AI‘OGIATEQ
PR”. NEW. FROM ALL PART. 0' THE‘WQILD IV A SPECIAL Will AND OUR OWN OPERATOR
M Nor-walk Peat
Enteredatthe
We as Class Issuer.
sum aoawua, con. nib—av, upping 11, ms
incmaing Cloudincsa, Snow following
Hill [088 PlJl
ll $l00,000
Faulty Wiring Blamed For
i Blaze Which Destroys
zoo-Foot Wing of Middle-
town Institution but The-
ory of Incendiary Origin
Is Entertained
tilt [thin in
noun
#100 Women Removed From
Building But Good Disci-
pline Prevails
MIDDLETOWN. Jan. 11.—~Two pa-t Harbor. yesterday morning at about ‘0 "‘99"? "‘9 “9" pan 0' ”'9” equip
ticats were burned to death and two
, are missing and may likewise haveI Milton. of the Red Star Towing and'
till this
Were Held Up in Stamford
Yesterday on Account of
an Accident to the Tug
Norwalk
BflAlS fiflNlAlN
2,5flfl'lflNS 0F Ell-ii
Two Boats. For Raymond
Bros" One For Ferris Coal
Co. and One For Harris
, &Ga‘ns
l Three barges of coal, part of a tow
30f seven, were taken into Stamford
|10 a. m.. after the lugs. Norwalk and
0f 00M REACH
lHIS Bill Willi
fRfEZING EARS
-——-———-————
.“Connecticut’s Own”
Receive Allotment Today
HNEIIAYEACHWEE
gThiet' Steals Mone From
i CAMP DEVENS. Ayer, Mass, Jall.‘
.11.——Tbere'll be no more. frozen ears
gamong New England's national army
men. Caps enough to equip every
man in the division arrived tt‘la)’.
.Today men of the 304th infantry.
“Connecticut's ()sn," will be the first
; merit.
perished in a fire which destroyed a‘. Transportation Company. had had a? "mm" and are ‘0 replace the cam-
‘200-foot wing of the main building at four-hour battle with the ice. break-T W5"
sombrero -during the cold
”It. Connecticut Hospital for the in-‘ in: it up so that they could enter.1"“"'h“"' Th“ "9" “‘9, l“ (”“0““4
sand yesterday morning, causing a.The other four barges contain unthra: mutrli ”k" F ”WW?” '1”! flaps
loss estimated at from 3150.000 to cite coal for this city, two barges for. “f “'0‘“ MM" mm“ down “V" m"
$200,000. The blaze started at 4:30,Raymond Bros, one barge for tile Fer- ”"3 and, head. Th? mu" "m "b‘
o'clock on the top floor of the build-1 ris (‘oal Company. and one barge fortvm'“ a" Chum." 0’ ”"1“" ""3 ‘“
ing. and its origin is a mystery. Some. Harris & Guns. Thcst- barges will bei ”'9 future While "'9" are out 3‘ d’m- fuel committee have now been ac-I
are inclined to blame faulty electric
wiring.
have been several incendiaiy tires at
tho institution lately. the theory of
incendiarism is . held by many as
plausible. The at the insti-
‘brought into Norwalk harbor
:Gri‘tfnwith and Milton. The Greenn
wlch also belongs to the Red Star
Line.
The tug Norwalk. which bore the
t
r
today}
In view of the fact that there and docked if possible by the tugsi
(Continued on Sixth Page).
ii; [if E. liliilNfi
tution have not started an ith-sti-‘ brunt of the battle in the Stanifordt
gallon as yet. as all their efforts were Harbor yesterday morning, was dis1 MABHINE “Em
directed to restoring order.-
The blaze was held. to the one. wing
Where 298 male patients were con-
fined. Up to noon time. it was be-
(Contlniied on Sixth Page.)
hints that
IllVIIIENli TAX
Internal Revenue Officials
Disregard Decision in the
' Towne Case
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.~liecause
the Supreme Court held in the Henry
’i‘owne case that a stock dividend
issued to Towne was not taxable in—
come it dOes not follow that all stock
dividends are not taxable.
This is the purport of an important
opinion delivered to the Commissioner
or internal Revenue today by Solici-
to‘r Ballantine of the internal Rev-
}enue Bureau. it is said by the but
rean thatt misapprehension exists
a.) to the effect of the Towns case
decision. ,This decision construed the
first income tax law on the question
tot stock dividends.
The bureau announces that in the
absence of a decision construing the
express provisions .40! the war rev-
'enue act the bureau will continue
to collect the tax on stock dividends.
Notwithstanding this announcement
legal advisers of the internal Rev-
enue Bureau are convinced that the
Government will lose a second test
case. ‘
There is little doubt that such a;
case will be filed when the tax isi
levied against the $100,000,000 distriq
bated in stock dividends in 1917. '
The legal sharps point out that;
. though the first law contained no ex-
‘ press provisions treating stock dirt-g
pends as Income. while the. war rev-g
enuo‘act did that. the court would
make the same holding under the new‘
as under the old law. The opinion
.
(Continued (iii—Eleventh Page.) i
fabled. and after it had reached the.
basin at Stamford was beached.
,W’ntcr was entering through holes,
slow in the bow of the lug. which
.‘were math» by the ice and iin't'Xaiil‘
! inntion was made to see whether any
it
- temporary repairs could be made. but
I it was found that the tug was so bad-
”); damaged that the (li'ei-nwith has
' been required to bring the four burnt-s
‘: here.
, .
; (Continued on Sixth Page.)
i
summit
Manufacturer Tells Senate
; Government Could Have
i Saved $20 a Ton
' WASHINGTON. Jan. IL—(‘harges
;that "steel trust" officials blocked a
.to get steel for ship plates at one-
Blfllliliihtl’iiii
'plan by which the Government was,
Alumnus
South Norwalk Council. Knights
of Columbus committee appointed to
collect and forward talking machine
records. sent the first lot to Camp
llll'Vi‘nS, the box of records were di-
; vided into lots. one for the Y. bl. C.
{A and the other package for the K.
lof C. recreation halls. They were
iforwarded to Lieutenant John Keogh
‘ for distribution.
The following lines
from a letter received from Lieuten-
: ant Keogh by Wm. l’. Ward. the chair-
; man of the committee:
! "Received your Victor records in
:good shape this morning and would
have liked to have. taken them up to
T the division headhuarters. but the of-
.ficers up there can better afford to
6 buy and pay for things than the men,
‘2 so i sent them over to the big audi-
‘torium building. Am sure they will
do more good and‘b‘e more appre-
ciated there than anywhere in camp."
Lieutenant Keogh wrote them to
are extracts
~ third [9” than it is paying were made, know now what real cold weather is,
before the Senate committee investi.
gating shipbuilding today by L. P.
i Featherstone. president of the Texas
.Stsel Company of Beaumont. Tex.
3 Mr. Featherstone proposed to sell
wto the Government lore lands in
Texas and coal properties in Alabama
and erect a steel plant at Beaumont
Continued on Page Fifteen
t
hiltii’i'i‘lt’iiiiiiils
NEW instills
William
nue, Married to Miss
Jeanne A. Simon, of Pas-1
saic
t
The following account of the Smit-
Stull, of East Ave-t.
|
l (Continued on Page Bight.)
‘gANOTHER FIRE-
; - IN THE CHIMNEY
. The Central station firemen were
rcalled out at 9:40 o'clock last even~
.ing to a fire at the house and store
. fiowned by Mrs. Susan Mather. on the
tTurnpike at the place known as the
“auto rest." When the firemen ar-
rived there they found thatit was a
,. chimney fire. and after they had ex-
'tinguished it and cleaned out the
chimney as usual when they are call-
.siation. There was no damage.
A law should be passed that when
the firemen are called out to such
littlolitiliil
Al CAMP. [nitsE
Will a sort of celebration of the as! our-
ARMY-RATIIJNSIINLYJ
Draftees in 301st nfantry
Tho caps are of the new olive drab
initiation
utilitiimllfl
Celebration Be“ in the
Newly Made 0m Quar-
ters of the Pail House
The Norwalk Congregational church
held a house-warming in the parish
'house of the church last evening as
ters of the church. the church proper
being destroyed by In about two
,months ago.
The parish house was handsomely
decorated with Christ-u greens, and
the chairs were analged around
tables. both for convenience and also
because it promoted more of a social
spirit among those peanut. by tom
ing little groups.
i Amusicai program given at the
end of this article. was very holy
rendered and each number was en-
coi-cd and the perform"! ”avowed.
Following the program Dr. lemo-
llillli hills
Silliliti Bl
. 274 0136
Resolution Was Sent to the
Senate Today and Women
Began Their Campaign in
the Upper House
intuition
tiltilitliilfilll
cur read a number of letters. obut
. .‘cntv in all, from churches. extend;
.ng sympathy and good will on ac,
count of the tire, also letters Iro- ill-1
dividuals, former residents and thosel‘
(Continued on Page light.)
mmmmt
nit Milliiiill itiltit
The ten cars of government eoalf
sent to Norwalk through the local
Vcounted (or. The balance of the cars;
,illnl did not arrive on blonday was re-
icelved by the local rdfllfl’n, yester-
day. Some flue cars of anthracite
‘coal came lntp the city yesterdays}
some of which was the direct orderst
‘of the dealers and those a badi
been on the road “”1999 r lati
The three cargoes in tow for South.
Norwalk consists of one cargo of soft
coal for The. Radel Oyster to. one
cargo soft coal and one cargo hardj
coal for the Harris dc (inns Co. ,
. The Red Star Towing Co. in male:
ing up the tow to. come‘ to Stumw
ford and Norwalk left out one cargo‘
of hard coal consigned to Raymond,
Brothers. The captain of this barge.
was missing. having gone. somewhere
for refreshments. and the luring com;
panuy refused to attath the barge
to the tow without the commanding
officer being aboard. This mishap de-t
prlves Norwalkof 600 tons of coal;
i
i
(Continued on Eighth Page.)
hill—nitrous i
IN THIS Ellli
Not only are the resident of Nor
walk asked to conserve their lights on'
Sunday and Thursday the two "light-l
less" nights of the week, but also as:
much as poasible during the rest of;
the week.
i Complaints have been received by.
the Committee on Fuel Conservation:
of the State Council of Defense that
people were not observing those two;
night and C. C. Hall, chairman of the'
.__——
(Continued on Pan T")
CHINAMAN WHO
KILLED common
ate,’ Although Result is in
Doubt
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—-Woman
pulrage was a slip nearer realization
today as the result of the victory in
the House last night. when a resolu-
tion was adopted
slots to the states of the Susan B
Anticipate Success in Sen-.
Pilii Nitillllltllt Will
with Al BREASi-UIOVSK
Bl liltMilS iii RUSSIANS
lillTIIN this , ,
ti Rillilllill
Residents Object to Cutting
Out of Train Stops
.._.‘—- _
Wilton people have declared war
on the Sew Haven road for its pro-
posed change in its train schedule
to take effect next Sunday on the
Danbury Division.
The casus beili is the elimination
of a stop at Wilton of the crack Berk-
shire Express leaving New. York at
3:30 p. in. and South Norwalk at 4:30.
,- if one of Kaiser Bill‘s best bombs
had been dropped on this quiet town
authorising WW1”, it could hardly have caused more con-
. sternation, for the train is not only
EThis, Has Been Decidsd' '
i Against the Vigm
l Protest of Leon Trotsky ;
§iiil$llllll Til “ >
; WILSIIN’S Stiitli
3British Troops in the Ypres
Have Made Three Success-
t in! Raids
Peace negotiations between
Russia and the Central Powers will
be continued at Brest-Litovsk, ac.
cording: to infomiation in Amstero
tlain, apparently despite a vigor-
Anthony amendment for national eu-i hug?” patronized by through passen- oils protest by Leon Trotzky, the
titers but by many afternoon passen- Bolshcvik Foreign Minister, who
franchisement of women.
The V010 V” 274 to 135. exactly fiers from Norwalk ‘110 have passed heads
the required twothirds' majority. and
but for Speaker Clark's prdomisc to
'cast his vote folt the Chair in favorl
of the resolution if needed the change
of a single vote to the
would have meant defeat. Republi-
can Leader Mann and Representa-
tive Sims. both of whom came to the
House from sick beds, the votes
which settled the question.
The resolution was adopted by the
House calls for submission to the
states of the ao-oa‘ lled Susan B. An-
thosy amendment. and unlike the pro-
hibition Went recently approv-
ed does not limit the time thlt may be
taken to complete action on the part
of the necessary three‘fourths of the
state legislatures. ‘
The resolution was sent to the Sen-
ate. today and Suffrage champions at
once began their campaign in the Cp-
per House. Recent polls of the Sen-
ate indicate that. the necessary two-
“thirds could not be mustered there:
and a vote may not be force until
advocates ilnd they have the itrength
with Which to put it through. Presi-i.
dent Wilson's unexpected support of
amendment. assigned as one of
for the House victory. is
the
the reasons
counted on why Suffragists to carry.
great weight in the Senate. A sim.
ilar resolution was voted down by the
Senate several years ago.
CHARGES HER LAWYER
WITH COLLUSION
NEW YORK. Jail. ll.——_Davld “.4. evening and the following
Slade. of the. firm 01 SIM? * Slade, for the ensuing year were installed?
chief counsel to Rae Tamer in her
notorious ”Oliver Osborn" litigation.
was charged in all'ldavits submitted
Supreme Court Justice Nathan
Bijur todly by In! Midge Hart. with
having advised her to enter into a
collusive divorce proceeding wth her
husband. Max Hart. wealthy theatrt
cal agent. '
Mrs. Hart also declared that Attor-
ney Sldo' persuaded her to advance.
$350 to private detectives. knowing
that thev acted in that capacity illeg-
ally. and that he recommended that
she bring her divorce suit in a place
in which neither site nor Hart resided.
Slade promptly flied counter-all-
davlts. hotly denying all of the vms‘ ward Burns. of Franklin "9““ ml
woman's charges and branding them
the afternoon in that city.
‘ shopping. or at the theatres.
Hard on High School Scholars.
The biggest blow is to the may
either
Ellie Norwalk High school. [full ra-
tcently they have been able to get the
5:27 express from South Norwalk. but
i (Continued on Seventh Pam .
.‘GOLD EMBLEM FOR
é ras'r PRESIDENT
The Ladies' Auxiliary, Spanish
lWar Veterans. met in, their rooms
that evening and the officers were in-
stalled by the department presidenm
Annie L. Peabody.
i Presldent~.\‘lary Guamieri.
9 Senior Vice-President —— Annetta
Keene.
Junior \‘lce-President—Alice Roo
ney.
: Chaplain——Edie 3f. Lockwood.
Conductor—Martha Stenger.
Assistant Conductor—Marjorie E.
“lune.
Guard—Julia Herberish.
Secretary and Treasurer—Jilin 3f.
. Cavanaugh.
Past—President Marjorie E. Flynn
' was presented with a gold emblem by
lthe department president in recogni-
’tion of her past services and taken
' of the esteem in which she is held.
' a. P. w. install. '
i The Spanish War Veterans met last
officers
Commander—Frederick R003.
3 Senior Vice Commander—Charles
in. Lindeburgll.
’ Junior Vice Commander—George
is. lleehan. .
3 Trustee for two years—C. R. Mn!-
9 linl.
Sergeant—Harold F. Hoyt.
’ Adjutant—Charles Guarneri.
Quartermaster—C. Hansehildt.
Officer of the day—JV. 1.. Cavanagh.
i Quartermaster Sergeant—C. M.
. iv‘lewellin.
i Patriotic Instructor-W. L.
. Historian—J. .I-l Flynn.
? Chief Musician—Louis Zellar.
’ ’Word has been received from
Cavanagh
Ed.
’now at Camp Devens. shat he
.as “false. malicious, evil. untrue and’ been promoted to the rank of ser-
[S DEPORTED perjurious." Slade adds that thei geant.
l Harts are still living apart and that: ._ .
ed to such fires they returned to thec HARTFORD. Jan. Il.—Under the, an action begun by am. an to ”'Torrington Soldier
Chinese exclusion law Wong Fat Sue' cover moneys alleged to be due her, F
is on his eway back to China, an, from Hart is still pending. . t . Arrested or Robbery
order of deportation having been? The albdavits were handed up up . in New York
litres that a penalty should be lattice
,ed when the tire is the result of a
chimney that is so dirty that it has
tto be cleaned out. In some cities
‘, there is such an ordinance and a pen-
talty is attached when theJ firemen
jhave to do this work. it costs the
y .WHOLE rows wrest)
:Simon wedding that was held last city something each time that the
:Snnday even;ng was given to the Eve. apparatus is called out to fight a
nine Sentinel toda.V by one of the nhimney tire and then have to clean
OUT BY EXPLOSION 3
mar SMITH. am. Jan. 11.——The
powder
Kueilfii‘ ithe chimney out and. this cost could
Stall-Simon.
Miss Jeanncn A. Simon. of Fannie,
{be met by an ordinance.
, Iieved.
it" u be-
nd dynamite plant in Pat- New Jersey. and William Stull. son W
tot-son. la.. was blown up at noon 0‘ Mr. and Mrs. A. Stall. of mail—fl
yesterday and according to meagre
omits-ass there has been a heavv loss.
of ma. ;
. The operator of lb? Missouri. Kan-l
as and Texas railroad in’ Patterson
wired that the town bad been wind
out. tin- mutt the loss of life would
,bo peat, he said.
avenue. who is widely known in this
distr;ct. were united in marriage
Sunday evening at. the Hebrew instio
tute Auditorium. Passaic, New Jersey.
The ball was beautifully decorated
with palm, white milk)”. -and
studios. t‘ including red. white and blue
'adomations extending from the side
so. csplosisa rocked the ulninacaui to mid! out Iiiln‘pommiuoo ti
tulofnobosbe.umilesweasof
1
Smith, sun piste “window
”'9- vs ..u.i‘-.oaiataml
oivim rpm. ‘ausioisnm an; outline!
fort Smith. in (Snider. west 0! an in poisisuoo oisnul eiu, 11"
¢—_—_
Continuedhon Page Fifteen
commemoration
Ila-ii ”attenuation-Ivy.
Wahavaavictorytowin.
. 1 41mm
{Justice Bljur on Mrs. Hart's mot on?
made yesterday by United States ‘
Commissioner Carroll. who heard the that Slade be required to furnish 3! NEW YORK_, J“. 11,—John Linko.
ov eut's case a ainat the China- bill of particulars in his suit to COL,
'igiiaibr‘garged with 8being unlawfully. lect $5.260. which he claims is due 8 nlilneteen'year?ldT |sfloldifrII (go 83
'ln the country. . thin for legal services rendered herifieec WtJlx . toga ngno . h an;
Wonk F's; Site on Oct. 22, 1914.‘ in her litigation with “art. 3:!“ ml are t 5‘ 4:"ch args.‘
killed one of his countrymen, Wongi Justice “BUD; directed the lawyer to a tea onto a row
Pen Long. in his laundry in this city“ iv furnis t e pa 1 k i m anothe ”I.
f d to insane and was‘clainl. . i 3 9'1 ll MP0!!! r
flhtwta: tggnConnetflcut hospital fori Mrs. Hart asserts in her affidavit dler. dAdarniBeckll‘i'ig, 16.3%.,
the insane in Middletown. While that? that Slade "improperly procured andi four e‘glctdves, w own]: afte eth o
institution was in damn this morn-[solicited defendant to leave her has $31 'lled anther: era tl' 3%
tag Deputy united States Marshal. hand an dlnstltute an action for iii no on r army phi as an
llallon went there and took the Chiv? "I‘M" ,tbiieatened the o
The arrests came as a result of
naman into his custody and broughtl i
him to Hartford. - complaints made by several res
COMMISSIONERS OF taunnt keepers in the district recent-
lcnlars or m. ville section of Br iyn. He was
1"” ”mm” °' WW" m 8““ SHIPPING NOW UNDER iv that they had been held I:
p by two
was originall ybrouglgeabont byMthei CIVIL SERVICE: soldiers and their till’a robbed At
elorts of Edward 1'1 aw We I1" tun police station they admitted rob-
of the pauper departnem or. the state .. ~ b,“ "mum“. we, a", "n
eomptroller's olee. Ir. 80hr ”I wssstixorox. In. It-Bfllvm sum,” 5,. m, a. mm mm. m
into c
auth'orltldl two years an.
iii-proceedin- was occasioned by the put odor the civil service by Frost-l
politicalupbaavals iaChlnainttiedoat Wino-amnendatmof
last two years and the uncertainty ofiloei-etarv laddeld They were that
howibemaanildbenuivsdiabis‘ouly m in the government service}
lull. not in the claw flat. ,
nation wit hths federal commissioners at New York. Boston.
stolen property found on them. Both
A W M“. I" 1"" om” today "mi-en sald they came noise-up In”
rm. 1". 1.. from which they had been
Jessi-ter- for twelve/days
-aav'mia in an annual.
' s at...
the Russian delegation. At
ythe opening: of the new sitting of
elite conference 'i'rotzky demanded
‘lhat the Itielcgates go to Stock--
0990mm” scholars from this town that at endtholm.
l . . .
t Premier Lennie before leavmg
'Petrogratl ostensibly for Finland,
.but probably for Stockholm for
:(‘illlft’l'tfilt't’s with Austrian and
'(lt-rman Socialists, declared that"
'ii/ the Central Powers do not ace
rt/ept Russian pent-e terms, the Bol-
‘Isheviki will declare war against
{Germany He expressed fear that
preparation would have to be
made for hostilities.
initial comment in the German
and Austrian press on President
lVilsmi's liicssagc is bitterly hos-
tile. "is program is declared to
.llt' unacceptable and one pint-
German paper says it is “more
ibriltal" still" than the recent»
'statement of Premier Lloyd
dieorirc. The president is accused
'of’ desiring to hinder the Brest-
‘Litovak negotiations and Vienna
>lneii'spapers declare his peace con—
ditions are such as could only be
imposed on the Central Powers if
they were defeated completely.
. British troops in the Ypres am
'have executed successfully three
.raids into the German lines. Many
§castlnities were inflicted and pfir
toners were taken. 0n the remainde
fer of the front in France both sides
tare active, especially in Flanderl,
gin the Arms-(.7ambrai area in
Champagne and northeast of
Verdun. The artillery fighting
ion the Northern Italian front in
less intense, being most marked)
east of the Brenta.
9 Discussion of the French gov-
geniment's diplomatic conduct of
3the war will be heard in the Challi-
Qber of Deputies today. The gov-
lemment has announced it will age
icept such discussion.
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 11,—.
Count (‘zernim the Austro-Hlm-v
garian Foreign Minister, at a full
sitting of the peace conference at
Brest-Lilovsk on Thursday, said
that as lussia's allies had not re-
pate in the negotiations, it was
now a question of a separate peace
thetween Russia and the Central
Powers.
He gave reasons for not wishing
to transfer the negotiations to neu-
tral l"l"'li(ll'_\“, and said that if the
Russians vcre animated by the
same intentions as the Central
Powers, the result of the negotiap
lions would be satisfactory. I!
not. responsibility for war would
lfall exclusively on the Russians.
Dr. von Kuehlmann, the Ger-
man Foreign Minister. said ho
considered the dinlculties which
had interrupted previous negotia-
tions were not What to justify
the failure of the peace work and n
pecan-Bahia resumption of hostili-
nnehaugeable determiantion
ties. He said it was the fixed at:
:plied to the invitation to partici- '
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