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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-01
FRANCE nEcoMES
PRO.TuRk

Up to the last few weeks France
has stood staunchly for clearing the
Turk out OF Europe and those parts
of Asia Minor inhabited by Christ
tian peoples. IS well as for full al
lowance OF Greek claims in Thrace
and elsewhere. Now. almost over
night, the French government has
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Cuba, too, seems to be warmly in
favor of prohibition--in the United
States.-Seattle Post Intelligencer
If the gas mask manufacturers are
wise they will not curtail produe-
ton before November.-Anacon
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-01

dominate the platform of the New
York Republican state convention.
Duluth Herald (Ind.)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-01

resume operations on the theory
that this is conservative country.
New York World tDem.)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-01
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1920
Daily
Editorial
Digest

CTitle Appld for U. S. Pat off
Edited by the Washington
Feature Service
DAVID LAWRENCE, Prest.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
REGULARS
WIN THE
PRIMARY
Lally Beats Wellington
in Stratford and Judge
Peck is Showed Under
Woman Candidate
for Representative is
is Beaten-Count Fin
ished at 4 A. M.

DESPITE frantic efforts on the part
of the Republican club, headed by
Abram Wellington, Old line Republi-
of the Republican Town committee
and the leadership of James Lally,
won a smashing victory at the Repub-
lican promaries held in Stratford last
night A total of ,482 votes was cast
between the hours of IL noon and
$50 D. M, and the count, which was
finally completed about 4 O'CLOCK th1s
morning, showed the old guard land
slide to be complete. Lal1y outdls-
tanced his rival wellington by 794 to
642, and Mrs. Katherine W. Var
brough candidate for representative,
was hopelessly beaten.
The main fights settled in the pri-
maries were between Ially and Wei
lington, candidates for first selectman,
and Charles H. Peck and Charles H.
We1les, for judge of probate. I4ally
came off victorious by margin of
152 votes, and Wel1es success was
even greater. Peck, of the insur-
gents, was showed under by count
Of S21 to sos.
The defeat of Mrs. Katherine w
Yarbrough, for the office of candi-
date for representative, was even
more crushing than had been expect
ed. The results indicate that Mrs
Yarbrough was slaShed by the~wo-
men voters to a considerable extent
A total of 388 women's votes was
cast, and the female candidate re-
ceived only 224 votes in all.
Reinhold Person headed the list
in the selectmen field with a total OF
923 votes. Person is an old line man
and his victory was expected. Everett
! CONTINUED on Page 16.l
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
in Murder,
Escapes From Jail

into the search i but without results.
The police department was inform
ed of the jail break later in the day
and men were assigned to the chase,
but up to early this morning were
without the slightest trace of the fugi-
tive. Word was further sent to all
outlying districts giving detailed de-
scription of the missing man, but
these precautions were alike unfruit-
full.
The man is of a conspicuous ap-
pearance, being negro of light color,
over six feet in height. powerfully
built, clean shaven and wearing a
shabby suit. consisting of trousers and
shirt of army khaki, the entire outfit
being OF a battered and worn appear
ance.
The ventilating pipe in question has
figured on many a previous occasion
as the means of egress for prisoners
not contented with their lot in the
! Jail, although It is seldom that a pris-
oner of the Importance of Gadling
with a murder charge pending against
him, has succeeded in making good
his escape.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
OFFICIALS
ONLY TO
SERVE
R e gull r Republicans
Say There Will Be
M ore designations
From the Mayors
Committee - Martin
Quit Following a Hot
Session.

Mayor Wilson said today that the
Advisory Committee which he had
appointed will all serve with the pos
sibIe exception of Earl Martin Ths
Mayor expects to appoint a successor
to Martin in a few days but would
give no inkling as to who would be
selected.
1t is said by frienos of the Re
publican Town Committee that there
was quite hot session between the
Mayor and Martin when Martin in
formed the Mayor that he would not
act on his committee.
The Mayor Informed Martin it is
said that any one connected with
the old town committee would be
recognized hereafter in the distribu-
ton of City patronage mad that Mar
tin, himself need look for no favors
in the future.
Martin is said to have told the
Mayor that he had never received
any patronage for himself Or friends
from the Mayor andY that he had
never looked for any as he was OF
the impression that he would be
turned down if he bad
It is also said that there are a
number of the other members of the
Mayors committee who will refuse
to serve and the old guard predict
that the Mayor will have to pick
successors to all the men on it who
do not hold positions under the
present city administration.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
SAY they SAW
DRIVER OF the
BOMB WAGON

New York, Sept 22-Six days have
elapsed since the fatal and devastat-
ing bomb blast in Wall street, but
the authorities were as far from a
solution today they have been at
any time since the investigation start
ed.
The detectives-both federal and
municipal-were admittedly baff1ed. Il
Detectives are making thorough
investigation in the Paterson, N. J.
diStrict-a community formerly no
torious for its anarchist colony. In
vestigatorsf are generally agreed that,
irrespective of the home of the bomb
maker or makers the wagon which
carried the Internal machine came to
New York from New Jersey. A con-
ference was held today at the office
of Fire Commissioner brennan at
which experts made reports on the
character of the explosive that was
contained in the bomb.
Four workmen appeared at the
Municipal building today and de-
clared they had spoken with the driv-
er of the death wagon that figured in
day.
The workmen said that five or ten
minutes after a bomb, believed to
have been placed in the wagon, ex-
when they were standing in front of
a building being razed in the Wall
street district.
According to their story, the
stranger said his horse and wagon
had been blown up after he had left
! the vehicle to telephone his employ
| er. He said he had been ordered to
| take building materials to Wall and
Broad streets but he had been un-
able to find the indefinite address
given him. After talking to the
workmen, he disappeared, they said.
The workmen employed by a
house-wrecking concern, described
the stranger as either a Slav or Ger
man, about five feet seven and weigh
! ing 100 to ITO pound. He wore a
dark blue serge suit, they said. Miss
Rebecca Epstein, a 20 year old steno-
grapher, claims also to have seen the
driver of the death wagon before the
explosion, previously had told the
| OyerallS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
HOLCOMB
REJECTED
100 TO |
Assembly Emphatic In Its
Overriding of the Cover
nor's Veto.
Especial to the Times.)


Hartford, Sept. 22.--The right of
the Governor to limit the action of
the Legislature to such matters as he
shall designate in his call for a spec
ial session was denied in very en-
phatic manner yesterday when the
House by a vote of $50 to 1 passed
the bill appropriating s335,000 to the
Storrs College over the Governors
veto.
This bill which was passed at the
first special session was vetoed by
Governor Holcomb, but because it
was necessary to close the first spec
ial session before the calling of the
second special session at IL o'clock
yesterday morning it was found there
was not sufficient time to reconsider
and pass it over the Governors veto,
so Col. Hank Hall reintroduced the
bill at the second session and under
a suspension of the rules it was sent
to the Senate which after passing it
sent it to the engrossing clerk and
the Governor Immediately vetoed tn e
bill again.
The Governor said in his message ge
vetoeing the bill, "I herewith return
without my approval an act entitled
An act making an appropriation to
the Connecticut Agricultural College
for a wornens building The sub
ject matter of this act is not included
in the purpose specified in the pro-
clamation convening the special ses-
sion of the General Assembly at
which said act was adopted
Col Hall Immediately moved a
reconside Grafton of the bill and call
ed for it's passage nothwiths tanding
the veto of the Governor.
Col. Hall said that the vote would
show whether the House agreed with
the Governor that its powers when
once convened were limited to the
matters set forth in the call for The
special session or whether the Leg
consider and pass any matter that it
saw fit to pass.
The vote to override the Governor
veto was taken by roll call and re-
suited in $50 in favor of sustaining
the rights of the Legislature to one
ton.
Most of the members were pleased
that they were given this chance tc
vindicate the rights of the Legisla-
tive branch as against the attemp
Of the Governor to control their ac-
| ton as the repassage of the reSolu-
| ton ratifying the 10Th Amendment
demand of Governor Holcomb hac
| apparently placed them in the posi-
| ton of acquieSing in the Governor:
| contention that they were limited il
their action to matters set forth il
| the call.
They explained that when they re
ratified the 10th Amendment the!
| did so in order that there might no
| be a shadow of doubt of the 1egalit.
! of the ratification which might be
come of such paramount importance
| throughout the country and migh
| cause the result Of the Novembe!
| elections to be questioned.
I
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
O'Reilly IS
Winner On
Saunders

M. J. O'Reilly of 53 James street,
who has made correct identifcations
on many profles, but who has not
until now been fortunate enough
to come under the wire first, makes
the earliest correct Identification of
yesterdays silhdn cite portrait. 1t is
Matt Saunders. manager for Poll, who
deals with some ten or twelve thou
sand individual customers on a busy
day. The idea that a. theatre ticket is
a retail commodity appears to have
been misleading to many conteStant ts
who sent in identiications that were
incorrect. But neither were they pre-
pared to admit that the sale of a the
atre ticket, or several, to one indi-
vidua1 is a wholesale business, so there
you are. Mr.. O'Rei11y earns the dol
lar.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
City To Purchase
improvements Or
Lease Is Renewed
Other Provisions of the
Lease Of Steeplechase
Island to Which OBJ
lection is Made Rent
al Swindle, is Another
Objection.

A scrutiny of the proposed lease of
Steeplechase Island shows that it is a.
simple lease for a ten year period.
In 1880 the city must decide to pur-
chase Ihe 100000 of improvements
which will then be on the Island, If
The project is carried out as planned,
or the lease IS automatically ex-
tended for another ten years, at the
option of the lessee.
The city, to confine the lease to a
ten year period, must repay to the
lessee the value of his property on
the island, including the value of the
property which he receives free of
charge, in which is numbered the
large dance hall and other buildings
now on the property.
If the city does not buy, the lease
runs until 1910. But in 1940 par
agEaph 16 provides, the property will
return to the city. This feature ap-
pears, however, to be withdrawn in a
subsequent paragrap phi.
The rental is based apparently upon
the basis of ten per cent. or less an
nually of the present value of the
property.
But the actual rent is considerably
less, because in Paragraph IL 1T is
further agreed between the parties
that all present structures on the
Island needed for the reha bilitation
of the same, may be used by the les
see to be demolished or reconstructed
and all material used in reconstruct
ton is vested in the 1eSsee.''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22

New Haven, Sept. 22-Hours before
Deputy Coroner Kenneth Wynne is
sued his finding yesterday noon to the
effect that Paul Gadling. supposed to
be in the county Jail. was criminally
responsible for the death of Patrick
Sullivan, who died in the New Haven
hospital on Aug. IT, as the result of
wounds received when he was shot in
his home at SO East street on July 2,
Gadling had escaped from the Whalley
avenue institution and was we'll on his
way to parts unknown.
1t was stated last night by the Jail
authorities that the man was on his
way at o'clock yesterday morning
with "a number of other prisoners
across the Jail yard after breakfast
towards his place of conhnement
when he made a dash for low roof.
from there went up a ventilating pipe,
then across the main roof of the
building, reached the ground by
another pipe and was away into the
wide, wide world before the guards
had an opportunity to observe what
had happened. An alarm was promptly
given at the jail and the entire avail
able force of tbz.3 institution impressed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
THE WEATHER

New Haven, Sept. 22-For Bridge
port and vicinity: Fair tonight and
Thursday; slightly warmer tonight.
For Connecticut: Fair tonight and
Thursday; somewhat warmer tonight;
gentle to moderate variable winds.
A long ridge of high pressue along
theAtlantic coast is producing pleasant
weather in all the eastern districts.
The tropical storm which was central
in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday morn
ing reached the Louisiana coast last
nightaand is nowNcentral in the lower
Mississippi valley. It has diminished
somewhat in intensity. The teTnpera-
ture is rising in the western and cen
trail districts. 1t is generally above
the frost l.ne along the northern bor-
der.
Conditions favor for this vicinity
fair weather. followed by increasing
cloudiness and not much change In
Temperature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
NORWALK MAN
KILLED BY FALL

Norwalk, Sept. 22 Bernard c..
Feeney, for 43 years an employe of
the NorwaIk Hour, died at his home,
Maple street, early this morning,
death being the result of a fall.
Mr.. Feeney, who was Democratic
registrar of voters in Norwalk, was at
work on the lists at the Hour office
until i o'clock Monday morning. At
4:30 that morning he was found un-
conscious at the foot of the iron stairs
leading to the editorial rooms, having
fallen some 20 feet. He never regain
ed consciousness. He was So years
old and is survived by a widow and
one daughter. Entering the news
paper profession as printers devil''
on the Hour. Mr.. Feeney remained
with the one paper all his life, with
the exception of several years spent
on the Newtown Bee.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
GOVERNOR
TO VETO
BILLS
Both the Soldiers Bonus
and the Bill for Money
to Pay Teachers Will
Probably Be Given a
Pocket Veto - Say
Position is Untenable.
Especial to The Tines

HARTFORD, Sept 22 - There seems
very little chance that the matter of
soldiers pension will be referred to
the people as ordered by the 1egisla-
ture yesterday Governor HoIcomb
has mt1mated already that he will
veto the measure on the ground that
the legislature did not have any right
to pass a resolution about a subject
matter not included in the call for
the session The resolution has not
yet reached the governor, being some
where on its way, but when it does h e
Will probably allow it to remain in his
office without his signature, which
will amount of course to a veto.
The same fate probably awaits the
poill which appropriateS money to pay
the teachers of the state under the
/ average attendance law, passed by the
regular session of the last legislature
when the legislature in 1919 passed
the average attendance bill, it provid-
ed bonus for all teachers in the
state, but it failed to appropriate
money for that purpose and as a re-
/ suit the whole situation has been in
confusion, some towns granting the
bonus out of town funds in the hope
that the state would later repay, and
| other towns refusing to pay the bonus
altogether.
'. The legislature yesterday appro-
Z priated the sum of $1,150,000 to cover
this bonus for the teachers 1t is ex-
pected, however, that the governor
will put pocket veto on that as he
/ will on the referendum on the SOL
! diers' bonus
There are great many, and some
of them friends of the governor, say
that the governors position in this
matter is more or less untenable
They point out that Attorney General
Bealy, who was elected as the legal
advisor of the state has given an
opinion that the Legislature has the
right to pass anything it pleases at
one of these emergency sessions
They claim that the governor should
be influenced by the attorney gen.
erals opinion rather than his own
since the attorney general is the le-
gal advisor of the state, and they
claim that he has no right to throw
! these matters away after the Legis-
lature has passed them, upon the
ground given by him that the Legis
+ 1atnre must confine itself strictly tt
the subject matter of the call.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
POLICE HEADS ON
MURDER PROBE

Superintendent of Police Patrick
Flanagan and Captain of Detectives
John Regan were not at their desks
at police headquarters this morning g
and inquiry made resulted in the
is probable that the two police officials
have gone to New Haven on the mur-
der case of James McDowl and Walter
Hoyt, both of whom are being held at
the New Haven county Jail in connec-
ton with the murder of Valentine
Landa of Ansonia- McDowl and Hoyt
at one time lived in this city and are
believed to be the same two men who
held up and robbed two employees of
the American Tube & Stamping Com
pany in the West End recently. They
in the robbery of a saloon on Clinton
avenue
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
COURT SKEPTTCAL
ON DISTURBER'S AGE

Arrested yesterday for creating a
disturbance on a one-man car on the
South Park avenue line when he re-
fused to pay his fare, Stanley Waitr
of $50 Hallett street was arraigned
in the City court this morning charged
with breach of the peace asd fined
$50 by Judge Wilder. The conductor
of the trolley testified in court that
waitr put two cents of his fare in the
fare box and threw the nickel on the
floor. He is also alleged to have
made insulting remarks in the pres
ence of a woman who was a passen-
GER on the car Judge Wilder asked
the young man if he had served in
the war and he said that he was not
of age at the time of the first draft.
Prosecutor Delaney interrupted at
this point and said: You are only
81 now and have a beard like that -
The court laughed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
FLYING SQUAD OF
WOMAN VOTERS
WaShingtOn.

Washington, Sept 22-FIying
squads of women speakers in autos
will be sent into Maryland and Vir-
gtnia to explain the League of Ma
tons to women voters Clara Sears
Taylor, chairman of the speaking
committee of the League of Nations
Association recently organized here
announced today Meetings for gov
ernment workers will be held daily in
Lafayette Square oposite the White
House, Mrs Taylor announced Each
day prominent woman speaker will
explain one or two of g articles of
the covenant for the League Mrs.
Edward p Cosdgan, of Denver, wife
of Judge Coshgan of the Federal
Tariff commission, will be iE charge
of the District of Columbia campaign.
According to Mrs Taylor, the
League of Nations Association is non
partisan
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
Ready For
Sentence OF
Lewis Today
May Wilson Brought Down
From Hartford As a
Witness.

The superior court marked time
today while j: waited for the attor-
neys to get ready for the appearance
alleged white SLAYER arrested at the
time of the sensational raid made by
Burns detectives at the insdgation of
Mayor Clifford B. Wilson.
Lewis, who was captured at Nor
folk, Va, and returned to Bridgeport
in charge of Lieut.. Barton of the
vice squad of the Bridgeport police
force, in the prisoners cage ap-
parent1y the most unconcerned man
in the whole proceeding. Numerous
members of the Greek colony of
one well known road house keeper
from Stamford were present and the
road house keeper held a long con-
ference with Lewis in the cage.
May Wilson, the woman in the
case" who is now in the House OF
Good Shepherd at Hartford was
brought here last night as a witness
sheriffs office during the forenoon
waiting to be called. Lewis wife and
baby were in the spectators row pa
tiently awaiting the outcome of the
parleys. She is a neat looking, del
icate appearing little woman and
was sadly depressed by the unfortu-
nate position in which she is placed
There was but one case disposed
of in court during the morning ses-
sion, that of William J. Ha1lernan
aged 16. who was charged with as
sault with dangerous weapon with
intent to kill. His plea was changed
to assault with a deadly weapon he
pleaded guilty and being given a sus-
pended sentance in the state refor-
matory-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
PREPARE NOW
FOR FOOTBALL
AUTO CROWDS

Traffic at Bridgeports busy corner
at Main street and Fairfield avenue
has been somewhat relieved since
Monday when the new city ordinance
restricting the jitneys to certain areas
became effective according to the po-
lice but whereas traffic at the par
ticular spot has been relieved other
places in the city are feeling the
brunt of heavier traffic and traffic
officers are kept busy At the cor
ner of Main and John streets and
at John stSeet and Broad, traffic is
exceptionally heavy.
With the approach of the football
season and the schedule at New
Haven being-partia1 to home games
the police have started preparation
for the handling of the motor traffic
of parties bound for New Haven
coming from New York and passing
years traffic viii be routed through
State street to Main street and from
there down John and Wall street
thereby relieving the center at Main
and Fairfield from the brunt of the
traffic.
Traffic officials said this morning
that the jitneymen were living up to
the newS city ordinance and no ar
rests had been made as yet. The
maximum penalty of violation of the
ordinance is a fine of 500.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
CARLUCCI HELD
FOR MANSLAUGHTER

Norwalk, Conn, Sept. 22-Domi-
nick Carlucci of 654 State street
Bridgeport, was found guilty OF GRIM
inal negligence in the finding return
ed yesterday of Coroner John J. Phe-
Ian, who conducted an inquest into
the death Of John Mccarthy, struck
by Carlucci's automobile on Wednes-
day night September Is, in front of
the Wee Burn Golf Club, Noroton.
Mccarthy died at the Stamford hos
pitaI the next morning, death being
caused by a fractured skull. Car
lucci was not held by the Darien au-
thorities, nor placed under bail This
morning grand juror William Will
mott of Darien sent constable to
Bridgeport to arrest Carlucci on a
charge of manslaughter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
WORKERS REFUSE
TO Give UP SHOP

Rome, Sept. 22.-Ita!ian metal
workers who occupied factories in
some of the larger cities last month,
notably Turin and Florence, are re-
fusing to evacuate the plants in ac-
cordance with the settlement agree
me1rt recently reached with the en-
ployers after government interven-
ton, according to dispatches to the
Giornale D'Italia.
In Turin, in fact, says a message
from that city, three additional
works were occupied by the men to-
day.
In fifty other works in Turin. the
despatch states, the majority of the
men decided not to abandon the
plants unless they received ample
guarantees against reprisa1s from the
masters and the Government. They
are also claiming payment of their
wages for the entire period of their
occupation of the works.