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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1922
Page
2
Five bandits elude pursuit after holding up five officials and employees. The gang fled in a car, taking more than 300,000 in cash from Liberty bonds and other securities. An officer reports aerial coordination and ongoing efforts to locate the suspects within 210 miles of New Booutels.
Cardinal O Connell departs for America as Vatican officials plan changes to papal election rules. A decree could widen intervals and extend time between conclave ballots, with publication anticipated after technical details are finalized. The Sacred College may act if needed to allow longer interlude before electing a new pope.
Martial law is proclaimed as miners clash with police and commandos at The Band and Benoni. Fighting swells across The Rand with special constables wounded, one policeman killed, and civilians struck by shell fire. Authorities deny native uprising while mobilizing troops and enforcing curfews.
Members of Arcaneum Lodge 1000 hosted visiting Odd Fellows from Pentonnock and Markuy canton at their Broad street lodge room. Grand Master George Hanford and officers attended as the first degree was performed by Arm eunaut Lodge with a drill led by Past Grand Bay S Vanstowne and guards under Captain Leslie A Vanstone.
W H Northcutt is noted as Y Secretary with ties to Indiana University and Northhampton Maw. The text describes birth, schooling, and vocal gifts, plus connections to Judson McKin and Newton. It mentions the selection committee for a foot post and lists several names.
Obituary note states a death at the residence of the decedent’s relatives, located at 1620 Transition Avenue, with funeral arrangements to be announced by the family.
Special report from Norwalk notes missing Sealer of Weights and Measures since 1913 and no build ing inspector engineer or building official for years. Milk inspector staffed two months after long vacancy. Police commissioner post vacant since 1948. City council to act next Tuesday night.
Bridgeport residents face a campaign to extract funds for a "Spend to Business" drive led by the Meca Merchants board and the Chamber of Commerce Industrial division. Ben I Morrison chairs the executive committee, touting citizen support and urging loyal Bridgeport residents to contribute while an investigative panel catalogs factory feasibilities for potential manufacturing classes. Boston reports discuss stockholder concerns about reorganizing railroad control, with Edmund J. Corman and Senator Walter A. Tardy commenting on the ride toward altering decrees and the New Haven railroad’s operations.
President Harding and party anchored near Summer House inlet aboard the Washington yacht iE. B. McLean for a coast cruise from Manasquan inlet to Seabreeze then Daytona. Stops planned along the East coast as golfing and rest mark the day’s itinerary with a return to Washington anticipated midweek.
In Great Neck New York on March 10 1932 a pot of coffee caused the death by suffocation of Phil Henry Bheri Man 32 a lieutenant commander in the naval reserve He was found dead at his kitchen table with a hook in his hands Arthur Shemaan his brother discovered the body after an absence of apparatus The news notes his service and mentions his brother Thomas who commanded the line steamer Huron in the Navy.
Connecticut Co and various interests debate two tokens for fifteen cents as a potential flat fare for Bridgeport routes. Commissioners consider a seven and half to seven cent middle ground with transfers. no hearing date set, officials cautious about profitability and equity.
A rum runner was killed when Albert Fosbers, chief engineer of Une Innes arriving from France, shot him during a launch raid at Harakiva police headquarters. Four others were detained for questioning as investigators consider the murder case and potential accomplices.
Berlin March 10 Associated Press reports Minister of the Interior Adolph Koester announced Reichstag decided to remove all insignia of monarchical Germany from public buildings within a definite period. Exceptions would be allowed where removal would wreck architectural value or effect.
Philadelphia March 10 A 21 year old Unger of the Evans Dental Institute and University of Renaria confessed to securities theft totaling about 290 000 he said stemmed from brokers frames and stock market dabbling. He was held on 50 000 bail after a hearing and captured in a Philadelphia rooming house last night. He claimed to have lost money in stocks then sought to regain it by further trading.
Louis March 10 Victor G Berger of Milwaukee Socialist leaders who three times was elected to office announce he will run again for Congress.
A former member of Parliament, expelled over anti war remarks, announces plans to run again from Mumaukee. The decision follows a yesterday vote in the House and today’s publication of the statement.
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