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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
GERMANS FIGHT
CZECH DEPUTIES
IN PARLIAMENT

Copenhagen, March 16-Czech and
German members of the lower house
of the Austrian parliament engaged in
wild scuffIe in which several were
injured Thursday during a speech by
the Czech deputy Soukop, says a
Vienna dispatch to the Hamburger
Fremdenblatt. The disturbances be-
came so serious that the chairman had
to dissolve the sitting.
Deputy Soukop complained that
Prague, the capital of Bohemia, had
been for several days without food,
including potatoes. Deputy Wolff, a
German member, jumped to his feet
and shouted:
1.-THE Czechs have not given out
proper quantities of food. The Czechs
will starve us. They are the allies of
the British"
The German deputy's harangue was
interrupted by Deputy Rydlaziz, a
Czech, who threw him to the floor.
The tumult thus begun soon spread
throughout the house.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
WILLIAMS IS
NAILED AS
Thief
Alleged to Have Smash
ed Window of Michaels'
Jewelry Store Dec. II
LOUNGED AROUND
BEACH IN SUMMER
Lived Life of Prince in
Hotels During Winter
Never Worked.

Frank Williams, 33, who is
said to be one Of the two men
who early on the morning of
December II, threw a large
rock through the display win
dow of Michael's jewelry store
on Main street, was arrested a
couple of days ago in Spring
field, Mass
He arrived in Bridgeport to-
day to answer the charge
of stealing $4,000 worth of
jewelry, and it is hinted that
there will be another charge
against him for a similar crime
in New Haven
Williams was arrested in Spring
field on March IA. on a charge of
theft of the person, and when he was
brought to the Springfield police
11CdOAuc IC1o AdplcIlll NRU1lIl IlOllCSu
the resemblance to the man whom
Captain E. o. Cronan of Bridgeport
was looking for. GUILTY Immediately
got Captain Cronan on the telephone
and in the exchange of notes which
followed it was definitely established
that Williams was the man they were
searching for.
1t was Immediately arranged with
the Springfield authorities to have
Williams brought to Bridgeport and
when he arrived today he was given
a severe grilling by the members of
the detective bureau, who believe
that in the arrest of Williams they
have rounded up one of the most dar-
ing of window smashing thieves.
When brought before Captain Gro
nan, Williams refused to talk, and no
amount of threatening, diplomacy or
inducement could get him to answer
questions. Captain Cronan is rather
sure that Williams will fit into the
description of the man who has been
wanted by the police all over the
country for the past several years,
and is getting busy with the bureau
heads of other cities where similar
In discussing the case today Cap
tain Crouan said: "It will be remem-
bered that this man Williams made
his first appearance IN Bridgeport
about a year ago. He always seemed
to be plentifully supplied with money,
and at any time he was in danger of
running short he used to leave town
| for periods not exceeding two weeks,
but invariably he returned with a
new bank roll. As far as we have
been able to find out he never work
ed, but spent the summer down at the
beach. In the fall he moved to town
and lived in hotels mostly.
"The morning he selected for his
| break was a cold snowy day and
| there were few people stirring around
| $50 when the alleged thief and a
| companion went to the show window
of the jewelry store and calmly broke
| it in with a large rock. The people
who were around at that hour look
| ed on while the thieves cleaned out
! the window of diamond rings.
watches, lavaliers, stick pins and
other valuables. When they had Sc
cured everything in reach they sa-
luted two women who were on the op-
posite sidewalk and made a sign of
silence to them. They then departed
for an unknown destination"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
CALL OUT TROOPS
TO SUPPRESS The
|. ". ". RIOTERS

ST. Maries, Idaho, March 16-Ar-
rival of United States troops and Idaho
state guardmen, ordered here by Maj.
Gen. Arthur Murray, commanding the
western army department, and Gov.
Alexander as a precaution against
possible renewal of violence by Indus
trial Workers of the World, was
anxiously awaited here today.
Armed civilians. deputized yesterday
by Sheriff A. L. holland after he was
set upon and beaten by a mob of In
dustrial Workers and their sympathiz-
ers, who are declared to have threat
ened to deliver one of their number
from Jail here, patrolled the streets
during the night to prevent any fresh
outbreak.
The trouble arose yesterday when
the l. W. W. members learned of the
sheriff's intention to remove William
Nelson, formerly secretary of the I.
W. W. local here, to Couer d'Alene,
Idaho, on a change of venue for trial
on a charge of criminal syndicatism.
The sheriff, who demonstrated with
the crowd which made threats to re-
lease Nelson from Jail, was knocked
down several times and was severely
beaten.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
JOHANNSEN AND
MALONE TO SPEAK

Anton Johnnnsen, representative of
the California State Building Trades
Council, will be the principal speaker
at the huge mass meeting being ar
ranged by the union organizations of
the city, at the Plaza theatre, tomor
row afternoon. By special arrange
ment Dudley Field Malone, who is to
make an address to the Suffrage wo-
men at the Poll theatre, will also
speak to the meeting at the Plaza.
Johannsen will speak at Poll meet
ing also.
Johannsen has been sent east to tell
the story of the Mooney case with the
purpose of obtaining the moral and
financial support of the trade Or
ganiZations in this section.
Lynn w. Wilson, of Bridgeport, will
address the meeting on why Presi-
dent Wilson thinks Mooney should
have new trial."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16

The resolution reads:
''The allLRussian congress of soviets
expresses it's appreciation to the
American people and first of all the
laboring and exploited classes in the
United States for the message sent by
President Wilson to the congress of
soviets, in this time when the Rus
sian Socialist soviet republic is living
through most difficult trials.
THE Russian republic uses the oc-
casion of the message from President
Wilson to express to all people who
are dying and suffering from the hor-
rors of this imperialistic war, its
warm sympathy and firm conviction
that the happy time is near when the
laboring masses in all bourgeois coun-
tries will throw off the capitalist yoke
and establish a Socialist state of So
ciety. which is the only one capable
of assuring a permanent and just
peace as well as the culture and we'll
being Of all who toll"
The congress is being held in the
splendid banquet hall of the Nobility
club, where former emperors often
were entertained. Soldiers, sailors
and peasants formed a majority of
the 1854 delegates present. M. Sverd-
loft. chairman Of the central execu-
tive committee of the congress, pre-
sided. The Bolshevik members num-
her 1872 and there are SS Social Revo-
lutionists.
Premier Lenine made the principal
speech and received a great ovation
He reviewed the history of the revo-
luton and emphasized the necessity
of signing a peace treaty. NJ. Tchit-
cberin. the acting foreign minister
read the peace terms 1t was decided
that peace should be considered first
and after that the permanent removal
Of the capital from Petrograd and the
election Of a new General executive
committee.
Strong forces Of guards were about
sbe haN. but there were no attempts
at disorder. Moscow is quiet, Boil
shevik control apparently being abso'
lutte.
A caucus of the Bolshevih, while
favoring a signing of the German
peace treaty, has resolved to approve
Ae course of the peace delegatlon o
the council of peoples commissarles
The caucus also condemns the Ger
man peace terms and declared it wa'
necessary to restore order and organ
ize for defense.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
NAVY FORCES OUT
NEWPORT SALOONS

Newport, R. L, March 16.-The Navy
department order prohibiting the sale
of liquor within five miles of the New
port naval station went into effect to-
day with the result that 49 saloons
and wholesale liquor stores in this
icty were forced out Of business.
Efforts by dealers to gain an extern
sion of time so that they might dis
pose of their stocks more proftably
were unavailing and the authorities
announced that every establishment
would he closed at o'clock this af-
ternoon, and that the order would be
strictly enforced.
An investigation by the police indi-
Gated, they said, that large amounts
of liquor had been shipped here from
New York, Boston and Providence for
the use of civilians.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
|NFERENCES OF
new PROPOSALS
FROM GERMANY

Washington, March 16-Inferences
that Germany may have made a new
peace offer to the Allies, proposing
terms at the expense of Russia, coin
eide with an undercurrent of discus
sion which has been running in diplo-
matte circles here for some time, but
which never has shown any evidence
of tangible development.
The statement of Lord Robert Ce-
Gil in London yesterday that no such
proposals would be considered,
coupled with Marshal Hindenburg's
announcement that the German offens-
i've would go on in view of the En-
tente's unresponsive attitude toward
Germanys peace intentions, served to
strengthen the view of neutral diplo-
mats who for some time have be-
lieted that some sort of underground
fee1ers have been going out for some
time.
American officials and Allied diplo-
mats while agreeing with Lord Cecirs
statement that no such terms can be
considered, give no evidence of how
much may be known here of what
Hindenburg refers to as Germanys
peace intentions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16

DAYLIGHT SAVING

Washington, March 16-The day
light saving bill, passed by the House
yesterday in slightly different form
than approved by the Senate last June
went back to the Senate today, where
the measures supporters set out to
obtain early agreement.
Under the Senate bill the nations
clocks would be set forward an hour
OF the last Sunday in April and turn
ed back again on the last Sunday in
September, while the House bill
would change the clocks on the last
Sunday in March and the last Sun
CAV in October
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
EXPECT RELIEF IN
SHORTAGE OF COAL

Relief is sighted in the present
shortage of coal in Bridgeport. For
the first time in five days coal has
been received here by the water
route. Six barges arrived this morn
ing and were placed at the various
docks.
A consignment of 100 cars of coal,
of which it is said the greater part is
billed for Bridgeport, is on the New
Haven tracks between Devon and
Derby.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
AMERICANS
ROUT HUN
PATROL
U. S. Shippers Shoot Down
Advance Men AS They
Crawl Through Fence.

With the American Army in
France, Wednesday, March 13-
(By the A. P.)-Active artillery
firing continues on the American
sectors north of TOul and east of
Luneville. A considerable num-
Der of gas shells has been falling
interTnittently ON the Toul front.
An enemy patrol was discover
ed this morning in the American
wire entangSementS northwest of
Toul. The Germans were driven
off with rife fire and several of
them were hit. One body was
left hanging in the wire.
American snipers have been
very busy on both sectors. East
of LunevilIe six enemy snipers
were silenced by the Americans.
On the Toul front during last
night and today considerable
talking, and even singing, was
heard within the enemy lines.
Several times the Germans stuck
their heads over tho parapets to
see what the Americans were
doing.
After several of their number
were hit the Germans stopped
looking.
At one place last night an
American sentry saw figure
sinking through the darkness.
The man halted when challenged
and was found to be a German
prisoner who had escaped and
was trying to get back to his own
lines.
The place where the German
was captured was NOT far from
where an American one FOUNDER
was busy firing on large nest of
enemy snipers. The Germans
withdrew.
The American artillery in the
Toul sector again battered the
German lines and observation
posts and caused an explosion,
probably of an ammunition dump.
Hundreds of big shells were sent
into three new German trenches
where weapons resembling gas
projectors had been erected.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
PRESIDENT TO
DECLARE POSITION

Washington, March 16-There were
intimations in official circles today
that President Wilson might make an
early declaration on the Russian
situation. 1t was not indicated what
might be its form or its manner of
delivery.
Americas attitude toward interven-
ton in Siberia by Japan, whether she
acts independently or in conjunction
with other powers, has not undergone
any change, it was said today at the
state department.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16

A call was sent to the Emergency
hospital under the impression that he
might still be alive, but upon the ar
rival of DR.. ]. F. Keegan, it was
found he had been dead for a con-
siderable time.
Upon investigation it was found
that a rubber tube leading from gas
let TO a little stove used to heat the
room had slipped off the pipe and the
gas filed the room instead of being
burned in the heater.
Efforts are being made to locate
relatives of the deceased. Gleeman
had resided at the Arch street ad-
.iress only two days. and no one
seems 20 know anything about him.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
PLANS FOR
THE LIBERTY LOAN

The executive committee to have
charge of the third loan, which is to
be f1oated in a few weeks, will meet
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in
the First Bridgeport National Bank,
to formulate plans for the drive. The
subcommittee are at work and will
submit reports at this time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
FORBIDS SAILING
OF DUTCH SHIPS

Washington, March 16-With the
exception of two steamers the United
States is holding all Dutch ships now
in American ports to prevent their
escape pending probable requisition
on Monday. No coal licenses will be
issued for their sailing, it was learn
ed today. until they are taken over
either by communicating or by ne.
gotiation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
WANT JUST
PEACE OR
NONE
Most Critical Stage Of War
Reached, Henderson's
Opinion.

London, March 16-The most
critical stage of the whole history
of the war has been reached, in
the opinion of Arthur Hender-
son, secretary of the Labor party.
Speaking i'll London at woman
suffrage celebration yesterday,
Mr.. Henderson added:
II have been imagining during
the last few days, having regard
to what has taken place in Rus
sia, that some German enlissary
might come along and say: why
do we fight? Why cannot we set
tie it? We are prepared to come
to a compromise with you re-
garding colonies and we are pre-
pared to make considerable con-
cessions to France with refer
ence to Alsace-Lorraine.'
''That would be cynical
peace, containing the seeds of fu-
tUre war. 1t would not be a
clean peace and it would not be
an honorable peace. 1t would be
the desertion of Russia and the
women of this country must
stand against it like flint.
1--WE are anxious for peace and
the sooner it comes the better.
But let me say it must be a peace
consistent with the ideals for
which we entered the war. No
one deplores more than 1 the col
lapse of Russia, but 1 do not be-
Heve that represents a majority
of the Russian people. The Rus
sian people were very anxious for
peace. / am anxious for peace,
but never in any speech that I
have made OF in any suggestion
that I made privately have I COM
mitted myself to position sim
liar to that in Russia.
by all means let us try for
peace, a peace based on interna-
tional Justice and that only"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
WELSH TROOPS IN
SUCCESSFUL RAID

London, March 16-"Welsh troops
carried out a successful raid last night
in the neighborhood of Armentieres,
and captured Is prisoners and two
machine guns the war office reports.
Hostile artillery was active southeast
of Ypres, in the neighborhood of the
Menin road and south of Houtholst
forest"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
BLACKMAIL TRIAL
is RESUMED TO-DAY

Atlanta. Ga. March 16-The trial
of Mrs. Margaret A. Hirsch, accused
of black mail of Asa G. Gambler, may
or of Atlanta, was resumed here to-
day with indication that the case
would be given to the jury before
night.
The hearing of motion of ]. W
Cook, alleged accomplice of the de-
fendant,, for a new trial, was set fo~
today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16

A dispatch from Tientsin, China, to
the Daily Mail, says the japanese er11e
bassy in Peking has been informeA
that during disturbances in Blago-
vieshtchensk three japanese were
killed and seven were wounded while
defending their property against Boil
sheviki.
lagovieshtchensky is on the Anlur
near its confluence with the Zeya and
is opposite the Manchurian town of
Aigun. Itis 500 miles north of Har-
bin and has a population of $4,000.
There are extensive gold mines in the
district
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
BELIEVE VALUABLE
HORSES POISONED

Covington. Ky, March 16-With
125 horses dead and 115 others that
will probably die, the investigation
into the alleged poisoning of a large
consignment of government horses
here yesterday continued with un-
abated zeal today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16

News dispatches have said the
American and British legations in
Stockholm had started representa-
tives for Finland carrying a formal
protest against the arrests to Gen.
Mannerheim, commander of the Fin
nish government forces.
Mr.. Emery, Minister Morris dis
patch discloses, holds a majors com
mission in the reserve army. He was
sent to Russia by the Guaranty Trust
Co. of New York. While there he
was commissioned at the request of
Brig. Gen. Judson, American military
attache in Petrograd, and was made
a member of the American military
mission
Minister Morris said nothing as to
the final disposition of the prisoners,
although press dispatches said they
were taken to Dantzig, Germany
aboard a German steamer. All women
members of the party and men moro
than so years old were allowed to-
proceed to Sweden. The minister
said the party was captured after it
left Abo bV sledge and that they
were taken to Ekero.
At the State Department it was
said that no instructions had been
sent to Minister Morris.
The minister reported that there
were % persons in the original party
and that besides Major Emery the
Germans held 16 EngIishmen. The
Germans were about to send the
women and older men into Holland,
but Swedish officials on the land is
lands protested and they were put
aboard a boat for Sweden
The American attache was accom-
panied by a member of the British
legation, conveying a similar protest
and demand regarding the arrest O.
16 Britishers in the same party with
Mr. Emery, all of whom we're taken
aboard a German steamer and taken
to Dantzig, Germany.
Minister Morris old not wait for
instructions from Washington, but
called conference of Entente min
listers, which decided to take the mat.
ter straight to Gen. Mannerhein,
who will have a chance to show
whether Finland is an independent
state or a vassal of Germany.
Washington, March 16 Henry
Crosby Emery. who was among the
British and Americans taken prisoner
by Germans as they were leaving
Finland on a neutral ship, is a
former Yale professor of economies
and was chairman of the tariff board
during President Taft's administra-
ton He is known to college men
the country over as probably the most
popular professor at Yale since
Charles Sumner and is recognized as
a leading student of economics.
Recent dispatches from Stockholm
telling of the arrest of the civilians
said the Americans and British of
military age would be taken to a
German internment camp.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
HENRY CROSBY emery
FORMER CHAIRMAN Of
TARIFF UNDER ARREST
CAPTURED WITH PARTY OF BRITISH AND
TAKEN TO GERMANY, SAYS SWEDISH
MINISTER IN REPORT TO STATE
DEPARTMENT-WO HELD

Washington, March 16-A report the arrest on the
Aand islands of Henry Crosby Emery former chairman of the
tariff board said to have been captured with party of the
British by Germans taken Germany was made to
the State department today by Minister Morris Stockholm
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
RUSSIAN congress
APPLAUDS WILSON'S
MESSAGE TO PEOPLE
NEW GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLYMEN DRAFT RES
OLUTTON EXPRESSING APPRECIATION OF
PRESIDENTS SYMPATHETIC NOTE
LENINE GETS BIG OVATION

Moscow, Thursday March 1-(By the Associated Press
President Wilson'S of sympathy to the Russian people
received with marked applause when it read tonight
the opening session of the aRussian congress of sovets
The congress Immediately adopted resolution of appreciation
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
GLEEMAN FALLS victim
TO A FAULTY GAS TUBE

John Geeman clerk, employed at the Bridgeport Public
Market residing 122 Arch street. found dead in his
bed eight o'clock this morning when his andlady broke
in the door of his getting strong odor of gas.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
SIBERIAN mAXIMALlSTs
MURDER $50 JAPANESE

London March t6-Maxmalists in Siberia have murdered
$50 Japanese in Observation-Disclosures capital of the Amur
ince report printed in the newspaper Hoch Shmbun Fri
day and forwarded by Reuters, limited
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
Superior News Service

The Times gives the public the
latest Asso. Press news dispatches,
exclusive news features of the In
ternational News Service and local
matters in a concise, pithy man
ner. A Peoples Paper" pub
ished without fear or favor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-16
The Weather Report

New Haven, March 16-
Bridgeport and vicinity:
Partly cloudy and warmer
tonight and Sunday.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-01
RUMANIAN DRIVE
ON BESSARABIAN
lines DEFENDED

London, Jan. 30-The reasons that
Rumanian troops, one of the causes
of the rupture in relations between
Rumania and Russia, are explained
by the correspondent of the Times
with the Rumanian army, in dis
patch filed Jan. %. He says the
Bessarabian officials made repeated
appeals to the Rumanians to restore
order and save private property from
looters conditions having been great
ly disturbed by the Bolshevig regime.
Another and more powerful consider
all manner of supplies belonging to
Rumania, which the Bolsheviki
threatened to destroy.
To save these stores and maintain
communication with Odessa and Kiev
was, the correspondent says, a matter
of life or death involving the ques-
ton of Rumania's absolute isolation
from her allies in western Europe.
Describing the fight between Rus
slams and Rumanians in Galatz, the
correspondent says that but for the
valor of the Rumanians the town
would have been reduced to a mass
of ruins. The Russians attacked the
town with great energy on Jan. Fl.
The Rumanians resisted stubbornly,
but the situation became critical.
Eventually the Rumanians gained vic
tory by a counter attack with bayo-
nets and hand grenades, aided by the
fire of two small gunboats at the
mouth of the Sereth river.
An Exchange Telegraph Co. dis
patch from Petrograd says the Rus
sian commission ers have ordered the
removal of NJ. Koseovsky, chairman
of the revolutionary inquiry commits
sion, and some of his colleagues on
the charge of bribery. They have
appointed new members and ordered
a careful investigation. The affair
has caused a great sensation in Petro-
grad.