New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1930, Page 3

B, &P. W. C. PLANS WINTER ACTIVITIES Bridge, Book Reviews and Other Events 0n Schedule Plans for fall and winter ties were made last night at a meet- ing of the New Britain Business and Professional Women's club held at the Y. W. C. A. A full program will be carried out during the sea- son, including many features of in- /struction and entertainment. Lessons in contract bridge will be taken by the members. Book re- views will be given and various courses were discussed last night without a gecision. Miss Helen Phil- lips gave a brief account and des- cription of the latest books of fiction. | Clarissa Bentley, who attended the Tecent conference of combined Busi- | ness and Professional Women's Fed- erations at Geneva, gave a brief nar- yative of her travels and cnumerated the high spots of the conferenc She was greatly impressed by the visit of the delegates to Lady Astor in and. She and Mabel Wallin will attend the meeting of the board of directors of the state federation in New Haven Saturday The coming regional conference at ‘Atlantic City in October was dis- cussed. Victor H. Nyborg of fhe Business Bureau of Hartford gave an interesting talk on flimflam busi- nesses which make a practice of try- ing to mulet money out of the people in this state and of the efforls of organizations to combat them Plans were made last night to ob- serve the birthday of the association at the next meeting in October. GANADA MAY RAISE AUTOMOBILE DUTY New Bill to Alter System of Levy Proposed ’ Ottawa. ‘Ont., Sept.,10 (UP)— Lezislation will be iftroduced in parliament today which will give the government authority to estab- lish values for duty on imported autoriobiles on the basis of list prices instead of on wholesale prices. This legislation is in response to the demand of the Canadian auto- mobiie industry for increased tariff protection agzinst finished automo- Liles from the United States. The bill will provide that the minister of national revenue may fix a discount from the list prices 1o establish values for duty pur- poses. At present the duty is com- puted on wholesale prices. which arc from 25 to per cent below list prices The measure hits mainly at medium priced motorcars which now enjoy a considerable share of the Canadian market, and on which little or no work is decne in this country. 1t is in pursuance of the policy of the Bennctt government, on which it was returned to power, of giving Canadian products a larger #hare of the home market by ens ing the production in this country of goods now imported in large vol- ume from the United States and other countries. WRECK OF STEAMSHIP Letter Salvaged From Tahiti is in Torn and’stained Envclope— Sent From New Zealand Worcester, Mass., Sept. 10 (P) — Bearing evidence of its adventurou: voyage from New Zealand an order salvaged from the steamship Tahiti, which foundered and sank two weeks 2go in the Pacific, has finally arrived at the office of the Royal Worcester Co; t Co. envelope, bes “alva from £ca” the order Co.. Ltd., Christ Church, N. Z., for 15 dozen corsets, be 1 the car marks of grim adventure and recalls the sinking of the ship and the fes cue of its passengers and but a scant few hours hefore d abled steamer sank waves, ng the S, 8 stamp mark ahiti lost at from Ballantyne & crew the heneath Nova Scotian Native Not Allowed to Leave City Meriden, Sept. 10 (# — Albert Young of New Haven, husband of Mrs. Grace Lemore Young, former- ly of this eity, is being detained by immigration officials at Yarmouth. N. S.. according to word received by George Lemore of this city, father of Mrs. Young. Young, a native of Liverpool. N B. resided in the United States fo 15 years and recently, accompanied by his wife, went to visit his par- ents in Nova Scotia. When they started to return to this country they were detained by the immigra- tion officials because Young w never naturalized in this country. As Mrs. Young was an American citizen she later allowed to proceed to the United States. Young served overseas in the American army during the world war and the production of his pa- pers to that effect avail, Subpoenas Sought for Gov. Long Bv Official New Orleans. Sept. 10 (#) — As- sistant Attorney General E. R Schowalter said today that he w having subnoenas issucd for Gov ernor Huey P. Long. who was nomi- | nated by the democratic for the 1'nited his secretary, M appearance in the federal district court to testify in the case of Sam- uel Irby and James Terrell, missing tince last Thursday when thev planned to file suits against the gov- ernor charging slander. party Alice Grosjean, activi- | Better | In a torn and hedraggled | the | proved of no | States senale yesterday. | and | Samuel Irby demanding their | P — Compulsory Marriage Bill in Hedjaz Nation Jerusalem, Sept. 10 (#) — An Lxchange Telegraph _ dispatch from the Hedjaz today said that a bill had been introduced into || that kingdom's advisory council || which would make it obligatory ! that everyone over ‘15 years old must marry. The bill would limit costs of wedding ~fees and of dowries. : ( —_— LEADERS DESCRIBE TEXTILE SITUATION Union Members Told Wage Scale in South Too Low New York., Sept. 10 (A—Labor conditions in the textile mills in the | south were described by delegates from newly organized locals there |at today's on of the annuxl | convention of the United Textile Workers' Union of America. The first speaker was John Baine, |a delegate from the Tri-City local, formed of workers at Leaksville, | Draper ana Spray, North Carolina | He said that unionism is progressing | rapidly in the three cities and that the benefit of organization was ap- | parent on all sides, although there |is considerable work to be done be- | fore the entire south is completely | organized and uniform wages are paid in all mills and humane work- ing hours arranged. | Peel Says Wage Low | John Peel, a delegate from Green- ville, §. C.. said that the alerage | wage in the mills there was $9 a | week. He said that families of sev- |en, eight and nine persons tried to cke a living from the mills, but found it a hard struggle as they could work only two weeks in each | month because of the slack season. | He told of inspecting the pay en- | velopes of twenty-three workers. In |one he found a dollar, another had {hut 95 cents and one contained but Ifive cents after the company had | deducted the amounts spent for food, clothing and rent. He said he had found the food prices twenty \per cent higher in the company res than in tlie independent stores of the towns. | Peel said that he had found the| | brass checks that called for § | worth of merchandise in the com- | pany stores had a value of but §1.50. | Appeals For Unions Roy Price. a delegate from Ma ion, N. .. made an appeal to the delegates to work hard to unionize the south. He said the average day lin the Marion mills had been twelve hours and twenty minutes of |labor and that no pay was given | workers for the first four weeks. | Then the rate of five to thirty cents an hour was the wage scale. Now the ten hour day is in force anil there has been a ten per cent in- | crease in-pay. Better sanitary con- | ditions are also enjoyed by ths workers, he said. ' WOUNDED WAR VETERAN HEADS ST. ELMO LODGE Joseph Feingold Will Be Installed As Chancellor Commander— Returns From Hospital Joseph Feingold of 75 East Main | street will be installed as chancel- lor-commander of St. Elmo lodge. K. of P. at a meeting to be held |in Judd's hall tonight. Mr. Fein- gold was elected to the highest of: fice in the lodge at a recent meet- | ing. He War. | week | the Brooklyn is a veteran of the Worll He returned to his home last after three months' stay in aval hospital at Brooklyn, N. Y. There he under- went his 12th major operation for a shattered hip received while member of the Fifth United States Marines in Belleau Wood near Cha- teau Thierry. A shell fragment hit | him in the left hip shattering the bone and Mr. Feingold has found it | necessary to return at intervals to | the hospital for operations. |He is also commander of Private Walter J. Smith post, I"oreign Wars and is one of the most active members of the organization | in this state. | Mr: Feingold and family return- |ed home yesterday from Colchester | where they have spent the past summer. They will take up their residence at East Main street. | BN 5y {Krawicz Issues Defi to Endurance Driver | While Richard Borkowski of | Francis street is progressing toward |a record endurance record of driv- |ing an automobile handcuffed, a | challenger, John Krawicz of 15 La: | lor street, has’ appeared and if a ‘Ioml automobile agency will fur- nish him the automobile he will be ready to outdo his fellow towns- man Borkowski 100th hour at will have reached the 6.45 o'clock tonight and expects to continue until to- morrow. He is aiming to surpass | the record of the late Lieut. Harold | Lockwood which is 110 hours, 23 | minutes and 12 seconds. | Krawicz has gained prominence in vaudeville as a sword-swallower and a magiclan. is | Bombay Flooded By i Torrential Rainfalls Bribay, India, Sept. 10 (P—Tor- rential rainfall since midnight, reaching a depth of 22 inches, to- day obliged Bombay business men to don bathing suits and wade through streets waist deep in water to reach their office. The principal streets looked like rivers. Man automobiles were stranded. he elections to the Bom- bay legislative council had to be postponed. | The rain slackened in the after- | noon and the water began to recede. \ AMERICANS DEFEATED Tokyo, Sept. 10 (A—Neiji univer- | sity baseball team defeated the | University of Chicago nine here. to- day 10 to 5, S | five thousand dollars $105,000, | port Veterans of | EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD Merchants With Sharp Practices FOOD ARRIVES IN STRICKEN NATION Marines Landed in -Santo. Do- mingo to Help Police Santo Domingo, Sept. 9. (#—For the first time in a week" the pop- ulace of this old city was not hun- gry today. A small fleet of relief ships arri ing yesterday, and trucks which fially broke through the debris from the interior of the country brought food, as much food as wasnceded to the stricken city. : Relief crews passed out the first meals most of 10,000 or more of the populace had had since the hurri- cane last Wednesday afternoon blew. mos$ of the city away. There was some scrambling in the bread lines at first, but when it was realized there was enough food for all this ceased. Also Bring Supplies The same ships which brought food also brought other supplies, medicines, _ shelters, and clothing, and, as important, doctors, nurses and religf workers. It would be dif- ficult to estimate the increase in the morale of the people here as a con- sequence of the arrivals. : Surgical attention for the injured was greatly aided today with open- ing of the Roosevelt emergency tent hospital with 1,000 beds. Command- er L. W. Johnson of the United States navy was placed in charge of. all medical work done’ in the city. It was stressed that there is no epi- demic here but that the hurricane left rhany surgical cases.- With cleaning up of-the city’s streets it is believed the danger of an- epidemic may. pass. Marines Are Landed British marinc$ and' the medical unit of the British cruiser Danae were landed today to assist Domini- can authorities. The marines’ will relieve Dominican troops on guard' in the city since the hurricane. President Trujillo arranged with British Gharge d'Affairs Gallienne to have the marines-landed. All tech- nicians aboard the warship, -as well a5 the ship’s hospital, were placed at President Trujillo's disposal. No Epidemic Danger Washington, Sept. 10 (P—Report- ing ‘no present danger of epidem- ics,” Ernest J. Swift, Red Cross official assisting in Santo Domingo relief work, today informed his head- quarters here that 9,000 persons Lave been innoculated against dis- case since the hurricane struck the island a week ago. His cable said other nations are sending ships and supplies and that 20,000 persons are already being fed by the government. The message from Swift said in part: “Water supply repaired. Food- stuff consigned to merchants now ar. riving sufficient quantity to prevent shortag: U Fliers Forced Down Sumter, §. C., Sept. 10 (#—Major Roy Geiger and his two companions, taking medical suoplies by airplane to hurricane sufferers in Santo Domingo, were forced down here to- day by fog. They planned to take off again as soon as the fog lifted. The fliers took oft this morning from Fort Bragg, N. after an overnight stop. They flew there yesterday from Norfolk. Major Geiger said they hoped to reach Jacksonville today if the weather cleared sufficiently: There are three planes squadron. In addition ‘to Major Geiger, a marine corps flier, the pilots are Lieutenant A. P. Storrs and C. F. Harper, U. 8. N. Each plane is loaded with approximately 2,000 pounds of anti-toxins, an- aesthetics, surgical dressings and surgical instruments. Their route to Santo Domingo from Jacksonville is via Miami and Havana. in the Destroyer Leaves Washington, Sept. 10 (UP) — Loaded with relief supplies for the Dominican Republic, the destroyer U. S. S Gilmer, left Hampton roads today, according to advices received at the navy department. The Gil- mer is due at Santo Domingo at 8 a. m., Saturday, September 13. The three tri-motored navy trans- planes en route to Santo Domingo with medical supplies left l'ort Bragg today but were forced down at Sumter, S. C., because of thick weather. It was the second forced landing of the three planes since they started from Norfolk yes- terday. ght large murals, depicting out- standing historical events, have been placed in the dome of the Ala- bama state capitol. City Advertisement RESOLVED: By the Board of ance and Taxation of the City of ew Britain, that it estimates that the Board of Public Works requires the sum of one hundred five thousand dollars $105,000, for the purpose of defraying the cost and pense incident to laying out, srading, constructing, repairing, macadamizing, paving, improving the condition of .the streets of the City of New Britain, and recom- mends that the Common Council ap- propriates the sum of one hundred for said purposes and that for the-pur- pose of meeting the expenses there- of it authorizes the issue of bonds, notes, scrip or certificates of debt, bearing interest at.no greater rate than five per centum per annum, the principal of which shall be pay- eble at some fature time or times within five vears after the date of the issue of the same, the amouml of such honds. notes, scrip or cer- tificates of debt, which may at any time be issued. with the time or times of payment of the principal and interest thereon and the rate of interest to be prescribed by a ma- jority vote of the members present at a meeting of the Common Coun- cil called and held for that purpose, ch bonds, notes, scrip, or certifi- cates of debt to be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Treasurer of the City. WILLIAM H. DAY, Clerk. vvw e Soon Eliminated Stores Must Be Conducted On High Principles or Go Ufider, Dealers Claim — Women of City Keen-On Meichandise Values. . Barnum was all-wrong. Or at least Barnum's policy, would have to u dergo a revolutionary revision New Britain, according to merchants who spoke at the luncheon of the Kiwanis club today. They said that merchants who try to humbug. fool. “gyp" or de- ceive the public are of the type who do not last, are not successful and are here today,and gone tomorrow. Firms which do not conduct their business on a honest basis, giving an honest dollar's worth of merchan- dise for a dollar, cannot do business with the New Britain public, they agreed. It was further agreed that there are no such things as trade secrets any more and that business today is conducted on the open book policy. Discuss “Fair Competition" The discussion was under the di- rection of Ray C. Young, chairman of the business standards commit- tee and manager of a chain store. Mr. Young announced that the meeting would be given over to a discussion of “Fair Competition.’ Discussions of business methods which are not unlawful but mani- festly unfair, he said, was the busi- ness before the meeting. F. C. Kelly, insurance man and former banker, announced laconical ly that ‘“misrepresentation of any- thing is always unfair competition.” Mr. Young asked what the mem- bers thought of the’ 'practice of marking merchandise prices higher than normal, then cutting them to a normal price and selfing them at “reduced prices.” A. J. Leventhal, one of the owners of the Fair and the Davidson & Leventhal stores, said: "“That is not unfair competition. It is a decidedly unethical ‘ practice and ‘manifestly unfair, but it is not’competition. The man who does-that kind of busi- ness is sounding “his own death Kknell, the honest merchant need not fear him. “Women in New Britain do most welcoming -shouts as'he it again. Popularity to be be deserved. in | ... the idol of them all. Ball two!...and cr-r-ack! he’s done WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1930. In New Britain, 'Business Men Tell Kiwanis Club of the shopping and they know more about meérchandise values most of the time than the merchants them- selves.- Nothing can be put over on llhem. ! “The merchant who indulges in unfdir fractices soon eliminates him- J!el{: he .is-not much of a competi- tor.” ¢ ~ ““Shopping Public Sharp Mr.: Young added that he has |never scen any town or city wher |the shopping public is.as well versed | | on merchandise values as in New Britain, “especially the women.” A. G. Hawker, automobile dealer, | discussed the hiring of employes by | |one firm from another in order to |obtain the latter's trade sccrets. “Business has no trade secrets any longer.” he declared. “The public is {too well verse | values. The automobile not patent ideas these da swap them. Business is done with |open books. 1f a man isn't honest fn business he is doomed from makers do lived. “Goods must be sold on a fair ex change of value and profit business man must sell goods some- times at cost to clean up old stock, |or he cannot remain in business. Hugh S. McKenna, president of the club and head of the Hardware City Lumber Co,, said: “The buying public understands values and quali- ty in the merchandise it buys regu- arly, but people do not know values of merchandise in what they buy but once in a lifetime.” He told how property owners in New Britain and elsewhere were sub- | jcc' in times past to being cheated by fly by night concerns, misrepre- | enting” their’ merchandise, until finally the federal trade commission stepped in and reorganized the busi- ness of certain commodities until today everyone pays the same price | for the same goods: J. C. Moody, head of the Secretarial school, asked what Moody the | club thought about the practice of | advertising | ome merchants . of ‘marked down sale” then marking | down only certain articles, maintain- ng the regular:price for staple arti- | cles. That is what is known as a sharp | practice. If you know what you |are looking for you won't be fooled iby that trick,” commented Mr. | Young. A discussion on the future of the TH IRTY thousand steps to ‘bat Ball one! lasting must Chesterfield Cigarettes are mansfactured by LicGeTT & MYERs ToBacco Co. in merchandise and | , they | the | start. The trick competitor is short | Lvery | | but he must give value for his money | |ctub, ana further discussion of the | | subject of business practices was | postponed until a later meeting. |Gordon Will Enroll for U. of P. Course Israel M. Gordon, of New Britain. will be among those who will enter the University of Pennsylvania as members of this year's freshman | | class, it has been announced by the |office of admission of the univer- Lsity. Grdon is among approximate lly 1,100 graduates of preparatory | fand high schools who will be admit- | ted this year under the plan of “se- | lective admission’™ at present | force at the university. Gordon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gordon, 1469 Stanley street, and prepared for the university in the New Britain high school and i the ilton scheol. While studying at the former he was active in football and gzolf, and was a mem- ber Phi Beta f ernity and the Interfraternity Council; and was member of the yearbook staff the Cum Laude society of the ton school Members of the entering class will the Pennsylvania campu 1ber 2, to par- in the annual the university in a and Til- arrive M ticipate cck of on on Michelin Closes Plant Because of Competition New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 10 (&) J. H. Michelin, vice president, aid today that the plant of the “l:r!ml\n Tire company which has operated at Milltown, N. J.. sinc | 1907, will be closed permanently | The plant was shut down on May 1. Michelin - said operations were ctopped because conditions in the Jle- business “made ‘it impossible to run our plant with any chance of | breaking even.” “Independent tire dealers,” he =aid, “are dropping out fast, while e fight for volume in tire oes on between chain stores and oil tations on one side and the factory- controlled retailers on the other. sales Vance School Teacher Wins Scholarship Prize | Miss Priscilla Carrington, a teach- er at the Robert J. Vance school in | | this city has been awarded the Hold- en Prize for excellence in scholar- ship and personality for/teaching at university where she has just completed a sunnmer of study. Syracuse | | A R e | REGULAR DIVIDEND ISSUED 1 Chicago. Sept. 10 (P—Directors of | Montgomery Ward & Co. clared the regular quarterly dividend |of $1.75 per share on class "A” stock. | payable October 1 to stockholders of record September 20 | today de- i EX-SEN, LODGE'S BLAKE DUARRELS DAUGHTER FLAYY SENATE CANDIDATE (Continued From First Page) 1924, and in November of 1924 my | father dicd: “It has always been the belief of Lodge’s family and friends that this treatment of ap old and distinguish - ed statesman, with ye; of devoted cice behind him. was a deliberate ct of revenge for Lodg fusal 1o make way for Butler, exchangc for Butler's help in 19 “If anyone is thinking of for Mr. Butler because he says he is ‘The logical of Henry Cabot l.odge’ he, or she, had better think again. They would be voting under a -otal misapprehension of the truth.” e in voting successor 5 WOMAN SWINMER 7 CROSSES CHANNEL IN SIXTEEN HOURS (Continued From First Page) only thing preventing me from breaking Miss Ederle’s record.” he recalled smilingly that during her seven-mile swim in 1926 from Robben's island to Cape Town she had twice been saved from attack- ing sharks by timely harpooning and rific shots from her escort Patient Rescued From Drop Off High Ledge Llizabeth Firemen today res 65, of Newark, from a zabeth's” hospital where hanging by his finger tips. Still unrecovered from the effects of the gas taken last night, Horn slid out of the window and clung by his hands to the window sill. Pedestrians who saw the man hanging precari- ously on the ledge attracted the at- tention of hospital attaches. Mis May Wenk, a nurse, and an interne tried in vain to pull Horn to safety. They could not lift the 200 pound patient. Miss Wenk called the department. In a few minutes and while hun- dreds looked on, firemen scaled the side of the huilding and Horn N. J., Sept. 10 (UP)— ued Henry Horn, ledge at St he was rescued | WITH POLICEMEN Gonsular Oficial Demands Sat- isfaction in Tangiers Case Tangiers, Sept. 10 (UP)—Officials of the Tangiers zone said today-they were unable to mcet the démands of Maxwell Blake, described a8 an American consular representative, who has sought the discharge of several local police / because they refused to permit his Moorish- ser- vant boy to ride a donkey on the public beach The a servant cently for violation because he rode on the beach. Blake protested. officials said, on the grounds that the law did not wply to American citizens or their crvants since the United States es not adhere to the five-power Tangiers statutes The csted boy was arrested re- of ordinanc servant was releal but ar- ain when he appeared on donkey on the beach the sec- ond time. Blake then asked for dis ch of the policemen who ar- ed the boy The Zone Administrator Lefur, ing on the protests, consulted a representative of the Sultan of Mor- occo and then declined to discharge the policemen. The officials said they were anxious to appease Blake, but admitted their inability to end the incident sfactorily to all. w born in Kansas City, nd attended the University of ouri. He has been in the con- ervice since 1906 and was ap- peinted to as diplomatic agent nd consul gencral at Tangier May 14, 1925 Officials said that tests, Blake suggested it might be ssary to arm all Americans in zone to defend their interests. sat act during his pro- ne the LEASE ARENA FOR GOLF An indoor miniature golf course will be set up in the Stanley Arena and will be open for public use on about September 20, according 1 announcement made today s were drawn up by the own- Perlstein & Toretsky where by the Stanley Arena Indoor -Golf Course, Inc. has taken a lease on the arena for one year with the privilege of renewing for three ad- ditional years for the purpose Michael Haugh and Paul Zink arc the incorporato or to Par crs, USE' HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS ONE will cz/wczys | stand out/ HOME RUNS are made at the plate — not on the bench! Likewise what counts ina ciga- rette is what a smoker gets from it — not what is said about it. Chesterfield has a policy—give smokers what they want: MILDNESS — the wholly nat- ural mildness of tobaccos that are without harshness or bitterness. BETTER TASTE—such as only a cigarette of wholesome purity and better tobaccos can have.