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tu'r. il‘x'n‘t.‘ possibilities by ”0111- nwmlnrs spent so much time in
"l'T'lilll‘l-é. t'ormr-r cimir'n'ln ol -‘1‘iti(‘i:’.illi: the leadership of the
52.1" ('-'tr.-i committee. Mayor llvmocrnllc party. “they become
'21-: .‘J. ['i '5; ‘mi {-1 the. met-twing. ("llllllllll"'l to in policy of no lender-
“"UM‘ l'iI/(iv-rulil i'm' (Unt‘l'llllr. .vi-ip at H“. with the result limit we. ’
l';.-.»..l‘...;. «A: lumqlq, {- Iii-(.iulxlhg: lune :1 congress without 1: friend in
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Entered. at the- South Not-walk Foot ,
Office as Second Gloss Mall Mutter.
gas Eliminates
1.3211 From. Democratic:
Rae ace For U. S. Senator
andidate
Sctiee ed at State Convention in Hartford
Earl). in September — Mayor David E. Fitz-
gcr aid of New Haven for Governor—Women
to Have Equal Representation
1o
'1‘. :1. 'Imr‘rltir‘ Sinu- conu-ntion Hartford. who was also present at
n- .l 3:. ilurlfnrll this ymr. it[viv- wncctinc. the choice for t'nited
i..~1 . 7.1 the nit-L'tlng o: the Stub-s senator. Former Congress-
12-. " .1 (‘OIIlmillt'v [WM i” mun .l. Augustine Lonergan, who was
‘- wah House. Su'in Hock. pn-svnt :11 the dinner. is also men-
.-.- '3 Lifiiitltlli. The sc-lvclim' ~hum-d as :1 candidate for senator, but
1|:Hv- or tile (‘Ollti'lllltiil us well with tha- general belief that he will
.1! In. tn'll'llsflt's tor the Pitt‘iltlll 1.- :1 runner - up to Mr. Spcliacy.
l 1 .:.'--.- 11:... [wit to th~- chair- Cnmlidnch-s for other positions on
-- 2.1 11-1" l-‘itzGt-i‘ulii. \l‘iiJ [WWW tin- state ticket and congressional
‘ 1; i=1" i’nh a'l'ralngement. nominations are considered to ' be
“'nnu-n at Met-ting. dill in :1 stage of development and it
is likely that some interesting compe-
titions will crop up in this field be-
tween now and the date of the con-
~ .31 11-11 of [Ho-posed (hunch.
[l’w-unlrlllltfi i'vpi'r'srnluliOIi
[ll 1 11 tilt tonn-niion and
. . . ,,. “mm.“ “,..,”-,,,.,.5 on “H. whiten. which will be somewhere
\vmll t'ullllillfhl‘, which were around 9"l‘l0ml’9l" 14‘ '
. . l 1.. mll>~t‘(illllllltll‘(‘ and Mr, Cummings [in his remarks
1.. '«r: thlrlillsN'lfIii to the state juillt'Il in with the general View that
.. the only otiwr bus- "[hig is :1 Democratic year." declar-
x . -‘~l [13; the met-ting. in: that the country is "uoming back
.l‘i .j the members ot' the
pr:-.~“.‘1t-111«[alsoquiti-
lo sr-ttlt-d principles." He said that
tiw Republican party got into power
‘ :‘.~- notnwn associate. “itinmt policy or constructive ubil~
l‘.,-:-1.+tmg followed :1 115', lmt merely" because "it was
i u'. luck and when the cunmonrwl with [he idt-n of having
'm l.—. [7“llli.'|('lt'l[. the mem- {min-r." The trouble with the, Re-
in. :1 r \7 3.... 1614; “mm! .«linltiiim: tlwn it has [won in [wit a
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Nat cafe rd Being Shelled By
the National Army Forces
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11 CUNNEETIBUT
lihjcct of Attack.
Agriculture Shunned by All
. ~ 3izis ll :15 (onspi-
..t(..c-1ta:11 Parts
but (5.8 Per Cent. of State’s
Population.
[39st mycd by Re-
\\'111. il'.’ exception of Massachu-
- ::l..:.:. [Mum] and New Jersey,
has [‘vzzllt't‘tiCllt 1111s :1 smaller
- l.ll‘lll('l‘s in its population
.' in the union. Only 6.8
:tmn are farmers. or 93.-
In \lcu' ot the fact that
the parlance or the census
'-Ill"..!l is :111'.' iruit or market garden:
poultry )ni'ml daily or apinry pro-
ducing: nmrw than $2 50 worth of mod-
m-ts in 11-11. it can be seen that Con-
iii-r'lil Ht it short on farmers.
’J‘inl'e: 1111- 31.614.269 inhabitants of
rim l‘nltul Slat-'5 classed as farmers
,r 114:5.
in all.
.'.1111. in
A A
(l n .
'. oz -{251 pic (1111.. the figures being
.111" 1111. so llml Connecticut is much
.. l. mu tln- :m litgt for the country as
.‘ a whole. ova-um...
'1 ('untm-y to th. ccncrnl impression
that the yin-stern stutrs «have the high-
c'st farm population. it is pointed out
that .\m'i[i llukutll. the highest. has
til 1101' (will of its population listed as
:ariuvrs lull y
[,m 1' '-.
H" H." n? n ‘ Mississippi has 71 per
a 1 1 "P2; (Hint. Knuth Carolina has 63. 8 per
. l :11? l «1-..nt and Ark: :nsus has 63. .1 per c t
. .lihi s1 urt higher. forinstance. t an
, ‘5 iii l'l.- H 1111 u- ni. (it the leading agric-
:z!tur.:l slate oi‘ Iona .“hiie New York
«11- «pit: its immtnse agricultural
production. has but 7. 7 percent. of its
Population tngngt d as formers.
U: Connecticut's 93. 302 “farmers,"
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[APE WRITS
21:2: s... il.n_uilcd to En-
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14".”
I. . [J'lllliu intuwns for
1 ll. [it a . 0 «a 000 population
).3 L r. ‘ ii‘m Against 1». 1r .on‘: Mt; lixc in towns of 10, 000
l'flllllhitmn; [.1 [6 live in towns of_ " 5m»
. a - population: While the remgntng
7“ mm .Ilt.‘_"fl. “farmers" live in irural
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m'“ H . Q
g uUMMER BAN“)
[- \I ‘- I’ E! '8 PUPULAR .
in. .1(‘.-, .l
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, >‘V'1 .1 [Uri-t.“ Parents in this and other counties
1‘, , .1 L} E“ of Connecticut are turning increasing-
“ A: ". ’ ‘f’n LY to the summer camp as a. solution
:1.. 1:13.11?” f‘f" of how to make at least a part of the
1 1‘: "Ml school vacation period count for the
. M M" ’3‘ i“ training as well as the recreation of
“ .1": -"‘[f-'v‘v' their children.
"J ."“"“‘““g Connecticut not only -possesses a.
‘ f 1‘ 1‘; Q wealth of natural and scenic advant-
, ‘f 1. ‘ ‘ “ml- ages for summer activities but boasts
‘ ‘ M: several 11 number of bumps which are re‘-
I '1‘. “" mm" Hnrded as models of their kind. Camp‘
' “"‘ 2.. 80m? Hazen. the State 8633' Camp of_ the
‘ .‘_ , “I"? to be Y. M. C. A.. has notable reputation
1....m s m the hot] in and out of Association circles
‘wmli in en servrd
.21.: assome
1.— -ordc.i the
I‘msltli‘s rc-
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and is known by many persons out-
side of Connecticut itself. Besides
County Y. M. C. A. Camps and those
conducted by Associations from with—
-sl '1
‘ till?
.130...
.{Llnu' .. unlawful out the State, there are others We"
. ... \( ’u‘f as :1 sum- ated by various omnmtiom’ “m
l ‘ '5 K:(Q‘w’luled for . In Connecticut this “inner p”
. or s mil iv,- g‘iven 5 m E
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.. not be made V
Coroner John H. Phelan held an ip-
quest this morning in the court room.
City hall. on the death of Professor
Frank. Osborne. who died Wednesday
morning in the Norwalk Hospital,
from a. base fracture of the skull
which he received-when struck by an
automobile under the . Washington
street bridge Saturday afternoon. July
151:. Tfie operator of the vehicle was
Harry Gerhardt, of 29. Cove. avenue.
East Norwalk. ' ~
Dr. Huntington. medical examiner.
testified that his attention wasfirst
called to the matter when he visited
professor Osborne :1 short time after
the accident and that he was bleeding
from the ears which indicated a base
fracture of the. skull. i)r.~ Huntington.
medical examiner. testified“ that the
fractured skull which resulted in Pro-
fessor Osborne's-"death was sustained
when the latter was thrown to the
pavemengmfter being struck by the
automobile.
Louis Kontaganius.
Main srtcet. proprietor
Kai-walk Lunch room. testified
that ' at the time he saw
the accident he. was having his shoes
shined near the scene where the acci-
dent occurred. He also statcd that
th': car was not going faster than 10
miles an hour at the time that 'it'
of 37 South
of the South
(Continued on Page "'wo)
Fair tonight and Satin-day.
siderableD amage to the
Narth Side of the Struc.
Two autombb'ile accidr mu: were re-
ported to‘ the Flat District police
nor-night. The first accident took
place some time last night when an
automobile, the driver of whom is
:Inknoun, imnsheé into the railing at
the New Canada bridge. The railing
was broken on the northwest side.
chrgc Ella told the police of the
broken rail- The Himnvav depart.
ment was informed so that repairs can
b. made 7
The second jccldent happened at
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Continued on Page Four-y
ideas caused him to refuse the mil
father, has found a way at ridding
announced he intends to give it all
living and toiling in solitude on his
born, was taken.
SALVAllllN ARMY ‘
1110115 0N won
101111 101nm
Below is'listed only a. part of the
Salvation Army’ a record of service to
the poor and needy in Norwaik. The
w-orld wide policy of the Salvation
' Army prohibits'publishlng any names
'01- exploiting its charitable efiorts in
any way. Obviously it is only possi-
ble. therefore, to set forth a partial
list of its relief‘work the past year. no
reco'i-d is included herewith of the
hundreds of transients (men and
women) coming through from New
York; stranded and often desperate.
some of whom might have endanger-
ed the homes, 11' not the lives of some
of our citizens, had it not been for the
help and guidance given by the Salva-
tion Armyr-V
Spent on the poor of Norwalk last
Christmas, $779.
Forty-eight new garnients given to
the poor last Christmas. such as chil-
dren' s waists. skirts, dresses. etc. ‘
\, Over 300 articles of clothing ‘dis-
Hibuted the past year outside of the
Christmas effort.
uses.
for families With children—eons: fami-
titute. but worthy and without
other Phelprfbut the of_theEal'nfi.
GIVES MILLION AWAY FOR UPLIF’L
Charles Garland, the “youthful liberal thi
us they think tit. Garland is now twenty-two years of age and Is
where this photograph, showing him selling milk to one a! his neigh-
One hundred and titty-one pairs of
shoes furnished totworth} and needy
'l‘w‘o’fiomes completely furnished
fly with uni children; and the other. '
with nine children—both families de's- .. .
er" of Cape Cod, whose
lion dolls. legacy left nun by his
himsel: of the hated money. It In
to a group or “liberals" to do with
little farm at North Carver. Mass.
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11101 Willi-Cl
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EMPORIA. Rana- July 21 (Asso-
ciated Press).-——Will_lum Allen White.
Kansas editor. awaited today serV’ice'
of a. warrant for h is arrest. directed by
Governor Henry J. Allen for. alleged
violation of the Industrial Court anti-
picke‘ting law ‘which. he was in-
etormcd last night. was in preparation
by Attorney-General R. J. Hopkins.
Mr. White and Governor Allen are
lifesiong “ten“. and Mr. White has
supperted the gm ernor throughout his
administration. Even in the face of
the impending action against him; he
said yesterday: "There is no personal
feeling between Governor Allen and
me. He is making a‘ splendid 3ch
eraor."
Hearing of his impending arrest, Mr.
White restated his defiance of_ the rut—
mud shopmen was against" the 131w.
the window. of the on;
_ ports. Gaze“
Unknown Driver D003 Con. I
\
' RENO E NAN 1-4
lug.” of the court that to display 513...;
in sympathy with the striking rail- ;
Hr.Wh(1:é salt! Bait he would not take .17 .
flown {its sign which he had placed in
.9: his paper, .
CANTON. China, July— —20 (Asso-
ciated .Press).~+The United States gun-
boat Pampanga has returned from a.
dash up the West River to Wuchow.
where an appeal for help had been
made by. eight American and Cana-
dian missionaries stationed at Lin-
chow. The Pampanga brought back
word that the missionaries were safe.
CANTON, China. July - 21 (Asso-
ciated Press). -,-; Fight ng between
Chen Yung Mln’g‘s to es' and the
Klangski troops of Sun Y-ut Semi de-
posed president of. South China, con-
tlnues in the neighborhood of Shiu- ,
chow. northern Kwangtung province,
following the fall of the Sun Yat Sen.
MRS- Phillis.
"P“Ulilll ‘lei
55MB M01111
AENGELES, July 21.——Mrs.
Clara Phillips, whose trial for the
murder of Mrs. Alberta \Ieadows. has
been set for Sept. 18. is believed to
have purchased an automatic pistol
two days before the young widow was
beaten to death with a hammer. ac-
cording to a‘ story the Los Angeles
Times published today.
The Times located a duplicate rec-
ord of the sale of the pistol which Po-
lice departments require all dealers in
such articles to keep and found the
salesman. John H. Runev who said
the woman who purchased the weap-
on scemcd to resemble newspaper pic-
tures of, Mrs. Phillips.
The purchaser. signed 1191‘ name as
“ms. A. L. Phillips." The initials are
the same as those of the husband of
the defendant in the Meadows mur-
der.
The age given was 20 years. dimer-
ing from the statement that she was
23 years old, made by Mrs. Phillips to
jail officials when they wrote down a
record of her arriVal there
Mrs. Phlllips’ husband was quoted
DV sherlfl's deputies as: having told
them is Julie. who wag “We?
as. m3? cvperl: stint: hereon cut
an apple in W6 ’mfr Six-shooter
several hundred feet." ,
The pistol has not been located.
JEWISH PAPER
SUES PfllllllllAN
ST. -LOUIS, July 21.—-Robert I.
Young or St. Joseph. candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Unit-
ed States Senator. in a letter made
public today said he had received no—
tice from the Ku" Klux Klan to re-
move a. campaign advertisement
which he had contracted foFiuscrtiOn
in the Jewish Record. a local Hebrew
language newspaper. because “the
Jew is after the almighty dollar. and
to hell with the country."
Fred. \Veismann, attorney for the
newspaper, made public the letter
which. Young wrote to H. L. White.
advextising representative of the pa-
per of the explanation of his refusal
to fulfill the contract.
.-~\n excerpt f1 om the letter read:
LOS
to the Jewish people and am yet. I
am no moral coward. but I do not'o
care to get a. coat of tar and feath-
ers."
Counsel for the paper announced
suit would be filed against Young to
collect money due it under the con-
tract. ;
250 llillllPEllS
[lUAllll [IAN LINES
BUFFALO. N. Y.. :‘iuly 21—11mm.
Geog-goals} Chandler. Captain . Robin.
son and Lieutenant Croasdaie. com-
manding the state police, arrived in
Buffalo at 2 o clock this morning, and
established headquarters at the 196th
Artillery Armory. Thev said there
will be 250 troopers tn Bufialo to-
day, to protect the lines of the In—
ternational Railway” cotapany.‘ whose
carmen went on strike on July 1. »
The first cuts out found their way
impeded by obstructions spaced at
short intervals over more than a mile
and a half of track.
> Workmen under protection of police
squads preceded the early carsz'remov-
.ing these obstructmns. All night bon'T
fires dotted the streets where mi.
of strike sympathizer's were- busy try—
ing to block the tracks.
V 1
shortly after 6:15 this morning, which
tion.
smoke and names.
scarcely commenced work when an
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“I -' have always been very friendly
“59‘ Colonel William Henry (Hank) Hall
$30,099
A spectacular blaze theatured a fire
did damage estimated at 530.000 to
the principle binning" of the «Fairfield
Battery Company, situated in East
Nor-walk. For more than an hour the-
fire threatened the adjoining builditks
and the dock facing on the Norwalk
River. This is the second fire that has
occurned at this spot within a period
of three years. The first fire was in
the winter, when the concern was
known as the Hi- Po Battery Company.
According to information gained
this morning the fire started in one of
the towers of the frame structure,
Which today is a mass of ruins. Her-
bert Coleman, who is night watchman
at the plant. had. gone, home for,
breakfast. it was stated, and he had
just reached his home. which is on
Goldstein avenue. when his wife at—
tracted his attention to smoke coming
out of the tower. He investigated and
rushed in with a fire extinguisher but.
realizing that he could not control the
blaze. he notified the Central Fire Sta-
Previous. to his alarm Ralph
1
ton street bridge. had also 501
a.larm
When the Central Fire Station nu—
East Nor-walk Fire department arriv-
.~the entiic area was one cloud of
The men had
F rfield Batter
Has $30, 000 Fire L0
Early This Mor
ing: with Busmess Offices and Manufact
Q Plant Destroyed — Insurance Amounts
e‘Xplosion occurred in an >
building in which completed
‘were stored.
,it could 11‘3t be ascertained wha.
’ed the explosion; as there were
Signs of smoke or tissue: .
Several or the firemen were c
flying timbers and pieces of g " ,
‘fortutitely, no one was serious!
jured. The building which;
flee. and'the remainder was .
ufacturing plant. Henry E. W
of Prospect street, who is one of -
from the United States to supp 7
teries for the Navy.
The l
three classes and“ carried by
tam 0.
Company of this city.
the building was estimated to b21315.
000; machinery. 34.500. and the M
Bennett bridgeténder of the VS flSlll mg. 510 501;.
in an . 000
When
at the. scent: of the blaze it was be
Vparatug under Chief Bogamus and em. ed that something could have’beul.
“done to save the building antlféon,
tents. but the water pressure' . was ‘3
Co
Cr“
SS
When investigating: -_
nsurance .was divided
MacLean and J. M. {43.5%
The damage
making a total loss of 889
the fire fighters firsts.“
ntlnued on Page rive)‘
111511111111 *
Amman
llflUNTEllFElTEll
Louis Jenkins. colored, who Was ar-
rested Wednesday .evening following
the complaint 01" Tole Levy, of ‘Water
street. will .be taken from this city.
thisaftei‘noon, by United States Se-
cret Service men on orders of United
States Marshal Fitzpatrick.
Jenkins. who stated that he had
purchased these bills for $5 a piece in
a Lenox avenue pool room in New
York city, had a very unique way of
passing them. He Would enter a store
purchase an article amounting to '
about $1.20 and then hand out a $20
bill. \Vhen asked 19" he had any smal—
ler bill than .this he would state that
he had one dollar.
(Continued on Page Two)
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{NEW HAVEN. July fl—Patrick F.
O'\Ieara. president of the Connecticut
Federation of Labor. and a member
of the State Board of Arbitration and
Conciliation. whose name did not get
into the “Red Book” of the State
Manual, today said be supposed the
omission was a eompiler‘s error. fol-
lowed by a printer‘s error.
- Mr. O’Meara is certain he is a mem-
ber of the board. which he says neigh-
er arbitrates nor conciliates, or does
an} thing. because he has his commis-
sion front Gm ernor Lake.
He said that in View of the many
labor troubles. the popular‘idea ‘might
be that the board should do some-
thing.“ He said that as a matter of
fact“ the board has nothing to do.
“There are too manv ‘mays’ in the
Connecticut laws regarding the peace-
able settlement of labor disputes and
.too raw ‘shalls.’ The Connecticut
*Mannfacturers' Association does not
faVor the settlement of labor disputes
by reference to a board of arbitra-
tion': he added. “and it has always
opposed the enactment of a law with
teeth in it." p .
my HAN -" mi. .
was A muonamn
SOUTH WILLINGTON July 21.‘-—-
The opinion held by his friends that
1
was a millioaafre was confirmed}?!-
tel-day. when members of his fanfily
saw to the filing of the inventory»!
“flee
nonaire ‘teglsfitoxf’ and his; man
' gears in the General As‘se’inbly were 1
écause he used the expel-Iona. ~ms'
mg: of 3629.:
“8.390 ’ Pk!
“1811
to-1
Strike of Railway Shopmen _
Now Looks Like Finish Filth-)1
Railroad President Givé N6
Intention of VWeakenm
as the ThirdW‘e‘ek of the
Struggle Comesto an '
CHIC
Press) .—The strike of railway shépi
tod 1y bore increasing M,
appearances of a finish fight in}!
speculation turned to what {night
the. next step by the federal goveriu
ment.
An abortive conference at Washing?
last night between several—tails
roud presidents and members of the:
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit:
tee
termination on the part of_ the like
roads not to weaken in their dec
tion to grant the demands of union:
men for reconsideration of the
om
duction
dent of
his
coal op
tional
tioned
dent
operati
The
tion of
thorize
terday.
tienal
order,
break
, States
, and declared that it the
arose.
tional
der,
5’: the? eétate i" the xix-chats coflu-t for this _
(Continued on Page ire)-
Nil PRNSPEET
[[E [NNElllATE
HILLSBORO. _
elated Press) .—There is no prospect;
an immediateresumptlon 0f coal m—
Washington.
COLUMBUS 0., July 21. -—0hi9. ,«g‘f
coal producing district: may .
emergencx which may arise int N
nection with the carrying out of Putin
Harding's protection plan
HARRISBURG. Pa... July 21
proximately 1 100 Perms} tvania;
day' in response. to Goverp
fields in the southwesteyn sec _
1the State for strike duty. In . ‘
out the troops. Governor Sprout
inc peace otfcthé Common. .
the rights of its citizens WIN-3:11
' served no matter what. the cm
GnvernOr said that he fésied
AGO, July it. (Assets
3' revealed strengthened" dig
EPA-E NlN
C.. July 20 (
in Illinois, Rice Miller.
the Illinois Coal Operahn" '
erators’ c‘onference. “
Guardsmen doday w’ere
at two strategic points in
on of coal mines.
hoop movement and in
additional Guard units I“
d by Governor Davis late
Guardsmen were, pre .
1
to move R the MM
such as had occurred
as a. ruult of the cod
he would call out. the e -
Guard The time 11035136 ._
he said, was before it m
Norwalk Chronicler