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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
CORSET WORKERS
To ORGANIZE ALL
IN NEEDLE CRAFT
Plan 100 Per Cent. Union
Here, Then Will Branch
Into Other Cities.

One hundred per cent organization
Of needle workers in Bridgeport is
planned by the Corset Workers
union. When that is accomplished,
the members Of the union propose to
do organizing work throughout the
country.
At the meeting Of the union last
night several competent members
volunteered for this work. Because
Of the varied experience in labor mat
ters this union has had during its
short life, many Of the women are
thoroughly equipped to go out them
selves and do the work that was done
for them two summers ago. In the
hope Of bettering the conditions of
thousands of girl workers the MEM
bers plan an extensive campaign.
Last nights meeting was an en-
thusiastic. oRe. sEsxaall lNRte--4reports
were received from Etha Legislative
committee which has appeared at sew
eral hearings in Hartford. A com.
mittee consisting Of Mrs. Nellie
Chase, Miss Anna Dunn and Miss
Anna Caplan has been named to ap-
pear at the suffrage hearing Wednes-
day. .
Jasper McLevy addressed the girls
last night on suffrage and on the re-
suits Of the hearings in Hartford on
matters in which the labor move
ment. is interested.
Twelve applications for member
ship were received last night. The
next meeting will be held. March / 6,
when whist and pinochle will be en-
loved
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
PRESIDENT.TO
CALL CONGRESS-
IN WAR CRISIS
No Steps Toward Hostilities
Unless Congress Con-
vones, He Says.
SEEKS TO HASTEN
REVENUE MEASURES
Completes Inaugural Ad-
dress and Signs Several
Important Bills.

Washington, March 3|President
Wilson has no intention of taking
action that would bring war with
Germany unless Congress is sum-
moned in extra session.
This was communicated to Senate
leader today by Representatives OF
the President, who takes the position
that if no extraordinary crisis arises
it will not be necessary to call an ex-
ira session before late in the spring
and then only to pass any appropria-
ton bills which may fail at the pres
ent session.
The President today continued eff
forts to persuade Republican Senators
to assist in the passage of needed APP
preparation bills during the present
session.
These Senators were told by repre-
sentatives of the President that their
argument that Congress should re-
main in session because Of the Ger
man situation was not logical be-
cause he naturally would take no
action leading to a declaration of war
without the cooperation of Congress.
The President was represented as
feeling deeply the implication back
Of the effort to force an extra session.
He desires the important appropria-
ton bills passed at this session SO
that If an extra. session is forced 10y the
German situation Congress could be-
gin work Immediately on emergency
measures.
It became known that the Presi-
dent will seek an opportunity in the
near future to make his position clear.
The President completed his in
augural, address today and it was un-
derstood. that the foreign situation
was the principal subject dealt with.
The President, both by telephone
and through direct representatives
was in constant communication with
the capitol today.
Although the President has
prepared his inaugural address,
he may decide to make some
changes in it with reference to
the foreign situation should develop
ment warrant. The address probably
will not be issued to the press until
shortly before the President begins
his speech after taking the oath of
office Monday.
President Wilson today signed the
revenue bill designed to raise $780,
100000 through special taxes and
bond issues.
The President also signed the post
office appropriation bill containing
the ''bone dry prohibition provision.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
CONSERVATOR IS
DESIGNATED FOR
SARAH B. CANDEE
Atty. Shaw's Appointment
Probably Will End Fam
lily Dispute.

/ Attorney Samuel c. Shaw was to-
day named conservator Of Mrs. Sarah
B. Candee Of 124s Fairfield avenue.
The appointment of Attorney Shaw
probably ends the family dispute be-
tween Mrs. Harriet c. White Of this
city and Mrs. Almira Louise Stevens
of New Haven, daughters of Mrs.
Candee.
Mrs. Candee is the widow Of John
D. Candee, once publisher Of the
Bridgeport Standard. A disagree
ment arose between the daughters as
to the care of their mother, and Mrs.
Stevens, who is the wife Of Frederick
HI. Stevens, former business manager
of the Standard, took her mother to
her home in New Haven.
= On Nov. 20, 1916, Mrs. White
brought proceedings in the probate
court here to have a conservator ap-
pointed for her mother. The latter
owns the homestead at 1249 Fairfield
avenue and also possesses a number
of securities. The application for
the appointment of the conservator
was opposed by Mrs. Stevens. An
agreement between the sisters was
reached today. Mrs. Candee will re-
main at the home Of Mrs. Stevens in
New Haven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

am going to preserve the liberties Of
my country. If the pacificists had 1iy-
ed in the time of George Washington
we never would have been country
and if they have their way we will
not now cease to be a country. The
peace propaganda, in some aspects,
closely approaches treason"
/ Senator Sherman presented today s
news dispatches from Berlin bringing
Foreign Minister Zimmermann's ad-
missiop Of the attempted intrigue
with Japan and Mexico.
Senators manifested. such keen in
terest in the dispatches that they were
read twice. Senators who had been
inclined to denounce the celebrated
Zimmerman instructionsc as forg-
cry or a British plot showed particu-
lar interest. .
Japan has denied receipt OF tine
overtures,'' Senator Sutherland, Re-
publican, Utah, interjected. 'T ask il
there is any significance to the fact
that our great and good friend, Gen.
CaTranza,, in our netgihborfng friendly
republic, has not made any deniaa?"
Senator Stone asked where the dis
patches came from and was informed
that they were from the Wolff bureau.
German semi-official organization.
These dispatches resumed Senator
Brarrdegee, give us a, fairly accurate
idea of the relations that exist at the
present time between the Teutonic
powers and this country. thinner
mann declares Gernany's intention to
resume unrestricted submarine war
fare, the kind that sank the Lusitania.
the kind that Germany had agreed to
abandon.
Germany suspended this warfare
while she was rebuilding submarines
Then came announcement of her In
tention not only to resume this assas-
sination, already carried into, effect.
but her intention also to array everv
nation against us that could get at The
United States in case we attempted to
defend ourselves against these assas
sins.
Are we going to lie down on our
backs and let this monstrous Frank
enste1n trample over us ruthlessly?
am not deceived by the effect OF this
bill. The effect will be that the next
passenger or freight ship with Amer
Continued on Page 2.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
GERMAN j BOATS CLAIM
10000 TONS, HALF OF
ESTIMATE, In A MONTH

london. March 3-Germany failed
by slightly more than SO per cent.
margin to make good her threat to
sink 100000 tons of merchant ship
ping the first month of unrestricted
submarine warfare, according to fig
ures in possession of the Associated
Press, the. absolute reliability of
which is vouched for here. Her sub
marines. the figures show, only sue
ceeded in sending to the bottom dur
ing the month of February in round
numbers, 100000 tons.
This figure only exceeds by 140,-
900 tons, it is declared, what the Brit
ish authorities expected would be
sunk during that month if ordinary
submarine warfare had been contin-
ued. It compares with 346,656 tons
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
''CREATEST SHOW
ON EARTH" READY
FOR 1917 SEASON
New w>Tent Has Been Made
in Loft, and Wagons Have
Been Painted.

All is in readiness at the Barnum &
Bailey winter quarters for the advent
Of the circus season of 1917. Bright
and glittering gold and silver and
highly colored FURNISHED paints cover
the entire rolling stock and parade
equipment of the big circus which
was entirely overhauled during the
winter. A new tent has been, made
in the lofts in Norman street and now
lies in the form Of huge balls of can
vas as high as the average man in
height.
In the training quarters, elephants.
horses, dogs and other animals in
Guiding the huge bears are being put
through their finishing touches for
the new and novel feats that will for
the first time be shown to the mil
lions of children and the pleased
swains who never miss the annual
event Of the Barnum 81 Bailey
"Greatest Show on Earth.''
Arrangements have been made
the advance agents Of the
circus will leave on their route
the East during the COM
Ing week, ana ufHey Wilt De TOllOWed In
close relays by the additional agents
who continue ON the route through the
cities and towns until after the show
has closed its performance
The Barnunn &, Bailey show will
leave winter quarters March % for
Madison Square Garden, where it will
again show this year, opening the in
tial performance on March 27. Then
it will proceed throughout the East
and Middle West and South It is not
to play in Bridgeport, where
the Ringling Brothers circus will per-
form this year with many new. fea-
lures.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
Nine RUSSIAN
SHIPS VICTIMS
OF SUBMARINE

Berlin, March 3, by wireless to
Sayville-Nine armed Russian steam
ers were destroyed by the German
submarine which recently was sunk
near Hammerfest, according to a
Christiania dispatch in the Neuwe
Zuricher Zeitung as quoted by the
Overseas News Agency. These ves-
sells are said to have been purchased
in South America by Russia.
1t was reported from Christiania
on Jan. %, that 34 men from Ger
man submarine which has foundered
off the Norwegian coast had been
landed near Hammerfest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
President to Take
Oath Privately at
Capitol Tomorrow

Washington, March 3-President
Wilson will take the oath Of Office for
his second term in his room at the
capitol at noon Sunday. It win be
administered by Chief Justice White
of the Supreme Court. Mr.. Wilson
plans to go to the capitol shortly be-
fore noon to sign bills and therefore
decided 1t would be impracticable t.
take the oath in the White House a.
was at first contemplated. Mr.. Will
son has decided to take the oath
again on Monday in front of the capi-
,ol just before he delivers his in
augural address.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

IAN Argentine newspaper, q snort
while ago, really revealed plot
when it told that the United States
last year suggested to other American
repu blics common action against Ger
many and her allies. This plot ap-
parently was not conditional in the
least. The news as published by La
Prensa (Buenos Aires) agrees we'll
with the Interpretation given, for in
stance, by an American newspaper
man, Edward Price, in Berlin and
London, who said that the United
States was waiting only for the prop
er moment in order opportupely to
assist the Entente.
''The same American stated that
Americans from the beginning Of the
war really participated In 1t by put
ting the immense resources OF the
United States at the Entente's disposal
and that Americans had not declared
war only because they felt sure that
assistance by friendly neutrality would
be during that time much more eff
ficient for the Entente than direct
participation in the war. Whether
this American newspaper man re-
ported the facts exactly we were at
loss to Judge in satisfactory fashionS
since we were more or less complete
1y cut off from communication with
the United States.
:But there were other facts which
seemed to confirm this and similar as
surances. Everybody knows these
facts and I need not repeat them. The
Entente propaganda services have
sufficiently heralded all these pro-
Entente demonstrations in the United
States. And If you link these de-
monstrations with the actual attitude
Of the United States, then it Is obvious
hat it was not frivolous on our part
to consider what defensive measures
we should take in case we were at
tackled by the United States"
There is no record Of an American
newspaper correspondent named Ed
ward Price. Edward Price Bell is
London correspondent of the Chicago
Daily News,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

Berlin March by wireless to sayvle-The following
given out today by the Overseas news agency official Ger
bureau:
Foreign Secretary Zimmerman asked by staff
OF the Overseas News about the English report
German plot had been revealed to Mexico declare
against the United States and apan aid against
United States" Secretary Zimmerman answered.
You understand that is impossible for discuss
facts Of this revealed plot just at this and
circumstances therefore, may be allowed to limit
to what is said in the English reports which certainly
inspired by sympathy with Germany The English report
presy states that Germany expected and wished
terms Of friendship with the United States but that
pared of defense in the United States declared
against Germany fail to how such plot
ed by unfrendness part. It would nothing
that would universally admitted in
the United States declafed war;
he most important part Of the alleged plot is its
and form. The whole plot falls flat to the ground in
United States does not declare against And if
the report alleges considered the possibility of hostile
the United Sss against then really had
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

Despite threats Of few Republi-
can leaders to hold up all pending
appropriation bills, the Senate early
today agreed to the conference re-
port ON the s40,O00,00O legislative,
judicial and executive supply measure
which carries with it the salary in
creases for government employees.
The bill now goes to the president
for approval.
Administration leaders approached
the closing continuous session today
fearful lest opposition by Senators
LaTFallette and Stone to the bill au-
thorizing arIning OF American mer-
chant vessels might prevent enact
naent OF the measure by noon to-nhor-
row. ~
When debate was resumed today
Senator Hitchcock, to perfect the
bills parliamentary status, had the
Senate draft with two slight amend
ments, substituted after the enacting
clause for the House text. One
amendment eliminates the provision
for arming merchantmen fore and
aft" thus removing specific direction
as to armament. The other prevents
United States protection for foreign
ships.
Senator Brandegee, Republican,
Connecticut, called the German pro-
hibited zone "an ambush where Ger
many laid in wait to deal death" to
anyone who entered against her edict
creating it.
"Shall we sit supinely and allow the
ukase Of a foreign potentate to clear
the ocean of American shipping and
blockade our ports? ?'' he asked. care
we obliged to wait for the slaughter
to be accomplished before we defend
ourselves? I trust that neither con-
gress nor the American people have
fallen to such depths of degradation
that they are willing to furl the Am
erican flag and withdraw from the
high seas as the misguided band Of
pacificists seem to wish.
There is no use to issue a moral
homily or a Salvation Army tract, or
to repeat the sermon on the Mount
to nation that has gone mad and
acts through it's military autocracy
like a homicidal maniac. Must we get
off the face of the earth-lie down
and curl up? I'm for peace, but I
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
Greek Ship, Bound
Here For Cargo of
Grain, Torpedoed

London March 3-Reuter Tele-
gram Co. says the Greek steamship
Proconnissos, Of 2,769 tons gross,
which had been requisitioned by the
Greek royalist government to go to
America for five thousand tons of
grain for the assistance of the royal.
ist population of old Greece, has been
torpedoed and sunk by a German sub
marine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
CHINA TO BREAK
WITH BERLIN, IS
view in LONDON

London, March 3-Berlin dispatches
in the Rheinische Wesfae1ische Zei-
tung state that in circles in touch with
the Chinese legation in Berlin it is
expected that China will give notice
Of a rupture Of diplomatic relations
unless Germany changes her block
ade policy, says the Exchange Tele-
graph correspondent at The Hague
The German foreign office, it is said,
has been warned to that effect by the
German minister at Peking.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

Washington, March 3The legislative situation congress
today according to the most optimistic estimates indicated that
republicans determined to limit activities the
mainder Of the session to the following:
= Final passage Of the naval appropriation bill.
Approval of the house resolution for 900 naval
bond issue.
Enactment of armed neutrality bill
Republican leaders, however without
from SelsAtor LaFolete who may oppose it.
Republicans determined according to democratic
ators who have been struggling with them for "a hours for
reconsideration prevent final passage of the following bills
The army bill
sundy civil appropriation bill and the general deficiency
bill
Bill extend authority Of the shipping board and permit the
government to take merchant ships owned building in the
United States in time of threatened war; T.
Amendments the federal law and all other pend
ing general legislation. -s@-sA c.ss:s ss@
Any bills left would be taken at extra session
the last moment Of the present session. Cur
rent appropriations could be extended by resolution
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
AMERICAN ARMY.
OFFICER KILLED
ON italy FRONT

Washington, March 3.-Major Elvln
r. Heiberg, an American military at
tache at Rome, was accidentally killed
while riding on the Italian
front. A report to the state depart
ment today from the embassy said the
officer was at the front on observation
duty.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
BERNSTORFF FOR REICHSTAG.

Amsterdam, March 3-Count Won
Bernstorff, former German ambassa-
dor to the United States, has been
nominated as a candidate for the
reichstag in place of the late Herr
Won Neiding, according to the Tele-
graaf
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

war, ne SnOuIQ Oner to the Mexican
government an alliance and arrange
further details. These instructions,
by the way, expressly directed the
minister to make no advances to the
Mexican government unless he knew
for a certainty that America was go
ing to declare war.
How the American government
received information of Instructions
sent by a secret way to Mexico is not
known. It appears, however, that the
treachery-and it only must, have
been treachery, was committed on
American territory"
A Central News dispatch from Ann
sterdam says the Berlin telegram in
regard to Secretary Zimmermanns
instructions to the German minister
in Mexico is semi-official. =
Washington, March 3.-Referenca
by German Foreign Minister Zimmer-
mann to the existence of a Pan-Amer-
lean ''plo." is regarded in official cir
c1es here as nothing more than dis
torted and erroneous understanding,
either on the part of the Argentine
newspapers or the German foreign Of
fee, Of some quite open proper efforts
made soon after the outbreak of the
war and during Secretary Bryan's in
cumbency,to protect the rights of neu-
trail commerce in the western hemis-
phere.
Soon after the sinking Of the Amer
lean ship Frye and when German
raiders and a German war fleet were
particularly active on both sides OF
South America, resulting in the utter
decentralization Of commerce in that
part Of the world, some Of the diplo-
matte representatives in Washington
of the Latin American countries con-
ceived the idea Of joint action to
pevent the theater Of war from ex-
tending into American waters. t
The members of the Pan-American
council, which meets in Washington
Quarterly and at times oftener, ap-
pointed a special committee to con-
slider certain propositions advanced by
Individual ministers to protect the
commerce of the AMERICAS, the essen
tial feature being the declaration OF q
zone about 200 miles wide along the
American coast from Cape Horn to
Canada. within which no belligerent
warssnips or submarines should be
permitted to interfere with merchant
ships.
This subject was discussed in vari-
GUS phases for many months In
desultory way at occasional meetings
Of the council, but as no substantial
encouragement was received from the
state department here no attempt was
made to make any report.
Later, it is recalled here, on the an
of the German purpose to
pursue ruthless submarine warfare,
some Of the Argentine papers made
known the fact that Ambassador Naon
had proposed joint action by at least
some of the American nations to pre-
vent war between the United States
and Germany. 1t was soon dec!---
however, by the ambassador. himself,
that his project had not been con-
ceived by his own government and
that he had acted solely on his indi-
vidual responsibility in broaching it.
This movement also came to nothing.
20 far as known.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
MEXICO DIDM' II
KNOW OF PLOT,
AGullAR Av RS

Gaudalajara, Mex, March 3.-Gen.
Candide AgTuilar, the provisional min
lister of foreign relations, today for
mally denied that the Mexican gov
ernment had been approached by Ger
many with the object of forming an
alilnace hostile to the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
EXPECTS EXTRA SESSION,

Washington, March 3-Republican
Leader Mann announced to mem
bers of the house today 'there is ev-
cry probability of an extra session
before next summer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

The statement given out by the Mex
lean foreign minister says:
'"The government of Mexico has not
received in behalf of the government
of Germany any proposal for an ali-
ance hooking toward war with the
United States"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
THE WEATHER

For New Haven and vicinity:
Cloudy tonight; Sunday fair.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03
XNINIERNIANN ADMITS THAT GERMANY TRIED
TO ALLY JAPAN AND MEXICO AGAINST u. S.

Foreign Secretary Admits That Steps Were Taken
Preparatory to Expected War With United
States es-Defends His Action AS Justified in
the Event That Hostilities Did Come-Lond0n
Report Says Berlin Charges Treachery in
America Caused Revelations to This Govern
ment
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

sunk during December and 322,0s7
tons during January.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

Connecticut Senator Says Measure Granting Full Powers
to President Should Prevail-Says That This Coun-
try and Germany Have Been in State of War Since
February Congress Hastens All Preparedness
Bills AS Session Nears End
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-03

There is no record of an American
newspaper correspondent named Ed
ward Price. Edward Price Bell is
London correspondent of the Chicago
Daily News.