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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1922
Page
7
President Harding endorses the Better Homes movement and the upcoming Better Homes week aimed at promoting attractive homes nationwide. The plan promotes model rooms and home improvements to inspire education, culture, and stability through a harmonious home environment.
In Washington on April 4 Congress again debated Porto Rico governance. The resident commissioner Theux Cordova Lavila urged a Congressional inquiry into Governor E Mont Reily’s official acts and asserted Reily is morally and mentally unfit to govern the island.
Bridgeport's Barnum Institute Museum on Main and Fairfield draws out of town visitors who wander in for relics of Phineas Taylor Barnum and curios from its three floors. Staff note many tourists arrive between trains, while incident reports include thefts of small artifacts and a Massachusetts visitor who vanished with a borrowed book. The museum, open afternoons 2 to 5, has grown from ground floor to third floor as funding allowed.
A lieutenant colonel, Beck, was fatally shot in his home after an unannounced visit from a relative, Day, who said he acted in self defense. Day described confronting Beck as Beck assaulted Day’s wife, then the gun discharged during a struggle. Beck’s body to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery beside his father, Brig. Gen. William H. Beck.
Col Beck, veteran aviator and authority on wireless telegraphy, famed for early airplane experiments and topography work, dies after a long social presence in Washington. A distant memory of travels and a tale of foreign notions about Caucasian and Chinese peoples close a life marked by daring flights and scholarly writings.
A Connecticut museum displays curios from 1841 including a large whistling swan, a hefty bicycle, a clumsy rowing machine, and embroidered patches. The exhibit promises more intriguing items for visitors curious about quirky history and early technology.
Gov Bawards appoints seven members to the State Rapid Transit Commission to study a comprehensive rapid passenger transit plan linking northern New Jersey with New York City. Reappointed medical examiners include Dr. James J. McGulra of Trenton and Dr. Charles A. Groves of East Orange among others.
Louisvillians and national figures gather for memorials to Marse Henry Watterson, dean of American journalism, with services at the First Christian Church and burial at Cave Hill. Participation includes Alexander Konta, James W. Brown, and Jim Whison.
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