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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jul 30, 1920

Page

9

Kehuku Believed Lost After Tanker Explosion Near New Jersey

New York July 29 The tank steamer Kehuku last sailed July 26 for Fort Levis Mexico may have been the unidentified tanker destroyed by an explosion off the New Jersey coast Tuesday morning. Owners say the vessel failed to answer wireless calls and carries a crew of about 20 under Captain J Robertson. Built this year in Wilmington Delaware and registering 5107 gross tons, she was in ballast. Coast guard and naval communications officials note tankers everywhere are being traced by wireless. Avalon witnesses reported the explosion while hundreds watched from the New Jersey shore. Coast guard cutters searched for wreckage, but no results yet.

New York Fort Levis Mexico New Tercer Columbus Shipping, Company J. Robertson Wilmington Dect Naval Communications Service Tually Khukt- Fuesday Avalon New Jersey Coast Guard Cuttars

County Commissioners Discuss Liquor Refund Meeting

Twenty one county commissioners from all Connecticut counties gather in New London for a periodic meeting of the County Commissioners Association. They dine at Ocean Beach then adjourn to the county donut house for a lengthy session in the Superior Court room. J Jacob Waiter of New Haven chairs the meeting with Frank E Banerd of Bridgeport as secretary. The discussions focus on liquor license refunds and license renewal applications.

Kew London Connecticut Ocean Beach County Superior Court J. Jacob Waiter New Haven

Marquis Okuma Visits The Japanese Emperor

Marquis Okuma former premier announced to the press that he had been per ceived by the emperor who is ill and was the subject of an official bulletin recently. He said the emperor was reduced to weakness by illness but noted the monarch’s condition was generally high and added that it is better for one’s health to stop stroking.

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McAdoo Pressures Against Campaign Funds

William G McAdoo announced he would speak for Governor Cox as part of the campaign. He warned the public against purchased prosperity and urged publicity on campaign funding. The meeting with George White and Cox’s secretary at Huntington discussed the Republican National Committee’s influence and the Senate committee’s potential investigations.

New York iWilliam G. McAdoo Cox George White Democratic National Committee McAdoo Huntington Prinees Campain Republican National Senaite Investigatan Committee Duce Gm Fromm Republicar Democratic

Auxiliary entertains foreign war veterans at club

Members of Raymond W. Harris post Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ladies auxiliary hosted whist music and refreshments in the past club rooms. Plans were made for tomorrow’s hospital entertainment for 300 parents at Allingtown hospital with auxiliary members to be joined by entertainers, singers, dancers and musicians.

Raymond W. Harris Post Allingtown Hospital

Government seeks 300 stenographers in Washington

Three hundred stenographers are needed by the United States government for work in Washington. Salaries of 1200 dollars a year with a 20 dollar monthly bonus. Recruits must apply to Wallace A. Smith, deputy collector of customs, at the federal building. No examinations will be held. Applications available every Thursday until all positions are filled.

United States Washington

Yale names new commercial law professor

An announcement states that Herschel Warent, secretary of the Stealty of Laruar School of Law at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has been appointed professor of commercial law and partnerships at Yale University Law School in New Haven.

New Haven Herschel Warent Yate Stealty of Laruar

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