99
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ALSO DRAWS
$1,500 FINE
FIRST ,
WITH THE
NEWS
‘ ns'rABLiSHEO 1870‘
"
Pipe Dreams
' “ And
Portraits
1 nd so is 11. kink in my neck. HOWeJ
Ever, I will stlive to be many foil
he sake of my many friends.
See You at The Party.
Am 1111'01 med of a. big party brew-
ug this evening at Oscar Schultze's
1tchcn. Tile clans are gathering for
he occasion. Phil Jakob of the high
fi,chool it is said, will lay inside his
.iedagoglcul mien and John Lund
1111 strive to do likewise.
A strange conviction has dawned
-11 me lately. which is that these
1 caching gents. despite their appear-
nce. are human under the skin.
, Charley Tailov. so rcpo1t_l1ad it,
s to be served with a :10 pound
urkcy which is being stcued for
i is especial appetite. it? 1’4
, Unless I am misinformed my good
riend Charley Kellogg will also be
1 here and what a good ting we will
i ave panning the merits the 1o-
pective newspapcis we our
I'ri1ing by crmving about.
If I am not muzzled. I will tell you
are about said party tomorrow
earn
1 Deaf Man 5 Alarm Clock.
, kind friend submits the follow-
1ng recipe for a deaf mans alarm
look. as a remedy for my late ris-
ng proclivitics:
The deaf man‘s alarm clock. he
'rites, used by the hard sleeper is
he only timcpioCu on record that
bsolutelv wakes a man up and
lakes a thorough Job of it. All that's
. cccssary ‘as materlil for one is a.
1 :lat the width of your bed. ahinge.a
lmple wooden trigger and a length
Hf wire. Then of course you must
live an ordinaly dollar variety of
- V kerup as mechanism. The kind is
i peclfiecl because only cheap clocks
‘; owadays June the protludiug ham.
,1 ei- nwded for this ingenious. if
11121110111111 in1 ention.
’ (to be continued)
{'H‘ MES FROM RO‘VAYTO\.
‘ 1 1 Dec. L5.l£1’.’6.
11111.11 Mr. Prim:
’ I cannot guess the identity of
he ALBATROSS who composed
119 Cross- eyed Lumentation. which
ippealcd in youi column a few days
.go. .IIoneter. being far from an
-nciént Marine1. I shall spare the
rrOws of invcctive and wish the
1 1rd :1. Happy New Year instead.
he. (for the rhyme was unmistak-
bly feminine), it appears. is also
-_Rownytenitc. I suggest. therefore,
' hat you insert a permanent sub-
‘ ending —— 111111111153 FROM. no-
VAYTON. or arouse the poets of
'orwalk train their lethargy.
The following ode will doubtless
Act a chill on the bubbling spirits
f the season: but where exists any
.‘motion. save by the contrast of its
IDpOSlle?
Ode to :1 Skull.
, I l
,lehastly and grinning; yet this is
‘_ the gucrdon
~Of life; the ashes of sorrow and
1 joy of the earth.
'ow the vision is gone. and the eyes
that once gazed on
The detv-silwr'd dawning in rose-
ate birth.
II.
nd‘belleld the cold glitter of stars
inthe heaveiis.‘
:Where Cynthia rides ,on the wings
of the night, .1
re but mouldering hollows.
. see not the heavens,
No more ‘see the beauty of Hes-
' perus1bright: .
III.
1111 the lips that once laughed in
. thO‘Ille-l‘llest laughter.
'Immutably' mute have become;
. and they have
. cl: 8. song to disturb the deep. silent
Hereafter; '3
1110 echo resounds
depths of the grave.
ALASTOR.
they
from the
I’lnusible Explanation
Bridgeport newspaper gets hot
. litter its editorial collar because
vernment ran polite and, high-
t the goods on fellow-bootleggers.
Most Unreasonable of Bridgeport
Iditbr to get so excited because. if
0 followed his line. of reasoning to
1 ' 1‘ logical end. 11c would have to
one for . ibdictment of President
_..lidgo on charge of bootlegging.
‘r‘iPeter is foolish enough to be-
eye the President as the responsi.‘
a head of the federal government
"countable for all its acts. .
But we all know President Cool-
; -. is' not a. bootlegger. Seems to
a .1 clip somewhere between Presi-
\
The weather is against me today >
lied speak- -easy in New York to Mr. Gallivan. "is surely the ultimate
i.
will just about laugh prohibition 1-
tainers off their several pay-rolls.
to rowel the story it 1v some
cmn dry; decided tha
and cows must be spared. at :11
costs. regardless of the advice and
age-old practices
veterinarians. from the temptations
of the demon rum "
Entered as second-clubs matter at
So. Norwalk, Conn., under the 'Act of March 3, 1870.
the post, office at.
sonwnnx‘n. rile
l
81‘ NEWSPAPER
SOUTH NQRW'ALK, CONN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926.
ictimsiDemand Jury
EL
TWELVE PAGES
The Weather
Snow, changing to rain tonight.
and probably Wednesday rooming;
warmer tonight, colder ' Wednesday
in Connecticut.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Trials
Rev. W. H. Lamar .
Presiding . Elder
,BOston. District
A.
KNIGHT STREET PASTOR PRE-
PARING‘TO MOVE TO BOSTON
~CHELSEA CIIERGYMAN “'llili
SCCCEED IIIM IN LOCAL l’l‘Ii-
l‘I'l‘.
!
Rev. W. Henry Lamar, poster 01'
the Knight Street A. M. E. church.
has been ‘appointcd presiding cider
of the Boston district of the New
E land Conference, and will soon
In vo to Boston to take up his new
duties. Itev. E..L. Blake, at. pres-
ent located in Chelsea, Mass. has
been selected to succeed Rev. La-
mar at the local church.
Mr. Lamar has been 111 charge
of the Knight street church for
six and one-half years. and his ad-
ministration of church affairs was no
marked that hlsgbtay here has been
allowed to run a year and 'a ,half
over the five-year limit, period set
by‘the conference; During his,rcsi-,
deuce in Norwalk Mr. Eamar has
also been a tireless worker in many
of the movements for community
welfare.
The Knight street church parish
will hold a special business meeting
tonight to act upon the resignation
ii
Jail 113 in of 15 Months
dayr—Judge Mentions
serving the four-months’ term.
Pl a s Guilty, Fined $1} 1
1111 Superior Court TOday
Sus ended On 11 Months—Starts Sentence Fri-
. sible Victims of Lottery.
Clifford J. “Connie" Lewis, Bridgeport business man, sports-
man, pie ded guilty in the criminal superior court this morning
to 15 co etc of conducting a state-wide lottery, and was fined 11
total of $1,500, and sentenced to jail for 15 months. Judge Alfred
Baldwinisuspended operation of eleven months of the sentence
and granted Lewis a stay of execution until Friday morning,
when Lewis will surrender himself at the county jail to begin
_ 1
AGED NEW CANAAN
MA DISCOVERED
N WILMINGTON
NEW icANAAN, (AP)~Geor8c
M. Johnson, 09, who has been
‘ his homo here
missing from
N vember 20, was located
of Rev. Lamar and also to tulw .1“.
tion on the coming of the newppas-
tor. Rev. Blake. Rev. Lamars ap-
pointment as presiding cider of the
Boston district. took effect as of
last Sunday. the money being oc-
casioned by the death last week of
Dr. William Byrd after a long ill-
ness‘.
Norualk will be sorry to see Mr.
Lamar leave but wishes him e1ery
success in his new-work.
Speaker and Cobb
In Cleveland To
Defend Their Honor
,
CLEVE LAND (Am—Tris Speak-r
and Ty Cobb arrived here this
morningrtrm Washington to plan
their defense against charges of
Dutch Leonard that they conspired
to “throw" the games between De-
troit and Cleveland, September 25.
1919.
They were" accompanied by Attor-
ucy W. H. Boyd. representing
Speaker, and immediately went into
consultation.
Neither Speaker nor Cobb would
disclose what action they are to take.
Each ureterrcd questions to Bowl.
“It is for me to find out what can
be done about the charges against
Speaker and Cobb " Boyd said. "and
for them to determine what action
they will take. "
“Speaker and Cobb have turned
the matter over to me and. I am go-
ing into the charges thoroughly.
What the‘ result will be. I cannot
say u
Prohibition ls ,
i Invoked Against
Medicine F or Cows
WASHINGTON. —- Representative
James A. Gallivan, ‘wet Democrat.
from Massachusetts. is perturbed
over his discovery that the depart-
ment of agriculture is applying the
prohibition law to the treatment of
horses and cows
Mr. Gallivan announced yesterday
that he had just learned that since
1923 publications issued by the do.
partmcnt giving advice for treat-
ment or animal diseased have omit-
ted a recipe prescribing whisky,
milk and eggs for certain ailments.
This prescription, he said. had ap-
peared in“ official publications for
thirty-three consecutive years until
it was dropped in 1038. He plans
to make an inquiry into the reason
for the omission.
is attempt to censor theimor-
sis of our homes and cows." said
in prohibition enforcement. I pre-
dict that when the coilntry learns
the story there will be a. roar whl
"I am now able for the first time
ol-
our he
on. competent
6 “and his dry enforcement agents.
rbaps. suggests a friend. some
The lovernment’s own poison al-
oi has gotten into the veins of
n! o r c e in e n t organisation.
“Bodenbeimcr of South High-1
as. Ln... who has unique political
and. He has been mayor for live
1111 ‘in all his complaint only
and crullers-ylluliigan's-sslwayl so
good and excellent in quality are
to be had a.‘ stores all over this
"ch would explain e1erything. vicinity. de cookies are made in
_, -—-—-— a variety of brands including. sugar.
uat read a piece about Mayor E. oatmeal. .molasaes. harm‘s. etc.
Only the best of materials at all
times aroused in :Iullinn made:
(coda—Adv.
1
-TBOSE FAMOUS COOKIE?
s have been cast against
finmlflyauggcst some of on:
and expert politicians take
. nter- vacations 111 South
at The Lauder Store was the largest
in 1
-—THE CHRISTMAS BUSINESS
A coniim
Block. plizabeth Pollcr and Charles
the do
was held during the intermission of
the 119. co in the club, attended by
about
invitedi guests.
tenaniiciul w. Youhg, 192ml field
artillery. has been relieved from his
present duty with Battery A and
has been assigned to duties with
Battery B. same re
ctal order from the
eral's b
spection are announced in the or-
der anti are as follows:
artillery. from March 29 to March
22:11e dquartera 118th medical W’
imant from March 31 to March 24;
service company 1181b medical regi-
ment arch 31 to March 24; :15an
hospi 1 company from March 31 to
March} 24:
today lit Wilmington. N. C. lie
applied ‘in that city to the some-
titty of St. John's Lodge A. 11‘. &
...M fbr lodging stating that ho
was a nieniber of Harmony Lodge
of New Canaan and that he was
short oi funds.
The isecretary at Wilmington
pzommunlcated with the secretary
of Ilarliony lodge and it was in
this web that Arthur Johnson
learnediof the whereabouts of
his father. Moncy‘ was forwarded
to Wilmington to cover the expen-
ses of Johnson‘s return to
Camumi
New
Class Of 1925
- The Class of 1926 of the Norualk
high sch oi. holding a reunion dance
ngiht, rdgistcrcd .1 protest against
the iuloinow in force at. the school
to the effect that alumni association
members cannot attend 11. school
attend a1 school dance unless accom-
panied by a high school student. It
“as 1otod to address a resolution to
that effcft to Principal Philip Jakob
through the permanent secretary.
Mildred lHoyi. '
unfair, It Is Charged.
Everett Buckley. permanent class
president now home from Dart-
mouth bu his' Christmas vacation.
presided at the meeting and ex-
plained today that the sentiment of
the class is against the ban placed
upon itiby the decision of Mr. Ja-
kob and Superintendent of Schools
John Lund particularly since' the
alumni laro always among the first
to be approached when the school
organizeitlons desire aid of any kind.
especially when students have tick~
ets to be sold for athletic contests
or socigl functions.
akob Blames Alumni.
Principal Jakob, interviewed to-
day. preferred to any little cancel-n-
ing the action of the class but stated
that asilong as the conduct of the
school iaffairs rests partly in his
hands. the rule will stand. He ex-
plainedithat the ban does not apply
to public gatherings and in no way
appliesl‘to the alumni functions and
that it was form ‘
ago after memb rs of the alumni
ashocia ion had conducted them-
selves i such a manner at a school
dance as to make a. rule of the kind
a. necessity.
The ‘reuuion last night voted to
hold a dance some time in June.
itteo consisting of Morris
McGre or was appointed to arrange
Tails. The business session
6 members of the class and
venue GOES TO
”1311mm 3- NEW DATES
non ARMORY INSPECI'ION
. I}
1 HARTFORD, (AP)—-Second Lieu-
mcnt, a spe-
diutant Gen-
mco says.
Changes in dates of Armory in-
Medical department 192ml field
lbsrd ambulance com-,
history --lt is a anti-lacuna
pan! from March 80 to“ March 23.
Bat-ring Alumni From Dances
at tho Norwalk Country club lost‘ H
ated about a. year 1
Imposed, But Sentence Is
Norwalk Youths As Pos-
Ex-Mnyor Makes Pica
Lewis. through his attorney. Clif-
ford B. Wilson. former Bridgeport
mayor. threw himself upon the
mercy of the court, and admitted
his guilt to all 1'5 charges as pro-
parcd against him by State's Attor~
ney William H. Comley. Judge Bald-
win. in imposing sentence upon the
accused. stated that Lewis's plea of
guilt was deserving of some consid-
eration in his favor. but maintained
that the court was obliged to set an
example for any other persons who
might be considering engaging in the
(Continued on Page Two.)
m
CHIMNEY FIRE AT
J. T. HARRINGTON HOME
The Main street tire headquarters
hook and ladder was called out at
8: 25 o'clock last night on a still
alarm for a clilmneyflro at the res-
idence of John T. Harrington, Tier-
ney street.1.Norwalk. Damage was
slight and the firemen had no dim-
culty quenching the blaze. 1'
PreteSt Rule
en Hurt In
rash of ,Wood
And SteelTrains
N E \V Y O R K.»chcii persons
were injured one seriously last night
when a seven-car Interborougil
Rapid Transit company steel train
carslied into' a five-cur Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit company wooden
train standing on the elevated struc-
ture at 75111 street and Roosevelt
avenue Elmhurst. L. I. All or the
injured except the niotorman or the
I. R.T.traln.1were passengers in 1110
last car of the B. M. T. train.
More than 200 passengers 01 both
trains were compelled to wait four
blocks along a narrnw wooden
planking. heavily coated with ice.
from where tho-accident occurred to
tho,8sd street station.
The accident occurred on tho Cor-
ona branch where both trains use
the same tracks. The trains were
running on eastbound tracks from
the Queensboro Bridge plaza bound
for Corona. ..
Tho Interborough train was oper-
ated by Motorman John Kenny and
.ditional half million dollars
tion a. like amount last year
society raised one
more. His pledge was matched as a
walsr wares r011
Miss arenas 11110111
ran HELLO GIRLS
Miss Elizabeth Byrnes. popular
('lllet’ operator at the local ex‘
change of the Southern New Eng-
land Telephone company was pre-
scntod with a handsome Bulova
wrist watch by the hello girls as
:1. Christmas gift.
Christmas is a very busy sea.
son in ll. telephone office and there
1111s extra. help last 1veek.\l\lo.1t
at (be assisting operators weio
brides of the year who have )0-
signed their positions. They were
Mrs. Alice Crotty McGuire, Mrs.
Helen Chamberlain Seclcy. Mrs.
Betty Gage Mollillo‘ and Mrs.
Dorothy Page O'Connor.
Mrs. Sadie Miller. central of-
flcu instructor has three new on-
erators in a class of instruction.
Miss Eleanor K. Ericson. Mini
Loretta J. Rooms, and Miss Ethel
M, Worden.
Miss Burtsclic
Chief Operator
Westport Jan. I
MISS “‘ORTIIING'I‘ON TRANS-
I‘ERRED TO \VIL’I‘ON AS MRS.
l.A\VSON (-0158 SOUTH—MRS.
WALSH ’I'O BUCCEED ~MISS
ill! itTSCIIE.
Miss Katherine M. Burtsclic, for
the past six years connected with
lilo. trutllc department of tho Nor-
walk exchange of the Southern New
England Telephone company, has
been chosen chief operator of the
Westport exchange. the appointment
to take effect January 1
Miss ”Burtscho succeed;- Miss
Grace 0. Worthington, Westport
chief operator. who has been trans.
ferred to Wilton. Mrs. Inez Law-
son, Wilton cxcouthc, is lea1ing {01
the South where site will spend the
1 W inter;
Miss Worthington is a veteran in
puint of serum for the company.
She has served the company faith-
were spent in Westport. and pre-
vious to that she was in Bridgeport.
Miss Worthington, with her mother
and sister,
an apartment in the Westport ex-
change and changes planned to the
building will remove the living quar-
tors. There is an apartment con-
nected with tho Wilton oilico and
Miss Worthington, who cares for an
aged mother. has deemed the Wil-
ton transfer advisable. Miss Worth-
ington is one of the most highly rc-
spcctcd employee of the Southern
New England company and West-
port friends will be sorry to lose her.
Miss Burischc, who makes her
home in \Vcstport. came to the Nor-
walkicxcliango in February 1920.
after nine years of service in New
York. She has been central cili'co
observer and will he succeeded by
Mrs. Lillian Walsh.
ROCKEFIGLLER GIVES ZOO
ANOTHER HALF MILLION.
NEW YORK. (AP).-—-—Tlie New
York Zoological Society had an ad-
in its
treasury today as a result of a gift,
by John Rockefeller jr.
Mr Rockefeller gave the organize-
and
promised to duplicate his gift if the
million dollars
Motorman Riley Burns was at the
controls of the B. M. '1‘. train.
result of a one millioli dollar bequest
from the late Anna M; Hurkness.
3Y1 HELENA
The recent banquet of The Wo-
men's Bal- association of the Dis-
trict of Columbia furnished an in-
tersstlng example of 91° progress of
women. _
Among the speakers were Judge
Mary B. Grossman of the Municipal
Court of Cleveland, Ohio; Dean El-
len Spencer Massey of the Coeduca-
tional Washington College of LaW:
state Senator Belle Kearney of M15-
sissippi, Judge Mary O'Toole of the
District of Columbia, Municipal
Court, and Burnlta Shelton Mat-
thews, president of the Women's
Bar association of the District of
Columbia. Mrs. Matthews is the
head of the Legal Research Depart-
ment of the National Woman' 3 Pat-
ty and has directed the work of
codifyins‘ all the state and federal
laws that relate to men and women.
as indIIviduals. This work has been
going on for six yenrsand is the
only such codification in existence.
It has been declared‘ by some of
the greatest lawyers in the country
legal research in the past genera-
ton.
I'll—unu—
The National Union of Societies
for Equal citizenship in England is
concentrating this winter on a cam-
11111811,:ng restrictive legislation
for women in industry, especially
those laws which apply to women
only with respect to the limitation
Of hours dlfllnt, which they may
work. It seck‘sto make applicable
AS A. ONE WOMAN smas- IT
HH I WE ED I
women). and various other measug'cs
which are needed for the human-
izing of industry for thfie workers.
The Parliament of New Zealand
has recently amended its laws to
permit women to serve as Justices
of the Peace.
able to sit. on juries in New Zeal-
and, however. although suffrage has
long been established there.
,Wo'lnen are still un-
Again that headline -- "Married
women barred!" '
The Board of Education of Lex-
ington, Kentucky. is thalatest to
broadcast
against women, another discourage-
ment to legal and public marriage,
but another argument. as well, for
the adoption‘o .,
amendment.
all women teachers who marry after
January 1.1927, must resign from
their jobs or be put out of their
profession!
finothcr discrimination
an Equal Rights
It as announced that
It was Bernard Shaw who recent~
as the outstanding contribution to. ly commented on a. like action on
the part of a British School board
by saying its members should throw
their resolution into the river and
take good care not to let go" of the
resolution when it dropped in. Show
says11 if be but
would be permitted to train ind
teach public school children unless
she had had experience with chil-
dren of her own. '
his way no woman
15 University of Prague has am.
fully for 36 years, half of which .
has made her home in.
And Take 10
Tomorrow Morning.
('ounscl for the in Norunlkcrs
charged with violation of the pro-
hibition laws and arrested 011 No‘v
ember 9, to and 11 here by the state
called in the criminal superior court
at Bridgeport this
pleading not guilty.
Trial by Jury
them on such short notice.
I’l‘thix'lllol‘ Surprised
The move took the prosecution by
surprise, 1t being apparently the
opinion of the state authorities that
all would plead guilty. It was
stated by counsel for the defense
(Continued on Page ’I‘wo.)
\
Boyle Robbers
Ill- ;30 yesterday morning, my
up Sidney Biackman, December
his brother at State street, and
plots in each case.
“No Hoax" Police. Say
Statements made in Fairticlil that
the holdup report might have been
a hoax are not credited by State
Policeman Scully. nor by the Fair-
ilcld ofllcc. Oiliccr Scuily is work-
ing on the assumption that Boyle
has given him a true statement of
the facts-111 the case as he knows
them!
When asked whether he believed
the robbery actually took place.
Constable Elwood said he saw no
grounds for disbelief and that Boyle
had shown him the money on
(Continued On Page Three.)
police in a series of raids, sprung a
1
surprise more when the cases 11111111,:
I
morning by 1
was dcnianilcd and after a rcccssJ
Judge Alfred Baldwin adjourned cof
urt until tomorrow morning at 10:
o'clock stating that several of the ,1
defendants desired to have witnesses ‘
present and were notable to produce .
i
l
E the coast and winds will
Scouting To Admit Guilt
Day Sentence
Booze Dealers Show Fight
Alleged Bootlcggers, All Second Offenders Hope to
Learn Identity of Those Who Have Evidence
Against Them—Trial Begins With Novak’s Case
1 STORM WARNINGS—
i ROUGH NIGHT ON
1 OCEAN TONIGHT
W A S ii i N G 'l‘ O N. (A P)—
’l‘lio\\'1»z1tlu.-r llurcnu today is-
l sued this storm warning.
”Advisory Northeast storm
warnings ordered 11 a. In. Nor-
1 folk to liastpori. Disturbances
over Mississippi moving north-
eastu’nrd with increasing intensi-
ty. will cause strong cast winds
this afternoon and tonight. shift-
ing to west and northwest Wed-
nesday morning. south of Sandy
Hook and strong cast winds to-
..iglit shifting to West and north-
west \\'euii11:.ilay afternoon. north
of Sandy Hook. 'l‘lilck weather
will be experienced along and off
reach
gale force north of Sandy Hook.
Small craft. warnings had been
ordered for the Alabama, Missis-
: silipi and northwest Florida
coast."
A.'Raymond Betts
Honored By State
C of C Office
C E N '1‘ R A L FAIRFIELD TRUST
TREASURER “711111 SERVE ON
GENERAL WELFARE C().\L\Il’l‘.
TEE T0 SECURE GOOD LEGIS-
LATION AT 11127 SESSION.
A. Raymond Betts. treasurer of
the Central Fairflcld 'i'i'ust company
and one of the city's most promi-
llent men ill movements for civic
betterment, has been requested by
President Ernest E. Rogers of the
Connecticut Chamber of Commerce
to serve on the Chamber's general
welfare committee. The honor comes
to the local man in spite of the fact
that he is one of most recent addi-
tions to the membership or the or-
ganization and is considered a trib-
ute to his executive ability and
standing in the business life of the
county.
Mr. Betts shares with Mrs. John
8. Russ, vice-president of the Shel—
ton Chambcr of Commerce. the hon-
or of being the only residents of
Ii‘airfield county to be named for
the committee. which has as its duty
that of placing before tho legislature
matters of constructive interest on
the part of the chamber.
Other members of the committee
are:
11 rank E. Sands. chairman, presi-
dent. Journal Pubilshing company,
Meriden.
Arthur Reed Kimball. vice-chair"
man, director of The Chase com—
May Have
Held Up Jewelry Store, Too
POLICE DEEREQIT HOAX THEORY
BRIDGEPOR'I', Dec. 28. ——'II.ree bandits who were'concemed
in holding up and robbing John B Boyle, Fairileld druggist and
al estate agent, of $10, 750 in his store in Fairfield center at
be the me pers as who held
14, in .1. jewelry store owned b3.-
escaped with jewelry and mor-
chandise valued at $10, 000. State and local police are COCTj‘t‘l "5’
ing in comparing descriptions of the men, which are
_uite 00‘1-
Iax Collector of
Greenwich Resigns
GREENWICH. (AP .-—-Silns ‘ D.
llitcll. tax collectOr of Greenwich for
17 years resigned today because of
ill health. Before becoming taxcol-
lcctoi' October. 1909 he served as so-
lcctman.
Robert M. Wilcox. vice president
and secretary of the Putnam Trust
company of Greenwich has been 111%
pointed to fill the unexpired term.
“Prohibition
12 Dead From
FloOding Rivers
In Southland
MEMPHIS (AP) .—-T111eive persons
are known to be dead and approx-
imately 4.000 homeless from floods
in Arkansas. Mississippi, Tennessee
and Kentucky and more rai1 was
foreseen today. Property damage in
the flooded areas is more than a
milliondollars. Six were reported
dead in Arkansas. live in Mississippi
and one in Tennessee as direct re-
sults of the flood. Three thousand
were driven from their homes in
Nashville when the Cumberland riv-
er overflowed its banks and the crest
had been reached early today. ,
The product of thousands of acres
of corn was being transferred from
the lowlands of Kentucky and In-
diana as a result of flood stages be-
ing reached in the Ohio river. with
an unexpected further rise of five
feet before the crest. Much ungath-
cred corn has been ruined by the
flood waters in these two states,
Th1? larger rivers of Tennessee
were still rising today but many cf
the smaller ones were reported its
getting back to normalcy.
The general conditions of the Min.
sissippl was reported as being im-
proving with the flood waters slow.
ly receding.
The brunt of the floods which
have c sed six lives to be lost and
hundre of thousands of dollars in
property damage in Arkansas was
reported to have passed.
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—-THE STAR LAUNDRY
does all features of laundry work—
has a modtin plant anti )1 painstak-
ntment of ‘its fir
g and an: efficient force of em-
Ass’t. U. S. Attorney Quits;-
Unenforceable’,’
NEW YORK (AP).—Because he
believed the prohibition act the
“most drastic law which has ever
, been passed by any lawmaking body
in the United States and cannot be
enforced in any large city,” Assist-
ant United States Attorney Nat J.
Harben. today iesigned from the
prehibtlon enforcgpicnt staff of Un-
ited States Attornfly Buckner.
"The prohibition department and
the United States Attorney's oflice
have been doing wonderful work
considering the means which are
available to them to enforce this
law." Mr. Harben said. “But in its
present form. in my opinion, it can-
not be enforced in the city of New
York .or any other large city."
Ship Minus Prince
No Longer Minus
With the rccelptwf .1 telegram
here I yesterday by the St. George
Paper company. the Minus Prince.
last obtho three pulp schooners long
overdue in reaching'here, has been
accounted for. The 'word received
was from Captain Smith, masts;- of
the vessel, who stated the: his” boat.
which left St. George. N. B. for Non
walk. December 4. had been forced
to put in at Stonington. The reason
was not fully given. but it was in-,
dicated that injuries to someone on
board were responsible.
The boat will arrive here in a few
days. joining the Minus Princess
and the Frederick II. which arriv-
ed last week.
——'I‘HE CLIFFORD PHARMACY
PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT '
has grown in its business during
the year. 1926. It can be credited to
the policy inaugurated over two
years ago—(when this
It
panics. Waterbury.
William R. C. Corson. vice-presi-
dent, Hartford Steam Boiler Insp.
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Body Believed To
Be “Bella Stokes"
Found In Yard
NEW YORK (AP)——The body of
a. well-dressed young Woman about
5 years old, tentatively identified as
"Bella Stokes." was found arly to-
day in the rear courtyard o a' West
40th street apartment house.
Detectives are investigating on the
theory that she may have jumped
from a. window to avoid attacks or
that she may have been thrown from
a uindow or the roof of the build-
1118'.
A card in her pocketbook gave
the name and address of May Ilos—
icr, resident of a hotel 25 blocks
away. Miss Ilosicl' says she was only
slightly acquainted with the dead
woman and knew her as Bella
stokes.
Detectives found three blood-
stalncd handkerchicfs on the. floor
of the building and John Nolan, a
neighbor says that last night he
heard cries. the crash of glass and
the sound of persons running on the
roof. James Rowlan d. another
neighbor says he saw two men as-
sisting a girl into the house earlier.
23 Have Died To
Date In N. Y. From
Holiday . Liquor
NEW YORK. Dec. 28.——The total
number of deaths ascribed to holl-
day alcoholic indulgences mounted
yesterday to 23 throughout the city.
This is live more than. were report.
ed as the Christmas toll of 1925.
Seventeen of the 23 died in Man-
hattan five in Brooklyn and one in
Queens county. Chief Medical Ex?
aminer Dr. Charles Norris said last
light that until chemical analysis
could be made it was impossible to
say positively whether death had
been due to "quantity or quality."
While a complete reckoning of
causes must await the completion of
more autopsies. it alreadyiis ded-.
nitcly known that some of the
deaths are attributable directly to
poison liquor. others were caused by
excess and still others were due
only indirectly to overindulgence.
In the alcoholic ward at Bellevuo
hospital, yesterday were 79 persons.
14 of whom were women. In Kings
County hospital. Brooklyn. ten alco-
holic cases were reported. or the
dead two were women. In the
morgue in Manhattan Lillian Keat-
ing. 115 years old. of 100 East 1281!
street. died of alcohol, and the same
cause, together with gas poisoning.
was reported to have been responsi-
ble for the death of Mary Servoy. so
years old. of 83 Ryerson street.
Brooklyn. The Servoy woman died’
in her home. Her husband was
found by her side on the bad in a
serious condition from alcohol and
He was taken to Cumberland Street _
’hospital. ‘
had determined to make a thorough
Investigation into the source of the,
whiskey said to have caused deaths
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gas. a let having been turned on.;
Dispatches from Washington an- ‘
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