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WOMAN PAYS 5200 ON LIQUOR COUNT Declares She Ren Private Still to Treat Her Friends Mrs. John Stankus of 74 Sevmour Mtreet was fined $200 and costs for Niolation of the liquor law by Judge W. C. Hungerford in police court| this morning despite her denfal of | guilt and’ her contention that the | MUSSOLIN WOULD LIKE TO GONE T AMERICH, HE SAYS (Continued from First Page) some abstract principle of freedom, to.permit individuals or groups to retard its march upward toward the Supreme goal. “The provision effecting revoca- tion ;until further order of the li- censeg of certain newspapers,” the only uge she made of liquor in her |premipr said, “must not be inter- home was to serve it to her board- | pretedias a breach of principle of ®rs and “treat” her relatives. {liberty of the press or of criticism. Christmas is approaching and her | Fascism Fears Nothing home will be visited by her children| “It fs well that every one knows and others, so she had a “still” in!that fasgism does not fear either “Do you believe we can stop our march at every step to bend to pick up these miserable scraps of paper which are thrown at us? Moreoves, these calumnies have the flat crooked form of the boomerang, and, like that Australian weapon, finish sooner or later by returning of their own, force to the feet of those who hurled them.” At the present moment, the gi- gantic force which 1is behind the lictoral loan, Mussolini asserted, eloquently demonstrated the true in- terests of the Itallans. Explains the Loan “This loan,” he sald, “is undoubt- edly one of the most complex oper- ations in the history of finance. It is impossible as yet to estimate pre- cisely what will be the total sum raised by consolidation of the float- ing debt and by popular subscrip- |tlons. I desire that Italy save the honor of her monetary flag—that {she win a sweeping victory in the | battle of the lira. of the fundamental necessities of European evolution. Premier Musso- lini said. The duce's guiding idea, he de- clared, is the necessity for providing for Italy's crying need for moral, spiritual and physical expansion by means of a pacific, but not pacifist policy. The fulfillment of these needs, far from being incompatible {with friendship and co-operation with other nations, really requires | co-operation and mutual under- standing with them, notably with France and England. Maussolini declared himself to be a | firm bellever In the restoration of | the European balance of power in a | formula best adapted for the main- | tenance of peace. | Referring to the so-called Asfatic | peril, he urged the necessity of abandoning the tendency to regard | Asiatics as barbarians, giving as his {opinion that all peril from the Orl- ent will have ceased to exist when operation yesterday, turning out the lquor for the party, she said, She was positive she has rever sold Jquor; despite the testimony of a 12 years' old girl, who sald she bought bottles for her father at $1 eac)l,l from Mrs. Stankue. Stanely Yorke testified that he has boarded in the house for three ghonths and has never seen the law | wiolated there. Mrs. Stankus usually gives the boarders a drink when they pay their board every week, he said. Officer John C. Stadler testitied that he and Officer Cosgrove went to the tenement yesterday forenoon and served a scarch warrant. Mrs. Stankus showed them som operation, Mrs. Stankus told them her daughter will be married soon after Christmas and the affair will call for considerabla liquor, hence the preparations, according to Officer Stadler. Raid on Silver Street Leon Honiskl, aged 31, Burritt street, and Alex Klepackl, aged 16, of 42 Silver street, pleaded not guilty to two counts of viola- tion of the lquor law in a store at 10 Silver street, and asked that their cases be contlnued until Monday morning. There being no objection on the part of the state, the con- tinuance was ordered. Officer Cosgrove and Stadler mld-! ed the store last evening, and seized u small amount of liquor. Klepackl is employed in the store and Honiski 13 the owner, according to the po- lce. Denles Drunken Driving Russell E. Winninger, aged 2 14 East Main street, Plainville, pleaded not gullty to the charge of operating an automobile while un- der the influence of liquor and on his request the case was continued until next Tuesday. Officer Willlam P. Hayes made the arrest last eve- ning on East Main street, his atten- tion having been attracted by the manner tn which the car was be- ing operated. [} Alleged Murderer Is Y Harrisburg, Pa., Capture in Greensboro, Paul Sheaffer, missing farm hand soughit for the killing of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Shull of near Landis- burg and the attempted abduction of their daughter, Mrs. Lester Kell, was announced here late yesterday by Major Lynn G. Adams, head of the state police. Major Adams sald ho was told Sheaffer would walve extradition. The arrest of Sheaffer ends a search that began a week ago yes- terday, when the killings and at- tempted abduction were committed. Eheaffer, who is belleved to have kluitbed Mr. and Mrs. Shull to death when they refused his de- mand for money. Bt. Jean De Baptiste Society Hold Election | Officers for 1927 were elected at last evening's meeting of the St. Jean de Baptiste soclety. Rev. Charles Coppens, pastor of St. Peter’'s church, was re-elected chap- lain with J. Bergeron as assistant kbaplain. Plerre Gosselln was re- elected president and Charles Roy was chosen as vice-president. Napo- leon Gingras was re-elected trea- surer and Louls Nickland was elect- ed financlal secretary. Dominic Gosselln was chosen as correspond- Ing secretary and Hormldas Lampe- Ton sergeant at arms. The elected ofticers will be install- ed on Thursday evening, January 6, 1927, Practical Joke Likely To Kill Bridgeporter Bridgeport, Dec. 17 (A —George Micko, 35, a laborer at the Crane Valve Company s in a critical con- dition in the Bridgeport hospital, a victim of what police believed to be & practical joke played upon him by a fellow workman, Frank Cruda, 40, who is under arrest and held under bonds of $1,000. Micko was taken to the hospital suffering from ruptured intestines after a tube of compressed air with pressure of 90 pounds had been applied to him by Cruda. An operation was performed in an effort to save his life. Physicians said late last night the result of the operation cannot be told as yet and that the victim's condition was very serious and it was doubtful if he would recover. TOWN ‘Watertow SNOWROUND N. Y., Dec. 17 (P— alcohol | in bottles and they found a “stiil” in | of 475 | | verbal oactual antagonists. Fascism |is sure of being able to resist sift- |ing by any ecriterion of criticism be- | cause no barrier of paper can check |its vital progress. ‘What fascism refuses to admit |is liberty of libel, which moreover {can legislation. Vulgar insults and |apologies of crime must be repressed {not only when they explode ecrim- but also in journalistic haunts dur- ing the preparatory phase of crime. | That 1s to say, we insist upon tran- | quility and security for the Italian | people, whose productive must pro- | ceed without being disturbed.” Laughs at Censorship While speaking, the duce's face set severely, resembling some an- |clent roman scripture, but when !the correspondent suggested that |the censorship, at least as far as |foreign countrles were concerned, !was doing Ttaly more harm than | ood, the premier's face lighted up |in frank hilarity. “Look thergg’ he said, polnting to |a corner of hi§ huge desk where lay {a great mass of newspaper clip- {pings. “I call that corner of my | desk the poison deposit. 1t is a col- |lection which my press office sends !me every day of all the criticisms, |calumnies and insults which daily {are printed against me and fascism |in certaln forelgn papers. “Now, many of those articles are |sent from Rome and Milan. Where, | then, is the terrible ccnsorship of which so much is spoken in Amer- |ica?” T must recognize one thing,” he continued ironically. “That is, when {1t is a question of inventions to dis- |credit fasclsm, certaln journalists |glve proot of an inventive power which could well be used to write a movie scenarlo. “They have not as yet invented— {1t would be the height of absurdity and ridiculousness—that T purpose- ly invent the attacks on my life, one after the other.” |, Here the duce abrupty *his joking manner. dropped Arising quickly several steps, then swung toward the interviewer. and said in staccato tones: ug-ht in Connecticut| “To resume its proper place atter| It Was at this point that Musso- Dec. 17.—(#)— | centuries of slavery, and to remedy | lini stopped speaking of the prob- N. C, ot |the pititul poverty of its resources, | lems of his country, and, with a |the Itallan people has no time to |lose. T tell you, and make it known |to the whole world, that not even | the last man among these 42,000,000 !lmllanu has a single minute to lose. ‘Must | ships, perhaps catch | | | | | |§ 904 is our number. Watertown had to dig itself out to- | day from under one of the heaviest | snowfalls of years that clogged every highway in this section and éven stopped motor traffic principal streets of the city. | ! Snow was waist decp, and in the open country where the wind had drifted it, was higher in some places | than the tops of automobiles. PROBATION OFFICERS MEET Probation Officers 1. C. Connelly | and Miss Ruth I. Bristoll are attend- | ing the quarterly meeting Connectleut Probation Officers at Hillside Home, Bridgeport. Bristoll is secretary of the organ- ization. Mayor Behrens of Bridge- port delivered the address of wel- ¢omo and the luncheon speaker was Judge Willlam_ J. Buckley city and juventle courts of Bridge- of the in the | Miss | of the | What's yours? port. is most severely banned by Amerl- | |inally m the streets or public squares | from his high backed seat, he took | In This Weather’ Must you do the week’s washing at home yourself? Must you brave the icy winds, suffer genuine hard- Wouldn’t it be more enjoyable, mol:e sensible, hav- ing a good laundry do ALL OF YOUR WASHING IRON ALL OF YOUR FLATWORK | and return your wearing apparel STARCHED, DRIED and ready to 1 l cents a pound? 1 61c for 5% Ibs., minimum, ROUGH DRY SERVICE We're ready when you are. Delivery Service Everywhere “I can assure you that, without|the mental barriers between the putting in front of my eyes the|eastern and western peoples are lenses ot Doctor Pangloss, T am cer- | broken down, taln we shall win this battle, too, jwith flying colors. I am sure of the | Asked whether the common in- | spirit of #he mation. (Doctor | terests of Ttaly and Great Britain in | Pangloss, in Voltaire's “Candide” {the eastern Mediterranean imposed | contended that “all is for the best|qa policy of collahoration between the | in this best of possible worlds.”) {two nations, Mussoini said: “In the | “The citizens subscribe and con-!rriendship between England and | | tinue to subscribe to the loan, which | Italy there is nothing imposed. T cannot be called a patriotic loan in | gare to n fact, that even if there the traditional sense, since the state | were not many cconomic and politi- is appealing to its citizens' realistic cal reasons In favor of collaboration, sense mor than to the spirit of | the fricndship would exist just the sacrifice; the loan is good business | same, hecause of the tradition which for the subscriber. \has never been broken from the “The money attalned is destined | {imo of Picdmont until today, and not for the state budget, Which al- [wheh will never be betrayed. {ready shows a surplus, but for the | . sl g3t jindustrial ~and economic develop- | TN tvo R ] SORC e maMont Bt il SHETEtoNe | s g t:q:my o principle sense more than to the spirit of P ok R 4 x ] | maintenance of equilibrium in the | é the currency and the crisis In in- 13,40 of the Mediterranean and de- dustry. | e | velopment. of commerce and trade cg,‘t;;‘,’.g’.“[’;“’u,2° Eleotion | for the increased ‘prosperity. of the calamity-shout- | o " : 2 jor | tWO peoples. The signatures of the ing of his opponents, the premier o ettt iaa Taie o tnat l”:&' the ,"p’:}' e X”'_ 3 “oro. | show, moreover, that hoth are ready \;’ucl::‘hsn“;‘g:f e LU R make saerifices for the mainte- “An acute analysis of the Ttalian | “*NC€ OF P€ political system, he continued,” | i 5 | shows that, outside the electoral READ HERALD CLASST ADS system, a process of political and | FOR YOUR WAN administration selection of compe- tent men, which might be called Italy and England fol- ! ies, | ¢ after the meeting Mor New Gridiron Captain To Lead Red and Gold Photo by on & Peterson. JORN ¥ SON Pictured her next yea football te with is the leader of ew Britain High school John Ericson, son of John Ericson of 10 He won the honor fraternity membe He is 17 years old, playe tute center during his f school and regular Sefton drive over three duate Junior High school numbered from the 18 r graduates of the Senior High school éizy i;ems 1, 0: D. H. . wristmas social ever sted to br Thusnelda o will hold its annual ( Every member is req a pr t for the tr There will be a second anniversary mass 7 o'clock tomorrow morning at Mary's church. Give him a smoke stand—fine se- lection. Prices reasonable, MacKay & Wallin—Advt. A son was born General hospital to Walter Kovel wood et. He will appreciate Muller's Mozart ars, 50, 25, 10 and 5 in & box. —advi of 50 at New ay to Mr. and Mrs, of 127 Green- Miss Rose Krawitz was operated upon at New ieneral hospital today by . O'Connell and is report- ng comfortably Dad a good comfortable have just the one he 0. 8 of the fire 1 to the home of Jose 1 of 159 Oak street 4:47 yes- terday afternoon to a chimney fire. Thera was no damage. Cynthia Sweets Chocolate, Salted Nuts, Soda Shoppe. Raphacl Bldg. —Ady. Strictly doz. Main St New York Choir Singer For 60 Years Is Dead ¢ X Dec. 17 (Pr— John who sang in the v Episcopal church at treet for near! 60 fresh ional Hill eggs 80c 123 Sim Tea Importe choir of Tri the head of V years, is dead a Mr. Kna home in ¥ and a half 3 of poor health due 10 a fractured hip. He was employed by the Great American Insurance company hefore the injur ARS AT MIAMI 2., Dec. 17 — Gen, cn has arrived here for the wine ter and he says he expects ‘many of the leading golfers will be on hand for the Miami open champion- ship and the Miami Beach opening. Willie Klein, 1925 winner, will be on hand and so will Jock Hutchison, Jim Barnes, Al inosa, Al Wat- rous and Walter Hagen, GOLF Miami, non-official, is operating. Hence- forth, technicians will taiie the places of so-called pure politicians, “The syrdical movement has al- iready taken tangible shape beside | the parliamentary state. To a certain lestent the incorporated state— which In the social field s the su- preme institution of the Fascist revo- lution—is already rpassing and | excelling the parliamentary staté. { At any rate, the Italians haven't | any sympathy for universal suffrage, | because they have known by Bitter | expericnce that it is not a system | best adapted to reveal thelr values |and that it is impossible to consti- |tute a real directive s on the | basis of such a system. | “This is demonstrated by th fact that Italy has never had an | election in which more than 4 r | cent of the electors participated.” hesitancy. | boylsh look seldom seen an hi | voiced his longing to see America, the land of encre | Franco-Itallan Pact A Franco-Ttalian agrec .. You? is one ? Other appropriate and equally welcome ¢ shoes and hose, footwear, galoshes and ornate buckles. smartly styled and moderately priced. for Holiday cActivit a severe cold? 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