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"‘ ' . i SPOKANE. \Vn.. April 3.—\lrs.
w w - ~ -
l . . pread S? Rap‘dIYI Mlms Pnlndther's newspaper lettels
firuuzh ”ma“ btmcture yconcerning activities in W'ashlng’ton.
‘ g , , ‘v ll. C. Society with particular stress
(3 ll fnere ‘vas .NO on drinking and gambling. are the
basis of petitions ready to circulation
1here today addressed to Attorney
Elaine. April 3.“; General Illillghorty and asking grand
! I. lo-lny in a r"..jury:it‘lglrstlgntion of the alleged ml:-
-V... 1“ _" h1lconuc.
"h ““ Rt“ "1. " l‘lnns wnro announced for seeking
~.;:';- "M m :2.» prlztions in other west-
ern cities. including Los Angela-s. Son
l fiance to Escape.
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. .. tun-d. Caribou. . ‘ “1";L‘U7- l'tnmr. Portland. Tacoma
N, ., ,Jn‘ C .litze.
. . " ”rs Bouchsrdw The hull nf the committee in
“.2... of the hot,,I§C§arge is IL (7. Harris of Spokane.
, r, Gum: Falls. 3.. B. . Loopcration of religious organizations
I, ,‘V of Massachusctts in making the petition a. success will
__ Nu," Ebc sought. The expenses will be met
~ ~ -n w:- [gr-I‘m...“ . by privat» subscription. be added.
d m rapidly that the Vic-i Mrs. Poin-ir-xtcr. wife of former
l'. S. Srnutor I’olndexter. who now is
rambassador to Pvru. wrote her first
intter to a. local newspaper. It caused
so much commcnt that others were
sought and her "exposures" of “Fash-
ingfion society life are appearing in a
number of papers as a. weekly fea-
turn.
The petition ss outlined Mr. Harris
includes one pres! nted last week to
4.—
RECOVERING .the Spokane l-‘vderated “'omens
'Christlan Temperance l.’nion asking
FPOM “MING further information from Mrs. Poin-
dexter. The l'nlon forwarded that
petition to its \V’ashigton D. C. repre—
lscntatlvo without nction or endorse-
. merit.
T" April '-—R- W. 3 In addition Mr. Harris’ petition
' w' ”~ Texas. " "“111 town Carrie's paragraphs. Territory of Mrs.
" " in 3- hospital ‘04“? "'i Poindvuo-r. The vight'queriesof the
" 771 l- "033103 Sunday; petition presented to the W. T. C. L'.
. 2 ‘mi was gushed snd hllfa. included:
”Ha-1‘3"“ "What is the nsmo of the Senator
“- ‘71-! ‘IKGI 3011 on nuto~ ' whose wife was an expectant mother'
‘ bnnd 0’ unusked “"3“- ’ who was dizzy with strong drink?"
3 90.1 3“" the """- whip~§ “At whose home was s. certsln cord
”'3’?“ 0n 1’10 hesd "ti 9“” party held st which there were thres
“d sublects of conversations “A" liquor
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brought to Tsylor
'n 1 We near the city hIlY- . (I!) Where to got it and what price.
"i Y""“‘“" 07 ""930" "9“" ‘ snli (C) where to have it tested.
..- le. acmnilng to story, "“‘ho was tha- farm bloc senator
3who could not give his wifo large
’ ”H“! EN”? 05 the K“ ' sums of money to gamble with
”5" 1 connection “it“ the: “V‘V'lmt movicrn apartment house in
l the D030! IPPQWU‘V‘D Washington has a liquor tester as
part f its equipmcnt‘.’
: ‘o Burleson
the police: "\Vho was the Srnntor's wife who
i ”‘41 “mm"! “Y ‘ said she could hale llama: tested at
' 3’ fi’lfirk “'33 ‘0 b“ this apartment house.
"7““ P7'3"h'r handed "What are the harm“: of senators.
Almost everybody who is snybody
dressed against the wintry blasts.
Goulds in Easter Parade
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in New York City wss on Fifth Avenue
Easter Suntlsy even though it was too cold to show off new Buster {incl-7.
Here are Mr. and Mrs. Jay Gould and thelr daughters. Ann. And Eleonor. zsgc-uts had engined her to help them
MR.HARRISIS
GIVEN SURPRISE
0N BIRTHDAY
Ledge-nod Farm the scens of s.
hsppy ourprlss birthdny party given
to Chsrlcs H. Harris. gins; monufac-
tux-er. by s score of friends. 9 oc-
casion wu s. hsppy one; featured by
a. dinner snd vnndevillo entertsin-
.ment. Thirty-five guests werc pre-
sent.
The dinner was splendid being pre-
pared by Mr. Harris’ cook "Mary," A
feature of the dinner was s. two foot
high birthday cake. On top of the
cn‘ke in the frosting was
the words "Charles H. Harrls’s
niverler-"
The dance hall st Ledguwood
‘F‘srrn was nicely decorated for the
An-
writcn f
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POWER BOAT
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BLOCK ISLAND. R. 1.. April 8.—
Tbe mysterious vessel. s former sub-
msrino cbsscr. whtch pthn hero on
s secret mission ycsterduy sftcr how-
cring about tho rum runners haunt.
OK this bland for a. week. went out
sgnln loony. She headed southeut
by south in the direction of the point
to which it wss reported the British
stesmcr Avonto‘rn. reputed to hove
a bolt million dollar cargo of whlsky
aboard. had moved over night. The
Avontown's position wns given an ap-
proximately 12 miles off shore.
The converted sub-chaser. unnamed
except for the nsme “Mudelenc.” in
conspicuously stencilled letters on lite
buoys. uld said by her csptnln to soil
from New London. Conn. was to have
gone out last night sfter nconfer-
once with three strangers who met
her 0mm»: here. By wireless or
otherwise word cum: to her this
morning. When the three strsngers
went aboard. she went out. The crew.
obviously unused to their duties. sh
lowed her to go around in the end
of the breskwstfl snd they were ten
minutes getting her off. Before trav-
lng they told Islanders thst they were
4 going out to pick up a cargo.
Speculation u to the errsnd of the
vessel and the identity of her three
managers ran from s report federnl
sttempt to moot Jsrncs W. Costello.
of Boston. sought on s fugitivs from
jutice st Boston. on operstlous of s
large scale. to the more genenlly oc-
copted version thst she was one of
several vessels engnged in distributing
the big cargo of whinkoy which feder-
sl sgents soy the Avontown brought
here from Ghsgcrw under the hapless
of s Montreal-Boston rum ring sad I
Scotch distilioay.
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At s meeting held lsst sight st the;
Royal Jsmcs Hotel the board of;
i directors ofthe Norwslh Kii'mk club'
hoth to have the “’estport mu com-
‘miltco of the club hold A conference
with State Highway Commissioner
Bennett regarding the proposed
loinsnges in the hill as presented in n
3 report read at the last meeting of the
§orgnniution. This row-mitt".- consists
1of: Duncan Frizzell. Frank 1. Jones.
and Thomas Mclmnn. Frederick L.
Lawson was added to the rommlttec.‘
The pinns of the committcs call for
Ideclded changes in the “'cstport Hill
f road which will eliminate the timer-
'ous spots of Mortusry Curve. By cut-
Vting a road acros- seveml pieces of
‘ ”h”; the name "f "K”. rcprrvnln'ih-s and vulvlrtrt offil-ns in
‘ ’mm‘l‘ 17'; 0! G“°"‘“; whosn hornrs the liq»; r is sorrel] to
"n said. adding that he 8”,”.
T1" ”Wit ‘01“? “'1’“ a "In what cml‘assy is liquor ser-
~,~. ll- had roffrd st . ".1
”T! ’h- r0110“- ' "\V‘hat are the names of the high
“ iofficials of two goxernmrnt in whose
l\ \l, FUR ‘homcs calm/5mg at bridge is permit-
IUICORI) OF C03}: ted."
' 1‘ Y . April 3.-.\ rival
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occasion with palms. cut flowers andlproperty. the highway will be practi-
scorcs of Japancss lanterns. The hsllE rally straight from 1h" MON-‘houfl'
wss msnged in the form of scsbsrethrocery store to the top of the hill”
ban; this detail being further carried :according to the plans. It is hoped:
out by n picturesque cigarette girl in ‘ that the committee csn poi-suade the‘
! . ' \l'l‘Iiam ll. Con".
"Thinkers‘ Iixprcss."
and NW York. is
-l-! Who-it‘s record of 32
‘ ank l’cnlral railroad
MISS VANDERBILT
r; m'...‘ T0 WED CUSHING
i: nrmz'zd the earth—l,
”PM“ Nam?“ him 2 lcrn \‘anvlcrbilr. on'y daughter of
“Millionaires Corn- 2 family, Corrwlius \‘mzdcrbullt. is to l»:
}"“V' “n Pouzh- line of decent from the founder of the
u- mri “”1”“ station. it i family. Cornelius \‘anderbuilt. is to be
sterday. “a :ald that the bride of Henry C. Cushing. 3rd.
1‘: ltopcd ‘0 travel son of prominent Boston family. The
! "In" without ml" engagement was announced last night
. , by the bride's motho-r. Mrs. Sydney
has as 1" _patrons 2 Jones Colford. Jr.. Plans for the wed-
., ”“53 ”vi": 121 2’2- l ding have not been arranged. nor has
'~,~:mt.>rs along me u - l a date been agreed upon.
3 Mia Vanderbilt has been n much
‘ fretted debutante of the present
locason. and her engagement to Mr.
:Cushing of ten'has been rumored but
not announced until her mother made
. it known nt :1 dinner giv'en to her and
‘hnr fiance. Her mother wss Ml.-
: Cathleen Nellson. whose mother prior
5 to her marriage was )IL- Belle Geb-
hard. one of the most brilllnnt wom-
"‘ L7 x fl.
gnsn"
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‘ - i. a conductor. last Fri-
" f“ year-9' continuous
Nuvw York. New Us-
' i r ulroari. and was pre-
21:1: cup by his fellow
~ has traveled 2.00fi.000
.t‘,
l\ I II PEVDl-ISTLY
. l l ‘1'." TAX COLLECTOR en in xe' York ‘9')?
I Reginsld Vanderbilt nnd Miss.
"L Apr“ 3"“"9' Di Nielsen were married st Newport in
1903. About four yours sgo they were
divorced and in 1920 Hrs. Vanderbilt
wss married to Mr. Colford. Mr. Van-
derbilt married Kiss Glorb Morgan.
dsughter of hurry Hays Norgsn.
American counsel general at Brussels.
:-:n;ng u an indepen»-.
for borough tax col-
;ux defeated John W.
.. had been nominated st
raucul s‘nernl weeks ago-
Who had been tux col-
years. wu defesled It
'u
A .m the other office" The bride to be is n niece of Brig.
' v the caucus were elected. a.“ Comma. Vanderbilt. Hrs.
— s d°cision to run “160- Hsrry pgyne Whitna sud countess
'E'Lstd unussunl interest in
‘ with the Amerlcnn‘ forces in Frsnoo
q \~O.\‘IC 0mm. now is connected with
m flrll-
CLASS OF 1922
HASAREUNION
‘ Communiontion of Old war
13!. F. and Answmbs
‘ 1‘: rooms. “some TODD.
-r;ng. April Ind. 1928, I
'KF.C.
"r Masons cordlsny and Guam-embersofthex.fl.&
:nnted. "b‘y a." at 1’22. Mod 3 (hp
Fatwa-Bryon". lung‘s-neat tbs Nos-walk cos-ts,
’TEFLPFAmg'.X. “E‘MAIW“!II
"$309- 800- ”bass «(are chss who was homo
”Macho-MM
' "‘apter, No. 83. IAI—Mmmfi: Vanuatu—uh.-
armnlcmmsutsldsluurum-u‘eurmu‘
'rzndsndlvhmfl‘l‘lsohnerwss Wan-ward
NE“? YURI-C. April 3.——.\llss Cnt‘n-l
busyv
costume.
The vaudeville was furnished. by
. the Stone Agnncy. of Boston. Mass. It
’took the form of a musicni corned);
; wu nicely staged. several young
ladies’ taking parts in it.
‘ During the owning. Mr. Harris was
presented with n handsome silver
{coffee set by the hedzewood Farm
;club. The presentation was made by
. Prank Field.
The guests included: Dr. tad Mrs.
'P'. J.f Morrison. Mr. nnd Mrs. Richsrd
Riggs. Mr. nnd Mrs. Emil Hamming.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Moron. Mr. sud
E. Lycett. Mr. and Hr: Raynor
Werme. Mr. and art W. Ross. of
New York city; Mr. and Kn. Walter
lConn. New York city; Mr. 3nd Mrs.
{William Michaela. New York city:
Mr. sad Mrs. B. .l. Petry. Long Isisnd:
Mr. snd Mrs. John Grnhnm. Hudson.
nell. Mi- Aims Lycett. Ala nnd Ed-
gar Wesel. Ralph Lycett. Mi- Lillinn
Twombly 5nd Clinics H. Burris.
ALLEGE BOOZE RING
' BEFORE COURT
Ruminations of on alleged liquor
ring. whose operations are said to
.have extended through New York
land the New Biglnnd antes. will
‘havo the scnrchllght shod over them.
‘in the United sures District Court or
New fisven. tomorrow when chsrgu
lowhery. of Dnnbury.
xxx. of Bethel. nod Edward Kramer.
of W will be hard before
Mrs. “F. T. Twornbly. Mr. and Mrs. J.‘
N. Y. Mrs. L. M. Crofts. Mrs. Brow-'
istatn officials to undertake this work.
The committee in charge of besull-
fying the South Norwulk railroad sla-
tion ynrd rrportcd that this worh was
,well under way. A score of dump
cnrts sre curling loom to the ynrd to
lbe used for the flower beds.
"Father snd Son" day will he held
«Thursday of this wrek. A special pro.
gram is being prepared for the oc-
;ca.nlon by Charles T. Dirnond.
S'I'RAW WORKERS
DANCE AT ARMORY
Opcntors’ and Trimmers' Loos).
No. 33. held its fourth annual dsnco
st the' Armory inst QVE‘IIIHK. snd the
air was very successful throughout.
Fender's orchestrs of eight piece. pro.
lvided the music. slid the spot light
I dsnocs proved s. lecture.
The platform was decorated with
palms and presented s very attractive
sppearsnce. Tho officers of the or.
g-ninsvtion on Mrs. A. W. Day. m.
dent: In. Clorenco Toner. vice-N.
dent: )lrs. Em Dennis. secretary
and MP. The committes eon-
lsistcd of its. Frederick Leppor.
chairman: Hrs. William Fledler. Hrs.
Lillian Holly. )fles ls?! Seth. Hrs.
'Cnloy and “I‘LL. HcGowsn.
KEYSTONE JACK
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your
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boat intercepted ofl Block lslsnd
yecterdsy by Captain Elijah aprons.
sud his crew of the and gusrd stu-
tion. snd showed the name of Hsgde-
lcne. is 'regiszered st the custom
house hare. The ownrr is gixen as
Mrs. Margaret Singdeleno Johnson.
wife of Dr. J. C. Johnson. who hss on
office in this city. but lives in the
Montrose section of Sorth Haven.
WILL CONFER
OVER DREDGING
Wk
A conference is to be held on
Thursday afternoon of this week. st
the council chambers. City Hall. by
members of the bridge committee snd
Xalor Peterson. of the L‘. B. Govern-
ment engineer; on tho msttcr of the
dredging of the local hsrbor. the com-
mittee having held up tho nwsrding
or bids for the dredging sud construc-
tion of s new public dock nlongsid-
the “’nshington street bl‘ids‘. until
some amurance is given them regard-
ing the proposed work by the Govern-
ment.
As it is now. if either the upper or
lower sections of tho work is to he
done first. there is a strong probab-
ility thst the work of the confirm:-
‘ tion of the dock will not be started
lxnmedlntely. However should the
middle section. i. e.. from tho Nor-
wslk Country club to the Wsshingtou
street bridge. bs dredged sud pumped
first. then this material eon be used
as fill for the new Inflow svenuc
park. and work on the emotion of
the dock will begin immedlntely.
Tholowcrsectionofthoworkgoeo
from Key-er Island" to the Country
Club. the middle section from the
Country club to tho WM street
bridge. sad the um ssction from
the Washington street brtdgs up to
Scrum.
Bids for tho dredging sad contrac-
tion of the dock won opened sad sn-
smlsedbythomombersofthom
commune in: evening. tour but.
being received. Nothing would be
glvou out regsrdiug tho figures of
these. until one: '11:qu confor-
mn-.I"o
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l-‘llllllGSlillAD CARRIE) 0llT .
or sovm's m REPRli-IVE m
BEEN lllll-llSl-ll, 03mm sun
There Were Rumors Thst sn Exchange Might Be Ab
ranged, but the Soviets Believed Justice Should Tsko
ltsCourseRegsrdlessofProtcstssndAt-
tacks from Abrosd.
By Associated Preso
MOSCOW'. April 8.-—Monslgnor
Constantine Butchnvitch. \‘lcnr Gen-
crnl of tho Rom Mollie Church in
Rm condemned to denth for wil-
fully oppodng the Soviet government
hss been executed by s. firing sound.
The fate of tho prclnte. in doubt
lsst Thursdny when his upped for
clemency was denied. beams known
today when it wss unouncnl tho; the
desth sentence had been cos-rhd out
in.“ Saturday.
The secrecy thst surrounds Soviet
executions m umrtnln tho cir-
cumstnnces under which tho sentenco
wss carried out. but It seems prob-bk
that flow Butchhvitch ' was
put to death in tho Murrow prison for
the condemned. to which he hsd been
removed. nftcr the reprieys wss re-
fused him.
Appeal- from the out!“ world
which hnd poured in upon tho Soviet
suthorloles had no effect in shying
the hsnd of their executioner:
Competent opinion. indeed. Is that
even the hunting of diplomtlc ro-
lstions by outside governmsnts or n
thrent of wu- would not ban mud
the Noocow official. from their
course. Their lost word in tho cuss
hsd been woken. it nppesned. whsa
they commutod to us yssrs imprints-
men! the death sentence upon Arch-
bishop m convict“ st tho suns
“m
The “flying nusdron" of the locslx
internsl revenue bureau left Hurtford'
yesterdny on a tour of the m urin-
ed with risure wsmnts for the pro-
perty. both personal snd real estate.i
of more than 600 in Connecticut,
whose federnl tux poyments sro over-'
due.
Although wsrnlng of the issuanccl
of these warnnts wss given through
the press more thsn a week sgo. Col-
lector Robert O. Eaton mid yesterdsy.
thst but few hsd taken ldV‘InMQ;
3‘
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the sffnir was the subject or. wir-
debuts in porllment. sud tho Aloha
blshop of Canterbury took tho I.‘
in voicing the nttitu‘s of tbs m
clergy.
The protect of the Amelie:- out.
depurtmcnt wss booed on how
isn grounds snd su forth “the the lilo
of the Vicnr 02mm! might bs w-
ed.“
The foreign protests. in tho View
of clone observers. injured ruin:
than sided the anus of Mom
Butchksvitch by creating s public
sentiment hers sgslnst foreign Intent
ference. Not dncc sctunl intensitie-
dsys. when the elements of m
Dcnlldoe and others we" trying to
be hesrd. or when the Pond wu- woo
on. has there been such s m o!
tndigustlon u was crowed also-c
Soviet officsils on mating tbs dsclsr-
stions of the Polish premisr snd ol
ths Archbishop of Gunter-bury.
Thin indignation wu volad h as
shnrpe note which Tchchler‘ll has ‘
Promier Sikorski. sad in tho reply h
the British sppcsl for clemency. TI.
latter reply sud:
”Ru-sis is on independent m
Ign state snd hu tho “do“
right of posing sentence. in cm
ity with its own laws on peopls M.
ing the established ordinsnc. d ~
country. Eva-y effort on tbs 0“.
tohurfcrowtth thbflfisofihw-
he: spies no Mars is on w
of the week of grsce snowed by .0
buresu.
This squadron will be out M
two weeks that time being film
for the srn‘ing of the worm Th.
property thus seized will be cold to
meet the OVerduc indebtedno- of u
delinquents. Although in a.
whero unusual clrcum‘sncos CIR
the deputy collectors compodng tho
squndron will be suthorisod to cot
cept payments. they sro not act“
in the capncity of "bill collector."
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FORMULA WAS STOLEN 1
By Ascot-hid Press
NEW YORK. April I.-Dr. Thomu
W. Edgnr, president of tho Central
Sanitarium. sud Bruno Butlermnn.
who ssys he is the discoverer of s.
tmtment for tuberculosis sad dis.
betas. reported to the polic: todsyl
this! they were held up lots inst night
and robbed of tho only copy of Budern
mum's formula.
Their automobile become sulled in
Wuhington Heights sad when Buder—
mnn. who but gong to s nesrby house
for water for the rsdlstor returned.
ho found the men pointing pistols st
Dr. Edgsr sud Mrs. Edgar.
Sudcrmnn mid he drew n pistol and
fired six shots. The bandits fired
back twice snd escnped Into the woods
nearby. toting with them the tons-
uh. which wss h s hog. cud Jewulry
volued nt 3150. belonging to tho phy-
flchn. ;
PCST OFFICE ROBBm
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DAY SCHOOL
WORKERS GATKER
The Childron's Divides of tho m
lundsy School Amniotic: will con-
duet. This afternoon sud even-c
sn Institute for the portals out we-
iter. of Beginners. Prim-my. sad I”.
lor gndes of tho Bundsy 8cm 0‘
Bridgeport. Stsmford out 8m
and will bring to this city four ”a
on snd workers. ouch no expert I. n
or her line. “is. Jossphlno m
of the Editorial Buff of tho M
Bond-y School Publlcntlons. It"
Lucy Block Chopin of the W'-
Dtriuon of the Button: County I I.
Amoclntion. Rev William 1'. M.
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trlct of the Congregational M
Society will bs tho fiestas. Tbs pr.-
m surfing at 3.30 '1]! bombs.
and attractive. will loci!“ m h
the church. followod by tho on“
program commendng st 1.” sad
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