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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1920
Page
5
Mary Roberts Rinehart of Philadelphia has filed as a delegate candidate for Pennsylvania to the Republican national convention. She calls for a decision on whether a woman can serve as a delegate from a non suffrage state before the suffrage amendment.
A Lyric theater Sunday program features Miss Alice Kauser, Miss Mauser, Rova Lowe, Joseph Diskay, Alexander Harmathy, and Ina J. Grange to aid starving Hungary. Addresses by Hauser and Osxison, Barna, plus remarks by Mayor Wilson and Rev. Chernitaky, with Max Sendler as chairman. A $1,000,000 relief drive is noted.
Greenock April 16. A Scotch official reports that American rye whiskey imported to this country is of the shock variety. He claims pre war whiskey, even when bonded, caused less harm than current whiskeys. He says their composition is terrible, poisoning and maddening drinkers and leaving them nervous and spiritless after the effects pass.
April 15 report says Paul R. Dew Mott of Faterson New Jersey was shot and killed at Wesel by a sentry while allegedly trying to escape from prison. An American commission investigator states a pretext to leave the building led to the outdoor permission and a straight rush for the gate. The sentry fired after he did not halt.
Boston April 16 Rogar Babson criticized what he called censorship power claimed by Senator Smoot in a speech linked to the Inter eherek world movement He charged Smoot had a rider giving the joins committee authority to block any government document without approval by its chairman Rockefeller Sr and others attended the meeting.
Col J Mosg Ives of Danbury receiver for the Danbury and Bethel street railway was granted permission by Judge H J Curtis of the superior court yesterday to purchase six safety cars for the line and the car trust agreement plan of payment. There was no objection to the purchase.
Ronald Crawford died in New Haven at age 69. He formerly managed the Stamford Gas and Electric Company and later served as an executive officer of the Oven Equipment and Manufacturing Company.
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