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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
TO BE A FEATURE OF
 '0THE MIKADO"

"Tft Willow Hearts Do Not Break, '1The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring" and a number of the other old favorites will be featured in the Weber Opera clubs perform ance of ''The Mikado,'' which will be given next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in the High school auditorium.
 The principals are such well known and popular singers as Lena Mason-Barnsley, Norma Weber. Mar garet Swailes, Mrs. Robert Willard the Messrs. Eugene Hebbard, Joseph W1eler, Ellis Lundberg, Robert Kirk and k. Rempfer McAvoy, all talent ed musicians with excellent training.
 Robert Weber, Jr., founder-direc- tor Of the club, has been bending every effort to make this production oy amateurs a professional one. Tn this he has had the whoIe-hearte assistance of the principals, a chorus for forty voices and fifteen musicians under the leadership Of August Rer- ger, violinist.
 A percentage of the proceeds of the entertainment will be given to the building fund of the new West End and a long list of patroness- es' women representatives of all the c1ty's musical civic and charitable or- gan1zations will assure it's success.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
SENATE DECIDES
 ON INVESTIGATION
 OF RAILROAD STRIKE

i (Continued From Page One.) | days, began returning to work this
 morning.
 Brotherhood officials who have been l fighting the 'tillegaP' waIl1out, of their
 men, do not claim that the strike is 1 broken but were much encouraged G1' reports from several roads that the men in small groups were reporting
 for work.
 The Chicago Junction railway, the belt line connecting the stockyard | and packing plants with the trunk lines, was one of the first to report Eleven engine crews were at work this morning, the report said, as com pared to three yesterday
 While the switching and freight sit
 usatfon showed improvement the con-
 are the Monon, Erie, Grand Trunk, that seven of the eight railroads en- tering the Dearborn street station are unable to run passenger trains down. town. They are discharging passen- gers at suburban stations to complete the trip on elevated or surface cars.
 Only the Santa Fe was running into the station this morning. The other roads which normally use that depot are the Monon, Erie, Grand Truck, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Wabash Chesapeake and Ohio, and Chicago and Western Indiana
 New York, April 9-New York city, affected by strikes of railroad marine workers, switchmen and freight yard employees, is threatened with a serious food shortage, according to a state ment today by J. J. Mantell, head of the Railroad Managers Organization. He added that during the night "65 carloads of milk were moved into the nif fo inf +es, road officials now are manning en- zines and switches on the Erie. West Shore and Pennsylvania yards.
 '"The yard switchmen, conductors and brakemen in the freight termi- nals on the Jersey shore are all out, including the following roads: West Shore, Erie. Jersey Central. Pennsyl- vania and Lehigh Valley" said Mr. Manteu.
 Absences were reported today in the Harlem yards of the New York, New Haven & Hartford. Railroad of hcials, however, declared these gaps were not affecting operations and the men who failed to appear probably had been kept away by illness. Va cancies also were reported in New York Central yards.
 Several thousand railway strikers held barley this morning in a hall in Jersey City. They were joined by 200 employees of the Hudson & Man haitian Railway Company, which op- crates the Hudson tubes. This action of the tube workers. who previously had held a separate meeting increas- ed fears that strike might be called on the tubes during the day, further inconveniencing commuters
 Working with fellow officials in the Erie yards, MT. MantelI expressed be- lief that radicals are responsible for the strike.''
 ''These men got hold of our work men and fairly dragged them out of 1 our yard not even giving them a req son for the strike,'' he said. "The ! strikers have violated the rules of | her own brotherhood"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
GERMAN TROOPS WITHDRAWING
 ACROSS RUHR
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 menace of aggression by Germany. it was continued during the war with the view of winning the war, but was never adjusted to after-war conditions which, it is asserted here, require a more cemprehen ensive accord.
 Demands that Germany disband her army and retain only 200, 900 men with the colors, presented at Berlin on Wednesday by General No1let president of the interallfed, cornrais. sion of control, have been sent to tho governments of various German states by the minister of the interior. says a despatch from Berlin.
 The minister asks the states to give assurances that the civil guards are dissolved, adding that the Prussian minister of war had already decided upon such a step
 The demands are said to have been accompanied by a note from the minister declaring they contained a passage duplicating untrue supposi- tiens on the part of F'rance' but stat. ing the Berlin government "did moi believe itself obliged to enter into new representations to the French govern ment.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
RESENT ARREST
 OF PATROLMAN
Stowe Out on Bonds of g., 600 for Italians
 Death

Considerable indignation was ex- pressed in police circles this morning, over the arrest of Patrolman Herbert Stowe, of the Fourth precinct, who shot and fatally wounded Luigi Alp ruccl of Hurd avenue in fight at the corner of Main and Grand streets, Sunday night
 Abrt1cci died yesterday morning in St. Vfncent's hospital, as the result Of the wound inflicted upon him by the policeman, and late yesterday af- ternoon Officer Stowe was arrested on technical charge of 1nanslaughter. The case was continued for one week, In the City court this morning, and Stowe was released under g GOO bonds The coroner has made no finding in the case as yet, and the officer was placed in custeSy merely as a matter of form. Evidence so far has shown that Stowe acted purely in sef-defense after he had been at tackled by aAibruci.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09

(Contfnued From Page One.) these various boards, the witness first took up Sims criticism that the navy was not prepared for war in April, 1917.
 No navy ever was or ever will be fully prepared for war in the eyes of everyone, the admiral declared. but the American navy when it entered the war was "just as well prepared as any other navy in the world when the great war burst forth,'' he as- serted.
 Admiral Sims declaration that the Navy Department should have imme- diately sent all available destroyers and small craft abroad to fight sub marines sounded "p1ausGble and con- V1ncing the witness said, but such a course of action would have left the American coasts and ports full of in valuable vessels and cargoes open to attack by German submarines that had demonstrated in 1916 their abil- tty to cross the ocean, menace the United States coast and return to Germany unaided.
 Admiral Fletcher characterized the work of the war industries board as one of the great achievements of the war and declared the members of the board complimented highly the efficiency with which the Navy De- partment conducted the business end or it's participation in the war.
 No loss of shipping or failure of the navy departm ment to transport troops to France prolonged the war for . single day, the admiral asserted.
 Admiral Sims assertion tbah '.tha navy department is responsble for the loss of 1-2 million tons of shin ping the prolongaHion of the war for four months, fifteen billion dallars of debt and the loss of 300, 900 lives" was based upon assumption and had no foundation in fact, the officer de- cIared.
 The whole conclusion reached in uhe accusation is built upon the fimsy foundahon Of hypothetical condi- non and is wholly without value" he said
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
WILL NOT BE "GRAPH" STRIKE
 SAYS LEADER
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 According to the new system all the workers on metal in any shop will be organized Into one union, which will Include machinists. toolmakers, sheet metal workers, machine operators and every other employe who works on metal.
 A shop steward will be selected by the men in each room and these will form into a central shop body which Will take up grievances of any en- .ploye and after a hearing will either present the grievance to the shop of hcials or Jet the matter drop. if they do not consider it of sufficient im- portance.
 No strike can be called in any part Of any shop without the consent and approval of the stewards from the other departments and even after hese men have approved of the strike It must be approved by a central body composed of stewards selected from all shops in the city.
 The old fashioned business agent VIII be done away with as it has been shoWn in the past that these business agents were more anxious to keen their jobs than to smooth over diff culties between the men and the man.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
NOT AMENDED OUT

1E DISTINGUISHED Hartford Couran which is wrong
 about most things asserts that the portion of stton which permits the General Assembly to meet when deems It necessary has been amended
 This Is Nothing the can be chang ca except by express language and this authority egis Lature has never been amended
 The Constitution, proposed in 1902 proposed such an amendment but that amendment with the beaten.
 AS to ue assertion that the legislature adjourned its stat Cd session without day. is true enough matter of by legislative authority depends upon con
 power granted for that This exists an clear and certain language.
 u IS tune for the speaker of the House the president the Senate to assemble the General Assembly in special sion to ratlfy the suffrage amendment
 failure to take this constitutional course ust oand these proessed friends equal rights as false to the cause they claim to espouse.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
ANNUAL MEETING,

Members of the Ladies of Charity St Vincent de Paul held their annual business meeting yesterday after noon at the Nurses Home on Hunt ing street. Much business of import ance was transacted and final ar engagements made for the concert and dance to be given by the organization for the children's ward of St. Vim cents hospital, in Colonial Hall. on Monday evening. April 12 Owing to the fact that so many of the mem bers were absent from town because of the Easter holidays the election of officers was postponed This matter will be attended to at special meet ing to be held on April 21 at the Nurses Home
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
DIED,

HAVEY-In this city, Aprn T, 1920, Katherine Rose. daughter of the late Thomas and Bridget Havey. Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her sister, Mrs. Annie Schade, 75 Vine street, on Saturday, April 10, at S:3O a. m-. and from St. Augustine's church a. m.
 1nterment St Michaefas ceme- tery. Automobile cortege. Usb% VIENNA = In this city. Thursday, April S. 1920, Eugene, son of Lud- gere and Annie Vezina, aged 26 years, months. 27 days.
 Friends are invited to attend tbe funeral from the residence of the parents, 1194 State street, on Mon day, April 12. at S:3o a. m. and from St Anthony's church, at o'clock
 Burial in St Miehaees cemetery.
 as this city. Friday, April g. 1920. Mary, wife of James Gallagher.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the Funeral Home of M J. Cannon, 315 John street. on Monday, April 12, at S:s0 a. m. and from St Peters church at Burial in St Michaers cemeter
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
TRUSTEES GET
 AN INJUNCTION

Boston. April e-ISaance by the supreme court of a temporary fnjunc- ton restraining certain persons from taking further action intended to 1n- terfere with the trustees of the Chris tian Science Publishing Society or to injure the business of the society was announced today. The question ot making the injunction permanent will be argued on May 3.
 The courts order was granted on the petition filed yesterday by the trustees who alleged that the persons named had entered into a. conspiracy to nuIlify the effect of decisions by the master in the suit of the trustees against the directors of the mother church It was asserted that the respondents had organized an -'infor- nation committee'' and operated a press bureau to carry out work in be- half of the directors which an fn- junction prevented the directors from doing themselves.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
STATE OF CONNECTICUT. DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT. ss. PROBATE COURT.
Ani1 6 7os

Estate of Harriet M. Ward of Bridgeport, in said District, incompe- tent person.
 The Conservator having made an- pncadon for an order authorizine him to sell certain real estate heIone. ing to said estate. as per said appii- cation on file duly appears.
 Ordered, That the said application be heard and determined at the Pro- bate Office in Bridgeport, on the 11fT7 day of April, 1920, at II o'clock in the forenoon, and this Court directs said Conservator to give notice to ali persons interested in said estate to appear, IT they see cause. and be heard thereon, by publishing this or der once in a newspaper having a circulation in said district, on or be- fore the 9th day of April, A D. 1920. and return make to the Court of mo- uce given.
 Attest: PAUL L. MILLER Judge
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
SEEK INCOME
 TAX RECEIPTS

Hartford, Coon-, April e-Abou4 fifty taxpayers of foreign birth most Of them from WaterDury and An- sonia, called at the office of CeIIec- tor James Walsh at the U. S. h. ternal Revenue office here, today, seeking income tax receipts so that they may leave the country. The fed- eral laws require those who wish to return to the coERtries where they were born to display a receipt show ing that they have paid their taxes before they are permitted to leave these shores. Those who visited the revenue officers today were mostly Polish. One of them said of Poland. "It is now a good place to live"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
LOOKS AS IF TROLLEY FARES
 WERE RAISED

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 On the Barnum avenue line the first zone from the center extends to Sea- view avenue and Barnum. Here again actual measurement will prob ably shorten this zone somewhat
 At the present time it costs 24 cents to ride in a trolley to Milford. Under the new system, with zones a mile long and three cents for every additional zone travelled after the first two, it will probably cost in the neighborhood of 33 cents
 So on all along the line. Residents within city limits will not apparent Iy be affected as much by the +-de- !creased' rates as those living in the outlying sections and again the use of books of zone tickets and commit tation tickets will lessen the H. c, of Riding to some extent but it appears now as if the new ruling is all one way-and that-the Connecticut conn pany's way.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
TWO MORE ARE
 CAUGHT IN NET
Federal Agents Rounding Up Liquor Law Vio-
 latOrS

Geur local men were Scooped into the Federal dragnet yesterday after noon and this morning, and are now being held under $2,009 bonds for a hearing before United States Com missioner Hugh J. Lavery, one week from today, on charges of violating the prohibition amem6m ent-
 Two of the men, Nicholas Santo of S9 Chapel street and Louis Polsena of 9s Willow street, were taken into custody this morning by Federal
 agents operating under the direction Of Thomas MlcAuliffe, prohibition en- forcement agent Santo was arrested in the Stratfield hotel, where he is employed as a bellhop, and PoIisena was caught in KeNey's poolroom. Both are charged with transporting l1quor from Bridgeport to New York City.
 Nicola oliva, of 1922 Pembroke street, and Calestuca Demara, of Hal- lett street. were arrested last night, and their seizure was made in a spec taeular manner. The men were Ieav- ing the Becker house. on the Post road between Milford and Devon when they were apprehended by Me Auline and his assistant, Frank Cine4 mara. A covered laundry wagon in which they were riding towards Bridgeport, was searched by the off, cers, and 50 gallons of t'moonshine' Whiskey was discovered in the con- veyance. The booze was taken to the federal building, and the two prison CTS were taken to police headquarters where they were lodged for the night.
 Upon returning to the Becker house the federal agents discovered a still ln operation and a large quantity of mash used in manufacturing the whiskey. This outfit was confscated, Except for curtains at the front win dows, a couple of beds on the second floor and the whiskey still, the house was unfurnished
 The arrests which were made yes terday and this morning are said to De but one step in a campaign which the Federal authorities have recently 1naugurated against illicit whiskey traffic in this city. It is understood that Bridgeport is now undergoing a Ver1table orgy of liquor manufac- turing, and the stuff is being carried out of town by members of an or gan1zed gang. The Federal agents are determined to smash any such organization before it can firmly en- trench itself here.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
COMMISSION SAYS IT HAS REDUCED
 TROLLEY FARES
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After making this finding. the com mission says the rates it estab. hshes are not to be considered final IT at the end of reasonable period or tune, 1t is demonstrated that the rates or system are unfair either to the company or the travelling public thls commission, upon proper presen. tat1on, will unhesitatingly and with. out prejudice by reason of anythina c herein stated or decreed, consider and reVlSe such rates or system in ac- cordance with facts then presented ,s the commission declares. The report outHneS at length the serious prob lems the street railway connDanv and tne pubhc must deal with to continue efficient service and pleads for CO., operation of the public with the com pany.
 The commission calls attention +o dlSScrlminatory taxes and ruIrbIi,, charSeS against the street railway companies, and declares that unless ta8auon is lesSened or subsidies granted there must be a cl1rtaiI1nent Of service or abandonment of lines in sparsely settled territory. It de- cIares street railway service to be es- sentaA that jitneys cannot take the piace of the trolley car, and states
 
 relief of the companies
 The commission also says. 'sTt ca1- not be found from the facts presented that the present rates as a whole will produce more revenue than the com pany is ju5tly and legally entitled to. although such conclusion might the oretica1ly be deducted.
 There is no question but that the company must have more money than 1t was obtaining under the old rates. ana probably more than it will get under the present rates, but in es. tablishing higher rates for the pur- pose of producing increased revenues, the effect upon the public in the use- fitness and reasonabIeness of the service provided. as well as the in- terest of the company must be taken into consid eration.'
 Concerning different rates on diff ferent lines the commission has this to say:
 In our Judgment it is not practical or desirable, at the present time un- der the pending petitions, to segre- gate the several lines of the company TOT the purpose of establishing diff ferent rates for the several different lines, based upon the respective earn ing power of each such line The in tercommunity of social. business and general industrial relations of the i state requires that the paying lines 1 should to reasonable extent help 1 support the non-paying lines.
 The non-paying lines, however. must of necessity have poorer or less frequent service, and careful traf- i lc study of such lines should be made | Vlth a View to curtailnent of service n Keeping within the reasonable traf- 5ic demands
 It was said at the office of the Con ] lectrctt company in New Haven to- l lay that a meeting of the directors would be held in that city Saturday Q discuss the commissions order.
 A complete renodelfng of the com oany's operating meth ods will be nec essaT'y since all it's zone points will lave to be established and much of ts equipment discarded or made 1Ver
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
OBITUARY
Peter Rivers.


 The funeral of Peter Rivers was largely attended this morning from his late home, $50 Grand street. at S:3O o'clock and from St. Anthonv's church at 9 o'clock, where a high mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev. F. X. Iariviere of Mari. boro, Mass, nephew of the deceas- ed, assisted by the Rev. Hubert Dahme, as deacon, and the Rev. Phil 1p Massicot as sub- deacon As the body entered the church, the choir sang, 'Thy Will Be Done'' At the offertory Miss Lida Tetrault sang Ave Marie and after mass Miss Rose Houle sang 'sF'ace to Face.'' As the body was borne from the church the choir sang 'tNearer My God to Thee" There was an abundance of horal tributes The bearers were Angus and Joseph Thibebault, Ma thlas Francis and Frederick Lariyiere and Frank La Ta1me. Burial was in the family plot in St. MichaePs cemetery Fathers I.ariviere and Massicot reading the committaI ser vices.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
Mrs. Elena MacNannara.

The funeral of Mrs. Elena Mac Namara was held from her late home, 66S William street. at S:30 o'clock this morning and at g o'clock from St Charies' church, where a solemn hign mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev. T. P. GIoster, assisted by Rev. Dennis Moran, as deacon, and Rev F. J. McGivney, as sub-deacon At the otfertory John Hughes sang an
 Ave Maria" and after mass 'tFace to Face. There was a large at- tendance of relatives and friends and many beautiful floral offerings The pallbearers were Thomas H. CIeary- Jeremiah Denny, William Stafford Mlchael Kane and James Sexton. bur1al was in St Micaels cemetery Rev. T. P. Gloster read the commit tai service at the grave.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
THE PEOPLES' SAY
St. Georges Rectory, 755 Clinton Avenue,
 April &, 1920.

AaEItl lSHO. To the Editor of The Times.
 II wonder if you can give space in The Times to a begging-letter?
 Women from various churches are doing @ very fourishing and useful nelghborhood work among the Ita1- ian adults and children near Bulls Head, at the Mission House of the Episcopal Italian Mission And there IS great need of a piano for use with the many classes and clubs
 There may be someone conternEaet- ing movingL who has an upright piano Gin good condition internadly). which he would as soon give away to such a cause as have the trouble of moving. Any such person may communicate with Mrs c. H. Graesser, 16O Un- quowa Hill, Tel. Barnum 4236.
 Very truly yours,
 HENtRY EJR1SKINJE KELLY
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
TREATED RUDELY BY TRAFFIC COP
 SAYS WITNESS
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One.J the Plaza theatre and saw no jitney near him at that time. The jitney appeared so suddenly from Middle street that he had no time to stou the car, Benson said.
 John E. Keefe. 325 Harriet street a passenger on the jitney. testified that the jitney was not going fast. He said the driver looked to the right as he turned into Fairfield avenue but when he looked to the left he saw the trolley car in front of him.. He tried to steer the jitney to one side but could not.
 The coroner continued the hearing to await the result of Petrosk's in- juries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-09
CoRoNER's HEARING.

Tomorrow morning Coroner PheIan will hold a hearing in the case of Michael DeNos, who was injured in an Jltney accident in the West End last week and who died yesterday at St. Fincent's hospital. Today the coro- ner went to Norwalk to resume his investigation in the case of George Fredericks, the six year old boy who was killed by a pistol shot fired by another boy, whose identity has not been made certain