War Rumors and Prohibition Raids Darken Europe and Near East
French dispatch notes looming conflict while Bridgeport police and state agents seize $20 000 worth of imported wines and liquors in a two site raid at palatial 52 Ocean Terrace home of Edward Deregibus. Arrest follows federal bench warrant linked to Westport whiskey seizure.
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Europe
Near East
Edward Deregibus
Ocean Terrace
Bridgeport
New York
Rport
Westpol
Enery
Jong Prio
Natind
East End
Second Precind
Barbara
Danbury Coal Car Rally Sees 109 Cars Here From Maybrook
State police report 109 coal cars, weighing about 6540 tons, on Danbury sidings and vicinity. Of these, 80 are in Danbury, 41 on Fair Grounds, 29 in local yards. 21 more in Hawleyville, four in Newtown, four in Danbury area hospitals.
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Danbury
Robert T Hur Jey
Charles Templeton
New Haven Road
Connecticut
Fair Grounds
Hawleyville
Newtown
Botsford
New Haven Roads
Maybrook
New Haven
New Englang
WZ Halliday
Haver Shoe Plan Rejected In Two-Year Pact Vote
Mass voters reject two year agreement proposal from Haver Shoe Manufacturers Association. Turnout shows overwhelming unions defeat with 872 to 3 result and sole leather workers voting 78 against the plan.
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Haverhitm Mass
Haver Shoe Manufacturers Association
Turn
Religious study session at Fairfield church opens series
The Second winter session of the Institute of Religious Education was held at the First Church of Christ in Fairfield. Dr B S Winchester of Greenfield Hill Congregational church and Rev R C Whitehead of Stratford led the first study period while Rev C B Silcoa of the Fairfield church directed the second. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday evening.
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Fairfield
Specifl
Institute of Religious Education
Church of Christ
BS Winchester
Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
R C Whitehead
Ief Stratford
C B Silcoa
Rockefeller Withdraw Aid From Dry League Spotlighted
New York January report says John D Rockefeller Sr and his son halted support to the Anti Saloon League after an inquiry into superintendent William H Anderson. Fosdick provided information to Raymond Brosdick as Pecora questions corruption charges and possible commissions and publicity funds. Anderson was to be questioned again, with league directors set to meet to act on the case.
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New York
Rockefeller
Raymond Brosdick
John Dol. Rockefeller
Ferdinad Pecors
William H Anderson
John D Rockefeller Sr
Bertsall Philips
Andersén
Fosdick
Pecora
Anderson
League
Three Officials Indicted in Dry Law Conspiracy Case
Three officers of the Independent Drug Company at Cincinnati Otto Katz president George Lander vice president and Sidney H Miller secretary were indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiring to violate prohibition laws. The indictment charges them with diverting whiskey for beverage use without proper permits. Also noted Harold Teegerstrom, a time keeper at the Spyker plant, reappeared in Bastrop and may be arrested as a material witness in the Morehouse parish investigation.
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Cincinnat
Independent Drug Company
Theederal Grand Jury
Otto Katz
George If Lander
Sidney H Miller
United States
Thomas H Morrow
Hood
Monroe
Harold Teegerstrom
Spyker
Southern Caribon Company
Merehouse Parish
Bastrop
Teegerstrom
New Orleans
Carpenter
Morehouse Parish
Morehouse
Sanford Nomination Approved by Senate
The Senate confirmed Judge B T Sanford of the Eastern and Middle Tennessee districts to the Supreme Court as associate justice succeeding Justice Pitney who recently retired. The nomination was approved tonight in Washington.
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Washington
B T Sanford
Supreme Court
Pitney
Senate
Community Chest Campaign Clears Key Hurdle
Bridgeport Federation drive nears goal as about 500 workers meet at Hotel Stratfield. With 13,000 still needed, the Finance Board underwrites 15,000, pushing the total to 322,248. Cake sales and theatre collections add to the tally as 40 percent of factories are expected to report.
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Federation
Community Chest
Stratfield
Bridgeport Federation
Harry W Walker
Finance Committee
Fake riot staged to intimidate Klansmen in Brooklyn case
Report claims Gates Avenue court attendants staged a riot outside the cell of eight arrested Klansmen to intimidate them. Etheridge, imperial counsel of the Ku Klux Klan, accuses officials of persecuting the order while Burke and others deny the charges amid arraignment tensions. In New Haven a separate incident ends with a suspect subdued after a pistol hold-up at City Auto Tire near Chapel Street, yielding 40 cents to the proprietor.
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New York
Paul
Etheridge
Ku Klu Klan
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Frank Burke
New York City
Dale
New Haven
Lawrence Mixowski
Meriden
Chapel Street
Joseph Glan
Glanz
Plan to Build 3 Million Generating Plant at Devon
Plans by the Connecticut Light and Power company call for a 3,000,000 dollar electric generating plant at Devon. The project will use water for condenser cooling and produce power for cities including Waterbury, Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Norwalk, Danbury, Meriden, and Waterbury area towns. Construction on initial units is underway with a steel hollow-tubular structure about 300 feet tall and sixteen feet diameter shafts. The transmission line will connect Devon to Waterbury and New Britain, linking to the Stevenson Water Power station.
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Connecticut Light and Power Company
Hartford
Devon
Connecticut Tight and Power Company
Long Island Sound
Housa
Naugatuck
Waterury
Beacon Falls
Seymour
Norwalk
New Canaan
Watertown
Woodbury
Oxford
Cheshire
Southington
Plainville
New Briain
Berlin
Newington
Danbury
Meriden
Wallingford
Bethel
Waterbury
New Britain
Stevenson
Baldwin Attacks Congress Sparks British Criticism
Senator McKellar denounces British Chancellor Baldwin for insults toward the American Congress and people. He questions Ambassador Harvey’s silence and recalls 1917 debt funding discussions, contrasting a polite British appeal with today’s sharp rhetoric and calls for immediate British disavowal. Continued on Page Two.
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Washington
McKellar
Tennessee
Senate
House of Representatives
Lagly
American Debt Funding Commission
Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
England
American Congress
Senator McKellar
Harvey
Gong
Howe
Congress
Debt Funding Commission
Funding Commission
American
Karl Balfour
House
American Commission
Ruhr Zone Sealed by Censorship Amid Turkish Turmoil
Paris reports twenty Germans killed as French troops shield demonstrators in Boppard near Cochem. Parley quits as Kemal Pasha departs Smyrna for Angora. Ruhr isolation grows, rail and telephones crippled, censorship imposed, and German officials arrested. France vows to stay in Ruhr until reparations are paid.
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Paris
Associated Press
Boppard
Pingen
Echo de Paris
Rhineland
London
the Times
Constantinople
Kemal Pasha
Smyrna
Angora
Mers
Tony
Ruhr
Essen
Arresba
Occupied
Labor Party
Poincare
Les Fritz Thyssen
Berlin
War threat fears voiced by Paris diplomat on two flashpoints
Paris officials warned war could erupt in the next days over Memel and Turkey. A high authority said Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and Germany would likely be drawn in, potentially dragging in Britain and France to defend Poland under a defensive alliance.
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Paris
Iby
Bertell
Ena
French Republic
Europe
Memel
Turkey
Poland
Russa S
Germany
France
Pola
Near West
Britain
Lausanne
Mosul
Lord Curzon
Sdeath
Brita
Failure of Lausanne Parley May Reveal Allied Discord
At the Near East peace conference in Lausanne pressure is used to avert rupture as the Allied peace draft is prepared for submission to the Turks. Indications suggest France and Italy may refuse any proceed ings involving a demand to the Turks while the treaty is handed to them. The Turks show signs of backing away from hard terms.
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Lausanne
Associated Press
France
Italy
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Bernard Scurry
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Gilbert Goodrich
Newhaven Center
Magistrate Dale
Imperial
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U. S
Council of the League of Nations
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