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: BLISHED 1870.
Entered at, the South Norwnllg_Poot-
Office as Second-Clan Mall Matter.
Snow Flue-riot Late Tonight.
TWO CENT.-
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ERNMEIII
i REDDY IS
Risk Insurance, Washington,
1 the Argonne drive, whom he
. in France, _ .
ems that astute investigators
contend with in their varia
s! is orflcmu‘v 7 * “
mm; INSURANCE; is, PAID
7 ttorney’John J, ouneo has been advised that the new or
vol Roddy, of New Canaan, i3,
. .1: Henry Bromley, Jr., of Bethel, [a soldier killed in action
.- that held-up monthly paYmcnts on "$10,000 insurance pol. v.
held by both the Bromley and Roddy families, who hadsona
will be paid. Thus ends one of the most bathing
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REDDY *AND NOI RESIRIC
Delivery of ‘Fuél and Power
Only to Essential Consum-
ers in First Five Classes
of the War Priorities List
IIIII’E Ill INCREASE ‘
D. 0., has officially declared that
without doubt, Samuel Roddy.
impersonated. This decision
of the Insurance Bureau
have
d experience. . _"_
: RANK um
— E8l_ll_l3__8ElTlEllI
1 of Huyler Candy Busi-
.35 Left $1,586,448
9 $1,585.44828 net New York es-
left by Benjamin F. IieKnn. urI
alk, Danbury and New York“
5 today assessed $70,583.81 in iii-I
1' rice taxation, by Surrogate John :
‘Ihulan. who directs that the exec-
J Frederick DeKlyn, of Danbury,
”.Vv'iliiam lv‘ 'eKi' . ol‘ ~.\lorwalk.I
K .ai, sum to the 1%; York branch '
x
ihot-nc on April 19. 1918. and
the vicu-prosidcnt and manager
yler's, mm‘cctioncrs, dirccied‘bv
' ill that his. net estate be divided
e Danbury Hospital and 1110»
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3i haul
lBillEAlllliEEflRl-jl
:'~ I) ‘i‘f’l‘Il ' of contract action‘
‘ ghe by the Art, League Society. of
4.2-. 7'6 :in street. will be tricd before
:74. us the Peace Joseph J. Linx-I
« ' ,m Tuesday, December 9. The
i .. tom“ complaint alleged the de-
.. .: 2:.iiml to keep an advertising
'H’f Attachment for
« xi Wm case. Attorneys Keogh &
-: -- wprcsent the plaintiff. and
i. . . ('ililflL‘l' C. Hegcman the do-
no YI_
I} VIIIUNIEEII
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{~ll'li"()llll. (Hymn. ”Dec. 2.—-Esti-
.~' “w“. m in tho office of the
- I::b<-hu‘o.~i.~~ H zixmission today
flu) 6,000 Voluntm-r workers are
(”I ii‘. the 11ml ("rum (‘hriStmflS
:umnign which is n progress in
[121.» Whirl. ~‘ ‘ div-train
Ml to witnlpfw w\..--:_\' connecti-
"‘:;;iii}'lm (“311:1le iis anti-1111'
' ' your. In
weird that about.
N V. i-‘H'x. in the campaign:~
x» i2: ‘ “I I'?' BringDOI‘t. 500,
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IV I' l‘:-“.l
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' I number has been reported.
‘lnmlivrs in the educational
of the cmnpaign. organiz-
sorin! workers. clerks, B03
’ “‘Wimt‘d on Race Two).
Ill an PARK
u ammo
If" 9"” Superior court. Friday of this
“vi. a hearing will be: held on: a re-
iz'uncc to be filed by. Attorneys
gt 8; Light in the bridge park suit
- iinh‘i the Norwalk Investment Cour
5. During the last session affine
I ire of the Investment Comp“
ed. for the acceptance fifths
« 5 report in the can
‘sponed decision '
’FldaX. '
ARES lN rout
ba'” .,
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Search or -' .;- ,
AgitatcrsS ,
Partsofthe -
Editor Maximifian
poncho Rove; -
Chicago .
now YORK, Dec. 2,.-
lead-
ers have left New York ,.-!he dozen
since the Grand Jury ret ' indict-
ments charging anarchygiit became
known today. Members fl the New
York police “bomb mmfir‘diave been
unable to arrest a single _ ondant at
Liberty since the indium. “ were re
tamed a week ago. smell for the
VILLA REVENIIESQ
is! m to Have Killed
stand of Secretary Lansing as express-
PresidanWflson Makes
Recommendations To :
IINIIED *SIAIES
MI saususs
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Ofiicials and Members of
Cengrms Endorse the
Stand Men in the Latest
Note to Carranza
Hopes for Speedy Readiust ment of the Nation to Peace
Time Basis, and Means to Combat the Spread of ‘
gadicalism-Peacc Treaty and Railroad Legislation -
to be Considered in a Later Message
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-—-General recommendations on legit- I
lotion to combat the cost of living, labor unrest, Vradicohmr' . and l
readjustment of the nation to peace time basis were tho‘featurcs o! ‘
_ ' [ Simsident Wilson’s annual message to Congress deliver-odfioday.
‘ ' ' L The W treaty, the president told Congress, will be discussed
’ ‘ ’ ’ in a separate message later, as will the railroad question. .
I for the mood time only, since the president established the
practice of WW imperson; his message was read
{may by the cleric. . ,
The president’s principal momem were:
Establishment of a budget system for themational finances.
. Reorganization of the taxation-system ’with simplification of
the income and excess profits: ' ' »
Roadjustment of the tarilf system, if necessary to meet changed
world conditions and make the system conform with the fact that '
the United States is “the greatest capitalist in the world.”
Recognition and relief for’veteran soldiers of the world war.
particularly in the way of government farms as proposed by See-
< WSW and 673
Federal Troops ,
VVAfiIINGTOlg, Dec. 2.—Bclleving
that the Ignited Stubs Government
“means bacillus" in its negotiations
with the Mexican Government over the
Jenkins case, oflicials and members of
Congress here today endorsed the
imam"; “ .
momma
”Put Stop To Unrest:
3 Hows: Innihorilics.
Sm]: ”NXWHLERI Em’etic Will— Be Mixed With?
I Alcohol Fluids ' . ;
against Louis. H. Diamond, 90'
$100 was:
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. ., Railroads in the West May
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‘ ' - CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—-Restrlctlons on
IS CAPTURE" the use or coal. already put into eflect
- ' ' a Ipinch of necessity had been felt, today
were extended throughout the nation
iprospect and domestic consumers were
‘preparing to endure privation and dis-
Darien, Arrested in Stain-Z
ford Yesterday I
Be ‘Obliged to Suspend *
by regional coal committees where the
' Iunder an order of the Federal Fuel Ad.
ministrator. The most extensive shut-
Idown of lndustryin history was in
Charles Van “Ostrand, of I
At llbcrtv more than four years aft-i
er breaking jail. in Bridgeport, on
June 5, 1915. Charles Van Ostrand, or;
Darien, was arrested at 8 o'clock yes-4
Stale Comptrollelfs Mica-w: cramming and‘arrargneuuu‘n’rcl
DeKl-Vn' who (“9“ “l “I“ Dan- City court, 'Bridgeport, before Judge
\Vilder. -, Van Ostrand was arrested in
Stamford by Jail Keeper Dennis
O'Neil, who Went after the prisoner-E
upon being notified by the Stamford!
In court You Oslra‘nd wasf
sonic-mom] to 60 days in the county jail:
in addition to serving out his former
HAIR mm lllllllli v:
TflBEMAflE‘lINH
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.———Bay rum
and various and sundry perfumes, wel-
comed as an oasis by drinkcrs of the»
past when nothing better offered. are
to be made undrinkable when prohibi-
tion becomes effective. I,
In a conference of officials of the in- 3
itei-nal revenue bureau charged with
' prohibition enforcement, and - ‘ repre- .‘
'senlatives of the barber supply and3
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Ifor consumption. After January 16..
'tbc date of national prohibition. such.
preparations cannot be legally manu-
factured or sold if fit for beverage pur-
' The conference discussed ways
land means of making them “unfit”
‘without injuring their value for the
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. CLEARLY sum;
The store keepers of Norwalk. where
sugar is supposed to be kept on sale,
are not having the easiest times these
days in satisfying the purchasing pub:
lie that they have no sugar on hand.
{And it is very evident that they have
Just when the present situation
3will improve is a great problem. The
Isugar situation was summed up in the
QNew York Sun. this morningby Han-
nibal J. De Mesa, a Cuban sugar plant-
er, who recently returned from a su-
gar survey of Europe for the Cuban
Governm .nt andiwho Was the Ameri-
canaovemment’s sugar adviser and
Iprnnure: during the war.
‘ The beet sugar industry of Europe is
’all but wiped out, he says. "The _ de-
‘niahdgior sugar is greater today than
ever’be'fore for several cxccllentreaa
i sons. Prohibition is not r-th'e least, or
by marinate-onset
, ‘ . My
pcrl‘umery trades the manufacturers.
promised 100 per cent. cooperation in:
rendering certain alcoholic prepara-I
«ions now on the market totally unfit: »
1 purposes intended. . Eper c9112.. made last night by the man-
INew Bradford. who're the
LSUIIAR SITUATION - .
lat conferences in both cities between
éfiflVEIiNIIIl iIEiilEIl ‘
113958.; -The manwwho used folds-ink
curl. Attorney A. A. Skeel. represent irum ncwlsaeeldng to satisfy'bls‘cnv— '
comfort as the strike 0! bituminous
coal miners entered its second month.
Only'in Kansas, where volunteers
Worked in the strip pits under protec'
tion of State and Federal troops. and
in the New River fields of West Vir-
ginia was tliere a prospect today of la-
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" ‘ * worms cum ’ smarts-insane
' j' ‘ continued the $15.000ibail under which
‘ each has been held. .
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edited. recently instructed its readers
. - in methods to avoid giving informa-
‘Conducted for 23 years by Mr. and
Mrs. John J. \Varren. the Old Well
Laundry, Haviland street. has been
sold to Alvin Kurd; of the Norwalk
Steam Laundry, Day street. Mr. Hard
took possession yesterday. Contractor,
Michael J. Riordan is building an ex~
ionsive addition to the Steam Laundry
building, on Day street. and the two;
businesses will be consolidated. the;
building on Haviland street to be
abandoned. Mr. Warren is still in that
Norwalk Hospital because of a frac-
tured log suffered some time ago.
Upon his discharge from that institu-l
lion he will take up his duties in the?
C. & K. hat factory. '
cal organizations seem tr
ed aS’fal‘ as personal lead
corned, the police assert
does not apply to the Co
boi- Party, whose leaders
kin and Benjamin Gm? ' . ‘
gnaw yesterday
ISoclalist leader, is among the radicals:0f “,i’rrelew'a .
‘ being sought by the authorities. ters.
said he left the city for Chicago.
nt radi- to the MexicanGovernment, the note:
disrupt- . contained sharp language with a tone I
1;. is con~IOf waming Edlcotjhg that unless Wil-
But this; Ham 0. Sinking be American consu— . .
lat Lad; lax; ugt'~'iW. attPueb‘sa. lgege I the farmers' part in the war.
08 LI!“ re ”'5 ”W . 3'3 ion “'0“ 9. Measures which “will remove
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fl. tank“ to . .119 “Sm; gazifiizgl‘essneu in our body politic."
wmsiplea, dlclol reasons for gnot releas»? ’ ’ '
Iing Jenkins. and~ declared that the;
IUnlted States would not be distracted;
Maximilian Cohen, former Left wingi from the main issue by a discusfion-
nt and ~unimportant mat-I
The majority of the in:
supply.
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1.3—.
[(Cosnilnur’ on Slxt
.. iREENIilEHl/Ilmk
mum liFlI “0311mm
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(1' ii < town. were destroyed today,‘
’ \“hw i'iio wrerkor‘l the ladies' tailor-'
A in? shop of L. S. Croce. in Greenwich
.awinw; In tho adjoining building,
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.cxplosion of a
It is
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The Communist W'orld, which Cohen
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SAW [INIY [INE
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Bungee Doubts RQDOI't 0f”; At the opening of the Criminal Sn. 35‘" tank, ”19"" W9”
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. Other Daughter’s Illness—J perior court. Bridgeport. at 2 o‘clock addilional articles of apparel and furs.
Talk Of Habeas COIDUS’Mver from the City court. will be put .‘AnVcafir-Iy estimate or aggregate 105593
Writ ' to plea. They are: David Smith: “‘5‘ $“°'000' '
- .chargcd with the theft of a watch: Jos-'> , , . > .. ‘
',cph Brown. charged with assault on“0 36‘“ shop. spread and destroyed
his seven-year-old daughter. when he charged with assault with a dangerougrioining building in which Croce had
went to visit her. it was rtgortcd in iweapon on David Smith. gins place. Samuel Zeigler. who liv—
g‘mfi afternoon. three local men. bound in the tailoring shop of J. H. O’Neill.
‘ The firc having its stari in the
Not having been‘pcrmitted to SGeiJamos W’atiS. and Luigi Appecellafflw structure. and spread to the ad-
ed upstairs with his family. owned
_”_ ‘ IGreenWich that Attorney William 9‘. During recent trouble with the elec-;
ERungee, of that town, who is suing his ”4931 service. the lights in Appecclla’s i this latter building. and places his
Iwife far a divnrca, and his mOlh°"“m'lsaloon. ‘Vood street. wont out. In theiloss at $141300. The family lost
'law for $50,000 damages for alleged darkness David Smith is alleged mlevc-rv’thinc. Over the O‘Neill Shop
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mill operatives who struck yesterday
for a twenty-five per cent. increase in
wages, returned to work today, having
accepted a compromlsov'offer of 12 1-2
A threatened strike in
. operatives
fhad made the same demand, was
:averted by the acceptance of a like
ufacturers.
{offer.
The wage increases were arranged
representatives of the manufacturers
and the Textile Councils. The new
scale. which is retroactive to Decem-
ber 1, applies to all operatives wheth-
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ier union members or not, and will be
.efl‘cctlve for six months.
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or James F. Fielder, of Jersey City,
will be pleased to learn that he :hasi
begn appointed a Vice-Chancellor to;
'flll'the vagglcy causedby the recent
death otFrederic W Stevens, of More
rlstown'. .: The late, vmechaneenor
was a Democrat and Chancellor Edwin"
Robert Walker, in annoancingrthe ap-
pointments said because of this fact be
heated an. Steven's’sncoeosogjrom
the my . ,
- ‘ibringdiabeas corpus ”FOCE‘EdII‘ES. (“3'th McFarland. Vi’hen Appecella tried.
. mending the production of his daugh-v to eject Smith fmm the .saloon. by“
i has Blli PLUM.
’0! Cockenoe Tribe will be guests. Thai
Nived, James Stewart and family, and
they lost their household goods. The
structure was worth $10,000.
ter in court. . iforce. Smith claims he was stabbed in‘ Neither O'NM” “0" Croce can In"
”Pending the settlement of the “Whithe back with a bmphor knife, ”3‘1 1131"." cxact value of the articles left
ter claims for divorce, brought by him- : named Appecglla as his asaailant. ' with them Mr N’Dail‘ 01‘ renovation.
mi .. amass... NEW CLUE HERE IN ‘
HEAI’ BIfi TIME . BAPPIIIAMYSIEIIY f
FIIII PAIEFACES HIUNII WIIIIIIIIESSE
AI WIIIWAM HERE I on; :5;
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1m or W opened shamans $3531.33 {1:22; *0“ Flats .
ide their wigwam on W hingtoxi . 7 ' ‘ . , ' ‘ i . I
W .2115: on the unexplained disappearance. ;
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alienation of his wife's affections, will , have pilferod a watch owned by J03-
mm. ”‘00 owner of which had valued it
.at $1,000.
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Motoring" Party‘fFrom New
Haven in Wreck on Noroé I
street vlaSt night and “term ed 59‘“ of 19-year-old Charles Coppola, Loon or? STAMmm), Dec. 2.—-Mr. and Mrs.
if“ hundred WIFE??? at an enjoya- Louis Coppola, who mysteriously van-fGeorge Smemofi and their three chil-.
e dance and {am ’9 Wiggly“: was ished last February. after his automcwE dren. of 65 Blake street, New Haven}
appropriately ,t- anstormed or 3 9 .oc- bile had been found in the possessionl'narrowly escaped serious injury, Sum"
039011 . by divers , attractive ecora- of Arthur W. Pratt. Pratt's Island, Da-Eday afternoon, when their automobile.
tions, the Red Mens colorsgg, g???“ lien, in New‘ York. ' driven by Mr. Smernofl’. turned turtle
if; 33:?“ striking a Say p ominat-i Mr.'Virelli said over the telephonefibn the Noroton flats. Outside of a.
. .- ' last night. that his inquiries here led'shaking up, none of the art wasKin-x
Dancing “8-9930?“ {111:th gidnight' to no new explanation of the bafflingtjured, although all were ghmzvn. with.
music being fumfihea 3' t e ‘3'" alfair. He was in conference. he sai‘dJ a heavy fluid, into a. ditch at the side?
Mens orchestra»: tinder the (Enema with Chief of Police William R. Pen— of the road. "
Dr Frank 3- Field. The“? were a. name nington, and the missing lad’s father: They were coming from New Haven.
her 0f canvassem and a variety °f and brother at police headquarters. but bound for Stamford. They had nat‘
features ‘0 enhance the‘eniment 05 ofl‘iclals have made no advancement passed an automobile. and, appare fly,
the cde. This evening the members toward a. solution. {in making a turn, Mr. Smerncfl turn“
ed the wheel too sharply. on that the'
Imachlne turned a somersarult.
do cc and air. the tenth annual t‘rad- '
mists: o; the nine-om momeISOmH WALES MINER-S
every evening this week. with a grand
closing next/Manda, . yhzmthftbe ‘ . . i ., 1 3
Thecopimittoe in c roe ' ’- jheae LONDON. Dec Za—The South was:
351...“? waxghW‘mas haunted bra economist-en nor, a... drive w. insured.
. I .‘l . 3’3. ,l _ ifiy minor of a :hem are; %W,:°§$:fig X. Hello“, 18. of ‘90
use 3 .
Toms. of Norwich. Her hand was
unit a New. Yarrmwb'le.
ing the war to keep the United St ates
on. com
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(lay-of the matter of lhc reccnt in-
iroduclion ‘
fares by llw Coniimtirutwiipany.
oration (‘ounscl
mad the representation from all the
pluccs was practically of a local na-
turc. many of the leading: judges anr
(‘orncclors bc’ng prcscm;
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' 1 After that the members of the Com--
missing “Red" agitators vc 'now ed in the latest note to President Car-
been started in other pa : the coun. ranza. retaryLane. .g .
try. . . . Although no ultimatum was issued Proper measures to foster the dyestuffs industry built up dur-
independent of foreign
An enlarged program for rural development, in recognition of
the causes” of “political resta-
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iguana
Practically all of the cities and many
of tho lax-nor towns of the slate were
rcm‘wmmcd by counsel at the hcarmg
“ hid] fire started following bt‘i‘orc tho Public Uilliiics Commission
2t 1119 State (‘apitol Hartford yester-
nf Hm mono system 0t
Nnrwalk was rcm‘cscnimi by (‘orp-
Edward J. Quinlan.
After 1hr: roll call and roulinc busi-
ness the Commission ruled that the
burden of proof of tho fairness and
mu: livability of the system was up to
the (‘rmnccticul Company. and direc-
ted the officials of that corporation
to produce such evidence atrfilfother
mention 10 be hold at the same place
on Monday morning, December 8th. '
Following the hearing of this evi-
The latterrhad in charge a fur over-“(19mg the m“. of mp various towns
through“ :thpll‘ legal representatives
will be in order with such changes in
resent zoning syatcm in each
as the citizens deem will be on a
mission will probably visit each city
and lawn and hold local meetings.
when individual complaints and sug-
gestions will be presented.
WARSIIII’S [III THE ‘
“ BALMATIAN cum , 5
COPENHAGEN. Dec. 2.——A number:
of allied warships. including an Amen
ican vessel, were cruising on” Spalato,
on the Dalmatian coast, on Sunday. ac-
cording to a Laibach dispatch receive
ed here. _
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VILLAGES DESTROYED
BY AN EARTHQUAKE
LONDON. Dec. 2.-—~A serious earth-
quake occurred in Western Asia Minor
c 7 ”Ti“ on Thursday, seven villages in the dis—
VOTE T0 STRIKE Ir menu)“ was badly shaken ‘9 end tricts of Some. and Balikersi being. de-
. . reeded the 139451131 313%“an 0f 137- strayed. according to advices received
1 Many per.
slightly braced. NM“ “1 “‘9' 311” sons were killed and injured ,it is out-
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gthe Qfiediterranean cofit.
situated near a coal. ,
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, , . Sonia and Banker-in are cities north
F1395» ”W to the 1’0“”- of Smyrna and about thirty miles from
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