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EVENING SENTINEL
The Weather
Probably showers tonight and
Saturday. Not llllli'll change in tern.
peraturc. ‘Viodcraic southwest wind.
Entered as second-class matter at the post ofuce at
Sat Norwalk. Conn. under the Act of larch 8. it".
SOUTH N ORWALK, CONN .. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1926
SIXTEEN PAGES \
PRICE THREE CENTS
Complainants
VICTORYWEOR REV. In. B. EiAnnis
The Rev. R. E. Harris. against
whom several members of the Mt.
Zion congregation tried to secure an
inJunction. will remain as minister
in the little colored church. on
‘ ' Franklin street. as the result of a
depision made in the downtown city
.oourt this morning by Judge Free-
man Light. The church board of
trustees tried to oust the minister.
they declared this morning. when he
“had taken matters in his own
g: " and discharged them all.
n unctiou denied." the judge said.
Attorney A. D. Slavitt represented
the ousted trustees. and Attorney
Paul R. Connery appeared for the
minister and his staff. More than
to colored people came to hear the
testimony.
The board of trustees, including
-' William Hamilton. Joseph Gilbert.
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James Taylor, Henry Balden. Ernest
Norwood and James Diggs. suffered
I. "dirty deal." witnesses charged
this morning, when they were dis-
charged without notice three months
no.
In court this morning testimony
home in all ways and manners. The
trusted trustees. who Attorney Con-
ery said were "sore" pleaded to no
yaiipthat their rights be restored.
vbrsl of the witnesses were indig-
gant when the attorney for the de-
snse suggested that they had not
‘ opt up with their dues. On further
sulry it became known that the
null church members did not want
t e" money.
‘ Further evidence of "railroading"
disclosed when the elf-trustees
slid they could not get into a meet-
ing at the church three months ago,
hostile a policeman. stationed at
the door would not let them enter.
' 'In ‘makiug his decision. Judge
ght urged the. plit parishioners in
oils themse ves. and an
. they forget about factions.
Hamilton. Taylor. ~Balden. and
. Gilbert. the discharged members of
the board were the only ones to take
the stand. The main purpose of the
injunction, they said. was to secure
their reinstatement. The resignation
“of Rev. Harris would be "attended to
lstcr." —
The dnstailation of officers of
Court Narruk, Foresters of America
scheduled for last night at the rooms
on High st., was postponed because of
non-appearance of officials. The
storm was given as the reason
they did not attend. The sessoin
Mil be held in the near future
MORE
WORK BEGINS
“ON NEW CARACE
.. Work was started this morning by
connector William J. Lyons. on the
nonstruction of Norwaik‘s largest
which is being erected in the
yogi- of the Roodner block on North
Iain street. The building will be two
”stories. high. according to Samuel
oodner. proprietor. and will have
frontage of so feet on Marshall
and a depth of 1781M.
. The floor space of the garage will
be costumed by Edward O'Brien. who
now hasan automobile repair station
Hi Ann street. The upper floor of the
willbeusedasastoreroom
“the Sterling Furniture company.
w T. PAIN!”
. CONDITION SERIOUS
Dr. George D. Fawcett pronounc-
as extremely serious the condi.
. of Imae T. Payne. 1:0 Wash-
.. street who has not regained
. ess from a stroke Monday
.. - following a long illness of
.fl
.iu
._ ' -. gun Little hope is held out
' his recovery-
i---tes to one's feeling of oath-
and happiness. if you used
furniture. Hill. draperies or
1... for the homegeto the
J. Collins Company." There you'll
the newest styles at tbs lowest
‘ . and they will arrange the
. « to-suit your lacuna—Adv;
" seasons "
SOMERVILLE, N.
J.. (AP).—All
itnesses in the Hall-
lilills death inv ligation have been
summoned by Special Prosecutor
Simpson for tociay's hearing of the
evidence on which Willie Stevens
and Henry Carpbndcr of New Bruns-
wick were arrested last night. and
charged with th‘ murder four years
ago of the luv. Edward Wheeler
Hull and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
Stevens is a Irrother and Carpen-
der. a cousin of the widow who was
arrested two weeks ago and released
in $15,000 ail ln similar charges.
Best pre lctions were that this at-
ternoon would see the hearing post-
poned until no t Week. The action
of Sim n w taken. however. as
principal state
way without del
tended to make
llc.
an indication inf it would get under ‘7
headquarters in Somervilie.
asked if they
declined.
and were com
hearing as so
expected sevcrll witnesses will be.
heard.
Simpson yestei afternoon. fol-
lowing an unexpco
erville and s. ci nfersnce with Major
Kimberling an Inspector John Un-
derwood of the Jersey City police.
that We warrants charging murder
had been issulLd against two men.
brought back to the revived Hali-
Mills case the‘element of dramatic
surprise which as been lacking sev-
eral days. ,.
Senator Simbson. in making his
announcement,‘ would not give any
hint of the idel tiflcation of the two
men to be ar ted. The arrival of
want Stevens at state police head-
quarters in custody of state troopers
soon after 7 o’clock was the first
Confirmation of the information
concerning the} identification of the
men for whom the state troopers
had set out fol r hours before.
The arrival Inf Carpender several
minutes after that of Willie gave
rise to the impression that Carpen-
der had motored over from New
Brunswick alone and voluntarily
surrendered himself. This was cor-
rected later by Inspector Under-
wood. who sail: Carpender had been
taken into ous ody at the same time
as‘Wil'lle, around 6 oclock.
SANITARIU
ul PATIENT
S AFTER ABSENCE
The ”quills” patient of Dr. ,D.
W. McF‘arian 's‘prlvate sanitarium
in Greens Fauna. who disappeared
from the premises Wednesday
morning was: found shortly after
noon. a short . istance from the sail-
itarium. H, l d wandered on on
a. walk and unable to find his
‘ way back.
Armored o nibuses for Yankee
tourists migit prove popular in
Paris. At worst they can try
tanks.-—Sp eld Republican.
ay and that he in- .,
ll his evidence pub- ;
While they vlcre at. state police _
both ’
Carpender and Willie Stevens. were .5
esired to make any
statement. but on ddvlce of counsel. .:
Afte being finger-printed 3
they had a pre iminnry hearing be- f
fore County In go Frank L. Clear-y)“
itted without bail to; ‘
the Somerset County jail for further '
hearing at 2 o‘clock this afternoon a
in the Somerset} CcuutVCO' house. ‘
The announpsgnoilt by Senator:
visit to cho ' =
NOW BELlEVE
PADHLA TO BE
Tip Received By Police
That Clementi’s Slayer
Has Not Left Norwalk Is
Being Followed.
Another search of the Springwood
section was made for Antonio Pa-
dula slayer_of Genaro Clemonti, by
the local police yesterday. following
a tip to the eflfcct that the killer
was in hiding thcrc.
Detective-Sergeant Martin Leng~
yel was in that section the greater
part of yesterday and several hours
last evening. He went to the home
of Padula‘s parents in Laura street
and questioned them at length re-
gardlng the whereabouts of the
slayer. Then denied they had been
in communication with him since
the murder and said they were
greatly distressed over the fact that
they had not heard from him. as
It’s Up to Him
IN SPRINCWOOD'
.I‘ the superstitions known to than.
Better Heed the Black (‘at’s Warning Today
tors or spill any salt.
Watch your stcpl This is Frldhy the 11111.. it day of ill omen by all
And this black out, an emblem of bad
1 luck himself. is holding up his new to warn you not to walk under lad-
. ders. look at the moon (if our) over your left shoulder, break any Inig-
lf you do y‘ou’ll wish you hadn’t.
theywcre afraid that he may hays
been injured in‘the light with Clem-
enti. They also stated that he was
without fluids.
Chief of Police William R. Pen-
nington assigned l’oltbemun' Lengyel
who will take the office 6! detective-
eergcant on September 1. to the
case yesterday. He will not return
to motorcycle duty again until he
has completed his investigation of
the case.
A well-known itallah resident of
the Springwo‘od section stated yes-
terday that he had every reason to
believe that Padula was in the
Springwood section and that he was
being watched over by his friends.
who are waiting for the case to
quiet down when they plan on tak-
ing him out of the city under cover
of dark.
Padula‘s parents stated yesterday
\hat he did not return to their home
after the killing. He was last seen
running through Austin street and
out into Ely avenue. The trail of
the slayer ends there. No one has
yet come forward‘ who saw the man
after he ran out intoniy avenue. It
has been suggested that he may
hays runlover the railroad {packs
and boarded a freight train or that
he may have been picked up in an
automobile by' friends and rushed
out of the city. Another suggestidn
is that the man may have entered
the woods off Ely avenue and may
still be in hiding there.
Three hundred deaf mutes sang
"The Star Spangled Banner" with
their hands. They had no trouble
reaching the high noises—Toledo
Blade.
Offi ials F or Sunday
Afte 0011’ s
Gi on For.
Water Meet
Life Guards
BILLY l'QUEAL, EX-Y'ALE COACH. STABTEE
The oillela ‘ for the water meet of
the Calf ~ . me'a Guards. spon-
soredbythe I: enisgSsntinehtobs
hold at out l 1: sunesr
afternoon. ha been or on.
cer-softheAi Alfiwilibepressnt
and all moi established will be
ediclal
.Billy - . . former coach at Yale
university he the and
-~ of New no will
be the . The sttbb
1 be a. an. canals-
' Gillette.
an
an .
Chairman of It s a t--LeRoy D.
Downs.~
Referee—E. L. sunning.
‘Stsrteh-niilrfluasl. .
curs or course—u: a. Longer.
Announcement-lbs Lindeberg.
Judges at. liable-liar” Gillette.
berg sod ulshael Candlewick.
mesa-women P. lfilligsn.
MSW marl. MW?" Nichols
”WM »
Two unusual weddings. will take
place Monday at St. Mary's church
at 9 o’clock. when two double cous-
lns are married. They are Miss
Mahouey. daughter of Mrs George
Mailer of Harbor avenue. who will
marry John J. McGarric. son of Mrs.
John McGarrie. Center avenue. and
Miss Alice‘hfahoncy. daughter of
Mrs. Margaret Mnhoney of Issues
street; who will become the bride
of Charles Conner of Bridgeport.
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The brides-to~be and their prospec-
tive husbands will be esch' others’
attendants. Following the ceremony.
there will be receptions at. the homes.
of both of the brides for relatives
and a few intimate friends. A great
number of invitations have been is-
sued for the weddings. Both of the
young women are very popular in
looal circles. and have been the re-
cipients of many showers during the
month
STOCKS DROP
AS DISCOUNT
RATE GOES UP
NEW YORK. (AP) .—A sharp re-
action in stock priced was Wall
street‘s' response to the unexpected
increase in the New York federal re-
serve bank discount rate. lnitisl
losses in most of the active issues
raised from one to five points and
before the end of the first hour
about I. score of stocks were selling
three to ten points below yester-
day's final quotation. ‘
In the severe collapse in prices
of some of the speculative favorites.
General Meters went dEwn to 196
8- 4 and Dupont to 287. Short cov-
ering and scale’ buying caused a
gradual up~tumv before i told day.
Mon To. Entertain
Dsnbury Friends
The Norwplk force of the». John
Hancock Nutusl Life Insurance
company will suientahi the nbury
oilice force of the same com y to-
morrow at Elvin Rock. The Nor-
walkers will be forced to treat their
bat city brethren to whatever they
desire. be it dinner or amusements.
due to the fact that the local odice
force lost a hot contest recently
completed. .
‘ The contest lasted from the first
of the yvr until June so and both
omens tried hard for new business.
Themedhtest was so close'thst the
Norwalk cihce demanded a. recount
of the ntw policies written during
the slavmonths- The first count
showed that the Danbury silica had
won by one policy but when the re-
count was made. it showed that the
hat dty force had won by two polp
icles.
As a result of the outcome both
0.00. will close tomorrow and the
men will travel to Savin Rock to
“13$“!
'06“
some» :YHAS
SECRETS FROM
CHIEF MAYBE
"I don' t know anything about ap-
pointing three members of the po-
llce folce to a detective bureau."
was- stated in the Norwalk Hour.
last evening. Chief_Wlll_isln R, Pen-
nington stated this morning. ~
"We haven' t enough patrolman to
cover the city properly at the pre-
sent time and I dent know how
we can take three patrolman off
their regular beats and put them on
detective world Of course if Detec-
tlvo Sergeant Lengyel needs- assist.
ance on any case We will always as-
slgnLrnen to him for that- particular
case. If there is going to be such a
bureau his all news to me.
MartinLengypl will, take over the
duties of Detective Sement on Sep-
tember 1. No provision has been
made for. the establishment of
a detective bureau. City oncisls
stated this morning that they
thought the detective‘sergesrit could
take earn of the work in that de-
rartm'eut fol- the present and that as
the force was increased. assistance
cculdébe given blip.
PARIS DIVORCE
m-
NEW YORK. \(Al’i Chprles 0.
Fisher. who“ wile obtbliiedka di—
verbs in real today is a wealth!
sportsman and real estate mm
of Florida and Long island. He built
lndianspeiis‘speedway. and owns a
stable of pole posiebat Long
Island. lie militia.
Miami beach. stories. which was
hol-
in ”It. ”we
BLACK CLOUDS
BREAK [no
SNAPPY STORM
Lights In South Norwalk
Dimmed When Power
Plant At Devon Is Hit
By Bolt.
gale of wind and a heavily
clo ed sky swept in on Norwalk
and environs yesterday afternoon.
bringing with them darkness and
rain.
At ‘, o'clock lightning flashes
had complete sway of everything
and were doubly conspicuous against
the black heavens. Supper hour
crowds throngcd in trolley cars and
store fronts to let the storm blow
away. but it didnt hurry at all.
Marvin Barn Ruined.
The storm continued with but
slight iniermissions through the
night. bringing its toll of complete
destruction of the Marvin barn in
East Not-walk and several other
slight damages. Miss Laura M. Com-
stock. official wcuilicr observer for
the Not-walks. reported this morning
ha i and ”[100 inches of rain fell
during firestorm. which lasted from
4 o'clock yesterday to 6 o‘clock this
morning.
The steady rainfall during the
night made yesterday's one of the
heaviest storms in the past few
years.
Devon Plant llit.
When lightning struck the power
plant of the Connecticut Light and
Power company in Devon yesterday
Norwalk suffered spells of dark-
ness. The trouble continued during
the afternoon causing short breaks
in the lighting.
Officials of the South Norwnik cl-
ccirio works said this morning that
the extinguishing of the lights was
not caused by any trouble locally
but by the wires which were siiuck
supply plant in Devon. Wires
‘ . e
him“ We upper end of Couch street
At St. Mary’s Monday
were bowed out, and workmen fin-
ished repairs there this morning.
W..—
FORTONES FOR
CONN. OWNERS
OF C N. SIOCK
Connecticut stockholders of the
General Motors Corporation benefit
through the action of the directors
yesterday in voting the stock divi—
dends of 50 per cent. as well as the
regular quarterly dividend. DeWitt
Page of Bristol. vice-president and
director 'of the General Motors. who
is also president of the New Depart-
ure Manufacturing Company at Bris-
tol. a subsidiary company of General
Motors, ventured an estimate that
300,000 shares of the stock are held
in Connecticut. He had no figures on
the distribution of shares by states.
In venturing his "guess." he com-
mented that he know one Connecti-
cut stockholder who had 30.000
shares.
By action of the directors there
will be 50.000 additional shares com-
ing to Connecticut stockholders of
rocordpon August 21 if the 100.000
shares estimate of present holdings
is correct.
When the stock goes ell-dividend
it will sell down. taking the dividend
into consideration, but if the addi-
tional stock to be issued to stock-
holders is retained and it climbs
back to yesterday's closing price in
.oxcess of 3300 a share a wealth of
over “0.000.000 will have been ac-
quired; The holder of the 30,000
shares ,wiil‘then have an added
wealth of 33,000,000.
New York] Pedestrians' associa-
tion functions about the same
strength as the Bartenders' Union of
America-worlds TimerUnion.
30 Tons Of
OVER .
WIRE
Galilee Postponed
PHILADELPHIA (Am—New
York-Philadelphia game is post-
poned. Wct grounds.
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Pl'l‘TSBl'liGll, Pa. (AP)—In—
ability of the l’itisburg Nationals to
reach l~‘orl)es Field on time despite
the catching of a special train
caused postponement of today's
game “'llh Chicago. The Pirates
were held up by the storm in New
York on their way home from New
Haven.
KILLER MEETS
DEATH ON ROPE
BALTlMORE. Aug. lit—Richard
lit-cs0 Whittcmore was hanged in
the Maryland Penitentiary here at
midnight for the murder of a pri-
son guard.
MARYLAND PENITENTIARY.
Baltimore. (AP).-'l‘wo hours before
Richard Iiecse Whittemore was
scheduled to hang for the murder of
a Maryland penitentiary guard.
crowds were promenadlng the streets
on all sides of the prison reservation.
A police detail kept the'sidewaiks
clear on tho penitentiary side of the
surrounding streets. No one except
oiliclals, witnesses and newspaper-
nicn were allowed to approach the
prison entrance. The crowds were
orderly. and contained a large num-
ber of women.
BOSTON-ALBANY
TRAIN “HELD UP”
NORTH BROOKFIELD. Mass.
(AP)——A lone individual, pistol in
hand. standing on the tracks at
East Brooktield crossing. held up a
Boston and Albany fast train todu.
and threw a scare into the passes-
gers when he boarded the train. and
passed through each car scanning
every occupant. The frightened pas-
sengers were relieved when the man
departed without demanding them
to stick up their hands. It was Chief
of Police Steven Quill. who was
searching for a man wanted on a
charge of neglect to.support. -
Dye Vets In Pompeii»
ROME—The remains of a Roman
dyer's shop. with vats. utensils and
ovens. is one of the features of the
ruins of Pompeii. All dyes were pro-
duced from vegetable substances un-
til 1856 when Perkin discovered how
to procure beautiful fast dyes from
coal tar products.
Edgar Farrell And
Davnd Livingston,
Upheld Local HOnor
WIN THEEE LEGGED RACE AT OUTING
Nerwalk trollaymen are not very
great athletes. and the employ‘ of
the Connecticut company are rum.
atingwithmanyasadshste oftho
bead today upon the unfertunats
source of waterand field sportsanda
“has-mi game staged yesterday at
Halloween park. Stamford. when the
census held its third annual of.-
lag m about 100 attending
sum of all the sportsNorwsla
inbut one. That wasthe
baseball team that: took a drubbing
from Bridgeport’s team. Most of
the laursls foi- 'ths ip‘oris went to
BPWrt's strolleymen.
The baseball game was dis-
tinguished by the stellar showing of
Arthur Smith of Norwalk. He made
one of the prettiest hits of the game
but did not score. stating modestly
matter-ward that' he‘ thought it was
M to round the bases thug
timstosoorearun. machine
hurry was he.. in .fsd. that—he and
another player of the same team
ms».- as third base. In the
arvin’szarn Razed By Lightning
New Hay
'Go Up In Smoke While
Crowd Hinders Firemen
Old Well Ladder Jammed In Traiiic By Curious Crowd
0f Motorists—Fuses Blown On Fire Whistle Pre-
vent General Alarm—Poor Water Pressure Ren-
ders Firemen Ineffective.
A freak blast of lightning that shook the whole section struck
a tree on the farm estate of J. Wallace Marvin of Pine Hill sve-
nue and then jumped to the side 01' an immense old barn close
by and started a tire that raged for four hours despite the ef-
forts of a large group of firemen and totally destroyed the '
The same blast of lightning blew the fuses at the Mayflower H is
and Ladder company and made sounding of the signal impossible-
Ncw Bay Lost v
The barn. 15 years old, had just
been filled with between 80 and 40.
tons of new-mown hay. which Mr.
Marvin described as the best crop in
wars. and the total amount of dam-
age was estimated this morning at
about 83. 500. partially covered by
lusuiancc.
At the time of the first call. a
siill alarm sent into the Mayflower
licadquartcrs, at 6:05 o‘clock. the
only paid iircman on duty was Frank
l'. Allen. Finding the whistle out
of order he manned the La France
truck helped by Frank Driscoll. a
volunteer and set out. later warning
the central station by telephone. 0n
the way to the fire the truck was
passed unseen by Mrs. Marvin. who
had given ihc call and then started
out in her automobile to spread the
alarm.
When the two firemen arrived on
the scene the tire had already reach-
ed a stage hard to control and a sec-
tion of the roof had fallen in. Flam-
es spread rapidly to the hay. which
was as dry as tinder. and smoke
(mm the tar paper on the roof fed
to the blaze threw such a volume
of smoke that operations were dim-
oult and sparks thrown up into the
air were carried down by wind as
far as Liberty square.
Fighting the sleep upgrade. the
two firemen laid 1.300 feet of hose
from the nearest plug, Joining in the
sic-culled Siamese connection with
the two spur lines. Deputy Fire
Chief Fred Wheeler. arriving on the
scene. took charge and was shortly .
niterward relieved by Fire Chief Bo.
gurdus at the time the Old Well
(Continued on Last Page.)
mu. 0N DAY
or BIG sum
BISSINGEN. Germany. (AP).
Gertrude Ederle's triumphant visit
to the home of her grandmother
here has been somewhat clouded by
news of the death of an aunt in the
United States on the day» of her
brilliant channel swim a week ago.
News of the death had been with-
held from her so as not to det ct
from the pleasure of recep one
which had been accorded both in
France and Germany.
KLUXERS WANT
TO MARCH ON
I u. s. TREASURY
WASHINGTON. (AP).——The Ku
Klux Klan would like to parade up
Pennsylvania. avenue. from the
peace monument at the front of the
Capitol hill to the treasury. A for-
mal request for a permit to march
September 13 has been received by
'thc superintendent of police.
Commissioner Rudolph said weeks .
ago Klan
him
representatives asked
informally
they could not do so.
~THE MAXIMUM OF HEAT
and the minimum of waste from
coal that comes from Alfred Brown's
coal yard. You know mighty well
that good coal will be needed a few
months from now to keep things
warm. even though youfre sweltering
now. Deliveries to suit your conven-
igce. Phone ”ILL—Adv.
THE DROP!!! LAUNDRY
' RESUMES OPERATIONS
Now quart-ed in its new home.
be of the most unitary laundrlss-
in the state. well equipped to handle
Your family washing work. carefully.
correctly and expeditiously. Work
called for and delivered. Corner
Day and Concord Sta Phone I“.-
Adv.
Treasurylessce
~'iIE ASKINGTON. AW is...”
about parading ’
while masked. and said he told them .
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