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The Weather.
For Noryalk and vicinity: Fair and
warmer tonight: except ' probably
snow in extreme northwest portion:
Saturday unsettled and warmer. prob.
ably rain or snow in the interior; in:
creasing southerly» wind.
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PRICE THREE CENTS
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IIIIT ATTITUDE
IIIIICO TROOPS
.4 mt Permission to
M Kim“ 71rd Over the
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mr the Franco-
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Commerce
protests
against
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. some resent-
thv li‘rencli
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without
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the Cologne
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mullng the use
:m the writer does
or the develop-
;. I‘stOO'l that an
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!rmml ministries
«< :Illii trade with
ml situation. It
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l-Hll made to
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viiil"illil'9 forced
:xniiIIIrillt‘S in thfi
IIIITS OTAOIN
TESTIIIRANT
(ivir‘l'lll. Sn. better
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‘ l" «tnurnnt as “Pop."
'2: :.I Thr- restaurant
I. This morning. fol-
x‘ :Ipupiexy. He was
f‘lt“.l\f‘li by I. Widow
w n. Mrs. .Matthew
‘ v’ Illy: John Gucrin.
I'hnrius Guerin, Jr.,
\‘.- Imp-n of this cltY-
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.‘ , 'lutvr. Mrs. Kindillen.
. '1 ~ 1. and the funeral
‘ I thI-c on Monday
_ “which, and at nine
.Ivvah's church. In-
m St. Mary's ceme-
mxivs told by people
rswtaurant at the
li- llll‘lt‘, he staggered
' Counter and fell on
was about to fill an
' the men there. A
Immonvd as were the
‘ mun was dead by the
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also well-known
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wv-m removed to
parlors on West
‘” ‘ “‘W' DIRECTORY.
'Ounieation of Old Well
. ’ < ' . l-‘. and A. M.. will be
.. ‘ ‘4 mums. Masonic Temple.
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21'} --nd and 4th Tuesdays 'of
in; _i‘ M 8 o'clock. Juiv and
vaIoe.,“"’I'“-ri- All n. A. Masons.
v “M fraternslly invited.
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Broadway Holds Corn Belt Beauty,
W'hen Alyce McCormick of Omaha was declared the most beautiful girl
in Nebraska and came to New York as the guest of the milliners' convention,
Broadway sat up and took notice. The famous street has decldgd to hold her
for a. while snd“'Miso Omaha" will appear in musical comedy.
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Providence Fire causes .
Loss of Near $2,000,000
Flames Sweep Six Story Block of Shepard Stores in the.
City’s Business Center, Calling Out All Apparatus.
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PROVIDENCE R. I. March 9.—
Fire which swept the two floors of
the Shepard Company Department
store in the business section and still
demanding the attention of firemen
early today. caused a property dam-
age estimated at between . $1,500,000
and $2,000,000.
In addition to the considerable
damage to the building. great stocks
of good. and a large part of the fix-
tures on six floors were wrecked by
fire and water. The flames were con-
fined to the fifth and sixth floors.
but thousands of gallons of the icy
water poured into the furnace like
structure sweeped through the walls
and floors to the valuable stock be-
low.
The fire origin had not been deter-
mined early today. The city's ‘ entire
fire department responding to four
alarms fought the blaze the greater
part of the night. p'l‘he store's radio
was broadcasting a. concert when the.
flames discovekd at 8:20 o'clock last
night. After sending a message that
the entertainment muststop because
the store was afire. the twenty enter-
tainers escaped to the street. Firemen
who responded to the first alarm dis.
covered the flames in a paper chute
and apparently extinguished them. As
they were preparing to leave the
building the flames shot out in an-
other location. on the fifth floor. and
spread rapidly over the entire sixth
floor.
It was then that three additional
alarms brought out the rest of the;
city's fire department.
FAREWELL DINNER
FOR' MR. PLATT
A farewell dinner was tendered» last
evening to Lester E. Platt. who is
severing his connection as foremanqn
the paper box department of Cluett,
Peabody & Co... Inc., with which he
has been associated for the past seven
years.
The dinner was1
to an
2:32.33: fgzce and their families.
George H. Barnes. manager,of the
factory acted as toastmaster and
held in the cafeteria
was attended by the
spoke very- feelingly and with much,
regret at Mr. Platt's departure.
Thomas J. .Malone. superintendent
of the laundry department was then
called upon for a few remartusémenca
of the singular co n
ofHe :3?" many executives had
"marched" from the factory during
the month of March since his coming
to Nor-walk and another was now
taking place. Mr. Malone in well-
chosen words “then presented hilt;
Platt. in behalf; of those presnet. v31
an Odd Fellows' emblem ringha‘ xr.
Pistt replied very approx) d fi’y
thanking all preseutu’or the frien s p
shown him.
The dinner menu. consisted of frbsh
hum. lLopeclpotato‘es. baked 1)ng
pickles. jelly.» rolls, coffee. ice c
and cake. . . _. ‘
cess of the dinner was due
with: :‘nirgetic work of the fore-
Women. , - , . . _
The 'rty closed by ”in present
wishing fur. Pistt a very successful
future. ~
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in which
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NURSE TAKES BOY
. ALBANY. N. Y., Mar. 9.~——No trace[
of Leopold Minkin. Jr., 3-year-old son';
of City Judge Leopold Minkln, who
disappeared yesterday with a newly
engaged nurse maid. had been found
today.
The police and the child’s parents
were unable to furnish a motive for
the supposed kidnapping. Judge Min-l
kin is not wealthy. and so far as
known. he had no enemies.
The maid, who gave her name as
Mary Conklin. started work in the
Minkin household yesterday. \In the
afternoon Mrs. Minkin went to her
mother's house, about five blocks from
her own home. Later she received a
telephone call from the new maid.
who said she and the boy would join
Mrs. Minkin in a. few minutes. A lit-
tle later the ‘child 'was seen with a
young woman on a car’ bound for the
railroad station. '
ISADORA DUNCAN,
NOT .A CITIZEN
WASHINGTON March 9.——Isadora
Duncan. who says she does not like.
the United States. is not a. American
citizen. the department of labor has
decided. She lost her, citizenship thol
department held in a. decision an-E
nounced today. through her marriage
to Serge Essenine. a Russian. April 1.
1922. _ .
Recently on leaving this ‘country
with her husband. the dancer took
occasion to deride American instio
tutions and incidentally took a‘
verbal shot at prohibition. After read-‘
lngpress reports of her ‘ opinions re-
garding the potted States. Secretary
Davis of the Labor Department an-
nounced that steps would be taken
with srvlewh to depriving her of her
American uship.
A
i the charges.
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INVESTIGATION ’
_, ls ASKED BY-
PROHIBITIONISTS
BRIDGEPORT March 9.——Ince‘used
.by the insinuations“.4 made by. State's
'Attorney Homer S. Cummings that a
government official was present when
800 cases of liquor consigned to Edv
ward Dirigibus was landed at Norwalk
and that it was a practice for govern-
ment officials to receive $2 a case to
ride on trucks transporting such il-
legal liquor as a matter of protection,
Federal prohibition agents covering
Fairfleld county. believing that- such
remarks reflect upon their conduct of
office. have requested Chief Prohibi-
tion Director Harry Mackenzie and
Prohibition Agent James Wheeler of
Hartford to make an investigation of
"If there is any one in this office
who is gulty of the allegations made
by‘Mr. Cummings he should be pun—
ished" was the statement of James
Wheeler one of the agents here yes-
tnrday. "i believe the. accusations to
be unwarranted. If there is any truth
he has so that there may be prosecu-
tion. "As it now stands there has
been serious charges made/by infer-
ence and insinuation. without corro-
borative evidence."
. WATERBURY MAN’S
BURGLARY DREAM
TURNS OUT TRUE
WATERBURY.. Conn.
Henry B. 'Ssndsrson. a marketmsn
of thh cityfwhos‘o, ‘eepm troubled
Wednesday night“ 9
to discover a man standing in the
doorway of his bedroom.
flashlight in his hand. When Sander-
son shouted “what do you want" the
man fell down a flight of, stairs, but
later succeeded in escaping. A but-4
glar's jimmy had been used by the
intruder in gaining entrance to the
house through a_ window on the lower
floor and was found beneath a rug in
a hallway. Nothing of value was
carried off by the burglar.
APII‘OL
BY JOSEPH S. FBELINGHUYSEN
U. S. lax-Senator From New Jersey
I have used this story many times
as an opening for my addresses when
I have been “preceded by one of these
long winded introducers.
A criminal was about to be hanged
for murder.
During almost all of the day Iefore
and right up to the minute set for the
to get the man to repent. But he
was a hard-boiled murderer and
wouldn’t do it. He even grew im~
patient. ' .
Just as the trap was about to be
sprung, he turned to the sheriff and
said:
"Sheriff; I wants. thank you.
You've been very square with me.“
And to the hangman he said:
“I ain't holdin’ no grudge against
you either. You treated me fine and
you gotta. hang people to make a
livln.
“But as for you." and he turned to
the minister. "I'll see’ you—later!"
GEEIHAN COAL SUPPLY.
satisfaction.
tions fuel which were diverted to un-
occupied - Germany
were well 'taken care of.
ANSONIA SIORE BURKE!)
ANSONIA. Conn. March 9.-—-The
Mrs. Ms.
street. was wrecked by fire this
morning. The blaze. Which started
from an overheated stove. was dis-
covered shortly before 8 o'clock The
loss is estimated ”-32.000. the‘in-
surance being half of that amount.
TWO BRITISH. SAHDRS m.
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GIBRALTAR. March 9.—Two sail-
ors were killed and four others in-
jured. two of them probably mortally.
as the result of a torpedo explosion
on board<the British cruiser Coventry
Tut night.‘ '
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Today’s decision of the'departm'ent i
tqfthe'vesse“ Tins not romances? 'LT .-
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to them it is the‘ duty. of the state's
.attorney to present such evidence as
March 0.—
f napremoniuon.
>thst’ burglars were about to visit him. .
awakened shortly after 8 a. m.. today
with a
execution. a minister had been trying'
BERLIN, March 9.—The German
coal commission informed at Reich~
stag committee today‘that the coun-'
try's coal supply was on tre whole
Thanks to large supplies of repara-
instead of to
France. and Belgium during the first
few weeks’ of. the occupation. and to
large impertations of British hoai last
car thecommission said, the railways
public utilities and private cusumer's
grocery s ore and-meat market of
-T. Burleigh. at 147 Jewett
,The cause .of thew explosion. is;an . , 7
known and the extent of the. demise .mmon.‘,wno»cut histhrogtin there
many * Is Rein.
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NIGHT SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
opium
The following program will be pre-
sented Friday night at the Norwalk
high school in connection with the
graduating exercises of the nigh'
school classes: ’
Overturt‘hHigh’ School Orchestra
Invocation '
Welcome to Students and Guests—
Sup't. G. V. Buchanan. _
Address—Arthur C. Wheeler.
dent Kiwanis Club.
Song—A Brown Bird Singing—Wood.
Mrs. Anna. E. Merriam.
Violin Solo—Ave Maria. George Jack-
‘T‘sOn. accompanied] by Archibald
Merriam
English for Foreign Born Women.
Mrs. Morton R. McCausland. Re-
gent. Norwalk Chapter. Daughters
of the American Revolution
Song—A Persian Serenade,
Mrs. Anna E. Merriam'
Presi-
Cooke.
elgn born adults
Miss A. C. Wenderoth
Individual prize—Ida Binney. Fitch
school '
Class room prize—Miss Feeny's class.
Franklin Junior high school
.School prize—Concord school.
O'Cnonor. Principal
Essays and recittations by members
of the graduating class.
First year student—Mr.
class. Enrich Noack
First year student—Miss McKenzie's
class. Alexander Sasse.
Second year student—Mr. Clifford's
close. Helen Kollnr .
Third year student—Mr; Clifford!
class. John B. Risks _
Third year student. Miss Cur-‘ry's class.
Mrs.
McMurmy's
John Rinets
Hungarian . dance—High School 0r-
chestra . -
Song-wk Song of - India. Rimsky-
Korsakow. Mrs. Anna E. Merriam
America—Song by students and audi—
ence. led by Mr. McMurray and his
class. accompanied by orchestra.
Award of Certificates—Supt. G. V.
Buchanan
Benediction
Several hundred tickets have been
distributed by the graduates and
among the foreign born of Norwalk.
Franklin schools will be. present to re-
ceive prizes in the rhyme contest. Ex-
cept these young people. children will
not be welcomed unless accompanied
by parents or adult foreign born. All
citizens. native and foreign born. men
and women .are invited. It is hoped
that this ‘wtll be a real community ral-
ly, to congratualte otter fifty students
who have been faithful in attendance.
in the night schools.
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THEATRE SOLD OUT
FOR “GLORIOIZS GIRL."
“The Glorious Girl" a musical
comedy, was presented for the second
time by the Senior class of the Nor-
walk High school at the Regent thea-
tre last night. The comedy was
staged with the same brilliant success
on at the Palace theatre.
The theatre was soldout. Every
single seat in the place was occupied
even to including those in the second
~balcony. The performance was a
big success in every way. It is esti-
mated the Senior class will clear close
to $1,000 on the production after all
expenses are deducted. This money
will be spent in connection with the
school activities of the class.
NORWALK BOND ISSUES
Favorableréports were retufiied by
the Finance committee of the Legis—
lature at noon today on the applica-
tion of the City of Norwalk for per-
mission to inane bonds to’the amount
of $250,000 for school purposes.
The application of the Second Tax—
ing District for permission to issue
the sum of $78,000, in street paving
bonds and also $300,000 in water
bonds, also received favorable report
fromthe Finance committee.
The school bond matter should it
be passed calls for a. referendum vote
this coming October. while the second
i
for a vote on the matter. ‘
Wilton. by a Senate bill. adopted
from the calendar today. is allowed a
deputy sheriff. While the towns bf
. New Fairfield and Brookfield are also
each followed a deputy sheriff.
sumo worm pings.
NEW LONDON. March 9.—-Eugene
H. Bartlow. of 21 Meridian .su‘eet,
Groton. . the. pedestrian who was run
dawn by the automobile.“ Dr. John
N. Dimon on Saturday last, died at
the Lawrence and Memorial Associ»
ated Hospital this morning. Partlow
leaves In. wife._ The condition of Mr,
noise unskilled Pulley, in. ii:
93° .7! . . ,7 o .. . . ,
.ago tonight in the basement of the
Award of Prizes to Junior, Red Cross“
for writing rhymes to .interest for-A
in night schol.‘
‘the Germania. together with a num-
’ Malyp on the
Delegations from Fitch. Coucord. and!
and diligent in their study of English:
as marked the first performance giv-.
taxing district bond issue would call“
for a'speciai taxing district meeting‘
3"
ing the Many Mysterious
Hotel, the Occupants
A state police investigation into the
mysterious . fires 3t the Germania
Hotel. Railroad avenue. having been
closed yesterday: another is to start
into the fire which broke out a. week
.store of Meyer Dulberg. Main street.
“which fire did damage (if-almost s50,-i
000 to the Dulberg and adjoining‘
stores. and to other tenants of the
'building.
That this second investigation was
to be made was authoritively learned
by The Evening Sentinel today. as
there are a number of circumstances
about «the Dulberg fire that in the
opinion of the authorities require
looking into. '
Chief of Police William R. Penning—
ton. Flre Chief George W. Bogardus
and State Policeman Frank Banton.
who were specially detailed here for
this purpose. yesterday interrogated
Charles Sigsway. owner of the Ger-
manic. buiding: Philip Guglimo. for-.
mer proprietor of the Germania. and
John DeMslyo, present proprietor of
her of tenants there in regard to the
tires which have broken out from mys-
terious causes within the past two
weeks.“ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ,
Six fires ‘ at least one of which
showed signs of boring been of incen-
diary origin. have broken out in the
Germanic in the past two weeks.
Guglimo sold his business to Do-
installment plan—so
much down and as much as DeMalyo
could afford to pay from time to time.
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CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING .
THE FIRE IN MEYER .DULBERG’S *
BLOCK CALL FOR ACTION NOW.
Several People Questioned Yesterday Afternoon, Regard-g
Affairs at the Germania
of Which Tell Many
was not making much money at the
business. . '
Further than this it is said that sev-,
eral women live at the hotel and that
one of them was the ob 'ect of jealousy
on the ran. of a man living at the
ltcte:‘wl.o resented her recelvuu; st-
lllllolxs tic-m other men. It was this
man that the authorities questioned
the most as there were a. number of'
things that pointed to suspicion his
way for at least one of the fires. ‘
The stories told by the inhabitants
of ‘ch hotel differed widely and it soon
became apparent that'they were not
all telling the truth.
Guglimo and his cousin. whose
name was not made public. were held
in the cells at police headquarters so
that they could not see other people a:
the hotel and fixehange congd'ences.
Attorney Paul R. Connery. Gugli-
rno's lawyer. heard of this and came
to ficlice’headquarters. and demanded
the release of his client from his in-
carer-ration.
Quite a. row developed between
Connery and Banton, before Guglirno
was released. Connery threatened to
communicate with the state police de-
partment at Hartford to new
Banton's authority to hold blowout
incommugicado. 'betore Guglirno I'm:
released. however. '
‘Whe he authorities had finished
their uestioning of those that they
'had summoned to the office of Chief
Pennington, they released them. They
would ’not make public the result of
their finding. saying that they would'
It is said that the insurance on the
business is much higher than its real
value. and furthermore that DeMalyo'
go over thernotes théy had taken. be-
fore they made any decision in th
matter.
Stryker 8: Stryker, of Red Bank,
N. J., were the contractors to whom
the award of the contract ‘ for the
construction of the new roads at‘Ca‘zf
Pasture beach was made. Their bid
was $26,141.00 for all the work called
for. the highest bid received bring for
approximately $50,000.
Special meeting of the corfimon
council was held last evening at
which time. the various bids; of
which there were twenty in all. were
discussed. and mention made of var--
ious prices for the various items of
work.
One of the members of the Srryker
& Stryker firm together with the
-chief engineer of the firm was pre—
sent. and explained more fully cer~
taln details of the bid. to the mem-
bers of the council present.
One of the most pleasing bits” of
news was that the city 'profits con-
siderably by accepting the Stryker &
Stryker bid. and. it is expected. will
:save approximately $5.000. which
would have to be " spent for loam to
éover the nu at the park proper.
By the terms of the specifications
about 3.500 cubic yards of loam is to
be scraped up and then transported
to the p ‘k proper._where it will be
dumped a d level’éa off. To replace
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New Roads at Calf Pasture
Beach to Cost City‘ $26,141j
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Board of Councilmen Awarded the Contract Last Night to
Stryker & Stryker, of Red Bank, New Jersey.
this loam, Cinders will 1* used in 51,3.
fill, laid down. and rolled. This work
is to be done in thecontract for about
$1.45 a cubic lard. Loam is selling as
anywhere from $3 to $5 cubic yard.
so that it can be seen that. the city is
saving considerable money.
There is about 25,000 cubic yards
of fill at $0.72 a. cubic yard. to be
placed in the swampy section, and
possibly a bit more. If, however. more.
that 25.000 cubic yards is required
this being the amount specified in
the contract. the additional fill will.
be made at the same price of seventy-
two cents. '
The work is to be started as soon
as possible on the constructiomof the
roads and it is expected that the work
on both roads. which will be boule-
vards as originally contemplated on
the plans. will be completed by July
lst, which will still cave plenty of
time for a thorough enjoyment of
the park by the people of the city.
Those members of the council pre-
sent last evening in addition to Mayor
Calvin L. Barton, Corporation Counsel
William F. Tammany and City En-
gineer Dominic Eula, were Council-
men George E. Ingham. Charles ’F.
Mills, Thomas F. James. Samuel J.
Rector and Clarence I. Brown.
TRYING TO SAVE
.WRECKED ~VESSELS
VINEYARD HA’VEN,‘ Mass. March
9.—Wrecking' outfits were busy today
in the waters of southeastern Massa-
chusetts. At Quick: Hole an outfit
started operations in an effort to save
lightshlp number 90 which was beach-
ed after strilzing a. rock and then
abandoned by her crew, and on Nan-
tucket'lsland another wrecking crew
was busy Coskata trying to‘floal: the
British schooner E. M. Roberts, New
York for st. John, N. B., which went
ashore Wédnesday. e
The British schooner Susan Camer—
on, Halifax for New York,” which. lost
her rudderseveral' days ago. sailed
from here today.
,
man rays moons transmits
DETROIT. March 9.--All creditors
of the Lincoln Motor Car Company.
purchased last yearly-Henry Ford at
a. vet's sale. . have been reim-
bursedf , in {‘11va Mr. Ford. it was of-
ficially museum; today. Them
CHARGED WITH
SHOOTING HUSBAND
CLEVELAND. Mar. 9.-—-Mrs. Minnie
Redwine, 35. is in the county jail
charged with shooting her husband
Gilbert D.'Redwine. 4s. ‘proprietor- of.
a hotel- in Lynndale. a. subur . earl:
today. Redwine is reported d in
a. hospital. Police said Mrs. Redwine
confessed she shot her husband; fol-
lowing a quarrel. ‘ I
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my Btmficmvn 7 MONTHS
By Assodated Press.
SMIRNA March 9. -— Al
more than'five months have e
fire. not a single brick has
stored. '
Smoke still issu’ es fromb the fire-
of fire finest Turkish tobacco which
were destined for the Anierim mar-
retracts.) floors deep in {bosom
needed?» pay-sir. olefin; in rw‘m_
1.
Mmotfmpuogsnt 9‘?"f ,
W811 ‘
since Smyrna was laid waste by $94
‘Tobacco' Company. Millions of pounds '
houses‘ forming asmoulderlngfum
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