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The Weather Report Bridgeport and vicinity: Fair tonlgh tand Tuesday ALMANAC FOR TODAY VOL. 55 NO. 17EST. 1790 Spartacans Attempt to De stroy Ballot Boxes and Fighting Follows. TRY TO STORM VORWAERTS OFFICE Protest Against Convening National Assembly Else where Than Berlin. London, Jan. 10 Rioting oc curred in Berlin during last night after the Spartacans had attempted to destroy the ballot boxes used In Sunday's elec tion, according to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Co penhagen. The Spartacans were repuls ed everywhere. Fighting took place, it Is reported, in "Wil h'elmstrasse and Hedemann strasse and at the Hallesche Tor. The Spartacans also at tempted to storm the office of the Vorwaerts. The municipal government of Greater Berlin has protested! to the Egbert Cabinet against the proposal to teonvone the National Assembly else-y-here than In Berlin. Opposition to Berlin es the seat of the assembly la said to emanate chief ly from South German sources which. In view of the recent occurrences at the car4ta4, fear for the fate of the new repnzblio If the assembly meetal tiers. The streets of Berlin today were tiuried under a deluge of lec tion dodgers, hand-Mils and leaflets, while the fronts of houses and handy windows were plastered with posters ftung up by campaign workers during the morning, frequently without the knowledge of house or store proprie tors. The spectaole was one wholly new to "Berlin where the bill "board prtviliged are strictlr confined to the familiar columns on the street corners, while the dlstribulbtlon of hand-Mils ordi narily Is severely restructed by police regulations. The Majority Socialists alone are reported to have distributed ; 80,00,000 dodgers, In addition to wall Ipaperlng the city with myriads of posters. The entire apparatus of the gov ernment was set in motion for the Majority Socialist campaign, which j was easily the most effective of any carried on for today's historic election of members of the National Assem bly. In addition to having the strata ! gle advantage of governmental control the Scheidemann party was more adept at campaigning than the bour (Continued on Page Twelve) THREE REVOLVER SHOTS FOR S1QQ ! Barfe Claims He Acted In Self-Defense But Fine is Imposed. Firing a revolver three times on Fulton street yesterday afternoon, at ! real or Imaginary foe, proved expen . ,slvo for Angelo Barfe, of 621 Pem broke street, when he appeared before ' ; Judge Frank C. Wilder, to answer ; charges of carrying a revolver with out a permit, dlscharginlg firearms in the city limits and breach of the . peace. Judge Wilder, after hearing the j case. Imposed a fine of $100, and a 1 suspended sentence of 10 days in Jail. ' Barfs was arrested on Fulton street ' yesterday afternoon, shortly after 4 o'clock, after he had frightened the ! people near him by firing the revolver three times. Barfe told the court that he was j feeing followed about by men of htsj nationality, who are Sicilians, in con- neotlon with his divorce from hisj former wife. ire said that during j -last week men from New York have i Ten trying to locate him. i As a result of this, he said, he , took a revolver with him yesterday ; -Afternoon, when he went 1o visit j -seme friends on North Washington! venue. He claimed he was on Fut-j Hon street when two men stopped him. ; (.-asked him his name, and when hej told the men to take their hands outi (wo snots at mm irom a revolver. ' : Barfe said that he then drew his rfvn waanon and fired the three shots. I y patrolman who made the arrest Stated that several men were seen running away from the spot. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Bridgeport. Conn., under the act of 1ST EMORIAL BLDG. BOARD TO MEET Plan and Scope Committee of Chamber of Commerce Gets Busy. The plan and scope committee of the Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Brooklawn club at 6 o'clock tonight, and for the first time definite action on the proposed Memorial building will be taken. What Js expected to be the main toplo of discussion at this meeting, Is the one or two-building idea. When a memorial building in honor of Bridgeport soldiers was first suggest ed, two factions immediately orga nized, one advocating the erection of a building that would contain a large auditorium and rest and meeting rooms for soldiers of all wars. There was also to be Included a trophy room. Then came the Idea of erecting a central library in Bridgeport. Ad ministration officials advanced the plan of adding this to the Memorial building, but Chamber of Commerce officials suggested the erection of a separate building, and later advocated a group of civic buildings to be put up within a short distance of each other making this section of the city a community center. All this will be gone over tonight and It Is expected that the commit tee will get as far as to mention pro posed sites for the building or build ings. ITALY WANTS COAL FROM U. S. Washington, Jan. 20 Italy, whose population as a whole was without coal for heating and In large part without gas for cooking during many months of the war, was the worst sufferer from fuel shortage among the Allied nations, according to the re port of the commission sent to Eu rope by Fuel Administrator Garfield. Representatives of the Italian gov ernment, the commission said, urge an annual national supply of 12,000,000 tons to meet actual requirements. The whole of this quantity would have to be imported since Italy's only do mestic fuel is a low grade of lignite. "The subject of Importation of American coal." saldthe report, "is here, as elsewhere In Europe, almost a question of shipping and freight rates." BFXiGARIANS STILl, PLUNDERING Saloniki, Sunday, Jan. 19 Bulgar ian soldiers continue plundering the dwellings and shops of Greeks at De motica, Rumelia, according to ad vices received here. It Is reported that the soldiers declare they are act ini.? under orders from their superiors. Details Of The Proposed New German Constitution Empire to Consist of Former Component States People Have Right to Erect New German Free States With in the Empire If State Has Two Million People Ruler to Hold Office 7 Years. London, Jan. 20 Details of the proposed new constitution for Germany drawn up recently at a conference of widely known authorities on constitutional law, including Hugo Preuss, state secretary of the interior in ihe Ebert government, are given in an official wireless despatch sent out from Berlin a".d picked up here. It states that the empire is to consist of its former com ponent states: besides any territories, which by virtue of the right of self-determination, desire to be received into the em pire. The despatch declares that the peo- with the Reichstag. TreaUes with pie have the right, regardless of for- foreign states require the assent of mer frontiers, to erect new German the Reichstag. As soon as a League free states within the empire, provid- of Nations, whose object is the exclu ing any such free state has a popu- i stion of secret treaties, has Ueen lation of 2,000,000. If the people of formed, all treaties with the ieague a border country wish to join the shall require the assent of the Reich German empire, the assent of the stag. German people shall be required. The imperial president's tenure of The Imperial president, who is to be office will be for seven years and his elected by the people, must be 35 re-election will be permissible. The years of age and must Have been a imperial government will be com citizen of Germany for 10 years before posed of a chancellor and ministers, his election. He will be elected by who will be chosen by the president of an absolute majoritv of all the votes the Reichstag. The government must of the empire. The president will have the confidence of the House of represc-it the empire, hut declarations j". ffyaea and shall be responsible of war or conclusions of peace rest I ( t Reichstag. 1 1 TAKE TESTIMONY IN CARSON CASE Witnesses Claim Girl Was Under Influence of Liquor When Killed. At the hearing held this morning by Coroner John J. Phelan several witnesses were heard concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of Veronica Carson, the young girl who was killed by a freight train on the Berkshire division about 11:00 o'clook Saturday night. AH evi dence resulted In a story to the ef fect that early in the evening the Carson girl, accompanied by her friend, Francis Slofky, went to a grocery store on Sylvan avenue for bread "hut more particularly to see John Matanobltz, a clerk at the store. They were informed that John was not there, but working at another store In East Bridgeport. Leon Jamllik offered to take them to see John in his tar and promised to drive them home later. The girls accepted the offer and at the store In East Bridgeport they were treated to port wine. . The testimony shows that the two girls drank a full quart of wine anis became very much Intoxicated. As agreed, Leon Jamilik then started to drive the grils home. Something went wrong with the car In the vicinity of North avenue" and Tumlttll road. All the occupants got out and when the trouble was adjusted the Carson girl, in a contrary drunken mood, refused to re-enter the car, claiming that she preferred to walk home. Miss Carson left the others of the party and start ed home alone. At the junction of Trumbull road and Sylvan avenue she left the highway and proceeded on the railroad track as is the custom with most people living In this sec tion of the city. About midnight the dead 'body of Veronica Carson was found by George Anderson of 127 Trumbull road. Evidence further showed that the body of the glrl had been dragged about 700 feet after she had been struck. Other circumstances surrounding the the family life of the dead girl make the case a pathetic one. It de velops that the mother of Miss Car son is at present confined in a state insane asylum. She is survived by a younger sister. Coroner Phelan has reserved his de cision until later. The young men in the case are being held by the police and the case will be continued by the city court awaiting the decision of the coroner. NEW DIAMOND WEIGHS 38S CARATS. London, Sunday, Jan. 19 (via Montreal) A soft blue white dia mond weighing 888 1-4 carats has ibeen found at the Jagersfonteln mine, Orange river colony. J,si and Evening Farmer BRIDGEPORT, CONN., MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1919 NUNS GO TO POLLS Amsterdam, Jan. 20. Some- what of a sensation was caused in Berlin, Sunday, according to a a despatch to the Handelsblad, when tho nuns from Catholic Lyceum In Undenstrasse march- cd to the polling booths in a group. PRESIDENT IS iR GUEST OF ENCH SENATE Dubost, Its President, Wel comes Executive With Eulogistic Address. SPEAKS HIGHLY OF HIS IDEAS Wilson's Ambition Could Elicit Nowhere Such En thusiasm As in France. Paris, Jan. 20 President Wilson was the guest of the French Senate at a luncheon today. He was greeted by Antonine Dubost, the president, who made an eulogistic a&dress lit which he said the Senate welcomed the President and his ideas. M. Dubost said: "Mr. President: My colleagues and myself thank you for having been so good as to accept our invitation and to give us some hours of your time which we know to ibe devoted to the litgh meditations and the Important negotiations upon which the fate of the peoples depends. From your first steps on the land of France and since your entry into Paris the French peo ple has spontaneously given their hearts to you and they perceived at once in your frank smile and in your so loyal and open physiogomy, that you, too, were spontaneously giving yourself to them. "You are today in an old palace of France and it is among these grand reminders of past times that with thoughts rejuvenated by Republican ardor, yet with patriotism, the French Senate shapes a history which already counts 15 centuries. We welcome here, Mr. President, you and your (Continued on Page Twelve) EN WILL T TONIGHT Despite the fact that bond issues and tax lists have occupied much of the time of city officials in the past two weeks, it is unlikely that either of these subjects will come before the Board of Aldermen at the regular meeting to be held in the common council chamber at city hall tonight A long list of routine matters will be taken up and several petitions will be heard, but unless Mayor Clifford B. Wilson has something up his sleeve, and this Is always a possibil ity and a chance that is never left out of consideration by the aldermen, little of clty-wlde interest is sched uled to take place. It will be some days before the city's financial advisor' committee has com pleted Its study of bond and tax prob lems, and the earliest that a report will be submitted to the aldermen Is at the first meeting in February. If matters are satisfactorily arrang ed before that time a special meeting of the aldermen will be called. A delegation from the Machinist's union is expected to appear before the council and ask for a revision of the city ordinance In regard to the hold ing of public meetings. In view of the recent squabble in holding pro test meetings of the unemployed, the Machinists will urge that meetings will be allowed without the sponsors having to apply to the police for a permit. The names of tho delegates are Samuel Lavit, David Clydesdale and John Egan. 14 BEARERS FOR LARGEST CASKET Fourteen pall bearers were re- nuiroH the horiv nf VoHllq Gilbert, wife of George Gilbert, to the hearse and into the church for the funeral services at fcSt. Anthony's church this morning. The casket was furnished by the undertaking firm of Gallagher & Gallagher, and was the largest ever used in tha city. Mrs. Gilbert weighed 402 pounds. Rev. Philip Maaa'.cotte celebrated the high requiem mass, and the re sponses were sung by the church choir. The bearers were Joseph. Anthony. David, lister, Tuffll and Henry Gregory. Royal ard Ernes: LeClaire, Thomas Gagnon ind Louis Drefette, and they were assisted by hired bearers. Interment vas In St. Michael's cemetery. ALDERM MEE LAVIT HELD IN BONDS OF S25 Arrested for Selling Alleged Bolshevik Propaganda Suckley Bought One. Samuel Lavit, business agent of the Machinists' union, and Samuel Kraw chuk of 144 Hallett street, charged with a breach of the peace, had their cases continued in city court by Judge Frank C. Wilder, at the re quest of Assistant Prosecutor Theo dore Steiber, who asked that the pros ecution be given more time. Both men were held in bonds of $25 each for their appearance Saturday morn ing. Lavit was arrested at the close of the meeting of the unemployed held under the auspices of the Machinists' union in the State Street Casino, Sat urday afternoon. At the close of the meeting, which was orderly, Lavit addressed those present, saying he had some small books which he was going to sell, and that he had been forbidden by the police to sell them. The police allege that the pamph let is of decided Bolshevik tenden cies. After making his announce ment Lavit approached Assistant Superintendent of Police Charles H. Suckley, and sold him one of the hooks. Suckley promptly served Lavit with a summons to appear in city court this morning. Lavit pre viously said he intended making a test case of the matter. In speaking on the subject today, Lavit said his case had been continu ed until Saturday, but that up to the present time he had not been in- j formed of what the charge was against him. In any case the busi ness agent stated he was not doing a ntr wnmrino1 ntrar iVia m attor T-To says that about 2,000 of the books i have been sold and there is a big;" demand for them. He also announc ed another meeting for the unem ployed for next Saturday afternoon. COMMISSIONERS FOR MINING DISTRICTS Amsterdam, Jan. 26 The German government has Issued a decree that, until questions are legaly settled as to the influence to be exercised by the government over the minnlg indus try, and the participation of the com munity in the profits is adjusted, im perial commissioners will be appoint ed for some mining districts to super vise production and prices, according to a Berlin despatch received here. WANT LAW CHANGED. Hartford Jan. 20 In its report for two years to September 30, last, sub mitted today by the governor, the Connecticut civil service commission shows its expenses to have been $0, 391. The commission recommends that the law be changed to take from executive officials the absolute power of appointment to positions In their departments and removal, and giving employes the right of appeal. Hungarian Socialists To Enter Berinsky's Cabinet Will Receive Portfolios of War, Interior and Public In structionNew Cabinet Enjoys Confidence of Socialist and Bourgeoise Four Socialist Members. Berne, Jan. 20 The Socialists in Hungary, according to a telegram from the Hungarian press bureau, have decided to enter a cabinet headed by former Minister of Justice Berinkey in which they will colaborale with the non-Socialist parties. The Socialists, it is added, will receive the portfolios of war, in terior and public instruction. ' Another telegram from Budapest says that Count Karolyi, j tho president of the Hungarian republic, has entrusted M. Be ' rinkey with the formation of a ministry and that the following i cabinet has been named: i Premier and minister of foreign the Socialist and Bourgeoise parties. affairs, minister of justice and minis - ter of nationality, 1. Berinkey; inter ior. M. Nagyi finance, M. Szende: commerce, M. German; war, M Boehn; agriculture. M. Buza; provis ioning, M. Vasa, Stephen Szabo, M. Krajna and M. Kunnssy. Amsterdam, Jan. 20 The new Hungarian Cabinet of Dionys Berin kev, according to a despatch from Budapest, enjoys the confidence of Subscription rates by mall: Dally 18.00 per year. One month. Dally 60 cents. 179 Fairfield Ave- Bridgeport SCALLEY WILL THROWN OUT Judge Miller Appoints Widow's Representative Administrator. Probate Judge Paul Miller today appointed John D. Clyne, represent ing Essie Scalley, administrator of (the estate of the late Charles C. Scal ley who died In this city on Septem ber 7. It will be remembered that Judge Miller refused to allow Mr. Scalley's will when it was offered for probate claiming that undue influ ence had been exerted over Scalley by an aunt of the deceased, Jennie Cook, and a brother, at the time Scal ley executed the instrument. According' to the will, the estate which Is estimated to be 12. BOO was Ho be divided, share and share alike. between the widow, Essie Scalley, two brothers, William F. and George Scalley and an aunt, Jennie Cook. When Judge Miller refused to allow the instrument, the widow Immedi ately made application for letters of admlnistrartion and upon learning of this "the aunt and a brother applied to Judge Gardiner Greene for an injunc tion restraining Judge Miller from is suing the letters. Judge Greene re fused to grant the Injunction and Judge Miller today appointed Mrs. Scallecy's representative. At tho same time that Scalley's aunt and brother applied for an injunction, they took an appeal in the superior court from Judge Miller's ruling in refusing to allow the will open for probate. This appeal is still pending. As matters stand e.ppratsers for tne estate will be appointed by Judge Miller In the regular way as if no will had been left and the entire es tate will go to the widow as the de ceased left no children. Only a favor able decision on the appeal from Jutee MilIer'3 rulinS m chane thls SOLDIERS FINED FOR ASSAULT Thomas Slattery, 32, George Veges ky, 28, and Charles Gefry, 22, dis charged soldiers, all of Stratford, were before Judge Frank C. Wilder in city court this morning all charged with having assaulted Louis Gross man, proprietor of a clothing store at 43 Golden Hill street, near Water street. Slattery was fined ?25 and, costs and Vegesky and Gefry were each fined $15 each. All three of the men entered tho place Saturday night and got into an argument with the proprietor who 13 a man over 60 years of age, over the price of a suit of clothes. They cre ated a disturbance and assaulted Grossman, BOLSHEVIKI CAPTURE MATATJ Berne, Jan. 20 The German mili tary command, in announcing the capture of Matau by tho Bolshevikl, said that the advancing Russians also had occupied Boheljanl, Schaulan, j Tukkum and Goldutz, in the region west and southwest of Riga. 1 The new cabinet, it is said, include four Socialists, including M. Konfl as minister of public Instruction. Saloniki. Friday, Jin. 17 (By The Associated Press) Nikola P. Pa chltch, the Serbian premier, has re signed. Prince Regent Alexander has asked Stoyan Protitch, the finance minister in the Pachitch Cabinet, to form a new cabinet for the Serb CroaJt -Slovene kingdom." Sun rises 7:15 fu m. Sun sets 4:53 p. m. High water 1:48 a. m. Moon rises 9:45 p. in. Low water 8:24 a. m. PRICE TWO CENTS M. Noulens, French Ambas sador to Russia, Ad dresses Meeting. RECENTLY BACK FROM THAT PLACE Vittorio Orlando, Italy's Premier, Only Absentee From Session. Paris, Jan. 20 The situation in Russia was taken up by the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference at its session today. Joseph Noulens, the French ambasador to Russia, was present at the meeting and ad dressed it on the Russian question. This announcement was made in the official statement. given out regarding the pro ceedings of the plenipotentiar ies. The next meeting of the council will be-held tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock. The text of the official communique follows: "The President of the United States of America, and the prime ministers and foreign ministers of the Allied governments, assisted by Baron Mak ino and the Japanese ambassador in Paris, met at the Qual d'Orsay this morning between 10:30 and 12 o'clock. M. Noulens. the French ambassador. to Russia who returned a few days ago' from Archangel, addressed the meet ing and gave particulars of the situa tion in Russia. "The next meeting will take place on Tuesday at 10:30 o'clock In the morning to hear the remarks of M. Scavenius, the Danish minister In Pet rograd, who left the Russian capital very recently." With Vittorio Orlando, the Italian premier, the only absentee, the Su preme Council of the peace confer ence reassembled at 10:30 o'clock this ; morning. Premier Orlando had ar rived here from Rome, however, and was expected to attend the council's session later in the day. Arthur J. Balfour, the British for eign secretary, was accompanied to the meeting by Lord Robert Ccil, who was especially In charge of the subject of a league of nations, on be half of Great Britain. Baron No buakl Maglno, chief of the Japanese mission, attended the council for the first time, representing Japan togther with Baron Matsul, tho ambassador to France. Lord Robert Cecil remained at the foreign office, where the meeting was (Continued on Page Twelve) AfSi STUPID FELLOW He Talked to His Dentist With Supreme Ignorance of Facts That Faced Him Pursuing the world old search for a personal devil the biggest audience that ever attended a United church Forum came last night to hoar Dr. Arthur X. Davis describe his personal . Intercourse with the Kaiser, upon whom he had from time to time, as tha Hohenzollern dentist, inflicted as much torture as the rules of civilized dentistry permit. This quantity was less than satis, fylng to Samuel C. Shaw, president of The Forum, who suggested, in his pithy introduction, that Dr, Davis might have saved th world much trouble by being somewhat more carelebS. t Dr. Davis, smooth faeed, moder ately tall, rathtrr nervous, carefully tout not too carefully dressed, pleadel a contrary custom. A German, he said, even a Hohenzollern, is as safe in the chair of an American denUst as anybody else. The evening was most exciting, all the more that Dr. Davis confined his narrative to anecdotes and personal experiences with the Kaiser and some of hi friends, to the neglect of his subject of title, which had to do with the future of Germany under social ism. Dr. Davis Fpo1:- t-:.-;irly, with ade quate emphasis, una sometimes with dramatic unction. He used both hands freely. His voice carried, even into the church parlors, in which many had assembled, who were un able to enter the body of the church. In all his long intercourse with Dr. (Continued on Page Twelve)