The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., August 28, 1918, Image 1

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The Weather Report
New Haven, Aug. 28 For
Bridgeport and vicinity: Fair
and slightly warmer tonight;
Thursday, partly cloudy and
warmer, probably showers.
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GERMAN
French Occupy Chaulnes
VERY PRECIPITATE
lages Since Yesterday German Activity Be
hind Lines Increase Prepare for Retirement
in Roye Region Bolshevik Forces Retire Be
fore Allied Advances on Ussuri Front
Paris, Aug. 28, 1:30 p. m. (By the Associated Press) The
German retreat on the Somme battle field has become precipi
tate. The French First and Third armies are at no point los
ing contact with the enemy. The French are inflicting heavy
losses on the retreating Germans.
Chaulnes has been occupied by French troops, according to
the official statement today by the war office.
Progress toward the Somme was continued this morning
by the French, the statement says. Since yesterday 30 villages
have been taken by them.
Among the larges villages taken by the French are Omie
court, about two miles east of Chaulnes; Balatre, three miles
northeast of Roye ; Roiglise, a mile and three-quarters southeast
of Roye toward Noyon; and Verpillieres, south of Roiglise.
French troops have 'moved eastward in the Rove sector an
average of nearly two miles on
one of the principal points of the Geerman defense south, of the
Somme, apparently fell to the Frerfch because of the pressure
north and south of it. Gen. Debeney now is moving toward
Nesle, which was only five miles east of his line as it stood late
last night. The French occupation of Hallu and the British cap
ture of Vermandovillers outflank Chaulnes on the north and
south.
Allied artillery, tanks and
try valiant help and are inflicting
particularly when the enemy counter attacks. The number of"
prisoners has been increased
of war materials have been taken. Around Rapaume the Brit
ish have recaptured ammunition dumps left , behind in the
4 March retreat. The supplies were found fit for use and the
Germans suffered accordingly.
French cavalry is harassing the retreating Germans in the
Chaulnes region, hampering the withdrawal of the enemy
forces. There is a report that Gen. Mangin's army is crossing
the Ailelte river.
With the French Army in France, . since the French successes around
Tuesday, Aug. 27, evening (By the Roye and on the plateau north of
Associated Press) Activity behind j Soissons. In the region east of Roye
the German lines on the Aisle and the the Germans seem to be preparing for
Avre fronts has Increased greatly (Continued on Pago 2.)
m FURT
LOOKED FO
Regret For Yesterday's Clash at Nogales, Expressed By
Gen. Calles, Governor of Sonora, Who Comes
to Border By Order of Carranza
Nogales. Ariz., Aug. 28 An agreement by which further
trouble would be avoided was expected to result today from
conferences between American and Mexican officials, who
were summoned here, following fighting at the international
line late yesterday between American soldiers and Mexicans
in which three Americans were killed and 28 were wounded.
The Mexican casualties are variously estimated at from 150 to
200.
A revised list of the casualties suf
fered by the Americans shows that
one officer and two enlisted men were
killed and 28 soldiers and civilians
were wounded. Three of the wound
ed are reported seriously hurt.
The American officer killed was
Capt.- Joseph D. Hungerford, who
commanded a troop of negro cavalry.
Among the Mexicans killed was
Felix enPaloza. nwyor of Nogales,
Sonora, the Jlexic&n town opposite
Nogales, Arizona.
Brig. Gen. De Bosey Cabell, com
mander of tne Arizona military dis
trict, hurried here from Douglas as
eocrt as word of the trouble reached
him, and Gen. P. Ellas Calles, mili
tary governor of Sonora, Mexico, was
reported enroute from Hermosillo,
thes tate capital, by special train.
Investigation has developed hnt
the fighting started when a Mexican,
who had been passed across the bor
dr by the Mexican custom guard.
OA Entered as second class matter at the
Besides Taking 30 Vil
a front of 12 1-2 miles. Roye,
aeroplanes are giving the infan
heavay losses on the Germans
still further and great quantities
was halted by an American immigra
tion officer. The American, it' was
said, drew his pistol but did not fire.
The Mexicans, it was asserted, opened
fire at once, and the shooting became
general.
Mayor Fenaloza of Nogales, Son
ora, was killed while standing in front
of the railroad station in the Mexi
can town.
: Profound regrets for yesterday's
clash between Mexican and American
soldiers were expressed by Gen. Elias
Calles. military governor of Sonora,
to Brig. Gen. De Rosey Cabell, in a
telegram received from Gen. Calles in
Magdalena, Conora, today. s Gen.
SCalles said he had been ordered to
proceed "to the border by President
Carranza to express these regrets per
sonally. He is scheduled to arrive
here this morning. Gen. Cabell ar
rived ci 3 a. m., from Douglas. The
conference is to be held in Nogales.
Arizona, today.
R 01 BORDER
BRIDGEPORT,
act of 1S79
AIRPLANES TO
HOVER OVER
NEWFIELD PAR
Will Maneuver in Battle
Formation During K. of C.
Field Day Saturday.
In a joint announcement today Su
perintendent John H. Redgate of the
Bridgeport Police Department and
Chief Daniel E. Johnson, of the
Bridgeport Fire Department, made
public the fact that through the cour
tesy of Col. Whitney, of- Fort Wright.
New York, they have been guaranteed
the appearance over Newfleld Park
of two giant army dirigibles and some
airplanes which will maneuvre in bat
tle formation for the benefit of the
thousands who will attend the mon
ster field day in aid of the Knights of
Columbus War Fund.
It was also announced by the chiefs
that they have been assured of the
services of a large contingent of blue
:ackets from the Black Rock Naval
Station and a large number of soldiers
from the State Guard. The two
armed forces will co-operate with the
aerial fetl in giving Bridgeporters a
vivid idea of the terrific struggle now
being carried on both in the air and
on land.
Up to noon today the sale of tickets
was announced to have passed th-j
10,000 mark and the various commit
tees have sent in an urgent hurry call
for more. The leaders in the project
decided to order an extra 25,000 tick
ets so as to be on the safe side, but
many of the enthusiastic workers say
that the new order will not be enough
and that the 15.000 mark will be
reached before long.
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M1MIUI WAGE IS
BRIDGEPORT PLANTS
Decision Affecting 50,000 Workers in This City Handed
Down By Otto M. Eidlitz Not Less Than 42 Cents
For Men Nor 32 Cents for Women Retroactive to
May 1, in Munitions Shops Machinists Not Satisfied
With Award Meet Tomorrow Night to Take Action
No Statement From Manufacturers.
Washington, Aug. 28 Wages increase to all workers now
receiving less than 78 cents an hour in 66 plants in the munition
and related industries of Bridgeport are provided in an award
of Otto M. Eidlitz, umpire chosen by the national war labor
board to decide controversies between the companies and their
employes. ,
The decision affects some j 50.000 workers, among whom
there has been dissatisfaction for a long time. A threatened
strike was averted last week when Frank P. Walsh, joint chair
man of the war labor board, addressed the workers with a plea
for patience.
The umpire's award establishes a minimum wage of 42
cents an hour for all male workers, skilled or unskilled, 21
years old or over, and a minimum of 32, cents an hour for all
female workers, 18 years or over. It grants the workers' de
mand for the basic eight hour
plants; establishes the right of
and to join trade unions and provides that women doing the
same work as men shall receive the same pay.
The wage increases provided for are made retroactive to
May 1, in the case of the Remington Arms-U. M. C. plant, Lib
erty Ordnance Co., and American & British Mfg. Co., and to 21
contract shop affected in the original controversy; to June 26
in the case of six other shops which submitted to the board's
jurisdiction on that date; and to' July 31 in the case of 34 plants
that voluntarily came before the board on that date.
All the companies are given until Oct. 1, 1918, to complete
the back payment of wages.
On the important question of clas-
sification of skilled men the umpire
decided against changing present
methods on the ground that to sud-
and Evening Farmer
CONK, WEDNESDAY,
Filled With Pride to Record
in General Orders Tribute
to American Gallantry.
FIGHTING WORLD'S
STRONGEST ARMY
Did More to Give Allies Sup
port to Which, As Nation,
Our Faith Was Pledged.
With the American Army in
France, Tuesday, Aug.
-(By
the Associated Press) Gen
Pershing has issued the fol
lowing order:
"It fills me with pride to
record in general orders a tri
bute to the service achieve
ments of the First and Third
corps, comprising the First,
Second. Third. Fourth, 26th,
28th, 32nd and 42nd divisions
of the American expeditionary
forces.
"You came to the battlefield at a
crucial hour for the Allied cause. For
almost four years the most formida
ble army the world has yet seen had
pressed its invasion of France and
stood threatening its capital. At no
time has that army been more pow
erful and menacing than when, on
July 15, it struck again to destroy in
one great battle the brave men op
posed to it and to enforce its brutal
will upon the world and civilization.
"Three days later, in conjunction
with our Allies, you counter attacked.
The Allied armies gained a brilliant
victory that marks the turning point
of the war. You did more' than to
give the Allies the support to which,
as a nation, our faith was pledged.
You proved that our altruism, our
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day in all the manufacturing
workers to bargain collectively
i denly order a complete readjustment
of the prevailing working system
would be prejudicial to the interest of
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AUG. 28, 1918
Subscription
month. Dally
MARSHALL MORRIS
PASSES AWAY AT
NOBLE AVE. HOME
Pioneer on Early Life of
Bridgeport Dies at Ad
vanced Age of 82.
LIFE INTERWOVEN
WITH CITY PROGRESS
Had Much to Do With Build
ing Up of Industry and
Growth of Bridgeport.
Marshall Eliot Morris, one of the
pioneers in the early development and
life of Bridgeport died at his home,
No. 303 Noble Ave., this morning in
his 82nd year.
Mr. Miorris' life had been so closely
interwoven with the progress and de
velopment of Bridgeport for so many
years that his death removes one of
the few remaining members of the old
er generation of New England people
who contributed in such measure to
ward making the city what it is today.
Mr. Morris was born in Salem
Conn., May 10, 1837. He was the son
of Sheldon and Betsy Morris and
was of old Connecticut stock from his
parents on both sides. In his boyhood
his father removed to Litchfield
where he was engaged in the manu
facture of clocks. Mr. Morris spent
his boyhood days in Litchfield, be
ing educated in the public schools
there and gaining a knowledge in his
father's factory of wood working and
wood working machinery which later
on occupied so large a part of his bus
iness life. At that time his father was
making the Jerome clock for P. T.
Barnum. It will be remembered by
the older generation of Bridgeporters
that after Mr. Barnum had made
great place and fortune for himself
in the conduct of his New York Mu
seum, he suffered great financial dis
asters and lost practically all of his
fortune through his ownership and
control of the Jerome Clock Co.
Just when Mr. Morris was growing
into young manhood, the late Nathan
iel Wheeler was establishing and de
veloping the Wheeler and Wilson Sew
ing Machine Co. business in Bridgeport
and when that company determined
to make its own cabinets for sewing
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LABORERS REFUSE
TO WORK FOR SIX
DOLLARS A DAY
Prosperity Too Much for
Men Who Were Glad of
$1.50 a Short Time Ago.
Six dollars a day, 75 cents an hour,
no longer is a real attraction for the
common laborer of Bridgeport if he
doesn't happen to be in the mood for
work. A local builder had this fact
impressed upon him a few days ago.
The builder is erecting a cottage on
Madison -road, on a contract. It was
ready for plastering last week. The
masons were ready, but helpers could
hot be found. The builder offered the
ruling $4.50 a day, then $3, then $6,
but nt a laborer would go to work.
The masons finally had to do all the
mixing an4 carrying of the mortar
themselves and the walls were plas
tered without the aid of the class of
labor that, not so very long ago, was
glad to get $1.50 for 10 hours' work.
Laborers are scarce in Bridgeport
now. One contracting firm which,
three years ago, regularly employed
150 of this class, now has only 12 it
can depend upon. The high wages
seem to ha,ve even a greater effect
than the demand -for men. In spite
of the high cost of living nowadays
the laborer is earning so much money
that he feels rich beyond his former
fondest dreams when he gets his pay
for three or four days and, not think
ing of the fututre or the coming in
dustrial stagnation after the war,
simply refuses any kind of employ
ment while that money lasts.
rates by mall: Dailv S6.00 per vear. One
50 cents. 179 Fairfield Ave.. Bridgeport
EVERY JEANS KNOWN
Haig's Forces Press Steadily Onward, Pushing
Everything Before Them Germans Place
Heavy Reinforcements in Bapaume Region
Bapaume Now Part of No Man's Land Ger
mans Leave "Booby Traps" As They Retreat
Thrilling Air Fight
. (By the Associated Press)
German forces in southern Picardy are retreating over a
wide front.
After the capture of Roye by the French yesterday the Ger- ,
man front has crumbled. The lines which have held back the
French and British for the last two weeks are giving way and
today's official reports show the French on a line less than
three miles west'of the Somme river and canal.
Thirty villages have been captured by the French in the
advance which was started early on Tuesday morning. Chaul-.
nes, the center of the German line between Roye and the Somme
river, as it flows westward through the battle field, has been
captured, and many other vital points have been taken from
the retiring enemy.
While the French have been smashing the enemy's front
along the Chaulnes-Roye line the British have swung forward
in the sector east of Arras. North of the Arras-Cambrai road
they have reached the outskirts of the villages of Haucou-t,
Remy and Boiry Notre Dame, about a mile east of the positions
where they were known to be yesterday and well east of the
Hindenburg line. South of the Somme the British have taken
Foucaucourt, while north of the river they have gained nearly
ull of the Trones wood.
In the Flanders area the British have advanced their line
over a front of four miles astride the Neuf Berquin road. This
is the area from which the Germans have been retiring for the
last three weeks.
Dispatches from the far east tell of Allied successes against
the Bolsheviki forces:
The great battle in Picardy and Ar
tois continues with unlimited violence.
Allied troops, particularly on the
northern and southern wings of the
57 mile line, from north of the Searpe
to south of Roye, are pressing the
Germans steadily eastward.
Every means known to modern war
fare is used by the enemy to stay the
onrush of the British and French, but
the Allied machine moves on. Heavy
reinforcements have been thrown into
the fray by the Germans, mostly in
the center around Bapaume. The one
desire of the enemy appears to be to
HEHBY FORD
AND LOSES
Newberry, Republican, Ahead on Republican Ticket,
( While Ford, Candidate of Two Parties,
Leads Democratic Race.
Detroit. Aug. 28 Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufac
turer and choice of President Wilson for the Michigan sena
torial nomination, was today, on the face of returns from mora
than half of the state, both winner and loser in Tuesday's state
wide primary.
CROWDER GRANTS
PERMISSION FOR
WORLD'S SERIE
Cincinnaii, Aug. 28. August Her
mann,' chairman of the ' 'National
Baseball Commission, .while, attending
the Republican State Convention in
Columbus last night, received the of
ficial permission of Provost Marshal
General Crowder for the pennant win
ners of the National and the American
leagues to engage in a world series.
The granting of this permission re
moves the last obstacle to holding the
world series, which will start in Chi
cago on Sept. 4.
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find a line where he can stand long .
enough to make an orderly retire
ment. Marshal Foch, however, is giving
the enemy no rest. There is no let up
in the Allies pressure and each day
the active fighting line is extended
on the north and south. Each exten
sion is marked by further gains, add
ing to the peril of the enemy center
which fights desperately to prevent
the British from breaking thUouffh.
Among the ruins and shell crater
of the old Somme battle field abou,
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BOTH WINS
Truman H. Newberry, of Detroit,
commander in the Third United
States Naval District and former sec
retary of the navy, has won the Re
publican nomination for United States
senator by a vote that incomplete re
turns indicate may equal the total
number of votes polled by both Ford
anl former Gov. Chase S. Osborn.
Only a light vote was cast for William
G. Simpson of Detroit, the the Re
publican candidate.
In the Democratic balloting, how
ever, the Detroit manufacturer, who
was a candidate on both party tickets,
won an oary rare from his- lone op--ponent,
James W. Helm", ""gures this
morning bcinr 'ivor of
Ford.
Unofficial' and inc-j... . turns
show that Newberry probably Sas
carried 78 of Michigan's 83 counties,
Osborne four and Ford one of th(
Republican primary. '
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