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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1920
Page
4
The apportionment board plans a Tuesday meeting at 1 PM to provide funds to pay the salaries of the aldermen and to consider the Burns detective agency bill for expenses from the recent vice raids. The ordinance recently passed by the board authorizes these salaries.
Four suspects named as Shorty, Paul Vitele, Giuseppe Calabra, William Nichols and Margaret NDe- Vargo were ordered held for further examination in city court on burglary and hold up cases. Other persons suspected in the crimes may be arrested soon as investigators proceed with the probe.
Nicola Caldarola, 43, of Atlantic Street, was nearly scalped after a fall from a bicycle on Barnum Avenue. He struck his head on a curbstone, received treatment from Dr Groarks at Timerteney Hospital, and was moved to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Mexico City June 3 General Alvaro Obregon commander of revolutionary forces during the revolt that ousted the Carranza administration has retired from the army. Press dispatches say General Manuel Dieguez former governor of Guadalajara who was arrested during the revolution has been freed on orders from provisional President Adolfo De la Huerta.
Four fresh bubonic plague cases surfaced at Vera Cruz with three soldiers and an elderly laundress among the victims. The woman died after transfer to the detention hospital. Authorities burned buildings on the municipal dock area and nearby structures to eradicate possible infection centers.
Announcement in New York states Governor R Livingston Beeckman of Rhode Island will be presented at the Republican convention in Chicago for nomination as vice president. A campaign committee has been organized to support the bid.
James Smalgelsy of Bridgeport was fined 100 and costs in United States district court in Hartford yesterday for aiding whiskey production. He was placed on bonds until next Tuesday to pay the fine. Berne notes new passport plans by which a visé would be valid one year and allow freer cross border movement between the Swiss frontier and the United States, replacing the previous six month limit. The Swiss government seeks to facilitate travel for Americans visiting battlefields in France by arranging a special plan for passage to Switzerland.
A rare jasper roundwork map, valued at 1.2 million dollars, shows principal cities as stones with gold inscriptions and rivers as colored stains. Made to honor the Franco-Russian alliance, it was presented to France's exar.
The Bridgeport region asks to locate Eugene Gallagher Ira 14 son of a New York police officer. The boy vanished from home after failing exams at school and is believed to have headed toward the city.
Deputy Labor Commissioner John Burke said there were 8000 persons on strike in the Nutmeat valley area including Waterbury. Eight more trolley drivers were fined in city court for overloading buses.
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