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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1922
Page
4
In London on January 18 the trial of Sinn Fein members charged with capital thefts from Victoria Barracks Windsor and Chelsea Barracks last November concluded. Sentences ranged from two to forty months imprisonment for several defendants.
Carmine Carney, a butcher of 63 Bexington avenue, was fined 290 dollars and given a ten day sentence after arraignment in city court yesterday for illegal liquor in his meat market.
An old advertisement claims sulfur clears pimples on neck face and body. It promises quick drying and disappearance when applied, markets affordable sulfur as a harmless remedy and suggests asking a druggist for a twelve ounce jar.
Moscow January 18. Leon Trotzky predicts the Genoa conference will fail without heavy American entry and a move toward political balance. He says American attitude toward Soviet Russia is enigmatic, aiding famine relief yet withholding political stance.
In Washington, former Bellroads director Walter D. Hines told the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission that U S recovery will be slow, tied to Europe’s rebound and lacking promises of rapid improvement. He cited conditions in Germany and Central Europe after an extended Europe visit.
Joseph Andrecho aged 21 of 20 Hallett Street and Lou's Messina aged 39 of 402 Winter Street began work yesterday morning but boxing match groundwork went harder than intended. Both went to Emergency Hospital with bruised knuckles and jaw lacerations.
Washington Jan 18 Nilne billion parrela of oil remain in ground in the United States as of January 1, enough to meet demand for only twenty years at current extraction. Gulf coast Texas Louisiana leads with about 2.1 billion barrels, California 1.55 billion, Oklahoma 1.17 billion, Texas excluding east coast 0.67 billion.
A long list of real estate transfers, mortgages, and attachments in Bridgeport and surrounding areas. Names include Michael Milezko, Philip Prudnikowitz, Bessie Bernstein, Samuel Finkelstein, Adelph Levy, Joan Broadbeny, Frank Staples, Katherine Gardner Jones, and many others. Properties involve Pembroke Street, Main Street, Garfield Avenue, Beechwood and Howard Avenues, and numerous 40 to 91 feet parcels. Also notes bank transfers, first bridgeport, and liquidation company actions with price amounts and property deeds.
Washington January 14 shipping authorities expect ship salvaging to become a thriving U S industry due to the Washington conference. They watch with interest the impact of large salvage operations on the sector, noting results depend on conference details but foreseeing a strong push for salvage services nationwide.
The appropriation bill totals 424 80 238 with a 108 057 590 excess over current year allocations. The independent offices bill is 9 029 476 under budget bureau estimates. It lists 329 480 for President and White House salaries, 300 000 for the tariff commission, 220 600 for the shipping board, and 4 583 000 for the aeronautics committee among other line items.
A government mail pouch with hundreds of thousands in bonds was reported stolen from a truck at the New York Central station platform in Elkhart Indiana. A package containing 100000 dollars in bonds was later found abandoned in the post office with a note reading Here's Your bonds Tommy Connor.
Hundreds of Toronto's colored citizens subscribed to a fund to oppose the extradition of Matthew Bullock, an American Negro arrested in Hamilton for inciting a riot in North Carolina. A Hamilton board of inquiry will determine Bullock's status as an emigrant amid Canadian legal probes into precedent dating to slave trade days.
Federal officers on the coast guard cutter Tybee and the launch Champ captured the yawl Polly off Savannah Georgia. They reported finding 400 cases of liquor aboard. The Polly had been loaded in the Bahamas according to her manifest. Members of the crew were arrested.
Rome reports Pope Benedict XVI is indisposed today due to a bad cold. Official statement from the Vatican notes the pope is resting and receiving appropriate care as preparations continue for upcoming duties and events.
Harry W. Miller of 401 Dover Street was fined six dollars in City Court yesterday for violating state law against overloading money to seas. Prosecutor Te Earle Gartick commented that violators risk losing their license from the Public Utilities Commission.
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