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ESTABLISHED 1870.
Entered at tho South Now-lit Post-
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BOARD OF DD 3
‘1 I‘T‘SOIUIIOD. was presented by Dr.
11:31.11; C. Shcrer, a]. the meeting of the
Board of Education.‘*last night, calling
for the appropriation from the con-
1111;; ency fund an amount not to ex-
~1 cod $250 ‘fox the purpose of employ-
111g legal counsel to compel the mayor
Uer‘ugh such court process that max
he. necess my, to call a special meeting
of the Board of Appmtionment and
.Taxation to hear the request of the
1 of Education for sufficient ad-
ditional funds. so that each teacher,
principal. head of departments, super-
rvih'ors and superintendent, be increas'
led $2200 in salaries for this year.”
The resolution follows:
vi'hereas. That upon the 4th day of
November, 1919, at a regular meeting
1.” the Board of Education of the city
or, 11011111111 Conn” 11 motion was unan-
jun-usly passed requesting the mayor
.213 call a special meeting of the Board
of Apportionment and Taxation, for
711w purpose of hearing the request of
1111.- ToWn Teachers' Association, of a
.11 1.1 increase of $200 each, to the 139
Anchors, on account of the high cost ‘
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of living; and,
“ heieas, The secretary of the Board
couldn’t Whip Strongest:
of Education 111.011.1111; 10th day of Government on Earth,
November. 1919, communicated this
motion from the Board of Education Secretary Green says:
to his honor, the mayor, in wrihng; .While Delegates Applaud
“and
V‘Vhereas, No meeting of the Board
'of Apportionment and Taxation has
been called to hear the request of the
teachers; be it therefore
Resolved, That this Board of Erin—2
cation appropriate from the conting-,
ency fund of its budget an amount not
to exceed $250 for the purpose of em-
ploying legal counsel to compel the
mayor through such court proces».
talit may be necessary, to can a spe—
cial meeting of the Hound of Appm I
tlonment and Taxation, to hem the!
1equest of the Board of Education for
-sun‘lcient additional funds, so tfit;
each teacher, principal, head of depart-1
ments, supervisors and superintendent
be increased $200 salary for this year.
That the “most competent instruct:
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SEDIIES ACIIDN
DE DAIIHEID
Declares '1‘ uel Administrator
Served Coal Operators
Faithfully ahd‘WelI .
COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 7.—~~'l'he Unit-
ed Mine Viiorken-s of America in con.
vention here today ratified the action
of the int national officers in swept-
ing President \Vilson‘s proposal to
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The annual meeting of“. Bose
(‘ompanv 11115:. held last a? at the
tion of officeis being as f
Captai n——Svivester W.
headquarters in Water strut. tho clen-i “‘3 C- A K
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Real Leader of the Commun-
ist Party Is Said to Be in
Washington, and Likely to
Be Arrested Soul
'IIIIIEE DDNDIIED
17600 Persohs Are Known to Be Dead in Couzatluh, all!
Thirty at Teocelo, Where Three Churches and Forty
Houses Wer‘c Destroye d—Jl‘hree Slight Shocks Yol-
tcrday
MEXICO CITY, Jan
possibly thousands~ of lives were last
as a result of the earthquake Iwhich
shook the State of Vera Cruz Satur-
day night. So widespread was the,
damage done by the shock and so wild I
are some of the sections that suffered
7 —-Hundreds Mahauxtlan and Tiapanala, ~ Willi.
mam ranches am under water. BMW
«ranca Giande and Los Simone: on
also suffering from floods, it is rem
ed from Vera Cruz. Twenty bodied
have been recovered from the Peon;-
dos at .lalcomulco and Apasapan.
There were thigee slight shocks yol-
tcrduy. according to information given
Hearings in Cases of 506
M11 field at Ellis Island
:Have Begun
\VASHINGTON. Jun.
for the arrest and deportation of bud-,1
Martens,
the R
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ambassador of”
F1131 Lisutenant—Jam Rooney.
end the coal strike on 11 14 per cent.
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State Department Urges
Slayers Be Captured and
Punished
WASHLNGTON, Jan. 7.—-Gabriele
Porter, an American citizen in the em~
pmv of Penn- Mex Company, was shot.
,1 m1 killed by a Mexican Federal Army
officet, at Tuxpam. on December 21,
.1ccmding to advices leceived by the
State Department today f1 cm the Am-
erican Consul at Tampico.
The Consul immediately was order-
led to report further information and.
if the circumstances warranted, .40
urge the local authorities in the Tam-
pico district to arrest and punish the
gurlty person.
This makes a total of t“ enty Amer-
in ms killed in the Tamgco/district by
Mexicans since Apiil 7,1917. Eight—
you of them weie employes of An1er~
iom oil companies.
Yesterday the consul at Tampico
reported the murder of F. J. Honey
and Earl Bowles. oil men employed" in
1,1111 Tampico fields. The State Depart-
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'HARTFORD, Jan. 7,—The final 'ac-
hon necessary to be taken under the
law of 1919 to makethe" American Le-
gion the sole-distributor of the in-
come of the fund of $2,500,000, which
tho‘statute directs to be invested in
United States securities for the care
of soldiers and sailors of the late war
And their dependents was taken yes-i
telday by the Board of Control when
it foxmally approved the by-laWS of
the 01 ganigation The Legion will not.
receive any money until March 1,
when the half yearly interest on the» the churches will be vizualised in or-
1.3110 000 which is invested in United der that a remedx mav be applied 10:1
States bonds, which yield a return of the “wasting 0f 5911111131 energy the
;our and threequarters per cent, is
payable It will then receive $11. 875.
The Legion.wiil have an annual in-I
(01119 of $118, 750 to disburse. “The ill-l
vestment is not yet complete and it’NEW HAVEN SALOON
:1: 1y be a question of several months.I
1101 111 e it is.
Bulgarian Government";
Tenders tRemgnation
COPENHAGEN Jan: 7.~— h ‘
garian Government has res I
Socialists are trying to form 8. Cabin
under the leadeishlp of Dr. 8 no If
ioimer Premier and Minist L
leign Affairs, according t‘
patch filed yesterday. .
A semi-ofi’icial statement
fuc Bulgarian capital» sfut
. she-vii: band attacked
buliwsky, whenlio
Belgrade. whens
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inc1ease basis and a commission to
draw up a new wage agreement. I
The vote was taken just before«
noon after Acting President ,LewisI
had made a plea for ratification TheI
vote was taken on the motion by:
President Murray of the PennaylvM-
nia mlners‘ organization that the re-I
£0131;ng the internutiohal Mambo ‘
(Scented According to Acting Presi
dent Lewis, the ratification carried
with it acceptance of any award to be
made by the presidents cummissipn.
The vote was 1.639 h‘stmcatiou to
221 against.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 7—Acting
Will Cause Sensation inal’resident Johi’i L. Lewis was to ad-
dress the international convention of
New England the United Mine Workers of Americo
, at its closing session here today in
PORTSMOUTH 1‘“ 11- Jan 7-—The, defense of the action of the national
fortune of an e\- convict, a man of 111-. officers in accepting President Wil
fluence at Washington. ““1059 identity son’s proposal for the settlement of the
must for the present be hidden by the‘ strike after the miners had refus
sobriquet 0‘ the “Gray Brother,” has to return to work in obedience to to
been tendered to Thomas Mott Os- mandate of Federal Judge Andersone
borne, lieutenant- commander, in of Indianapolis. '
charge 0‘3 the United States Navy] it “as the concensus of opinion that
piison here. to finance a campaign for .folioning Lewis‘ address, the canyon.
putting several State prisons and pen-1 tion would vote to affirm the action
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Calls It One of Worst Places
in Country—Says Facts L
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cording to the statement issued by' abide by the deals on of the coal com-
Mr OSbm'ne here yesterday. Imission, appointed by the President,
Ev my effort was made yesterday 1,0 am.“ a final dettlement
afternoon to get 'Mr. Osborne to di-: Secretary Green told the
vulge the name of the benefactor to 21 1 day
convicts without success. He simply 00 delegates ate Tues that
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itentiaiies upon a humane basis, ac- of the ofl‘lcers and thereby agree to-
Second Lieutenant -‘-‘- Theodore
Bmtherton. ‘
Financial Secretary'vFrederick C.
Reldcll.
Recording Secretary—walker: Lax:
Tmasurer—Arthur Keliéy.
The reports showed 11111 company
one of the oldest In the city, in in a
:vcry flourishing condltlog. 111111 a large
'mcnibu-shlp and a sand: , ' la the
treasury.
11m ‘i-oted to organize I met-
bull team and Charles Smith has been
elected captain, and Edward Euson,
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PAIIII LAND SDII
WIII DE IAN-EN ID'
SUPREME EDDIII
The next stop to be taken in the
famous suit of the City of Norwalk
against the Norwalk investment Cour
puny is the taking of an appeal from
the “finding of the committee, u out-
lined in The Sentinel yesterday. to the
Supreme Court ,Thc particular griev-
ance of the Bridge Construction
Committee is the charging of interest
for the full value of the property since
36. 000.
resent 1he construction committee.
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orw anlk ultry Association will open
IJanuary 15, in the Assembly Hall.
Jan, 7.:—-0ne Wall street. Entries will close Jan-
Protestant Iuary 9 and local exhibitOrs are warn-
ATLANTIC CITY,
thousand prominent
log that body on the case.
Superior, Court committee made then;
this me: sing conferred with members
original report some time 8801 a r
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ant religious peiiodicals gathered time. Many prizes will be offered and}
here yesterday for a three days con- awards Will be made on the first day
ference, having fpr its main purpoge of the show, January 15. The exhibit
“the welding of P1otestantsdenomina :iwfll cont‘nue “’0 days thereafter
tions for the evangelization of that Turkeys, 89859 ducks and 9011!"!-
world " The conference has been call or all breeds will be exhibited The
ed by Robert Lansing, Secretary of Judges,
State, who is chairman of the general elude. ,W
committee of the Interchurc‘h World Challes F KeHnne Greenwich. NE
Movement under whose auspices the E Sprague: West Norwallt. The offl-
sessions will be held- 112ch of the Nomad}: Poultry Wil-
For the first time, 11 is said, the co “011 8.1m John 8- Bales. president:
:ommation or lack of loo-ordination of OWscar Schultz vicepresldent: Hymn
Osborn. secretary and treasurer;
William H,‘ Thies, superintendent. <
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’ANSDNIA, Conn Jail 7—?ape‘rs n ’
a suit for $10, 000 were served «pm.
James Lacey; a New Haven s‘a ,
keeper, today. by Deputy Sheriff Pass: 11
McNerney, at the instance of M ' ,
no 13111111; Widow of mobile! 11'.
lives of the workers and the money of
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$115
churchmen and 150 editors of Protest~ ed to set their entries In prior to that.
Ime
I A busy year is being planned
byp
mbex-s of the Tif’nlty Young Men’s
Club who have been ‘coinforubly es-
241111115113} in their new and commodi-
memes: in America, mu m- nus club rooms, on Washington strcehf
Card, Manchester: ‘
CA1: last night’s meeting Wesleyé
bombers, Clarence gather and
Charles Mead were appointed a per-
went investigating commitficc and
it was announced that there are
,twalva prospective members who bani
applied for membership. A gift DfIéVsI-
tothc 1:111in
other new ~
'_ furniture has bear installed iii. the
dance in thereon Assembly Hutlast' EVP'"‘"'
Ion 171311111” been modeto
by 11mg W. Raymond,
new rooms.
roman 1111111 swamps
13.11le
1911 which amounts to approximately
Attorneys Light &. Light who rep-
the 1
IIAVE BDSESEASDN
(d by the Department of Jusxice
, Martens who is regiirded 117111.11.“
158111.111! the real leader of the (‘om
imunish Party in
.was we to be in Washinglon.
arrest Was expected soon.
Determination of the governmen!
to take Martins into comedy “as
definitely" made. after all cvidcn
‘Ibea-rlng on the activities of 11133
i111182111 Sovie. Blnau in News lork“
Md Wen assembled by Assistant
:‘izgnorncyacnem Gan-van. While
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His
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SDI’I. WINCHESTER
IN THE SENIDDE
" EDII 34 YEARS
Albert E. Winchester superintend-
ent of the South Norwalk Electric
'Light plant and honored among high
, ectrical men the country over as on
ie per: in his line and the "father" and
guiding spirit of one of the most is.-
Imous and prosperous municipal plants
in the United States will observe his
morrow.
'Whenn lad of
become associate
8, Mr. Winchester
with Thomas E.‘
ventive genius, and there won wide-
spread notice as the 3111111213“ memberI
of the neginocring department of the
“w r man's”- plant.
was
"Our ‘“’in"
he took hold of the downtown plant.
there ever since.
forces, the young. electrical engineer
resided in Norwalk, and took an act;
five out in the protests 1:3ng agapist
Ithe inferior electrical se no then- in.
convemencing the public and he with
General Taylor, Edwin Adams,1Mayor
1Jeremiah Donovan, quietly worked
Itoward an efficient solution of the
pressing problem.
Mi! Winchester took charge of the
new phat at its opening, on October
13. 1882,:1111 has been at the helm for‘
the post '27 years,gn1d1ng it. through
its trials and successes.
PIEADANI IIDDSE .,
SDDIEII DAD DANCE
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111m Thumthcmstofasefie-
onions
“r... “whims“
“am mmmm
{of casualties will never be knoWn.
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TAKEN AI IINDDIIA
7...} warrant . where three churches and“ forty hous—
self-styled 1
sian sovie1§Cofre dc Perite. from which point to‘
government, has been onion-d exec-111 ithe volcano of Oiizaba the shock seem
the United 8 ales. ~
33rd anniversary “in theservice" to:
Edison, the electrical wizard and in-
nifiliatcd 10 or 12
years with the Edison inter-,esle “hen
back in 1892, and has been on the job,
While still a member of the Edison‘
dobomudtbcrema
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from it that it is probable the number out vesterdav a, the astronomical ob-
scrvaiory at Tacobay, a suburb at
Private dispatches received here Mexico (-1”. They were so feeblethnt
‘from Vera Cruz and Janna state that
1,090 persons lost their lives at Cou~
nation. These reports, which are said
at both cities to be reliable, confirm
information given out last night by
presidential military headquarters.
Thirty lives were. lost at Teoceio.
ments. Subterranean noises are‘
waste near this city, and great each
have appeared in the earth. Wm
returning here from Vera Cruz W
some streams Were dried up In a 1'0-
sult of the shock and it is feared M
many mills near Orlzaba which 0111-
,pend upon water power will be: com-
pellcd 10 close.
Seveial oil wells near Tuxpam hon
rid ‘3 center, according ‘0 rumors been looming pelioieum since 1M
“00d “at?” pou1ing 50““ the P9303 vartliquakv, am oxding to advices from
dos Rixcr have inundated lshuacandxma C1uz.
IPAIS DEIDI, DDD ACDNIINDED DAIN
DE MDIIIDAIIE DNI IN WAD SAVINDD
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I poms for clown months of the roll
' Ifrum the leading cities in New Enr-
R990!“ read last n ght at “19 1111-} land show :1 steady and continuea can.
1111al meeting of the Woman's Guild,“ 1n w,“ saying; and 1mm; stamps 1‘.
11 Trinity Episcopal chuich, showéed Novpmbm figums being 939801.”,
11:11 organization to havo had the best gldllHInR 11H“ idence still how. an
""1" financially. in 1919 ”"337 l"34“31‘11311d in per capita investment with
" ‘ ' ‘md. Among other tlings. they Hartford second. The Rhode island
111 off $1,000 on the Tiiniiy l“"0(101,\ . 1111111011011 3 is (mailed with a grand
1/»1 cage. total oi $1 070 879 and a per capita 111.
"I A 6 meeting last night the follow- ves tincnt 01 $4 1“. Hal tfold had; in-
in; inunbeis of the board of directms Vckivd to tho and of November, 3240'.
,‘11’9‘10 named: Mrs. Samuel W. Hoyt, . 230. and has a per capita credit of
J1 , Mrs. VJ. W. Lester, Mrs. 'Rufus $2.12 '
Sm'un, Mrs. George ‘Wardeu, Miss Nel-1 ‘
ic Leonard; Mrs. William 0. McLean.I
secretarx: Miss Carrie Foster, treas—
urer. This morning the boaid of di-
lectozs held an organization session
and elected Mrs. Samuel W. Hoyt, Jr,I
p rsident, and Mrs “K W. Lester, vice-:
.. president. I
The following heads of chapters
cs were destroyed.
Volcanic eruptions have. occurred at
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Continued on Page Twelve.
WARNS AGAINST
POLISH IMMIGRATION
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NEW } ORR, Jan 1. ”A warning but
Igone out from headquarters of tho
Amenr an i1 \\1sl1 Relief commit“).
against the practice of American:
writing to their relatIVes in Poland.
advising them to emigrate to 1m
'coumn which .11 present is impeach-
blc.
"Main' linen-m es 11111 bring caused
by {hr un'oundvd bvliet' that [9.me
can co. no to A1111 1ica," the jcmt die-
In il:11ti1n (11111111111111. malt-s. {10111 ro-
.‘polls 1 teixed hom its commiiuio‘hcm
Several hundred. Womni flom all in Poi .nd “They sell theii b1 ons-
parts of the town this moming hurried inns, tome lo \\a1saw,thlni¢ing that
through the breakfast dishes. shooed thex 0.111 £101an 11.1w poms to Ameticu.
the children off to school and “’aband0n- I and th- -10, in \l. arsaw nelplt-ss, with
cd their house work, no matter how! out sheltei Oi lCSOIliCeH, they are
pressing. to hurry to the morning pet-L stranded. ”
fonnhnco, in. the Palace The optiefi ls.dme Hershiicld. dire our
where they consulted Clayton the ish relief w01k, in Poland, is confor-
:mystic," queried about what the future ring with the Polish (foyexnumnt and
holds for them. asked to have unravel- with Hugh Gibson, Ame icun Minia-
ied past baffling problems. and delved 111. with reference to the
info perplexing present difficulties. Ifrom l" cloud of relatives of Americas
The crystal-gazing and question~an-, citizens. Both the Atom 1cm Ministor
Aswerlng session was "for Women only ” and Consul at Warsaw die inquirinc
and women in all ages and various‘ Into possible transport [amines for
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walks of life filled the show house to ’ these .needy people, “hen emigration .‘
,optns up, accmding to Mr Hex-shite".
capacity.
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1 wasmno'ron Jan. 7. ~th star-:be quite as interesting as that or W
tout between the Resident and Col. really oontroverted. have ohm
mm 3.
11mm chic! executfvm who was theIthat there Was any real and
chief adviser of an Administration‘monn\ purpose to mite the would
W with m defer- or for democracy. .1
‘eoccflnt ctme’mbersbytbopo- New, itsnoaidthntcol,
nun: out of the White House only will frown on a. min 7
"‘Itioncodfiodflnuctm‘wm- that he will not fire bk».
on; limo» 11m» ionizer on any of the court tumult. _
the President. Cause mmtntionm for W W
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they could be detected only by insult-1.,” ,
noticeable in the Pedrenl, o w_ ‘
), Jan. V —Gfihvlm‘ 1'0-1' T:
1E 59% .’
migration .
les are in circulation concerning the 113m Bullittt whose disolosumfl. m
House, who our many the hollowaess or the 11mm W
months was recorded at sort of no I'open covenants were openly “fit"
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