Governor Templetons Highway Policy Faces Dispatch Test
Hartford March 8 A hearing before the Roads Bridges and Rivers Committee seeks public and legislative sentiment on Connecticut s future highway department control. The bill tests whether one or three highway commissioners will run the department after Bennett leaves July 1. Governor Templeton backs a three member panel but has floated five. Senate Leader Ells introduced the bill as skeleton text to be redrafted for three or one commissioners depending on Tuesday s hearing.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Committee On
Senate
James H. MacDonald
Ryan
Ridgefield
State Highways Department
Templeton
Highway Department
Bennett
Arthur S. Ells
House
Huse
Atiis
MacDonald
Baldwin
Mr. Bennett
Trederick
Lord
New Haven
Mrs Buzzi Freed After Crowd Overflows Bronx Court
Anna Buzzi, a divorcee, was paroled on $5,000 bail after ten days in custody over the murder of her lover Frederick Schneider. Police reserves kept the Bronx County court crowd in check as Judge Gibb granted release amid unclear evidence. The district attorney declined to present to the grand jury and accepted a bail reduction from $25,000.
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New York
Anna Buzzi
Wrederick Sehneider
Bronx
Bronx County Court
Buzzi
Gibb
Harllar
Glennon
New Revolution Reported Plan of Anti Bolsheviks
Moscow wires report Geneval Gregorie Senenof, once commander in chief of all the Tussigh armies and a Bolshevik foe in Siberia, is preparing a counter revolution in the far East. White remnants in Korea have reinstalled Simenoff as their leader and he plans to move toward Northern Sakhalin.
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Moscow
Matoh
Bambino and Mike McNally Arrive for Spring Training
New Gualians Mark Buabe and Mike McNally join Colonel Huston and part owner of the New York Americans in Hot Springs for spring training. McNally and Huston travel to join the Yan squad as preparations begin.
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New Gualians
Mark—Buabe
Mike McNally
Colonel J
Ll. Huston
New York Americans
Hot Springs
Yan“eg
Nationwide search for unrecognized musical genius announced
New York promoters launch a nation wide contest for unseen composers and hidden talent for vocalists and instrumentalists. Winning scores will be performed by the New York Philharmonic at stadium concerts with possible cash award or publication. Submissions due May 1 with nom de plume and sealed envelope containing real name.
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Charles *Guggenheim
New York
College of the City of New York
New York Philharmonic
Philharmonic
Adolph Lewlyohn
Charlies S. Guggenheimer
America
William Cowen
Fisk
Prohibition era probes and state politics in Danbury area
Distinct items include deaths from gas fumes and a sergeant loss, a gubernatorial honor for Templeton, and a push for a 104 acre purchase in Redding for Gen Putnam era site. Reports note a Westport town court bill, a New Haven fire loss of 25 900, abolishing county commissions in CT, and a pending highway program. Also mentions a national talent search, league court power, and Providence fire.
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Ulale
Redding
Putnam
Westport
New Haven Hat & Cap Co
Connecticut
Legislative Judiciary Committee
Fire losses totaling twenty five thousand in Elm City building
A four story brick structure in New Taven caught fire causing about 25 000 in damage. Origin unknown, starting in the Newhaven Hat and Cap Company plant on the top floor. The Bradly and Scoville stationery stock suffered about 15000 in ruined office supplies.
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New Taven
Newhaven Hat & Cap Company
Bradley and Scoville, Bationers
Fire Tears Through Shepard Stores in Providence
Providence R I Mar 8 Damage estimated at over 1 million by insurers from a fire at the Shepard Stores in the heart of the business district. Four alarms sent every available engine to the scene as flames swept the sixth floor before midnight and the blaze was brought under control.
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Providence
R. 1
Shepard
March Weather The Latest Forecast From The Weather Bureau
Winter weather prophets resist belief that March will turn warm as forecasts show clear skies and rising temperatures. The Weather Bureau predicts fair conditions today with a small temperature uptick tonight or Saturday. Temperatures rose across New England and along the Atlantic coast after a storm swept from Texas to Maine, leaving the day with a 22 to 26 degree range and a springlike feel aided by a bright moon.
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Arctic
Weather Bureau
New England States
Atlantic Coast
Texas
Maine
State to lay new concrete surface on Stratford Ave
State Highway department will start repairs and lay a concrete surface on Stratford Avenue from the Bridgeport Stratford line to Hard's corner in Stratford as soon as weather permits. Commissioner Bennett told Senator Challenger and Stratford representatives that the route, a main path to New Haven, is heavily traveled in summer and Yale football season and has long needed attention. The plan calls for concrete road work to continue.
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Hartford
March
State Highway Department
Stratford Avenus
Bridgeport-Stratford
Hard's Corner
Stratford
Charles J. Bennett
Howard &. Challenger
Bridgeport
Charles I. Wheeler
Helen Lewis
Challenger
Bennett
ET Bennett
New Maven
Yale
General O'Ryan Named Special Counsel to Probe Veterans Bureau
Major General John F. O'Ryan of New York is appointed special counsel for the Senate committee investigating the Veterans Bureau. He gains absolute freedom to begin a preliminary inquiry, gather records, and assess hospital conditions with recommendations. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines ensures bureau cooperation.
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Washington
John F.o'ryan
New York
National Guard
Guérneas
Senate
Veterans’ Bureau
O’ryan
Frank T. Hines
Bureau
O'Ryan
Hinea
Thes Bureau
Conmandara
Derby Bills Move to State Senate
Two bills of local interest cleared the Hartford House and head to the Senate. One authorizes Ansonia to issue 200000 in improvement bonds, the other raises the assistant city clerk’s salary from 250 to 450 annually. Senate action is expected this week.
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Derby
Hartford
Senate
Ansonia
House
Train Found After All Day Boston and Maine Search
A passenger train, the Provincial Express from St John New Brunswick to Boston, was found after a daylong hunt by Boston and Maine officials. Delayed by a blizzard, it reached Vanceboro Maine at 8:22 AM and was continuing to Boston after expected arrival at 9:10 AM.
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Blarch
Boston and Maine Railroad
Wag
Boston
St. John
N. B
Railraas Company
Port
New Brunswick
Vanceboro
Maine
Senator Johnson Attacks Court of International Justice Move
New York March 8 Senator Johnson Republican of California blasted President Harding’s proposal for U S membership in the permanent Court of International Justice as a false step toward League of Nations entry. He told the Bronx Board of Trade the drive to join European affairs rests on flawed logic and dangerous propaganda.
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New York
Harding
United States
Permanent Court of International Justice
Johnson
Repubblican
California
Senate
League of Nations
Bronx
Europe
Dulces
Laborites dine with king at Lady Astor's home in knee breeches
In London on March 3, Labor MPs visited Lady Astor's house for an official dinner with the King and Queen. Notable figures included Viscount Astor, Henry Jomas, John Robert Jynes, Philip Snowden, and others. The scene featured banter about knee breeches and stockings as part of a ceremonial gathering. A separate City Hall committee session addressed damages claims from icy sidewalk falls in the major port area.
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France
de_clares
British Laboritea
Lady Astor'y House
Baldwin
England
U. S
Fkastern Malleablg Iron Co
Connecticut
Blair
London
Associated Press
Lady Astor's
Viscount
Lady Astor
Henry Jomas
National
Railwaymen
John Robert Jynes
National Union of General Worker
Philip Snowden
Balfour
Salisbury
Grey
Sallodon
Labor Party
Astor
Investigation of charges asked by Prohibition men
Federal and state officials moved to probe claims by Homer Cummings that government officials aided liquor shipments. U S District Attorney Cohen said a right probe would examine the basis of the accusations to determine if federal action is warranted. Cummings promised corroboration for possible prosecution.
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Prohibition
Fairfield County
Homer S. Cummings
Dirigibus
Homer
Edward Dirigibua
Norwalk
Harry Mackenzie
Prohibion
James Wheeler
Hartfor
Cummings
Wheeler
Hartford
United States
George H. Cohen
Homer 8. Cummings
Detective Burns Dies After Prolonged Illness
Detective Sergeant John A Burnes of the Bridgeport Police Department died yesterday at St. Vincent's hospital after months of ill health. He joined the force as a patrolman on April 1 1918 and was promoted to detective later. Survived by two brothers two nieces and a nephew, the funeral will be Monday at 9:30 from and 10 a.m. mass at St Augustine's. Burial in St Michael's Cemetery.
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John A. Burns
Danbury Wonan
Tiedera Prohibition
Frank Virelli
Templeton
John A Burnes
Bridgeport
Themaa Jr
Charles A. Burns
Mias
Jane Gilroy
D. J. Morrissey
Wilfred Gilroy
Miss Rager
Burns
Parallel Street
St. Augustine's Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Scout Exhibition At Barnum Center Tonight
The Barnum recreation center hosts a Scout exhibition under Winchester Junior Rifle Corporation of New Haven. Two moving pictures will be shown. Speed signaling will be demonstrated by the Vandekleft brothers, with performances by Lea and Henry Tipion of Troop 27 Rage Scouts.
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Barnum Recreation Center
Winchester Junior Rifle Corporation of
New Haven
Vandekleft Brothers
Lea
Henry TiliPion
The
Rage
Scous
British Protest Over Ruhr Encirclement Moves
Brussels dispatch reports forty Belgian communists arrested for plotting strikes to oppose the Ruhr occupation. Evidence suggests the movement was directed from Berlin with Belgian and German links. Warranted arrests target plotting against the state, amid French and British protests over Rhine area actions.
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Ruhr
Germany
Brussels
Associated Press
Berlin
Democratic Club Rebukes Assembly Over Challenger Bill
The Eighth District Democratic Club on Main Street Bridgeport unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the General Assembly for changing the city charter via the Challenger Bill. The group said the action deprived Bridgeport of control over its government branches and was taken without public hearings or notice to the administration.
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Eighth District
Democratic Club
Main Street
Thomas Doherty
General Assembly
Alty
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Fighth District Democratic Club
Policy of Damning Railroads Declared Not Legally Valid
Judge Jacob Trieber declared in federal court that the principle of “Damn the railroads” does not apply in court and reduced the St. Louis and Southwestern railroad assessment in an Arkansas improvement district from 76000 to 10009. He contrasted railroad and public views, noting politicians seek railroads to shape laws, taxes, and wages.
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Little Hock
Ark
Jacob Trieber
United States
St. Louis and Southwestern
Arkansas
Trieber
Lusi
Net railroad earnings twice those of year ago
Washington March 8 The commerce commission tabulations show January net earnings at 9,664,700 up from 29,486 last year. The Association of Railway Executives notes the earnings yield 5.54 percent on property investment in transportation service.
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Washington
State Commerce Commission
Nobel Prize winner Van Der Waals dies in Amsterdam
The death was announced today of Prof. Van Der Waals, Nobel prize in physics in 1910. He chaired at Amsterdam University, member of the Institute of France, and honorary at the Royal Institute of Great Britain.
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Amsterdam
van der Waals
Institute of France
Royal Institute of Great Britain
Danbury Woman Dead and Daughter Gas Victim
A Danbury woman, Mrs. Nanc Coones, 58, died and her daughter Mrs. Anna H. Dejo, 57, was in critical condition from lethal fumes leaking from an open stove cock in the Cooper home on Taina Track avenue. Friends and a carpenter entered the house after failed phone calls and found the mother face down by the range and the daughter unconscious in her second floor bedroom.
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Danbury, Mareh
Nanc
Coones
Anna H. Dejo
Danbury Hospital
Cooper Homestead
Taina
Rack Avenue
Cooper
Supreme Court weighs attack on gasoline pump contracts
Four FTC cases against Sinclair Refining Standard Oil Gulf Refining and Maloney Oil challenge dealer contracts requiring retailers to use only their pumps and tanks. The commission argues these agreements restrain competition by blocking dealers from using rival products and services nationwide.
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Washington
Merch
Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
Sinclair Refining Company
Standard Ol Company of
New Jersey
Gulf Refining Company
Maloney Ol Manufacturing Company
Commission
United States
Ratallord
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