New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN IR Haflfl)rd (,uu u, RALD Average Daily Circulation For Week E ndm,rz Nov. 9th . 15 635 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAI CON ECTICUT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.—FOR l& PRICE THREE CENTS MARKING SYSTEM IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ASSAILED Necesmy of Much Home Work {0 Obtain Higher Grades Under Fire PARENT-TEACHER ASSN. PLANS TO INVESTIGATE | Committee Appointed After rancis | A. Clark Follows Supt. Holmes' Speech With Attack on Present | Rules—Will Report at Special | Mecting of Central Jr. H. S, Assn.—Holmes Tells of Growth | f markin I'rancis Vulcan 1 n the pi atenents nley il. change in g work was did not ot homr wor wring school hours. mes Admits Flaws s that o would - whe o 1 not an_ ar- a show of who wers t. Althougl to count 1 mor xious for discussion on matter H Owen, n 0 was in cl the Named 1ted s al Committee L. Bartlett g more definite 2 . ure 1 ing would be held. Since ws call for only two meet- t R. Dechant sug a special mecting fo be h February 1. The on a sup- be named 1o tive committes committee with Princi the Nati ool and thro officials of the I’ Hal h him five hours of toil - of the association, |aud dits overpower broadside | poss porations, now under for {orhev Stubborn Safe estzsone SR Y toolk sa xpert only ites to do what a score of s had failed to accomplish in a they had jously sei naval base. Though the ban- 1 an officer and ion of the hi ation hout the carly morning, the containing $56,000 resis: * attempts to o 1 h and how the i INJ[ILLI[]NSJ i e Gustomers Will Lose 86,000,000 fo §10, 000 000, Tume Says OPFIGIA SARE OUESTIONED‘ Last Dividend of $21 Paid on Stock Heavily Held in Connecticut Came | | unanimous agreem Out of Capital—Sturges and Con- nor Involved. N¢ s to s of the Bankers Capital | Corporation and its fraud for selling stock securi- will 1 no $6,000,000 by Deputy . Milholland M holland, and A nt At-| ieral Watson Washburn incd W. . Hopkins of the corporation today, Attorney question Howard H. Gunder, chairman of the board, again on Capital Furnished Dividend he $21 ividend which the cor- red last Jan led stoc ion dec lders {0 expect s 0f 42 per cent a year, was I out of cay at a time when the corpora s not mak- | g money, United St Attorney Charles H. Tuttle said today hick ma the Brooklyn, | rds and were in complete | h drills, | (mr;. n independent republicans, w | retary |information as to prospective feder | had clients petitioned into | R WOMEN MAY FiT LONG SHIRT THEND Miss Elsie Hill to Question Before Na- tional Party Brin;: Woman's part cd today that 2 skirts and ully launched | convention of League of Women . Dadourian, | jury. . Dadourian of | " Additional post office inspectors | e yesterday at the Connecticut ¢ the National Woman' . which opens Decembe of Brooklyn something oug done to combat women against long skirts would be than anything else,” “Women will take most becomes them, That may mean more M:‘ (mn | Miss Hill said. | to the style that | has been the years when conspicuous resolution asking it its influence receiver: reditors filed a pe tary bankr 1 a week ater tition in involun- company’s hooks, the United m,.,m s office said last n sht, in- ed that patrons of the corpora- tion and stood to los ffiliated companics Books and records of the corpor- ion. includin some of the Bankers Capital company of Connecticut, of which E. J. Sturg mer Con- necticut state banking commissioner was head, have been seized. Mr. Tutile sad that when deputics at- tempted o serve subpoenas at offi ces of the company in Hartford Bridgeport, Waterbury and N Haven, Conn., today they found th offices closed he subpocnas called for the production of other records and papers Mr. Sturges is in New York and questioned by Mr. Tuttle today He was not taken before the grand and accountants have been asked from Washington to speed the checking of records already selzed Connor Also Questioned Arthur T. Connor, prominent in Connecticut politics and president of ¢ American Iiduciary corpor: tion, a Bankers Capital subsidiz (Continued on Page Two) stey. A check of the | TILSON SAYS TAX REDUCTION PLAN | Ters With Hoover—Canvass Shows Chance Jor Speed (CONNECTIGUT LEGISLATOR lution to Be Introduced as Soon as Session Opens. | Washington, Nov. 15 (# pre- | sentative Tilson of Connecticut, re publican house lea after & call at the W day that the proposal wo assed ho before t « days! Tilson sai sibility of carly pas | with the y dent no objection would | posed in the hot | The treasury proposa 10 and corporation rat Foresees Little Difficulty passed ¢ said He added a resolution fo carr out the reduction would be refer- red to s and means co | mittee as eoon as the Decen | session convened Prompt Action Promised Washing | congressional approval of the tr |ury’s new scheme of tax reductions 05t rty was betokened today by an t among leaders that the nation's ta should benefit as quickly sible from the prosperous f yer condition of overnment | Iactional spokesmen of hot houses, save only those of the west- virtual accord in sanctioning Mellon's plan of lopping ation. Ad ion supporters w nist leaders of the house. Senate crats reater reduction than that ed by 1the {treasury, heir approval on more definite al meeds and revenues than available Western Group Silent The western independenis w non-committal, altho; is now 1 it was i dicated that they woud ra no serious objection. Their position has been that treasury surpluses hould be applied to a reduction of the national debt. on the theory that this result increased fed AS AID TO INDUSTRY ays Local Concerns and Their Stockholders Would Profit Greatly directly permits lowered faxes. SECRETARY GOOD SHOWS ]MPROVED GONDITION Physicians Amazed at Patient Displays—Still Criti- cally 1, They Admit. Washin (P For first time since Secrc od wa taken ill, his physicians announc today they had noticed signs in fon cating a slight improvement in his condition. The secretary's physicians said | they hoped the improvement might | e ribed continue without complications, but | it was said Good was still in a criti- | cal condition Barly today he seemed to have| regained strength to some extent. | The principal danger at the present, his physicians said, was from com- plications and added he would be watched closely to ward off pneu- monia The vitality and resisting power which the secretary has shown has been a source of amazement to his ";w«mw Both Partles Are Awarded Damages In Counter Suits Following Fight I Judge Stanley J. Traceski proved| Ac to be a modern King Solomon today | Plaint the fight occurred on May p. m. The plaintift when he filed a judgment giving damages to the plaintiff in his suit for injuries reccived in a fist fight aind then allowed the defendant damages in his cr s complaint. Ambrose Ur, the man whose last ne is considered the shortest in the city, and John Young engaged in a back yard fracas in the re of Ur's home at 0 Vance street, and Ur, who was said to have lost the battle, brought suit for $3,000. He was allowed $125 and costs. In | the cross complaint Young sued for regarded the subject as outside its|$100 for injuries and he was given damages of §60, | 29, 1929, at 6 ording to the original com- claimed he was cleaning the rear of his yard when he was struck and rendered unconscious. The cross complaint denied all the allegations and claimed that the defendant was struck with great force and violence by a brick which was hurled by the plaintiff. The brick measured 4x$ inches and it caused a split in the defendant’s head, it was alleged. | Young claimed he had to receive medical treatment, Attorney B. J. Monkiewic rep- resented the plaintifft and Attorney | Jdward A. Mag presented the de- | fendant's case, WILL PASS 500N {Republican House Leader Con- OPTIMISTIC ON PROSPECT | No Objection Likely to Be Raised In Lower Body, He Belicves— Reiterates Prediction Cut Will Be In F'orce Before Christmas—Reso- e TW[] BADLY INJURED - INAUTO AEBI[]FNTS Car Turos Over T Alter ClflS]l Nea PalaOOn SMASHUP IN KENSINGTON Harry Collins canvassed the pos- tax bill was confi- List—Hartford Man in serious Condition. ov. 15 (A—Prompt pos- ial ing his mother's a | full one ;,u cent from all normal ‘“«h‘- dules of income ta announced | | ! quick to speak their app {and were joined by the democratic mo- | greed. too, but held out the possibility of demanding an eve ation conditioning voman ar sistance state industrial ente | he proposed reduction from per cent to r federal taxes v both bring relie and other places, Connccticut the reduction.’ failed 1o notify the one-half of one per cent in the rate applicable to the first $4.000 of in- dividual income, ¢ tremendous Connecticut residents. Tilson played in the conferences hetw > government S WEATHER & hility for withholdir including sitches. | and Saturdas, probably ——— e | (chanees xarin ) PROFIT TAKING ON MARKET REVERSES DAY'S EARLY GAINS. Advances as High as $3 a: Share Cut Down $10 by Late Selling TOTAL SALES 4,839,980 ON “BiG BOARD" TODAY Bullish Opening Turns Tinto Steady Climb o High Levels Until Trad ers Begin (o Unload In Last Haif Hour—>Members' Offices (0 Be Open Tomorrow (o Clear Up Rush | of Business In Last Week New Y ET: o N d scores ¢ 0 £10 helow h ra above (Cor on i WOMAN AND DAUGHTER NEARLY ASPHYXIATED Silver Street Mother Bare- Iy Manages to Open Win- dow Before Collapsing \dition not serious. The police Mrs. put her on the an into the s >t Officer Flynn of the ca VALUABLE SECRET PAFERS FOUND IN HIDING PLACE Military Documents of Czarist Diy Discovered By Prof. Oldenbu —Dismissed for Concealment. Leningrad, Russia, No P (P Goverr it ials affirmed t that secret military ¢ st importar had | overed in the s famous academy of s I'rofessor Sergias Oldenburg, who ntly dism > academy a post, is charge presence of thes hich date from Czarist days. O ficials said they “could have played at role in the strategy of t government.” Three cases of secret document deposi Poland and bearing the acaden by the Czar's viceroy o (s, were among the 0 ere labelled “in case of 1 volution (hese ca The government foday Al committee to emy and fix s Soviet author present membership and staff o academy include many eleme jostile to the Soviet regime and ven persons previously sentenced to # | death for espionage. PR [‘ Hold Texan For Girl's Death - COSTA SENTENCED SENATE'S REVOLT IN HOUSE BOMBING Torrington Man Gets IO Years on Charge Toda ASSOCIATES ALSO JAILED VOTE AMAZEb LEADERS Ifi New Uprising j Additions o . 0. P, DOWH ADJCURNHIENT Red ('ross Fund Total Almost Reaches 3800 Robinson Keplics Near Sighted Justice Of Peace Nearly Gets Best Man Married Anvious o Wi | “would you like to be a bes ) GRUISER COLLIDES WITH FREIGHTER NEAR NANTUCKET HarDlehead™ Proceeds o Bos- ton, Little Damaged—"Evans- ville,” Bow Bent, Making Port FOG CAUSES CRASH EARLY [0DAY—NO ONE INJURED Ny Craft Docks Howe and Half Behind Schedule — Steamer Ballast, Heading Tor New York When Hit, Probably Will Reach Destination Tomorrow — Details Vague Until Captain Reports, r M Preighier Contimies Fn Route to New York Left Drill Ground Recently win to New York v Nantucket Lights Nov ()T on Marhlehe KORE WEAPONS IN COLORADG PRISON Convicets Hide Daggers Made in Shops, Pend- ing Revolt olo., Nov. 15 (#) would he pos ¢ v hey had been, 1 an s in was wppear thag s o springs weapons wag v sumptio vestizatic by Gov Ada ti mitt t of 1t the peniy and 4, in whiehl d. Eight of the 13 guards. intg