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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1919

Page

8

McKinley School add bids rush despite funding gap

Contractors who bid on the McKinley School addition met with the board yesterday and agreed to start work immediately though funds to complete the project are not yet available. About 60 thousand can be spent before April while 134 thousand is on hand. bids total 183,604 with Michael Noonan to lead general carpentry for 152,754 and other trades by BarretD. Witageraid plumbing and heating 22,000 Wilpatrick and Hatz electrical 4,843 George A. Douglas painting 3,638.

McKiniley School Board of Education April Island Michael Noonan Barretd Witageraid Wilpatrick and Hatz George A. Douglas

Legion Desires Training for All Citizens

Washington December 10 Members of the American Legion urged universal training for a large citizen army during testimony before the Senate military committee Colonel F W Galbraith of Cincinnati said the regular army should be reduced to the minimum required for foreign garrison and domestic duties He proposed a greatly expanded general staff with citizen officers alongside regulars and called for elimination of redundant regular army officers and continuation of officers training camps to prepare citizen officers for wartime service.

Washington Mermbbers American Legion Senate Military Committee Cincinnati Galbraith

City ash collections rules emphasize one-man handling

Dr. Walter H. Brown, health officer, announced that municipal ash collectors will not empty ash bins. Householders delaying private removal or using oversized bins slow collections. Yard inspectors will alert owners where bins overflow to clean up promptly. Use practical receptacles that one man can handle.

Walter H. Brown eNor

Resolutions Presented on Ukraine Pogrom Protests

A delegation from the American Jewish Congress led by Louis Marshall presented resolutions to Secretary Lansing in Lansing Washington on December 10. The resolutions, adopted at mass meetings in New York and other large cities on November 24, protested against recent pogroms in Ukraine in which forty thousand Jewish men women and children lost their lives.

Lansing Wasitington New York Ukrainia American Jewish Congress Louls Manshall Congress

Bolsheviks Launch Offensive on Narva Front

Bolsheviks begin new offensive on Narva front as ten assaults hit Esthenian positions. Reports say all attacks were repulsed with heavy losses to Bolshevik forces.

Testilon LA Reval Tsigonia Dea Narva Forres

Raiders from Belfast raid Cavan estate for timber

A group of about sixty men from Belfast raided an estate in County Cavan on Monday under the land judges court authority. They felled around 400 trees and loaded them for transport while police uncovered more freshly cut timber stored in nearby houses.

Belfast Treland County Cavan Land Judoes Court Ister Grangeman

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