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Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
PART OF 26TH
 ON THE IOWAN
101st Trench Morjar Bat tery Reached New York
 Today.

New York, March 12-With 1922 troops the steamship Iowan arrived here today from St. Nazaire. Units included the 101st Trench Mortar Battery, four officers and 1S3 men of the 26th Division-the first troops of this New England division to arrive home. These troops are assigned to Camp Devens.
 Also on the Iowau were the S14th S15th, 31Oth and 1OSth Trench Nor tar Batteries; 53rd Comoany Trans portation Corps 5th Battery Trench Artillery, and supply attachments of 657th Aero Squadron.
 The hospital ship Mercy arrived from Bordeaux with 381 sick and wounded men, most of them bedrid- den.
 Among the casual troops on he steamship Chinampa. from La Pallice, was Company No. 35 of Massac chu- sets. 1 officer and IS men.
 The 101st Trench Mortar Battery landed in England, October 24, 1917 and reached France four days later It was in training for three months at the big artillery camp in Coetqui- dan and first went into action Febru- ary 27, 1918 in the Chemin des Danes sector of the French front The unit operated throughout the war with the 26th New England di- vision. French guns were used at first but later the unit was equipped with British six inch mortars and did effective work with those pieces.
 Three men of the battery returned in the ships sick bay but no case is dangerous. They are Corporal Harold Tfbbets of Portland, Maine, Private Edgar Conlin of RocIzland, [ Maine and Private Kim Stephenson of Boston.
 The troops on the Iowan were eom- mand of Major Walter F. Palmer. of Chicago, who was an electrical engi- neer attached to the signal corps
 Captain James A. Walsh of Boston, Mass, commander of the 101st said his battery at the second battle of the Marne was within seven hundred feet of the German lines and that it's slight casualties, four killed and 25 wounded. notwithstanding participa- ton in the battles of Seich heprey; Cha teau-Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Ar gonne were 'remarkable.' He prais- ed his men for their valor
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
NEED ALLIED
 INTERVENTION
Former Grand Duke Says Situation Hopeless
 Without It.

Paris, March 12-Former Grand Duke Alexander Nfchaelovitch. who arrived in Paris recently from the Crimea. told The Associated Press te- day that unless armed Allied inter- yention in Russia began at once the situation would become so hopeless ly desperate that it would take years, perhaps decades, to restore s semblance of order and bring about peace 3n Eastern Europe. The for mer Grand Duke, who is a brother in-law of the former emperor. con- tinued:
 q do not ask tho Allies to f1ghF for us We merely ask them to keep order in the territories wrested from Bolshevism by the governments al ready fighting the Soviet.
 ''I came here in January in an at tempt to help my country as a private citizen acquainted with conditions in
 Russia I thought I would find jus tice and sympathy at the Peace Con- ference. but I have been disappOint- ed, as I found only personal in trigues, party politics and national egOtlSn visible.
 What we want from the Allies is a frank statement of whether they in tend to intervene in Russia or not or whether we have to look elsewhere for salvation. Under their present state of mind the would-6e ruling classes in Fusia. probably will look to Germany for help and the Germans understand how to deal with the Bol- sheVilzi.
 It is my opinion that the Sparta can movement in Germany is kept alive only as Q means of blacknail against the Allies. When the jrelim- mary peace is signed, when Germany has used the Spartacans to the ut most to blackmail the Entente into sending food and granting merciful conditions of peace, when Sparta cism has herved it's purpose, it will disappear.''
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
ENGLISH WANT TO
 KEEP HUN CABLES

regarded as favoring the referendum
 as a steady habit.
 The center of the Chamber of Com merce was a typographical model of 1 the valley of the Housatonic and ad- ! jaceul territory in which the Port of Bridgeport project was carefully laid out.
 This model was explained by En- gineer Lyndon ". Bates. who en- ployed the arguments already famil-
 jar. Mir Bates was heard with spe-
 cial interest when he spoke of the possibilities of a deep water channel in the Housatonic. John H. Cioss of Waterbury. a lead | ing manufacturer, and Mayor Edward W. W. Kneen of Shelton favored the project.
 Each side had an hour for the pre- | sentation of it's case. Ivan L. More l house led the Stratford opposition. but l Judge Thomas L. Coughlin voiced it more completely. MT. Morehouse thought the measure might be toIer- l ated with certain amendments in 1 cluding full referendum. Coughliu l was against fl. absolutely but for re- i ferendum if there must be a bill of
 some kind.
 l Among BridEepOrters who spoke ] against the measure were .AIderula n 1 Edward J. McManus, Alderman John ! A. Cornell. Jr.. who spoke for th. Common Council, and John Flood 1 George W. Finn, l.. E. Gauag gher and l others.
 II. H. Hamilton, Erwin M. Jen- 1 nings E. s. Wolfe and T. J. Pardy
 were among those who gave the bill 1 full support.
 It is believed that the Committee on Cities and BOroughs will report a ! bill with full referendum, and amend 1 ed in several ways; to give Stratford | commissioners subject to public con | firmatiOn when appointed; to make 1 the records public records; to make ! taxation for the support of the. pro ] ject simpler and in some other ways l The referendum would be concurrent 1 and there would be a veto in each | community.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
HOLD MAP ABOVE HEkn

Because of Neptune's distance, very little more than its dimensions and distance is known about it. There is one satellite, about as big as our moOn- which revolVes about the planet in the opposite direction from that taken by the moon and most other satellites in revolving about their respective planets.
 Nepruue's diameter is 35,000 miles (the earth's is 8,OOO) and it contains seventeen times as much matter as the earth. though it's average density Is only slightly more than that of wa ter Its distance from the Sun is D. 742.C0O.O0G miles. which is 5000 times the earth's distance from the sun, and it's year is equal to 165 ter restriaI years. Tn fact it's distance is so great that 1t receives only one niue-hundredth as much heat from rhe the Sun as we, and the midday Illumination on Neptune is about $50 times our full moon light, whereas, on the earth sunlight is probably equal to the light from half a million full moons. There seems to be a good sized atmosphere. which is rich in water vapor, and some day Neptune will be like the earth is to- day. while the earth by then may be as dead as the moon
 The Stars and Cancellations
 The east now holds that particu- IarIy fine section of the heavens which contains the groups of Orion, Taurus, Auriga, the Twins and the
 two dogs No less than seven, out of a total of twenty, first-magnitude stars are found here. Those are Albebaran. CapeIla, Rigel, Betel- geuze. POlIux, PrOcyon and Sirius all names of great importance. In addition we have here the Pleiades. the Hyades, the famous Belt of Orion and the wonderful Orion Nebula. These are winter cOnsteIIa- tions, and with the coming of Sum rner we shall lose them; in fact, Orion and Taurus will no longer appear on our map until next winter, though, l of course, they may still for some weeks be observed before the hour of the map.
 CapeLa is rather an exception to this: because it lies so close to the north celestial pole that it is above the horizon and visible to us the greater part of the year. Reguius is just about on the meridian at map time and can be easily recognized be- cause the proximity of the planet Sa- turn makes a fine doubIet. Regulus is to the east of Saturn. Toward the southeast is the beautiful white Spi- ca of the Virgin group. which stretches from Leo all the way to the eastern horizon. About half way be- tween ReguIus and Spica lies the au- tumnal Equinox, the place occupied by the Sun on September 22. when 1t crosses the equator bound south. North of Spica is the first magnitude star Arcturus, which is identified by means of the Dipper handle. If the curve of the latter is prolonged, it almost exactly passes through Arc turus.
 Northeast of Arcturus is a fine lit tie group of stars none of which is particularly brilliant, but which are noteworthy because of the figure which they form. It is a small circle of seven stars, Of which one is of the second magnitude. Because of it's resemblance to a coronet it was nam ed by the ancients Corona Borealis, Northern Crown. and the brightest of the group is known a Gemma, the Jewel.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

tgation bill The noes rolled out like thunder. as nearly as senatoriaI throats can initiate thunder The av, :. came in a feeble little noise. that scarce could be heard beyond the seats of those who uttered it,
 Senator Clark himself standing sardonicalIy upon the ruins of Re publican virtue, emitted the only noisy aye"
 When Senator Bartlett, of Bridge port, who once had "courted" inves- tgatiOn, spoke against it, and Senator Delaney, who also had been courted, put in a thrust between the fourth and fifth rib, the Democratic senator smiled.
 How did King spank Rora5baoz thus? Few really know. It is said by some that Will ~. Hays, Republi- can National Chairman, came to the rescue, and by others that a certain water power bill in which the boys are interested will have easier sled- ding Nobody is quite certain of any thing, except this---that state boss Boraiback has been soundly chastiseS by Bridgeport boss King.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

The bill was given to Senator Geo. B. Clark. who introduced 1t by re- quest. Clark Is a democrat, and fa- vored m investigation. The bill was favorably reported from the Com nittee on Cities and Boroughs by un- 1nimous vote, something that could not have happened had Roraback been in opposition. The Bridgeport senators and representatives twice favored the investigation, once when the bill made it's appearance in the senate and again when 1t was heard before the committee. On both of these occasions RorabaCk was pres ent, with broad smile on his coun- tenance, and approval in his heart
 The matter was delayed in one way or another on the Senate calendar by methods which are familiar enough to senate clerks. And when it came up yesterday, what the senators did 10 it was too much to adequately de- scribe, and the so-catled Rorabaci
 senators led all the rest. The assas- sinauon of the late iamented MT
 Caesar was not an affair more ensan- guined that the killing of the inves-
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
King Spanks ROrabaCk
 SOundly And Easily
Bridgeport Investigation Measure Favoraby Reported By Committee, Killed in Senate-Said That Will N. Hays Came to RescUe-Others Claim That
 Course of Water Power Bill Will be
 Favorably Influenced.

Hartford March i2Wilh dexterty John T. King the Bridgeport Boss waoped Henry Rorabac yesterday without boherng to make personal appear 
 ROraback had determined to make example Re publican National Committeeman from Connecticut Down in Bridgeport organization known The Bridgeport payers Association which is substantially without influence the political It originated a investigate the m nances of Bridgeport with the purpose going paving scandals into alleged commissions city jobs man of
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

(By Dr. C. S Brainin of the Col umbia University Observatory staff)
 April this year is particularly fine month for observation of the Earth's fellow planets. Our map shows the positions of Jupiter and Saturn, which are easily distinguish able, and also that of Neptune, which, to our regret, is invisible to tho naked eye. But, brighter than any of these is the beautiful evening star, which we have all noticed in the western sky, after sunset, gIeaming in solitude on the blue background long before any of the neighboring heavenly lights are visible. This is Venus, and Venus is the brightest of the regular celestial objects, next to the Sun and the Moon.
 As this planet sets just befC"a the time of the map, it does not md a place on 1t, but one needs the aid of no map for it's recognition. If the sky in the West in Cloudless. all you have 10 do is to look in that direction, even a half hour before sunset. Next month, Venus will appear on the map, because it is at the present moving eastward from the Sun and thus in creasing the time interval between it's setting and that of the Sun. Mars is too near the Sun for good obs5rVa- ton and will change from ar evening to a morning star in the course Of the month.
 Neptune, the Invisible, The ancients did not know of Nep- tunes existence, for their astronomy instruments. They had instruments with which they made measurements of position, but with peep-sights only. Neptune is the outermOst planet of the Suns family, the one most remote from us and the Sun, so that, in spite of it's huge bulk, the eye unaided can not perceive it.
 Perhaps the most interesting thing about the planet is the circumstance of it's dtscoE V. Its inner neighbor Uranus was discovered by Sir William HerscheI in IT83 and was identified as a planet by LexeIls a mathematical astronomer, for HerscheI at first thought it was a comet. Imme ediateIy, extremely careful and numerous OD- servations of Uranus were taken, and it was discovered that its positions did not quite fit any orbit which could be worked out for it. It certainly was q planet. but it seemed to run cnn-
 
 is 3 consideration no astronomer can for moment entertain.
 Another planet, still more remote than Uranus, could have such a dis turbing effect upon it, tdc no such planet was known. Easing their cal culations on this possibility, two men Independently worked out the prob able position of q disturbing planet if such existed. One was an English man, Adams by name, ana the other q F'renchman. Leverrier. Adams sent his results to the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, with a request that he search for the unknown; but nothing was de. Leverrier sent his data lo GaIle al Berlin-the date was 1S46- who took the matter up with enthu- siasm and acted upon it the very first night, finding the new planet within d short distance of the predicted posi- ton. Had the Greenwich astronomer acted on Adams request, he too could have found Neptune, for Adams call cuLacions were also correct. Both men share the honor.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
WILL REACH
 PARIS FRIDAY

On Board the U. s. s. George Wash- Ington, March 12-(By wireless to the Associated essj-President Wilson hopes to reach Brest in time to leave there Thursday evening for Paris, af- ter a brief reception at the port. The President today took up active pre- parations for his Peace Conference labors and exchanged wireless mes sages wit'7 man bers of the American delegation in Paris.
 The President plans to reach Paris Friday morning. He hopes a plenary session of the Peace Conference will be held within a week after his ar rival in order to clear up s7ne of the important questions held in abex- ance during his absence
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
DEADLOCK IN
 HARBOR STRIKE
Little Prospect of Settle ment of Difficulty in
 New York.

New York, March 12-Priva-e boat owners and their employes remained in deadlock today with little prospect of 2 settlement of the har5or strike that began q week ago.
 Meanwhile conditions are rapidly becoming serious nee the longsh5re- men refuse to h.--dIe work for boat owners against whom the havbormen are striking. 4 further complica- ton is the unsettled labor situation in British ports 1nakinE i1 necessary, it is said. for trans-Atlantic liners 10 clear from this side with sufficient coal for a round trip.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
May Report Port Bill But
 With Full Referendum
stratford Totally Opposed to New Municipality Without Referendum, and Veto in Both Communities Strong Presentation of Pert Case Made By MT
 Hncks and Mir. Bates.

Hartford March 12-The chief feature of the of Bridgeport hearing the almost approval determining the bitter dispute the opponents and the proponents bill.
 a difficult position because it opposed by municipal governments of both Straord and Bridgeport and by representatives of StratfOrd.
 Some those who appeared favored the bill refer Others said that they opposed it, referendum referendum but these wanted referendum any is to be reported
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
REPORT STRIKE IN sILEsLA

Basic, March 12-The Frankfort General Anzeiger reports general strike in the mining district of Bu- then, Silesia, reporting 10000 work men idle. Spartacan disorders are rumored.
 martial law has been proclaimed in the Drienz, Kuhn. Thorn and Stras3 burg districts of West Prussia, owing to an advance of Spartasan foSees.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

merco was presented by William T. Hincks, who wanted the right to spend S2,000.000. with referendum only on sums beyond this amount.
 Senate Chairman Leonard remarked: Two million dollars is a large sum D Mayor Wilson favored the bill with out reservation. Senator Bartlett fla vored 1t with full referendum, stip- ulating that he is by no means to be
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
REPEAL EXPLANATIONS.

" WaShIngtOn, MATCH I2-Ihe food 2 --.3iristration announces it has re- pe@5cd it's regulations prohibiting H- ccrses from selling, delivering or hav- ing in their possession food commodi- ties in excess of reasonable 60-eays' supply. By previous orders these regulations had been removed from all foodstuffs except meats.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
MORE TROOPS GET HOME.

New York, March 12-The steamer CaIamares arrived from BorGaauE with 1,O57 troops. Units aboard m cIuded the 26th Engineers 41ead- quarters detachment 16 officers and 344 men; Headquarters Detachment of 91st Brigade Coast Artillery Corps two officers and 54 men; Medical de tachUlent of the 34Sth Infantry, and q casual company from Massachu- sets.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

In the lnta1CE Of our rapuDlc the sympathy and aid of France gave the support which was needed to make individual liberty the supreme ruler of the destinies of the new born na- lion. From that time forward liberty has been, and sill is, the most sacred and most compelling impulse in po- Htical life in America. Our policies at home and abroad have been mold cd to that principle. No American statesman has dared to depart from 1t or to seek to lessens its influence over American bought. Today. we Americans are as earnest and intense in oar devotion 10 human liberty as were our fOrebears.
 Ut was when they came to a full realization that this liberty was ir danger; when they realized that France and the great democracies ot Europe were imperiued from the at tack of an ambitious artocracy, thai the nation determined to do it's part in freeing liberty and the world from autocracy.
 And now We have new problems ro solve. new dangers To overcome East of the Rhine there are famine and idleness. want and misery. Like the anarchy which for years made ar inferno of Russia, the fires of terror ism are ablaze in the states of Ger many, Ovcr the ruins of this once great empire the flames are sweep ing westward. IL is no time to allow sentiments of vengeance and hatred to stand in the way of checking this rouGagratton which will soon be al he German borders and threatening other lands. We must change the conditions on which social unrest feeds and strive to restore Germany to a normal though it be a weakened, social order.
 Two words tell the story---food and peace. To make Germany capable 01 resisting anarchy and the htdeous despo1ism of the Red terror Germany must be allowed to purchase food and to earn that food. Industrial conditions must be restored by a treaty of peace. It is not out of pity for the German people that this mus he done, and done without delay. bu- because we, the victors in this War will be the chief .~ufferers if it is not done
 You may demand repara-ion as
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

Early in the war the British cut the two German cables from Emden ,U America by way of the Azores and also the cable between Nonrovia, the Liberian capital, and Brazil.
 They took one end of one of the German-AmeriCan cables to Halifax, thereby securing another trans-AtIan- tic line for themselves. The other cable they gave to the French gov ernment, which so far has made no attempt to utilize it, probably because of the scarC3.- of submarine cable material and Of cable-layinE ships.
 The British claim that these cables are prizes of war. They do not in tend to allow their return to Ger many or to regard them as subject to disposition by the Peace Confer ence. The American delegates how ever, contend tho cables were unIaw- fully cut and unlawfully recounected, because the United States was not at war when this was done and had an interest in them as being one of the termini.
 There never has. been any decision regarding the titles to cables outside of territorial waters in time of war and the Americans are now extreme
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
American Delegates Protest Strongly Claiming Gables Unlawfully Cut and Reconnected Because United
 States Was Not At War When It Was Done

Paris, March i2-Realizing the possibility of virtual monopoly of cable communications by should her claim to the captured German cables be
 aned with the consequent submission the foreign business interests of the United States to alien in this respect the American delegates to the Peace Conference endeavorng to make strong presentation of their before the legal authorities to whom the subject has referred The naval experts who first considered the
 able to and the Supreme Council upon motion of reary of State Lansing referred to legal experts the
 lion of title involved These experts being pressed by the
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

The hearing was before the Com mittee on Cities and Boroughs At che request of Senator George B. Clark. member of the committee from Bridgeport the hearing was trans eerred to the Senate chamber, where shere was plenty of room and good hour. This speaks for the size of the attendance.
 The case for the Chamber of Conn
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

ly anxious that no precedent should he established that might place Amer ican business at the mercy of for eigners or prevent free communica- ton between the United States and Central Europe after the conclusion of ! Ieace.
 In addition to the transatlantic cables, several German cables in the Pacific also were seized by the Brit ish as prizes of war. One runs from the island of Yap, one of the Caro-
 lima group, to Singapore, connecting with the Dutch and British cables. Another connects this cable with the island of Celebes. Possession of these, 1t is held, insures business con trol of a. fair proportion of Australian Polynesia, which is regarded as prop ert- within the fIeld of American commercial effort.
 The possibility of these cables pass ing in some degree under the control of Japan alone in case the latter is made the mandatory of the captured Pacific islands is also regarded with disfavor by the American represent atives unless some plan to prevent any possible discrimination is adopt ed
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
SHIPS THAT
 VIOLATED ARNISTICE.

Dunkirk, March 12-Three German steamships captured by Allied war ships for violation of the ar1nistice terms have arrived here for intern ment. They are the Italia, Mercur and Pluto.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14

Washington. March Explosives may be purchased without a. license except by enemy aliens after March , for reclaiming land, stump blasting and other agricultural purposes, the war depafsao ent announced today, modifying Nr-tirne regulation.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
DEMAND INDEPENDENCE
 OF DAIAATIA

Triest, Tuesday, March 1.-The in dependence of Dalmatia, especially the city of Spalato, was demanded at Q, demonstration held here today. Resolutions were adopted declaring Triest will not consider the redemp- ton of Italia Irridenta complete if the sister cities do not regain their liberty.