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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
9
Assistant Superintendent of Police Vice-Suckley yesterday turned over to Sergeant Cavanaugh of the Canadian army Corporal J Sel lay, who was arrested in this city.
On June 21 a deserter Sergeant Cavanaugh and his prisoner began their journey to St Johns B C where Kelley had left weeks earlier. Kelley was arrested at the railroad station with Private Eugene Pierson of Fort Michie N Y. He was intoxicated and had been away from his company for weeks. British Canadian army authorities in New York were notified and instructed to hold Kelley, an officer arrived to take charge.
About 2000 British subjects in Bridgeport and tens of thousands of Americans in the British empire face draft under a new reciprocal treaty ratified by the Senate. The accord lets signatory citizens abroad be exempt from draft if exempt at home and includes provisions for certificates of exemption within 60 days after ratification.
The Fairfield County Farm Bureau warns garden supervisors to inspect potatoes for aphis. Pink and green lice have appeared in New Haven and Fairfield counties, with a ten day danger period ahead. Use nicotine sulfate spray or Bordeaux mixture with arsenate of lead, thoroughly covering the undersides of leaves. For more details, consult the Farm Bureau.
New York collector William J. L. Jedwards for the Second district announced at market close that income and excess profits taxes paid without penalty reached $440,122,024. He anticipated additional checks to be credited to the total tomorrow.
Arrangements are complete for a Loyal Order of Moore rally at Syria theatre tomorrow night at 8 o clock. Speakers include Judge Smithy, Lt Col Frank Blymyans, and a former mayor. The Minute Weanmen chorus led by Mrs Pyrus will perform, with Liberty chorus and Waterton sections also featured. The parade will pass along Abin street to Tyrie Crest, starting promptly at dusk.
The shallows for the weighing of the babies of the city under five years of age will be opened after the first of July at least five days a week until all of the babies are weighed. The Minute Woman of mothers of the babies will appear at the weighing stations. After weighing the babies will be examined and a record of those under normal condition will be sent to the clinic at the Hall home or the mothers will be asked to procure their own physicians.
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