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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1928

Page

6

Waterbury Blaze Blames Two For Deaths In Fire

Waterbury Coroner finds Louis Leopold and Morris Shelnitz criminally responsible for the Baldwin street fire that killed John and Joseph Monghan. The case centers on an agreed plan and a gasoline sprinkling before an explosion.

GROYS Waterbury Waterbury. Com Oroner John T. Morani Louis N. ¢ Swmopold Waterbury Warniture Company Morris Sher New Haven Baldwin Street John Joseph Monghan Leopold Monzant Hia Sum Sheln'tz Yim Samuel Weis Jacob

Common Pleas Court Opens in Stamford Today

Judge Samuel C. Bhaw of the Court of Common Pleas will open a two weeks session in Stamford today with a docket near 50 cases to dispose of. Edmund Yard, an assistant clerk of the court, will handle clerical work for the session.

Samuel C. Bhaw Court of Common Pleas Stamford Edmund Yard

Fire Chiefs Push New Basis for Loss Ratings

Massachusetts fire chiefs press change to per capita loss ratings used by insurers. They seek sworn detailed reports from adjusters on each item and require notification to fire departments of salvage proceeds, aiming to align awards with actual losses and curb excessive insurance payouts.

Daniel Jounspy Merccantire Massachusetts Fire Chiefs of National Board of Fire Underwaters Commission of Insurances Ingtrale Fire Department

Loss of pin led to youths death at Mack Truck yard

Coroner told of an industrial accident at 3250 Fairfield Avenue where John B. McGirr Jr. was crushed when a two ton dump body dropped two inches during repairs. A sheared clevis pin in a pulley held the load, causing the frame to tilt and the chain to slip off. Police and Mack Service Station officials testified at the inquest.

John B. McGirir, Jr Elsworth Street Xerview Mack Motor Truck Company Fairefield Avenue McGirr John E. McGirr John J. Phelan Charles Birmingham Washington Avenue Birmingham George E. Taylor Boston Mack

Two Divorce Filings Reported in Superior Court

Two petitions for divorce were filed in Superior court yesterday. One involves Lewis Spisak of this city claiming his wife Elizabeth Szeman Spisak deserted him on October 27, 1917 after a May 17 1917 marriage. The other, Grace T. Robertson of Greenwich seeks divorce from Thomas D. Robertson of Montclair New Jersey, alleging desertion a year after their December 22 1922 marriage and asks for a name change to Trimble.

Lewis Spisak Elizabeth Szeman Spisak Fairfield Trimble Grace T. Robertson Greenwich Thomas D. Robertson Montclair N. J

Declarer’s Plan of Campaign in No Trump Auction Bridge

A chessboard style lesson shows how to exploit a No Trump hand to obtain the missing three tricks. The declarer uses two entries via Dummy’s Ace of Clubs and Queen of Hearts, managing to force Dummy to win with Hearts and Diamonds to enable running Diamonds. The key is exhausting the Closed Hand’s Ace of Diamonds while keeping two dummy entries.

Declarer Dummy

Governor urges parley to end soft coal strike

Harrisburg Pa March 14 A conference of representatives from all major producing states labor operators federal and state authorities was urged by Governor Fisher to settle the soft coal strike The governor said he did not believe an impossible plan exists to cover the wage structure and related problems hindering production and distribution

Harrigburg Associated Press i Ijluminous Operatora Jubge Authority Canareas Executive Department Pisher

Congressman Hale to Speak at Wesleyan Parley

Congressman Hale accepted an invitation to speak at a war parley to be held at Wesleyan University on March 29 and 30. Invitations have gone to forty-one colleges in the eastern part of the country. Delegations and representatives are expected to attend from the area and from New Hampshire.

Wesleyan University Middletown Fletcher Hole New Hampshire

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