TEEN 1111133
SHED 1.870.
ER DA”
A PURSE
ITH $1,800"i
:eph’s Church Here
bered by His Dan—
arishioners
EAUDED IN
IT} Remembered for
, es Rendered During
nza Epidemic
ascph M. Daly, who was re-
}ointed assistant to Rev.
. Carroll, pastor of St. Jos-
rcb. South Main street, was
of honor at a farewell recep-
:‘1i~'hioners of St. Joseph's'
Mallblll} whele he was assist-
1' for ei'cht “’31.“.
1 the evening Father Duly was
ETATlON TAEHE
01 ed him Wednesday night, I
Entered'at the South Nor—v nlk Poet-
Offlce as Second-Clues Mall Mutter.
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SIXTEEN PADES
Snow tonight and Saturday.
TWO GEN T's
START NEW
YEAR TREE
OE DEBT;
'.'i.stant to Pastor 0f Reports 01' Sou—__th Norwa 1k Soviets Intend to Learn All
Congregational Church
Show Sum of $150 Left
After Year’s Expenses
Were Met
.ELEOTIONSTIELD
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Gratifying Statements Read
at First Congn‘egationai
Church of Norwalk ‘
Last night the South Norwalk Con-
gregational church held its l‘("’.lIl'll
business meeting This meeting was
one of the best attended that has been
Iheld in some time. The pastor Rev-
erend I‘. H. “lambs called the meet-
‘ing to order, and song and prayer fob.
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‘1 with a_ substantial purse. tllepoi-ts from all committees and
g to 31.800. {116' gift Ofllls f0r- organizations connected with the
shloners. Tl!g DI‘PSFMMTUYI church. excepting the Men's club,
, were made by Miss Alice
who represented the Chit-
fury, and Andlew V‘l'. Conuiff.
esented the church members.
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AHOED WITH
Prisoner Is Son of '
Methodist Portestant I
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XWICH, Jan. IG.—“'llen EnI
oost of this town. and Richard
If Port Chester, N. Y.. and hisI
ederick. were in court yesterm
he police disclosed another
ealing case. in which for a
, time $13,400 Worth of choice
- its. in the wine cellar of a.
' resident. had been taken.
three men are charged with
entered the cellar of Martin 31.;
. on the Dublin road. and steal-I
ench wines, champagnes, and
valued at $3,400. An officer
Port Chester, N. Y., saloon
sellingr liquor from packages!
g Sehultze‘s name. The seller ;
to have paid $430 caslhand a '
‘her-l. for tile liquor he had?
was .a portion of that offered?
.- men. The arrests followed. '
wt :1 son of Rm. Jacob g
l. pastor of the Mlanus Method-
oteitant. church.
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EOH BOESHEVIHI.
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attacks by Bolshevik forces'
st Lettish and Polish positions
. of the Dvinsk River have broken
after a desperate struggle in
1h Lettish forces played a promi-
part. according to an official
'ment issued at General Staff
uquarters: Polish troops launched
aunter-attack and inflicted severe
s upon the enemy, it is said. An
”tiled Bolshelik order indicated
:4 ~t.l( 1». V\ as intended to be decisive. I of Mecca. Temple, New York.
HN BARLEYOORN’S IZIONIST COMMITTEE
WARE A 31105133;
51'“ YORK_ Jan 16. ~The bibulous’
( l'lllt) in New Y,ork having BtflYEd
all night at the wake of John Bar-
0111 in the cafes and hotels along
“11." te Way, put on its deEDeSt
lning 1oday in preparation for the
T obsequies at midnight.
lillislicians were silent as to the.
U \hrinkage in the visible liquor;
111:» here as the result of
a
last
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;ed as church auditor.
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"Miss llelun Swartz was re-elected as
were read and approved.
port showed unusual activity and a
spirit. of nutrked earnestnes‘s. The
business committee reported the con-'
Edition of the finances to be in un-
ally good condition. and that the
1y ar closed with a large surplus of
ffunds. with which to start 1920. A
canvas was made in December and
lesulted in an inclease in the pledged
'suppmt of the church sufficient to
Every re-
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poems;
tlcputlnents without im-
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the election of officers
Charles St. John and Frank H. Glea-‘I
son were reelected to succeed them-
.selve‘s on the deacon's bonrd. ‘
0n the business committee Chris
tian Swartz “as re- -elc(ted to succeed
himself. Conrad I’.l'1ey was elected
to succeed Frank Lauder and “1H.
Ferris to succeed Charles ll. Hurlbutt.
Mr. «Lauder and 'Ml. llurlbutt each
had serVed two consecutive terms as
members of tre business committee
and (ould not he re elected.
Attomey Louis S. Beens was re-
elected to succeed himself as church
tlcasurer. Ml. Northrop was re-electv
Joseph H. Gor-
re~elected as chief usher.
Under
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Death of Benjamin Franklin Adams,
aged 53 years. on a railroad train, last
night, was caused by' apoplexy, ac-
cording to Medical Examiner George
Sherrill, 0f Stamford. today. Mr.
Adams was a bookkeeper in New
York, and lived in Rowayton. He was
'on his way home when stricken, the
body being taken off at Stamford, and
later identified. .
Mr. Adams had 1h ed for a number
of years in the former William R.‘
Lockwood place, Old King's Highan
and Raymond street. in Brookside.
and was quite well known in this sec-
tion. .He was of a quiet disposition;
but made a number of friends, all of.
Whom were. grieved today to learni ofI
his death. His cousin. Mr.
went to Stamford this morning I”to
have the remans brought to David W. I
Raymonds’ undertaking 1001113 in
South Norwalk.‘ Mr. Adams was a
.member of Varick Lodge. No. 31, of
Jersey City, and a thirty-second de-
gree Mason. He was also a member
NAMES DEEEDATES
Delegates to the state convention
to be held January 18, were elected at
a meeting last night of the executive
committee of the Norwalk district of
the Zionist association of America."
Mr. and Mrs.‘ Samuel Roodner, Mr-
ROSSIA Will
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EXAMINE All
AOITATORS
About the Undesirables
Now Being Deported
From America
FINLAND—MAY
NlNl LXEHANDES
Said to be Planning to Get
Political Prisoners Back
From ,Seviet Ra‘ssia
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GENEENI
AllIES w;
This, Even More Th'on' the
BRITISH OEEHHAES
No 11le
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DEMON ROM
Chief of Police Pennington
Says Liquor Situation in
OEBAOIE“
Threatened Overwhelm-
ing Attack Agail3t Po-
land, Preoccupies; Euro-
All' Norwalk Is Quiet—No
pean 1es Public Observance of
"Wake”
:W. O. T. U. OE CITY
TO ATTEND BANOUETi,
OAEEED TD PARTS
I Bolshevlkl Platst Whplmlel
Executions
tente Nations S'l‘ake :INo Signs on the Street of
er Steps Agni
I Break the Stillness
1 ONE ()N Jan 15. «Attention of t
lludiml agitatotr- (lepo. ted from Am-
or :c.\ will be carefully evamined be- I
tore they are permltu d to enter Rus-
l
Soviet. delegation at Dorpat, when in-
tervleWed on the subject a short time.
M. Klishke and his colleague. M. 3‘
Benkendorff. were asked what Russia:
Buford. They professed to be unin
formed on the subject, but said:
“Soviet Russia will not allow itself
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COMMISSIONERS OE
COUNT Y DISCUSS
EIOENSE REFUND
Question of Turning Back
Funds to Saloon Keepers
Aired at Meeting
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HARTFORD. Jan. 16.~—County com-
missioners of the state met here yes.
terday afternoon to discuss the ques-
tion of refunding license money to
liquor dealers who have een unable to
use their licenses because of war time
prohibition and because of the nation-
aJ prohibition amendment. Jacob D.
“'alter of Cheshire chairman of the
.New Haven county commissioners. ls
-chairman of the state organization,
and presides at the session today.
Advices from a trio of lawyers re-
tained some weeks ago bv a committee
from the state organization will be toI
the effect that rrtunds could be made
to dealers, who surrendered their
licenses cfore they expired. The
county commissioners as a whole do
not accept this view as a fair one and
it is known that it'would be decidedly
unfair to dealers outside of Hartford
and New Britain to act on the aavme
literally. Licenses in the towns out-
side of Hartford and New Britain e2:-
pired November 1, and while applica-
tions for renewals weré received and
advertised, no. new licenses were
granted pending the Settlement .of
questions linked up with war time
prohiition.
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BANDITS BATTLE
WITH BANH DEEHHS
NEW YORK“ Jan. 164—Three bandits,
battled with bank clerks in an inef-
fectual attempt to rob the MaphattanI
Savings Institution at Broadway and
Bleecker street, at. +1 o'clock this
morning.
Fully twenty shots were fired, but
none of them took effect. although a
score of patrons were in the bank
when the highwaym‘en made their at-
tack. One of the deaperadoee was
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POROEOfHAll‘ll-IN
East
cc.- 5th hart-
of the British Army and Navy are to-
lily
would do with the rad; cals being sent' conferring with
to E o n I
ul' pe 0 board the Soviet ‘ark" Inutteru in connection.
issuance of a semiolbclal statement
Iyesterdey pointing out the altuation
{that has arisen through {he-fidlfipm
of G n1 ml Dcnlklnea army '15 South-
ern Russia, and Bolshrvik penetrw
EX-SENATDR EVARTS
he llritiuh people is fixed on the Neart
V1 here recent Bolshevlk 3110- I
~ . T anyone. in Nel'u‘alk br kc lt '
carried the 'Ruseian Red, T ' O I 1““
sin. according to a statement. made to, . . . , ~ . end subbed. or shell bitter tears
the correspondent of The laseciutedfixm? 18:1n1miie§311$2niifezggdnginii§ fover the wake Of. John Barleycorn.
Pes.b'M.Kli.' ,. L ““1 - ' . ‘ ', 1 .h" "..'.:dth' hthir
r q 3 Silkt. secret try of 1110 Turkey. Cabinet members and chiefs last nght t (} passe long er
emotional crises in privacy.
Iwas any gnashing of teeth. 01 nuugn—
ty W‘otds ejaculated in harangue
hinglng on “one's poisonal llbtlties
indignant gentlemen didnt (noose
street-caters or house tops to wail
their meloncholv dil'ges against 'usy-
bodies" and "meddlers." In short,
there “as no geenral observance in
whither they were has-
,V'estenduy. and are
President pavld
military and naval
it is belleted,
conditions in Southern Asia
Apprehension was arousal] by the
in Paris,
summoned
lay
.loyd Geotge on
.lletnon Rum. to quote one of many
atlases.
W" or
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;ccurse. there “me priVate parties last
might. and a few aching heads this
.momlng. but the contents of a me .'
[cellar is his own lookout and net 1 1 -
’ Inulflma business. One or too :1‘1'31
[W0 Klllfn AND; Night patrolmen on beats in the c '1.
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little affairs are scheduled for ton; 5 .1
Iters of the city Were not disturbed in
their rounds last night by 1111.“
mounrners who bayed at the moon or
Icomplalned confidentially of the heav-
[lug sidewalks of \\ ater street “00d
SCORES. HURT le . ..
NEW HAVEN DRE
the city.
A large delegation o the membels
of the Norwalkfirancho the Vt C. T.
300 Tenants of C. of C.
Building Leap Into Fire
Nets, Descend Fire Lad-
U, will go to Bridgeport tonight to at-
tend a prohibition banquet. and the
ders or Jam Fire Escape
meeting scheduled for today will not
be held
The “victory" celebration in Bridge-
port will take place at 6: 30 o‘clock in‘
the Y M. C. A Golden Hill street.
Hon. William Shaw Boston. for many
years secretary of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor, who made a;
strong run for gournor on the Pro
Ihibition tickct, in Masanchusetts, will
“be. among the speakers.
CONGRESS 111 111111 ;
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.EOSES HIS EIEE.
Nichols Everli, Engineer,
Also Dies in Boiler Explo-
sion--Secy. Julin Saves‘ N 1 111—1111 cum
Girls—$150,000 Damage ImevgtAgEitIllizegg'lgSent :gssion by Jjunefi
lwae predicted yesterday by Republi—
NEW HAVEN,Jan.16—-Tvm men [can Loader Mondell and Speaker on-
are dead, a dazen men and women are lett in the House
in hospitals suffering from the efféc‘tsI This date was set so as to give the
of smoke and a score of others have Republicans time to gather at Chicago
minor injuries as a result of a fire in for the national convention. Both
the Chamber of Commerce buildiugl 011119“ and MT Gillett believe
yesterday afternoon. Fully 100 men [the work of Congress can be complet-
and women were rescued from the ed so that Congress will not need toI
three upper floors of the eleven awry reconvene during the time betwent
structure. The property loss will 13-»
gregate $160, 000 falling mostly upon
M. Steiner-t Sens. piano dealers. and
J. [R embert company. stationers.
who had the street floor stores, and
whose reserve stock burned. The
dead are:
Charles W. Evarts of Milford, New
»Haven County Health one”; Yale
Low School, '07, and twice a me be: oedthat. he would withdraw a: a can-
01 the General Assembly, and N ol~ dinette tor the presidency of the re-
38 1317811“. 8!! engineer: of the build public. He used his supporters to
3118- Info iot- President Be. at! Poincare
Overcome by ,
Smoke.
Of those overcome by smoke. Hrs.
Jane Thompson was reported in a.
serious condition at a hospital. A m
enofthoeeaffeetedbysmnkemre
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House Will Finish by ThenI
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Clemenceau Withdraws
From Presidenial Rgce
PARIS, Jan. 16 (Associated Press)
-—-Premier Clemenceau today announ-
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magnum-Wm, Premier
Wham. withdrewntnhlu
m.
WASHINGTON Jen 1.8 —Unlt'édde
and Mrs. Robert Joselovsky and Jo-
seph Bobrowsky were appointed. .
Samuel Roodner was chairman of
the meeti lust ht, Jose 1r ‘
mllattended preliminary serfim k vim and ”I,“
States marines and Raffle}: genom-
éfle el‘ter‘de’y repelléd on much on
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firemen.
The uremkeoutinthebumut
tndwnsdleoovered m
aolut Mantis? caucus of the
;a putter {chine W
Chamber of Deputies io—
mane; burst
Wgteflal.
France. Great Britain, Italy.
Belgium, Spain,
'lEAOUE OE NATIONS HOLDS .
HRST MEETING IN. STOCK ROOM
PARIS, Jan 16 —Reprcsentat1ves of ter of Industry, Commeice, Labor and
Japan and Brazil,
Greece, Food, for Italy;
gian Foreign Minister, for Belgium;
Paul Hy mans. the Bel~
members of the Council of the League Baron Matsui, Ambassador to France.
or Nabons, met in the “clock room’ for Japan; Dr. Gaston da Cunha, Am,
of the French Foreign Office; at ten bnssadm to Fx once. for Brazil; -Count
11‘ there ‘
Norwalk over the official intermem of 3
Chief of Police “'llliam R. Penning-1
id the ll uor situation in Nor-‘
top 83 9 -home of Mrs. Charles Hill, West ave-
o’clock this mowing, for the first.
meeting in the histoty of the League
The Council organized at 10:30
oclock by electing Leon Bourgeois
chairman and confliming the choice
of Sir Eric Drummond. of Great Bl'll
am, as General Secretary.
The fi1~t official act of the League.
Council “as the appointment of a
‘commission to trace upon the spot the
flouticrs of the territorV of the Sarrc
“Basin.
All the members of the Council call-l
ed f01 by the Covenant of the League,
[with the exception of the representa—
of the Uni ted States, were pre"-I
' lento when M Bourgeois called the meet-
B1 \ldPS M. Bourgeois,I
fi'lé
ling to older.
‘rn: members were diam Cnrzon,
j Mourners, and FCW‘ SObS Blitish Fmeign Secr'zctat) for Greatiin part:
Britain. Premier \enizelos, for
"Gleece; Carlo Fctrarls, italian \li nis
OONN LAWS THAT
AEEEOT WOMEN
Judge John H. Light Deliv-,
ers Address to D. A. R.‘
Members at Home of Mrs.
I Charles J. Hill
The D. A. R. Chapter met at the
nue. yesterday.
large.
At the business meeting. at which
the regent, Mrs. “'ay; presided, sever-
al generous donations for benevolence
V'a~' voted for. Hon. J. H. Light was
the speaker for the day." His subject.
was: "Connecticut Laws That Affect
\chan." I
The address was instructive and en-
to. -:t ining He gave a review of theI
ea; _\ Colonial law and the evolution
of law in general, tlacing its develop-
ment from the severe rigidity and
stricturc.‘of‘the good old Colony days.
to the laxity and Iiberality of the pres-I
cm agc-—one cxtreme,f0110Wed by an-;
other-and. in particular, as regard».
the keeping of the Sabbath day and;
church attendance
The attendance was
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lelCAGO. 1.111. lerrarginald De'
ox'cn, American optlatic composer
and conductor, died here early today
of apoplexy.
Mr. De Keven w. 10 had been here‘-
for several weeks superintending the
production of his opera ‘Rip Van Win-
kle' was attending a dinner at theI
Ihome of Mrs Joseph Fish when he
suddenly became ill He died withinl
a few minutes. The body was takenI
to,the home of a brother-inlaw, Rob-I
ert G. McGann I
Mr. De Koren was the founder of
[the Washington Symphony Orchestra June, 1919: Nathaniel
He Nova]: and Frances W t
of which he also was conductor.
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:were perfect in attendance
Quinones de Leon, Ambassador to
'F ranc c,f01 Spain.
Pieuliei Lloyd George, of Brent Brlt- ' '
aln, and \' scount Grey . ot Fallodon,
Blitish Ambassador to the United
Stair 4 dlopped into the meeting at an
[Calh Melee. Mr. Lloyd George soon
1(111<dllOV\"'.eVe1 Viscount Grey re-
mained and was 1m itcd to a front seat.
These vu- 19 the only visitors of note.
Premici \ (n: 'zelos. without rising,
iopt nod the illoceedings by nominating
M. Boulgeois fm chairman. Lord Cur-
zon seconded the. nomination and M.
Bourgeois was unanimously elected.
In his speech of acceptance, M. Bour-
I geois predicted that Jan. 16 1920.
would go dov n in history as the date
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1-HOED UP MAN
NOT IDENTIEIED‘
'Second of Robber Pair Is
Still at Large
I BRIDGEPORT. Jan. 16.»~No identi-
fication has been made of a young
'man who died from a bullet wound.
“'ednesday night, after being shot by
Joseph P. Strank, manager of the Univ
ed Bond (.‘bmpany. in the midst of an
attempted holdup in the company of-
fices. Comm 1' John J. Phelan held an
inquiry and then adjournement to give
the pom-e opportunity between now
and Monday to find out something
about the man.
This dead man has tattoo marks on
his arms and body. The mark on his
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NlNlll YEAR PUPILS
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The following program was given at
the morning assembl y of the Franklin
'Juniot High school, by the 9th year
pupils today:
William Howard 9th yeal pupil, an-
nounced the program
Reading—“The Young Man in Busi-
ness"—llelcn Hayden.
Recitation ~--— "Good Americanism"
Richard Madden.
French National Antiwar—“The Marb
seillaise""Fr1-incli clauses.
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>"’l‘he Week's Anniversaries“—~Harold
Ian'is'.
Song .. “Dear Heart" —— Geraldine
Clark. Pansy Richards, Sophie Berg,
Ruth Yarian and Lillian Reardon.
Recitation “At the Matinee"—Fran-
ces Deitz. '
Piano Solo—"Carolling of the Birds."
Awarding of “Certificates of Perfect
Attendance"—-Princlpal D. A. Green.
The following pupils of the 9th year
in the
Franklin school for the year ending
opkins, Louis
Community Singing—~Led by Miss Mc-
Curthy.
1MAYOB DONOVAN WHITEWASHES HIS
ADMINISTRATION. O
In the speech before the City Coun-
cil, Tuesday evening, Mayor Donovan
said, referring to the Norwnlk public
schools: “Every building in properly
‘and modernly eq pped with the best
sanitary condltj
Then, why did the Board of mar
tlon adopt a motion, made by the city
health encore. at a. recent meeting
chum work of remedying the meet
Imam we: of bed sanitation be in-
medlntely. untied-ken? ‘
Beumtheennltoflonlnmrot
ybod.
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[AIMS OEORIES THAT
ARE NOT le, SAY Nilulll 11111111513
as those who have already done this.
They will find at Lincoln school, for
instance, that the sewerage construe-
tlon is so defective that, during tho
thaws, every spring, the surface water
floods the sewers and forces the new-
age back into the basement of tho
building. At Broad River they will
find that the mayor "modern equip-
ment" and "best sugary conditions”
wimp no plumbing whatever. At Cent»
or. one worn out, rusty urinal ll 00
fenelvely endeavoflng to do the work
boys'buemont: ”Gammon us-
mm. 60 diam that mode ureter
endmedflenmitmcmfleu
comp rise on 01(14er out-hem. '
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