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Generally cloudy with light
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VOL. 55 NO. .19 EST. 1790
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Announcement Made in Of
ficial Statement of the
Proceedings.
STILL CONSIDERING
RUSSIAN SITUATION
;New Zealand Premier is
Present With Council for
Short Time.
Paris, Jan. tt. The Supreme Coun
cil of tha Peace conference ithifl morn
ilrur considered the Polish question and
I decided to eend a mission to Poland.
! This announcement was made in the
t official statement of the proceedings
of the conference.
,A, proposal from President Wilson
'.regarding the .Russian question will
(bo discussed, this afternoon, the state
jinent added.
When the Supreme Council met this
morning there were present, in addi
tion to ail the members of the coun
cil, Marshal Foch, the Allied com-rnaniler-in-chief.
General Weygand,
his chief of staff, and (Rear Admiral
Hope, doputy first sea lord of the
j Jlritiah Admiralty Board. It was as-
Ieumel from the presence of these
military and naval officers that the
0-dusslan situation on the Baltic and
i on the land front was discussed.
The Council continued the formula
jtion of Its concrete proposal on the
'Russian situation.
W. F. Massey, the premier of New
I Zealand, "was present with the Coun
cil for a short time.
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CONTINUE CASE
OF HOLDUP MEN
Adam Frankovitch of 32 Huron
street and George Korvac of 85 Bum
Imerfleld avenue, both charged with
iVobbery had their cases continued by
; Judge Frank C. Wilder in City court
this morning until Friday, January
i ,24. Bonds were fixed at $500 in each
I case.
The two were arrested at their
j riomes last night in connection with
i the holdup and robbery of John
Levitinovitch of 68 White street, last
I Saturday night.
Both of the accused have confess-
ed to the robbery but state that In
stead of obtaining $17 as claimed by
X,evitlnovitch they only succeeded in
i getting $1 and a few pennies for their
' trouble. i ,
Soldier Breaks
i
Prazon's Skull
Two Held for Brutal As
sault Upon Man in Pres
ence of His Wife.
Private Daniel Taspick and Steven
Fornick, both of 800 Pembroke
street, charged with assault with in
tent to kill, had their cases continued
by Judge Frank C. Wilder in city
court this morning, until Friday, Jan
uary 24, and are being held in bonds
of $2,500 each.
Their victim, Louis Prazona, of 26
crescent place, lies at aeatn s aoor in
the Bridgeport hospital with a frac-
ture of the skull, bruises about the
head and body, and in a weakened
condition. Kcpons irom me nospuai
at a late hour today indicate, he is not
' expected to live.
The assault took place on East
i Main streot last night, while Prazona,
with his wife, was on his way home
i from a shopping trip. In the vicinity.
'SOLiDXJeiR BRKAMS t
' The three men are said to have
tfceen celebrating tthe return of I'as
jilck from Camp revens, yesterday
Bftemoon, when they got into a heat
d argument over the condition of the
old country, arising from the war.
The argument became eo heated that
the proprietor of the saloon In which
'they staged their wordy war ordered
'Ahem from the place.
1 The police state that Taspick ami
Cornicle both watched the home of
iSrasona and when h left the house
- hey Intercepted him on Jiiat Main
trcet, with the Intention ot heating
'jitm up.
Witnesses to the assault state that
.Taspick struck the first blow, knock
ing Praxona's hat from his head, and
'that when hn stooped to pick It up,
.Fornlok kicked: him in the side of the
head, Indicting the wound which
caused the fracture ot the skull,
which may prove fatal.
'. Yaspiok previous to being Inducted
. Into the army "had been In trouble
-ivlth the local police several times.
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Entered as second class matter at the post office
at Bridgeport, Conn., under the act of 1879
.
Workingmen Virtually
Control City Of Bremen
They Have Occupied Barracks and Town Hall and
Posted Guns In Market Place and Public Build
ingsGeneral Strike Proclaimed at
Remscheid
Amsterdam, Jan. 22 The city of Bremen is virtually in the
hands of the workingmen, according to a despatch to the Ber
lin Ijokal-Anzeiger from the German seaport. The werking
men have occupied the harracks, the town hall, the telephone
office and the banks and have posted machine guns in the
market place and in public buildings.
The soldiers in the barracks were disarmed by the work
ers. A general strike has been proclaimed at Remscheid as a
protest against the killing of Dr. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux
emburg, a Barmen despatch states. The factories have been
closed and traffic stopped.
Copenhagen, Jan. 22. -Jt is reported
unofficially from Berlin that 519 dele-
Smites had been elected to the Na
tional Assembly from 28 districts up
to five o'cloclc Tuesday afternoon.
They were distriblted as follows: Ma
jority Socialists, 132; German (Demo
crats, 68; Centrists, 57; German Na
tional party, 28; Independent Social
ists, 22; German People's party, 14;
scattering, 8.
Officials Consider Means
Of Enforcing Prohibition
Revenue Agents Assert Preparations Being Made to
Manufacture Liquor Illegally After Measure Goes
Into Effect Already Small Stills
Have Been Found.
Washington, Jan. 22 Means
July 1 are under consideration
of Justice and the Intsrnal Bureau, but steps to create a special
enforcement agency will hot
time to act on pending legislation giving this function to the
revenue bureau.
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WILL THIS HAPPEN
ILL THEY REBEL?
Strange Tale That Republi
men Aldermen Have a
Mind to Rebuke Mayor.
If Mayor Clifford B. Wilson can In
duce the Board of Aldermen to ap
prove of his plan for a merger of
several city departments, John A.
Leonard, president of the Board of
Kire Commissioners will become
commissioner of Public Safety, and
j in direct charge o the fire and police
department8 ot the city.
j whcn the mavor this year re.ap.
Dnfn,.rt .1nhn x stanlev Dresident of
the Board of Police Commissioners,
he did so with the full knowledge
that Mr. Stanley was a sore spot in
the minds of the majority of Republi
can leaders. Desiring to show that
ho cared not for criticism, the mayor
reappointed Mr. Stanley.
There Is solid foundation for the
:: r.ior going the rounds of Mr. Leon
ard's appointment as Commissioner
of Public Safety. Mayor Wilson will
then have eliminated the sore spot
Mr. Stanley but he will have done It
in such a manner as to show every- :
one that his power of appointment '
and dismissal is -mi pre me. ;
But there Is one thing that Mayor j
Wilson is likely to find as big as the j
Hock of Gibraltar In hio wayN Will j
the Board of Aldermen approve of!
his plan to merge various city de-
partmenis? It is said by these who
ought to know, that the mayor's
communication stands a fair chance
of going into the waste basket at the
special meeting of the aldermen to
be held next Monday night. It is
whispared there are enough Kepubli-j John Agustus Hubbard. both of
can aldermen disapproving the plan j Greenwich, on ground of intolerable
to defeat the measure, as it is taken j cruelty. The wife asks for alimony
for granted that every Democratic j and the custody of three children. Al-mcmlhi-
wlil vote "nay" when the j fred. age 14r Kmily, age IS, and Wil
question is put ' , ' liam, age ,11.
Copenhagen, Tuesday, Jan. 51.
Partial reports from the elections in
lower Bavaria and upper Phalz show
that the Bavarian People's party won
five seats, the Majority Socialists two
and the peasant alliance two. In
Schleswte-Holstein and Lrabeck, the
Majorilty Socialists won five seats and
the German Democrats three. The
Independent Socialists and the Chris
tian People's party, formerly the Cen
trists, failed.' to win a single seat.
of enforcing prohibition after
by officials of the Department
be taken until congress has had
THIS ENOCH ALSO
RETURNED AGAIN
Married a Second Time Mrs.
Bodo Finds First Spouse
Lives Undivorced.
Claiming that she was deceived by
her present husband, Steve Bodo,
Maria Bodo of Bridgeport, is asking
annulment of her marriage to Steve,
now of parts unknown.
She was married to one Martin in
April, 1916, but was told by Boda
that her first husband Was dead. Up
on this information she married Boda
on November 19, 1918, and four days
later discovered that Martin was
very much alive, whereupon the dua
wife left her second husband.
John Mlchalowskl of Bridgeport
wants an absolute divorce from Leo-
Kama Michalowski of Chicago, on the
grounds of an alleged adultery com
mitted with Wladyslow Dembski on
January 1, 1918.
Alleging desertion, Elizabeth Beau-j
cage of Bridgeport, formerly Eliza-!
beth Sequin, seeks a dif orce from her
husband, Peter Beaucage, at present
a soldier at Camp Upton. The cou- '
pie were-married April 12. 1910. and :
the wife claims to have been desert- ;
ed March 22. 1913. She also wants
the custody of her daughter, Helen,1
age 6 years. !
Adel O'oermeyer, nee Kunbel, of
Bridgeport, has filed a petition for
divorce asainst her husband, Alexan-.
der Obermeyer, formerly of Hungary,
now of parts unknown. Insertion
is alleged to have existed since Sep
tember 6. 1899. The couple were
marr.ed Octor ., 1S9S.
Another divorce Is desired by Bes
! sle S. Wilson, nee Hubhard. from
and Evening Fanner
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., WEDNESDAY,
M
CLAIM POLES
PROVOKED
GERMANS
Germany Replies to British
Note Says Posen in
State of Upheaval.
GERMANS HAVE
ASKED FOR HELP
Future of German Eastern
Frontiers Depends on
Peace Conference.
Amsterdam, Jan. Z2 In a reply
to a British note requesting the Ger
man government to refrain from fur
ther provocation of the Polish pop
ulation in East and West Prussia,
Posen and Silesia, the German gov
ernment, according to a despatch
from Berlin, expresses agreement
with Great Britain that the future of
the German eastern frontiers de
pends upon the Peace Conference.
The German note expresses surprise
at the request to refrain from provo
cation and says the request "can only
be attributed to the fact that the
British government is inadequately
informed of events in the east."
The German note declares that
Germany has done everything to re
dress Polish grievances and accuses
the Poles of continually provoking
the Germans. It says Posen is in
a state of upheaval and that the Ger
man population has appealed for
help to the German government which
has been forced to take militarj
measures to restor law and or
der. The note asserts that while the
German government has refrained
from action against Polish nationals
who planned and committed trea
son and revolt," it cannot "suffer
ambitious imperialism to reign su
preme
Events in upper Silesia, the Ger
man note contends, have nothing in
common with national questions and
regarding East Prussia there can be
no talk of a national Polish move
Fment there. The note conludes:
"All measures of the German gov
ernment since the conclusion of the
armistice have only served to carry
out the prescriptions of the treaty
toward unjustifiable Polish attempts
to bring the Polish question to a head
before the Peace Conference."
WILL NOT RAISE TAX.
Washington, Jan. 22 Taxes
on amusement admissions will
not be increased by the war
revenue bill. The conferees
ajjreed today to rescind their
previous decision to increase
the rate from 10 to 20 per cent.
URGE PEOPLE TO
HAVE OWN HOMES
The Department of Labor is inau
gurating a campaign to encourage the
working men of Bridgeport to own
their own homes, and the . Chamber
'.' . , .
plan to encourage the working peo-
pie to have homes which are their I
own property.
George Crawford, at the meeting of
the directors of the Chamber of Com
merce last evening, suggested the ap
pointment of a committee to form
some plan for aiding in the purchase
of homes by people in moderate cir
cumstances. The proposed commit
tee will consist of an architect, a real
estate man. a member of the Build
ers' exchange and a financier.
STANDING BT THK
HIGH sheriff;
.
His deputies won't, so who can
serve papers in civil process upon
Simeon E. Peas?, most august
hig-h sheriff of Fairfield county,
and dominant political leader In
the same territory? Solomon
Padeeich, attorney for Joseph
Marshall. this momlnir he
will prcjare affidavits showing
that the deputies love the high
sheriff too dearly to annoy him
with papers, and the said Bad-
esch declares he will have ser
vice made by an Indifferent per-
son. The irheriff Is naltlpp.
Marshal claim" damaees because
Stonewall Cauldwell. colored, eut
him with a Taz':r, lt hci'ne; aliened
t fhn k,ti, n-we fnmutrfi or 11.0
- 1 Salt th.it the negro hronalit in
wli!skev.drak h.and become bad
The whiskey and the badness,
and hence the rawr, cash were
products. Marshall claimsiof the
neglect of the high sheriff.
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JAN. 22, 1919
Irish Rep
Aldermen Resent Seeming
Slight By Mayor Wilson
Were Not Consulted As Custom Required on Program
for Extensive Charter Changes Walsh's Election As
Speaker Has Ghostly Result in Form of Fears, Shiv
erings and Premonitions.
Republican aldermen are mighty peeved with Mayor Clif
ford B. Wilson. His honor has slighted his adherents and in
addition broken a precedent that has long been established and
expected by common councils in this city. While nothing that
can be termed a split in the Republican organization in Bridge
port is intimated, it can be stated on good authority that Mayor
Clifford Wilson is fast slipping from the high pedestal on Which
he had been placed by the aldermen. In addition to this the
mayor is for the first time in his somewhat spectacular career,
experiencing the sensation of waning political power anad fe-els
it.
Mayor Wilson has plucked from the
atmosphere an idea, or at least he
has premonition, that James J.
Walsh, speaker of the House in the
General Assembly, will be the next
Republican candidate for governor
and that an up-state man will be
named as his running mate for the
office of lieutenant-governor.
The antagonistic feeling toward the
mayor expressed by Republican al
dermen dates back to the last meet
ing of the Common Council on Mon
day night. When a communication
from the mayor was read, in which
he asked for a merger of the police
and fire and health and charities de
partments, and changes in the board
f education, it was the first intima
tion that Republican aldermen had,
that the mayor not only had a cora-
Declares Packing Firms
Dominate Meat Industry
Senator Kendrick Asserts These Firms Have Power to
Commit All Abuse With Which They Are Charged
Very Desirable to Bring About
An Open Market.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 22 The
the United States were declared
ing, here today, to have such a
and the distributing markets that they have the power "to com
mit all the abuses with which they are charged, and more,"
regardless of whether there is an actual combination in that
their representatives meet regularly to gree on prices.
The senator, addressing the Amen-
can national live stock association
convention, described a bill which he
introduced to regulate the meat in
dustry, and said it ought to be possi
ble to bring about a free market that
.'would make it .possible for both pro
v
WOMAN FALLING
DIES ON STREET
Mrs. Hardy Finds Body of
Unknown Person Dead in
Pool of Blood.
The body of a woman, face down
ward in a pool of blood, was discov.
ered bv Mrs. A. Hardy, of 176 Park
street, at 9 o'clock, last night, in the
neighborhood of her home. The
identity of the dead woman is unde-
termlned. She was perhaps of Po-
l!sh nativity, about 40 years or age
and wore a reddish grey overcoat,
black skirt, gingham apron, black
waist ,a small black hat, and a black
silk handkerchief around her neck.
The woman had been seen wan
dering In a vacant lot in an Intoxi
cated condition. ' ;
Medical Examiner Dr. S. M. Gar- j
lick, after viewing the body at theihich Yale University may confer
city "morgue, at Mullins, Scott & Red- Jionorary degrees at Yale-In-China,
gate's establishment. Golden Hill Members received rtotice that a
street, stated that there was no In- meeting would be held to arrange for
dication of violence, and that In fall- observance of the centennial of the
ing the woman had evidently hit her tleneral Assembly on Muy 7.
head on the curb, receiving a frac
ture .of the skull, which caused her
death almost Immediately.
In spite of the efforts of the po
'ce and the Catholic clergy, no one
-as yet been located who can iden
ify the" woman.
Subscription rates by mall: Dally J6.00 per year. One
month. Dally 60 cents. ITS Fairfield Ave.. Bridgeport
ublic Chooses Its
elevates To Pe
munication of any kind to he brought
before the board, but that he con
templated a change in any of the
aforementioned departments.
It has always been the custom, not
only of Mayor Wilson, but of others,
of presenting a communication that
was to be read at a regular meeting
of the board of aldermen, to the
members of the board the same po
litical faith as the mayor assembled
in caucus. At this caucus the subject
would be gone over thoroughly and
action to be taken at the open meet
ing of the aldermen would be dis
cussed. On Monday night Mayor Wilson
failed to follow this precedent and as
a result he has raised the ire of sev
eral Republican leaders in the coun
cil, who believe that the mayor's ac
tion was a deliberate affront.
five big meat packing firms of
by Senator Kendrick of Wyom
control over both the producing
. ducer and packer and consumer to
work profitably together.
"It is perfectly obvious," he told
the convention, "that the packers ab
solutely dominate the meat industry
of the country."
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ASSEMBLY WILL
DIRECT WELGOI
Committee Will Arrange
For Formal Cele
bration. Hartford, Jan. 22 Connecticut's
formal welcome to its soldiers, sailors
and marines who served in the war
I may be under direction of the Gen
eral Assembly. Today, a joint reso
J lution passed the Senate providing
ifor appointment of a snecinl commlt-
tee to urnrn th ,i.hr.rim i
to arrange the
Hartford
To expedite passage of the soldiers
! and sailors relief fund, to meet with
,in appropriation of 260.000 was
pro
posed by the governor, the military
affairs committee held a hearing this
afternoon. Xo objection Is offered
to the bill.
The Senate received a bill under
Somo Republican members of
prominence also began arrangements
for entertainment In Hartford next
(month of National Chairman Will
(Hayes.
(Senator Klett offersd a bill ta
1 (Continued en. Paste Three)
Son rises 7:14 a. m.
Sun sets 4:55 p. m.
High water 2:59 a. m.
Moon rises 11:43 p. m.
Low water 10:04 a. jo.
PRICE TWO CENTS
All Revenues Are To Ba
Raised on the Vote of
Parliament.
TIPPERARY IS
MILITARY AREA
Ireland's Declaration of In
dependence Read to Sinn
Fein.
Imblin, Jan. 22. According to the
provisional constitution of the Irish
republic now 'before the "Dail Eire-
ann," legislative powers are to bo
vested in deputies elected from ex- ;
isting parliamentary constituencies.
The ministry will consist of a presi
dent and four executive officers sec
retaries of finance, home affairs, for
eign affairs and' national defense. All
revenues will be raised: on the vote of .
the "Dail Hireann." The -onHn- '
tion may be altered upon seven days'
notice.
Count Piunkett, Professor Edward!
Ie Valera and Arthur Griffith will
propably ,he appointed Irish delegates
to tne iJeace Congress today.
Ireland's declaration of independ
ence, read as an "address to free na
tions" before the Sinn Fein assembly
yesterday, asserted:
"Ireland's independence is demand- '
ed. By the freedom of the seas her
great harbors will be opened to all
nations, instead of being a monopoly
to England. Today these harbors are
empty, and idle solely because Ire
land, irrevocably determined at the
dawn of the promised era of self-de
termination and liberty that she wtlf "
suffer foreign domination no loneer. .
calls every free nation to uphold her
national claim to complete independ
ence as an Irish republic against the
arrogant pretentions of England,
which were founded on fraud and ;
sustained by overwhelming military
occupation. She demands to be con-
fronted publicly with England at the I
congress of nations, that the civilized
world, having judged between Eng
lish wrong and Irish right, may
guarantee Ireland its permanent sup
port for the maintenance of national ;
independence.
The British government has decid
ed to proclaim the Tipperary district :
a military area in consequence of the i
killing of two policemen and the seiz- j
ure of blasting explosives which they ;
were guarding while it was being j
transported to a quarry. The alleged.
crime was committed by unknown ;
persons who made their escape.
Rest Of
Coming
304th
Replacement and Salvage
Co.'s Assigned for Early
Convoy.
Washington, Jan, 22. Additional
organisations assigned to early con- (
voy home, comprising 270 officers and ;
4.S27 men. were announced today by '
the war department. Included in the
list are the S?:h regiment. Coast Ar
tillery, less Third Battalion, Base '
Hospital Xo. 1.",, 90th and 101th Aero 1
Squadrons: 39th Company transporta
tion corps; First and Second Casual
companies, Transportation corps; Ce
ment Mill compani No. 2, 4 and ;
171'h and 18th Balloon Companies;
109th Field Signal Battalion; 44th
Pontoon train, 407th Telegraph Bat- !
talion; Base Hospital N'o. 24, and the
following tank corps units; 332ni
Battalion, 376th, 377th, 37Sth, 379th,
3S0th, 301st, 307th, 31Sth Replacement,
'and Salvage companies: 304th, 335th,
! 336th and 337th Ba'.ttalions; Casual
'companies A. B and October Auto
,matic Replacement draft.
C. OF C. RAISE
P.- 0. COMMITTEE
Tho committoo to further the pro
ject pertaining to tho building of a
new post office vas appointed last
night by Urarlford 1). Vlerce, presi
dent of tho Chamber of Commerce,
at the meeting of tho chamber
at the Brooklnwn Country club.
The committoo consistH of Charles
li. 8a n ford, chairman, W. E. 5eeTey,
vice chairman, I,ynn W. Wilson, Geo.
C. Waldo. Jr., W. B. Uurnham, Archi
bald McNeil, Hr., and Charles F.
Greene, postmaster.
The present Federal building1 la
hopelessly Inadequate to accommo
date all the offices It contains. The
Chamber of Commerce has under
taken plans whereby a new post of
fice may be built la tha altir.
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