Southport Red Cross Workers Keeping Busy
Southport notes a Junior Auxiliary meeting at Mrs. Buckinghame of Mill Hit with sewing for the Red Cross by Misses Jennings Sherwood Nicholas Hughes Egeling Nicholas Davarish Nichols. Events club hosts and Libe rns rehearsal near end of February. local residents and service members are listed among attendees and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southport
John H. Buckingheam
Mill Hit
Red Cross
Othy Jennings
Nan Sherwood
Eisie Nicholas
Edith Hughes
Adel Egeling
Winifred Nicholas
Margaret Davarish
Anna Nichols
William G. Purdy
Georgiana White
Events Club
Wakeman Memorial Munilding
Southport Liberorns
William Jolas
Church Street
Pequot
Fuel Administration
Southport Tire D
Edward Smith
Fort Slocum
Not Avenue
Ensign
James F. Cult
New York
George Keymer
Post Road
John Shaungnessy
Case Hospital
Camp Devens
Thomas Shaughmeasy
Mildred Post
John Street
Grantwood
N. J
Henry H. Perry
Harbor Road
Camden
E “Misa Ruth Nichols
Stamford
Catherine Callan
Miles Anna Callan
Ralph Lane
Brooklyn Wy Yard
Hutcheson Warns Labor Over Shipyard Strikes Continues
Hutcheson urges organized labor to back shipyard production to win the war. He warns that strikes threaten 9.5 million tons of annual shipping and the care of 1.5 million troops overseas, tying worker fate to national defense and urging full-time shipyard operation. He notes AFL leaders and navy officials support a fair board to prevent paralyzing stoppages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Tself
Laboer
Ibor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Navy Department
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Board
Labo Adjustment Board
United States
Atlantic Coast
Smielsh
Shipyard Labor Talks Prompt Washington Conference
President Hutcheson of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners is called to Washington for a Shipping Board meeting to settle Atlantic seaboard shipyard grievances. Strikes curtailed as workers return. 1,000 shipbuilders register in New York, with 100 deployed to Pennsylvania and Connecticut for urgent needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York
William S. Hutcheson
The
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Shipping Board
Atlantic Seaboard
Brooklyn
United States Employment Service
New York City
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Charitable Entertainment Nets Considerable Sum
A large sum was raised for the Jewish poor at a Sunday evening entertainment in the State street Casino by the Hebrew Ladies' Aid society. A large crowd and many soldiers attended as Rosenhere's orchestra played patriotic tunes and for dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Street
Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society
Rosenhere
Tr. W. Zeigler
Billion for War Budget Advances to Navy and Yard Plans
Senate ships committee votes to visit Hog Island steel shipyard to inspect progress on the American International Corporation plant. Fletcher says Emergency Fleet Corporation to provide a detailed report on source of purchases for Hog Island and shipbuilding. Committee abandons subcommittee plan and will extend general inquiry while awaiting the Hog Island trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Naval Proving Ground
Indian Head
Navy
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Quartermaster's Department of Marine Corps
Hog Island
Senate
American International Corporation
Fletcher
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Bridgeport Fuel Office Cares for Orders as Congestion Eases
The Bridgeport fuel committee distributed about 500 fuel orders to families yesterday, with the office closed to catch up on deliveries. Police lines and early opening guards were provided to assist applicants. Separately, rail congestion on eastern lines showed gradual improvement with embargoes likely to lift, and twelve trains moved foodstuffs eastward to speed Allied shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R Sheehan
Bridgeport
New Jersey
Siinson
Washington
Castain
McAdoo
Mississippi River
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
Evie
Chicago
Gulf
South Atlantic
New England
Railroad Administration
Bridgeport Housing Plan Attracts National Attention
The emergency housing authorities in Washington consider Bridgeport a model for postwar solutions. Officials expect at least 10 million dollars in loans for local housing, with major manufacturers offering cash and land and loans to back the effort. Generous offers from General Electric and Bethlehem Steel aim to back government spending, with rental and sales income to repay. Local absentee workers have not pledged strong support, though Bridgeport firms resident here back the plan. The Bridgeport Housing Company reports 500 houses built in models, attracting national study and attention from the United States government which plans to send housing committees to evaluate the local scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Capital
Wilson
Bridgeport
Eidlitz
Washington
General Electric Company
Erie
Jeidlitz
Bethlehem Steel Company
South Bethlehem
Old Sparrows Point
Chester
Wilmington
Del
Bridgeport Housing Company
United States
Architectural Forum
Arrest Two for Duping Local Man
Two men were arrested in Detroit and held without bail pending extradition papers. Authorities say the principal case rests on one man pawning $5,000 worth of sulfur stock for 150 dollars after receiving it from another suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Hah
Murray
Apportionment Board to Receive Budget Recommendations
The apportionment board will hear preliminary appropriations at 2 pm in city hall council chambers. A sub committee report on small budget reductions is expected despite efforts to trim edges. A preliminary tax rate of 22.4 mills is forecast to drop to about 21 mills after beard adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Apportionment
Council
Robbers Raid Dentist Office for $75 in Crowns
Dr. H. C. Weidlich reported thieves entered his 1025 Main street dental office yesterday or last night and stole about $75 worth of gold crowns and sample work. Entry appeared unauthorized but not forced, suggesting experienced burglars using a skeleton key.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Weidlich
Main Street
Detective Bureau
Rope Lined for Barnum & Batley Circus Tent
A full carload of rope arrived yesterday to finish the main top tent for Barnum and Batley's circus. Tentmakers work quickly and expect completion before the show travels. Separately, Francesco Lolli was arrested in New York at Middletown, Conn. authorities’ request for a Magnanti murder case in February. Lolli claims self-defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnum &Batley's Circus
New York
Francesco Lolli
Middletown
Conn
Francisco Magnanti
Lolli
Magnanti
Greenfield Hill Forms Liberty Chorus Plan
Greenfield EAH February 18 call to form a Liberty chorus with a meeting at Dr. Dunham house for discussion and organization. Also reports Frank Edwards dies of pneumonia in Plattsville. he ran a large dairy and leaves a wife Ella Hall and several children. Funeral arrangements in Plattsville, plus community sewing, patriotic social, Red Cross sessions, Lena Meeker funeral, and local notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Plattsville
Edwards
Bridgeport
Ella Hall
Harry Hall
Harry
Erwin
Frank
Mabel
Susan Edwards
Franklin Banks
Frank H. Wade
Ambrose Marsh
Easton
Ladies’ Sewing Society
Red Cross
Annie E. Middlebrook
Horace Banks
S. Everett Lobdell
C. E. Society
United States Navy
Marion C. Dunham
Lena Meeker
Cross Highway District
Susan
Guy Meekeer
Charles Gray
Frank Edwards
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southport Red Cross
Hutcheson
Frank E. Lane
James Smith
Kings Highway
William Howe
Kings Home
Diness Highway
Europe
Roumania
Ropvaigheeaar Rise
Constantin Angelescu
Roumanian
Fiouse
U. S
Greenfield Hill
Liberty Chorus
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