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Einstein in Pictures- Angles of Incidents and Reflection Are Equal Simplicity of Great Inventions Income Tax Does Not Make Liars Truthful Normal Mark Would Be a Catastrophe. The Einstein theory of rela tivity will make its first appear ance in pictures next month, in this country. It (has been, seen and applauded on the other side. It was said that not more than 10 men in the world could un derstand the theory. This, doubt less, referred to the mathematics employed to prove it. The picture is simple enough. The light of a star travelling in a straight line, is deflected by tjhe eun. The light travels straight from its new angle to the eye of the observer. The star seems to be where it is not. This phe nomenon is familiar enough in the minds of those who use mir rors, and its principle may be observed on any billiard table. Around this simple fact the pic ture revolves. The other ex amples and illustrations employ ed are quite as simple as this one. Please note that most of the great inventions are marked with extreme simplicity. In essence, the steam engine, the telephone, the telegraph and wireless are simple mechanisms. It would be difficult to think of a mechan ism which is simpler than the aeroplane wings. The engine which drives them and the pro peller which is operated by the engine are elements each simple in itself. The difficult thing Is to find the natural laws which govern the mechanism. This done, the rest Is easy. Mr. Lloyd George finds him self Involved in certain complex ities arising out of two simple elements. He agrteed to wrlto war memoirs, and sold the rights to various syndicates for sums approximating $400,000. After this he began the publication of a series of articles. Those who contracted for the memoirs regarded themselves as damaged. He has cancelled the contracts. Mr. Lloyd George has done public business so long that, doubtless, he has less capacity to look out for his own private and selfish Interest, than the ordinary man has. Nearly everybody is specialized. A man like Lloyd George Is nightly specialized. James S. Ivins, head of the rereonal Income Tax Bureau of New York State says that 90 per cent of those who filed income tax reports are honest; they tell the trutih; they do not attempt to deceive. The income tax has not made a nation of liars. It simply has failed to make truthful men of those who have acquired the habit of lying. The Oerman mark rises slight ly; living costs are suddenly boost ed, and Germany Jumps Into a consumer's strike, tine worst of allstrlkes because it immediately has the effect of checking pro duction, which checks labor, which checks prosperity. It has not been good for the mark to reach its low point. It would be much worse if the mark should suddenly rise to a very high roint. Suppose the millions of marks purchased for half a cent or so should suddenly become a claim on German goods at 20 cents the mark; what a catas trophe that would be . Comes a further extension of life to the internal combustion engine used for driving motor vehicles. A Paris inventor has built a semi-Diesel type engine which uses fuel oil, worth 12 cents a gallon. Regular gasoline over there is worth 56 cents a gallon. The engine in operation Is represented as being practical and satisfactory. The supply of heavy fuel oil is great. The Diesel type engine Is extensively used In industrial service and for the great engines which drive hips. Its application to auto mobile service presents no great mechanical difficulties. The growing power of labor In the world is exemplif ied again In Australian elections. The La boV party pets 34 seats to 27 for the nationalist.-'. Premier Hughes has returned, the last of the war premiers to ho'd this great office. WEATHER: Entered as s? con l oless matter at the post omc .t Bridgeport, Conn., under the act of m AND EVENING FARMER Subscription rates by mall: Dally iS.OO per year. ue mofllh. Dally 50 cents. 179 Falrtlela Ave., Bridgeport New Haven, Dec. 19 "Weather fore cast: For New Haven and vicinity: Pair and continued cold tonight; Wed nesday partly cloudy and warmer. For Connecticut: Fair and con tinued cold tonight; Wednesday fair with rising temperature; fresh north and northwest .winds, becoming south erly Wednesday. VOL. 58 XO. 299 EST. 1790. BRIDGEPORT, CONX.. TUESDAY, DEC. 19, 1922 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. NEW COUNCIL TO PROBE FIRE IN SLEY SCHOOL REVOKE I "LIFER" IS QUIZZED IN BRUNEN CASE MONEYS Common Council Changes Its Mind About Giving Children New School and Re scind Bond Issue No Architect Selected. The Common Council which has broken all records for changing its mind about (riving the Bridgeport children bonds so that they can bare school houses" to go to, marched, itself down lull again last night upon motion of Alderman A. K. Veness. The eouncilnwn reseiiiclitl .their ac tion on Novehlicr P.tli authoriz ing an issue of bonds for schools. The motion was seconded by Al derman Sanford and Alderman Dohcrty. Mayor Atwater said he approved of the action. The aldermen claim that tho Board of Education promised to employ a local architect to bnlld the high school, and that this prom, lse has been broken. Tho policy of the Board of Educa tion will be to ignore the repeal of the $1,300,000 school bond a-1 or dered by the Common council last night, Ir. Alfred C. Fonea, president of the board, declared today. Dr Pones declared that the board would continue "as K nothing had haippened." Lynn W. Wilson said, "They must have second sight over there in the Board of Aldermen. The Board of Education does not know what ar chitect it will employ because its members haven't made up then minds If the Board of Aldermen do know, I, for one, would regard it as a favor if they would come over and tell us." The resolution authorizing the bonds, in due form, was unanimously passed by the Board of Aldermen, signed by the Mayor and sent over to the City Auditor in the usulal way. (Continued on Page Fifteen) BRUTALLY SLAIN NEAR HER HOME Butler. N. J., Dec. 19. (I. N. S.) Her clothing torn and iher face and body covered with blood, the body of Mrs. Catherine Burbol. fifty-one years old, was found lying face downward in a valley road here early today. Po lice and the prosecutor's office, co operating in the investigation believe she was murdered. She lived with her husband and children near where the body was found. Charles Mayo, Convicted Slayer Tells Jury Pow ell Talked Like Maniac Mrs. Brunen Tells of Christmas Day Scrap. Mount Holly, N. J., Dec. 19 The gates of the state penitenti ary at Trenton opened today to provide a new actor in the grim drama, being played in tho county court house here. Ernest Ii. Mayo, serving- a life sentence for the murder of a jitney driver, testified for the defense in the trial of Mrs. Doris Brunen and her brother, Hairy C. Mohr, on a charge of murder in -oimection with the shooting to death last march of "Honest John" Brunen, wealthy circus owner. Mayo knew Charles M. Powell, con fessed slayer of Brunen, said Powell talked like a maniac. "He would bark like a dog," the convict declared, "and holler 'call a cop, don't bother me, I'm in the bath tub.' He would not speak to me. Just shook hands and said nothing." Grover Duncan, also confined in state prison, said he was in the jail lere last May and heard Powell "holler and yell." Mrs. Brunen Resumes Testimony Shots which were exchanged in the gun battle last Christmas, in the Brun en home, echoed in the court room again to day when MVs. Brunen re sumed the stand for cross examina tion. In shrill tones she told of her fight with her husband. "John called Hazel and I an awful tame," she cried. T shrieked, John, don't you daro call us that and then ran into the pantry and got my revolver from the clothes hamper." "John shot at me and hen I fired back there must have been seven ehots before John hit me. He hit ne in the abdomen." Mrs. Brunen eaid her husband had a bad temper and often was cruel to ber when he had be'.n drinking. "He would throw things around and then lie down and go to sleep," she said, describing the way he acted when drinking. "Hazel always helped me," Mrs. Brunen continued. "She worked hard all the time." The prosecution tried again to bring out relations alleged to have existed oetween Doris Brunen and "Doc" Ward in Hoboken last December but justice Kalisch ruled out such questions. 1 1 1NJURED AS TRAINS CRASH Charleston. S. C. Deo. 19 Only the fact that they were riding in a heavy steel coach saved passengers in a crowded street car from instant death today when the car was struck by a mail and express train on the Seaboard Air Line here. Eleven persons received injuries but will recover. The car was dashed from one side of the street to the other. Most of the injured were negroes. PLANE FOUND; PILOT MISSING Washington, Dec. 19. The mail plane loe: in a T'tah blizzard last Fridav hue been found on Porcupine Ridge", 4 0 miles from Salt Lake City, gut Pilot Boonstra is still missing, according to advices to the Post Of. flee Department today. Boonstra's flying suit was spread out on the snow beside the plane, a signal that he w'as in "the vicinity, the advices stated. Boonstra is believed o be in an abandoned cabin two miles away and a searching party is battling snow 2 0 feet deep to reach him. STORM FORGES LINER TO PORT Cherbourg, Dec. 19 -A violent storm comjpclled the liner Bergenaria from New York, Dec. 11, for Cherbourg and Southampton to remain off shore near this iport throughout the night to insure her safety. Major Gen. George H. Harries and Mrs. Harries, who wished to board the Bergenaria on their way to Lon don, ventured out at midnight during the height of the storm on board a French admiralty cutter. The trip was a dangerous one, the cutter being badly buffeted and some of her win dows blown out. but she finally made the Bergenaria safely and placed Gen. and Mrs. Harries on board. POLICE IN HUNT FOR "FIREBUGS" Philadelphia. Dec. 19. Six barns were destroyed by fire early today in Montgromery and Cehester coun ties. The fires were all within a radius of 2 0 miles. In at least two instances there was evidence f in cendiarism. At one place shots were exchanged with three men fleeing from a barn. State policeman in large force are combing the roads in search of 'tarn burners" now believ- d to be an or ganied band. The fires today brought the total number of barns burned n Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties to S8 since early October. The monetary loss now totals about $400,000. Pastor Sued For Divorce, Wife Naming 122 Women GOOD SKATING AT SKASIDE. The Board of Recreation announces tha ice skating is excellent in the section around the bath house at Sea Bide park. Many children and grown ups are enjoying the fine skating. Providence. R. I.. Dec. 19 I. N. S.) Providence society was thrown into l panic today when counsel for Mrs. Minnie Engleheart. who is suing her husband, the IcV. Dr. Adolnh H. Engleheart. for divorce, filed a bill of particulars naming 122 women. Mrs. t Engleheart claims her husband, "pas- j tor" of the Church of the Divine Science, has a strong hypnotic power j which he uses over the women who ; come to him for "divine healing." ; The church is said to be of a i spiritualistic leaning. Mrs. Engleheart bases her suit on ; charges of extreme cruelty and her : husband's association "with other i women for immoral prposeg." She claims he beat her and threw various objects at her. Engleheart had been in trouble with the Federal authorities in 1898 when his "temple" here was raided. During the war he was committed to Jn internment camp and upon his re turn resumed his practice of "divine healing." It was then that he married Minnie Colwell. daughter of a prominent and socially prominent politician. She was but 16 years of age when she married Engleheart. Many of the women named in the bill of particulars are said to be mem bers of Englehearfs church or cult and many of the others are prompnt in local society. EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS EX-KAISER AGING 3 ii 1 1 1 mm in i IT" r'Triiiinnsitttriiii-iiiinrTnrii nm mi mi t iirnni y n J 'ff3sflsBBss'' MP iwsHBHBfisHSSlk ' dlBaBBv 53q ( This remarkable and exclusive photograph, showing how ex-Kaiser Wll helm has aged, was snapped in the garden of his castle at Doom, Holland, by Altgrafin von Salm, nee Prinzessin zu Furstenberg, and is published with his consent. PLOT TO KILL ROYAL FAMILY IS DISCOUNTED London, Dec. 19 (I. N. S.) What may have been a plot to assassinate members of the British Royal family tvas discovered when a hand grenade svas found n the refuse of an ash cart that was being taken into Bucking ham Palace. The bomb was turned over to Scot land Yard for examination. Later officials of the Metropolitan police said they did not believe that a plot existed against the lives of King George and his famly, but that they were investigating carefully. It was pointed out that even if anarchists or others had designs against the lives 3f the Royal family they would be unlikely to be successful by lodging a. bomb in an ash cart, which would not get past the kitchen. Ever since an attempt was made upon the life of Sir William Horwood, head 'of the Metropolitan police, with poisoned candy last month, the police have been extra diligent in guarding the Royal family. The grenade, it was learned later, was covered with dirt and apparently had been discarded. The police be lieve that it was dumped into the ash :art unintentionally. COP MEETS TWO MEN, AND SHOT Greenwich. Dec. 19 Policeman George Oleson, of the Rye, (N. T.), police department, was shct in the jaw at 2:30 thisj morning. He met two men and asked them where they were going. One of the ;pair pulled a revolver and fired, the shot hitting the officer in the jaw bone. He was removed to the United Hospital at Portchester, .N. T. Tony Tulesco. of this place, was later arrested and held on suspicion of being one of the two men want ed. It was stated at the hospital that Oleson will recover. Bruin Wanted Ride In Auto Rochester, N". Y., Deo. 19 A big black bear and an automo bile came to blows last night. Bruin, though a bear for punish ment, could not stand up against tile bumps of the bumper. He fled. The Incident was reported toy Harry O. Simons of Olean, who met the animal about five miles from that place. The bear wanted to iClimb into the car when it stopped at a curve. Simons threw the machine into gear, causing It to hit the bear several times on chin and finally hurled it to one side of the road FIRING CHARGE AUTO MANAGER WITH EMBEZZLEMENT A warrant enlarging Homer M. Johnson, former manager of the R. H. Long Motor Co.. distributers of Bay State cars in this city, with the embezzlement of $1,300 was issued today by Prosecuting Attorney Vin cent; Keating and immediately turned over to Captain of Deteotives John H. Regtan. The warrant charges Johnson with embezzlement of vari ous sums of money aggregating $1,300 during the months of Novem ber and December, 1921. Johnson his since left town and his whereabouts at the present time are unknown. Ruppert Home Burning; Cop Sounds Alarm New York, Dec. 19 The sound of a policemata's night stick beating upon his front door was the means of informing Col. Jacob Ruppert, own er of the New York Yankees, that his Fifth avenue home was on fire today. The -patrolman on the beat saw flames leaping from the chimney and turned in the alarm. No damage was done. The colonel, his wife, mother and sister were sleeping in the house at the time. 1,021 JOBLESS IN BRIDGEPORT The five free public employment bureaus of the State Bureau of La bor received 4,838 applications for employment, 4,850 applications for help and "found situations for 4,017 persons in November according to the monthly report issued today. There was one per cent, increase in the number of persons supplied with places as compared with the October figures. The apllication for employment by cities were: Hartford 86 5, New Ha ven 1605, Bridgeport 1021, Waterbury 858. and .Norwich 489. The applications for help were: Hartford 932. New Haven 1586, Bridgeport 933, Waterbury 929 and Norwich 940. The situations secured were Hart ford SOS. New Haven. 1,368, Bridge port 890, Waterbury 485, and Nor wich 466. Main Street as It Used to Be Work to Music -ivt t jl rv: One more glance back at the Main street of old Bridgeport is provided in another column today by Julian Sterling, who contri butes another inferestine," chapter to liis "Do You licmember" scries. What a curious place the Main street of those days most have been! Mr. Sterling recalls scenes and figures of a by-gone day of no less interesting to those of the present generation than to older readers. Don't be surprised if you happen to drop into the postoffffice to buy a stamp or make out a money order and hear the clerk humming one of the latest songs, because the post of fice employes now have a victrola playing the latest pieces to help them along with their work. The victrola was loaned to them by Ben F. Morrison of the George B. Clark company. Mr. Morrison likes to see that the employes are kept merry even though they are rushed with work. They work faster by keep ing step with the phonograph and the canceling rnifhlm. FACE SQUAD AFTER QUICK TRIAL Irregulars Resume Attacks in Dublin and Cork Districts Dublin Newspaper Plant Bombed De Valera Gets "Tip" and Evades Capture by Free State Troops. Dublin. Dec. 19. (I. N. S.) Seven Republican Irregular prisoners were executed at Mount Joy prison this morning: by the Irish Free State government. The men executed to day were former ra'1 .y workers. They were arrested near Kildare a fortnight ago for tearing up rails and threatening to wreck trains. SCHOOL FIRE WILL RESULT IN A PROBE Board of Education Or ders Inquiry into Blaze Which Might Have Resulted Seriously. A probe into tile tire which oc curred at the Beardsley school yesterday morning was ordered by tho Board of Education at its meeting last night. Agent John Klnsella was instructed to ascer tain the cause of the fire which, while doing very little damage, might have resulted seriously, but for the calmness of two teach ers. Superintendent of Schools Cortright in explaining his investigation, said that much credit is due the Misses Evelyn Fames and Frances Lavery, teachers of the two rooms of the port able school in vhich the fire occurred for the orderly manner in which they took their pupils from the portable into the main building. The tire was very slight, Mr. Kin sella said, but much, smoke was caus ed by back draught. He said that he could find no reason for the blaze which charred the woodwork slightly. Chief Johnson will investigate today, he said. The stove from which the trouble started will (probably be set on a cement base in the future, Mr. Kin sella intimated, instead of protected wood, as at present. (Continued on Page Fifteen) ANSONIA SENATE RECOUNT ASKED Ansonia. Dec. 19. A recount of the votes cat for senator in the I71h senatorial district has been asked by Senaiior Frank M. Drew of Ansonia, who was defetted for re-election by Walter B. Johnson at the November election, by 17 votes. Papers in the recount proceedings were served upon Mr. Johnson late yesterday af ternoon by Deputy Sheriff William M. Shea of Derby and a return made to the secretary of state, who has already, it is said, issued a certifi cate of election to the Democratic candidate for senator, who is elected, on the face of the returns, by a ma jority of IS, in a total vote cast In the district of 11,059. Train Wrecking: Charge. The condemned men were tried br secret court martial, just as the other irregulars naci been tried who were previously executed. The specific charge against them was that they had in their possession "weaipons for the purpose of rebellion against the Free State." Some of them had bombs in addition to pistols. The death sentences were carried out at 8:30. The executed men were: Stephen White, Joseph Johnston, Patrick Mangan, Patrick Nolan, Brian Moore, Jarmes O'Connor and Patrick Bag nell. The executed men were part of a sang which was held iresporiMtoi troop train attacks, ambushes and lootings in the region of Kildare. Rev. Father Donnelly attended the executions and prayed with the men before they met death. Tho con demned men had been allowed to communicate with relatives. Iord Glenavy's House Fired Dublin, Dec. 19. Republican Ir regulars today made attacks on both Dublin and Cork. In Dublin they attempted .to raid the home o-f the son of Lord Glenavy, president Vf the Senate. Tho house was set on fire but not destroyed. Tho Free State bar rtacks were attacked at Cork. The plant of the Dublin Independ ent, a newspaper was bombed dur ing the "night. De Valera Evades Capture. Kamonn Do Valera is reported to have been deposed by the Republi cans ,who claim that he is not suffi ciently laggressive. A rumor that De Valera had been arrested has been circulated here for two days. It is based upon the following clreiAa tsancea: On Sunday, Free State mil-' itary headquarters received word tha-t Do Vlalera was attending wor. shiip in University churoh. Soldier wero sent to tihe churoh. but De Valora had been tipped off in th meantime and departd before th soldiers arrived to arrest him. WOMAN BURNS IN HOUSE FIRE New York, Dec. 19 (I. N. S.) One woman was burned to death and two others were seriously injured in a fire which swept the residence at 426 East 16th street early today. The dead women was Miss Annie Otto, aged 30, daughter of the owner of the house. Her sister, Agnes and her mother were injured by leaping from a window. Policemen Shot Dead by Bandits Chicago, Dec. 19 Policeman Ralph Shoubers, new on the force, was shot dead today by one of two bandits who tried to hold up a South Side store. Shroubers was shot through the heart as he attempted to draw his revolver. The bandits escaped. 3 Millions, Conn. Workers Lose By Shopmen's Strike E. Kent Hubbard, president of the Connecticut Manufacturers Associa tion, in his speech delivered today at the annual meeting of the Asso. elation at the Hotel Taf:. New Ha ven, presented ifigures showing that the Connecticut workers lost $2,952, 623 in wages, throughout the shop men's strike, in which 5,010 workers were involved. Mr Hubbard's report shows that in 1920 "there were 84 industrial dis putes in Connecticut in which 20.734 workers were involved, at an esti mated loss in production of $14,519,. 761, and an estimated loss in wages of $4,334,118. In 1921 there were 27 disputes in which 2.804 workers were involved, at an estimated los in production of S1.5S3.450, and an estimated loss in wages of $463,234. In 1922, the showing was even more favorable. There wre 12 dis putes in which 1,221 workers were involved- The loss in production was estimated $724,000 and the loss in wages at $166,250. President Hubbard declared that the association has not been oppos ed to organizations of labor, but that it is unalterably opposed to boycotts, blacklists and other illegal ana un fair acts of interference on the part of employers or employes. The asso ciation, however, stand tor th ofaa. shop. Bridgcporter Presides. Preceding the business session of the organization, which attracted sev eral hundred members from all parts of the state, a number of the com mittees of the organization held con ferences on questions which had been handled by them during the year. R- L. French of Bridgeport presided at the session of the Traffic commit tee, and J. E. Otterson of New Haven at the industrial relations committee session. President Hubbard spoke particu larly of the usefulness of the Con necticut industrial council, a body composed of local industrial and commercial groups throughout the state, operating under the auspices of the association. Througn tnis or ganization the Manufacturers' asso ciation has been able to obtain a wealth of informtion concerning in dustrial conditions and has enjoyed contact with organizations interested In state and civic betterment, thus enabling the association to work for ,the promotion .of the prosperity or the community in general as well as serve the individual members. He denied that the association ex isted for the large manufacturers, its policy being to serve each member to th-e- limit of its needs. He quoted figures to show that the majority of members were small manufacturers