-er28,000 Make
'- -—Increase in
.ASHINGTON‘. Jan. tit—Por-
. income tax returns were filed
$3. 548 citizens o! Norwalk tor the
dar years it was an-
nuanced may by 'the'U. '8. Bureau
C Internal Revenue, which has just
‘pleted an exhaustive study or the
Himmler that year.
.15 .Harti’ord. 18.390 persons filed
" We: in New Haven. 16,475; in
‘ port. 11.955; Waterbury, '3.-
,: in New London. 2.559. in Dar-
77:; in Danbury 2.017: in Green~
'ch. 2.576: in Stnmford. 3120.
28,056 Filed in County
”In Fairfield county as a whole In-
;bernal Revenue .ofilclals report ‘28.-
' 58 persons filed their income tax
urns for the year. 1,695 reported
Y“Extremes betwe 11 55.000 and $10,000
53;, year, and 1:090 had annual in-
G’iomeo or $10,000 or ever.
1;; There were 128.431 persons in the
finale of Connecticut who filed per.
as! income tax returns for 1922.
fie net income or all these residents
a‘faggregated $401,720.143. and they
:‘contributed a. total tax of $1,533,713
"to the coffers of the United States.
Just one person in Connecticut
could claim an income ‘exceeding
halt a million dollars a year. There
Lwere nine individuals in ’the state
e'rwhose incomes ranged between $200-
- 7.000 and $400,000 for the year. and 57
.m‘eported incomes between $100,000
2am: $200,000. Incomes between $50.-
5000 and $100,000 were reported by
$35 persons in the state. -
‘ Increase in Tax Payers
. There was a substantial increase
~ oth in the number of. persons in
nuectlcut who filed returns in
31922. and in the amount of taxes
' d by the state to the United
tates treasury. As compared with
who 128.413 who filed returns in 1922
5123.269 filed returns in 1921; 148.-
5195 in 1920; and 64.472 in 1917.
grimy paid a total of 313.130.5152 in
Queenie taxes in 1922, $10,683,045 in
31921. $15,774,598 in 1920, and $10.-
95.?!" in 1917.
5- The average income tax paid per-
' teen in Connecticut in 1922 was
”6102. In 1921. the average was 381.
{Land in 1917. $164.
w There were 5.227 industrial cor-
rations in the state of Connecticut
aged income tax returns in 1922. Of
111886. 2.947 reported net income:
aggregating $95,297.569 while ,2.2so
Ecorporations reported failure to
make a. net income during the year.
, althou- combined deficit totaling $24,~
$144,339.
' =l The total income tax paid by Con-
‘Ji'lecticut persons and corporations in
$922 was $23,663,405. This repre—
zeen'ted 1.43 per cent of the total
, Mount paid into the Treasury in-
‘ :bome, taxes for the whole United
tea for fine year.
a 6.787.481 Filed in U. S. -
3 Throughout the United States. 6.-
Ifl87.481 persons tiled income tax re-
3.11m for the calendar year 1922.
‘L'i'hoir aggregate net income was
"~33!.836.212.530. and the tax paid by
om amounted to $861,057.308. As
. mpared with 1921. this showed
‘ an, increase of 125.305 or 1.88» per
339m in the number of returns filed.
. d an increase amounting to $1.-
l‘ttsshoaooz or 8.98 per cent in the
eta! net income reported. as well as
' increase of $141,670,202 or 19.69
. ‘: room in the total.
a The avg-age net income per per-
fiou making returns in 1922 was $3.-
48.“. The average amount 01 tax
r person was $126.86.
.Tbere were 1.296 persons in the
ntry who reported net incomes
' ding £800,000 in 1916. Since
but time. the mflnber has steadily
m ‘
. ”screened and in 1922. only 246 re-d
rted incomes for the year in ex-
ecs or that figure.
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Passing The Sewage Buck
. : (Hartford Courant)
» Cities and towns confronted with
"the ' heavy expense of estéthlishlrg
'Montiflc’ means of sewage disposal
M at the idea of. legislaltan com-
pelling them to abandon crude met-
hods; oi the present. 'Manutactur-
on who operate plants whose waste
dad, cohmicals add tethe pollution
7 no soundreason why they should
Moonpolled to abandon their prac
; . _ while the cities and towns con-
thine to turn the streams into open
more.
When towns and cities themselves
'_ ,rto pollute the streams it will
' 'oompartively easy to secure insis-
lbilol’that will prevent Individuals.
.compulnieo and corporations from
Wilt.“
.Stay Fat? ,
You Can Reduce
1' mwerot moot fat people ll
it is too hard. too troublesome
too dangerous or force the
- . , down. Manuela Pro-cup.
‘Tableto overcome all these dit-
- . They are pleasant tottelte.
,, no dieting or“ exercise. and
the added advantage or cheap-
, km is sold It one dollar by
:drugglots the world over. or send
price direct to the Manuela 00-.
i Motors Bldg.. Detroit. Mich.
.that'you know 'this. you have
issues (or being tat. You can
steadily and easily without:
through long slegeo ., or tire-
esercioe and, starvation diet
fear of bad enacts. Get. a box
nan. getting slender nova—Adv.
. roveryw119ro demand a re.
cough remedy tree from in-
parcotleu. Supplying this
tor fifty. years nude
noun! mr'ran- con.
out “the W Bolling
, .1110 World. Chil-
- . Rooms ornollw; g
; TAXUSTSINIQM *
Returns in Fairfield County
Taxpayers in State and
Amount Too—One Man Has Income of
liver Half a Million ‘ 1
. Company. Not only did the number
D26??? gazes}; '_”
in Pardon Sale
Ben Johnson (at top). and
Glenn Davie (belcw),-Kansans,
any they acted as “gobetwecns”
in the Alleged negotiations for
the selects pardon too banker-
couvict by Russell Davis, son of
the then governor of Kansas. J.
M. Davis. -
RECORD NUMBER
OF THEFTS IN
lllE l:A__S_T YEAR
Business Crooks Made
Away With 37 Per
Cent. More in 1924
Than Ever Before
NEW YORK. Jan. 20.—-Cle'rks who
stole tron: their employers during
1924 went on rampages that set new
records in defalcations and embez-
zlements. Judging by annual figures
made public by the American Surety
of detaulting employee increase ten
per cent but in amounts stolen the
business crooks made away with 37
per cent more than before. There is
but one class of employe in which a
new record for honesty was made-—
that of public omcials. among whom
there'were fewer defaults than dur-
in the previous year. In almost ev-
ery other type of business the short-
coming-.3 or the deiaultcr were in in-
creasing evidence.
»More dishonesty among those in.
trusted with private funds an ad-
minixtrators or trustees, more bur-
glaries and huge increases in for-
geries were noted through the year.
“Dishonesty among employee is
not the kind of criminal conduct
that can be designated a crime wave.
even though it assumes large pro-
portions," says F. W. Lat‘rentz. 'preo-
ldent oi' the American Surety com-
pany. “There are forces constantly at
work in thejives of employee which
lead to the first dishonest act. Count-
less numbers of embezzlern have in-
dicated during the past year that the
first stolen dollar's were but ‘a. loan
frqm the cash account' but too many
such loans were made and before
long the amount became too big to
repay. ‘ »
"The most startling indication is
lthe increase in amounts" -stolen.
Where heretofore there were ‘many
losses of a few thousand dollars
each. today there are many in a
year's time comprising the entire
capital and surplus or a bank or
business 0! course such embezzle—
ment: can only be accomplished by
those in_ highly responsible positions.
With the increase in amounts stolen
there has been azpmllel rise in the
social on business importance of
the on) or. Thojacto’rs‘ tending
increasing rather than decreasing.
,Saves‘ Her Brother ,
But Diee'of Burns
Five year old Camilla. Bucchere.
"of 136 Sterling street. died at 11:“
o'clock last night in St. "Vincent's
hospital trout burns .sho incurred
yesterday latter-noon when she hero-
ically loved her little brother from
perhaps—same fate. She was play-
ing with her brother near their
home when he cried out that he was
burning. Carmella ran to her bro-
ther's aid. and to putting out the"
flames burning ihiijmt sleeve, her
own clothed became ignited. In the
ouciteulont ‘efipot of boiling water
rushed to the
m.- to
toward ouch a condition seem to be ,
, ,Iouuotov’e wus’knockedyofi‘on the.
girl. Partly“ cantalou- ‘when Dr.
Mort A. Gilded: ambulance surgeon.
r .
. 5 ed!"
Beetleggers: wrung
1,. "'*""""Z. a.» , ,
NEW YORKri'Jan'. per-rota».
George Bennett. pastor'el St. Lafi-
rcnce‘s Catholic Church.’ Weehaw-
ken. N. J..*and,.~ principal Wilden [Or
the State in the trial of eleven We»
hawken police officer: and a civilian
for conspiracy to-' smuggle liquor
through the township. took the wit-
ness stand two hours after the cue
opened yesterday and told in. 1rd-
matic detail the story of 110‘. with a
flashlight his only weapon in a mid-
he had illuminated one o! the
greatest scandals or prohibition.-‘
“To get a. thrill. to have an ad-
venture." That. the lighting priest
smilingly told a jury that had been
selected in forty-live minutes; was
he had been informed, was a "death
line" and down to the Baldwin
Street dock where the steam lighter
Dorithy. had just brought in a car-
go of liquors and cham agneo.
In his clerical garb. t niug from
the Jury occasionally to glance at
the twelve men who eat. some glu-
ing. some elYecting disinterest. on a
bench inside the railing. Father
pennett was allowed to tell his story
with but a single interruption. That
was when he failed to identity \Vill-
lam Griffin. the civilian accused of
corrupting almost on entire Police
Department. as the first-man all.
hcuttcd by his flashlight the night
of Sept. 3. on the Baldwin Street
picr. ’
Col. George T. Vickers. ocial
prosecutor. had told him to into
his “adventure" in his own words.
and the courtroom was so still as
he continued that every quiet syl-
ablo was distinct. -
Threatened to £50 Fist.“
Once. after no told of threatening
to use his fists when a. leering circle
of mm surrounded him on the dock.
he asks-ll permission “to leave out
the dramatics." Dill. Col. Vickcrl
was distinct.
Even more tense we: the moment
when the prosecutor asked if the
"Griffin" lv‘utlter Bennett talked to
on Um pit-r was in the courtroom
The priest cart-fully scanned the
faces of ever-v person in the room.
He looked directly at “'illlam Grill-
in on the defendant's bench.
“No." he answered.
But his identification of Harry
Stearne W'eehawkcn's Police Com-
missioner. and Patrolmen Vollmer
and McMahon as men he saw on
his famous 'our was positive. He
was to be asked to identify other;
in subsequent direct examination.
sitter answering a. low formal pro-
iimlnary questions. Father Bennett
began:
"1 had been informed that, liquor
in large quantities was being smug-
gled into W‘eehnwken through the
Baldwin Street docks. I made ar-
rangements to be lntormed concom-
lng the next load to come in. On
the morning of Sept. 4, I lett the
parish house at 2 o'clock to go to
the dock I had with me only a
flashlight. On my way to the pier
I pulled several old buildings. I on-
lcrcd them and looked around with
my light. I wanted to be euro that
nobody would be behind me to out
of: my way out.
Recognlms Policeman
"Some distance (tom the Baldwin
pier I saw a llgure crouching along
the. ground. 'Flashing my light. i
saw and I recognized him is John
McMahon. I told hire to {all in line
and when he protested I said. “Como
along: you've got a gun and I
haven‘t.' McMahon was not with
me when I got to the boat. He
must have gotten away some time.
Before I got to the deck I heard
water washing against the sides of
the boat. and before I knew it I
had walked right into the middle
of a gang of men."
Newtown Girl Dies
In Coasting Crash
NEW’I‘OWN. Jan. 80.-—A deep
cloud ct sadness was cut. over
Newtown Sunday night when Ber-
nice Cole. daughter or Mr. and Mrs.
Charles S. Cole of Sandy Hook and
grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William 1‘. Cole oi Cole's Hill New-
town, died at 9 o'clock. shortly at-
to: crashing into, a stone abutment
at the driveway entering thd Bolt.
residence a Yew teet west or Troy's
hotel in Sandy Hook. when she and
her companion. Thomas Kennedy.
son‘ of Mr. and Mrs. .Wlillam P.
Kennedy. or West street. Newtown.
had attempted to enjoy their first
coast down the Sandy Hook hill up-
on a. sled belonging to William Lea.-
hy ct Newtcwn. Miss Cole was six-
teen yearl old.- - ' - ,. ‘
Cases to Be Heard in
Bridgeport Today
_ Among the local cases which are
scheduled for shearing during the‘
session or the Superior court” which
opened.today in .Brldgoport, In.
Katherine Audino Oddo unmet Jol-
cpl: Charles Oddo. a. o. Slayer-13y
'tor the plaintiff and Tammany" and
Connery. defendant; Leo J.‘Finch vs.
Regina Baylissnll‘inch. Keogh and
Candeo. plaint‘itt; James. Ber-nick:
administrator estate of IEliubeth
{Hamlet vs. Stephen Babb at 31.;
Rough and Candee and Tammany
Connery: Thomas 0. Stevens vs. Har-
0113 c. Bloom‘s: samue‘i Skldmore vs.
Ralph E. Dunn, Keogh‘and Collidee.‘
plaintiff: James W. Willis! vs. Chu-
ter Smith. glet‘al. Keogh'oa‘d Candoo
aad'rammany would». Connery; Ray
' and} Quinlan} plum I Do. 4"
oncogene“; t-'_ . ' n"
night tour of the town's waterfront. ’.
the motive that led him past what _
Gabriel 6; Irving a. winner. Light. lion.
,5
y...
‘Sponsvrslltw?
. for World 18
. e
or
the Ohio Bar Association. 5
sponsor of o movement to or
mm on new her no-
oodstion. Hemmebkbody
.usbooutotbelegslal‘olusnd
intern-done] relations at the
world.
BOYS’ BRAVADO
CAUSE OF MUCH
POLICE COMMENT
Detectives Who Work-
‘ ed on Case Thought
Professionals w e r e
Responsible
STAMFORD. Jan. 20?—
Wlth the arrest on Sunday night
of two 14-year-old .boyl. chamd
with robberies that climb they. the
piano at juvanlllty. many “a! the
gasped. Never in their service with
local police department have they
been confronted with a case such
as has been disclosed with the or-
rest of the two boys. The young—
oiers admitted. upon questioning.
that they entered a tow week's ago
the haborduhory conducted by
Frank E. Lavoy at No. 111 Atlantic
Street and deliberately stole some of
the boot stock they could and. in—
cluding silk shirts. expensive suit-
ing! and expensive ueckware ant
glovel.
The police at the time o! the La-
voy robbery were inclined to bellow
that the "break" was committed try
a professional burglar. Never dlt‘
they adopt the theory that youu:
boys. “wears-old. would commit
such a robbery and in the early
hours t the evening. when the:
were liable to apprehension at any
minute.
Cached [not
When questioned by the police the
two boys admitted breaking into thr
Lovey establishrmnt and utter con
oidorable grilling by members of the
detective bureau led the police to
the place where they had secreted
ot the stolen property had been re-
to shake their heads when they are
confronted with the facts that one
of the most darin g early evening
robberies that has taken place In
this city. was committed by two
young boys. " .
The cone of the mom will be
taken up in the Juveuiie‘Court thlr
,Young. The two youths: will b
charged with
tense. .
Were the robberies they com
mitted carried out through brunet
and the thought of "getting a
thrill 7" Was it for that
reason the youths defied the police
in breaking into both the Lovey and
Kellogg establishments? t
In Police
The boy- were caught red-hand-
drawer in the Kellogg Toy Store 'ox
were by the proprietor and tin
to escape. only to be captured later
I Gum pt! ‘ or one or en.
essay to him up Vlad
”“3"“, We: a.“
lootodtor more than a month
an “if. has been <
'3 “ll" police were W
3‘3; Taiwan filial-a pro!
. Exal- entered th '
11:3;qu . ° 1”” . t .-
v -» 1.50 movie are ‘ -
“°"° ‘1‘" "*0 boy-magmas:
wit-atten- ‘tor uuu- deeds
Minuet 'ululsamw which
““1 ”.1”me film the city. ,
they- rooeivod their butt-action.
treatise Manger dime "
””10! Will! mutated the an...“
o! some-o! the daring deed. or .
1?
. poo with
, 11mm".
oldest men on the police department ’
..v~-'
’1'? goonsolidatlon—a-Namesesofg, *'
:2 liens-Civic; Center—Streets :fand r S
_..._——-o '
The" taming .
poured in the Brianna“ $91”
Band”: .‘ " '
., With.“
ommprobably nowwolototo
do
make a renovation of the present in.
adequate and out of" Joint charter
One outmding item
is probably enough to insure some
rematch work. deep plotting and do.
(tuition action during the 10:7 aeo-
olon of the legislature.
The
Abolishing two city court. would
help. and the legislature could do
this. The legislature could. do a lot
at other things tovard making one
mica? city at NONUK.‘ South
Norw ' nut Harwell: and Rom-
ton.
divisions of the town will hallo to do
a lot themselves it they are ever
going collectively to get the good
out or the oomlldatlon that is sup.
posed to exist.
One or the thing- that would aid
materially would be the establish-
ment or a civic center and public
park on West avenue. The park is
there now—private owned. Some
legislation and some money ” would
make it the property 01 the city and
the site (or a municipal building that
would house all city emcee. and be
an adequate police headquarters.
and tire headquarters. “fore the
tire department entirely a paid or;
gantntion. u it should have been
long ago. a headquarters house mid-
way on West avenue. the prevent
South Norwalk quarters. one house
uptown one in East Norwalll. and a
lightly manned company in Row-ay-
ton, would gi\"o Norwallt ample lire
protection an tar as units are con-
cerned. for :0 rears to come. allow-
lhg for greater growth than has been
enjoyed the post (We your.
Government Could Help.
The government could help by
placing a Federal building on Welt
avenue. and doing away with the
present onloo- and throwing the
South Norwulk pout mark stamp in
the sound. The railroad could help
by changing the name o: the
South Korwaik station to Norwolk.
and renaming tho uptown and East
Norwalk tiouo entirely. helping tho
ides =0! "Email!" being the real
thing. which in thoouly legal -titio
anyhow.-
anthtugtilatwm-loobenm-
a port or the loot. Last night moot
covered by the police who continue”
morning bolbro Judge: Samuel
'thrown upon the mercy of'the court .
glen—o criminal of ,
”d as the! were riding tth-m- _.
police they tought deeper-stew, u '
by the police. who furnished w:
WEST ' WASHINGTON STREET
‘ l'r
Sunday night and mom to the: T
f.
.' («E
.Lv' ."
‘ charter story ‘5;
muster-um lain-r
anythiog' ' ' bolero 10:1. ulna New,
wuxhtounounldoolouguneoet
a me to heel; refining of new.
’ter that mode janitor . Norwaik."
i‘ That a lot more tinkering will-have
. to be done before Greater New , in
l- anythlag but-o myth. is admitted
,by many oiooo nucleot- gleam-ton
attain; V and politicians. illiziiilolilero1
are many things that seemingly
s. large majority ot-tho
And the people or the tour cycles.
‘.
l
l
i
l
i
—.
oar-y ion revision o! street naming to
do awayflawith' duplications. Wont
avenue should be .Weot avenue right
on down through south Nerwslh and
all the way to Bowman. Uptown
and downtown will always be an
apt exp u.-aud it would be, a
good it every liar-walker ‘got
the drift that right now and cut
out talking infl'Norwaiit" and ”South
Nerwaikf' and "East Norwailt"
A' complete revision o: street
naming would eliminate the accu-
atty of the Southern New England
Telephone company having to‘ con-
tinue aiding the obsolete idea of
stocking "s. N." behind bolt 01‘ the
numbers in the directories that
usually come out immediately alter
a lot of the numbers have been
changed.
, Other Benefits.
Somali: with an adequate police
headquarters on “'eot avenue. with
the proper motor equipment. and
lock up. would have no more need
for separate precinct stations than
does atamtord. excepting possibly a
temporary summer station at Rotor:
Point. East Norwalk is so closely
grown to uptown Not-walk. and the
population or the city is so con-
stuntiy shitting. that it would be
surprising with some changes and
elimination: how soon- Greater Nor-
walk could be a one unit city. tune-
tlenlng in a manor that would be
a pride to every native ind every re-
sident. It might be oven possible
in you'- to come. to and a means or
cleaning oil the worst of the snow
in the business section- like regular
cities have it cleaned. .
A very interesting and compre-
hensive (older ha been issued by
the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad. It is the third
in the "Things You Want to Know"
eerie. issued by the railroad com-
pd’i‘ly- and its eleven page: are tilled
with inter-motion regarding the com-
lng sky-spectacle. The nexus of tho
writer at the article is not given
NOW Going Strong
1 $40.0uovnltcoil'1‘s NOW. $29. 50
$50100 ovsltcoA'rs NOW $34. 50
and Stevens
TWO STORES
so. NORWALK
AVIATOR LOST
' 0N AMAZON,
nationalism
233W YORK. Jae. Elm—“Falter
Hinton and Captain A. W. Stevens.
aviators who had been missing in
the wilds of the Amazon river in
South America for about 10 days.
have returned safely in their hydro-
plauo to the advanced camp of thv
Rice expowon on the Purina river.
according to a radio message re-
ceived here.
The message Was received by Jolm
F. Grinan. wireleus operator or the
Radio Club 0! America.
Their hydroplano disabled
landing on reeks up the Farina
the wilderness. the aviators lived
principally on fish until they met
some friendly Indians. according to
the message. The plane finally was
repaired sufficiently to return to
camp.
The radio dispatch was sent from
the Rice expedition wireless babe at
Ben. Vista. on the Rio Branco. and
was halted yesterday.
Electrification to
Be Completed Soon
Electrification of the Norwnlk-
Drtnbury railroad is proceeding
rapidly. Unless unforscen delays
happen the work will be completed
by early spring.
The crew. which is doing the con.
structlou work is making a new rec—
ord in setting up the steel poles
from which the wins are suspended
according to a local railroad elli-
chL The crew is setting lrom 25
to u of thee. poles a day. The
lly
In the teller.
cou——L-_-—..
\
poles are supported in cement bases.
O‘U R
‘ “For
in.
Jossvfi m.
«1-40 sun-m “All .
JANUARY 5
0r
ovuncom
suns
sums
LEATHER coon.
now In 9100.
Opt-n \nllmin)‘ lnh’,
MILLINERY
K. A. Polhem
61 NO. MAINS :1
so. Honwm
PHONE 3141
Odd Lot Salt‘
Secure some of the ~
in] values offered ill
in reasonable march:
close, before Invenlury,
The N. E. RYM‘
86 Washington :. '
H. Krieger 89’ Co.
ry Sale
Will Continue The Balance Of This
Month.
Prices Are Reduce-d. 0n
‘. u Mums, CLOAliS, DRESSES. ~ SHOES.
“ Y BMS’ stoma wit £0le
‘ and minus."
YOu
91R¢markable~Bargams Are Waiting
A Charge Account
, I ‘Il'gc For This
Norwalk Chronicler