Bridgeport Standard Telegram (Newspaper) - March 10, 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut STANDARD TELEGRAM 41) CANNON Cilice Ml Day mid 1'or Nous und I WEATHER I; FAIR AND report and almanac sec Page VOL. 134. second class m thu nth PC at Hi under act of 1371! MONDAY MARCH 10, 1919. Subscription 12 a 60 cents a for SO fnr one year 18 ALLIES TO FEED FOE UNTIL HARVEST BY SHIP HINDENBURG TO FIGHT TAFT BACKS WILSON ON IRISH 300 DOUGHBOYS RIOT IN L GERMAN ARMY WILL ATTACK ON EASTERN FRONT Mass Mesting Selects Five Citizens to Present Town's Case at Hearing Tomorrow at State Hindenburg to Lead with Libau as His Army Officials Great Headquarters Shrouds Plans for Campaign in Policy of MAY ASK REFERENDUM F. S. Beardsley Urges Town Stand Ready to Reap fits That May Favors March the Associated Marshal Von is planning to use volunteer units in a drive against the with Libau as the base of his it is indicated information which has reached American intelligence dins to the American ex- opposition to the Poi t Bridgeport may take the form of demanding a dum on the when Ihe ure up tomorrow at the it developed yesterday at a mass meeting held in the Stratford town ford will represented at the hearing by a committed of D. John Michael J. F. S. Beardsley and Herbert who were pointed at yesterday's Judge Thomas C. Coughlin will There was considerable ment in evidence at the meeting that an immediate condemnation of the Port Bridgeport vould be and the attitude should be such as fo allow it to reap the benefit of project provided that revision of the present should remove objections voiced by Wants Town Clerk Harold de- clared that the original never had a friend in He said that the Chamber of Com- merce of Bridgeport had written a letter asking that a committee of five be appointed from ford to go over the new draft of the and the request was re- If the request of the Chamber of he had been accepted the citizens of Stratford would know the details of the redrafted fact that we turned down the said the town 1 us in the At the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce members it was perts who in the line of their duty arc keeping in touch with the gress of the readjustment ot the enemy's German great headquarters seems to be a policy of secrecy as regards eastern front troop This believed to be due to the fact that the now have a normal military organization and so will be able to utilize any in- they might obtain con- their Field shal Von Hindenburg is in and the commanders of both the northern and southern armies on the Eastern front are presumed to be applying most of their tion of I he forces The number of volunteers now on the eastern front or about to proceed there nearly estimated at Wants Women to March S. CBy Tiie Associated an authoress and lisher and delegate of the man Democratic parly in the tional assembly lias left for home 'n Koeningsburg to organize the women of east Prussia into a der militia against the Fran Broenner declares her tion was prompted by reports that a Bolshevik force a million strong advancing toward the German forts at present to the Keily and Foley Believed to Have Used Empty Revolver to Frighten Victims Early Alleged to held four persons from whom they ed small sums of money early day John 106 Dawe and John Kelly of both discharged were arrested by Sergeant and Motorcycle Patrolman in Madison The men were in uniform when taken Foley claims that iie was formerly a member of tery 56th while Kelly I bays that he was with the 74th The former is charged VIOLATES LANDS ML not talk to the reads the sign on company trolley but Max Steinhardt of 137 Catherine street wants to know who you're going to talk to when you have change coming on a car and man at the helm is the whole so to JMax will explain to the judge tins in court fnr he was arrested last night when he dropped a nickel loo much in the coin box of a car and then told the man would seven kinds of if he didn't get it Four Policemen Save Rev. Dr. Simons from Wrath of 700 Hearers at Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A. CRY MANY Reference lo Roosevelt as by Speaker Evoke Shouts of Him and HUNS FAIRFIELD SOLDIER decided to eliminate the 1 With earning concealed commission ami to cut down the size of the bonds from 511.000.000 to 1 believe we should all work for a referendum on the proposal and that is what we should impress upon the committee in Hartford for a said Mr. will have un- til next October to go over the posed hill we will be able to vote upon It Mr. Lovell there would be com- at the hearing from Shelton and Ansoma he thought the best plan on Page 27TH MOVIE OF BREST IS IMPORTED aid breach of peace and bonds in his case were fixed at Bonds for Kelly were set at DO as he ib held for breach of the peace Tne cases will come up in the City court this The first news of the series of holdups came from Reuben 750 Madison who Of 165th Led Through Charles Knowlton of and his chum Joseph Brown of New members of the 165th were trundled about the si reels of German during much as the circuses ex- hibit the wild from distant it was reported in a dispatch last The Amsterdam Also Brings sny Nurses and XEW March tional units of the 27th division up of former Xew York Tional Guard arrived here today on the Holland America line steamship All were assigned to Camp ritt where they wilt remain until Casual 123 nurses and a score of Y. C. A. and Knights of Columbus fare workers also were on the Other detachments which pd on the Amsterdam were the 12th mobile ordnance repair shop with two officers and 3-1 company with two of- and 73 31 casual three lield clerks a the of base Xo 17 of and base hospital 42 of Bal telephoned to the Fourth precinct men hilve been released by captors and arc now with the army of occupation on the William of tather of received a ter from son a few weeks ago in which he ib enjoying sood health but is anxious to get He is now with the of Brown were cap- lured by the Germans while ing Seoul duly in Xo Man's May 191S. and they were held until the armistice was signed in After their capture they were pul through a gruelling examination by German intelligence officers who wanted information about tile American but they had about as chance of getting any from the Iwo game doughboys as they did of the Yanks out of Die enraged the Prussian officers and the prisoners two were holding up men the vicinity of Madison The two officers were de- tailed to investigate and Kelly and into Held The two the police first entered the grocery store oi David 766 Madison nue and demanded 50 cents which was given them after had displayed a According to they next held up Vincent 7B1 Madison whom they ordered to give them all the i money in his possession at the I point of the ffe bad only f eight cents in his Louis of 107 Alice the police was the next victim and mode to fork over a quarter of a Joseph 109 Alice the last man who was according to the but he got away from the pair without A gun found in Foley's the police when he It was of a and was not NEW March George A. it Methodist missionary who was stationed in Russia for 11 years and who as a witness before the Senate Investigating started a tempest when he declared in an address at the Y. M. C. A. in Brook lyn today that President Wilson was into the hands the bearers of the there were cries of is and him a sergeant of patrolmen saved the speaker from rough handling by persons in the audience of 700 who heard his V. M. C. A. sailors in uniform de- manded that Dr. Simons He responded by he be- President Wilson lino a Christian gentleman as we have in a. Y. M. C. A. secretary apologized in behalf fit the organization for the remarks of the believe respecting our President so long as he respects the traditions of our said Dr. Simons in when he is guilty of criminal and playing into the hands of the Bolshevists and the vote it is time that Woodrow should come to the bench to be re- consecrated in the spirit of Ths audience indicated ure at this attack on the President but there was no serious outbreak until the speaker referred to the late Colonel Roosevelt as Kaising his voice Dr. Simons de- at White wouldn't he say to the What wouldn't he say about the Red 1 want to tell you that if Roosevelt went to Washington be a sort of a hurricane in the vicinity of the White Then there were cries of him and some one- cried sedition of Ihe worst while others tried to make selves heard above the When about two hundred of the audience had left the auditorium and the Arrest of Two Sailors in Game Leads to Riot in Front of Bow Street tion in 20 AMERICANS HELD Australians and Canadians port Americans Against Policemen eral in Use of BY 1 Universal March a result of a riot this afternoon in which American soldiers sailors and Canadians and and troops made common cause against the Milllary man P. C. Field is in a critical condition with a fractured Four are suffering from scalp wounds and five ican and are ing- the wounds at the cashire Red Cross Twenty United States soldiers and sailors are under dered so placed by Provost shal Major Inspector in charge of the Bow street police which was the center of the gave out have made every tion to resist further attacks on the police Police Station A cordon of is blocking each approach to Bow street the direction of the and all policemen in the dis- walk in there is great ness on the part of the United Stales sailors resulting from in front of Y. M. 3. A. Eagle street hut near tile Strand The trouble started about one o'clock when policemen raided a crap game which was in progress behind the In old time form the dice were when Ihe on the A who swore he was was arrested after daring the men to and A second was arrested on the same charge and both wore aken to the Bow street Aboul 500 sailors from and in jondon were and about 50 were around the hut when Ihe arrests were What immediately thereafter was told by Inspector Demanded little after 1'o'clock a crowd of aboul three hundred in front of the and Hisses and Cheers Greet Taft's Policy for Irish Ex-President Says Internal Questions Aren't ful to Is as Em- as Would Be Philippine Demand for NEW March President William II Taft was both hissed and cheered here tonight at the weekly forum of the Church of the he declared that the Irish question should not be settled at the peace Mr. Tall just slated that problem the delegates was the selling up of several small when there came from the audience cries of aboul said Mr. not but in a lone which could be heard all over the Then broke out the hisses and but the speaker retained control of the don't consider it helpful to the President or conference to introduce in the conference and internal he must do one thins must bring about a closer cooperation between the nations already in and try to strengthen There are lots of embarrassing questions that might he brought There might be a. proposition for us to let the Philippines go or for France to let Algiers and there be ether matters brought up that would not he helpful just Industry to Stand First Shock of Readjustment Says New Cost Tumble Must missionary was ahle to go deputation appeared my office seemed decidedly believe 1 have the right to let President Wilson know what I expect of went if he is the Haven't wo the right lo request him to be an I am opposed to Bolshevism because it was made in that Woodrow Wilson playing into the hands of the holders of the red At this point in his speech the missionary was interrupted by calls and he was surrounded by the William Jarvis of Scran George Long of were sent on a tour through and Joseph as example exhibits of the cans lhat were opposing the man linger of St. all marched up the form and demanded that the speaker 200 Lined Up And Shot by Ebert Order hundred taken oner in the past week's rebellion were summarily executed bv government troops They were lined up against the wall one by It was the most gruesome wholesale FOUND MURDER POSSIBLE Declares May Have Been by damned station down if you don't release threatened the men and I ordered the station policemen didn't treat ie too added Inspector myself was passing down near Strand theater and happened to drop into the midst of the riot it Policemen were Backed up against the Strand and off a mob American and Canadian and instant the trouble started he Australians set up their war cry and came swarming out of heir huts to help tha Americans ind However responsible the soldiers ind sailors nmy have been for the I will say the police lost their beads and ised their clubs tion iii German Captain Edwin a. This is my first to send Ian one time official out the logr for the 26th I The last tound of tiie terrific it. arrived a carnal He batlle between government troops glit feet of moving and taken at the American Northeast councils which John Pembroke was found dead at 6 o'clock morning on cement sidewalk at the fool of a staircase in the rear of his home Circumstances point lo an dental but Medical inor Dr. S. M. said last night and had been put out of one government ed death have been promised to ci eate as a means of the result of a blow on the head putting a stop lo the strikes will be These councils wi feet of moving and fought Friday in the be economic councils of the taken at the American nf Each of the industrials red will have its council army camp at Brest to show that ander square still looks batter is not a bad para lively i the western Mott of the American wounded boon sent home according lo Mory of Baltimore who arrived in charge of the nurses of and virtually all eel of fie wounded remaining are hospitals at Brest and J Officers arriving on the included F. Pa. which will be consulted as to working m line in a bloody action on the western The police prefecture has been almost com- while woi associations j will be created for the control and latett authority e figures of j regulation of production and the result Killed 300. in all brunches of The American missions j try and The members will workers anil Associated March a law to be immediately the ers and duties of the workmen's be factory employes District with the workmen's on 1'age or from his being pushed the Police authorities scout the theory of They say proved thai Cislak had been drinking heavily Saturday night nad had nut out oE saloon in the East Side because nf his luck of They that he wont home in an condition and when lie ed to climb the fell landing on his head and fractured his As far as it can be Cis- He has n. living at 226 demanding the immediate release of the answered I was unable to re- lease them but turn over lo the American provost pull your whole JAPAN WANTS OWN MONROE DOCTRINE Universal Mar. a clause is inserted In the constitution of the treaty of peace giving specific recognition of the roe Japan will de- mand flint the treaty also nize Japan's right he con- before any nation shall take any action or any country within Japan's of Japan takes the position thai the United through the has recognized that Japan has superior rights in the Par in the League of which supersedes all if it is anteed effectually thai the roe Doctrine is to Japan feels have a similar in March of the personnel of the industrial board of the Department of Commerce together with the plans of the board for hastening return of prices and wages to a normal level was announced lay through the Council of tional Associated with George N. of 111., a former member of the War Industries as chairman of the new ire Samuel P. of Anthony of Thomas 1C of George R. of T. C. of and William M. of West The chief purpose of new it was is to iring about the of the aws of supply and inter- with by the process of To this end conferences will be with representatives of the hief industries decide on prices to be offered to the nation as the governmentally approved judgment on a price scale low enough to encourage buying and the resumption of normal Bring Trices Down soon as a stable and some scale of prices is the ot living will have so far been reduced as lo crcale reductions in the price of labor interfering with American and ideals for the and living conditions of and thus the last inflating element will have been withdrawn from Jt is believed that industry will that the cost of be substantially re- before labor should Im to accept lower and thus industry the first shock of commodities such as building food will be considered first and brought to a stable The as expressed by The to authorize purchase by the government of wheat at the guaranteed price and of it the is to assist in on Pace I Director General of Inter- Allied Organization Says He Will Retire That He May a March 9, the Herbert the American food ad- ministrator and lately appointed director of the Interallied Relief Organization is lo cease his relief work in the summer was in- in a statement issued day by Mr. Hoover concerning the wheat He intimated that a majority of his also would return to private Speaking ot various problems connected with the wheat situation Mr. Hoover said that they would need to be solved by some one neither nor most of the men in the food ad- ministration will be able to con- in the service of the ment after next also must earn a Mr. Hoover Mr. Hoover when asked here today whether the United States ment would lose the billion dollars appropriated to support the Continued on 1. W. W. QUARTERS RAIDED In Return She Must to Allies Specified f Be Next TO MEET AT BRUSSELS Commissioners Moved to 1 Capital by Council Germany Must Fay with Other BE JUSTIN McGRAl Service WATER March 3 Nearly 200 sympathizers of the Industrial Workers of the World Alexander Chernoff of national organizer of the I. W. W. movement were arrested in a. raid organised by the local police in the city Two trunks full of I. W. W. much of which the police declared o be seditious together with a arge red flag bearing Russian and two charters the organization of an I. W. W. in Waterbury and Xew ven were also taken lo the police Most of the men taken nto custody claimed that they were in no way connected with the W. W. saying they simply at- tended the meeting to hear the but among the ets by the police were membership cards ng the names oE a number of the arrested men who live in Breach Between Crowder and Ansell Explained in Letters Judge Advocate General Complained That Assistant ing ot Submitted Brief for Revolution in Justice tem Without His March armistice commissioners speeding back to notify the German co the decision the tfi gin immediately to send food Germany at the rate of tons monthly until was taken at a four-hour session the viewpoint ish American and earnestly The immediately hand over a number of merchant wW will be manned by Allied and will speed to doughboys and return s The knowledge that children Germany starving condition weight the were at first opposed to the ican and British Associated The plans adopted by War Council tonight under whf the negotiations with the Germi regarding the over of the German mercha ships will be resumed after recent interruption at vide for the sions of the Bru The allied delegates will lea Paris nert Wednesday for the Ik 5ian capital and the n the resumption of Jons will probably be i Thursday in one of the ment palaces The plans determined he as already pui vide for the taking over ot German merchant snips in for a food supply for intil the next difficulty thus far has he manner of but the are expected to Payment from Three It is understood that meats will come from in the ducts such as coal and s from credits which Genial has in neutral countries have been cause of the financial from foreign by It is estimated that these sources will readily yield which is to pay for food extent considered adequate the Germans until the Prom the nature changes during the negotiations Spa the allied Delegates son to expect that the will be acceptable and the belief prevails that an adjustment will 1 reached under which will soon become tl moving homeward of One of the main z bringing about the Supreme Council was letter read by George from a British general s ting forth the extreme of the food It was also stated lhat Br tish soldiers in German ere protesting against men and children about March ferences between Major General ditions implied by com- plaints not exist and had not Enoch H. judge advocate but that it was and Brigadier General I tial that the families of all those Samuel T. former acting judge advocate were ex- and the ordering of a thorough investigation by the in- spector of army into tiie whole subject of the tration of military justice during the was disclosed in a letter from General Crowder to Secretary Baker made public today at War the der's letter General one from Mr. Baker asking the judge advocate general for a complete statement as to the operation of military The secretary wrote that his acquaintance with the Tacts him that the con- young men who had a place in our magnificent army should be Crowder Defends In General Crowder made a general defense against recent criticisms in Congress and where concerning courts martial cases and charged thai General without his knowledge and had submitted a brief to Secretary Baker early in urging a revolution in the military justice General Crowder also said that about the same time that this was General Ansell on Pnge I SHOWS Paid Circulation Feb. 1918 Feb. 191S Combined Total Feb. 1919 Feb. 1319 Combined Total Combined Net paid Gain over 191 Sunday Feb. 191S Sunday Post Feb. 191S Gain
