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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
U.S.. IN WAR WITH AUSTRIA
FROM NOON TODAY If FLOOD
RESOLUTION PASSES HOUSE

Washington, Dec. 5.-A joint reso-
luton drafted in accordance with the
views of President Wilson and the
state department, declaring "a state
of war exists and ''to have existed
since noon today, between the United
States and Austro-Hungarian govern
ment and directing employment OF
the entire naval and military forces
to carry on war against that govern
ment, was introduced today by Chair
man Flood of the house foreign affair
committee.
Chairman Flood put the war reso-
luton in final form after consultation
at the state department. He said he
expected the committee to formally
report it out today and that he would
bring it up in the house for passage
tomorrow.
The text of the resolution follows:
Whereas, the imperial and royal
government has
shown it's hostility to the government
and the people of the United States
by severing diplomatic relations, and
has formally adhered to the ruthless
policy of submarine warfare adopted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
DISCOUNT RATE.
RAISE APPROVED
BY FEDERAL BID.

Wahsington, Dec. 5-To discourage
Initiation and promote sound business
conditions the federal reserve board
has approved a general increase in
discount rates of about one-half per
cent. for most of the IL federal re-
serve banks.
On 15 days paper, including rem-
Der banks collateral notes, the new
rates are 4 per cent. for all banks ex-
cept in New York, where it is per
cent. For Is to so day paper the
neY rates are IL per cent. for all
banks except New York, which is 4
per cent, and Chicago and Minnea-
polls. which are per cent. Former
ly rates on this paper ranged between
and 4 1-2 per cent.
For agricultural and live stock pa
per over 80 days the new rates are 8
per cent. except for Richmond, which
| is Ia, and Chicago, ST. Louis, Min
neapolis and San Francisco, which
are la per cent.
Little change has been made in Is
day paper secured by certificates OF
indebtedness or Liberty bonds, rates
remaining at 3 Ia per cent for all
banks except, New York, where it Is
Q per esnss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
TO DRIVE FROM
HOMES ALIENS
RESIDING HERE
Thousands of Austrians
In Bridgeport Will Be
Forced From Homes
War Declaration Will
Entail Great Hard
ship.

immediately upon the an
nOunce1nent that war has been
declared with Austria the local
authorities with the cO-opera-
ton of federal agents will be-
gin to force aliens out Of the
prohibited zones in this city
which are at present inhabited
by thousands Of people who
win be made enemies by the al
most certain action Of the gov
ernnent.
Regardless of the fact that
this will work q hardship on
many people, owning their own
homes in restricted districts the
action will be necessary to safe
guard the interests Of the city.
Steps VIII be taken to keep vigilant
watch Of the movements of suspicious
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
Consent Of
Wives Not
BeRequiired
Married Men May Enlist
All Men Who Do
Not Fall Within the
Current Draft Quotas
May Be immediately
Used in Service.

New Haven, Dec. 5-Married
men may VOLUNTEER for military
service without written consent
Of their wives, according to a
ruling by Adjt.-Gen. Mccain
and contained in a notice issued
today by Major w. A. Mercer
o. S. A., in charge of the re-
cruiting station here. The rul-
ing was:
Married men may be &C.
cepted for all branches of the
army on the same basis as sim
gle men for the period of the
war only"
The cavalry was thrown open
to recruiting today and a call
for colored men for the quar-
termaster corps was made.
The station has accepted 215 recruits
in three days. Major Mercer, expect
ing a thousand recruits by Dec. 13,
has sent additional men to the Wa
terbury, Bridgeport, Hartford and
New London stations to assist in the
work.
Draft registrants whose clasifica-
tions and order numbers are so low
that they do not fall within the cur
rent quotas of their local boards may
at their own request be Immediately
inducted into the military service, Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder an
nounced today.
On filing with his local board a
waiver of all claims of deferred class
ification a man in a deferred class
may be examined and sent to camp i'm
mediately, although not as part of
his boards quota, as this would vio-
late the provisions of the selective
service law which prohibit substitu-
ton. Where the claim has been de-
pendency a waiver by the dependents
must accompany that of the regis
trant, but waivers from children or
mentally unfit persons will not be rec
ognized
Any registrant may, enlist in the
navy or marine corps, Gen. Crowder
said, on presentation to a recruiting
officer of certificate by his local
board that his class and order num-
bers are so low that he does not fall
within the current quota.
1t was pointed out today by Gen.
Crowder that registrants have until
Dec. Is to enlist in the military forces.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
HOME Guard And
DEPUTIES FILL
CITY STREETS

Be- Paul. Mimi, Dee. 5-Gov. J.,A,
A. Burnquist. in a message to Newton
D. Baker. secretary of war. today.
declined to call upon the federal gov
ernment to settle the street car strike
difficulties here, declaring "interfer-
encs will result in an attempt to defy
the duly constituted authority of
Minnesota He assured Secretary
Baker that he would not hesitate to
call upon the federal government
should conditions necessitate.
Practically all union workmen in
st. Paul and Minneapolis attended a
Convention" today to discuss the car
strike. 1t was planned to make the
sconvention'' continuous, which
would virtually mean a general strike
sympathy with the car men.
The meeting was orderly, more than
1000 home guards and deputies pa
troliing the streets The street cars
according to officials. were running
asazly an schedule today,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
CORONER HEARS
ACCIDENT CASE

Coroner John J Pheian heard wit
nesses today regarding an accident
in Westport, Saturday evening in
which Hazel Waterman Of 905 Noble
avenue, this city, was thrown from an
automobile and injured SO severely
she is in danger of death. The au-
temobile is alleged to have been
stolen from Frank Jaceby, and was
driven by David Layton and Edward
Cowan of $50 Horace street. They
have been sentenced to six months in
jail for taking the machine without
leave
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05

Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, Tuesday, Dec
By the Associated PressAn exceptionally heavy bombard
ment from the positions around Asago last night and
through the early hours today appears to foreadoW the long
expected resumption of the heavy enemy offensive from the
north The cannonade Of extreme violence, the
ing heavy well middle calibre guns
The first violent eruption began early last night There
u toward midnight and then resumed with added
intensity at o'clock this morning. lasting until g. Heavy
shells rained the whole range of Italian positions
concentrated particularly the locations supposed
shield Italian batteries The violence of the artillery action left
little doubt that prelude infantry advance force
whereby Field Marshal Conrad Won HOetZendorf who
ing the Austrian forces in this sector hopes realize his pro-
ect of pressing down the AcO valley leading Vcenza
the open plain.
The latest reports show the intense bombardment
nues The indications that this signals str0na
offensive
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
GERMANS START OFFENSIVE .
AGAINST LINES OF ITALIANS
Uniformed Chauffeur
Mistaken For Jitnev
Driver Proves Thief

Mistaking it for a jitney car,
Mrs. Gladys Calmer. Of 811 Main
street, stepped into a f1ve-passen-
ger automobile drawn up at the
curb at Main and State streets,
about $50 o'clock yesterday after
noon, and commanded the driver,
a man in blue uniform. to take
her to her destination.
The car started out Main street,
and reaching Boston avenue, was
brought to a stop. The driver
told his passenger that this was
her destination. She denied it,
and words followed, which were
brought to an end when the
chauffeur snatched the woman's
handbag, containing So in, cash,
and sundry articles, and drove
away.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
L. A. FISK, JR.,
KILLED BY GUN

Branford, Dec. 5-Louis A Fisk,
Jr., aged Is, was killed by accidental
discharge of his shotgun this morn
ing as he was on the beach at Pine
Orchard preparing to go duck hunt
ing. The lad after receiving the
wound, dragged himself over bank
and death came some time later.
Young Fisk had been accustomed
to go duck hunting. He was a sea-
soned hunter for his years, an expert
with canoe, boats and hunting floats,
and as a swimmer had saved the lives
of at least three persons who had
been in canoe upsets.
Dr. Gaylord, the medical examiner,
gave an opinion of accidental death.
Louis A. Fisk, Sr.. is first selectman
of Branferd and widely known
throughout the state.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
ROOMINC HOUSE
KEEPER LOSES
LIFE SAVINGS

Suspicious Of the fact that his. two
roomers, Alexander and George Rosey.
had left for work at an hour earlier
than usual and taken their principal
belongings with them. Alex Macy
shoemaker and owner of a boarding
house at 422 Railroad avenue. went
to his own bedroom to investigate
this morning. and found that he had
been robbed of his life savings. con-
sisting of 1915, which he had con
cealed in a trunk.
He at once went to the plant Of the
Crane Co.. where the brothers We're
employed, and there learned that they
had not reported for duty Arriv-
ing at the conclusion that they had
decamped. he renartea ~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05

by its ally, the imperial German gov
ernment, with which the United States
is at war, and has given to its ally
every support and aid on both land
and sea In the prosecution of war
against the government and people Of
the United States Of America, there
fore be it
Resolved, By the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
Of America in congress assembled.
that a state of war be and is hereby
declared to exist and to have existed
since noon of the fifth day Of DeceIn-
Der, 1917, between the United States
of America and the imperial and
royal Austro-Hungarian government.
and that the president be and he Is
hereby authorized and directed to
employ the entire naval and military
forces of the United States, and the
resources of the government to carry
on war against the imperial and royal
Austro-Hungarian government and to
bring the conflict to a successful ter
mination all the resources of the
country are hereby pledged by the
congress Of the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
OCCUP ANTS OF
J|TNEY BADLY
HURT IN CRASH

Crowded against a curb while pro-
ceeding at a fairly high rate of speed
out state street, jitney car, operated
by Luciano UrcinoH, of 173 Sterling
street, turned completely over when
one of it's wheels collapsed, today,
hurting the driver and his four pas
sengers, two of whom were school
teachers, into the street
All five were more or less severely
injured, and were taken into the office
Of DIR. Abraham Bernstein, at 472 State
street, for emergency treatment. The
extent of their injuries could not be
ascertained up to late hour, though
it was reported that none of the vic
Tins are in danger.
Those who were hurt are: Miss
Anna Doyle, of Sanford place, and
Miss Agnes Henney, of 232 Yale street,
both teachers in the Garfield school;
Miss Anne Sykes, a stenographer, of
SO Lee avenue, and James Mahan, a
clerk in the Office of the Union Me-
tallio Cartridge company.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
SITUATION IN
RUSSIA TERMED
''MOST unique

London, Dec. 5-The situation In
Russia is unique in history, according
to the Petrograd correspondent Of the
Morning Post, writing Saturday, but
it is not yet advisable to attempt to
raise the curtain on the mysteries Of
the tragic-comic drama" The cores
pondent insists Russia will right
herself If generously allowed the
necessary latitude by the puzzled AL
lies, and next spring 1t will put new
armies in the field to fight the in
vader with the success that marked
the Russian efforts to enter the war.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05
SHELL
HEAVILY lines
ALONG PIAVE
LATE WAR BULLETINS.

Paris Dec. 5-Eight German aeropanes were brought
down on Monday by French aviators the office
nounces.
Berlin, Dec s. via London-The negotiations between
the Germans and the Russians for an armstice are
tending to the Rumanian troops.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05

For Bridgeport and vicinity: Gen.
eEalIy fair tonight and Thursday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05

The Treasury announced it would
buy all of this country's silver output.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-05

Mexican bandits crossed the Rio
Grande twice and engaged in BATTLES
with the Americans.
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ment in war times as DR.. Walker.
The Manatee, Fla, girl who produced
and canned $3.50 pounds of tomatoes
on tenth of an acre last season is
no less a patriot than any of those
serving in the hospital at Malta, and
the thousands of Southern women
who before the war displayed little
or no interest in househould affairs
but are now practically investigating
home economics and scientific garden
ing, are doing their "bit" just as much
as the soldier in the trenches does
his, and when the final accounting
is taken We venture to say that history
will record the women of Georgia
and Sumter did as much, if not more,
to help win the war, than thosa
patriotic Russian women who fought
Valiantly in the Legion of Death, on
i to surrender at the first onslaught
Of the Bolseviki before the Winter
Palace in Petrograd
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WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING.

What are the women doing to help
win the war? This is a question that
we hear every now and then We
don't know all the women are doing to
win the war, but they are helping,
and we believe we are safe in making
the assertion that not one per cent
OF the slackers are women. 1t is in
teresting, in this connection to note
what women are doing in all lines Of
industry, for in this war which is
being fought in arsenals and ship
yards and 'battlefelds, every industry
has some bearing on operation in the
filed of hostilities
in the very zone of hostilities there
are a number of English women sur
geons, and at Malta there are eighty
patriotic women who have sole
charge Of the military hospital there.
Mrs. Henry A Pridmore, a Chicago
woman, owns and operates an iron
foundry occupied principally in the
manufacture of munitions and Mrs.
John A. Patterson, of Aurora, his,
has just taken Der husbands place as
[ a grocery clerk in order that he may
join the colors
The only woman ever to be award
ed the Medal of Honor IS DR.. Mary
Walker, of Philadelphia, who receiv-
ed this distinction for services dur
ing the Civil War There are hul-
dreds Of thousands Of other women
! who have rendered just as patriotic
and needful services 70 The govern
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The Meat Supply.

If you have a few hogs on your place
tGat are n a marketable condition
It might be the part of prudence to
slaughter them and dispose of the
meat. The ranch of the National Hog
Company, at Finleyville has been
raided by the government officials and
the porkers taken in charge. 1t is
understood that Uncle Sam will
slaughter them in due course.-Johns-
town Democrat. But if you slaughter
ed the hogs and tried to store up the
meat might not Uncle Sam come along
and commander it?
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Sir Douglas Suit of Khaki,

The Mobile Register says: Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, command
ing the British forces on the western
front, remains a plain soldier, noa-
withstanding his exalted rank. A we'll
fitting suit of khaki, without insignia,
IS his costume, and a cavalry saber is
his weapon" And to complete his
charm, Sir Douglas doesn't advertise.
We never hear of his saying anything
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Nick ROmanofE,s Patience.

The deposed ear of Russia, now
enforced retreat in Siberia, is said to
look daily for the appearance of mes
senger summoning him to return to
the throne, If this be true, Mr.. Mich
olas Romanoff is in for a period OF
waiting like unto that facing the Ger
mans who are urged by Won Hinden-
burg to wait for the U+boats to do
their work '-Norfolk Virginian- Pilot.
Pilot.
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Million Cigars a Month.

The Brockton Times says: THE
war department is to contract for a
million cigars amonth for the men at
the front If we only knew how many
men were at the front We could figure
how long cigar would have to last if
we stopped sending smokes But we
are not going to stop" This number
might keep five thousand men smok-
ing or one hundred thousand men
wanting to smoke.
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THE G0SSIPER.

If we recollect Alright, Dante, in
his immortal Inferno" assigned che
gossipers to prominent place in tue
seventh pit of perdition. But we doubt
not that these cowardly sneaks now
occupy an even lower station in tue
internal regions, probably the bottom
pit along with all else that is foul and
unfit, Shiny and unclean
We cannot imagine any place too
noisome or nasty for a gossiper to
abide in an after-life. The only pity is
that this contemplate breed cannot
be doctored with doses of their own
dirty medicine while they are here on
earth. But the general truth is that
those who gossip most are the ones
who are in the least likelihood of be-
ing talked about themselyes-not that
they are above suspicion, but because
they are beneath it.
Not all gossipers are women, al
though a woman gossip, with the veu-
omous, forked tongue of a serpent, is
probably the meanest reptile of the
species There are male gossipers just
as well and just as actively. There is
no excuse, no palliation, for either, but
there is less for a man He should
have more things to occupy his time.
Not all gossip is spoken. Some of
it may be successfully hinted. The
mere raising of an eyebrow, or the
meaning shrug of a shoulder, can
blaspheme the good name of a woman,
or blast the standing of man, just
the same as the most indecent words
ever spoken. Most vicious Of all is
innuendo, the suggestive tattling and
prattling that has a double signif-
canoe.
Gossip has caused more heartaches
than all the liquor ever brewed in the
DEVILS own cauldron. 1t has brought
more sorrow and grief into more
homes. 1t has provoked more tears n
anguish wrung from innocent >yes
than all of mans other inhumanity to
man 1t has wrecked more homes,
ruined more businesses, started more
panics, caused more defeats in state
craft, politics and commerce, created
more unnecessary ill-feeling, engen-
dered more hates and disgraced more
people than all of the other iniquities
of the universe combined.
The seventh pit in hades, as awful
as Dante describes its punishments to
be, is entirely too nice place for
the gossiper.
For the gossiper is too rank, too
foul for even satan's
worst dive. If buried in the earth
the gossip's coarse carcass will rot the
soil; if cast into the sea it will create
{ pestilence among the fish; and if.
swung into space, like Mahomet's COT
fin, the whirling world, in trying to
avoid it's communicating touch would
probably crash together and bring on
an eternal night and chaos.
The eossiper should be scorned by,
every self-respecting person; for he
who listens is almost as bad as the
one who talks.
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Half Tiger: Half MarSupiaI.

We have always maintained that
the Tammany tiger was more than
half 'possum, and its sudden resus-
citation on last Tuesday proves it.
Never take the demise of that critter
for granted,-Manchester a. "
Union. But We thought it was the
cat-not the 'possum that had nine
lives
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The former commander of the Rus
sian Baltic Fleet believes the present
phase of the revolution is only anoth-
er transitory event and thinks Ill
right-minded Russians will soon some
to their senses" The puzzle, how
ever, is the number of "right-minded
Russians"
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estimate of the Comptroller of Currncy
was still farther from the true marx,
and that the nine and a half billions
named by the Bankers Association
was itself less than the actual say
ings Of the American wage and salary
earners.
The total deposits in savings banks
and Of holdings In building and loan
associations for the yea, 1916 Is re-
orte1 al 85.e70.q7g 900.
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WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA,

Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. o. S. Of A. Hall, No. 213
Lamar st. All members In good et&nG-
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi-
fcates from s25O.OO to 100000 issued
to members of this camp.
T. e. CASTLEBERRY, President.
o. D. REESE, Recd'g. Sec'y.