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New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

Washington, April 2.-Statements made in the French chamber of dep uties today by Finance Minister Clementel were construed by Wash ington officials as an assurance that the French government is giving some thought to the question of its war debts to the United States. They could throw no light. however. on the finance minister's further state ment that I've are on the road 10 g. satisfactory arrangement"
 Nothing in the way of a definite written commitment on pending plan has been received by the Wash ington government.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
Mrs. Charles " Crane

The funeral of Mrs, Charles W. Crane was held from her late home at 11S Glen street at ? o'clock this afternoon. Rev. William Ross off, ficlated and interment was in Moun- tain View cemetery in Bloomfield. Bearers were Harry P. Battey, Ed ward A. Krause, John Shea, Herbert Lockwood, Hubert s. Blake and Charles H, Fox.
 Besides her husband, Mrs. Crane left daughter, Mrs. James c. Hem dcrson Of this city and one grand daughter Margaret A. Henderson.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
fH.-E .- Nlt,1prala
Annie Waida

The funeral of Annie Waida will be heh from her late home, ITO winter street, at S:3o o'clock tomor- row morning. Services will be held at the Ukranian- church of the Im- maculate Conception at 9 o'clock.' Burial will be in Ukranian cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
Robert RcinhoIdt

Robert, 10 day old son of Mir. and Mrs. Max Reinholdt, died last night at his home. The funeral was held this afternoon at ? o'clock. Rev. Raymond N, Gilman officiated and burial was in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
Mrs. Mary SchIeicIler

Funeral services for Mrs Mary schleicher conducted by Rev. VI. W. Gaudian. pastor of St. Johns Ger man Lutheran church, were held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the late home, 262 Fairview street. Interment was in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
Wall Street Briefs

Traffic on the Missouri Pacific in the first three months this year in- creased 12,5 per cent over the same period of 1924, In March 1s2,f7t cars were handled, a gain of 1S per, cent over March last year and 9,6 per cent over February's total of 120,93O,
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
Mrs. Charles W. Crane

The funeral of Mrs. Charles W. Crane was held this afternoon at ? o'clock from the late home, 1lS Glen street. Rev. William Rose, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiated and interment was in Fairvlew cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
VETOES BRIDGE BILL

Albany, N. Yu April "A bill ap- propriating s1,S00,o00 for the con- struction of bridge across the Hud- son river at PouEhkeepsie was veto- ed by Governor Smith today
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
U. S. TREASURY STATEMENT U. s. treasury balance, $49O,7SS,69
CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT

New York - Exchanges, 1,2S5,- 100000; balances, 91,000,O0O.
 Boston-EXChanges, 104,0U0, 000; balances, 35.O0O.000.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

Net earnings of the G. F. Kinney Go. for 1924 were equal after pre- fcrred dividends 10 slightly more than s11 q share on the common stock compared with sS.31 share in 1923.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02
CARD OF THANKS

We desire 10 show our appreciation Of the sympathy and kindness shown us in our recent bereavement. Signed,
 JOHN CROCE AND FAMILY.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

Gross earnings of the Pan-A -Ameri- can Petroleum & Transport Co. for March are estimated in the finan- cial district in excess of s1o, 0,0O0, q new high record. The figures have increased each month since Novem- ber, 1924, from $6,SoO,000 to s9,- 100000 in February.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

At the close Of business yesterday, S2,5OO,O0O of the New York Cen tral 6 per cent debenture bonds had been presented for conversion into stock, leaving about s17.500,000 out standing. The time limit for conver- sion expires May 1. The outstanding stock Is approximately $37S,o0o, 900.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

Important new traffic arteries to the southwest have been opened to the Illinois Central Railroad Go. through acquisition of the Alabama x Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific railway Stockholders of the two small roads have approved leases of their properties to the Illinois Gen. tral which has agreed to guarantee dividend and interest payment on an aggregate of more than s15,000, -000 worth of securities. Several million dollars will be spent on improve ments and expansion which will en- able the Illipds Central to compete favorably With the Missouri Pacific and other southwestern systems.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

Tho International Harvester Co. earned $S.Sl a share on the common stock in 1924 after preferred divi- dends. Net profits increased to s1S,- 0S7.S95 after changing off s2,2sl,160 as loss on the company's Russian plant, compared with $1O,274,376 the year before. Surplus after dividends was s3,S12,997 against si,064,S S6s. Current assets were $167s51,47s and current liabilities $19.SS5,SS5 leaving working capital of s14s,S15,5SS.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

Bonds aggregating s6o,s16,690 have been called for paymetn in April in advance of maturity. com- pared with s4O,222,6so in March and S23,3SS,00 in April last year. Most of the issues will be paid off in pre- miums varying from 1 to 10 per cent.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

The Pacific Telephone & TeIe- graph Co. has declared an initial quarterly dividend of $1s25 on the common stock payable May 29 to holders of record May 15.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-02

The Schulte Retail Stores Corpor- atlon reports net profit of $4,441,615 for 1924, which added to surplus in reserve at the end of 1923, amounted to $S,224,564. The years dividends were s3,676,OOo and surplus after taxes $4,059,45o., Current assets were placed at s6.215,21S and cur rctn liabilities s2,e29,772.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-09-01
Modern Chocolate Nectar Of Indians
1r sag Gave the Fine Whole World To the
~ American Indians We Owe Thanks for Many Things

vice and made valuable staple out
of a naturally poisonous plant, we
should not exaggerate the culture OF
the people who did the thing.
For these same cassava eating
misunderstanding people also ate
babies-not only babies of conquered
people. but their own babies by cap
tive women.
Another Indian plant, the avocado,
or alligator pear, has in the last few
years been introduced into this coun-
try and is becoming increasingly pop
ular as a salad fruit.
When Cortez conquered Mexico
this plant now breaking into Society
here was favorite fruit in the big
Aztec markets, where we also obtain
ed our other popular salad fruit, the
tomato.
Indians Ever Busy.
In fact. much of our modern life is
tied UP with the work of prehistoric
Indian agricultural experts. Even the
automobile owes much OF its ease to
them.
OF course it is pretty generally
known that the white man first learn
ed OF the rubber which goes in our
lires by attending a Central American
ball game played with rubber balls.
And, incidentally, the idea OF rain
coats and rubber shoes also originated
with the Indians.
But perhaps fewer people recognize
that the cotton fabric in tires is trace
able to aboriginal research in this
hemisphere.
Tire techncians say that the great
mileage required of first class tires
makes it necessary that they be built
of strong fabric, and that the
strength of the fabric is directly pro-
portional to the length OF the cotton
fiber used in it.
In making the best fabric long
staple cotton-that Is, cotton ranging
from one and one quarter to one and
three-quarter inches in lengths us
ed. They further tell us that most OF
the worlds supply Of such cotton now
comes from the valley of the Nile and
IS known as Egyptian cotton.
Cotton Origin Traced.
But Egyptian cotton is not native
Old World cotton at all. 1t is not the
cotton described by early Roman wri-
tiers as growing wild in parts OF Afri-
ca
1t is a cotton developed in Egypt
about a hundred years ago from vari-
Gus species of American cotton.
When the Spaniards first reached
Peru in the proud days of the ancient
Inca they found long staple cotton
under intense cultivation there.
The Peruvian Indian farmers made
great sunken gardens by removing
several feet of the arid, sandy top soil
to secure moisture In these specially
prepared fields they developed their
superior product.
In the West Indies the still longer
ifibered Sea Island cotton was develop
ed by the natives This Sea Island va
riety was successfully grown in limit
ed regions OF our South Atlantic states
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-09-01

until the last few years, when the boil
weevil invaded the crop.
Since the great Roosevelt dam IN
Arizona made irrigation possible in
the Salt river valley United States
government experts have developed
from Egyptian cotton a new long sta
pie variety known as pima.
Pima Indians now pick the cotton
their ancestral relatives first brought
under cultivation. The point is, how
ever. that all the long staple cottons
of commerce are direct descendants OF
Indian developed SPECIES OF the New
| World.
Even the Cigarette.
Motor cars are not the only multi
plying product of recent years to draw
upon our heritage from the Indians.
Which is almost the same as saying
there has been a great increase IN the
use of chocolate.
The white man first learned OF choc-
olate from the Mexican Indians. who
called it "choclatl" AS the Indian
nectar" it was sweetened by the Span
iards
Whether the modern young lady
munches chocolates, takes spin in
her car or seeks solace in a cigarette
she is indebted for part of her pleasure
to the so-called "savages" of America
and their patient experiments with
wild plants, which undoubtedly pro-
duced many martyrs OF science"
among them,
Although some of the best food
products OF our aborigines speedily
became popular w h EN- introduced
among Old World peoples some
equally good, or better, had an uphill
fight.
Even our common Irish or white
potato, which originated in Peru but
was unknown in North America be-
fore the arrival of the white man, was
long considered unfit for human con-
sumption.
1t took one of the cleverest adver-
Using schemes in all history to make
the potato popular as food for any
thing but pigs and cattle.
Potatoes Sold" to Public.
The man who put over this adver-
Using scheme was the French chemist
Parmentier, and the value of the po-
tato as a food was somewhat forced
on him. In war with Germany he
was captured in 1883 and had to live
five years on potatoes, and so gradual
ly learned to like them.
When he got back to France he
proposed that potatoes be cultivated
and eaten by the people. But there
was hostility to the proposal on every
side, especially among the poor peo-
pie, who regarded it as some nefarious
plan of the rich to force cattle food
on them.
Having convinced the king and
queen, Parmentier changed the style
OF his advertising. He planted a gar
den of potatoes and obtained a royal
armed guard which he stationed
around the garden.
A fashionable entertainment was
also held in which the queen was pre-
scented with a bouquet Of potato bios
SONS and served with a dish Of pota-
toes. Instead of being forced on the
people it looked as if the potato was
to be reserved only for the aristocracy
if it took armed soldiers to do it.
Then the armed guard was taken off
the potato patch That night a mob
raided the garden, dug UP the precious
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-09-01

tubers and carried them off to eat.
The idea was sold" to the French
public.
The Potato.
Back in Germany, however, the
French were probably merely classed
with the pigs, cattle and war prison.
ers. An ex-Yankee school teacher,
BENJAMIN Thompson, who had become
Count Rumford and minister of po-
lice in Bavaria, rounded up the thous-
ands OF beggars with which Munich
was afflicted and provided them work
and soup kitchen.
The soup he made out OF potatoes
Struggled into the kitchen. But the
men soon recognized the value OF this
soup.
In England the potato also had to
overcome the hostility of labor leaders,
while clergymen made fight on it in
Scotland.
Such an attitude toward the potato
seems strange to us today, but there
are many other plants which the In
dian learned to value which have new
er been adopted by the white man.
For instance the American lotus,
which occurs in sluggish streams and
pools from Louisiana to the head wa
tiers of the Mississippi and is rich in
nourishment, was used by certain
tribes.
1t was a close relative to the sacred
lotus which has been developed as an
important food staple in the Orient.
Wild Fruits and Nuts.
Numerous other wild roots, fruits
and nuts were used by our North
American Indians, and some OF these
Indians cultivated vast fields miles IN
extent for the growing of corn, as
we'll as smaller tracts for beans, sweet
potatoes, artichokes and other prod
ucts which the white man early adapt
ed to his own use.
OF course every school child knows
that we got corn from the Indians.
Fewer realize, however, that all the
fundamental varieties OF corn had al
ready been developed before the white
took over the work OF
this greatest OF our Ameri-
can grains.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-09-01

1t was the Indian who gave US inc
artichoke, SAYS the New FORK Herald
Tribune. He discovered it growing
wild and brought it under cultivation
When the early colonists reached tn;
Atlantic coast of America they found
Indians from the Carolinas to Canada
cultivating these feshy tubers, which
nav soon become the source of a new
sugar industry.
Until that time the Jerusalem arti-
choke was absolutely unknown IN the
Old World. Like many other Ameri-
can plants. it was carried to Europe
Ly early Travellers but the Jerusalem
part OF the name has no reference to
the Holy City.
1t is probably a corruption Of the
Italian "girasole," meaning "Sunfow-
err"
The Jerusalem or sunfower arti-
choke is close kin to the suntiowers,
which, like corn, potatoes, lima beans,
souashes. pumpkins and tobacco, were
also strictly American natives first dis
covered and cultivated by native
Americans.
Poison Removed From Plant.
The Jerusalem artichoke is not the
only Indian product to cause a recent
stir in the world
Word is received from the Philip
pines that a new industry is about to
be established there by converting
wide acres to growing the starchy
cassava plant, or manioc, from which
our tapioca is obtained This was the
first food plant encountered by Co.
lumbus when he landed in America.
Later entries in his journal describe
kind Of bread called casabi which
was made from the roots Of this plant,
widely grown since prehistoric times
in the West Indies and Brazil. Per-
haps no other food obtained from our
aborigines points so unmistakably to
the remarkable patience and research
by which they must have conquered
the weeds around them
For in the raw state the juices OF
this plant contain hydrocyanic acid so
powerful that one sip has been OBJ
served to kill bird.
Yet these Indians had somehow dis
covered a method by which they could
rid this deadly plant OF its poisonous
properties and had made it their chief
food staple.
Slept in Hammocks.
The same peoples who cultivated
cassava slept in hammocks-an Amer
lean Indian invention Columbus found
the hammocks in use by natives OF
the West Indies as well as on the
mainland of South America.
Later explorers traced its use and
found that these native Americans had
devised the knitted sleeve or snake
skin, into which the raw cassava was
placed and to the end of which a
weight was hung, so that the poison
Gus juices were slowly squeezed out
by the tightening of the interlacing fl
bers Of the sleeve.
Yet while we admire the ingenuity
of the people who originated this de-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-09-01
STOP RHEUMATISM
WITH RED PEPPER

When you are suffering with rheu-
matism SO you can hardly get around
Just try Red Pepper Rub and you will
have the quickest relief known.
Nothing has such concentrated, pene-
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relief. Just as soon as you apply Red
Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat.
In three minutes it warns the sore spot
through and through. Frees the blood
circulation, breaks up the congestion
and the old rheumatism torture is gone
>Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from
red peppers, costs little at any drug
store. Get jar at once. Use it for
lumbago, neuritis, backache, stiff neck,
sore muscles, colds in chest. Almost
instant relief awaits you. Be sure to
get the genuine, with the name Rowles
on each package.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
PHILLIPS PETROLEUM HAS
LARGE NEW STOCK ISSUE

NEW YORK, November 13 R.-
Coincident with an increase in its
dividend rate from 81 to SO annually,
the Phillips Petroleum Co. announced
yesterday the issuance of 481 ,416 new
shares of capital stock, which will be
offered to present stockholders for
subscription on a one-for.four basis
at $40 a share. The offering is under
written by a banking group headed
by Blair & Co.
The increased rate, it was an.
nounced. would apply to the new
stock as we'll as to the shares out
standing and would be inaugurated
with a quarterly dividend Of rs cents
a share, payable on January 4.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
PREDICT HIGHER PRICES
IN POTATO MARKETS
Commission Men Say Drop Is Due
on Oversupply of Tempo
rary Nature.
speciaI Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. November 13.-Com.
mission men here say that, although
there are now on the tracks in Balti-
more about so cars of potatoes for
which there is little demand, there Is
nothing in the condition of the mar
ket to justify the term slump"
Prices for No. ! stock today are
800 to 400 for 100-pound bags, and
so to 200 for culls and No. 2 stock.
Many dealers say that the potatoes
they now have for sale cost more
than the market value. and they are
we'll satisfied to hold them until the
market rises again.
Commission men generally agree
that within two weeks the market
will improve, and that the ensuing
higher prices probably will last until
Spring. The present oversupply was
attributed to shippers trying to catch
the peak of the market.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received BY Private Wire Direct to The Star Once

American Rayon Products made be-
lated response to declaration Of an ex-
ira dividend of 12h cents a share
Kelvinator started forward ngain and
NiZer Corporation class "B' went
along sympathetically. The advance
In Land Company of Florida shares
extended to five points.
Libby-Owens sheet glass, which had
closed the previous day at ESQ. drop
ped 20 points between sales. following
the announcement Of the death OF
President Libby at Toledo. National
Tea gained almost 10 points following
publication of October sales fgures,
showing a gain of more than "a per
cent over the month a year ago. Le-
high Power securities established a
new high at 191, where 1t was up D
points Power Corporation OF New
York gained more than points.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
OIL TRADE IMPROVES.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 13.-Be-
lated response to very satisfactory
conditions in the oil trade was the
way Wall Street today characterized
the market for the oil stocks. The
increase in the Phillips Petroleum
dividend and also in the payment to
General Petroleum shareholders had
their Immediate effect on the stock
concerned.
There were reports that Marland
would increase it's dividend and pay
an extra, but they were not generally
credited. Marland Will earn about
SO a share on its stock this year.
however. Texas Co.'S net profits will
be enormous and it's cash position is
especially strong.
Active buying in Mid-Continent Pc
troleum reflected highly favorable de-
velOpments in the company's business
Evening star., 1925-11-13
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORK, November 13.-On a
volume of business that taxed the IA
cilities of the exchange throughout a
good part of the session, stocks in the
curb market were carried forward
sharply, many to the highest prices
so far recorded
Most significant in the upward move
ment today was that the oil shares
commanded first place. Magnolia
Petroleum on big volume Of transac-
tions gained more than 10 points to n
new high. Humble Oil advanced near
ly points, while Standard Of Indiana,
selling eX the regular quarterly divi-
dend, was up over 2 points.
Chesebrough Manufacturing ad-
vanced more than 3 points, Standard
of New York, Vacuum and Prairie
Oil and Gas were up anywhere from
. to points.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
STOCK SELLING AT $61
NOW OFFERED AT S45

NEW YORK. November 13 UP.-
The General Gas and Electric Cor
poration announces it has decided to
offer to all its stockholders the right
to subscribe for additional shares Of
it's class A common stock at $40 a
share. This stock is now quoted on
the New York Curb Market around
S61 a share. Each stockholder on
record November 2 will be entitled
to subscribe for additional shares at
this price in the proportion of one
share of class A for each 10 shares
of common or preferred of any class
then held.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
NICKEL PLATE MERGER
ROADS BOOST EARNINGS

NEW YORK. November 13 P).-
Railroads involved in the proposed
Nickel Plate system earned in the
year ended September 80 approx.
S1S.+S a share on the COM
bined S15O,753,523 common stock
after allowing for per cent on S131,-
7l5.I2O preferred stock. Calculated
on the seasonal business, earnings of
s2O.62 a share on the common are
indicated, which compares with $17.07
a share the year before and S14.10
in 1928.
Pere Marquette was the only one
in the group to show smaller gross,
all. however, making marked i'm
lrovement in net, the combined in
crease being about 21 per cent.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
BIG POWER PROJECTS
IN ITALY NOW SEEN
American Concerns Look for New
Business to Follow War-Debt
Agreement.
Special pispatch 70 The star.

special Dlspatch 10 Inc SlaT
NEW YORK, November 13.-The
tangible result of the funding OF the
Italian debt TO the United States prob
ably will be the financing of Italian
hydro electric projects in this coun-
try. 1t is known the three large
American electric equipment manu-
facturers have made thorough inves-
tigation Of the possibilities and equip
ment needs Of the Italian power sites
and are ready to expedite shipments
when financing is assured.
The cheap power resulting is eX
pected to aid to an enormous degree
in putting Italy on her feet financial
iy, since she has ample labor. skilled
and unskilled and every facility for
manufacturing certain products to
advantage.
In that respect Italy resembles
New England, which today is taking
under serious consideration further
development Of hydro electric power.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
WOOL PRICES STRONGER.
Weekly Market Review Shows
Steady Improvement.

BOSTON, November IS CP.-The
Commercial Bulletin will say tomor-
Iow: "A broader. stronger market
has ruled in wool during the past
week. The tendency of wool values is
upward in this market. and the for
eign markets generally have been ac-
tive and strong. Australia has been
against the buyer. Bradford is re-
ported rather quiet but firm. Compe-
tition in the foreign primary markets
is more general than at any time pre-
NiOusly this season. Advances in
goods containing WOrsted yarns of 2la
10 1872 cents a yard, named at the
beginning of the week by the leading
factor, appear to have been well dis
counted; certainly there has been no
adverse reaction in the raw material
as the result of these advances.
Scattered buying is reported in the
West at about Eastern market parity.
The Texas Fall season is scheduled to
commence in san Angelo Tuesday
with a sealed bid sale
'Mohair is rather quiet, but very
finn"