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an ZT2 IfTlAX tTts , VOL. 53 NO. 259 ; ENEM ON 80! n En flnvaders Soar Over Brit ish Coast in Seven Groups Only Three Machine Penetrate to Heart of London Eight Killed and 21 ; Injured. , s. . London, Nov. 1 Eight per sons were killed and 21 were in jured in the German air raid last night, according to an offi- , cial statement today by the Brit- ""V About 30 aeroplanes, in seven groups, took part in last night's Air raid. - Three of them pene trated to the heart of London, says an official, report today. . iThe "" casualties and damage were slight. . ' " A report from Lord French, com mander of the 1 home . defenses, re specting last night's air raid, aays the German aviators took advantage - of the clouds to prevent any decisive en . .gagement. The first group of raiders dropped tombs near the coast. Two more groups were broken .up by a barrage ' on the southeastern outskirts of the imetropolls. The fourth group was turned back up the Thames half way (to London. Of the fifth group one or more leeroplanea penetrated southeastern Dbondon. ( Some of the sixth group : -reached the southeastern part of the jclty.. The seventh group was dispers ed before it reached the outer de- r ifenses' Oi the city. , rotests to on Sub Warfare 1 London, tttov. ' 1. An Exchange Tel egraph Co. dispatch from Copenhagen eye Norway has presented a note to . Germany In connection with the-sinlf- Ing of Norwegian steamers in a con , Voy of ' neutral merchantmen which sras attacked by German cruisers in the North sea. last month. The note Kalis attention, to the fact that a year ago, after the sinking of Norwegian learner In the Polar seas, Germany . Hvaa notified that the Norwegian peo ple would regard any new case of the kind as l, violation of the laws of hu inanity. ... , Renter correspondent, in Christl aula telegraphs the text of the con cluding sentences of the Norwegian pete; as follows: "It baa made a profound Impres sion on' tb' Norwegian people that riot only have '' German submarines continued to - sink peaceful neutral tnerchant ships, paying no attention to the fate of their crews, but that even, - German warships adopted the - feamo tactics. The Norwegian govern rnent decided to send this note in or der to bring1 to the attention of the XJerman government the impression these acts have made upon the Nor. sragian iopl." DRAFT BOARD'S ERROR SERIOUS Through an error made- by the Ixth division local board, Aquln Uohnson was taken from his machine in the Remington Arms plant yester day on the "local board's complaint that he failed to report for examina tion. At police headquarters the mat ter was threshed out before Assistant Fuperintendent Charles H. Buckley f i Johnson was released. He will go p ith the next increment. Board mem : admitted they were In error. Planes gland Germany TO MAKE BRAZIL THE GRANERY OF ALLIED NATIONS Rio Janiero, Nov. 1 President Braz in a circular addressed to the presi dents of the various states of Brazil, declares that , Braeil faces wiOhou,T faltering the sacrifices she will be called upon to make because of her entrance ,to the war. "The president urges: 1. Keeping down expenditures as well as in increasing agricultural pro duction in order that Brazil may be come, the gralnery of the Allies. MRS, FRIZELL'S HUSBAND HAILS HER INTO COURT i - Infidelity with persons unknowii is the charge which Charles R. Frizell! of Norwalk, ' a member of a wealthy family, alleges in a. suit for divorce which he has filed in the superior court against. Elizabeth Roberts Fri zell. ' ' . .'("-,'.';'''. 'v . .The affairs "of the .FTizells attracted considerable attention , last spring when Mrs. Frizell brought a suit against her husband's parents, alleg ing alienation of affection. All are prominent 4 socially In Norwalk, and the suit last spring attracted consid erable attention.-. The complaint filed today alleges that Mrs. .Frizell has been guilty of Infidelity in -New. York on numerous occasions and with persons unknown to the plaintiff. The couple married in Nashville, Tenn., July 24, 1913,. the bride be ing Mrs. Claude Merry. . Her home was in . Louisville, where she was a member of a prominent family. Al though Mrs. Frizell has been twice married she is still very .young, and also very attractive. TORPEDOED U. S. TRANSPORTABLE TO REACH PORT Washington, Nov. 1. The transport Finland was recently torpedoed while returning to -the United States, ' (but was able to return! to a fo?elgn port under her own steam. . The navy department received a re port of the attack and Secretary Dan iels authorised its publication. The navy report does not say , whether there was any loss of life or Injury on the Finland. This official announcement was au thorized: v ' "The navy department has , received dispatches stating that the transport Finland was torpedoed, while return ing from foreign' waters. The damage to the ship was -alight and she re turned to port under her own steam. The Finland was under escort, hut no sign of the torpedo or the sufbmarine was seen.". ,. LABOR LEADER APPOINTED TO PRUSSIAN DIET Amsterdaim. Nov. 1 Adam- Steger wald, general secretary of the Chrls tian" Trade unions, has been appoint ed a life member of the first chamber of the Prussian diet. This Is the first time that a representative of organ ized labor enters the upper house and is commented on by German news papers as one of the first step3 in the reform of that assembly. It is believed that the honor con ferred on Stegerwald is due largely to his speech at the congress of Chris tian Trade unions, in which he de nounced American ' attempts to I sow discord between the emperor and t8 people. .Herr Stegerwald said: "Let us tell the gentleman In Wash ington that we went to war by the side of the kaiser and the princes and that we will return side by side with them." ' ' ; ... ' The emperor sent a message to the congress thanking it for it3 express ions of loyalty. MUST PUT THREE CENTS ON AXJj LETTERS TOMORROW Washington, Nov; 1. With the new three cent rate for letters effective to morrow, the post office department has instructed postmasters to return to senders, if ' known, letters bearing insufficient postage. If senders are not known and the letters hear the old two cent postage stamps, thev will sent to the addresses and the deficient postage will be collected- ' Bunco Steerers Under Guise of Food Administra tion Are Inveigling Many Women Into Giving ,Up a Portion of Their State That the Scheme Posing as' government agents employed in;the food conser vation program several persons are going, about the city de manding in the name of the government that housewives turn over to them for government, purposes a portion qf any canned goods they may have in their homes. .The scheme according to officials of the food administrat ion is a rich one as a great per centage of housewives in the city to preserve a great .quantity of The latest device wag disclosed t the local committee by a telegram received by Mrs. ' H. , W. Fleck last evening from Robert' Scoville, Federal Food Administrator for Connecticut. It- follows: - "Information "received 'an attempt is being made by persons posing as government inspectors to enter houses and demand a certain percentage of canned goods to be delivered to the government. That is of course a fraud and any person attempting this should be arrested for theft." , This scheme has been tried out in other cities of the state and the words of the Food Commissioner should serve as a warning to put the house holders, of Bridgeport oif thair guard. Owing' to the fact that 60,004 of. the window cards, which show that the family displaying one " of them has signed the food pledge have been lost in transportation, every one who signs and doea not receive a card will have one mailed, directly to the home from Hartford. Many people who have signed are not showing their colors "by displaying these cards and it is urged by the committee that these cards be placed ' in the windows in a prominent position so that the public STONE ALLOWED FREEDOM AFTER INVESTIGATION Investigation of charges of misrep resentation made against J. B. Stone of New York, -for selling stock dis closed ,that there" was no evidence such a misrepresentation had been made, : and the ' charges against him were nolled on recommendation . of the detective bureau today. . Stone was arrested last night on complaint of the Bridgeport office of the' All Package Grocery Co., whose stock he was selling. It developed that Stone sold some of the stock without the consent of the Bridgeport agency, bu it was not proved he represented himself as an agent of the company or one of its of ficers which was the reason for his arrest.' - ' Attorney F. E. Morgan,' "attorney for the company said today that he was satisfied to let the entire matter drop. ' '-. : , Stone sold 400 shares of the com mon stock of the company for $200 to a woman in this city. The par value of the stock is said to be $10 and the selling price by the authoriz ed agents $2.50 a share, but this is said to be for the preferred stock. It Is not known where Stone procured the stock he sold. , ' CONNECTICUT BOY DIES IN FRANCE, PERSHING REPORT Washington, Nov. ' 1. Gen. , Pershing today reported the death of Private Joseph E. Couture, in France, on Oct. 26, of pneumonia. His mother is Em ily C. Couture, 20 Hammond street, Bumaide, Conn. .', t . , . THE WEATHER. Connecticut Generally fair tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate west BRIDGEPORT, CONN., THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 1917 TIHIF ATA! U Canned Goods Officials is Bearing Rich Profits. andetate made special effort fruit and vegetables. can see who has sighed and who has not. . v . v . There are still a few who refuse to sign. One - worker went into a house. on South avenue this morning where ; two women . were in ' the kitchen, and through a half opened door she could see a. man lying on a bed. She asked the women to sign, and the man raising himself on his elbow. cried tln a threatening manner, "Get out, we sign nothing here!" The workers are meeting with less refusals than at first and r. Fairchild Wheeler, food director for ' Bridgeport said this morning that he believed that the people were getting educated as to the purpose of the campaign and now that they thoroughly understood it were willing to sign. Father Michael J. . Golob, pastor of the Holy Cross Croatian church has been speaking- to his parishioners at every , mass urging them to help support the American arms.- Father Stephen Chernitzky of St. Stephen's Hungarian church has been doing ,the same thing with the result' that when the workers call at the . houses of these parishioners of these priests, there is an instant re sponse., In one district 74 signatures were Obtained in two hours. GOVERNMENT IS ASKED TO SEND COUNCILLOR In an effort to persuade a federal conciliator to come to Bridgeport, Samuel Levitt business agent of the machinists union left for Washington, this inorning. According to the state ment" of Levitt the employes of the Lake Torpedo Boat company were to have received an increase in wages under all new government contracts, that the government was to allow the company a sufficient amount to per mit the increase and that the com pany in turn was to see that the de mands of the employes were taken care of." Levitt -states further that this mat ter has not been taken care of and that the object of his visit to Washington is .to get in touch with' he depart ment of labor tp see what may be done regarding the matter. In addition to the above matter Levitt said that the federal concilia tor if one is secured will be asked to make an effort to adjust the differ ences of the Remigton Arms Co. and the bayonet straighteners who went on strike some weeks ago because ol an alleged cut in wages. YOUNG M'GEE STRUCK BY CAR William McGee, son of Patrick McGee of 3248. Main street, coal deal er, is at St. "Vincent's hospital with a fractured skull as a result of being struck last night by an automobile driven by Harry L. Dwyer of 86 Oak street. . The accidfint happened in Main street near the boy's home. The boy was running across the street. At the hospital 'today it was said he is making progress and is reBting com fortably. Dwyer was arrested in a recKless driving charge and . the case wascontinued in the city court today until November 10, under bonds of f 1,000. BOYS 00 TO Authorities Are Bounding Up Five Men Who Were Called For Examination and Were to Have Left This Morning With De parting Quota; Polish Re cruits Take Leave of Friends. , ' - : : . r- ,v A scene typical of that of Sept. 20 was enacted at the railroad station to day when' friends and relatives of 18 drafted men wept and- cheered as they boarded a train for Camp Sevens, at Ayer, Mass., where they will take the places of Fifth division men rejected for physical disability. The new Bridgeport members' of the new national army are: Garret Jones, Nathan Halperin, James Per rone, Louis Vichioll, Charles Rlcco, Stephen . Andrlso, -' Murray . Caplan, Frank Polosky, Percy x Carraiigher, John Mensel, , Albert Dawler, Morri? Reich, William Caplan; Roy Gokey, William Lamb, 'Jr., ' Louis Riderman, Joseph Schwartzkopf and Mike Aiello. ' Five men of the Fifth division who were called for examination, but wh'o failed to report have been rounded up and will be sentto Camp Devens to morrow. 'They - are George Mandel low, ' 'James W. Farrell, Walter Mon tague, 'Harry Cahakov and Thomas Casey. ' ' " Ten more young men of Poliah par rentage, volunteers, were also given a send-off today. - They . were escorted to the station by more . than 100 friends and relatives and a farewell speech was given by Anthony S. Am brose, president and treasurer of the Connecticut Canvas Co. Among th volunteers was Clayton G. Ambrose, second son of Ambrose in the United. States service. The volunteers were greeted at the Grand Central station byy officers of the French army. Besides Ambrose the volunteers include Felix Lavicka, Andrew Cik, Paul Stitch, M. J. Ondwich, John S. Drank, Joseph Bartos, Joseph Mel, legh, Rudolph Krupa, John Dohansky and John. Siska. , The latter is a re serve and will go in evenj one of the others is rejected. The. men went to a training camp at Niagara, N. T. HARMONY ADDS NEW STRENGTH TO KIRK TICKET - With the Republican machine on the defensive and struggling, to re gain much lost ground, reports from all districts today indicate , Kirk strength is growing minutely. Demo cratic leaders in conference with sev eral independent voters at Democrat ic headquarters today predicted a plurality of 1500 for Kirk. Large- attendances at the rallies greatly encourage the candidates, who have heen enthusiastically received in every district. ' Among the applaud ers many ' Republicans and indepen dent voters are found, while at the Republican rallies it is seldom that voters other than members of the Republican district clubs are in the halls. - ' , ' Attorney George F. Mara, district organizer, reports that a i perfect or ganization is practically in shape and that all workers aie working diligent ly all over the city. '' The West End forces are proceeding without the services of their leader, Daniel E. Walker, who, it is reported, is suffer ing from, double pneumonia. ' REPRIEVE FOR MRS. GILLIGAN Hartford Nov. 1. Benedict M. Hol den. counsel for Mrs. Amy E. Archer Gilllgan, addressed a letter to Gov. Hokomb today, calling the attention of the governor to the case of the condemned woman, who has not 4een reprieved from deith, although the date set for her execution Is but five days away and notice xf appeal has j'beeni filed and reasons for asking for a finding , also have been filed, some weeks ago. The g-overnor said this afternoon that he would grant a reprieve. - Mr. Holden said' it was Judge Gar dtoer Greenes -raext-'move. Berlin Reports Capture of 60,000 More Italians East of the Lower Tagliamento 1,500 Guns Taken Reports From Italian Head quarters Indicate Orderly Retreat of Gigantic Army of 1,000,000 ' Berlin, Nov. 1, via London The Austro- . German forces invading Italy have increased . the number of prisoners taken to more than 180,000. They have captured 1,500 Italian guns. The foregoing information was official ly announced today by the German war office.' The Austro-Germans penetrated the rear guard positions of the Italians to the east of , the lower Tagliamento, where they cut off and captured 60,000 Italians. ; r ', ' ";"-"'v. ; " v : ' " ' . London, Novv 1 Count George Yon Hertling has been rejected as imperial chancellor by the Reichstag majority leaders, according to special dispatches from Amsterdam,, which construe this as a rebuff to the emperor and a yic-1 tory for Parliamentarism. The messages, however,' appar-' ehtly were written, before the German wireless statement was sent out yesterday announcing that Von Hertling had been offered the place -and was consulting with Reichstag leaders. . ' "J.: '-' '. -; ' ' " v' Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, Wednesday, -Oct 31 Premier JLloyd-George has said that the Korrors'of a Zeppelin raid received much attention, whereas in tbeir relative importance to vast, sections of London remaining ' untouched they are insignificant. Exactly the same-condi- . tions exist here, for while the horrors of the recent experi- . . ence stand out boldly to those who went through it, thfe is-, , offset by the magnitude of .the beneficial . military and ' ' strategic results accomplished. ' Exactly what these are cannot even be hinted at for the present, but the main fact is that another wall, an other line of steel, will face the en emy, and all Europe and America are now doing their part to second Italy's tremendous task. ' ' That inevitable confusion which accompanies the gigantic movement of troops and ' material to a sponger position farther back is fast disap pearing. Any :report of a wholesale stampede reaching the outside world should be accepted with reserve. The fact is that there' was a meth odical retirement on a huge scale, but the hugeness of such an -operation, in volving the. movement of upward qf 1,000,000 men and their, stores within three days, was inevitably accompa nied by extreme hardships and many detached instances of unavoidable con fusion. ; These ' darker phases natur ally: stand' out more prominently, and it will be these that doubtless will reach .the outer World-in exaggerated NO URGENCY; NO EMERGENCY. .-, -I asked Majr Wilson to teil the public why he broke his pledge not to let public contracts without competitive bid ding; the pledge in which he -said he would never give his waiver except in cases of. urgency or of emergency. .Mayor Wilson replies that he gave his waivers ftfr a million, and a half dollars of Warrenite .contracts, because Warrenite is a "patented" pavement. This is his sole excuse. He does not claim that there was an urgency or an -emergency. ' His -defense is an admission that he 'did not keep his pledges. What is the value of the defense that Warrenite. isa pa tented pavement? This pavement is a composition of stone 'arid asphalt, which can be laid by any contractor who knows his business. New Haven has laid many miles at 84 cents a square yard. The highway commissioner -stopped laying Warrenite except when it could win in competition and has put down miles of asphalt and stone highways. v " Warrenite made-its appearance in New York state under, conditions very similar, to those that appear in Bridgeport. Following an investigation of highway conditions in that state, the legislature passed a law declaring it against public policy for any official employed by the public to buy any sort of patented pavement, except it should win in a fair competition with, other pavements. v The patented pavement Ls"an excuse behind which public servants may shelter them selves from the anger of the taxpayers. . The voters must judge whether the plea that Warrenite is a patented pavement is a justification for the waivers" Mayor Wilson gave when there was ho urgency and ho emergency.-- ' w,i ' . , . ' . 'JT5' W. P. KIRK. - PRICE TWO CENTS form, whereas , the outstanding fact is that a huge ftrmy has been with- , drawn in the face 'of overwhelming j odds and has come out of the ordenlj scarred hut still intact , and with col- ors flying. - ' v 1 . Italian Headquarters, Wednesday, Oct. 31 (By the Associated Press)-1 ! As the bulletins of Geh. Cadorha indi cate, the Italian troops, perfectly re organized, are holding back the ene my at a distance of seven miles west of Udin-e. . " - s j , The Germans and Austrians did not j succeed in their prearranged plan of ' rushiacbeyond the - Isonzo into 'the) Friull vat1 ind enveloping the Third i Italian armyT1 1 jny'Llpccupied the '. region of Gorizia and the though they broke "the. Italian, line from Plazzo to Tolmlno the resistance offered by picked Italian contingents who -offered , themselves , for the su preme sacrifice, so delayed the south- (Continued on ' Page Two.) . ' 7f f