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‘ Enteredudzefiouth Norwalkl’ost
OffloemSecondChasIIulMatter‘“
Pacific Coast States
l1 eeling Railroad Tieups
and Great Loss Likely
inlire Year’s Work of Fruit Growers Endan-
gered by Inability to Move Products to
Markets in the East —- Southern Pacific
Brotherhood Men
With Officials.
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca|.. Aug. 15-—
(Assoeluted i'ressL—From the Cana-
dian boundary line south almost to
the Mexican border. the Pacific coast
slates today felt, a bitter piinch from
the railroad tieups which have been
1l1-11loping. lifting and clamping
1l11u 11 again since. Thursday night-
Pusan-1115:1111: who haye been maroon—
1:1: the dcseit towns which sen? as
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of greater comfort. 'but lit“?
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sinke of l'nion Pacific
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--»11-:1—.\'.1ll. l.:1k1- City line. but how
Why would get, in view of con-
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Salt Lake (‘ity to S1111 Francisco: on
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south :1111l cut and on the Souihnn
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Reach An Agreement
mute to Portland, Ore., as well as
that east \ia. Ogden.
Fruit growers and others directly
affected by the tieups “’0" up the
cudgels in their own defense last
night and meetings at Wenachee,
Wash. and Fresno,Cal., made vigor-
0115’ appeals to President Harding for
relief. The B'enaehee gathering as-
serting that that district's $25,000,000
fruit c1-op—-—the product of a wholel
year's work—was endangered. offered
to supply and protect men to man
trains to move the. fruit. The fresno
mteting appealed to the president
and to the. heads of four great trans-
portalion brotherhoodsathe engi-
neers. firemen conductors and train-
men to end the strike and avert what
appeared to be. an imminent disaster
to the trult grower. or, failing that, to
declare an armistice long enough to
permit the fruit crop to be m‘oved.
A new factor in the situation and
one which experienced railroad men
said might well be viewed with ap-
pithtnsion, was the refusal of pump—
i111: plant employes along the. Santa Fe
line; to remain at work An inspec~
tion by an Associated Press corre-
spondent disclosed that some of the.
water tanks at desert points along this
road’s lines between Needles and San
ternardino apparently were dry and
others nearly so.
Should these tanks be unable to
provide their usual supplies for loco-
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Long Drawn Out Anthracite
Coal Strike May End Tomorrow
"aliniie Results Expected
l'rom the Meeting in Phila-
delphia, and Commission
May Settle Future W age
Difficulties.
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1igl1t1»sl. ray 0 flight in the darkened
industrial situation appeared toduv
from the ialhracili- (nrml fields (it
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t>1~li1l'tl1.-11 Phant't-s for a quick and
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11.1\»1 out strike of union miners \vm-e
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3111.111 tomorrow of I'cunsyl-
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11‘. 111 the linited Mine “'orkers.
Inn-11.111111 Senator Pepper of
1.: who is acting for President
11:1i was instrumental in
about the conl'eience. was
for the statement that
1: 1: no doubt an adjustment
':'nr'es t'n rthe time being at
'1» accmnplished."
upper. who at the request
' f lr-nt. has hr (-11 carrying on
1~ 1 with the anthracite oper-
’1- State. with lovernor
Night. had a long confer-
11.. slur-111 Harding and Sec-
1 “*r at the White House.
1'ion was given as to the
ch the settli'lnt-lli is being
it v as hem-red possible.
‘ 1t if” :11 least a. temporary
Noni-l 1'1'15111lt from the
”inference. an agree-
l-r1 trachea for the crea-
1-E1l1-nti11l or Congression-
l1-1 adjust future wage
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:111ll1racite coal oper-
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Local co—operation with Manager
Neville lnylcy of l‘toton Point in the
111'1-31’1ntntion of the great baby exhibit
which is to be given at Roton Point,
1111'l‘l111rsd11y, l1‘rlday and Saturday,
August 17th, 18th, and litth, is fast
manifesting itself.
In addition to several offers from
local merchants to present prl‘zes and
in many other ways offering to aid
the enterprise comes one offer which
Manager luyley will accept. The
South Norwalk Trust Company has
offered to present every prize winning
baby in the show and parades, and
there will be. seventy—live prize win-
ners. with a savings deposit account
of one dollar. Manager Bayley thinks
this offer-is great and has accepted it.
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of the machine he
was driving, Tony Balestrieri, of 25
Day street, at 7 o'clock last night
drove his new automobile off the Dan-
bury road above the trolley line, crash—
ing through a gate in the stone wall
and smashing the car‘; Four other
passengers in the machine and the
driver escaped injury.
Mr. Balestrieri washeaded toward
Norwalk. In sighting an approaching
car, Mr. Balestrieri, a. new driver, lost
control of the car, which swung to
the right. .The machine crashed
through the wooden gate in the stone
wall and stopped. The car was badly
damaged and was towed to a, local
garage for repairs.
TWO AVIATOBS DBAD
Losing control
DA ON. 0. Aug. 15.-—‘-Lieutenant
Lewis Moriarity on New York, and.
William Stonebreaker, a civilian ob-
server ot Dayton, were burned to
death at Wilbur Wright field yesterday
when an army plane which they were
conducting a speed test, burst into
flames in the air
ground.
The men had left McCook field and
had flown ten miles to Wilbur Wright
field where they were flying at a
height. of 75 feet when the. plane took
fire.
A military board began an investi-
gation. ’ .
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SUDDBNLY IN RESTAURANT
BRIDGEPORT, Aug. Isa—Andrew-
Bunkum went into a restaurant last
night and ordered a meal. Just as he
began to eat, he fell to the floor and
died of h trouble. The police are-1
- trying to l
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AFTERFIEEANDPALL _
and, tell to the .
shot and killed, was
amputated, was. good today _- He
EEHS BHHHEN
WHEH SillllCH
Bl AHIHHOBI
William Phillips of 76 Spring street,
Second district was taken to the Nor-
.vaik Hospital, last night. sufferingl
.‘rom injuries received in an accident
.n front of the Nash .Engineering
Company’s plant, on Wilson Point
road, about 7 o'clock, last evening.
At the, hospital it was found tliaf
10th of Phillips’ legs were fractured,
there being" a compound fracture of
the right leg below the knee. and a
simple fracture of the left leg below
the knee.
The accident took place when Phil-
lips darted in front of an automobile
driven by Herbert ‘Winchester of 6
Gibson Court. Second district. who. in
company with Robert Rowan of Elm-
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As the result at an accident which
happened about 9 o’clock this morn-
ing. Albert Mataise of 12 Knapp street,
is in the Norwalk Hospital with a
simple fracture of the left leg. He is
resting comfortably: .
Mataise was struck ~by an'antomo-
bile operated by William B. Richards
of 12 “fest. Main street. Running
across the street apnaxé’itly trying to
catch a. ride on a truck headed tow;
ard New York, Matalse. it is said by.
the police. landed directly in front of ‘
Richards‘ car, which was going tow-
ard Norwalk and m knocked Ma.
The accident happened on the Con-
necticut turnpike near the old Hospi-
tal building.
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PENALIZED BY THE LAW FOR BEING AHEAD OF TIME.
Mrs. Elvira Carton and her little son who must make a return
trip to Belgium before she can enter the United States because when
she arrived here she was three hours too early to be included in the
quota of immigrants for the month. Mr. Carton is in Chicago.
Although there will be opportunitv
for :1 state political campaign 01 six
weeks this Fall, it is indicated that1
the real intensixe campaigning of the
old panties will actually cour but 11‘
four -week period. The time betwc on
ccnventions and opening of the cam-
paign will be spent in preliminary
outbursts and preparation of material
and candidates. It will be the briefest
campaign in years, however.
The Republicans will elect thestate
ticket on September 13: the Demo-
crats on September 21. This year
the Republicans meet in New Haven.
the Democrats go to Hartford. The G.
O.-P. Heynoter, temporary chairman
of the convention, is to be Senator
Frank B. Brandegee; the Democratic
temporary presiding officer has not
been selected and while it may be
Former National Chairman ‘Cum-
mings, he has gone to the West Coast
for a vacation to extend to early Sep-
tember. .
The Congressman! Fight.
Congressional campaigns will
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NEW YORK. Aug. 15.-—-—Broadwa.y's
glittering lights and its midnight,
dance clubs both went out together at
1 o'clock. this morning, when the‘
police quietly, but firmly, stopped all
dancing and cabarets. The recent;
gangster batté outside one of the
hectic resortsln which a man was
. given as the
cause for the/order. The police edict:
spread constérnstion among the night
moths who have fluttered to the tune
of jazz orchestra until sun day break.
be
IS manna TODAY
NEW HAVEN. Aug._15-—The con—
dition of Colonel Norris G. Osborn,
editor of the New“ Haven Journal
Courier, who had his lower right leg
COL. OSBOBN’S CONDITIOLJ-
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lgscenoe.
HHIEE HAMPAHiHS PLANNED ,
- HY HHTH PAH l‘lES IN THIS STATE
shcrter than the state campaign.
lzoth major parties will concentrate
to: the next three weeks on the elec-
tic) nof delegates‘ to the five kinds of
conventions that are to be held dur-
int.r September. Not only is the state
ticket to be nominated. comprising
the canddates for United States sen-
ator. governor, lieutenant-governor
treasurer, comptroller, secretary and
attorney general, buta candidate for
Congress, by each party, from each
congressional district: a candidate for
shc riff in each or the e: ght countries;
a candidate for state senator from
each of 35 senatorial districts and a
candidate for judge of probate in each
of 114 probate districts.
All present members of -Congress
‘from Connecticut are ‘candidates for
renomination by the Republican party
and re-election. They are E. Hart
Fenn, First District: Richard P. Free-
man. Second District: John "Q. Tilson,
Third District; Schuyler Merritt,
Fourth District; James P. Glynn.
Fifth District.
HEPHSEH MANAHEH
ABSEPTS RESALE
STRATFORD, Aug. 15 .——Ruther—
ford H. Hunter, (who was deposed and
dismissed as town manager. will so-
cept a recall given him by vote of the
new town council. A question which
has come up is Whether the Salary of
34, 500 previously voted will hold now“
Mr. Hunter in his reply from Hudson,
0.. ‘ls said to have indicated that his
return would be only temporary.
word from Washington - that United
States senator E. B. Brandisgee win
accept the lnvitafio to preside- ovier . ..
mxtmontmltwas
' should not: be probated because all
DUBLIN, Aug‘.’ 15 ' (Absoclated
Press).-’—Drogbeda is surrounded by
irregular‘forces and a battle is-appar-
ently imminent; 1 The Nationals are
preparing fora- counter ofiensive, A
large ambushing party of irregulars
has taken; up a position on the Dublin
road with the object of holding ’up
any national reinforcements. - .
The Government forces have evac-
uated Dunleer, in County Louth, for
strategic reasons. “it is said.
DUBLIN, Aug. 15 (Associate'd
Press) .—-The last position of import;
ance in County Kerry to be held by
the Irish irregular-s. has been 000“?
pied by the National Arniy troops.
The occupation. was preceded by a
brief engagement on the outskirts #151
the town after which the trFé‘EMaI-s
an agreement in London.
of the connnlsion probably will be tions between the “'0 countries;
Third Fire of Undetermined
.leely to he Shift ’
Reparations Commission May Take Up Matter
FOIIOWing. Failure of Allied Premiers to Come
To An' Agreement—Expect France and Great
Britain Will Be Suited.
PARIS. 1.113.111 (As'sociated Press}.
—The question of granting a mora-
torium to Germany is expected to be source it is learned that theme
shl‘fted to the shoulders of the repara- strong possibility of the comb)“
tions commission following the fail- settling the question to the_ $5351;-
ure of the Allied Premiers to come to 1 tion of both France and Great Byli-
A meeting
held. this week.
From an authoritative 3m
ain, thus relieving the strained keb-
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Question Disputed' 1n Con-
necticut 100 Years.
NEW HAVEN. Aug. Iii—The Su-
preme Court of Errors has sustained
Judge Gilson ofthe Probate Court
here, in ruling that all former wills
are not revoked when a. Will is not
produced, but proved as to its. making
and whcih contained a. revocatory
clause.
The case was that: of Mrs. Ploeger,
who lived here and left an estate of
$140,000. She drew a. will in 1918,
two years before her death. In that
will she revoked former wills. But
the 1918 Will was not in court. The
opinion was held that she had destroy-
ed it. The 1914 will which she had
made was produced and counsel. for
cbntestants claimed that this will
whithaa been revoked 111.1118 1918
will. Judge Gilstin admitted-the 1914
will.
Because of the decision of the high-
est: court the will of John J. Cannon.
an earlier one. was admitted to pro-
bate todav,e1‘though it was known
that a later will had been destroyed
This case had been held up pending,
decision in the Ploeger case.
M’EEAN GIVES HELP
Tl] HHNN. INHHSHHY
SEcures Duty of 70 Cents to
$2 Dozen on Locks in Ta-
rifi’ Bill. ,
\V'ASHINGTON, Aug. 15. ——Senator
George P. McLean has secured the in-
corporation lu the Tariff bill of a new
paragraph covering locks, which is
aimed particularly to protect this in:
dustry in New Britain and‘New Ha-
ven. The new paragraph of the bill
provides for a. duty of from 70 cents
to $2 a dozen on locks, according to
size.
Senator McLean. in
adoption of the amendment. inform-
locks are now being received from
Germany to be sold in co‘Inpeution‘
with the Afnerlcan manufactured ar-
ticle. He said: “
1 "Tlié foreign manufacturers copy
AmeriCan’ styles and brands-on locks.
particularly padlocks, Qso clos’ely as
to deceive entirely the unwatchful
purchaser. The largest English man-
ufacturer copies the brand of the
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HOLD-“UP AND THEFT .
OP CAR GEARBD UP
, gPOLIGBMAN THINKS
recess,
sides agreed to an adjournment until
:l‘hufiday.‘ ~
Thursday’s .
hearing will be the reading into the
records of more than 100 affidavits al~
leging acts of intimidation and vio-
lence on the part of strikers.
STEAM SHHVEL IN
Post road
Anna Lynch, C. H. Golden and Mrs.
\Villiam Lynch, of 852 Colorado ave-
nue, and Miss Gertrude Lynch, of 281
Vine street, Bridegport,
buried in their car by a.
rock and dirt when :1. steam
swung out over the ‘roadand tearing
away the top of the. touring car, cpen-
ed and discharged
car.
at
Haven, and the company. agreed to
settle for whatever damages were in-
curred.
Meet-Famous: Norwalk
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NEW HA‘VEN Aug.15.———Thc next
‘ hearing on the application of the New
Yor,k New Haven and Hartford aRail-
road for 9.
against the striking shopmen will be
held Thursday morning at ten o'clock
at South Norwalk before Judge Ed—
_win S. Thomas. of the United States
District Court.
temporary injunction
This morning's session of the hear-
ing ended at noon with the under-
standing that it was to be resumed at.
During the
o 'clock this afternoon.
for both
however, counsel
The chief business of
HHHHIAEH .‘SHHWEHS
, HHlHliEPHHT PARTY
\Vhile traveling west on the Boston
‘in a large touring car Miss
were nearly
shower of
shovel
its load into the
The. steam shovel was working in
connection with a concrete mixer on '
the
field county home and it is said, with .
no one on duty for the signaling of
passing cars.
capacity of several hundred pounds,
did not swing low enough to strike
the passengers but swept the top off
from the windshield bback and 'in do-
ing so loosened the catch which held
urging {He the shovel.
received injuries, exoept the shock of
9d the Senate that large shipments of the sudden downpour of dirt.
Post road in front of the Fair—
The shovel, with a
-None of the passengers
The shovel is owned by the Nation-
Construction company, of New
Ball Player Out‘West
William J. Powell and G. Lewis.
who attended the national convention
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in
St. Paul. Minn. today declared that
among the, people they became
quainted with in ‘St. Paul was Jack
Dunleavy,-.formerly of Norwalk. Mal
Dunleavy will be remembered as 1 at
former big league 'baseball'
a‘c-
player,
"NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Aug. 15.—
The arraignment of two young men
in District Court “here yesterday and
of one in Springfield clears up, the po-
lice-say, two store robberies. the theft
of an automobile and probably a daré.
ing holdup, all of which have occur-
red within a. few days in tBis vicinity
Manuel Sylvia, 18.3.1111 Raymond Co‘fe
20. pleading guilty here to breaking
into a hardware store in Am‘fierit and
a. clothing store in West Warren late
last week and the _
knives, flashlights, razors and cloth-
ing. The pair were bound over t6 the
Anthony Rogers was held
1. in Springfield for the theft of an au-
. tomo‘bile 111' that. city.
grand jury.-
He was arrest-.,
who played with St. Louis for manv
years.
Mr. Dunleavy is ‘ln the hat and cap
business in Minneapolis. Minn, and
came tor'st- Paul purposely to meet
Messrs.‘ Powell and Lewis. “-He asked
11> be remembered to all his old
friends in Nor-walk. - - . - ‘
ERBIGETBR MOHAWK
BAYONNE, N. 3.. Aug. T315 --—The
freighter Mohawk. owned by the Bur-
ton Steamship Campany of Boston is
cunning to pieces on the rocks In the
mouth 0: Kit von Kali .A’-
¥r¢w today strlppedr the ship of her
ed Jate last nigh in Soufli Deer-field
and his capture is: to the taking of
the other two. ,
have escaped from the
The
Colman,” F‘lthemld ‘hagwip
valuable equipment. ..
WBWy .
Flames Confined to Bas&
. ment of General 0610:
‘Buildmg in Portland. '
PORTLAL'D. M'alne Aug. 15—1116
‘hiid fire of undetermined origin fit
break out on railroad preperty hes;
within forty-eight hours threatene‘
the general office building of thf
Maine Central Railroad today.. T21.
flames were confined to the storm
room in the basemen. The'fire in
the office building. situated near [Tn-
ion Station. was extinguished by quack;
action on the part of the clerks.
The flames broke out just six hour: .
after an alleged attempt had beets.
made to burn twenty—eight locum...
fives in the round house at Thump:
from Water-ville last night to replm
part of the twenty locomotives ofth.‘
Boston and Maine. Maine Central #1
Portland Terminal Company, which.
were burned in a. round house fir:
Sunday morning. 7
General Manager 0. I. Douglas G
the Maine Central said that investigas
tlon of the fires had progréssed to
such a point that an arrest was ex?
pected today.
The storage room In the cm
building was filled with records, let—t ’
ter files and quantities of mm
ble supplies. Officials aid that Ins .
cendiarism seemed to be the on}! an" .
pianatlon of the fire's origin.
When the flames in the 'I‘hompson’s
Point round house were discoveredg
workmen soaked the burning wood}.-
'work with water and threw oil-soa‘Ee
ed waste away. preventing the fire-
from spreading. A quantity of excek
sior saturated with kerosene m *
found in a closet.
Attorney— General W. R- Shaw {0853' .
offered a reward of $500 for evidenes
leading to the arrest and conviction
of the persons responsible for the sex!—
ies of fires. Asimilar reward hasbeem
offered by railroad officials
SEEH MAN WHH ,
WASTE SEER lHH
EHVE lE'l'EEHS-
LAKEHURST, N. 3.. Aug. 15;:
County oiIicials today asked New Yen-E
police to help them to loan: am
who, they said, had written morethal
100 love letters to Mrs; William GB .
bersou. who is under 3mg: has!
charged with the murder of her .hus‘a
band, a retired lumber (later. 621‘
berson was found dead. shot through
his head, after his wife had called to!
help early yesterday, saying robberi
fiad killed him. ‘ _
Investigators declared they had:
found the letters during a. search lit
the Gilberson home. They said thes‘
were all from the same mad”
he lived in Manhattan. Half a. 111'):an
detectives swrched for him all ‘
night without remit. According a;
the officials, Mrs. Gflberlnn 1311 be:
meeting the man fox- montha. Z ., ..
Fred. H. Jaine. 11:, 1:01:11ny
tor who ordered the arrest. said M
his action followed a season of
premises by detectives. He said m
rson made several trips to 83‘
outbuilding back of the house i ,
fiat search there brought: a revolver
to light. and Mr. Jaime ms.
was the gun with which Gilberson was
killed.
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'SAN BERNARDINO. (21.. Ans. as:
~Two babies born on mm
at Seligrnan, Aria. were among {our
pummel To PIECES: hundred passenmm hem
day, after. four hot days and. am&'
the desert. -
. No hardships m W‘E
th'e niarooned traveler: except
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