Stratford Point Scene: Pirates Strike Boatman
New Haven June 19 Charles Brockett of Providence told harbor police he was hijacked at 3 am off Stratford Point in Long Island Sound aboard The Faith. A forty foot black motor boat rammed his sailboat. Brockett was knocked unconscious and later found bruised at New Haven Yacht Club. The boat was stripped and drifted to the harbor. Police noted no official reports of piracy.
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New Haven
Charles Brockett
Providence
R. L
Stratford Point
Long Island Sound
Faith
New Haven Yacht Club
Brockett
Yacht Club
Edgartown
Mass
City Island
R. T. Brown
Maine claims Arctic land as MacMillan sails for polar duty
Governor Ralph Brewster of Maine authorized explorer Donald B MacMillan to claim any discovered Arctic territory for the state. At Newagen Inn the governor framed discovery as a sovereign right under constitutional law, while the Bowdoin and Peary crew prepared to shove off for the polar voyage toward a presumed unknown continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southport
Ralph O. Brawster
Maine
Donald B MacMillan
Arctic Tomporrow
Pola
Newagen Inn
Grewster
Canaria
MacMillan
Brewater
Gald
WikiAssel, PLC
Donald B. MacMillan
Bowdoin
Peary
Arcte
Comillanier MacMillan
Rev Budd Indicted for Manslaughter in New York Crash
New York reports an indictment for second degree manslaughter against Rev Alfred W Budd of Derby Connecticut after his car struck and killed Max Felgelman on Fifth Avenue. The pastor, who had been free on bail, drove toward Oyster Bay when he allegedly crossed the curb and hit Felgelman, then crashed into Sherry's restaurant window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alfred W. Rudd
Derby
Conccurat
Max Felgelman
Fifth Avenue
Budd
Trey Alfred W Budd
Elizabeth Street
Congregational) Church
Budd Mruck
Wilea Max Felgelman
New York City
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Fifth Avenues
Felgelman
Sherry
Testaurant
Alfred W. Budd
Onslaughter
Rity Yeneterdas
Cald
Atruck
Alao
Joseph Flanagan
Hertfacd
Fairfeld Avenue
Flanagan
Bridgeport
Fort Trumbull School Closes Graduation Planned
Milford June 19 graduation exercises set for Fort Trumbull Beach Grammar School. In the afternoon oration and diplomas will be awarded to scholars ready to enter high school in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milford
Ertalys Tre
Milfn
Ek Tong
Fort Trumbull Beach
Connecticut Man Heads Rotary International
Donald A. Adama of New Haven Connecticut was elected president of Rotary International at the annual convention in Cleveland. He defeated Paul H. King of Deather as the other candidate.
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Cleveland
Donald A. Adama
New Haven Conn
Rotary International
Paul H. King
Deather
Four youths held after auto theft report
Four youths were detained by police early this morning after a blue coach with registration H-443, owned by William Golderman, was reported stolen. The vehicle was later found on Diouve Street. One suspect, Wilford Marteajs, was identified and held for further inquiry, with three others detained. after examination, the suspects were released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polce
Fife
Fown
William Golderman
North Avenue
Rto
Diouve Street
Malin
Water Creete
Nick Keane
Broad Street
Wilford Marteajs
Railroad Avenue
Pess Heir
Touthea
Atelen
Masrette
Mderman
Mati
Contresa
Teapot Dome Lease Upheld by Court in Sinclair Case
Cheyenne Wyoming June 1 The Teapot Dome oil lease between Harry Sinclair and former Interior Secretary Albert Fall was deemed legitimate by Federal Judge T Blake Kennedy in a federal equity suit seeking to cancel the lease The judge acknowledged potential unpopularity but said the record showed no fraud or illegality sufficient to void the deal The decision centers on claims of a fraudulent, secretive negotiation tied to Harding era control of Naval oil lands without sufficient executive action.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
United States
Sinclair
Young
Dava
Kennedy
Fal and Sinclair
Harding
Naval Oil
Lafollette Funeral Monday Draws Legislature Memorials
Madison Wis June 19 Legislators mourn Senator Robert M Laf Follette with a guard of honor of 17 assemblymen and six senators to stand beside his bier. Both houses vote to attend the funeral Monday in the capitol rotunda and accompany the body to Forest Hill cemetery. A committee was created to draft a suitable memorial for the next legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Robert M. Laf Follette
Forest Hill Cemetery
Roth Teasdaly
Sparta
Henry Huber
Lalol Ette
Maple Bluff
Munday
State
Mia LaFollette
United States Senate
John M Nelson
Shepherd Defense Begins as Trial Moves Forward
Chicago June 19 AP The defense of William Shepherd opened today with plans to climax Monday as the defendant faces a jury. Four defense witnesses testified before a short adjournment allowed Judge Lynch to attend a conference with county judges. The state rested after close examination of Charley Palman who testifies that he supplied three test tubes of something to aid in the murder of William Nel Ou Hateck Shepherd's counsel argued to establish the corpus delicti.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William
Shepherd Hem
Tria
Phomay ] Lynch
Conk County
Charley Palman
Yale Wins Clean Sweep Over Harvard in Thames Race
Yale varsity crew defeated Harvard by a boat length and a half on the Thames, giving Yale its fifth straight win over Harvard and a 31 to 27 lead in the 58th dual regatta. Yale clocked 20:26 to Harvard 20:32, as a large crowd watched on the river.
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Yale
Harvard
Thames
New London
Cambridge
APL
Ani Guagessa
Blus
R. Winthrop
Boston
Red Top
Grammar Schools to Graduate 800 Lists Announced
About 800 pupils will graduate from city grammar schools this month per Superintendent E Everett Cortright. Each school will hold its own commencement. Three schools reported lists of graduates: Tollawai Madison 86, Columbus 24, Staples 24 with valedictorian Gisela R Hoenigia.
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E. Everett Cortright
Tollawai Madison
Harold Albrecht
Harry Ashmore
Thomas Ball
Grace Bissonette
Leemon Bogardus
Samuel Costanzo
Madeline Costello
Lucy Cuccaro
Sharron Doenar
Arthur Frauenberger
Olive Fairchild
Marie Fox
Ethel Friedman
Edward Gullabi
Dorothy Hall
Emery Horn
Emma Knecht
Geraldine Lombard
Mamie Luciana
Winifred Matthews
Esther Mead
James Munsante
Florence Nolan
Vannie Ostrofeky
Lillian Ragelle
Emma Rockoff
Ward Rose
Ralph Sawyer
Mildred Sheehan
Bernadette Shields
Marguerite Blattery
Harold Stuart
Sylvia Spivach
Roger Summ
Lilian Tesch
Charlotte Wignall
Columbus
Anthony Frances Barletta
Thomas Carroll
Theresa Mary Capasso
Mary Cascella
Lillian @Jorla Clevicuzio
Harriet Dodg Cornell
Theresa Josephine D'Arezzo
Philomena Anna D'Bacco
Sucian DeChecco
Mary D'Julio
Sebastian Jacquinta
Ormond Ralph Johnson
Rose Anna Levitan
Lthel Teibowicz
Rachel Laurie Mantone
Louis Walter Nuzzi
Angela Marie Truth Pastore
Constance Mary Pellegrini
Vincent James Piedrentonio
Lillian Carolne Rose
Samuel Shapiro
John George Stross
Nicholas John Verdicchio
Cecelia Josephine DeLucia
Gisela R. Hoenig
Staples School
Elizabeth D. Balog
Carmela Buchino
George Chuba
John Dragon
Anthony A. Ennacy
Edith R. Frasacatore
Theoore L. Genetti
Joseph Geiak
Albert P. Goletz
Jact A Iverson
George W. Iverson
Stephen Mihalka
Robert V. Murary
Michael Pavia
Charles E. Rooney
Paul M Severin
Olga Stegana
Dorothy Evenberg
Michael J. Telicky
Elin M. Toreson
Michael Pete Joseph Zambo
Louis Val- Mo
Man Killed as Trestle Collapses in Middletown
Godfrey Kowalsky, inmate at Connecticut State Hospital for the Insane since 1919, died when a 200 foot trestle section collapsed during dismantling. John Peters, a carpenter, was injured as six others narrowly escaped. The trestle, unused for some time, broke as a cable was cut and struck. Legislature had appropriated 925,000 for a new structure.
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Middletown
Godfrey Kawalsky
Fast
Hartford
Connecticut State Hospital For
John Peters
Kowalaky
Peters
Pelere
News Summary Grammar swame ww Graduate 800
Amalgamated clippings note varied items across pages. Mentions include local education drills, airport land options for Stratford, a fatal operation in Stamford, a board of education update, and a trolleyman wage meeting. Also reports on crime, court actions, and international affairs alongside sports results and stock market trends.
Bridgeporters in Singing Contest State Saengerfest Opens
Waterbury June 18. The two day State Saengerfest of German singing societies opened with Mayor Gullfolle welcoming more than one thousand visiting singers and friends. Delegations from Bridgeport Stamford Ansonia Torrington Rockville Seymour New Britain Hartford New Haven and Danbury competed in a singing contest. A New Haven Symphony Orchestra chorus directed by Fritz Weber performed at the armory this evening. Visited a local park for dancing as winners in the singing contests were to be announced at Merrow Park.
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Waterbury
Francis P. Gullfolle
Bridgeport
Stamford
Ansonia
Torrington Rockville
Seymour
New Britain
Hartford
New Haven
Danbury
State Armory
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
Fritz K. G. Weber
Singing Society
Merrow
Urge More Troops Sent to Morocco Front
Paris June 19 AP reports a French parliamentary commission urged hastier dispatch of gendarmes to the Moroccan front in its first report to the Military Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. It approved hospital and sanitary arrangements, called for parachutes and fire extinguishers, and noted wounded are examined at rear hospitals within twelve hours due to well organized aerial transport.
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Paris
Morocco
Chamber of Deputies
Thig Aneed
New Canaan Man Admits Paying for Fake Degree
New Canaan physician Dr Ralph L White testified before the Connecticut Grand Jury investigating medical licensing fraud that he paid 1250 to Dr John B Brinkley of Fairfield to obtain an honorary University of Southern California diploma for him through Robert Adcox. The diploma was not delivered and 1150 was returned by a Rio Chemical Company check. White, a member of the Eclectic Medical Examining Board, said he joined the eclectic ranks in January 1922 and discussed the case during the January 29 1924 proceedings.
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Hartword
John B. Brinkley
Fairfield
University of Southern California
Ralph L. White
New Canaan
Connecticut
Superior Court
John W. Banks
Rio Chemical Company
Adcox
Louis
Seasion
White
Eclectic Atats Examining Board
State Health Department
Date R. Alexander
Kansas City College of Medicine and
Burgery
Busses Replace Trolley Cars to Lordship Today
Three new twenty nine passenger busses ready to begin operation will replace trolley service to the Lordship shore suburb this morning under City Service Corporation led by Walter B Lashar. The fare is ten cents. New gray coaches cut trip times to about 20 minutes from City Plaza. schedules run on the half hour. Attorney John T L Hubbard notes trolley rates remain in effect. A macadam road from Hollister Avenue bridge to Lordship is built, with A J Northey pledging to repave Hollister Avenue to Stratford Avenue.
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Lordship Company
Lordship
City Service Corporation
Walter B. Lashar
John T. L. Hubbard
Hollister Avenue
Publ Work
A. J. Northey
Stratford Avenue
Police Seek Missing Farmer John Purdy Near Stamford
Stamford June 19 Special Police search the woods near Oak Town Road for John Purdy a well known farmer and horseman who vanished while walking toward Stamford with his wife after leaving a farm home for treatment for injuries from a horse kick. His wife reported he turned off the road seven miles from Stamford shed his hat and said go home then disappeared into swampy woods as searchlines corn tonight but daylight is needed for full hunt.
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Stamford
Polce
Oak Town Road
John Purdy
Purdy
Atail
Amundsen Flight Story Exclusive to Telegram and Post
News of Roald Amundsen and companions returning from the polar flight is released in a brief dispatch from Amundsen to the Telegram and Post and 65 allied papers. An hour later Amundsen provides the graphic version. Lincoln Ellsworth adds his account from New York. The Telegram and Post and allied papers publish exclusive complete flight details by arrangement with Amundsen and Ellsworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Amundsen
Tejegram and Post
Associated Newspapers
North American Newspaper Alliance
Kinks Bay
Telegram and Post
Lincoln Ellaworth
Telegram
Spitzbergen
James B. Wharton
Amundaen
Elaworth
Ellsworth recalls perilous polar landing on shifting ice
From Spitzbergen June 19 Lincoln Ellsworth, co leader of the Amundsen Ellsworth expedition, describes four weeks in the north during a polar flight attempt. After eight hours toward the Pole the N 24 landed on open water but the lane closed. The N 25 was separated, then four days to reach it amid shifting ice and new leads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Ellsworth
Amundsen-Ellgworth
Ing's Bay
Spitzbergen
Raalo
Helmdal
Pole
Qlleworth
Jmdal
Soucht
Minda
Aix
Officials Discuss Trolley Wage Plan In New Haven
Fifteen delegates of the Trotley men’s Union met with President John K Punderfant of the Connecticut company in New Haven to discuss the vote on wage reductions. The balloting favored rejection of the offer, and a long meeting followed without agreement, adjourned to 11 tomorrow. Workers remain under last year’s contract which expired June 1. The workers oppose wage cuts and oppose transferring boat operators to day shifts for white men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Trotleymen's Union
John K Punderfant
Connecticut Company
Connecticut
Punderford
Yi Waa
Explorers Hack Ice Get Free: North Pole Rescue Tale
James B. Wharton reports on the Amundsen expedition at Spitzbergen in 1925. Though the flight to the North Pole failed to reach its objective, survivors endured 25 nightless days, near starvation, and constant peril while freeing their plane. Ellsworth died from new blindness. others suffered crippling fatigue and memory gaps as they struggled for survival amid unrelenting cold and hunger.
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King’s Bay
Spitzbergen
Heimdal
Amundssen-Illsworth
North Pole
Ligeola Ellsworth
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