PliN it for raw PAR Bridgeport —Workers Decide to Make Fight at the Polls llliAliiAliEiNlliE; RABIEAESARE UNITED Leaders Say Platform Is to Follow That of Britishl Laborites BBIDGBPOET, Conn, Sept. 16.— The brooding resentment ot the strik- ing mull“. workers here, who have . bu m book to their Jobs by W Wlhu'l proclamation, to. day W Itself in an open de- mand for political action. As dawn up yesterday afternoon the atrikors' piano call for nothing less than the formation of rubrand new political party. This party has already been informally christened men and children. The bodies ofthree: llaru Jacobs who was bruised and cut it will be known as the “American La~ bor Party," broadly speaking. principles. the founders announce. will be the same as those enunciated in 'h" “mp “he” “he “'35 last 39“" and Sigsw‘w'“ “'00“ during ”‘9 ‘3than England by the British Labor party. "immediately after the close of the looming to be held today. whereat the men will formally decide what re- sponse they wish to make to the Pres- ident’s mgdate of Friday,"_ said Sam- ' l ‘ flw-i— ‘ 2 mentioned 0n Pale 5117 ! _...__ Fifth Annual Exhibit of Pro- duce From Chidren's Gar- dens Was Biggest and Best . ' *- Wilton women won’t miss an oppor- tunity to make that new Library building till its intended purpose of a gathering place for all kinds of com- munity exhibits, and last Saturday the light and roomy basement was put to use for the display of the products front the children's gardens in the fifth annual exhibit and prize contest, under the direction of the Wilton Ci- vic League. Jun Fifty Cantoatantl. There were just fifty contestants out of the titty-four children that entered the contest last spring. or these. two dropped cut, and two had their entire , summer's work destroyed by cows, less than a week ago. Each exhibitor had an equal space allotted, and the bright red tomatoes. golden carrots. green cabbages and pumpkins. of many sizes. shapes and shades. made a most attractive picture. i i Opening Exercises. The opening exercises and award of prizes was held in the auditorium, with Mrs. F. C. Ogden, president of the. league. presiding. After a few words of Welcome from Mrs. Ogden, Miss Sarah L Middle- brooks, chairman of the garden com- mittee, gave an interesting account of the experiences of the past season, (Continued on Page Four) M MURD R OF CZ‘ARINA IS AGAIN REPORTED AMSTERDAM. Sept. l6.—The Kiev correspOudent of the Berlin “Tages Office kin New York city. A... ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW. FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WHY A IPNIAL' WIRE AND OUR OWN OPERATOR Matti-om nameless ll-BOAi ‘SINIiS BRIilSli ”Nil; 189 MISSING ;Gaiway Castle Torpedoed on Second Day of Voyage to South Africa EHliiliiEN ANll WllMEN VIGTIMS Ship Floats Two Days After Being Hit—Full Details Lacking LONDON. Sept. 16.—The British steamer Galway Castle. of 7,988 tons tgrosa, has beendorpodoed and sank. according to word received hero yes- terday morning. She had 960 per” sons on board. most of whom were mar Dam litter. At. loci} mung. con. IOIDAY,IIP!'.16, ms *DARIEN MAN SiliBBill IN A RAGE il|0l William Jacobs, Colored, Makes an Attack on Steve Bardi, Who Had Been to This City With Three Friends fliiltii fiAthiil HA_8_ii_r_l_lill TASK Tried to Quiet Mob of 100 or, More While Waiting for‘ Assistance Day street. near Nina street. was thenceneofanurrace riotonSat- urday and as one result Steve Bandi. reported saved. l The passengers inclnuded 300 wof children were brought ashore. The? its caplain and several of the omcers arei bad injury to the Pie. reported to have been still on boards sinking. 1 (Continued On Page Eight) THE tuna” ; PLAN truism The Liberty Loan committee of the Second Federal Reserve District has meaty honored Norwalk by giving of- ficial recommendation and endorse- ment to the plan which Norwaik used in the last Liberty Loan drive. i The wonderful result obtained here: without any definite subscription from. the banks produced a feeling of great delight with the central headquarters Their feeling for the Nor-walk plan and the business methods which it called for winter- cstcd them that a pamphlet contain- ing the full method of procedure has. been published and sent broadcast throughout the Second Reserve Dian trict. The same plan will naturally be; followed here in the next drive, com- mencing the 28th of this month. I (Continued On Page Eight) i FWESHfliSEIIiEIl . AT STEAMSHIPi i U-Boat Ninety Miles Off, Sandy Hook Opens Fire,‘ But British Boat Escapes AN ATLANTIC PORT, Setp.16.— About, ninety miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N. J.. on Saturday night in a thick log, a shell whizzed over the bow», of an inbound liritish steamship and the lookout reported to the bridge that a ‘ submarinc was in pursuit from astcrnu “Let him pursue and be damned," remarked the skipper. Then ~to the quartermaster he said: “Put her hard to port. He'll have a stiff job gettingl us." Word was sent to the gun crew: aft to stand by but to fire no shot until. ordered to do so by thebridge. | Within ten minutes the vessel, which had been steaming northwest. was headed southeast and another (return to their home in Barton. After NEWHAVENflBSEiil/ES. of Dar-ion, is suffering from the knife wounds on the upper part of his body which were inflicted upon him by Wil- badly about the head and sustained a A party of four Hungarians were in and left that place at about 11.15 to proceeding a short ways from the sa- loon William Jacobs, a colored man came along, and without the slightestl Warning struck Steve Bandi, one of! (continua so an M.) FIRSTANNIVERSARY PEEPiNii in AESGABURGEAR Prowleron Issues Street Has Heating .. and Plumbing Plunder When Arrested a...“ Good work by, local police who had been watching the. st actions of a man prowling aroun tho residences on isaaca street at an only hour Bun-f day rooming resulted in the capture of the" burglar who broke‘lnto the base-l meat of the Heating lr’ Plumbing Co.'s' plant at Walt street and tones Place, Thursday night. ' Officers Domcy, Murphy and Swee- (Coatinued on Third Page.) su insidiittt instants Bridgeport Men Forward a lengthvaeply to Presi- dent Wilson BRIDGEPORT. Sept. lG.—-Realnrm~ ing their loyalty to the government. the striking machinists and toolmak- brs here today sent a lengthy reply to President Wilson order- that they r'eturn to work, promising to return gar once and do their part in keeping u iMPiiiliEWAlE— STREET mun Prom plans now under way, the New York. New Haven and Hartford Rall- road Company contemplates extensive chug. and improvements in the Wall street, Norwult, tunnel. The principal work to be done there will organist of the lowering of the main line track two feet. lowering and re- building of the station platform, and the replacing of a portion of the pre- sent defective tunnel wall. This work will have to be accom- plished without stopping tratllc on the railroad, no there is only one main track from South Norwalk to Danbury,‘ and it will be a long and tedious Jobn: entailing an expense of upward of. 850,000. The contract for the entire Job was awarded today to Contractor. Timothy F. Foley & Company, of] South Norwalk, and it is expected1 work will start about October 1st. l-‘oley til Company have also been awarded the contract from the rail‘ road company to construct a aiding in! Windsor, Connecticut, with a capacityi for one hundred turn. and Work will1 soon begin on this improvement. MilitlilVEHiGlEi i surrounds . There was not one arrest to viola- CIoudy tonight and Tuesday; rain. WOO-II Austria Asks Waco Parley And Germany is Getting Ready To Make Peace offer to Belgium- London and Paris and Even the United Slain Receive Proposition With Coldness. Believing ii insincere. Pershing’s Army Pushesiiliead * Capturing Many Towns * and 2th Guns. . ' The British and French Troops Also Make Notable Gains, Enemy Counter Attacks Being Easily llepuiscd. . (By The Associated Press)._ While Austria was preparing her note to the belligerent nations, _ , proposing that -th‘ 31398.4 '31! 'm- Slowly thc' British are creep formal discussion 3 police terms nearer the Hindenburg line in P1- in a neutral country, Germany oerdy. Maissemyuorthwest of St. “'88 making ready to make 811‘ Quentin, has been taken front the other offer of a separate peace i0j Germans, who also were forced stone of their positions to the out of Verdun. has taken from them thecornon 4 Beigitun. it is announced that the Belgian government has been ap- proached with a proposal that if out of lioinon Wood, farther south. . _ The German retirement in the she will remain neutral during the Flanders area still is going on, the iGovernor and Mayor Review. Iwhich patriotic songs were sung by [if lflZil’S FAREWELL Parade of 30,000 NEW HAVEN, Sept. lG.~(‘ommcur-- oration day marking the first annivers-l ary of the departure of the 102d Regi-‘ ment for duty overseas we! ceiebrat-i ed in New Haven yesterday. with state1 and city officials joining with thou-i sands of visitors and New Havcncrs in paying tribute to those who have fallen and those who are carrying on in France. A parade with more than 30.0th per- sons estimated in line Wait held Sun-1 day afternoon, during which a city service flag was unfurled from the! City Hall. Governor Marcus H. Hol-j comb and Mayor David E. Fitzgerald. reviewed the parade from a reviewing: stand in front of the City Hall. In thei parade were soldiers, sailors. state nuardsmen, fraternal orders, indus- trial units and Boy Scouts. War vetv erans rode in carriages. ’ After the parade an honor roll tab-. iet.containing the names of seventy- six New Haven boys was unveiled on the green with fitting ceremonies byi Mayor Fitzgerald. the national anthem! being sung by Boy Scouts. A band concert completed the afternoon pro! gram. Last night a mass meeting was’ held at Woolsey Hall. at Yale, at l several choruses, addresses given by; prominent men, and medals given to‘ the mothers of New Haven soldiers. Hope of Great Nation Justified, Baker Says PARIS. Sept. Iii—Newton D. Baker. Secretary of War, returning from the zeitung" telegraphs his paper that no shell like the first came her way from h cording to the Czecho-Slovak organ published at Samara, Russia. the for‘ mer Empress of Russia and her four daughters were murdered in the neigh- borhood of Kkaterineberg (in the gov~ ,ernment of Perm, on the Asiatic Side of the Urdl Mountains. contrary to the wishes of the Soviet Government. ROME. Sept. ill—The Vn'ican does not believe that the former Russian Empress is dead, for it is considered probable it would have boo-u informed if there were confirmation of the re- port. After the oaccution of former Emperor Nicholas the Vatican appeal- otl to tho 0m and Austrian Gov- emu to one his wife and dangle ion. .. l loco-t unnamed reports from Rania do“ no timer horro- ud bar *- won mooted to ”annotations-omn- h the nu . M (Continued on Page Four) l TWO AVIATORS , KILLED IN FALL NEW YORK. Sept. lit-Lieutenant Charles Kenney, Jr.. of Covlngton, Ky.. and F. If. Austin of Boston were killed when an army airplane from the Alineola Aviation Field crashed to earth In the Hatbaoh section of Brook- France In. today. Hundrwds of porous who saw the machine "we dead" as R “I I'll! low over it's-ea and W”! “m I‘m ”W“... Ward 1 a mi- |Onrc. m I. upon a clothes.“ captive during the long period. attlefront. issued the following for- mal statement on his visit to the Am- erican lines: ‘General Pershing's announcement will cover the military situation. The people of the United States will be overjoyed that their army. in close co operation with the Allies, has been able to achieve this striking success. A particularly happy circumstance is that the victory delivers from the in- vader territory which had been occu- pied for four years and restored it to “no to of t populo- rion at 1“er h. civil I“ mind up the flow of munitions. They told the president that they would take up their grievances in an orderly man. ncr with the Taft‘Walah War Labor Board. and asked his influence to act them an early hearing. "To the great cause of keeping up the flow of munitions to which you have dedicated yourself and the pro- sent administration. the machinists here are, we hope. equally dedicated. We lovally accept, your command that we return to,tho working conditions which we left." the message reads. "and we shall proceed. as you advise us, to reappeal our case to the estab- lished governmental tribunals, leav- ing the event in your hands as chief magistrate of our mighty nation. "in thus going back to work, may (Continued on Pan Two) AllillMllBliE HITS EAST AVE. TiillliEi An accident occurred this afternoon at 1:30 on Washington street near Water street when a Ford car collided with an East avenue trolley. A horse and oneseated buggy was standing in front of Raymond Brothers store and the car and trolley were proceeding in the saute direction. The Ford, No. 14315 Conn. attempted to squeeze in between the front of the trolley and the back of the wagon when the trol- ley was but a few feet distant. The re: (Continued On Page Four) 25,000 Gilli ,. iiiNiiiiS 3qu PorrserLn, ra. Sept. 16.,—Alll the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and iron Company oollierieo in the She. naadoah and Ilahhanoy regions amnblaineu review of the Federal ao‘Mihit'l Illit'lli- lion of the motor vehicle law in this romaindt‘r 0f the WM. Germany is city yesterday, and there was a re- markable decrease of the number of vehicles upon the streets and high- ways. According to the stories of the officers on duty during the entire day only about 'thirty vehicles were stopped and all of these but two were brought to the headquarters where they finally cleared all doubt of them- selves. As on the preceding Sunday (Continued on Page Four) iHliEW llfifliEil [AMP AT WIFE The police were notified of a fight which wa in progre on Lexington ave~ one on Saturday evening, and Palm]- man Lilton i. Lockwood was sent to investigate. He found that there had been some trouble among the members of the White family who lived at 16 Lexington avenue. i Roy White had come home rather late in a drunken condition and began to abuse his wife, Mrs. Grace White. His wife replied to him, and he become ing infuriated. grabbed a lighted lamp which stood on a table nearby and threw it at his wife. it struck her on the arm. opening a wound which re- quired five stitches to close. thcer. Lockwood investigated for Officer Lockwood investigated a search for White who had disappeared but it proved fruitless and nothing had been seen of him since. The police have ordered a shorp look-out kept for'.him and expect to have him in cue-l tody within a few days. WOMEN TAKE MEN ’SPLACES ! WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.——Women by the thousands are responding to the. appeal of employers to take the place: of men entering the army and to fill! new positions created by industrial: expansion, according to the monthly: i ready to withdraw to the frontiers that were violated in August, 1914. it is affirmed from Berlin that the Austrian government acted on its own initiative in sending out its peace proposals, but the offer of Germany to Belgium points to what may be said to be more than a coincidence .and probably a des- perate “peace oficnsive” now is well under way. If oflciai sentiment is reflected by newspaper comment at the Eu- tente capitals, the cfiorts of the Central Powers to reach a peace by negotiations are doomed failure. In London and Paris the ofier of Austria was very coldly received, while at Washngton it is to, British prcssiug closely on the , heels of the enemy as he extricates 5 his fort-cs from the perilous salient ‘ into which be rushed last April. East of the Ailctte and south of the Aisue, close contact withtllc Allies. ‘ . Nikolai Leninc, the'BolaheVlk to the People's Commissaries anti shcvik government is helpless, and that it must form a defensive and power.” Iie adds that the Russian people must not “recoil from an alliance with imperialists.” 0f the passengers on the British iLiner Gaiway Castle, sunk by a pointed out that the United States German submarine on Thursday, will not entertain any peace tents-i tives that can, at best, bring about only a temporary respite from hos- tilities and will leave Germany and Austria free to break the peace of the world at any future date. Even in the German press thcrc scents to bc iittic hope that the Al- lics will agree to meet representa- tivcs of the Ccntrai Powers, The newspapers of Berlin point out that similar steps by Germany and Austria have failed in the past, and that, while the people will no doubt be hopeful for a ces- sation of tile struggle, there 18 little proapcct of its curly termina- ton. Along the battle line, American 154 are missing. The numberof passengers on the steamer was 749, instead of 960, as at firfiflpo posed. Allied troops are on the oflen- sivc on the Macedonian front. Re- organized Serbian forces, aided by Ferrell units ,are attacking the Bulgarian positions in the moun— tain on the SerboGrcek border cast of—Monastir. 'l‘hrec important hill positions, which had withstood Allied ef. .forts through several years, al- ready havc fallen to the Serbs and the French. Tire heights are the Sokoi, Doibro Poiie and Teak Ve- ,trinik. Sokoi is twenty miles east -of Monastir. The captured posi- tions are about midway between oflensive alliance “with another - attention is directed chiefly at ththho Conn and Yardar rivers and front in Lorraine, whcrc thecommand the upper course of the Americans are under fire from the. (‘crna after it makes a wide curve fortrcsls of Met: and apparcutly are making ready for a drive against iltc...“Kriemhild" line to which the Germans withdrew their shattered columns from the St. Along this front cloud by strike this morning. 'rbo'oorvo Board. The rats of homo- of American forces are on the thresh- menarwde-aadiu an increase in and ‘ wagon. This acui- "' ““5““ 'n'm‘" M two “he herpeoflm'hohldmim-Mmdihmtuloula hold Bowl. 3“]. Alum-inmates!- iwo-ow'ao-plogmau to lock M I... In- of Germany. The victory of General Persh- ‘s has had more than a local eh“. i i southeast of Monastir. Several :lllllltll‘t‘tl prisoners have been ink- en in the advance, which con- tinues. l Meanwhile the French and Brit— ish troops on the main battlefront in France continue their program. i Between the Gina! and the Aha, the French are pro-kg on. North of the Air-r they hon tab: town of \‘oilly and Ill. “Mamm‘ . . . . in enemy is being maintained bytbo~ .é. Premier of Russia, has sent a note ‘ _ ‘ Soviets announcing that the Bol-
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