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SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1926.
Edith Brown Rob ed '
Near Her Resi ence
Valuables Worth Several Hundred Dollars
Seized by Light-Fingered and Fleet Footed
Young Man Last Evening—Police Seek In
Vain to Locate Him;
Miss Edith Brown, 15 Maple street, had a hand bag with
rings valued at several hundred
dollars snatched from her hands
near her home at 9:30 last night by an unknown man.
Miss Brown lives with Mrs. Calen-
tia C. Shumway at the Maple street
addrese. She was returning home
from Russell's store on West avenue.
As she was turning into the yard of
‘l-lra. Shumway'a home the thief
grabbed her hand bag and ran up
the hill at the end of Maple street.
The police were notified. Police.
:rucn Jerry Dorney and Conrad Miller
rushed to the scene‘and conducted a
search of the entire neighborhood.
They were unable to find any trace
of tho ”1163...;F
Miss Brown gave the polica a
iairly good deecriptlon of the thief. .
She described him as being a young
man about 30 years old and five feet
The inches tall.» Miss Brown said
the young man had a dark owl'-
coat and wore a cap.
The contents of the hand bag
were valuable. There were six rinse
One was a. solitaire diamond ring
and another a. plain gold ring. The
others were sold rings set with
stones.
’ Besides the rings the hand bag
contained two New York bank
books. some bond coupons, in in
.bills, 50 cents in change and two
trolley tokens. A pitir of blue heads
and a gold chain also were stolen.
The rings were tied in a handker-
chief. .
Detective Sergeant John Roberts
is working on the case along Wlih
The. police from the lfill'St District
elation
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. PRELIMINARIES
ON WATER JOB
HAVE STARTED
Engineer H i 11 Is at
Work On “Plans ——
Blds, To Be Called
for Soon.
I The preliminary work of improv-
ing South Norwalks. water system at
a cost of $425,000 has been started.
The district comii‘l’issloners have
awarded the contract for the engi-
neering work on the improvements
to .lllnglnecr Nicholas G. Hill. Jr., of
New. Yerk City .und he has begun
drawing up the plans and specifies
tions for the work.
It is planned to ask for bids and
award the construction contract in
the near future. Several inquiries
regarding the contract have already
been received by the district com-
misslouers
The notice of the sale of bonds
.‘has been: published in the financial
journals and information regarding
bids for the purchase of the bonds
axve been receii cd from several of
the building houses.
LIONS ELUB
Will COMPETE
The human: Lions club has en-
' member!
regular luncheon at the mom
rue-vat
u
GRAND" LODGE
VISITORS WILL
RETURN TONIGHT
N o r w a l k Visitors to
Masonic Meeting at
Hartford .Atte nd
Three Day Session.
Rev. Charles A. Marks, associate
grand chaplain of the ,Grand Lodge
of Masons of the State of Connecti-
cut; Thomas 0. Taylor. Worshipful
Master of Old Well Lodge. and Fred
Shove. chaplain of Old Well Ledge.
will return to Nerwaik this evening.
after attending the three- day session
of the Grand Lodge of the State.
which closes today in Hartford.
Arm“! N. Null of Stonlngton was
electerhgrand master
Other officers elected for the com~
lng year Were: Deputy grand mas-
ter. Theodore Foster. Chester: grand
senior warden. Robert S. Walker,
Waterbury: grand junior warden.
Harry S. Scoiieid. Stamford; grand
treasurer. Joseph Baths. Hartford;
grand secretary, George A. Kiss.
Hartford; grand senior deacon.
George R. Sturges, Woodhury: grand
Junior deacon. Elbert L. Barbie.
Dunlelson; grand trustees. Albert S.
Comatock. of Norwich: D. Fairchild
Wheeler of Bridgeport and Norman
C. Stevens of Hartford.
A gain of 1,243 in membership
was reported by" Grand Secretary
George A. Klee for the year ending
Dec. 31. 1925. The membership at
that date was 44,181. There were
2.084 candidates raised by the 120
lodges in 1925. and 104 affiliations.
There were 600 deaths and 139 mem-
bers were given demits.
Dr. Empringham declared a per-
sonal sunvey made throughout the
country for the last 18 months has
convinced him that "it is ‘impoh
sible to legislate morals into the
people," but that a campaign of
education would eventually bring
about that resu'lt.‘ He added that
a referendum of the 20,000 mem-
bers of the society. had revealed an
“ "overwhelming majority in favor of
5 m' .ficaticn to legalize light wines
mndbeer" underarm-nut rheum-
pain of education along testim-
once lines conducted by the society
. prior to 1m.
Roof caved
In by Snow
Kills Five
North and Jud'd Foun-
dry In New Britain
Collapses Under the
Stiow and Ice. ,
NEW BRITAIN, Feb. 4.——(AP)
Five men are reported dead and
between 26 and 40 injured as a re-
sult of the collapse 0"“ the foundry
dry roof. foundry
of the North and Judd Manufactur-
ing Company‘s: East Main street.
a few minutes before noon today.
The entire foundry. a one story
brick structure, 200 feet long, isu
mass of nuns.
Tons of snow rested on the struc-
ture before the" catastrophe.
A general alarm for fire appara-
tus was sounded, bringing the en-
tire department out into the storm.
Ambulances took the injured to flu-
hospital. I’rtvafe autos were pressed
into service for the same purpoao.
CATHOLICS T0
CELEBRATE 10TH
ANNIVERSARY
Diocesan-Bureau of So":
cial Service P l a n s
Hartford Dinner To
Mark Event.
The Diocesan Bureau of Social
Service will commemorate its Tenth
Anniversary at a, dinner to be giv-
on at the Hartford Club on Tues-
day evening. February 9. at 6:30
o'clock. Right Reverend John J.
Nilan. Bishop of Hartford. will hou~
or the occasion with his presence
and will address the meeting on the
development of the work of the
Bureau. Reverend Matthew J. Judge"
Diocesnn Director, will serve as
toastmnster. Rev. Dr. Robert I“.
Keegan. secretary of The Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of New
York. will be the principal speaker.
After. his ordination, Dr. Keegun
(Continued on Page Two.)
Episcopalian Society”
Favors Wines and Beer
Startling Change of Policy In Church Temper-
ance Organization—Rev. Empringhd’m De-
clares “Prohibition” Increased Drinking of
Hard Liquor By Young People.
A campaign for modification of the Volstead act to legalize
the use of light wines and beer was announced
Rev. Dr. James Empringham, of the Church '1‘
composed of clergy and laymen of Protestant Episcopal churches,
yesterday. This will be the new policy or the society.
Superintendent
parance society,
clergy of the Episcopal church of
New York over the protest of
Wayne 3. Wheeler, general counsel
of the Antl~Saloon league. who re-
quested him by telephone. telegraph
and mail to withhold it. saying that
it "would show that prohibition had
failed.”
"I “stoned out a year ago," Dr.
Empringham said. “to gather ma-
terial tor a. pamphlet to show that
prohibition was a. success. I haven’t
finished that pamphlet. My survey
behind the scenes or enforcement in
Chicago. the south. Baltimore. Pbll~
adelpbie. and other cities shoved hie
that I bid been a darned fool to give
up a good church and a. big stipend
to make the’ world better overnight.
senate LT
» "We t that w would be
’ better ix: education stop drink-
ing. I admit that we” made a mil-‘9
la is of any value unless
{at public continent (en-l
State ‘Snow Bound
Grasp of Blizzard
in
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Feb. 4..——(AP)
bureau today issued this storm warning: “Advisory storm
warning changed to northwast, Delaware breakwater 0
Block Island, It. 1.. 9:80 a. mi and northeast warnings con-
tinued south of Block I’land to Boston. Storm of marked
intensity central south of Rhode Island moving northeast-
ward with increasing intensify. (iulcs will be back to north-
west today, diminishing tonight.”
The weather
the week.
The worst snow storm in three years struck Norwalk last
night and today, knocked business into a cocked hat and mide
everybody wish that he could follow the ground hog’ s example
and crawl back into some warm. snug little hole for the rest of
CITY
STATE
Most people left their-automobiles
home and the more venturesome
who took them out wished that they
had left theiu home. More than one
who parked his car early in the
morning couldn't get it clear this
afternoon.
Luckily there were no fires in
Norwaik and no serious accidents.
Trolley Jumps Track
A large Jumbo trolley on the
West avenue lino. Jumped the
track at the corner of West. ave-
nue. and Cedar street. opposite the
Russell Frost residence at "‘noob
todw .due to the lam firms
at t is spot. The wrecklh‘fl crew of
the company hoisted the trolley
back on the tracks. No one was
hurt. Motormun Hot-an was in
charge of the trolley.
floating Tied up
All water transportation in the
Norwalk Harbor was tied up today
because of the storm. None of the
oyster boats of the local oyster
companies left their docks this
morning. The tugs and other craft
were also tied up at the wharfs.
Harbormaster Ellis Howard stated
that the harbor traffic was at a
standstill and that nothing could
move until the storm subdided.
Workmen were busy shoveling
snow off the Washington street
drawbridge all during the morning.
The South Norwalk Electric Light
_Works reported at noon today that
'none of their lines had been carried
down by the storm and that all
lln‘q were in good working order.
Trolley Plows At Work.
The Connecticut company has
had a sweeper and three snow
plows clearing the trolley tracks
since before 10 o'clock last night.
with orders to coniinuefiheir work
until the storm abatee. The Norwalk
Stamford cars are running about a
half hour behind schedule and
the Bridgeport trolleys are from a
half hour to an hour late. The
Stamford trolleys are delayed by
autos and true which use the
tracks for ll. roadway and refuse to
turn off into the side of the road to
allow the cars to pass unless they
become stuck in th'e'snow. The local
trolley lines are all running several
minute; late but are completing
their trips.
Snow Falls From Bottle.
This morning several piles of
snow. which had accumulated on
the roofs of building'- on Wall and
Main struts. fell to the ground.
showering pedestrians with snow
and causing a great deal of amuse-
ment. No one was hunted.
' Several aeoldentshave been e-_
1y avoided and a great deal of lid-'
in: and skidding is evident. and as
yet. he accidents have been report-
ed.
City Plow: On Job.
The Street Department had five
sncwplows out cleaning of! the lo-
cal streets at I. so o'clock this
moraine. The plows made several
trips tbrcushWarious streets of the
city and will be kept in operation
emu the snow fall my!
Workman were also put. to work
w. the snow into wagons and
. x it away:
It was announced by Show Com-
min-loner oeeph Damn this mom-
in: the on would be no collee~
lion of bags in the city until
Batu morning because of the
mm of the men and wagons
and awhile. are being used to
remove the mow’fro'm the streets.
k The State Highway Department
has Invent plows working in this
«one and the Standard Oil Com-
pany had a snow plow out working
between their plant and Woodward
avenue and the plant and James
mil. All of the lute truck- of ‘the
comm braved the storm this
«momenta: and were sent out over the
warm
- entrainment.
”VI-nudism of tut
M nettleupthe
NEW HAVEN, Feb. 4.—(AP) A
i-Iunkct of snow from 6 to it inches
deep on the level and from two to
Illl‘i‘r‘ feet deep in spots where a
high 'wind hadbiowu it into drifts.
covered Connecticut today fulfilling
ihe prediction made by the weather
bureau yesterday that this section
was in the path of a heavy storm
and a high wind.
The first real blizzard of the win-
tv'r struck Connecticut shortly after
9 oclock last night accompanied by a.
«in mile an hour gale. Driven about
fal': all night
It was The first real test in two
wars of the fighting ability of the
transportation system. and the Con-
nectlcut company, the New Haven
load and motor bus operators were
out early battling the storm. Trol-
ley gervice while greatly handicap-
ped hroughout the state and demo-
rallzed in same places continued to
iunctibn during the night and morn.
ing after huge ploughs had forced
their way through the drifts
_ All Trains Running. ‘
The New Haven R. It. reported
this morning that all of the trains
were running and that while some
were behind time slightly the sched-
ule had been maintained.
The storm had its effect on ship-
ping along the scund, many ships re-
mulnins‘ln safe harbors rather than
risk the high wind that swept over
the sea.
Theweather bureau hero reported
this morning that seven inches of
snowmad fallen at 8 o’clock this
morning. It was predicted that the
strain would continue until this aft-
ernoon. The wind was blowing 46
miles an ‘hour this morning accord-
nlg to the weather bureau figures.
while the velocity at Block island
was 89 miles an hour.
‘ New London.
New London reported/four inches
of show this morning with the storm
continuing in violence. Destroyers
and coast guard patrol boats sched-
uled to leave this morning to relieve
other boats guarding rum"’row were
held in port. Efforts to reach by ra-
dio the 75 foot patrol boat No. 234
on duty of! Block Island were un-
successful this mornlng but coast
guard officials said they were not
Worried regarding the safety of the
boat as it was manned by a skill-
ful skipper. The cutter Mojave and
several destroyers now out at sea
will search f} the patrol boat to-
day. .
Steeple Oil‘ Schedule,
Sound steamers were many hours
of: thbir regular schedule and some
of them were anchored in the sound
a ting the and of the storm, The
Ne England steamship Company
line New Hampshire. and the Con-
tra] ‘ermont steamer. New York.
were unable to' leave New London
last night. as scheduled and some
of tbe steamers which left New York
for Connecticut andtkbode island
points; were forced to rep their
anchor; before reachin their Scatt-
nation. ‘
Hartford reported six Inches of
snow this morning with the storm
continuing. Danhury also had a‘six
inch fall of snow during the. night
rum drifts were reported in the coun-
try districts. Neither railway nor
motor traffic was seriousl, hamper-
ed. "V
Brldgcport's snow measured eight
inches on the level this morning. and
the rail and motor transportation
(Continued on Page Two.)
MULIJGAN‘B COOKIES
the old-fashioned kind, and Mulli-
hn’l futons cruiler's are for sale
in stores fill our this vicinity. The
old-fashioned book!!- include the
following triads; Met. near. her-
nails. moist-u. chocolate and not-
mail lg the, ohm-term. u-
riskier {villi/en‘s
by the wind, the snow continued to-
BERTINO-CREA
- CASES PUT OFF
FOR ONE WEEK
P o l i c e Haven’t Fin-
ished Investigation,
Prosecutor Bradley
Says In Court Today.
EXTORTION CLAIM
Dominick Valient,
Saugatuck, C o m -
plainant. A i l e g e s
Blackmail.
.r‘
The cases of Glaccamo Bertino.
‘of 11 Wood street. James I’assafume.
of 25 Burbank street and llomalo
Crea. of Sauguiuck. all charged with
extortion in connection with ale
legrd blackmail against Dominick
Valium of Silugatuck. wcl'oconiinu-
ed for a week in the Wesipbrt Town
Court Today. The stale police have
not completed their iuvusflgaiion
and ihis was lllu reason given for
the postponement by Prosecutor
Edward 1%. Bradley.
Bertiuo was arrested
Police Sergeant Walter A.
.Mcsaled weapons.
James l’assufume of 2.5
bank street. this city. and ltomaio
Crea. of ("button street. Sauxatuck.
'are also arrested in connection with
the case. These men have been re-
leased in bonds on “.000 each. '
The state police made the arrests
on the complaint of Dominick Va-
iient. of Saugatuck Highway. Sausa-
tuck. Valiant is a former constable
and has been active in politics in
Weslport.
if. is alleged that Valiant who is
married has been paying attention
to a Norwnik woman, much to the
dislike to Beriino. Bertino is said to
have demanded $500 from Valiant.
The Saugutuck man claimed » he
did not have that much money and
ihc.,amount was reduced to $200
and thou finzilly down to 5100. V8.-
iicnt agreed to pay $20 of the
amount.
When Beriino's agents. Passe-
fume and Cree. came to collect the
money they‘recelved bills markd
by the state police. The arrests
soon followed. .
MRS. RAW-
18 LEFT $25,000
ET MISS ROGERS
Will of Former West-
port Resident Pre-
Sented to New York
Surrogate.
Mrs. Reed Haviland. of Prospect
avenue. wife of a. local real estate
dealer. will receive $25,000 under
the will of Miss Ella A. Rogers.a
former Wéstport resident. which was
lied yesterday in the Surrogate's
Court. Newaork.
The Cathedral of st. John the Di-
vine will receive one~haif of the re-
sidusry estate and also will become
the remainderma of a 8150. 000
trust fund create by the testatrix
tor the life use of her cousin. Emily
I't. Nichol], of Winter Park. Fla.
Emily R. Nicholl. besides the in-
come from the trust fund. also re-
ceives a cash bequest of 3150.000
and Miss Rogers' country home. no-
klnum, at Westport.
by State .
Lyne- ‘
ban of the Westport barracks and .
held in bonds of so one. ueruno is :‘
charged with extortion and carry- *
Bur- .
after breaking down a door at
o'clock last evening.
CLARK SERVICES
TODAY, BURIAL
IS TOMORROW
Storm Chances Plans
-Obsequies at Home
Tributes.
Only —- Many Floral
The many friends of the late Al-
bert C. Clark. valiant Chil War
veteran. who passcdlaway on Mon-
day morning. paid him their last
respects, when i‘. y "*er at
the Clark homegat 23 C fer ave-
nue. this morning for the funeral
services.
The services were conducted by
the Rev. Louis B. Howell, rector of
Saint Paul's Episcopal church and
Rev. George B. Tompkins, pastor
of the Norwaik Methodist church.
Due to the stormy weather, lilo
committal services in the vault in
Riverside cemetery have been post-
poned until tomorrow morning as
when a firing squad from the Ameri-
can Legion will give the final sa-
lute. and taps will be sounded. Pall-
bearers will be the following mem-
bers of Frank C. Godfrey-Post. Cap-
tai nJoscph Lyons. J. Friedson, Ah-
chie Merriam. Murray Israel. Henry
Simons. Charles Goldschmldt. Ever-
ett Brundago and Lel‘toy D. Downs.
The services this morning were
very largely attended and the floral
offerings were numerous and benu~
tiful. A delegation from the G. A.
R4 Buckingham Post of which the
deceased was a past commander.
was present.
Nash Motor Rises
55 Points Today
NEW YORK. Feb. 4.—-(AP). The
spectacular stock market gyrailons
of the Nash Motor Shares which
preceded the company’s recent dec-
laration of a. 90 per cent. stock
dividend reached new heights idliay
when the stock soured 55 points to
a new high record at 640. repre-
senting a gain of vvlrtually 100
metals in the last two days. The
rise from last year's low price has
been almost 450 points.
Norwalk‘ Lock Company
70 Years
in Business
Re-Elects Officers
The annual meeting of the Nor-
waiit Lock Company. which was
incorporated it) years ago was held
yesterday afternoon in the offices
of the plant. The following director!
were electodf Eben Hill. 8. P.
Plumb. Edward Beard. Christian
swans. l‘ W. Plumb. Mortimer R.
Nationals“; and George 11. Be:-
at Annual Meeting
_
The officers of the company were
re-elecied. The are:
President-Mortimer
Can-land.
activator: and fissures-George
B. Barnum. ‘
The annual reports showed that
the put your. lied been a most It-
in the
M. Mc-
._ Jones Woman refused to open
The Weather
Weather forecast for Southern New
England; Generally fair, (older in
east portions tonight; l-‘ridey fair.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Raymond Street Heme
Held Cocaine Supply
James Jones and Wife Taken Before U. S. Com-
missioner Lavery Today. —— Part of State
Drug Traffic—Woman Suspected of Taking
Narcotics to Waterbury Construction Job.
Local and Federal authorities seized a quantity of cocaine
41 Raymond street about 6: 30
James Jones and his wife Hattie
Jones both colored were arrested on
the charge of violating the Harris
Narcotic Act.
The raid was conducted by In-
spectors 'l'homas‘A. Kenei‘ick and
William A. (‘ul'roil of the Federal
Narcotic Squad and Chief of Police
William R. Pennington. Detective
Sergeant John L. ltobeits, Patrol-
man Wall co Sunlmis and lwderul
l’rohihltio Agent (hurlvs Keene.
They had a. search warrant.
Two purchases of the dope were
made at the Jones home by a. "stool"
previous to the raid. The "stool"
visited the place on Tuesday evening
and made a. purchase and again
visited it last evening and made am
other purchase. On each occasion he
paid for the done in marked money.
Had To Break In
As he went into the house last
evening the raiding party stood
across the street and after coming
out he gave a signal that he had
made the purchase. The party then
went to the house but found the door
locked. When they knocked the
the
door and it was necessary to break
it in.
As the officers entered the house
the Jones woman picked up a pack-
age of dope and threw it into a roar-
ing fire in the kitchen stove but she
was detected in the act by Detective
Sergeant Roberts who ran" to the
stove and taking the lid off stuck
his handinto the fire and pulled
out the burning package. The dope
was charred slightly‘but not enough
to effect its use as evidence.
“Specdballs” Discovered.
The package contained several
capsules of'cocaine in the powder
form. The powder in the capsules
contained what is known as two
"specdhalls."
The authorities have been watch-
ing Jones and his wife for some
weeks past. M Thanksgiving Chief
Pennington and Officer Sammie vi-
sited the apartment and arrested a.
couple who were found in a. room
together. At that time the Jones
woman ran out of the house and
was not seen again for several
works. .
Tooihill find Tip
Recently Patrolman John Toot-
hill received a tip that she was
transporting dope from New York
state to the men at work on the
large reservoir in Waterbury. Jones
was at work on the reservoir and if:
is presumed that she was delivering
the done to him and he in turn sell-
ing it to the men at work there.
About the some time that the lo-
cal police rcceivod the tip the Nur-
cotic Squad also received informs.
tlon telling of the sale of done to
men working on the Waterbury re—
servoir and they started an investi—
gation which led them to Norwalk.
The local police have been under
the impression for sometime that
some one was selling done in Nor-
waik‘s so called "Black Belt" and
have had several people under sus-
pinion.
The Jones couple will be arraign-
ed before United States Commission-
er Hugh anery in Bridgeport today.
and will appear before Judge Ed-
win S. Thomas in the United States
District Court at a later date.
E E PHILBROOK
AT MEETING OF A
KIWANIS CLUB
District Governor E. E. Phllbrook
of Portland. Maine, of Kiwanis luv
ternatlonai Club, was present at the
meeting of the Norwalk Kiwanis
Club, at the Royal James lnn. this
noon. Mr. Phllbrook spoke at the
meeting of the Board of Directors
at 11 o'clock. ‘
L. M. Chapman. Country Agricul-
tural Agent of Dsnbnry. gave a. very
interesting talk. rural in nature. that
appealed greatly to the bddy of bust.
neas men.
.Miss Coggswell Not
Girl Scout Member
Officials of the Girl Scouts In
Norwalk informed the Evening Sen-
tinel this morning that Myrtle Gnu-
well 2: luring street he was at-
tacked ln‘Clay street while on her
way home early Tuesday‘ evening
was not a mem r of the Girl Scouts.
They stat that the young lady
was it years old and not it as was
given out by the police.
The police In conducting an in-
veeiiniloninto the case but have
found no trace of the person when
.ummsmsm
Norwalk Chronicler