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RESIDENT OF CITY 1 FORA5 5. DIES Mrs. Mary !oore Passes Away - at South Burritt Street Home Mrs. Mary Moore, wife of Edward Moore, a resident of New Britain for | the past 45 years, died this noon at | her home, 95 South Bucritt st following a shock suffered Monday. | Bhe was about 63 years of age. She was a native of County Clare, | Ircland. but she came to this city wt an carly age. She became a memboer of St. Mary's parish and was active in its affairs for many years. Mrs. Moore was a member of h Scapular society of St. Mary's church and the auxiliary to Rev. Willlam A Harty branch. A. O. H. She took an active part in cach of these cicth Her two sons, Jumes I Michael J. Layden the New Britain fire department, the former being stationed with Com- pany No. 2 and the latter with Co, No. 1. Other relatives are three daughters, Mrs. Molly Harris, Mrs. Delbert Warner of this city and Mrs. | Nelson Ives of Kensington. She ulsy leaves cight grandchildren and on great grandchiid Funeral arrangements, of 3. M., Cu & Co., plete $0- Moore and are members of in are charge incom- CAPITOL HOT AR REPLAGED BY PURE Ventitation Thought to Speed Up Action of Congress 2 (P Mem- atives the first hamber, Washington. hers of the ho repre are inhaling pure air for time in the legislative A new vent tioning air condi- i GO0 enbic feet of refined air an hour into the chamber for each member and William Tyler Pagay, clerk of the house, thinks that 5 ene of the rons why the short session kpeedily disposed of i The ventilating problem ource of complaint for ) among house members many times sy made the floor in which tions were rmed dangerous 1o the health of representatives The purifying system siucks from the capitol grounds throy tunnel and sends it through an filter and a water washing process which eliminates dust and germs, wiarms it to the proper temperature and regulates humidity to the cor- rect degree. Automatic thermostats regulate the temperature and hu- midity for both winter and summer ! weather, Intakes were installed just below and around the colored glass plates in the ceiling of the house. system s re his so oblems. ha heen many and on ches were condi- poor air WARY WARDEN Richmond, Va Ma-ch 12 (P The game wa. ''n ¢ Rockingham county has decided bounty is being paid too frequently in his territory for the heads of weasels and gos hawks. He believes heads are be- ing shipped in from statcs where no bounty is given. JOHN CORT'S HOME ROBBED Noroton, March 13 (UP)—Thieves hurglarized the Collender's Point home of John Cort, New York thea- ter owner, during the night, it was reported to police today. Extent of Cort’s loss was not known. |n d or Engagements LY —WILLIAMS Announcement is made of the en- sement of Miss Mary B. Willlums 0( 163 Clark street, and John J. Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly of the same address. The wed- ding will take place on April 10. Birth Record A son was eral hos md Mrs. Monros born at New Britain pital last evening to Mr. Francis McBride of 54 street A son was born to Mr. and Mrs Harold Geschinski of 16 Vivian «t. Maple Hill, last night. daughter was born to Mr. and Jacob T. Dudack of 104 I'ut- strect at New Britain General hospital today. A daughter rd str A Mus. nam lucia Starr, was born y afternoon to Mr. and M phen arr of 236 Kelsey street. A daughter wus born at the New Britain General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wood of 190 Divinity street, Bristol. veste AMERICA IMPORTS RAGS FROM JAPAN - Hore Than $1,500,000 Worlh Received Yearly March produces more ashinaton, 13 (P Japan. silk than any world and scls dol which other country in the hnndred the woveral million worth to United States every year, has begun selling America her cast-off coiton clothing The r inf nd r yot only 18 industry is its ancy, having begun five . but the is selling exte A00.000 every T'he anocge Kobe-Osaka dis- America cotton nt of more than $1.- vears trict alo rags to the year ordinary work clothes of nd women are These trade, cast-off cofton garments They are made of cotton largely grown In the United tates, and, o1 fhat cotton is zoing home and going into the acture of other articies. h ind fully hed. bl made of garments which men T erinte Formerly, cotton en the were thrown away iously. man- ments ar w hed and assorted into hales before leaving Japan From the garments, pieces of ma- terial a foot by two feet in size are cut. Americans use these as “wiping cloths™ to clean machinery. windows and automobiles, The and shreds that remain and the gar- ments foo worn for that use are shiredded upon re ing the United States, impregn with tar or asphalt. pressed between hot rollers and emerge felt There were 50,511,000 these rags exported from the Kobe- Osaka district in 1927. Their value as invoiced at the American consu. late was $1.641.000. Tn the first ten months of 1928 the district shipped 20,000 pounds, valued at $1.6 600, Thus the rags scll at an ave of about 2 cents a pound. The raw cotton from which the garments originally were manufactured sold anywhere from 10 to 20 cents a pound care scraps as age trpper A North Carolin catching the distinction of fish in & steel trap. claims a cat- roofing ' pounds of | EW 'WILL GROW FISH - TOFEED HUMANS Aquiculture Assuming Import- ance By lelmg Agrlculture Washington, March 13 —Agricul ture is destined to become the main sourc: of fish supplies, in the opin- ion of Lewis Radcliffe, deputy com- missioner of fisheries, just as agri- culture long ago became the chief reliance and meat With the growing demand for wa- | ter products rapidly cutting down the natural suppiics, he believes the scientific study of fish, clams oysters has demonstrated that the cultivation of such crops can be made “an established and attractive pursuit, capuable of adding its quota to our harvest of the natural stock and replacing shortages.” The natural fisheries, he says. al ready have passed through two phases of cxploitation in the 30 First, the most desired re taken in greater and quantities until the limit was reached and catches began to de cline because of depletion. v'u D previously unused or neg- Vvaricties were caught to make deficiency. and now most of fisherics have reached or cd the limit of exploitation and dwindling. only course 1eft fo ta future vequirements, he dec the civilization of desirable market, and the sueeess of that pends upon knowledge of fheir habits and needs which is being ac cumulated by federal, state and uni- vorsity research workers. While much remains to be jearned about the amount and value of food an of water will produce in com- parison with agricultural land. he finds that “glimpses | and there indicate that water areas be made fully as productive tand as and in some cases will far ex- ceed the land in productiveness.” Placing the annual productivity af of cultivated land al 140 pounds of beef or 200 pounds of | pork, he cites figures gathered in the course of studies conducted by the as evidence of the compura tive of water areas. They show 100 pounds of oyster meats produced to the acre on the Atlantic coast: 122 pounds of fish in South channel, Cape Cod. and 145 pounds in Lake Pepin in the Missis- sippi river: 150 pounds of carp in cultivated ponds: pounds of hie- zill sunfish and 450 pounds of gold fish in the bureau's ponds at Fair- port. Towa, and 330 pounds of clams jon the coust of Washington Short Skirts Blamed For Severe Cold Wave Karlsbad, Czecho-Slovakia, March 13 (I'P)—Four girls were beaten by members of a church congregation at the village of Buchau yesterday because the village preacher said a spirit had appeared to him and told him the recent severe cold wave caused by the wearing of skirts. specic great Tec .,px these s e are fish foi can an a “ burean value was short MCADAM, ¥ venwich, W \'II R, DEAD onn., March 1 am McAdam. New York busin man and hig game hunter. died today the home of his mother here in Death was caused by a tropical d which McAdam incurred whil traveling in South America, for the North American Copper Company physicians said G Robert at Eizht boys constitute trol — ETHEL — How Gome Canre GLem 10 GET Po~ SUST WHISPERING A LOT oF GUEET NOWING S ~— ~—AND ALTHO You heveR You TR GET B9 ~Witour & LoT or (N Qomamme@/ of mankind for vegetables ' and | w last | (LP) | his 47th year BRITAIN DAILY HER HIGH PRICED CURB v “'D 1-4 cents a pound today to cor- Bulls me lmuln" md Lm respond with a ple ;‘r’. do:mst‘lc cop- Few to New Marks |per to 20 cents yesterday. More !than 2,000,000 pounds of the metal New York, March 13 (P—Opera- IOIS for the adrvance today took the ALD, V were reported to have been sold at | the new price. Foreign buying of | copper has been heavy this year. Domestic soft coal production iast ), :Im of the curb market and steered wz-ek as estimated by the National | a handful of specialtics inte new Ln:‘ll’ association, decreased to 10 . 3 SR con. | 270.000 net tons from 11,160,000 tons [ nigh ground for the year. The con-| £/ D0 Tt H0l8 oM A0 i tinued case in the call money mar-| .o 'in the week ended Feb. 23. |ket and favorable news develop- | | ments in the plblic utilities atimulut.; ed the buying. There were a few cak spots, and aviation shares as a group were irregular. Specticular gains were made by a few of the high priced issues. Ford Motor of Canada shot up 78 points to S08. Approval by Electrie Share stockholders of the tock splitup brought in a rush of buying orders that carried the old | stock up & points and the new 2 %tarted an expansion program to in- points to above 90. Gains of 2 points ) Crease its capacity fivefold. By early | ind more were made by Electrie in- | Smmer plants and warehouses with vestors, United Gas Improvement & capacity of 130 tons by dryi and American Superior “A." daily will be operating in 15 cities. Westvaco Chlorine products soar- | The largest of these is under con- | ed 12 points to a record high at Struction at Niagara Falls. 11712, reacted to 102 and then ral- | = licd. Transamerica Corporation ad- | Newcomb Carleton. president of vaneed 1o a new high in rumors of the Western Union Telegraph com- | a merger of the Bank of America, |PANY. said on his return from Ku-' it controls, with (hase Na. TOPC today that a communications ! {ional Bank merger batween the Radio corpora- Avintion Corporation of the {tion of America and Western Union heavy, but Fokker had an |18 SUll under discussion, but with no of more than 2 points. |deMite decision in sight. He said ere active and strong after |the British Communications merger a period of inactivity, as merger ro. | Will have a decided effect upon ac- ports were revived and steps t |UVILCS of American companies. He curh over-production were announc. | SXPlained that he had discusscd od ax near. Humble rose 2 points, |S0M* Arrangement to be made be- ind Vacuum was up more {han 3 |t¥een British and American Cab Points on reports of & merger with | COMPANIS, bui that nothing dufinite ASardor Now Yerr decided. Western Union carnings so gar this year, he sail, Newment |1ad becn 15 the feature e ature of the mining group. | running about 10 per cent ahead of last, Tmportations of rubber in Febru- ary increased to 64,538 tons com- | pared with 29.445 tons in ebruary. 1928, the Rubber association of America, Inc., reports. Total im- portations for January and Febru- ary were 116.543 tons against 75 - 688 tons in the corresponding 1928 Bond & Period. 3 for 1] Dryice Corporation. subsidlary of the Liquid Carbonic Corporation. nas which Anier- advancing 3 points on a further ad- vance in copper, Measured by consumption of elec- trical vnergy for power purposes and |by manufacturing plants, industrial operations of the country set a new high record in February with an | advance of three-tenths per cent over the previous high record last September, 6 per cent above Janu- ary operations, and ten per cent higher than in February, 1928, says Electrical World. New high rates of productive activity were made in rolling mills and steel plants, metal working plants, rubber products, au- tomobil: manufacturing. including parts and accessories, and chemicals and allied produc Celebrate hll\er W eddm In Minneapolis W orkhouse Minneapolis, Minn. March (UP)— August and Minnic Anderson who “always” were sentenced to the workhouse together for drunken ness, ed their silver wedding in their familiar jail cells among their friends In theirmost recent appearance before Judge Manley Ioseen, An- derson was given a 60 day jail sen- tence, “Judge. vou'd along with me, ways go togethe John Larson, celebr: anniversary hetter he send said, Minnie “we al- liff. who “remem- | bered when the Andersons were married years ago.” nodded at the judge, “yes, they always go to- gether. Then when a formed Judge Rumors were revived today of an impending merger of the Standacd Oil company of New York and the Vaccuum Oil company, an old Standard Oil unit. Such a combine | would have assets approximating onc billion dollars. Before consolidation took place, however, it was believ- ed government sanction would hav: to be obtained. police woman in- Roseen that Mrs, Anderson had 21s0 heen guilty of the drunkenness charge, the court in- creased the sentences to 90 days and sent the hushand and wife off to the . SOME INPROVEMENT htorm Covers shanghm i Vith Dust From Desert ‘Government Issues Again Weak and Trade s Dull shmnnh.m March 13 (®—Ilour like dust from the Gobi desert en- gulfed Shanghii today in the worst storm reported here in ten re. New York, March 13 (P—United States government issues again wers the k spot of early trading in today's bond market. The gencral he powdery dust was blown more than 1,500 miles, borne on a storm list displayed an improved tone, but [ trading was dull. which originated in Mongolia on The frature of the March 11. market was the placing of 000 Cities Service company 5 1 cent gold debentures, carrying com mon stock purchase warrants and priced at 97 1-2 and interest. Cities Service controls directly or indireci- ly through stock ownership more than 60 public utility companies and 30 oil comgunies. The Liberty first 4 1-4's. fogirth 4 1-4's and treasury 4 1-4's of 19 52 all established new lows for the third consecutive day this weck. In the irregular and dull foreign list, ile issues continued in supplv at slightly lower leves foowing flo- tqtion of a $10.000.000 loan earlier this week. German issues also were under pressrue. | Improvement in the general mar. ket was shown by a variety of is- sues, including International Tele- phone convertible 4 1-2's. Anaconda | Ceppen 6's, Bethlehem Steel conver- tible 6 International Cement 5 and St. Paul adjustma@t 5's. gains, however, were fractional. YERY SOUND SLEEPER FINDS “DREAM” A FACT Was we Funerals investment Mrs. Louise A, Gustafson 0,000, | Funeral services for Mrs. Louise A. Gustafson, a former resident of this city who died in Springfield were held at Erwin Memorial chapel this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Ahel A. Ahlquist, pastor of the First Lutheran church, officiated. Burial !was in Fairview cemetery He Funeral services recki of 158 Gold str [tomorrow morning lat sacrea Heart will be in Sacred Heart Henry S, Fenton Funeral scrvices for Henry S enton of 28 John strect were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the ial was in Falrview ceme- tev. Dr. George W. C. Hill, of South (ongregational conducted the services. recki for Henry Go- will be held 10 o'clock church. Burial cemetery, pasctor church, We wish to sincercly thank our many friends and neighbors, and also Arpi Sextette, Svea Social club. mo and the Wennerberg Chorus for their kind expressions of | cympathy cxtended to us during our recent bereavement in the death of our husband and father, John E Larson. MRS MR LARSON Michigan Man Dreamed He LARSON and Family.. ANNA SUNO Bound and Gagged By Robbers | CARD OF THANKS We gratefully acknowledge and thank our relatives, friends and so cictics for their kindness and sympa- thy extended during the death of our beloved husband and father. Andrew Schick; also for the beauti-! tul floral offerings. signed MRS —and So He Was! Lansing, March (UP)~-Ralph Schluttenhofer, alon: and sleeping while his wife was downtown shop- ping, dreamed a vivid dream-—he vouches for this story i Big. rough men were tying Schluttenhofer up; they wound vards and yards of rope about him, gagged him and tossed him from | bed. i Mrs. Schluttenhofer returned home to get her husband’s lunch— he slecps days. SL. found him, trussed with the entire length of a clothesline, gagged and with his |mouth heavily plastered with ad- hesive tape, struggling on the kitchen floor. She removed the binding and telephoned police. | Nothing in the home was found | disturbed. | Schluttenhofer said awakened just before his wife's re- BOL. turn, and now claims a new record {—that of the world's soundest slee,- Bollerer's Posy Shop =~ - TREASURY BALANCE 03 West Main 8t e £35.551.060 13 SCHICK AND FAMIL CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all our kind friends and neighbors who symipa- thized with us during the iliness and death of onr husband and father, Edward McMurray, We wish to thank all who sent floral gifts. Signed MRS, EDWARD McMURRAY, and Family. RER'S POSY SHOP | | FLowEs FoR ALL occAmIONS | 1 | Treasury Balance “The Telegraph Florist of New WBeitain Visit Uuwr Greeabiuses |READ HERALD Lussuw Alhl I {Brook Man | plannead THE MARKET AT 2:30 P. M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) High Low Al Che & Dye 292 283 Am Ag Che pd — — American Can 119% 1173 Am Loco .... 113% 1123 Am Sumatra . 50 — {Am Sm & Re 1163 1143 |Am Sugar 823 81y Am Tobacco . 1701 170%, Am Woolen ! 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Hfd Elec Light N B Gas Southern N Japan Plans New Royal Wedding 9 L 37 39 ies Stocks 106 L] ‘onn ‘onn ‘onn - Another royal wedding is in Japan. the «ngagen between Prince Takamutsu. brotho of the cmperor, and Miss Kikuko Tokugawa having heen The cercmony s expec place in the fall. Thr is showa abore. announee ted to taks Close | voung coupl | [1eniency. PUTNAM & CO. Manbers Now York @ Horford Stack Bachanges 31 WEST MAIN ST.,, NEW BRITAIN WARTFORD OPICL, 6 CENTRAL ROW, THL 21148, We Offer: Title Guarantee and Trust Co. Price on Application. EDDY BROTHERS & G Members Hartford Stock Exchange NEW BATAIN KARTFORD MERIDEN BurriftHotel Bldg. Hartford Conn. Trust Bldg. Colony Bidg, We Offer: 50 Shares Bristol Brass 20 Shares Fafnir Bearing 15 Shares Hart & Cooley | Prince & Whitely 8. eveland Stock Exchanges Burritt Bldg.—69 West Main St.—Tel. 5405 Donald R Hart. Mgr. Established Members New Vork Chicago and We Offer: National Fire Insurance Company “Investments That Grow” Fuller,Richter, Aldrich & Co. COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING NEW BRITAL MEMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE Joseph M Halloran Tel. 1233 Harold . M BANK OF NEW YORK & TRUST COMPANY Because of its long record of able management andg profitable operation the stock of this bank is highly mended for purchase at the present market. reconi We would appreciate the opportunity to tell you in detail why we believe your funds will be wiscly invested in this offering. A circular is available. Thomson, fenn & Co. Members of New York and Hartford Stock kxchanges 55 West Main Street New Britain Phone 25~ Stuart G Segar, Manager We Off AETNA LIFE Price on Application. REAL ESTATE NEWS | College Queen Warranty Adam Wasilewski Wisilewski, Albany avenue Marcianna Dubkowski Washington s Mortgage fes to Max i Monroc 81, . Emil Carlson to M. Hern nelly, Shuttle Meadow ave Dembek, lacol ik street pre Giorgina, et al lente, Corbin Valva no \ One Spoonful of Liquor Makes Man Intoxicated Nebraska City, March 12 (U'P)—How mu does it take to make a ma 2 A spoonful, according to a trict court jury here which found Garrett Snyder guilty of intoxication He had offe to pay for a me: for Miss Violet Ovendon. a school teacher, to whom he had mnot been formally introduced Neb., liquor Conviete S «ho had witnesse hiad consumed liquor, appealed deeided the ndl ubhel dded a tostify that he spoonful of of his peers B Re Ind., is th in elve nful lower afuyett suty a Va May sufficient bt for She w [ st as the recommendation quee preside festival conrt, Sweett N wriar, oy the