The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-24
BRIDGEPORT TO BE STOREHOUSE
 FOR GERMANY
Projectiles and Field Artil- lery Will Pile Up Here,
 Thwarting Allies.

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 Bridgeport will be Germany's store house in the west for munitions, un- less the supremacy of the seas reverts from England to the Teutonfc nation
 An enormous amount of field artil- lery and proJectiles, for which no means of reaching Germany can be found, will be piled in this city, awaiting the clearing of the ocean for German ships
 With the ProJectile Co> capable of turning out 10000 shells a day with it's ptesent machinery and intending to have an output of 75,0o0 shells, a tremendous quantity of supplies will \be held in Bridgeport, it is thought
 The fact that Carl Heynans a Ger man lawyer and .f1nanciers of 1855 Broadway, is backing the plant, is generally accepted as basis for the be- lief that the Projectile Go. will not make anything for the Allies.
 There is no law and authority vested in any officer of this govern ment to interfere with the manufac- ture of an indefinite quantity of such material and its storage in Bridge port or anywhere else
 This prospective collection of guns and shells, the property of the Ger man government, right here in Bridgeport, is becoming matter of concern to many who believe that Germany regards with contempt any precautions United States agencies may take against violation of Ameri- can neutrality or even of American domestic peace that it may be to the interest of Germany to override The seeming inadequacy in American laws to protect this country against such alien activities has appeared repeat edIy, and is being made menacingly plain in, the trial of Karl Bunez and Iii practiced for German interest upon the United States. government
 Carl Haynan is the source through which thet Bethlehem Steel Go. and other concerns have been paid for ma chinery and other equipment of the Bridgeport plant to 8 total of $2,- 100000. The payments were made by New, York banking institutions with Germany connections. Light field ar tillery is a principal part of the work now in progress here A recent in- spection showed gun in process or manufacture on every lathe in the plant The Krupps, in Germany. are turning out big mortars and other heavy ordnance for Germany, but lighter ordnance is not being supplied to it's armies adequately at home. The lighter sort of artillery also might have better chance to be smuggled past the British blockade.
 ls as the real packer of the concern Its president is Walter H. Knight, an engineer of note, long inventor of the controller used on electric trolley cars.
 One of the interesting prevailing irnpressions is that Joseph H. Hoadley was responsible for the origin of the BrlAgeport Projectile Go. and that he stafked it with the farsighted idea Of dufnping it on German agents for the purpose of using his profit thereby to the interest of the American & British Manufacturing Go. MT. Hoad- ley is its president and was majority stockohlder of the latter corporation's $2,OOO, ,000 of preferred and $6SOO0,0O0 of common stock. In his management of the International Power Co. his American & British Co stock was supposed to have been used. with the result of transferring control of the latter to the receiver for International Power, recently confirmed in the Chancery court of New Jersey.
 The Bethlehem Steel co. is believed in munition circles to have aided MT. HoadIey in the establishment of the plant now owned by the Bridgeport Rrojectile Go. s7 When it was ready, with an opportunity to run day and night indefinitely upon war orders, which every plant of the kind in this country has, MT. Hoad1ey is believed to have seen a quicker Immediate profit without responsibility of opera ton and the acquisition of an enor- nous sum which would restore to him his control of the American & British corporation.
 The American and British stock holders have received a, letter signed by O. B. Corbin, secretary, from the offices of the company, at 30 East Fort9-second' street, New York, MT. Hoad1ey's office, asking him to name a. price at which they would be will. ing to turn in for retirement their American and British preferred stock. On the stock ticker yesterday after, noon just before o'clock this request of O. B. Corbin was reported as if it had read tat the request of a large majority of the stockholders