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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1920
Page
4
Seward BR. Price has been appointed executive secretary of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce and will join the council in Washington. The appointment was received in a letter yesterday.
More than 50 members of the Bridgeport Republican group are expected to attend the annual MeKinley dinner at Stueck's Tavern Middletown on January 27. Invitations to the dinner will be void unless accepted by Bombary Zod.
Jeanne A. Doky, protege of June Addams, is reported missing from Mull house for 14 days. An untraced telephone message claimed she is alive and well and noted a reward claim. Her brother John Wesley DeKay Jr. vanished after leaving Chicago to search. Romanian women Salter and her mother arrived from Switzerland claiming travel abroad.
New York January 12 college students and faculties from over 400 American colleges and universities plan to vote tomorrow on ratification of the peace treaty and the league of nations. This marks the first national referendum attempt by collegiate bodies on the subject with options including ratification without reservations, opposition to any ratification, ratification with Lodge reservations, and a compromise between Lodge and Wilson.
In Springfield Massachusetts Albert Mowers, 22, allegedly held up a police sergeant and patrolman, searched them, and took their revolvers and handcuffs. He was arrested two hours later at a boarding house where jewelry tied to Flowers linked to several recent burglaries was found. Serjeant Thomas Roryarty and Patrolman Brend Tourtellette encountered him as they investigated. He reportedly drew an automatic weapon and ordered them to surrender before attempting to flee.
The Senate rejected an amendment that would cap the government annual charge at 2.50 per horsepower developed. The House version allows a reasonable annual charge set by a federal hydroelectric commission, which stands.
Dr J A Freudenberg a young physician of Markelan Wisconsin was arrested and charged with murdering his mother in law Mrs Nettle Duffies by an injection of mustard into the bladder A coroner s jury linked other Duffies family deaths to the case and exhumation plans were set He is jailed at Green Lake and a ten day preliminary hearing was ordered with no bail until then Complainant was Wilfred B Perry Mrs Duffies brother.
A major quake damaged Jalapa's Prasby terian mission house and church, located midway between Vera Cruz and Mexico City, as reported by a cablegram to the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. The message notes a large toll of casualties.
The City of Bridgeport employment bureau reported that eleven former soldiers were placed last week. Of 99 veterans who called, 36 registered and 11 were placed across various positions as recorded by bureau head Eric Nutt.
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