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Entered as second-class matter at the post office at
do. Norwells. Conn. under the Act of March a. 1879.
soawsss
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'1 FIRST IIIWIPAPIB
some NOBWALK, CONN. SATURDAY, MARCH 13,1925.
lend; Fair and somewhat
The Weather“
Forecast for southern New m.
wider
tonight. Sunday, fair.
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PRICE TH REE CENTS
Fans Well Pleased at
Excellent Exhibition
Wishing Stars In Good Condition —— Danbury
High Runners Defeat Norwalk Boys In
Special Race -- Meet Proceeds Will Be
Spent On School Children
The meet was a huge success be-
ing filled with action from the
start until the finish. The various
schools of- the city were keyed up to
e. high pitch and every entrant
a. fought hard for victory.
George Mersters of the New Tori:
A. C... former Georgetown Univer-
city star.” was the winner of the 880
yard' o l and Matty Shane
w New our university was second.
Because of the fact that the track
was not accurate the tune for this
,_ event was not kept.
Johnny Holden of the New York
A. C. was the victor in the 000
‘yard invitation race and Dave Hor-
ton of the New York A. C.. was
- second. Holden is a former George-
sport'ed the colors of Columbia Uni-
versity.
not A. C..- one of the world's great-
eet marathon runners was the win-
nor of the two mile special. and
* Rocco Verderoea or the same club.
finished second.
'A All. ofth'otrackstorowere in
good tom and the ions were well
ploosbd vi the exhibitions. ‘
filtflbufi Hill
in their one in. {or captured
the cup which they will hold for
one year.
MissAnno AnnoBaum. of Bridgeport
the 00-yard woman swimming
champion was introduced and re-
ceived a big band.
Miss Gladys Thompson the Eu.
pervisor of Physical Education in
the elementary schools as present-
ed with a. large bouque of flowers
by the Kiwanis Club.
The funds received from last
night’s meet will go into the Ki-
wanis School Fund and the fund ’for
the under privileged c‘ ild.
- The summary follows: 'sch
Belay races elementary edie‘ois
First beat won by Concord. sec»
ond beat won by Marvin. third best:
won by Rowayton. fourth heat won
by Brookside.
A Finals. Brooksidc. first:
ten. second: Marvin third.
Relay races (7th and 01h grades
(Continued on Page Nine.)
W. I. TROY SHED
FOR DIVORCE ON
CRIIEII'YC
Married In 1923, Wife
Alleges Husband’s
Treatment Intoler-
Reway-
.. 't'r'fi:~“
‘ .
I Divorce proceedings were started
in the Superior Court. today. by
jury 3. Troy against William J.
.‘l‘roy of Connecticut avenue. An at.
“uchment of 06.000 has been fl-
led against property of the defen-
that in the office of Town Clerk
‘ Herbert B; Smith.
. ' The couple were married in Nor-
‘ yolk on Rbruary is. 1038. The
f's maiden n
Wendi. It is alleged that the
”fondant is guilty of intolerable
some: and the custody of the
two minor ehiidrsin are asked.
‘ The case is returnable at the April
terns ed the court. Keogh and Can
“loo represent the plaintiff. The
.papoc's in the case were served by
Constable Le Roy 1). Downs. '
‘Urged To Attend
Civic” Assoc. Meet
All members of the Bowman
_GVIO o-ecioiion era
was In lusportont meeting of the
vahich hlchwiilheheldin
lander school mom-oft!»
church. louder night
town star end Horton fcrraeriy‘
Whitey Michelson of the Cyg ‘
able—Two Children .
wesuoryn'
About 1,000 persons attended the first annual track meet oi A
the Kiwanis Club held in the Armory last evening.
Father, Son, Jailed
For Carrying Ruin
STAMFORD. Conn. March 18.
--(AP) Samuel Di Piano and tile
10 year old son. James, both of
Newark. N. 0.. were arrested here
today after a lively chase. charged
with transporting 05 gallons of
‘alcohoi in angautoniobiie. The
ball was used “81.000.
Conference In April ,
' Dr. B. 1-1. Beattys. pastor of :Bt.
John’s Methodist Episcopal ‘ church.
New Rochelle. N. it. will probably
be appointedte succeed Dr. Wilu
item 8. Kidd. of Stamford. as dis-
trict superintendent. at the session
of the New Yorls Eastern Annual
Conference of M. hi. churches. to
be held in the Hanson Piece M. E.
church. Brooklyn. April 7.
Dr. Kidd presided at the quarter-
ly conference held at the East ove-
hue M. )3. church. Wednesday night.
The conference at the East Norwalk
church, was the last over wbicli Dr.
Kidd will preside before its suc-
oessor will be nominated. having
held the office of district superin-
tendent for the full term'ot six
years.
Three ‘Norwalk Women
In Meriden“ Today
Three representatives of the Nor-
walk branch. American Association
0 University women. are attending
e state meeting of Univer-
ty women's clubs at Meriden
today. Several of Connecticut‘s
most prominent college worn-
en are on the program. Those ot-
tonding from Nor-walk are Mrs. A.
Hyde Cole. Miss Mable Thomas. and
Mrs. .‘Charles Btamm of Westport.
Westporter Married
Today In New York
John‘ A. Angus, as. moving pic-
ture producer in New York. and
Miss Eleanor M. Van Der Ker, 8!,
concert singer. 1:5 Wadsworth ave-
nue. New York. will be married to-
day in the Little Church Around the
Corner. The license was secured
yesterday at the Municipal building.
New Yorlc‘. Mr. Angus is the son of
Walter and Helen Kearns Angus.
and was born in Westport.‘ -
”We . , 1 ,, fl . Offer acceptance.
inc At Methodist
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Carefully comb the clouliied ads
of The Sentinel— .
FOR sane—coed. modern two
homily house: 10 rooms: can.
traily located: price $0,000.
Good buy tor some one. in.
uuire. The N030 Realty Com-
pany. Telephone “0. Wash
ington street. , » .
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“Billed
broughtinsnyrepiioa"uateolr.
fudge of the “like Realty Co.
latter-walk... ‘
1‘91!
Burma 11111;
GAINS 1111011121;
11111111 CRUEL
Evidence In Case Of
Darien Couple Too
Sensational for
Open Court“
LIQUOR BLAMED
Hyde Tormented Ani-
mals, Insulted Wife,
and Called Servants
“Swine”.
Marrlet A. Hyde. of Darien. re-
ceived a decree of divorce from Hen-
ry Godfrey Hyde. of New York. in
the Supreme court at Bridgeport.
Intolerable crucify was the charge on
which the divorce was granted.
Because of the sensational char—
acter of the testimony and the wealth
and high secial position of the par-
ties the testimony and depositions
Awere heard in chambers by State
Referee Marcus H. Hoimcomb. at his
office in Southington. The report of
the state referee. which stated that
the allontions had been proven. woo
mmrdd to Judge Nickerson yesterday
Circadian the” re-
port no fronted them
Inch of the evidence In by depo-
sitions. The reports show that birds
was drunk oftener than he was sober.
that he was constantly ugly, cruel to
animals. and always insulting to his
wife in company. No mention is
made of alimony.
lilies Margaret Coed a servant in
the Hyde home. testified that Hyde' a
treatment of his wife was "simply
disgusting”: that he was always dis-
agreeable and grouchy: that he al-
luded to the servants in the house
so "damn swine“: and that he threw
chairs and a framed photograph of
his wife out of a second story win-
dow.
That night in particular Mrs.
Hyde was in great fear. the servant
said who was asked to keep‘ her
bedroom door open and hurry to
her mistress if she heard any dis—
turbance. Mrs. Hyde slept that
night in the guest's room and that
so enraged her husband that he
broke down the door. Miss Cood
stated that Mr. Parks. Hyde‘s bro-
ther-ln-iaw took him away in April
1025. as for weeks he had been
drinking heavily and often shouted.
and screamed. He was drunk two
days out of ten, she said although
during all this time Mrs. Hy do treat-
ed him with every consideration
and often waited on him with food
in his room.
In March. 1924. Mrs. Louis 1‘.
Dickenson. of Noroton. accompanied
the Hydes to Bermuda. she told, the
referee in a deposition. One night
Mrs. Hyde fled into her friend's
stateroom. Her night gown was
torn. and she complained of the
drunkenness and conduct of her hus-
band. She was afraid to go back
to her stateroom, according to Mrs.
Dickenson.
VINCENI’S NOSE
BROIIEN WHEN
HIT BY AUTO
South Main *St. Man,
Run Down By
drew Bough, Now In
0
Hospital.
Bil (Vacant. of to South Main
street. was slightly injured at i
o'clock. last night. when he was
stuck by on auto driven by Andrew
Bough. 101 Perry avenue, on Main
street. Hr. Vincent was crossing
the street near the corner of We!
street. when the accident happened.
The auto was going out on Well
street and was making the turn into
loin street. .
Ir. Vincent was taken to the of-
lished Tuesday.
Sentinel.
How The Vote Stands.
Alarge batch of ballots counted
last evening makes the vote stands as
follows:
For prohibition .............. 41
For becrandwino .............ise
For repeal. ... so
There are a number of stocks of
onvrlopcs containing voice which
have not been opened and counted
yet.
in response to a number or re.
quests from readers who want to be
sure that all their friends have vot»
ed the prohibition ballot is publish-
ed again today for the lost time.
All votes to be counted in The
Evening Sentinel poll must reach this
office by Monday evening at t p m.
At that time ballots will be tallied
and the final figures on the referen-
dum in Norwnlk will be published
Tuesday.
The final vote here will be tole-
i‘Drys” continue to Gain
In Referendum Here
Ballot Printed Again Today In Response To
Many Requests --All Votes Must Be In By
8 P. M. Monday—Final Figures To Be Pub-
The “drys” continued to gain today in the newspaper pro-
hibition referendum being conducted in Norwalk by The Evening
graphed to the ethos of the NEA
service in Cleveland and will be in-
cluded in the totals of the country-
wide poll.
To make suro that your vote will
be counted. you must sign your name
and address to the ballot, which also
guarantees that repeaters will be de-
tected and barred.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-——(AP)
l‘rohibiilonists took their views to
the White House today as the new-
cat development in the perennial con-
troversy between "weis" and "drys."
The visit to President Coolidgear»
rnnnrd by the executive committee
of the anti-saloon league coincided
with a conference at the office of
assistant Secretary Andrews. prohi-
bition'euforcement chief. concern-
lug the situation at Washington.
Dr. Burnell
Suffers
“nuwwmm
Former Mayor and Physician Has Been Ser-
iously III For Four Days e—Reported Im-
proved At Hospital This Morning—Attend-
ed By Dr. W. J. Tracey
Ex-Mayor Dr. Francis 1. Burnell is a patient in the Norwalk
Hospital suil‘ering from hiccoughs and a cold
Dr. Burnell was taken ill about four days ago and was con-
fined to his home before being ordered to the Norwalk hospital
by Dr. William J. Tracey, who is attending him.
It was stated this morning that there was a slight improve-
ment in his condition.
...—.—
NEW YORK. March 13. -—Meg|sc
traie Joseph E. Corrigan ruled in
West Side Court yesterday that no
citizen could be punished in court
for drinking liquor publicly or oth-
erwise. The ruling was in direct
contradiction to a recent opinion
of Magistrate Harry E. Gordon.
which held that liquor drinking
constituted disorderly conduct. and
which was used as authority for the
arrests on which Magistrate Corri-
gan ruled yesterday. .
He specified that "regardless of
the arid aspirations of any one."
there was no ground for the charge:
Judge Rules Citizen
‘ Can Quench His Thirst
Joseph E. Corrigan Holds No One Should Be
Punished for Drinking Liquor Publicly-
Contradicts Recent Opinion. .
that it was the business of the Fed.
eral government alone to enforce
prohibition. and that any one could
take a drink anywhere and no one
bed the right to stop him.
The case was against Louis Ni.
choir. waiter. and Samuel Barbers.
proprietor. of. the Three-fifty Club.
107 West Forty-eighth Street.
Twenty patronii of the club. who
were also arrested when police en—
tered and found liquor around. were
dismissed by Magistrate Corrigan
when they first appeared in court.
Nichols and Barbara were held .for
hearing yesterday and briefs were
submitted by order of the court.
Curran Quits Post
At Ellis Island
NEW YORK. March it.-(AP).
Henry B. Curran. Immigration
.Commissioner at Ellis island. an-
nounced yesterday that he had for-
warded his resignation to President
Coolidge to become effective March
:1. in order to become'counsei of.
the City club.
Mr. Curran declined to say who.
ther or not he would make any
recommendations or change in pol-
icies at Ellis Island prior to the
gate his resignation becomes «fee.
vs.
He will assume charge of the
civic work of the city club on
April 1.
Mr. Curran recently came into
wide prominence during the con-
troversy over the detention of Vera.
{Countess of Catlicart. at Ellis Io-
isnd. on the grounds of “moral tur-
pituda".
KUWGAN’B COOKIES
the old- fashioned kind: and lolli-
gan's famous caller's on for sale
"m. the
'mm
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Schepp Funeral In.
New York Monday
The funeral of Leopold Schepp.
New York cocosnut merchant and‘
philanthropist. who died Thursday
night, will be held from his home.
115 Central Park West. New York.
Monday afternoon at 0 o'clock. The
Rev. Dr. Alexander. of the First
Presbyterian church. New York.
will otticiate.
Mr. Schepp's sudden death halt-
ed a widely announced plan to give
away his entire fortune. which
was announced last year. when he
asked the aid of the public for sug-
gestions Jfo’r giving away his en-i
tire fortune. Letters are still be-
inl received at the rate of more
than 3.000 a week.
It is estimated that over 8'1. 000.-
one was the total of lir. sensor-
shines. the lor'geet being a fund
of $3. 000. 000 to the Bcbepp Foun-
dation forBoys. a gift of 01. 000.000
to the-girls' foundation. and more
than 00.000.000 in special donation:
Hr. Ichepp also had a residence
in Norman, _ .
‘ rams: mum;
“our WIN m.
SEVERAL unis
11 snow vou
Modification Proposal
Still Holds Its Big
Lead In Newspaper
Balloting
367,260 VOTES
Bulk ‘Of Country Re-
mains To Be Heard
From -—— Interest In .
Amazingly Keen ’.
Copyright. 1026, by NEA Sci-vice,
Inc. Reproduction in whole
or in part forbidden.
With the nets still holding a lead
of fully five in one. the third day's
tabulation of votes in the nation-
wide prohibition referendum con.
ducted by NBA Service and this
newspaper found a total of 367.260
votes counted. with the bulk of the
country still to be heard irom.
Although today's figures are more
complete than those previously an-
nounced. they are far from being
complete enough to serve as the
basis tor any conclusion as to the
popularity or otherwise of the pro-
hibition law. except in a few iso-
lptod instances. The first cities to
«rice the “most part as:
tors of anti- prohibition sentiment.
end the great prohibition stront-
holds are yet to be heard from.
Today‘s totals are divided as fol.
lows:
For the prohibition law . . . 47,411
Ror repeal of the prohibi-
lion law . . . . . .. ........ 140,077
For modification of ihe‘law
to allow light wines and
beer ........ 156.85:
in addition, four newspapers
printed ballots with "space to vote
agoin's’ie the wine and beer proposi-
tion. here were 28.390 votes cast
against this modification proposal
-—-voies that. while they cannot go
in the bone dry column. are neier-
iheleso dry \oies, representing op-
position to any alteration in the
present law.
Drys Poll 10,000 Votes ’
Accordingly. the total dry vote in
today's tabulation is slightly over
70,000. The drys are making a bet-
ter showing than appears on the
face at the returns.
Examination of the different
state returns is interesting ol-
thougli in most cases the returns
are too incomplete to allow of any
generalizations as to the way the
states will finally line up.
The heavy \vbt vote cast in San
Francisco. for example. is keeping
California in the wet column. but
the smaller towns and cities are giv-
ing plenty of votes to the dry col-
umn.
At present the vote in California
stands: for prohibition. 5.408; for
repeal. 5.895: for modification. 15..
050. On examination. however. it
is found that San Francisco con-
tributed 11.853 of the votes for
modification and 4.812 votes for re-
peal. casting only 1.806 dry votes.
in Santa Ann. on the other hand.
there. were 2104 dry votes. 83 wet
and 564 for modification.
Kentucky Votes Dry
One of the surprises comes from
Kentucky. which is in the dry col-
umn on the basis of returns from
Bowling Green and Asbland. Ken-
tucky‘s vote reads: dry. 008: repeal,
109:. modification. 241.
Georgia and Florida. likewise. are
in the dry column on very incom-
plete returns. Georgib standing 19!
dry. :8 for repeal and 119 for modi-
(Continued on Page Two.)
Council
partmcnt.
Darien Police Ace
AMOS R. ANDERSON.
ONE ARREST PER
HOUR IS PACE
SET BY AMOS
Darien C o p Captures
Two Bootleggers and
T h r e e Suspects In
Less Than 5 Hours.
Pcllccmun‘Aruos Roosevelt An-
derson, ace of "i9 Darien force. ar-
rested tive men in less than five
hours yesterday afternoon. Two
were brought in on charge of ille-
gal transportation and three were
held for driving a stolen car.
Harry Klein, 5 Stanwood terrace.
Roitbury. Mass, and Eli Davis, 5
Boylsion street. Dorcliester. Mass.
are being held at the Darien police
headquarters in default of “.000
bonds. on a charge of illegal trans-
portation of alcohol.
The men were riding in a three
ion Muck truck along the Poet road.
the truck apparently being loaded
with furniture. Officer Anderson
became suspicious of the men or
received another of his now famous
“hunches." and stopped the truck.
Anderson cloaely inspected\ the
truck and found 750 gallons of al-
cohoi in cans. concealed under the
furniture. The case is scheduled to
be heardut the session of Town
court, Monday night. at 8.
John H. West, Pine Alien road.
37. New Redford. More... John F.
Breslin, bi. Pawiuckct avenue.
Pawtucket. R. 1.. and Frank Chase.
”6. 68 George street. New Haven.
were arrested by Anderson at l2255
o'clock. yesterday afternoon on a
charge of driving a stolen car.»
Anderson became suspicious of
the men, who were riding a Ford
coupe. driven by West. and halted
the men along the Post road. None
of men had a license and all were
taken to police headquarters where
it was discovered the auto .was
stolen. The, trio is held for the New
Bedford authorities.
The Evening Sentinel.
South Norwelir, Conn.
prohibition question.
soastoallowthssaleoilight
PROHIBITION minor
‘Ihavemarkedbelow,withscross,mypositicnon the
I favor keeping the prohibition amendment
as it now stands, with strict enforcement.
tam modification of the prohibition law
wineandbeer.
Idsver ‘ oiihe
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ET DEP’T ROW
~’ Track Meet
InfOrmal Meeting of
Last Night
Doman and Tallmadge Come To Understand-
ing When Mayor Acts As Peacemaker and
Everything Is Now Serene—Aftermath Of
Councilman’s Refusal To Report Figures.
The trouble which started follow-
ing the meeting of the common
council Tuesday exenink when the
bi- monthly report of Street Como
mlssloncr Joseph Doman was with-
drawn and not presented to the
council by Street Committeeman
Stanley Tallmadge, was ironed out
at a meeting of the members of
the Council and Mayor Robins held
in the street department offices,
city hall, last night.
Mayor lloblns arranged to hold
the gathering following the state-
ment given out by Commissioner
Domun. lie notified the commis-
sioner to be present and requestn
ed all of the members of the
council to be on hand.
Every member of the
was prvscnt when the informal
gathering was called together by
Mayor Robins. The Mayor explained
to those present what he thought
were the duties of the street come
missioner and the street committee-
mnn. He told of the duties that
he luid performed when he was
street committeeman.
According to a report of the
meeting. Couhrilnian Tallmadge and
Commissioner Doman agreed upon
what the duties of ouch were and
the Mr. Doman will be the active
head 015.1110 street depertmni. Conn.
cllman 'i‘allmndgc made it plain that
he was in no way trying to step
on unyone's toes.
The meeting resulted in Mr. Do-
man and Councilman Tallmadgs
shaking hands and both agreed to
FEES AND 3011
BANQUET WAS
GREAT SUCCESS
Rowayton Men’s Club
and Ladies’ Aid So-
ciety Provide Very
Pleasant Evening.
The Father and Son banquet giv-
en by the Ilowayton Men's club.
last evening, in the Sunday school
room of the Methodist church was
a. splendid success. '
A hot roast beef dinner was
served to 80 men and boys by the
members or the Ladies 'Aid society
of the church. The tables were
daintily decorated with large bou-
quets or daffodils and yellow can-
dies.
The speakers and officers of the
club Occupied a table in the center
of the room. at which were seated.
llev. George B. 'l‘ompkins.'pastor of
the Nor-walk M. E_ church: Rev.
Andrew F. Chamberlain. pastor of
the South Norwnlk M.
Rev. Charles S. Gray. pastor of the
East Avenue M .E. church: Dr. H.
councu
l3. Judd. a member of the Board of» * " ‘
American Missions: Rev_ Victor
Scalise, pastor of. the Itowayton
Baptist church; Rev. Walter C.
Cowart. pastor of the Rowayton M.
E. church and organizer of the
club; Joseph ll. ‘Taylor. president:
Sidney R. Bell, Jr.. secretary. and
William La Ii‘ountaine. treasurer.
Mr. Taylor acted as toastmaster'.
introducing the Rev. Tompkins.
speaker of the evening. who talked
on “The Race of Life!"
Rev. Chamberlain and Rev.
Scalise both made short speeches.
Dr. Judd gave a most interesting
description of the island of Hawaii.
describing its formation and com-
paring the similarity of its schooll.
churches. buildings. business. etc"
to those in America. Dr. Judd also
entertained the guests by singing
several songs in Hawaiian. accom-
paning himself on the ukulele.
The Sunday school orchestra.
composed of Edgar Bryan. Edson
Ogden, Alfred Ross. and Joseph
Boski. under the direction of Stan-
ley Whitney. organist of the Darien
\f. E. church. played several saloo-
iions, which were well received.
Some of the members of the L1-
diee' Aid society who so kindly of-
fered their services last evening,
were Mrs. Frederick Merrifield. Mrsi
Henry Forelt. Mrs. Irving Albreet.
Mrs. Henry Taylor.
Jennings. Mrs. Moses Beckett. Hrs.
Sidney Bell. Mrs. ire Kiggine ..
others.
~H°Iilim absorbent -
sanitary one pound - -
hereatdlesnn'i'his
uuorters ,for our-gig! ...
.E. church;
Peace again reigns supreme in the Norwalk highway de-
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