New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1930, Page 5

SOUND LINES CASE BRIEF SUBMITTED Unfair Methods Charged in N. E. Water Commerce Rivalry By GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Bureau, N. B. Herald) Washington, Oct, 1—A vigorous plea that the Interstate Commerce commission divorce the New Haven railroad and its water lines made in a brief filed with the com- mission today by the Colonial Nav- igation company. The Colonial declared that the New Haven was “determined, to either stifle or Kill off the Colonial Line competition,” using more than 100 printed pages to tell its story to the federal body. At the same time the Manufact- urers’ Association of Connecticut, the Manufacturers Association of Bridgeport, numerous chambers of commerce throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island lined up solidly behind the New Haven and urged the commission to deny the Colonial Navigation com- pany’s petition for a separation of the rail and water lines of the New Haven. was Among the chambers of commerce | which joined in supporting the rail- road were Bridgeport, East Had- dam, Glastonbury, Hartford, Middle- town, New Britain, New London, [Greenwich, New Haven, Waterbury, and Windsor, Conn.; Fall River and New Bedford, Mass., and Newport, R The Connecticut petitioners were banded together as the ““Sound Lines Case committee.” One of their at- torneys was C. L. Eyanson. Operates Eight Lines The New Haven has been operat- ing eight steamship lines for many years. These lines are the Bay State line from and to Providence; the Hartford line of the Hartford & New York Transportation Co. from and to Hartford; Bridgeport line from and to Bridgeport; Fall River line from and to Fall River; New Bedford line from and to New Bed- ford, Ma: New London line from and to New London; New Haven line from and to New Haven; and the Providence line of the New Eng- land Steamship Co. from and to Providence, R. T. Since 1914 the New Havén been operating the steamship lines under authority of the Inferstate Commerce commission and the Pan- ama Canal Act. The latter forbade operation of water lines by railroads when the water lines competed with the same company's rail lines, un- specific authority was granted by the commission. In the present action, the Colon- fal Navigation Co., which had the case reopened some time ago, is attempting to force the New Haven to give up its water lines. Claims Interest to Stifie Competition Supporting its contention that tie New Haven pursues a definite policy to exclude competition on Long Island Sound, the Colonial cited a number of actions which, it said, proved its case. Among these was a secret report alleged to have been circulated among New Haven executives in Wwhich it was stated that the steam- ship lines “should be so coordinated and operated as to prevent make unnecessary the operation of independent competition.” Another was that the New Haven had exerted secret pressure upon the Seaboard Air Line Rail- way which caused that company to refuse to renew the lease on one of its boats to the Colonial line for op- eration in 1930 in competition with the Providence line, a subsidiary of the New Haven, »'I‘h(‘ Colonial also cited the alleged Visit of counsel fof the New Haven to offices of the Bethlehem Ship- building Co. to obtain information as 1o plans of the Colonial line for new ships. This was “merely another instance of the studied destructive policy of the New Haven with res- bect to Colonial line competition,” the brief stated. The_Sound Line case committee, on the other hand, argued that the New Haven water lines do not com- pete with its rail line ang that a continuation of the operation of both routes is indispensable. They pointed out that the Colon- fal Navigation Co. does not operate to or from ports in Connecticut and &tated that if that line has grevances against the New Haven it should Ppresent them to the commission un- der the’ Interstate Commerce Act and not under the Panama Canal Act. Road Gets C. of C. Support Supporting the New Haven, the Fall River, New Bedford, and New- port chamber of commerce declared “sound public policy demands that the New Haven railroad should be permitted to continue its control and operation in coordinated services the water lines of the New England Steamship company.” The New Haven has not committed any unlawful acts in connection with the opetation of any of Its water lines; the brief said, and *“no hecessity has been shown that would require the commission to take any has action that would be destructive of | the public interest and deprive these port communities of the long and well maintained and satisfactory services of the New England Steam- ship Co. under its present control and operation.” Separation of the two systems of transportation probably would sub- stantially reduce or entirely elimin- ate a “large and sustaining” move- ment of traffic between interior New England points and New York ctiy, the brief said. MADE POLITICAL AGENT New Haven, Oct. 1 Edgar Stevens Furniss, professor of politic- al and social science at Yale, has teen appointed political agent for Dr. Wilbur L. Cross, democratic candidate for governor, according to notice filed yesterday by Dr. Cross with the secretary of state. While this office usually carries with it the duties of campaign manager, Prof. Furniss said he would not engage in political activity as the result of his appointment, but would function for Cross as does a firm of ac- countants for its clients in certify- ing the correctness of accounts, and | HARDWARE MEN FEEL ENCOURAGED BY NEWS N Reports Cheer Manufacturers Al- though Improvement Is Still ‘Regarded as Rather Slight. New York, Oct. 1 Business sentiment among hardware men is very encouraging, even though any improvement in trade to date is very slight. September volume with wholesalers was considerably better than during July and August but somewhat behind when compared with September of last year. It is |generally felt that the last quarter will see steady if not rapid im- provement, particularly with the start of the Christmas holiday sea- | son, Hardware Age will say tomor- row in its weekly hardware market | summary. There are no longer any illusions that 1930 can equal 1929. Business to date is said to average about 25 per cent less than for the same period of 1929. With few excep- tions leading hardware market cen- ters report fair collections and close- ly watched credits. Other than declines on manila | rope, linseed oil, shellac and sisal | prices are practically unchanged. In | certain sections there are reports | of competitive pricing on standard | goods, but this condition is by no means general. SPANISH HEIR MAY WED ANDALUSIAN {Aunouncement of Engagement to Bourbon Princess Expected Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 1 (A —An all-Spanish royal romance was be- lieved today to be in the making here. Rumor linked the names of the Prince of Asturias, 23 year old Spanish heir to the throne, and the Princess Maria De Bourbon, 16 year old Andalusian beauty, daughter of the Infante Carlos De Bourbon, captain general of Barcelonia, and the Princess Luisa Francisca of Orleans. The prince, arriving in Barcelona yesterday, called shortly afterward on Don Carlos, and although there was no announcement of the pur- pose of his visit, no surprise would | b occasioned here by an announce- | ment soon of his engagement to the | Infanta Maria. In Madrid Premier General Dam- aso Berenguer | would not confirm reports of the engagement, saying merely that he was not in a position cither to confirm or to deny them. The princdss’ full name is Maria Della Esperanza Raniera Maria Rocio De Bourbon Y Orlcans. She was born June 14, 1914, in Seville, beautiful of the royal and near- royal women of Spain. The prince, who hemophilia, a morbid hereditary fondition which leads to bleeding from the slightest skin abrasion or other lesion, is understood here to be greatly improved in health re- cently due to a dietary treatment he has been following. Neverthe- |less it is said King Alfonso would insist on still further improvement in the health of the prince hefore he would permit him to marry. Previous reports of the prince's ergagement to Princess Ileana of Rumania have been denicd. SNOW DAMAGES suffers from {Unseasonable Weather Caiches Movie Outfit Also San Francisco, Oct. 1. (P— With a heavy 'ayer of snow covering parts of the high Sierra and fruit grow- ers of the northern and central por- tlons o the state suffering crop losses hecause of unseasonal rains, California was pgomised more un- settled weather today. The forecast called for rain and snow in the high altitudes of north- crn California, unsettled weather along the northern coast and cloudy in the south. tion picture company *“on locatisn in the Sierra were caught in snow at Dardanelle but made the way 56 miles to Sonora to await a thaw. The snow was 155 inches deep in some places. Grape and raisin growers of the | San Joaquin Valley reported a rain had damaged their grape crops re- maining on the vines and raisins | standing out in drying trays. About |40 per cent of the raisin crog was | still in the trays. | The juice grape crop aged in bith | California by previous rains growers said they were faced |the prospect of further losses the result of yesterday's precipits tion through mould and cracking. Additional rain, they said, would considerably reduce the grapes available for shipment. and with REDS ATTACK VILLAGE Hanoi, French Indo-China, Oct. 1 (®—A group agld to have been led by communists, attacked the village of Nuyen-Nam-Dam in the provin: of Vinh, Sept. 28, and cut com- The native police fired upon them | and finally repulsed the assailants. | The Indo-Chinese government, with | the consent of the government of | Annah formed a new column of na tive police who will move throug! out the country to quell trouble which are allegedly due to spread | of communism. milar measures are being taken in Cochin-China. GOLD CARGO ARRIVES Naples, Italy, Oct. 1 (®—The lin- er Saturnia arrived here today from New York with 60 barrels of gold bullion valued at 60,000,000 lire or $3,120,000, ISR i and is considered one of the most | SIERRA FRUITS More than 200 members of a mo- | the was gdam- | northern and central | munications with the outside world. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, "1930. can’t be beat but more interesting than that is the five days growth of beard which he wears. “It's keeping me warm,” he ex- plained saying he would not shave until the series was over. The first woman in line was Esther Anderson of Rockford, IlL, who came with her husband Bryan. They take turns upholding the po- sition of the Anderson family in the bleacher line. She is 22 and a con- siderable decoration te the sur- rounding landscape. Behind the Andersons stood Bob: Joseph of Chicago who =said he walked 500 miles to get here and will buy his ticket with a dollar given him by a woman in Pitts-| old Quaker City of Philadelphia. | burgh. | People came here—and some of | Albert Rocusky came the greatest | them stayed up all night—to see the | distance, having started from Tono- | Philadelphia Athletics of Cornelius | pah, Nev,, where he mined with his McGillicuddy and the St. Louis own pick and shovel to earn money Cardinals of Gabby Street decide |for his ticket. which could play the better game of | The line numbered a couple of | baseball. | hundred last night, mostly Philadel- | Some of them came by family|phians, but among them were Har-| | fiivver, others by airplane and most old Billman and Harvey Yeazell of | of them via the Pennsylvania Rail- Columbus, Ohio, and Wilmer road. | Haused of Tremont, Pa. } Over the country where the game | There was activity inside the park may be watched for nothing at|much of the night as ushers were countless bulletin boards there being drilled, ground-keepers mani- seems to be no end of interest. But | cured the infield, and the pop ven- the so-called “economic depression” | ders organized their business. Five made itself felt at Shibe park where | truck loads of pop arrived during | the first game will be played today. |the evening but it was expected that | | Tickets in sets of six for which spec- |it was only a preliminary shipment ulators had an asking price of $200 | —it takes lots more pop than that | |a vear ago, went begging for $50. to wash down all the peanuts which | The management of the Athletics |will be caten during the next two had to get busy with a telephone | days. campaign yesterday afternoon to dispose of some 8,000 tickets left| |on thelr hands by fans who x\ad;[]IL SHALE LAN | ordered them but had nothing to {use for money when it came to pay- BASIS [‘": SUIT Hn;;"o Philadelphia found itself with Government Claims “Dummy” Ping Resorted to a world series in its lap but with- Denver, Colo.. Oct. 1 (A—Charg- | FANS FLOGHING 10 SHIBE PARK World Series Proves to Be Usual | Magnet in Baseball Philadelphia, Pa.,, Oct. 1 (UP)— | The world series, which is as much a part of the American scene as the | Rocky Mountains or Tammany Hall, ‘broke full panoplied today upon the out the usual unrestrained flow of | money which goes with it. Hotels | were willing to let people sleep in their rooms for about the usual | price. Resturants sold a lot of din- | ners at a dollar and a half. Taxicabs used their regular instead of their | holiday meters. i | Nevertheless, the series were en-|ing the Union Oil company of Cali- | | tirely official and although business | fornia with obtaining oil shale lands | won't stop entirely for it this year, |in western Colorado through ‘“dum- | there were plenty of marks of its my filings,” a suit has been filed in importance. The outstanding event, |the federal court here in the name | of course, will be the presence of |of the government to recover 200 | President Hoover. acres of land in the Colorado eil Mr. Hoover is scheduled to arrive |shale field. e with four members of his cabinet| Fliling of the suit brings, indidect- and approximately 44 other men of |1V to the attention of the court | prominence at 1 p. m. today. He will | charges made by Ralph S. Kelley, | | be escorted through the streets recently resigned head of the Den- | guarded by 790 policemen so that|ver Lureau of the U. S. land office, | no one will try to sell him any tick- |of connivance in granting oil shale ets, and taken to the ball park, rights. r | where every one hopes he will pitch | Kelley tendered his resignation to | Secretary of the Interior Wilbur | the first ball. v Next in importance to Mr. Hoover, | last Sunday and he immediately | | made public his allegations of “oil | perhaps, rank a group of fans who | . | are willing to sit up all night to see |grabbing™ in connection with the t“ ten dollar ball game for a dollar. administration of Colorado oil shale | are those in the head of the |lands. | They | bleacher line and will be the first [; —AT-S—A—T t | American customs which marks this | had event. | T in the bleacher line one finds Bill Sullivan, of Philadelphia. | Bill arrived outside the ticket office riday night and has been there | explained that the policeman | been drinking. He hasn't eaten much and has aviator seeking a new transconti- | talked a lot since I'riday. Yesterday |nental flight rccord, awaited fa- morning he did have breakfast, vorable meteorological reports to-| | | to buy from the assortment of 2,000 | bleacher tickets which were to be offered for sale at the box office this morning—another of the old WIEHITA FlELD Youthful Flier to Continue as | ever since excepting for two hours on Sunday whieh ho spent in the| Weather Improves | police station while trying to explain | charges of disorderly cbnduct. Bill| |however, congisting of a ginger day before continuing his course | cookie which some one gave him, toward the southwest. {and this morning he hopes to havci Battling unfavorable cross-winds | another. |the youth arrived here at 3:15 p. Close behind Sullivan is William | m., yesterday from St. Louis, hold- Bowers of Kent, lowa, who drove ing an elapsed time margin of one | | here in his popular priced automo- |hour and 15 minutes over the mark | [ bile and parked it near Shibe park |of the late Eddie Schneider, Jer!ey; at six a. m. today. He predicts vic-|City, for the same distance. Hia[ | tory for the Athletics by the weight ! filing time was 13 hours and 45| im‘ Bing Miller's war club. He ard |minutes. ling are fellow townsmen. * Buck, who is flying from Jersey | 1‘ Then came Joe Snyder of 103, City to Los Angeles, had hoped to‘ | West 50th street, St. Louis, who ad- reach Amarillo, Tex., or Albuquer- | | mitted he came by fast freight and | que, N. M., last night, but pilots in- | |intends to go back to St. Louis for | formed him that unfavorable fiying | the game Monday by the same weather had prevailed for several route. Joe thinks that the Cards | days over his proposed route. | Wichita, Kas., Oct. 1 (A—Robert | Buck, 16-year-old Elizabeth, N. J. jany of the other departments of the which, with biology, are the three | The mathematiics department and FAV S the French department run a close race for fourth place, with the for- r}mr having 529 students enrolled to 1,347 Pupils Taking Up Com- mercial Subjects This Year 2 for the latter. Robert R. Goff The commercial classes enroll- ment at the Senior High school out- |is the director of mathematics and !Charles J. Drapeau is the numbers by far the enrollment in |of French. The Latin department, under the supervision of Miss Eleanor B | Yates, is sixth on the list of enroll- | ments. This department has 876 stu- | dents. The art division of the school |is small, necessitating . only two |teachers, with an enrollment of 170. R. Alan Quinn, the only teache |of Spanisu in the high school. di- |rects 113 students in this subject. The home economics and German | enrollments are the two last on the |1ist, the former with studants 'and the latter with 53. Mrs. Amy C. | Guilford is the director of the Ger- {man department. school Wwith the exception of Eng- lish, which s required, it was learn- ed today through figures made pub- lic by Principal Louis P. Slade. Of the student body, 1,347 are enrolled in the commercial department. One of the reasons for the high enrollment in the commercial ,de- partment is the fact that this’ de- partment embraces typewriting,| All students are required to ta bookkeeping, office practice, business | English, general, college, or bust- arithmetic and several other minor |ness. Physical education fs also a branches. Many students take two |required subject unless a stugent of the above subjects and are ac-|has been excused on presentation of <ordingly counted twice in the gen- |a doctors certificate. The enrollment eral enrollment of the commercial |Of the commercial classes this vear A |has been so great that it was found This department is under the su-|nec pervision of Newell S. Ames. Social | Writers studies, including history and prob- | lems in democracy, are second in | the enrollment with 970 students. | Here again is possible duplication, for a student may take both. Ernest | ™ Upham is the head of the social | studies department. The science department. under|armory on Arch street. The club the supervision of David B. Swift, |is planning an active season of small 's next with an enrollment of 61§ |bore rifle and pistol shooting and students. The only possible chance |prizes will be awarded. of duplication in this department | would be in case a student Is tak-|day by I. R. Beach, prestdent, and ing both physics and chemistry, |F. L. ¥ngel, secretary. Rifle Club to Start New Season Tomorrow The New Britain Rifle club's fall and winter season of shooting will director | necessary to purchase 25 new type- | start tomorrow evening at the state | Announce- | | ment of the program was made to- | Expansion of Sacred Heart Parish Amazes First Polish Pastor Here | Rev. Thomas Misicki, pastor of a |church in Williamsport, Pa., and |the first Polish pastor in this city vho formed the nucleus off the Sacred Heart parish, today paid tri- |bute to Rev. Lucyan Bognowski, pastor of the Sacred Heart church, for his accomplishments in this city. Rev. Father Misicki arrived here |last night, purposely to pay honor |to the pastor who will leave this ;(‘i(_\' Sund; to visit countries | South America and Europe, | will leave late tonight. | Rev. Father Misicki, |oldest friends of Rev. Father Boj- nowski, was assigned in 1894 by the te Bishop Michael Tierney to form a Polish parish in this city in con- | junction with Lis duties az pastor of | St. Stanislaus’ church in Meriden. He celebrated masses every sec- ond Sunday at St. Mary's old church on Myrtle street for about a half a |vear until Rev. Father Bojnowski | was appointed to succeed him. While viewing the numerous edi- fices of the parish which has grown to be one of the largest in the New | England states, Rev. Father Misick) expressed surprise that the congre gation had made such rapid and ex. tensive advancement. | Although Rev. Father Bojnowski has made complete arrangements for his journcy to New York, where he intends to remain until October 10, a number of parishioners pa‘d their final visits to the rectory ves- terday with the hope that they | could form an escort on the trip to |New York in automobiles. and one of the in | in Leaving the rectory at 5:30 o'clock. Sunday afternoon Rev. Father Boj- nowski will board the Berlin train at 6:15 and will take the 6:28 New York express. His first visit in Neiy York will be at the Polish Immie grants' Home, where a reception 8 being prepared. 5 | Among the numerous donation® | he received this week was $50 from |the Delaware Beneficial scciety. = | Friendly Indians Meet And Divide Into Tribes The Friendly Indians held there | first powwow at the Y. M. C. A. | vesterday afternoon. The members were divided into two units and each |given ‘an Indian name. “Bernie” | Wosilus then gave a talk on handi- craft and exhibited his work. Great interest was shown in the articles | displayed. At the conclusion of kis talk Woilus started the class in making bead rings. The Mohawk tribe is composed of Francis Holt, Thomas Josephson, Jo- eph Sowney, Hug Cross, and Wes- |ley Worgensen. The Iroquois con- | sist of George Riley, George Bew- ary, Richard Czerwinsky, and Wi- |liam Kahims. The junior leaders |are Howard Messinger, Louis Stave enger, and William Coates. Tests must be passed to deserve the title of brave. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Max Gay of Cabol street have announced the engage-: ment of their daughter, Josephine, to Loren Clary of Main street. No date has been set for the wedding. INETY YEARS OF THE ISON.... to inspect the New in furniture fashions for Fall. . . . the new reproductions from the Colonial and lamps-—all resplendent in line beautiful things in home furnishings. tion to see them . . . tomorrow. Gov. Winthrop DESK An authentic reproduc- tion of the true Governor Winthrop. In mahogany with swell frognt and cor- rect inferier.” Automatic French Provincial FIRESIDE CHAIR In quaint Cherry. 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