Io secondoeluos
d
Eats: uihgl matter
orwsllr. Conn, under the
'3 the root office nt
Act of lint-ch 8, 1879.
art in Crash At
.y and Franklin Sm;
ring Car Overturns
and friends Nar-
Injury iii Col-
“llll Delivery
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paw. and BOX of
,a Full on “’0-
l’zlsscngfl' a S
711‘ [‘Vl‘f Clay
'1 im touring
, r of Golden'-
\\ s'st \i’nsh-
in mg driven
. .: his car up
r d-nmlng In
‘l“‘ H Frank-
, was sulilcient
wl turn over
. i‘uuln Gor-
Alllcrt Pam:
'r"lu boy whom
Il’lllle from
iii’cring today
1.1: of the car,
.. the back seat
- .-r oranges that
mi top of her.
'- “rocked car
n at the Con-
, I ll sills oft‘ho
' simil Off and
l‘ll-{Ilt side 0!
'm:‘ the top were
rurmins were
. ”it: In“. front
‘ . Holden‘s car
l‘mlzt'n loose
3 Holden car-
\'»lm-ll those
‘ “Ill one to the
house and a.
:li't‘lilG‘Ht OC-
. parked near
\ ww still more.
i ll: it obstruct-
'; ion his car.
er s Sun, Jazz
Playir. Joins Union
‘lr old son of
' l.» r and philan-
Journeyman
4 “n"i’IIlOl'IG artist.
'; good standing
"'l induction of
if il‘mtlon fee and
, after I. musi-
u::'1rc of flue yes-
1 his efforts on the
*' :,zllllcient ..rtiltic
membership.
‘ 4- live piece jazz
and whenever
10 union musl-
:rmcd today that
, l‘I not relented, in '
.iwel his son's um-
mu. bond in pub-
v.13 said that the
v “as obtained to
In lead his players
Jilld at rehearsals
l :1 Fifth avenue.
Elilm‘l to have
me Minstrel Show
My evenings, May
~~ :lusplccs of Nor-l
i 0. 13.. No. 709. in
'~ or the best the
' l many special res.-
’ ‘ " "10 program.
" w In charge includes:
gvncral chatmn:
'. Charles Dilworth.
luck Rosen. Ho
"31"“ Borardus. John
“0st. smiley sav-
5 use and James Nero.
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PRICE THREE CE
Pays 51:30 for Picture
Finds it Is ‘Madonna’;
. Gets $00,000 for it
L08 ANGELES, February 28.
-—-An authentic Titian. owned for
thirty- three years by an artist
who never suspected its worth.
has been purchased by Linwood
M. Andrews, Les Angclcs art
collector. for 3100. 000. the Los
Angeles Times stated today.
Adolph Brugier of Santa. Bar-
bare. who owned the painting.
the Times says, bought it at an
auction in Florence, Italy. while
he was studying art the‘re in his
youth, paying for it the equiva-
lent of 8150 in American money.
Experts have pronounced it
genuine and identified it as "The
Madonna, Holy Child and Titlsn' s
Daughter. Lavina. " long believed
to have been lost with other
works of art in a fire that swept
Madrid.
M’ADDO GOT q
$200,000 FOR
llxmrmm
His Firm Saved Repub-
lic Steel Co. $2,000, -
000 in 1920 Accord-
ing to Youngstowll
Story
YOUNGSTOWN. 0.; Feb. 28.—
Williom G. McAdoo. Secretary of
the Treasury in the ‘Vilson admin-
lstration. received a. fee of 3200.000
for intervention in a tax refund case
of the Republic Iron & Steel in 1920.
according to a copyrighted pecial
story published by the Youngstown
Vindicator yesterday.
According to the story. Mr. Ms-
Adoo was unused by Chairman
John A. Topping of the Republic
Just before the case came to u hear,
ins, and enacted a compromise with
William M. Williuns, then commis-
nism:- o1 hummus-ad men.
bore of tho “3 revision'bosrd. Due
to this compromise. it is said. the
Republic received a. refund a: about
$2,000,000 immediately.
Mr. Williams who is a practicing
attorney in Washington. refused to
discuss the case and inquirers at the
Treasury department were told that
the officials are unable to locate the
records. -
L08 ANGELES, Feb. 28.—Wil-
llam G. McAdoo today partially cor-
roborated what he termed the
"Youngstown story" in a. statement
in which hcsaid his former legal
Ilrm in New York had represented
the Republic Iron and Steel com-
ment at Washington for a total foo
of $150. 000.
Mr McAdoo's statement says in
part:
"Concerning the Youngstown
story, I have no hesitation in say.
ing that my former law firm in
New York was employed as counsel
for the Republic Iron and Steel 00..
an independent corcern in a. com-
plicated tax matter st Washington.
This case was heard in the regular
legal way before the Board of An-
Deals and Review of the Testimony
department. a. semi-judicial body,
composed of civil service men. Whe-
ther it came before Commission-er
of Internal Revenue Williams on up-
peel. I do not recall. Briefs were
filed and the case was argued sever-
al times. It involved very serious
and important legal questions can-
coming invested capital. and was» at
interest to to: Ipaycrs throughout
the United States. The amount in-
volved was lute.
”The employment began Novem-
ber, 1910.11 at which time a retainer
of 810. 000 was paid and the case was
closed in the on y port of 1921.
whereupon on dditionsl fee or
8140.000 was paid tho firm—the
compensation being commensurate
with tho importance at the matter
he service performance.
“edit!“ nineties of low in New York
involve's a, very expensive organize.-
tion. high rentals. etc. and the tees
ore. of course. high. This Was not
a. persons! fee. but a. fee to the firm,
and I received of course only my
proportion of it." .
W
Liquor Case's to Come
up here
The cones of Chef!“ may sub:
Flynn. who ”to
$31183“ Police at the time tho:
theyec conducted linear rolls in this
city. as m were W with
violntlon of the. liquor low will We
up in tho downtown (lily court ston—
before Judge Condos.
mm are under
Next Monday
._.._-~‘ ,
{at attended the exhibit will take ed-
R. Ponnington'ond Prohibition Agent
Whitney, Oil inm—éss,
‘ two-your“ boy {mayoral race on
MlNlZ-BUYS‘ 4
2' BUIIMNGDN
.Takes Over Place Oc-
cies
PRICE $40,000 '
Over Year was Own-
son of New Canaan.
An important real estate transfop
Charles J. Mintz, of the C. J. Mints
dry goods store, Washington street.
purchased the one story
and site at Berkeley street and West
New Canaan. The purchase price
was about 840 000.
The building which was erected
struction.
copied by the
agency.
the Norwalk Agency.
MANYATI'END
mm Al‘ ,
TOWN IIALI
Splendid Showing of
Handwork o f this
and Other Countries
—— Children in Folk
Dances
About six; hundred persons nt~
tended last onto: the International
Exhibit whi is being held in the
Town Assembly hall, under the sus-
piccs of the Norwslk Republican
Women‘s association. The exhibit
will continue this utter-noon and
evening.
An interesting program was pre-
sented during both afternoon and
Dodge Automobile
m were oil in native cutum,_ 1!
the evening a Creche-Slovak dines
was presented by a group of four
young men andfour young women.
The dancers were accompanied by
William Wollnltz pianist,” and Larry
Baxa, violinist. Miss Irene De-
Cesare and Mrs. Colombo. Gardella
each sang two vocal numbers in a
very charming manner. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Edward G.
Shine at the piano. ‘
Little Miss Camilla. Koszts eight-
yoar-old pupil of Mrs. anre. of
New )ork. dressed in native Hun-
garian costume, received much up-
p’lauso for her graceful Hungarian
dance. Tea. was served in the at-
ternoon by Mrs. Remson and in the
evening by Mrs. Frank Goodyear.
Mrs. George McKlbbln and Mrs.
Hull. -
This afternoon and evening the
same program will be repeated with
additional vocal selections. In the
evening Miss Elva Avalone. who was
unable to be present last evening
will sing.
. There are a dozen booths in the
hall. Each is filled with an amazing
variety of hand v‘ork. exquisite em-
broidery. wonder-lolly fine hand
made laces. beautiful crocheted bed
spreads, lovely hand painted china'
and hundreds of other attractive er-
ticles. All are displayed in booths
prettlly trimmed with crepe paper.
The material for building the booths
was loaned by A. R. Mall-tin and
company.
It is hoped that oil who have not
outage of this splendid opportunity
to see the fine display of artistic
work done by people of this ‘nnd
other countries.
KAPLAN TAKEN
IN LIQIIDR RAID,
IS FINED $100
8am Kaplan who “corrected in,
this city by Chief of Police William
Edwdrd Fishcrty fer yiolation of the
liquor lsw was fined $100 in the
United States District court in New
Bowen yesterday. _
‘ .Kaplon was srrested st his estab-
lishment in Dny street. where s.
quantity. of liquor woo found. He
woo represented in court by Attor-
ney Denis! Keogh.
N nines Horse, Teapot
«NEW’YDRR. r... 28a-Tespot. s
cupied by Dodge and ;
Hudson Auto Agen- ,
Building Erected Little 5 3
ed by Geo. vH. John-7*
tion was consumated today when,
)uilding ‘ ’
avenue from. George H. Johnson. of. ’
over a year ago is of concrete com, '
A major part of it is oe-
The deal was hsndled by L
l
evening. In the aftemeon folk
dances of tour (lids " ’yo’ounteies
Were given by ”the school
pupils of Miss Pollock; o danc-
seven members of. the Barton Fire
go to a Jury trial this afternoon.
Evangelist at Norwalk
"Pride and selfrighteousness are
among the greatest hindrances to
personal Christianity; especially is
this true among the well-to-do and
respectable classes," declared Gypsy
Simon Smith‘ last night, at the Nor-
walk Methodist Episcopal church.
before tbs largest audience o: the
week. "
“Whey“! was s wisdom
slums of London.” sold the
thousand men and women in my
services at midnight. At midnight!
They were so ’low and disreputable
that they would not attend' a reli-
gious service in the day time. It
was not difficult to get those people
to acknowledge that they were lin-
ners and in need of being saved“
They readily admitted that they were
a. bad lot. They really felt that
they were too bad to be saved. But
the word that ‘He will save even so
to uttermost all that call upon His
the uttcrmost all that call upon His
cases."
“But." he continued. "The Book
says that ‘all have sinned and come
short in the glory of God.‘ and
therefore all stand in need of repen—
tance, forgiveness and cleansing.
Pride keeps people who have lead
homes and good friends and who
are moral from acknowledging their
need of Christ. Yet He is the only
way of life. and the only was to
Heaven. Jesus is the my
truth and the life today just us cer-
tainly as He was the day Bengt-
tered that truth. The young
who came to Jesus by night end
kept the commandments from
youth up, a most remarkable young'
man. Manyhave broken them all
from their youth up, but this man
had kept them all. . Yet Jesus said to
him ‘One‘ thing though lackest.‘ no
lacked humilityfif .
GYPSY SIMON sun‘s.
M. E. Church Tells of
Work In London Slums——Pays Tribute to
Dr r. Bernardo -- Tells Audience Gypsies
Steal Neither Children Nor Chickens ’
listening to the, story or the
cleansing of Neurone the leper
whwureadutbelosson. he
“Names wonterstussmsdsmr
hint m be was... greet moire;
no thought that boasts he mo?
, t
plus where other common folk
Med: ' so: there was no other
way for him to be recovered of his
leprousy. .;«So God has but one wily
to cleanse maple or more] loprousy.
sin. that is the way of the cross.
Rich and poor. ignorant and learned,
the Gypsy tn thotentond the king
in the. palace, must all come to the
same Christ and receive, the same
cleansing end be filled with the same
spirit. There a only one way."
While relsting his experiences as
a boy in London he paid high tribute
to Dr. Bernardo. the founder of the
famous Bernardo Homes. The Gyp-
sy passed through the. Bernardo
Home in London and‘he described to
the delight of the boys especially. his
experience upon entering.
. Speaking in a. lighter vein he
said:
“People have .queer notions ,nbout
Gypsies. One boy asked me,» ‘Do
Gypsies steel kids?‘ Well-I assure
you that the Gypsies I‘fnow have
‘encugh kids of their-town ‘without
stealing any. One person entrees
terized Gypsies on 'People who'steal
hens.’ Well it they do I Inust say
it is toyvl procedure." .
Tonight the Emgeiist will speak
on “Is it my to he s. Christian?”
In his experiences he , will relate
something of his life as s. cab driver
. in London.
READY T0 BEGIN
TRIAL OF MEN
INARSON CASE
S e v e n Darien Resi
dents Confer with
and Pardee to PIéad
Not Guilty
BRIDGEPQRT. Feb. 28.--'1'hs
department. accused with conspire”
ney Homer 8 Cummings. ,
George Smith and Hurry Pordee.
two of the accused. through their at— '
torney declared thst they would not ,
plead guilty to the charge of arson.
It is expected that whens-will
'hesdeddcdwrecouiiagho
’
Cummings —— Smitk »
to commit arson were in canted-en” ‘
all morning today with state's Attor-
NOT TDEUND
NEW IIDIIIE
are Nonunated a it"
Meetln f
Plans were disco.” last evening
lodge rooms3ln South
“for improvement to the. precept
building, ,
It was stated this morning that
the lodge whirls» no: more from it'i
present homo. and erect s on out.
as had mum“; * ’ *"
Soviet government.
7 Special Building Com-
' Showers for Students
" building committee, it was announc:
. ed today by Superintendent of
i , at its next meeting.
7 n
school, addition is the shower baths
‘ It is probable that an 418326111031: wui
frail: club. led by president Arthur
Wood of st, seven-thirty.
New Canaan Ave. 5
Committee 'Asks R- ,3
‘To Bridge Crossing
inittee Also Approve
LayOut ~for H l g 11
School Addition
NEW FEATURES
”—11an Track in
G y m —-— The Broad
River School
Plans (or the ton-room school to
be constructed on the Center school
property as well as plans for the ad-
dition to the Senior High school
have been approved by a special
Schools G. V. Buchanan. These
plans will be submitted to the Joint
School committee for final approval
The special building committee
consists to Alex J. Rummler. chair—
man, Attorney Jesse ‘1‘ Dunbar and
Dr. George G. Fawcett. The com-
mittee has gone over the plans for
the school and the high school addi-
Actress, Despondent,
Drinks Shoe Polish;
Dies In N. Y. Home
NEW YORK, Feb. 23,—le3
Value Belasco Martin. 25 years of
ago. an actress and short story
writer. committed suicide by
drinking shoe polish in the River-
side Drive apartment of her
mother today. after having writ-
ten 3 note in which shcsaid her
not was due to her inability to
obtain a. stage engagement or dis-
pose of any of her stories. .
Miss Martin. who came here
from Seattle, ‘Vashington‘ in 1917.
was said to have had a prominent
part in' “Very Good Eddie." a
succesful musical comedy that
appeared on Broadway several
years ago. She was reported to
have had difficulty in obtaining
engagements since then, and com-
plained in a letter to her mother
that she was “disgusted‘ with the
way dramatic employment agen—
cies had wasted'her time."
The police said they had
learned from clippings in Miss
Martin's room that she was a
cousin of David Belasco. veteran
theatrical producer. ‘
tion very carefully and have incor-
p ed many novel features.
no or the features in the high
(or both boys and girls. The present
plans cell for tour showers for the
boys end the some number for the
girls. A running track will be a tea.-
tnre in the gymnasium which is in-
corporated in the proposed High
school addition.
At the present time, title search
of the Broad River property which
is to be the site of the new Broad
River school is being conducted by
the city. As soon as the records are
completed. the property will be taken
over by the city from Gnu-loo H.
Burris. glass manufacturer, who
agreed to sell the property tor school
purposes lor less than the market
price. This property consists of five
acres and. in addition to the school
site, will give the school children a.
splendid athletic field. .
Restitution: on being carried on
by tab city with the owners‘ of the
property south of the Fitch school
which is or. site selected for a. Jun-
ior High school in the Third District.
Kiwanis Members
Speak in Stamford
Rev. Ernest F. McGregor of the
Nor-walk 'Congregationali church
was the principal speaker at the
luncheon of the Stamford Kiwanis
club at the Suburban club. Stun-
ford. yesterdny noon. Rev. Mr. Mc-
Grcg'or spoke on "Inter-Club Rela-
tionship."
Seventeen members of the Nor-
thelor were guests. Mr. \theler
also gave a short talk.
Yesterday's luncheon was the first
visit inrthis vicinity of a. series or
inter-club visits between Kiwanis
clubs in the New England district.
The Stamford club will be enter-
tained by the Norwaik Kiwanians in
April.-
Gahncnt Strikers Riot
’ at Chicago Factory
CHICAGO. Feb. 38.—Onc , man
was shot and several persons were
bedten‘ teddy in a clash between
striking garment workers and em-
ployee o! s. dress making factory.
According to reports, to the police,
who rushed riot'bquads to the plant,
William Goldstein. owner of the fac-
tory. was shot in the right leg when,
strike sympathise"; stormed the
shop.
’OIIERGYMAN DIES »
SAN DIEGO..)”Calif.. Feb. 28'.—
Monsignor Willtom MeGarvey. not-
ed clergyman of Philadelphia died
here Inst night of hearth-duels. ‘
The choir o! the South Nor-walk
Congregational church will meet :or
rehearsal at five o'clock, Saturday.
Will prove Present.
. Btu?“ (“gets I'
siltlisntsetins‘I {fienlkniisth
0 die
QARS<
- 4:335!
Classified Adages
"S , EEK till you find
and you’ll not lose
your labor. Always '
‘ DarlenComm’ unity play: grounds.
Ingmar: moi m wom‘:
the fishes station.
$25, 000 PRIZES
OFFERED AT
FLOWER SHOW
Amateur ‘ and Profes-
sional Growers , t o
Participate in Expo-
sition in New York
Last week announcement was
made that $20,000 in prizes had
been otter-ed by the International
Flower lShow. This amount no;
been increased to 325. 0,00 to be com-
peted for by both amateur end pro-
fesslonsl growers. the profwonnls
to receive cash find the amateurs
T 0“ contra! Ignace. W 13-32.
It will be the largest Flower Show
yet staged. and undoubtedly one o:
the most beautiful in history.
An‘l’cng the special prizes are those
for landscape decorations about a.
house 50 by 125 feet. open ’to mem-
bers of the Garden Club of America.
other than landscape srcbltecis. A
similar event will be for landscape
architects. There are two other
classes in landscape gardening. and
also one for comunity planting; one
for a. niche in a, garden mall and a
special class of landscape gardening
about a. group of four houses to be
exhibited by the Schools for Land-
scape 9rchitecture by invitation of
the Garden Club of America.
There will be a. series of classes
for foliage and flowering plants—-
roses. orchids, palms, ferns. bulbous
plants. car-nations. sweet peas, am-
aryllis. rhododendrons. delphiniums
and hundreds of others. Special
prizes of silver and bronze models
will be given by the Society of
American Florists end Ornamental
Horticulturists for any new plants or
flowers which the Flower Show
Committee may deem worthy.
There will also be prizes for din-
her table decorations. rock gardens
and other features. Special prises
have also been altered by Mrs. Hen-
ry Chappel. Mrs. Edward» Le Roy,
Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox and others.
As usual the Tea Garden will be
a feature. Luncheon and tea. will
be served each day under socialaus-
pices for the benefit of the Girl
Scouts of America. The .l-‘lower
Show is conducted by the Horticul-
tural Society of New York and the
New York Florifis’ Club with whom
numerous other bodies co-operate.
A record-breaking list of entries al-
ready is assured.
People’s Chorus-to
~ Sing in Dorian—School
- ,Ths rm..." chorus will partici-
pate in the concert to be given .111
Boyle school._ Post Road. Dar-ten, to-
morrow night for the benefit of ‘the
Patrolman John Tootlfill found e.
woman‘s house are: in South Muir:j
street last evening. The dress is at
The police believe ,
the dress fell out of a. -" basket of
clothes “1314;?” being delivered.
Jumplotozolaercent.
Action Taken at Meet-l
ing in Royal J antes-—
C o n s t a b l e Mills
wMade Chairman
CITY COUNCII;
Indorsement Asked 5—.-
Mayor Robins Calls'
Crossing Dangerous
Important action to bring about
the construction of a. bridge eve:
the dangerous New Canaan avenue ,
last '
railroad crossing was taken
night at a. meeting of the New Can
naan avenue bridge committee held '
The com;- ,
at the Royal mes hotel. .
mittee voted animousiy to accord—
mend the construction or the bridge
to the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Blair-Dad company which
controls the Danbury-Norwall:
branch. This
contained in a letter mailed to 11113
New Haven road‘s viewpoint' and
attitude on this project.
The committee unanimously adopta- .-
ed a. recommendation that the New
Canaan avenue crossing bridge pro-
ject be brought before the Common.”
mon Council for endorsement. This
resolution presented by Councilman
Thomas James reads as follows: ~
“Be it resolved: That this com-
mittee recommend that the Common
Council take action to endorse the
movement for a bridge over
and send a copy of the endorsement
to the New York. New Haven add
Hartford railroad company. "
The New Canaan avenue bridge
. recommendation is i
menu
New Canaan avenue railroad crossing ' ,
e‘:
co lttee consists of ten members ’
wh volunteered their services on
this matter. Six of flu members
were present at the meeting when R ‘
was called to order. These members
were: Dr. William J. Tracey. Mn.-
yor Thomas R. Robins, Judge James
'I‘. Bubbell, Constable John A. Mills.
Councilman Thomas James and Sup-
erintendent of Schools G. V. Bucho
anon. Attorney Edward J. Quint-u:
as well as Councilman Michael 3;
Riordan were unable to attend the
meeting because they were called
out of town. Frederick L. Lamont
of the Norwalk Tire and Rubber,
company too. could not be prom;
because of another engagement};
Charles H. Harris, glass manufac-
turer, could not attend because he
m indispbsed with a. slight thunk
mt: the m flepresenting The
’ Mg Sentinel at the ,
were W. P. Milligan.‘ David A. hier- "
they and R. W. Sweeney. jr.
The meeting was called toordor by
Mr. Sweeney who explained the ob‘
Ject of the session; the elimination
of one of the most dangerous rail-
road crossings in Norwalk. John A.
Mills was elected permanent chair-s
man of the committee
Sweeney. secretary.
Constable Mills, in the course 0:
the general discussion which took
place said that he recently had had:
an extremely narrow escape tram
being killed at the crossing. m.
Mills was about to cross the tracks-
ln his automobile when he heard
(Continued on Page Five.)
Dokus Marries Couple ' * i
in the City Hall
Ludvik Haisel and Agnes Jablon. ‘
icky of this city, were married in the
office of Town Clerk Herbert R.
Smith this morning by Justice of the
Peace Stephen Dokus.
The marriage was witnessed by
Assistant Town Clerk Clayton Greg. ,
cry and MISS Anna Haspruner. Aft-
er the ceremony htc couple left on
a. honeymoon trip.
John’ M. Glover Hurt
in Fall on Ice
,
and Mr.
%
John M. Glover of Newtown Tee. ~ ,5
race. is recovering today from pain-
ful injuries received when he fell on '
the ice while on the way to his office?
Mr. Glover was able 3
last Monday.
to leave his house today for the first
time.
Governor Smith Signs
Soldiers’ Bonus Bill
Y.. Feb. 27. —Gov.
Smith. today. signed the Soldleni‘
Bonus bill providing for the distri-
button of the proceeds from me
845,000, 000 bond issue among New
York Stunts citizens who servedl In.
the World War. '
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