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NORWALK'I FIRST NEWSPAPER
SOU'I‘H NORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1925.
ERS FRO
E EVENING SENTINEL
PRICE TH REE CE N 'I‘S
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FIRST DISTRICT
COMMISSIONERS
DECIDE ON JAN. 12
Petition ' Containing
Thirty - Five Names
Is Presented to Keep
Station Uptown
THE SIGNERS
Hope Is to Have Police
in Building W i t h
Dist. Heads and Lo-
cal Court '
The First Taxing District Commis-
sioners have called a meeting for
Tuesday. January 12. to be held In
the Court room in the Assembly
building. on Wall street. at eight
o'clock chiefly to consider plans of
finding suitable quarters for the up-
town police. commissioners and city
court. A petition with 35 signatures
was handed to the commissioners
who. at their meeting yesterday. is-
sued the notice (if the district session.
There are three items In the no-
tice. The. first is to consider mut-
ter-s of providing offices for the dis-
trict commissioners, a court room
and police station. The next item is
to pass on any resolutions deemed
proper concerning the first article of
the notice. while the final item is to
pass -a resolution authorising and
unpdwsring the commissioners to
carry out any measures voted at the
meeting.
The following names were signed
to the petition: The Central Fair-
t‘ieid Trust Company, A. E. Betts.
treasurer; 0. B. Jackson. Charles
lagers. J. William Rowe. S. R. Bray,
James C. Hubhell. Robert E. Martin,
John Ahearn. L. H. Sutherland. Ed-
mund P. Hyatt. William H. Aiken.
Frank G. DeWaters_ Robert A. Bone;
dict. J. P. Mchchols. J. P. Shechan,
Emile Hamming. Samuel Kantor.
Arthur Terris, Mrs. C. A. Harstrom.
Carl Axel Harstrom, Charles 11. Dil-
worth, Anthony Carbonl. Arthur P.
Schultze. George L. Lockwood. Ed-
win A. Holmes. Craig Liitlejohn.
(‘haries J. Betta. R. H. Cashen. J. A.
Montgomery. Melvin J. Goldrlch.
William G. Scott. 0. F. Schultze.
John T. Hayes, Richard Jennings
and Dr. F. J. Morrison.
NEN YEAR’S
DANCE AI
NORW_Al_.li CLUB
About seventy-five couples attend-
ed the New Year's dance at the Nor.
walk Club last night. and much of
the success was due to the enter-
tainment committee consisting of
Charles H. Dilworth and M. J. Ho-
ward. Wellnltz orchestra supplied
the music. There were a number of
speciality dances. among them the
"Paul Jones." Refreshments were
served during the evening. The
dance endit‘. about midnight.
CART. KEOGH
, , ASSIGNMENT
Under orders issued. Captain John
Keogh. Q. M. C. U. S. 3.. of this
city. has. been.placed on the staff of
the Commanding General of 76th
Captain Keogh has been in the
Officer's Reserve Corp since the
close of the World War. in which he
served overseas as a Captain.
He received notice of his new as-
signment last week.
REMEMBERING FRIENDS
Postal cards are. ,being received
from Councilman and Mrs. Edward
M. Gsns who are visiting. in Cuba.
They are expected home some time
next month. _
STOP THAT COL'Gl-I
by purchasing: little bottle of
Stesm's Pine Jar and Honey. It's
just the thing for relief of coughs.
colds. loss of voice. bronchitis
hosrseness and certain minor af-
fections of the throat and lungs.
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store in Stamford.
ting to So
[Us Police Questio
LAST
SIX-MASTED
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SCHOONER BURNED
The Edward J. Lawrence, the last sis-mantra sit'llooncr in the. world, burned in the Portland (310.)
harbor. Photo shows fire hosts pouring water into the ship in an effort to extinguish the flames.
DEMEY‘TO
BE KIWANIS
CLUB SPEAKER
To Talk On “Home and
the "School” at Regu-
lar Luncheon in Boy-
al James _
Dr. William J. Tracey will speak
on "Home and the School" at the
regular luncheon meeting of the
Norwaik Kiwanis Club tomorrow at
the Royal Jam's: Inn. Dr. Tracey
has been a. member of the Board of
Education for'a number of years he—
sician. He has had great experience
in keeping in close contact with both
home life and school life. His talk
will be based on' stories that he is
personally acquainted with. A large
attendance is looked for as Dr. Tra-
cey‘s talk will be one of the most in-
teresting of the year as it is a sub-
ject that is being widely discussed by
the educational authorities through-
out the country.
BRIGGERMANS '
' ‘ CLOSE SIORE
An old Norwalk business concern
was closed today.
- Briggerman _Brotners,'Wcst Wash-
ington street stationary store 'was
closed and the stock moved to their
This concern has . conducted a
store in Norwaik for a great 'many
years and were located in North
Main street during the greater part
of that time. .
They will only conduct the Stam-
ford store from now 'on.
cans some
An automobile accident occurred
at the corner of Raymond and Day
streets early last evening.
The ‘machin'es'were driven by An-
thony Youhas of 15 Edlie avenue
and Edward .Vaftle of Summit street.
The damage was slight to both
machines and the butter was set-
tled between the drivers.
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MRS. HARRIS 8m; ' '
The many friends of Mrs. Edison
'1‘. Harris. who has been seriously ill
of diphtheria. at her honie' 15' Th!-
lor avenue. will be pleased to hear
that'her condition is much improv-i
ed.
MULLIGAN'S CRULLERS
The homeomlde kind. How good
they are. Made from pure creamer:
hutterkbesvy pasteurized mills. real
shelf egb. sugar and the best of
other materials. Cooked in pure
This preparation is sold in a six
ounce size bottle for so cents at the
Clifford Pharmacy. Win. 1!. Pat-
sley. Prop.-,-Adv.
Crisco. Wrapped in waxed paper
sides visiting many homes as a phy- .
bags. Stores all over this vicinity
sell them. Try them tense—Adv.
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FACTORY
NEWS
Is
THE BIGGEST NEWS
IN NORWALK
Factories Are The
Backbone
of Our Industrial Life
Read the New
Factory, News Column,
a Regular Feature, in
‘The Evening Sentinel
On Page 6 Today.
JUDGE KEOGII
REPRIMANDS
DANNRNRI
A hearing on the bankruptcy es-
tate of Miles 13. Keith. of New Cu-
naan. was held before Referee John
Keogh. in Bridgeport. yesterday.
Referee Keogh reprimanded Keith
for his failure to appear at. other
hearings on the matter.
Attorney Frederick Griffin. of
Stamford; claimed that the day be-
fore Keith went into bankruptcy. he
toak.a.n.nutomobilo to Providence.
transferred it to another person
there. drOvo it back to New Canaan
and put it up as bond in a matter
before Justice of the Peace Gregory.
He stated that Deputy Sheriff Ed-
ward B. Doulcns had attached the
car and placed it In a garage.
Keith Stated that the machine had
been taken out upon the advice of
Justice of the Peace Gregory.
Attorney Griffin asked that Keith
be cited for contempt. Referee
Keogh reserved decision on the con-
tempt proceedings.‘
ANIO MARKERS
w CAN REDSED
' IOMORRON
Chief of Police William R. Pen-
nington stated this morning. that
automobile owners could place
their-1926 markers on their ma-
chines nfter midnight tonight.
-—YOUR CAR BATTERY
During the winter months (if you
are not running your car) needs
proper care and attention. Excel.
lent facilities here for dry or wet
storage (of any make of battery.)
Give your battery the care Its im-
portance demands. Reasonable
rates. The Rysa Battery Storage Co.
it West Ave. _Phons id's-lav. 1
MERCURYIANIS;
ANOIN DROP
T0 ZERO MARK
Outskirts-bf City Get
it
——-Fall of 20 Degrees
Over Night
Thermometer took another sud—
don drop last night when a low
mark of zero was reached in the"
skirts of Norwaik. The lowest cm-
pcrature rcgisteredin the business
section of Norunik was ten degrees.
Charles McElwcc. motormun of a
Bridgeport-Namath trolley arriving
here at 62l5 said it was zero when
he left home at 6:30. Judge Sam-
uel G. Purdy. another earlier riscr
in 'Westport reported the tempera-
ture at two above zero in the confer
of Wcslport at six o'clock. Milkmen
from Wilton noted the thermomoters
at one or two degrees above zero
about six o'clock. The temperature
"dropped about 20 degrees after eight
o'clock last night to the low mark of
this morning.
WASHINGTON. D. (7., Doc. 30.—
A gradual petering out of the in-
tense coid wave being evidenced in
many sections is predicted by 'the
Weather Bureau today. This mode
emtion in temperature, it was said.
will continue in the northern sec-
tions of the country. east of the
Mississippi.
Worst of Cold' Blast:
GAMBLING CASES
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SIREEI DERI,
. NAS REPAIRED a
1 mm ROADS
Holes Filled to Aid Mo-
torists During Win-
ter —— Finished Jobs.
Not Attempted !
SPRING WORK
Roads to Be I 'ut Iniot
B e t t e r (‘onditionl
When Winter Is Over I
It Is Declared I
The Street liopIIrIIncnt will soon}
complete the conslruciion program
started two months ago. At that
time it was planned to look“ a.“
mum roads as possible passable for
the “inter. lloics have been filled‘
on practically all the oil roads in the
city and a number of those strwis
I'r'prlirs have been made lo the
shoulders. About thirty streets in
the outlying districts have been re-
palred. many of those having been
completely gruvellcd. Some of the,
streets. however. have been repair-x9,
only by filling in the holes and nits.
as. due to the possibility of winter
snows coming on. it has desired to
Cover as many streets as possible
and not attrmpt to do a complete
Johan all of them Iitiliis time.
This program has worked out sai-
isfuctorily. as by putting this lilllil'r-
inl on these roads at the prcssm
time, they can be shaped in the
spring and maintained thereafter at,
small expense. This program has al-
50 proved cdonnnlicni as \ory favor—
nblo prices wtro obtained for road
materials and by bauling Ibis Ina-
terlal in large quantifies. the cost.
of labor in spreading and slmping‘
has been kept at a minimum.
IN STAMFORD
CONTINUED
STAMFORD, Dec. sit—(AP). 'l'hc
cases of the 29 men arrested III the
gambling raids here Monday night
will be continued until January ti
on the recommendation of Prosecu-
ting Attorncy Max Spclkc In the
City Court today.
TO GET STREET LIGHTS
.it a meeting of the First I'ils-
trict Taxing Commissioners yester-
day it was decided to install electric
lights on Stewart mount: and Hen-
drlcks avenue following petitions
received from residents in those two
sections.
CHINESE GENERAL KILLED
PEKING. China. Dec. (lib—(AP)
General Hsu-Shu-Cheng. popularly
known as the "little H. S. U." was
shot and killed on the railroad sta-
tion platform at Lang~Sang last
night.
Fund Explained
The Drive for the. United Palestine
Appeal will start on Sunday. January
3 at 7:30 P. M. with a m'ass meeting
at Odd Fellows' Hall. South Main
street. .
The main speaker will be Picrr
Van Paasen. a Belgian by birth and
education.‘who is considered an out-
standing American Journalist. His
two features, "The World Window"
and "The Lights of New York." have
appeared in some of the most im-
portant dailies in the country.
During the war he served In the
field and was decorated by the
French. British and Belgian govern-
ments for bravery. Mr. Paascn has
made a. special study of the. Jewish
Homeland ‘movement and has writ.
ton on it extensively. fin is both an
effective speaker and writer.
Other Speakers. .
The meeting will also be nddIessed
by Mr. Abraham Goldsleln. president
of the Connecticut Zionist Regional
Union. and Dr. Louis I. Goldberg. di-
rector of the United Psigstine Appeal
DriVe for United Palestine
Appeal Opens Here Sunday.
Noted Journalist to Be One of Speakers-at Mass
Meeting atOdd Fellows Hall -- Need for
. ‘p.
for Beuthern New England.
Preparations are bring completed
for this meeting and. Judging from
the interest shown. it is safe to pre-
dict that the Drive will prove to be
a success.
Among the active-local workers in
connection with this Drive are: Sam.
uci Roodner. Robert Joseloff, Louis
Udslman. Edward M. Gans. Morris
Stelnbcrg, Barney Herman. 7.. Sai-
lick, Aaron Kohn. Benji. Hirshlleld.
William K. li‘inkler and Dr. S. M.
Delta.
Due to the increased immigration
on the part of the Jewish people Into
Palestine. the various funds which
have been functioning until now for
the rehabilitation of Palestine lime
amalgamated for the time being into
one appeal. known as United l’nlcs-
tine Appeal.
Hitherto these funds. such as the
Koren Hayesod. Palestine Founda-
tion Fund. Je’wish National Fund.
(Continued on Page Two.)
HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF ’25 :
HOLDS RENNIONi
Over 150_Members and}
Friends Attend Af-;
fair at the Norwalk'
Country Club
ELECTION HELD
Those in Oilicc at, Grad-
uation Are Chosen
Again—B a n q u e t
Next Yeaerancing
A .Iolly reunion of the
19:3. Norwalk Senior High school.l
was held last evening at the .\'or-.
walk Country club. and‘was attend-
ed by ovr-r 150 members and
friends. Preceding dancing. :1 short
business meeting of the class was
held. The oillctrs of the. graduating
class of last June uerc re-elcctcd.
and arr:
class of ‘
l’I'esldcnt——~Everctt llucklcy. 1
Vice Pres—«Miss Lola Banter.
Secretary—Miss Mildred Hoyt:
’l‘reasurcr—vliduurd Hayes.
At the matting it was voted to
hold a banquet. as a reunion next
Christmas. .\ committee will he
appemied to arrange for the affair.
Following the businlss IIIcctlng.
dancing nus enjoyed to the music of
the Moloxly's lloys' Orchestra. The.
palrons und patroncsscs for the. at-
fuII' “ore Mr. and Mrs. llmbl l‘ol—
lard. Mrs. LLJIIIer lb-ndricks, Arthur
Cliiltim uud Mrs. llounrd Loundcs.
Among those Scull on the floor
were: Miss Elizabeth i'olzcr. Miss
Loin lluster. Miss llvssie McLaclI-
Inn. .‘Ilrs Susan llruce, Miss licien
lJI-uce. Miss l.Illiun li‘icld. Miss
Lonisc llcucu‘icl, Miss Frances \Ving.
Miss ilulh Ul't'l‘llllel‘g. Miss Mm‘gurei
ChittiIn. Miss Margaret Jarvis. Miss
Iloalrlce Lonsdes. Miss Dorothy liuli
Miss lllnnche St. John. Miss Mary
Lib-an and Miss Charlotte Leckwood.
Elton liI-ndrick. George Ward-
vwli. Franklin Smith. Frank liern.
William Gustui'son, iloberl Cliiitim.
llumonl McKlbbcn. Erich I‘am.
George Lockwood. Jack Bryce. Al-
bert Cronenbcrg. lx'arl Gregory.
ilichard l-iuil. Glenn Champion.
George Clark. Vincent O‘Brien,
lvlugone Mitchell. Albert Warner.
Morris Block. William O’Rcilly and
Edgar llhode. ’
BELIEVE PRINCE
WILL MARRY
SWEDISH CIRI.
London Takes Interest
in Visit of Princess
Astrid to Bucking-
ham Palace
1.0NDON. Dec. 30.—— The tongues
of Maytair waggcd freely today fol-
lowing the announcement that Prin-
ccss Astrid of Sweden. a beautiful
girl of twenty.will visit Buckingham
palace next season. ‘
Reports of a pending alliance be-
tween thc houses of Windsor and
Sweden have been current in Lon-
don for nearly a year and today's
deduction is that the betroihai of
Princess Astrid to the Prince of
Wales will be announced following
her stay at the palace.
Inasmuch as the wurt mourning
for Queen Alaxandra continues for
the winter. the Swedish princess
is not expected at the palace until
early summer. With her elder sister
Princess Martha she lunched at the
palace last month. meeting both the
Prince of Wales and Prince Henry
two of the king's unmarried sons.
Good Housewife.
intelligent anticipation of the
heir's forthcoming betroihai finds
expression in the London newspa-
pers in the form of various photo-
graphs of the princess. She does
not wear her hair bobbed. She is .
brunette. with pretty rather than
classic features. Una picture shows
her washing dishes in the kitchen
attired in an ordinary apron and her
but concealed beneath a dust cap.
The photographs are emphasized
as evidence of Princess Astrid's
housewifely qdalitlel.
1 Talk: to Lions
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HORTI 75.511 NILII.N)\.
Actress know to «are and u'recnl
was the speaker today (If the “(Wkly ‘
lunchmn of the Lions Club in lllf‘
lioynl James inn.
She iii-cussed iiriukwntcr‘s
"Abraham Humin" and told
interesting stage stories.
RECORD NUMBER
OF BANKRUPTS
INI_S__MONIII
Many Merchants Not
Able to Hold Out Un-
til Holidays —— High
Rents One Cause
There is a great rush of business:
in the l-‘nirficld ("ounty Bankruptcyl
Court this month.
Referee in lankrupicy John
Keogh attributes this to the large
number of retail stores and the high
rcnis.
III past ycum those bankruptcies!
have Occurred after the holidays and i
January was usually the rccordi
month. but from the records in the,
office of the District t"lcrk it would
seem that many of the small mer-
chants could not keep going until
after the holidays and were forced
to file their petitions before Christ-
mas.
SIRINE iEADERS .
DISCARD MINE
OWNERS PLANS
NEW YORK. Dec. 30.~(AP).
The plan of settlement of the an-
thracite strike preposcd last night
by Alvan Mai'kle. chairman of the
joint‘ wage conference, was opposed
by the mine workers on the ground
that it contained an arbitraIlon fea-
ture. The miners stated they were
as much opposed to arbitration to-
day as they were four months ago
and will continue their opposition.
All of the various peace plans of-
fercd since the suspension began
September 1 were placed before the
joint conference and disclsscd.
The following agreed startment
was issued by the joint conference
last night:
"The various 'plans heretofore
submitted were made part of the
record. It was agreed that all plans
could be brought before the con-
fercncc. Among the plans offered
were the following.
"Plan of Governor i‘Inchot; the
legislators' plan: the engineers' plan
and the answer of the miners there-
to. The. letters and correspondence
of priests for and against arbitId-
tion were made part of the record.
Letters from tho Panther Creek
Business Men's association and
Scranton ministers also were enter-
cd in the record.
“Chairman Alvan Mnrkle submit—
ied a- plan for the settlement of the
strike. The, plan was discussed at
length. The. miners voiced opposi’
tion to certain parts of the Marklc
plan. claiming it was arbitration.
The chairman said the plan did not
‘amount to arbitration. There was
discussion of the Pinchot plan. The
miners argued that the Plnchot plan
offered a constructive plan for. set-
tlement. while the operators claimed
that the Pinchot plan was destruc‘
live and unworkable.
"The miners stated that they were
as much opposed to arbitration to»
day as they were four months ago
and will continue in their opposi-
tion.
"The attitude of the operator.-
was that an acceptable plan should
provide for a long term agreement.
provision for wage adjustment if
economic conditions require. and
some means of avoiding deadlocks
in case of disagreements."
play
50m?
The Weather
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Fair tonight and Thin-inlay. “or.
mcr Thursday.
CARRY’C'O‘RRSE
T0 SAFETY IN
BRIDGEPORT
Sailor, On Leave, Saves
Himself by Making
Rope of Bed Cloth-
ing
MANY FIRES
One in Motley. N. J.,
Does $100,000 Dam-
age to Church—$50,-
000 Blaze in Orange
FlIiIDGICIWilT, Doc.
A corpse was i'IlI‘Ill’TI out into the
street to prevent Incineration. a.
young sailor saved his life by slid-
ing from a third story window to
the ground on a rope made of beds
clothes. and two small children and
several older persons were driven
out into the frigid morning air with
only such scanty clothing as they
could snatch up in flight. in a fire
which early today swept a two fam-
ily house at 438 and 440 Lincolr
avenue.
The house was occupied by the
families of John Kiby and licrberi
S. Linsley.
Linslcy died last night from dou-
ble pneumonia. in his apartment at
the time the fire broke out, were his
wife, Mrs. Martha l.inslc_\'. his mo-
ther and two small boys. aged 7 and
5 years.
In the second floor apartment
were John Kiley. owner of the house
and Mrs, Kiley. while. in a room on
the third floor was slot-ping James
Kiley. home on II Christmas furlough
from the Navy.
Fire broke out In the top of the
house, from an undetermined cause
and in five. minutes gained tremend-
ous headway. Young Kilo: was
awakened by tho crackling of the
fiamcs and ll‘.llll|.‘.(ll.'1'.l'ly found that
he was trapped in his room on the
attic. floor.
He Iorc the budclothcs off the
IlCiI and Instr-Ind Illi‘lll like, a knot-
tcd rope. Securing them to the bed.
he dropped one cud out of the win-
dow and slid to the ground in safety.
The body of Litislr‘y was removed
from the burning house by neighbors
who rcspondul to ibu- crics of Lin-
slcy's uldow and mother.
Property loss is estimated at 810.-
000.
NEW l‘ANAAN. Doc. tiny-(AIR);
The summer home of 'l‘linycr lac-
caci. of New York city. on Marshall
itidgc road. was burned yesterday
afternoon. the loss lulu: roughly
placed at $50,000. Neighbors vho
responded to a fire call saved most-
of the. contents.
Painters had been working at the
house and had hill] a fire in a fire-
place. It is thought a fine was d6-
fectivc the blaze. sluricd in an ailic
room which was locked.
Ii‘ll‘elllt‘ll had to lay hose :3 quarter
,of a mile from their machine to
reach the house. 4 ~
Mr. laccaci's town residence is at
12? Bust 63rd street. New York city.
ORANGE. Conn, llec. 30.—— (Al’)
The residence of Alton 'l‘. Terrell on
the Derby turnpike nmr the Race-
brook Country club. was burned to
the ground early today.
Frank Smith. butler. III jumping
from a second story window. sus-
tained a broken leg and numerous
bruises and was taken to the Griffin
hospital in Derby for attention.
Property loss is estimated at $50.-*
000. this figure bring the appren-
Imnto value of the house.
Mr. and Mrs. Terrill
PJL-niAI‘.)
and their
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ANOTHER—DAY
OFF FOR ALL
P. 0. _E_M_I_>IOYEs
All mail carriers will have a full
holiday. Friday. Nrw Year's day
the second within a work. the holi-
day schedule of the South Norwalk
:‘ost. Office Issued yesterday. shows:
The stamp. general delivery. regis-
try. parcel post and money order
windows will all be closcd. The
lobby will be open all day for the
benefit of box holders. As on Sun.
day. there will be the usual nil]
collection in the business section at
1‘. o'clock. The last outgoing mail
will bt‘ at 6 o'clcn It.
A NEW YEARS RESOLUTION
Realizing that tho hrst in a watch
is what I need and that i have many
linws lost trains and failed to keep
engagements of importance because
my watch had lost time~ I am resol-
ved to guard against this in the fu-
Iurc by purchasing a watch of
standard make from Frank Lauder.
Jeweler. ‘96 Washington stroet.—-Adv
Norwalk Chronicler