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"EPORT, April 20.-Police
ioners last night indefinitely
ed Superintendent of Police
nd detailed Assistant Super-
t of Police Charles F. Suck-
he his place. The actim fol~
decision reached at a lengthy
of the commissioners with
liflord B. Wilson, yesterday
ntendent Hedgate's suspen-
«es as a culmination to charg-
- by Mayor Wilson that there
, ks in the department, which
, to bring in 150 detectives
lfiEPlllil PtlLlBE HEAD
SUSPENIIEB‘AS BLIMAX ~ .
intendent John H. Redgate Replaced Temporarily
y Assistant Charles F. Suckley—aAction Taken by
ommissioners and Wilson‘ ’
Redgate, head of the local 31‘
titular Bl ‘MAlllli
Ln e. a 5:911“
iron: 1; New York agency to conduct
sweeping raids on gambling and al-
leged disorderly houses Saturday
ht.
Following the suspension or Super-
intendent oi Police John H. Redcate.
last night, Charles H. Suckley, acting
superintendent, assumed control of
the department today. No further de-
velopments in the wholesale Vic-e
clean-up have been made public.
In the Police court, today, trwo alleg-
ed proprietors of houses raided, Sat.-
urday night, forfeited bonds 0! $150
each, and three frequenters pleaded
guilty and ‘were lined $10 and COL-its
each.
atrium
lllllllll riiwws
-.. to Increase the Fa-
ies at Croton in the
a r Future
> . d-
1“. lll'.\i st-Ssion ol‘ the. (iraud
0- (Mid Follows. a resolution
pl‘esoulr-d \lhit‘lt Will provide
-. tmzmrinsr of i.- plan to increasi-
l {myu'hcro hour 35 grout a r.»
or the money sprm, .'\.' thr- sunr-
the present horn» is not large
h to arcmnmodaw mow who are
e admission from all parts ol
rislalriion, and proviison must be
to accommodate them.
. ilebclcahs ot‘ the Siatt- have
1 several thousand dollars tor the
lilt.‘ home and the Odd Fellows
to complete that project by the
on 01' ll modern brick slrucluie.
- ch the residents nho l'Q'(]lll|'l‘
nr r-nrt- can he looked iiilt‘l in
lie: :zalislatmi)
r. out be explained to tho grand
1p. l‘onncrticut would luinish all
0 Mods that (ll‘t' necessary
the improvements and
to 'be little possibility that the
on, as sentiment in this jurisdic-
cems to be favorable to the most
actory service that can be ren-
'RESTEI] 0N lWil
inaugurates
. Ka‘therine Kovacs, 37 years old.
'ohn Krascko, 45. were arrested
.ou~:e in Smith street, last night,
in; at Police William R. Penning-
nd Detective Sergeant Thomas
Two serious statutory charges
return-d ilgullSl. the couple, who
released in hail of $100 until Sat-
murning, when they will be
in vhe (‘in court. They have re‘
. Judge Joseph R. Taylor‘as their
l. .
u‘ :m of the police was first at-
-o to Mrs. Kovacs' home, several
: am, when a Springwood Wt)-
tflllv'd there in the effort to per-
ho-r husband to leave the place.
Woman alleged Mrs. Kovacs
on her, and threw her out of the
echo is said to have a wife and
.1 children living in Hungary.
Kovacs, Who came to Nor-walk
Darien. :1 short time ago, has
hildrcn and is a widow.
Refining Co.
. In Danger of Fire
- erwalk Fire Department was
out at 9 o'clock this morning to
t r fire near the Gulf Refining
nu. on Butler street. It started
= {use lots near by and quickly
1 to the fences and the outside
- r was» on the place. The fire-
l. w. chemicals and brooms, ex~
: g the blaze in a short time.
.; w“ expressly advises everyone
‘I"‘-t;~'ually careful as to where
hrow 1r alt-hes or cigar and ciga-
‘..m:.. as the grass is in such can-
nms that it will burn at the least.
.avion. "‘
. .~_____— .—
at Massacre of 3,
Denikine Men Reported
-.\'i~2. Apri l 20.—Polish news-
z“rived here give reports
iliirrlan source that after the
.sl of Restov and Novorossisk
Jr Tiolsx‘ieyiki the Red Army
Pit mom than 3.000 m,“
S " “amines mymfl. ‘ '
b and prisons or an
tut '
there.
'il', be the subject of serious op»;
.ath-nipts to revise the
with Germany are ‘ lorymen.
coolies blew up bridges, Ctit telephone
wires and did other damage to prop-
erty.
to the veteran members of the:
iii WW 1
-by M.
BflMMUlEIl souls
'llME PlilllllEM Wllll.
. WAlE_ll_[li_i “Anus
llavid J. Shaw. Summitt. street,
.knovsn in Norwalk as a mechanical
'genins. has solved the time. confusion
that has irritated and inconvenienced
,commutors from this city to New
Sills iii sun
ltlSl or
destination. and the plaintiil.’ seeks its
recovery through the bank. Papers
were tiled yesterday by Deputy Sheri!
Nelson Benedict.
INDIAN Elltlllli
ing and fierce lighting marked
strike of Indian coolies in the Fiji isl-
ands late in February. according to ad-
\’i( cs. The disturbances did not ceasel tended by Norwglk to all the .m9n;
until a Government yacht arrived from‘
New, Zealand with artillerymen and
‘Vni‘l' hv the ‘simple yet original ex—
“-1
hil\r , been sddly dis-l
u
ll‘C I" nun 4 .._.
.llill|}' schedules
Uitlul‘t (l.
t A brass hand adjusted it} Mr. Sll;l\'.'t
to his “mt-h, gin-s daylight time. and:
illic original hand shows
Standard time. Watch dealers who
have inspected the novel investiou
Have Mr. Shaw credit for an invention
{not thought of by men in “the trade.”
.lltiESNlllW. , t
manner. Thule '
mztll assessment on the lll("ll|l)l‘l'»‘, TREATY REVISE"
i
l
- l‘AillS. April 20 (Havnsl.~.»-De-
amands that the allies during the San
ileum meeting this week. resists all
terms
lVersailles treaty
imade by Raymond
president of thr- French
an article published by the Malin.
France and Belgium hivve been “de~
piived of guarantees" by the failure
of Great Britain and the United
States to put, the tripartite convcn
tion into operation, he says, and the
Poincare. former ?
Republic. in
‘l..cngue of Nations is as yet without
t Premier Millerand is congratulated
Poincare for the wisdom he1
means of action. ?
2
4
showed in pursuing a “wise policy in,
Iview of the necessity of stopping thci
fatal movement leading the allies toI
allied governments
France against Germany.
and Belgium could
otherwise than
not
advance east of the
Rhine when German regulars invaded rerators appointed
new contract
lions here last night.
the operators
present .
which they are reported to havei
ready.
the neutral zone in the Ruhr Valley.
‘Nfl DISTURBANIIE
1‘ milligram
t
.- LONDONDERRY. April 20>~Quiet
iprcvailed here, last night, despite the
'expectations that thegrioting of Satur.
;day and Sunday evenings would be,
ll‘ellPWed. The night passed without'
tthe semblance of a disturbance.
l The prevalence of, peaceful condi-l
itions was brought about by an
rangement between the authorities!
and the Roman Catholic priests '63"
officers and remaining on patrol nllt
night, the clergy using their influencemoncommittal as to their attitude
with the people and urging them to go,t0ward the union's- demand and have
The plan workedmot revealed their proposed counter
preposals,
SAYS will i. n. ,
MEN "Hummus .
home and to bed.
admirably, the priests having
streets virtually to themselves
night long.
Ty‘phus Has Killed .
Thousands in Siberia
VICTORIA, B. C..April 20.—Typhus
has killed thoirsands in Siberia and
tether thousands still are falling vic-
gtime to the scourge, Dr. A. K. Him,
mead or an American Red Cross partyr
ireturning from there said today.
the
all
l
lonvi‘: suns aboard. followed b)
“Horny“, “a--. “g, ,, g “m .
aid of 80.000 Fiji Indians, but in this
[they were disappointed.
hogan in January. on the Rewa River
E'l "'-rn ' sugar
‘ 5" , mostly employed.
elured themselves “as good as whites"
and demanded equal rights.
who remained at work were clubbed
l)‘ the other comics or hideously muti-
tlatcd by women with knives. The dis-
orders were started by a {also «report
that a whitesman had beaten n-‘tiloy"
(laborer).
cal :11 Suva, the capital there being .
:aww riotous coolles outside'tlie townnglice believe that revenge and theatre
and 1000 whites. including women and' to obtain certain papers was the mo .
children.
diets. native policemen,
Special, and a small improvised caval-x Burkhart, who was we widow at a
rv force held the Indians at bay until,
or the ' the arrival of the New Zealand arUHti-unk. She said no money was kept
Meantime the infuriatedtjn the safe, which was open when the miles east of Philadelphia. is taking
Inter rapidly. according to a radio
message received here
message was relayed by
Baltic, which
Liverpool. but there was nothing to
indicate the Baltic was nearby.
tried for rioting.
Huriuihii‘
the precipice,” and it is declared the ianthracite wage negotiations go into
should Support a deadlock.
The form covering the demands
or president asserts Germany is “vio- coal diggers will be in definite form
lating the Versailles treaty and avoid- by the end of this week. officials of
inc all engagements." and that France the United 'Mine \Vorkers predicted;
have done. here yesterday. i
the mine workers declared. depends
entirely on the next move of-the em~
players and the nature of their prop-
ositions. as all
iiminary arguments have been corn-
pleted by other sides.
meut will be delayed if the opera-
tors come into the conference
any offers or a wage increase that is
not at least equal to the 27 per cent
raise granted the bituminous worker:
They asserted the employers must also
'which the police were removed from agree '0 a “M 83109 MU!“ and 9
the neighborhood of the recent rioting; . universal-hour day
two priests taking the places of the industry.
River yard railroad police department,
notified Chief of Police William R.
‘ The Russians now are left to their
Tailed Rea-
Won!
Pennington, utgayihthat the crew at a
wire repair I! It passed through
own resources in fishfins the Dealt-38mm Norwalk eaterda
1lence and famine, for the other 111- (by. y y
evacuat- ‘ersx.
ed theile‘ld phloem thedewrture-of4mm
clal session of the Legislature be calf-
to hold back the presid
this year from nine mi
- This, the Governor says. does not con-
stitute a special emergency.
Miss Ludlngton, untirlnxrtn her-act-
ivity, will take time to give the Nor-
walk League a resume 0! what has
been going on recently at headquart-
ers, will make a plea for strong sup-
port ot the central power or the Wo-
man Suffrage Association. “this time,
and will tell of the whirlwind cam-
paign. which begins May 3rd, when 47
women will come to Connecticut, one
representative from each other State
in the Union.
Anxiety has been manifested by;
many to know what vigorous steps are.
lbeing taken as the time grows shout
Therefore. an earnest invitation is ex-.
HAVE A Silllllli;
RIM" ilfilll
SYDNEY, N. s. l"... lltlarch 17.—Riot‘
the
in this region to avail themselves of
this opportunity to hear theicgloquent
a and able leader.
[ MARTIN’S
~Police today were searching
man seen walking irom thin
Mrs. Augusta Burkhart‘and’ller
ter Lillian. Saturday. ,2 _
dered bodies or the twogémen, yore.
discovered. , ,, .
Charles Bennington, a. trawling
salesman. told police he saw simian
with a bundle under each arm leave
The strike
f
where the Indians
fields. are
The lndiansi in public meetings de-
Goalie.
by Belmont county commissioners
At one stage the situation was critl- .,.
capture and conviction of the sin . .
Retumcd sol—
regular and
it.
the, .
Mrs. W. llinkle, danfllter of “res
inside.
bodies ware found.
A second arrest was made here last
night in connection with the killing of
Mrs. August A. Burkhart and her
daughter Lillian, whose bodies were
discovered Saturday. Mary Pappa
was taken into custody by the police,
who declared she was seen talking to
Santi Parrist in the doorway of the
. Burkhart home shortly befa‘e the bod
files were discovered. Parr-bi is being
hz-ld in connection with the case.
,niimtiiis Niiii ‘:
sun: DELEGATES
The Democratic City Consent???
' . was held last evening in the c y a ,
Th subcommittee (:3; miiifiliitned 3:3 iand was aiming? b: thirtylthree oi
- '23.. ' . itlie thirty—six e ega es.
lesumedu‘ig 3:335:21: The convention was called to onler
prepared to iby William J.’Devine, chairman of the
proposals :Demcoratlc City committee, with Ber-
nard C. Feeney acting as secretary
The following were unanimously
-chosen delegates to the state con»
vention to be held in the summer.
James T. Hubbell, Edward J. Quin
Elan. Jeremiah Donovan, James l0.
:lu‘iynn, Charles T. McGovern, JEr$P
'Dunbar, Bernard J.‘ Reynolds and
iVVillinm J. Devine. ,
- 1 ‘ The delegates were empownrud
Union leaders said the final settl .- than"; me“. alternates.
It was voted to deferselection of
delegates to the other conventions un-
til after the state convention has
been held and the convention ud-
jou‘ned subject to the call or the
cha rman.
\More than 250 lndlans are to be
AEREEMENT 30th
-NE\\' YORK. April 20.—Unles‘s the
a tentative agreement
of the hard
will be
their counter
The progress of the negotiations,
statistical and pre-
it)
with
——-—.——-._
Hill MISS KETBHA
A pleasant surprise party was ten-
dered to Miss billion Mary Ketcham,
in honor of her 12th birthday, at the
home 0: her mother, Mrs. Frank B.
in the I-anthracite
Mine operators continue to remain
held, 45 Linmln avenue. last night.
by a number of young lady friends in
the Girl Scout Troop. ‘~
Miss Keteham wa 3th.. by com-
plete surprise, but the young folk;
soon were busy with the In“!
Detective Clarey, of the Harlem.
fins-toned
groupolmheuid‘ , ,
tlal vote of infra-501d
ed. They are thus dominuthey can the
on women! chale price. Orders are taken the
livered the (allowing week. so that
FERRY. Glitz—’Xfi"“2ll.”i?x‘i~évl"e“r or cases an.-- ‘*
I this term atterMay 81. the
of Court announced yesterday.
“‘1‘.“mmenearly in June.
the Burkbart house Wt, . .
WEEK .3. - (v ~ ;
”1i” Air Oder of 32,000 reward was?" ' ’
wealthy grocer, recovered $520 mm ‘4‘ er William O'Brien,
yesterday she was
assistance of the O'Briui. The Horse
; . V‘s
in“ any on:
f . ‘ _
mi
lowest poulblo wholesale prices
to employee at the par»
first three days of the week and do
when the plan gets working proerly
there will be one delivery each week.
The tactory store is in direct
charge of Frank Finnegan. and. being
as yet in the experimental stages.
predictions as to its success would be
premature.
[1.3. SUPREME EtllJlll
RELAYS lllll RUUNfi
Arguments- on Pending
Cases Will End April 30
n M 4"!» s“_
«I
a.
Supreme 5‘
In decidink,
(Continued on Page Eight).
bu
m mm
. J... -~—~— cm—
the board as a diam, "
claiming tht its meatball .
properly represented by “in“
unions.
lilllllllll. illllltll
anus IN lllli'SlEEl
Willlill lulmflvr
Bridgeport Screw company. died
Sunday evening at “his home.
Beach, Conn..
week:
'Mr. Eubanks said that I! tho board
W'illinm H. Farrell, president of t3:
Bound
after an “in“ 0‘ m
He was 55 year-smut 1.361 and}: ”53:;
"M M an , mind e .
Ms £3.95 a
”moral 1
‘I .9
. W“Mm.w.~ . .
The age, and rapidly rose to rem.
1" court ‘5 3199‘:th ‘0 adjourn 10" the superintendent and manager of sever-
al plants. notably the Pittsburgh Wire
. a belated 3999*“ the Company at Braddock, Pa... the Puget
building of an lnfirmary in connection NEESCOUIDEM. at Monessen. pa” and ltlus rate ‘5 better “up“ “kw
0 .
He ,built the Union Steel Company‘s
plant at Donora.
Fire Company’s plant at Montreal. 01
which he was president.
Pa.. the Dominion
He later
lit the Bridgeport Screw company
" _ 'nlanl at Bridgeport, Conn.. one ofihe
, Ilargest or its kind in the country.
. . He was an eulifi'imachtsman,
{owner at the schooner yacht, "Mys-
NE‘V YORK. April 19.——The steain- ~°f
in distress, 500
Y(
today. The
the liner
left here Saturday for
Cl
CI
The coast guard cutter Seminole,
whcih left here today to aid the
steamer E. A. Morse, has gone to the
which was returning to New York.
'tel'y."
which reported int"
institute.
and of the Seaside,
Black Rock Clubs.
Conn.
the Astor Cup. the sloop, "Seno-
wvll~known in Long Island Sound
=reizattas.
He was a member of the New
irlt Yacht. Larchmont Yacht, New
Rochelle Yacht and Norwalk Yacht
ubs, member of the iron and Steel
ludla House. Engineer:
oh and Railroad Club of New York.
Algonquin, and
of Bridgeport.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Catherine‘s Church, «Riverside, Conn..
on ‘Thursday at 10 a. 111., New York
now is heading for New London, so 3:; ‘gngizmz‘xv ‘3‘. New ”“9“.-
cordinx to messages received by ily " C. 0,8310? Of his fam-
naval communication service.
The O'Brien, operated by France
and Canada Steamship Corporations,
is an oil burner of 3.143 tons. and car-
ries a crew oi 40. She left here last.
Thursday with 6,500 tons ofAcoai for:
Rotterdam. ‘
....'-—__...
BANllllSlllY Til .
fiET RtlYAl PLAT
SEVILLE, Spain, April 20.——Ban.‘
dint attacked a train last night on
which Queen Victoria and her brow-
er, the Marquis or Carishrockc wrrc
traveling from Madrid to Seville in :"i
unsuccessful attempt to carry off the
royal plate which the queen was tail»
ml! with her. ‘ l
The robbers, who were Wt-‘llm‘mml,
opened a iaslllade when discovured.
wounding two of the railwnyivwn. one
of them probably mortally. The ban-
dits escaped in a twovimrsc carriage.
leaving no clue. to their identity. i
n4“. .—
Holding Out Taxes in 5
Sum of $100,00,000
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Ameri-
can taxpayers through “honest mis-
takes" have been ”holding out" from
Uncle Sam. approximately at the
rate or $100,000,000 a year,
teamed today. i
This is revealed by an audit by ex-i
perts of the treawry of the income.
11;: exoeso profits tax returns. made
have been detected in the returns
madeb in corporations. Ono Mdmdamvd
y ge mmmnurbmnimonthe
large ,
the audit
the treasury
on nun-ell, Willa
Carts-taut. Julie: E 'W
15W
it was’ Steamer
l .
alone
to be short 825,000,000. At near
it who saw 7m
mutants TAKE
mu 0i TWENTY-[WE
. lJTTlE ROCK, Arie. April 20.—The
‘death list as a result of a series of tor-
pedoes which swept Northwestern Ar-
kansas Sunday night, today was raised
=to twenty-tutu. and a large strip of
’country was still unheard from.
More than 100 «persons were injured
and tremendous property damage caus-
ed. according to the lni’ormat
ling in over rtorm~impaircd wi
forts ware being made to confirm I ru-
morthat twenty persons had been kill-
ed near Blaine, Logan County.
lllRMlNGHAM, Ala... April
Susquehanna ‘
formerly the "Elmira." winner
trick-
Flt.
zit—A
,number of persons have been killed
‘nnd great property damage done by a
tornado which swept across port'e‘nl
of Mississippi. Alabama and Tennes-
isee today.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala... April 20.--»F‘lve
persons are reported to have been kilL , .
ml by a tornado which struck Colum-x
bus, Miss. '
BIMINCTIAM. Alt, April 30m,
ports have reached here that . ’
persons were killed by
Collinsviile, Aim, about ‘9.
eight
Llama
mouth-
eastofhere. ‘:
Ernie“ We
Tamar. April 20 (By not 1.8300]. 1.;
ATE!) meme—m American
er Summon” WWI union the guru-In am the O.
Vim!!! in a urge-m. of the «do;
w in w
stem “no.1”...
mm,"mih6!-
puma-ammun-
imagmof’m
_ on ueofleo. mdabutCholmanBu-ton .. .
“WW“... . mew-mm WM... .. mamas“... .. “mm... , . ,
Mr. Goodwin lefty-83m . m ‘ decision was my.“ to ,tho boar-dew doddewhethor thew-were m. general wage demand- at
the bank, asking that outwith, m. m m o: the pun. ’ Web as the board was authorized.” 000,000 railroad workers over the o‘-
S'rliirt‘iofiigen tummy ”a .333 tion and the exp“ . t“Articles now oinieule ‘?cl::gt:r?°‘“’ mills 3t. -1 . l ‘ I‘ it”. YORK. ”ril‘lfir- . 1""
Russia. The money never reached its m" °’ “‘9 mature”: 9° and 'hum‘“.' E'l‘hese' u: “mm“; a, asked a separate with! was slowly untmllltc ltsol!
to“
from the snarl of connected .
trams resulting from the unlit!
rail strikes.
pun—-
(Continua on Sixth M)
'When his Connoctalguli mm
Power Co. in: t to new
rate tor ughumrvlce‘ in has???
there were some consumers who Me
that time" would rather purchase our
tricitv on b M kilowatt hour:- bo-
at. at ahlirberrmperxw'fi in”
«once to basilica“ adopted
new system .
u".l‘he Wt of the Light“
Company has always codes. to
meet the desires. of its customers an
{or as possible and have therefore an.
‘ "-19 “festive May let., that.
' ' “ct-M
filliilhlum -- ow ....,
mm be. determined by me 4-» . .7. ~‘
premises.
t oad on the consumer‘s
I may find
While some people “1‘
l eds, n is thought that. um; n , ,
‘31?“ be comparatively few, as a lane
I"timrirber 0! local 1) n have begun to,
‘reallze more thorou y the 0(1qu
'otfered to them by pun-healing W.
iitv on the area. rate. Under the pres—
.enl form of rate. the «consumer ‘ can
purchase all additional electiicitr
’which may be used for nous-thalamus»
looses such as ironing. washing,
t . at be .
aaiechlve already found that on as
basis they can make very much not;
extensive use 0! eleclriolty at. a Lent
small increase in the sale at elect
appliances of all kinds during
wt two or three months.
srri’iviriuxfim
unnuflum
A m 20.--00unaol for
Him vomit. v m nut
um Drum Porter
30pm; at Police Continuum-tn, baht:
chu- our.
on go: of neglect of
3mm at today‘s pension that the
state'l principal witneonec alum
"Porter duo were under indictment on
tumrarztmt the witneseev them-
’nelves had not been unfilled of {host
iindiotmenl, Porter's nifurrry, “MS”,
W. Uttleton. rend lflizz fl.:~ The}
rd Vhtt be said was :. Hap;-
mariachi against lli‘v‘nvnt Vance!-
wrteht nm‘. Fr» -,l r .l - .i zlo‘hm
men, who haw i-wvziio-tt that. ,‘W
found Porter umlw '(«Ignfv'inihl‘
«3in with a venom in an
upper west side abutment during an
raid last November. 'lfiw indictments
were for neglect of cow in mum to-
arrest the woman in. the «:mo. intac-
ton laid th 5“!!le thm. neither do:
Mite had been arrested.
The Mine of tho" longer third deputy
com. mluioner in the first to be.
tween Assistant fllsxrict Attorney
James E. Smith. and the. police do-
lam ms'vm '5'-
uatiou with local criminal moon. in
dustbin-wile. Adriana
alumnus-ea, the,
era-1w
all have live (Militia, ‘
“to "
ilN lllflllld um
their service W ‘
. "k
brought to trial in m:- “uru war’ is» ,
“M h Non-talk muo- a bit a.»
mu'n “v:
m were who IQ:
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