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lesale . Assassinations
e Feared by Berlin
,. ' thorities if Those Re-
,nsible for the War Are
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l8_l_l_ill__EATENl-lfl
gestion Made That Men
" anted Be Tried in the
1 upreme Court at Leipzig
E‘RLlN. Wednesday, Jan. 2!.—Ina,
ction of the Government‘s growing
cern over the extradition of Ger-
‘ s accused of ar onenses Was
on in the note sent tmthe allies to
- asking revision of clauses of the
' 'lles treaty. The attempted as-
smation of Mathias Erzberger. Min-
: r of Finance, last Monday, is view-
. in official ‘circles as a precursor oi“
at is likely to happen on a larger
'e if the Government, yielding to
- allies, appeals to force in arresting
n on the list submitted by the Eu-
t3 Powers. ‘The editorial and par-
en recrlminatiqnspprovoked by the
ack on the‘.fin.u.nce minister, have
‘ -.tdy reached,t:he_white' hot stage;
' ' "hile it has. been commonly known
t \Vilhelmstrasae would use all its
rsuasive power in an effort to ,le
Ce the allies to desist in their avow-
purpose of demanding the surrend-
of Germans, the shots aimed .ut
rr Erzberger have made the Gab-i-
t more apprehensive than it has
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— MEME wand
50 Applications for Citizen-
ship to Be Actcd Upon-
250 Ex-Soldiers '
Judge John E. Keelerrot‘ the Super-
r court, will preside over the natura—
’zaclon session of that body, to be‘con-
ened in Bridgeport, Tuesday, for the.
urpose of passing upon about 650 up-
lications for citizenship paers. Of
ose listed to appear about, 400 are air"
ilians and about 250 former soldiers.
Civilian applications will be heard.»
mmenclng Tuesday and continuing;
or the remainder of the court week.
ommencing February 10 two days“
_' ll be devoted to hearing the applica-
met the former soldiers.
gAllen R. Churchvoi‘Boston, will be
examiner, «and .will question the
;plicants as to their knowledge of
nlted States Government and gener»
fitness to become citizens;
. There are_stlll- pending alarge num-
“er of applications of alien enemies.
.' hich will not be acted upon until aft-
)3
peace between the United States and
:ermany, and Austria-Hunga , with
which this country was at “try
MMMwAEM lAMM
mulls 'NflMlNAllNfi
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illuminating commltt was named
2;; *7“? Sliccial meeting 0 the Not-walk
{1.05” Club, held last evening, at the
\ffjjls‘ of the South .Norwnlk”»Clnb.
333:? ommodore Victor W. F‘erfifi'pr‘e.
SLCV‘G.‘ The nominating committee.
( . ~arl Clarence M. Hal‘l'lngtonpuox‘
Tonmlodore “'i
man M. Brock
games M. OBri
01 submission to the annual
IO :39 I - fugutingo
3333.011 arm .3.
llialn H. Bylllzton..LY-
en and. emCommodor-e
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icontention home out by subsequent,
» u at any other time relative to tho "
er the ratification of the treaties of,
en Will prepare a report '
Entered at
‘ Office as Second-Clan Mall Mattel"
TMfllLEYSARE ..
_ EAMMlEnAl-A .
- MAEM MAEME
New Haven Road Puts Value
Near Present Cost of Re-
production
- \
_ln view of the apparent disposi-
tion in New England to reorganize
the needs of the street railway sys-
tems and to accord them fairer
treatment, interesting questions arise.
in connection with New Haven's‘
large investments in trolleys.
It has been held that the New
Haven paid excessive prices for
these trolley properties, particularly
in Connecticut and Rhode Island, 3
events and the dln'iculties into which
the street railways tell. These street
railway investments are carried at
relatively high book Met; by the
bNew Haven and it is idle to'suppose ‘
that it could realize anything like:
:,g:sse figures; in sale of the proper-"
(continued on Page Eight)
j“wEl3” EMEMAME
EMA HISTORIC
. MEHAE EMMM
U. S. Attorneys-Say It Will
Be Two Years Before 15:
sue Is Decided
VWASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—-Tlle
greatest legal drive against any law or
part of the constitution in the history
of the country. appears to be looming
up in the many attacks being made or
prepared against constitutional prohi-
bition. ,
Government attorneys today esti
mated it will be two years before it
will be'deflnitely known whether con-
stitutional prohibition stands on a. firm
legal foundation, but they would hold
out little hope for any “lifting of the
lid" during that time.
.The attacks on constitutio ' 1 pro-
hibition are on the followmg
1. That prohibition is not 3a valid
subject for a constitutionjiamend.
*
(Continued on Page El 3).
WM MAMEs MMMMEM
ASERIB TAKES FIRE
Mother Had Left ' Them
“f Alone in House While Sh‘e:
. Went Out to Buy Milk
GREENWICH, Jan. 29.——John Grab,
er, 4, was burned to death, and Joseph
Grabel‘, 2, may be dying from burns ‘
received while both were in a crib in
their home in Stanwich, yesterday.
rs. Gruber left the house to buy milk.
‘ be children moved their crib too
close to the stove and the coverings
ignited. 1 ,
THAMBY SCHEDULED
the South Nor—v nlk Popp-
' chak's surrender to Siberian revolu-
3
ds: .
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scum, ROKWALK.’ room,
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MAMEMMM
Sensation Caused in the Furl 13.3.3233... Jan; '2.--Dressed in
.. ‘ ' 'f of th United: States Army
EaSt by tile Report Th8t.g:;?£: Hart-yes. Hegy of Bridgeport,
He Had Given Up
"Fall/ER BHALHENEE ,lBrldgeport, and “nausea; 0 mm or
JANJMM! A AIMEE
felty today by United smog Marshal
¥thliam R Palmer on a charge or con.
ispiring to defraud the United States
lgovernmcnt by having misapproprl-_;
ated Liberty engines at the Loco-
mobile plant in Bridgeport, and hav-z
ing sold them for‘ their numb
. The accused men were tutu before
iicUtited States 'Oommm Fred
ieric J. Corbett and arraiuiii by AM
‘Detroit, Mich.., were arrested in this
Japanese Wanted Kolchak
Handed Over to Them‘
But Request Was Refused:
, ,ed guilty and was held light!» commis-
.' v 2 _- Kol- sloner in 5,000 bonds on for appear- ,
LONDOX' Jan. 9' Admiral ance in the United States District.
' ists as authorized b Gen. Janin, Court in February to answer to. the
tolénlhe zgcho-Siovak Arm; -who waslcharge. Captin Hesy and 1,11“. Birth
placed in command or all allied troops ‘ seemed certain of raisins 35!“ hem”
west of lrkutsk on Jan. 19, by Kol-jnlghtrall, but, Gardiner said he had no
chak"s order. says a Harbin dispatch‘fi‘lends n this part of the country and
to the Daily Mail. ‘would have to telegraph his wire in
A profound sensation was causedlDeu-oil to see it she could procure a
throughout the Far Eat“ by the report surety company bond for him were.
that nolchak hid given up. says me The men are in the custody of the
message. which was filed at Harbin on marshal until night. when. it ball has
Monday, and one Russian general baninot been furnished, they win be com.
challenged General Janin to a duel. mitted to mg Hartford jail. The
While officers under the command of penalty for the unease in 310,000 line
General Semenol! have formed a hang and two years' imprisonment.
us under the slogan: "Have Janin's
b ," General Janin’s explanation
liawalted, but it is known that'Czech
reports on the situation at Irkutsk
Unitcl States
ward L Smith immediately upori'his
taking oflico 'Mondny. the evidence
being presented by military intent
gence- agents, who have been on the
caseefor some weeks‘. Early in the
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PLYMON‘I‘H. Eng» Jan. 29.—lnan-
can raged on board the Cunard Line
steamer Kaiserln Auguste Victoria
during her passage here from New
York, whence she sailed on Jan. 17.
The steamer arrived here today, twem
lit-tour hours late. because of encount-
ering a hurricane. ‘ There were sixty
leases o: influenza. unsung the passeng-
ers and crew, three of tho-patients do-
veloplng pneumonia, from which one.
it third-class passenger. died but wen-
nx. ‘ .
It was declared on the steamer that
the absence or stimulants on the ship.
which was sailing "dry" had bullpen
ed the surgeons in lighting the prova-
, lent diseases. A supply of spirits and
ChaflPS‘mediral stores were taken on board
August ihere before the steamer proceeded tor
,Cherbourg and Liverpool. .
‘U. S. SURGEON GEN-ERAD REDEWRITES HOW
TO TELL THE “FLU” AND WHAT
TO DO IF IT DOES GET YOU.
BY DR.’ RUPERT BLUE- 3. . ‘
_ WASHIHGTON, Jun. 29.-—There is a: yet no certain way ‘
mwhichasinglecaseof inducnnoanbereco‘gniud: onthd
other-banana ioniseasywhmthmisamupoiccm.
In contrast to‘the outbreaks of ‘ . 7 and colds,
which usuallyoccnrin the‘cold'monthnc ‘ Minimum
any occur at any season of the year; lanthanum
(Continued on Page Four).
FIRSTBALL 0f
BUTEHERSllINlflN‘
LAREELY AlTENllEfl
One of the most successiul dances
of the season was held in Music Hall.
last night, under the— auspices of Un-
ion 335, Amalgamated Meat Cutters'
Union of North America. Svec’s or-
chestra of eight pieces furnishedvmu-
am for dancing. The hall was illumi-
nated with "daylight." bulbs, installed
by Joseph Moeller. A large delegation
from Stamford was present, headed
by Edward Cashen, oi the Stamford
local. ’ .
The committee in charge of the ball
comprised: Oscar , W’alier, Michael
Pimble, George E. Everett, Charles E.
Montgomery, Jesse Brundage. Frank
H. Fitch, Richard G‘ustafson, Harold F.
Clark, Clifiord Thompson.
Walters, Charles ’Bouton,
Wichman and Herbert Ferris.
\
Fawcett Hamby, the 26-year-old con-
fessed 'inurderer, bank robber and
train bandit, will go to the death chair
in Sing Sing prison, tonight, without
the aldot'clergy. if his wishes are re
spouted by Major Lewis ' F. ‘ Lawns.
warden. A revuest torthis efl'ect was
transmitted to thewarden for Hamil}:
today by a
watch.
'i,.f-l?l,i.e iron
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col,
Amara-Jan Jase—Panic.”
K651951113 the mine or the D’nion Cod
'1 "Cater Company here. we, last
"fishy sheaths-i» ran suddenly" W
‘tb. command in the momma
Milena-miner mhmf .
nerved prisoner whtosc ca-
member of the death! _
LMINEBS HURT; 3‘. 3 1 ,
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ragedmost into ' Euro ‘ j“ ' ' - l
# moreover, in thcmcgcmof w, in my, 3g and July 913.1918.
(fever, pain, depression) are by no mean: as '
fimdomfim astbcyard in name
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’gslstant U. S. District Altamytfleome 3’
ll. Cohen. Each of the unused plead- :
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The case came to t c attention: of ;
astonor ~l-‘red-
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‘IN Hilllfllfil] BURNS
Morris & Company Sustain
a Loss of Nearly $50,000 i
dollam' worth of toodatubs went up in
smoke or got badly scorched in a
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MAM MMM EMMA MEMM
blaze that gave the city's firemen a;
bad tussle at Morris & Company's,
storehouse, No. 523 Asylum street, to,
ay. ’
Firewalls, each two feet thick. south-
and north of the two-story building.
prevented the names from sweeping
into Armour 83 Co s storehouse
and the rotrlgerating plant of the Mor—
rls Company, where flesh and cold
storage products to the value of some
875,000 werestored. Defective wiring
“, (Continued on Page Serenl. ‘
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BOSTON,'Jan. 29.-—lt was impossi-
Maine Railroads, in this city. today,
because of the strike of 1.200 freight
handlers, begun yesterday. Carload
shipments were not adected, being
loaded or unloaded by the shippers or
the consignees, but the embarg‘ocs de-
clamd by the railroads caused deten-
tion on sidinga of many cars of perish-
able and other goods for local mer-
chants. and. prevented mixed ship-
ments to other parts of New England.
The possibility of a food stringency
as ‘a mutt oi’ the strike has been con-
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Sims Audit IMAM
A smashup occurred yesterday after-
noon on the Post road, in Southport,
when two jitneys came together. Ba-
roflski brothers were driving toward
Norwalk, Louis was towing Isadore,
in a disabled bus and, on the down
grade. near Buckley's garage, Isadore
‘put the breaks on and the car skidded
lacunae the road. John Ryan. another
ljltne'y driver, going toward Bridgeport.
saw. the other bus skid, but was unn-
blo to get out or the way. Baronskls
can- hit Ryan‘s, smashing the running
board and rear mu . ‘The for-
mers car received the greater amount
'0! damage, as both front wheels were
Vbroken, bent frame, smashed lights
and both front mudguards torn oil.
Ryan’s car was able to ploceed on un-
der its own power. No one was hurt.
Ryan was the only one that carried
passengers. .
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29.-—A
WAKEFIELD. Mass, Jan.
plan contemplating an equal division
of net profits or net losses annually
between the company and its 1.200 cm-
ployc'u and containing provisions by
gwhich the workers may take oval-con-
Atro ct “robustness. was announced to-
{day Winslflp, Bolt 4 & Combany.
owners ottho Kmart! Knitting Mills,
engaged in under-wear manufacture.
~The’omployes. who in recent years,
«do "have receivedancnnual bonuotus
per éentaagreed to accept-the plan.
7 In a‘pronmble your, the company
will mutt my per cent. or
profits to employ“ my
year-ts standing will receive ~20 per
canongormlll have one‘mr cent. ad-
1
ble to ship freight in lots of less than'
a carload through terminals of the.
Boston and Albany and the Boston and:
i
The next of kin of the Norwalk‘
men who died during the World War
will be presented with a certificate of I
honor. the French nation's oflicial ex;
pression of gratitude, by Frank (3.:
Godfrey Post. American Legion, at a
public meeting to be held in the Nor-
walk Armory, Washington's birthday,
Sunday, February 22.
At a well-attended meeting of the
P05 last 11 t, plans for the pre-
t’ igh Alfred Cutbill
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sentation were made. ‘
was named chairman of the commlt- nPost will be held on Wednesday
tee in charge of arrangements. An night of next. week in the coupon .-.
effort will be made to have a speaker;
of national reputation present. The
affair will be open to the general pub-
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HAMESMAMAEEAMEM
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The tires and interior of an automo.
bile, owned by Klein & Gmahle, pro-3
vision dealers,”Paciilc street, Stain-1
lord; were damaged by are at 8:30,
o‘clock. tut nighuw it: the car was‘
standing at the cbrnb haview ave-
, hue and First street. 1
l A rage repairer was working on
is lea ' in the gas pipe and was under,
4 the car with: lighted lantern. A drop
aof gasoline fell on the lantern, igniting,
' it. the flames quickly spreading to the?
automobile. ‘
Gasoline flowed over the ground and, l
in turning, abnt up a brilliant glare:
utat attracted considerable attention.
‘tompl response by members of the
:Me.) flower Hook ‘& Ladder Company
1 saved the car from b‘eing wrecked. A
truck from the Central Station also
we ponded. The car was touted to a
‘Stami‘ord garage for repairs.
MMMl’All-MME MAME
MAME IN FEBRUARY
BUDAPEST, Jan. 29.—-—Hungary will
be a monarchy, and the new King will
be chosen immediately after the Na-
tional Assembly convenes. said Pre-
_mier Huszar, speaking at a woman’s
gathering'yesterday.
The first duty of a National Assem-
bly. which will be summoned on Feb
16. will be to elect a chiel‘ of state.
said the Premier, after expressing his
satisfaction at e overwhelming suc-
cess of the National Christian party in
the recent election. “It is clear that
3Hungary will be a kingdom, but it
would be premature to mention the
names of those considered for the
throne today."
The Premier‘s words were greeted
with enthusiastic cheering.
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rendered.
The French government has sent to
the United States an omclal commu- .3
alert to distribute the honor cerflfi-\_* ._'
cates, and the American Legion pop.‘
throughout the country have been
selected as the means oi’ dlstrlbutiouww,
Plans were made last night 'by tho . 3;
entertainment committee of which ‘
Floyd Collin is chairman. to hold I»
military ball in the armory on mm
Monday. The next meeting of thp
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chamber of the city ball. Last night:
ainumber of new members joined “It.
legion. ‘
VEEEMAM Willlfll “' _
DIES AlWASlllNlilllN
Theodore E. Spencer Was it. 3
Secretary for Several of
Connecticut’s Congress- ; .
men " i
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 89: 415.000... _ '7“
E. Spencer, for the lost 30 yélrl W .
members of (loam. In
Connecticut and Washington corro-
spondent for Connecticut newn-
died at St. Elizabeth Hospital for this .
Insane here, last Friday, and was bub-j. V.
onde . - ,
“3ng cam: to Washington about 30,
years ago and served no secrets? at
different times for Conn-cum I. A
Stevens Henry Simona, Eboncncr J.-
Flll, James Glynn and Schu‘hr'h‘nsm
I ' ,'
rltks political fortunes changed. a
the Congressmen retired, one um
another, Mr. Spencer took ”it”
on the Capitol police force and other
it 'ons.
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tal'y to
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About 18 months ago,
from'sbme kidney trouble,
was taken suddenly ill With wMt’ap-n 3
peamdwto be a brain lesion. Ho wan ‘,
near death for several min I“
when he recovered physically was no
balanced mentally. He was taken, 3
year ago, to St. Elizabeth’s hull
Asylum, where he died. , He was but--
Aied here.
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M. s. NAVY MPENS
MAMEMMMMEMEE
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Edward McDonald, engineer, flnt ,
,class, who recently re-enl’ist in th. 7_
inavy after 14 years" of nctlv ppm
was in Norwalk today tacking up navy
posters in prominent places through-
out the city. Mr. Hanna“ represent.- .
ed the new Stamford Naval Recruit!“ '
oil'lce, opened recently in the 0&-
,tard building. Main and Atlantic ',
streets.
Members of the U. 8. N. R. E, at!!!" .
on inactive status, are interested is:
the announcement that they may rot,
turn to serve their unexpired ton-o
and receive a. bonus of tour nuthofl
pay. All reservists will be cont to any
Adolph W. Drcymss won first price.
list night. in the first of a series of in:
formal card parties in the South Nor-
wcll: Club. George! 8. North got the
"booby” price. There were ten tables,
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lunch a served llowing‘
ins. . ltwwas p‘ :0 the
3c not mmmmmm Adah choose. The Stanford
“0119
' ' cent. of their. earnings: tho-c employ Treason-cram w. grub. assisted by
,W' Jam seller. The next putty
o!" ' ce;' In- wlll boheld Wednesday night of nut their discharge papers.
”33': that: week. “ J Prescott ‘
mam
r-DEADLOCK» ON} PEACE TREATY.
m o'clock, and further information may
» uEMl.
school or station, army or navy, that
they may select.
Men between the ages oi: 1! to 3‘
years may enlist for 2. 3 or W
terms, and go to any trade school Md
flcc will be open evenings m ‘
1be obtained there. lax—navy I”. we:
‘obtain the Victory button- by a“
”Bill: “1:333 .. ~
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