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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1919
Page
18
The undersigned express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors who aided during the recent sickness of our wife and mother. Special thanks to the Bridgeport Brass Co’s departments 120 144 145 and to all who sent floral tributes to the funeral. Thomas IL Farrell husband and sons of the deceased.
Secretary Daniels and Admiral Sims dispute who merited honors for wartime service aboard ships sunk or engaged by submarines. Sims argues many officers under his command were unfairly denied high decorations, while Daniels defends the board's decisions and notes plans to consider further awards under the law.
Obituaries list multiple Connecticut deaths in late December 1919. Names include Baward of Stratford aged 43, Agatha Knacht of Trumbull aged 88, Robert Kenney Inenough aged 5, and Charlotte A. Nettleton of Milford aged 85. Funeral details, dates, times, and burial locations follow at residences and local cemeteries Brinsmade Milford Mountain Grove.
Commissioner General Caminetti said no department knows where the Buford with 240 deportees bound for New York will go. The route depends on expediency and will be decided by Shoase in command of the expedition. Finland is unlikely. Baltic republics or other ports in Europe are considered as landing points depending on ice and risk.
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