Regulation Gun Fire Inquiry Touches Police and Death
Police and detectives investigate contrasting gun calibers tied to the death of Morris Pannill and a Bullet hole in the Keystone Club door on Water Street. The weapon that killed Pannill was a .32 caliber, while the door hole came from a .38 caliber, suggesting a different shooter than the fatal round.
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Morris Pannill
Golden Hill Street
Keystone Club
Water Street
Jake Hawkins
McNamara
Pannill
Detective Bureau
Food Conservation Cracks Down in Bridgeport
State Food Administrator moves against local hotels and restaurants for flouting Meatless Thursdays and Wheatless Wednesdays. D Fairchild Wheeler named Deputy U S Food Administrator for Fairfield County to organize a city wide campaign and enforce conservation amid ongoing food stress.
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D. Fairchild Wheeler
United States
Fairfield County
Hartford
Wheeler
Food Administration
State Food Administration
Bridgeport
Remington Officials Testify On Enfield Delays Before Senate
UK OLA officials told the Senate military committee in Washington that factory changes slowed Enfield output for England and that production would not reach maximum until next May. Remington executives cited late appropriations and delayed contracts, while praising the American modified rifle and ammunition as superior to British types.
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Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co
Senate Military Committee
Washington
Army
Secrary
Henry C. Kimball
Remington Company
Kimball
Tyler
War Department
Hitchcock
Wadsworth
Navy
House Naval
Oliver
Spanish Vessel Sunk Unwarned by Submarine
A dispatch from Biarritz reports the Spanish steamer Noviembre 8,654 tons gross torpedoed at night without warning. Thirty crewmen landed after they swam for an hour and were rescued by French patrol ships which drove off the submarine.
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Paris
Noviembre
Biarritz
Excelsior
Bilboa
Bridgeport Sees Bright Red Cross Prize Prospects
Bridgeport Red Cross drives for a 500 monthly prize show strong early momentum. Officials note rising enrollments across downtown offices and factories, with 1500 volunteers reportedly active as the Lincoln building reports standout membership.
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Red Cross
Mercantileistrict
Bridgeport
Wiig
Connecticut
Fuchs Jailed Six Months for Embezzlement Charges
Maximilian J. Fuchs of Stamford pleads guilty to two counts of embezzling waste bronze worth 3,500 dollars each. He receives six months in jail on each count and fines of 540 dollars per count. Civil suits and a divorce action are pending. Fuchs, once general manager at Baer Brothers' Stamford plant, faced scrutiny amid petitions for leniency due to kidney disease.
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Maximilian J. Fuchs
Stamford
Fuchs
Baer Brothers Bronze Powder Works
New York
Galen Carter
Carter
Fuch
N. C. Downs
Aged Brookfield Man Dies in Barn
William H. Camp 75 a Brookfield resident was found dead last night in a barn on his farm where he had gone to feed cattle. Authorities say he apparently suffered a heart disease attack and died instantly, still holding a bundle of corn stalks. A neighbor’s child discovered the body.
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Brookfield
William H. Camp
Field Marshal Haig Revises Headquarters Staff
London reports Field Marshal Haig, commander in chief in France, is making significant changes to his unaltered headquarters staff. In a separate matter, a Common Pleas suit seeks 400 from Laslo Pak over a plumbing bill, while Coroner J Phelan resumes the inquiry into Morris Pannilla’s death from a shooting at Baby Doll’s club on Water Street.
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London
Marshal Haig
France
the Times
Supreme Command
Common Pleas Court
John R. Booth
Robert T. Rock
Laslo Pak
Pak
Vonn J. Phelan
Morris Pannilla
Water Street
Ten Dead and Seventy Hurt in Air Raid Attacks
Paris reports the cruiser Chateaurenault torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean with ten crew dead and seven injured on the same day London endures a brutal night of air raids leaving ten dead and seventy injured. British anti aircraft fire downs one raider and a second is destroyed at sea.
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Paris
Chateaurenault
Mediterranean
London
War Office
English Channel
Kent
British naval air raid devastates Engel aerodrome in Flanders
London reports in admiralty statement that British naval aircraft bombed the Engel aerodrome behind German lines in Flanders with successful results.
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London
Engel
Flanders
Admiralty
OUST GENERAL SARRAIL FROM SALONIKI POST
Gen Sarrail recalled from Saloniki and to be replaced by Gen Guillemet as Allied Macedonian front commander. Sarrail had led Franco Allied forces since October 1915 and played key roles at Saloniki Marne and Dardanelles campaigns.
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London
Sarrail
Saloniki
Athens
Reuter
Guillemet
M. P. B. Sarrail
Serbia
the Marne
Sugar dealers credit California-Hawaiian Refining Co for sugar supply
Western and Midwestern sugar dealers telegraph Food Administrator Hoover and George M. Rolph that without the California-Hawaiian Refining Co the October sugar famine would have hit their territories.
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Washington
West
Middle West
Hoover
George M. Rolph
The
Food Administration
California-Hawaiian Refining Co
Jury convicts in second degree murder case
After long deliberations the Stratford jury finds William Roberts guilty of second degree murder for killing his wife on July 4. Judge Gardiner Greene imposes life imprisonment, noting a first degree verdict was possible but left to the jury. Defense argued a blank mind at the time.
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William Roberts
Stratford
Gardiner Greene
Greene
Roberts
Cummings
Not Guilty of Perjury in Hartford Case
A federal jury in Hartford returned a not guilty verdict today in the perjury case against Anest Nikos Fotiadis of New Haven, also named Nicholas Fotiades Arnest J in the indictment. The jury announced the decision at 12:15 local time.
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Hartford
United States
Curt
Anest Nikos Fotiadis
New Haven
Nicholas Fotiades Arnest J
Bridgeport Coal Shortage Relief Hopes Dangled
Bridgeport officials urge street clearance and snow removal to restore coal deliveries. Chairman Carl F. Siemon warns deliveries may halt unless streets and yards are kept passable and manufacturers clear access. Washington promises and existing stock give some optimism despite winter snows.
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Carl F. Siemon
Bridgeport Fuel Committee
Siemon
Washington
The Letter Mr Ballard Lets Us Look It Over
County Commissioner Frank E. Ballard planned to discuss a letter allegedly from John T. King asking to revoke Baby Doll’s liquor license. He promised to show the letter and envelope but was absent from the 1:30 meeting, leaving reporters waiting from 1:25 to 2:05 PM.
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Frank E. Ballard
John T. King
Thomas
MR. Ballard
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