Bridgeport Coal Shortage Turns Away 200+ For Fuel Cards
Bridgeport faces a severe coal shortage as the United States Fuel Administration struggles to distribute supplies. More than 200 people lined up before 9 am to obtain coal cards, exhausted by 10, leaving dealers with little stock. Wheeler Howes Co. and other yards reported near empty shelves with only scraps remaining.
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Bridgeport
United States Fuel Administration
Geidan
John Gi. Widher
Wheeler Howes Co
Mo Coal
Battling Kunz Knocked Out by Dundee in Auto Accident
In South Norwalk Charles Battling Kunz lightweight champion was defeated by Johnny Dundee Bridgeport in a fifth round knockout. Kunz, hurt in a car crash while driving with the top down, crashed into a telegraph pole and was knocked unconscious. He suffered a severe knee bruise and facial cut and will be sidelined for some time.
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sSouth
Norwalk
Charles
Battling Kunz
Johnny Dundee
Bridgeport
Poor Meat Rejected and Thrown Out at Devens Camp
Reports from Camp Devens show over 30,000 pounds of meat rejected as unfit for consumption during the month and about 20,000 pounds discarded in October by the department of agriculture procedures.
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Department of Agri
Wagon load of coal stolen from Reich dealer
A family found a temporary heating solution by taking a wagon load of coal from Abraham J. Reich of 85 Frank Street without permission. A man who visited a Water Street saloon at 7 p.m. reported his wagon missing a short time later and police located the wagon at Allen and Lafayette Streets at 8:15 p.m., still devoid of its coal.
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Fuel Administration
Abraham J. Reich
Frank Street
Water Street
Gonsé
Alien and
Lafayette Streets
Runaway Truck Threatens Schoolchildren In Suburban Block
A Hickey Bros. motor truck driven by Albert C. Zeis coasted downhill from in front of More house on Pequonnock street at 9 10 this morning, crowded by pupils en route to St Augustine's school. Five children fell but escaped harm as the vehicle swerved and crashed into a fence. Zeis was arrested for brakes not in good condition.
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Hickey Bros
Albert C. Zeis
Thompson Street
Morehouse
Pequonnock Street
St. Augustine’s Parochial School
No. 148
Hennessey
Zeis
Arrives Safely With 2 Million in Platinum Load
F W Draper an American engineer brought 21000 ounces of platinum from Petrograd in boxes carried as luggage arriving at a Pacific port. The metal valued near 2 million dollars is consigned to the secretary of commerce for urgent wartime use. Draper traveled alone and unarmed across Siberia to Vladivostok then to sea.
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Pacific
F. W. Draper
Petrograd
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Draper
Siberia
Vladivostok
Fuel Administrator warns Ohio governor over coal distribution
Washington telegram from Homer H. Johnson and F. C. Baird states that Dr. Garfield forbid Gov. Cox of Ohio from interfering with coal distribution under the estate fuel administration. The message asserts full federal authority to regulate coal flow and to cooperate with state officials.
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Washington
Garfield
Gov. Cox
Ohio
Estate Fuel Administration
Dr. Garfield
Homer H. Johnson
F. C. Baird
United States
Balzarano Extradition Waiver Moves to Massachusetts Trial
Joseph Balzarano of New York city, held in Pittsfield for the Cresci murder in 1943, waived extradition and agreed to return to Massachusetts to face trial. He was arrested yesterday and this morning waived further proceedings.
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Joseph Balzarano
New York City
Vincenzo Cresci
Pittsfield
Mass
Ace
Massachusetts
Germans Helping Austrians In Italy Front Battles
German troops under General Von Below joined Austrian and Bohemian forces under Field Marshal Conrad Von Hoetzendorf in heavy assaults along the Brenta and Piave rivers north of Monte Grapha. The fighting around Monte Spinada and Col Orso-Bear Hill was bloody with large losses, but the Italian line largely held with a brief enemy foothold restored by a counterattack.
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Italy
Associated Press
von Below
Conrad von Hoetzendorf
Brenta
Piave
Monte Grapha
Monte Spinada
Colberetta
Isonzo
Monte Spineda
Col Orso
Bear Hill
Truck Load of Auto Markers for This City
Hartford reports the department of motor vehicles loaded a large truck with markers and equipment for delivery in New Haven and Bridgeport as it expands branches. The commissioner found a trouble free return lead in Bridgeport with only a telephone inquiry and the marker maker suggested a regular service could be advantageous.
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Hartford
New Haven
Bridgeport
Department of Motor Vehicles
Call Home Guard Deployed as Minneapolis Strike Sparks Tension
Minneapolis dispatch reports preparations to curb possible disturbances amid a strike by several thousand local union men supporting street car workers protesting the order to discard union buttons by the state public safety commission. Special sheriffs and authorities brace for disorder in the wake of the labor action.
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Minneapolis
Nor Tles
St. Paul
State Public Safety Commission
Recognition of Austrians Granted Free Movement in US War Policy
President Wilson announced a liberal policy allowing up to 20 000 Austro Hungarians in Bridgeport to move freely as though no war exists with Austria Hungary. The policy honors their loyalty, avoids treating them as enemy aliens, and spares them severe movement and financial losses while war continues against Germany.
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Wilson
Congress
Austria-Hungary
America
Germany
Bridgeport
United States
Schwaben Men Offer Selves as Liberty Chorus
The Schwaebi scher maennerchor of Bridgeport has volunteered its services as a Liberty chorus for Connecticut. The group sent a letter to Bridgeport Liberty committee chairman expressing strong hope for the effort's success. About 75 Liberty choruses have been organized under the state council of defense.
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Hartford
Schwaebischer Maennerchor, Incorporated
Bridgeport
Yale Battery Guns to Ship for Artillery Contingent
A battery of four 2.95 inch mountain guns will be shipped soon to the Yale artillery contingent from the Watervliet arsenal. The battery will be complete in its equipment and chosen from material turned in by the wield artillery battalion.
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New Haven
Yale
Yale Artillery
Watervnlet
Wield Artillery Battalion
Dead Are Removed From Canals in Russ Capital
A Dec 13 dispatch from London reports fighting near Bielgorod with Bolsheviks and Gen Korniloff forces. Conflicting Bolshevik victory claims cite Korniloff defeated or routed, with 3,000 troops in a so called wild division. The Post notes secret police links and harsh Bolshevik methods as they gain ground, including 7,000 bodies recovered from Petrograd canals in three weeks.
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London
Bielgorod
Russia
Kornloff
Petrograd
Daily Mail
Korniloff
Post
Suez
Congress questions war material delays in senate inquiry
Washington reports say the senate military committee grilled Maj. Gen. Crozier on why arms and artillery funding lagged. Crozier blamed manufacturing time, while naming Secretary Baker as responsible for delays in machine guns tests and orders, insisting the ordnance department bore no fault.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
Crozier
Ordnance
Baker
Gen. Crozier
Chamberlain
Enator Chamberlain
Ordnance Department
Warns America Against Paper Money Inflation
In St Paul on December 13 Chairman Frank A Vanderlip warned bankers at a war savings luncheon that paper money inflation is dangerous for financing the war effort. He argued government needs labor and material not money and noted many billion dollars in corporate securities with fixed income would suffer under inflation.
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St. Paul, Minn
Frank A. Vanderlip
War Saving Committee
Vanderlip
NUN AND PHONE GIRL HEROES OF BIG BLOW UP
Halifax reports credit given to Sister Alice Boutin and Jean Groves for their actions after a catastrophic explosion. Boutin treated patients despite injuries and exhaustion while Groves stayed at her post directing calls for help then reported to the Lorne exchange.
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Halifax
Naval Hospital
Alice Boutin
Boutin
Jean Groves
Lorne Exchange
Northland
Court for Juveniles Proposed in Bridgeport Plan
Bridgeport considers a new Juvenile Court to handle delinquency cases and related child welfare matters. Civic committee discussions in Mrs. A H Bullard's home aim to establish a spring session, with New Haven precedent and possible local private funding to accelerate adoption.
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Bridgeport
College Club
Cour
New Haven
Waterbury
Civic
A. H. Bullard
Man Found Dead Likely Suicide in Pemb Street Home
John A Bay 80 was found dead in bed at 1 am with two sets of notes to relatives on his table. Police say death appeared self inflicted after overreaction to possible military service draft. A 134 Convent Place Yo sw Attaches suggested it might be accidental gas leak from a meter offset.
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John A. Bay
Pemb Street
Boyle
Ington
Convent Place
Found Dead in Room of South Norwalk Man
Clarents Henry Eberhardt a railroad signal man was found dead on the floor of his room by a fellow employee yesterday. He had been ill for several days and his mate had last seen him alive in the morning tidy.
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South
Norwalk
Henry Eberhardt
Whberhardt
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