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New Britain herald., 1924-03-20
WAHLBERG MISSING, SO TEAPOT
 HEARING IS CUT SHORT TODAY

2s2: September 2s, bought 200 shares Sinclair Consolidated for $6,640; Oc- tober {, sold 700 shares Sinclair Con- solidated for s24.o17: October 20, bought 800 shares Sinclair Consoiidat- ed for s10.245; October 27, bought 200 shares Sinclair Consolidated for ss,63o. On December there was left in the account in oil shares 400 Mexico n 1 Seaboard and 500 Sinclair Consolidat- ed.
 What explanation did Hibbs and l Company make of carrying an account in the name of some other than the actual dealer?" asken Senator Walsh. Made No Explanations They gave no explanation" re- piled Bond. T was informed that I must ask Mir. spaid. I saw there were a number of actual deliveries of stock, and I called for the receipts. On the receipts appeared the name of Jess w. smith, --. In his explanation of the appear ance of the name Of former Represen- tative Ryan in his report, Bond said that the brokerage books showed only TT. J. Ryan," but that the clerk at Hibbs and Company said it was Thomas Jefferson Ryan," man of means who travelled around" A man at the federal trade commission, he said had told him Thomas Jeffer- son Ryan at one time lived on Six teenth street, at another time at the Wardman Park hotel and then for a time at the Willard.
 ''I looked in the 1922 city directory and saw there Thomas Jefferson Ryan who lived on Sixteenth street" the witness continued. We looked into congressional record and there was Thomas Jefferson Ryan. An examination of Mir. Ryanas bank ac- count showed he had dealings with New York bankers and brokers.
 'The primary fault was with Hibbs and company who knew who T. J. Ryan was and did not disclose it."
 Without hearing any other wit nesses, the committee adjourned until 10 a. m. tomorrow.
 May Be In Havana
 Senator Walsh said today he had information that Wahlberg was in Havana. If this is the case the com mittee is without power to compel his attendance. and since Mir. Hays has been subpoenaed for Saturday, it f, probable no further effort will be made to find Wahlberg.
 There will be further inquiry. Sen. ator Walsh said. into the stock tran sections Of Attorney-genera Dsurb- erty The senator regards it is sig nincant that the first recorded trans action of the attorney general was a sale Of 500 shares of Sinclair Con solidated in 1922, about the time of the lease of Teapot Dome.
 whether Mr. Daugherty win bo called before the committee has not yet been determined.
 Congressman Explains
 Former Representative Gooav- koontz of West Virginia, also men. tioned in Bonds report as having cealt In oil while he was a member II the house, issued a statement to- day saying that his transactions took place before the lease of Teapot Dome and resulted in a loss of si72.
 My record in this matter is not open 10 question:" he said. At the time I bought and sold Sinclair stock ! had never heard of the Teapot Dome"
New Britain herald., 1924-03-20
ROTARY CLUB MEETS
Hears Music, Welcomes New Mcm-
 bers and Nominates Officers for Coming Year-Election April l9.

Misses Mary Hopkins Emerson, so- prano. and Ethel Lyman Mackey, pianist, entertained members of the New Britain Rotary club today when that organization observed Ladies Day" at the Burritt hotel.
 Dr. Richard w. Pullen. health su- perintendent. and pr. NJ. J. Kinselia were admitted to membership. Tn welcoming Dr. Pullen. President Fred o. Rackliffe said he was glad to have him come in at this time since the Rotary club is back of him in his fight against smallpox.
 The nominating committee re- ported Hartwell Taylor. as a candi- date for president. Frank H. Shield for vice president, Gardner Weld for secretary. A. A. Mills for treasurer and B. F. Gaffney and Leon A. sprasue for directors. Officers will be elected April i9.
 Among the guests present were a number of wives of the members. Dr. Stanley H. Osborne of Hartford, state commissioner of health, also was a. guest.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-20
Sinclair's Secretary Being Sought-Trying to Link Oil Interests With Pay ment of c. o. P. Deficit.

The senate oil committee suffered a temporary setback today when it un- dertook to inquire into a story that Harry F. Sinclair had turned over a large batch of securities to Attorney General Daugherty and Will H. Hays, former chairman of the republican national committee, to help wipe out the heavy deficit incurred by the party treasury in the campaign of 1920.
 Process servers reported that so far they had been unable to locate G. D. Wahlberg, former private secre- tary to Sinclair, who was to have taken the stand today as the first wit ness in the new line of investigator. Mir. Hays has been subpoenaed to appear later, and Sinclair probably will be questioned tomorrow. When he was before the committee some weeks ago, Wahlberg testified that Sinclair turned over s25,o00 in Liberty bonds to Mir. Hays" He did not identify the man named and the committee did not follow up his state- nent. ...>-
 Debt Was Liquidatej.
 The republican national committee came out of the 1920 campaign with a deficit estimated at sl,500,000, but announcement was made last sum- mer that it had been liquidated. What rart, if any of that sum was paid off through the sale of Sinclair stock is not quite clear in the story that has reached the committee.
 While the search for Wahlberg con- tinued, the committee turned its at- tention to other ramifications of it's inquiry.
 Ryan Makes Denial.
 Former Representative Thomas R. Ryan of New York voluntarily took the witness stand to deny that he was the man referred to in records of oil stock transactions laid before the committee, and Louis F, Bond, the committees investigator. followed him to explain how fhe identification had been made and to further ex- pand his report on the stock transac- lions of others
 Questioned again about Attorney General Daugherty's stock account, Bond said the first transaction was the sale of 500 shares of Sinclair Con- solidated and the next was an outright purchase of the same number of shares
 Details of the oil stock transactions Of Jess W. Smith, con1dant of the at- torney general, as given by Bond, showed a net profit of sl,531 in 1922.
 Records of Deals.
 Tho Smith account, Bond said, was listed as w. w. spaid No. 3", while Attorney General Daugherty had an account w. W. Spaid No l." Spaid Is a member Of the Washing ion brokerage firm of Hibbs & Co. snith's oil stock transactions were rad Into the record as follows:
 July si, 1922, bought zoo shares Mexican seaboard for se.i3o; July 25, bought 100 shares Mexican Petroleum for si6,i20; July aS, bought 200 shares Mexican Sesboard for $f,SSo: August { sotl 100 shares Mexican Pe- troleum for s16.of6; August 9, bought goo shares Sinclair Consolidated for ss,i5o: September 26, bought 800 shares Sinclair Consolidated for sih,-
New Britain herald., 1924-03-20
Give Her Tine

Rastus-Ah wants a divorce. Dat woman jes' talk. talk, talk. An can't get no rest and dat talk am drivin' me crazy.
 Young Lawyer--whst does she talk about7
 Rastus--She doan' say.--Life.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-20
TO PLANT MANY TREES

Boston, March 2o.--About $500, 900 pine and spruce trees will be planted In Massachusetts this year according to an announcement of State Forester Wm, A. Bazeley The work will be
New Britain herald., 1924-03-20

Scotchnien are tall: their average height is five feet eight aud three- fourths inches.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-20

started as soon after April as tn. frost is out of the ground.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
PENNEY co. PLAN7ONE STORES
STORES AND MORE STORES is POLICY WORLDS LARGEST
DEPARTMENT STORE CHAIN

A further step in the progress of
the J. c. Penney Company, largest
chain departmnt store organization
in the world, is being taken in the
opening this fall of seventy addi-
tional stores. Coming Immediately
following the opening of one hundred
stores in 1928 the fall program is
significant of the rapid expansion of
this nation wide organization of de-
partment stores.
Starting in 1902 with one store in
an obscure Wyoming mining camp the
company grew slowly at first, but
surely, laying a thoroughly substan-
tial foundation for the towering edi-
nee that was to be. It was not un-
til 1916 that the 1O0-store milestone
was passed, in 1920 the 200 mark
was left behind, quickly followed by
800 in 1921, 400 in 1928 and this
spring the 500 mark was attained
when Store No. 500 opened in Ham
ilton, Missouri, on April II, almost
y years to the day from the openinr
Of Store No. 1. It il interesting t,
note that Hamilton was Mr.. Penney,
boyhood home and that, with charac
teristic thoughtfulness, he has asso.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

ciated with himself as partners in
this store ID native sons of Hamilton.
all Of whom are now his partners in
the company which bears his name.
Operate in IS States
These 20 new stores cover 10
states ranging from Oregon, on the
Pacific, to New York on the Atlantic
and from Louisiana on the Gulf. to
Michigan on the Great Lakes. Incl
dentally, two new states are added
to the ]. G. Penney Company banner
New Jersey and Virginia-thus
making S6 states in all in which the
company is now operating stores.
The opening of few stores more
or less sounds simple in the saying,
but much preparation, organization,
careful planning and hard work 20
into the doing.
Locations must be secured--a mat
ter Of vital importance, which is in
the hands Of the Real Estate depart.
ment which has its headquarters il
New York and its field force con
stantly combing the entire United
States for good, live towns and fav
orable leases.
The manager must be selected
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

previous experience, must start at
the absolute bottom rung Of the lad
der-at the back door of the store
and bv hard work and constant APP
plication win his way step by step
to the position. Of assistant man.
ager. In the process of this train
ing he learns the company's methods
Of receiving, unpaclzing and mark
ing merchandise, stock keeping, sell
ing, window trimming, advertising,
supervising and training help, ac-
counting, etc, and when he COM
pletes his training, he comes mighty
near being a real merchant. And
even then he is usually sent out as
9 trial manager for at least a year
before he gets q store Of his own.
When he Is considered by the direc-
tors to be up to the company's stand
ards, he is assigned q store as twen-
ty-tive young men, are being this
spring and seventy more viii be this
fan; sold an interest IN It, the com
pany financing him when necessary
and he then becomes a real partner
in the business. And how well the
system of training works is best evil
deneed by the successful operation
of the stores of this company.
New York Office Gives Data
The merchandise Office furnishes
the new manager with full data as
to the proper spread Of his available
funds, based on the capitalization of
his individual store. This covers
amount available for fixtures, appro-
priation for opening stock Of mer-
chandise properly apportioned among
the various departments. It also sug-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

gests volume of sales expected for
the year by months, inventory fig
ures from month to month and proper
delivery Of merchandise to insure
the right ratio between sales and in
ventory figure to produce the turn
over rather than long profits for its
return on investment. Through the
general Offices of the company the
store manager has the combined ex-
perience Of the five hundred indi-
vidual stores of the chain to guide
him from the pitfalls which the indi-
fidual store owner outside such an
organization has to learn by hard
experience.
Conventions for Managers
The company holds conventions in
various centers over the country
where the store managers, the Of
fcers of the company and the New
York, st. Louis and St. Paul buying
organizations assemble to discuss
company affairs and plan better serv-
ice to their customers. The buyers
not only bring the pick Of the mar
kets to the managers at these con-
ventions, but they present the lines
at the lowest prices that the COM
pany's policy of cash buying can
produce. How great a leverage this
tremendous purchasing power gives
its buyers is aptly illustrated BY the
fact that the company recently is
sued a single check to one company
for one line of merchandise amount
ing to $4,000, 039.99. At these com
ventions the managers select their
CONTINUED on Page Three)
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the most vital factor Of all in the
success or failure Of, the new under
taking. The finest location may be
secured at a low rental, the best mer-
chandise that the worlds markets
afford may be provided by the COM
pany's buying organization using the
combined purchasing power Of five
hundred stores which win do an ap-
proximate business this year of S75,-
100000, to secure prices that literal
ly defy competition, the sales de-
partment, employment department.
educational department, advertise
ing department and window dis
play divisions may all perform their
various functions in the best man
ner possible and the entire effect be
set at naught by the selection Of
the wrong manager for the new
store. And because of its extreme
Importance very careful attention is
given to the training of managerial
material and one Of the most i'm
portant services rendered by the
older, more experienced managers is
that OF training men for the man
agement of new stores. It is in
finitely more difficult to have men
ready for the management Of new
stores than it is to find good loca-
tions for stores for them to manage
or to provide the capital to operate
them. Z.
Must Start at Bottom
A man with ambitions to become
manager of one Of the ]. C. Penney
Company stores, no matter what his
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

UL I MPIA
Section Four Page
Crane Restaurant, The ....... 8
Grays Harbor Clifford Club. 6
Mitchell, John R...
Oxford Bowling Alleys.................. 2
Riders Daylight Bakery. .......... 8
Section Five PAGE
Supreme Court Judges
Pemberton, Lake, Blake) ....... 8
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
LONGVIEW

Section Five Page
Graft, A. La, Restaurants. 2
Hagerman & Sons.......................... 2
Letsinger & Gustavson ................ 2
Longview City Laundry........--....-- 3
Longview Furniture Co................. 3
Mcintyre Hardware Co. ................ 2
Sherman, Clay & Co................... 3
Service Grocery. 2
Washington Cleaners....,....-......-...-. 3
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
CENTRALIA
CHEHALIS

Section Four Page
Bartel & Wrigglesworth ........-..... 2
Buster Brown Shoe Store. z
Cruikshank Store Z
Coffman-Dobson Bank & Trust
Co.
Chehalis City Laundry ....-....... A
Darigold Products, Lewis Pa
cific Dairymen's Assn. .......... A
Fosters Bakery. ...,...................-.-..7
Fred's Quick Lunch Cafe. 7
Levinson Bros.......-...........-...... Z
Marr's Drug Store -,.............-.-....- 4
Oakland Sales & Service III.
1A0oIOAA
Service Shoe Coz. z
Whitehead's Furniture ................ A
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
ELMA

Section Four Page
Bank of Elma -.............................
Brewer Pharmacy, The,
Combes & Co. ....................-...........
Elma Steam Laundry....................
Farmers & Lumbermens Bank.
Golden Rule Dept. Store, The.
Gouty, G. E.-..-.......-.............-.........
Hotel Imperial ..---.........................
Kirkaldie & RAIDER. 8
mlndfu q OO.---------------------------- z
Rail Motor Co., E. W..
Strubel- Clancy Mercantile Co..
Tavern Cafe .-......-.............-..-........ 2
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
NEW YORK'S WEALTH
 SHOWS BIG INCREASE
State Is H.S Per Cent Richer in Ten Years; Rising Values Factor

Washington. Feb. s.--The depart ment of commerce announces, for the State of New York, it's preliminary es- tirnate of the value, December s1. 1922, of the principal forms of wealth, the total amounting to s36,as6,63S,- 900. ss compared with s25. .0S1. AT 900 in 1912. an increase of AIS per cent. Per capita values increased from s2,62s. to sS,43t, or 3o.6 per cent.
 All classes of property increased in value from 1912 10 1929. except live stock, which decrea sed 14.6 per cent. The estimated value of taxed real property and improvements increased from $t3,S11 .TS7.o00 to s16,T41,T7o.- GOO or a1.a per cent: exempt real property from ,ooo to s4,- o1hes4,o 900 or 29.6 per ceit: and rail- roads and their equipment from s1,- 906,2l ,00o to s1,431,6S2, ,000, or 22.7 per cent.
 Privately owned transportation and transmission enterprises other than railroads, increased in value from s1,7S7, 7,eo., .,oo0 to sa,545.44s.o0o or 424 per cent.
 It is stated that the increases in money value are to a large extent due to the rise in prices which has taken plac in recent years. and so far as that is the case they do not represent corresponding increases in the quan- tity of wealth.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
PUT SCHOOL HOUSES
 OFF MAIN ROADS
Elimination of Traffic Hazards
 Would Be Achieved

Hartford, Feb. s.---Location of new school houses on sites off main thor oughfares is one Of the suggestions advanced in the campaign 10 combat traffic hazards in Connecticut ac- eording to an announcement of the asete department of motor vehicles Prof Wilbur F, Gordy. president of the Hartford board of education and tormer school superintendent in Springfield makes the safety of chil- sren one of his principal arguments xgainst the location of q new high Ghool in the main street of West Hartford in an advisory letter, quoted In the motor vehicle departments statement. Prof. Gordy also contends that noise outside school buildings is fatal to the best work in class rooms and that the best possible working conditions are more essential than fine buildings or even expert teaching.
 Other persons have communicated 10 the motor vehicle department the opinion that erection of school houses on principal thoroughfares in cities and towns where convenient acreage is available is reprehenslble. the an- nouncement says, not only endanger- ing the children's lives but llindering traffic and often causing unwarranted delays to business men.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
CATTLE DIE RAPIDLY
No Signs Of Abatement in Hoof and Mouth Disease on English and Scotch Farms.

London, -Feb. S.--The disastrous epidemic of foot and mouth disease, which has been ravaging the farms of England and some parts of Scotland for several months past shows no signs of ahatinG in spite of the stringent methods employed for it's suppression by the board of agricul- ture.
 The authorities main effort to stamp out the disease has been by means of the slaughter Of all animals on the farm where the outbreak has been discovered, the cremating of the affected carcasses and prohibiting also the movement of cattle from large area.
 of late there has been fairly gen. eral demand among sections of the agricultural community that isolation ot the infected animals should he tried as against the official policy of slaughtering. Under such | scheme of isolation whole areas would he placed practically within ring fence, and agriculture within its boundaries would be almost at a standstill. The duration of isolation would depend upon the violence of the disease and other circumstances and to enforce the regulations huge staffs Of officials would be required. Up 10 the present the county of Cheshire has been most seriously af- fected by the disease.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
BUFFALO POLICE ARREST.
 MANY FOR DRUNKENNESS
t2,tst People Taken Up in Year. Insufficient Enforcement of Pro
 hibition Laws Blamed.

Albany. N. Y. Feb, 8.--Insufficient enforcement of laws against the sale of intoxicating liquor is responsible for 3 marked increase in arrests for drunkenness in the city of Buffalo during the past year, the state com mission of prisons asserts in a report made public today.
 A total of t:,1s1 persons were ar- rested by the Buffalo police during 1928 for drunkenness and public in- toxication. the report says.
 When it is considered that arrests are generally made In aggravated the statement continues, and represent excessive indulgence in the habits and vices of which they are the outcome, the number of arrests for drunkenness and public intoxica- ton and social vices indicate insuf- ticient enforcement of the laws against the sale of intoxicating liquors and the laws and ordinances intended for the suppression of the sources and commerc'alized centers of the social evil"
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
Find Phoenician Alphabet Dates From 1900 B. C.

Philadelphia. Feb. S.---Dr George A. Barton, professor of semitics at the University of Pennsylvania, has re- ceived a letter from Palestine stating that two French archa eoogists. work ing on the site on ancient Phoenica, have discovered the oldest form of the Phoenican alphabet yet found. It is declared to date no. later than i2oo E. c. and from 1t Greek. Roman, Hebrew and English alphabets can be traced.
 The earliest inscriptions that were previously known in the Phoenican alphabet were upon the Mosbite stone found in 1859, dated $50 B. C., ac. cording to Dr. Barton,
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
WANTED TO WED,
 u1HILE!! uuT1H9IE FOR MONEY
Man Who Worked With New Haven Concern Days, Removed Prod
 ucts At Night

New Haven, Feb. s.--Claiming that he needed money to get married. James Compone, 2S. confessed to theft of large quantities of sheeting from the Pond Lilly Co.,, of Westyille, &C., cording to the police. who arrested him yesterday.
 The compan. declared that sheet ing was disappearing from the fac tory in large quantities The, police set a watch and q detective claims to have seen Compone carrying away. wagon load of sheeting at night. He was employed in the factory days.
 The police recovered q, large quan- tity of the stolen sheeting in q house in Wallace street where a woman was engaged in making it into bed sheets.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
RE1IRES AFTER 90 YEARS Eli Whitney Leaves Presidency 0
 New Haven Water Board

New Haven, Feb. B. Retiring as president of the New Hayan Water Co, after 30 years as head of the corporation Eli Whitney was elected chairman of the board of directors and Gourdin r. Gaillard. secretary of the company since 1916 was chosen president at the annual meeting of the company yesterday.
 MT. Whitney succeeded his father in the office of president. The com panv was originally chartered in lS4e.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
MONUMENT TO WILSON

Newark. N. l., Feb. s.--The Essex county committee of the American Legion is preparing a bill for the New Jersey legislature providing for the erection of a monument to the mem. ory of Woodrow Wilson. who for 24 years maintained a residence in this state.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
sIIII. STUDIES AT ps

Cambridge, Eng, Feb. s.--Dr. George Downing Livein5, oldest resi-. dent of Cambridge university. though now 9G. still thirsts for knowledge.
 Every day he's at work in the chemical laboratories. And so if has been for 7s years. For 47 years he was head of the chemistry depart ment
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
Tfft Flanders Lead

The International League batting averages reveal the fact that the first four hitters were left handlers. The first i0 leaders were evenly divided.