Evening sentinel, Friday, May 3, 1918 · page 1

 
 
 

 

 

 

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i no on the Flagstaff at the
City Hall and theDther on

Tried to Opposite Nor-

;..walk ibrary . ‘

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Entered at the South Norwalk Post

Office as Second Class Matter.

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To Engage in Maneuvers

Outside' of Camp
Three Days

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: , SUBSCRIBERSI

; ' 4 Liberty Loan Has
‘Amounicd to $1,082,150 in
. This City

Norwalk's honor flags are today
loudly floating in the breeze from
e flagstaffs at the=city hall and
near the Nor'wslk Library. telling the
fury to the World that Norwalk want
‘ver the top. exceeded the quota in
Third Libertym'sn and is an bon-
Hml M #18481! iweimlvemred.
for uptown and the- other for
cwntdwn and both were raised this
yming.

“ Subscriptions up to last night to-

‘llod 81,082,150, withs total of 6,-
15 subscribers, or 1300 more. than
n the second {Liberty [Loan iditiveI
. this city. This is 25 per cent of}
We entire population, including ,chlI-I
- en, and practically 50 per cent of:
is total number of adults given in]
e city directory. .

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arelessness Largely Reg
sponsible for Damage to‘
Government Land

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON. D. 'C., May 3.—-—.
hat man is at least three times as'
estructlve as nature. at least so far'
-: forest fires are concerned. is re-
sulted in a. compilation which has
' st been issued by the. Federal For
at Service. The figures of this;
‘gcncy show that of 7.814 forest. fires‘

 

SCHULTZE OPENS

NIHHI IINHEHCANVAS

IMen Credited With Being tion is not dictating prices and other

Finest Fighting Timber

CAMP DEVENS, Ayer, Mass, May
3.——-The 30ith Regiment of infantry,
Connecticut's own, led by its esteem
ed commander. Col. J. S. Herron left
camp yesterday to engage in maneu-
vers outside of camp for three days.
Tonkht under clear skies they are
spending their first night under the
canvas.

The first regiment in camp to un.
deriake this work as a unlt.’the men,
carrying their packs. left camp at 2
o‘clock this afternoon. promptly on
schedule. Swinging along the road
like veterans they finished their
march in good time and pitched camp
aout 5 o’clock this afternoon.

With their combat wagons and all
necessary equipment the column was
nearly a mile long as it started
away. Tonight camping near Still
River. the scene is as near the same
as the camping place of a fighting
unit. "over there" as the. command
ing officer could quake it. Even to the
setting up of a Y. M. C. A. lent the

 

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SANITARY MARKET

People who 98.09 the new location of
Schultze'a South Norwalk hinrkct at
Washington Street and .thiroad ave-
nue have hard work getting by. First
bB‘Cause the entrance is so convenient-
ly located right on the corner of the
building. and secondly because the dis-
play through the open doom. is so in-
viting that the majority of those pas-
sing go in for closer inspection.

It is surely a model of neainess
which wcll merits the title of
Schultze’s Sanitary Market. Among
the manners appliances for the prop-

For .

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Cheaper in Hartford Than in

I N orwalk, Where We Have
I a Harbor — Demurrage
». Charges All Provided
I For—If They Don’t Have
I To Be Paid, Dealer Gets
I Benefit

That coal prices are not uniform in
Connecticut is apparent in newspaper
articles in some of the State papers.
That it cost more to handle coal bi
water than it does by rail, is 'also
"some interesting. if not surprising, in-
formation.

Some men who are in touch with
the coal situation point to these differ
ences in prices as indicating that the
New England Coal Dealers' Associa-

matters having to do with the coal

 

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Soldiers Burned to Death in
Accident at Omaha

OMAHA. Neb.. May 3.~—Two soldiers
wore burned to death and eighteen
men were burned seriously. when M
captive observation balloon of the Cac-
quot typo exploded last night at, Flor-
ence Field, the army balloon school
at Fort Omaha, near here. according
to a statement by Col. if. B. Hersey.
post commandant.

In the fire which followed the ex-
plosion one of the balloon sheds was
badly damaged.

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Second Oldest City in Can-

sourn scams; colts. ritmav, MAY 3,1918

EORIY HOUSES
DESIRIIIEII III
IHHEE RIVERS

Very Disastrous Fire Sweeps
Through the Business and
Residential Sections of
Quebec Town ,

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ads Was Visited by Anoth-
er Fire in 1906

THREE Rm Que» “I! 811m
which broke out in the polish use
tlon hero WWW! omn-
bar of ammwmmm
and Montreal hm Win a
call for assistance. .

Three Rivers. an industrial and man-
ufacturing city of about 10.000 popnlp
tion, and a port of entry. is 75 miles
southwest of the city of Quebec. it is
on the Canadian Pacific and Grand
Trunk railways. By 11 a. in. an hour
after the fire started. forty houses on
Bonaventure street. the main business
thoroughfare. had been destroyed. The
flames spread to the nearby streets I
and the families were compelled toI
leave their houses because of the ire-
mendous heat.

The fire is reported to;have started
in the Victoria theatre. which col-
lapsed.

 

 

* EVENING ENTINEL ‘

aimlAmlATm PRESS NEWS FROM ALL PARIS OF THE WORLD IV A SPECIAL WIRE AND OUR OWN OPERATOR

 

 

 

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Silurian

Buried in Cellar and Is Iden-
tified as That of Missing
New Jersey Resident

DETROIT, Mich, May 3.—-Wrapped
in canvas. the body of lrma Pallatinue
was found today under the cement
floor in the basement of the home
here formerly occupied by Helmuth
Schmidt, whose suicide in Jail ten
days ago resulted in an investigation
to determine the fate of at least three
women who lived .with him as his
wife. Examination revealed the wo-
man had been strangled to death with
a 'clothesline. Mrs. Edward Redsrer.
a sister of Miss mamas. identified
a strand of hair as that of her sister's.

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Some SenatorsSnggcstCrini-

incl Prosecution and Shoot-
ing For Grafters

WASHINGTON. May 3.~—neopening
of the Senate Military Committee's in-
vestigation of the aircraft program
under consid'oration by members to-
day. depends. it is understood. upon
the weight of additional information
on the situation to be submitted by
Gutzon Borglum. the sculptor.

llorglum. who recently made age-
port to President «Wilconmn moan

 

 

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Partly Cloudy Tonight and Saturday

 

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Danish Sailor Tells How De-
stroyer Nearly Ran Down
Submarine and of Narrow
Escape

 

BOSTON. Haas. my 3.——After an
experience on a prisoner for two
weeks on. a Canon submarine. during
which time the We was at.-
tacked by destroyer: with gunfire and
depth bombs. Whitman“. a. Dan-
ish sailor-r reached this port today.
Peterson said that he was on board
the Norweig‘ian ship Storstog when
she was halted by the IMO off Kin-
sale. lreland. early in March.

Allrtho officers and crew. nineteen
in number, were taken aboard the

 

did in Canada. it «in visited by U mittoe members yesterday lifter charg-
disastroua fire in 1908, when half the 133 of irregularities and delays‘in air-
citi’ was burned. At noon the damote plane production had been made on the
was estimated at $100,000. No loss of floor of the senate Borglum agreed

 

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Dealers Gloomy as Stock
Diminishes Daily and PriceI
. Advances Accordingly
Famine prices and famine quanti-I

ties rule the whiskey market in Nor-
walk, and men who depend upon re-g

IBritish Fliers Report Seeing
‘ _._.._ I Him at Zeebrugge

life has been Nporied up to that time. to produce additional information “and
._.._._____.... — the committee men decided to await
his report.

KAISER NEARLY "lT in the course of yesterday’s debate
'many Senators favored nn investiga-
, tlon with a view to criminal prosecu-
BY AVIAN“ 8 “0”“ lbs. acting chairman of the committee.
said the committee was without power
2 to deal with criminal prosecutions. and
that the department of justice would

handle the matter.

BANDIT HANH

 

 

LONDON. May 3.——-Britlsh airmen.
who are patrolling constantly the area

submersible. which was 300 feet long
and said to be one of the largest
turned out at Kiel. The Storskog was
then sunk by Kunflre. ‘

For two weeks the sumarlne remain-
ed in the war zone. sinking many
ships.
ed agdeep laden British transport byI

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“ginormous ~«>113:qu rues

Hflilllilli'lllllf”
: KILLED IN filiNfE

The “private Charles B Davenport"
mentioned in today's casualty list as
having come from this city was a for-
mer employs of the Norwalk iron
Works who enlisted with the New
Cliaven Blues at the
company was on duty guarding
bridges here. He is survived by a
mother and a sister. who it is believ-
ed. live in New Jersey. from which
state Private Davenport came.

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Illllillllllllltllifizsmu ulna ‘
w unionism

l er preservation and display of the big

‘ variety of meats. nail and vegetables.

11 Government lands during l917. all
humanI

at 2'1” were caused by l a glass enclosed refrigerating table for

‘geucies. 'fleh at once attract" the e
_. . - . . .s . ye It is of
Over 962,000 acres of timber. forage. the latest type and surely is a silent.

nd young growth to the value Oil salesman that has already proven its

 

tailing it for their income are “Halo! the recent naval raid against Zee~
state of mind approaching da‘Dillr-Ihrugga assert that recently. swooping
Men who believe that retail purchases : lowrover the mole and dropping bombs
of whiskey for consumption on ”‘BIihey missed the Kaiser by only 'a few

premises." is essential to their happig yards. it is known that the Kaiser
uses are in a simillar slate of mind. ' I ‘

Daily quotations from ,the bonded i davs ago was in Zeebrugge.

 

it is said that a telegram announc-
ing his death in action was receivad
in this city yesterday afternoon and
that it was addressed to a Mrs. F. E.
Devine. No Mrs. F. E. Device could
be located in this city today and it is

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YOUNGSTOWN. 0., May 2.—-—Patrolv

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he Says Rich in GermanyI
Are Well Fed . I

T’HOT SPRINGS. Ark, May 3.—Mrs.I

‘ erbert C. Hoover, wife of the Federal}
I ood- Adminlstrator. addressed the:

 

. in.

efficiency.
A carefully prepared program of

prices including many Opening Day walk wholesalers derive their supply“report that the canal fairway is still

.Spesdals is given in Mr. Schultze’s big
advertisement in this issue today.

if read carefully it will now that
Schultze is “getting by," and those
who appreciate high quality and low
prices will have hard work getting by
Schultze’s new market without going

VIGILANTES HANG~
TAILOR AS A SPY

SAN JOSE, Cab, May 3—H. Stein-
moltz, an Oakland tailor. was hanged

warehouses in Maryland. Kentucky:

Pennsylvania and Ohio. whence Nnrv;

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LICENSING OFICE I I
. DEALERS CONSIDEREDi

I WASHINGTON. D. (1., May 3.4m;
Food Administration has set its face?
hard against the possibility of profit-I
coring ill icc next summer. Not only}
will it not allow undue. increase in‘
price. but it will prevent. discrimimoI
tion between commercial buyers and‘

 

Iwas on. the western front and a few‘

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

man James Lucia of Newcastle. Pa..
and Captain A. L. Jenkins of the
Youngstown police. were wounded. the
former probably fatally. while two of
their assailants,- members of a bandit
gang. Were killed during gun battles in
both cities late last night. Two of the
gunmen still are at large.

‘ Cucua was shot three times in the

A high naval authority informs the?
correspondent of The‘Sun the alrmanl

blocked. The Germans are workingl

 

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ADDS NEW MEMBERS had detected the men in an attempt to
While all the Citi’ 1185 been absorbed . castle. Before the gunmen escaped.

in the Work of securing “101‘? ihanICucua wounded one of their number.

our quota for the Third Liberty Loam: who died shortly afterward.

and With many 0f its members giving Following the encounter in Newcas-

nearly all their spare time to the work no the three survivors of the band

South Norwalk Council. Knights of caught strain for Youngstown and ar-

 

abdomen in the initial clash after he.

rob a foreign boarding house in New--

believed that she is the Mrs. Devine
who moved recently to Waterbury and
from whom an inquiry w§s made at
the time of the death of er brother
in a hospital in Newark, N. J.

TownClsrk Herbert R. Sm‘tb on his
Illst of the names of soldiers who are
voters simply has the name “Charles
B. Davenport“ and no additional in
formation.

At the Norwalk Iron Works today
it was said that Davenport was re
membered but that there was no re-I
cord of who his parents or other rel-
atives were nor where he came from.

3DORL0N HOUSE OPENSI

 

 

 

IOlli'teenth biennial convention of the here yesterday until he became unconu
t'neraLFederation of Wouleu'siclubs SCIOUS' then he was tied ‘0 a “‘90

private users- Notice. of this uttitudelc .

, ‘ .. ‘ y .olumbus. has at the same time been

1):: b91031 fill it" the various SIaIeIcondncting a drive for new “members.
or aim ms ra ors. ~ ”The work was formally launchedat

rived here. hired a taxicab. The chauf- . I
four, becoming suspicious of the men’s

actions, notified the police and Cup

The Dorlon House is now open. The
opening took place on Vilednesday,I

resterday.

land later was taken in an automobile

She ‘sald the women of America:
”gust ever be mindful of the ohliga-‘
r'n before them, three points of
' -ich were {most important: There,
I. t always lie-enough food in the;
I o‘me storehouse. there must be foodi
or the Amercan boys who have gonei

crossthe seas to fight the enemy]:

-nd there must be enough food to}
upply the soldiers of the other na-I
ions who are fighting against Ger-I

by an organization known as the
Knights of Liberty.

George Koelzer, who last night was
tarred and feathered by members of
the organization. was held in jail to-
day for his own protection. Over the
telephone today one. of the. "knights
saidz—d

“This organization has eighty-two
members in San Jose and vicinity.
with branches in San Francisco. O‘ak-

(land. Stockton, Santa Rosa. Palo Alto

The Food Administration says it
will use all its power to prevent any
profiteering in this necessity, even to
restoring to the license power is deem
essarv. All ice dealers are required
to file notice of a proposed increase
in price, and no increase is to her

come effective until after an investi-ined for twenty—five. but the prospect‘; killed one of the gang with a. shot
of easily securing them led the 0f~31hrough the heart. The remaining two[

gallon has been made. I

SEEKING TO AVOID '

 

the meeting of the council on AprilI

18th, and last evening when the cap-

tain Jenkins and Patrolman John Wil-

. burst

helm set out in pursuit.

Cornered in an alley. the gunmen op-
ened Jr. on the policemen and Cap-
tain Jenkins was shot through the

tains of the various companies com-
pleted their first report; the members
forth with loud cheering.

 

‘Thil‘ti‘ new members had 99“ Securedgcbeek. A battle lasting twenty min-

ul) to date. The Knights only plan'Iutes followed during which. Wilhelm

beers in charge to make the goal fifty
and the limit to secure them, thirty
days.

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‘ then tied. .

 

.May 1, and the place has been thor-
ioughly renovated. The Dorlon House-
'is known throughout New England as
one of the best shore houses in the
state of Connecticut for food. There
Iwas nothing to mark the opening of ,
- the house, although it is believed that ‘I.
there will be some special observance;
of Memorial Day . .

John E. O'ISulliyan is proprietor of 3
this far~famed little place ‘snd James;
F. Plunkett ls chef. Other assistants

u any. . ,.

 

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KILLED AT.

find other places. We are. going to
stamp out disloyalty."

 

» ICHINESE GUNBOAT

MEATLESS DAYSI Several of. the captains reported

' - . Ithat there had been considerable de-I

WASHINGTON. D. 0.. May 3.——En- lay in organizing their commands. butI
ideavoring to meet an impending short- that they had ”already taken the of}
age in meat supplied. agnational cam- fensive and would-be able to make
paign has been inaugurated by the an interesting report at the next
Food Administration to obtain econ- meeting. '

 

at the house are William Beam and 4‘
Harry Cutler as waiters. and Matthew.
Carmody is general utility man. More
assistants will be added to as the sea-
son goes on.

IIHEHTYIIIAN '

 

 

 

' ' SINKS' A’FREIGHTER

' HANKOW. Cilina,,April 26 (Delay-
ed).—-_Chinese guuboat carrying Prem-
.i.. and his five-yearold grandsonuierTuan Chl~jui the Yangtse-kiang
child of Mrs. Ernest Lowc;llast night on a call‘upon theicom-
9V9“! killed last. night. when a rail-g manders of. the northern troops. collld.
aloud train 'struck the automobile in ed with and sanklthe Chinese steam-
lch. they were riding at a grade'ship Klangkwan .of 1,920 tons gross.
sitting near this city. Mrs. Lowe The war ship was damaged.
her husband and their three-year-‘ “Dr." George D. Lowry, of the Meth-
-. “son were injured. the latter prob-looted Episcopal Mission of Peking:
fatally. ‘ ' the Rev. Mr. Ridgely and fifty natives
party Was returning from Daynabcard the steamship were saved. The
Fla. where they had spent thelPre‘mier remained on board the gun:

GRADE‘CRQSSING‘

1. wummorou, Del, May shim
drew K. Baker, bay-ears old, of Dover.

only in the use of meats withopglre?
sorting to the return of the meatless
days. The decision has been reached
not to recur to the meatless period

and an effort will be made to save tent with second place with nine to
This isle his credit; Some surprises are prom-

the situation without it.
ing done in the face of considerable
doubt as to the actual meat supply
of the world.

At present the meat consumption in
the United States is 3 1-4 pounds a
person a week, and the Food Admin-
istration announces -thal. this much
must be cut down if the requid‘emenis
.of the situation aretobe met.

 

 

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‘May 8th. 191ml On Friday.

 
 
 

“will be bomber members and the nswiia.

' l _ . _ . ____.

Captain Walter McCarthy took the '
lead last evening with thirteen appIi-I WASHIRGTON. .Mav 3-11Abertv
cations to the credit of his coni-pany,ILC'am I013] today reached 32.833.317.300
while Captain Splan had to be con-.
:business. The Chicago. district is the
ifourth to go over the top with sub-
iced to, the‘ next meeting.* scriptions of $453,640,850 to cover the

.The council received and acceptud'il“0m 0f 3435-009¢°W- .
an invitation to attend the anniver-. Ifldlcatmfifi “OW are that "91'? State
sary celebration of. Court Laurel.‘ West of the Mississippi has subscribed
of. Castile, Wednesday, he quota. although official reports to
May 10th.} subsinutiateJ-thls are lacking from the
Dallas‘_;,snd lash hancisco districts.

; (dimmed _0n Fags Tcn)‘ _

h‘ihe-roomsmf the K. of 0.. a smoker.

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CHRISTY MATHEWSON IN
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CHICAGO, May film—Christ): Mam-

nati baseball team .of which. he is
manager. still-was unable today toI
give an answer to the request from;
Ithe Y. M. C. A. that he go to France;
as director of Baseball behind the
American lines. He said it was not
.clear just what would be expected of
him. “Furthermore." he said. “I do.
not know how Uncle Sam regards the
proposition. if the-troops really need

 

‘: me.:1~would beaglad, togo over.” I “Ls-Continued HONEST,"

 

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Less. Activity During the
Last Three Days Than at
Any Time Since the Pre-
vious Heavy Fighting in
Flanders

 

w .

French Troops Drive Enemy
Igvaocgd and Receptors Baune

Flanders and Piurdy, and the
Arms salient between, continue
quiet audihe Germans have given

no sign of whcre‘the next blow will

be or when it. will come. The pres-

ent lull in the fighting now amends. . ' 3

three days and there has been less
minor activity than during the
previous break in heavy fighting in
Flanders. .

The German oflcnsivo .is not
yet ended in the view of‘military
authorities, and the enemy is ex-
pected to make further dilemma

Peterson said. Once they miss-to reach the Chaotic]. The Supreme

Inter-allied War Council has com-
pleted a two-days’ session with o

" meetingat Abbevillefno'fihwest"

ofAmiens. All 'Itaw; '_ loudi
were discussed an ils‘c (Ideas on

and the results obtained are report-

ed to have been most satisfactory.
Premier Clemenceau, who presid-
ed, said that General Foch, who as
a result. of the conference, it is re—

ported, is (Jommanderiin-Chief of

the Allied forces in the west, is
very optimistic.
In Flanders there has been no

time that that activity except by the artillery.

while on the British portion of the
Picardy battlefront a German raid
near Ilebutcrue, north of Albert,
has been repulsed. , South of the
Somme the enemy artillery is bom-
barding violently the Villera-Bre-
toucnux region.

French troops have driven back
the Germans in local attacks in
Hangard Wood and southwest of
Mailly-Raineval, south of Han-
gar'd, they have ‘recaptured Baune

Wood. Berlin reports that situa- '

tiou as unchanged and records
only artillery duels on the various
fronts. ‘
Elsewhere on the western front,
in Northern Italy and in Mace-

donia, there has been little activity.

In Italy the rains have ceased and
the Weather has improved, but the .
fighting operations still are con-
fined to patrol engagements.
Palestine the British have reoccu-
pied Es Salt. east of the Jordan
and northeast of Jericho. More
than 300 prisoners were taken and
the advance continues.

Germany and Austria-Hungary
apparently are meeting with dif-
ficulties in oppressing the peoples
of the occupied Russian territor-
ies, and as a result, there is grave
uneasiness. in Germany. The
Ukrainian government. has been
overthrown by the Germans and
it is reported that a new govern-
ment, presumably favorable to the
Central Empires, has taken the
reins of power. Berlin reports the
occupation of Sebastopol, the‘
ghost Russian fortress and. nav
base in the (‘rimca.but gives no
details.

The strike ,in the important

With partial reports from yesterday’s ewson, who is here with the Cincin- Dnmbrowa coal mining district. of .

Western Russia, is repbrtcd... to-
bave-got beyond control of tho
Austrian authorities, who hung;

adopted " stringent “rostrictifi
measures. In the Ukralnothem-

vaders are being opposedfby arm-
ed peasants, and it is rape the,

 

 

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