report to $32.734, with the full min- imum quota set at $69,432.96 and the desired quota set 8lightly over $10.400 today, about half amount. Of the civic clubs, the Exchange club which turned in the largest amount, was credited with an addi- tional $222.14 received from unusual sources. It was reporfed that the Fatnir Bearing Co. had §S per cent of its quota filled. making it the feam nearest 100 per cent of its was reported cxpected | Today's meeting was in charge of e Rotary club, and President A 8L Scott presided. Entertainment wes provided by Walter Schwartz, magician. ®oday's reports were as follow Team am rs, Frary & 1 e ley Works 0 & ¥. Corbin 1 & Erwin Qerbin Ecrew Corp @erbin Cabinet L ley Rule & ir Bearing h & Judd . Britain Machine Mfg. Co. jean Tron Works PWewt & cooley . American Hosiery & Hutchinson r Chuck er Shirt . m & Cadwell . Lle Tron Works . U factories ange club s club club y club 19 . service (Conn. Hall erday's total y's total 0.0 tal to date | —_— | GONGERT OF FOLK SONGS | Clark Level 3 . 605 veport 143.25 000 101,00 repoit report rep a: 100,00 — | @lam Maric Bashian of New York, | Bmisted By Violinists and Pianists ‘Satertains at First Church. i songs were sung by Madam | MKB-‘:un of New York city E:vening at a concert at the First | shurch. Madam Bashian charmed the audience by her dramatic and musical ability as she sang dressed | in the colorful garb of the Slavic and Normandy peasantry and the soft draperies of the Shirag cos-| tume. Her varied program contain- ed folk songs in Russian, French, | Armenian and English. Appearing on the program also were a solo wiolinist, Bareh Tatewosian of New Haven, Saturn Hagopian, Nan(sl' and Mirlam Guleserian and Charles Gregory, violinists, of New Haven. | The Young Women's Missionary society of the First church which | sponsored the concert expects to elear about $100 for the benefit of the hospital for tuberculosis refu- | goes in Belrut, Syria. | WRITERS ARE MARRIED } ~ $wmnle Sally Grant, Formerly of | Shis City, and Philip G. Wlic Wed in New York. (8pecial to The Herald) WNew York, April 19 —Miss Jen- 8ally Grant, 22, a writer, of 95 ford street, this city, the daugh- | of John and Fanny Audeck | @rant of New Britain, where she ! born, and Philip G. Wylie, 25 a writer, of the same address. ined a license to wed here rtly after noon yesterday and @mnounced they would be marricd Jater in the day by the New York city clerk. Mr. Wylie was born in Beverly, Mass., the son of Edmund . end Edna Edwards Wylie: | Havy Asks for-Bids on Two Rigid Dirigibles | Washington, April 19 (®—The | vy department today asked for on two great rigid dir s ich congress has authirized it to uire. | About $8.600.000 i« to be B4 for the ships, which would be 7 feet long and 1 1- eter. They wonld i & erew of 16 officers and 8nd would also c: five Xhe cruising radius would be miles. Decision to ask for the bids fowed fhe entrance of the American Brown Boieri company of Camden, N. J.. into the airship building field TWO years ago congress horiz- @d the construction of two ships cut aced only $200.000 at the disposal of the navy. The Go Zep. pelin company of Dayton B the design confest hut begin construction except Plus hasis, in view of the congress had limited the expenditure to $4.500.000 expend- 45 airpl 11,200 fol- an Oliin, won EMERSON STUDIO RECITAL The second annual recital of pupils of the Emcrson dancing and dramatic Beld in the Camp school tomorrow evening at Those taking pari in the be as follows: Jane Pinche Hart, Virginia ey, Jane chard, Ethel Ko Dorothy sella, Barbara Chamberlain, Jans Marjorie Rogers, Virginia Dorothy Kinkade, Anna I'ra ley Show, Barbara M Malon Carmen stndin ¢ will b ditoriun s o'cloc) art recital w Doris Prit Kir Norma Tyons Rodles SWIg, ‘ripture, Judd, Jun othy Young. Jan Abramson, Gertrud. Mayer, Mary Dragon ensky, Peggy Poppel Hilda Krenn. Nina I nie Sperry. Gloria Candec Razsette Dorathy Hotehkiss Viola Lipshiiz. Effic Caroline Matika Dot Fllen Fairna 8 t $77,000. |0 | fix their position. FLY T0 GERMANS (Continued from First Page) New Yorke When he stepped out of the plane in which “Duke” Schiller had brought him from that island off the ip of Labrador he was just an avia- | or on assignment. But when a fly- ing wedge of newspaper men and | photographers struek him he be- | came, for the moment, one of the | three men who made history on a flight across the Atlantic from Ire- land. | Some of fheir questions e an- | swered readily enough. At others he | Iy smiled or dismissed them with | “We'll have to think that over be fore we say much about it.” But one thing he is su Rremen hasn't reached yot, “and until we take our trip is not over. Is to Confer maior's mission here was to | wih Faulein Herta Junkers | on the extent. of the Bremen's dam- and on the replacement of such | parts as will be necessary before the big ship can 8y again Mos! of the needed parts, e at Montreal. They Lrought up to Murray Bay, 12 miles from here, and Fitzmaurice will car- ry them on to Greenly Island by air- plane. The special fuel that the Rremen burns is also on the way | from Montreal, and the major, although he was not sure just how soon repairs could be completed, said he expected the Bremen would | pull herself into the air in two or three days, weather permitting. When the Bremen slipped down | through a rising fog on a pond near | the enly Island lighthouse, Fitz- maurice said, her propeller was broken and her landing gear crack- | ed up. While the ship was mired down in the ice, the frost ruined a tire. Beyond these comparatively | minor misfortune, he said, there was no damage to the ship, and when | repairs are completed she will be as airworthy as ever. | Not Talkative | The friendly Irishman wouldn't tallk much about what happencd to | him and his two shipmates on their long flight. The weather was pretty bad, he said, and therc were some stretches of risky flying through fog- Most of all, he intimated, he and Captain Kochl and Baron von Huenefeld are interested in the things their flight did to increase the store of knowledge about ocean fiy- ing. “We feel tnat we've learned some interesting stuff,” hc said, “but T can't tell you about it until we have discussed it further.” 1t may be, he indicated, flight of the Bremen will help solve the tragedies that befell pioneers who perished on the way westward over the North Atlantic. Anxlous To Reach N. Y. “We're all anxious to get to Ne: York.” he said, “from now on ail | our efforts will be concentrated on | that ebjective. I wouldn't even guess | when we'll get there, but it will be as soon as possible.” On Greenly Island the ice is ten feet thick, he said, and it is not | likely that the Bremen will have | any trouble taking off on wheels. 1f it should prove necessary to use ids, a landing will be made here \fter the take-off and wheels will be | hitched on to replace the skids. Major Fitzmaurice will visit only this village and Murray Bay until after the Bremen is repaired, he said. Later he hopes to scc Mon treal, Quebec and Ottawa. His re-| ception here, he said, made him want to see more of “the most hos- pitable country T ever visited.” | But if the flier was reticent about | the ocean flight when he was in-| terviewed herc, he was more com- | municative earlier in the day “hon} the | York | there | of lier he said, | will be her that Xh(‘l to | the | | e stopped at Seven Islands, another | little icebound settlement between here and Greenly Island. “We certainly were not forced down without knowing where we were,” he said. “We knew just ex actly where we were and we decid- ed to land on that lake at Greenly Island. 1f we hadn't gone through the ice we could hav taken off again and at least reached some place where we conld get enough | benzol to take us on to Mitchel ield.” | The first part of the flight over water, he said, was just plain flying, | but when the Bremen headed into | the heavy weather off Newfound- | land they were forced to reconnoiter | for a long time before they could | That wz where they used up a lot of fucl. | Ship Rocks About | Head winds rocked the ship and {41l winds spun her crazily, he said, 1 in the “tumpy” air over the Grand Banks the fliers felt that they were close to the answer to the fate of those others who preceded them heard from again. the fought its | crowing | men her | would the t the Bremen came through. end New- cmen’s lights went in vain Koehl 1l to luck 4 for 4 untit nd they could fix their bt never were or hip storm Tiours of ahoard he through a nd each minuto the southern of foundiand the out and the crev to locate the trouble. Ca had to fly tinkered It zig dawn hroke 3t Tow n running | v toward them | ough the FitzLaurice somewhere 1<, and through below A blizzard Kochl they must it of finally oo enly Istand he str hole G when a was smiddy Chats With A. Smiddy, lrish lister to United 8 wd by telephone with the Mu Bay hille nd ] landed there after City, their sccond v out from t " i oft Labrador re 1ed talk- com- A. arice ates, Ir ay when € nandant at (Duke) ma + flizht from i on the littie can “larke the ¢ land in a few NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928 F COMMUNITY DRIVE (BENNETTPLANSTO |MURRAY BAY, CAN.,NEAR WHICH LIEUT. DIXON, THIS CITY, LANDED AFTER PILOTING AIRPLANE FROM BRAINARD FIELD From being just another point on the map to New Britain residents, Murray Bay, near Quebec, Canada, has attained prominence hitherto not accorded it. ers to meet Major James Fitzmaurice, who cros from Hartford to Murray Bay via Boston and Quebec. Snow flew from Boston. of Murray Bay, the concentration point for rescuers who sought to reach the stranded trans Greenley Island, Labrador. Lieut. Carl A. Dixon of this city, Sergeant Charles Arnold of Hartford and Lieut, | Crocker Snow of Doston, in two airplanes, landed near this spot yesterday afternoon with several newspapermen and photograph- sed the Atlantic ocean with two German companions. Dixon and Arnold flew This NEA photo shows a view of the shore . atlantic airplane Bremen on who flew the 113 hack to York from Montreal, sald the Cur- | rplane company, which had been commissioned to build a pro- peller for the Bremen, had heen un- | ray Bay, where Major Ja able to complete it without a Junk- | maurice waits to take it b ers motor on which to fit the hub. |two German comr: He and Miss Herta Junkers, who is |can continue their t Murray Bay directing relief oper-| York. ations, decided the quickest way to The propeller was taken get-aid to the Bremea was to bring men's sister ship, the 1-13 back here and send her flown back here f propelier to the ocean plane. 1yesterday, and imined To Return Friday Melchoir said he cted to turn to Montreal in his plane 1ri- day, if the new propeller can be fitted by that time. He would then be in a position to guide the Brem- | en on her flight to New York. He laughed at reports that Fitz maurice was quitting the expedition to come to New York. Irom Clarke City, “It was the natural thing for them | Fitzmaurice wired to do to send Fitzmaurice out for | Chairman of Mayor Wall the materials,” Melchoir said. “He [Mittce of welcome, a is the only one in the outfit who |¢orrect an crroncous speaks English."" (Fitzmaurice) would J. Otto Scherer, engineer for the Junkers company, left for Montreal last night with the propeller 1o join Miss Junkers, Miss Junkers meanw cured at Montreal Benzol, the high pre ed by the Bremen, fucl and repairs got to Greenly Island it occan planc can c fully her flight to the goal she sct| when she left Baldonuul, Ircland, a week ago today | Mr. Whalen annonne for the reception of the ‘licrs in York were faking proper form that the decision of the tiers | red to be definite, Daring tie | City hall when the fliers will be officially welcoried fo the city it is planned 1o a squadron of airplanes circle head and later f wn th line of march, Activities of civiiian airplanes is to be restricted during the day so as to leave the air for the military pla Mayor s | the name®of my comrades, | nd Fitzmaurice, the mes- id, “I thank you, Mr. Mayor. | of the very kind telegram and [ g We hope to be able to days with the Tremen Mitehel ficld, and then to thank and the citizens of your great nd to bring to you the greet- our German and Irish | peller to replace the on when the Bremen landed Island was on its way tod: | Br | 11 1 Messiges mandant and Baron Hucnefeld set at dications that the flying t would arrive here sepa that they might leave th At Greenly Island and co A relief plan from the Tr Qu o for Ircland. He wired M that he would fly the re; e had ge- 309 gallons of sure fuel need- nd when the afely through is helieved the | Sl | Clark and in the tran Allen Wil cut Congressman. 11hat poans lican state turning to this city, hay information that Congre {ara 1 Freen opposed for renomination second cong tion, At the state conver i.ondon county delcgates livited for support for Col Allen of Rockyille and sentative Elwin T. Clark o both of whom were ann, candidates for the repubi essional nomination. now appes cercmonies at nav over- | free “In Kochl sage for your your offer. tuberculosis commn mbly erable support in on vou city ings people.” The fli everal and then procecd receive the cong dent Coolidg home county, Middiesex. of ber of the state board of York vity s will remain in Now Eue; of the o Washington to | atulations of PPresi- form in congress i nd ha s as liis canaidacy for renomin Fim almost support. one WAS NOT S Watcrbury, April win 1. Allen Choshire reform County for theft of a mote | detinitely eliminated toda tory officials from ilities Hall-Mil Retormatory r Allen 15 confined t) the murders were M Bremen, April 16, (P wite Captain Koehl New York toda Dresden to join v The Drosden and will pick Fitzn urice, M, saile Kol of aboard the flier steamer Jshand touch at Cobh Mrs, James (. tory fron orim as ice cords he Dresden party of German also is carrying al glider experts who plan fo exhibit their planes in the United Siate | had this spring. Leipzig, Germany, auto show les 50 all three | flight to the Junke nt by train back to Montreal, Gunther rest Py Grovel King him port that he New York alone to sail immediately | back to the Bremen from Murray and come out with the Germans atlantic plane. FREEMAN OPPOSED | Wrest Nomination From Connceti- New London, April 19 (A convention del sman Rich- of this cit onal district conven- | for wember of the governor's staff, and srmer member of the general as- and is said 1o have consid- Tolland county. | Clark's strength is said to be in his 2islator of expericnce and a mem- Freeman is completing his seventl London county is expected to accord hundred VER 19 - committed New York, April 19 (P—A pro- 'Hartford’s Election Contest Now Is Ended | broken at Greenly ay to Mur- ames Fitz- K to his Hartford, April 19 (P—Hart- ford's city election controversy came to an_end- today when Moderator Vfa E. Guthrle signed his name to the compilation of precinct and {ward returns. Mr. Guthrie claims | that there are serious discrepancies nd many errors in the returns, but Judge Ells of the superior court { refused Tuesday to permit him to re- {open the voting machine to deter- mine if they recorded accurately on clection day. Mr. Guthric claim that the corr would alter the any candidate. Noted “Dry” Crusader Speaks Here Tomorrow Plans’ for the address to be de- livered at the st Congregational church tomorrow evening by U. S. Congressman Vrilliam D. Upshaw of Georgia will be completed at a meet- ing of Phocnix Temple of Honor this evening. Congr ance orator, will spcak under the auspicics of the temple. His address is open to the public and no charge will be made for admission. He will take as hi “America’s Greatest Battle.” New N from the rom Mon- liately ish com- Von cvious in- riumvirate ately or ¢ Bremen me out in ‘tion of crrors result as regards e, Major r Whalen, ier's com- | to me on to r. Whilen pair parts subject Rambunctious Agents Break Fire Box Glass Complaint was made to Chief W. Try to day that distributors of sample food in the western section of the city were insulting persons refusing to accept the goods, and one crew broke the glass in the fire will be | 2larm box at the corner of Harri- | son and Lincoln streets. Detective Sergeant Ellinger was detailed to in- vestigate and he was unable to lo- cate the alleged offenders. Covert a;alrs. W;lther On G. 0. P, Committee Richard Covert and Mrs. Ruth Walther have been reclected to the state central committee, Committee- man Covert has been at the head of the republican organization here | since the death of Judge George W. Klett who for many vears directed G. 0. 1. policies in New Britain. Mrs. Walther succeeded Mrs. John Purney last year as the representa- tive of local republican women on the state committee. Tepub- | ates ro- brought | at the fall ntion, New were so- onel Chas, Repre- f Haddam, ounced as ican con- Allen is a nd ission, He is a finance, announced ation. New Farmville, Va. April 19 P {samuel B. Upton. 64 years old. father of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, and | for vears a barber in this town, dicd suddenly today after being stricken with paral per cent The 1o the n Fairficld sreyele was ¥ by 1 the list of Is murder- show that \ere at the smimitted. Bl JURY 1S PICK] New Haven, April 19 (®—A jury was picked and one motion denicd today in the trial of John Dudicoft who claims to be a Russian Greek | Catholic Orthodox pricst on two | counts of obtaining money on false | protenses in eriminal superior court. its first * PRESIDENT ASKED TO SUMMER IN BLUE RIDGES Precident Coolidge h2s been arked to spend his vacation in the Blue Ri Air view of Swannanoa, the beautful eszie offel It 13 2,600 feet above sea level in Blue Ridge mountaine. mountains of Virginia. a5 a summer white house by Gov. Byrd of Viry It is owged by club of wealthy Virginians. man Upshaw. a tempor- | !regu { €. Hart of the police department to- | of the | | | | | | | | 000 did not | | hous | ana { vic & STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSES SATURDAY (Continued From First I'age) market has recorded seven 4,000, 000-sharc sessions and a 2,000,000~ Share Saturday, with an aggregate of sales reaching well over the 85,- 00 mark in 10 days. Tn addi- tion, the breadth of ‘trading, reach- ing into practically every corner of tlte United and to many for- cign countrics, has added to the duties of brokerage clerks and bookleepers The stock clearing corporation clears no stocks on Saturday, as transactions for that day and for Friday are clearcd on Monday, Con- cquently the cxchange clearing will not be affected by the holiday. Brokerage open for the oflice remain nsacting offices will purpose of tr; business with other brokers, as well as to tabulate such orders a received from other points while the exchange is closed. Offices of the stock market, which were closed during t Good Fri- day suspension, probably will operate with a reduced staff. Banks will not be closed. The curb market suspend trading on Saturday to per- mit its m atch up on their ches to Wall strect decls that exchanges in other centers, including Chicago, would not he open. | FALL ON FLOOR OF HOME MAY CAUSE BABY'S DEATH Talcott Street Tot on Critical List at Hospital with Probable Skull Fracture, Patsy Palmicei, one year old son Mr. and Mps. John Palmicci of alcott street, was admitted to Britain General hospital late yesterday afternoon for treatment for an injury to the head, the re- sult of a fall on the floor at home. It is feared the skull is fractured, it wi 1 at the hospital today, the child has been placed on critical list. of 80 New the Mysterious Skeleton Is Found in Ansonia Ansonia, April 19 (UI’)—Close to the old town | 1ge, scone of many unsolved mu s in the past half- century, the skeleton of a victim of violence or drowning has been un- carthed by students, it became Known today. . The skeleton was found while boys from the Pine trade school played baschall in ficld near the bridge, Inst 1 of forming the police, the Loys had {he bones wired together and hung them wall of the B ol. The dition, Two theories ware advanced today arding the mystery—one that it was the remains . of vietim of drownmg, for the Nangatuck river covered the meadow years ago—the ot r that it was the bones of an Indian. A century ago many Indians lived in this localit on a skeleton was in perfect con- Brother of Amb?ussador Houghton Dies at 61 Corning, N. Y. April 19 (P —Ar- thur A. Houghton, former president of the Corning G Works, and & brother of Alunson I3. Houghton, ambassador to Greatl Britain, died at his residence in New Yor! according to word received by rela- tives here. e was 61 years of age. Moose Lodge Officers Take Chairs Tomorrow Officers will be installed by the 'w Britain lodge of Moose on Fri- day evening. The following will take offic Dictator Philip Calmbac] Jictator, Walter Campbell; sec- retary, James O Brien; L. Thompson; prelate, Jan and trustee, John K. Pet AT The M with a1 the promenade of the Massachu. tts Institite of Technology to be held at the Copley Plaza, Boston. IS A fors of M. L T. PROM New Britaim will {rooms. also voted to | Weddings HELLER—OLSON Miss Anna M. Olson, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Alfred Olson of 619 Stanley street, and Raymond W. Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Heller of 162 Vance street, were married this afternoon at § o'clock at the home of the bride's parents. Rev. Theodore A. Greene, pastor of the First Congregational church, cfficiated. Miss Emy Carlson, a cousin of the bride, was maid of honor and John Heller, a brother of the bridegroom, served as best man. The bride wore a gown of hoga colored lace, trimmed with rhine- stones and carried a bouquet of butterfly roses and lilies of the ley. The maid of honor was dr in tan crepe and hat to match, carried pink sweet peas. The house was decorated with ferns and spring flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Heller will reside at from an announced wedding trip. Mr. Heller is employed in the lo- cal post. office. DYSON CAUSES ARREST Challenges Statement Mesh Bag Of- fered For Sale Is of Sapphire, As Represented. Accused by George H. Dyson of this city, proprietor of the Porter & Dyson jewelry store and president of the Connecticut Jewelers' Associa- tion, Joseph M. Gorton of Brookline, Mass., was arrested by state police in New London yesterday charged with fraud. Gorton has been conducting an auction in New London and offer for sale a mesh bag which, he said, was of genuine sapphire. Mr. Dyson was only imitation sapphire, while in Futnam recently, and was present at the New London auction. He chal- lenged the auctioncer’s statement and in the argument which followed, the latter had the New Britain jewel- «r forcibly cjected from the auction Mr. Dyson immediately had Gorton arrested. Gorton given police court in New London this morning. The police department closed up his place of business and he was ordered to leave the cit MAY BEGOME MECHANIC FOR YOTING MACHINES Democrat, Re- a hearing in William Linnchan, ported in Linc For Position Now Held By Republican. The appointment of William Lin- nchan as voting machine mechanic is cxpected when the board of se- lectmen convene to organize for the year'’s work. Darius Benjamin, democrat, will be chairman, and Kasimir Majewicz, also a democrat, is next in line, while L. W. Lawyer, chairman last year, is the third member of the board. Lawyer is the only republican member and he is the father of the present mechan- ic, Lamphere Lawyer. who is also a republican, Linnehan, a forn democratic councilman, was voting machine mechanic under a previous democrat-controllcd board of select- men, First Ward Republicans Spent $45 Election Day Acting Chairman Harry Ginsburg of the republjcan town committee to- day filed a report showing the elec- tion day expenses of the republicans in the first ward to be $45.40, this including rent, furniture, and secrv- ices. City Treasurer Curtis 1. Sheldon donated $60 to the republi- can town committee, he stated in a declaration of campaign expenses filed this afternoon. The largest expenditurc by any candidate for office at the last ele Bernadotte Loomis, reelected to the office of tax collector. Mr. Loomis contributed $200 to the republican town comniittee. Miss Anna Kennedy of East Main street, entertained at two tables of bridge last night in honor of he ister, Mrs, Jack Roth of Newark, J. Prizes were awarded to M Robin, Mrs, L. Rabinow and Mrs. 1. Rabinow, City Advertisement NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS Attention is called to the law con- cerning the registration of dogs, a shown by the posters issued by the Chief of Police, of New Tiritain. The time for registration cxpires Tuesday, May 1st, 1928, and failurc to register on or beforc that date means that the owners of dogs will have to pay a fine of One Dollar ($1.00) in addition to the regular fee. Licenses are now being issued daily from 0 to 5 p. ni. The Town Clerk’s office will be open Saturday and Monday evenings to receive dog fees, in addition te the regular hours, ¥ Dated at New Britain, day of April. 1928, ALFRED L. THOMPSON, Town Clei City Advertisement BUILDING I OF ARCH STREET Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held before the Board of Public Works, City of New Britain, in Room 307, City Hall, at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening, April 24th, 1928 on the petition of Henry Hoar et al, for a seven (7) ft. build- ing line on the east side of Arch street, between Locust street and Monroe street. All persons interested are request - this 18th |4 10 be present at said hearing. if Andrews Troubadors | they see cause, and bhe heard in re mtion 1o the above, BOARD OF PURLIC WORKE, G. H. Johnson, Clerk. 619 Stanley street upon their return | OF JEWEL AUCTIONEER afl had heard that Gorton had sold a | mesh bag as genuine sapphire, which tion reported thus far was made by C | street. COAL INQUIRY 5 FORCING UP PRICE W. H. Goolidge of Boston Raps the Investigation Was April 19 (®—The scnate committec investigation of the soft coal industry was defined today by W. .. Coolidge, chairman of the board the Island Creek Coal company. Tioston, as an cffort “to production more.” At (e oulset of the ator Wheeler, democrat, asked the operator if I to IP'resident Coolidge, “Not cnough to hurt said Coolidge, “and not enough :io do me any good.” lle added that they were very remotely related. Common Ancestor “Ten generations back we had a common ancestor, but I think there has been no inter-marriage between the two branches since then,” he said. The operator, caster, Mass hington, of make coal cost sston, Sen- Montana, 5 related Dhim any,” who lives in Lan- explained that the Is- land Creek Coal company operated {mines in West Virginia. He con- tended that the United Mine Worke ers had prompted the coal investis gation for the purpose of increas- ing the cost of coal to 100,000,000 people in the United States, for the benefit of 500,000 coal miners and (their families, and possibly 100,000 people who are owners and stock- holders in «coal compani “Heretofore.” he continued, “in- vestigations have been ordered he. cause the people were alleged to bhe ing too much for their coal. This tion is being held to sce if |some way can be found, within the |constitution, to muke coal produc- tion cost more. “We have not believed this mat- |ter was within the control of the federal government, but so far as | possible we desire ta help this com- | mittee in considéring thé quesmon. {There is no coal problem so far he company I represent is cons rned.” Coolidge id he understood | his appearance was as an “alleged I non-resident (operator) with no in- terest in the emiployes of our coun- try, merely using them, if not abus- ing them.” e denied that charge, reviewing the role that he said Bos- ton capital had played in developing the railroad and natural resources in other states, “It has mever been blameworthy in this country,” he added, *“for the people of one state to build and de- velop industrics in other states. The history of the Island Creek Coal company well illustrates the use of capital from outside the state in the | development of the great coal indus- try in West Vivginia at the request of citizens of West Virginia." Use Safety Devices To refute the charge “that the men do not get cnough to cat—that they arc underpaid and that they need the United Mine Workers for their protection.” Coolidge produced pictures of thie company property and declared “the is no better or more healthy place in the United s than the town of Holden and djoining connnunities, have always used ull safety ices to protect the lives of our cmployes as fast as they have heen Coolidge sail. he on our prop ve are lower than in other coal | mining property in the country. “It has been charged here that |the death rate in the United States |per million tons is greater than in other countries. This is a mistake. |The death rate in the United States |for the years 1821-1 inclusive, | was 3.67 per million tons of produc- | tion, whercas in Great Dritain it | was 3.95; in VFrance 5.68; in el ! gium 6 nd in Prussia 10.30. . City Items | "he Woman's Forcign Missionary ‘tment of the South church will a sewing mecting for the Madura hospital in India ¥ i\nl: rnoon at 2 o'clock. All members jare urged to attend. A daughter was born at New Brit- ain General hospital today to Mr. Mrs. William Heald of Berlin cet, Berlin, Slight change | condition of Jud who is ill at h reported in the Henry . Roche home on Bassett He has a severe cold and a ip condition and will be unable to e his bed for a few days. nd Mrs. Melville 1. Johnson Burritt stroet enfertaining Mrs. George M. of Malden, Mass 'RELIEF FROM CURSE | OF CONSTIPATION A Baftle Creck physician [“Constipation is responsible for me ry than any other causc | But immediate relicf has {found. A tablet called TRexall |derlies has been discovered. tablet attracts water from the tem into the lazy, dry, {howel called the colon. The or looscns the dry food waste and causes a gentle, thorough, natura! movement without forming a habit or ever increusing the dose. | Stop suffering from constipation. |Chew a Rexall Orderlic at night. |Next day bright. Get 24 for 25c to- {day at the nearest Rexall or Lig- !gett Drug Store. Ross say wore been Or- This 5Y8- evacuating . ON EAST SIDE | Selling All Goods AT COST Thurs., Fri. & Sat. HANDICRAFT STUDIO 15 ARCH