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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1922
Page
1
A meditation on milk as the nation’s tool, praising dairy's role in national strength. It argues efficient cattle, wiser policy, and public education to elevate voters, notes radio’s comfort and contrasts rich and poor in law, lifestyle, and progress toward equality.
Rhode Island opens its 71st week of the textile mill strike. Goddard Brothers with Lonsdale Berkeley mills refuse the 20 percent wage cut but accept a 48 hour week. 2,500 workers affected as plants stay closed during the walkout. In Tokyo, Nakano is sentenced to life for Premier Hara’s murder. Hashimoto acquitted.
City officials move to float a 440000 school bond via First National Bank of Boston with bids due by July 1. City Auditor Keating forwards books to the bank. law firm is reviewing legality. Underwriting rejected. bonds to be certified after engravers. Rose Burke linked to a Paris hotel shooting protest noted in New York arrivals.
Referee in Bankruptcy John J. Keogh fixed 9 30 a m tomorrow for objections to the composition offered by Nicholas Horvath a bankrupt druggist and real estate operator creditors were offered cash 10 per cent notes 24 per cent each quarter over one year Horvath has been sentenced to one year in jail removing the drug business as a means to raise the ten per cent payment creditors seek a solution under current conditions
The petition of Mrs. Ethel Ti. Nott of Bridgeport serving a sentence for her husband’s murder was withdrawn before the Board of Pardons at the State Prison. The case joined 66 other appeals as the board met to consider clemency options.
A city authority outlined plans to revise the City Charter through amendments drawn by the city attorney and presented to the General Assembly. The drive aims to simplify sewer assessments, clarify departmental powers, close audit loopholes, and prevent future shortages like the one noted by Collector Smith. City officials plan a unified auditing system led by Mayor Atwater after talks with experienced auditors, with the City Attorney drafting the amendments.
Dublin dispatch reports Eamon De Valera launching Sinn Fein campaign speeches ahead of Ireland’s preliminary elections. He argues for reelecting past leaders, notes the panel plan’s unpopularity, and weighs rival independents and potential shifts around the treaty and republic. Rumors of Collins breaking with the treaty and De Valera breaking with his stance circulate but lack confirmation.
Tokyo reports the cabinet of former Premier Takashi Takashari has been replaced by a new administration led by Admiral Baron Tomosaburo Kato with economy as its guiding principle. The new ministers include Viscount Uchida as foreign minister and Enkichi Oki as railways minister. seven peers join the cabinet, signaling strong Diet support for the government amid criticism of party discipline and nonpartisan staffing.
A late weekend storm across eastern New York and the Hudson region produced more than forty deaths in the metropolitan area, with total losses surpassing one million dollars. Reports describe dramatic rescues, destroyed boats, and a ferris wheel toppled at City Island as crowds fled.
June 12 report from the Weather Bureau described a severe five minute thunder squall in New York. Winds averaged 72 miles per hour from the northwest, with a peak gust near 88 miles. Just before the blast the wind was southwest at about ten miles per hour, followed by a calm and a sudden northwest surge.
Chicago reports a possible rail strike tied to wage cuts by the United States Railroad Labor Board. Unions consider Canada-based leadership to dodge Supreme Court damages rulings. A $40 million wage cut would raise annual railway wages to about $150 million. About 50,000 clerks and others join 400,000 shopmen facing pay reductions. ballots urge swift voting by June 30 with no work stoppage until authorized.
Traffic division began a campaign to stop trucks blocking main streets as they load goods. An order by Captain James Walker led to four arrests this morning: Jam S. Batley, 169 Fred Gilchrist, 261 Noble Avenue. John J. Bredy, 787 State Street. Harry Cohen, 28 Bond Street. Paris reports two scientists hope worms can produce colored silk naturally.
New London June 12 Alumni reunions and class meetings were held at Connecticut College for Women. Governor Everett J. Lake will arrive late today and stay overnight for tomorrow’s commencement. He will speak at a luncheon hosted by trustees for faculty students and alumnae. The alumni body discussed a $2 million endowment and maintenance fund. The junior class planted stories and held exercises in the Blackstone Plant Quadrangle. President B. T. Marshall will host a reception. The evening includes suppers and the senior stonewall sing.
Four sergeants are moved between precincts as Captain Hall shifts to headquarters and Captain O’Connell moves to the third precinct. Sergeants Kearney Salmons Connors and Myere head to new posts with no reason given beyond routine orders from Acting Superintendent Flood and Board of Police Commissioners.
The Trolleymen union will meet this afternoon to discuss the arbitration committee report on wage demands. Justice John K. Beach chairs the committee with 44 ready. it reportedly recommends an eight percent cut. Committee members include Lucien Stores for the company and Mew Lean for the union. if rejected, a new committee may be formed.
Tomorrow afternoon at City Hall the Apportionment Board will hear bills dating back to 1916 from Southern New England Telephone Co totaling 200 and a 9000 claim from United Terminating Co. A 16000 deficit from Municipal Garage contracts run past an earlier appropriation. the board will decide which pre June 1921 contracts are valid and subject to payment, with other important items planned.
Cincinnati June 12 Facing the toughest problems in its 42 years the American Federation of Labor opened its annual convention in Ohio. Four hundred delegates from affiliated workers began two weeks of deliberations as leaders pledged militant action against threats to organized labor. Gompers called the gathering the Parliament of labor and urged unity and unconquerable spirit amid Supreme Court decisions he labeled dark days.
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