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PRICE THREE CENTS:
FRANK PIIILLIPSON BELIEVE
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RIG HUSBAND LOST IN SWAMP —*
WI In Dead of Night by Cries from Nearby Swamp
Is Chief Pennington It Was Hpr Husband’s
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‘v oice—Police Scour Swamp.
“Jessie !”
mg the eerie night with the snow whirling and fluttering
. Ikcned Mrs. Frank P. Phillipeon at 4 o 'elook on the mom-
)l'llfll'y 4 from a sound )leep.
, I-y came. it is believed. from her husband, a well known
who had mysteriously disappeared four days previously. ‘
v, from her bed, Mrs} Phillipson rushed to throw open a
-k ! Frank l" she called.\
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L‘HIII the hoarse cry
lo the dis-
\xhistling winds
or :1 deep swamp
.- l‘lI'IIlipson homo.
'hlllipson hurried to damned about.
I'IIIIIng ill Hm top Of
III’“('VIOII of the voice. to a survey of
mot hvr’s room.
Damaged
. The state peach crop has been
25 per. cent.on.ac-
count of frosts last week. according
nounced III the State Market Bul-
letin of the Connecticut. Depart-
Agriculture ycbte'rday.
a
state farmers ”an-
was done in New
H .Illl-“IT "lCnt ‘0'
' ' Greater damage
I. llIIIIIllII'r "f ll") "Isht.
. I II Inllwd 'Im bedromn, $23000“ caunty than t d
l IIIIpu tlmt She would 0 WI! repor E .
m.» \llIt‘f‘ nl' htr husband.
«n-mn ulowly.
‘lllll Il.llT l‘f'ilsl‘ll.
I]. If «I Olltllllf‘.
The blind-
Mrs. l’hll-
in any other
Growers In lower Connecticut rc-
portcd greater damage to early
peaches than to the canning
variety. Many growers reported
that there was no damage to the
mlprlnts lending through a.
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I‘llpnnn
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‘*"E:ll) to prev on my InInd.’ ‘
..I; la-ln the pond. I VISIT“
l‘vnninuton who IodlIy rc-
. nation-wide search for the
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Manly,
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non to the swamp."
apple and strawberry crops.
InlIl (.‘hiv‘f of Police
didn't think anything
Iinvs passed and the
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IN. mi “Irv (‘hIr‘f
Sergeant Brynn
ulmun Thomas llor-
waded the Camp
STEELE JILL
EARNS
:5 DAILY
NEW YORK. May 15.-—-Mrs. Kath-
r‘ N lucntcd In .1. hollow.
ntIr Kill .1 by much
It is: II mosquito
:I Inuvky pond lIIImI
nIIIvuhII‘. In the na-
. . l on —l‘:lzo Two)
:mI‘ial Day Plans
I-I llu- Mo-IIIOIial Day
lleIl lmt evening at.
ml Ilium: \u-rc gone O\('i‘
mm” or Mvnmriul Day.
I‘lIIIIIIIIIlt‘ l't‘pOl‘lt‘d that
r‘mnwl Inn-iv for the OC-
I'IIIIII Irl‘ IIlt‘ Ann‘rl.“
Itv'mn ("ll'llfi. It was (le-
.llulue John .I. \Vulllll as
M Ihw .m-rIICI-s which will
I mun l':IIk. It was also
'El {r'\‘.‘I“illIlf‘r liurlvy
.l . vl l-‘. .\l(~(;I'cl:or to
"'III.‘Ill>llN :It lhI: l"l‘-
‘H'hl out at th" nlf'f'llng
, ..I Hm prqsvnl Memorial
‘24s :I [It'l‘llllllll‘nl com—
Ilm Mrmorinl )lny
:Ixnhr thvir (ontlol at
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I r. . .IIIl it “as \motld 101
m (If lHtlnlan and tax-
"'lflIl' $30!) to this com-
~t \.~:Ir‘s Memorial Day
-~ il‘w‘ .IIMI (It‘Cldl‘d llllll. the
. lwi by ”In \rtl'rlln or-
: V'Iv' (It'COl‘lLllim of grant!
'1 rhls :III‘IUIIIIt.
crlne Nelson who has a. son 17 and a.
daughter 16. has registered as the first
steeple-fill and expert electric welder
ln greater New York and perhaps in
the world. Silo also believes she is
the first woman to earn 330 a day as
a. skilled laborer.‘
Mrs. Florence Thompson. 26 years
old and a. mother as well, isvthls city's
first feminine bricklayer—the product
of a school for artisans conducted by
her husband. No‘shc has become a
journeyman and when she works at
the trade. which is whenever she
needs a new hat or gown. she draws
the prevailing wage 310 a. day.
The story of one is of a. widowed
immigrant who played a man's game
and did a man's job. first as means of
existence and later in order- that she
might maintain her beautiful home
and educate her children. Tile other's
story is of a. wife who read "art" into
hrlcklaylng and utilized her avocatlon-
to make real the Long Island of which
she had dreamed.
In her native Denmark 18 years
ago Mrs. Nelson was a machinist’s
apprentice in he? husband's shop.
When he died she came to America.
She couldn't get a. woman's job. so
she became a machinist in the Erie
Railway shops and later an electric
welder. The quality of her work soon
qu to her employment by an electric
welding firm.
P. EH CHIEF Io MURDER CAPIIVES
E DEMANDS ARE DISREGARDED
... ‘.III'II "HMS
I. \lIv lf-,——I,'nless the
HI" rvnrcsentatives in
irv tonight that the
- l 1"lI will carry out
~: Iixml by the Chinese
‘n t-I; IIIIIIng hills. the
‘7‘! ulpllln will all he
\\1III.Illl Lnnfers. an
In. Iunfvrrcd with the
u. Sun'lnl'. reported to
(unsul :It Lcnching to-
f« Is: (Icm'rihml the chief-
II ..IIL'.
law-«I.
Ila “:1 young mun.
wearing eye glass-
pnrauhdcd \V'ang to
day the limit of his
‘mh had been fixed ‘at
:n Sunday. \l’ang told
y-It-Ilgo“! of Chinese offi-
'IllllR‘ tn the bandits and
III of the foreign diplo-
4A0“.
\\ i! ng 6:8!th hll
Jul not demand money,
2‘: II, the Peking govern-
:II the bandits to the
IMF soldiers. Wlth ‘
. . would under no ro-
l'nlher Lenfors arriving
V m‘lir Innummble hard-
, w .I Wang's letter to the
*UI [Ud‘y- '
u; said the leader of the
“quiet-m cordlll.‘
“NI
.- failure “”0 .
government and the foreign ministers
to do his bidding:
“Do not deceive finrself. or
lieve what I threaten I will not carry
out, as I promise. You are a. mission-
ary and you know that what I say In
true."
Immediately after reporting to the
consul. the priest despatched a. letter
to Max Friedman. a brother of\ Leon
Friedman. one of the captives. The
letter which was delivered to the As-
sociated Press In Shanghai today.
gives a vivid picture of the priest'- in-
terview with the leader of the out-
laws.
"I slept well in the bandit village."
he wrote. “It was nine when a mea-
senger came telling me that the sec-'
ond In command was coming. Be are
rived with an armed guard with three
rifles and about 20 drawn nun-er pis-
tols. He ordered. em to march with
him. “'e went over the mountain top
and arrived at a nuallcr village where
he told me were the headquarters. I
saw bandits everywhere but all wgru
respectful.
"in a clean room. having a table
and four beach-a I "given the
place of honor. Bun Hal-Jan. the
second In command. sated «
opposite other: who entered.
young man q- chum well
' made tat-Commons- .
cunt-
...r‘v. '
”it
'he would return.
be- I
If! Judge “'alkor's court in Chicago.
shine madness." as applled to drivers
will?
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Little \flc’tlnls, {filth misled frames and undies Thrlm‘i‘ae speeding
They silently pro st ”moon-
whosc only thought Is speed.
MRS. Locxwoon'
DENIES CHARGE
OF HER HUSBAND
ton avenue. Rownyton. 3’10rday (If--
nlcd to a Sentinel reporter the
charges made against her by Il('l'
husband. who at present is in Balti-
more. Md.. and who went to the po-
lice of that city with n. letter which
was believed to have been sent him
by the Ku Klux Klan of this city.
threatening him with far andgfeath-
crs and a lashing. unless he returned
to his home here. which he fled about
a year ago.
Mrs. Lockwood stated that “there
was not a. bit of truth In the repOIt
that she was responsible for the
sending of the letter to him, and'thu't
the rest of his story was equally
false. "
The reason why her husband fled
the city about a ‘year ago was be-
cause he was afraid that he might be
arrested for obtaining money under
false pretenses. In that he had sold
a. piece of property leaned on Me;
Kinley street. Rowayton.. to.two dif—
ferent people. These sales ,are re-
corded in the Town Clerk's office
she said.
Added to this. Mrs. Lockwood said,
was the fact that her husband was a
has and inveterate drinker and
tho. he.was old and feeble. and was'
subject to the belief that he was be-
mg persecuted.
Mrs. Lockwood said that at the
time of his disappearance she sat up
,every night. for a. week belle\ log that
That her husband is unbalanced,
Mrs. Lockwood believes. because of
the story that he told the Baltimore
(Continued on Page Two),
. LuCky Escape
John Fay. son of Chris Fay of
Osborne avenue. East. Norwalk. while
riding a bicycle up Washington. street
last evening about 7 o'clock'. was
thrown from his_ wheel. when It
skidded on the car track. He was
thrown in front of an automobile
driven bymorge Mokley of 89 Oak
street: The rear wheel of the bicyclu‘
was smashed by the car. Young Fay
was badly shaken up butfwas other-
wtao uninjured.
Council Meets Tonight
A hearing will be held by.the com-
mon council this evening on the ma:-
ter of establishing a! line on Grand-
ctew avenue. at. its adjourned m.
r cilvln r. m will an-
frubolurs oa to matter-
Mrs. \lilliam ll. Lockwood. of R0- '
infected wisdo
«mammal
0ft)» ‘
FOUR HUNDRED
CLERGYMENMEET
IN CONFERENCE
BRIDGEPORT. May Jim—hour
hundred clergyman . rcpIesenting the
Episcopal diocese of Connecticut. ar.
rived here today to attend the an-
nual conference which opens at
o'clock this afternoon‘ with an ad-
dress by Bishop Chauncey ll. .Brcw-
stem, Tonight the delegates will at-
tend a banquet to be given by the
Church Men's League. The business
sessionof the conference will. be
held tomorrow.
This morning .the clergymen at-
tended nlemorial services In Christ
church. Stratford. commemorating
the 200th annhfersary of the ordin-
ation of Rev. Timothy Cutler. Rev.
DanielBrown and Rev. Samuel John-
.30“ the first three American clergy-
men from Connecticut. which took
place In London. England. Bishop
Brewster presided” atlthe anniversary
services and the libmorlal address
was by Rev. Dr. W. Beardsley of
New Haven.
Bishop Brewster. after mentioning
those who have passed away. bade
the co Ventlon to prayer. ‘Reaumlng
his addre -be‘sald in 'part:
"The cxe utivc committee has com-
pleted its organization by election of
Rev. John F. Plumb as secretary. He
has entered upon his duties with
DEATII cIAiHs
NOTED EDUCATOR
DANBURY. May l5.—John Russell
Perkins. the first and only principal‘of
the Danbury Stite Normakacbool‘Ohe
of the foremost educators in the state,
died at his home. 20 Terrace Place.
yesterday afternoon t 4 o'clock from
systemic poisoning. e result— or an
tooth.- Troubled
with pain abo t the face several
months-before Christan! It. fer-kin
sought the aidof ’a dentist. andrthe
wisdom tootmwas extracted in tile
latter.part of Decanber.’ bringing to
light a. pus sack beneath.
Previous to this ailment he‘ had,
'been suturing from a complication of
diseases and following the extraction
no improvement was noticeable. His
condition. assumed by poison from
the Infected tooth. which had spread
through his M forced him to
cease active work” about a mans
ago and lie has been confined to his
bed mace. Death. though not am.-
looked funcame . ”unexpectedly.
He is mm. by his wife.1 am
me John B. Perm-I. If»
{g ..............3 too
mum of untos {2% a. ӣ800
Halntesance of roads 0’) .. 80,000
Maintenance of bridges . . . . 500
Maintenance of culverts and
drains . ...... ...... 500
Insurance on trucks (1') . . 600
Engineering supplies and ‘
car fares . ............ . 500
Salary of commissioner . . . . 2.340
Salary of clerk . ....... . 936
Ofl’ice expense ....... . . . . . . 300
Engineer and assistant . . . . . 3.300
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . 1.000
Liability Insurance employee 500
New equipment (crusher) . . 3,000
Wall and abutments. Scavicw
avenue .....3......... 800
Total 376.376
3 .
ANNUAL BEETS
FOR IIIUIIWAYS
SROWINCREASE
Fourth no: Fifth District
Highway. Budgets Call
for $116,926.
Up till noon today City Clerk ste-
phen Dukus had not received the
1923- 24 budgets of the police do-
partment. the First and Second dis-
tricts. and several other departments.
but expected that they would be re-
ceived by this afternoon.
The Highway department in the
Fourth district asks foran appro~
prlation of 8§0.260.00 and In the
Fifth district asks for $76,676.00.
The figures in this department in
both of these districts is higher than
last year. and the figures are given
below as they appear on the budgets:
Fourth District
Cleaning and sweeping
Straw Hats Absent
.__,_
Today may be May 15. Straw
Hat Day. but the only display of
thé "breakfast food Kelly " is to
be seen in the store windo
Old’Jupe Pluve hung around la
a. threatening manner most of the
day with Sol Sunshine sticking his
nose into the atmosphere once in a.
long while.
Heavy coats, gloves and felt bats
were the things that appealed'to
most of the masculine sex today.
Maybe tomorrow the raw Hat
will blossom into fav r. but at.
present 1923 resembles the old-
ashioned ox cart—'It' hasn‘t any
price.
pavements . . . . . ....... 8 3,000
Maintenance and permanent
pavement ............ 1,500
Maintenance horses. wagons
and carts (?) ........ . 1.000
Maintenance of buildings . . . 500
Maintenance of Sewers . J. . . 3,500
ltent of Second district barn 600
Removal of refuse (?) . . . . . 14.500
Removal of snow .. . . . . . . . . .. 1.100
Miscellaneous ............ 1.000
Sidewalk emergency fund .... 500
Haintenancc of trees . . . . . . ’ 1.100
'wcatch basins.......... 450
New sewers (Austin and
Laura streets. France
street and North avenue.
Horton street and Maple
street ................. 8.509
Total $40,250
- Fifth District" 1028624
'ee of toners and
La'te News
HANKOVV, China. May Ill—About.
one thousand soldiers and ex-bandlta
from \Honan. incorporated into an
army. are camped seven miles from
Hankow. demanding tribute of $150.-
000 and a. quantity of ammunition as
the price for their departure. The
authorities thus far have refused to
comply.
Trains between Peking and Hanlzow
are carrying guard detachments of 40
soldiers each as well as machine guns.
. .
BOSTON, May 15.-—Ths Interstate
commerco‘commlssion today appealed
from the recent ruling. by the federal
district court restraining inauguration
of interchangeable mileage books at.
a twenty per cent. price' reduction on
fifty Eastern railroads. The commis-
sion's order for the sale of the books
now stands suspended until January
1. on the railroads of this country.
WALL srnnp'lt Noon—Failure of
interest committed to the long side of
the market to maintain the early ad-
vancement. encouraged a. resumption
of short selling which was most effec-
tive in the stools. equipments. motors.
motor acessories. foods and a few
high grade rails. Bear traders we
aided by profit taking on the part of
recent buyers. By noon many of the
leading shares had sagged a point or
two below yesterday‘s close. D'upont
broke four points from its early- -hl h.
.Stewart Warner slumped 2 3- 8 p0 ate
and Stromberg. Studebaker and lack
Truck 1 to 1 1- 4. Call money opened
at 4 1:2 per cent. ~ '
DERBY. May 16.—Thomu L. Cor-
nell. 84 first viceépresldent of the
National Folding Durand Paper
pm as New Haven. died at his homo
here today. new one of tho ore-2m:
lass-sot the compoun- He came do-
Derby In 18“ and had been a vestry-
man of St. James Episcopal church
since 1870. He is survived by a. son.
Edward Shelton Cornell. of new York
and Derby. president of the ”Nations!
Highway Protew‘ve Society. Three
grandsoua were encore
inflating:
NEW‘ YORK. May 15.——The unex-
plained disappearance of Lydia. Lind-
gren. "the Swedish nightingale" of
grand opera. who. wearing jewels
valued at $14,000. was last seen as she
left the ofiices of her attorney in low-
er Manhattan. was reported to the
police today by her husband. Raul
Quirz. a. noted operatic tenor of the
:‘uth American stage.
Miss Llndgren. who has starred in
both the Metropolitan and Chicago
Grand Opera. was to have sailed next
month for a. European tour. She
uent to the office of her attorney,
Mls. Anna Hochfelder in Kuhn- Loeb
and Companyfs quarters in the field.
yesterday arranging. with her hus~
band to'wait for. her before the cus-
toms house ill thelr automobile.
Quirze waited until after dark.
Thinking his wife might have gone‘
directly from her lawyer's home to
Flushing. Quirza hastened there. but
found no wo'rd of her. A'night of
frantic calls to relatives and friends
was followed by his appeal twthe po-
lice for aid.
Authorities at. Boston were notified.
upon Mrs. Hochfelder‘s statement
that the singer had said, she bad
business to transact there before
going abroad. and might have taken a.
train without waiting to inform her
husband.
Irving Klelnman ’ of I New haven
has accepted a. . position with the
Self Service Shoe Store.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.
the wreckage.
although
high as fifty.
Springs from Little
which
“(ire ,communication with
INHABITANTS FLEING TO MOUNTAIN
SLOPE AS CITY IS DEVAS'I' ATE
Water and Fire Sweep Over Town from Three Directions
—Communication Cut 05—Death List Not Compiled.
' Other Cities Affected.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark, May 15 (By W Associated Press) .—Hot
Springs, city of many disasters, was stricken last night as never be-
fore, when water and flames united in a general devastation that
left death and disaster In its wake. How many are dead isnnknawn.
‘ watermmmntaraginglflremdspiitthecityintothreesec-
lions. Flames followed in the path of the flood and at nightfall
water covered all sections before a summary could be made. There
was not a body reported at the morgues late last night. But there
were rescuers whose heroism deserves great praise. And some of the
rescuers believe‘tkat their ifforts were not fully effective.
May 15. — Hot
Springs. Arkansas. famous resort and
city of many disasters was
‘iast night by a flood
down the sides oftkc, three mcun-
tins which forms a triangle about the
city and by fire which broke out
stricken
swept
in
Reports creeping out.
generally place the loss of life at 17.
[me .report relayed over
railroad telegraph lines to Shawnee.
Okla. estimated the number killed a.-
Hot
Rock arkansaa
was restored for a. short time early
today. but the brief news bulletin
sent before the wire went dow’si‘dealt
with the attack of the raging water
which sw'l'lled four to nine feet deep
through the entire city. splitting it
into three parts. and with the firs
slb
E
whick followed. It “as stated in.
no body was in the allergic
Wool: this morning. but it was
in cated that the city could not pos-
have escaped without loss of
Bad Cross officials from so Louis,
headquarters of the Southwestern Di-
vision are enroute to
with instructions to use all availablé
disaster relief workers of
ganizatlon and draw on the Red C505
emergency relief fund if‘ necessary.
Hot. Springs virtually
Hot Springs
the or-
is isolated
and the meagre information avail-
able is bad mostly from members 6!
train crews who left the stricken
city before the flood reached its peak
or by intermittent bits of news trans-
mitted over telegraph wires which
failed almost immediately.
From all sources. as widely 'separ-
ated as St. Louis. Kansas and 109‘
lln Mo, Muskogee. Oklahoma City
a-nd Shawnee. Okla.. and Texarkana.
and Ddlias Texas. long with the mite
of information Ho Springs was able
to send to Little Rock early today. it
is gathered that after 18 hours of
rainfall the water coursing down the
mountains at whose feet Hot Springs
nestles. shortly before dusk became
a. dangerous current racing through
the principal streets and rapidly in-
creasing its menance. It is thought
that perhaps a. cloudburst add to
the avalanche of waterxtkat hurtled
on the city.
Hundreds of inhabitants of the im-
perilled and submerged areas were
reported to have escaped by fleeing
to the mountain slopes. From theta
they sought to observe the extent of
the disaster through darkness render-
ed more sombre by the unccasing
downpour of rain and smoke,risfhg
from the burning districts.
Separated from friends and family.
scores spent the ntght on the hillstdm
the reports said.
(Continued .on Page Two)
GOES OVER IN
"Miss Bob “’hite." a musical cameo
dy. was presented last night at the
Regent theatre by the Girl’s and W0-
men's club. The performance won
Instant popularity; _ the splendid man-
ner in whfck the comedy was staged
gaining for members of the cast round
after round of- applause. Not only
was the performance a spece. from
the artistic point of view. but from
the midpoint standpoint as well: ‘The
-th was well filled.
‘con'lédy will be staged for the second
time tonight at 4110 Police theatre.
.mrd '8 er and was' rehearsed
MW.H.McGreIcvyof the m
Pi‘édu'clng comm; The theme of the
PM! W5“ with a}:
.two‘ was:
mm
The must“?
“not. not wake" was written by.
, scene brought forth much any”
augmemwmmmwr
“MISS BOB WRITE” PREENTATION
BROADWAY SUIT.
Ing the past winter season Idembers
of the large cast'workod together“:
a. manner worthy of the profedonal
stage. 'There were plenty of snappy
songs: lots of comey relief with a M!
of good straight acting thrownJia --
well as many additional features.
The costumes worn by members of
the cast and of the several clam-filo
were handsome. The Wag olfact-
ed much toward the bum: .u:
say of the
prettléat scene in the play was the
jammwluchul-Ruaungisa‘
“Meet Mela Bubbleland." In fish
sced’e. two score of chlldr'cu took
part with varied colored balloon
which whirled kick and forth under
the changing colored li’ghts. '1‘!"
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661m , ” '
scenes. Probably flset
a
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