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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11

z The announcem ent of the New Had ven road follows similar action on theI part of virtually every other trunk line in the country. Notifications send broadcast yesterday are believed merely acts ito force pay scales to al The cut on the New Haven road will affect 23,000 workers, including 5000 unskiFled and 17.0OO skilled enn T ployes- All classes whose rates of pay were increased May 20 last by the Federal Labor Board come und CT the scope of the reduction.
 Marked changes in conditions since the effective date of the rates now paid justify and require reduce tions in the existing rates,'' according to the official announcement of the company.
 Glasses of workers affected includes supervisory forces, maintenance of way men. shop crews, clerical and. office forces, station men, dining car and restaurant employees, construction and repair gangs, bridge and bui1ding7 departments, signalmen, e1evatore and telephone switchboard operators, and all helpers and apprentices. Unski11ed labor representatives and railroad officials are conferring in. New Haven today on the reduction.l UnskilIed employees, or construction workers and road men, now receive hour week. The new cut will bring their wage down to $14.52 for A houor week. The reduction in this class will become effective April 4. Other conferences will be called from time to time with accredited representatives of other departments for the purpose of discussing and reaching an agreement on the propos- ed revision.''
 On the Central New England line, 4S,0 900 employees are affected by thei cut which becomes operative on April IS. Hearings similar to those heIds 1@ AI,o 1@< T1~e1 shortly
 Reductions on the Long Island railroad become effective April 1. An: nouncement has been made that thes road will probably follow the action of the Pennsylvania in reducing sal-s aries in all departments. Unskilled laborers at a conference yesterday considered the proposed reduction from 4S 1-2 cents an hour to 40 cents.
 Approximately 43,000 workers on the New York Central line will be af-s fected by the cut which on that line; is effective April IS. Subsidiary lines of the New York Central will proba- bly follow the action of the parent trunk line and order reductions in all departments. These subsidiariesi include the Boston & Albany. the Michigan Central, the Big Four, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, Lake Erie & Western, and other smaller lines.
 Reduction proposals affecting thousands of railroad workers haye 39 pSS1 OiliC1cLl4y SlAlioCAbCCA py N1A every Western railway with head quarters in Chicago, including the Santa Fe, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago & Great Western, Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Chicago & Northwestern.
 A conference opened today in Bethlehem, Pa, between representa- tives of the Lehigh Valley road and unskflled labor delegates on the pro posed reduction of wages. More than 5000 employees are affected.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11

County Court House. Ardm ore, OkIa-ssI want to see her sent to the electric chair. Every married woman, every mother should pray for her punishment She is a terrib le woman. No home is safe from her kind. No punishment is bad enough for her"
 The woman who uttered these words today was the wife in the tri- angular drama which ended in the death of Jake L. Hamo on. Oklahoma millionaire oil man and Republican National committeeman.
 With the jury finally selected the state today will open it's attack on Clara Smith Hamon, on trial for the murder of Hamon
 The prosecution, which will dis close its evidence today. will attempt to prove that Hamon, while dying, declared that the woman came to his hotel room and while lying on the bed. affectionate1y ruffled Nhis hair with tha fingers of one hand and then with a 22 calibre automatic pis- fol Concealed in tta other shot him in
 It viii charge that she purchased the revolver for the special purpose Of killing him. That she had threat ensd to shoot him and had attempted to take his life several times before.
 The widow of the oil king, who has entered Ardmore's famous murder trial in The role of the wronged wife, makes no attempt to conceal her hat red of the girl who had her husband
 She CT may be imagined the figure
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Mother of Five Will Face Trial For Murder With 'Lady Lawyer At Her Side.

New York-Mrs. Donatel1a Mas Queens County jail charged with murder in the first degree.
 A woman was the victim of the all legged crime-Mrs. Concetta AItieri, a neighbor of the accused.
 But-new and ,remarkable-in the extremity of her grief and need, Mrs. Massiella has cried out that she would have none but a woman defend her.
 So, Miss Theresa, B. Dublin, attor- ney-at-law, will be counsel for the ac- cused when the case comes to trial this month in Queens County.
 A woman will defend a woman charged with killing a woman.
 It seems like the last cry of mod ernity instead of the choked appeal of a woman sodden with grief and ter TOT over a dreaded fate.
 But Mrs. Massiella is not a "mod- ern'' woman. She came to this land many years ago. She speaks another tongue. Her life has been. one of sac rifice and illness. She is the mother of five. Time was not found for the learning of a new language or the constant appreciation of the rise of her sex.
 eYt when the state will seek by trial to prove that she should give up her life to pay for the life they will charge she took, Donate1la will be heartened by the woman counsel at her side.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Lang Brothers
 Case Continued

Another important step in the now famous Isaac Sheer bankruptcy case was taken yesterday when Joseph and Hillard Lang, both of this city were arrested on charges of aiding and abetting the concealing of assets. Both men were arraigned before U. s. Commissioner Hugh J. Lavery, and their cases were continued until March 24.
 Sheer himself, who disappeared last fall while bankruptcy proceed ings were being carried out, was ar rested Wednesday on a bench way rant issued by the United States court in New Haven. He was taken to that city on the bench warrant, without being arraigned before Lavery, who had also issued a warrant for his ar rest.
 Joseph Lang conducts a loan office at 31 Fairfield avenue, and at one time was treasurer of the Bridgeport Shoe company. His brother, HiIliard Lang, is a pawn broker and partner in the Novelty Trimming business, 595 Water street.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Drys Will Wage War
 On Ruling

Boston-Three ways of overcom- ing what he termed the erroneous opinion of former Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer that beer and wine can be prescribed as medicine were outlined by Wayne E. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon Lea que of America today.
 First he said, i've will ask the new attorney general to revise the opinion.
 Second. we will endeayor to get the remaining nine states that have no enforcement codes to do what the other dry states have done and pro- hibit the prescribing of beer for me- dicinal purposes.
 Finally, we will ask congress to change the law in this respect if it is necessary to do something in the meantime the brewers cannot make any real beer until the new regula- tions ere made and then only in very small quantities, as it can only be used in nine states under strict Gmita- t:ors.'
 If the brewers think it will be open season for the old-time beer trade under Mir Palmer'S decision, they will be greatly mistaken, con tinued MT. Wheeler.
 Tn addition to the limitations on manufacturers of beer very few self respecting persons will prescribe it as a medicine. The national medical association has gone on record re- peatedly against intoxicating liquors as medicine. Beer has no therapeu- tic value. It is simply booze and that is all there is to it.''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
MRS. BISHOPS
 DIVORCE CASE
 IS POSTPONED

The case of Blanca West Bishop vs. William D. Bishop, millionaire re- porter, being a claim for alimony pending divorce action started by Mrs. Bishop, was continued for two weeks when the turn came during the short calendar session of the Superior Court today, before Judge John E.. KeeIer. Much interest was manifested in this case and also in that of Adrianna Bogart Vire1li vs. Frank VirelH, sergeant of the state police. The latter case will likewise come up again in two weeks.
 Two other cases that will be reach ed this afternoon and that are of unusual interest are those of Isaac Church vs. Duren, Gregory & Com stock, brokers, to recover because stocks sold the plaintiff did not bring the remarkable returns it is alleged a salesman of the defendant stated they would.
 The other case is that of Frank Cozza against Fred c. Bozeman- ol the staff of the Burns detective agency, who but recently finished a jaii sentence for assault The de fendant has filed a motion for more specific statement in the plaintiffs s suit for damages. alleging that a pie ture of the Madonna produced at a critical time in the cross examination of the witness, so excited Bozeman that he lost control of his temper, because of the way the picture was produced.
 The case of Wilmot c. Wheeler versus Lena Snow was again contin- ued until May after hearing Mir Wheeler for a few minutes. Richard G. Hendrick was ordered to pay his divorced wife, Helena w. Hendrick the sum of s360 within one~year.
 Mrs. F'itzmaurice, probation officer of Stamford, appeared in the con- tempt case against Jacob Hoberman. No contempt was found but the de- fendant was ordered hereafter to pay his former wife Cutie Hoberman, $S a week as originally ordered by the court. Judge keeler believed that the man should be able to raise the ante since he found it possible and convenient to remarry and start a new family, two children having al- ready been born to his second wife
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11

A considerable amount is charged for the services of a single operative, not named and the amount is itemiz- ed day by day until a period far along in February last which Eeads to one of two conclusions: Either that the vice raids have been continu- ed since the period of the raids or that the city has been charged for Fred E. Bozeman during the period that he served in jail upon a charge of assault. The conviction was se- cured at the instance of Prosecutor A. L. Delaney. Bozeman was releas~ ed Feb. 12-
 There was nobody about City Hall today who desired to talk about the bill and knowledge of it's existence was undoub tedly confined to a very few persons.
 The raids were made April IT, 1920 A party consisting of hundreds of individuals started from the Me morial Baptist church and cleaned up all the gambling divees and most or the red light places including resorts that had always been friendly to the administration. These raids were re Sponsible for the bitter breach which , after came into being between various ia otions of the administration Many persona1 ennities were created upon the ground that the mayor was seek ing to prove that some persons high in the administration were to put it plainly, grafters.
 Nothing of importance was proved against anybody in the way of graft though it was shown Bridgeport was a wide open city. The city paid in April, 1920, to the Burns Agency, S2,- 62S.1s; in May, s1,264-40; in June, s15,64S, total of s9,535.5S. A bill for S7,5eO was refused by the Board of Apportionment. It is assumed that the bill for s17,o00 includes this amount and additional amounts to make the total new demand for ST. GOO.
 It is politely but firmly stated that rhe city must pay the bill or find it. self in a lawsuit. The Board of Ap- portionment will struggle with the question at a nearby date.
 interviewed in New York today on zhis bill, Police Commissioner Stan lev refused to comment but allowed the inference to be drawn that he mad no knowledge of it whatever.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
LAST HONOR FOR
 PETER BRENNAN

A large gathering of sorrowing relatives and friends. many among them being former business a.ssoci- ates from the offices of the railroad, attended this morning the funeral of Peter T. Brennan, S05 William street, father of former fire commissioner, Francis J. Brennan. Many exquisite floral offerings were evidence of the esteem with which MT. Brennan was held by all with whom he came in contact.
 Services were held at the home at g o'clock and at 9:30 from St. Charles church where a solemn high mass was celebrated by Rev. T. P. Gloster assisted by Rev. George P. Sinott, of Newtown, as deacon and Rev. Father Moran as sub-deacon. Miss Jessie Murray sang Ave Maria and Face to Face" Committa1 services were read at the grave by Rector P. J. Me- Givn9y, master of cerem onies, the internent being in the family plot at St. MichaePs. The pal1bearers were James L. McGovern. Peter Davey, w J. Shaughnessey, Jr., Edward J. Rowe, John Fitzgerald and R. Elm melt Donne1ley.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
REBELS PREPARE TO
 BOMBARD PETR0CRAD

spatch is quoted as saying. "The fortress of Todleben and all other so- viet batteries on the Karelian penin- sula have been completely der1olish- ed. Two of the four 12 inch guns at kraSonoye Gorka have been Silenc- ed by shells from the battleship Pc tropavlovsk. Krasnoye Gorka has s5een isolated. the railroad to it has been destroyed and a thaw has plac- ed the surrounding marshes in such condition that the fortress has been cut off from the rest of the BoIshe- vik forces"
 A great anti-Bo1sheviki movement in the vicinity of AIinsk. white Rus sia, is reported in a Reuters despatch from Helsingfors. Soviet troops are said to have mutinied and murdered BolSheviki commissioners there. Neither mentions street fighting but Bo1sheviki and the anti-Soviet units in Kiev.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
 EXCEEDS
 POWERS
German Minister Admits He Overstepped
 Bounds.
tBy International, News Service,

| (By International News Service,) Berlin Minister Walter | Simons, in reporting to the Reichsta 2 | Foreign Affairs Committee upon the course of negotiations in the London l indemnity conference admitted that he exceeded the prescribed limits of the German counter proposals but ex- plained shat he had been led to do so by the hope of receiving credits. it was learned today.
 The German cabinet had previously | approved Dr. Simons' report upon the ind demnity conference. Whether there will be any changes in the cabinet over the admission that the foreign minister had acted upon his initiative in explaining Germany's indemnity offer into a. larger sum than approved by the German experts was not ap- parent. It was said that much voarld depend upon the complexion of the new PruSSian cabinet appointed to | succeed that resigned yesterday. Herr Stresseman, leader of the German Peoples party and Dr. IIelf- ferich, leader of the Nauonalists and criticised Dr. Simons at the Reichstag Foreign Affairs Committee meeting for offering the allies indemnity of S;ooo. .ooo.ooo gold marks annually for 30 years They said that this was beyond Germany's ability to pay. French Military Headquarters, Mayence- Major General Henry T.
 
 forces of occupation, will follow the same po1icySregarding the collection of customs along the Rhine as on other problems connected with the occupation, making the decisions of the Rhineland commission his orders to his army, according to information received here from Cob1enz today. General Allen has taken no action on the customs question, it was stat ed and is awaiting notification of the commissions decisions.
 Ber1in-Great quantities of goods are being moved in western Germany
 to avoid the Allied customs penalties, according to the following despatch from Mannheim:
 Every available wagon and truck
 and motor car, filled with goods man.
 ufactured in the occupied zone have
 been crowding the roads all night and all day yesterday. These vehicles are bringing the goods into unoccu-
 pied territory before the Allies erect their customs barrier for the imposi- ton of heavy duties. So great has the traffic become that it was necessary to establish a special police force along the roads to keep them open"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
BRIDGEPORT TEAM
 GETS FIRST PRIZE
 IN DANCE CONTEST

A Bridgeport dancing couple, Miss Margaret Byrnes and Matthew M. Margarita, hauled down first prize in the elimination dancing contest being staged at the Park theatre. At last nights performance of 'tThe Sporting Widows they brought down the house in tumult of applause after dancing in competition with eight other cou- p1es. They will be entered in the finals on Saturday night. The second round of the contest will take place imme ediately after tonight's perform ance. Most of the other dancers pair ed up with chorus girls last night
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11

New York-A new development to- day was injected into the divorce proceedings of W. E. D. Stokes, wealthy New Yorker, with the pre- sentation of further "back stairs' evil dence to Justice Finch in the Supreme Court. Mrs. Anna Brennan, former maid in the Stokes household, describ- ed the visit of a tall, dark haired, young man. to Mrs. Stokes boudoir at o'clock on the morning of Dec. ' or 8, bringing to light a. character that may rival Hal Billig, correspond ent, in importance.
 Mrs. Brennan, who later admitted she was still in the pay of the mil 1ionaire plaintiff, failed to disclose the strangers visit in her earlier testl- nony, and when questioned by Justice Finch on the tardiness of her evil dence, announced it was only after deIiberation that she had decided to offer her story of the early morning visit to her former mistress apart roanf
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
AUTO THEFT CASE CONTINUED

Dispositions in the case of James R. Burroughs of Bridgeport, who with Eugene Shanley, also of this city was arrested for eomplicity in a huge automobile theft scheme, were heard yesterday afternoon before U. $. Com missioner Hugh J. Lavery and will be continued this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. District Attorney Mckenzie of Detroit, and Assistant U. s. Attor- ney George H. Cohen were present at the hearing yesterday. Burroughs and Shan1ey will be arraigned in De troit next month. Testimony offered yesterday was largely in reference to the character of Burroughs
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Oh, Cupid!
(By Associated Press.)

Hartford-Cupid is no respector of years. Mrs. Abbie A. Tucker, who has two sons, five grand children and two grcat-eI-and- children, and William O'Brien, who has a son and a daughter and six grandchildren, were mar ried Tuesday night at 136 Re treat avenue, where Mi'. O'Brien has made his home for half century Both Mir. and Mrs. O'Brien are 74 years of age. This is MT. O'Brien's third marriage and Mrs. O'Brien'S second. MT. O'Brien is a retired contractor. His bride has been his house. keeper for two years.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
CBy Associated Press. )

(By Associated Press.)
 London-Revolutio authorities at the fortress of Kronstadt have sent an ultimatum to the Soviet authori- ties in Petrograd demanding the sur render of the city before March 20. If the city is not given up, the ulti- ,natun1 declares. there will be a gen eraI bom5ardment, it is asserted in an Abo Finland, dispatch to the Lon don Times Wholesale arrests and executions of workmen are said to have occurred at Oranienbaum, Systerbak and Petrograd.
 Kronstadt last night sent out a wireless despatch denying Bolsheviki statements that the fortress was without food, says a telegram from Stockholm. To the contrary there is plenty of food and ammunition there, the message stated.
 Artillery fire from Kronstadt has been well directed" the wireless de-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Fix Million As
 Sum Costa Rica
 Must Pay Panama

Balboa Panama Canal Zone President Porras of the Panama Re public has fixed S1,00O.00O as the amount of indemnity Costa Rica will be asked to pay for invading Panama soil and thus making war eNpendi- lures" by the Panaman government necessary it was learned today Quiet prevails along the frontier and also in Panama. The American sol 6iers who have been guarding the of dicia1 residence of President Porras in Panama City have been withdrawn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11

Further bills amounting to nearly $i0O0 have been sened to the city by the Burns Detective for rendered last when the vceraids staged The bill has been several days and it has been kept dark has been viewed by number of city fathers whom know how it be paid. Rumor about City Hall
 it that the bill handed to William E. Seeley president of the Board of Apporonmen Taxation by Allen who led the vice Mr. Meyers said to have brought bill personally to Mr. Seeey but not until 1t had Mayor Wilson The bill occupied two large pages carefully
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
WEATHER.

New Haver-Weather forecast for New Haven and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; slightly warmer tonight.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity: Fair weather with mild temperature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
NEW IA VE!N ROAD TO MAKE 70
 PER CENT. WAGE CUT APRIL 15
800 HERE HIT
 BY NEW SCALE

Approximately 500 railroad employees Bridgeport will be affected by the proposed reduction of the New York; Haven and Hartford railroad Practically class of ploye, skilled uns1iled and clerical will be affected both the freight and passenger divisions The wage will be cent
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Increase American Prestige and Decrease
 All Foreign Mixups

Washington.-If the world pol icies'' of President Harding could be summarized in a few words, they probably would be increase Ameri- can prestige in Latin America and decrease America entanglement in the affairs of Europe
 Those who know the new president best confidently believe that this ex- presses generally the principles by which American's course in world af- fairs will be charted for the next four years, at least
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
GIVES HIMSELF UP.

Joseph Tar; of 27 Siemon street, sfs for whom a warrant was recently iS @ sued, surrendered himself at pcs headquarters today and was lfE up on charges of non-support.
 were set at $150-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
Ex-MAYoR REYNOLDS BETTER

Friends of Ex-Mayor Marcus L. Reynolds of APO Shelton street, who has been i'll with pneumonia, will be glad to know that he is now out of danger.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11
BURNS AGENCY HANDS IN NEW
 $17,OOO BILL

Question Arises Did City Pay For Bozemans Ser vices While He Was Serving Jail Term Or Mayor Wonders How Money to Meet Bill Can Be Raised-Stanley Silent
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-11

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