Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - February 18, 1930, Lowell, Massachusetts THE Partly cloudy tonight and ly warmer tonight ESTABLISHED 1878 THE LOWELL SUN LOWELL MASS TUESDAY 18 6 O'CLOCK 18 PAGES TWO CENTS GIRL THROWN FROM TRAIN HERE Longer Hours For City Hall Clerks FRIDAY SPECIALS AT THE STORES 11 ATTRACT EVENING SHOPPERS Lowell Merchants Will Keep Shops Open All Day Thursday and Until Late day Evening Because of Holiday ing on Saturday Friday evening specials will vie with Ail Day Thursday Specials in Lowell stores this week the reason therefor being that the merchants wilt close their establishments all all day on Saturday Washington's birthday The stores will forego tbe usual Thursday noon closing because this holiday and will all day So there will be no lor those who usually pre- fer to do their shopping on the last night the business week the stores on Friday will observe the usual Saturday hours The agreement the stores tu re- main open all day Thursday when a holiday comes in the week is still in the nature of an experiment with the merchants division anxious to register the public response and re- action Patronage of the stores Thursday afternoon and Friday ning or this week will serve to cate more than anything elae the public acceptance of the plan With a view to bringing business up to a peak volume for Thursday and FrV day to offset tho Saturday closing exceptional values are being by the stores Decision to adhere lo the above hours conforms to the vole of the merchants division of the ber of commerce of which group Walter H of the Cherry ft Webb Co Is chairman The merchants division met ADDRESSED TJO CONSECUTIVE SCHOOL Vocational Expert Urges Students to De- Their Personal Says Personality Is Most Essential Requisite in Any Career PUBLIC HEARING ON WORTHEN ST Reopening of Street to Be Considered by City cil Tonight H Chairman Merchants Division Chamber of Commerce terday and heard encouraging reports as to the success of the recent lar days Tentative plans were laid for a spring shopping week to be observed a little later in the season SENT TO Lowell Woman Convicted by Jury at East Cambridge of Illegal Surgery Special to The Sun EAST Feb Margaret A was sentenced to an term at the women's reformatory at by Judge James A Sisk in Middlesex superior court here after a sealed dict her by a jury last was opened this morning and revealed a finding of guilty on an Indictment charging her with illegal surgery Louis Charoa also of Lowell who yesterday pleaded guilty to being an accessory before the fact In the is facing another charge FIRE IN NEWPORT R I Action on Street Railway Bus Licenses Also for Tonight Scheduled IVOR THREATENS TO INCREASE HOURS OF CITY HALL CLERKS The regular meeting of the city council tonight bids fair to be one of the longest and most interesting of the year with action on the bus licenses and the appeal for a permit to bridge and tunnel Bridge street and a public hearing on reopening of street as tho highlights The public hearing probably will Personality counts four limes as much as educational background was tho statement given to tho students of the Lowell high school Ihls noon by Floyd B vocational adviser at college Plosion in the course of a lecture The anco Sheet Air Hialey addressed two consecutive assemblies ot students In the Cyrus W Irish auditorium ing recess periods and was by Harris In opening his talk Mr slated there were too many young people who dismissed tho matter of I careers without any thought and urged his audience lo make a al least before they get to college or out Into tho business world so Ibey may Iho course for which they think are most fitted Personality Is the most essential requisite in any said Mr Icy and this morning wo are going to talk aboul our own personal I have arranged them In order on a chart which 1 have with and as I read them off to you lo MOVING TRAIN Miss Dorothy Lightman Fails in Attempt to Board Car at B M Depot Suffers and Ab- rasions as She rails lo P la I form Mias Dorothy 20 of 66 avenue is at the Lowell Corporation hospital under treatment for contusions ot Iho upper right side of the body general abrasions and a possible Injury to her spine ed when she was thrown from tho steps of n moving train she tried lo board at the Hoslon Sr Maine depot in Middlesex street at 7.21 this ing Miss according to police ran to the as it started and jumped to Iho step but missed footing and was thrown back to the come first and President V n Three Business Buildings Center of City Destroyed Early Today Twelve Families Forced to Sent From by lilies H I Feb IS Three business buildings were de- by fire with an estimated loss of 5200.000 and the center o tho was endangered In an morning blaze today After four hours of of i ChUng during which aid was has been ease assigned for trial of tills A Made to SPECIAL For the Coal Users of This City The Supreme Anthracite Wins Instant Approval E A WILSON CO OSTERMAN COAL CO Tel 7733 from Fall River the Naval Training station and Portsmouth the fire was gotten under control about 5 a m Blankets of snow on tiie roofs of and other structures helped to prevent tho naming brands from Ing a general conflagration The fire apparently started on thn top floor of tbe Odd Fellows block a to LIONS HEAR STOCK MARKET Willard of the body company addressed the Lowell j Lions club al weekly luncheon meeting al Liberty hall on the I stock market and how it The Lions were also entertained Frank billed as an old er the arts and sciences of the atre racket who calls by their first names such fellows as Zeigfeld Loew to strand ami others wards of the shops has agreed to bo present to explain why bis corporation IB unwilling to re- turn the street to the city free of charge as the city gave the street lo i tbe corporation some years ago j Final action on street railway's petition for a license to operate six bus within the city limits to supplant two tar lines ultimately and open up new territory in the other four eases will be taken At Iho last meeting final action was blocked when Councilor John I to a second reading which put tho matter over until tonight The petition of the Lowell al Development Co for permits to put a bridge over and a tunnel under Bridge street to link the plant with tbe and mills will hn presented tonight ami may ho discussed but In all ity action will be deferred ing further study hy a committee Prior to the meeting the public properly committee will meet al 1 o'clock to consider a re- of a lease of city land in ot Fletcher street and the license com- will meet al 7.30 p m lo con- duel routine hearings c ambulance called and she was niched to the Will Add 90 Minutes to Each Working Day Rather Than Accede to Requests for Extra Help Made by Department Heads in Budget Working hours or rlly hall be increased contemplated would have city hall closed from 12 noon to 1 p m so closed from 12 noon to 1 p Thomas H said today if employes would go to lunch- heads continue insistent In I I 1 ho plan outlined by the mavor are demands that extra clerks of ROTARY SPEAKER There it was said her condition was not serious An X-ray examination will he made to determine whether or not her spine was Injured hospital authorities said FOR AUTO TAXES necessary to carry out tiie work their divisions This Information was Riven by mayor when he was asked there was nny truth lo minors plans arc underway to have city hall opened at a m instead cif 9 o'clock and a! m in- stead of -I o'clock with time off for luncheon reduced from 00 to 80 utes He had nothing to sny ever on a rumor that another plan a possibility he said has no con- with office employes arriving late tor work This matter will taken en re of the or said His statement on the working hours brief hut to the It some departments feel there is need for clerks the mayor will lengthen the hours at city hall to if they continue their de- mands rather than plit on any extra clerks SERVE Thr ihc community all mrr hj H dependable For 100 It mrr help Old Lowell National Bank M Mir of Uv MUd JUtM Ovtr 100 L of I t Treasurer Acts to Enforce Collection of Bills Due Last Year About Interest Charges Are Doubled Demands for ho payment of motor vehicle excise levied by the local assessors are being sent out Hits week hy Treasurer Abel fi Campbell in an attempt to eu- j force collect ion At Hie present time there are and overdue subject lo lo r CAPT PARKER ENGAGEMENT OF PRINCESS ILEANA MAY BE ANNULLED hy Cross I i hols for divorce between Thomas 1 ami Catherine M in which hoi it charged cruelly and idence In which was heard by Judge Capl A registrar In court here two of motor vehicles in i weeks ago reached the was tho speaker this noon al tho stage when both parties acceded weekly meeting of the notary an agreement subject tho boys club rooms In proval of the court Counsels In the New laws of road and j case aro Judge James K the work of the registrar's office In j and John A Boston were interestingly described If the agreement is approved Parker j BB j will be granted he di- vorce will obtain custody o the elder of two children Ilia wife SCHOLARSHIP will have custody oil the younger child i that The case came up before Judge resident of this city gat on continuance and after bad been tne winner the to the agreement court Lowell Memorial competition continued it No other divorce libels were heard at either of two Fissions of court here today Harris allowed tho wills of A Lowell Thomas AWARD LOWELL MAN in architecture and lias been ed a 51000 fellowship for six months of study and travel abroad Mr Is a graduate of Ihn Lowell high and ar- both at Harvard and institute of RUMANIA'S AXI IS 10 BK UX THE KOCKS ELECTRICIANS VOU AT Write D L Kenslea n i n e h f t f- u i u f f i t and j f Reward at 30 st COSTUME PARTY MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM AND LIBERTY HALL I fit I SPEND THE EVE OF I THIS WEEK'S HOLIDAY I MASONIC CHOIR CONCERT and DANCE 1 AUDITORIUM Friday at 8 P M Tickets al Radio on Stock Vnn and on Page 5 A MULE has a kick and so floes the stock market K tie kick hits YOU It hurts You get no kick out of a Mutual Savings Bank deposit but it's a mighty comfortable feeling to have one CITY INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS Corner Central and Hurd Sts Timothy and II Wilson Ail min 1st rations granted on the of T ill K CADILLAC SEDAN I family rim LASALLE I fur run r GEO R DANA SON v i vi sr Trl 6100 Keb IS is thai an announcement wilt lie made an- nulling the of In young Count ter Queen Marie her return from oriental Nothing In with regard lo Iho rupture Ul in it was heard thai Hie Strictest secrecy was maintained in royal circles concerning the en- gagement and nothing wai lo out The only ble a change was a certain Marie and her daughter Thursday for Palestine and Ilio i circle wilh had n made cst an hurriedly 11 was remain iii and here it is tliait between ed they will k The sly when the count Wanted Electric Sign Salesman A national organization desires to secure at once for Lowell and vicinity an electric sign salesman Right inan has brilliant future Liberal income from start Phone Lowell 6800 Wednesday between 12 and P M and ask for Mr j A C Williams
