Stratford Youth Receives Award At Music School
New Haven June 6 President Angell announced prize awards at the annual commencement concert by students in the Yi school of music. The Steinert prize of 100 dollars for the best original composition in a major form went to Royal Andrews Merwin of Waterbury for his tone opera for orchestra The Weus. The Benjamin Jensen memorial prize for theory of music was awarded to Ralph Eggleston Linstey of New Haven. Other awards included Lockwood scholarships in instrumental and vocal theory, singing to Thomas William Wall of Stratford, pianoforte to Gertrude Hall of Middletown, and the Kellogg prize for theory divided between Esther Alice Cox Milford and Katherine Hazel Burnham Clinton. Honorable mention to Virginia el Portland. Lucy Bell Woodward prizes went to Giovannini Maria He Bilasiis Glens Falls N Y for pianoforte and Grace Fisher Stratford for music theory. Out-of-town certificates of proficiency in theory were awarded to Florence Irene Beebe Bridgeport Katherine Hazel Burnham Clinton Esther Altice Cox Milford Annette Marine Port Virginia Wessels Portland Patrick Davidonis Ansonia Gertrude Sarah Greer Yonkers Y Carlton Wheeler L Hommedieu East Norwalk Edna Mae Ostrofsky Bridgeport Virginia Wessels Portland Connie Mae Whelan Hartford.
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Yi School of Music
Royal “Andrews
Fale College
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Lockwood
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Stratford
Gertrude Hall
Middletown
Frances E. Osborne Kellogg
Esther Alice Cox
Milford
Katherine Hazel Burnham
Clinton
Virginia el
Portland
Lucy Bell Woodward
Giovannini_ Maria He Bilasiis
Glens Falls
Grace Fisher
Florence Irene Beebe
Bridgeport
Katherine Hazel Burnhan
Esther Altice Cox
Annette Marineport
Virginia Wessels
Patrick Davidonis
Ansonia
Gertrude ‘Sarah Greer
Myst Angeline Whelley
Yonkers
Y- Carlton
Wheeler L' Hommedieu
Russian with dynamite arrested in Waterbury
June 6. George Fay or Faller, likely aliases, a Russian newcomer in Waterbury, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of possessing dynamite. Fay was suspected of stealing two salts of clothes.
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Waterbury
George Fay
Faller
Fay
Two Fingers Torn Off In Factory Machinery
Herman Dietrich of 212 Sixth Street was injured at the American Machines plant on Connecticut Avenue when his right hand caught in a machine. Two fingers torn off, first aid given at Emergency Hospital and he was moved to St. Vincent's Hospital. Geraldine Servaty of 200 Poplar Street suffered possible fractures after an automobile driven by Mrs. T. Tomptins of Green Parms struck her as she crossed Farfield Avenue at Mount Grove Street.
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Sixth Street
American Machines Company
Connecticut Avenue
Emergency
St. Vincent's Hospital
Geraldine Servaty
Poplar Street
T. Tomptins
Green
Parms
Farfield Avenue
Mount Grove Street
Trolley workers reject Connecticut wage increase proposal
In New Haven on June 6, trolley men state wide vote rejected the proposed four cents an hour raise by the Connecticut company. Unofficially union members report no city accepted the offer as talks pause until the conference board resumes negotiations.
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New Haven
Connecticut Company
Trolleymen's Union
State Conference Board of the Trolleymen i 8
Retail Merchants Earn Less Than Masons, Babson Says
Roger W. Babson told the convention of the Association Advertising Clubs of the World that many merchants would benefit by becoming bricklayers. He cited 1,500,000 retailers in the United States, 169,000 profitable, 400,000 flailing, and about a million struggling with day wages or losses.
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Atlantic Cite
Roger W. Babson
Associated Advertising Clubs
United States
Sent to Reformatory for Automotive Theft Plan
Edward Johnny, 17, of Broad Street, arrested at the wheel of a car he is alleged to have planned to steal, was committed to Cheshire Reformatory after arraignment in City Court yesterday morning.
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Edward Johnny
Broad Street
Cheshire Reformatory
Extra Police At Milford Reaches For Summer
Milford June 6 Special to the Telegram A joint meeting of the Police and Fire Commissions discussed summer patrol plans and interdepartmental supply sharing. Two motorcycle officers will patrol shore resorts and Post Road starting June 16. Carpenter Honored and hotel guests listed plus annual Ladies Aid Society meeting announced.
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Milford
Board of Police Commissioners
Board of Fire Commissioners
Board of Selectmen's Office
Post Road
Crepe Removed From Stonington Clock Sparks DST Debate
Stonington June 6 The clock on the Community building was restarted after a crepe was placed on its hands. The committee says the clock is not on a public street or building and contends a loophole exists in a state law restricting public clocks to standard time.
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Stonington
Tawyers
Court drops charge of deportation conspiracy
New York June 6 Judge Nott in General Sessions today discarded indictments charging Edmund Leigh a private detective with kidnapping and wire tapping and Peter Lawson with wire tapping in an alleged plot to deport August Probst an employee of the Rolling Rock club near Pittsburgh a year ago Probst and lack of corroboratory evidence from Probst and failure of the DA to prosecute led to the dismissals Leigh and Lawson were indicted when Probst who was said to have paid relatives of Rolling Rock members plotted to kidnap and deport him Probst was later sent back to Switzerland after a long legal battle.
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New York
Nott
Edmund Leigh
Peter Lawson
August Probst
Rolling Rock
Pittsburgh
Probst
Lagh
Lawcen
Two Cases Argued Decisions Reserved
Two cases were argued before Judge John J. Walsh in the Common Pleas yesterday afternoon. Samuel Halpert sues for 100 dollars claimed as a loan not repaid. a dispute preceded the decision. In the Cohen case a fight in a jailers store led to a belligerent scene requiring a golbermads to separate parties. In the Iines case the matter awaits adjustments and a verdict.
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Samuel Halpert Aganst
Charles Cohen
James Iines Whie
John J. Walsh
Ile
Yesterckiy
Walpert
Hve
Yanenak
Tadpert
Cohen
Jatiers
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Doherty Cottage
Fort Trumbull Beach
Mavie Maher
Edward J. Maher
Larkin House
Fort Trumbull
Stoningham
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