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The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25
STEEL STRIKE AT
 AN ACUTE PERIOD
Both Sides Bend Every Nerve in Efforts to Further Their Own Ends-RepOrts Are Con- flicting.

The third day of the great steel strike passed without either capital or labor having made any apparent material gains. Last night attention was being focused on Washington, where the inquiry into the industrial struggle by the Senate labor commit tee is to open today.
 From their respective headquar- ters, industrial leaders and directors of the strike issued their usual con- flicting statements which left still in doubt the exact number of workers who have walked out. William z. Foster, secretary of the strikers na- tional committee, claimed that in the various steel centers, 15,OO0 more men had abandoned their posts, bringing the total to 342,000, but in the crucial Pittsburgh district, off cials of the United States Steel Cor poration and several independents" asserted that the stream of labor had turned and was. flowing into the mills.
 According to reports from Pitts burg, where union labor leaders held general barley to consider conduct of the strike, managers of the plant are seeking now to take the offensive. Not content with merely holding what forces remain with them, they are said to be trying to induce wavering strikers to return Labor's recruiting forces are not inactive, as shown by the fact that organizers from the mine workers union have been called to reinforce agents of the steel work CTS union in enrolling non-union workers. Despite the prediction of MT. Foster that, through the work of these organizers, the strikers will be able gradually to shut down all the important works in the Pittsburgh dis trict, employers of labor claimed that yesterday they had been able to in crease production in all important plants, including those in Homestead, Charlton, Braddock, DuQuesne and the Pittsburgh city mills of the Car negie company.
 As in Pittsburgh, the situation in Chicago also was clouded by conflict ing reports The industry in that section, though crippled by the clos ing of many plants, was by no means tied up and company officials claimed additions had been made to the re- duced forces with which they were continuing operation.
 In the Youngstown district, where advances were claimed by the strik- CTS, the strike spread yesterday to fabricating plants, two or which were closed, as was the Youngstown Pressed Steel Company. Paralysis of production in the Mahoning valley caused by idleness of 44,000 workers continues, every plant being closed.
 From Canton, Ohio, came the an nouncement by the general manager of the Canton Sheet Steel Company that his men, numbering 1,200, had
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25

"At McKeesport, Pa, MT. Com pers rejoined. That's the sort of thing We have to meet in guiding labor organizations. We've done and will continue to do our level best, men in the labor movement, to keep things going. But if you take from us our last effective form of appeal for necessary things, as this bill does, whatever comes is on your head and not on ours"
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25
GARY IS REBUKED ] BY LABOR LEADER
Gompers Says Gary Dealt With Labor in an "Autocratic Fa- shi0n"--Steel Strike is the Proof.

Washington, Sept. 24.-Declaring that E. H. Gary, chairman of the Tinted States Steel Corporation, had dealt Gin fiippant and autocratic fashion" with labor representatives, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in summing up before the Senate inter- state commerce committee organized Iabor's opposition to the anti-strike section of the Cummins railroad bill, i. said the steel strike was an example of the necessity for the use of the strike by labor unions.
 Appearance of MT. Gompers before the Senate committee came at the end of the second day of continued attack by labor leaders against the provision of the Cummins bill which would make striking railroad men conspira- tors against commerce and liable to fine and imprisonment.
 The labor chief summarized the arguments presented by P. J. Mac Namara, vice president of the Fire mems and Engineers Brotherhood; J. E. Heberling, president of the Switch mems Union; w.. N. Doak, vice presi- dent of the Trainmen's Brotherhood; Andrew Furuseth, of the Seamen's Union, and other witnesses, and dis cussing the steel strike, declared:
 "When employers say there is nothing to talk over, when they re- fuse to meet representatives of labor, when they say these representatives represent nobody, how else is there to convince them but strike? Look at the steel strike now. That was the position MT. Gary took A letter to him from me sent last June is still unanswered
 "A committee to see him was greeted with the word that he had nothing to discuss with them. He treated us in f1ippant and auto cratic fashion. The strike is now on, much to my regret, because l wanted to see it delayed until after the presi- dents industrial conference.
 "But if you knew the conditions m districts under the United States Steel Corporations control, you would un- derstand. Murder, assault, arrest of men, prohibition of meetings on rent ed ground, workers dispersed by thugs, gangsters, and detective crooks employed by the companies. A wo- man murdered in cold blood and the detective who did it releised on bond of $2,5OO, while men arrested Tn the meetings are held in $3,00O ball."
 sWhere's that?" committee mem Der interrupted him.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25
voted to return to work.

voted to return to work.
 In the Colorado district, plants of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Pueblo, which closed Monday, re- mains idle, and according to officials, will make no effort to operate with strike breakers.
 Yesterday was marked by sharp de- crease in violence. Although rioting occurred in Cleveland, order reigned in Buffalo, New York and Pittsburgh, Newcastle and Farrell, Pa, the storm centers Tuesday.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25
COURT OFFICIALS
 RECOMMENDED PARDON

Little Rock, Sept. 25.-The gover- nor has granted full pardon to O.. E. Kelley, Prairie county negro, sen tenced in September 1918, to five years for manslaughter. The pardon was recommended by the circuit judge. prosecuting attorney and many citizens.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25
LOOK!

A car of apples just unloaded on West Main street next door to Dr. Rice's Drug Store. Come and get prices and I am sure you will buy. Cooking, canning and eating apples. Ct
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25
WILL SPEAK FOR Y. M. c. A.
 AND SALVATION ARMY

Little Rock, Sept. 25.-The gover- nor has accepted invitations to speak for the Y. M. c. A. drive at Wilson, Osceola and Luxora, in Mississippi county, next Sunday, and for the Sal vation Army drive, Oct. 6 and at points assigned by the committee.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-25

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
Behind IHE FootIights
POLI'S

Patrons of Polis theatre will have the last opportunities today to see D. w. Griffith's great masterpiece The Greatest Thing in Life" in which Iil- lian Gish and Robert Harron play the principal parts. The splendid vaudeville show which has also been big attraction for the first part of this week will close tonight so that those who have not been fortunate in and Lee, the celebrated Hebrew come- dians, McGood and Conley, In their latest success Dance a La Vamp", Belmont and Moore the clever and original entertainers and Pathe News.
 Tomorrow beginning with the mati- nee performance the entire bill will be changed and Dorothy Dalton, the beautiful and talented star will play the leading role in "Quicksand' which is the climax of all her screen triumphs. This wonderful story tells of the sacrifices made by a lov- ing wife for her husband and how she worked as a cabaret performer with out falling a victim to the wiles and flatteries of the many men she came in contact with.
 The vaudeville will be composed ot an all star aggregation of entertain CTS among which will be the wonder ful COnroy, formerly of Conroy and Le Maire, stars of the Winter Gar den and vaudeville. There will be a new release of Pathe News
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
BELGIANS FACE
 CHANGED POLITICS

Brussels, Jan. -Correspondence of The Associated Press. Belgium Is facing a crisis in it's political his tory. The present government com prising six Catholics, three LGoeeAs and three Socialists Is acknowledged everywhere to be only a provisional one, 8 government of transition. A real government which will direct the reconstruction of Belgium is in the making.
 It is not expected that elections eE be held in less than six monthi Meanwhile the political fight will b. | waged upon a basis of universal sui frage--one man, one, vote. BeEer.' the war the priescts had four vOSej | land owners and noibles as many votes as they had estates in different pFUv- inces and Socialists and Liberals onaV vote each. The Socialists were mostly working men and the Liberals mostly 1 professional men. This enabled the | Catholic party to be in power for more than forty years Under the universal suffrage system which would relegate priests and land owners to the same category as working men, dec tors and lawyers. it is asserted the l minority Nevertheless, Cardinal Msr- cieT's- great personality and the en- ergy he displayed in behalf of Bel gians during the war is said to have greatly helped the cause of the Cath olic party.
 One cause of bitterness and aninos- lity, in Belgium,sis the Flemish move
 ment which now is practically dead owing to the efforts of the late 00r-
 man Governor Vonl Bissing to make
 use of it to divide Belgium into two
 parts It is expected that the Flsm tsh movement will revive when life
 resumes normal conditions but it Is - held in aibeyance now through fear
 that it might be construed as German propaganda. King Albert in his speech to the Parliament after re-
 turning to Brussels announced that
 the government will propose a bill tc create the bases of a. Flemish univer-
 sity at Ghent reserving the details tc
 the new Parliament to be elected later.
 Pro-Germans and "activists" who
 supported the German scheme to drive
 a wedge between the Flemish and the
 NaIIoons in Belgium are now ostra- cized socially. Many arrests have
 been made in Brussels, Ghent ant
 Bruges. The people of Ghent divide
 their hatred and bitterness evenly be
 tween the Germans and the "aciv
 ists." Bruges is filled with a deep
 rooted hatred for everything German
 while Brussels ridicules both pro , Germans and "activists"
 Tn Bruges 153 women who dealt witl
 Germans were beaten and their hai was shorn. In Ghent pro-German . and "activists,7 both men and women were physically punished.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
MEET -.
 IN HARTF ORD

The thirty-eighth annual convention of the Connecticut Dairymen's asso- citation will be held in Hartford, Tues day and Wednesday, January q and 22
 MT. D. J. Minor said that the Dairy mems association was offering $500 in prizes. Of the several classes, mar ket milk and cream are considered by the producers the most important ex- hlbit and in this class alone the asso- ciation is offering a first second, third and fourth prize, in each of which the winner gets his choice of a pure-bred registered bull calf valued at s10O and it takes only ten quarts of the right kind of milk to win one of these prizes. Premiums to the amount of sS are offered on grant, lated butter; s10 for the best display of market butter; $25 on creamery butter and like amount on unsalted butter. The dairymen have for so many years included corn in their ex- Inhibition that this is being continued for the first prize of BIO on all the dent varieties and the same prize for the f1ints.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
PROBE 4 LITTLE FURTHER.

Washington, Jan. 15-Now that the Congressional investigation into the finances of the National Security League has revealed the existence, hitherto unknown, of contribution of s100. 900 to the league from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the purpose Of fastening compuI. 5ory military treir.ng upon the coun- try, the American Union Against Militarism in a letter to Chairman Ben Johnson of the committee has suggested that the latter subpoena the officers of the Cornegie Corpora ton and require them to disclose what further sums, if any, they have been secretly expending for propa- ganda purposes in this country.
 The Carnegie Corporation of New York has the complete control over $25. GOO 0o0 set aside by Andrew Car negte in 1911 to be used to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
EMPIRE

If you are lover of high class screen dramas you should not fail to zee the brilliant stage and screen star, William Farnum in the Para mount success, The Sign of the Cross,' in which he appears at the Empire theatre today and tomorrow. This is without a doubt one of the best screen plays ever produced and the star is supported by an all-star cast of well known players. The latest episode of "The Lure of the Circus" will be also shown in which Eddie Polo Is the featured player. Here is the serial play supreme and one that grips and thrills from start to finish. A number of other select screen subjects will also be shown headed by a first run of Screen Tele- gram and a comedy that is full of real laughs. Don't miss this big special program.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
PORTO RICO'S LOSS FROM INFLUENZA
 IS VERY LARGE

San Juan, Por., Jan. 15-Ffve thousand deaths, the Department of Sanitation fears, will be the toll talk in by influenza in Porto Rico. More than 5000 deaths 1t is estimated, have already occurred and the Act ing Commissioner Dr. Font y GuilloS, believes that in spite of every effort that will be made from 1,50O to 2,000 more may be expected.
 At the same time Dr. Front an- nounces that the reports received at headquarters from the island show that the epidemic is steadily decreas- ing Recently there has been de- crease of approximately 25 per cent. One hundred twenty-five thousand cases is given by the acting commis- sioner as an estimate of the num- Der Of persons In Porto Rico attack ed by influenza and he points out that 5000 deaths cannot be regarded as 8 verE bad record.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
INSTRUMENTATION
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My cuEzin Artie was erround yes tidday before suppir, and I had fine tdeer for sumthing to do, saying, Let's go up on my roof and lay down in the sun and see If we can get sun bernt and look as if we jest came frum some place.
 All rite, wat do you say we do, seq Artie. Wich we snuck up to the at- tick and climbed up on the roof and did, both laying flat on our backs and pointing our faces up at the sun, Artie saying, Wen people ask us ware we got sunibernt lets say we jest got back frum California ware the sun shines pretty neer all n!te.
 We'll how can you tell it's mite, then? sad, and Artie sed, You cant, all ways. And we kepp on laying there pointed at the sun and after about 5 minnits Artie sed, Are you sunbernt yet? and I sed, don't think so, there's too meny clouds, are you? I don't think so, sed Artie. And prftty soon there was so meny clouds | there wasent eny sky, and me and Artie got up off of our backs off of the roof, Artie saying, G wizz, holey | G, you awt to see your back Well holey Moses you awt to see yours, I sei. Both of our coats be- ing all smeered with tar off of the roof, me saying, Do you think it will come off, and Art!e saying, It came off the roof. And we climbed back ngen and started to sneek down to the litchin to gee If it would come off, and pop and ma was in the setting room wen we started to go past, ma saying, Ware are you boys going so quietly?
 Nam? Will tar come off? sed. and ma sed. Wat? Come heer, both of you. Wtch we did, and ma saw our backs, saying. For goodnlss sakes, wat have you bin doing? and pop say ing, Is that the coat I recently paid for?
 We bin up on the roof making a entifiok ixperiment? and I sed, Yes sir.
 Well, of course, science must go on ixpIane yourself, sed pop. Meenins how, and I sed, We was trying to set if we could get sun5erned.
 That's vanity, that's not science, sip pose you stay in tonite and watct your mother fail to get the spots out sed pop. Wich I stayed in and
 watched her, and she failed. all rite and today I took the coat erround tc the cleeners, and who did I meet talk. ing his erround but Artle, me saying Did you get a licking? and him say. Ing, Neerly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
LYRIC

With the opening night set down in the annals of theatricals as an un- equaned success the second night be possible and the comedy Tt Hap pened in Bridgeport now playing at the Lyric theatre can easily be class ed among the few really successful productions of the American stage.
 Tt Happened In Bridgeport" Is a comedy pure and simple, but so clev- erly are the specIalties interwoven that one scarcely realizes what it Is all about until the final drop of the curtain. Then it is that the audience appreciates it's full value and cla- mors for more. In the ordinary vaudeville show five speciaities are introduced but in Tt Happened In Bridgeport" there are eight of these besides the regular performance. Principal among these is the weird and interesting dance by La Belle Masque, the mystery woman, who appears everywhere in public with a mask over her face. Two numbers are introduced by the masked WOuldi, lHe lIsL an ESyplldu SeIpell- tine dance. and the second an excel lent imitation of Bessie Clayton. John Thorn appears singing the songs which have made Mccormack fa- nous.
 The Poli Players and the attaches of the house must not be forgotten. Miss Alice Clement gives an excel lent rendition of the song, Kiss Me Again" made famous by Fritzi Schef and Ida Nave, the ingenue, sings Francis Whites well known success Mississippi" in juvenile. Jack Mo Grath, in an impersonation of Al Jol. son is also worthy of mention. as is Grant Erwin as Paderewski, the fa-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
PLAZA

A gr<.t actor in a great story by g. great author. This charaCte-izes the sentiments of all who have witnessed the feature photoplay at the Plaza the first three days of this week. The Light of Western Stars" with that versatile and virile leading man, Dustin Farnum, is scoring with pat rons at every performance. It is so different from the usual Western story which one usually sees and Is far superior to any that have been shown in Bridgeport for some time. It is from the pen of the famous au- thor, Zane Grey, who bears the repu- station Of being the supreme Western story writer. It is estimated that more than two million have read the novel, a good evidence of the worth of the story. The picture is in siS reels and may be Classed among the 100 per cent. pictures.
 A vaudeville bill of unusual excel lerce closes its performance here to- night, Headed by Gene Leighton and her Six Minstrel Boys in a big nov eltv revue the program is replete with neatness and CIeverness. The songs and comedy are brand new and han died in a capable manner by real per formers. The elegant blending of voices In few numbers sung by the quartet brought rounds of applause at each showing. Jennie Middleton, a dainty violiniste, renders a well sc lected repertoire of classical and pop ular numbers. WincheU and Green offer something quite different in a clever singing, talking and dancing s.Stt The Pierretos open their act with a difficult novelty and eccentric waltz and then do @ high class aerial get much different than Is usually seen.
 The Official War Review and Gau- mont weekly complete the bill.
 Starting tomorrow the gigantic fea- ture picture, '~The Common Cause, '' is scheduled for a showing. It was produced by the pioneer picturea man, J. Stuart Blaokton, who was until re- gently associated with Gov. Smith of New York in picture making. There are IA names Of stars who appear in it. Among them are Marjorie Ram beau, Violet fleming, Julia Arthur Irene Castle, Fife Shannon, Mile Marcel in the prologue aud epilogue and Herbert RAwlinson. A big vaude- vile bill accompanies it with no ad- vance Tn prices.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
BAD BREATH
Dr. Edwards Olive Tabla,s Get
 at the Cause and Remove It

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 All the benefits of nasty, sickening, Criping cathartics are derived from Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets without gripping, pain or any disagreeable effects
 Dr. F. M. Edwards discovered the formula after seventee-- years of prac- tice among patients afflicted with bowel and liver complaint, with the attendant bad breath.
 Dr. Rewards Olive Tablets are purely a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; you will know them by their olive color. Take one or two every night fof .srweek and note the effect. 1oc and Esq Ter box. All druggists.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
BRITAIN TAKES
 OVER RAILROADS

London, Jan. 15.---(Corresponddence of The Associated Press Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions, who announced the government policy of nattonalizing British railways, ex- pIained to the Dundee chamber of commerce the reasons for the pro- posed step.
 Owing to the enormous debt with which the country has been burdenef by the war, he said, relief measures on oig ecale were required.
 The three great parent factors of a country's welfare" he continued are land, communication and power and the three children food, housing and manufacture. So long as the rail- ways are in private hands they may be used for immediate profit. In the hands of the state, however, 1t might be wise or expedident to run them at a loss if they develop industry, place the trader in closer contact with his market, and stimulate development. You canont organize the great questions of land settlement. new in ] dustries, and the extension of produc- i tion, un!es the atato has control Of the means of transportation" l 4 mass of infor@Antion about the railways is already available, he said, and a large part of the task of ma tionalization has automatically accom- n!!shed itself. T think it highly i'm s3Eotaiole, he went on, that action on this vital matter can be delayed until a royal commission has wan dered about"
 Explaining to the press bill which the Railway Naturalization society
 has prepared, Emil Davies, the chair
 man, said it provides for the acqrigi-
 ton Of all railway stocks and shares Ut their mean market price during the
 twelve months ending six months
 prior to the introduction of the bill in
 Parliament, the purchase price to be
 paid in per cent. government stock
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
BONAR LAW HAS NO
 POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS

London, Jan. 15-Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, does not want to be Premier of Eng land After he had made a cam paign speech at Glasgow before the election the chairman of the. meeting voiced the hope, that Mir. Law might aspire to and soon reach the highest position of all''
 The Chancellor smiled and shook his head. Mine" he said, lis an ambition like that of the epitaph on the washerwoman's tombstone:
 Don't grieve for me, friends
 Oh, grieve for me never!
 I want to do nothing
 or ever and ever.