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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1921
Page
13
Secretary Davis ordered today a $400,000 special congressional appropriation as part of a national unemployment conference recommendation. The action aims to extend the Employment Service to a fuller, permanent role and expand public employment agencies in the fight against unemployment.
Frederick Wallace, 49, longtime supervisor of second floor and women’s apparel at T. M. Read, died Sunday in Kintonaly NY. Funeral at 8 p.m. tomorrow at his Bridgeport home 757 Wood Ave. Burial in Cedar Hill Hartford. His career spanned D. M. Read, Wassermanaker, Lord & Taylor, W. E. Hall, and Howland Goods, with ties to Bridgeport throughout. Fractions of the D M Read company will attend.
Emiplores of Frank H Fargo are included above the shareholders of the stationery com bar which was incorporated yesterday under the name of the Frank H. Fargo company according to papers found with the Town clerk. The concern was incorporated for 5000. The officers are Frank Th Parse president and treasurer 680 shares. Harry W Graves New Haven re president, three shares. Clara M Strempel assistant treasurer, two shares. Joseph J Beckwith Ir. secretary, one share.
Natives Cinquegrana of Brown and Troy and Fracassini will address the Dante celebration held in the High School auditorium on Wednesday night. Prof Cinqu erana will deliver an address while his colleague will lead the orchestra. Yesterday High School pupils listened to a talk on the life of Dante.
The Loucheur Hathenau agreement would cut German competition in U S and world markets by ensuring Germany receives 7 billion marks worth of goods within four and a half years. United States reparations representative Roland W. Boyden said the accord could be acceptable with minor changes as the reparations commission weighing approval. The plan aims to curb dangerous underselling and maintain year to year German reparations while aiding northern France’s rebuilding.
Robert Hardaman, a Black bank messenger for Grana Avenue, was held up by bandits on a crowded street car near downtown. The criminals escaped with a satchel containing $17,560 in cash and $51 in non negotiable power. The bandits forced the conductor to stop and opened the door before fleeing in an automobile.
East Haddam man Warry Clark, in custody for drunkenness, committed suicide in a police cell by looping a leather belt over his neck and using the cell bench as a jump point. He was arrested Friday night at the Learned Mission after intoxication incidents. his body to be claimed locally.
A garbled archival note describes a patient at a mission being restrained, later returned for care, and briefly released before being locked up again, with uncertain names and details. The legible elements point to a confinement episode and ongoing care in a mission setting.
A meeting of the Chirmedisis of Connecticut was held Sunday at Stratfield. Officers for the coming year were elected, with Aliehoel V. Bmako of Bridgenort named as mace.
Pred Wallace an Impiay D M Read comps. a superintendent of the worn apparel department dropped dead in Watonah yesterday while in an automobile trip. Widely known among the goods trade of the state and before coming to this post was connected with many department stores of New Ferre.
A saloon opened Friday was raided Saturday amid illness in Judge Tolaght’s family delaying a hearing on modifying a court decree giving custody of his sons. Attorney Chapmain faced months of sentence. G. Chapman, Bridgeport resident, fined $100 and three days’ confinement for the raid. Donald Cronin and bartender Hoth appealed their cases alongside similar sentences.
The hearing was postponed this afternoon before Judge John J. Tight as Lynn W. Wilson lectured on Impressions of Four Months Travel in England Scotland France and Italy.
Ilynn Wilson is slated to speak about her upcoming trip to Europe, replacing the regular meeting Wednesday at the Rotary Brooklawn Country Club due to scheduling conflicts with the Brooklawn group.
Wettenstein Bros dry goods firm at 215 Hancock Avenue filed for bankruptcy in U.S. court and proposed a 25 cent on the dollar composition to creditors with Referee John Keogh. The first meeting of creditors is set for tomorrow.
Peter T. Naveken of Bridgeport arrested in New Tray for operating ou Lhae an alleged fitting. Naveken and eight other drivers appealed from the city court decision and had a preliminary hearing yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas. At the request of Prosecuting Attorney Pickett, the cases were deferred on bill November for a jury trial.
New York Oct 10 The United States Steel Corporation reports 360 579 tons of unfilled orders on September 20 up from 4 501 890 tons on August 31 in the monthly tonnage bulletin released today by the company through the Associated Press.
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