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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1926
Page
6
A health ad warns high blood pressure shortens life and can be treated by a vegetable medicine named Norma. It claims symptoms include pains flushed face clots dizziness sleeplessness and nervous tension. The ad says Norma reduces blood pressure and is available in drug stores through physician prescription.
Captain Wilkins and pilot Elelson have not been heard from in 12 days after their April 15 takeoff from Fairbanks to establish a base at Point Barrow. The Detroit Arctic Expedition overland party reports sightings near Wiseman and Thetis Island with heavy freight aboard.
Pleasure Beach Park, covering 35 acres, announces its opening next Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2, with hundreds of colored lights along the midway and new attractions. Lawrence K Chrisman, manager, says the dance hall has been redecorated and Getize Doc Owens will headline opening night.
In Fal Claire Wisconsin Mrs Frank Magadance widow of a monument maker was arrested on a warrant after authorities say she beat Miss Hilma Johnson with a garden hose at Johnsons workplace. Johnson says she was assaulted over attention by Magadances son in law Frank Hagmann. Miss Alice Thoen helped restrain Johnson during the attack. Thoen also faces assault and battery charges.
Physicians report the Salvation Army national commander Evangeline Booth remains ill with appendicitis in New York. After a late-evening consultation, doctors decide no immediate operation is required, keeping her condition unchanged.
Sigmund 8 Duttsch president of Dudach & Co. is dead in Chicago from carbon monoxide poisoning. Coroner’s inquiry opened after he was found unconscious on the floor of his game room late last night and died at a hospital.
Hartford police pursue Hal Mapes, Waldorf lunch manager on Main Street, after $360 vanished from an office safe. Mapes had been missing since early Monday afternoon, raising questions about the theft and his whereabouts.
Milwaukeee April 27 AP Opposition to any law weakening the prohibition amendment voiced by Young Women's Christian Association delegates representing 605 900 members at their biennial convention. Resolution chair Minot C Morgan Detroit urged enforcement and stronger public sentiment for the 18th Amendment. Speakers urged unity of Christian forces for law observance and noted public opinion must support prohibition. Delegates noted the 1928 convention sites in Portland Sacramento Atlantic City Tex Savannah and Kansas City will be chosen by the national board within a year.
The Methodist Episcopal Church Public Morals board called the Senate hearings on wet and dry issues largely ineffective. They argue the vets lack votes and facts to persuade the people, forecasting prohbition may persist and urging citizens to back the law until repeal. The statement claims the hearings served as a vehicle for propaganda. Senator Pittman drew criticism for trivial questions amid cross examination of District Attorney Buerr of New York who linked increased auto use to antifreeze alcohol.
Willis Morrell urged Civitan members at Stratfield hotel to consider foot health from childhood footwear. He linked most foot troubles to improper footwear and hard pavements, sharing a case where misdiagnosed leg pain proved due to foot problems, resolved by proper shoes.
Three youths and a patrolman were wounded as police riot guns misfired during activity at the Boston station area. Patrolman Lewis Murray injured himself, requiring toe amputation after the weapon discharged while he questioned occupants of a parked car. Leo Mansker, 14, and Joseph Cormier, 16, were struck by bullets while watching a rivet gun being prepared. a window sash partly saved them from worse harm.
Providence R I April 28 AP Spring day at Brown University featured H E Neese 26 of Irvington New Jersey attacking compulsory chapel during the senior class exercises. He mocked authorities who oppose change and shield the class mascot reveal, criticizing the old guard for blocking progress.
Higgett and Myers Tobacco director Robert Bo Dua died today at his Park Avenue home in New York in a sudden death. The company issued a brief statement requesting privacy for the family. He was 52 and had served on the board since 1979.
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