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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
10
The Lion and the Mouse at the Lyric draws large Bridgeport crowds twice daily as Poli Players revive the well known drama. The bill also features the Seven Honey Boys in vaudeville, plus a Hearst-Pathé war film and other acts at the Poli theatre.
Ambassador James W. Gerard's My Four Years in Germany is shown at the Park all week with daily matinees, offering the authorized picturization of his wartime observations on German espionage and its cultural roots. The film underscores German spy capability and American misperceptions, highlighting official insights from Gerard’s account.
Boston May 22 a new recruiting water mark was set by the U S Shipping Board when 83 men were accepted for training. The best previous mark was 74 New York led with 25 apprentices while Massachusetts contributed 16 and Pennsylvania 12.
In New York on May 22 prosecutor Becker called reports of large German rifle and ammunition stocks in the United States a myth. Evidence cited included a single 875 Mauser shipment in 1907 for the Mexican Constitutionalists, with other claimed hoards dismissed as frauds. Red Cross drive in New England raised 2,734,000 toward a 7,000,000 district goal, with Boston alone contributing 1,187,455 by noon.
Wilson Marshall of this city donated the Kaiser's cup to the Red Cross War Fund of New York. It will be auctioned at the Hippodrome theater in New York tonight by Governor Whitman. The cup, won in a yacht race from Sandy Hook to Laird in England, is solid gold, five feet tall with pedestal, bearing the Kaiser's likeness, and valued at $5,000.
Sanford Stoddard announces final details for Bridgeport's 789 drafted men farewell on Friday. March route from the armory runs down Main to Gold, up ramp to the station platform north of the lunch room counter. Track 7 west side hosts the special train to Camp Upton. relatives and six departing men barred from Berkshire platform. roped area and markers designate each division to avoid confusion. boarding expected at 12 44.
Sid ney Johnson, a hero accused of complicity in the murder of Hampton Smith, a Brooks county farmer, was shot to death tonight in a fight with police on the outskirts of Valdosta. Three whites wounded including Chief of Police Dampier. Four negroes already lynched over the Smith killing.
INDIANAPOLIS May 23 Physicians attending former vice president Charles W. Fairbanks said there was slight improvement in his condition at home though anxiety remains high. Separately Hartford lawyer Royal W. Thompson was freed of kidnapping charges over the removal of Marion Louise Medling from Windsor with similar dismissals for Mrs. Agnes P. Medling and detective Thomas J. Conroy. The court ruled there was no abduction.
John Ganster of Baltimore, quarter master in the navy aviation corps, was killed in a seaplane accident in France. The Navy department announced the death on May 20. Ganzter, an attorney and well known athlete, was among the first to enlist and had been promoted and expected to go to the front. he had been active in aeronautics before the war.
May 22 report shows the Sethie hem steel Company yard in Baltimore has launched a ship every two weeks for the past two months, reflecting steady output from a workforce now employed at the shipyard.
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