Council Creates Body to Handle Purchases in Ripplerage Move
The Common Council created a new department of Public Purchases replacing the Board of Contract and Supply to oversee city buys. Mayor Behrens will appoint George F. Hill Carl F. Siemon and Christopher C. Donahue to form the new commission with Hill as president. The new board will handle most city purchases except Education Library Welfare Parks and contracts via committees. Louis J. Reilly becomes clerk for two years at 3000 annually. The ordinance responds to the ripper law by defining powers and duties omitted in prior assemblies.
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Department of Public Purchases
Board of Contract and Supply
Common Council
Behrens
George F. Hill
Carl F. Siemon
Christopher C. Donahue
Hill
Siemon
Board of Contract
Donahue
Beh- Tens
Mr. Hill
Louis J. Reilly
May Condon
Mary Fiinpatrick
Mary = O’Neil
Boars
Board of Education
Public Library
Public Welfare
Aridgeport
Cornell
Challenger
Kelly
Library Board
Taxation Board
Wall Doelaren
Remington Arms Company
Wrigley
Holmes and Edwards Silver Company
State
Fairfield County
Mission Society
Ridgefield
D. A. RB
New Reading Club
Westwort
Page
Westport
Farthquake
Santa Barbara
Barbara
Uanfornia
Haus
Inmmona
Berlin
Ts Ign
Methods Used to Steal at Meriden Bank
Meriden July report reveals how Boardman, a youthful teller at Meriden National Bank, skimmed 19009 over a year. He says he stole about 599 at a time from daily receipts, falsified balances, and noted a 35 R daily note addition to inflate totals. He anticipated arrest, faced two weeks paid vacation, and sought a loan to escape before turning himself in. Federal examiners prepared for possible full federal action, while prosecutors weigh shifting cases to oral courts.
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Meriden
Fiera PD
Boardman
Meriden National Bank
Auperior Court
Morning Record
Poseibie
Federal
Toda
Old Tax Board Adjourns After Ripper Law Pulls Funds
The old Board of Apportionment and Taxation, displaced by the ripper law, met in what may be its final session and appropriated about 8,300 from the contingent fund to various departments, adjourning subject to the chair. Absent were Burnham Lyhne and Blackman. Laverty and Murphy attended. A farewell dinner for the old board may be arranged by City Clerk Burdick. The board left a unexpended balance of 3,288.31 in the fund after transfers including 4,590 for legal services and 3,190 for the city dispensary operation. Additional appropriations covered zoning maps, salary increases for the auditor, and other routine items.
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Board of Apportionment and Taxation
Wight
John A. Laverty
Tax Board
Richard H. Murphy
William Burnham
Anker S. Lyhne
Commission
Lacey R Blackman
Daniel J. Clifford
Alfred W. Burdick
George S. Hill
Mr. AI
Ripper
A. L. DeLaney
Boar
Health Department
Behrens
Zoning Commission
Sanborn
Common Council
Cty
John Nelson
Force Ambassador to Sign Document in Berlin Riot
Berlin crowd injures and forces the Chinese ambassador to pledge in a public document that no munition purchases or loans damaging to China will be undertaken in Germany. General Halle criticized. Hesner suspected of anti uprising plans. Ambassador’s pledge relayed to German government and press. In Constantinople, Sheik Said and 21 Kurds hanged for participating in the Kurdish insurrection.
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Berlin
Paris
Germany
Halle
Gene Hesner
China
Constantinople
Djarbekir
Sheik Said
Wera Hangeil- Said
Neu
Library Row Ends with Bond Issuance Ordered
The report states the library project ends in a bond issue after council action. The new site cost $145,000, with funding approved to proceed. This marks the completion of the relocation plan and financing steps for the library project.
Library board bonds approved for city central library
Bridgeport Common Council ordered 115090 in bonds for a new central library after reviewing the board’s financial data. The council adopted a resolution urging the board to avoid costly mistakes, noting a prior purchase of properties as potentially wasteful and recommending competitive bids for construction.
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Library Board
Common Council
John J. Farmer
Bridgeport
City National Bank
Franklin and Sturdevant
Main and
John Streets
Ciy
Healy questions authority of eclectic board in Connecticut
Hartford June 29 Attorney General Frank E Healy says the Eclectic Medical Examining Board cannot demand the revoked licenses of fifty five physicians or act beyond its legal authority The State Health Council will reconvene in August and decide on the board s demand amid uncertainties about legal action and the Grand Jury findings. Selamographs from Bendandi in Faenza foresee a period of intense seismic activity with predicted shocks worldwide around July 5.
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Hartford
Eclectic Medical Examining Board
State Council of Health
Frank E. Healy
Flealey
Stanley H. Osborn
Healey
Eclectic Board
Connecticut
Healy
Fairfle
State Health Counci
State Health Council
Osborn
Acton
Opinew Nfhe
Rome
Bendandi
Faenza
Hendandi
Naugatuck Voters Defeat City Manager Plan
NAUGATUCK June 25 AP Naugatuck voters rejected the proposition to place the borough under a city manager system. Total ballots were 2,529 with 1,592 against and 937 for the plan, a 695 vote margin in opposition.
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Naugatuck
French Finance Minister Moves to Cut Offices
June report from Cail aux shows the finance minister summoning department heads to cut costs. He has shut 160 registration offices deemed unnecessary and notified 134 more that will be suppressed soon. The first article, backed by premier and finance minister, concentrates power in their hands.
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Cailaux
Earthquake hits Santa Barbara calm mends city effort
Disaster leaves Santa Barbara with fires and wreckage but residents remain calm. Government geologists survey quake zones as Ridgefield and Bridgeport news circulate about bonds, public purchases, and local governmental actions amid relief and rebuild plans.
Smith Attacks Coolidge on Retrenchment Claim
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York challenged President Coolidge's retrenchment claim, citing a June 22 speech and a total federal reduction figure of 2 081000000. Smith said war-related expenditures end and war-time needs fade, leaving only 198410000 in other war items and undisclosed reductions across departments.
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New York
Poland Spring
Maine
Coolidge
Alfred E. Smith
Conference of Governors
Smith
Oll
Colonel Coolidge Out of Danger, Allies Say
Plymouth, VI June 2 AP Steadily gaining ground in an uphill battle for life Colonel John Coolidge the president's father aged 8 was resting comfortably tonight apparently out of danger. Throughout the day and night the President and Mrs Coolidge who rushed here yesterday remained within call encouraged by physicians that the danger had passed though age heart trouble and other infirmities left possible complications. It would be at least 24 hours before he would be clear and the emergency bladder operation performed yesterday could recur. The president relieved pressed on with pleas.
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Plymouth
John Coolidge
Cooldga
Swampcfort
Erlalay
Tiwan
Quake Threats Rise Across the West Within 48 Hours
Seismologists from the University of Chicago warn that a sequence of earthquakes linked to Rockies tremors may strike within two days, with potential recurrence along fault lines from Montana to California and a notable landslide near Gros Ventre River creating a natural lake.
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Ghicado
Montana
California
University of Chicago
Santa Barbara
Pacific Coast
Rowland T. Chamberlain
University
Rockies
San Callatin County
Gros Ventres
Wroaming
Chambretlain
North
South America
Chamberlain
Earthquake Devastates Santa Barbara Center
A powerful double quake struck Santa Barbara in minutes, reducing many buildings to ruins. Casualties are uncertain with initial estimates ranging up to 6,000, and city leaders report several prominent figures feared buried in the debris. Rescue efforts continue as utilities and transportation collapse complicate recovery.
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Santa
Barbar Calif
Itg
Santa Barbara
Rainell
Santa Barbara Earthquake Brings Calm Resolve After Destruction
Santa Barbara Calif June 19 AP The quake left wide losses as ships and guards patrol the business district. Authorities report about a dozen dead and nearly twenty injured. Ambulances move to hospitals as crews clear rubble along State Street in a scene of orderly response and swift emergency action.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Naval
National
State Street
Lightning Strikes Radios Smashing Homes in Greenwich
Two radios were struck by lightning this afternoon in Greenwich causing fires at the homes of William H. Wessels on South Water Street and Mrs. Augusta Hansen. Both fires were extinguished with no property damage. The apparatus was nearly destroyed. In Hartford, architect plans are sought for a Connecticut Agricultural dormitory funded by a General Assembly appropriation.
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Greenwich
William H. Wessels
South Waterstreet
Mra
Augusta Hansen
Hartford
Frederick M. Salmon
Connecticut Agricul
Cars Damaged In Two Crashes On Lafayette and State Streets
Two auto accidents reported yesterday left both cars badly damaged. Charles D Cleveland crashed into an open trolley door at Lafayette and State streets after following a passing car and skidding. Selma M Spit’s auto was struck by a trolley car operated by Mrs Willam G Quaintance on Ra Gacfinid avenue. Neither driver was injured.
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Pice
Charles D. Cleveland
Lafayette
State Streets
R. Willama
Cleveland
Selma M Spit
Hunting Street
Vaa
Willam G. Quaintance
Gacfinid Avenue
California Quakes Not Unexpected
Washington 29. The earthquake at Santa Barbara was not unexpected according to U S Geologic Survey chief Mendenhall. In reports within the last ten years geologists have detected minor shifts in the earth's crust along the range, confirmed by today's tremors.
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Ashington
Santa Barbara
Ww. c. Mendenhall
U. S. Geological Survey
Geological Survey
Man Charged With Assaulting Mother in Hawley
Herald Griffen of Hawley Penn was arrested by police yesterday on a charge of assaulting his mother Mrs John Griffen 2a Jeggerson street. The motive for the argument could not be learned and bonds were furnished.
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Herald Griffen
Hawley
Penn
John Griffen
Jeggerson Street
Geologists To Quake Regions
Washington dispatches two U S Geological Survey experts after tremors felt yesterday and today. Chief Geologist Mendenhall names E F Noble at Valermo Cuff observing. Flo to Santa Barbara. a zoologist will go to Montana to study earth fracture causation of tremors.
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Washington
U. S. Geological Survey
W. C. Mendenhall
E. F Noble
Atcrey
Valvermo
Cuff
Flo
Known Dead in Quare Disasters Near Santa Barbara
List of deceased and injured includes Charles Perkins Treling ton James Angel Patrick Shea Bertram Hancock J Mestiero William Mathews Demitris painter James Starrow H Hassard and three unidentified with two Mexicans among the injured Names also include Henry G Hensey G A Hancock Ruth Allan Laula J Diener Willam Renwick John Girod Leo Stewart and many others It notes the north end of Chief Mountain near Teton National forest likely due to ore racking the area Saturday night
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Ead
Mre
Charles B. Perkins
Trelington
Jaws
James Angel
Patrick Shea
Bertram Hancock
Los Angeles
J. Mestiero
William Mathews
Demitris
James Starrow
H. Hassard
Henry G. Hensey
G. A. Hancock
Ruth Allan HT. Cronin
Laula J. Diener
Seattle
Willam Renwick
John Girod
la Mesa
Calif
Leo Stewart
Lampoc
Henrietta Best
Henry de L. Gedillo
A. BR
Chief Mountain
Teton National Forest
Gres
Jared
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