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New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Building Business
Means Truck Market

"The' coming year will, I predict,n
says L. w. milford, president of the L..
w. Mulford Company, Inc, Eastern dis
tributers of Grant passenger cars and
motor trucks, witness a condition in
the sale of motor trucks similar to
that we are now experiencing in the
passenger carr line This is not onlv
forecast by the pressure we are now
feeling in the demand for Grant
trucks, but ever so many factors that
call for ever increasing use of the
motor truck. Building operations. the
keystone of real prosperity, are only
beginning and, once in full swing, the
call for motor trucks will be simply
enormous. Then there is the export
business, which has been deader than
door nail during the war. It's due
and right now = for an unpreco-
dented boom~all along the line. Be-
sides, with the Federal government
and almost every state appropriating
millions Of dollars for road improve.
pents, transportation will be further
diverted from the railroads and
motor truck haulage greatly increased
thereby"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Motor Car [ rices
Tend to Rise
Rather Than Fall
All Conditions Combine to
Make for Increases, Says
Houpt; Sees Need of I'm
mediate Orders by Buyers

1t was announced along Automobile
Row the other day that two prominent
makers Of high grade cars had ad
vanced their prices from sl,10o to $1,000
each on their touring car models.
Harry S. Houpt, president. of the Hud-
son Motor Car Company of New York.
the distributor of the Hudson Super-.
Six and Essex Car lines, in discussing
the report, said:
quite frequently within the last
lew months | have been asked hy GUS
toners 'Wll the price of motor cars
decline" and I have told them No and
have also advised them if thew wanted
a car to place the order at once as
prices are more likely to advance than
decline.
With copper up 20 per cent, leather
up 20 cents foot and every other ma
terlal entering into the manufacture OF
cars costing more, to say nothing Of
labor, dow can the price of cars come
down? Material conditions say mo-
labor conditions say no., the demand
TOR cars says no. so it is a safe bet
that there will be a general rise in the
price of cars.
"ln the light of past experiences,
commodity prices will gradually de-
cline. The automobile industry is not
to remain quiesccnt on this account,
however; the demand for cars is too
great the buying too insistent. and
production too short of demand to per
nit any such conditions. This condi-
tlon must be met by the manufacturers.
which means high pressure production
and increased manufacturing costs; at
least, until stable conditions obtain and
production reaches its normal condi-
"The automobile manufacturers are
going along, building every car they
can and leaving the price question to
be decided, as it ultimately will be, by
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13

Widening the FIivver Range
Tho Ford Motor Company IL estab-
hshing ASSEMBLING plants In Copen-
hagen, Denmark. and in Cadiz, Spain.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Ness Announces
Columbia as New Line
tie Is Eastern Wholesale Dis.
tributer Now for Detroit
-
Made Sig

Charles E. Riess, for twelve years a
prominent factor in the local automo-
bile business, is back in harness again.
Mr. Riess until last October the East
ern metropolitan distributor of the
Hupmobile, has after a winter in the
south and two or three months in
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
|. 5. AIMING ID EXTEND
 ITS FOREIGN COMMERCE
Plans Assistance to American Firms-BilI Calls For
 S96,31S,000.

Washington, Jan. 10.--4Aid in the extension of American foreign trade is provided in the annual legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill for 1920 reported today to the House. The measure carries appro- priatiOns totalling %96,31S,000, ap- proximately s7,000, 900 more than the 1919 bill and provides for 19,435 sal aries a decrease of ITS.
 For the expansion of .America's foreign trade an appropriation of $905, 5CJ would be given the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce. The appropriation, which is double that made in 1919, contemplates, aCCord- ing to testimony given at hearings on the bill, the sending of agents of the bureau throughout the world to in vestleate opportunities for American business. The home personnel of the bureau also is increased under the bill so that information as to world markets may be readily avail able to American business men.
 Assistance also would be given American firms engaging in foreign trade through the state department, additions being provided for the de- partment's staff, of trade advisers and legal experts. Representatives of the state department at hearings on the bill urged that measures be taken to insure that American industries be treated fairly by foreign government in the competition for after -the-war trade.
 Tn providing for state department needs. the bill aboliahes the title of counsellor of the department and substitutes the title of under secretary of state.
 The increase of appropriations carried by the bill is due largely to provisions for the 1920 census, the amount proposed for that purpose be- ing $13,650.7O0. The other principal increase IS an addition of s2,23S, 900 over the 1919 appropriation for the internal revenue bureau.
 Reductions from the 1919 bill con- sist mainly in elimination of many positions created during the war, more than $6,000,000 being cut from the war, navy and state departments payrolls. Contingent expense funds of various departments were cut sev- eral hundred thousand dollars, while military research work by the bu- reau of standards IS eliminated at saving Of $46O,O00.
 Discontinuance of the sub-treasur- ;cs at Baltimore, Boston, New York Philadelphia nnd five other cities also reduced the Appropriations by $463,- coo. Development of the federal re- serve system in the opinion of the house appropriations subcommittee has eliminated the necessity of main taining the sub-treasuries.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
C. O. F. EULOGIZES
 FORMER LEADER
RoosevcIt's Banner Shall Never Trail, Chairman Hayes Declares at
 Convention in Chicago.

Chicago, Jan. 10.-Two women oc- committee at it's meeting here today for the first time in the history of the organization. They were admitted to inner councils of the party on proxies and enjoyed all rights of reau- far mcm bers The action is taken to mean that hereafter women will be urged to take an active part in every branch of national republican politics.
 They were Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston Of Washington. who held the proxy of s. A. Perkins, national com
 nitteenan from that state and Miss Mary Garrett Hay, of New York, who held the proxy of Herbert Parsons, national committeeman from the Elm pire state.
 The committee began it's all day love feast session at 10 a. nl with an executive business session. A roll call showed that every state was represnt- ed either by the national committee man or a proxy.
 Chairman Will Fl. Hayes read a lengthy report in which he reviewed in detail his activities during his first year in office and analysed the repub- lican victory at the congressional elections last November.
 New members of the committee were elected to fill vacancies in sev- eral states as follows: Maine, A. J. Sweet; New Jersey, H. F. Kean; Vir- ginia. c. E. Slemp; Wyoming, P. Sul- livan
 The committee adopted resolutions on the death of Col. Roosevelt. Tn speaking on the resolution Chairman Hays said.
 "The banner that Theodore Roose- welt carried shall not trail for @ mo- ment. The republican party will con- tinue to be the instrument in this country to apply to new and chang ing conditions the wisdom of expert ence and efficiency of honest, zealous service.
 Chairman Hays and other mem bers of the committee discouraged every attempt to boom candidates for president It was evident from the 1 informal gossip in the corridors that there would be no scarcity of candi- l.dates in 1920. Tn the matter of cam i paign issues, the committeeman i-
 informal discussions were outspoker ! in their criticism of the alleged ex- l travagance of the national democrat tic administration and a majority seem eC | to favor the adoption by the party a, 1 a proper time for a strong declaration ! against sOcialistiC policies, includ q. ! ing the federal ownership or opera. i ton of the railroads and other public
 utilities
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
Unconditional Surrender" Only
 Terms That Will End Strike
INSIST ON ALL DEMANDS
Higher Wages and Eight Hour Day Is titim&tum of Marine Workers Refuse to Agree to Armistice For Even Few Hours

New ork, Jan 10.-~rhe strike committee of the marine workers af- 1ilialon unanimously voted today 10 reject the proposal of X. H. smith, eastern regional director of railroads, for a 4S-hour resumption of harbor activities pending conferences be- tween government, boat owners and boatmen's representatives With the object of attempting d settlement of the harbor strike
 No Individual Bargaining.
 In addition to declaring that 'un- conditional surrender" would be de- manded, President Delahunty of the marine workers utilization, asserted that there will be no individual bar gaining, not even with the railroads. the strike must be settled in it's en- tirety by both railroad and 1ndepend- ent boat operators"
 Enlisted Men May Suffer.
 At the same time William Maher, vice president of the Master Marin CTS and Pilots association, stated he had been informed the army trans port service intended to prefer charges against two tug boat officers in army service for laying up their tug without orders. He declared there would be no settlement of the dispute if these men were penalized.
 Railroad Changes Necessary.
 Meanwhile the railroad adminstra- ton completed arrangene nents hoping by nightfall to re-esta blish on a nor nal basis the city's supply of milk and perishable foods. Express and motor shipments from nearby New Jersey points were ordered brought { into the city through North river : tunnels. while incoming foodstuffs 1 from more distant sections were bill ed to the metropolis by way of Buff falo and the New York Genital rail- road. In like manner heavy ship ments from the Long Island vegetable storage centers, most of which used the extra ferries, were brought in across the bridges or through the Pennsylvania-Long Island tunnel. Policemen as Deckhands.
 Uniformed policemen turned deck hands at dawn and enabled Staten Island ship building to progress un- interruptedly by getting the workers to the yards on time. The policemen operated one municipal ferry boat be- tween Manhattan and Staten Island
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
DEATH TOLL BIG
 IN BUENOS AIRES
Strike Riots Continue-Several Hurt When Authorities Fire on
 Funeral COrtcgc.

BuenOs Aires, Jan. 10.--SeriOus dls- orders followed the funeral yesterday afternoon of the five persons Killed in Tuesdays disturbances. Alter the burial of the victims more than 1,ooo strikers who had formed the process sion burned a passenger train on the Pacific Railway and tore up the track paralyzing traffic on the Trans-Andean line. They later burned a Catholic church and the school adjoining.
 The district police station at the Vasena iron foundry was captured by armed strikers, but it was asserted at police headquarters at midnight that the station had been reca captured. Dur ing the night the strikers entrenched themselves around the Nasena. plant. The strike committee asserts that one company of infantry in the locality refused to fire on the strikers, laid down ii arms and went to it's barracks with the men under arrest.
 The official socialist party organ, La Nanguardia says this morning:
 '"The funeral of Tuesdays victims vast attended by 50,000 persons The corteGe was fired upon twice. It is impossible to state the number of kill ed and wounded in Tuesdays clashes, but the casualties will reach great numbers. All the unions have decided to continue the strike indefinitely as a protest against Thursdays events. The government has disem parked marines and sailors because it has no faith in the army"
 A general strike was declared throughout Argentine republic at mid night
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
HINT AT FORCE IF
 BRITISH DON'T AGREE
Sim Fein Organ Says That England Must Be Made to Respect
 Irish Demands.

Dublin, Jan. 10.-A constituent as- sembly, the date of which has not yet been fixed will determine the terms of a constitution for Ireland. Sim Fein plans for the assembly are de- layed because 34 of those recently elected to the British parliament are in Jail.
 The Sim F'einers are confining their activities at present to securing the release of these members, and many meetings are being held throughout Ireland demanding that the impris- oned ones be set free. It Is rumored that the government will soon release them.
 Nationality the leading Sim Fein organ, says diplomatic considerations may prove effective. ''but if the de- mand is ignored, the Irish people must act in way the British government cannot ignore
 '"The peace conference" it con- tinues, "assem bles Monday. There Is no time to be lost. The national as- sembly must act at once"
 The paper urges that the British in stitutions in Ireland be taken over by the Irish and those which cannot be prevented from carrying on their work must be captured. It declares that the present members of the country councils should be persuaded to re- tire, adding:
 The people can in a hundred ways upset the operations of the British government in Ireland"
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
THREE TRANSPORTS
 ARE ENROUTE HOME
Many Sick and Wounded Among 5000 Men On Huron, Belgic
 and AtenaS.

Washington, Jan. 10.-Departure from France of three transports, the Huron, Belgtc and Atenas, with about 5000 troops, including many sick and wounded, was announced today by the war department
 The Huron is due at Newport News January 15, with 100 officers and 5000 men from the following units: Third provisional battalion, 18th en- gineers, comprising companies I, F and K, and medical detachment; cas- ual companies Nos. 121 to 125, 412 and 413 (Maryland), ALA; field hospi- tai No. 304 of the 301st sanitary train; second heavy mobile ordinance repair shop: 429 sick and wounded and 20 casual officers.
 The Belgic is due at New York January 13 with the First and Second battalions, 49th infantry, field and staff and medical attachments, in all 36 officers and 2,436 men; also cas- uaI companies Nos. 42S, 429, 433 435: chemical warfare service casual company No. 8, (Camp Dix) and g casual officers.
 The transport Atenastis due at New York January 19 with a deta chment of headquarters troops from the 92nd division, (Negro) a detachment of casual company No. II (Camp Dix) and 95 casual officers.
 The following organizations have been assigned by General Pershing for early convoy home: 12th balloon company; 42Oth and 423rd telegraph battalions; ordnance casual company, No. 21; transportation corps com OAnV No 53
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
ASSAULTED AND ROBBED
Waterbury Woman Knifed and Bru- tally Beaten By Unknown Man, After Vicious Assault.

Waterbury, Jan. 10.-While in d weakened condition from an attack of influenza she had suffered and from B burning she recently received when her hair caught fire in one of the To- cal. factories, Miss Catherine Crouch of Sunnyside avenue was knifed and b1ackja acked last night by a man who assaulted her and robbed her of about $50 in money, two valuable rings and a valuable watch belonging to her sweetheart who Is in France. The woman is in a dangerous condition and the police are seeking her assail- ant who Is believed to be an Italian about 25 years of age. He was mark ed by a hat pin which the woman thrust into his face four or five times during the assault.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
$50 DRAFT DODGERS
All Have Been Chased as Army De- Serters and Reward Of $50 Is Offered for Their Arrest.

Hartford, Jan. 10.-Since NOvem- Der Il, armistice day, the names of 1,150 Connecticut men qualified for service under the military selective act have been reported as delinquents by reason of failure to return ques- tionnaires to their local draft boards. Of these, $50 are Classed as de- serters because of failure to report to the adjutant general of the state as directed. The other 300 have so re- ported and orders for induction into service have been rescinded
 All of the $50 have been reported to the United States district attorney and are liable to arrest as deserters, for whom a reward of $50 each is offered.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
200 Killed Since Monday.

It is estimated that more than 200 persons have been killed in the fight ing here since Monday. The Charite and other outlying hospitals cared for 300 wounded yesterday. Twelve dead were carried into the chancelior's pal ace in Wilhclmstrasse during We'd nesday.
 It was given out from official sources here this afternoon that the government forces had recaptured police headquarters from the Sparta cans. It was learned this evening, however, that this statement was not true and that the headquarters is still in the hands of the Spartacars.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
GERMAN AVIATORS
 FORWARDING POLES
Polish Authorities Warn That They Will Not Be Responsible For
 Safety of Civilians.

Berlin, San. s, By the Associated Press. )-It is reported that Polish forces have recaptured the village of Nakel, northeast of Posen, and are threatening the city of Bromberg, east of Nakel. German troops have recap tured the village of Kolmar, further west.
 German aviators from Frankfort on-the- Oder have bombed q flying station near Posen which was cap tured by the Poles on Sunday. The Polish authorities have issued a warn ing that they will not be responsible for the lives of German citizens If the attack is repeated.
 The inhabitants of Tilsit have issued 9 protest against Polish occupation of German territory.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
AMERICAN TROOPS RETURN
Included Among 1,OO3 Soldiers Arriv- ing Today Are Anti Aircraft Units, CasuaIs and Trench Mortar Men.

New York, Jan. 10.-The British transport Ulua arrived here today from Brest with 1,003 American troops. The units on board consisted of officers. and 421 men of the Sixth anti-aircraft section; nine off, cers and 266 men of the Twelfth anti aircraft section: two officers and 49 men of casual company No. 922; five officers and 118 men of the 109th trench mortar battery and nine casual officers and nine civilians from the [, N- ~ A and K. of c field forces.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
FRESHMEN MAKE TROUBLE
serious Disturbances at Dublin Prison
 Where Sim Feiners Are Held Break Windows and Damage Cells.

Dublin, Jan. Mysterious distur- bances have taken place at Mount joy prison where 8 number of Sim Feiners have been imprisoned as or dinsry prisoners, while claiming treatment as political offenders. The prisoners are reported to have broken the windows and damaged the cells
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
BRITISH SCORE SUCCESS
Messages From Paris Indicate Cle-
 nenceau and Lloyd George Have Quashcd Freedom of the Seas Talk.

London. Jan. 10, (Reuter dispatch to Canadian Press. )-M essages from Paris indicate that Premiers Cle- menceau and Lloyd George have scored a great success on the question of the freedom of the seas and that very little is likely to be said on this subject when the actual peace con- ference assem bles.
 The Spanish Moroccan question has also been settled to the sattsfac action of England and France.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
SHIP AND CREW LOST
British Steamer NOrthumbria Strikes Mine and SinkS-Only I've Men Known to Have Been Saved.

London. Ian 1O.-The British steamer Northumbria struck mine off Middlesborough Thursday, and most of the crew is believed to have been lost. A boat with two survivors and eight dead has been washed ashore a. Newton. Four other boats which left the ship with surNlVors are thought to have been s"afnped.
 The Northumhria built Tn lSob, was of A,215 tons. @60 feet long and was owned in Glasgow,
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
MAJOR MITCHELL COMING
 HOME ON A VISIT TONIGHT

Major Ralph Mitchell. T.. $. Ma rin 6 Corps, and Mrs. Mitchell are expected to arrive In New Britain this evening to visit the formers parents, MT. and Mrs. T. w. Mitchell of Vine street. Major Mitchell has been stationed at Guam and expects to be assigned to duty at Galveston Texas after his leave of absence
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
Appraised at S197,353.98- Whites Second; Reynolds Third
TWO SOLDIERS ESTATES
During Past Year Some Large tis- tatcss Have Been InvcntOr'cd In Probate Court-AH Over S2OO Re corded.

The inventories of estates for the year shows that the estate of the late Charles B. Stanley was the largest in ventoried during 1918. This estate amounted to $197.353.9S. The second largest estate was that of the late M T. White, which was valued at $0-'- 663.43 There were many other eS- tates over $10,000. There are two estates of soldier boys who were Kill ed in action or died in the service anu their estates are valued at $1o,ooo' the amount of their insurance poll cies The estate of Stanley Parker who died recently, is valued at $46,- 449.S1. The estate of the late Hugh Reynolds was the third largest Of those inventoried during the year. It amounted to SIP, ,23O.
 Inventories of estates filed during the year 1918 of the value Of $2oo and over, including mortgages and m
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
HARDY COLE WAVE IS
 HERE NY LAST: 5 AROXE

The tardy cold wave has at last struck the city and between o'clock last night and o'clock this morning the thermometer dropped about 80 de grees, although in certain sections of the city the readings varied. The average readings of the mercury this morning showed 1t to be three above
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
WANT SEPARATE REPUBLIC.

Erfurt, Germany, Jan. g (By the Associated Press, )--The forration of a separate Thurtngian republic with Erfurt as the capital. was demanded In resolutions passed at Il meeting here Of all the Thuringan chambers or commerce, handicraft and agricut- ture, and of the Thuringian industrial ists union. The socialist demand for united Germany was voted down,
New Britain herald., 1919-01-10
S2O,OOO LOSS WHEN WINDSOR
 WAREHOUSE IS DESTROYER

South Windsor. Jan. 10.-A to- hacco warehouse of Charles Vihbert in which was his own crop of broad leaf and that of ten acres belonging to Horace Vibbert was burned today The loss was $20,0OO. Charles Vib- bert had insurance. The cause of the fire ts unknown.