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Utilities Will Spend Over Billion in Year '/‘S ' V H-s THE WEATECER n e t p r e s s r u n Forecast by U. S. Weather Bureau. a v e r a g e d a i l y circulation Hartford. for the Month of October, 1929 ^J| ^ ^ Library—Comp. ^ ^ Cloudy toulght and Thursday; probably light-rain tonight; colder 5 , 5 2 2 Thursday. MeMbera .of the Andit Dnreau of Clrcnlationa PRICE THREE CENTS SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1929. FOURTEEN PAGES (Classified Advertising on Page 12) VOL. XLIV., NO. 50. <i>- HERE IS TROUBLE C im W A R IN Talking Turkey at the White House WOULD COM PE IN BUSHEL LOTS UTILITIES WILL SPEND AUEN WORKERS Married Man With Another CHINA ENDED; Woman in Auto Hits His Wife— He Has to Skip But is OVER BILLION IN YEAR TO I M HERE Caught. BRIMHINTED Providence, R. L, Nov. 27. (AP.)—Alme Couture, 33, of Japanese Report Says Na­ Many Reside in Canada or Riverside, faces all kinds of le­ HO HERALD TOMORROW gal and domestic entangle­ ments today, following a hit tionalist General Paid There will be no issue LEADERS INFORM Mexico Because Living is and run accident last night in of The Herald Tomorrow, • East Providence, in which the Thanksgiving Day. automobile he was driving "People's Army” Five Considerably Cheaper in struck his own wife, Mrs. THE PRESIDENT Leda Couture, 33, and left her Millions to Stop Fighting. Those Countries. lying on the roadway. Couture, who surrendered to East Providence police head­ Abrupt cessation of hostilities on SPORTS, CHURCHES, Result of Survey Discloses Largest Construction Pro­ quarters early this morning Washington, Nov. 27^—(AP)— A China’s civil, war fronts in Honan regulation to compel aliens working after a general alarm had been broadcast throughout the state and Hupeh provinces was disclosed ON HOLIDAY MENU gram for Any Single Industry in the Country— Over in U. S. to reside in this country in­ declared, according to police, today in a grist of dispatches, some stead of living in Canac^a or Mexico that he knew he struck his of which hinted that the war har- a Score of Representatives Gather at White House is under consideration by the Labor wife but “had to protect” an­ rassed Nationalist government had Deoartment. other woman who was riding The proposed regulation would paid its enemies for the truce. “Extree! White House breaks off diplomatic relations with turks!” Crowd Turkey Hard for with him. tyr.Tr. HnnUnw qaid fie-ht............These two proud gobblers weren’t kware that their hours were num- Parley— Their Report Adds Greatly to Grand Total impose a $10 visa and an $8 head He was locked up pending in^’brtween the rebelliourKuomin- bered when this picture was taken, but shortly afterward they were to tax on each alien for every trip the filing of charges against c h ^ or “People’s Army” and N a -' grace the Thanksgiving dinner table at the Presidential manison in Wash- First Place on Local made into the United States from him today. Reported Since First Business Conference Was> Held. either Canada or Mexico. tio^ist troops had stopped with a i ington. George Akerson, secretary to President Hoover, is shown, cen- Mrs. Couture was not seri­ suddenneL that tSik a^f observers ter, receiving the two big birds that were a present to the Chief Executive It would affect several thousand ously injured. After first aid Thanksgiving Menu. aliens along the Canadian and Mex­ by sS?Jrise, S h ou ^ h it had been and Mrs. Hoover from the 4-H Club and business men of Duluth, Minn, t- treatment she was removed to Washington, Nov. 27.— (AP) — ing; increased density of popula­ ican borders who are employed in her home in a police automo­ known that negotiations were going the United States but who live with on between the factional leaders. President Hoover was informed to tion, and use where large apart­ their families in Canada or Mexico bile. Sport attractions and church ser- I ^^y representatives of the public ment houses supplant single fam­ Plans Changes. ily dwellings. Expansion is further where living conditions were said to vices will be side dishes on the bill | corporations that those or- be cheaper. Chiang Kai Shek president of the stimulated by the growing popular Many Aliens Nationalist government and head of Quiet Thanksgiving of fare featuring King Turkey, ! ganizations would spend approxi- recognition of gaseous fuel advan­ It was said at the Labor Depart­ TRAIN HITS AUTO its military forces returned today to will in all probability play_ second j^j^j-giy $1,500,000,000 in improve- tages and by the research that de­ ment that in the Detroit area alone Nanking with a purported program fiddle to the latter in the favor of ment and expansion programs dur­ velops better utilization. 6,736 aliens admitted to the United of “sweeping changes” which is ex­ At The White House the townsp,eople of Manchester to­ ing the coming year. “In the natural gas branch of the States have gone back to Canada to FOUR YOUTHS DIE pected to give his late enemies the morrow—Thanksgiving Day. This information was conveyed on industry, the existence of vast establish their residence. Kuominchun, a measure of recog­ Church Services the basis of a survey made at a known reserves, coupled with large In the Detroit area, it was nition. Special services will be held in meeting of the utilities representa­ increases in producUon, is making Simultaneously the “People’s Washington, Nov. 27.— (AP) — < domesticated and wild turkeys, learned, the percentage of aliens nine churches at some time tomor­ tive yesterday in New York City. long distance transmission econom­ working in the United States and Army” was reported to be evacuat­ Thanksgiving will be observed at along with “ the trimmings” found row and three churches will observe services this I It indicated probably the largest ically practicable to a degree not living in Canada has increased sub­ Three CoQege Students Iden­ ing both Honan and Hupeh. Na­ the White House tomorrow in a on the board of most American Thanksgiving with anticipated a few years ago. De­ homes. Mr. Hoover will'have no evemuK, -cue ___ _ and North | construction program for any smgle stantially since the opening of the tionalist troops which had been quiet old fashioned way. evening, *the South velopments along this line will un­ fighting the Kuominchun were said | business engagement Thursday and Methodist joining in a union service | industry m the country and added Ambassador bridge at Detroit. In the morning President and doubtedly continue for many This makes it possible for the to be withdrawing also, many of with all government departments at the former church at which Rev. enormously to the grand totalr. a re­rr.- tified — One Lives In Mrs. Hoover will attend church ser­ years. workmfen to live in Canada and them heading for Kwangtung vices and then will spend the bal­ his executive office will be closed. ported to the president of the series F. W. Gray of Burnside will be the Forecast Approved reach their places of employment province to resist another revolu­ ance of the day with a few friends. The two sons of the' President speaker, at 7:30 o’clock and the of recent business conferences at the “These and collateral facts, in the United States quicker than if Bridgeport, Conn. tionary movement aimed against In the evening the handsome will not be with their parents so Church of the Nazarene holding a White House. trends, and factors have been co­ they lived in the suburbs of De­ Canton. mahogany table in the state dining that note of the family atmosphere service at the same hour with Rev. j ^ Many at Parley. ordinated with obvious necessities, troit. , , Paid to Quit. room will be filled with both will be missing. E. T. French in the pulpit. More than a scor,e of representa­ j in estimating the construction re­ In addition, the proposed rule Canton, N. Y., Nov. 27.— ( A P I - Sports tives of utilities companies gathered Japanese dispatches to Shanghai quirements of the industry for would affect a large number of from Hankow, quoting sources An unusual number of athletic i at the White House for a conference Four yoimg men, believed to be St. 1930. The net results, as summed workmen at Niagara Falls, Buffalo, usually well inforijoed asserted re­ contests are scheduled for tomorrow | with the chief executive. Three Lawrence University students en- up in the first sentence of this along the Vermont and Maine bord­ ports had been widely circulated and the sports menu includes run- j separate reports were submitted, ers and at El Paso on the M e x ico route for the Thanksgiving holi­ that the Nationalists had, bribed the CHARGES SLANDER, STUDENT AT YALE ning, football and basketball events, | one by the electric light and powi.r statement, have been reviewed by border. Other localities also would day, were killed at the Gouverneur Kuominchun to cease fighting. namely the five mile run, two foot- | group; another by the representa- officers of the larger gas producing be affected to a lesser extent. This report said it was generally ball and two basketball games. | tives of the larger gas companies and distributing companies, assem­ crossing near here today when their bled for that purpose at American automobile was struck by a New i believed Chiang Kai Shek during his SUES FOR $2,000 COMMITS SUICIDE Lutheran Union I and the third was spokesman for the I recent, trip to Honan had succeeded Chief among the services on i street railway industry.
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