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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.
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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.
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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
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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. "
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