Bridgeport Standard Telegram (Newspaper) - August 21, 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut STANDARD TELEGRAM STREET Office Open Day and for News and 0100 Circulation Books Open to for THE WEATHER FAIR TODAY Detailed and Miniature Almanac See Page 2.) VOL. NO. 88. Entered as second class matter at the post at under act Of 1S79. THURSDAY AUGUST 21 Subscription 12 a 50 cents a 53 for six 56 for ono 18 Delegates Insist the Treaty Text Must Go to Vienna n Confident Those Responsible for Death of Unknown Man Will Be Lead to Conclusion of Peace with Austria May Be Delayed until September As a Result of Latest Delegates Ex- press Surprise at Change in Attitude on Part of Believed They Had Full Power to MAN STABBED 50 TIMES Shows Many Weapons Were Used in Don't Care to Dis- cuss THE ASSOCIATED Aug. Austrian delegation told the Supreme Council today that it would be necessary for them to take the completed text of I the treaty to Vienna and to submit the assembly for approval be- fore the delegates can sign it. This suggestion brought expressions of I surprise from members of the 1 Council as it had thought the Austrian delegation had full Trying to Avoid The Council is urging the trians to make some arrangement to sign the treaty without taking it to The signing of the as a result of unexpected it was may be postponed until well into The com- treaty text will not be given the It is generally under- stood for at least two weeks if the Austrians insist taking it to Vienna before that trip probably will ten days to the Aug. 20. no arrests have been the police are confident that within the next few hours they will hend the persons responsible for the death of the unidentified j whose body bearing fully fifty stab wounds was discovered in the j es alongside the the orange at 10 o'clock j Senator Speaking for the Proposes to tvi f v that Senate Adopt Interpretive Keeping Them O. P. Senators Show No for Such a Renews At- tack on this Clues which lead to Derby and vicinity have been discovered since I investigation was started this j and about twenty state j local officers and detectives New Haven and are working on the The clue j leads to Derby is the dis- j of a laundry mark on the j collar of the which the police say is that of a laundry in Dead Several The remains were- in a partially condition when indicating the body been in the open for several The clothing rain-soaked and stained and the throat lad been slit from ear to An attempt was made to so mutilate the features and trung of body that would j be Altogether about fifty wounds were Mute evidence that the crime is of a more ghastly nature than first i is shown by position of one of the man's hands which clasped to a wire fence near the the Scratches and in which had not been erased by the show the man lived some time after heing on Page CARNEGIE LEFT SEVERAL TIMES WANTED TO DIE PAUPER from Authoritative Sources He Left More Than Aug. first open move for a promise in the League of Nations fight came from administration quarters today embraced in a proposal that the Senate adopt inter- reservations but that they be kept apart from the actual ratification of the The met with no immediate success on the can side of the Senators of the Republican reservation group declaring they could not recede from their position that to be effective the reservations must go into the ratification His Efforts Senator of a Democratic member of the foreign relations presented the compromise proposal in the form ot a resolution embodying in effect the four reservations agreed on bv seven Republican senators and declaring them to constitute the Senate's un- disputed in the In the Republican it is expressly provided that the reservations made a part of the treaty by the instrument of a proviso ot th which Senator and others of PRESIDENT DEMANDS OF SHOPMEN WITH DIRECTOR MINES Director of Railroads Promises Leaders to Con- sider ie group of seven Republicans said G 11 ey considered absolutely necessary Hou vi o ro 1 LU NEW Aug. Although steel magnate and declared during that he expected to adopted if enough Republican votes are 10 ba gained to secure ratification of the Speaks for To overcome tor Pittman proposed in a August 20. ly action to settle unrest in the ranks of the railroad employes who havo been demanding new wage increases was forecast lAfter a lengthy conference with j the representatives of the six shop went use to discuss with President Wilson the problems ing the railroad While no announcement was made it was understood that the entire Grand Former Head of Russian Suddenly Re- appears from Exile in the Crimea to Attend War PASSES THROUGH LONDON Mexico Asks U. S. to Withdraw Says Gov't Will Punish Bandits Who Held Lansing Makes No Reply had arrived there to take part in a his in the Senate that the resolution be at once and to of by a will which will be for next week was it was learned authoritative source here Publication of a story to the effect that Mr. Carnegie had given away Sail of his estate with the exception about brought the that the estate was much It also was stated that n. will of approximately words drawn by Mr. Carnegie himself and which was generally believed to be his last had been superceded by a er document of 2.000 words drawn by Elihu The decision of Mr. Carnegie to re- voke the will on which he Iliad expended uch time and and which bequeathed his huge fortune and other powers who will be 1 his estate to be disposed sented on the League A general debate developed during which Senator and others took exception with President Wilson's distinction between moral and legal obligations under the covenant as expressed in yesterday's House ence between the President the relations Although Senator Pittman he had not submitted his resolution for the President's he ed that it carried Mr. Wilson's views on the subject ot reservations as expressed to tne committee ENGLISH MINERS SETTLE STRIKE IN question was including the obvious necessity for an increase in rates or another congressional propriation to provide funds for wage advances that may be Mr. Hines promised the leaders that he would give careful consideration to all the facts pre- sented and would endeavor to reach a final decision in the near future that lie will order into effect any changes in the wage scale without referring the demands to a board for Council Held in Stockholm Plans Extermination of Rule of nine by Concerted Moves from All Points Upon a from the one of the most picturesque figures of the first three years of the appeared upon the world's stage and looms today as the man who with avenging sword may revive war to the bitterest swords In the east to put an end to rule in He Is none other than the duke Nicholas uncle the late For mare than two since he was sent to the Crimea by he lias been living and during which time he has been many times reported Today comes a despatch from holm that he from great war at which the finishing touches are to be put upon the plan for a concerted offensive 6n It is the first hint that ho has and it is announced he came and went in How he escaped from the Crimea is a Recently he was reported at an obscure village near Idol of A man of the grand duke's and it is generally agreed would accept no subordinate part in grand scale campaign being but would unquestionably take the supreme He is still the idol of the Russian and his ance in with the battle cry a would rally hundreds of thousands of around hla What Nicholas would do once he had assumed power is a different story which sceptics who know hin do not like to Lenine the future take care Ts tho word of the and on tnat theory the great war council at Stockholm is Gathered there with the Grand Duke -ire eral 1'udenitch, of new anti-Bolshevist government of northwest former hetman of the and high British military r and naval strong British tion of London on sea is the repeated recent bombing raids by British sea and air planes on Kronstadt served to whip the war spirit ot Bolshevist leaders to a high convincing them of the sincerity Graphophone Officials Consider Plea of Strikers to Keep Plant No Statement Following MAY ISSUE STATEMENT President Will Issue Complete Ex- planation As Soon As a Deci- sion Is Arrived Typewriter com- pany strikers will return to work The strikers at their ing In Colonial hall yesterday voted to a 15 per increase in wages and a re- duction in working hours from 50 to 48 hours a The employes had been holding out for a month for a 25 per cent. Increase In wages and other concessions and the situation seemed to have reached a The strike conferring with the officials of tho decided in view of the that as no progress was being made as things stood that it would be the wise policy to accept a The workers will report at the shop to begin work on the new schedule at o'clock this Colombia Heads President S. of the Columbia Graphophone com- pany held a conference with other officials of the concern in the New York offices the company The decision of the company workers War Between Germany and Poland Is Expected Aug. be- tween Germany and Poland is described as an by reliable news reports from upper where the situation already is bordering on open A revolution has broken out at near the Polish German and rioting is raging at Fifteen thousand are striking in upper and the labor rest threatens completely to paralyze the output of the mines at a moment when coal is sorely Later despatches state martial law has been proclaimed throughout upper Fifteen Germans have been killed in clashes with Polish troops that had crossed the frontier into German to These Chancellor Baner were not the Polish government could be held Herr Bauer asserted in a statement to the Weimar assembly that the German government has the situation well in GROCERS AND BUTCHERS ASSOCIATION MAY QUIT RETAIL SALE OF BREAD FIRST SKIRMISH BETWEEN U. S. TROOPS AND MEXICANS i BROKEN TRAILS DELAY OUR i One Mexican Is Reported Killed in First Believed to Be Those Who Fired on Aviator Are Forced to Follow Broken Trails in Pursuit of ged Terrain Makes Use of Airplanes for Observation Aug. Ambassador has been urged by the Mexican consul at to obtain from the War department order for withdrawal of the can forces now in The consul's made Claim Under Present Conditions There h Not Sufficient gin of to return to their jobs the British British People But there is an ugly feature to STEEL AND IRON STRIKE DEPENDS ON CONFERENCE If Conference Is Rompers Ts Empowered lo Call 20. Whether a strike of iron and steel workers will oe large part of his estate to his depends upon a conference ter was said to have re- 1 work hope to suited from her marriage to sign Roswell Miller several months Mr. Carnegie a large on his daughter at the time of her The Home Trust Company of New Jersey which was organized by Mr. Carnegie in 1901 for the purpose of administering a fund set aside by Mr. Carnegie for nearly 500 sons to whose individual welfare he contributed will act as executor of the Soon As Aug. 20. the strike of the Yorkshire coal which has been in progress for has been the Yorkshire pits will resume work as soon as EMERGENCY DRY SPELL JUDGE RULES JOHNSON WOULD BAR IMMIGRANTS FOR 2 YEARS August Ing that the war emergency still ex- federal Judge Augustus in an opinion handed down today refused to grant a temporary order sought Lawson and owners of in California with a place of business in this to restrain federal hero from visions of the war time prohibition IF YOU FAIL TO RECEIVE Your Standard Evening Post or Sunday gr if you don't get your paper on Telephone num 6100. Circulation POST PUBLISHING CO. August to stop all immigration for two years and to deport all aliens who withdrew first papers in order to escape military service liming the war was introduced by man Johnson of the House gration which within the next ton days with of tho United States Steel If the tion officials to meet union representatives a committee nf six representing the 24 unions uel president the American Fedoration of is empowered to call a strike This sums up the of representatives of tWt unions filiated with tho American tion of Labor which today can massed the vote of unions on the question of calling a strike as this evening by W. K. ber of the conference committee and spokesman for the Without giving Mr. Foster stated that 98 per cf the workers voting on the had In favor of a tho situation as far as BriUin the impression which the British military dure is producing at War Minister Churchill announced the other in re- sponse to the clamor for withdrawal of British forces from that everything that will hereafter be done there in a military way will be merely to cover the British Tot ple learn from glaring headlines fierce British bombing raids on where no British troops nnd of munitions and materials pouring into Russia from Britain to aid the various anti-Bolshevist The war office hastened todav to explain that toward Russia's was un- that such aid as Britain is now giving the forces is being given under the rision of the at and that the plans for the British withdrawal are agreement offered by the company July 26, was received by the but whether the decision would affect the plans of com- pany to leave Bridgeport was not fully It was stated at the offices of the Graphophone company in New York last night that i dent Whitten will issue a statement as as a decision is definitely reached by the Meeting T. C. manager of the cal could not be called out of conference yesterday afternoon but it is lie H be able to convey President reply to the strikers tha meeting scheduled to hell m Colonial hall at 2 o'clock Mayor of the Chamber oE and Interested in the civic welfare of Bridgeport have been endeavoring to induce the Graphophone to alter its announced sion to leave the with the strikers ready to meet the company half there was a of op- last Employes Workers at the company yesterday morning ed to work following a satisfactory settlement of the strike difficulties at that With the Bryant com- the com- and most of the cerns strike situation in Bridgeport is Itself The com- the only large concern now where a strike is in One 14 Injured When Autos Collide at Short Beach Heavy Car Rolling Down Killed when Pinned Beneath of Injured Taken to New Haven SENATE CONFIRMS THE NOMINATION OF PALMER will Camp in Aug. American punitive 3 that raced into Mexico in search of Jesus band of 1 dits who held Lieutenants Peterson and Davis for ransom went to f camp in the mountains tonight after a trying 36 hours of campaign through rugged d Since the troops crossed the Rio Grande early Monday ing they have been riding constantly during daylight hours ip The only reported contact the bandits resulted in the killings of one three Mexicans who i on an American airplane According to the report suit of the METAL TRADES COUNCIL ORGANIZED A. F. OF L. DELEGATES COMING Housewives of Bridgeport watch with Interest the outcome of the that has arisen between the Butchers and Grocers Protective association regarding the price and sale of Members of the Grocers and Butchers tive association claim that under the present conditions there is not cient margin of profit in bread to warrant their carrying it for Members of the Butchers and Grocers association met last night and discussed the but no action was the matter being left until the September 15. It is claimed the ers have recently raised Ihc price of bread at wholesale cent on a leaving the grocers but one cent profit on a at the present retail This is not according to the The store keepers want to put It up to the bakers to distribute their The contention is that while the wholesale price of flour has been the bakers have ed their Further than that the bakers refuse to take back un- sold loaves reduces the gin of still lower according to the nothing but the bother of carrying bread in It is believed that leaving tho retail sale of the bread to the ers themselves would tend to raise the as most of the large scale bakeries are not equipped to handle a retail I t would necessitate the installation of either retail stores sections of the or elaborate delivery Tho overhead cost to would probably be sufficient to bring up price of bread to Protest against the custom of some stores remaining open seven days a week was made at the ing and this matter will be taken up with the Chamber of The members of the association be- ve the stores should be closed one day in the but if some re- main open others are obliged to do so. The association is unanimous open seven days a j and point out that tho law requires closing at least one j Committees were appointed to make a canvass of city to secure every butcher and grocer in the city as a of the Fark City Bus Association to Ask for Changes Rules in Permission to place a special to be paid by the at the end of the jitney line to prevent drivers from and to keep them lined up will be asked from the Police department by the Park City Junior Bus This action was decided upon at a well attended meeting held last There has been much complaint regarding drivers cutting in at or near the end of the mostly oy drivers not Action Marks Against Appointment Which Began in Aug nomination of A. Mitchell Palmer to bo attorney general was con- firmed late today by tnc Senate without Mr. Palmer's confirmation marks the end of a fight against pointment which began at the last session of Congress and which centered abouti his administration of the office ot Alien Property Aug. 20 man was killed and eight women and six men were several iously when two automobiles collided on the Snake Hill road near Short Beach in the town of late Bernard P. 25, clerk of the Haven police de- was crushed to death un- der a largo touring car which rolled down an embankment after ing another machine on a. sharp tals There were five other men and seven young women In the which overturned but Jill were thrown clear of the machine Tho car had loft guin with 1'i passengers for short ride and Short Beach when it struck nn driven by William back of New and his wife were slightly Four of the injured were brought to DO NOT LEAVE TOWN THIS SUMMER without first making ments to have The Standard Telegram follow you to your vacation Daily sub- scription by SOc a Consolidated Metal Unions Will Act As a Unit Through A Metal Trades Council was at hall last night under the direction of Ira stato secretary of the can Federation of and John president of the Central Labor were present from each of the local unions of the metal After the Metal Trades Council has been permanently organized all questions affecting wages and con- ditions the metal workers of the city will be considered by the council as a whole instead of through The dated metal through tho will act as a unit in the event of Owing to the fact that the ing of the Trades Council con- with the scheduled meeting of Central Labor union executive committee the Central Labor union meeting was last night postponed to Sunday morning at 10 at It was announced at last night's meeting that tho executive council of tho Federation of Labor will come to Bridgeport day 4.118-ust 31, to deal with the labor situation as it affecta bers of and this step is an effort to prevent the tice and secure a deal for all It was also decided to appoint committee to request a of the order which requires jitneys to be turned from Main Into and Middle streets at certain It is contended that this is done whether the condition of traffic re- quires it or not and a request for a change will be made to the proper same committee will a protest against the parking of auto- mobiles in Main street for as it is asserted this tends to congest Main street traffic un- upon returning from the fight lasted twenty aviators were Reports from the field were 'n The broken country of the border compelled the troops to scatter and follow trails us they can pick country below the Big Bend is too rough for airplanes to effect a landing without great A cryptic message brought to the border airplane today was the only word from the No of- fleers commanding troops in the field have yet returned to the fieW bases on the Search In The Mexican consul at reported Ute today that 1 cral Pruneda column of ranza cavalry had gone to illo forty miles up the chos river from Ojinaga in for bandits in the Ojinaga where the American troops Mexican federal troops from Ojinaga garrison opposite are with ican troops in according a message received by Colonel Langhorne today from the consul at The consul ported that General Antonio I neda was sending cavalry in direction of San hua is opposite The Mexican troops left Ojinaga night under personal General command PERSHING SAILS SEPT. 3 win France al Pershing cabled Secretary Baker today that to sail from France on tiie transport Mount September 1. Grand Aerie Eagles to Purchase in W. S. Certificates Largest Subscription Ever Authorised by a Fraternal Organization Pledged at New Haven of Officers to Participate in Big Parade in Elm City Year's Contest Over Selection of Place for Next Purchase of worth of nomination for each which War Savings certificates was in the name of the Grand Aerie at the convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in New Haven and a resolution was ed urging the subordinate aeries of the order lo purchase an equal The resolution authorizing tho purchase was adopted by an un- animous vote and amui rousing cheers by the This is the largest subscription ever authorized by any fraternal and sets a mark for the subordinate aeries which is be- will be reached before the next meeting of the grand The vote followed an inspiring ad- dress by Daniel chairman of the committee of the order on war Asida from voting to purchase war certificates the most important business of the day was tha tion There is but one assures The ballot will be taken today following the big Following are the Edward grand worthy John A. grand worthy vice William of New grand worthy John S. San grand Joseph H. grand John B. grand worthy tor and John South grand inside Grand trustees nominated were John George John and Henry Beck of Wash. Argue Next There is likely to be a lively con- test today over the selection of the Hipolito brother of Cisco is believed to be in ing in the mountains the American columns are Fire on A report was received here from Lieut. pilot and Cooper dated giving details of their biplane by Mexican While flying over a tain the American observed three Mexicans riding The plane swept low to The bandits fire bullets puncturing the wings the American Cooper turned the fire saw one and a horse observed standing without a The third horseman and Mexicans The Mexican government that American troops had crossed the border in a is sued last night but has no dication of its A protest against the crossing s made by Ml Universal and it mands tpr Mexico an opportunity be heard being The paper calls ou all Mexicans teg contribute to the defense ot the 3-U Heraldo says the situation has assumed a grave character and dares that the crossing by tha Americans was without notice request for permission to do Tho American consuls at Vera Cruz and Excelsior have Americans in outlaying districts come into populated General Juan chief ofi operations in the of Sonor reported to the war the bandits who killed H. an had been with Page c Mexican here today newspapers announcing received Genera trip to and sibly to Candelavia in connection with payment of the remainder the ransom for and created cushion as to how and to whom the money could be After seeing ing the release of Lieutenant P son Monday Captain Leonard Matlack escaped Davis without paying ot thg Captain Matlack returned the money to the Marfa banker brought it
