Vi r’i I Ann St. TODAY'S EVENTS. Riallw—“Beverly of Graustark." Regent—"Tho Beautiful Cheat." Palace—"Chip of the Flying U." l O O COMING EVENTS. May 7.—Monker Grotto Ladies night in Masonic Temple. May 7.—-Spring llallet of Lodice .Weld's Pupils at Regent Theater. May -10.-K. of C. Annual Ball at the Armory. May 12.-—Flfth Anniversary Supper. Ladies Auxiliary Muivoy Tarlov Post. May ill—Social Men‘s class at Odd licllows' Iluli Main street. May l7.—-Anniversary Party Past Pocahontas Wanoma Council. May 19.—-Two Plays by Bible class St. Peter's church. - l Bible South Sun And Title For Tomorrow. Sun Rises ............ Mi A. M. Sun Sets .............. 6:56 P. M. High Tide ............ 6:56 A. M. Low Tide .............. 1:40 P. M. -The "Goodwill" bags gave Employment to $626,470 hours needy people in 1025. The F‘alrfleld County Goodwill Industries u Cross St. Norwalk. Phone (lid—Adv. O O O Elizabeth McMahon. eight years old. 14 Bird avenue. is confined to her home with scarlet fever. 0 O O -—Radios and Victroms sold on easy terms. Donnelly.—-Adv. . O O The regular prayer meeting scheduled for 8 o'clock in the Bap- tist church will be held at 1:30 this evening. All people planning to st- tend the meeting are requested to take note of the change in time. O 0 ti ~Anthracite. All sizes. and Clans—Adv. O llarris O O for dollar. Amount raised 3100.000.- 00. Sponsored a track meet: Pro- ceeds over "00.00 for Under-Privi- leged Child Work. 0 0 -—I..ive lobsters are now to be had at Cutbiil's Fish market. Fresh ship- ments of seafood arrive bare daily. Deliveries to all sections of this lo- cality. 71 North Main St. Phone 108.—-Adv. 0 O O Mrs. Otto liain of Lawrence street reported to the police yesterday. that a peddler had insulted her because she had refuse to make a purchase from him. She said that he was in an automobilu traveling with two other men. , O O 0 ——Now is the time of year for fur storage. The Twin City Valet is a reliable place and all for storage here is insured against fire and theft. 6'! North Main St. Phone 408.—Adv. CONVICT S KILL WARDEN, ESCAPE Seven In New State Peni- tentiary of Illinois Force . Guard To Let Them Go. STATEVILLE. lit—(AP) Seven Chicago convicts serving long terms in the new state penitentiary here, made their escape yesterday after killing a deputy warden. wounding a. guard and forcing another guard. under penalty of death. to conduct them through the outer gates. They kidnapped the escort guard and escaped in a prison automobile which a trusty was forced to drive. Later the guard and trusty were found handcuffed to trees 'in a woods near Ottawa. Illinois. Four of the prisoners who escaped were serving sentences for murder and three of them ten years to life for robbery. Peter M. Klein. a deputy warden. was stabbed to death in the first es- cape from the new penitentiary. Jacob Judnlck. a guard. was stabbed while John Keeley. another guard. and James Cneeidy. a trusty, were kidfiappcd. 1e prisoners. who apparently had carefully planned their break. had been summoned to the deputy A large class of candidates for the second degree or the South Nor- walk council. No. 1253. Knights of Columbus will be initiated tomorrow night in St. Joseph's school hall. . The third degree will be worked ’- Sunday afternoon at 2:80. This de. gree will also open the state con- vention. O I O LAUNDRY WORK AT SPRINGTIME MEANS. 'the housewife having lace curtains. rag rugs. blankets. etc.. made spick and span—it should be done. This laundry does this work. is well equipped to give it careful and painstaking attention and solicits the patronage of folks in this vicin- ity who have work of this sort to be done. Now is the time. Your laundry work. however. large or small. the package will be called for and delivered. Just phone 8334. The Star Laundry. 11 Cross St.. Norwaik. -—Adv. * O I Steve Ungvary of Flax Hill road reported to the South Norwalk police this morning that someone had en- tered his garage during the evening and stolen a storage battery and'a kit of tools. Entrance was gained by breaking away part of the wall in under the building. The police are investigating. . -—-Live Cod fish at bridge.—Adv. C O O . Anibal Monteiro and Arthur Con- nolly were arrested on the charge of breach of the peace last evening. Connolly was arrested at the rail- - road station and Monteiro in Laura street. 0 0 -—Le hi g 11 coal. nut- natically screened. Harris .and Gena—Adv. 0 Bids for the new storage reservoir will be received at the office of the Second District Commissioners May 24. The contract will be awarded at a later date. 3 O O PLANT EVERGREENS NOW. —-If you are planning to plant or beautify the grounds about your property this season now is the time. Are you interested? We have the rarest and hardiest collection of evergreens in New England. Come . and see them growing in all their loveliness and make your selections. South Wilton Nurseries. 011 Dan- bury Turnpike. Phone Wilton :8.“ Adv. ' ' , e e a Mrs. William R. Pennington and son Harold Pennington of 11 Reed street. Miss Helge. Rasmussen of 5 West Washington street, Mrs. A. G. Fagerstrom of 1 Elton Court and Ralph Lycett of Broad River motor- ed to Jamaica. L. I. today where they will be the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Percival Sharron of that 'city. 0 t 3 ~Whatevcr your problems in heating and plumbing work the new building. the renovation or Jobbing work Nelson M. White's experts can do the same in a satisfactory man- ner. Nelson iii. White. heating and plumbing contipctor. as North Main street—Adv. , Prayer service will be held this‘ evening in the Soqfilflorwaik Meth- odist church. Q 0 C There will be an important meet- ing of the Norwalk Chapter of De-| Malay in Washington street Masonic Temple this evening. A large attend- ance «members is desired. Members of Old Well Lease. No. 108 F. b A. an, will be the guests :f honor. 0 D .—Cord reading and palmistry. 28 &. Norwalk. Phone null—Adv. .3 O In the April issue of the New Eng. land Kiwanis District News. publish- ed in Portland. Maine. is contained the' following summary of achieve- meat. of the local rumi- club: In the out. for a Numes‘ Home lbook warden's quarters in' the solitary cell house for disciplining. There they set upon Klein and alterin- llicting fatal wounds attacked Jud- nick when he appeared and resisted. They looked Klein and Judnick in the solitary confinement building where they were found seine time later by guards who were forced to cut through doors to reach them. Dictaphone Corporation Buys Phonograph Plant. Bridgeport, For $200,000 The Dictaphone corporation through Alford V. Bodine. Vice-pre- sident and general manager. yester- day came to an agreement with the American Canadian Properties cor- poration representative. Theodore H. Board. to purchase the plant of the Columbia Phonograph company at Howard avenue and Cherry street. Bridgeport. Deeds have not yet passed in the transaction. which is said to involve about 8200.000. but will be filed within the next few days. Up to yesterday's agreement. the Dictaphone corporation has occupied the plant on a lease ads in the early part of 1923. Since the time of co- cupation the business has grown tremendously. and at the present time the plant is running both night and day so that the officials found it necessary to assure the company of ownership. Parts of the buildings are being leased by the Lorraine Novelty company and the Warner Brothers company but these will not be disturbed under the new owner- ship. Chicken Dinner Enjoyed At, Ministerial Meeting The wives of the members of the Norwalk Ministerial association at- tended the meeting of the associa- tion Tuesday noon at the Knight street A. M. E. church and enjoyed a most delicious chicken dinner. served by the ladies of the church. Plans were made for the annual outing of the association to be held in June. This will take the place of the June meeting of tho associap tion. Rev. Andrew F. Chamberlain. pre- sident of the association has been transferred to New Haven. and Dr. societion presided. Several new mom- ' here were welcomed to the associa- tion. Acting for the wives of the clergymen. Mrs. Charles S. Gray thanked the l dies of the church for the delicious inner. _ Those present were Rev. and Mrs. Frederick H. Jacobs. Rev. and Mrs. Robert B. B. Footc. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Piper. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mearl Culver. Rev. W.‘I. Bow- man and daughter. Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Gray. Rev. and Mrs. Nor- man Hall. of Westport. Rev. Mr. Hancock of Darlen. Rev. Alexander Hamilton. Rev. Charles A. Marks. ltev. and Mrs. Victor Scallse.‘ Rev. Hugh Shields of Ridgefield. Rev. W. Henry LeMar. Rev. and Mrs. Ken- neth Mackenzie and Rev. Dr. C. B. Strayer. . Sinclair Lewis Belem if ' $1,000 Pulitzer Prize NEW YORK—5A?) Sinclair Lewis yesterday rcfused_to accept the $1.000 Pulitzer prize for his noyel O'Arrowsmlth." Asserting that all prises. like all titles are dangerous and—that the Pulltner prise is “peculiarly objec- tionable." he wrote the award com- mittee that he considered by such awards "every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe. polite. obedient and sterile." He wrote that althpugh it was generally believed the prise was giv. en to the novel of greatest liter. .ary merit. the terms of the award actually called for selections of the “best presenting the whole- soane atmosphere of American life. and the highest standard of Albert. \EASff NORWALig ‘ cool billion BEING. MADE it man SQUARE District Meeting To Act Upon Calf Pasture Beach Lights Will Be This Eve- ning. A number of Liberty Square mer- chants and residents and members of the Giants baseball team have been at work on tho ptk site in Liberty Square and have made a fairly good ball diamond. it is hoped that this will be improved by the street department which has been requested to scrape it OH. I 0 0 District Meeting Tonight. The placing of electric lights at Calf Pasture Beach Park, one of the most important matters to come before a district meeting in some time, will be taken up at tonight's meeting in Community hall. The meeting has been called by the dis- trict commissioners to learn whether the third district desires to go to the expense of installing lights at the beach. lialf of the expense will be paid by the district and the re- mainder by the Southern New Eng- land Telephone company. This is one of the necessary. improvements that must be made at the beach in the mar future. alone there has been great need for a. telephone there. 0 0 O . Mrs. Katherine Hays, East avenue. was a. recent visitor at the home of her sister in Cos Cob. O O 0 Mrs. John Bogardus. 2 Fort Point street, has recovered from a recent illness. 0 l C Attorney and Mrs. Leo Davis of Rowan street. who are touring Europe. are expected to arrive home about May 25. I . Claude Farr is making improve- ments to the sidewalk loading to his home in Winfield street. I U 0 Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Restivo have moved from Fort Point street to Bridge street. 0 James I‘ioulas of Winsted was a visitor at the home of M. D. Marley, East avenue. yesterday. 0 I 0 Charles Wicks, Fort Point street. ;hns purchased a Dodge automobile. Bobby Wicke. Fort Point street. had his tonsils removed at the Nor- walk hospiiai Tuesday. O O O irving Hubbell of Osborn avenue has purchased a Ford automobile. O O O Otto Stern. Rowan street. is re- pairing the chimney on his home. 0 I 0 Thomas Stern. the president of the Union Cereal company. was in day. s a d The condition of. John Barhyto of Winfield street who had one of his toes amputated at the Norwalk Hos- Piper. the vice president of the as- ' pital. Monday. remains about the some. it is expected he will return . home next week. Social and—Business Meeting of East Ave. M. E. Church Friday The Friendship bible class social and business meeting of the East Avenue Methodist Episcopal church will be on Friday evening at the home of James lianford. 4 Goodrow street. A large attendance is desired. Next Sunday will be Mothers’ Day. with special sermons and a special service in the morning for Mothers with distribution of flow- ers. There will be infant baptism. Sunday evening, May 16. Ruth Manchester of the \Voman's College in Lucknow India. will speak.‘ Wednesday evening. May 12. an entertainment will be given at the church. under auspices of the church school. Interesting pictures will be shown. and Mrs. Frances llowlett Wright of New Yorkie ex- pected to speak on "The you that is within you." Everybody is invited. especially young poopie‘and child- ren with their parents. A voluntary offering will be asked for. The offering for the Norwalk hospital will be received' Sunday morning. May 10. ‘ A committee has been appointed by the official board to obtain esti— mates for a garage on the parsouage property. The comrlttee men are: E. E. Gerham. Dr. R. E. Morgan. and C. D. Hodgemsn [Deaths and 5 Funerals] MING 3‘me was held this morning at 9 o'clock from the late home. 12 Snowden Avenue. Interment was in St. Mary's cemetery. Charles We ‘ Charles Camaie. two and one half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Camale. passed away yesterday afternoon at his home._ 20 Lexington avenue. Funeral services were held this morning at 9:80 from the home. 29' Lexington avenue. Interment was in St. Mary's cemetery. . ' Martha E. Finch. Mrs. Martha E. Finch died this morning of apoplexy at the.Norwalii Hospital. aged 73 years. She is sur- vived by two state Mrs. Catherine Routes and Miss C Wheeler. _ i. The funeral will be strictly private and will take place Saturday after- noon at 2 o'clock. from the home of her brother-ln-iaw. Aaron Mai-tinesn, 128 Woodwind avenue. Rev. Liter 'r. Halters. pastor oi’tne sooth Sore wait; baptist church. will energies. mtmmhmtneonuectieowm .s. g. sesame who save seller. . I .’ r .t 3‘ "‘ oh - erw"‘ t”. ‘ . ”m mum‘s! “1 [ill “NM"! On several occa- > WJZ. NEW TORI—uh P. M. . , 7:00—Vanderbilt Oivtostra. two—Judge. Jr. ‘l:ib-—Markcl's Orchestra. ado—Record Boys. 8:80—Volco of the silent drama. “Sweet Daddies." moo—Royal Orchestra. _ 10:00—National Institute of Social Science annual dinner; W. C. Itedilcld. Clarence H. Mackey. S. P. (Judaism. llzoo—li‘reddie Rich's Orchestra. “'EAI", NEW YORK—4’2 P. M. MOO—Dinner music. 7:00—Midwoek hymn sing.‘ 7:30—l)anco music. 8:00—"Good Books." Thomas Mas- son. SHE—“Hires Harvesters." 0:00—“Ciicquot Club Eskimos." 10:00-Silvertown Orchestra. il-lu—Yincent Lopes’s Orchestra. “THIS, IN E\\' YORK—3M P. M. 0:00—15nele Geebee, . mac-George Hall's Arcadisns. 7:00—"What the World is Doing." THO—Camp songs. Y. M. C. A. Glee Club and Quartet. 7:30-Sevlile Concert Orchestra. 8:00—Ernest 'l'uck. "India in Tran- sition." ‘ 8:10-—Chcsleigh and Swenson. ban- jo duets with songs. kilo—Oliver Saylor, "Footlight and Lamplight." moo-American Women‘s Quartet. 9:80-Old illne minstrels. 10:30—May lirecn and Peter do ltose. songs and ducts. “TINY. NEW YORK—£58 P. M. moo—Philosophy. Jessie Springer. 7:00—Sports. commerce. ”:is—Radio theater index. :0-F‘rank Gaborini. accordion. 30—horoy Montesanto. songs. ‘iB—Ben Bernie's Orchestra. azll’w-delo questions and uneven. 8:30—Rock Ferris' organ recital. 9:00—"Chemistry and Agriculture. one—Virginia Coium ti's Hour. mill—Jane 'l‘uttle. co ralto. . 10:00—Volga Trio—Around the World in Music. 10:30~Win L'ngcr‘s Entertainers. WEN. NEW YORK—‘30! P. M. 6:30—1larry lFroniiierg. Youth in America." 6:36~Cnntor Israel Gottlieb. (nib—Bradley Lane. tenor. Two—Vincent Lopez's Iceland Or- cheetra. 7:30—Henlth talk. Dr, Percival. 7:40—1toy Raifsnlder. barytone. s:00—.Will Oakland's Chateau. 8:30—Dance orchestra. 9:00-Halsey Mohr. tenor. 7 . I ,. i "Jewish New York city on business ycetcr-l 10:80—Leroy Smith's Orchestra. . ll:00-Joe Ward's Entertainers. 1 11:30——Everglades Orchestra. The funeral of Marie Mugavero jraightwtrains which sees throfigh into—Frances Spar. contralto. t'230—Loew‘u Street Orchestra. 12 midnight~Sophie Tucker‘s Play— ground. “Z'flOA. N EW YORK—3 it P. M. 0:00—-Olcolt \‘nil's String Ensem- lJlt'. 6:30—Musical program. 7:00—Jack Denny's Orchestra. moo—Nathan Straus. Serenadcrs. limo—Columbia Entertainers. l0:00-—Tango Palace Orchestra. lO:30-—-California amblcrs. ll:00->Ernie (301 Ne Orchestra. crimson—s ‘ “ ' om so 7:30~chin's Serenadlng Shoe- makcrs. l s : Oil—Pace program. \i a : SO—Triu. ' 9:80—Aready Dubensky. \iolinlst. mill—Leo F. H. Bel-unique. bary- tone. 10:00—“llooks.” Walter Gsvlgan. tons—German songs, Frieda Pet- ers. mum—Organ recital, Leo Cannon. WOKO, NEW YORK—2138. P. M. Emil-Grace Smith .songster. 8:15—l-Jmidio De Fablis. violinist. mils—Jack McAillster. ukulele. 8:50—Ttose Goneher. pianist. 0:00-—1\lme. Cecelia ’l’tiiero. prune. 0:20—l-ioward Sisters, vocal duets. 0:85—-Emiie Fanning, tenor. 10:00—Yanity Club Orchestra. “'0“. NEWARK—105. SO- P. M. 0:15-81“ Wathey, “Sports.” kilo-Jacques Jacobs' Ensemble. . 7:20~.\'ewa bulletin. L “r RWALR, CONN. . ball all the way from Wichita; Kan. . to New York City—2000 miles-in 60 days. He figures he can average 30 miles a day. It sounds foolish—— but then, he has been offered :10,- 000 to use a certain brand of clubs. Mike Gordon plans to putt a golf ' ‘ an Inc-.,!.t-_.Povulposzen m... m_-_~_ ——-.. SEE OUR LARGE ASSORTMENT “of“... Florence Oil Ranges , f B. M. BETTS ll Wall St. Phone 7-12 Norwalk FLORE 43-65 N0. MAIN ST. A. comm. use or NCE OIL” STOVES STERLING EFURNITURE COMPANY "'ONE 105 . SO. NORWALK . Grid-Top Model K This new model. now sold is addltlcn to the regular Fier- once. has an extra-roomy top. with alivover grid. You can use every inch of the space— for quick cookin directly over the lumen, or llmmCi‘ lng overthr cartriron lids, and ior leepi food warm near the back 0 the stove. Notice i‘hewideshcli'abovetliestovn. The single Giant burner tin. der the oven does all types of baking efficiently and with great economy. 13:00—Bnudwny Night. \VDNY. NEW YORK—lilo P. . . LOO—Trio. moo—Colonial Orchestra. 8:30—Vinccnt Moore. Harry Gray. songs. sub—Colonial Club Orchestra. 9:00—Milton Yokeman. tenor. 9 2 l lie—Orchestra. 9:46—Milton Yokeman. Reynolds. Bob . songs. 10:30-0rchostra. WNIC. NEW YORK—526. P. M. 6::0-—Piuno selections. mam—Lecture by Professor Lorelle Branden. Lewis Mott. moo—Market high spots. i :oo—Piano selections. . zit—"Keeping Fit." Joe Rudy. l :30—Police alarms. = has—Resume of meeting of the- Board of Estimate. 8:00—Basebell results. time-Entertainment of Department of Plant and Structures: Ad- dress by Msyor Walker, Al- bert Goldman: Vincent Lo- pez's Orchestra; Evan Dav- ies. impersonator: the Three Reilly's: the Pauiist Cboris- ters. other interesting fea- tures. ' tout-Police alarms: weather. WLWD, NEW YORK—208. P. M. lzxo—McEnery‘s Entertainers. 9:00—-Question box. -: .1 .i Masks lieu-miners. GENEVA. Switzerland, -- Gas masks are being givenby the Swiss federal. railwayto engineers. their assistants and guards employed in the Grand~Moutier tunneh. Therein nhich poisonedair'in the tunnel. Row Movie Ticker. cmCAGO.—3roi blunge‘ be are using a new movie inner. A strong iidlt ‘proiects the on the tape toamirror.whlch ectsittoa ‘ Wflmsrn by. What you‘save with ‘ FOCUSEDHEAT THE intense heat of the Florence Oil Range is directed to one spot—the bottom «of. the ‘ pot. It isfocuied there by the specially con- Structed Florence burners. ' As the heat goes into the cooking instead of , out into the room,-you save time in setting meals and you save fuel. Not to speak of the. discomfort you avoid'w-ith a cooler kitchen. Seep into the store and observe for yourself TLOR'ENCE ‘STOVE COMPANY Nev York on... 45 21::de Sr. Phone: Stuyvesant 31% how efficient and .how simple is this scientific principle 'of Focused Heat. Notice also that the Florence has no wicks to trim. And pay special attention to the famous Florence Portable Oven that prac- tically insures perfect baking. “A. Flume Burn" with out» 'srlrei rut may to rhea low flow 1.! F0 USED en fin cooking rem]. Notice that th m i‘: no wick, for flu Florence o not“ an ill: maxi od- roimd principle 0 cambartian ragi'um'n that» its mporfrom known with bone air. if: amt: comp/(fr tombum'an and :12er heat. C \ Florence Water Heater for plenty of hot water Y" if t .v . . .. .3... . .. BU.“ ‘3'; .1 .I.. u _. 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