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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1922
Page
4
The board postpones awarding the contract for a refrigerating plant at Allisida home while considering the operation of existing systems. A plan for the project and employment by the charities is discussed, with one week of hold and staged continuation.
Congressman Burke announces an audit of coal operators to show profits, not wages, drive high coal prices. Daugherty in Indianapolis probes wage claims as the House exempts labor organizations from the Clayton Antitrust Act. Lord of the AFL accuses operators of breaking miners’ unity. Committees push to expose operator profits and wage-related tensions.
Captain Roald Amundsen and his party were injured but not seriously when their all metal German built monoplane crashed at Mola near Clariton while en route from New York to Seattle. The crew including Lieutenant Oscar Omdal and Ruhl will proceed by train to Cleveland to continue the expedition.
London April 14 report from Manila states Captain Willan J Briscoe T SAL and one soldier were burned to death while leading a party at Bagio near Tores fronting a fire. The dispatch adds that four soldiers were injured, several seriously, and many more affected by the blaze.
Lancaster New Hampshire reports the death of Irving W Drew at age 77. He served the unexpired U S Senate term after J W Gallinger until Moses was elected, led the Havings Bank in town and the Upper Coos Railroad, and was a former president of the New Hampshire Associations.
The American Legion building on Gulden Hill street was discussed for a rear addition to serve as a dance hall. The meeting did not take definite action. A fund-raising drive for state aid was also considered, with Vincent Keating named chairman of the pre Memorial Day apple distribution committee and Walter Gouldway as Memorial Day committee chairman.
Private Judge Paul Milter named Attorney Theodore Steiber special administrator for the Christopher Bruce Yule estate. Yule and his wife were killed April 7 in a plane collision near Paris. The estate includes $30,000 in bank deposits and four cottages in Pfirfeld. Formal administration will follow as courts determine which death occurred first to settle heirs.
Milford April 10 A double funeral is set for today with Frederick Cornwall of 39 Lafayette Street, a longtime dry goods merchant in Milford, and his wife Mirth Lucy Miles Cornwall. Frederick died Friday, his wife earlier this morning. The services will be at 3:30 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, conducted by Rev G Edward Ennollmeyer, with burial in Milford Cemetery. Cornwall was a native and longtime resident, member of George Van Horn Post, G A R, and a vestryman at St. Peter's. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Co Lay Roosevelt of Milford.
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