City Council Forms Committee to Probe Airport Offer
The new Bridgeport council authorizes a special panel to study Bridgeport Airport Inc and Lordship tract proposals. Mayor Behrens urges careful analysis to avoid litigation and ensure proper land acquisition while City Attorney De Laney flags legal hurdles and delays.
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Mayo
Inccodarce
Major Bohiens
Tas
Fuward L Kelly
Ace
Avirine
DeLaney
Thenka
Common Council
Kelly
Edward 3
Willett
Augustus H Bullard
Algonquin Club
City Tell
W Parker Secley
Bridgeport Airport Inc
Algoreuin Club
Yartise
William E Arthur
Bullard
Toe Fowever
Behreng
Dee Arthur F Cormnor
Alfred W Burdick
Property Owners Benefit by Sewer Levies Adopted
The Bridgeport common council approved a sewer levy plan making all future sewer assessments and overdue assessments be at 150 per lineal foot for sanitary and storm sewers and 83 per lineal foot for combined sewers. The city will bear costs above the initial rate, and a Board of Appraisal adjustment was also adopted. Mayor Behrens delivered a brief annual message praising the five year bond budget program and civic progress.
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Common Council
Fred W Harrison
General Assembly
Board of Aldermen
Henry Street
Harrison
Charles Ross
Augustus Sen
Behrens
Honeratts Coumon Council
City of
Bridgeport
Hedhuile
Alteatins
Detectives Turn Hunters Hunt for Missing Calf
Bridgeport police search city streets for a white calf with black spots reported missing yesterday afternoon from Pembroke Street. Detectives use hoof prints and sleet to track the veal, with BH Rubenstein noting the animal vanished from a truck in the city.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeports
Rubenstein
Pembroke Street
Norris Resolution Blocks Seating of Smith and Vare
In Washington the Norris resolution blocks seating of Frank Smith of Minnesota and William B Vare of Pennsylvania, as the Senate delays action pending president Coolidge's annual message. The House also votes to allow James M Beck of Philadelphia to take the oath, while Garrett calls for an election committee probe into Beck's residency. Seats may be declared vacant pending further hearings on the contested seats.
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Washington
Associated Press
Frank Smith
Niiners
William B Vare
Pennsylvania
Senate
Norris
Nebraska
President Coolidge
House
James M. Beck Republican
Philadelphia
Ware
Garrett
Beck
Becks
Smith
Privileges and Elections Committee
Special Campaign Funds Committee
Friends of Smith and Ware
Elections Committee
Inois
Bankrupt's Kin Stranded in Rome Amid Crash Recovery
Mrs Berha Polakewich of this city seeks to recover money lost in a financial crash and return her daughter Dorothy from Rome. Her son Isadore Polakevich admitted mismanagement and proposed to assume full responsibility while noting discrepancies in liabilities and that assets were sold under an auctioneer’s name for 1800 dollars to partially satisfy creditors.
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Dorothy
Rome
Sre
Berha Polakewich
Isadore
Holy City
Polakevich
Maine
Relaites Polakewicn
Rum Found in Police Chief Swett's Car
Newport Vermont police chief Swett was arrested after a two mile chase when federal and county officers found 27 cases of whiskey in his car. He was released on bail and faces municipal court tomorrow on charges of illegal transportation of intoxicating liquor.
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Nashul
Associated Press
Swett
Newport
Vermont
Lindbergh Plane Bends Propeller After Minor Crash
At Teterboro airport New Jersey Colonel Charles A Lindbergh in the Spirit of St Louis was landing after a test flight when a wheel hit a rut and bent the propeller. The incident caused no serious injuries though a propeller was damaged and the ship later went to Wright Aeronautical for overhaul.
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Hasbrouck Heights
Devy
Associated Press
Cal Charles
Lindbergh
Spirit of
St Louis
Teterboro
We of Aviation
Paris
Et Louis
Roosevelt Field
Europe
United States
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Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Pama
Spirit of St Louis
John M Comley May Become Judge
The Hartford Courant reports that John M Comley, Bridgeport lawyer and reporter for the Supreme Court of Errors, may join the race for the federal judgeship created by Congress. The southern state candidates contend strongly and could edge out northern rivals unless the balance shifts in Hartford County. Continued on page fifteen.
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Hartford
Hartford Courant
Hartford County
Jonn M Comley
Supreme Court of Errors
Bridgeport
France Branded Source Of World White Slave Traffic
The League of Nations report on trafficking in women and children charges France as a fountainhead of the vice trade. The expurgated edition suppressed conclusions favored by France, which opposed releasing the full findings. The article prints sections on France showing foreign women, especially French, in imports and trafficking, with examples from Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro.
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Telegram and
North American
Noth American Newspaper Alliance
Geneva
France
League of Nations Commission On
League Council
Briand
Committee of Experts
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Havana
Rio Por Tio
Inaugural session forms six member committee line up
Bridgeport city government organizes an inaugural session selecting a committee of three aldermen and three individuals to investigate airport affairs. The page also notes property owners may gain from sewer assessment changes adopted by the Common Council and that chairmen of key council committees retain positions.
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Bridgeport
Simon Comicsl
Common Council
John M Comley
Wadhome
Mayo
Hofesee
Sons of St George
Mies Mohican
Athletic Association
Seale
Emreieid
New Haven
Petrumenl
Stratford
Milford
Page
Fhlemen
Rig
Mark Sullivan
Generis Sargent Gays
Gates, Republican, is new Willimantic mayor
In Willimantic, Republican Charles A Gates won the mayoralty by a 307 vote majority over Democrat John B R Pickett in today's biennial election. Albert R Clark, also Republican, won city clerk and treasurer by 320 votes over Democrat James A Lee. Republicans secured five of seven aldermen seats and two of three on the board of professors. Mayor Gates succeeds a Republican stalwart who has served since 1902.
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Willimantic
Dee
Assovtated
Charles A Gates
Noni
John BR Pickett
Albert R Clark
James A Lee
Gai
Republican
St Te Vential
Kayvang
Widow Lilliendahl testifies in murder case
On the stand widow Lilliendahl described being pulled from a car, hearing a shot, and fainting. She faced the crowd and state’s attorney as defense lawyers pressed questions about her involvement in her husband’s death. The courtroom atmosphere was tense with pauses and cross examination continuing.
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Damon Runyon
Mays Landing N J
Maryland
Lilliendahl
Lilliendale
Robert H McCarter
Cameron Hinkle
Legion Head Asks Doty 10 Tell U S Film Story Is Lie
Bennatt J Daty of Biloxi Mississippi known as Gilbert Clare in the Foreign Legion is freed from enlistment and sails for Marseille. Doty is turned over to the American consul general and returns to the United States after a dramatic farewell at Fort de Jean. The colonel denounces Beau Geste as a monstrous lie and Doty pleads for his return home.
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Ald Reteachet Hospital
Foreign Trench
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Finang
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U.S
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France
Associated Press
Bennatt J Daty
Biloxi
French Foreign Legion
Gilbert Clare
Memphis
Tenn
Parla
Wesley Frost
Fort Et Jean
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Oran
Ala
Doty
Rolle
Sidt-Bel-' Abhbes
Algeria
Syria
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Ameritke
Beau Geste
Rollet
Finding absolves Standard Oil Co. in antitrust suit
Special Master Charles Martindale of Indianapolis reports no evidence of a conspiracy to restrain trade or monopoly pricing by Standard Oil units and allied firms. He recommends dismissal for lack of equity, noting the competition among the defendants appears real and genuine. The government suit, filed in 1944, sought ongoing relief and a broader ruling.
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Associated Press
Standard Oil Company
Tifty
Yuma
Standard Oil Companies
Indiana
New Jersey
Kentucky
Kansas
Louisiana
New, York
California
Standard Development Company
Texas Company
Sim Ol
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Humble OW and Refining Company
White Bile Oil Company
Roxane Petroleum Corporation
Iet
Department of Dusvice
Circuit Court
Blodgett Tests Inheritance Tax Case In Hartford
Connecticut official Willian H Blodgett initiates a case in Hartford Probate Court to challenge the constitutionality of the Federal estate tax. The dispute centers on credit for the federal tax on Daniel Perkins’s estate and potential extra state tax. A Dec 14 hearing before Judge Walter H Clark will determine the tax amount and legal stance.
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Iet
Mrtana
Willian H Blodgett
Hartford Probate Court
Supreme Court of the
United States
Blodgett
Clark T du- Tant
Lucius F Robinson
Walter H Clark
Benjamin W Ailing
Sinclair Denies Jury Tampering In Oil Case
Washington dispatch reportsHarry Sinclair William J Burns and four associates deny contempt of court charges for using Burns detectives to shadow the Fell Sinclair oil conspiracy jury They argue charges are not crimes and court lacks jurisdiction Wad Siddons hears defense showing that only two men reportedly visited juror Wright and that Edward J Kidwell talked of the case The proceedings raise questions about contempt filings and connections to Kidwell as the article continues.
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Haldeman-Julius
New York
Basch
Boston
America
Kings
Sage
Lindhersh
Esupin
Sinclair
Washington
Associated Press
Harry Finclair
William J Burns
Burns
Frederick L Siddons
Daniel Thew Wright
Gordon
Wright
Don K King
Menapaper Rennier
J Ray Akers
Edward J Kidwell
Kidwell
Widow on Stand in Murder Trial of Husband
Margeret Lillien dahl testified through sobs about two alleged Negro assailants who killed her husband, a retired doctor, while her son Alfred listened and drifted to sleep. Prosecutors seek cross examination to unwind her statements and motives amid a crowded courtroom scene in Mays Landing New Jersey.
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William Lilliendahl
Willis Beach
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