Married Teachers Face Board Over Appointments
A school board meeting is set for Monday to settle whether married teachers hold regular posts. Superintendent Slawson says the board’s ruling does not guarantee permanency and that married women may still be placed on substitute lists. Allegations of political influence and earlier contracts for the coming semester are under review as the panel weighs status and compensation.
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Te Board of Educaton
Slauson
Samuel J. Slawson
Standard Telegram
Tave
Twie Q
Clarence BE. Caulkins
Strawson
Judge Curtis Tapped to Succeed Thomas as Referee
Reports circulated that Judge Howard W. Curtis of Stratford would replace John W. Banks as United States bankruptcy referee, after Judge Edwin S. Thomas allegedly named him. Curtis declined to comment while noting he would not refuse the appointment if offered. He is son of Judge Howard J. Curtis and Yale Law School graduate admitted to the bar four years ago.
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Howard W. Curtis
Stratford
Edwin S.thomas
United States District Court
John W. Banks
Do Not Leave Town This Summer Do Not Leave Town This Summer
An advisory urging readers to arrange for The Standard Telegram to follow them to vacation homes this summer. It notes a daily subscription rate of 50 cents per month by mail.
Steel unions endorse strike vote at steel meeting
Representatives of 24 affiliated international steel unions meeting here adopted a resolution urging a strike vote among members. A conference of international union presidents in Pittsburgh on July 20 will decide definite action. They seek recognition and binding bargaining, criticizing open shop practices and a lack of responses from steel employers to a AFL letter to Judge Elbert H. Gary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Gempers
American Federation of Labor
Elbert H. Gary
American Iron and Steel Institute
Atlantic City
Bridgeport Tag Day for Charities War Effort Under Way
Bridgeport conducts a citywide tag day by the Visiting Nurse association with captains lieutenants and nurses canvassing thirteen districts including theatres and bridges. Funds support convalescent homes and infant care while nurses provide free visits to those unable to pay. Committee chairmen named for the Fairfield vacation home project and headquarters set at Stratfield hotel with a noon luncheon for volunteers.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport Visiting Nurse Association
United States
Stratfield
Railroad Station
Congress Street
Stratford Avenue
Central Committee
Stratfield Hotel
Cantwell
Visiting Nurse Association
Hemlock Reservoir
Fairfield
New York City
Grive
H. Bullard
Roy E. Clarke
George S. Mara
H. Willard Vleck
Elmer H. Havens
Corps of Workers
Fleck
Havens
Clark
F. A. Strong
Alice . Grace
Manufacturers Association
House Debates Prohibition Bill All Day in Daylong Session
In a five hour House debate on the prohibition bill the liquor traffic was likened to a convict needing reprieve while drastic provisions were labeled an invasion of home life. Members, including Volstead and Igoe, spoke at length. debate continues with limited time and no immediate floor vote. Moon warned against the measure, claiming it oversteps constitutional bounds and affects personal homes.
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Washington
Volstead
Judiciary Committee
Igoe
Missouri
House
Representative Moon
Tennessee
Moon Seid
Congress
Representative Moore
Pennsylvania
New England
Fitzgerald
Massacusetts
Mussa
Bridgeport Trust Considers Doubling Capital Stock
Bridgeport Trust Company directors will urge raising capital from 500000 to 1000000 at a stockholders meeting to be held within two weeks. President C Barnum Seeley discussed the plan with the state bank commissioner in Hartford and said stockholders will likely have the right to buy new shares, share for share. The bank reorganized in 1901 with Clinton Barnum Seeley as head. other officers include Egbert Marsh, BAMind Horum, and Horace B Merwin.
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Bridgeport Trust Company
Hake
C. Barnum Seeley
State Bank
Hartford
Seeley
Standard
Trust Company
Clinton Barnum Seeley
Egbert Marsh
Bamiund Horum
Horace
Merwin
Firebrand Harden Named German Envoy to the U. S.
New York reports July 11 that Max Harden, longtime foe of autocracy and editor of Zukunft, is slated as Germany’s first ambassador to the United States. Wilhelmstrasse circles say Count Bernstorff backs the appointment, citing Harden’s wartime criticism and widespread US quotability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Maxmillian Harden
United States
Harden
Corset workers press demands for wage rise and shorter week
Bridgeport corset workers from Warner Brothers Crown Batcheslor Birdseye Somers and Ea Resista l companies voted unanimously at a Wiberman hall mass meeting to seek a fifty percent wage increase, a 44 hour week, and no charges for thread or materials. National organizers urged unity, with some backers suggesting a 25 percent compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Wibernian Hall
Lyric Theatre
Warner Brothers Company
Crown- Batcheslor Company
Birdseye- Somers Company
Ea-Resista ! Company
American Federation of Labor
GTS
Foley
The
Barbers’ Union
Orniburn
Warner
Cutters’ Union
Ornburn
Shipping Department
Italian Foreign Minister Sees Early Settlement
Rome July 11 The Italian foreign minister Tomasso Tittoni told the Chamber of Deputies that negotiations in Paris should settle by next week The Adriatic Asia Minor and colonial questions were discussed Premier Nitti and Tittoni held a key meeting at the foreign office urging broad party support to steer the talks toward accord.
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Rome
Associated Press
Tomasso Tittoni
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Asia Minor
Tittoni
Wilson
Nitti
Ittoni
Foreign Office
Signor Tittoni
Wilson A Busy Day At White House Aims At Daylight Bill
President Wilson spent a long day at the White House conferring with cabinet officers and signing army navy deficiency and District of Columbia appropriations. He weighed the daylight saving repeal amid petitions and prepared for Senate league of nations debates as talks on Mexican affairs and peace conference continued.
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Washington
Wilson
Paris
Army
Navy
District of Columbia
Shipping Board
Asifter Grettering
White House
Hitchcork
Nebraska
Foreign” Relations Committee
Massachusetts
Senate
Polk
State Department
Ennifal
Taran
Ba Siok
Lansing AIDS Farewell to President Poincare
American Secretary of State Robert Lansing said farewell to President Poincare in Paris and will depart for Brest en route to America. He plans to meet Acting Secretary Polk before Polk sails for France to lead the American peace delegation at the Paris conference. Under Secretary Polk leaves July 21 for Paris to head the delegation.
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Paris
Associated Press
Robert Lansing
Poincare
Brest
America
Lansing
Polk
France
R-34 Atlantic flight toward Scotland with engine failure
The R-34 dirigible, returning from Mineola, reports one engine down and speed reduced to about 43 mph, progressing eastward toward Scotland. Updates show large fuel use, distances covered around 1,500 miles, and ongoing attempts to descend for sea checks as it nears the Azores and East For cone area.
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London
Seehound
Air’ ‘Ministry
Air Ministry
Greenwich
New York
Forcone
Scotland
Thei
Atlantic
Mineola
Lake Company Undersea Boat S-3 Demonstrates Brilliance
The Lake Submarine Company conducted speed trials of the S-3 off Bridgeport harbor with officers aboard. The surface and underwater tests exceeded expectations and suggest the craft will pass upcoming government trials before transfer to the Navy. Passengers included Captain Simon Lake and company executives.
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Lake Submarine Company
Lake Company
Bridgeport Harbor
Sound
Navy Department
Simon Lake
Lake
Herbert S. Miller
Frank Miller
L. A. Bucklund
P. B. Brill
C. E. Adams
British Aviator Killed in 700 Foot Plane Fall
Lieut Caldwell, 28, of Belfast Ireland a member of the British Royal Air Forces was killed at McCook field Dayton today in a 700 foot fall from an airplane during parachute tests. He had previously made several descents and spent four and a half years in France with the forces.
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Dayton
Ohio
Caldwell
Belfast
Ireland
Royal Air Forces
McCook Field
France
U S Ships Loaded to Bremen and Hamburg Ready for Voyage
The report explains three steamship lines will operate from New York Philadelphia Baltimore and southern ports to Hamburg and Bremen with ships loaded in America. One cotton and two general merchandise cargoes prepare for overseas shipment as licenses are issued by the Shipping Board. The blockade against Germany is set to begin tomorrow and US firms may face passport and proclamation requirements.
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Bremen
Hamburg
State Department
Teutonic Republic
Omers
Associated Press
Paris
Council of Five
Germany
Council of Ratifica
France
Washington
Opn
Fargnes
Jaya
Frozon
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Betteer Delphia
Southern
America
Eral
Shipping Board
Red Steamship Lines
Ted Powers
Det
Priva
Germania
United States
Allies weighing campaign against Bela Kun forces
Paris July 11 Marshal Foch and reps of Czecho Slovakia and Jugoslavia met the Supreme Council at the peace conference to discuss Bela Kun partisans movement against Czecho Slovakia and Austria. They were asked to consult their governments on possible joint military action and to report back before a decision is made.
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Paris
Associated Press
Marshal Foch
Czecho-Slovakia
Jugoslavia
Supreme Council of the
Peace Conference
Bela Kun
Austria
Shippers Fail to End Marine Tieup Across Coasts
Washington July 11 representatives of the International Seamen's union and shipping board officials failed to reach agreement to end a strike by marine engineers oilers and firemen which began yesterday on the Atlantic and gulf coasts. New York July 11 more than 200 coastwise vessels were tied up as the strike spread to United Fruit company ships and other lines. Union leaders claim Britain warned unloading will be refused to vessels with non union crews.
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Washington
International Seamen's Union
Stevens
Shipping Board
Atlantic
Gulf
New York
New York Harbor
United Fruit Company
Ingland
H. H. S Raymond
Association
Land of the Clyde
Mallory Mnes
Willl
United States Shipping ~ Board
Oliver W. Morton
International Longshoremen's Association
Chauffeur Fined After Danbury Accident In Ridgefield
William Raponti, chauffeur for Samuel Norris, paid 92 dollars and 20 cents in Ridgefield town court for reckless driving and failing to stop after a collision with Maurice Wallach’s stalled car on Wednesday night near Danbury.
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Chauffeldr
Ridgefield
William Raponti
Samuel Norris
Maurice Wallach
Danbury Read
Bill Steinke at Fairfield Beach
From a safe berth a feature notes Bill Steinke at Fairfield Beach. The odd scene shows him catching bathers from a canoe and a small boat, then karting the cottagers. The piece previewed for The Sunday Post promises a lively fall page and reader agreement with the tone.
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Pairfiell
Sunday Post
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Howard Curtis
Thomas
Vacation Home
Firebrand
U. S
Pres. Wilson
Aids
Scott
Clifden
U.S
Seamen’s Union
Cenfer
Bill Steinke
Fairfield Beache
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