New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1922, Page 1

Hernld “Ads" Mean Better Business FI]REIEN VAlUATIllN OF IMPORTED GOODS Adoption of Smoot Plan Reported as Agreed on by Republicans MAY CUT TMMIGRATION Work On Bonus Bill Continues — Country's Finances Better—Capper- Volstead Bill Signed—Harding Asks Advice. Washington, Feh, 15 - (By Asso clated Press)—The adoption of the Smoot plan of asserting tariff duties on the basis of the foreign value of the imported articles is understood to have been practically agreed upon by republican members of the senate fi nance committee. The re-writing of the ad valorem rates in the Fordney bill on the hasis of this plan was started today, sena tors said and since the original rates were predicted upon American valua- tion, it was =aid that increases were being made in many instances, Working On Bonus With ten days announced by Chairman Fordney as the time in which their draft of the measure would be completed republican mem bers of the house ways and means committee continued to work on the soldiers honus bill today. It was stated at the White House vesterday that if the sales tax plan is adopted, President Harding would view with favor a tax on production rather than on general retail sales, The executive was said to consider the former as the simplest form, es. pecially since it would avoid the prob- fem of exemptions likely to arize un- der a general retail tax. hnmlgvnlmn Arguments Advocating extension for another year of the 3 per cent restrictive im- migration law, the house immigra- tion committee in a report laid before the house today declared the people of the United States are demanding continuance of the act after its ex- piration June 30 “or something more restrictive.’ I'inances Better. Viewed in a statement issued at the White House, showing the ‘‘most satisfactory turns in the financial af- fairs of the country” since the con- clusion of 1919, an analysis of the December 31 bank call issued by Comptroller of Currency Crissinger records the total resources of the na- tional banks on that date, exclusive of rediscounts at $19,420,000,000, This was an increase of $406,000,000 over the previous call in September. Patents Treaty. The senate foreign relations com- mittee had before it today a message from President Harding as%ing the senate’s advice on the question of re- viving the patents treaty with Ger- many which automatically lapsed with the declaration of a state of war in 1017, Harding Signs Bill. The Capper-Volstead cooperative marketing bill, which legalizes cooper- ative associations of farmers and pro- ducers for "marketing purposes and exempts them from the Sherman anti- trust law, was signed today by Presi- dent Harding. NUNS FIGHT FIRE Also Rescuc 100 Little Children From St. Joseph's Home for the I'riend- less in Chicago. Chicago, FKeb. 18-—Nuns at St Joseph’s Home for the I'riendless early today fought a fire under direc- tion of the mother superior while others took out 100 children ranging from two to 14 yars. Many of the chiliren were carried out sleeping and the older ones were awakened and marched out in order- Iy lines The mother superior detailed 12 nuns to work the chemical apparatus and a hose from the bathroom faucet while the remainder looked after the removal of the children. The fire was confined to the attic. FOX WILL ADMITTED Heirs Voice No Objections to Dis- position of Estatc Madce by Drawee of NDocument. Judge of Probate Merrit 0. of Plainville, presided at a hearing on the will of the late James Fox held in probate court this morning. The will was admitted without contest on the part of the several heirs who were present, and those delegated to repre- sent other beneficiaries in the will. Judge B. 1. Gaffney disqualified himself to sit in the case, he having drawn the will. Judge Ryder ap- proved the selection of James J. Wat- son and William G. Dunn as ap- praisers and Patrick Rynn as exccutor of the estate. “Murder” Mystery Is Not Case of Murder at All Camden, N. J.,, Feb. 18- Examin- ation of the frezen body of an un- known woman found near Forest Hill park yesterday revealed that fthe woman had not been murdered but the case today still presented mysteri- ous angles, apart from that of iden- tification. The coroner's physician kaid the womun had died from tuber- culogis. Bcratciies and bruises on the face and neck, probably were caused when she fell on the frozen saow. {been | that Ryder MLR]DEN MERC HA T ACCUSED OF FRAUDS I\\n Bankrupts, Arrested for (ssuing Worthless Checks, Held for Su- - perior Court, Meriden, Ich, 18-~ Sumuel and Ber- nard Kaller, two of the five local bankrupt merchygnts under arrest on charges of issuing worthless checks and obtaining goods under false pre tenses were hound over fo the next term of the eriminal side of the su- perior court at New Haven under bonds of $800 cach hy Deputy Judge George 1. King in the police court this morning. The cases of Julius Friedman and Meyer Land were con tinued until Mone February owing to {heir counsel heing 111 Julius Barker, the fifth merchant, was bound over to the superior court last week, samuel v Kaller was arraigned on four counts, two of issuing worthless checks, totalling $93.54, and two for obtalning goods under false pretense His brother, Bernard Kaller, faced ten charges. LANDIS TO RETIRE AS FEDERAL COURT JUDGE. Aftelz March 1 Will Devote His Entire Time to Ba ball, He Announces Chicago, Feb, 18, (By (he Asso ciated Pre Federal Judge Kene saw M. Landis foday announnced that he had resigned from the bench and wonld devote his entire {ime to position of haseball commissioner. The resignation is effective March Announcement of it was formally by the judge as he place in court. “There are not enough hours in the day for all of my activities” said the judge, “therefore, 1 ‘e for- 1 fook JUDGE K. M. LANDIS warded my resignation as judge to Washington effective March The judge then called the first case on his docket and refused to discus: the matter until court recess Judge Landis will have completed 17 y as jndge for the northern district of Tllinois when his resignation becomes effective, Under the terms of h signed in 1920, Judge lLandis will continue {o receive the same remu- neration as in the past. His con- tract, signed for a period of seven years, called for an annual salary of $50,000 with a reduction cquivalent to his salary as a judge. Under this agreement Judge Landis has been receiving approximately $42,600 from the baseball leagues WORKERS D0 NOT AGREE New Working Rules For virtually Nevertheless, Railroad Clerks Are Effective on New Haven Road Today. work- ks were New New. Haven, Feh., 15.--New ing schedules for railroad cle put into effcet by the New York, Haven and Hartford railroud today but after an announcement of them the local committe f the brother hood of railway cle 1ed a state- ment that none of the changes had agreed to. The latter claimed the action of the railroad man- agement was an arbitrary one as r adjustment of hours wi in in dis pute. The New Haven road by its ac-| tion, abolishes sick leave, Saturday half holid pay for s vacations with pay. POLICE RESGUE 14 Aided By New York Firemen o holid: They Get People Out Safely in Brooklyn | Tenement House Fi Policemen and made thrilling New York, Ieb, 18, firemen: early today rescues of fourteen persons ftrapped by a fire in a three story house in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn. Three women were dropped 15 feet from second story windows into the arms of patrolmen. Seven members of one family and a collie dog were carried down ladders. The others were carried through smoke filled hallways to the street Three men jumped and were slightly injured from windows ATER. 18, - Sonny AELD AS COUNTERF Spokane, Wash., 1eb Gordon, an artist, was under arrest here today charged with counterfeit notes ing five dollar federal reserve According to the police Gordon drew the entire design of the bills in pen and ink. made hvs[ federal | contract | | and | AMERICAN'IS Sl]lll OUTIN WATERBURY Brass City Alternoon Newspaper Taken Over by New Yorker New Owner, Who Took Control To- day, Plans No Changes in T'ersonnel or Policy of Publication, He An- nounces, Waterbury, hury | the |ican IFeb. I8 The Water- American announces the sale of entire capital stock of the Amer- Printing publishers of the American, to Russell R, Whitman of W York Control passes with the issgue of today Mr. Whitman is one of the most | widely known newspaper men in the United States, He is the publisher of the New York Commercial! Owns Bridgeport Paper. Me. Whitman is of New England lineage, his father having bheen horn in Concord, Mass,, and his mother in New Hampshire. He is a graduate of the [niversity of Kansas, and re ceived his carly newspaper fraining | on the Kansas ity Star. He is al- ready identitied with Connecticut | journalism, being president of the | 'ost Publishing (0. gf Rridgeport. | He is president, also, of the Roosevelt | Military at West Fnglewood, Co., | Ao Changes Vlanned. | According to the announcement, | there will be “no change in the con | tinuity of policy or personnel” of the American, Charl . Cthapin, for 45 | years editor of the American, con- | tinues as editor-in-chief, and becomes | the personal business representative of the new owner. The Waterbury founded in' 1844 and present. ownetship in was purchased by (he ‘N» Chi of the most | brass manufacturers in the country. [ The stockholders who now dispose of | their interests to Mr. Whitman com- | prise the heirs of the Chase estate land Charles 1% Chapin and Arthur Reed Kimball, who has been for some | vears president of the American Printing C'o.. and business | of the American, hut who now retires | from connection with the paper SUED FOR $200 of | American came under its 18 when it late Augustus one Jdeal Shirt Company Shop of This City. Oscar Fsain | an, name of the Hartford, has| Rcoceco, name | Marshall Stepanian, |ana George Der Sark business under the firm Ideal Shirt company of brought suit against Joseph L. | doing business under the firm of Ye London Shop in this city. plaintiff asks damages of $200 in a writ issued by Lawyer Charles Sudar- | sk The papers in the case were served I by Constable Fred Winkle, and the | writ is returnable in the court of pleas at Hartford on the common | first Monday of March. EWER RI( HTS OF WAY ARE SECURED | Camp Heirs Aceept City's Offer of 75 Cents a Running Voot and Will Resume Work. side of be un- by . the result of heirs of Work on the Newington |the new east end sewer can lerfaken Monday morning Iboard of public works as a |agreements made with the | Lemuel Camp in that town. Right of through the properties was sought several ago, but little progress in the way |of effecting agreements was made. At the last session of the gouncil, how- |ever, it was reported that the city | has been given the privilege of go- ing through the properties for a running foot. This figure was to the council and the s were ratified of laborers has been en- 't work in earnest next cxpected that all other have been cleared week. Camp 75 agreemen The foree larged weel. rights of way will up by the end of the |Diamonds Worth $150,000 Are Stolen From Merchant St. Louis, Ifeb. 18.—8idney Krengel lof Krengel Bros., diamond simporters Fof New York and Chicago, reported to | he had been robbed of | between $125,000 and $150,000 of dia- monds on n Illinois Central train |which arrived from Chicago this | morning Fall Fl'(;m Load of >i'la,v Kills G Greenwich, Feb. 18, -Thomas Crump, 68, formerly active in New York city politics and a close friend of Charles Murphy, head of the Tam- many organization was killed by a fall from a lpad of hay today. Crump was moving hay his property in Hamilton avenue. His wife shrvives. Waterbury Baker Killed In Bread Mixing Machine | waterbury, Feh. 18, John Kazier, |50 years old, a baker at 123 Green |street, was crughed to death shortly after 7:30 this morning in a bread mixing machine that he was at [tempting to clean. The body was dis covered by another employe of the bakery, kaner hie wife and two children police that on o'clock leaves "WHITMAN 1S PURCHASER important | manager | Hartford Brings Action Against Ye London doing | The | weeks | reenwich Man | 18, 1¢ [ HALL FUNERAL WILL PLAY( ROU\D ASKED AT SCHOOL GROUNDS >~Iuh Ward Residents Vorm ¢ munity . Association, Discuss r 5 3 e N;m Community was orgunized last evening in the Nathan Hale sehool, and plans were started toward King that school @ community The entire population of ward I8 asked to [in this movement, which was sponsor {ed by the Americanizgtion department lof theboard of education, und ut st 10 different nationalitics repre- sented there last evening, Restdents of that section ure lanxlous to have the playground com | mission open a playground during the [ wummer months at the Nathan 1 {school rather than make it necessiry to send their children to the old Elihu Burritt huilding new |organtzation will agitate such w prop- ‘ufillnm Onee u l"“" for a discussion neighhor [hood problems, the open forum [prineiple. A membership campaign, |similar to conducted by the Iveryman's class — will b winched. * The Nathan Hale clation AsB0- the sixth become interested Final Resting Place of President Pro Fem, of Last State Senate Wil W Be in Mausoleum Beside the Body of His Vath Henry Hall, the state state's | Sonth s The hody president pro senate, known eration 1lorida today will e at 2 p Memorial chureh here, Hall family Shanklin to Officiate. The Rev, Dr. William Arolid Shanklin, president of Wesleyan wWill officiate, sted hy et L AT e : resident pastor, (he William RORE fficers clected last| yjjon, Whe further [t | night arc as follows: Nelson 1% Mar- | (o nanorary and active hearers [fon, president; Peter Shevehuck, viee- [ad not heen completed : president and James B O'Brien, | Body Arrives | secretary-treasurer. Phe hody of Clolonel Another meeting will be held next | panied by Mrs. Hall and Mr. Willington Willi tempore e public life ht n of o of Col dow | and one of men in for w gon home from funeral Monday il Lot The m was “ervies in w|4 iy week the association will = ol on e one Bible uni versity, Hv 1o arrang pall seme aceon and Mrs Muss special e London rea party was at over The to nr was then tall's home of nm it hody of his n taken hearse Wwhere for burial s which carried the ached from o train New | | pared it 1" | bronght hack to Colonel | Colonel Al place Land attached 1o the Boat fr [the Central Vermaont ri 1 Will Be Bmughl to This| 7The final resting Hall will he in the maus | City | Iriday evening, | atph 1 Springficld, [hody was in | cemetery here the Burial Healls for in was | | ‘ Fairview Cemetery . b » . INVESTIGATORS WAIT of Lieutenant s arrived in Brooklyn, ac telegram received in | this city by his father Horace W. Bddy of W Main street. 1t will bn| shipped to this city for burial some- | time during the next week [ 1t was in honor of Lientenant kddy | |and Lieut. Joseph A. Glover that the | | Eddy-Glover post, | was named. Lient | brought back last summer and | corded full military honors, such | will be given Lieutenant Fddy. S e e licut, Iddy attended the first b i o e L R B T icpr‘l.a lr.:‘xrflng camp at Plattshurg, | pept charge if Sands could prove N. Y. and was later assigned to the | pingelf innocent of Ahe slayiog Aviation Corps and stationed ‘in € »nmw,-”,,,,, and untangler this: S bridge, Mass. He was anxious, how- : ever, to get overseas and made ap- [ Woolwine's announcement followed plication to be fransferred back 10| waceipt of a letter purporting to have [the training camp. He was returned | poaen writton by e aier to Plaftsburg and attended the sec {ed he was in Los Angeles, was not lond camp and in November, 1917, he| gyilty of the murder of Taylor, [Wflfi commissioned a second provigion- | could name the murdercr and solve |al lieutenant in the regular army. He | (o mystery of the slaying., He in- sailed for ¥rance in January, 1918, | quired whether he would set freo and was assigned to the 7Sth com-|i, he surrenderd and proved in pany of the th Marines who were | nocence of fhe slaving. then on duty in France. He served| jeo asked that tlu distriet attorney with {hat outfit in their many en-|publish his reply “in any of the Tos gagements and won high praise from | Angeles papers’ ‘and Woolwine made his superior officers for his conduct | public the letter and the answer, the under fire, having been given a post- | jatter being addressed “to Edward I* humous 1. S. . by General Pershing. | Sands, through the public proa He was not destined, however, to —- -|THI be one of those who were fortunate lenought to return to recount the ex C lT\ E( OND in| Killed in the carly | IN CA OF FLU titing adveéntures of his experience Henry les Officials in Taylor Murder Case | Wateh Results From the An- nouncement Ahont Sands, 18 Tnvestiga- of William director, Angeles, 1%eh, the murder Taylor, film l.os tors of | mond wer Glover's hody was | o the announcement | Thomas | Woolwine, district a8 | forney, that if Bdward nds, mi | result from ac of mystery.” Rands France, for he w |stages of the war ; | The 6th Company Marines was a part of the Second Division which be- came famous for their unequalled | stand against the Hun hordes th drove against the I'rench line at Sois- sons and later broke through | Chatean-Thierry. The recounting of "lh:\l fight loses no interest as time s | Bridgeport Mas Largest Number of Cases, the Total There Be 207, Ieh, 18 partment public from health 1,043 co outbreak There are many more cascs been brought to the of physician The reports all those reported to day evening. The most ture of the discase is the increasing number of cases of lobar pneumonia developing from it. Up to Iriday ning 41 new cases of this d been rveported o the t ment. This is the ates ported for one demic of influenza March, 1920 The seriousness of this will be appreciated when it is that from 30 45 per cent of of lobar pneamonia The number s on reported from ) New Britain 148 and Wetherstield i health oficers of N influenza of epidemic de ro- state has towns, Hartford of (c nntmnol on Second Page) | reports of (RABTREE WILL FILED 7', this year. | SRS ceived of the which atten that there have tion clude not in I°ri state Is Apportioned Among Chil- up [l of Deceased in Document serious Drawn Last Ycar. The Mrs. Lina Rowell Crat i tree was offered today for probate. | The document was drawn April 14, 11921, by Lawyer Henry P. Roche and | witnessed by Lawyers Emil Dan- berg and Charles Mitchell The will provides that all debts and {funeral expenses shall be paid and a | suitable marker crected over the | grave. | ANl real estate fs to be |among three duughters, Carrie How- | ard, Lilla Ilorence and Nellie Wells |¢ Crabtree, the first to receive one-half [Port, and the others onc-quarter each. In Nest the event of the death of those hene- | with ficiaries before her death before | The the estate is settied their share is 1o |pox reported is 142 go to Walter I'. Crabtree, § 1 from Bridgepor Cash bequests are left to Norwalk, | Howard Crabtree, Nellie Wells Crah-| field, Trumbull, Stratford tree, Walter P. Crabtree, Lilla IFlor- | Wallingford, New lLondon ence Crabtree and Grace L. Crabtree [ten Smith | | shegt . |Miss GGordon Wins Honor |Prohibition Enforcement | At Syracuse University Agents Are Reorganized vite. daitinths of Washington, Ieh. 18 —-Reorganiza L ot W6k tion of the national prohibition field & forces is expected to be completed | (RN RS G0 g rority soon with a total of 56 federal pro . 3 | ense university. She hibition directors, Commissioner | (. T president of the freshman els Haynes announced today. The com- 4 . y school. Miss Gordon gradnated missioner said i director would he ap- | 1 ot pointed for the canal zone. Gt E will of g e opi week numbier the fivst week in sine the of development stated to cases fatal influenza Bridge comes third ] ROV apportioned i hig! has be with with 114 fotal number of cases of he dist o the follow- Windsor, air Milford Gro small or gl | spr Carrie |ing towns, and Miss Retty Gordon | Mr. and Nrs George North street, has heen pled on of Syra from local SISTER MARY PHILIP, Sister Mary Philip, a nun in the convent of St Peter's church at Hart | ford, died this morning. She was be fore hecoming nun, Miss Anna Mood of this city Rhe leaves a num her of relatives, The funeral will at 9 ek Menday Peter's church, Hart THE WEATHER 18— Forecast a vicinity: Sunday. o Hartford. Feh. for New Britain and Unsettled tonight and Not o cold tonight, he | morning | * ford. local held at &t BE HELD ON Ml]NI]AY‘ is reason to believe | --TWELVE PAGES \\\ A’ VA Chairy el m T e el WAS A PROMINENT MAN 1 thro pliteed e e il grand Briti TER BOARD WANTS LUATION LOWERED nan Rossher Appe ngton Commission With 'eti- s A0 e Cont Abatement ntin g hoard 1o opr KIONCTS, the an effort v comm mn befor Water proper Wtown 1 il tiaed il ftowy (N s ton high they e the y that 1w vithont il not howeyer on 1 Vinost exception Tapidate hahita e anthorized hourd wrlington's in New int OWIIR #0 INCreise - PAONESSA ANNOUNGES Hi II Elected h\ I)cmo( rats, He sideratie P \ sixth conin istere loyall taday highe He o w ma crats Suppo Canse Pre the | enfra city electi Des- | American Legion. | waiting today (o see it anything would k would | der | but | whoe lof th The [ over |endea politi tied a shig | partic | ques may ‘m\\.m' in the the { now t Vic valite I they vork | it peity a aetive comm Vi Lines Wa Mu M | I'ress, it ¢ to ¢ Itos e state trusto states also grant § CANDIDACY TODAY omises “(lean Sweep” in City Hall M, Iior alderman from the of the admin- extreme ability, wonld e member e i a long-time yon ecouncil wher has Ul v to city vl to the announeed r honors in 1 1 Wirs hest of hi that he he spring onld ne der bt the ru i demo their the at g0l city i thi ore of for ity nomination and can mayoralty that he is wt vard s for oviding successiil irst nehised 0 vote in the the alty or place, he will then ask the Quigley for him at mayor; on. against Curtis, M. PAONESSA the party him battle. “looking in an trend of satis- ver comes forth © opposition alderman | ound' f to interpret cal exents and hat a democrat ht chance victory ularly when the fon has a record which he point with pride. Having been with the idea that success was s offing though a har candidate, Alder that will asl reward from to give s been v some time the has hecome mo this spring, democrat [} vor for to Paone his party faithful ask voters, they 1o, him recognition of the has performed for the people in the past ways taken a council matters, Of chairman endeavoring man " he of long and will the or party helong that he nd for its alderman part ir has has e heen of ittee which is to tinued on Sccond % LLA GETTING RESTLESS Up With Law and Order and nts o Lead Army \gainst vderous Bandits, Yity, 1"eb. 18 (Ry Villa, 44*vi1 1 ofticial permission again " . who was reported ico ( ‘rancisco MnBib R ief, ha Wl his Gene He days of Chihuahna ek in 1924 Hernande hut vhen men 1 e v as in rebellion was Vil A aide he went Villa | NOW sees the latter pay i a chance to réason for the alarm thorities over the crelary o States rebellion alo fron according 1o Acting S serrano |Rickard Quits in N. Y., New | Pre 1 to the| moter the v Squa indict two Louis range | lern s AT of A¢ streel maorn pany till alarm to extinguigh the (. Loui Associate Opens Up in Feb. 18, (By Rickard, sporting ) York, Tex vesterday Madise after rssanlting the St who nanagement of the » (Garden Sporting club his charge of leased vears ment on @ mall girls, coliseum has for 25 and ar moi to the A for creation there of port amphitheater similar noin this city (AL the $100 DAMAGE RY ire in the partition of Jolnh Wacker of 28 did a damage of ing N nbers of No. ¢ tenek home Greenwood £100 this Fngine Com called by blaze were 2 | this than | in| fight faced | in thel to| Ne\m of (he World By Associated Press PRICE THREE CENTS TRINITY BUILDING DESTROYED BY FIRE Alumm Hall at Hartlord College Is Mass ol Ruins - - ORIGIN IS NOT DETERMINED Flames Spread Rapidly and - Within ew Minutes Whole Structure Was Like Roari Furnace—Records Are Saved, Hartford, el minntes after Alnmni hall at after noon today the 1S, Within a few fire hud broken out in Trinity college shortly flames had swept length and were shooting windows on all sides At root on the east side of the with a great crash, Students Dismissed, Student dismissed from class- directly the report ot fire was through the buildings and rushed to the building From first floor and basement a cou- quantity gymnasium records hooks were its entire of the 20 the ml'r'nw,' ..m caved in s wer after sotnded they the of cquipment, and removed The started on the the fire s believed have rostrum in the hall on The origin of the determined early hlaze w0 cond floor. had not heen afternoon Pire Spreads Rapidly v the entire roof of th@ in. The fire had practically every I'he floors had away the cond floor and avalane of burning debris wreeked the lower floor, IFireman Sharkey wi he was struck by a waus climbing a lad- to the second story on the front of the building. He was taken of the college buildings in a but it was said that not thought to be hid caved spread the stricture buildin already part of to given on i the that had Substitute ired fimber in- when fall- ing as he der part into one dazed condition his condition was rions, I%ire Chief John € before 1 a'clock Moran announc- that the fire was under confrol. At that hour firemen were able to enter the building on nearly every side and efforts were he- ing made to say s much of the first floor us possibie Although m oquipment W afely the lower floor and basement, some old inity banners that were nailed to the walls in the I, some of them dating back to 1880, were destroyed in the flames. The building was insured 000 of the removed gymnasiunt from for $40,- HAS FREAK EGG H. M. Whaples, Farmer, Discoveres Two Fggs, Perfect. One Inside the Other, H.oM farmer Hill, is the laid by one of | The egg is of unusual size and in- side, contains anhother egg, entirely covered with a shell and apparently the same as the outer one. The freak cgg weighs about twice as much as an | ordinary ene. Mrs. Whaples broke the outer shell on the egg and dis- covered the extra one inside. This is the first of its kind to be breught to the attention of the farmer. Mr. Whaples at one tim¢ had twin | chicks hatched, clinging to one an- | other similar to the Siamese twins, They died within a short time. He 1d a chick with legs on its wings. hese extra legs moved when the chicken walked. Tt lived for some time. Winsted, take notice. BRIBERY IS CHARGED Promised At 13, At Jr., dairyman and Newington road near Klm possessor of freak egg his chickens. Whaples, on a that! Sensational Evidence the | New Stillman Trial March Montreal, Ifeb. 18.—A commis- sion to take testimony at Montreal be- ginning March 13, in the divorce suit of James A, Stillman against Mrs. At 1. Stiliman was granted today by Supreme Court Justice Morschau- ser on application ofedefense counsel, Justice Morschauser held in abey- 1 motion by Mrs. Stillman’s law- lowance of )| for the hanker would whether an appeal would be to prevent hearings at Mont- Poughkeepsic not say sought real Eugene appointed dence witng bribed H. Godin, of Montreal, was commissioner to take evi- relating to charges that gainst Mrs. Stillman were and tempted with bribes. |Delaware Women Form Volunteer Fire Dept. el, eb. 18 The women's fire company in Dela- ware has been organized at Holloway Terrace, with ten charter members, It i an auxiliary of the men's volun- teer company and was organized as a in case of ftire when the away at work The women sxpected to assume all of a scaling a lad- line of h there Wilmington, tirst protection men are said they duties [ fireman’s from der to handling a [Body of Col. Wm. Hall Is Back in This State Ieb. 18, The body of H. Hall, bound from | Daytona, Fla., to his home at South | Willington, arrived here early today and was transferred from the Federa! ’P\pwn to the 6:14 Central Vermont train which had heen held here 18 minutes to await the delayed Federal Fapress, New London, Col. Willlam oo — ’