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M PORT A if ALMAXAC FOB TODAY RE TO GOVT ARSE3 ALi r f. 1 The Weather Report For Bridgeport and vi cinity: Fair tonight; "Wed nesday increasing cloudiness. VOL. 53 3s 0. 18 EST. 1790 M. Scavenius, Danish Minister to Russia Gave His Views Asserting Emphatically That Intervention in Russia is Necessary To Put Effectual Check on Reign of Terrorism. " Paris, Jan. 21 The Russian question was again taken up by the Supreme Council of the, peace conference when it met for today's session at 10:30 o'clock. There was a full attend ance of the members of the council for this meeting. Yiltoria Orlando, the Italian premier, being present for the first time since his recent trip to Rome. Harold Scavenius, the Ianish min ister to Russia, who had been asked 1o give his views on the Russian sit uation to the council, arrived at the Foreign Office as the members as sembled and Immediately went into the conference chamber. The min ister recited his experiences in Petro 1 grad, where he took charge of the French Interests upon the withdrawal of !M. Noulena, the French ambassa dor. It is understood that M. Sca venlns contended even more em phatically than did Ambassador Nou lens yesterday, that Intervention In Russia, was nccersary to check the regime of terrorism there. Premier Clejuenceau. having ap pealed to fhe Chamber of Deputies to Oath Bound Carpenters Are To Take Places Of Strikers W. S. Parker, superintendent of construction of the gov ernment houses in Bridgeport, said this morning, that 100 men had been hired to do the work of the carpenters who aie now out in sympathetic strike with ?Jew York carpenters. He said: "Carpenters are causing an anomalous situation, which it Is difficult to believe their leaders ap preciate. Soldiers and sailors are re : turning home and are looking for Jobs. Every city and town has com. mittees of patriotio citizens who are endeavoring to find work for them. At this time a single trade is trying to tie up a large part of the work for such men by sympathetic strike, on work "being done by New York con tractors with whom -the National As sociation claims to have a grievance. 'The carpenters quit on governs men work here, and for this reason are preventing masons and other EXTRA SESSION FOR ALDERMEN Meeting Next Monday Night to Appoint Legis lative Committee. Ill order to tiring to a head the many changes in civic government advocated by Mayor Clifford B. Wil son In his communication to tne Board of Aldermen, a special meet ing of tha -board has been called fur Monday night, January 27, at S o'clock. The entire subject will be presented to the aldermen and if their action is in accorda-nce with the views of the mayor a legislative com mittee will bo appointed to take steps to tbring the matter before the state legislature. The committee after its appointment will attempt to sain permission from the General Assem bly to change the charter of the cUy , of Bridgeport, through appeals that . will necessarily have to be made, by the senators and representatives of Bridgeport in the Assembly. TO IMPROVE X"N. KITER Washington, Jan. II Appropria tion of $l,S7t),000 for improving the Connecticut river between Hartford. Conn., and Hoiyokc, Mass., was urg- ; ed today before the Senate Commerce Committee, considering the House Rivers anj Harbors bill, by Senator ' Weeks and Representative Glllett of Massachusetts. They said the lni- i provement was seeded for transporta- . (Jon of many products, especially coal, and for development ot water power. Entered as second class matter &t the post office at Bridgeport, Conn., under the act of 1879 co-operate in the task of making peace, Maurice Damour, supported by 100 deputies, has Introduced a mo tion in the Chamber for the appoint ment of a committee on the subject to give its opinions on various mat ters and to prepare reports for sub mission to the Chamber. By this method, M. Damour points out, the parliament would be kept In close touch with the negotiations and would afford the negotiators needed mforal support. The Cham ber thus al30 would be able to study the preliminaries of the peace be fore they were submitted for ratifica tion. (Continued on Page Three) mechanics returning from overseas, from finding legitimate employment, which should be open to them. "In (ftrder to correet this situation, the U, S. Housing Corporation is em ploying carpenters directly on the ernment payrolls. These men will take the oath of office required by all government payrolls. These men will nearly 100 men have applied for work, and this number will be in creased rapidly as the men begin to realize that in staying out they are harming the returning soldiers and sailors, and are preventing the gov ernment from carrying to completion the great undertaking which they have started," 3,114 SOLDIERS 1ST NEW YOR George Washington Arrives With 944 Wounded Early Today. Now York, Jan. 21 'Bringing home 3,114 oflicers and men of the Ameri can expeditionary force, the trans port George Washington arrived here today from France. The troops in cluded the headquarters personnel of the 83rd division and of the 165th brigade of infantry of the 83rd; the 30Sth Supply Train of the 83rd. and detachments of other units. These men are mostly irom umo and V.Vstern Pennsylvania. Tho transport De Kalb arrived with 621 troops. These include the 113th Sanitary Train of the 38th di vision and the Headquarters com pany of the artillery detachment of the Second army, together with cas uals from various branches of the service. The wounded and ill on the De Kalb numbered 406. The arrivals on the George Wash ington Include 944 wounded and sick of the army, navy and marine corps, 112 of these being litter cases. On the Italian steamship Guiseppi Verdi. In from Genoa, were 4 98 of ficers and men of the American naval aviation service. Buenos Aires. Jan.v21. ta Provin. da says the Radical party is reorgan .izinjr and is preparing: to issue a dec3a. ration that it will no longer tie respon sible fur the its of Dr. Hipollto Irl goyea, the President of the republic. J it WANT JOBS, NOT STEAKS The committee to guard the interest of returning soldiers and Bailors met at Uie Algonquin club, this morning, and voted against an orgy of beef steak I dinners, which lias been surest- ed as an appropriate means for exhibiting gratitude to American heroes. "What the boys want is jobs, not steaks," said Col. T. J. Murphy.who liad two sons in the army, and lost one in France, Cant Jeremiah Murphy. Then Col. Murphy moved for a per- manent salaried secretary to get the jobs for the boys, who should be a retired wounded soldier, and under no circumstances a poll i ticJan. The motion was carried with a rush. Applicants please make yonrselves known. Advantages of Plan Appar ent and Favorable action Hoped For. GOLD NOTES TO BE PAID IN CASH Bridgeport May Soon Be come Center of Govern ment Manufactures. It is said upon authority which is thought to be nood. that the plant of the Remington Arms Lo. In this city may soon become a government arsenal. The advantages of the plant for such a purpose liave been made apparent to the government and favorable action is hoped for. The $15,000,000 gold notes of the company, soon maturing, will be paid in cash, it is said, excent a small sum wnich will be obtained by loan. Most or the necessary cash is said to be in the treasury of the company. It is asserted upon more doubtful authority that Bridgeport msv hs come a center of government mnnn factures. and that this ajxnunta for tne extraordinary interest Washing ion nas tanen in .Bridgeport. In this connection it win w ro. membered that Bndreno-t i clearing house for the postofflces of Connecticut; its amusements are the subject of supervision bv government agents; government has established community centers, housing for work ers ana otner important activities. If the conjectured romm is ried out the future of the city as an industrial center is soundly asst ed. PRICE AGREEMENT STANDS wasningtoa, Jan, 21 Frank S. Snyder, head of the food administra tion's meat division, said today that despite a hog surplus, he would not recommend abandonment of the price-agreement policy when the hog cummince meets January srs to con sider the price for February. BOtGLAR WAS SPRINTER Harry R. Smith, lineman, SO Opden street, employed by the S. X. E. T. Co., found a burglar in liis kitchen, last night, at 9:30, and cliased him through a kiich- on window, three blocks down the street Smith told tho tale to the police, tills morning. Smith heard a window raised, and started the Investigation in his underclothing wliich was all he wore during his -fruitless pursuit. He describes Uic burglar as short, stoutJU-J wearing a mack- inaw coat. He was unmasked, but kept his face turned away, and Smith did not recognuc him. The intruder showed no fyrht.but flisptayed astounding agility, and Smith thinks he can do the hundred in ten flat. 4 . t and Evening Fanner BRIDGEPORT, CONK, TUESDAY, j l ft A. Il.. flJ,l IIff!J.!L ff.II ! IJ iMi-JiBiHir HiiiRftru- Sn'JHiur uuiiii phis HiiiHiafiBLsHBiiu isi ifeciiiui iiuiidu, yoyiyi if 11.11 i usi mum iuugu iu SBditious Slips in OsfisocB Of L3W Armour Asserts Legislation To Regulate Packing Industry Impairing and Unconstitutional Declares to House Interstate Commerce Committee That Pending Legislation is "Reactionary" and "If Mon key Wrench is Thrown Into Gears of This Business," It Would Be Felt in Other Industries. Washington, Jan. 21 J. mour and Company, told the House Interstate Commerce Com mittee today that pending legislation to regulate the meat pack ing industry was "re-actionary" tional and warned Congress that "if a monkey wrench is thrown into the gears of this business," its effects would be felt in many other lines of industry. "If the ability of the packing is impaired," he asserted, "it will affect the live-stock industry and it in turn will affect corn prices. Wheat will then be drawn in, and so will bread and so will labor, and so will everything that has tor its basis the wealth The theories on which pending legislation is based are not construc tive', they are not progressive. They are reactionary. They would disrupt the great manufacturing and market ing machinery which half a century of enterprise has evolved and the re sults would be detrimental not aiono to the leading- Industry of this nation. but even more so that portion of tha public which produces, and to the en tire public which consumes food." 'Regarding the possibility of govern ment owenrship of stock-yards and! other adjuncts to the packing indus try, Mr. Armour said; "Ownership by the government im plies red ta-pe and restrictions which iYOR WILSON'S LAN DEFEATED IEM0RIAL BUILDING Mayor Wilson's plan to have a new library as a part of the Memorial building which is being discussed does not meet with the approval of the Committee of Plan and Scope. A meeting of the committee was held. The first vote taken, which was prac tically unanimous, was to the effect that it should not be combined with a public library. The second motion CANADA LANDS 1,500 ABOARD Returned Troops Taken Camp Devens From Boston. to j Bcston,Jan.21. The transport Can ; ada, which came into the harbor with j was officially welcomed today. Gov. iernor Cooiidge, Mayor Andrew J. ! Peters, Brigadier General John W. ! Ruckman and Rear Admiral Spencer i S. Wood were members of the recep tion committee. 1,500 returning troops late yesterday Troops lining the rails were given a rousing welcome as the transport swung into her dock, and as they filed down the gaiv? planks bands struck up lively airs and whistles on near-by 'boam and factories mingled their shrieks with the cheers of the crowds Wound and service stripes were seen on the uniforms of the returning soldiers. The men were taken by special trains to Camp Devens, wbere some will receive their discharges and others will be assembled! and sent in ' groups to other camps hearer their homes. 1 JAK 21, 1919 Ogden Armour, president of Ar and part of it was unconstitu industry to function properly produced by agriculture. cannot help but add to the costs r.f the service, costs which must event ually toe borne either by the producer or the consume. Government own ership Implies, too, the abolition of the private initiative and enterprise which has made it possible to erect an effi cient stock yards almost overnight when occasion justified it. The gov ernment, you know, "does not make up Its mind very quickly on such mat ters, as is evidenced by the years-old controversies over the building oi post offices or such comparatively trivial matters as to whether cities should have underground mail chutes." (Continued on Page Three.) COMBINATION IN COIISTT AN provided for a .building which would be for the use of the entire commu nity, and not for any single enter prise or portion of Bridgeport citi zens. A joint meeting between the Plan and Scope committee and the eommK tee appointed by the mayor will be called soon, probaibly Friday of this week. WO FACTORIES CONSOLIDATE New Company to Be Capi talized at Million and a Half. The Hawthorne Mfg. Co.. Inc.. are the largest manufacturers in the coun- try of bicycle and motorcyle -lamps, spotlights and headlights, etc. Hamil ton & DeLoss, Inc., manufacture spe cial sheet metal goods,' and hollow ware and spoon blanks in both nickel and sterling silver for the manufac turers of the above mentioned arti cles. The new company will be capitaliz- j ed at $1,600,000, and will be knownjshowed last night that the Democrats i as The Hawthorne Co. The new 'polled 1.234H1 votes; Majority Social ( company will occupy the recently i igts, 2,603.422; Jnic-penint Socialists completed plant of Hamilton & De401.iS7; Christian People's party, 1, : Boss, Inc., which comprises about j 110,137'; the German People's party, ; seven acres of ground, with buildings j 266,157, and the Conservatives, 467,367,' ; thereon, and. located in Fairfield. I according to a-J vices received by the Conn., on Grassmere avenue, adjoin. I Berimgske Tidende. I ing the Bridgeport Housing Company j While the Majority Socialists will i development. The buildings are now, have the ascendancy over any other ; being of steel and concrete construe-1 single party, the results Indicate, the tion, ana iireproor. By consolidation of the two con- ccrns, their manufacturing facilities will be greatly increased. All the! (Continued on Page Twelve) I Subscription rates by mall: Dally J5.00 per year. One moDtn, Dally BO cents. 179 Fairfield Ave.. Bridgeport No Other Country Except Ireland Could Present So Re- markable An Episode Sinn Feiners to Meet Under j Shadow of Dublin Castle Occupy the Mansion j House By Permission of Lord Mayor of Dublin To ! Draw Up Declaration of Independence. Dublin, Jan. 21 (By the Associated Press) Probably no j country except Ireland could present an episode as remarkable ! as the assembly of the "Dail Eireann" which is Irish Gaelic for j "Irish Parliament which will he called to order in Dublin's ancient Mansion House tbis afternoon to proclaim Ireland as ' an independent republic. TO VIOLATE LAW About half the Sinn Feiners elected to nembership in the i British Parliament will participate, the other half being in vari- ous English prisons, charged with sedition, or merely held on j suspicion under the provisions of the Defense of the Realm , Act. The Sinn Feiners will meet under the shadow of Dublin Castle, where presides Field Marshal Viscount French, the first viceroy in many years to give Ireland a purely military govern ment. They will meet with full knowledge and tacit consent to take measures, which are purely seditious and in direct viola tion of explicit law. This is one paradox. Another Is that these Binn Feiners, elected by about half of the voters in Ireland on a platform of independence from the British empire, were chosen mem bers of the British Parliament, but specifically refused to recognize that body and to call themselves members of the British Parliament. They occupy Mansion House by the per mission of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who himself is a home ruler, hut not so much of a separatist that he does not expect to accept what most of his predecessors have accepted a knighthood from the British govern ment, In the shabby Sinn Fein head quarters, courteous young women secretaries give cards of admission to today's meeting quite impartially to friend and foe; to supporters of the Sinn Fein and all its works anathema. English newspapers which hold the Sinn Fein and all its works anatehma. Today's program in "Independence Hall" will differ in one respect from INDEPENDENT MEET DEFEA Majority Socialists Likely to Get 40 Per Cent, of Votes. Amsterdam, Jan. 21. The Inde pendent Socialists generally were de feated in the voting irj Berlin, ac cording to Berlin advices to the Han delabiad, in the Independent strong hold of 2"eu Koin the Independents polled only 48,750 votes at'ainst 72,765 for the Majority Socialists. At Erfurt the Independents poiled 24,600 to- 13,608 for the Majority So cialists. The Independents, on the other hand, were beaten badly in Dresden, Ohemnitz, Hamburg, Nurem bupg and Munich. The Majority Socialists, the desnat.-h adds, appear likely to get 40 per cent. of all the votes, with the flerirun iJemoerat party second. The National Liberals lost more than the Conserv- jatives. and the Centrists lost morn t than they gained. At 10 e'eiock Mondav mnminir ar. incomplete count in Berlin gave five Majority Socialists, four Independent I Socialists and two German Democrats elected. Copenhagen, Jan. 21. Incomplete returns from the German elections courgeois parties together will have a majority in the National Assembly. Receipts of grain at Chicago last week were 6.S14.000 bushels. Sun rises 7:15 a. m. Snn sets 4:54 p. m. High water 2:23 a. m. Moon rises 10:45 p. m. Low water 9:12 a. m. PRICE TWO CENTS the solemnities of 1776 at Philadelphia. They will be carried out in the Irish language, which I virtually a dead tongue, so dead that the Sinn Foiners have been obliged to rehearse their parts and will be compelled to lapse occasionally into footycotted English times because they cannot find Irish words to fit modern parliamentary procedure. Three Items are expected to consti tute tho body of the program a declaration of independence, a mes sage to "tho free nations of the world," and the appointment of del egates to the peace congress. Ireland is a country of the unex pected, but no one predk'f's any trou ble or disorder. The revolutionary flag floats quite freely over t3ie homes of inn Feiners In Dublin. iMemfoers! of the party expect protection from tho authorities of the nation whom they are defying. Once they would have looked to the United States for sympathy and help, but now they think they do not command American support. TKONIANS N VICTORY Score Notable Success Against Bolsheviki. London, Jan. 21 A notable success has been won against the Bolsherikl ! by listhonian troops operating to the' northeast of J-ake Peipus, according to an PIsthonian official statement re-; ceived by wiroless at Stockholm to-j day and transmitted here. They have taken the town of Narva, on the. Iteval-Petrograd railway line, togethfj er wilh a large number of prison, ers. Finnish troops co-operated with th: Esthonians. the statement says, A: quantity of booty fell into the hands of the victorious troops, including uns, provisions and armored trains.! Thu prisoners included division and rt-imental staffs. Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik war; minister, it Is Ptated was present in; Xarva during the fighting and fled, after the Bolshevik defeat. SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS IN JAIL Charged with aggravated assault, Bastino Testano of 1H6 North Wash-, ington avenue, was fined 11 and costs: ;uid sentenced to air. months in Jail, by Judge Prank C. Wilder in the city court this morning. Testano was arrested on the night of January 16. for assault on Steve Schia-to, of 147 North Washington ave-: cue. On this charge he was fmini guilty, fined $5 and costs, in default,, of which he was remanded to Jail ta work out his line. I He was re-arrested on the charge of aggravated assault, following his f it. J of $50, and will art serving the sen tence he received this morning a soon as he finishes working out the i tine imposed In the first case. " H J )