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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1919
Page
18
The battleship Virginia and cruiser Huntington arrived in Boston from Newport yesterday, with about 3,000 troops aboard. Delays were caused by prolonged repairs after a recent loss of a propeller and machinery trouble, limiting speed to one propeller during the voyage.
Peter Dekarlo of 113 North Washington avenue struck his head on a wall at Seaside park baths yesterday. He received a scalp wound treated with two stitches by Dr. W. Passuth at Emergency Hospital. In Newport News, about 10 000 officers and men arrived from France aboard El Sol Siboney and Mercury transports, including remount and transportation corps units.
Stockholm July reports say newspapers under Socialist control will not be printed tomorrow or Sunday due to a printers strike. The union refused to arbitrate, and most papers plan to resume Monday after preparations. Workers doubt support for printers demands which include power to dictate composition methods.
Orduna sailed for Liverpool yesterday with 600 first and second cabin passengers. Among the 4 ton list was the Earl of Glasgow who has served as British naval transport officer at Windivostock for eight months. He will retire from the navy on arrival and settle as a country gentleman. His estates are at Pairlle on the Clyde thirty miles below Glasgow.
Divers Gay and Broderick report the naval scout craft Mary Alice 173 can be salvaged after being rammed by a submarine in harbor last October. Located in 52 feet of water, the wreck has resisted work due to rough seas but a hole repair will allow dynamiting and raising next week.
New York July 6 One thousand army carrier pigeons from breeding stock were auctioned at Governors Island. About 300 sold, price range two to $2 per pair for overseas birds and $1.20 for the rest. Eighteen German deserter pigeons were found, bearing iron crosses and German intelligence numbers. A pair nicknamed Red Eye and his Bowie bride, both part of the 116th Field Signal Battalion, are now living together in the loft with a nest and two eggs.
Justice Wakeman announces Fairfield will not hear intoxication cases on the docket for the first Monday in years. Prohibition and beer at 2.75 percent have left the town jail empty. Officials report fewer drunkenness incidents and related breaches of the peace, with cars wrecks and public disturbances down.
In Marlboro Massachusetts on July 6 a long missing son Henry Normandin returns after 20 years presumed dead. Fred Normandin, the father, embraces him as the town learns he has traveled America Europe and Africa since leaving home in 1960. He now lives in Chicago with a wife and children and runs an electrical business.
Boston July 7 delegates representing Polish national defense committees call the treaty drawn for Poland an insulting imposition by the five great powers. The motion adopted vows to block ratification and denounces the pact as illegal undemocratic and contrary to Poland’s traditions on minority rights.
About 2,600 motormen and conductors of the Cleveland Street Railway Company struck to press a twelve cent an hour wage increase. Attempts to start cars failed as strikers and sympathizers kept up stoning and wire cutting during the stoppage.
Charles Duender eight of 316 Bostwick avenue was treated for a sprained left shoulder and contusion of the left arm by Dr Weiss at the Emergency hospital shortly before noon yesterday after he fell against the fender of a Ford car while running across the street near his home. The injuries are not serious.
London dispatch reports the Irish Unionist Alliance replying to the Irish Dominion League manifesto of June 27. It rejects a self government plan that would keep Ireland inside the British empire, warning the move would threaten imperial peace and progress and resist any policy risking such danger.
In Paris on Saturday July 3 a fund estimated at 74300 francs about 15000 dollars was raised by American army students in France to send fourteen French students to American universities next year. The fund was presented to M Lafferre minister of education by Lieutenants Woodward and Ryan, chairman and secretary of the students association. The scholarship fund was built from voluntary subscriptions among association members who studied at French universities and wish to repay the nation’s generosity with gratitude.
A touring car driven by Fred Bruce of New Haven Avenue Derby collided with a Chevrolet owned by Robert Dickey Jr and driven by Edward Corcoran of 2 Chester Street near State Street and Hancock Avenue shortly after 1 PM. One horse in the vehicle was so badly injured it had to be shot. Bruce attempted to avoid the crash.
New York July 6 more than 17 000 war weary doughboys and officers disembarked from four transports Leviathan Patricia Caserta Mount Vernon at Hoboken. Two general prisoners were unaccounted for after the voyage with guards patrolling the ship and debarkation officers identifying missing men by weight. Army officials withheld names and urged caution about jumping overboard while searching bunkers and storerooms.
In Rome on Saturday July 5 the Pope discussed at length American ecclesiastical questions in a private audience with Monsignor Bonzano the apostolic delegate in the United States His Holiness showed great interest in all problems now affecting the United States warning of broader concerns within the church in America and the need for unity and guidance from Rome
A street accident left two horses thrown to their feet with one crippled by a broken leg after being struck from behind. Dr. A C Knapp attended and euthanized the injured horse. No arrests were made.
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