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ALLPARTS’OF 'FHE “$081.13 av A SPECIAL wane AND OUR own OPERATOR
fiLISfiED 1870.
Entered at the South Not-walk Bosh
Office as Second- Class Mall Matter.
\sou'rn sonwmooim. winning, use. 3, 1919'
Fair Tonight and Thursday. TWO m
hurwalk Board of Education
, regular monthly meeting, last‘
_. with the entire membership
for the first time in some
the reading of the minutes
» e report of the superintendent
ools, which was devoted in its
to the subject of teachers' sal-
in Norwalk, as compared with
11 other cities, showing that the
-ration for the teachers in local
was far below the average.
' 1011 is given in full and should
1.-et‘ul study: 3
I’intendent's November Report.
- Board of Education. A
lenient A
account of the general interest
sent in the matter of teachers"
'5. I shall confine my attention:
s subject.
squealed me to acquaint 3011.111.
. ”me, with salary conditions in
ndiilg communities. The 130111113
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~_ Just Escapes—Former3
ugatuck Postmaster to3
:3'e Hearing Tomorrowi
l
I TFORI)_ Dec. 3.".\ grand jury
.7' Unitcd Slates District court. at
wning of the December term. yes-
3‘. returned indictments against
txre M'irabile, a bankrupt shoe
1‘. of ’I‘hompsom'illc. who was
Hid 33'itb concealing his assets.
against his l1133'3".el Michael G.
of Thomp~on31lle charged with
11-3'. Both plcadul not guilt3
3‘ir macs.- 33'1-1'1'1 continued-to Feb-~
Game Bird Shipments.
191(‘11'1n-le3' of llnniclson was in-
-.i on 1': clung-3 13f11a3‘in1: shipped
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STER SEASHN IS
BBABTIEALEV HVEB
1:1snn for the
practically
' so far as the natural
part were concerned.
. .. :3113‘1 reachud a total of
‘ '1 hundred when the sea-
.1'2 il— 213-1: l'..l a fc33 weeks ago.
' i '(~l;-<stl:n1113alf a dozen
.Il l:~-::—' l p1‘d;\\I
ETA 7771170; ls from
sur-
1‘. on slum- fr. >111 Greenwich
‘u c E10131 \‘13‘3‘2 1311 1"1-1111in. The
' ix :enr-rflmyx mnceded
"-1 :ulml one.
' ‘1 'rns have
"-» 23"}: 1he quit-
;r ‘i 3» oystcrmen,
. rough
- :1' 777777.7777777 dangerous
3 "'ll3- l1113c1s have
7i: 3: 717 .33 1nd “ith the shOIi-
'11'» 1: 1. :1 ii: hi it is belie3ed
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13-h fox the “inter.
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l'-' Molorman Whose
Car Killed Riley Girl
. D1 c. 1.1—.Aflc1‘ caution-
~ mono and officials of the
H1111 (mm '1113' that trollev cars
II standing- car: on switches,
T'- A)» st011111-11 be “£019 thev reachi
' II '::'.' 1nd of the stationary vein.
2" Baton lVakeman in the
.7777' r"3111111: yesterday dischargEd
1.3 (.illiooley. of Stratford, motor-
:a r! the car uhich struck and kill-
~» "w n 3"9111 old Dorothy Riley of
.—1 11‘1“. at Pickert's switch. Novem-I
aw"
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"fired with mm
“7" “'9": $2,500
27:11] motormm '
A l‘csoonslhll
flOlBBARD ADVISES TEACH
3 OCIAHHN TB CAll ON
HIS HOW, THE MAYOR
1 Member Present at Most Interesting Meeting—
eachers’ Committee Make Brief Call—Harry Rid:
-r, Retiring Chairman, Given Vote of Thanks ‘
. salaries of teachers in high schools,
in Detroit
natural 7
rcachcd its.
3"" 7.7777777 have returned home, .
seasI
l.
3 '33b Biandt conductor of the car.
72.1.13. been discharged. Both were
of Education, at Wallingford, sent out
a questionnaire, seeking information
on 10 points concerning salaries of
grade teachers, and 11 points about
and agreed'to send a. copy of the com-
pilation to each school responding.
This information was asked of about
20 cities, ranging from 4.000 to 30.000
in population. The cities reporting
are Ansonia, Danielson. Derby, East
Hartford, Hamden, Milford, Nauga-
tuck. Nor-walk, Putnam, Rockvllle,
Southlngton Stonington. Stratford.
T01 rmgton W'allingford West Haven
’Wlllimantic and lVlndsor Locks. W 1nd-3
sor Locks is the smallest and has the
smallest grand list $4. 500 000. Nor-
walk is the largest and has the largest3
gland list. $25, 000, 000.
In minimum grade school salaries
At our last meeting for this year Norwalk ranks 11111 f1om would be least
the highest in a scale of 12, seveial
(Continued on Page Eight) A
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Stanley P. Mead. Ne“ (.anaan. l'2..
L. Fitch. Trumbull. and E. L. Saxton
i111 1i1is city. who attended 'the Inter-1
national Y. M. C. A. convention holdl
recently. will make inter-
esting reports on the important busi-
ness transacted during that session at
the County Y.“ M. C. A. dinner to 77773
held next Monday in the Hotel Ma
hackcmo. The principal speaker ol'7
the evening will be O. .H. Jacob of the
International Committee of the Y. M.
C. A. Invitations to the dinner. which
will start at T:l5 o'clock. have been}
A
i
sent out by Judge John H. Light. coun—
ty chairman The committee must
kno33 b3' tomorrow who plans to at- 3
310ml, that places may be IC‘SEl‘VCd. i
‘MBViE MEN Will
REBHRB STABELL’S ’
A BlVlNfi EXHlBiTlHN
Althu1‘“'.Siabell,
11e1'ot'l“.3'0
funds wit [1 which to def1a3‘ the ex-
penseo of sending him to England are
being raise—11.331“ gi3e a di3ing and
swimmins‘ exhibition "at the W ashlng-
11m sheet bridge Sunday afternoon at
2:47 3
This method of introducing Stabell
to hi. town people and to impress
upon hem the seriousness with which
S'tabell is working in order that he
ma3 be able to make the channel at-
tempt was decided upon at a meeting:
of the Arthur \\ Stabell Fund commit
tee held in their rooms last night.
3 (Continued on Page Twelve).
Exonerates Whitney in
A Fatality at Darien
3 Cornelius Vandeibilt Whitney of
lNew Yo1k and Wheatley Hills, L. 1.,
3111111 William S Cowles, of Farming-
ton. Conn" occupants of the Stutz
roadster in which Allan D. Ashburn a.
student at Yale University. with VVhit-
ney and CowleS, was killed in Darien
on Nov 24 were exonerated from all
criminal complicity in the fatality by
Coroner John J. Phelan’ s finding, hand-
ed down yesterday morning.
Testimony showed that the Stutz.
owned and operated by Whitney.
was proceeding towards New York at
about 25 miles an hour when a horse.
and wagon. driven by Andrew Szeakel,
of Darlen. started to cross the road in
front of the car. Whitney, trowel-ring
his car struck the horse, breaking the
2x11131111 shaft 11 piece of which loosen
.12de gm ~-
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IitIneir coal supplies or the strict 1'aiion-.
rotthew'lndlhleld. It,
111 that: 2
REPORTS ERBM
BBAlHPERATBRS
Owners in the Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia
Districts Claim That the
Strike Has Been Broken
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Curtailment of Light and
Power Continues Through-
out the Country
1
CHICAGO Dec. 3.—Furt.her dismpl
tion of national industry because of‘
.the fuel shortage brought about by the A
strike of bituminous coal miners was:.
in proapect today. Regional directors;
of railroads had authority to sham!
passenger trains where the public
inconvenienced andA
many additional manufacturing plantsA
throughout the country faced shut-2‘
downs either through exhaustion ofI
inIg decreed by the Federal Fuel Ad-I
111'.nistrator
Slate executives 33ho under appeals
fiom their constituents for aid. have:
fsought wa3s and means for replenish-f
3mg the dwindling fuel supply. today-
virtually were without encouragement3
.as vegarded increased pmduétlbn
Only in isolated instances were there
1"epo1ls of a change of front 113' the,
miners Generally the workers ad-
l‘lll’led to the’. r attitude of remaining.
a33"a3 from the mines until bettIer‘3
terms than the 14 pm ccnl. uage in-
c1ease granted by the Government;
33‘me forthcoming.
A slight 1"a3 'of hope however. 373'1137'
found in optimistic reports f1 om opera-
tors of the district embracing south-
(Continued on Page Twelve).
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Vl’ASHlNGTON. Dec. .3.~
got down to business today.
i
1
Congress 3
with lead A
ei's determined to have 7 some con-
structive legislation 111a1'tcd before
the Christmas holidays.
The Cummins Railroad bill was be-
its anti-strike
clauses drawing
of the
speedy
f-01e the Senate with
I"pio3ision and other
sharp attp ck Supporters
measuxc had hoped for its
adoption. but they now
haustive discussion of the bill before
{it is brought to a final vote.
who in the sum ‘.
contemplates swimming 3
the English Chanm l. and for 331101113
(Continu___é‘_d on Page 'I“11')c.
3MAN Will] ”ASSAULTEB
fiAll, SHNBAX, PAYS
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7Shelton avenue Bridgeport.
arrested Sunday after he had as-
saulted lohn Gall Knapp street. with
a. wooden black-jack. causing a riot
at Amusement Park during a football
Agame. has made satisfactory payment ‘
lto Gall to cov er- physician' 5 fees. Gall s
3112“. cheek -bone was splintered. and he
7is still undergoing tiealment b3 Dr.
Henry C. Sherer. He plain; ed to
bring an action to recover expenses
if W'ilson did not make voluntary pay-
ment. .
EMINENT SPEAKER
I AT HIGH SCHOOL
i The regular monthly meeting of the7
Home and School League will be held
at the high school on West avenue on
tire secretary of the Community—Ber-
vice Commisslo , will be the speaker
of the evening, his stibject bein'g “Am-
orientation.” He is an author" or
repute and writes under the non do
Miss Ev: Sitter
Azarul by tweam on horseback, and final-'
after midnight this morning. Before
:to his attorney, Lawyer Jesse Devine.
:01 \Vaterbury.
'two hours before the hanging. told his
foresee ex- 7-
To avoid a civil suit, \Valter “'ilson. .
who was '
,that senders take
Friday evening. F J. Brown. e-ecu- '
SIX PERSONS
Mother, Four Children and
Boarder Lose Lives at Na:
trona, Pennsylvania '
Captured. After Bemg Bad-
1y Wounded in a Pistol
Duel With a Posse on Wy-
oming Randi.
TRAILER THEME!
BHiEES HE SNTHV
Not Likely to Die and Will
Be Taken Back to .1311 ,
en He V78“ PITTSBURGH Dec. 3.—-Slx persons.
including a mother and her four chit-3
DOUGLAS “7’70" Dec. 3—“0 ”oreldren m burned to death, and two
more years of prison life, possibly fi 11 ' i red 1 ht
death in the electric chair. confrontedlflfinifmchegzstgged 1; 3:15:71; a717§lztA
“Bill' Carlisle, train bandit, as he. lay '
:n a hospital, 331th a. bullet hole in his "7077a near here M7777 Frank Switala
BX ANBTHER FIRE:
sch Destroyed and Four
Steamers Damaged
to sign the protocol putting the peace
treaty lntoIeffect the moment certain
clauses objectionable to her
protocol are eliminated, Baron Kurt
von Lersner, head ,of the German dele-
' 3 ' lgation here. told The Associated Press
' VI [TED Athis afternoon. _
ed not to sign the protocol presented
to her by the Allies as a condition for
pltlltting the peace treaty
t 0 Peace Conference has been noti
Two Wharves and Six Ves-ifl'ld-
[ It was learned only today that Baron 1
Kurt von Dormer. head of the German
{delegation here, called on Secretary
Dutasta, of the Conference. on Mon-'
3day. and told him that Germany had
made such a decision.
'the reports of a sharp reaction in Ger-
many withln the last fortnight
led obseners of Getman de3 elopments IW
her four children. and Joseph Basan A _
Germany Refuses To
Sign the Protocol
Presented By Allies
PARIS, Dec. 3.—7Germany is willing have expressed to members of tho
Peace Conference the view that theta
has been a complete transformation!!!
the situation in Germany brought.
about in their opinion. by the failure
of the United States Senate to ratify
the peace treaty.
These observers declare that while
the vast majority of the Germans. be-
fore the Senates adjournment. desfr.
ed the peace treaty ratified as soon as
ipossible they are now supporting the»
3Gove1nment‘ s attitude In resisting the
demands of the Allies for indemnity
for the sinking of the German fleet at
Scapo Flow. recompense for which
was provided for in the protocol
The question upon which the Gets
man representative. here. however.
appear most sensitive. is the insist-
'cnce upon the trial of German 0mm
accused of the commission of crime!
in France and Belgium.
Thus far. it is stated. no indicattomt
have reached Paris of anv disposition
Train- of the Germans to modify their am-
'lfl
in the
PARIS. Dec 3. ——-Germany has decid--
into effect,
This attitude is taken as confirming
chest while armed guards hovered in
the background of hospital nurses to7‘
prevent escape.
Carlisle was shot down in a cabin
yesterday by Sheriff A S. Roach of
Wheatland, as the bandit. cornered,
leached for an automatic pistol to give
battle. The posse had trailed Carlisle
.‘incc Sunda‘.‘ morning. through a bliz-.
ick, another occupant of the build ing.A
were the victims.
A BALTIMORE, Md. Dec. 3.—Pire de—
stmyed two whnrves of the Canton
Lumber Company, at Canton. the state A
cyster steamer Governor McLane, and
five other 3‘,essels early today Four;
steamers were slightly damaged.
One man is missing and a score of7’
others had a narrow escape. The crew.
..__.__.
Continued on Page Twelve.
13 on tool: when drifts of snow were
encountered too great for a. mount to?
traverse. 1.
The outlaw, who had eluded pursuit} ‘
since. his escape from the. state prison‘
at Rawlins, on Nov.15, and accom-
plished the robbery of the Los Angeles;
‘ PRESIDENT [1E
:
PIERRE. S D.. Dec
(Continued on Page Two).
PARTIAL BBNEESSIBN.
MADE BY MHRBERER
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#3. —'\‘l ajor-
3hou.se at 6 Bell a3 enuc wits damaged
by file earl3 this mominn.
Iing. rccentl3
'Cash. Ltd.
3 ,4
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A" n 1711'
ANEW HEATER STAARTS SLAVEH’S EIANEEE
HESTHIHJTIVE BLAZE TURNS AGAINST HIM
IN REPAIREB HHHSE HN lEARNINfi BUILT:
1
3
l
A.
11.01.1311 3 cut to Beckett’s Plight
puichased by J. & .l.7
had becn undergoing (ax—3 NEVV BRITAIN. DI‘C. 3.—Mrs.
nsive renovations for several weeks. 7G<‘01'L'1' C. Beckett. mother of Luman C.-
l'mide decorating and painting had B111 111311 33211) (oniesscs to the murder
’ on complctcd. and a new heater and of ( 11111". iv Tait. the j. 'tnc3‘ drivci. mur-
> set ranges had been installed. 3"111‘11d in tlm city nearly three 3"cals
‘lccause of the cool Weather. 11 fire ago, sought consolation “llh 1131' aged
3molh1~1'. i1111111'diatc13' after reading 0!
the admission by her son. She found.
sympathy in the companionship of her
aged mother. Mrs. James Mason. \‘l'TllI
: kindlrd 1111c yesterday afternoon
"a cellar heater. and flames from
‘nace, followed 11 course along
c‘imncy crept through the floors
oral Leonard “760d President “0 d A" '7 "‘(‘f- is now living in an apartment in the
BEFBRE EXECUTIHN row “7‘15“” and Go3ern01 1.3‘11'1 ‘A Tl':‘ h‘aZe burst out in the north. Erwin Home l‘orthc Aged. Laterintho
Frazier of North Dakota, today had 3.3.; ”N3 “.053 sides “3. the building, -
Ath e indorsement for ”37‘1”“ (’f Ahe (loin: considerable damage in thoseA .(Continucd on Page Six),
3United States of the Republicans. ....,I..-,.....II An alarm was rung in from .
7Nikifor Nechusnuk TakesI Democrats and Non Partisan League: “0‘ 33 :11 1:43; o'clock this morning.
Arespecthely of South Dakota. The
some Responsibility for indorsemenis were made at the stale
Death Of Feodore Torrant,3comentions of the three parties last
night under the. Richards p1im' 1r}
0f waterbury law en nacted at the last session of the
Nikifor Nechusnuk 3311s hanged atc
AlegisluatuIe.
The. Democrats also indorsed lice-
the Connecticut State PITSOD shoxtly
.Prcsident Thomas R. Marshall fora
third “term. The Republicans gaw
their indorsement to Governor Calvin.
Coolidge of Massachusetts for the
vice presidency. The Non Partisan
League did not sele1t a candidate for
Continued on Page Twelve. ' . {
RELIEE STATHJN TB
BE ESTABLISHED EBB
AHSERS BE NARBBTHSS
As was forecastcd in The Sentinel
START MAHJNB BE
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7 ifo rming drugs. Chief of Police Wil-
Aliam R. Pennington has been advised
he died he made a partial confession
The condemned man,
lawyer. "Oh, what's the use of saying
anything more about it. It‘s no use."
Nechusnuk was found guilty of mur-
dering Feodore Torrant, of “’aterbury,
last April. having lured Torrant into
.the woods and beaten him over the
'head with a hatchet. Robbery wa
t.he motive for the mime. and through-A3
out his trial, and since his imprison-t
Continued on Page Twelve.
Mail business at the South Norwalk Aby A. s. Spaulding.
post- office is gradually increasing Iing internal -revcnue inspector that'
from day to day as Christmas ap- such a situation will be opened here, 3
proaches Preparations have been 311; common. with other cities through-
completed bp Postmaster Andrew out the state.
1 bean, to handle the expected volume A physician who will be in sole
of incoming and outgoing Christmas .charge of writing drug prescriptions
parcel post packages. The 331an is land doling out the narcotics is to be
made to mail parcels early, inscribed -
wlth the injunction “not to open be-
fore Christmas,”and to securely wrap
and tie them. it ' is requested, as well,
especial care to
Awrlte the name and address legibly
'to avoid confusion and delay. -
HAT1TBTMMESMBET '
” ENERBMUNIBN
i 7Hat trimmers and “77—77—11me em-
played in the hat shops of Nut-walk,
3111174: We unionized and 111 a meet
ling last night were graded: I Lobster
by the United Hutton!
e'rleu.
(Continued on Page Four).
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—-A resoLu-7
tlou requesting President Wilson to
sever diplomatic relations with Mex-
ico was introduced today by Senato'.
Fall Republican, New Mexico, chair-
man or the Senate committee charged
with an investigation of the Kent-an
situation.
WASHINGTON, Dec 3,—State De-
partment omens; were marking tune
11.1.1.3, “with; word from IMéxloo
. o! the omen? delivery o: the
l
and firemen from the Central Station
fought the ‘blaze [or two hours.
:BBARB BE ESTIMATE
TH MEET RES. 8
. ’l‘hc Board of Estimate and Taxation:
will meet in the Council chamber of
the City Hall on the evening of Decem-
b1‘1‘ but 211 1hr- call for lhc meeting.
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7'2.
issued this morning. there. was. no
1131‘. 1.1‘13 made of 1211' requested in-
I-u‘u: 1.“ in school tcachcrs' salaries.
': (3 1‘1: 111 3 1 331')! in considered It.
MEXIBB BITV'
'7 Herbie Buzzard gave a little party
to some of his playmates. at his home.
on Chestnut Hill on one. last. evening.
Games, 331re cnj<'.33'cd bountiful 1e«
cshmcms weir served and a pleasant
time was had by all.
Herbert manages Dutee W. Flint s
flock of l‘ords up on North Main
”street for a living. and last spring
purchased an old d33 clling house may
upt on Chestnut Hill avenue and
tin most of the time since in 1111111:
7_the place up to suit him. He callrd
his creation mctty good. about Decem-
ber 1st. and last night invited elevcn3
more jolly good follows for a sort of
coming-out party rm his new abode
There was Johnnie Grue lle
New Haven. act- draws Bolo birds and things and tellsAI
pretty stories about them: Stew art C.
Marshall. who may sell things. but
never gives a good thing away: Jim
A3Donnclly. who is in the news business Fmd nutomoh. lo ulolrn from
and plays phonographs and things;
Lee Tripp who “as able to sweeten
‘things up every little while. and. at
the same time. bewail the hard luck
that forced him.to sell sugarless cnf
fee and baked apples: Spar-ten St.
John. who n1a3 be named a Saint, all
right. but? Prosecutor Hegeman who
varied laying down the law bv laying
down his hand every little. while: Wil-
lie Pfahl. who has recently discover-
ed tbat the mysteries of married life.
\lonker Grotto:
very skillfully; Doc Moore. who didn't
minute:
man. . and Sergt.
ed in maintaining order in the mosl
exciting moments.
that Buzzard ha: got some fine RP“
of aparty.
advenmrm in nu- Irv-mm»
are. even more intricate than those of
Dr. Mallory. who di—
agnosed a number of intricate plays
spring a new storv more than once. 11
Charles H. Vl'ilson. who. like
Fparten St. John. is a very “‘pieous"
Gibson. who succeed-
Everybodv agreed
nest. and that It surely was “one bird ’
731111 b1 wounded that a special appro-
piiz- lion from the unappr‘opiiatcd rev-
r'nll'“: in the city treasury to the credit
of 1hr highway (lcpl‘,llln10nl be made
101 .u1'331" . pm post‘s in the Foutth tax—
in: district. Also that a special ap-
71p ovulation fiom the same source bn
madc 10 pay damnm's to property hold-
11s 9111-11011 by lhc Chestnut stun t ex-
tension.
EHRB STHLEN THEN
LEETABANBBNEB
automobile theft
Still another was‘
reported yesterday when Michael
Vacla3ic.Scrilm11 11311111112. had his
.‘pt'lng
street at 5 orlork yesterda} after-
noon. The cat ”V3115- found abandoned
on Faviland street at 7 o‘clork this
morning. 3, .
3TABBR INBUEST
lS EBNTINHEB
LAWTON. Mich, Dec. 3,—Tbe 1n—
qucst into the death of Miss. Maud
Tabor. brilliant student of languages
and literature. whose body was found.
Sunday jammed into an old trunk in.
the basement of her home here. was
resumed this morning, with Indica-
tions that after today’ 8 session an ad-
journment. will be taken for' a fort.
night. This will be done to enan’m
Dr. A. 2S. Wartbem. dean of the Patho-
logical department of the University
of Michigan. to intake 1: cavcf‘vl ever“-
uation of the vac-era o: the dead
The interior of an untenanted New Britain (ii—3:1 Indiflerg , .3
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Norwalk Chronicler