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nov. 22, 1919.
Cloudy Tonight and Sunday.
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Eat to Overthrow Admir'al Kolchak Crushed and Czech
General Haida Captured When the Revolutionists;
Surrendered, at the Vladivostok Railroad Station——
Hundreds Killed and Wounded During the Fighting
n‘OCKHOLM, Nov. 22.—Gen. Deni-
),mu. commander of the IantidBolshey
3.0-: troops on the southern Russian
giants. claims to have broken through
112.0 «itcd lines between Oral and Tam-
inr, southeast 0 Moscow, and to
300w.» annihilated 50,000 _ Bolshevik
hoops. according to a Helsingford dis-
]000m 0 tie Svenska Dagblad.
7 \‘l. lYOSTOK. Tuesday, Nov. 15.
'0 Annotated Press).—Rudalph Gaida,’
llztyear dd Czecho general, until this
upping the most dramatic fighter
luring the five-years the Czecho-
Shwaks have been in iRussia, tonight.
‘ 'cr. the most tragic. Gaida, who rose
ham private to general and who twice
Wei-d Siberia from organized Bolshe-
'0..0n, at dayli ht..~wounded. Wet and
000;.neveled. ll ped along“ the streets
of Vladivostok. a prisoner of soldiers
‘ol‘ the Omsk government.
Tonight, the anniversary of the
('mD d'etat by which Kolchah placed ,
lmweli’ in power through promising a
I'Imstxtutidnal Assembly and immedi-
.010 representative government for
lill00fia,.the plot to overthrow Admir-
streets under heavy guard to the
headquarters of the AllsRussian staff.
A few hours later he was turned into
the custody of, Czecho—Siovaks, to be
deported within three days. .- '
Vladivostok is quiet. There has
been no firing since early this lmorn-
ing. with the exception 0! the volleys
of the execution squad. Martial law
has been declared. ’ '
The revolution and Winter simul
taneou‘sly. ‘ A ~ rainstorm yesterday
turned into a blizzard today, and to»
night the bodies of the dead revolu—
tionists still lying in the station
plaza were snow-covered mounds. un-
molested, except ' when
boots and clothing by some prowi‘er.
A hundred bodies are scattered
through the. railroad. yards in this v1-
cinity. Iightecn dead revolutionlsts
are lying on the station steps, where
they Were shot this morning.
Officials of the All-Russian govern-
ment. are holdisg four hundred pris-
oners, including many railroad'work-
PIS.
The government losses ii the fight-
robbed of ,
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Scattered Clothing Leads
Coroner to Believe Child
Was Victim of Foul Play—
October‘8
, HAMMONTON, N. J., Nov. 22.-—At-
ilantic county authorities were work-
:ing today to clear up the mystery sur-
‘rounding the death of three-yearold
"Billy" Dansey, whose nude body was
found yesterday at the edge of a
swamp; two miles .from here, by a
,hunter. The lad had been missing
since Oct. 8, when he disappeared from
.his home on the outskirts of Hammon-
‘Qon, and a. nation-wide search had
been conducted for him. Long expos-
ure made identification of the body im- .
lpossisble, but .the child's father identi-
fied the clothing, chh was found
scattered over a. radius of fifty feet, as
éthat worn by the little fellow on the
'day of his disappearance. The discov-
ery was made. by George Eckbardt, a‘
neighbor of the Danseys.
Edmund C. Gaskill. Jr., prosecutor of
Atlantic county. Coroner Cunningham
and other officials. expressed the be-
lief that the child was lured to the
swamp and attacked by a degenerate.
After a thorough examination .of the
bodv. the coroner said that he had:
found no bohes broken. but that he be»;
lieved the boy had been strangled to
death. Virtually the entire detective.
force of the county was put to work on
'he case today. and it was said an ar-
m tlolonak was wmpletely crushed ing are unknown. their dead having rest probably would be made soon.
l0.-0c-. , been removed. Occasional wounded The child's disappearance created
naida was captured at the railroad soldiers and civilians continue to ar- widespread interest. For weeks
station when the revolutionists sur- rive at the American «Red *Cross Em- searching parties scoured the country-
, endered after suffering from the ergency hospital. Aid has been sent s’dc in the belief that he had wanden
cross-fire of a field piece placed at the from this to the Russian hospital. led into one of the nearby swamps and
N0 nor of the station plaza. This tin-d This is the nearest that any American perished. Later the kidnapping theory
-\0 0, lOO—yard range into the revolu-
iu.0..t... Russian torpedo boats were 18-hours’ fighting. with the exception
0-. 50:0 harbor. of one sailor, a member of the—interv-
\'-'.nmded in the leg by a grenade,»
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lN HUUDR CASEi
Supreme Court Is ExpectedlMajor Chales W Comfort,"
to Hand Down Decisionl of New Haven, Is Named
Early Next Month l
0*. A.SiiiN(‘.TON. Nov, 22.-~The valid-
3 0. 00f the war-time prohibition law and:
- Vols-mad act l‘oi”its enforcement
. put squarely before the Supreme
- rt yesterday with the closing: of
"00:;0'nts attacking and defending
0‘l0 measures. There was no intinia ;
000 .04 to when an opinion might lwl
0:» lwl'l‘tl, but owing to the importance‘
'lzw issue. early determination was
. .0.._: lwrr-d probable.
otter rendering opinions Monday
(Hurt will recess until December
.-v 3? is not likely the cases will be
't . vied before. that time. National
(Continued on Page Six).
as Medical Officer
HARTFORD. Conn.. Uov.
first appointment in the
lishing of the Comtmticut
Guard was announced today.
Charles \V. Comfort of New liavcn
was named as medical officer. As all
men joining the Guard must, undergo
physical examination, the appoint-
ment of surgeons is of first neces-
22.—The
re-estab—
National
Major
sity. l
Major Comfort was a medical oili-
cer with the 102d United States In—
fantry during. its service overseas,
and was cited for bravery Your times.
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Ill-d Cross Christmas seals are the ,
. nil driving force behind the move-
" =01t to combat and control tubercu-
r»0.~," declared Dr. Charles J. Hat-
00 >ld. managing director of the Nation-5
A force oi? about seventy rworkmetr
of the New Haven Railroad Company
will install new equipment and make
important improvements in the signal
i
came to being a- casualty during the owns advanced; and supposed clues led
officials to many sections of the couri—
try.
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QfillNiflN HUBIiEll
RESIfiNS AS ASS’T.
‘ Tl] EWEINEER
("lintrm C. liubbeil, assistant to
Henry R. Minor, city engineer, has re. ;
signed his position with the city to‘
-work for a private firm with a substan-
tial increase in salary.
losing his assistant. and Mr. Hubbell
leaves the city employ with the best
wishes of his associates. '
Mr. Minor said. this morning, it was
gnot his intention to fill the vacancy at.
once “The work of the depaltment will 0
be carried on by the present force.anrl
naturally cause some delay. Mr. Minor
is confident of efficient results.
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«Frank H. ,Merrill, of the board of
charities. has been advised of the
death of Mrs. Mary Houston, widow of ‘
John Houston. who passed away yus-
terday in the State Asylum, at Middle-
town. Mrs. Houston has been an in-
mate of the institution for the past 33
years. being committed from this citv
in 1886. She lived with her husband,
-0 Tuberculosis Association, today, mitower near the Washington street rail- at: one time. on River street. uptown,
omnienting on tho ten-day seal salelroad bridge: As the passenger sen" 311'-
Houston dving ten years ago in
’7'iCh begins December lst, for theiice will “or be affected by the work,\it ,the Soldiers’ Home, Noroton. Chari-
, ’vptme of raising a fund (if/approxi-
m-L.‘ $6.500 000 to fight the disease.
l'ubhr health authorities. he explain-l
:ix-en public funds for a cor-i
' purpose. and cannot af—l
l ‘ ice experiments. Improve-3
be obtained only by appealsl
(f'ontinued on Sixth Page)
:wili be a rush job and will be complet 'ties and police department
ed within two nights. Preliminary"
work in the tower started this morn-l
ADIES’ OF REBEKAH
FIND ENJOYMENT IN
-,JOKES ON THEMSELVES
:osr OFFICES OFFER Laugh... 0. H. t m 0 0 .
‘. ,. Y ear 1 y a emse V98, as i
-.1‘ IN GS STAMPS FOR lnight, when they were the good natur-g
‘4. Y 7ed butt of waggish quips' at the hands?
I” {TABLE XMAS GIFTS‘of a dozen young.ladies who cleverly
. ,staged a witty minstrel show in the
=0 5 altogether unusual to do Christ- lodge rooms, on South ,Main street?
‘0 u sliODi‘LI‘IL’. at the local post oflices, i'l‘here was a dearth of- bantering re-
that. opportunity is on'ered this,partee and jocular merriment, and
, 0r l‘ostniasvers Andrew Leary and Elaughs and grins without number.
Mime] J. Howard. in compliance with l
“liable Christmas gifts. The Certifi- that initiation would be held at the
. Hes. which are non-transferable,‘-tirst meeting in December. The di-
‘0...“ be made out in the name of the rectorbas called a meeting for 'Fri.
. rson to whom they are to be pres- daycvenl '
-‘- 00nd, Certificates of the $100‘dén‘om-I $311313}!
girl?“ are“ expressly appropriate
H ,o t, I i
committee _.
g .
.. _ _ During the business session two ap'l
. afflictions from the ‘Postal Depart- [olications ware received for member-l
, -nt. otter Vtar Savings Stamps a~s-,shio. and announcement was shade!
at,‘.8 , o'clock. andtb as.
officials
were unable this morning to locate re-
latives to claim the body for burial.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAM;
HELD IN CITY HALL
FOR CARRIER-CLERK
Two applicants took civil service ex-i
Had Been Missing Since
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Hunters and Raide Rad-
icals in New Y Were
Marked for Amnesination
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Hm EVE MEN.
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NEW roux. Nov. n—m tor
the holders of 8181900 fund reported zery to tell the Stamford people that he
'to have been ruined in New York to
provide radicals with arm- and unnu-
.nition “for the coming revolution.” oc-
cupied the attention of Federal agents
and the police anarchist squad today.
The suppoeed existence of the fund
was reported by. Boston authorities,
Says She’s No Spy, Neither
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Is She a Bolshevist or An-
archist—His Greatest Sin
That of Demanding , Ac-
counting '
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STAMFORD, Nov. 22.——-Miss Helen
Carroll—not Marie-yesterday issued
a challenge to David Rabinowitz to
prove that she Was a spy and entered
the Textile Workers’ Local Unmn in
the interests of the Mianus Mfg. Co.
She was union secretary until they fir-
ed her, the other light. . Miss Carroll:
put a considefable tire into her denial
She reita-ated the statement she
made to the police, that the system of
distributing Mk6 money to the Minn-
“ striker: n such as to permit,
them in ehrge to fill in whatever-l
amount they‘deaimd to . Listen tol
It” Helen Carroll:
“So-Mr. Rubinovn'tz has the eil'ront-
is in sympathy with the Russian So—'
Continued on Page Twelve.
MONllNEGR0l0
London
tion on the Adriatic as a result ‘0!
Gabriele d’Annunzio's campaign,
has reached a grave crisis. Private
advices leave no doubt that he is
determined to annex Dalmatia
and attack Montenegro.
The Jugulavs are stated to
have concentrated troops and to
be to renst' aggression.
A still more alarmmg' report
says a. Republican undercurrent
dmoted‘ against the Italian' mon-
archy exuts' among d'Annunzio’s
forces.
HOME ON LIBERTY
who informed New York ofllctals thatl —_.__— 0
a former Russian newspaper man had:
told of the fund in an address in that
city, in which he urged radicals "to
stop talking and begin action." '
The editor, now a member of the
IYard, is enjoying a four-day liberty
Lieutenant Arthur c. Hoyt. U. s. an,
8 Springfield avenin, of the U. S. S. St. '
Louis, now at the Philadelphia Navy,
with his parents and wife, this city.
It is not known, however,
this military element to attack the
government.
It is stated in the advices that
further aggression by d’Annunzio
will certainly precipitate. hostil-
ities with the Jugoslavs who,
LONDON, Nov. sci—The sitnau
Communist party. was said to have re-; Lieutenant Hoyt,_ the son of Assessor
turned to New York. and it Was hoped-‘ and Mrs. ‘Wiliiam F. Hoyt. was among
‘0 learn more Of the fund Wlh him the first of the local men to enter the
if he colld be found. ,, . . ~ {service at the outbreak of the war. and
Search also is 153% tor fiu- iczatill on active duty. am of an taro
animals whose unmweremiven De-
partment 0f Justiee agents by two ing trip with a party of friends on one
radical prisoners as members of a of the harbor islands.
“murder squad" who had been assign-5
ed by a group of revolutionaries to kill
. .. .C. .. ,. .,. ,, iINVES-TIGATE PLAN?
Sqliad;scmlets (scald. oethitellfe 0%312. TO USE FUEL O”.
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f‘radical" division of the local bureaul -————-—
.of the Department of Justice, and As-: Commissioners of the South Nor-
Jsistant District Attorney Alexander Llwalk electric plant are thoroughlv :.._
Rorke, who has been active in prose- vestigatlng the question of using fuel
cution of radicals. ‘ toil to operate the power engines of th 0
lplant because of the coal problem M
AfiEfl SfllmER “Huang. meeting of the commissioners. held
last night, there was consider-alle di~
cussion concerning the use of oil and
the. matter will be gone into to consid-
”(Such is being spent on a duck hunt,
however, it is declared, will direct
their attack against d’Annunxio
and not against the Italian gov-
ernment. . .
A late report from Rome says
the military“ party which is favor-
' the annexation of Dalmatia
.. .
4‘ has brought such strong pressure
0 bear upon the government: that
he situation is delicate.
D’Annunzio, it appears, has
been stirred to further efforts by
the fact that the Italian elections
we;c unfaboravle to his cause.
Many adventurers are flocking to
his standard, [the reports state,
and cmcng a. certain element there
seems to be a desire to make
'D’ANNliNZIfl "*PlANSP i0 ATTACK
ANNEX DAlMAllA
Jugo-Slavs Have Concentrated Troops and Are Prepar-
ed to Resist Aggression—Grave Crisis Reached, as
the Italian Elections Have Been Unfavorable to
D’Annunzio’s Cause, Acco/rding to Report From
v
not abandoned his plans of are
grossion in the Adriatic.
Today’s London dispatches lup-
plement direct advice: from Ron-
received on Friday night which
reported the American embassy
in the Italian capital activey on.
gaged in watching the situation In
Italy, which was reported as bold.
ing the possibility of serious de-
velopment from hour to hour, II
'regurded both Italy proper and
the Dalmatian coast.
The City of Venice, to which
Naval Attache Reeves has gone
\to report on conditions, is out
about 75 miles from Flume by the
‘ -'—*~——-—— ’whether the insurgent. poet leader t route, and nearer et b “1‘
NORWALK NAVY MAN 3mm the reported ambition of— 13030111“. y y
The possibility of a
move into Isu'ia by Gabriela
'd’Annuuzio was mentioned in m
cent advices, in'which case, the-
prediction was made that whole
divisions of Italian regulars
' would be likely to follow him. An
,Isarian move would take the in-
surgent Italian poet to the bar-
ders of Venetia, in which Venice
lies.
; As to Italy’s internal pendulum,
they admittedly have been fender-
ed more uncertain by the result:
of the recent elections. which
gave the Socialists largely in-
creased representation, and were
accompanied by disorders in var-
ious parts of the kingdom.
The issue is sharply drawn be-
tween the Nationalist element;
which applaud the Fiume advan-
ture of d’Anhunzio, and the paci-
fist Socialists, who are bitterly
Commission- f
.er Minor has expressed his rcgreat at;
l
‘ Ninety Year Old‘Victim Said 1
.~ to Have Been Both Deaf}
and Poor Sighted 9
platinum:
While on 'his way to church, Sunda'
:while the absence of the assistant will morning, Coleman Foley, of the Fitch
Soldiers' Home, ninety-two years old.
while crossing the Post ro’ad. was hit
lby an auto. Mr. Foley was rendered
lall assistance possible and immediate!
ily taken to the Home I'mspital. llis'
iinjury, however. proved more serious
ithan first thought, and he died Tues-1
{day morning. Mr. Foley was the old-i
{est soldier in the Home. , i
f Coroner Phelan made inquiry yes-I
terday into the death of Coleman Fol-
. years ago.
erable detail.
INMATESl ESCAPE FROM
MIDDLETOWN ASYLUM
Howard Starr, 17 Van Zant street.
escaped yesterday from the' Middle-
town State Asylum, according to a re-
.port received last night by Chief of
.Police \‘i’illiam R. Pennington.
Starr
asvlum two
Police authorities in sur-
rounding cities have been furnished
with descriptions of the Imssing man.
and a state-Wide search‘is under way.
STREET DEPA RTMENT
BUSY nasssmc UP
STREETS‘FOR WINTER
was committed to the
against any move that will be like.
d’Annunzio president of Italy. ly again to involve Italy in war.
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ey, 92 years old, an inmate of the Sol»l Under the supervision of Street
diers’ Home. in Noroton. who died Commlfifiifine!‘ Henry R. Minor, a large
iVVednesday, following injuries ieceiv~ force Of workmen are busy, at this
cd Sunday morning when struck byan time, cleaningL up the guttres of the
automobile, driven by Stephen MillerfiCllY 0f aeoumnlations of leaves. The
of 12 High street, Norwalk. , lwork of dressing up the highways for
.The testimony: before the coronergthe winter was completed in the Sec-
showed that Foley was deaf and poor00nd d;si:rict yesterday, and the work
sighted. He was crossing the road
"car the Catholic church. in Noroton.’
Sunday morning, proceeded into the
middle of the road, and stopped, look-
ing both ways. \_
t Walks to Death.
1 Miller. driving the machine. said he)
,saw the man stop and. believing the,
man saw the approaching automobile,
he blew his horn and proceeded. Foley
also proceeded across the. road in the
path of the machine. which Miller then
iswerved into the trolley tracks to
avoid the accident. He was unsuc-
lcessfu'l, and the side of the machine
'struck the aged man. Foley was
thrown to the pavement.
The testimony in the case is com-
aminations in the City court room of ,Dleted. but Coroner Phelan has reserv-
position of clerk and carrier in the;
uptown office. The test was held un-
der the supervision of Elbert IV. Clark
and H’erbert W” Duke, of the South;
Norwalk post office. local members of.
the cum Service Board. '
DANCE WILL USHER ‘ I.
IN- T'IIANIISGIVING,
7; Thanksgiving will be gppropriately,
”ushered in, the evening of November
”firm a dance to. be held in the Arm. for engineers tor-service in the Ameri- mum and 7
on: Music and songs’will be furnish; can Without? “Egg” WOT turn L
ed the MK
nasal
Members of Eureka Rebekah Lodge ‘the City Hall. this morning. for the ,ed his finding.
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.lnfm-mation has been received at the
City Hall Army Recruiting Station
that no more applicants will be ac-
cepted fox-enlistment in the infantry
started today in
Cleaning on operations uptown will
last for about two weeks. when the
cleaners will commence on the gutters
.in other sections of the city.
PLANS WINTER 'PLEASURES
Quite a large number of the more,
active members of Catholic Union
Council. No. 46. K. of 0. met at the
Catholic Club, last evening, and ap-
‘otcd a. number of committees who
will at once organize the promote all
kinds of social pastimes for the com-
ing winter-.. 'A musical club wi‘l be
formed under the personal supervision
. ’ ReV‘ “latter McCrann: There will
pool, bowling and card teams formed
Who will eventually issue challenges,
to teams of other fraternal societies.
and possibly to those from out at
to‘Wn. A debating club is another im-
{portant feature. A stag social will be
,held for the members before the mid-
,dle of December and later in the sea-
;son a dance for the lady friends of
athe. members. .
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the First district,
Some well-informed quarters
[relieve d’Annunzio merely desires
to annex Dalmatia for Italy, and
has no Republican ambitions.
Whatever his attitude may be on
this question, however, there ap-
pears to be no doubt that he has
There have been hints recently
that Jugoslavia was not likely to
remain passive under further
penetration by d’Annunzio along
the Dalmatian coast, it being ad-
mitted that the demobilization of
her army had been suspended.
,AUlflMA’l‘iC SIGNAL
AiMAiNANflWALl}
* slimline
- Superintendent McLean, of the local
trolley system, announces that the an-
tomatic signal. at Main and \Vall
streets. will start service at 1 o'clock
,this afternoon. and traffic conditions,
at that busy corner should begin to
improve right. then. >
‘City Engineer Minor, who has long
advocated this most important move.
«should be congratulated on his good
.ofiices in the matter.
, The system is quite a. complicated
lone, requiring the resetting of a num-
ber of poles, both in front of the B03;-
ton Store and at the Hoyt street
switch, and the establishment of the
many delicate adjustments. A large
force of men have been hard at work
-for the past week perfecting the ar-
'rangemcnts, and everything is in per‘
foot working order for the practical
demonstrationof the system.
The signals have large boxes, about
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\l'.\SillN(.‘.T().\", Nor. ill—Whether
liul'tiur compromise efforts are to be
imatie to Iatil‘y the Peace Treaty, or
the 'wliolt‘ controversy thrown into the
lift: presidential campaign for deci-
sion, was a question which aroused
.lircly spt cuiation today in official and
political circles. .
it was agreed eveivv.‘hcre that the
statement issued last night by Senator
Maxine, the Republican Senate leader.
declaring the time for compromise
had “passed ,and that it was his desire
that the majority reservation program
the carried into the campaign, hat!
advanced materially the movement. to
leave the treaty situation just as it is
'l'or the present and give the. people a.
chance to decide the issue next year.
The first expressions of Administra-
tion Senators regarding the statement
_were defiant in tone, though they still
predicted that before the campaignbe-
gun. the Republicans would come into
a compromise agreement that would
make ratification possible.
Senator Hitchcock. the acting Ad-
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the size and shape of the old fashion. ministration leader, declared that:
ed' letter boxes that formerly ornaflwmle the Democrats: would be loath
merited the telegraph poles, with a 0'“ ‘-‘“" the treaty made a political is-
large, round light at either side, near sue, they WWW 3909!“ 1t: if the Repub-
the top. in the center of the box are :llcans Insisted, With entire confidence
two lights, one at the top and one near ‘ m ”‘9 ("1‘0“"le ‘
the bottom. 'When near, coming east“, Senator HltChCOCk Dmdic‘ed that
("I 1‘73“ "li‘Pfil. roaches a point opijresidcnt “’ilson would resubmit lhO
site Benedict's market. the trolley pole ;treaty 1" ”I" begmnmg 0‘ the "9-“
hits a device on the feed wire, and au— ,session of Congress on Dec. 1, and that
.tcmatically sets two red lights. in the. '3 compromise would result. The Ad-
:pome, of the box. at Hoyt street, while { ministrat'on leaders admitted, howev.
iin one of the lights. at the side of the or. that they had no definite assurance
iEoston Stare signal will amw xa, the President would prefer that course-
,fereen Spotlight. in a white disk. which ‘0 a postponement of further action
ishawg that pithpr mp muthp‘bonnd Car-”XIII.“ the people had fipoken in 1920.
has not readied the. Hoyt street switch l -......__......
or of remaining more, and that "m. ~ -
Wk. up Kain street. is 51mm: [11 Waterbury the Red Cross ob-
“ If . m“ hm tuned only one-third the desired
outages.
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