Move to sanction police group fails of adoption at board session
Police Board members discuss a patrolmen association seeking official approval and political neutrality. Despite support from several commissioners, a motion to approve was defeated as others urged delay for more study. Commissioner Murphy urged postponement until full board attendance.
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Police Board of Commissioners
Hight
Wotes
Lichara
Trout
Taceling
Tacegh
Colmmunica Menkers
John Cassidy
Vileisseztalen
Stephen Boucher
Motiv
Samuel Dawe
Richard H. Murphy
Aid
Dawe Aiel
Gu Wats
Flanagan
Ument
Rou
Pattiex J. Flanagan
Association
Murphy
Richard Murphy
Bridgeport News Highlights From Page Four
Bridgeport briefs include divorce grants for local women in Superior Court New York exhibitions at Black Rock Library on Page Seven and a large fire safety and public works note on Page Eleven Also referenced are county notices estate appraisals and local school and police items across multiple pages including Stamford Danbury and Easton regional notes.
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Bridgeport
New Yorks
Aelians
Timner
Black Rock
Stamford
Lusbanil
Tuertain
Samart W. Meco
St. Augustine’s Boy Scouts
Favorites Triumph in Connecticut Golf Title
Favorites won their way into the second round of the annual championship tournament of the Women’s Connecticut Golf Association at Brooklawn Country Club yesterday. Georgianna Bishop of Bridgeport won easily in the championship flight, while defending champion Mrs George Austin of Hartford also secured a victory. Full details appear on Page 19.
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Connecticut Golf Association
Brooklawn Country Club
Georgianna Bishop
Bridgeport
George Austin
Hartford
Four diphtheria cases close Nichols school
June 1 By Special Correspondent two more diphtheria cases were reported to Health Officer Edwin Futrebilt of Trumbull. The total now is four. Schools in the township must remain closed until the danger passes. The village school cannot reopen before next Monday, and if further cases occur, it will stay closed indefinitely. The June class graduation is in jeopardy if the school does not reopen in time.
Fuller Announces Advisory Board to Aid Review
Governor Alvan T. Fuller convenes an independent review of the Sacco and Vanzetti case with an advisory committee from Harvard, MIT, and a former probate judge. The panel will assist but the governor retains sole responsibility for the final decision under law.
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Harvard
Mli.t
Sacco-Vanzetti
Boston
Alvan. T. Puller
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Court
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Lowell
Frank G. Alien
Joseph Wiggs
State House
Robert Grant
A. Lagrence Lowell
Samuel W. Stratton
Sacco- Vanzetti
South Braintree
Supreme Court
Webster Thayer
Celestonio Madeiros
Sacco
Vanzetti
Jast
Red Sees British War as Inevitable
Moscow June 1 Associated Press Alexis Rykoff president of the Council of Peoples Commissars addressed the Moscow Soviet saying the British rupture with Russia foreshadowed war. He accused Britain of provoking conflict to dominate others while the Lower Union defended a policy of peace. He charged Britain spied on the Soviet republic and noted a group of captured spies had been imprisoned and one shot.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Alexis Rykoff
Council of Peoples Commissars
Moscow Soviet Today
Rusela
Britain
Eples
Public Bus License Granted to Kerrigan in Hartford
Hartford June 1. Attorney General Benjamin W. Alling ordered a public service motor vehicle license issued to Francis Kerrigan of Meroton Heights after Kerrigan appealed a motor vehicle commissioner’s denial. The decision follows a hearing on Kerrigan’s appeal.
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Hartford
Associated Press
Benjamin W. Alling
Francis Kerrigan
Meroton Heights
Kerrigan
Van Orman Victor in Balloon Race Elimination
Akron June 3 Ward T. Van Orman and aide W W Morton won the national elimination balloon race, flying 715 miles from Akron to Bar Harbor Maine. The Detroit No 1 entry by E J Hill and A E B Schlosser finished second with 445 miles, while Captain William E Kepner and Lt Willaf O Bareckson in US Army No 3 logged 610 miles. The top three will represent America in the International race starting from Denver in September.
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Akron
Associated Press
Ward T. van Orman
W. W. Morton
Bar Harbor
Ven Orman
Old Mort
Denver
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
van Orman
Morton
E. J. Hill
A. E B. Schlosser
Detroit
Skowhegan
Maine
Coveneus
U. S. Army
Scott Field, Ill
William E. Kepner
Willaf O. Bareckson
America
Laconia
N. H
Good Will Flyer Lands After 146 Mile Miscourse
Ottawa Ont June 1 Captain R G Hoyt pilot of a Good Will plane landed safely after five and a quarter hours in the air and drifting 146 miles off course mistaking the St Lawrence River for the Ottawa river. The plane had a damaged wing but Hoyt and Sergeant B D Boozer escaped injury Major Herbert Dargie also landed near Ottawa after a 144 mile flight from Burlington Vermont in 90 minutes escorted by Royal Canadian Air Force Fokker planes.
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Ottawa
R. G. Hoyt
U. & Army
Montreal
St. Lawrinece
Hoyt
B. D. Boozer
Herbert Dargie
Sufely
Burlington
Fokker
Royal Canadian Air Force
Boy on Bicycle Struck by Danbury Coal Truck
In Danbury a teenage boy delivering magazines was struck at White and Ives streets by a coal truck owned by John McCarthy and driven by Edward L. Smith. The youth suffered severe injuries including skull fracture and scalp laceration. Smith was arrested for reckless driving. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs John Swanson, was taken to Danbury Hospital.
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Danbury
John Swanson
Spring Street
White
Ives Streets
John McCarthy
Edward L. Smith
City Hamlet
Ives Street
Smith
Danbury Hospital
Canada Liquor Stores Open as U S Visitors Rush In
Windsor Ontario June 1 more than 6500 dollars of liquor and beer sold on opening day at two government stores. Hundreds of U S visitors with permits flocked to buy. Stores to operate daily 10 am to 6 pm except Saturdays 10 am to 1 pm. First American purchaser Fayette Bristol of Detroit bought Old Crow. Limit two cases beer per resident, one to tourist, no public drinking allowed.
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Windsor
Ont
Iiquar
United States
Wyrndotte Street
Detroit
Archibald Gray
Ontario Liquor Control Board
Fayette Bristol
Ontario
Pease Begins Fourth Term as Sheriff Honored by Aides
Sheriff Simeon Pease starts his fourth consecutive term, equalling a regional record set by the late Sidney E. Hawley. Deputies reappointed include Ye Robert F. Nichols and Frank F. Fasanella with several changes among Greenwich, Danbury, and Norwalk appointees. One deputy, Warren Allen of Sherman, is absent due to illness. his warrant will be sent and he will be sworn in later by a notary. No action on 25 special deputies whose terms expired.
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Pease
Sherif Simeon Pease
County Court House
Warren ©. Allen
Sherman
Stratfield
Sidney E. Hawley
Court House
Leonard I. Mingo
Millbank Avenue
Greenwich
Henry M. Ritch
Frederick Crofut
Danbury
David B. Bradley
Robert VF. Nichols
Frank F. Fasanella
James P. Kiernan
Patrick J. Rethy
Ariayport
George D. Braille
Bethel
Peter H Faenell
Brookfield
Orville W. Holmes
Fairfield
Frank Olnstead
Monroe
Morris D. Beers
Newtown
Edward Lycett
Norwalk
Cgorge
Barks
Redding
Frederick S. Bator
Ridgeeld
Charles H. Cook
Shelton
Edward B. Cowens
South Norwalk
Michael T. Ryan
Stamford
Herbert James Lewis
Stratford
Warren Allen
John W. Prench
Trumbull
Edgar H. Perry
Westport
Ernest C. Runcor
Wilton
Sheriff Feass
Raword
Fla
Tan Altzing
Jim Williama
Putnam County
Hiter
Lindbergh to Enter Washington for Welcome
New York ruffles as Captain Charles A. Lindbergh accepts President Coolidge invitation and plans to arrive in Washington June 11 to be welcomed by the cabinet and celebrated by a Washington crowd. The orbit of events includes New York aerospace ceremonies, White House hospitality, and a staged cross country welcome with army and navy air units prepared for the Liberty flight.
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Cated Press
Ofi A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Memphis
Lindbergh
Idge
White House
Davis
St. Louie
Penny Bir Corps
Kent Coolidge
Newport News
Asmocinsted Press
Charles A.bergh
Miler Field
Statenland
Stone
Broadway
City Hall
Central Park
Grover A
Mayors Committee
Iain Lindbergh
St. Louis
Whalen
War Davis
Melington
Walker
Coolidge
P' Coolidge
Dent Coolidge
Rioting toll and tremors mark tense regional turmoil
In Tampa rioting left four dead and twenty one wounded as guardsmen traded shots with a crowd near the county jail. authorities held thirty arrests for grand jury action. Separately, North Jersey coast tremors caused chimneys to topple and alarms across Asbury Park, with no sea disruption but notable building movement and rattled dishes.
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Tampa
Fla
Associated Press
Clyll
B. F. Levins
Hugh Edward McRae
Fort Willams
Ont
Hal Pifer
Ocala
Earl McGill
Sigdall Ott
Asbury Park
N. J
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North Jersey
Long Branch
Toms River
Sandy Hook
New Brunswick
Coast Guards
Western Union
Highlands
West Long Branch
Adjutant General of Army Retirement Set
Washington June 1 By Associated Press. The voluntary retirement of Major General Robert C. Davis adjutant general of the army on July 1 was approved today by President Coolidge. Brigadier General Luty Wall will succeed him with the rank of major general.
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Washington
Associated Press
Robert C. Davis
Army
Coolidge
Luty Wall
Davia
Charles WH. Bridges
Arthur W
William EB. Horton
James C. Rhea
Payne Whitney Gives Yale $8 Million Endowment Gift
The late Payne Whitney donated 81,000,000 to Yale University endowment shortly before his death. George Parmly Day, chairman of Yale’s endowment committee, disclosed the anonymous gift, one of the first million dollar contributions to the fund.
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Payne Whitney
YALE
New York
Associated Press
Yale Endowment Fund
George Parmly Day
Whitney
Day
Flood Conference Opens To Tackle Valley Floods
Chicago June 1 The Chicago Flood Control conference began with 75 men forming an advance guard and appointing an 11 member committee to draft a program of procedure. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi will open the meeting and appoint the organization committee to petition the federal government for plans to prevent future Mississippi Valley floods. Dwight Davis and Major General Edgar Jadwin travel to Chicago as the president’s representative.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Dwight Davis
St. Louis
Edgar Jodwin
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