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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
2
Liberty Ordnance plant workers push thrift stamp sales aiming to pledge two thousand dollars weekly. Gun shop led by Snell with Griswold and Perrillte. forge shop under Weeks with Tatolij and Judge. other sections show patriotic activity as well.
Division Four to send many men on three September calls. Seventy men from divisions 41 and 4 will entrain for Camp Upton Illinois on August 30 to answer Class 1, Inducted service. Names include Aaron Cohen, James J. Linehan, Maurice Y. Ward, John Toroderick, Albert J. Troska, Harold Ts. Hallsworth, and Walter Triggers. Additional men from Division 4 listed for Camp Devens include Flensid Baker and others.
Vernal Summitt of 2126 Seaview Avenue, an employee of the Remington Arms plant and a former sergeant in the 18th Regiment of Regulars, will be sent to Camp Greenleaf this morning from Division No. 6. Summitt was honorably discharged in May 1915 and since then has brought his father, mother, and two sisters to Bridgeport from Cherryville, NLC. He passed the draft board exam after a late postponement and was told he would be sent the next day if he passed. He had been in a deferred class due to his occupation.
A raw urges workers to buy Thrift stamps to boost Liberty Ordnance toward 100 percent support. The pamphlet questions factory patriotism, challenging employees to stamp shells with thrift marks and surpass wartime effort, urging a fierce stand against the Kaiser.
French forces push back Germans along Chemin des Dames and Laon sectors threatening the line from Ypres to Rheims. Prussian Guard deployed but defeated, British near Hindenburg line from Arras to Bullecourt. French capture Fresnoy-les-Roye and St March with 600+ prisoners. Eastern theater artillery active around Doiran and Vardar. Austrians attack Franco Italian positions in Albania and Dobropolje Serbian aviator downed enemy aircraft.
British forces under Haig report capturing Suzanne and Cappy towns north and south of the Somme, taking Avesnes les Bapaume and reaching Thilly outskirts. German retreat continues with Canadians advancing along Arras Albert Cambrai road and prisoners taken. French Mangin forces smash German counter attacks between River Aisne and Soissons, with shifts toward Montauban and Laon as British and French lines hold.
Southport in Fairfield sees the Red Cross refugee garment drive expand as women meet weekly at 2 20 pm under the Current Events club. Mrs Charles H Mills hosts this week at West Way road, with next gathering planned at Wakeman Memorial building Harbor road.
The page blends a relentless sales catalog with war updates. It notes discounts up to 33 percent across numerous items from shoes to percolators and silk sweaters, alongside bold claims of a great sale. Concurrently it reports fighting near St Leger, Martinpuich, and Mary with enemy advances halted by counterattacks and reserves, detailing recaptured locales.
In New York City police arrested Private Joseph Rowlett of Port Slocum Field Artillery and Joseph Smith of the US S. S. Arkansas on desertion charges. They are suspected of multiple area robberies, with a diary listing July and August thefts in Connecticut Newburgh Greenwich and New Haven among other incidents. A Connecticut license plate auto and a suspect named Fred Woldag of Surfalls Conn. are noted in the diary.
American bombing machines raided Conflans dropping forty bombs on railroad yards amid heavy anti air craft fire. Bursts concentrated at the east end of the yards with an ammunition car explosion. German planes appeared but did not engage. Pershing reports local gains west of Fismes and a repulsed raid in Alsace with losses.
Bridgeport's former State Guardsmen are rapidly gaining promotions in the overseas army and U S camps. Philip Kk Murdock, ex Lacaomobile worker, rises to Brigadier General Hatch staff overseas. William D Horan sails to Italy to head a Red Cross unit. Earle Waramore, Coach Lace man, becomes drill sergeant at Camp Meigs. Charles W Cyrus of Bridgeport Trust serves with a French fighting unit and is reported as a lieutenant. Many others remain in the United States and credit local training with their advancement.
Bridgeport scoutmasters met at the Boy Scout headquarters to organize the fall rally for nearly a thousand Scouts in 34 troops. If Park commissioners grant permission, the Seaside Park event will occur on Columbus Day October 12. Leaders present included Leon J. Argest singer CG WL No rem deputy commissioner and Scoutmasters Pratt Hull Aussen and Storrs.
Night marking the forming of the new State Guard company in Milford featured Lt. Edward B. Blaisdell delivering the formal speech and Corporal Russell B. Cate delivering lighthearted remarks. About 70 members of H and I companies attended as refreshments, entertainment, and a letter from Major H. P. Lealand were shared.
Women employed by the Board of Education as janitresses will receive 2.50 a day for their work, up from 2.0, under an unanimous Board vote last night. The motion followed an earlier proposal brought by Owen Burns and Howard Challenger. They were laid off July 1 due to no work, but will restart September 1 as manpower changes loom. Registration days set for September 6 or 7 may use about 17 school buildings for draft registrations.
An imminent death inquiry was held yesterday afternoon at St. Vincent's Hospital for Mrs. Mary Kovacs of 514 Wancock Avenue who was slashed with a razor by her husband John Kovacs on Saturday. Coroner John Ju Phelan heard testimony from the injured woman. Kovacs had declared he would do anything to be with his wife and had shown jealous passion prior to the attack.
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