, was celebrated in very good fashion. .‘ l ‘ organisation has done much for the . girls of America in teaching them 3 young ladies. for they are all young . End 8. Lyon had to leave befon it ‘1 l- organisation. But he came back ~how." he murmured, shrugging hie m ltrlctions on channel swimmers. and '~; denied that one must either be the " I ll .boon start operations on a traf- teetanto could buy grSaeo for them- ‘2- ond were supposed to W": THEWEEK' mngn Iy Stencil Father and daughter day at tho Nerwaik Kiwanis club this week Daughters were then _la, round numbers and good form. and wheth- er not they woreaomebody also's daughters to not a lit question to be discussed. lilies Olede Schrottky. district gsfliniesionor cf the Girl locale of America. talked to the lil- etroning the fact that the how to build camp fires. She also gave statistics showing that slam ladies in the Girl Scouts, had learn- ed to tell the dlfloronce between I hord land a soft boiled egg. And that is doing something. The talk was so impneelve that Secretary 0 or. bunting lnte icon that be t a girl. and- could not Join t them. “I don't like eggs. ony- ohoulders, . O 0 0 Water Wings Captain Robert B. Miller, nation. signed Cross llf esaver ofllctal of ’Washlngton. D. 0.. proved himself very timely in addressing the audi- ence. He urged tho young ladies to learn how to swim, and suggested that they buy a pair of water wings and try tho English channel as a starter. "You can do it." he shout- ed." and “you should." He further ompbooloed that there are no ro- Jtuhter of a German butcher or (m mother of two children to enter the contest. He announced that he signal system for swimmers. but .. - and that he would not run a chain of service stations where con- solvos. And Just then President George ,_ es come back at him with:' our business would‘be”iu grossing. Bob." ‘I must admit you have me squelched." replied Miller. the veteran life saver. who was mint. . ’ e a e . Pranks And then the Kiwanis quartet. comprising Fred S. Lyon. 'Beldoll. Herbert 0. Pollard. alidEl— mes Craig got up an song the fol- lowing ditty to the tune of "What Can .I Say Door After You Say Whet'll I Do.” And this is what they send: ' ' Oh we believe in Norwolk. in Nor- wolk. in Norwaik Oh ,we believe in Nbrwolk. my city 'tie of thee. We're glad to welcome you Bob. oh you Bob. oh you Bob. ‘ We'reglsd to welcome you Bob end also idles Schrottky. CHORUS There's nothing like a. ‘ewlmmor. Now don't you like the dinner? We're glad to welcome you Bob. and also flies Schrottky. . Theyall song in different parts. sing arthird verse. but Fred Reldeil had torrun enough to ,a baseball meeting. at whi tho following officers were elected: President. Frederick O. Itiedell. Vice president. F. Riodoll. Secretory. Fred Rledoll. and Trees- urer. F. Charles Riodell. O C O Dusting Dialect But still in all then is no denying that there is latent talent among the boys- They have had opportunities to allow in tho past what- -th_ey could do. and they always come out on top. that is unless anybody also were above them. Not a few of the lil- wants members ebpoored in the lionkor Giotto musical comedy here afow years They danced and :sng and to“ Jokes and evernhing. The monitors of the cast eni'oyod the show very much. There washes, scene when Charles J. Prescott and m. and I M". ms (2. ' NI G SENTINEL The Weather since at iiil. SOUTH NORWALK, CON N., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, Fair tonight and Sunday. Little change in temperature. IIOIWAI." I ‘llll'l' iiIWIPAPln 1926 TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS FROM WEST ON WAY HERE With the end of the holidays. the flood of grapes for red and white wine that reaches the seat will strike Norwalk. From California eastward then- sands of freight care loaded with many varieties of grapes on speed- ing along the rails. and will con- tlnuo for the root of the month. carrying thousands of tone into the eastern cities for homemade wine that has found its niche of popularl- ty since prohibition. It is estimat- ed that Norweik will consume e.- 000 tons of grapes. either foreign or native. grown. Barman and Stelnberg. the largest local wholesale dealers. will import about 650 tons of California grapes. and about in tone of Michigan and New York state Concorde. The other thousands of.toni will come into the city through smaller deal- on or outside firms to add to a fair- ly large store grown right hero by residents. From California come the Muscat end Zinfandels. white and block re- spectively. in freight core carrying about 18 tons apiece to the local morkot. Grapes are packed in lugs or email box crates carrying it or so pounds of the fruit. urger quantities to the box are impo-iblo because the weight would crush the bottom grapes. ‘ locally the most popular sorts-of the 15 or so verlelloo- for wine-molt; ing in tlie Zinfandele. Prices this year will be about the some so last liuooata min on “P" Wi'no make 'KI metely III” ”A“ (Continued on Pine libel The annual convention of :the Slate Federation of Labor. will be held in Donoury. next-week‘from Tuesday until Friday Indications are that over 175 doi- egates from all cities in the state will be in attendance. Both William Green of Washington. D. 0.. pipel- dent of the National Federation of Inner, and Michael Green of New York city. president of the United Hatters of North Amorlca..ere _ex- pscted to attend and address the convention. The oeqiori‘s will be held in Odd Fellows“ hall. West street. and will begin Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock: The convention will probe‘bly last until Friday afternoon. Deolol A. German. president of the local union will preside and will then turn tile convention over to State Proddent Patrick F. O'Meore of New Haven. Prayers will be adored by the Rev. James .1. Kane “and the Rev. John ll. Days. and an address also will be made by a. mambo:- of the city “ment. Several entertainments are being plopped for the visiting del Aanolistiw‘iil be hold is the Green. Wednoedl-yv night. with ”new in musical entertainment. gem wl‘ll be held at "it * Enipm ’11 night. .An odditi snoring pic- torewill' b‘e' shown for the labor The olm_ my. board will meet in the Hotel Green next day mobster» 1r o'clock to this I! anyoeievancos and moduli». erbUne’h. If“ ‘-,v i WINE GRAPES Wasn’t- It A Great Day At Calf Pasture For Playground Kids? Golf Posture leech M: the m of muoillloctivltyd'onitl :or- rimsnt ootorde‘y. when com three p ygroun c or- wslk gore oonveyod there and their annual outing was bold. About 800 members of tho playgrounds participated in the day' I prom Boxing matches. water sports. fancy dancing. Charleston exhibi- lions. iioid clients and dinner all figured in the program which made the day one of the happiest the kiddies have colored, The members of the Marvin end Stole street playgrounds arrived at the beach shortly after 10 o'clock and started right in with their events. The Harris playground did not arrive until after ll when they ran off their own events end the other two playirOunds looked on. Giow‘nupoWero There Not only were there a number of other children at the beach to view the entertainment but there were a many adults present who on- Joysd themselves so much as the kiddies. ’ ”The swimming events were the fint to be .run. oil. then all kiddies desired to their instructors for tickets which enabled them to get two lolly pops, a dish full of cakes and a “great big" dish full of ice cream. There was plenty of ice cream and every one had enough. Cakes and candles were also plenti- ful Many of the events wars novelty onee end drew much laughter from the large audience. The boxing matches in particular were very in- teresting end many future "Demp- seys. Tunnoys." etc. were soon. Even the little ones put on the gloves end loomed the art of self defense. The girls presented many fancy dances which their instructors of their various playgrounds taught them and they' drew much applause from the crowds. The girls of the Harris playground not only gave several dances but also staged a sketch which was written by idles (Continued on Page Eleven. . De‘llette. school. will: more to New Canaan People residing on grow! or dirt «annoyed due a... Mrs. .3l many vices-cud co'ntblo'into were made toiihe stroeir depattniont: tend ~ro- quests mode that smoothing be done to lay the dust. (appnpriotl one and road conditions have been such as to mm the. expenditure of all avails. sbloiuado ‘for reed repairs. hence for W atelier part of themummor .it appeared as if nothing could be done to relive this nuisance. For. atom however. the problem for limb: was solved in a moot un- expected way o'lid’ ".800 gels. of oil were applied to the city streets to lay tho‘dllst without expense to the city. ‘ About six weeks ago Councilman John F. Mills had occasion to tron- soct some business at the offices of the Standard Oil Co. on Wilson Ave.. and in a conversation with Ellsworth C. Lockwood of that Co. learned that the company bed a large quan- lily of ..oll and sediment in one of their tanks which it wished to drain off. but the problem of disposing of this oil was quite bothersome. To drain .ltlinto.tbo soupQweuld prob- ably. affect n.numbor of bathing beaches andbyeter beds. and this the officials of the campany did not went 0 do. Treatment of the wastes to re. cover the oil would be prohibitive in chat. Previous attempts to spray mo- torialofthleoortontbestnetsto is! dust resul practically in fail- ure due to olo ng of pump strain- ers and nestles. In ills conversation with Council- nion little. as. Lockwood offered to donate the oil to the city gratis if some practical method could be flows-c to spray it on the streets. Sir. Ililio got in touch with the street department and soon afterwards all partlovopnc‘erned were busy trying to devise moons of killing two birds with one atone. namely disposing of the oil and laying the dust. Mr. C. s. Hoochelg‘ingcharge of. the road Standard Oil Comp anpy H61 A 01W, Solve Dust. 0n Streets gratis u the spraying could be see. awfully our on. At a come thatbetwo'en Sire Department and Slender-d Oil Co. officials. it was decided to experiment with a. dis- tributing truck to see if the oil. which contained. considerable sedi- ment. could be successfully sprayed. Aroservs supply of-pump stralnon wescorriod on the truck. so that when one became‘ologgod. it would beremoved and a clean one install- ed. Also the distributing piping was changed and small Tee fittings sub- stituted for the refular spraying ponies. The experiment was made on Keelor avenue and proved suc- cessful‘from the very start. Spraying of the streets was then continued the total amount of oil applied be- ing 88.800 gels. The oil proved to be practically the equal of the non. oephaitlo oil usually used to lay the dust and which would ordinarily cost the city 11c per gallon applied. The oil donated and applied by the com- pony therefore represented a suing of almost 810.000.00 to the city. Mr. Demon sold this morning that he had sent lotion of appreciation to the Standard Oil company offic- ials hero. Councilman John F. Mills, 0. 8. Rachel. and Ellsworth 0. Lock- wood received notice of the depart- ment's appreciation. Housebreaker Stools 350 From Home Of A. Kuhn During Night Aaron Kohn. Boliroad avenue automobile acceuory dealer. report- ed to the downtown police last night that someone had entered his store last night» between mo and 7 o’clock. end had stolen a pocketbook containing 060. belonging to his wife. The' thieves bad evidently gained entrance with a skeleton key. as oil dept. of thejt'snderd on com- pony offend to sort: the limit I" "Love meeletteheadmosterottho pnooneoothathis ae‘dopenite'rail" term September “Matte School Will To New Canaan there were no signs of breaking in. Police are inioetigotlng. are on Boat avenue. has forced the no llottutoeoekelargorhome. and one Setter ognippod for the pur- pose of replied. The new place is , prastlcoliy ideal..eepoehiiy for a mmbmmubmiwitbsnzns advantages ofaciiybntafow min- Fertile beeentdthelocoldag null-whowenplsnhingto b thoooming Llano retoeetbe which” I ii i? E E? E r E i e l E 5 s E i i I’ 9. 2i :2 gl igi 'E ’ :‘n‘ if” viii; GIRIS TO TRY PECK’S LIGHT SWIM MONDAY ”me-I‘m Miss Elisabeth Taylor. of East Norwolk. and Miss Helen K. Sulli- van. of Milford. will attempt to swim around Peck's ledge light house at Calf Pasture Beach. Labor Day. This race will start at 1:30, previous to the Charlie Ott-L0uls Gardello race which starts at 3 o‘clock. Miss Taylor has already succeeded in - swimming around the light house having accomplished the feat last week. illlse Sullivan is lnstructrcso at the State street playground at New Haven Physical culture school and has won many medals in water meets. plated and the two swimmers will start promptly at 2. .The race is to lake piece regardless of the weather conditions. Both swimmers signed articles of agreement yesterday. The winner will be awarded a gold watch. The race will be held for the benefit of the Calf Pasture Life Guards who will take up a. collec- tion to go towards the building fund. The life guards will give a. life' saving exhibition after the race. LeROy 1). Downs. city editor of the Evening Sentinel. has been se- lected as the judge. TWO HOMES FORE-TRY BURGLARS Two houses”..- were broken into in broad daylight yesterday in the up- town eoction. ,and in one the thief was rewarded with a is gold piece. The lint call to the police come from Joseph Drabek. 18 Gerard street. who, reported that between 7 o'clock in the morning and 22.80 o'clock in the afternoon someone had gained access to his home through a cellar door and had en- tered the bedroom. taking a. 86 gold piece from a dresser. The second break was during the day at the home of Henry E. Werncke, vice president of the Dio- mond Battery corporation. The house, at 36 Prospect avenue. was ransacked. but its owner did not re- port ot the time the amount taken. Both cases are being investigated by Detective Sergeant Marlin Lengyel. Gamble Buys Waldron Garage To Enlarge Plant William .T. Gsmble.‘Weter street mlllwork dealer and contractor. yea- torday bought the Woldron garage. to liavlland street. at a price said to be around "0.000. The building. a brick garage. has a fifty feet frontage on Havliond street, and is zoo feet deep. It will be used by Mr. Gamble as an addition-to his business. Machinery. costing more than “0.000 has'slready been bought. end will be installed in the building within a few weeks. The Gamble holdings now com- prise three large new brick bulld- Tm An adjoining structure on Havi- land street. and a two story bulld- lna' on Wdtor street are used as storeheueee. With the .purehaeo of the .now property..the Gamble company now has the largest miilwork establish- ment in Southern New England. Norwaik. She is a graduate of the! Arrangements for the Charlie Ott- I Louis Gardens race have been com- I or J”! “ AKE” BERTI O NOTORIOUS CHARACTER IN NORWALII’ S UNDERWORLD KILLED WTIH OWN GUN AFT ER ALL DAY ARGUMENT WITH “ROCCO” Mulvoy Street Restaurant Map Caught By Police In Bushes Shortly Alter Tragedy— Tells Police Bertino Threatened Him Willi Violence It New Eating Place On Wood Street Was Opened. I Very Modest But He Gets Results l ARTHUR F. JU't'i‘EV Assistant Slgceti Commissioner We all hear a great many fine re. ports about Street Commissioner Joe Doman, but few of us are so well acquainted with his assistant. Arthur F. Juttcn. “.lut." as he is known among his fellow workers and friends. sports the title of assistant street commis- sioner. He was appointed by Street Commissioner Doman when Elmer F. Bracken resigned to become second district engineer. ' "Jul” is assisting Street Commis- sioner Damon. and street Fal‘omon Frank Lockwood and Jack Mc- Donald in putting Norwnik‘s streets in first class condition. This com- bination has been lending every of- tort toward making all the repairs possible with the equipment and funds that they have to work with. Arthur spends most of his time in the field with the men seeing that everything is being run off according to schedule. Joe and Art are an industrious pair and with these two gentlemen It the head of the city's highway de- partment Norwalk is bound to have better streets. Before coming to work for the city Mr. Jutten was assistant divi- sion engineer for the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad company and prior to that did con- siderable work in the subways of New York city. SALVATORE SAllMA CUT IN AUTO SMASH Salvadore Somme. Hover street. this city. was admitted to the Nor- wolk hospital last night with in- Juries received in an automobile ac- cident. He had deep lacerations on the head. and was treated by Dr. William .l,’ Tracey. He was driving in a car owned and operated by Samuel Brill. 469 Connecticut ave- nue. Bridgeport. 'lbny lame divested Constable James T. Witholi or. rested Patsy use. 10 Knapp street. last night. for operating an automo- bile without an operator's license and proper legion-anon. file case will come up in the Second district court laturday. September ll. low“. was isssi 1:: a?“ " new... m muslin-sue nose ‘ fiscally-er 37W.- l c z i Drop Some Silver In The Box For Near East Relief Today Don’t pose the girl with the blue forgotome-nots today_ with- out dropping oomethlng. even though it be a small sum. in the box. Norweik wan/ts to make this 'lhg Day for the benefit of the Near East. a big success. and all the pennies mount up. In s. few Teen. the work of the organisa- tiooiwilllo finished. but while the need for funds is still so ur- yeu are asked to give as much no you can afford. can-s counts 'eCnsilees are sold by DUI-O. piece towels nothingfltsln “line as ilelligsn mode cookies (mode in a variety of kinds) or Crehora I Giacomo, “Jake," Bertinc. 33 20 Wood street. known as - “The Bad Man of Whistleville" died in the Norwalk hospital at ‘10 o 'clock last evening. his body riddled with bullets alleged to have come from his own gun in the hands of Rocco Sirgiovoni, 35, l proprietor of a restaurant in Mulvoy street. ; It‘cnr Burllno Home ' The shooting took place at the curllcr of Wood and Mulvoy streets, in llunt of Ucriino's homo and in plain sight of his family about 6 o'clock. Five bullets fired in rapid succession were poured into the body of Berllno from a 38 calibre Colt target pistol. a. largc‘ vicious weapon mounted on s 45 calibre frame similar lo those used in the United States army during the World War. The bullets had iced jackets. The two men had been in a fight- ing mood throughout thc day, but two different motives for the shoot- ing were given by Berllno before he died and Sirgiovunl after his arrest by the police. Found In Bushes After the shooting Slrgiovani run to his establishment in Wood street, where he threw the gun into the Cellar. lie then left the place and jumped over the rear fence going out into Lexington aVenue and into Kossuih street, where he was found hiding in a clump of bushes by Pa- trolman lienry Webb about 11 o'clock. He gave himer up to the officer without any light. Many Witnesses. There Were several eye witnesses to the sboollhg all of whom are be- Iilg questioned today by the police. Joe lurid. 20 Soundvlew avenue. a partner of Sirgiovsnl's in the Mulvoy street business and Sam Attlno of Soundvicuv an cmpioye of Bertlno's are both being held by the police as material witnesses in the case. One of 1110 bullets entered the left side of Bertlno's chest and look a downward course through the body pussing through the liver. It was this wound that caused the man's death. Two of the bullets entered his abdo- men and two more entered the hips. He died on the operating table while Dr. William W. Tracey and Dr. V. V. Cluusi were working over him in an endeavor to save his life. He was conscious until the end. Death Bed Statement. Bertlno in a death bed statement given to Dr. Clausl in liullan stated that Rocco had come into his house shortly before six o'clock and drank a cup of coffee as he never drank wine or other intoxicating liquors. While there he‘ asked Ber-tine to purchase 10 tickets at 85 each for a banquet to be given in the near fu- ture. Bertino said that he informed him his wife wasslck and that he could not purchase tickets at the present time. but that lie-would see him soon. The dead man claimed that this angered Sirglovanl and that they became involved in an argu- ment and then went. out into the street where Bertlno said that Sir- giovenl whipped out a gun and emp- tied it at close range, several of the bullets going into Bertino's body. Sh-glovoni’s Story Slrglovanl gave an entirely differ. ent version of the shooting after his arrest. He told the police that he was going to rent a store at 22 Wood street and that when Bertlno heard of this yesterday morning .Bertluo came to him and said: “Don't rent that store. If you do not rent it i win have a chance of purchasing the building i you intend to stay in Norwalk you had better doaslsoy.eslombossofthls block.” He then claimed that they period but met later in the morning Ind this time m0 SIM: “I have an on in the back yard and I can use it." At 6: so o'clock the two men met again and this time Sirgiovanl said that he noticed a gun in Bertino's shirt and that “Jake said to him: "Don't forget what I told you." Sirgiovani then went back to his restaurant and returned shortly be. fore 6 o'clock to the corner of Wood and Mulvoy streets. He claims Bor-. tino came across the street and up to where he was standing and this time put his shoulder up to him. "As he did I noticed the butt of a pistol sticking out of Bertino's shirt and grabbed 'for it. catching hold the butt of the weapon. I tried to unload the shells from the gun. but Bertlno grabbed for the gun at the some time and I was unable to let the shells out of it. in the strug- giahepldbedhlehendonthetrig- rand endeavored w polni the down to the ground. " Ithén pulled the lrlgger until all of the shells were discharged. but I didn't think that any of them had struck Sorting because he did not full, but slartcd to walk away. With thg smoking gun in my hand I ran down Muivoy street to my place and mu inelde locking the door. I topk' ; the gun and threw it down into the " cellar and then went out the back way and over into Kossuth street. where i met Policemen Webb! I This statement was taken down by Sergeant Bryan Silk after Slrgiovanl had been brought into the police headquarters. Patrolman Webb la deserving of credit for his fine work . in capturing the murder. fl Police Rush To Scene. '. A short time after the shooting Super-numerury Policeman William Dcltnlo who resides in that vicinity was on the scene he in turn notified Patrolman John Toothlll. who in- formed Sergeant Silk ou the desk at the downtown police station. Ser- geant Silk dispatched Detective Scrn geant Marlin Lengyel, Motorcycle Policeman Paul McGrnth. Patrolman Edward Williams to the scene. Poo trolmon Williams had just weihgd into headquarters after coming of! his bent in that section and was , about to go to his home. The officers .1 rushed to the scene of the shooting " but could find no trace of the killer. When Patrolman Toothlll arrived 4 on the scene he placed Bortino into ‘ an automobile and slent him to the 3 office of Dr. Robe” M. Wolfe and ‘J from there he was taken to the Nor- wsik hospital where every effort was madeito save his life. Discovered. When Patrolman Webb. who pl.- irols that section. came on duty he started a scorch for the murderer. , He went through the Springwood ‘ V section and when he reached the clump of brush in Kussuth street decided to look it over. He started walking through it when a rustic at- tracted his attention. He at first thought it was a dog and flashed his light in that direc- tion. He noticed an object and .at the same instant slrginvanl spoke up and said: “Is that you Webby. this is Rocco. come here I want to tell you some- thing!" Slrgiovanl first asked about Ber- tlno's condition and was informed that he was dead. Patrolman Wobb' then took him to the police station by way of Lexington avenue and South Main street, because of the number of threats that had been made against his life b ythe many strangers in Wood street, who ap- peared shortly after the shooting. They all seemed to be friends of Bertlno. Al Golden. colored. “Woody" Wal- ston. H. McLaughlin and others were questioned ,by the police re- garding the shooting. They were all in that section at the time. Attlno Wounded. One of the bullets struck the top of Sam Attlno's finger. Another went,lhrough a. window in the home of Peter Marina's house. The gun was found in the collar of the Mulvoy street store by Ber- geant Lengycl. It is at the down- town pollce station at the present time and all of the cartridges had been discharged. Bertlno has a long police record end it was in his home that Luigi Apicelio. for many years proprietor of the Grand Union Hotel in Wood street. was shot to death by ldlho Serena. proprietor of the Bridge- port House. during a party on the night of November 9, 1921. Ber- - tine was arrested at the time in corn 3' nection with the murder, but turn- ed state's witness when the one come up in the Superior Court and was discharged. Serene ie in Wothersfield prison at the present time. ‘ ‘ ’ He was connected with the famous ”While Chicken Gong" whose actl- ‘ villas In this vicinity at the time of Aploello’e death were many. ‘1 short time ago he was arrested by f the state police in conhoctioh with a blackmail charge in Westport.’ ran ' case has never come if pfor until?" disposition in the Superior court. tlo 'g’ was arrested in December mt in '5 connection with the "White Chili» on Gang'.‘ and was bound over to the Superior court on the ' of having stolen goods in his session. He was arrested in I“! me. for selling liquor and was on again before the court on July ““37. "25 on an assault charge in which .. it is reported that guns were nacho. E but not discharged. .“
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