New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1924, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ALL BALLOONS ENTERED IN - RACE STILL IN AIR TODAY; ARE DRIFTING OVER TEXAS Port Farthest From Which One Was; Sighted Was At Black-. well, Oklahoma AtTIZS Soldiers of Civil J ? | Attend State Convention North GRAND ARMY VETERANS ELECT IRA R. WILDMAN War' s e 2 e g e e NEW BRITAIN H Changes In G. 0. P. Committee | Forecast For Tomorrow IVigInthHE HUNTS ANOTHER |Resignations Expected to | Be Tendered—No Action SHOOT FIGHTING T0 GET TAXREDUCTION | Taken at Session Held | Last Evening, | | Chapges in the republican town | ommittee that were expected to take | | place last night were delayed because | | | Rppropriations Are Adopted there was not a full attendance of the Warns This Is Impossible if Big EChicago Woman Also Wounds Wile of Intended Victim DISKPPEARS P 5" ’fm-tf,".d, Rushes Into Home of 1. Mrs. Smith—Smith Himself is Be- ing Guarded by Police. i Adyt, plicut s, e ERALD| MEXIGAN MOUND MAY v, TOMB OF 10T ('Olm, Smith, Hills Carctaker and Shoots Naiona) (ieographic Expe- dition to Seek Trace of 10:40 a. m. Watch Being Kept for Car- Pigeons—No Mes- rier sage Yet Received From Today |republican headquarters, tomorrow evening and it is under- stood that practically the entire per- sonal will step astde and allow new ward representatives to take their places. Dissatistaction with the par- | Waterbury, April 24.—Veterans of | 'the Grand Army attending the de-' partment of Connecticut encampment | | here today elected Ira R. Wildman of | ! Danbury department commander for| ‘the ensuing year. The other officers Alling in the recent mayoraity fight ty's fallure to put across Judge B, W. committee members at a meeting at ‘DEFENDS M—ELEWS PLAN The committee is scheduled to meet | Declares Surtax Slashes Will Stimulate Business and In Long Run Increase Revenues From Taves om Larger Incomes Chicago, April 24.—Miss \\‘andi' Eal'llest t\mel‘lcans | Stopa, formerly of Detroit, and said to Lave been a resident of an artists’ col- | April 24 ony here, accompanied by a man, in- | % B vaded the country home of Y. Kenley | lonal Geographic society announced Smith, an advertising man, today, shot | today the dispatch of an expedition and killed Henry Manning, a care-|to Mextco to uncover ir the ruins of | :i‘;:'- and fired two shots at Smith's| Cyjculico, south of Mexico, the oldest Washingten, The Na- Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 10’301 | April 19th .. PRICE THREE CENTS BOOTLEG SCHEME IS BELIEVED DISCOVERED IN NORWALK FREIGHT YARD Two Carloads of Grain Alcohol, Worth About $150,000, Held By Federal Prohibition Agents. Was Billed as “Alum” But Leak C(auses Expose— Cases Were Transferred elected are: has prompted the action of the com- “I'm going down town and kill mmfntruciure yet found on the American James R. Young of Waterbury, senior vice-commander; Adrian Sloan of Hartford, junior vice-commander, ‘Benjamin H. Cheney of New Haven, medical director and Rev. James W. | Davis of Bridgeport, chaplain, Retiring Commander John 1. Saxe of Waterbury was given a rising vote Pilot Carrying Wireless. NO. 5 IS WRECKED Dallas, Tes,, April 24.—Balioon five, Army No. 3, in the national race, was wrecked landing at Wapanucka, Okla,, at 10:20 a, m. today, Lieutenant A, MeKinley, the pilot messaged The Associat- ed Press, has discharged the dutics of his office. the vote, San Antonio, Tex, April 24—All: The encampment voted down a pro- seven balloons entered in the national | posal to change the date of election elimination race, which took the ajr and installation of national officers, here late yesterday, were still up this| The good weather and the import- afternoon and flying northwestward, ance of the election brought more according to available reports received | members to encampment today than here, !were here yesterday., The roll call News dispatches indicated that the yesterday showed wrveat bags still were hovering over but today 125 responded to the call. uklahoma and Texas territory, Most reports said they were travel- |Connecticut department of the Amerl- ng high, making their identification can Legion addressed the Grand unpossible, One unidentified bag was Army men today and he was given reported nearly dragging on the & fine reception, ground near Denison, Texas, out for him when he declared that The point farthest north from which | the legion stood shoulder to shoulder report was recelved was Blackwell, [ With the Grand Army men and were Okla, where a balloon, flying east- | ready to carry on. ward, was sighted at 10:40 a. m, Although thede was no slate of of- Wireless Awaits Word ficers, yet the election went off with- flie army wircloss station here wan OU “\‘:‘;I";"‘w"- In "“I“"*l‘.‘"" C°"‘“"l g er Wildman's nomination, Comrade waiting word from the pllots and “\\‘. 2 Shntlfy ot the) Bratrerd. pest of carrier pigeons. who now lives in New Haven, brought It was learned today that Captain FOURd after round of laughter from 11, K. Honeywell, the pllot, at the last 18 comrades when he sald Mr. Wild- ainute yesterday afternoon refused to &N Wasn't haif as bad a fellow as his ¥ ; name indlcated and that despite the the fact hie came from Danbury yet Mr. Wildman was very capable and wateh was being kept for the return ke a basket of pigeons with him be- ause of a superstition that pigeons 'of thanks for the manner in which he | His staff also came in for credit in/ 110 In attendance Commander E. P. Armstrong of the Three cheers rang | Washington, April 24.—Opening the mittee members. Party leaders and debata today in the senate on the rey. heavy campaign contributors are said to have discussed the situation with the present committeemen and urged a change, sweeping in its nature, nance committee defended the Mellon Income tax rates and warned against The town committee as now con- luru‘u-lr Authonastion .lfy DOnEreM . ot stituted 1s: A. P. Marsh, first ward; | oo o aPPropriations “lest tax reduc- E. ¥ay, third war; Hollis J. Foster,| . Wams of Appropriations fourth ward; Joseph Miynarski, fitth | ""he Measure as reported by the ward; William M. Greenstein, sixth |h an¢e committee, he declared, made S |In, view of the estimated surplus. | Bills calling for the expenditurs of WATERBURY NURSE SUES 1$3,143,606,176, he pointed out, are | ESCORT IN AUTO RIDE‘!he soldier bonus measure approved :by both houses for which the outlay | next year has been estimated at $185,- Claims He Was Negligont in Driving | Theretore,” Mr, Smoot sald, “au- | thorlzation by congress of the expen- and Responsible Por Her Be | -y - v ing | diture of any considerable portion of Hurt In Wreck | ’ 'and make tax reduction impossible,” Waterbury, April 24.—DMiss Eliza- Income Tax Schedule beth Knudson of this city, a trained | Turning to the infome tax schedule il in the superior court in which |the biil will center, Mr. Smoot de. she names Rober Chipman of Water- | clared the reductions in surtaxes rec. |bury as defendant, bile when the car collided with an-Jments in productive enterprises and in other car on the Milford turnpike in | the long run increase the revenues |the toxu of West Haven, October 13, 'from the taxes on the larger incomes" Adolph Carlson, second ward; Willlam | 17 P4 {mpossible.” |ward, Willlam E. Judd is chatrman, |[1® "fullest tax reduction justifiable rending before congress in addition to ] 1 000,000, {this amount may wipe out the surplus nrrse, seeks $25,000 damages in & suit |about which the main controversy on with him as his guest, in an automo- | stimulate business, encourage invest. 1 | In placing the MelMon income rates ; es Chipman was negligent in the bill, finance committee republl- 2 LeliaE to wips from the wind. cans rejected the Leongworth com- shield a Leavy mist and also for fail- | promise schedule adopted by a vote (g to reduce his speed while going of republicans in the house, This | Jown kil She was at the point ot schedule called for smaller reductions death in a New Haxen hospital for {of the surtaxes than the Mellon plan sereral days, suffering from a fracture @nd greater cuts in the normal rates, enue bill, Chairman Smoot of the fi- | She was riding lommended by Secretary Mellon, “will | ‘ing bad Iuek, Has Radio Outfit Hoveywell's balloon is the eniy one jnipped with a radio broadeasting t. The other balloons are carrying colving sets only except B, H, our- nier, who is earrying only pigeons, Interest is attached to Honeywell's Mmglt because of the experiment in carrying a broadcasting set. This is thought to be a dangerous experiment | because of static electricity which might ignite the bag. tain Bou- dinot, Honeywell's ald, however, is an expert in this as well as in meteorolo- ¢ and his knowledgs is considered a able asset to Honeywel The bolloons having receiving sets have & decided advantage in being able to receive weather reports, es. pecially prepared for them. This is belicved to be the first national bal- loon race in which radio stations have i bi¢ to gerve as the communicats ing medium between free balloons and the earth, wind is blowing from the Ioin the course of the balloons, 1. Jarboe, metcrologist, estimated its veloeity at from 50 to 75 miles an hour, up to 5,000 feet, and to 100 miles per hour above that height Manitowee, Wis.,, April ~Th car torry Pere Marquette 1§ wireless- ed a local station that a balloon was signted six miles southeast of this t at six o’clock this oorning. The Gentitication of the balloon was not ampleted, byt it bore two letters, the rst of which was either an 8 or § and 1@ second an A or 4, \lagh MEANS MAKES COMPLAINT Sass Hi« Collection of Diarjes and Papers Has Deen Taken ¥rom His Quarters, Washington, April 24.-—Gaston B, Means, former investigator for the de- partment of justice and star witness before the senate Daughertly investi- gation, reported to . the committee members today that his extensive eol- oetion of diaries and documents put in evidence, had disappeared. An investigation has been ordered to determine the whereabouts of the missing papers. Means told the committee a man wearing the badge of a sergeant- as. arms of the senate obtained possession of the documents, or a part of them, vesterday at Means’ home in Wash- ington. On His Fourth Attempt Bridgeport, April 24.—Declared to iave tried on three previous occasions to take his life, John Ugyan, 85, com- mitted sulcide toda His body was ound shortly before 7 o'clock when 1is wife traced the édor of illuminat- ing gas to his bedroom, where the gas oL had been turned on. Lloyds Cancels Insurance On Millions in Diamonds Chicago, April 24.—Contracts for owelry insurance running into mil- lions of dollars have been cancelled by lloyds of London, according to today’s Chicago Tribune. Diamond _losses, mainly through theft have increased in the last year more than 300 per cent., causing this action. and agents of the company are said to be in- <“tructed to take no more insurance on jewelry and to cance! and make re. tunds for all ou'standing policles. would be sure to give the department (& fine administration, | Waterbury, April 24--Members of {the women's relief corps of the de- partment of Connecticut here for their | 418t annual convention this morning estimated the following officers for | the ensuing year: President, Mrs, Flora C. Wariner of Bridgeport; senior vice-president, Mrs. | Maude B. Deming of Willimantic; Junior vice-president, Mrs, Eleanor L. | Luey of Mystie; treasurer, Mrs, Flor- lence 1. P, llayden of Meriden, and chaplain, Mrs. Cella M. Beers of | Bridgeport. Reports of the officers jand committees were read. The in- stallation of officers will take place | this atternoon. ‘GRAND JURY IS ORDERED T0 REASSEMBLE TOMORROW | Aleorn Expected Present Caso ' Against Justice Fellows of to Canton For Action I Martrord, April 24.—The extraor- {dinary grand jury which was used in the investigation of medical practice {In Connecticut and of which Benedict | M. Holden is the foreman, has been | called to sit tomorrow. It is at pres. ent in recess, The requ that the jury sit was made by State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn today. It is not known exactly why the jury is want- ed, but report was current that Mr. Alcorn will appear before it to offer | eertain facts which are said to have a relation to release from the Hartford county jall of a number of persons sent there for violation of the liquor laws and who at release had not served the full mitment. 1t Is sald that the Stevens from Collinsville, in which Justice ‘ Fellows had been in controversy with Mr. Aleorn will be one of the cases brought before the jury. Tt is understood that thera has been made up a list of the persons 1who were released from jail before the end of their sentence, The extraordinary jury has not been limited in its inquiry to “the fake medieal diploma” situation but has the right to take up the other | conditions which the state's attorney may deem worth looking into. Mrs. Knight Wins Divorce ‘ And Custody of Children | Judge Hinman in superior court has handed down a decision in the | divorca astion of Louise Rav Knight va, Thomas Knight, in which { Mrs. Knight's petition 1s granted. The case was heard about two weeks ago. Attorney Michael A. Sexton repre- {sented Mrs. Knight and Judge Wil- liam F. Mangan apepared for the husband. Besides the decree of di- vorce, Judge Hinman has granted ens- tody of two minor children to Mrs. | Annle Knight, the petitioner's moth- er-in-law, and has ordered Knight to pay $10 a week for thelr support. WOMAN AUTOIST FREED Bridgeport, April 24.—Mrs. Frances Leeds, is exonerated of criminal re- sponsibility for the death of six year old Harold Briggs, fatally injured by time of their com- case | of the skull and other severe in- Juries, She alleges she has perma- |rent faclal paral the accident and that she longer be able to follow her profes- | Hon. " PAINTER DIES FROM PALL Smalley Strect Man Sustained Fatal | the committes followed the advice of ‘8t Mrs. 8mith, Injurics When Staging Drops on South Burritt Street Job August Sodergren, aged 61 years, of The Democratic Plan Senate democrats have proposed s an a result of substitute schedule calling for a cut| "% will no,in the present surtax rates along the | Hected the telephone. |lines of the Longworth compromise |and for normal rates similar to those | adopted by the house. This plan i | expected to win the support of some SPRFtment in his town residence one lnnuhllcln Insurgents, In recommending the reduction of Ithe surtax rates, Mr, Smoot deelared | practically every authority, Irrespec- |tive of party affillations, who had | studied the question, Their reduction, | he eontinued, “has been recommended by Presidents Wilson, Harding add too,” Miss Stopa screamed as she and | her companion fled in an automobile. The police rushed a detail to the cifice of John H, Dunham & Co., | vhere Smith is employed, then took | him to the stat.'s attorney's office and left a guard. Smith declared Miss Stopa, with | whom he sald he formerly was friend- ! ly, according to the state's attorney, | had demanded that he divorce his wife | and marry her, Threatened Him Before. | Smith sald he had met Miss Stopa ' when she was employed in the office | of the United States district attorney | here. She had returned to Detrolt | some time ago, he sald, and he ex- | pressed the bellef that she came back to Chicago determined to kill him and his wife. She once before had threatened him, he charged. Miss Stopa and her companion, whose name was sald by the police to | the Dunham offices and they are be- | ing wought. Miss Stopa and her companion forced themselves inlo the Smith home, but Smith had left for his of- fice. Rushing into the living room, she began firing, according to the po- lice, one shot killlng Manning and | two others narrowly missing Mrs. BSmith, Miss Btopa acted as an assistant district attorney for a time, She was & stenographer, was graduated from a law college and was admitted to practice at the Illinois bar in 1921, Smith declared that he did not be- leve her mentally normal, Monday, he sald, she telephoned him | from New York, saying she was com- {ing to Chicago, He sald he discon- Although denying his relations with Miss Stopa had been other than pla. tonle, Smith sald he rented her an summer. Jumps Through Window After shooting Mauning and firing Miss Stopa leaped through a window, Smith said. He was in a dentist's office at the time, Manning was killed, he said, when he tried to eject Miss Stopa, Mrs, Smith, | recently 11l of influenza, still was in 1125 Smalley street, died in the New Coolidge. The recommendations of ,bed. Dritain hospital this afternoon from peritonitls and intermal injuries fol« |lowing a fall from a st house he was painting yesterday, i Sodergren was a contract painter provisions of the bill, Mr. Smoot ) and the staging upon which he and another man were working on Bouth Burritt street fell yesterday. Mr. | Sodergren sald some of the planks fell on top of him, striking him in the sible with the business progress and | abdomen, ! tures, He was cared for in the kitchen of the home where he was working from the time of the accident, about 1:30 p. m,, untll after 8 o'clock when he was sent home, Dr. Henry T. Bray was summoned and found his suffer- ing from peritonitis and internal in- | juries and ordered him removed at once to the New Britain General hos- | pital, | 8Bodergren was born in Toledo, O., but has resided in New Britaln for |some tima. He leaves a wife and family I"'uneral arrangements have not ¥ : been made. He sustained internal rup- " RESCUED FROM FLAMES In Torringford District Burned But Couple, With Three Small Children, Escape. Torrington, April 24.—Fire early | today destroyed a farmhouse in the | Parmhouse Torringtord district owned by Angelo ' Fusco, who with his wife and three ,smaill ehildren were obliged to flee from the flames in their night clothes. Two of the children were carried down a ladder from a second story ! window by a neighbor. The wife and children sought shelter in a hen | house until temporary quarters were found at the home of a nelghboer. Most of the contents of the house were burned. Pat Marr Gets $1 ,000 and 5 Years in Leavenworth | Texarkana, Ark., April 24, — Pat | Marr, oil promoter, convicted of mis- | use of the malls, was sentenced today to five years in the Leavenworth peni- tentiary and was fined $1 maximum penal HE HAD TEN CHI Washington, April 24.—Charity be- gine at home and there is no consti- tutional authority for this govern- metn heeding a “baby’s ery around the world” Senator Dial, democrat, South Carolina, told the senate today in attacking the proposed appropria- ition of ten milllon for relief of Ger- man children. “For my part,” remarked Senator Copeland, “when a baby cries, T don't stop to think what language it ¥ erying in.” “The doctor can't tell me anything Mra, Leeds' automoble on April 16, {in a finding made Yoday by Coronmer | Phelan. about bahjes or thelr eries” protested Benator Dial, “1 have had ten in my house.™ |the last three secretaries of the trease ury, Glass, Houston and Moellon—have to the high surtaxes, Discussing other , Airected attention partieularly to the |corporation and estate taxes. The committes measure, he asserted, “is designed to interfere as little as pos- *md"!lrlul development of the ceun- try.” | The increase in the flat corporation [tax from 12 1-2 per cent to 14 per cent coupled with the ellmination of the special capital stock tax, he sald, “will apportion the tax burdem more particularly among the different cor- | porations by shifting it to a certain | extent from those corporations earn- ing & small return upon their capital.” { The change aleo would relleve cor- | porations, he argued of the “burden ‘nf preparing two complicated tax re- turns upon two entirely different bases and will greatly simplify the work of |the treasury department in auditing returns.” Referring to the amendment of Senator Brookhart, republican, lTowa, proposing restoration of the excess profit tax, Mr., Smoot declared this tax had been found “arbitrary and inequitable in its application as well as stifiing to business expansion in its burden.” He also denounced sug- gestions for imposition of a tax on undistributed profite, “Sound business finance, “requires the retention by he said, corpora- tions of a large part of their &lrmnn‘ in order to take care of the business |expansion of the country and at the | same time protect the company against future losses. Sound policy dictates that pressure should be put 'upon ecorporations to retain a portion of their earnings and profits rather than to force them through unsound | taxation to distribute their entire pro- fit The committee rejected the house provision to iIncrease the estate tax rate from a maximum of 25 per eent to 40 per cent, Mr. Smoot said, cause a higher rate cagnot be collect- ed without affecting adversely the rev- cnves of the federal government and {of the states, as well'as the valus of property.” By The Assoclated Press. London, April 24.—The conference hére between representatives of north. ern and southegn Ireland for adjust- ment of the boundary between Ulster and the Irish Free State broke up this afternoon without resuit. * THE WEATHER —pn Hartford, April 24.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair tonight with lttle change in temperature. Bmith said he had heard that Miss |Blnm was married to Glascow, her aging on & | been to the same effcte with respect | escort. Supreme Court, Which Turned Down Daylight Saving System. Hartferd, April 24.—Notice was | given by Chief Justice George W. Wheeler to George A. Conant, clerk |of the superfor court of Hartford | county, today that the supreme court of errors would open its May session here on Tuesday, May 6 at # a. m, In- | stead of 10 a. m. This s taken to mean thet the highest court in the state which recently upheld the con- stitutionality of a law making stan- dard time on publicly displayed clocks enforceable, will adjust its own sit tings to the change of time brought about by use of daylight saving time, In the argument in behal? of stan- !dard time made before the court in the test case emphasis was laid upon | the claim that the statute also was aimed against the violation in spirit of the standard time laws, " FINALLY GETS BULLET Tts Removal, Waterion, N April 24 carrying a bullet, lodged in his hip | for 69 years, Aaron D. Lohr, Civil war ! veteran had the missile extracted at a local hospital today. He was shot January 15, 1865 and early efforts to locate the bullet by probing were un- successful. Recently he experienced trouble with bis hip. An examination showed the bullet was still there and the operation was ordered. For —After jAdviser to Speak at Zoning Board Meeting Viece-President Ennis of the Tech- | mical Advisory corporation will be | here next Tuesday evening to speak &t a meeting of the roning commis- sion. The meeting has been called for 8 o'clock Tuesday and Chairman | Thomas Linder will preside. | The work of zoning New Britain has already been started. An engin- |eer and a draftsman are in the city i preparing the three maps to be used in the work and gathering data nec- essary for the preparation of a zon- ing ordinance. Mr. Ennis will teil of the work aiready done and what is contempiated. The ordinance will be submitted to the corporation counsel and the com- | be Ted Glascow, falled to appear at | Last | Daylight Saviug. Now (0 Operate on | | continent, | | Professor Byron Cummings, leader | {of the expedition, in preliminary ob- | | mervations disclosed an artificial imound 412 feet in diameter and 412 i feet high and the explorers believe | probable that a thousand years before the first pyramid was bulit some ! | monareh of the Valley of Mexico forced his subjects to erect a great | monument for him. | Skeleton remains of the Americans (of 7,000 years ago, specimens of thelr | emblems and idols, and pieees of thelr earthenware found at Culcuilco by Dr. Cummings he believes, have | upset current theories about the or- | 1gin of human life on the American continent. “The steps of human development | trom the simplest beginnings are as ! | easily traceable in the Valley of Mex- |1co as in Mesopotamia or the Valley of the Nile,” Dr. Cummings said, “Point out as we may slinilarities to Mongollan types, or to Western Asiatic and Egyptian designs and con- | | ceptions, we must acknowledge after {all that the early inhabitants or | | America were distinctly American. | Thelr dissimllarities to Asiatics, both ' east and west, to Africans, and to | Europeans are far more pronounced | than their sintlarities, They form & large group of the human family, sep= | | arated from the parent stock in some ;ramote age, who, as they gradually | multiplied and possessed themselves {of this part of the globe, sought to | surmount itw ebstacies and to become | masters of thelr surroundings.” The mound at Culculico was sealed | | and preserved by lava from the cra- | | tor Xitli, the geographic soclety has found, Tho Azetecs of Mexico were preceded by the Toltecs, and the | Toltecs were preceded b ya primitive | | people whose traces were embaimed | in this lava. Under present surface blanket of lava, however, explorers have found a mueh earlier covering and in this first lava flow, which encases the relics of ! | Americans of 8,000 years ago, it is {hoped by the expedition that traces | will be found of a civillmtion that | | existed even before the primitive pre- decessors of the Toltecs invaded the | valley. 5 ~ ADJOURNMENT JUNE 9 House Republican Teaders Announce That All Business Will Be Clearsd From Calendar By That Time, Washington, April 24.—~House re- publigan leaders informed President | Coolidge today that the house was ap- | proaching conciusion of consideration of constructive legislation and that o ‘| far as that body was concerned, con gress would be able to adjourn June 9. Those conferring with the president, included Representative Longworth of Ohio, the majority leader; Speaker Gillett, Chairman Snell of the rules committes and Chairman Madden of | the appropriationa committee The program for the fmmediate future as outlined to the president and approved by him provides for consid- eration of the child labor constitu tional amendment, the remaining ap- propriation bills, which are largely of a deficlency nature, and farm reijef tegistation. Chief concern of the leaders after enactment of farm legisiation th eald, would be to stave off bills de- scribed by the préident recently as “determined aseanlts on the public treasury by organized minoritios.” VACCINATION TEST Vaceine Innoculation. Hartford, April 24.— A possibie con- flict Between state and city Jaws con- cerning the attendance at scheol of all children under 14 years or age may be brought to light and made th subject of a test as the result of the attitude taken by Mrs, C. Y. Brown of this city, In refusing to permit her three children to be vaccinated. Mrs. Brown, who moved to this city from Guilford about a year ago, has presented her children at a grammar school every morning for the past seven weeks and the officials of the school have refused to recognize the vaceination exemption certificates presented by the mother and signed by eclectic physicians, and to enroll the children. The officials base their | stand on & rule of the Hartford board of education, requiring all children, to be vaccinated before entering school unles they present an exemption cer- |tificate signed by a physician and passed by the local health officers. Mra. Brown declares her children bave a legal right to a public school education and refuses to have them mon_council for approval as soon as vaccinated because they have all been completed and wijl then go 1o the In poor heaith for years and she fears legisiature for ratification. vaccination will de them iniury. From Lighter. 24--With twe grain alcohol, Norwalk, April freight carloads of worth approximately $100,000, held under guard in the local railroad frelght yards, federal prohibition en- | forcement agents today began inves- tigation of what is believed to be the largest bootleg operation in this state, Freight Agent Harry L. Hayes of [ the N. Y, N. H, and H. Railroad Co. made the report to the Norwalk po- lice which resulted in the liquor selzure. The cars which contain the liquor, both of the box type Nos. 78029 and 93405, were ordered to the Wllspn Point yard yesterday morning to re ceive a shipment which was sched- uled to be docked there, Shortly be- fore noon a lighter reached the dock and for the next three hours the 1,480 cases were being transferred to the cars, which were then sealed. LIeak Causes Discovery. Bills of lading in the Norwalk of- fioe of the railroad company show that the liquor was designated as “alum”, Frelght Agent Hayes re. celpted for the two cars without sus. pleion. When he went to, make an inspection preparatory to having the ears shunted for the making,up of a freight train he discovered a liquld leaking from one of the cars. Inves- tgating convinced hilm that the lquid was alcohol. Mr, Hayes made ta report of his finding to the Norwalk police. 10 Gallon Cases When the cars were opéned this morning it was found that the bulk of | the freight in them was made up of ten gallon cases of alcohol. The Jiquors were of various kinds and some of the very small botties—about | sample size—were marked as if bot- tied in Bordeaux, France, .On some packages were labels showing that they had been in Nova Seotia. The prohibition agents were of the opinion that the liquor had been trans-shipped from a Nova Scotla port. A vessel of the coast guard feet came into Norwalk harbot during the morning and after a search for the lighter departed down the sound. The lghter which was tied up at Wilson's Point yesterday afternoon carried a deck derrick. When the switching crew found a liquld coming from the freight cars Conductor Willlam Craig refused to accept the cars. He went to the lighter but the crew sald they knew nothing about the contents of the cars. The bad condition of the cars was reported to Mr. Hayes who in turn informed Chief of Police Pell« nington. The laiter recognized the ilquid as alcohol. Chief Prohibition Field Agent Wheeler arrived from Hartford this morning and it is said he was furnish- ed with the names of local parties who made arrangement with the New Haven raliroad to have four cars pro- vided at Wilson's point yesterday. Two of the cars are those which wers seized and 1% other two cars, empty are still on the siding. Alum Sprinkled About The cases of alcohol and liquor were tound to be sprinkled with powdered alum. The cars were consigned to a Pittbsurgh, Pa. firtn which handled alum but the raiiroad authorities de- clined at first to confirmn a name men- tioned as the consignee or a similar name as the consigner. A preliminary survey of the freight yrought ont A revised estimate that the flulds were worth probably $1 MRS. THAW HOPEFUL Espects to be Soom Rejoined By Harry—Lvelyn Neshit to Press Ape peal From Decision, e Philadeiphia, April 24.—Mrs. aMry C. Thaw, 82 year old mother of Harry K. Thaw, left today for her home in Pittsburgh, confident that she will be shortly joined by her son, who is still eld in the Pennsylvania hospital for mental and nervous diseases, pending appeal from the verdict of a jury that deciared him eane. The appeal 18 expected to be takes by counse! for Dvelyn Nesbit, Thaw's divorced witfe, whose 13 year old som, Ruese’l William Thaw, intervened in the sanity proceedings. Repairs Being Made to Central Park Monument John F. Meehan has been awarded a contract by the park commission to resurface and repair the soldiers’ monument at Central park at & cost not to exceed $3.500. His men have already started work. Mr. Meehan ex- pects he will be able to complets The contract at a figure less than 1M | maximum set by the commission. e i