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The Washington times., 1919-12-07
CcieSin Will Bring
Bsfide to CAPITAL,

Mr.. Celesia expects to remain on at
the Italian embassy under the new
dispensation--at least for the pres
ent and will bring his bride to WASH
inEton after their honeymoon. They
are faced with the problem of finding
some place to live and will take an
apartment if they can find Anything
suitable. Mr.. Celesia has been in
Washington off and on for nearly five
years. and has made host of friends
who are looking forward to welcom-
ing his bride.
She is . New York girl. the daurb-
ter of NJ. and Mrs. William II. Err
hart. and met the young Italian dip
Iomst at Palm Beach last winter
when he was recovering from the
nu and she was resting up after
eighteen strenuous months with the
Red Cross overseas. She had seen
service both on the French and Bel
gian fronts
Mr. Celesia first came to Washing
ton in 1915. just after he had entered
the diplomatic Service, but he went
home when Italy declared war
against Austria-Hungary and served
with the Twenty second cavalry at
tached to the artillery in the famous
Col di Lana sector. 1t was then that
he was awarded the war cross.
Met ''Cookje" Moore
While Overseas.
year or so later MIR. Celesia Wa,
ordered to resume his diplomatic
duties and was again sent to Wash
lngton. He has been abroad since
last summer and spent some time in
Pafls, where, he told me. ran into a
good many Washingtonians. Cookie
Moore-Mme. Henri Marouisan-was
among them, very well and as charm
ing as ever: and so was Mrs. AkseI
"lchfeld. who, apparently, intends tn
spend the entire winter in Paris.
before entering the diplomatic serv.
ice, Mr.. Celesia Travelled extensively
In the far corners of the world es-
peclally in Albania and Africa: and he
TOOK one particularly thrilling ,iour.
hey. several months in length. into
the interior of Abyssinis. \ He belongs
TO well-known Italian family his
lather being a member of the NUM-
Tlpal council of Turin and a promi-
hent hgure in banking and industria,
circles. The younger man is a doctor
OF jurisprudence and has received tho
decoration of ChevaIier OF the Crown
of Italy.
The Washington times., 1919-12-07
IS WEEKLY CHRONICLE OF CAPITAL SOCIETY

Washington since their father or
brothers have been on duty here. are
Blena Calderon. daughter of the MN
lister of Bolivia, who grew up here,
and is regarded as a genuine Wash
ington girl; Ramona Lefevre. sistcr
of the popular charge daffaires OF
the Panama legation, j. T.. Lefevre;
and the Tribe girls, Tulia and Ines.
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now a resident of Detroit. The we'd
ding will take place on January 10 at
the home of the bride. 1882 Lamont
street. Mr.. Cathcart returned in July
after eighteen months service as cap
tain in the Motor Transport Corps
both in France and with the Army Of
Occupation in Coblenz. Germany.
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in American = OF John Drinkwaters
Abraham Lincoln" isst Sunday nigh
was one OF the interesting jueiasu< =
of the week. The play has creaseI
quite a furore in England, and its
opening here was made something ~
functiop-a big theater party with
the National Press Club playing hogs
10, Congress. and some prominent c.
ficials- IT was a most interesting pls y
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uncle and aunt the Chilean Ambassl-
dor and Nine de Matthew. at the
Chilean embassy. Their mother, Nine.
Domingo de Cana. is with them. They
are bright girls. full of fun and dasn
and already they are popular.
Other girls of the diplomatic corps,
who have made warm friends in
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first of their series of dances for
the benefit of local charities. on Ffs-
day night. Both were great fun. Tire
dance at the Barracks was given by
the offic lrs stationed there. some os
them had dinners 4 beforehand and
ever so many of the attractive young
were present.
The Washington times., 1919-12-07
Leaves the MarshGaI1s
As Official Lions.

So now, apparently. ii is up to
Washington to go ahead and plan its
winter without the White House. re-
garding the President and Mrs. Will
son as likely to be as completely
This leaves the Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall as the ranking official
lions, the most exalted honor guests
and patrons obtainable for any social
or charitable function. Which, after
all. has this adyantage-the Marshalls
are very much more accessible than
the Wilson's. There are no lions in
the path--no big iron gates. guarded
by big almost equally iron policemen.
The White House gates, closed the
night that the President ordered Won
Bernstorffs passports sent to him.
have never since been opened: the
public il no longer free to pass
through the White House grounds on
the Pennsylvania avenue side, and one
wonders II another OF our harmless
liberties has vanished forever.
The Congressional Club is naturally
making no plans for the reception to
the Chief Executive and his wife.
which, in the dear days before the
war. used to be a feature of the win
ter program of the organization when
ever possible; but invitations have
been sent out for a reception in honor
of the Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall The date selected is December
IS, and this party will be quite the
most brilliant event Of the clubs
season
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Other Pleasant
Events Of Week.

Other pleasant events of week,
which saw the debuts of three charm
ing buds, Marion Drain. Helen Tuca-
er, and Marcia Chaplin. were the dan,
at the Marine Barracks last evening.
and the Junior League party, ti.s
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that was Greece and the gradeur that
was Rome;" but his work was car
ried through with distinguished sue
cess.
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that there's to be card party at
the club on Tuesday night.
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Diplomats Choose
Wives In America.

Baroness Avezzana has been
genuine inspiration to her husband
during his twenty years or more of
diplomatic service. and has found
genuine enjoyment in the nomadic
existence of diplomats wife. The
ambassador is an aristocrat--one can
see that from the very look and bear
ing of the man--born of a distin-
guished Neapolitan family. And from
the twinkle in his eye one can deduce
the sparkling NeapoIitan wit with
which he is blessed. He has none OF
the fiery excitability with which tra-
dition endows the Latins, but. on the
contrary. is singularly quiet and di-
rect in manner. He talks little. but
he has a way of saying much in
few words.
Entering the diplomatic service in
1895, the baron served as secretary
of legation at various posts, includ-
ing Washington; and it was during
this period that he wooed and won
Miss Taylor. Then he went to China
as charge d'affaires. Aarriving at
rekin in 1900 just after the Boxer
trouble when the country was still
seething with unrest. He handled
difficult situation with much delicacy
end finesse, winning not only the con-
fidence and respect of the Chinese
authorities but the high regard of
his colleagues of the diplomatic corps.
From Pekin he went to Serbia as
charge d'affaires, remaining at Bel
grade for three years and eXerting
no little influence in Balkan affairs.
Then came service as Minister to
Persia and afterward Minister TO
Brazil. When the royal family of
Montenegro was driven from the
Montenegran capital by the Austrian
invasion. Baron AveZzana was sent
with them into France and served as
the King of Italy's Minister TO King
Nicholas
In 1917 he~Y9s named Ambassador
to Russia, but the fall OF the
kcrensky government and the estab-
l,shment OF Bolshevist rule prevented
his taking over this portfolio. In the
spring of 1918 there was some talk
Of his being made foreign minister to
succeed Baron SOnnino. but this fell
through and i'm May of that year he
was sent to Athens where he rema in
Cd until detailed 10 his present post.
His service there was not easy. for
there still survives something of the
traditional rivalry between the glory
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Regular Friday
Receptions On.

Meanwhile the regular weekly Fri
day afternoon receptions at the CLUB
are in order; and tonight Mrs. John
B. Henderson, who is chairman of the
music committee, is inaugurating the
choral singing which is to be an
event OF each Sunday evening. The
idea is to get the club members to-
gether, with their husbands, or es-
corts, between $50 and $50 O'clock
for an informal "sing' under the
leadership of Elizabeth Howry, who
has been identified with the Y. NJ. c.
A. community singing in France
Margaret Ripy daughter of Mrs. J.
Campbell Cantrill, an accomplished
pianist, will be the sccompanist: and
in time the club hopes to organize an
orchestra to work in cooperation
with the chorus.
The first of the Friday afternoon tea
parties, given day before yesterday.
was a reception in honor of the wives
of the new members of Congress-and
very delightful function ii was.
There We're nearly 400 persons pres .
cnt. members and their guests: and
the Marine Band played for the occa-
sion. Mrs. Charles ID. Ward. president
of the club, received, and was assist
ed by Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs Me-
dill Mccormick, Mrs. James +. Byrnes.
Mrs. Finis j. Garrett, and Mrs Ed
ward King, with a number of other
prominent women to dispense hospi.
tality in the dining room. Hereafter
therell be some sort of a program
music, or a speaker, or something OF
the sort-on Friday afternoons, and
oh, yes, | mustn't forget to tell you
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who are sisters of Nine. Urueta, wife
OF the minister of Colombia.
Also there's Berta Bonillas, daueh-
ter of the Mexican Ambassador ona
Mime. Bonillas, who was listed amona.
the debutantes but decided in favor
of another year i'm school: Laura
Bryn. daughter OF the Minister OF
Norway and Nine. Bryn, who is pre-
pairing for college-Vassar, | think
and Evora Bonct. whose father is
commercial attache of the Cuban 10 :
cation. She's also back i'm school Of
ter having almost decided to MAKE
her bow to society. And Anita 10
Lima, is returning shortly with the
Minister of Cuba and Nine. de Css-
pedes, with whom she has been
abroad. She is their niece and has
been with them for a long time.
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The openine-the nrst performsnes
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Nine. Jusserand. wife of the French
ambassador. dean of the corps. is a
native of New England. Nine. de
Riano. wife of the Spanish ambassa-
dor, is claimed Jointly by New York
and Washington. where she spent
most Of her girlhood, the chum and
confida4te of Alice Roosevelt, now
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
The Belgian ambassadors bride.
Baroness de Cartier de Marchinenne
was born in Boston, lived most of her
life in New York and. as Mrs. Hamil-
ton Wilkes Cary, was widely known
to society in several cities. And now
comes Baron Avezzan, the new
Italian ambassador. bringing with
him a wife who Gas formerly Miss
Jacqueline Taylor, of st. Louis.
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The first step toward becoming &c
ambassador from European countl1,
to the United States is to marry an
American girl during the early stage,
of ones diplomatic career. At least
so 1t would seem from survey OF
the present social situation i'm WASH
ington. Scusin' Great Britain. whose
envoy is a widower, and Russia, whose
ambassadors wife. a Russian. is an
invalid and now in sanitorium, ey-
cry European embassy here now has
an American woman at it's head.
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ehgea of n Of
rich with beautiful nd with nd silk in
Sktp n h du kin Green Navy,
Tnmd tkN NuslR Opoxum Preach
melt Semi ;
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
THE CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT

TT HERE IS SOME unrest and much dissatisfaction among those gentlemen who have failed again to consider the terms of the Corrupt Practices Act in when the eNpend single city election permitted to increase to $3OOOO nobody how much undsclosed
 1ct the law the books Its purpose is to protect the people, by seeing that elections fair. The provisions Of the law i'll the main wise and reasonable The use of money, and the purposes for which the may be used intended be limited, and conditions arranged that the passage money from hand to hand is to be strictly Wach ed guarded that the instant dollar enters the campaign is be traced from him who it to those thai received H. and ali those that handled 1t in betWee
 The lions the police and fire department sufficient how the last election managed
 The law forbds frcmen and policemen participation in politics The law not contemplate that these shall be assessed to pay for political campaigns.
 Yet from these two departments alone $6OO0 taken regardless whether the contributors Democrats Re pubcans gave willingly more, gave unwiIlnsy, and under coercion.
 this of thing is not peculiar to Bridgeport It extent all the United States but the moral country years been fighting po tca corruption closing the sstem and will with in few years have it annih ated.
 the meantime will it not be better for Bridgeport pO obey the while the light holds out to burn? later time will when Somebody will get tired simply pointing out the right way, and may insist with verify of legal penalty, upon the law being obeyed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
HOLDING THREE
 FOR MURDER
 OF R0SSICNAL
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The police are still trying to locate some of the Italians who part cipated in the fight at the corner. So far, however, their efforts have been un- successful The gang seems to have cover | it's tracks thoroughly since it's disappearance Immediately after the stabbing.
 William II. May. of 249 Coleman street, Edward Bassett and Lorenzo Isiyisina, of Harral avenue. all of whom were arrested yesterday and questioned by Coroner PheIan, have been released from custody. None of these men have been able to sup ply any information as to the actual facts Of the murder.
 In an attempt to thrash out the details of the mystery, the police questioned many of ROssignars friends and acquaintances, but so far these people have discIaimed any knowl- edge of the affair. Further arrests are expected, however, and it is be- Iieved that the police will be able to establish the identity of the murderer within a short time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS

(From The Farmer, Tuesday, December 9, 1869l
 The New York and New Haven Railroad Co., have declared dividend of five dollars each share of old stock and dollar and twenty-five share of stock free, payable and after Jan. 3d. 1870
 To give idea of the and through city learn that about two hundred and fifty horses shOd at the shop of Messr Dorman and Son, Middle street, during the past week,
 Sliding down hill very pleasant juvenile amusement but there few obstacles to it's uninterrupted enjoyment within the city limits Specially is this true of Main Wall and others of principal streets In fact people ery consider sIedding the walks greak nuisance -one that should be abaed when the next snow falls.
 
 At meeting representatives Bridgeport department held last evening at the house of Mountain Hose Co., No the following gentlemen elected officers of the Bridgeport Fremens Benevolent Society. C. A Gardiner, president; Hugh awon vice presidents H. Partridge, rotary Byron Eddy eas4rer Joseph S. Reed messenger
 Sup Macartee, of the Printing Bureau the Treasury Department, has posted up notice forbddng, whsing, smoking protane language and ounging among the female clerks of his department
 Coal which has been selling in New York Sl0 ton for several weeks past fell the 8th to $5O single The action forced by the action of the refused to lay in their Winter supply at exhorban rates who COngratUating other victory dealers had 10 down under
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
GERMANY TOLD 1T IS VAIN ID
 SEEK DELAY

Paris, Dec. 9-Germany's delega- ton at Versailles is considering what is looked upon as the last word of the supreme council of the peace conference relative to the signing of the protocol of the treaty of peace.
 German demands for modification of the treaty clauses calling for the surrender of the Germans charged with violations of the laws of war fare, as well as those dealing with the repatriation of prisoners of war, are rejected. The status of America in relation to the treaty is held not to alter the effectiveness of the pact, and German objections along this line are described as "pretended rights" Germany is told 1t is vain to seek to delay" the operation of the treaty and that the allies await the sigma ture of the protocol without further loss of time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
WEST TERRIBLY
 HIT BY GOAL LACK AND STORM
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teers from surface deposits either was going on or in prospect it was report ed that such work probably would be impossible in the face of the adverse weather cOndit'On In Kansas, where it was hoped soon to sec 100 carloads of fIie' a day taken out. mines for several days have been worked under circumstances that heretofore has caused a cessation of labor.
 Sh"nld the cold snap be protract- ed il ose- states, reports said, much sufc might be expected.
 Driving snow accompanied the faitug temperatures in some places and in Montana q train stalled Sun day at Sheridan still was fast in a six foot drift. The passengers were taken into the town however.
 At Lander, W-yO., it was 31 degrees below zero; 26 below at Livingston, Mont, with 25 below reported from various places in eastern Oregon Great Falls, Mont, was believed the coldest place in :he country, however, with a thermometer reading of 33 degrees below zero.
 Pastures in the western country were reported buried under ice and much suffering by range cattle ana other exposed animals was feared.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
HOPE 10 RAISE S1,50O,OOO BY
 ZONE SYSTEM
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nesses had shown the company to be insolvent MT. Burke said he did not agree that the Connecticut Go was insoIvent.
 On motion of Judge J. P. Futile Of HarcfC=d, q recess was ordered, dur ing which attorneys conferred.
 On resumption of the testimony MT. Burke asked MT. PUndcrford if it were not so, that at a hearing in De- ccmbcr, 1916, on a protest against the six cent fare, the corporation counsel of Hartford had suggested the zone system. Mir. Punderford re- called that this was so and he added that the zone system now in use is unique so far as the United States is concerned, that it was the only one of its particular kind in operation.
 Reply to MT. Burke the general manager admitted that it was not un- til the last legislature failed relief that a zone system was considered.
 MT. Punderford admitted that the company does not know whether the zone system will be a success or not. He was sure rates are now too low.
 Do you consider you gave the six cent fare a fair trial?" asked MT. Burke.
 We gave it dangerously long trial" replied MT. Punderford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
GOES 10 APPEAR
 AGAINST hiIEEN
 GETS ARRESTED
Charged With Being Al leged Erequenter of
 Gambling House.
Copyright, 1s1a.
 by the secture Newspaper 5ya6lssts

When the cases of Barney Bgersky, Braggino Gargin, John Sheriden and Frank BrinGts:, all of New Haven, came up for a hearing in the City court this morning, a queer situation resulted, and Samuel Talinsky of New Haven and Christopher Tcsta of 629 Harral averHe found themselves mixed up in the law.
 The four New Haven men have been held 5n 8ridEeport since December 3 charged with stealing $436 from Ta- HnsEy during the course of a crap game said to have hecn operated by Festa in his pool room at the cOrnes of Catherine street and HarraI ave nUe. Ta1insky and Testa apDeart<i in the City court this morning and were promptly arrested, Talinsly being charged with freQuenting a gambling house and Testa with operating the establishment.
 Any robbery charges which may have been entered against the New Haven quartet were dropped tn s morning, and each man was fined B for frequenting a gambling house. Talinsky paid a similar fine on the same charge. Tes-a. alleged proprie- tor of the gambling establishment, will be arraigned in the city court Monday morning. He has been re- leased under $10O bonds
 The four who were held here for nearly a week are well known in New Haven, and are saiI to have police records in that city. They were re- gently arrested there in connection with a safe-blOwing, but were releas- ed because of lack of evidence. Every man admitted that he came to Bridgeport on Nov. 19 for the pur- pose of gambling, and declared that the house" got a 'rake-off' on the game.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES
 LIVELY TOPIC

Washington, Dec. 9-With most of the national leaders of the Republi- can party already assembled here and others arriving on every train Washington was alive today with gossip over candidates and issues for the campaign of 1920.
 The gathering was incidental to the meeting of the national committee, which convenes tomorrow to select the place and time of the national convention next summer. The fight for the convention was between Chi cago and St. Louis, but it attracted only passing attention compared tc the activities of the friends of Presi- dential possibilities and the con- ferences over questions Of party policy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-09
RUSSIAN REDS
 AT BOTTOM OF
 SOCIAL UNREST
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 labor party. In each of these groups the overthrow of government by ille- gal means, including violence, is the weapon urged upon the masses, the report will state.
 New York City is one of the big headquarters for the organized move ment, the report will point out, with Chicago. Cley cland. Detroit and vir- tuaIly every other industrial center from the Atlantic to the Pacific har- boring q headquarters for the radical campaign.
 in the six months of the commit tees active investigation it has Yer reted out practically every nook and cranny in Greater New York where radicausm extending 10 all sections of the country had It's nest, the report will state. Hundreds of arrests have been made on tufornla+ion furnished by the committee. Scores of Indict- ments for criminal anarchy have been returned on date procured and made available by it.
 The first conviction for criminal anarchy in the United States is claim cd for New York on information fur nished by 1t, on which Carl Piavio and Gust AIonen, publishers of a Finnish radical newspaper here, are
 
 eight years in Sing Sing. (The so- called Chicago anarchists, arrested in the Haymarket Riots there 3S years ago, were convicted Of murder and not anarchy.)
 The 19 persons indicted here yes terday charged with criminal anarchy were arrested on information pro- cured by the committee. Sixteen ar rests in CortIandt, \. Y, were made on similar information similarly pro- cured. Indictments of Jay Lovestone and Lyman RIeiweis, communists, in the Bronx recently, and three others in New York county, on criminal anarchy charges were returned on evidence collected by the executive committee. Two men are held now in Brooklyn on the same charges on similar information similarly pro- cured. In virtually all instances counsel for the committee prepared the cases in detail.
 Special inquiry was directed at the foreign language and radical press in New York. Of 46 such newspapers it was found that only two were self supporting, the committee report will declare. Many of the indictments for criminal anarchy have been re- turned on evidence found in the coI- unns of some of these publications.
 In it's recommendations to the leg isIature, the committee will approach the su bject of corrective measures for the radical menace ill two ways. First. it will recommend oppressive legisIa- tion, not trying to limit free speech, but pointing out that free speech is abused when overthrow of the gov ernment by violence and illegal meth odS is advocated. Second, along con structive lines, it will recommend in creasing the present educational ia ci,ities for adult aliens, better train ing of teachers, etc