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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1923
Page
8
A royal decree reorganizes the Directorate of Spain and fixes a corps of advisers. King and General Primo Rivera defend the move as necessary to fulfill planned governance after ten months in power. Only actors passing the board of advisers will be submitted to the directorate, with civilian advisers created.
Governor William D. Denney announced he would call out the Delaware National Guard if needed to aid federal prohibition agents in enforcing the state dry laws. He spoke after two weeks of enforcement controversy and reassured agents he would promptly detail guardsmen to serve, as federal authorities appear determined to enforce a dry Christmas.
The Fourth District Democrats endorsed John Lyons to succeed Walter J. Hartnett as alderman amid absent officers. The meeting, held that night, elected William Helgin chairman and Walter Hartnett secretary due to officer absence. Annual officer elections will be held next Friday night.
The British schooner Awasind from Nassau to Halifax Nova Scotia with 218 cases of whiskey went aground near Pan Shoalg early today. She was pulled off by five guard launches and nine pilots, leaking, and towed to Southport harbor in a leaking condition. She will be brought to Amington immediately, coast guards said.
Mayor F William Behrony disclosed that Francis Te Dunigan former city clerk now clerk of East Washington bridge has sent to Auditor Leonard Keating a requisition for 75900 more funds to finish the bridge. Of this 44000 would cover the street superstructure by the bridge contractor and 8000 would settle the final payment on steel burned five years ago.
A car with one door and a woman’s coat inside was found abandoned near Beaches Corner along the highway. Constable Stanley Bout reported the incident to Bridgeport Police, believing the vehicle was stolen and dumped after the thief fled on foot. The car appeared to be in running order but had no lights.
Newtown resident Fred Wetmore was arrested at Long Hill by Constable Stanley Bouton for waving improper lights. Before Justice Howard Randall, the charge was nolled on payment of costs.
Hundreds of Beardsley School children enjoyed Santa Claus visiting doors to wish a Merry Christmas and hand out treats. The event featured a program arranged by Miss Jeanie Witzroy and staff, with the school orchestra, recitations, songs, plays, and dances. Janet Clark won the opening recitation “Christmas on Mount Olympus,” and a Christmas tree lighting is planned for Old Mt Green with carols by sixth to eighth graders on Christmas Eve.
December 21 New York stock market crowds joined a long awaited festive event combining two annual celebrations. The parade inside the financial district ended at the grand Christmas tree at the New York Stock Exchange as Boy Scouts helped coordinate the Bowling Green event under the open sky.
At a Stamford hearing Compensation Commissioner Edward T Buckingham awarded Anne H Sherman $12 560 a week for the partial loss of the left index finger after an accident while employed by A Siegelbaum of Stamford. Evidence showed the finger was crushed when a door closed on April 30, 1923. Sherman refused surgery, and the award settled the case.
A large bomb exploded tonight on the steps of the government building at Han over in Berlin. Ober-President Noske Hivey stated that all windows and doors in the front part of the building were shattered, but no one was hurt.
New Orleans December 21 Henry M Horliner former Federal Internal Revenue agent now attached to the office in New York city was indicted by the federal grand jury today. The bill charges he attempted to extort a bribe of 2006 from a local businessman regarding the filing of a firm's income tax liability for the period 1917 1925.
Waterloo Iowa December 21 After hearing Mrs Nettle Case Taylor described years of alleged drunkenness and brutality by her husband and said she attacked him with an axe in fear for her life The jury then retired to decide her fate concluding the trial in Justice Devendorf s court The weapon used was an axe not a hatchet as the prosecution claimed
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