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New Britain herald., 1927-02-05
GATHERINGS
Subscription Dance Fol- lows Dinner Parties Mrs. Dyson to Entertain.

Mrs. Mortimer Rhodes entertain ed a number of friends at dinner at her home in Berlin Tuesday eve ming.
 Mrs. Frede rick W. Macomber gave Q luncheon followed by bridge at her home on Hamilton street, Fri day.
 Mrs. o. r. Parker entertained a number of friends at tea at the Man or Inn Thursday afternoon for her house guest. Mrs. Edward Ruxton, of Springfield, Mass.
 Mrs Ralph Dame of West Hart ford with her sister Miss S,t ia AL derson of this city will entertain at bridge and tea next Saturday after noon at Mrs. Danes residence for Mrs. George Hildebrandt,
 Miss Ruby Andrews will entertain number of friends from Hartford at cards at the home of her parents Mir. and Mrs. John A. Andrews on Lincoln Road this afternoon.
 A great many people from New Britain attended the Amherst Glee club concert and dance which took place in West Hartford last evening.
 The fourth In a series Of sub scription dances which are being held this season at the Shuttle Meadow club took place last eve ming with a record attendance. de- spite the fact that so many local people are away at this time. Sev- eral delightful dinner parties pre- ceded the dancing for which Si- Yaffe played.
 Mrs. George Corbin will entertain the members of her card club at her home on Lexington street next Wednesday afternoon.
 Miss Virginia Hart, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Walter Hart of Hart street will entertain at bridge at her home next Wednesday afternoon in aid of the Hospital fund.
 Mir. and Mrs. Rodman Chamber lain of Lincoln Road gave a dinner party at their home last evening preceding the subscription dance at the Shuttle Meadow club.
 Mir. and Mrs. Maxwell Coe en- ttrtained at dinner Friday night at their home on Liberty street.
 Mrs. Harold Peck Of Lincoln street. and Mrs. Elwood Johnson of Trumbull street, gave bridge tea afternoon at the Manor Inn. There were six tables of cards. The prizes were won by Mrs. James Mrs. Harold Guy of Port land, Miss Miriam Mouat and Mrs. Harold Foster of Hartford. Mrs. Mercer Whyte of Chicago, presided i at the tea table and Mrs. Clarence dllu 4lloS ltaLl lSC 1NOS lAoi q assisted the hostesses with the serv- Ing.
 
 Mrs. Robert Silsby of Worthing- ! ton Ridge. Berlin, will entertain at oridge Wednesday afternoon.
 
 Miss Ruby Andrews entertained he Thursday afternoon bridge club his week in her home on Lincoln street. The prizes were won by Mrs. Gerald w. Walker Miss Harriet Reynal and Mrs. Bennett H. Hib- ard.
 The annual mid-winter tea Of the l Woman's Association of the South Congregational church was he'd yes- erday afternoon in the chapel. Mrs. Raymond R. Gilpatric and Mrs. Ray
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

Harold Guy. Miss Reynal is also attending the festivities at the Wes- leyan University.
 Mrs. Brete c. Neece of Corbin avenue, returned this week from Chicago. Illinois. She has been spending the past month as the guest of her parents. Miss Mary c. Wells of Newington, was reelected general secretary of the Consumers League at the an- nual meeting held Monday at the New Haven Lawn club.
 Mrs. George MacLaren of Trenton, Michigan, is the guest of Mrs. Charles E. Jones of Stanley street. Mrs. MacLaren is a former resident of New Britain.
 Mrs. Burton Hildebrandt is spend- ing a few days in New York city.
 Miss Maxine Hart, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Maxwell Hart of Lin- coin street. is attending the winter carnival at Hami!ton college.
 
 Miss Bertha Francis, a student at the Connecticut College for Women. is spending a few days with her father, Thomas A. Francis.
 Mrs. Bennett H. Hubbard of Vine street is spending the weekend with her parents MT. and Mrs. Mortimer Stanley of Short Beach.
 Mrs. Harry Adams of Springfield, Mass. and Miss Jessie Bliss of Northampton, Mass. are the guests of Mrs. Laurence Mouat of Grove Hill.
 MT. and Mrs. Franklin Burdge of New Haven, have been the recent guests of MT. and Mrs. Gerald w. Walker of Hawley street.
 Miss Mona Martin, daughter of Dr. J. E. Martin of Vine street. left Thursday to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. William K. Dunn of Garden City. Long Island.
 Mfr. and Mrs, James M. Burdick of Grove Hill, are spending the week -end in New York city.
 
 James Beach, son of MT. and Mrs. R. J. Beach of Black Root avenue, is spending the mid-year recess with his parents. He is student at Brown University.
 Mrs. James S. Robinson of liar rison street, returned this week from Chicago, Illinois. She has been the | guest of her daughter. Mrs. Wilson Killough. and son. Gordon Robin son.
 Governor John H. Trumbull and | Mrs. Trumbull of Plainville, return ed Monday evening from a two | weeks trip to Florida.
 Miss Florence Trumbull, stu dent at Mount Holyoke College, and Miss Jean Trumbull. a student at | the Bradford AcadeI = daughters of the Governor and Mrs. Trumbull are spending short vacations with their parents.
 John and Benjamin Slade, stu dents at Harvard University, are spending the mid year recess with their parents, MT. and Mrs. Louis P. Slade of Maple street.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

W. Leach were In charge of the affair.
 Mrs. Ray W. Leach of Vine street entertained her bridge club Tuesday afternoon.
 Mrs. Charles Merwin of Trumbull street, entertained eight guests at dinner and bridge Thursday eve- ming. Mrs. Clarence Manning and Sherwood Berger won the prizes.
 Mrs. Bennett H. Hubbard of Vine street. entertained at bridge Thurs day evening. There were two tables of auction. Miss Bernadine Wclker won the prize.
 Mrs. Leslie c. Rackliffe of Arch street. entertained at bridge We'd nesday evening.
 Mrs. Merit Taylor entertained at the home of her parents on kensins- ton avenue, in honor of Miss May belle Simms and Miss Leah Roman sey who are leaving to study in New Haven. February 16.
 Mrs F. B. Proudman entertained 1 a few friends at bridge Monday | afternoon at her home on Freder- ick street, Maple Hill.
 Miss Clara E. Leupold of Win throp street, entertained at bridge Monday evening in honor of frs. Hayden A. Thayer of Worcester, | who is visiting here. The prizes ere won by Mrs. Louis Brown, Miss Clara Rock and Miss May Hannon.
 Mir and Mrs Charles B. Parsons gave a large dinner party at their lome on Hart street Tuesday eve- ling.
 Mrs. George Boil gave delightful ard party at her home on West Vain street Tuesday afternoon when he entertained 30 friends at bridge md tea. Tho prizes were awarded o Mrs. Lauren Banford. Miss Mar orie Baldwin and Mrs. William Walker.
 Mrs. Sturman Dyson has issued invitations to q number of friends or a bridge tea which she will give tt her home on Trumbull street Wednesday, afternoon, February sth.
 Mrs. Roger Whitman entertained t dinner last evening at her home n Corbin avenue preceding the ourth in series of subscription Iances being held at the Shuttle deadow club this season.
 Mrs. Emory Corbin will give a ridge party followed by tea at her Iome on West Main street. Satur- lay afternoon. February 12th.
 Mir. and Mrs. Luther Parker en- ertained the members of their card Tub at their home on Forest street ast Saturday evening.
 Mir. and Mrs. Laurence Humason i'll entertain at supper followed by ards at their home on Liberty street his evening.
 Mir. and Mrs. P. C. Platt will give
 supper party followed by cards at heir home on Ten Acre road this vening.
 Mir. and Mrs Harold Guy will ntertain at dinner at their Hbme n Portland this evening preceding he dance at Chi Psi lodge at Wesleyan university. Among the uests will be MT. and Mrs. Charles ierwin, MT. and Mrs. George Boil. Iiss Harriet Reynal, Miss Beatrice seynal and Hubert Williams of his city, MT. and Mrs. Edwin s 'owles, jr., of West Hartford and ;eorge Happ of Middletown.
 A long list Of New Britain wom- n, prominent In the social world, as been asked to serve as patron sses at the Wesleyan Glee club
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concert which Is to take place Sat- urday evening. February 18th. al the Camp school auditorium under the auspices of the New Britain College club. The concert Is being fostered with the idea of raising money for the College club scholar ship fund which each year Is the means of helping deserving New Britain girls through college. Mrs. Edward Lancaster is chairman of the committee in charge and has s- sued number Of tickets to friends of the College club. to which there has already been a generous re- sponge.
 Mrs. John Fellows entertained the members of her card club at bridge Wednesday afternoon at her home on Ten Acre Road.
 Mrs. Clifford W. Vivian will give a luncheon followed by bridge at her home on West Main street next Wednesday.
 Mrs. Irving Fletcher gave bridge party at her home on shuttle Mea- dow avenue Friday afternoon for Miss Helen Hubbard. daughter Of Mrs. Rose T. Hubbard Of Mason Drive. Miss Hubbard will leave next Saturday for Florida to spend the remainder of the month.
 Mrs. John c. Loomis gave a sup per party followed by bridge at her home on Lincoln Road last evening to 20 friends. The prizes were awarded Mrs. c. W. Buckley, Mrs. Clifford Vivian. Harold Shepard and Dr. Clifford Vivian.
 Mrs. Raymond McKnerney Of A Carlton street entertained two ta Oles of bridge Thursday evening al her home. The affair took the form of Valentine party. the first prize being awarded to Miss Eleanor Cars we'll and the second to Miss Evelyn Carswell.
 The annual Wentworth ball held in the ballroom of the Hotel Bond In Hartford last Thursday evening drew a representative gathering Of dancers from New Haven and Hart ford as we'll as from town. ST. Yaffe played for the dancing until 1 o'clock.
 Pi Chapter Alpha 1ota Epsilon fraternity held a dance at Norden bungalow last evening. There were fifty couples present.
 Mrs Nelson Mann entertained the Maple Hill Bridge club Tuesday aft ernoon at her home on Robbins av- enue. The prizes were awarded to , Mrs. James Powell. Mrs. William Middlemass and Mrs. Frank Rau.
 Mrs Frank spitzel entertained at her home on South Main street, Thursday evening for her sister Miss Mabel Glaves who is to marry Jud- die Landren of Maple street on Wednesday, February 16.
 Miss Lillian Ashworth entertained a number of friends at her home in Berlin Thursday evening. Miss Ash worth will leave on Tuesday. Febru- ary Is, to enter the nurses training school at Grace hospital in New Haven.
 Mrs. Loren Bancroft entertained at bridge Tuesday afternoon at her home In Maple Hill. The prizes were won by Miss Nina Blair and Mrs. William Wells.
 MT. and Mrs. John Lindsay, Park terrace, entertained at dinner at the Manor Inn, Thursday evening pre- ceding the Wentworth Ball In com pliment to Mrs. John A. Patton of New Haven.
 Miss Anna Mae Havlick. Miss Marion Muller. Miss Ruth schaefer and Miss Marguerite Downham are in charge of the dance to be given by the Phi Sigma Sorority, Febru- ary 25.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05
GANGsTER SUES FOR LIBEL

Chicago, Feb. 5.-(Pi-Joe Saltia gang leader. yesterday filed islander suit seeking s10O.000 damages from John Stege. captain of detectives. He sets forth that stories appearing un- der Stege's name in a local newspa. per had injured his good name. credit and reputation" and had brought him into public scandal and disgrace.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

4 long list Of New Britain wom- en. prominent In the social world has been asked to serve as patron esses at the Wesleyan Glee club
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

The annual mid winter tea Of the Woman's Association Of the South Congregational church was he'd yes- terday afternoon in the chapel. Mrs. Raymond R. Gilpatric and Mrs. Ray
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

John and Benjamin Slade, stu dents at Harvard University, are spending the mid year recess with their parents, MT. and Mrs. Louis P. Slade of Maple street.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

Mfr and Mrs. F. o. Radcliffe will entertain at bridge this evening at their home on Kensinston avenue.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

The wedding of Miss Edith Sani. daughter of Mfr. and Mrs. S. { nj of Jubilee street, and Raymond Laurie of East Main street, took place Monday evening at 7:30
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Miss Beatrice Reynal. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Louis Reynal of Lex ington street, is spending the week end in Portland as the guest of Mrs.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

Mrs. l.. M. Bancroft Of Robbins avenue. Maple Hill. is spending few days in Norfolk. visiting Miss Mary Mansfield. a former resident Of Maple Hill
New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

Miss Ruth North has returned to Dana Hall School of Music after spending a week in town with her parents MT. and Mrs. James North of Slnnyledge.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
EVICTIONS FACED
BY MINERS IN LABOR WARFARE
800 Families Near Pitts
burgh. Already 0usted,. Are
Building Plain Shacks.
More Than 1000 Others
Have dug In" in West Vir-
ginia, Observer Says.
BY WHITING WILLIAMS.

Note-Mr Williams acho in a series OF
IKE ees on '' he g5o3 c,s n e so
coat feld stating the Uieupoint Of both
operat0r and union. IS an authority on ec0-
problem Of lab0r from both sides. Mr.
Williams has aDorhed as a soft coal miner
s M ihe nnegs e f|ans he s has rfsa u ucG
Jor ne newspapers and ma0azines.
Special Dispatch to The Star
RUSSELTON, Pa, November T.
Seeking a closeup though impartial
view of the deadly battle in progress
since April l between coal union and
coal operator in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia, l have just OBJ
served preparations for one Of the
largest scale evictions in the whole
history of capital and labor warfare.
Three hundred union miners fam
lies at Russelton, near Pittsburgh,
have received notice to give their
homes over to other workers, strike
breakers. Following the word, the
men. women and boys of the little
town have Joined to donate their serv-
ices while they take the lumber fur
nished by the United Mine Workers
of America, and hammer or saw in
hand erect great long, gaunt rows OF
plain pine shacks or barracks.
| found them jolly enough. uplifted
by their own courage. The women's s
auxiliary, with laughter and wise
cracking, was passing out free coffee
and sandwiches. At recess time theil
children trooped from the nearby
school to pile planks or tug at twO-by'
fours.
The streets and sidewalks were
crowded with trucks loading the fur
niture out of the little houses. But
the strong-chinned. undaunted presi'
dent Of the auxiliary was quick to
give assurance:
Them folks amt goin' away. Not
on YOUR life, We're all stickin' right
here to receive the strikebreakerS In
a way they won't forget. Them trucks
is simply haulin' our furniture into
storage for the weeks it will take us
in the barracks to show the company
what's what"
"Just about 20 years" chimes In
her sister-in-law, the auxiliary's sec
retary, we've lived in that house
right there. AS long as we've got to
leave it, I'm glad we can keep an eye
on it and the people that's in it from
whatever shack they give us here"
Winters Cruelty Ahead.
Gee" adds big-armed. broad
shouldered miner, "It's tough to be
pushed out this way after bein' just
about raised, in this here mine-the
only place I've worked in for the Il
years of my minin' life. How the new
guys will ever learn this mine SOS
they don't get lost, dunno. WY, il
goes under those hills there a good
s mile"
No one who has ever worked in a
mine or fought in a trench need be
told how unutterably long and cold
the Winter of these evicted people is
sure to be, watching, as they will
from just a few feet across the line
of the company's property while
strangers walk every morning from
out of their own former homes to re
Evening star., 1927-11-07

add. "the minute we allow our oper-
ators To cut. then the non-union fell
lows are sure to cut just that much
more under our scale, leaving the
union owners just as bad off as they
we're before. The only change which
really helps must come in the freight
rates. II the managers would givc
their chief attention to that, then
permanent gains would come.
"As it is now Lewis said when
I was last in contact with him few
days ago, "thoss poverty-breedinS
coal companies in western Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio that are trying 80
hard to starve miners and their fam
lilies into servitude are sure to fail i'm
their purpose.
Says Operators Are Losing.
"They can not defeat the United
Mine Workers of America or subdue
the spirit of union miners and their
families. But they can bankrupt
themselves, and that is exactly what
they are doing.
Already they have lost many mil
lions of dollars in this fight. and they
will lose many more millions il thev
continue their present policy. 1t costs
them twice as much to produce their
coal with strikebreakers as what they
get for it in the market. How long
their stockholders will stand for this
waste of their invested capital is the
question.
THE companies that are following
this policy have one purpose in mind.
and that is to destroy the miners
union so men can be compelled to
work for anything the company secs
fit to pay them.
ITO carry out this purpose, these
companies have employed hundred4uDf
gunner and armed thugs, equipped
them with guns, pistols, blackjacks
and gas bombs and placed them in
the uniforms of the coal and iron
police.
"It is the business of these
gunmen to intimidate, assault and
bully miners and their families while
the companies attempt to reduce
wages to the starvation point. Hum
dreds of miners families have been
evicted from their homes and thrown
out upon the roadside. But the United
Mine Workers of America goes right
ahead. Its great membership has
shown and continues to show the most
extraordinary courage and spirit.
I've want the American public to
know that the union miners will never
permit these coal companies to carry
out their purpose of cutting wages
down to the s2-a-day level that pre-
walls in those places where men are
helpless under the lash of non-union
employers"
Tomorrow: The Operators Point of
View.
Copyright. 1927 in all countries, by the
North American Newspaper Alliance.)
There are more than 1000 buffalo
in Yellowstone National Park.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
CHAIN BRIDGE BIDS
TO BE OPENED TODAY
Specifications on Work to Replace
South Abutment Call for
Concrete Material.

! Bids for the replacement Of the
south abutment to Chain Bridge. the
3deteriorated condition of which result
ed in the closing of the span to We
hicular traffic, will be opened this af-
. ternoon by Roland N. Brennan, chief
clerk OF the engineering department
of the District government.
While the specifications for the new
abutment, drawn up by the bridge de-
partment Of the District, call for a
concrete structure, bidders were given
an opportunity to submit estimates on
alternative proposals of their own de-
sign. This was done in order to get
the ideas of the contractors for re-
pairing the abutment
Present plans contemplate the use
OF the Districts bridge repair fund for
replacing the abutmcnt, providing the
cost does not exceed 10000, the
amount available. 1t is the intention
of the District officials to start work
on the new abutment in time to per
init the opening Of the bridge by early
Spring.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

munerative work in their own former
jobs.
Sad as such needless peace time war
fare makes the observer, this repre-
sents only small sector of q great
battle line stretching across the once
unionzed soft coal regions of central
and western Pennsylvania, eastern
Ohio and northern West Virginia.
These are regions which, since the
already disappointing agreement in In
diana and Illinois, represent the major
and the militant portion of the old
central competitive field that once fur
nished two-fifths of the country's BIZ
luminous fuel and. therefore, served
as the keystone of all it's union agree
ments and arrangements.
Over across the line, in West Vir-
ginia, a total of more than a thousand
families have dug i'm to similar bar.
racks, and with the help of the unions
81 weekly a couple and so cents a
child have carried on a ismilar engage
ment for more than years.
There, as elsewhere, such camps of
organized fighters have been matched
by the barracks or other houses of
non-unionized employees who daily live
and work under the protection Of
armed State constabulary or company
police.
In State Of Warfare.
In spite of the Federal injunctions
granted in some places against union
interference, such hostile encamp-
ments have, of course. produced the
inevitable result. Men, women and
children on both sides have been as
saulted. Tipples, offices. homes,
bridges and barracks almost without
number have been burned, bombarded
or dynamited.
In more than a few lonely towns,
night after night, scores of shots
from the snipers concealed in the hills
have been heard, answered perhaps
by the sputter of machine guns from
behind the tipple's piled sandbags.
In the Pittsburgh district alone the
deaths since May are believed con.
servatively to total at least a score.
Probably the same would hold true
for the Ohio districts, numbering
around 10000 of the total of approx
mately 100000 miners now actively III
conflict. Each day the number Of
these fatalities grows.
What are all these men fighting for?
What Is the issue which makes those
families at Russelton appear so glad
to be now actively in the fray? How
does their battle touch us coal users?
Will the fighting wane or will 1t spread
to other industries following a meet
ing November IA in Pittsburgh where
several hundred leaders of the Amer
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Second Affidavit.

The other affidavit filed by Burns
under the same circumstances reads:
Frank j. O'Reilly, being first duly
sworn. says that he Is a resident of
Brooklyn, n. Y, and that he is an
assistant manager of the Burns De-
tective Agency and on the - day of
October, 1927. was in the city of
Washington on the business of that
company. He went to the department
of the District government, wherein
is kept the record of the names OF
those persons to whom automobile
license tags are issued and found
from the records of that department
in the District Building that the au-
tomobile bearing the license number
P:73S was registered in the name of
II. r. Lamb.
"Affiant ascertained that an II. r.
Lamb lived at 1403 Sixteenth street
northwest, and on October 26 about
9:20 am, affiant saw a gentleman
emerge from 1909 Sixteenth street
northwest, and the gentleman went
directly to the Racquet Club on Six
teenth street, entered there, remained
about 20 minutes. Affiant saw him
go out and followed him. The gentle
man went directly in the Department
of Justice of the United States at
the corner Of Vermont avenue and
X street northwest.
"Affiant remained in the vicinity of
the Department Of Justice until about
] % pm. of the same day, at which
time the same gentleman emerged
from the Department Of Justice. ut
4:30 pm. of the same day affiant WI !
in the neighborhood of the Department
of Justice and saw the same gentleman
emerge therefrom at about that hour;
he proceeded on foot directly to No.
! 400 Sixteenth street northwest; short.
iy after the gentleman entered 1909
Sixteenth street northwest affiant
saw him emerge from an alley in the
| rear OF said house, driving an auto
mobile which bore the license tag
number p-173S.
''At 1:15 o'clock the next morning
affiant saw the same gentleman drive
an automobile into the same alley in
the rear of 400 Sixteenth street north
west, and that automobile bore the
license tag number P-173S."
Thomas +. Lodge, Washington at.
torney, who made public the so-called
affidavits, explained they were merely
laid before Justice Frederick L. Sid.
dons for any action he saw fit to take.
Lodge said the affidavits could not
have been filed with the court as a
document of public record because he
was not a party in the Fall-Sinclair
conspiracy case.
Burns Defends Operatives.
Burns and his son arrived at the
courthouse shortly after 10 o'clock and
were clLseted with BurlSinshaW for
about 10 minutes. Afterward Burns
was greeted in the corridor by six
Burns detectives who ca lied him Gov
ernor" and gradually he began to
touch on phases of the case with news.
paper men.
Burns emphatically stated that no
effort would be made to conceal the
fact that the agency was employed for
the purpose which they accomplished
! to q degree. The interest of the
Evening star., 1927-11-07

There are more than 1000 buffalo
in Yellowstone National Park.