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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1926
Page
4
Federal statistics show 4768 commercial failures in five months totaling 180.49 million and 287 banks with 71.73 million in deposits went to the wall. Secretary Winston says failures are mostly small, due to inexperience and limited capital, not systemic alarm.
Stamford July 20 Special Herbert Brooks cabret held on $3000 bail on charges of attempted burglary. He pleaded not guilty unable to furnish bail and was taken to Bridgeport. Brooks was arrested July 1 after fleeing Louis N Levenson store to Richard Copans. An attempt to force entry to Levenson store. Burglary tools found in Levenson store area and in Brooks car.
Everett Wolff sales manager for Sinclair Oil was fined $100 and costs for assault on vaudeville actor Arthur C Varce of Danbury. Wolff filed an appeal and bond set at $300. Hebert C Collins of New Canaan was fined $28 and costs for reckless driving after weaving through traffic at about 40 miles per hour.
Dr Romanso Adame head of geology at the Lai verary of Hlainall warns that interracial marriages in Hawaii will reshape lineage. He notes thirty four percent of marriages involve white men with women of other races and that pure blooded Hawaiians and Portuguese groups are declining while part Portuguese and Hawaiian groups expand. The scientist cautions that biological mixing outcomes remain uncertain.
Daniel Tessier of Lawrence Massachusetts waived extradition today after being charged in the United States with abandoning his wife and children. He told Judge Choquet he had gone to Canada three months ago seeking work and indicated his intention to return to the United States for an extradition hearing.
Warren Pn Tay reports that a million dollar Jamieson refinery fire, sparked by an exploding oil pump, spread from a storeroom to the plant. Local and neighboring firefighters halted the blaze after destroying six benzine tanks five oil tanks and several buildings. Some small fires remain but further damage is not anticipated.
Rudolph Valentino challenges the anonymous Chicago Tribune editorial writer behind Pink Powder Puffs to a private fighting contest in the style of boxing or wrestling. Valentino, en route to New York, says he will return to Chicago in ten days and can be reached through United Artists in New York.
Col Thomas W Miller, former alien Property custodian, replies in an open letter to Senator William Borah. He disputes Borah’s claim he released $125.6 million in seized property to the British, saying instead he obtained stock certificates in American corporations held by the British government as enemy property.
Fairfield gardener Joseph Pasqua, 39, employed at Fairfield Country Club, was found not guilty in City Court yesterday of criminally assaulting a 12 year old girl at her parents home about a month earlier. Prosecution witnesses, including medical testimony, failed to confirm details, and the judge released Pasqua on $1000 bond after the district attorney recommended acquittal.
Concord N H July 20 1926 by reason of failure to pay state taxes the property of the Canterbury Bokawen Telephone company on independent companys swerving 102 subscribers will be sold at auction on August 25 Sheriff George A Wooster of Merrillack county served a writ of attachment.
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