Ordnance Expert Questions Hun Big Gun Claim
Col O. 8 Mitcham of the U S Army Ordnance department told Bridgport factory superintendents and foremen that he knows nothing about a 75 mile German gun said to bombard Paris. He noted if used, projectiles would have passed through 20 miles of atmosphere with little resistance. He illustrated weapons from 1914 onward and cited Jersey City blast as laborer carelessness. He blamed public apathy for lack of preparedness.
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Paris
Mitcham
United States Army Ordnance Department
Bridggeport
Jersey City
France
Congress
National Assembly
U S May Place Charges on Trap and Ferry Cars
Government may impose charges on trap cars after recommendations from trunk rail lines east of Albany and associated western lines. Proposals set a $3.50 per car rule for 10 000 pound loads, $3.40 for under 10 000 pounds, and no charge for 15 600 pounds or more to a single consignee and destination.
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Albany
Central Freight Association
Western Trunk Lines
Chicago
New Haven
Westerly
West Albany
Maybrook
Easton School Dons 180 Per Cent War Stamp Class
Easton reports a special meeting of the local war bureau chaired by CC B Marsh discussing the Liberty Loan drive led by the Y M C A committee. Schools are listed by per cent sales with values as follows: Academy five percent, Wilson six one percent, Adams thirty two percent, Center principal twenty two percent, Yellow nineteen percent. The drive aims to boost thrift stamp sales with total sales over two hundred ninety dollars.
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Easton
CC. B. Marsh
Y. AE. A
Punetel
Yada Iff
Academy
Wilson
Sport
Adams
Center Pr
Hospital to Build New Flower Story Brick Building
Permit granted by building commissioners for St. Vincent's hospital to erect a flower story brick building on the east side of Anson street. Superintend ent to reside in the building. Seven permits issued totaling 9 050 with other omissions listed for various residents and structures including four family houses and repairs.
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St. Vincent's Hospital
Anson Street
Charles Tregger
French Street
Amici Waine M. DiGeneva
Grand Street
Jonn H
Mysterious Charge Leaves U S Authorities Busy
A man was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges that the local office of the department refused to release. He faces federal custody and remains detained for federal authorities as the city court considers the case.
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Tiepart
Rawke Putdie
Federal Autoritien Arint
Flor
The
Fey
Trotzky Issues Rules for New Russian Army
Leon Trotzky promotes rules for appointing commanding personnel of the new Russian army. Brigade or larger unit commanders are named by the war minister with war council consent. Battalion company leaders and NCOs are drawn from eligible trained in military schools or proven war tacticians, with NCOs dismissed after six weeks if found incompetent.
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Moscow
Karsday
Associated Press
Leon Trotzky
War Council
Ordnance Dept Expands Space in Bridgeport Buildings
The United States Ordnance Department will occupy four floors of the Liberty Building in Bridgeport, adding to the previously leased three floors held by Waldo C. Eyo. The group will also use space in the Court Exchange Building and temporary quarters on the sixth floor of the First Bridgeport National Bank building formerly used by the Chamber of Commerce.
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Liberty
Waldo C. Eyo
United States Ordnance
United States Ordnance Department
District of Connecticut
Western
Massachusetts
Bridgeport Savings Bank
Court Exchange
Ordnance Department
Ordnance Organization
Chamber of Commerce
Russian Cruiser Sunk in Harbor of Reval
London reports a Petrograd dispatch stating the Russian cruiser Admiral Makaroff was mined and sunk in the harbor of Noval on the Gulf of Finland. The vessel, laid down in 1908, measured 442 feet, displaced 7,775 tons, and carried 8 inch, 6 inch, and 3 inch guns.
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Reval
London
Noval
Gulf of Finland
Makaroff
Petrograd
Copenhagern
Admiral Makrofft
Editors Resign After Treason Acquittal in Philadelphia
Philadelphia March 29. Dr Morr Darkow and Louis Warner editors of the Traareblatt a German language daily were acquitted in the United States courts of treason charges on Tuesday and have resigned their positions.
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Philadephia
Morr Darkow
Louis Warner
Tnareblatt
United States
iBank Trustees Tender Reception to Depositors
Grocers and trustees of the Bridgeport Savings Bank announce a reception for depositors from 4 to 8 o'clock in the bank's new building at State and Main streets. The bank, opening Monday morning, occupies the former site of its 1875 home. The Corinthian marble exterior uses white Vermont stone with bronze trim. Interior trimmings are Savoy Clair marble from France and the entrance on State Street features two bronze doors.
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Bridgeport Savings Bank
State and
Manin
Vermont
Stata Street
Savoy Claire
Trance
Lithuanians Protest German Domination in New York
The Lithuanian National Council representing about 750,000 Lithuanians in the United States adopted protest resolutions in New York against German aims to dominate Lithuania and absorb it into the Central empire. Delegates from Lithuanian societies gathered to present the record at the peace conference.
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Washington
Lithuania
Central Empire
Lithuanian National Council
United States
New York
Central Iron & Steel Announces Labor Pay Increase
Harrisburg Pa March 29 Central Iron and Steel Co today announced a one half percent raise for all laborers in its employ with adjustments for other departments.
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Harrisburg
Central Iron & Steel Co
Hartford Police Halt Badger Game at Crown Theatre
Hartford police stopped an alleged badger game involving Anthoney Delorenzo the Crown Theatre manager. George G Vane 36 and a woman claiming to be his wife were arrested in the theatre lobby on blackmail charges after the manager handed over five marked bills as partial payment toward a $700 demand. Detective Sergeant Lawrence J Lowe led the stakeout.
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Hartford
Anthoney Delorenzo
Crown Theatre
George G. Vane
Lawrence J. Lowe
Vane
Lowe
Cotton Confiscation Order Amid War Seizure Fears
Moscow dispatch reports a Bolshevik news item that Germans seek to buy Russian cotton via neutral intermediaries in Khiva Ferghana and Russian Turkestan. The Soviet council in Tashkent has ordered confiscation of cotton to prevent suspected enemy control and shortages across the trans-Caucasian region.
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Moscow
Gan Lsvertia
Khland Ferghans
Soviet Council
Tashkent
Turkesy
Arrests Follow Suspected Plot In Lobby overheard talk
A man overheard a conversation in a lobby and alerted police. He then helped arrest a couple said to have arrived from Philadelphia three months ago after handing over $59 to a third party.
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Tareen
Vanes
Deloran
Philadelphia
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