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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1922
Page
14
A levee breach on the Mississippi River at Myrtle Grove south of New Orleans flooded 6000 acres of sugar cane plantations with about 1.9 million dollars in damage. Levee engineers abandoned attempts to stop the break and planned to use tarpaulins to slow further water washing.
Bridgeport veterans active in service join many prominent men from states and cities at a Powder House anniversary celebration on New Haven Green. Governor Lake and staff attend the memorial service and parade, with a 6 30 pm review and dinner at the Gardy hotel for delegates and officers.
Oklahoma City reports a governor issued a general order barring any officer or man in the National Guard who owes allegiance to any power or secret organization that could oppose the United States or Oklahoma. The order focuses on the Ku Klux Klan and was made public today.
Marshal Joffre greeted Washington reporters at an informal reception in the National Press Club and stressed the press role in international affairs. He then prepared to leave the capital tomorrow for New York.
In New York on April 24, Reverend Percy Stickney Grant rector of the Church of the Ascension denied reports that he had voluntarily reduced his salary from ten thousand to five thousand dollars a year to help meet a deficit. The church admitted a process of peanomy had been introduced but said the parish remains solvent in every respect.
English writer Philip W Wilson spoke at the United Church forum on Lord Alinby and Hyynt. He argued Egypt is finding its soul, tracing governance from ancient rulers to Turkish rule, the Suez sale, and nationalist growth. He asserted Britain’s role in Egypt’s development and the region’s strategic center for a future Africa-Europe rail network. Samuel C Shaw introduced Wilson. Sons and Daughters of St. George attended.
Five U S Navy enlisted men earned the Portuguese cruz de guerra with one posthumous award. Recipients include Joan Henry Balkh pharrmagiat’s mate from Chicago. Philip J. Burger from Troy. Philipp J. Christ of Brooklyn. David N. Hayden of Los Angeles. Osman K. Jagranam of Pratt City Alabama. Citations recount evacuations under fire and acts protecting the ship Ingraham which later sank. Ingraham’s sacrifice led to the ship’s naming of the destroyer Ingraham честь. News also notes transfer talks involving wartime relief shipments to Anatolia amid broader famine aid efforts.
Veterans of several wars gathered at the United Congregational church to mark the 100th anniversary of General Ulysses S. Grant's birth. About 209 members from patriotic groups attended, including the American Legion and Spanish American War veterans. Dr. William Horace Day spoke on Grant, praising his honesty, courage, and lifelong readiness to learn, citing his surrender to Lee as a symbol of magnanimity.
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