Bridgeport Standard Telegram (Newspaper) - March 31, 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut STANDARD TELEGRAM 49 Open All Day and for awl TEL. WEATHER FAIR TODAY detailed report and miniature almanac Page 2.) VOL. NO. 1512. MONDAY MARCH Subscription 32 cents a 60 cents a iur six SO for one year 16 Congelations Vote 820 to 181 in of Society of Nations in Standard Tele- gram MORE TO BE COUNTED League Favored Nearly 19 to 1 at United Church Forum Returns Be Announced HERE IT AERIAL FLIVVER AT March The flivver of Hie air is you less tlian 1 lij pounds don't measure loo much horizontally yon may A of the machines have been ordered at the price of only Captain Hugo aeronautical and son Ihc famous Italian to the Aero club that lie has designed and is constructing ilie it is to have wing space of less than 20 guaranteed to fly 1-2 an average speed of. 50 It will carry a man of pounds and will he capable of. landing iu try members of the club immediately placed one railing for a to be de- livery in Atlantic City May 1 Cor aerial contest in that Commander of 52d Brigade Is Accompanied by Two Officers and Three Enlisted Men as Vanguard of DEFENDS COLONEL LOGAN Much interest was last at the United Church forum when those present voted on the Standard Telegram of expressing their opinion on the The re- sult was nearly 10 to in oi the SOS and 34. One upon ering that he had made an error In returned a few minutes after he had left the church to correct his voting in favor of The church vote so far counted shows in favor and Isl op- Largo Vote vote was taken yesterday in many of the churches at the ami evening On account of the large number of ballots cast they not all ed and the full return will be available in tomorrow's issue of At the Universalist voted for the league and 102 against it. Reports from the ters Memorial A. M. E. Zion church 45. The total vote today is 2433; 754. As the referendum it becomes more and more evident that the people are anxious to pre- vent future If you have not voted vote today without Give the lot in today's issue of the ard Telegram to a friend to vote in case you have Ridicules Charge Which Caused Temporary Removal Re- mains Silent on Oron Awaiting Discharge to New Municipal System to Be- come Operative Divide City Into 12 Dis- 17 WAGONS TO BE USED Full Equipment aad Employed by King Will Be Retained on the Bridgeport's XEW March dier General Charles companied by two officers and three enlisted forming the advance guard of the returning 20ilh National Guard arrived here today from Brest on the steamer tania to complete with state and local committees for the division's homecoming Fourteen thousand troops of the division arc now on the high or about to sail in a day or and the remainder now will embark ning April 4. All the troops will Und in according to ent plans and the last unit should reach there shortly before May 1. Plans for the divisional parade in will be held up pending definite information concerning departure of tho last which is expected by cable within a but May 6, has boon set as a tentative Plans for the demobilization the are contingent upon the parade but General Cole declared that tile records of the division are in proper order and STORM HALL TO HEAR DEBS AS POLICE REFUSE ADMITTANCE Mob Finds Speaker Then Tramps Streets Crying with March refused admission to Hall a city this afternoon by city officials where Eugene V. Debs was scheduled to persons stormed the broke windows and doors and then paraded the ing Hell with the All the time Debs was in bed in Cleveland where it was said he was too ill to appear in A substitute speaker for Debs result of a careful survey of the territory to be a matic method has been evolved on I the strength of the extensive data I it is believed will provide for an efficient and eco- of department has divided the city into 12 each dis- bounded by one of the main streets of the Main street Is Hie with six dis- of Main and six east of Main The size of the districts has been livd somewhat by the main arteries ut by the estimated tion oC and by of garbage produced in each d strict based on the figures April 1, to March 31. 191S. All All of the and IV employes of T. wiio for has held the garbage col- lection are to be em- ployed in the by the Henry Matthews j will continue 1o superintend the and Mark T. Unless present arrangements each the division will be transported directly to Camp Devens upon its arrival at Boston and there will be The men will remain there until before the but each man will receive a JAPANESE GET LAND GRANT IN MEXICO; GERMANY MAY JOIN SOVIET ROOT DRAWS NEW MONROE SAFEGUARD SAYS GRANT TO JAPS worr MONROE Would Put in Clauses teeing American Enforcing Arbitration and ADVISES FUTURE REVISION Signatories Should Meet at Least Two Years after Peace Is Signed and With Principal Cause of ferences Eliminated Council Speeds Call Foe in SETTLE OTHER POINTS Reach Regarding roe Doctrine and League on REPORT DECLARED STATE OF SIEGE Allied Commander lias Issued South Slav March com- mander of the allied troops has de- Austria's big port to be in a state of according to the South Slav appeared about o'clock but will be when he attempted to make an ad- dress in public was chased away by More than 75 men were arrested Including Thomas socialist member of the city Charges of inciting to riot were placed against them hut after 300 policemen had succeeded in ins up the mobs the prisoners were all released without BAND MEMBERS GATHER TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY HoUl Have anil Tell The 60th anniversary of the Wheeler and Wilson band was celebrated yesterday at hall on There were present in all about 60 both active and retired George a member of the band 63 years related the tory of the band as he recalled it. Mr. Sanger is the oldest living member of the Other Chrisl lar follow the and then the members and guests in groups and became Sonic of the members remained at hall afternoon and a the ing old ed. The former collector's ment of 17 wagons and 34 horses will he and the 34 men em- ployed as drivers and will be the The department also plans 1o employ a clerk whose duty it shall be to receive and care for all com- A light motor truck wil also be and a this machine to be used in responding to as. as they are received at the There will he a daily collection nf in tiie being used to Ash in the center of the The other fifteen teams will be used in the various districts us mapped the entire 13 to work on SNOW COMES BACK Morning Xot to Forecast Another snow storm struck this city about 1 o'clock this morning flakes began to nutter wa rd. The temperature took a sharp drop from 38 degrees to 30 shortly Weather tions for by fore- are fair with slight change in EVACUATE KIEV March forces have evacuated Kiev and are turning thoir tion to the according to reports from to London from under date of March 28 by the correspondent the Exchange Telegraph XEW March declared himself tonight tin advocate the League of Nations covenant made public by the peace it is by writing ment clauses into the articles ing for arbitration and limitation of by restricting to live years the unanimous guaranty of the present political and territorial status of members and by ing from non-American ence the affairs of the American lie made his approval contingent also upon amendments assuring periodic revision of international and a general redrafting of the covenant in an atmosphere ed by years from the issues attendant upon the settlement of a world To doubt as lu the right of withdrawal from the lie favored specific tion of this privilege to any coincident with or after the proposed If these changes could be the former secretary of state I of the United States to enter into i the league agreement in keeping with what he termed apparent general desire of tiie American public that the country its full share toward Iho establishment ot an effective International tion to preserve the peace of the to reviewed the league project and proposed his six in number in a letter to Will H. chairman of the Re- publican National committee which the latter gave out The discussion was in response to request by the party who advised the former cabinet ber and senator that citizens in the to do all that can possibly be done toward the maintenance of peace without sacrificing our own premo and the to aid them in a would a study of the covenant fiom Mr. Mr. Root proposed that the United traditional attitude toward purely American withdrawn from or recommendations of other in a paragraph inserted in the league constitution immediately before the signature of. the can Jlc based this gestion i pun America's plated enhance into not of any Concessions Fully Authorized by Mexican General Aguirre Points Out tions Big Area Acquired Russian and Hungarian Bol sheviki Reported to Have la Germany to War will Them on March 30. The principally by the American gates but seconded for the most part by the British and to speed up the work of the various councils and commissions ing the details the peace resulted in better progress during days of the past That most important results will be attained during the present week is predicted by those who are in a position to including the disposition of the Monroe trine and the two sub- which have been the main obstacles to the completion of the It is learned that there has re- cently been a revival of certain propositions and which has tried the patience of some of the participants in the But apparently new ideas have been exhausted and are signs of the rapid approach of the end of the it is expected that President whom some of French as well as some in- British have held responsible in a measure for the is about to exercise the which goes with the re- to make an end to the Promised Too The most stubbornly contested subject wjs that of and it is suggested that the delay in this case cannot be charged up to the Americans but rather to the pre-election promises Premier and Premier to make the Germans pay the whole cost of the which have led to some embarrassment because of the patent inability of the enemy to pay more than a tion of the enormous real progress has been in bringing about an ment on total amount of in- and the terms of payment on a basis of painstaking studies of the exact slate of German tries and resources at the present and prospects for the future made by the financial commissions of the The American representatives on these sions have convinced their foreign colleagues of the fallacy of forcing Germany to sign under duress con- ditions they honestly believe be- yond the ability oC Germany to pointing out that such a peace would surely never bo Monroe Although President Wilson has the j slated that League of need of Old i covenant did not delay Iho by Japanese Ostensibly for MEXICO March That Japanese corporations liave been granted concessions to exploit agricultural lands in Lower Calif was the statement made late today by General Amado Germans He Is under secretary of development and The affirmation was that the con- cessions were fully authorized by the provisions of the Mexican constitution regarding the area and position of the territory in relation to tlic ocean shore and the frontier FOCH TO TELL TERMS to Deliver Land Troops at There nothing in the con- it was asserted by the under secretary that might sibly lead to difficulties as far as the Monroe Doctrine was ed. In an earlier interview on this subject General Aguirro is give credit or take the news that there is nent international be- cause the fact that Japanese subjects or companies are ing to acquire lands in Lower said to belong to the fornia Mexican Land Company of Los Earlier Grant the first the which were given by a in 1834, to the Mexican Land were declared the perty ot the government on April 7, 1917 which action renders void the concession granted to 1he Mexican Land Com- then the government has appointed a commission to di- vide these lands and sell them to Mexicans in small even though ese companies do propose to as is huge tracts or land in Lower California the Mexican in article XXVII expressly states that no foreigner can acquire land in a zone 100 kilometers wide from a foreign frontier nor in belt 50 kilometers wide along the shores the Pacific ocean or the Gulf oC 3-Jven though the anese subjects secure Mexican they could not acquire acres of as it is de- clared they seek to Tins equals nearly which is far above the legal limit The Japanese legation here has denied having any ledge of the proposed GYPSY PURSUED ACROSS MANY STATES HELD HERE AS THIEF yL VI Receives Delegation of Con- gressmen Including Glynn of Peace Demanded by New Independence Declaration World in preserving peace in iho western but in compliance with the the the United Stales place its power and influence behind theirs to lessen the possibility of wars their part Lho out Mich an he con- the Jinn is under the terms of the The for com- conferences of the because the work 0' was equally essential to its it has been the subject of much anxiety and close study during the on Paso NORWEGIAN STEAMSHIP REPORTED IN the i Philadelphia who issued the the back Wireless Calls Help From the at New urged to the issues i involved in the proposed j will be the scope March from Liverpool to Xew was repotted in distress today about 150 miles off Cape The coast guard cutter was ordered to her assistance from Wireless calls for were picked tip at various stations ftlong the One message received here said that was experiencing and had 1 caught in n heavy A stiff was throughout Hie and It was that the rein the Ocean about jit to be to conclude peuce ami American troops started declared that ins instead Tiie American people previ war is but to give real nut only will not prevent but actually war at I least three instances makes war j was flic formal bound announcement of a definite ization of the new institution which the necessity for over the Clevela determined issues involved ami Ta they had set subject of arbitral mn it was 25 years of perfecting and system of ar- for by the fight to real in tiie battle over the League of Mr. Pepper is chairman of the commit tee of league of which Henry of Louisville is The de- el nation strikes a hard hiow nl the of look and says Chairman your he have those tions upon the scrap He cited the efforts of tile Ar- fl support to the present will have accomplished our and that is what we aim anil W i wisest ami held for Along with compulsory Kool urged adoption of the of Leon LEAGUE OF NATIONS REFERENDUM Standard in ii ilh lite conducting in n on the ii lite United Slates to a uj The result the balloting here and in other cities where returns have been made Bridgeport Standard Telegram Yes Xo Previously Counted Counted today 181 Total 2.188 754 York Globe Chicago 411 271 Angeles Grand 70 118 20-1 112 37 Des 287 Dallas Topcka Grand totals I IS refer specially to the Wilson March 30. tEy The for an hour of conversation with the American congressmen in Paris and a brief period for dent Wilson rested The President and Mrs. Wilson j cd church in the forenoon and j motored about the city during the The congressmen who called on President Wilson after luncheon today were Tom Hatton W. liam A. William It. Addison 1'. John E. Ladislas James p. liam W. ton L. and W. The conversations were eral and it is said the congressman assured President Wilson of their belief in his ability to an early adjustment of the The congressman are reported not to have displayed any spirit of an- against the stand of President Problems The war and its effects ami tiro problems incident to arranging peace were freely it was President AVilson did not commit himself on any point of issue between the United States and the The President assured his callers that it was his intention to get the American troops home He expressed an optimistic view con- the peace conference and the surrounding the nant oE the League the Monroe The congressmen will visit the battle beginning at teau Thierry and also will go to Fortune Teller Wanted in Va. in After from the custody of. the police and fleeing through the states along the Atlantic a gypsy fortune staying at 56 Lexington was arrested here yesterday on a warrant charged with the theft of from Mary of The woman is held awaiting authorities from that Evidently the Portsmouth police were very anxious for the hension of the for a tele- gram from the police ent of that state stated that extra- dition papers would be prepared immediately and sent here to luck for Immediately after the the Andre woman but was traced to where she was March German unofficial 't is that thi Bolsheviki regiment Russia am the Hungarian Soviet have asked Germany to join then in an alliance against the entente Whether this is true or not i has a direct bearing on refusal to permit General and his Polish army to land ai i There is a show of resistance the with General dorff and Minister voi leading Vienna Hears March 30.- The Yolks Buda pest correspondent says the Hun garian government has offered t ally itself with 'the German gov against the ac cording to a. despatch receiver A telegram ol the Wolff that nothing i known in officials quarters in Ber iln concerning such an Foch March response to Germany's note on thi subject of Marshal Foci has offered to give personally a to a German plenipotentiary fully empowered to decide twenty-four full particular and guarantees concern ing the landing of General The German to Berlin has de cide to send Mathias Erzberger to meet Marsha March has been invited to send delegate with all speed to Spa to meet Mar shal Foch concerning the This announcement i made in a. Copenhagen to the Central May Land Despite March Temp today says that the allied and as governments seem to hav decided to disregard the Germai objections concerning Danzig to by force if necessary Polish troops at this Baltic seaport But this says the Temps would not necessarily imply in th mind of the allies the o to The per adds that concerning the ques tion of the Polish frontier the al She managed to escape and fled north and wound up in governments seem inclined Bridgeport two weeks I Danzig a neutral stall She opened a parlor in 1P avoid she posed as a I rart of the coast either to Ger. phrenologist ami fortune It is said that she was well Although confessing to 31 years of the woman looks ten years with flash ing- dark eyes and jet black She was dressed in a vivid colored gown with a fancy bandana for a MILITARISTS CALL ON STUDENTS TO VOLUNTEER HYDRAULIC COMPANY CHANGES WATER GATE Main Valve at Avenue and Water Street Was ed The Bridgeport Hydraulic com- preparing for the time when the trolley tracks are to be shifted so that cars will run through the future Plaza changed the cation of a water gate on the main at avenue and Water streets A gang of eis was in doing this ing the greater part of the work was completed about 5 Durins this trolleys were forced to use a single switch said They Are Asked to Join Army for of Agricultural States anil J. Universal Service Staff Ma. oil schoolboys and Your country calls on you to the volunteer corps for the defense of agricultural states and This is the latest appeal to the youths of the upper classes in the newspapers and con- by influential persons of conservative opinion to be to a final effort to reestablish the old General one of the founders of the volunteer corps told the correspondent today the appeal being made for the per classes because the workmen had proven The food situation is becoming so serious that the government is planning to send expeditions into the country to get food from the farmer and from food This is bound to lead to riots and be taken advantage of by the who will want country people to march into the cities and many or to CROWN PRINCE FORESAW TRIAL BY WORLD COURT Impossible I May lie Says in Press Mar. Former Crown of Prussia foresaw tin possibility of his trial before an in he declared il an published in a Berlit is not that I wil he he is quoted as say The former crown prince i a book on the disarm the workmen and throw the over- FEBRUARY SHOWS GAIN Net Paid Circulation Comparison Post Feb. 191S Feb. 1918 Combined Total Feb. 3019 Feb. 1919 Combined Total Combined paid Gain over 191S) Sunday Feb. 191S Sunday Feb. 1919 Gain
