Celler Calls for Speedup In Admission of Refugees
JOSEPH E. BARRETT, 56, Stratford contractor and Stratford Housing authority member, died at Bridgeport hospital after a morning admission for illness. Dr. Edwin Connors cited heart disease. Barrett, of Idlewood Lane, was president of J. E. Barrett and Sons and a former Stratford Planning board member. He served in the Navy in World War II and led the American Legion Connecticut Yankee drum corps. He also belonged to the Chamber of Commerce.
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Joseph E. Barrett
Stratford
Stratford Housing authority
Bridgeport hospital
Edwin Connors
Mr. Barrett
Idlewood lane
J. E. Barrett and Sons
Beardsley avenue
Barrett
220000 German metal workers strike across West Germany
A nationwide strike by about 220000 Bavarian metal workers began just after midnight in Hamburg. 15000 public transport gas and utility workers joined in a five day walkout. Ruhr coal and northern sectors threaten action. Unions seek roughly 10 percent pay increases amid major labor confrontations unseen in over two decades since Hitler ended independent unions.
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Hamburg
Ruhr
north seacoast forest
fort
Germany
Hitler
Official Weather Bridgeport and Vicinity Forecast
Bridgeport and vicinity show cloudy cooler conditions with showers and a high around 70. Tonight partly cloudy with a low in the 60s and a shift to northwesterly winds. Tuesday expected to be mostly fair and warmer with moderate to fresh winds. New York City forecast mirrors Bridgeport.
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BRIDGEPORT
NEW YORK CITY
Celler Proposes Bill to Loosen Refugee Rules
Representative Emanuel Celler of New York announced he will introduce legislation in the House to relax the 1953 Refugee Relief act. He faulted administrator Scott McLeod for slowing admissions and urged the administration to replace him.
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WASHINGTON
Emanuel Celler
D-NY
Celler
Scott McLeod
McLeod
State department
Mystery Arises As Man Vanishes In Bristol
Bristol August 8 AP report says John Kolanek aged about 46 is reported missing by his brother Adam. Blood stains were found in Adam’s car and on the rear porch of the house they shared. Adam says John returned Saturday night asking to use the car but had not been allowed to drive for over a year. Police questioned Adam and planned blood tests to determine if the stains are human.
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BRISTOL
John Kolanek
Adam
Polhtee
Adam Kolanek
Quintuplet Sisters Gather For Final Vigil At Dionne Home
Grief stricken sisters Yvonne Annette Cecile and Macie keep vigil beside Emilie Dionne as crowds file past the body in Callander Ontario. Emilie died after epileptic seizures triggered by glandular disorders and autopsy findings are released by a Quebec medic legal expert. The sisters and mother remain at the home while the public viewing resumes after 14 years and the iron fence gates are opened for the occasion.
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Dionne home
quintuplet
Quebec
Emilie
Yvonne
Annette
Cecile
Macie
Montreal
Olva
J H Bishop Dies Vet Of 14 Battles In WWII
Joseph H Bishop 30 of 1810 Stratford Avenue died suddenly at home at 10 a m. Medical examiner attributed death to a rheumatic heart. A Navy veteran who enlisted in 1941 at 17, he trained at Newport News and served aboard the USS Philadelphia from 1942 to 1943 with convoy duty in European and Pacific theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H. Bishop
Stratford avenue
Edwin R. Connors
Bishop
St. Charles
Harding High school
Navy
U.S. Naval Training center
Newport
Fire guts interior of Bethel Park restaurant
The Park restaurant at Front street and Greenwood avenue in Bethel was gutted by a fire of undetermined origin around 9 20 oclock tonight. Firemen found the blaze about half an hour after closing. No damage estimate is available tonight and an investigation will be held tomorrow.
L I Village Honors Dead Jet Hero Who Avoided Bunnglows
Wantagh New York memorial honors Captain William Weiland the jet pilot who spared 20 bungalow homes by crash landing on Denver Road last week. About 300 residents gathered as clergy from the Wantagh Memorial Congregational church led prayers for the pilot’s widow Madge and 18 month old daughter Patrice, while bystanders injured by flaming fuel were treated.
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L. I. Village
WANTAGH
Long Island
William Weiland
Denver road
Frank E. Snider
James E. Boyd
Wantagh Memorial
Incitement Charge Shapes McCarthy Censure Inquiry
A six member Senate special committee focuses on whether McCarthy incited government employees to ignore oaths to supply him security information. Key figures Fulbright Morse and Flanders push the incitement charge as pivotal, while Chairman Watkins declines to comment. Democrats say the issue could be among the main bases for censure, with other charges noted.
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WASHINGTON
Aug
Senate
McCarthy
Reier
Flanders
R-Vt
Fulbright
D-Ark
Morse
sixman committee
MacCarthy Army
George D-Gal
special committee
Monroney
D-Okla
Arkansas
Brownell
FBI
Ellender
P-Ta
Louisiana
Congress
Watkins
Utah
U S to Aid DPs Out of Red Vietnam Refugees
The United States agreed to help move over 100000 Viet Nam refugees from North to South Viet Nam after a cease fire. The plan, not yet detailed, likely uses sea transfers with US Navy vessels and expands aid to Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam areas outside communist control. Harold Staessen announced the effort and two refugee specialists were reassigned to Saigon.
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U. S
Red
Vietnam
WASHINGTON
Aug
United States
Viet Nam
North
Indochina
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
US Navy
tente
arsa
Laos
Cambodia
Southeast Asia
Harold F. Staessen
Richard R Brown
Escapre
Frankfurt
Germany
James H. Campbell
Far East
Hong Kong
Saigon
Joan Morris Dies After Five Years of Illness
Joan Johns Morris 25 wife of Howard Morris Jr died of cancer at home 161 Cedar Road Southport after five years of illness. Services set for Tuesday 10 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church Southport with Rev Gordon A Taylor officiating burial Cedar Lawn Cemetery Easthampton Long Island. She was daughter of Mrs Harry Nessler New York City and the late John J Johns grand daughter of George S Johns longtime Mt Louis Dispatch editor. She attended John Burroughs School St Louis Bryn Mawr College and lived in Fairfield five years. She belonged to Junior League of Bridgeport Bridgeport Cancer Society and Junior Garden Club of Fairfield. Survived by husband mother sister Mrs Thomas Vries Of State College and maternal grandmother Mrs William D Collins St Louis and uncle Winston Johns Charlottesville Va.
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Mia
Joan Johns Morris
Howard Morris, Jr
Cedar road
Southport
Trinity Episcopal’ church
Gordon A. Taylor
Cedar Lawn cemetery
Easthampton
Long Island
Morris
Harry Nessler
New York city
John J. Johns
George S. Johns
Mt Louis Dispatch
John Burroughs school
St. Louis
Bryn Mawr college
Fairfield
Junior League of
Bridgeport
Bidgeport Cancer society
Junior Garden Club of
Inter-Chemical corporation
Thomas Vries
State College
Westover officer electrocuted teaching youths to climb a tree
Maj. Harry L Bates 334 30th Air Transport Squadron pilot at Westover Air Force Base was electrocuted after brushing a 480 volt high tension wire while showing children how to climb a tree. Bates, born in Middlefield Ohio, leaves a widow Mia Aida Bates formerly of Houston Texas.
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CHICOPEE
Mase
Westover Air Force Base
Harry L Bates
30th Air Transport Squadron
Bates
Middlefield
Ohio
Mia Aida Bates
Houston
Tex
Farm price supports clash nears vote in Senate showdown
Washington August 8 SAP a last ditch drive to win votes keeps the battle over flexible versus right farm price supports alive as the Senate in weekend recess nears a decision. Bets favored the flexible program of President Eisenhower and Benson with 46 for flexible and lower support and 44 against. Absences or a possible switch could decide the result as the House also watches for adjournment.
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WASHINGTON
Senate
Eisenhower
Agriculture Benson
Benson
House
Auto Hits Stone Wall Kills Two Airmen
In Frenchville Maine on August 8 AP reports two airmen died when their car left Route 1 and struck a stone wall. Identified were A1C Charlee Fletcher 22 of East Granby Connecticut and A1C Miguel Guerrero 23. Fletcher lost control defending a steep hill. Guerrero was ejected.
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FRENCHVILLE
Maine
Route 1
here
John Hutchison
Charlee K Fletcher
Miguel Guerrero
Limestone Air Force East
Fletcher
East Granby
Conn
Guerrero
Hutchison
Hartford Gunman's Mother Links Son's Troubles to Army Service
A Hartford mother said her son Edward G Guinan likely was out of his mind when he shot two brothers, James and Gerald Couchlin, outside a drug store Friday morning. She described him as unsettled, noting he claimed the brothers were “Nans” while insisting they were nice people.
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Hartford
HARTFORD, Aug
Edward G. Guinan
Edward G Guinan
Nans
hove
James
Gerald Couchlin
Guinan
Tragic Lake Candlewood Drowning Near New Fairfield
Peter Carlo Bochiaro of Bridgeport drowns in Lake Candlewood after an outboard boat capsizes during a camping trip with two companions from Danbury and New Milford. Elias Marrash and William Hoehn are rescued, while authorities search the water for the victim’s body. The accident occurred around 2 PM as the borrowed craft overturned, prompting grappling operations led by state police and local personnel. Burial arrangements are set through Parente funeral home, with service details to be announced.
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Bridgeport
Lake Candlewood
New Fairfield
Peter Carlo Bochiaro
Beechwood avenue
Bullard company
Elias Marrash
William C. Hoehn
Grant street
Herbert Hatkavy
Queens
Ridgefield
Bockiaro
Hoehn
Marrash
New Milford
Andrew Nearing
Robert Bullock
Brook
Frank M. Goldvs
Green funeral
Danbury
Deer Run
Candlewood Isle
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Ont
Emilie Dionne
Stratford Legion
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eure
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Constantine Brown
Herman Bundesen
Erich Brandeis
Quint
Emthe Dionne
J. H. BISHOP
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Mediterranean
BETHEL RESTAURANT
U. S.S
Robert Arel
Minneapolis
Roger Aret
Lelegram
Phammer
Camp Hemlocks
Dorothy Pullet
New Haven
Kenneth LeCroix
Shelton
Dean Paul
New Britain
JOAN MORRIS
Ike Benson
STONE WALL
PETER C. BOCKIARD
LAKE CANDLEWOG
William Hoehn
New Yorker
Candlewood lake
Candlewood Shores
Bruce Albert
George Bunnell
William Wallace
Edward Giardina
William Francis
Walter W. Foley
George Ferris
Edward Petras
Parente funeral home
Washington avenue
St. Michael's cemetery
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