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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
VON H|NDENbURG |SB|TTER AGAINST
 INTERPRETATIONS
Pan-Germans Declare New Conditions Will Throw Thousands of Officers
 Out of Work
By Associated Press

London. February 1S-Advices re- ceivcd from Berlin by way of Basel today are to the effect that the pam German military party. headed by Field Marshal von Hindenburg, bit terly resents the new clauses in the ar mistice. especially those limiting the German army to the size of a simple police force, the supervision of con. trol of ammunition factories and the demand that Germany pay the ex- penses of the allied armies of occ1- patton on the Rhine.
 These conditions. it is complained. will threw out of work thousands ot German officers. from generals down, while the army of 600,0o0 volunteers reported by the German press to have been organized must be disbanded.
 The advices add that indignation against Matthias Erzberger on the part of the military authorities is increas- ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
FORCED TO SIGN By Associated Press

Berlin. Monday, February 17.-Thc German governments reasons for ac- cepting the stringent terms for the renewal of the armistice, as outlined in Weimar dispatch to the Nord- deutsche Allgemeine 5s eitung, is that . renewal of military operations fol- lowing refusal to sign would lead to the complete moral collapse of the German people. The absolute convic- tion prevailed that refusal to sign, or dilatory treatment of the proposals, would meet with an immediate advance of the allied armies beyond the Rhine, involving the occupation of the most important and indispensable industrial districts of west Germany.
 The representatives of the parties who participated in the, cabinet delip- erations agreed unanimously that the people whole would neither undes-- stand nor approve such an outcome and that therefore there was no alter native except to sign under protest.
 The Berlin papers generally come to the same conclusion, except the con- servative organs, such as the Kreuz Zeitung and the Allgemeine Zeitung, which declare that the government should have refused to sign the terms. thus forcing the allies to take the re- sponsibility for renewal of military operations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Premier Eisner Facing Serious Internal Situation
ax A,seeiafea Prs,a

Berlin, Monday February 1.-The Ba- varian government of Premier Eisner is \ facing a serious internal situation, ac- cording to dispatches received here. The
 Munich correspondent of the Lokal An
 seiger says the garrisons in Munich and
 Nuremberg are recruiting troops for the Pexpress purpose of opposing Eisner, his 1ipartacan and Independent socialist fol- lowers and the soldiers council. The MMunich soldiers council has isued ade- mand that the recruiting be stopped ant; ,,tliat the Bavarian war minister be mads 'subjectsto its executive committee.
 The same report declares the Sparta cans who are temporarily in control at Nuremberg will be thrown out by the
 troops. brought in from the outside, fl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Summary of the News

1-Army appropriation Bill passed ny
 House. Senate oppsaitten to league of aa-
 tions' cong11tution takes form. Short term notes wouh be offered
 h yictGsy Lank
 Rivers and Aarbsrs blI passes
 Senate. -Naval me1 hel1 sen graft chArwe. ESaeries of any frea Washfnstea. 4-EAltOrlaL 5-Husdrea-Esllsn sttu captured in heart ef city. ~lacertainty'' h esaditien of irOu
 market locally. G--SOeiety. 7-SPorts. s-Cesta Rican tvesps shgesten ts in-
 wade NteaFaGua. e-Cenferenee urGee ene-thsFd redHc-
 tisn is esttsn peresse. 11-MAfkets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
TERRITORIAL CLAIMS
 COMMITTEE MEETS
By Associated Press

Paris, February 1s.-The official statement on the work of the spe- cial committee on territorial claims sayp:
 seThe special committee for the study of territorial questions re-, lating to Greece met Tuesday at 10 a- m. mt the foreign office. This committee is composed of the fol- lowing delegations: Representing America. w. l.. Westermann and Give Day; Great Britain, Sir Rob- ert l.. Borden and Sir Eyre Grove; France. Jules Cambon and Jean GOut, Italy. M. De Martino Cas- t0lidi.
 ssThe committee is making an ex- animation of the conditions to be considered in determining the northern boundary of Greece and northern Epirus. The different delegations presented their tenta- tive pFOpOsals.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Senate Opposition
 To Constitution O
 League TakesForn1
Borah Declines to Accept Presidents s Invitation to Dinner, and Poindexter Will Launch Attack
 In Senate Today
By Associated Press

Washington, February 18. Opposition in the Senate to the constitution of the league of na- tions began today to take def mite form. Senator Borah of Idaho, a republican member of the foreign relations commit tee, formally declined to accept President Wilson's invitation to attend the White House din ner February 26, and Senator Poindexter of Washington, re- publican, announced he would speak in the Senate tomorrow in criticism of the league plan.
 All members of the Senate for
 eign relations committee except
 Mir. Borah plan to attend the Presi-
 dents dinner to discuss with him
 the constitution of the league and
 it was expected that they would
 abide by the Presidents request to
 refrain from an open discussion of
 the matter until that time. Gen
 eral debate in the Senate, how
 ever, may follow Senator Poindex-
 ter's address.
 tuition was voiced today in the Senate by Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, democrat. He said the constitution was unconstitutional and also crlti- cized President Wilson for requesting that discussion in Congress be post poned until after he could confer with the Senate and House foreign rela- tions committees.
 Senator Borah plans to speak Thurs day in opposition to the league.
 In his letter to Secretary Tumulty declining the Presidents invitation Mir. Borah said it was the custom to hold in confidence any information re- ceived at conferences at the White House and that he was not willing to be bound to silence on such an impor- tant subject on which he and the Pres ident agreed fundamentally.
 After receiving the letter, which Senator Borah made public today, Sec retary Tumulty immediately transmit ted it by radio to President Wilson on the steamer George Washington, which is due to reach Boston next Tuesday.
 It was regarded tonight as highly probable that attacks on the league plan in the Senate would draw spirited defense from administration senators. Some senators said they did not re- gard the Presidents request as pre- cluding replies to criticism. Their view is that the President actually meant to request the postponement of judgment or con& >tion on the tentative consti- tuition and not to prevent it's support CTS from replying to any open criti- cism in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
FINAL CONDITIONS

London. February 1S.-CBrltish Wire
 less Servicn.)-The final armistice condi- tiCns which the supreme council is con-
 sidering will be made public before the end of the month. according to various newspapers. and they will include among the naval conditions the demolition of the
 forts of Helgoland and the Kiel canal,
 the surrender for purposes of destruction of the German warships now interned,
 and the opening of the Kiel canal for civil transports. It is stated Germany will be left with fleet large enough for defensive purposes
 The naval correspondent of the Daily
 Mail, writing of the strong Qualifications on the island of Helgoland, says: ."The summit of the island is one im- lContinued on Page TvvoD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19

In the report. in response to a request
 from the President for his views on the
 recommendations of the federal trade con. mission, MT. Hoover said he reaf<
 firmed his opinion given nearly a year
 before that "here is . growing and dan
 gerous domination of the nations food stuffs," and approved some of the com missions proposals He recommended con- structive regulation rather than stretch ing temporary war powers of the gov err inent. and expressed the behef that the domnatio of the packers did not neces- , sarily imply wrongdoing On their part, but was the natural outsrowth "of vari- ous factors which need correction.
 Mir. Hoover accepted as economically sound the federal trade commissions rec ommendation regarding federal control of
 animal and refrigerator car service. and
 said stockyards should be entirely disas-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
JURY FAILS
 TO REACH VERDICT.
 ORDERED LOCKED UP
Ry Asaoeiated Preaa

New York. February 19.-After 1eliberatfng for nearly 13 hours without a verdict, the federal jury which has been considering the ease of Scott Nearing, former uni- versity professor, and the Ameri- can socialist secretary, charged with violating the espionage act. was ordered locked up at l o'clock by Judge Mayer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Father of Marine
 Receives Valor Cross
By Assseiatcd Prsss

Dothan, February 1S.-Richard Pill cher. father of Wade Pitcher, one of the American marines killed at Chateau Thierry last June, has received from headquarters of the marine corps a distinguished service cross awarded the young hero posthumously. The letter accompanying the cross says:
 q take pleasure in transmitting here , with the distinguished service cross which. has been posthumously awarded to your son, Wade Pitcher, marine (corps, for his gallant and conspicu- ous conduct aganist the enemy at Chateau Thierry. France. June 6. 191S'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Br0ckdOrff- -Rantzau
 To Retain Portfolio
sy A,ssslstfs rr.s.

Copenhagen, February 1S.-Couni yon Brockdorn -Ransxau has decided to retain his portfolio as secretary for spondent of the Politiken wires. He reached this decision. it is stated. be- cause the government and the other parties, including the independent SO cialists. had expressed confidence iz him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19

sociated from the control of the packers" He contended, however. that wrong prac- tices between buyers and sellers would not be corrected by the government con trolling or owning yards.
 His own instinct. Mir. Hoover said, was against federal ownership Of the packers branch houses and cold storage and ware house facilities Going into aspects of the packing industry, not covered by the trade commission. he said:
 If proper abattoirs could be extended near the larger towns. possibly with intl- nieipal help and the operations therein protected from iilegitimate competition, believe they would not only succeed, but would greatly stimulate the local produce tion of meat animals. One effect would be great stabilization of prices by a wider based market than that now 50 tContinned on Page EigAD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Hoouer's Report on Packers Made to the President Six
 Months Ago, Is Pubishe d
|Reaffirms Early Opinion of Growing and Danger ous Domination of Nations Foodstuffs. Swift Comments on Food Adminis- tratOr's Report
By Associated Pres

Washington, February 18-A confidential report President by Herbert Hoover ago on the packers made public today by the food admns tration direction of the President establish the real position of Mr. Hoover and the food administration of the Chicago packing industries In hearings congressional committees witnesses for the live men charged cousion between Mr. Hoover and five leading packers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
'R|VER AND HARbOR MEASURE CARRYING
 S33,0OO,00O PASSES SENATE YESTERDAY
Bill Which Was Before Sen. ate For Week, Attacked By Both Republicans
 and Democrats, Now
 Goes to Conference
By Associated Press

Washington, February Is.
 Without a record vote, the
 Senate tonight passed the an-
 nual rivers and harbors bill,
 carrying appropriations of $33,- 000,000, or $6,000,000 more than
 the original House measure. The bill now gotes to confer ence.
 The measure has been before the Sen ate for nearly a week and was attacked i<oy both republicans and democrats, who l insisted that many of it's provisions were | unnecessary. Before the final vote, the Senate rejected substitutes by Senator
 King of Utah, to appropriate S5,o0o,0o0 to be expended by a waterways commission. ! Another substitute by Senator Shoot of Utah. approprating sl5,ooo,00o, also was defeated, 3S to 10.
 After three hours debate, the Senate 1 adopted, 43 to IS. an amendment by ! Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, authoriz-
 
 l the United States and Canada to inves- | tigate the advisability of an ocean-goinS l ship waterway to connect the St. Law | renee river and the Great Lakes by en- l larging the Welland canal. The Senate also adopted an amendment by Senator | Calder of New York; authorizing a sur ] vey of ship canal to connect the Great ] Lakes and the Hudson river
 i n NEW PROJECTS 1 As sent to conference the bill pro- vides for 75 new projects, five more than 1 authorized in the House measure. The l largest new Senate item was s4,000,0Ot 1 for the construction Of locks and dams ] in the ohio and Allegheny rivers.
 1 The House provision appropriating $S.
 00o.O 600 for the purchase of the Chesapeake l and Delaware canal was retained by the ! Senate. which also adopted the commit
 tees amendment reducing from s2,5oo.oOi 1 to S1, ,0O00G9, the appropriation for the inn provement of the Delaware river. ! On motion of Senator Lewis of Illinois. 1 the Senate increased the appropriation ! for work on the Mississippi river from the 1 mouth of the Missouri to Minneapolis, 1 from $250, coo to S500,000. The Senate also 1 adopted an amendment by Senator Shep- pard of Texas authorizing expenditure of 1 S7S5,000 already authorized to complete the
 Galveston, Tex, sea wall
 Surveys authorized by amendments l adopted included that of a canal to con 1 nect the Merrimac and Piscataqua rivers ] in Massachusetts and New Hampshire l and of a waterway to connect Puget | Sound and Gray's harbor, Washington. 1 An amendment by Senator Smoot pro l vided that none of the appropriations
 authorized for improving waterways
 could be expended unless local interests nrovided suitable water terminals for yes l sels
 ] Relief for contractors suffering losses 1 from increases in costs of labor and ma terials due to the war was designed m an amendment by Senator Fletcher | which was adopted, providing for report on such losses to Congress on contracts
 between the time the United States en- | tered the war until July 1S 1918. whe1 I another relief measure became operative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19
Taft to Return to Yale

By Ass0ciated Press
 New Haven February William Howard Taft will return to Yale uni versity next fall a member of the fat eulty, it was announced at the uni versity today Mir. Taft dropped his work as Kent professor of law when he was "a He'd to war duties.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-20
ERECTION OF MIR. BERGER

7 L. BERGER Socialist, indicted and convicted of dsoyaty under the Espionage Law, elected to Con- victorious in special election, yes terday and had majority of than 1000 over Henry H. Republican, candidate fusion ticket intended the support of Democrats well Republicans
 This very surprising to those who are fan- liar with conditions District consists of 14 wards Milwaukee, the City of North Milwaukee, the towns of Granville Milwaukee, and inc villages of Sh0rewood and Whefsh Bay which is population somewhat larger than 27OOO district is in Milwaukee county, which has population than i33O0O. Milwaukee, with popula than 373O0 constitutes by far the larger portion of the county
 The population 0 Milwaukee county, contains but 93793 native parents There 1292Q foreign born and 299 born of parents of whom at least one parent foreign born.
 element in this foreign population is Ger There Milwaukee early 9i0 l99922 per either Germany of parents who German born
 This great population. recruited from the brought with them the doctrines 0T Naxian they educated many of their neiehbors of other racial stocks.
 Thus it is that Milwaukee, time to time elected socialist mayor time has elected socialist the Fifth Wisconsin District.
 strength mainly to be found the German clements of Milwaukee, to whom his views on unacccptabl for the that the So Ciai@ party opposed to the and for the additional matter of much sympathy for among people had been nurtured German soil regarded with kindly feelings the land from which they had
 Berger must be attributed to conditions To- Milwaukee county, and his victory will not be re- proof that his views generally sustained the United States, although it would be suppose that labor of the elements which rallied votes to his banner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-20
tr<sY yIPATIEETIC IN HARTFORD

rT~ HE HANTFO}D authorities have declined to buy their A chief police high priced automobile. This is very Wron9 the gentleman will to Bridgeport he will get ride and many of them have other persons to drive hc Bridgeport brides itself having made office worth holding
 In pr,-uar days important expected that their jobs might pro- vide them enough they had to walk from place o another. It is different Few walk who tn" public pay roll
 In in" old days the citizens fussy about letting have than job Three four jobs for the person not regarded too many,
 There time, before the voters had solved the true prncpe, of public when Mayor Wilson drew salary $3UGj AcrWard ne drew S6OO0 and also drew Iieutenan and colonel of the Home Guards Also when inc wanted to draw salary other emoumen he had to submit 10 red tape of various kinds and degrees with which Hartford is familiar he just writes out order for what he Wanls. and they cash 1t for him.
 There is under discussion improved method of paying public servants. Il may be adopted When Col. Ingersoll agnosic and orator. alive, he kept shelf quantity money to which each member of family sorted. l. need arose.
 The big idea for Bridgeport is borrowed from that Just big box say the office City Clerk A. H. Robinson, filled with gold and 2rrenbacs and labelled, Help Yourself"
 Hartford is too ngy, doesn't appreciate self sacrifice and all that of thing. The purchase automobile mere nothing in Bridgeport Just get waiver from the mayor, and go right out and buy the you want.
 Pretty if Hartford keeps there will be nobody hold the city job People must have good conditions pIoyment, nowadays, or they won't work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-20
PLAN TO CELEBRATE
 EN FOREIGN LANDS

New York, Dec. 2O-The 2OOth an riversary of the Pilgrim Fathers, tentative plans of which have just been announced here, will include celebrations in England, Holland and the United States and will continue from May to December 1920.
 Four day program in Leyden, Am sterdam and Rotterdam. whence the Pilgrims sailed three centuries ago to the American wilderness where they might find Freedom to worship God 70 will start on August 30, when com ulittees from the United States and England will be received at the Uni versity of Leyden. Addresses com memorative of the occasion will be delivered by scholars from the three countries.
 The next day, August 31, the birth day of the Queen of the Netherlands will include, beside a Congress in the Town Hall, a religious memorial ser vice in the Pieterskirk in which Rev John Robinson, who led the sep arationists from the Church of Eng land (the Pilgrims) to Holland in 1609. was buried
 The celebration in England will start in May 1920, with meetings in Scrooby, the home of Robinson, Aus terfeld, Boston and Sheffield. From August 1 to September 20 there will he ceremonies in Cambridge, London Southampton and other places, cuI- ninatinS in the sailing of the new Mayfower, which will carry the re- turning American committee ana British and Dutch delegations who are to participate in the program on this side of the Atlantic.
 Main events of the American ceIe- bration will be in Plymouth, Mass. and Boston, where historical page ants will be held, followed by a big reception in New York.
 The foreign visitors will then be taken on d tour of the United States On November 24. 1920. there will be a universal observance of Thanksgiving Day in England HoI- land and the United States.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-20
COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS ARE
 NOW APPROVED

Eight compensation agreements have been filed with Compensation Commissioner E. T. Buckingham.
 Alexander Sima, 34 Dover street, is to receive $11.93 a week, during in capacity, from the Singer Nanufac- turing Go. for a hernia; Ebert s. Carver, $13.75 a week from c. E. Clausen company for injury to liga- ments; Lester Gaynor. Stamford, SLABS, from Blue Ribbon Garage, for injury to left foot; Joseph McCloskey, Shelton, $13.52, from Oates Brothers for an injured leg; John B. Pryor, Georgetown. SIS. from the Gilbert X Bennett Manufacturing company for septic poisoning; Jesse Goldman, 211 Norman street. $15 from the Columbia Graphophone company for compound fracture of both index fingers; Laura Chapman, III Maple street, S9, from the Conn. Electric Manufacturing company, for injury to index finger of the left hand; and Joe Staffo, S11.51, from the Iron Ledge company, for in jury to right foot
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-20
.IGNATIUs TO THE L1oNsm

On Dec. 20, 115 A. D., by order of the Emperor Trajan, Ignatius Bishop of Antioch in Syria, was torn to pieces by lions in the Roman ann pitheatre of the Colosseum.
 The EpistIes of Ignatius, written on his way to martyrdom, urged the communities to maintain their brother lines in the coming trials; they pleaded for obedience to their respective bishops: they warned against the Gnpstic heresy-antici- pating the great Arian heresy that swept the church in the 4th century and which denied the Godhead of the Son of God.
 Ignatius was one of the so-calIed Apostolic Fathers There is 8 tradition that says that he was a pupil of St. John. When persecu- ton of the Christians broke out un- der Trogan. Ignatius was sent to Rome to fight Iions"-to deck "a Roman holiday It was favorit7 pastime of emperors,-to pit lions against men in the celebrated Col osseun. 4 VestaI Virgin, in the seat of honor-to the right of the Imperial dais. gave the signal for slaughter when two gladiators were at grips. The reader who had been in Rome; who has stood within the gigantic pile,-the Colosseum. who has looked around breathless at the awefulness of it's towering walls will be able to conju~e up the scene on that day when Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, the man of the bearing of a prince, entered the Colosseum to await the fearful moment when the lions should he loosed from their dens beneath the huge building This building was begun by Vespa- sian in 72 A. D. It was capable of holding 5O,OOO spectators of seating this number there are 10000 stand ing to witness the appalling moment when the lions roar signifies the on- set. Run your eye up the building. It has four stories. Can you note that the first story is of Etruscan ar chitecture; the second. Ionic; the third and fourth, Corinthian. The giddy height is 157 feet. The seats are of marble. A stately man, aged, but of noble demeanor, enters the Colosseum. The human roar deep ems, "The Christian to the Lions" Ignatius knelt, in the very center of the arena.
 One dying cry for forgiveness of his foes from that kneeling figure there is a whirl of blood and dust
 Today, looking around that Colos- scum, you eXclaim as did Charles Dickens with shaking voice, Thank God a ruin!'