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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1918
Page
8
Minneapolis stands out this year as a rare model of municipal economy. A reduction in the tax rate for 1919 has been made. The size of the cut is not as important as the wartime squeeze keeping tax authorities from joining any broader effort.
Fairfield chapter of the Red Cross reports strong participation at Beach road headquarters. A January surgical dressings class led to multiple courses and many hours in Bridgeport work rooms, with 1400 dressings in a single evening and 641 finished between November 1, 1917 and December 1, 1918.
CHICAGO December 9 Lieutenant Colonel W D Uhler urged federal control of highways as a federal commission would oversee interstate freight by motor truck. The American Association of State Highway Officials opened its annual convention with delegates from nearly every state. A D Williams noted reconstruction shortages cut highway construction 25 to 50 percent and pressed for improved convict road worker conditions.
New York dispatch reports Berlin Tageblatt claimed Count von Bernstorff would join a German peace delegation. The 1917 item, dated November 7, asserts his appointment as certain, noting his Washington ties and popularity, and critiques German embassy disclosures amid changing U.S. views.
Amsterdam dispatch says Germany recognizes the Esthenian republic and reports evacuation of Narva, about 481 miles southwest of Petrograd, with German forces also pulling back from the Russian ports of Reval and Riga.
The Navy obtained injunctions restraining the EB Bliss Company of Brooklyn from manufacturing torpedoes with certain improvements for any market outside the United States. The case centers on alleged disclosure of construction and operation details to Whitehead and Company of Britain, despite 1905 agreements and 1913 notices. The Bliss company argues the improvements were not the Navy’s and that prior torpedo features existed independently.
Southport, Dec 2. Two gold stars were placed on the Southport fire department service flag in honor of Supply Sergeant Willam C. Taylor and Mess Sergeant Terry Sherwood who died of pneumonia while serving with New York cavalry and later the 10th Machine Gun battalion. They are the department’s third gold stars, following Private Clayton Nichols who died January 14 at Camp Devens.
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