New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1930, Page 15

’x_ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, A P. . INCREASES * SURPLUS §t11, 7 “Financial Statement of Kensing- | ton Gompany Issued Today Surplus of the American Pape: Goods Co. of Kensington was in creased during the year 1929 fron %572,036.37 to $683,306.95, accord ing to the condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 1929, forwarded to stockholders today by the com wany. Stockholders received in the mai today checks for an extra dividend of $2 per share to holders of recorc ‘ebruary 19. 106 declared by the company The financial report follow Assets ‘ash on hand and in banks. U. 8. treasury certificates at cost Cash in savings banks ‘ailroad honds at cost Notes reccivable Accounts recelv- Yable . Less reserve Inventories at the lower cost or market value . qand at cost 3 55,2201 chinery at depreciated value Patents less amortization Insurance unexpired and mu- tual deposits Toans to employes for purchase, etc. . Other deferred charges Liabilities \ccounts payable Lccrued wages, ete. feserve and_other taxes Jmm stock, com- mon Capital ferred commis : 20,1429 for federal income 45,4314 £130,000.00 stock, pro- 6,000.00 1,086,000.00 s preferred stock purchased and held by company 22,100.00 1,063,900.01 Gurpius Summary of Surplus Account urplus January 1, 1829 .....$ @arnings after federal taxes. Less dividends paid: Common_stock 339, Preferred stock , Surplus December 51, HINGHAM HOUSE BURNS Hingham, Mass., March was done to thy threc story colonial mansion of J. A. Davis in an early morning fire today. A maid awak qued by the smoke aroused his wife and three children were sleeping on the second ut Lowell, a 17 year old son, flo wa overcome before leaving the house. stairs, i%remen found him on the the home was valued at $50,000. NOTICE OF MEETING THE AMERICAN IHARDWARE CORPORATION The Annual Meeting of the Stock Tolders of The American Hardware | «'orporation will be held at the of- ice of the P. & Park Street, New Britain, Connecti. cut, on March 19th, 1950 at 2 o'clock 1. m., to consider the Annual Re. wort of the Directors of the corpora- tion; to elect a Board of Directors o approve and ratify any and all action taken or authorized by the Board of Directors or officers of the corporation since December 31st, 1928, and to trans- t any other business proper to |lXvedas ag for the ensuing yea come before said meeting. GEORGE HILDEBRANDT, Seccretar February 27th, 1930. OU don’ annum whil This is dividend No. 5.95 1 P— Damage estimated at nearly $10,000 Davis, who | Corbin Division, BY SAVING.. about your money when it’s safe in the Bank. Burritt Mutual depositors sleep the sleep of the carefree, their dollars earning pen- nies at the r: “Join the Mutual Savers” BURRITT MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK Funerals ‘ John August Ohman Funcral services for John August Ohman, aged 7§, veteran employe of Corbin Screw, who died Wednesday |at his home, 26 West Pearl street will be held this afternoon at at the First Lutheran church. R | Dr. Abel A. Ahlquist will officiat: t |and burial will be in Fairview ceme- - | tery 1 | Mrs. Samuel B. Cochrane Funeral services for Mrs l‘Aog]yr,\n , aged 45, wife v‘B. Cochrane who died yester lafternoon at her home, 469 E. {street, will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock at Lrwin chapel. Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, rector of St. Mark’s lmsuoml church, will officiate and | burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Mary 1 d | a, Mrs. Hannah Amenda Nickerson Funeral services for Mrs. Ilunmh Amenda Nickerson, aged 88, who| | died yesterday at the home of her| niece, Mrs. Lewis H. Hanford of 27 Lenox place, will be held this after- | noon at 1:30 at ti of B. . Porter Sor H. Alderson, pa cdist church, will officiate and burial will be in West Cornwall. Edward H. Williametz | ITuneral services for Williametz aged 38, a former resi- dent of this city, who died in New- s | port, N. ., yesterday, will be held | Monday afternoon at 0 at the | Stanley Memorial church. Burial | Will bo in Falrview cemetery, T|R. N. Gilman officiating, 8 Loz el | Lugenc White, Jr. | Tuneral . services for White, Jr.. two months-old-son | Mr. and Mrs. Eugene White of | Horaco street, who died yesterd | will be held this afternoon at | oclock at the home of his parents. Burial will be in Mary's ceme- tery. Rev, Williani Eugene of 0 August Walicki Tuneral services for Walicki, who died Wednesday, were held this | morning at 7:30 at the Sacred Hear church. Rev. Joseph T. Dawid celebrated the solemn high mass of | requiem. The pall bearers were Stanley Uliasz, Stanley Batos, Anthony Kar pinski, Stanley Uliasz, Vincent Bialy and Stanley Kulisz. Rev. Father Dawid conducted the committal services at the gra Burial was in Sacred Heart cem tery. 1 Mrs. Hanora J. McMahon Tuneral services for Mrs. Hanora J. MeMahon, »d 83, widow of Thomas McMahon, who died Thurs- day at the home of her grand- ¢aughter, Mrs. Walter L. Bell of 171 | Francis strect, were held this morn- |ing at 9 o'clock at St. Mar. A solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev. John T. Con- |nor. Itev. Walter J. Lyddy was deacon and Rev. Thomas I, Lawlor was sub-deacon. At the offertory of the mass Mrs. Mary T. Crean sang “Ave Maria” and at the conclusion she rendercd “Abide With Me,” accompanied | Organist John J. Crean on the organ The pall bearcrs were Henr ham, Marold Gorman, Char | Gorman, Officer Danicl | Josepn Cosgrove, all nephews of the deccased woman, and Cleon Bell. Rev. Father Lyddy read the com- mittal services at the grave, Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery August Kvedas scrvices for ed 49, of 107 | street who died Wednesday morning | were held this morning at 9 o'clock lat St. Andrew’s church. Rev, Ed- | vard V. Grikis was celebrant of rcquiem high mass, Rev. John F. Funeral August t lie awake worrying ate of five per cent per ¢ they sleep. amucl | funeral parlors | or of Trinity Meth- | Edward H.| Rev. | 1 August | aged 54, of 41 Grove strect, | 3. s church, | by | Cosgrove, | Willow | Donohue was deacon and Rev. Thomas J. Laden was sub-deacon. At the offertory Miss Anna Rizaus- | kas sang “Ave Maria” by Silver ana | {James G. Donahue sang Gounod's | “Benedictus.” As the body was being borne from the church Mi: Rizauskas and Mr. Donahue, accom- | panicd by Organist Lrnest Britton, sang “Nearer My God to Thee.” The pall bearers were Peter Kups- {tas, James Rulis, J. Drauikas, J. Martesis, J. Zinkus, and J. Nava- grackis Rev. Father ATHOME OF WOMAN Commission Takes Testimony of Aged Widow in House The last of the testimony in the committal services at the grave. suit which William Simins has in- | Burial was in St. Mary's cemeter stituted against the cstate of his | ther, James Simms, was heard ir | August Ottavi probate court this niorning and the Funeral scrvices for August Ot- | probate court commissioners. John |tavi, aged 52, of 20 Acorn strect, who |I°. Downes and William Keefe, re- | died yesterday, will be held Mon- |served decision. The attorneys | day morning at 9:30 at the home |both sides were instructed to jand at 10 o'clock at St. Mary's|briefs and u decision will be {church. Burial will be in St. Mary's | later. t““fl““ The plaintiff claims that he cut off in the will of his father | though the latter promised he Grikis conducted the file given al- would | | Mrs, Mrs. Ju I [ola, died lier nephew, Ldward I of 93 Cr nt street, | a hearing w home on Monroc statement could Attorncy Donald nts the exccutor, the Hartford. al ‘Trust Co. This mornir was born in this city, the daughter | iorney Richardson of the office of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Egan. | Kirkham, Cooper, Hungerford Thirty years ago she removed to|camp argued for the plaintift Hartford where she had since made { Attorney John 1. MeDermott repre her home. A son, James 1. Lennon (o i i e nd the nephew with om she | L ETRRG MONTPELIER HOUSE BURNED Iruncral) services Montpelier, Vt., March 1 (- Monday morning at late last night destroyed the from the funeral home ior of the Union Houss a Molloy, 120 Capitol avonue B T IR i | ford, ‘and at 9 o'clock with e st b emn high requiem mass at | Holmes. 86, former ter's church. Interment will S Tekuteig Mt. St. Benedict cemctery. e : Roland Ruby | Roland Ruby, three-weeks-old son |ot Mir. and Mrs. Emil Ruby of 194 High street, died this morning at the home of his parents after a short| | tllness. s held yesterday ct so that en. Julia E. Lennon an Lennon, 57 years the home of McDonough i vesterday a State Gaftne) Co. sec e | [ owner later In recent been used as a rooming house but |in early stagecoach days of Vermont history it was a prominent hotel. The property was owned by Mrs. Genevieve Wilde Funeral services will he held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of his parents. Burial will be in & Mary's cemetery. i New York, N Birtb Record | the Texas Pacifl | A daughter was born at New | Britain General hospital late yes |terday to Mr. and Mrs. John Ba | dalian of 227 Glen street. \WATER DIVERSION CASE | RETURNS T0 HARTFORD Master Coal the declaration of the 2 1-2 per cent | stock dividend, due at this time, be- cause of the unsettled situation he Texas Oil industry. Melting scrap ste hica now being quoted at $13.25 to a ton, off 25 cents during the ckholders of the Indian T | tory Illuminating 0il Co., idiary of Citics Service Co., ipproved increasing the stock from 9,500,000 authorized efore shares of $1 | | Hearings Special Charles W. Bunn Will Be Resumed pvar value. Monday With Farmer For Witness Il Directors of Wills Ste. Claire, Hartford, Conn., March The staffs of legal and tc ts engazed in the | Massachusetts watc | troversy we arriving herc from | | Boston today, prepared to resume hearings herc Monday before Charles e | W. Bunn, special master appointed | hron shares of ed by the United States supreme | cach five court. Deputy Attorne; 1 (UP)— chnical ex- | of 36 Connecticut- | goek diversion con- | L share Dpa on the fi vable March 17, American Utilities have & Genera | Corp. offercd to exchang shares of & stock B" shares of class * OflicersiR;EZIected an. class General Ernest L. Averill, in charge of Connecticut's ase, indicated he would call an | gricultrist located on the Connec- ticut river as his first witness Mon- , to testify regarding the prol ble effect of diversion of the river's tributaries. Later Averill will sum- mon General Sanford H. Wadhams, | state water commissioner. The case arose out of Connec'i-| cut’s protest against diversion of tha Swift and Warc rivers, tributaris | ot the Connecticut, in Massachusetts for the Boston water supply. Con-|c, s necticut maintains diversion of the |Minor, H. H. Wheeler, 1. T. Wheel- tributarics would damage Connecti-|er, 1», J. Wachter and R. N. cut river shipping, cause greater|epsy proportional pollution and hurt agriculture in the river aviley. Officers and directors of Union Mfg. C'o. were reelected at the ann hield at the company's day afternoon. The named as follows: President, Neuman vice president, Wachter: seeretary, C. and treasurer, II. H. Wheele The directors. all reclected, follows. A. J. Sloper, A. I Corbin, S. Neumann. F. J. Porter, J. B. officers were Carl 8. are o India 000,000,- Gold hoardings in thought to he more than USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | 000, ANY BUSINESS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE SUPPORT of ‘THE BANK BACK OF IT We Would Like Your Banking Business Too. New Britain Trust Co. WILL HEARING HELD Stock Market Spotty On Opening, But Buying Orders Start Rally; | Several Utilities Hit Year’s High on | | was Ireward him for services about thz D e t h latter's farm. | a 8 | Mrs. Katherine 1. Simjns, widow | jof the testator, is 85 years old and her her of ‘\l and | d widow. Fire | inter- thres an es- | Henry | , was tak- | suffering years the building had c¢h 1.—Dircctors of & 0il Co., have deferred action for 30 days on in a sub- | have par values to 15,000,000 shares no | Ine., | have declared a lquidating dividend | st preferred | ¢ two tock for By Union Mfg. Board the | meeting of the stockholders office yester- 3 Mueller, as Hem- are {Gulf States and Auburn IL Move_ Up, Followed by | American Telephone, Power Shares and War-i Brothers Later in Day. ner Pictures New York, March 1 (P — The stock market presented o spotty ap- | pearance at the opening today. Gulf States Steel and Auburn Auto cach opencd about two points higher, American Water Works and Parme- lec Transportation moved into new high ground and American Smelting. Kennccott, General Electric and New York Central improved fractionally. Atchison Drops Slightly Atch dropped Produc L, s 1 on and Western Union cach | 13-4 and Midland Steel | s common 1 1-4. Steel opencd fractionally low- “The market turned upward soon fter the opening as fresh buying orders poured into the public utility chares and carried several of them to the new high records for the year. American Telephone, Ameri- an Power & Light, North American Standard Gas & Electric all reached new high zround. One block of 10.000 shares of | Warner Dros. pictures changed | hands at 68, up 3-4, and a new high {record. 3. T > and McKeesport Tin Plate were cach marked up points and Blectric Auto Lite, Borg Warner, National Lead, Lamberg, Hershey Chocolate and Columbian }.m»on recorded early gains of a point or more. Foreign Exchange Easier Toreign exchanges opened casicr, with Spanish pesetas touching an- other new low at 12.12 cents and sterling cables down 1-32 of a cent |to $4.55 2 | The Market at 1 Sales to 11: lan 31-3 0 a 30—1,21 High 1 m. to 12 m. 200 shares, T.ow 134 68 | Air Reduction Allied Chem Allis Chalmers 597 Am Bank Note 901 Am Bosch Mag Am Can ., | Am Car & Fdy Am Coni Alco Am & Yogn D Am Loco . Awm Smelting Am Tel & Tei | Am Woolen, ¢ 1! Anaconda {Atchison Atlantic Ref ‘l‘.llf & Ohio Bendix Avia .. | Beth Steel . | Briggs Mg Bucyrus 1 Bush Term em 46% Calmt & Hecla. 30 ‘anada Dry ‘an Pacific n Alloy ‘er De Pas M St P &P {Chi & North .. [Chi Pne TI em Chrysler Mot .. Columbia Gas Com Solvents | Con-Nairn ‘on Ga ‘onti Can ... Corn Prod | Curtiss Wrt em { Day Chemical | 4 597 9015 1415 % 2815 943 1 TH ] « « C Steel 3 « (@ 311 179 66 9414 11% 387 41 216% 10 68 59 Devoe Reynlds stmn Kdak llec Autolite Pwr & Lt IR Fox Tilm A.. 34% Freeport Tex 43 Gen Am Tank 104% | Genl Asphait Genl Electric Genl Foods Genl Motors Genl Pub Sery Glidden Co cm | Gold Dust Goodrich Rub Graham Paige | Gr'ndy Con Cop 577 | Hudson Motor | Inspiratn Cop 203 |Intl Harvester 94 Intl Nickel 405 Inti Tel & Tel 70% Johns-Manv'le 138 Kresge Co. 3 Kroger Groc'y 38 Liquid Cab'n'c 65% Math Alkali .. 44% M K & T RR Missouri Pac ., Mont. Ward Nash Motors . Nat Biscuit Nat Cash Reg . N Y Central N Haven RR North Am Co North Pac Owens Glas: Packard Mot Pan-Am B , Par't Lasky . Phillips Pet % Pub Serv NJ . 987 Pullman Co ., 827 Radio Corp 5015 Rad-Keith-Or 3214 Rem Rand ... 303 Rep Irn & St Roy Dutch NY St L San Fran 103 Sears Roebuck 9013 Sinclair Oil 24% Southern Pac .1231; Stand Brands Standard Gas 12 Std Oil Cal .. Std Oll of NJ . Std Ol of NY 323 Stewart W'rner 40 Studebaker Texas Corp . Texas Gulf Sul 6 | Timk’n Rol Ber 7 Union Carbide 9 U't'd Gas & I'p | United Corp {U S Ind Olco 1203 U7 S Rubber . U S Steel . Vanadium St'1 711 Warner Br Pic 68(#) West Elec ....1885 Willys Overl'd 3 561 a4 397z 60 371 il S41x T4z . 184 10 109 3912 248 5 1561 9% ) | National | Billings & Sper | Bristol | City Close | ¢ | 90 :| Falls and Breaks Foot | ;| ain General hospi | | A | | 1930. FIRM INCORPORATES Parker & Parker of New Britain have filed papers of incorporation vith the secretary of state. Au- been | thorized capital consists of $50,000 Gregory & |in 450 shares of common and 50 cment | shares of preferred stock of $100 par value, of which §15,000 is paid in The incorpors re: Luther J Parker, We Parker, nd Clesson W, all of New Bri Changes Firm Name iThomson, Fenn & Co. | 1 The firm n & Co., stock changed to 8§ Co., according to an by the company. | main as before | Arthur W. G Hastings, Joseph R Terry Morrison me of broke venson, omson, Fenn 1 Cleveland Woolworth H Parke LOCAL OCKS (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) " BALANCE USLEE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADs Balance $51,673,155 | | | YOR B r l\l STl Insurance Stocks | Bid Askea Actna Aetna Life Ins Co Actna Fire . Automobile Ins Conn General Hartford Fire Htfd Steam Boiler Hifd Steam Boiler Fire Phoenix Fire Travclers Ins Co Manufacturing Stocks Am Hardware seeees 62 Arrow-Hart & Hegeman 40 cer . 1 Casualty u.mu.-mlawawm-... 31 WEST MAIN ST., NEW BRITAIH TEL. 2040 WARTFORD OFFICE, ¢ CENTRAL BOW, _ THL. S118 L1500 1 We Offer: Brass Company Colt's rms ble Lock . Fafnir Bearing Co Hart & Cooley Landers, I° N B Machine North & Judd Feck, § Russell Mfg Co Scovill Mfg Co Standard Screw Stanley Works Torrington Co Union Mfg Co Veeder-Root Elman Public Utilities Stocks Conn Elec Service 20 Conn Lt & P Conn Power COLT'S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. CO. AMERICAN HARDWARE CORP. NDERS, FRARY & CLARK TANLEY WORKS EpDYBROTHERS & G2 Members Hartford Stock Exchange NEW BRITAIN, 29 W. Main Street HARTFORD MERIDEN 3 Lewis Street 3 Coleny Street 5139 pfd 178 MURDER CHARGES BQUAL | “DRY” LAW VIOLATIONS Two Under Each Classification We Ofter: 50 Shares Conn. Power 50 Shares Hartford Fire Insurance 40 Shares Aetna Life Insurance Tte- corded by Police Last Month —Arrests Decline. > unusual condition of as many arrests on the | ! murder as were made on the aving | charge of charge | of violation of the liquor law, in a single month, is disclosed in the v port of Chief W. C. Hart of the month of I'ehruary. There were two arrests on the charge of murder nd the same number for violation £ the liquor law. The report arrests during 1°cbrua less than the number made in | 1February a year ago. The fact that |snow and ice cases were brought in January this year and February a | vear ago accounts for the falling |off, in large measure. There were ness; 14 for breach of the in : We Recommend AMERICAN YVETTE Traded On New York Curb Marlon S. Emery & Co. NEW YORK NEW BRITAIN OFFICE — TELEPHONE 6210 55 West Main St. Cincinnati New Haven ows a total of which is 33 arrests for drunk- drunkenness and peace; § for breach of the peace; T for assault and breach of the peace; for theft; 21 for violation of the lottery law; 34 for violation of city ordinanccs and 31 for violation of motor Room 602, Commercial Trust Bldg. New York Albany Cleveland Bridgeport Detroit Rochester ve- | hicle laws. % | Bowling Alley Pin Boy Lucian Nakucian, pin boy in the | howling alleys at the Rogers Re- | | ereation building, is in the New Brit- | 1 with several | bones broken in onc foot and with | sencral bruises throughout his body as a result of a fall from a second | story window yesterday:. The boy, who is 16 years of age, | and resides on Hayes strect, was | cleaning windows on the side of the | 13 | building toward the driveway lead- | ing from Church street to the rear, | when he lost his hold, and fell ol the ground. | M. L. GORDON & CO. Investments — Securitie: 300 MAIN STREET TEL. 6119 - 5700 We Ofter and Recommend: UNITED GAS common On N. Y. Curb WE ANNOUNCE THAT EFFECTIVE TODAY THE NAME OF OUR FIRM HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM Thomson, Themn & Co. TO Stevenson. Gregory & Ao THE PARTNERS WILL REMAIN AS BEFORE {ORGE S, STEVENSON ARTHUR W. GREGORY R. CLEVELAND HASTINGS JOSEPH R. PROCTOR H. TERRY MORRISON * Stevenson. Gregory & Lo. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE MEMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE 205 CHURCH STREET 56 PEARL STREET EST MAIN STREET HARTFORD, CONN. X NEW BRITAIN,