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CIQHT THE MERIDEN DAILY JOURNAL MERIDEN CONN SATURDAY JULY 1932 WALLINGFORD NEWS TODAY BOROUGH CHURCH NEWS a Pietrosimone Slaying Year Ago Still Unsolved Mystery Equals That of and Cases For Elusiveness of Clues to Murderers the Methodist church and will continue to July 22 Pupils from the ages of 4 to 12 years old are eligible Mr and Mrs Edward Bridgham and daughter have gone to Bangor Me for a few weeks vacation They made the trip by auto Mrs Piper and Mrs Clarence Piper have returned from a few days visit with relatives in Kingston Mr and Mrs Wilbur Phoenix motored to Canada this week for a visit with relatives The ball team Joined the South Meriden twilight league of six teams Including the Tracy Firemen Mr and Mrs Frost and Mr and Mrs Smith attended an Eastern Star convention held on the Booth estate Stratford today BANK STATEMENT Elsewhere in this page today will be found the statement as to the condition of the Wallingford Bank and Trust Co as of June 30 The condition of this youngest financial instittuion is shown to be flourishing under the management of George Wilkinson Jr and his board of directors Mr and Mrs William Brown of North Whittlesey avenue are at Myrtle Beach for the week end Legion District Meeting To Be Held Wednesday The monthly meeting of the various poets making up the county organization of the American Legion and the Ladies Auxiliary are scheduled to meet next Wednesday evening in the state armory North Main street Plans are being perfected by the good time to the visiting legionnaires The nominating committee authorized at the June meeting will make their report as this meeting recommending a slate of officers for the coming year As many important preconvention matters will come up at this meeting All Poets are urged to have a large delegation present particularly since this will be the last meeting before the State Convention which will be held in Waterbury on August 17th 18th 19th and 20th Fruit Growers Plan for Tours Outside State The Connecticut PomologiCal society has made arrangements for the annual pilgrimages of the fruit growers of the state to the orchards during July and August The discussions will deal with production of the best grades of fruit modern methods of marketing and other subjects of advance practices The summer meeting of the society will be held July 28 and will be a Joint session with the state bee association The importance of bees in successful orcharding will be discussed on part of the program Fruit conditions in this state and competing areas will be revived by extension workers Considerable time will be devoted to studying the experiments conducted at the orchard of the state college August 10 to 11 are the dates set for the annual orchard tour of the society This year the tour will be through the Hudson River valley of New York where famous fruit farms and orchards on both sides of the river will be visited Special busses will be chartered for the trip A full day's visit to some of the leading orchards in Windham county is planned for state fruit growers August 24 Fruit farms scheduled to be visited Include the leading ones in Pomfret Woodstock and Eastford The society has been informed by the Massachusetts Fruit association that the members of the Bay State organization intend to make a tour of Connecticut orchards July 15 and 16 Plans for the tour have been completed and Connecticut orchardists are invited to Co the pockets of the victim's clothes were found to have been turned Inside out It is believed the slayer or slayers hoped to find a considerable sum of money on the person or in the shack of the victim Added to this is the revelation that Pietrosimone some ten years ago is said to have been in the habit of carrying $300 on his person He never up to that time evinced much faith in making use of the facilities of local banks as a means for the protection of his savings He also is said At that time to have placed money in a tin can hiding it in a deep hole in his back garden Growing out of the facts gleaned from the autopsy there also comes to light the belief that the crime was not committed by one person acting alone In support of this theory it is pointed out that from GARDEN CLUB MEET The July meeting of the Wallingford Garden club will be held this afternoon at the home of Mrs Henry Backes South Main street William Tickler will be the speaker and his announced subject will be Mrs Backes will be assisted in receiving by Miss Katherine Backes And Mrs Benham Chief of Police George Abbott returned to the borough yesterday afternoon from attendance at the annual convention of the New England Police Chiefs' association The annual field day of the Wallingford Grange is scheduled for Friday July 22 The Misses Mabel Doreau of East street and Ernestine Germaine of Washington street left today for a vacation at Hanipton Beach Mr and Mrs Dan Williams of North Main street are visiting relatives over the week-end in Boston Mr and Mrs Charles Gannon of North Whittlesey avenue have as their guests for a few days the Misses Katherine and Elizabeth Shelly and Mrs Shelley of New York city Dr and Mrs Edward Gushee of New York former residents of the borough are stopping at their summer home on North Main street Mr and Mrs Charles Mayers of South Whittlesey avenue are entertaining Mr and Mrs William Meyers of New Jersey Miss Barbara Davis is entertaining Miss Frences Benjamin of Jacksonville Fla TRACY There Is a baseball game this afternoon at the Evansville field between the Yalesville and Tracy firemen Miss Ruth Athorne of Meriden is spending the day with Miss Dorothy Blanchard Norma Button of West Haven and Mrs Ivan Smith of Millers Falls Mass are visiting Mr and Mrs John Button Donald and Frank Indorf leave today with 8t choir boys for a vacation at camp at Lake Poc-otopaug Mr and Mrs Frank Chamberlain of Seymour visited friends here this week One year ago the brutally slain body of Pasquale Pletroeimone was discovered in his shack on North Colony street Just above North street This crime still unsolved can be placed in the criminal archives of New Haven county with that of other famous and also unsolved crime known to Wallingford people back in August 1886 as the Shoe Box mystery and with the other unsolved mystery that surrounded the finding of the bullet riddled body of the Dixy Kid on North street August 4 1926 No evidence was uncovered by the investigating officers of the state country or local officers that would point to the fact that the victim of the famous Shoe Box mystery had been done to death in Wallingford since all of the clues discovered in connection with that crime pointed to the fact that the headless body had been shipped by freight to Yalesville presumably from Chicago and it is equally true in connection with the murder of the Dixy Kid that that crime was presumed to have been committed somewhere along the highway in North Haven and his body brought by motor car to the borough and hurled from the machine into a clump of brush on North street The Pietrosimone crime however was committed in Wallingford and up to the present moment nothing appears to have been done to unravel the mystery Although state police county investigating officers and the local police have given much time and energy to the case and many suspicious persons have been detained and freed when they cleared themselves of any part In the crime After the autopsy performed on Pietrosimone in the morgue of a funeral establishment here after his murder a year ago Thursday by Dr John Buffum medical examiner of Wallingford and Dr Mark Sheehan local town and borough health officer some doubt was cast upon the nature of the Instrument used in the killing Hie autopsy indicated that despite the finding of a blood stained axe a beer bottle may prove to have been the instrument of death A particle of glass was found bedded in the skull of the murdered man The motive for the crime is believed to be robbery inasmuch as when the body was removed to the mortuary parlors of the Fitzgerald hissed up that It must necessarily have taken some time to do that part of the job that the murdered man also put up a stout resistance as indicated by the fact that in addition to the injuries inflicted on his head from blows of the beer bottle or the axe or both there was a contussion near his left eye and on his left arm above the elbow as well as bruises on his left side where he was possibly kicked It was said that within two weeks Pietrosimone was warned to keep a certain unnamed party out of his place but an effort to ascertain the reason of the warning and by whom it was given was never revealed NO LOW FLYING Los When the Olympic games get under way here airplane pilots had best watch their altitude during the period from July 30 to August 14 The latest air commerce regulation states that airmen must keep more than 1000 feet in the air over any of the open air stadiums or areas where competition is occurring SMACK! SMACK! you refuse to kiss me?" never done it before" Never been never Pathfind er Hollywood is seven miles northwest of the business section of Los Angeles Assessors Begin Work Monday Next Monday morning the Board of Assessors consisting of Chairman Aimer I Martin Secretary Charles Young and Harry Fritz will hold their first open session for the reception of tax list for the grand list of 1932 upon which taxes will be levied for the town and borough for 1933 Daily except Saturday Board will be in session to assist property owners to prepare lists between 9 a to 12 and from 1:30 to 4:30 Saturday the ofice will be open from 9 a to 12 only On Tuesday July 12 one member of the Board will be at the Yalesville town hall to receive tax lists from 9 a to 3 and on Wednesday July 13 at the office of the Jennings and Griffin Co during the same hours CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Public worship tomorrow in the Congregational church at 10:30 a The topic of the sermon will be 8tyles in for boys and girls will meet for the opening service and the story talk by the pastor The public is cordially invited ST PAUL'S CHURCH The seventh Sunday after Trinity Early celebration of Holy Communion at 8 Morning service and sermon by the rector Rev Donald Oreene at 10:30 The public is cordially Invited to all services at St HOLY TRINITY CHURCH Confessions this afternoon and evening Masses tomorrow morning at 7-8-9 and 10:30 Benediction of the most blessed sacrament will follow the celebration of the 10:30 service SS PETER AND PAULS CHURCH Confessions this afternoon and evening Masses tomorrow morning at 7 9 and 10:30 Vespers tomorrow afternoon at 3 o-ov Zion Lutheran Church Seventh Sunday after Trinity Divine worship in the morning at 10:30 Sunday school at 9:30 On Tuesday evening at 8 the quarterly meeting of the voters of Zion Lutheran church will he held Baptist Church The Sunday school will meet at the First Baptist church Sunday at 9:45 a The morning worship services will be held at 11 a with the sermon by the pastor the Rev Edward Conway who will use as his subject Is a Time To Sing" There will be a story for the children and church as usual There will be no evening services Methodist Church Sunday school will meet o'clock Morning worship will be o'clock The annual camp meeting oVnhe Methodist churches of the New Haven district will be held at the Camp Meeting Grounds in Forest-ville for one week beginning this Sunday July 10 Anyonif desiring to spend part of the week or the whole week at the camp meeting may have a room in the Wallingford cottage for a nominal fee and may do their own ing there Anyone desiring accommodations may call Miss dred Schumacher or the pastor CAPLAN RADIO CO 27 North Main St Tel 972 Open Friday and Saturday Evenlnga until 71 CALL AND SEE OUR VARIED LINE OF RADIOS NOTICE The Assessors for the Town of Wallingford hereby give notice that they will be In session at the room Town Hall building Center street every day (Sundays and Saturday afternoon and evenings excepted) from July 11th to August 1st 1932 Inclusive from 9 a to 12 1:30 to 4:30 and from 7:30 to 8:30 for the purpose lot receiving lists from all perhons liable to be taxed and giving 4u necessary information relating the same At Yalesville Town HallTues'dajt July 12th 1932 from 9 a to 3 At the office of The Jennings Griffin Co Tracy Wednesday July 13th 1932 from 9:30 to 3 All property owners are required by law to make out and deliver their tax list signed and swom to to the Assessors on or before Augulst 1932 or ten per cent will be added according to law No list will be accepted unless swom to personally by owner Each parcel of real estate must be separately described and bounded CHARLE8 YOUNG ALMER I MARTIN HARRY FRITZ Assessors Time stated Daylight Saving Time Dated at Wallingford Conn July 1 1932 Diitrlct of Wallingford as Probate Court July 6 1932 Estate of Mary Gallagher late of Wallingford In aald Diitrlct deceased The Court of Probate for the District of Wallingford hath limited and el-lowed all months from the date hereot for the creditors of aald estate to exhibit their claims for settlement Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested within said time will be debarred a recorery All per-tom Indebted to aald Eatate are requested to make Immediate payment te Katherine Gallagher Executrix allingford Wants a FOR RENT Pleasant room la MW teal part of the towa with with oat board Call tZS mi MERIDEN DAILY JO Publlihed very week day afternoon at Jonraal Building corner Crown and Parkins Streets Eetabltebed 1666 Entered ae second rlaaa material April tL 1666 at Conn under the net ef he poatofllre et Meriden March 1670 Delivered by? carrier 16c per week Subscription prtee by maU IS Sr year The Misses Margaret Thomas and Dorothy Chase Nunn are In charge of the arrangements for the Country Club card party at the club house this afternoon Miss Marie Bagley of New York will be the guest of Miss Margaret of South Cherry street for the coming week Miss Anna of Brooklyn who has been the guest of her sister Mrs Kathrine McLaughlin of North Whittlesey avenue has returned home At Doolittle park tomorrow afternoon the Wildcats of the Connecticut Central Baseball league will meet Terryvllle with Ralph Ives doing the mound work for the locals and Ernie Gendron on the receiving end The A team will go to Southington where they are scheduled to meet the Southington Falcons Miss Vivian Russo daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Russo of North Whittlesey avenue will spend the week-end as the guest of friends at Englewood Tomorrow afternoon at the Walco field the baseball team of the Hungarian A will meet the New Haven police team The game promises to attract a large gathering of fans among them members of Wallingford police who will get a line on their brother baton swingers to see what chance if any they might have of getting the New Haven cops to sign up for a game Chairman Noah Linsley of the local chapter of the American Red Cross has made plans to sponsor the operation of the swimming pool at Wooding pond and have named Edward Johnson and Stanley Supto guards Mrs John Bunk of East street who underwent an operation at the hospital of St Raphael this week is reported to be making good progress at fliat institution Dr John Car-ozella of the borough was the surgeon SOUTH MERIDEN Harry South Meriden A will play the Elmwoods Sunday afternoon on the Lewis avenue grounds The Prosperity Boys winners of the pennant in the Twilight league held a social smoker Friday evening at the Starlight social club The chairman and speaker was Michael Sokel His subject was to Play Ball" Mr and Mrs Albert Barber of Cutlery avenue will go on their vacation next week Mr and Mrs Samuel Murdock of Cutlery avenue are spending the week-end at the Plainville camp grounds The Old Timers of the village will play the East Sides of Meriden Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Camp street diamond The newly formed six team Twilight league will get under way Monday evening at 6:30 on the village playing field The opening game will be played between Garage and the Boweries Miss Ruth Levine of Hartford Is visiting in the village the guest of NEWS OF AND ITS Drammaddirts Present Play The Cheshire Dramaddlcts presented three one act plays in the town hall last night the names of the plays being Slatterns and ja Matter of and Long Voyage Home" 'There was a good attendance and i all enjoyed the work of these young artists These young people are giv- ing these plays with the hope to interest the sufficiently to sup-iport a in Cheshire Many will welcome the idea with Mr and Mrs Schaefer as leaders of experience the Theatre" could be a success July Picnic The Senior Aid society of the Congregational church held a picnic on the grounds of the Beug-lers in South Main streetesterday About 25 were present and the day proved very enjoyable A picnic lunch was served at one o'clock and in the afternoon there were games and cards The August picnic will be held at the home of Mrs Theron French- Newipaper Social A newspaper social was held last evening ih the parlors of the Meth odist church and was much enjoyed by those present The lunches for two were auctioned pff to the gin their lunch tlemen and they ate with the one whose lunch they Meriden Bills (Continued from Page One the promised $1000 was collected and the arrangement was made that local persons who purchased advertising and booth space made the checks payable to him On Monday the circus opened At the time it was not generally known that the excellent acts presented under the big tent were not at all owned by Murphy but were merely booked out of New York and owned variously All who attended the shows praised the high quality of the acts Meanwhile bills had been contracted for advertising by Murphy for meals for room rents for sawdust for the circus ring etc After the show had continued through Wednesday with bills unpaid action to obtain their payment was started Then came the attachments Constable Fred Winkle served the first batch Thursday night He was at the lot until 2 a and reported Friday that it was his worst experience as a constable He proceeded to attach the tent only to find it was owned by a company in Boston and hired by Murphy The seats he found were owned in Waterbury Everything belonged to somebody other than Murphy He searched for Murphy and finally learned he had left the city after leaving the grounds a few steps ahead of the arrival The box office receipts were attached and a keeper placed over them They totalled at the end of the evening $38 Among bills owed the following were reported: To Arthur Hill showman who bodked individual acts $3000 Central Lunch for meals $500 "Polish advertising $750 Army Navy 8tore clothes and supplies A 8s provisions To the Army Navy Store run by Benjamin Cohen and the A 8c store on Main street it was reported checks were given and dated in advance So hurt and angered by the happening were performers in the show that some of the women in acts cried bitterly Friday and vowed that if they ever met Mr Murphy on a circus lot they would have him taken care of In one of the horse riding acts were presented three women one of these May Ward who had appeared in Berlin and other places on the continent had in short been in A former circus man living here said he had talked with her Friday and learned she had left a large circus to take her chances with individual bookings and accepted one here Uupaid for her services while here she had to call friends in New York and have an automobile sent here to take her and the group back Three Japanese who presented a tumbling act were still stranded in the city Friday evening having received no pay Other performers and employes were also their belongings being held by keepers of boarding and rooming houses at which they stopped Money collected by the special committee will be used in so far as possible to pay off some of the local bills contracted and relieve those stranded here it was planned by the committee Friday KKPOHT OF THE CONDITION OF the WALLINGFORD DANK CO WALLINGFORD CONN AT THE CLOSE OF BtJSI-NF-fig ON THE 30th DAT OF Jl'NE 10SZ RESOCRCE8 Loam and Dlacount 307300 01 Ovarii rafti 4 St Fundi art aalde for 8avlngs Depositor 1387862 77 8 Government Securities 40556 25 Other Securities 31237 50 Banking House 00000 00 Furniture and Equipment 10000 00 Other Hen I Estate 20200 11 Hue from Reserve Agents 50479 82 Cash on Hand 14050 14 Checks Cash Items and Exchanges 4254 10 Other Assets vis 3163 84 Funds for Trust Accounts 10000 00 Total Liabilities $2062295 LIABILITIES Capital Stock 50000 00 Surplus 100000 00 Undivided Profits (leas Ex-peujsea and taxes paid) 76000 00 Savings Deposits 1387882 77 General Deposits 241360 71 Certificates of Deposit 80300 10 Treasurer's Checks 2062 52 Certified Cheeks 8978 50 Dividends Cnpnld 2550 00 Christmas Savings and Thrirt Fund 16642 75 Kills payable (Including all borrowings except re-dls- counts) 94967 00 Re discounts 20000 00 Other Liabilities vis 470 7 Total Liabilities $2062295 25 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT ASSETS Mortgage and Other Loans $1204 194 31 Other Securities 01558 25 Cush on Hand and in Banks 51012 21 Other Assets 12000 00 Total Aaaela $1387862 77 LIABILITIES Saving! Deposits $1387862 77 Total Liabilities $1387882 77 State of Connecticut County of New IJnven -es Wallingford July 8 1932 I GEO II WILKINSON JK Treasurer of the aforesaid Wallingford Bank and Trust Co do solemnly swear that the foregoing statement Is true to the best of my Auow ledge and belief UltO II WILKINSON Jr Siibearlhei and sworn to before mi his July 8i 1932 ANNA Notary Public Mr and Mrs Main street Irving Sandler of Ernest Godwin has returned home from a vacation spent in Southington Stanley Hudson Allen Cowling Lee 8tevans Earl Stevans Clifford Schonrock Mark King Leslie Saunders Jr Frank Atkinson and Walter Clayton have returned home from a vacation spent camping at the Recreation field Southington Manager Bill Stevans of the Old Timers spent today attending a convention in Hartford Charles Carpenter of New Haven spent Friday with relatives in the village On Sunday at the Holy church masses will be celebrated at 8:30 and 10:30 Rector Walter A McCrann Miss Shirley Clark has enrolled for a summer course at Yale university All services at the Methodist Episcopal church will be omitted Sunday The members of the church will attend services at the Plainville Camp Grounds Mrs Joseph and daughter of New Britain are visiting Mr and Mrs Grover Stevans of Main street YALESVILLE St John's Church Seventh Sunday after Trinity Following is the schedule at St Episcopal church Francis Upham lay reader for tomorrow Morning service 10:30 Church school 11:45 The pastor of the Yalesville Methodist church will preach Sunday at 10:30 a on the subject Gold" Miss Agnes Wange will be guest soloist at this service and in addition the choir will render a special number At 7 Francis Upham lay reader of the St Episcopal church will bring the message of the evening His subject will be Men of The quartet will furnish special music Rev Wilkes pastor will preach at the Baptist church tomorrow morning at 10:30 Sunday school will be held at the usual hours Mr and Mrs George Frost have returned to Philadelphia Pa after a few days visit with Mr and Mrs Frank Frost Mr and Mrs 8 May and Mr and Mrs May and son visited relatives in Springfield Mass yesterday Mrs Crabtree and daughter Dorothy have gone to Lake Sunapee for a two vacation Miss Lucille Tracy is visiting relatives in Boston Mass for a couple of weeks Miss Grace Schwab who has been living in Newark has returned to her home here for the summer The Community Vacation Bible school will begin next Monday at bought Games were played during the social hour Mrs Lewis Robbins and children from New Jersey are visiting with her parents Mr and Mrs Beugler of South Main street Miss Eloise Backus who has been in St Raphael's hospital recovering from an operation for appendicitis returned home Thursday The Jitney Players under the direction of Mrs Bushnell Cheney will present "Caste" on the grounds of Shadow Lawn school Monday night July 18 at 8:30 o'clock Many of the players have been here before and their work is remembered Mr and Mrs Leroy Carpenter have moved from Brocksvale to the apartment of Wesley Collins on Ma pie avenue Mr and Mrs Clifford Burdett Adams of Brooksvale announce the birth of a son Burdett Sheridan at the Evans sanitorlum in New Haven last Wednesday Mrs Edith Ladd who has spent the wniter in Waterbury will return to Cheshire some time during this month Her son Mynar Ladd who hSs completed his freshman year at Yale is spending the summer with Judge am Mrs Carroll Hlncks In South Cheshire we can advertise it CHESHIRE PEOPLE Products are nearly always put on the market before they are advertised Quite frequently changes have to be made in an article before the public generally will accept it Color design flavor those are some of the things the public has to be consulted about Sometimes a product sell at all and simply has to be discontinued As soon as people show that they welcome an article and as soon as all refinements and improvements have been added then you could hear the manufacturer say if you could be in his office we can When you buy advertised goods you may know they have gone through the experimental stages ou may be sure that the manufacturer knows they are right and that he is willing to stake his reputation on them You may be confident that you are buying goods that have sold and that would continue to sell without any advertising at all For advertising merely lets all of the people know now what considerable numbers would find out by word of mouth ten years from now Of course advertising goes a step farther Word of mouth hardly ever tells all the uses of a product It often give the real reason for its superiority Advertising tells people all about a product and the numerous ways in which they can use it Whatever you buy therefore let the advertisements be your guide When the manufacturer says we can advertise you know that you can safely say we can buy.