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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
SNOW STORM MAY CAUSE A
 COAL TIE-UP
Charities Dept. Aids For ty Families and Manu- facturers' Assn. Plans to Supply Employees New Fair Price List.

The arrival of a snow-Storm
 today, following closely upon the
 heels of a short-Iived coal snap,6
 threatened real distress to a num-
 Der of families in this city
 who were reported to be entirely
 without coal, and it was feared
 the snow storm. if of long dura-
 tion, would seriously handicap
 freight tie up.
 Superintendent of Charities Angus P. Thorne today reported that up to the present time forty requests for from poor families and coal supplied them in lots of a quarter of a ton for each family Ninety-four requests for coal were received by the Char ity Department last month.
 To Aid Employees.
 It was also learned today that in response to a request from the Manu- lecturers Association of Connecticut approximately 300 manufacturers throughout the state have agreed to set aside screened soft coal for the use of their employees in case of emer- gency. Many manufacturers are re- ported as buying and screening for the use of their employees low-Volatile soft coal which is suited to home use. At the Bridgeport office of the Manu- lecturers Association today 1t was said that practically all the manufac- turers here are well supplied with coal.
 Coal dealers of this city will receive a communication today from the Bridgeport District Fuel Board set ting the fair prices of coal as follows: Egg coal, S14.5O ton; stove coal, S14.75 a ton and cut nut coal, S15.50 a ton. No straight coal is to be sold to householders who will receive one fourth in substitute with every order.
 New Fair Price.
 The announcement of the new prices follows a long line of violations of the old fair price of S15.50 by local dealers. The bulletin states these prices shall be charged" The deal CTS were recently warned coal sup plies enroute to them were liable to seizure unless they observed the boards orders.
 Mayor Fred Atwater. chairman of the fuel advisory board, has asked Fuel Administrator James D. Skin ner to give the coal situation in the city here all the publicity through that is possible. The mayor pointed out to the administra- tor that "pitless publicity was the only cure for the situation here.
 In accepting newspaper men to his confidence. Mayor Atwater told Ad- Skinner that many of the erroneous stories that were coming to light could be stopped.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
NOT
 SLAIN; DROWNED

Chicago. Dec. 14.-Mrs. Kate Mitch ell Troste4l, pretty young widow who has been mysteriously missing three weeks was not murdered-she leap ed into the drainage canal" her sweetheart, Arthur Foster, 32, told the police today after he had broken down following a severe grilling last ing 40 hours.
 Kate and I had a violent quar- rel, he confessed, according to the police We were standing on the bank of the drainage canal
 Suddenly Kate turned and 1eaped into the water. That was the last time I saw her alive. She must be dead or she'd be home"
 Police are convinced she was rnur. dered-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
GUARDS ESCORT
 MRS. BRUNEN TO
 SCENE OF TRIAL

Mount Holly. N. J., Dec. 14.-Q. N. S.)-As as result of direct threat of death hurled at her yesterday by Mrs. Harry Mohr, wife of Harry Mohr, who with Mrs. Doris Brunch is on trial, charged with the murders of Honest John Brunch, wealthy circus owner, Hazel Brunch, step daughter of Mrs. Brunch, was accom- panied to the court room today by a squad of armed guards and deputies.
 Hazel, pretty and seventeen, told a story yesterday of her step-mother and her family life which cIimaxed in an attempted attack upon her by Mohr and his wife which threw the courtroom into g. state of chaos and caused the nervous collapse of de- fense attorney Walter Keown.
 The defense attempted to prove that until less than three weeks be- fore the trial the Brunch girl was on friendly terms with her step-motIer and the Mohr family and that her change of front came only when she was unable to secure funds from her fathers estate The letters offered as evidence most of them addressed to Dear Matte and Grandma and all written in the weeks just preced- ing the trial, give no sign of a change of heart.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
MRS. HAYES IS
 SENT TO JAIL

Mrs. Bessie Hayes, companion of Eugene LedouN, when the automobile of former Senator Joseph Whitcomb was stolen from in front of the court house last month, was today sentenc' ed to three months imprisonment in the county jail by Judge Newell Jen- rings in the criminal branch of the Superior Court.
 Attorney Thomas CoughGn, in be- half of Mrs. Hayes. pleaded that she was the mother of a child who had been deserted by her husband and was more sinned against than shining.
 Judge Jennings said that while he felt sorry for Mrs. Hayes he did not feel that he would be doing his duty if he let her escape punishment for her part in the theft of the Whitcomb autom obile. and he pointed out that a recent actof the legislature provides for Is years imprisanment for auto mobils S6ASxA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
GOVERNORS IN MOVE TO CURB
 KU KLUx KHAN

White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Dec. 14-A move for united ac-
 ton by the 4s states to destroy
 the Invisible Empire" Of the
 Ku KIux KIan will be Iauched at
 the annual Governors Conference
 which opened its annual session
 here today.
 Pee1istrafion of all members of se- cret societies by the Department or Justice will be one of the methods proposed by Gov. John M. Parker or Louisiana who will present a. pro- fram of action.
 es,,nreTne Court in the Coronado coal case may provide the way for prose cutiOn of the KDan as a corporation and holding it's officers responsible TOT lawless acts committed by US 1neIh- hers. according to the governors. The decision declared labor unions re- sponsible for violence and damages committed by their members and the same principles it is decDared, may apply to the Klan or any other 1ncor- porated secret organization.
 Warning that a religious CIVIL war Is at hand unless immediate and dras- tic steps are taken to check lile spread of the Klan and smash US power" Governor Wolcott announced on lais arrival today. He will de- mand action by the conference ana recommended action of program to state Legislatures for a uniform leg isAation supplemented by federal laws to deal with the Klan. .
 ''Re1igious bigotry of any kind IS intolerab1e and there is no place Tn the United States for an 1nv1S!pIe 1,l7!I I.s government" declared Gov. William c, Sproul of Pennsylvania. am In favor of action of some kind to curp the Ku Klux K1an."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
Dump S1,7OO,OO
 Booze Cargo into
 Long Island Sound

New York, Dec. 14.-A part of a liquor cargo valued at $1 10000, at bootleg prices, has been dump ed into the ocean off Ereeport, Long Island, according to re- port received by Frank J. Hale and J. R. Kerrin, chief intelli- gence officers for the prohibition enforcement department. The whiskey, brought here from the Bahamas, was thrown overheard Tuesday when members of the rum runners crew were angered at failure of the cargo's owners in New York either to get water and food supplies to the ship or to unload the liquor.
 The vessel lay in the liquor camping grounds for several days, according to the federal agents, while small boats, operated by owners of the cargo, made futile efforts to run the government blockade and obtain the liquor.
 After dumping the liquor, the ship started on the return trip to the Bahamas, it was stated
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14

. The seven were killed when 8 two inch steam pipe, torn loose from the cylinder head of the switcht engine, swept around and crashed through a window of a car of the passenger train occupied by negroes, trans- forming it into cauldronL
 Conductor William Campsey was killed instantly. M. Young, train newsd ealer also died instantly. His body was found underneath a pile of papers, magazines and fruit.
 The five others killed were two ne- gro men and three negro women.
 Drifting of the switch engine siding converged with the main line was blamed for the accident.
 Watchman Loses Head.
 According to members of the crew of the switch engine. a watchman named Smith had been left in charge ant. The first they knew of the en- gine's drifting came with the 1n1- pact of the two 1ocom otives, they said.
 The watchman was unnerved ny the accident. and was unable to exs plain how this charge happened to drift
 The passenger train. ran between Houston and Shreveport.
 None of the passengers in the sleeping cars was injured. All of the dead and injured were rfling in the first and second coaches. To the bravery and presence or nnfrd or a. railroad man who refused to give rse name many passengers probably owed their lives. He dashed into the ror- ron, and stumbled the entire 1egth of car, breaking windows as he pro- gressed. As a result the steam poure ed out and relieved the stified victims.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
TURKEY WOULD
 JOIN LEAGUE

Lausanne, Dec. 14-G. N. S-)-The Near East Peace Conference was saved from collapse today when Ismet Pasha head of the Turkish delegation, announced that Turkey would join the League of Nations A compromise plan was submitted by the Turks for safeguarding Christians in Asia Min or The back down of the Turks means a peaceful continuation of the conference, the British delegates said
 "I hope to see you in the League of Nations within a few weeks" said Lord Curzon, addressing the Turks in the conference this afternoon.
 Despite their conceR4sns for pro lection of Christians sze Turks re fused to accept the Hoposa1 for an AAxmaniap homeland ea Turkish g Al
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
Fireman Is Burned
 to Crisp in Wreck

Fond Du Lac, Wise, Dec. H. Northwestern passenger and express train No. 125, northbound from Chi cago and Milwaukee. was wrecked early today between West Bend and Barton, Wise. Fireman John Loo man, of Fond Du Lac, was killed in- stantly, and his body burned to a crisp.
 Engineer Tom Green, of Fond Du Lac, was thrown fifty feet and is not expected to live
 The road bed was torn up for fifty feet and all traffic aA aDad up.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
FLAMES ROUT
 90 FAMILIES

New York. Dec. 14 - It was only after a score of policemen had pound ed franticaily on doors and windows and thick clouds of choking black smoke filled the rooms and railways that 60 families sleping peacefully in an apartment building adjoining a six-story loft building in the Bronx that caught fire early today. were awakened.
 Five f1remen already had been partly overcome by smoke before the sIeping tenants knew of the fire. Two fire fighters were severely burned by flames sweeping up from the cellar.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
HER JAW IS BROKEN ON
 AUTO RIDE
Mrs. Harry Mayer Un- able to Explain What Happened to Her-Po- lice Investigating.

Mystery surrounds a clandes- tine auto ride which ended sud- denly on Tunxis Hill Road last night when Mrs. Harry E. Mayer of 80 HazelVvood avenue, was either pushed or fell from an automobile in that lonely section in the rear of Fairfield. State Police and Fairfield conStables are today Investigating the case but so far they have failed to locate the other members of the party of whom there are beIieV- ed to have been three, ecIusive of the driver.
 (Continued on Page Two.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
WRONG PRICE QUOTED IN
 T4AMPEIL AID YESTERDAY

In the advertisement in yesterdays TIMES of the Final Clearance Sale opening at the Lampell Millinery Company, 1126 Main treet. today due to an error values up to S4.25 were quoted at one dollar. These values should have been up to S4.95, allowing a wonderful saving on every hat in this group
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
FORMER POSTMASTER MEANY EXONERA ATFD

Greenwich, Dec. 14.-William S. Meany, former postmaster, whose car killed Mrs. Anna NJ Schaeffer, a nurse, on December A. having been exonerated of careIessness by Coroner Phelan. the complaint under which he had been held pending the finding was noIIed in the Borough court to- da-.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
Charter Committee
 Meets Saturday

The Charter Revision commission will meet Saturday afternoon in the mayors office, Mayor Fred Atwater armour ced today. City Attorney John A Cornell and the mayor held a con ference yesterday afternoon in the mayor office relative to the matter. The mayor hopes to get the entire committee together.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
THIRD DIST. DEMOCRATS
 PLAN PEACE DINNER

Officers of the Third District Demo- cratic Club are arranging a Peace Dinner to be held some time next month at the Farm in Black Rock. The dinner is aimed to patch up difa- cult:es between the regular Democrats and the insurgents who waged a pr1- mary battle against the regulars pre- e9ding the last election
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
Ln1pressiue And CoZorfuz
 Rites Feature LnUesture
 or Eight Nev Cardinals

Rome, 14-( A. P1-Public of of today,
  of and roc elevation heads of their respective Portuga andS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
.LOCOS CRASH
 HEAD ON - ARE SCALDED
Thirty-five Others Seriously Burned and Injured in Texas Rail Horror Conductor Among Death Victims Passengers in Sleepers Es- cape.

Houston, Tex Dec 14Nine dead, being scaded death by steam and approximately 5 others burned several probably fatally when HousOn East and West Texas railway passenger side siped switch the Humbe Texas last night The cylinder locomotives struck squarely neither
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-14
9 DEAD, 8 INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK
WEATHER:

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 14--FoP New Haven and vicinity: Light rain tonight and Friday; slightly warmer tonight.
 For Connecticut: Rain tonight and Friday; warmer tonight; increasing south and southwest winds.
Evening star., 1922-09-03
FLORIDA FIGHT QU|ETS
ON EVE OF ELECTION
Democratic Nominees Apparently
Satished-Great Interest Shown
in National Politics.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla, September ..
Hardly q simmer IL noted IN the po-
litical caldron at this time. with election
a short time away. The democratic
nominees, apparently we'll satisfied, are
not worrying about the situation In the
state, although keenly interested In ma
tional politics and very generally ready
to predict numerous democratic victories
In November. where republicans claimed
the day two years ago.
Republicans Of Pinellas county, num-
bering maybe a hundred in population
of eight to ten thousand, met and
organized recently. indorsing a number
Of we'll known men for state or county
Offices In Ptnellas. which claims st.
Petersburg as its largest city, Judge
Park Trammell for the United States
Senate. That Judge Goober will get a
few votes is certain, as he is personally
popular where known but Senator
Trammell is sure OF the great majority
Of votes polled in November.
Pinellas threatens to send repub-
lican to the legislature, and the local
newspapers-excepting a small sheet re-
Gently started to boost the G. o. p
are advising against its expediency.
That 1t would reduce the influence OF
such a representative to naught Is GER
tain. as one republican in q body OF
democrats would merely vote for the
purpose of hearing his voice, unless sid
ing with democrats on important issues.
Industrial Issues, strikes and the like
are not likely to affect this section
greatly, and the election is almost GER
tain to be without features
Evening star., 1922-09-03
LOOK FOR SLENDER
WASHINGTON VOTE
Only Real Fight That Of Poin-
dexter for Return to
II Senate.
OPPOSITION NOT UNITED
Concurrent Democratic Primary
Week From Tuesday With.
out Interest.
OPPOSITION NOT UNITED

Special Dispatch to TIE star.
TACOMA. Wash. September 2.-With
the primary election one week from
Tuesday and the various candidates
making a hard drive for votes, little
Impression has been made toward
breaking down what Is apparently .
state-wids political apathy. Tho pri-
mary vote will be small. There 10
practically no interest In the demo.
cratic primaries, and what opposition
has developed between candidates for
senatorial and congressional Offices IL
negligible.
There is only one real contest
that OF Senator Miles Poindexter and
the anti-Pofndexter crowd. Because
OF the fact that the opposition to
-Poindexter is so widely split. his
nomina tion is assured. 1t will take .
political landslide at this time to
wrest the republican nomination away
from him-this despite a vicious drive
which has been made against him.
Efforts to consolidate the field
against Poindexter have failed. The
friends OF Mrs. Frances c. Axtell re-
fused to withdraw their candidate
after an attempt had been made to
George b. Lamping swing their sup
port behind Mrs Axtell.
Closing Speaking Tour.
Poindexter 10 closing up q cam
paign tour which has taken him to
every corner Of the state. He has been
given fairly good receptions. in so
far as numbers have gone, but there
is q general lack Of enthusiasm. The
candidates. There has been no en-
thusiasm shown in this campaign.
Little can be looked for during the
next ten days before the elections.
Poindexter opposition Is trying to
reap some comfort from tho victory
Of Senator Hiram johnson in Cali
fornia. asserting that the same forces
which sought to defeat johnson are
behind Poindexter, but the situations
In the two states are not the same.
Poindexter will be nominated because
he has no united opposition to face.
Democrats for DILL.
Tho democratic nomination will 60
to former Representative Clarence C..
Dill Of Spokane. Dill and his fol-
lowers are inclined TO urge the nomi-
nation of Poindexter by the republi-
cans. taking the position that the
opposition to the senator will unite
behind Dill in the general election.
In the congressional districts oppo-
Representative Stanley Webster Of
the fifth has no opposition. John
Summers in the fourth has some op-
position, but not enough to cause him
worry. Albert johnson in the third
has two opponents. neither of whom
is known outside of their immediate
vicinity. No campaigns have been
made by any OF the candidates. Lin
Hadley in the second has opposition,
but his nomination is assured.
Representative Miller In the first
faces the only real fght in the cam
paign. His opposition Is strong. 1t
Is divided, however, three ways, and
this will aid Miller.
Evening star., 1922-09-03
MARYLAND WOMEN
! SNARE PoL|T|ClRNS
ouestIonnaIres Demand
Views Of House and Sen
ate Aspirants.
WILL PUBLISH REPLIES
Candidates Asked for Attitude on
Naturalization and Other
Matters.
WILL PUBLISH REPLIES
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. September Now ie
Is the women who want to know.
Feminine voters have dug a new set
of pitfalls for senatorial and congress
sional candidates Of both parties. The
women have sent out questionnaire
asking their attitude on certain
measures now before Congress and
next session that are OF especial in
terest to the women of Maryland
Evening star., 1922-09-03

burg. has been. appointed democratic
congressional candidate In the third
district The appointment was made
by the district chairman, the state
appointment should be made by the
county chairmen Of the district, The
earlier ruling had been SUCCESSFULLY
controYsrted in the courts.
Walter Chambers, democratic state
chairman. and q number Of candidates
Evansville. Predictions are being
made that the democrats will carry
every district south Of Indianapolis.
It IL not understood that this fore
cast includes the Indianapolis dis
trict.
Split In G. O. r.
Tho indianapolis district is gener-
ally regarded as republican territory,
although terrific fight has been on
called the county crowd and the city
crowd, led by Mayor Lew Shank. 1t
IL q fight for control Of the organtxa-
tion. and charges and counter charges
are being made about disloyalty to
this candidate or that, including MT.
1t IL being asserted that the county
crowd IL most interested in the county
candidates and that the city crowd
ID chiefly interested in Mr.. Bever-
idge because Mr.. Beveridge's election
would promote the chances Of Mayor
Shank for becoming the gubsrnatorial
Tho fact that Mayor Shank was the
only one OF the prospective guberna-
torial candidates who was on the pro-
gram Of the recent republican state
editorial meeting. and that he said
publicly that he owed his invitation
TO Mr. Beveridge, has touched some OF
the .anti-Shank men to the quick. The
woods is full OF republican guberna-
torial aspirants. and there Is little
doubt Mr.. Shank will have much op-
position. In fact, it Is said by some
that tho great number Of opposition
candidates may be the thing that Will
put Mayor Shank over.
Severe criticism OF Gov. McCray's 8
strike policy was made at the annual
convention Of the Indiana State Fed
Grafton Of Labor. T. n. Taylor presi-
dent of the federation. said that the
governor In sending troops to the
mine district used kaiserism and
tried the same plan as the kaiser"
Evening star., 1922-09-03
DOUBTFUL
IN Wisconsin VOTE
Every City and Hamlet
Storrned by Speakers in
Six.Week Drive.
la F0LLETTEISM FACTOR
Extent Of Headway Made by Sena-
torial Antagonist to Be
Learned Soon.
La FoLLETTEIsM FACTOR

Special Dispatch 70 TIE Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. September D.
In the effort to change the opinions
Of voters Wisconsin has been stormed
by speakers for six weeks past. The
verdict VIII come Tuesday and the
general political judgment IL that. SO
far - the republican primary can fix
the result, there will bs slight change
in the. state Congressional delesa-
tion. ~,
In his strenuous campaign DR.. w.
A. 0anacld 10 given credit for over
hauling Senator La Toilette to some
extent. but probably no political opin-
lon would say the college president
VIII be able to turn the trick. that
would retire Mr.. La Toilette from
politics. DR.. Ganneld has put up a
nght that for endurance has rarely
been e9ualed. He has spoken In
La Folistts's camp. has fought back
with every resource Of its matchless
organisation. The senator devoted
nearly q month to the campaign and
left the state only that his vote
might be recorded for the soldiers
bonus.
CsnAitieas Favor La Toilette.
Senator La Follette's personal power
is reinforced by circumstances. The
same forcss that operated in North
Dakota, Iowa and other states to
bring about radical victories are at
work hero. La Toilette hackers offer
three to one on him.
In the congressional districts con-
ditions probably favor incumbents
allied with the La Toilette wing, but
there are complications. Tho first
district is battlefield between Rep
resentative II. A. Cooper. indorssd by
La Toilette, and Lawrence Whtttet,
former speaker of the house. Whit
tet is regarded as a strong candi-
date, and the 6rst IL territory in
which La Toilette influence Is weak
est. It was the only district in which
the senator's delegates to tho ma
tional convention failed Of election
two years ago. The district follow
ed up this rebuff by giving . ma
jority to Col. r. a Mccoy. democratic
candidate for governor. though La
Toilette was dEhting for Gov. Blaine.
IN tho second Representative Ed
Voight 10 believed to have = shade
the better Of Edward J. Gshl. Rep
resentative John N. Nelson faces q
doubtful situation in the third. where
his chief opponent IL Alvin Peterson.
chairman Of the republican state CEN
trail committee. Peterson 10 regarded
as a strong candidate. Conrad Pilz.
a La Toilette adherent, IL running as
q dirt farmer candidate. He is rated
as q dry. but under present align
ments the wet vote would have been
expected to 90 to him because OF his