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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1927
Page
10
Wallace Rider Farrington elevated Hawaii's governorship after a luncheon club speech in Honolulu. The event featured Warren G Harding and praise from senators who predicted his future leadership. Farrington would be reappointed to a second term by President Coolidge in 1925.
In Hartford on June 8 a Windsor South youth identified as Clarence Easton aged 19 pleaded guilty to arson for setting his parents house on March 10 and watching it burn. The judge deferred sentence for further consideration citing uncertainty and discussing possible probation and reform school placement. Easton, said to be mentally deficient, hid in nearby woods after the fire and was found after two days. The case follows earlier statements by the assistant state attorney and reflects concerns about juveniles and punishment.
Funeral services were held for Edward O Sturdevant of 478 Seaview Avenue, a Civil War veteran and longtime Remington foreman, yesterday at Bishop's Undertaking parlors with burial in Lakeview Cemetery. He died June 3 at Soldiers' Home Noroton Heights, born Roxbury in 1846, enlisted March 6 1865, discharged July 19 1865. He was noted as a Bridgeport yachtsman and former ordnance department supervisor at Remington during the Spanish American War. Surviving relative is Mrs Nettie Abercrombie. Rev Louis J Long and Mrs Lillan Harrison and Mrs Edith Boyan sang at the service.
John Redgate son of Mr and Mrs William T Redgate of 45 Vine street returns from Notre Dame after his first year. He traveled via the Great Lakes with Jenny Murphy son of Timothy J Murphy of 83 Liberty street who is also a Notre Dame student. John Murphy has just graduated and will enter Yale Law School next fall. Thomas Murphy is a coming junior at Notre Dame.
Warsaw police moved quickly to probe the assassination of Peter Volkoff Soviet envoy in Warsaw. Authorities searched monarchist circles in Warsaw and Vilna and made five and 29 arrests respectively. The Soviet note and calls for justice frame the incident as an internal Russian matter with Polish caution about dying relations. The body was publicly displayed and will be sent to Moscow by special train with several known Russian monarchists in custody.
Passengers on a southbound South Main street trolley car were startled and frightened but none injured when an ash wagon driven by Henry Farrell of 96 Columbia street swerved into the trolley. Four windows were broken and the side damaged as the wagon escaped unscathed. Motorman Michael Dunn applied brakes, passengers rushed to view the damage.
Montgomery June 8. Governor Bibb Graves, a World War I veteran, longtime Alabama political figure, and former student leader, envisioned the governor’s office while playing on the state capitol grounds. He practiced law in Montgomery after study at Alabama, Texas, and Yale, and led the Plesi Cavalry Alabama National Guard before serving as a major in France with the Thirty‑first Division.
London papers rail at slow reception for Carr and Gillman after their 3 246 mile nonstop England to Persian Gulf flight. They paused in shark infested waters awaiting rescue and faced secrecy on their arrival. The Air Ministry plans a second nonstop mission with Karachi as target.
Miss Isabelle Pope seeks widow status to gain a larger share of the McClintock estate after alleging executor William Darling Shepherd obstructed her marriage to the dying heir. She claims fraudulent conduct and asks the court to appoint a receiver, force an accounting, and restrain Shepherd from spending estate funds.
The text expresses broad feelings about a millionaire's jail sentence and hints at controversial ideas about human evolution, but no specific people, places, dates, organizations, or events are identifiable.
The International Brotherhood of Magicians elected ocean flyers Charles Lindbergh and Clarence Chamberlin as honorary members at their Kenton Ohio convention. The action recognized trans Atlantic flight achievements by Levine and other pioneers.
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