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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-04

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-04

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-04

lriin Torres and Josefa Elizando.
ldres Serrano and Li5roda Duarte.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-04

Mr.. Blanchard further explained
that the expenses would amount to
$4,000 a year. including his salary.
$1,000. but some OF this would be Off
set by the income from the adjustment
bureau He suggested as a means to
start financing the association the is
suance Of zoo bonds at $50 par value
as the prospective 100 members with
annual dues OF SIS viii not cover the
first year This was deferred for later
action There viii be two part time
officers and two stenographers, with
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
RAZOR HIS AID FOR WOOINC, HE
 LANDS IN CELL

Gaetano Russo, 166 Pembroke street, complained to the police today that Joseph Bengerenco, 21 years of age, and residing at 131 Courtland street, stole two bed sheets, tried to steal Mrs. Russo and threatened her life with a razor. Detective Simon took Bengerenco into custody today and locked him up on the charge of theft and carrying concealed weap- ons.
 According to the story told by the Russo family, Bengerenco fell des- perately in love with Mrs. Russo. He tried to win her affections in every ccncieveable way, but failing he got desperate and displayed keen razor with which he threatened to do the Blue Beard" act if she would not fly with him to Mulberry. Bend or some other foreign cline.
 In order that she be further inn pressed with his desperate character he stole two bed sheets from the Russo home and pawned same for a few kopecks with which to purchase a suitable present for the object of his hopeless love.
 Instead of this act in any way smoothing the way for the lovesick swain it was his undoing for, while Mrs Russo stood bravely the threats on her life, she could not bear the loss of those sheets.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
RAIL ROADS
 TO BLAME FOR JAM
New Haven Roads Gross Negligence Cit ed in l. c. c. Report
 to McChOrd.

Washington, Jan. 26-Gross negligence by railroads under private management in giving proper care to locomotives is principal cause of the present freight congestion throughout the Eastern states, according to a report presented today to Di- rector-General McAdoo by In terstate Commerce Commits sioner McChord.
 After anaIyzing reports of inspec- tors who have investigated conditions at the principal points of congestion in the east for several weeks, Commis- sioner McChord announced that hun dreds of locomotives that are sorely needed in the present emergency are idle in shops and round houses, frozen through neglect or lacking repairs which might have been made if prop CT forethought had been given by To- cal railroad officials.
 Naming specific yards and terminals where scores of trains are stalled for days awaiting motive power, Commls- sioner McChord showed that engines lay in round houses without doors to protect them against cold, and that machinery was damaged by the ice that encrusted it. For lack of repairs other locomotives were operated with steam seeping from loose fittings, and power was reduced correspondingly This condition was reported to be due partly to the scarcity of machin- ists and repair men, who have been drawn to other industries, but very | largely to negligence of local railroad officials in making preparations before winter arrived.
 Shortage Of locomotives prevents normal movement on the New Haven
 the Baltimore & Ohio, the Erie, the Philadelphia & Reading, the Centra 1 of New Jersey, and other lines. Al
 the Harlem River terminal nearly A. | 900 cars covering about IA miles 0. track are held by roads for deliver!
 to the New Haven, which was unable
 to accept them because of lack of en zines.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
SPYSTARTS GREATF|RE
 ON PIERS
Blaze Does Million Dol lars Damage ire bug Shoots At
 Soldier.

Newark, N. J., Jan. 26-More than $1,OOO,OOO worth of prop erty was destroyed today in a fire, believed to be the work of German spies, that burned oil barges, a pier, warehouses and freight cars on Newark bay, close to the plant of the Sub marine Boat Co. and store houses of the quartermaster department of the army.
 The fire was discovered by soldiers who claimed that they saw a man run ming away from the scene shortly af- ter the fire broke out. When they tried to stop him a shot was fired and a bullet went through the hat of the sergeant in command of the guard. The man who fired the shot escaped. Several hundred feet of the pier was burned before dynamite was used to stop the spread of the flames. This plant was recently inspected by | Chairman E. N. Hurley of the United States shipping board, who ordered additional military guards for the property. The order was given, it was said, because of hints of spy plot that reached MT. Hurley. The keel of an 5000 ton ship Was recently laid in the yard.
 The barges were lashed to a wooden pier which was used by the quarter master department of the army, and in order to save it soldiers and work men dynamited the pier. The Sub- marine Boat Co.'s fire department, realizing that the fire was getting beyond their control. summoned the Newark fire department. Dynamite was used to blast channel in the ice so that New York fire boats could reach the barges.
 Sixty guards and 200 soldiers are engaged in protecting the terminals and boat building plants where thou sands of workmen are employed. While the fire was in progress the soldiers created a fire zone and kept shooting their guns in the air to pre- vent any one from approaching the blaze.
 Three women and 14 men were or the barges when the fire started and they have been rounded by the mili- tary guard and placed under deten. tion. No lives appear to have beer lost.
 Sergeant Mack McCabe, in com mand of the soldier guard, says tha as the fire started he saw a man ru1 from the barges to one of the store houses, where he appeared on tht roof NcCabe climbed a ladder an< as his head appeared above the roo
 gutter shot was fired and the ser
 geant's hat was sent spinning. Tn man escaped in the dark.
 At 10:30 a. m. officials of the Sub marine Boat Co. here said that thu , fire was under control, the damag, , having been confined to the barges | an adjoining pier, several Eoadet frtight cars and a warehouse used b. the quartermaster department of tn army The ship building plant wa
 no longer in danger, the officials said Official estimates of the loss wer l lacking.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
SALOON OWNERS ARRESTED HERE
 BY U. s. AGENTS

Several saloonkeepers, together with numerous frequenters who, it is alleged, aided the illicit traffic, were arrested here this afternoon, charged with violation of that section of the Selective Service Regulations which prohibits the sale of intoxicants to soldiers and sailors in uniform.
 The arrests were made by special agents of the Department of Justice who have been conducting investiga- tions for several weeks.
 Assistant United States Attorney John P.' Crosby, of Hartford, came here this afternoon to prosecute the cases before United States Commis- sioner Hugh J. Lavery. Commis- sioner Lavery's jurisdiction in the cases extends to the holding of the prisoners for the February term of the United States Court.
 Penalty of $1,OO0 fine and year in prison is provided by the selective that part of the act relative to the sale of liquor of men in the service.
 The arrests were made by Special Agents Charles Lane and John Hickey of the department of justice, who were assisted in their investigations by Pa trolman Albert Watts.
 The arrests followed many com plaints about violation of the laws here Agents of the department ot justice intimate that further arrests may follow in the campaign here Pending the roundup of all alleged violators and the disposition of theil cases the names of the prisoners were withheld this afternoon by the fedora authorities.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
HOUSE WITHOUT COAL BABY GIRL
 DIES FROM COLD

Lack of sufficient fuel to properly heat the home, is ascribed by Medical Examiner Cogswell of Stratford, as responsible for the death of 14-weeks- old Cora L. Meade, infant daughter of William Meade, 1 Stratford avenue, Stratford, yesterday. The child had been ill for several days suffering from bronchitis which was aggravated by the lack of sufficient heat
 Mrs. Meade yesterday applied to First Selectman James Lalley of Strat- ford, for fuel, and was given a quan- tity of coal. She said she had some wood, but the exposed situation of her house made it impossible to properly heat it with a wood fire.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
AUSTRIA WILLING
 TO MAKE PEACE
 WITH BOLSHEvIKI

London, Jan. 26 -- Aus tria has declared her read mess to conclude a sep arate peace without Ger many and to accept the Russian democratic pro gram with the exception of Self-determinatiOn of na- tiOns, says a dispatch from Petrograd to the Ex- change Telegraph Co.
 Another dispatch from Petrograd says: ''The Bol- shevik newspapers report that great demonstrations are taking place all over Austria-Hungary. Work mems and soldiers Organi- zatiOns have been formed in Vienna and Budapest. A big strike has begun in Warsaw"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
RAID HOME OF
 FUEL 0FFCIAL; FIND. LITTLE COAL

Dennis Kelly. city sealer of weights and measures, through his connec- tion with the fuel administration has received complaint from a score of sources during the last several days to the effect that Fuel Administrator Carl F. Siemon had 50 tons of coal hoarded in the cellar at his home, Brooklawn Park.
 The complaints came in so per- sistently that Kelly decided to investi- gate and slipped quietly out to Sic mons residence yesterday and ac- companied by John R. Carter, street foreman in the city's employ, gained admittance to Siemon's cellar.
 They saw two coal bins, neit&er one of them half filled. Kelly e<fmates that one bin contained one and one half tons of pea coal and the other held about two and one-half tons of stove and nut coal mixed. Kelly made a report to that effect to Will liam F. Sheehan, secretary of the committee, today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26

Hartford, Jan. 26.-Announcement was made today by Thomas W. Rus sell, United States Fuel Administrator for Connecticut, of an amended order governing the use of fuel in Con- necticut on Mondays from January 2S to March 25, inclusive, under the re- cent order of the United States Fuel Administration. The new rulings su- percede all previous Monday rulings inconsistent herewith
 The text of Administrator Russell's new rulings follows:
 Water pipes and sprinkling systems: -Fuel may be burned sufficient to keen them from freezing whether in factories or other buildings. Manufacturers, general orderS:-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
WITNESS SAYS. TROLLEY JUST
 MISSED CRASH

Testifying before Coroner John J. Phelan today at the inquest into the deaths of Ernest and Frederick Weld lich, killed by a train at Housatonic and North avenues Wednesday even ing, James E. Stokes, of 5a9 Lndley street, declared that a trolley car which preceded the Weidlich auto barely escaped destruction.
 Stokes declared that the east gate at the crossing was lowered while the trolley car was on the crossing. The gate-tender delayed lowering the west gate, Stokes said, in order to allow the trolley to pass. Stokes declared that he heard the engine whistling the emergency signal while the trolley car was still on the crossing.
 Stokes said he did not see the Weld fich car before it was struck by the engine.
 Ralph Chichester told the coroner that another automobile preceded the Weidlich car across the railroad tracks. He said the gate-tender halt ed the lowering of the gates to allow it to pass. Witness said the gates were not fully lowered when the weidlich car crashed through them in front of the onrushing train. He was a block away from the crossing when the crash came.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
WIDOW CREATES STIR AT FUEL OFFICE; ASSERTS
 COLD KILLED HUSBAND
State That Owing to Sufferings of Help the Production of Munitions is Threat ened by Inability of Employees to
 Maintain Production Efficiency

The fuel shortage continuing to be unreIieved health and fuel officials declare of sickness is sweeping Bridgeport Furthermore manufacturers assert the production of materials is seriously threatened because workers without fuel in their homes unable to work with rapidy and uness that characteristic of them before the coal famine struck Despite the Monday conservation day. many factories report they will not have sufficient start operation next week.
 "The anthracite situation is about the same" said
 Local Administrator Carl F. Siemon today, 'but the
 soft coal proposition getting and worse, and
 if the truth known" he continued, there are
 many factories on the verge of closing down.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26

Domestic and industrial consumers continue to besiege the committee, also the offices of the retail dealers. Pitiful tales of suffering are told by housewives as they appeal for coal and in nearly every urgent case there are one or more members of the fam fly suffering from cold, grip or pneu- monia.
 One woman, dressed in heavy mourning, appeared at the office at 142 Golden Hill street, this morning, and made the startling statement that her husband had died because she couldn't get coal into her home. Af- ter stating her complaint she said:
 ''It's too late to do any good now" and she hurried away, refusing to leave her name.
 With limited delivery facilities the dealers are severely handicapped in that four deliveries are made from one ton, practically quadrupling their work. As a result orders taken at the committees office are from five to seven days behind in delivery.
 The distribution of coal for domes- tic users in lots of 125 pounds made effective by the committee during the last week is proving beneficial to hun dreds of sufferers. Chairman Harry
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
PACKERS ATTEMPTED
 TO SWAY PRESIDENT

ther confidential documents taken from the files of the Chicago pack CTS, which showed that the packers planned an elaborate campaign in 1916 to influence congressman against or dering an investigation into the live stock and meat packing industry, as was proposed in the Borland resolu- tion.
 Recommendation was made by counsel for the packers that they should undertake to have the judiciary committee flooded with telegrams from all over the country, especially the congressional districts where the members came from, protesting g. pas sage of the Borland resolution, on the
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
.COSSACK CONGRESS
 PROCLAIMS WAR
 ON GEN. KALEDINES

Petrograd, Jan. 26-An official state ment issued today by the Bolshevik government says that on Wednesday the congress of Cossacks from the front was inaugurated at the military station of Kamesky and adopted unanimously a resolution declaring war on Gen. Kaledines and relegating all authority to the congress.
 A military revolutionary commit tee the statement adds, was formed and deta~ hments were sent to cap ture the towns of Ilikhaia and Ever evo. Eighteen superior officers were arrested
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26

Washington, Jan. 26-The big pack lag interests were charged today by Francis J. Heney, special counsel in the federal trade commissions inves- tigation into the meat packing indus try, with having attempted to bring influence to bear on President Will son to have the present investigation stopped.
 Heney told the commission that he would show later that a joint tele- gram recently sent to the president by several Detroit bankers, protesting that the investigation was disturbing economic conditions, had been inspir- ed by the packers.
 / MT. Heney's statement was made in connection with the reading of fur
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26

LACOfS IO SlI up dIlu Ldho HOIACO
 While the regular city detectives will not discuss the matter, it is plain to see that they do not like the intru- sion of outsiders in these matters and in many instances they treat the work of the Burns men with ill-concealed mirth.
 When the court resumed it's session at 1:3O this afternoon the witnesses being examined were all Burns de- tectives and they were painting lurid picture of the Seaside hotel. the proprietor of which, Charles Mclean, is charged with running disorderly house. 1t is not thought that the case will be disposed of today as great number of witnesses have yet to be examined
 As a result of the findings of the court today MoIlie Bruno, Rosie Rock Rosie Scavella and Marie Manze, were all fined $1.OO and costs and sentenced to three months in prison on the charge of conducting disorderly houses, while Annie Be gee, charged with being a frequenter of a house of ill-repute, was given the same sentence
 All of the defendants appealed their cases and were held in $250 bond for appearance before the court
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
ORDER FOR MONDAY
 CLOSING IS CHANGED

No manufacturer or manufacturing plant shall burn fuel or use power derived from fuel for any purpose.
 Ruling 1, from Washington ''Working on other days of the week by industrial establishments for the purpose of making up the lost time brought about by the fuel admins tration order limiting work on Mon day is considered by the fuel adminis- trator an evasion of that order and 8 violation of it's spirit"
 Ruling 2:-Factories which, like woodworking plants, though burning a by-product of manufacture use no more coal or wood or electric current derived from fuel than they will be
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
ENEMY ALIEN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH
 IS HELD FOR U, S

Gottlieb Won Schultz, the enemy alien arrested some days ago for talk ing too much and considered to be a dangerous man by the Department of Justice agents, was today held for the federal authorities when he appeared in the city court before Judge Wilder on the technical charge of breach of the peace.
 Gottlieb has been employed for some time in local brewery. Recently his utterances became so offensive he was arrested as being dangerous.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
WOMEN'S DEFENSE
 LEAGUE FOR CITY
 TO BE ORGANIZED

Women of Bridgeport are called upon next Tuesday to volunteer for their 'fbit" in the war work when Bridgeport Chapter of the Women's Defense League will be formed. The organization meeting will be held at 3 o'clock at the Sea Side club.
 Mayor Wilson, Justice Wheeler and W. T. Hincks will speak.
 The Women's Defense League mem bers will volunteer for work in assist ing the various war committees of the city. They will not be required for work out of the city.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
STAMFORD JEWELER, BANKRUPT, PRESENTS
 COMPROMISE OFFER

Offer of a compromise with his creditors was made in the bankruptcy court before Judge J. W. Banks today by J. H. Shalet, Stamford jeweler, and accepted by the majority of the creditors. It proposes payment of 5 per cent. in cash, and 10 per cent. additional in notes due in six months. There was no opposition, and hear ing upon the confirmation wills be held soon. No trustee is named, and attorney for the bankrupt is author ized to effect the settlement
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
REVOLUTION
 SWEEPING GERMANY
Communication of Country With Outside World
 Cut Of.

London, Jan. 26-Dispatches received in Amsterdam state that extraordinary reports are current concerning a revolution in Ger many and that there have been rumors of grave disorders in Ber- lin during the last two days, the rioters clamOrfng for peace.
 Correspondents admit that con- firmatton of these rumors is im- possible, but thinks it is remark able that no teiegramS, either press or commercial, were receiv- ed in Holland on Friday direct from Berlin, all coming by rOund- about routes. None of Thursday mornings Berlin newspapers has arrived.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
WILSON FINISHES NEW MANIFESTO
 ON FOOD SAVING

Washington, Jan. 26.-President Will son completed today his proclamation calling on the American people for greater food saving in order to re- lease more food for the army and for the Allies, and it will be given out at the White House tonight for publica- ton in Sundays newspapers.
 The proclamation will present the food administrators 1918 food con- servation program and will be accom- panied by regulations by the food ad- ministration limiting the sale and dis tribution of wheat flour.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
DEVENS TO
 GIVE 300 CHANGE
 FOR COMMISSIONS

Aver, Mass, Jan. 25-More than 300 privates and n-commissioned officers of the New England division of the national army will be given an opportunity to become second lieu tenants in the quartermaster corps, it learned today
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
M'ADOO ASSURES
 FREIGHT TRAINS
 FOR ALLY SUPPLIES

Washington, Jan. 26-Assurances that adequate numbers of railroad cars will be furnished for transporta- ton to seaports of Allied purchases of foodstuffs were given by Director General McAdoo today in conference with Sir Richard Crawford, conner cial adviser of the. British embass,v; Andre Tardieu, French high commis- sioner. and Count diCellere, the Italia ambassador and high commissioner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
BURNS' SLEUTHS HELP CLEANUP
 OF VICE HERE
Operatives of Famous Agency Appear in City Court As Witnesses Against Persons Ar rested in Spectacular Raids Police
 Here Resent Their Presence.

detectives employed by vice crusaders endeav- bring clean up Bridgeport This fact developed today when operatives of the detective agency appeared in City Court as star witnesses against persons arrested in series Of pecac- lar raids last Saturday evening.
 Examination of the detectives in court did not develop by they employed Their testimony caused court
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
TWO AMERICANS
 WITH CANADIANS
 KILLED IN FRANCE

Ottawa, Ont. Jan. 26-The follow ing American names appear in today's casualty list:
 Wounded-J. G. Cameron, North Falmouth, Mass.
 Gasse6-H. Davis, Scranton. Pa.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
RED CROSS GIVES
 100000 FRANCS
 TO AID BELGIANS

Havre, Jan. 26-The Belgian gov ernment was advised yesterday that the American Red Cross has placed at it's disposal 2,000, 900 francs for the relief of Belgian refugees.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
GERMAN RAID FAILS

Paris, Jan. 26-A German raid on the French positions west of St. Go- bain, between Disc and Ailette rivers, failed last night, according to the statement today by the French war office.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
The Weather Report

For Bridgeport and vi- % cinity; Unsettled. probably light snow late tonight or Sunday somewhat colder.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
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