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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1925
Page
4
London readers confront a debate on upper class morals as hypocrisy and decay flood journals. Prominent writers argue divorce, infidelity, and social scandals reflect broader corruption rooted in late imperial society and its privileged circles.
Sparse readable text mentions multiple meeting places including Pioneer lodge and Panity church and a few names. Fragmentary references to times and streets suggest local gatherings or church group meetings this evening.
The state legislature presses toward early adjournment as the Appropriations committee begins evening star chamber sessions to handle hundreds of bills. Several minor committees have held night sessions, with the first Appropriations session set for Tuesday night and the duration of these executive activities unclear.
Across New England heavy rains inundate towns from Concord to White River Junction causing rail suspensions on the Boston and Maine main line and washouts on secondary routes. Floods prompt building damage in Manchester with a mercantile block collapse and widespread rising rivers in White River Junction and Plattsburgh region, threatening further incidents.
The article notes a child dubbed the world's richest baby attending Paris races amid health concerns. Reports claim the infant, linked to distant wealth, had been expected to undergo an appendicitis operation, but an update indicates recovery and readiness for the afternoon events.
The jury found divisions within the church over denominational practices created internal strife. It noted four groups involved and a reform effort centered on pastor leadership and shared sessions.
The defense contends Shean murdered Skelly while Stuyvesant alias Clarke Guiler faced earlier charges. Judge Groehl cites evidence linking Stuyvesant to Shean with a Lincoln touring car and the Old Solong Inn. Witnesses identify Stuyvesant and Shean at different points, while Chapman’s involvement shifts with evolving testimony and alibi claims.
Danbury residents Walhout Carney and George ten nett were arrested by Ridgetell barracks officers on a Red ding burglary case. Howard of Red fing home was broken into last week. valuables including a phonograph and several articles were reported stolen. Gennett and Cure are to appear in Redding court.
President and Mrs. Coolidge along with their son John sail aboard the Mayflower near Washington after a two day cruise that carried them close to Norfolk. The President plans to leave the yacht in the morning as one of his longest trips since Congress convened last winter.
Hartford March 29 Gerald Chapman spent the day in Wethersfield Prison reading Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim aloud to himself while 12 of the 298 jurors considered his fate aboard the trial. The report notes the novelist’s mind and Chapman's own intense focus as he weighs the case.
In Germany voters showed calm in a third national election within eleven months amid apathy and scattered clashes in Berlin between nationalist and communist groups. Jarres led early returns as Germany awaited the April 24 presidential election. Ludendorff declined to vote, others voted briskly, while Potsdam residents showed indifference to the new Republic.
Berlin reports a defect in the German election law with no candidate achieving a majority in the first vote. The constitution requires a second election where the plurality winner is chosen, possibly upcoming in April.
Last night radio reception was clear with minor interference from howling receivers. A music rich evening featured WNYC New York airing near continuous music from the Mary Strand Theatre of Brooklyn. Listeners likely heard the series Reminiscences of a Reporter, a talk about public figures, through the station wit.
A Bridgeport man Anthony Grochowski and another, Williams, were in an early morning Noroton crash that killed Grochowski and injured him severely while Williams escaped. Grochowski, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., worked for U M C in Bridgeport as Williams drove to New York after a Bridgeport visit. The car struck a telephone pole, wrecking the vehicle and moving the pole from its earth. Williams reported the axle bent and speed between 15 and 20 mph.
New York March 29 Lois Meredith the motion picture star denies being the American woman alleged to sue Col Dennistoun for breach of promise. She says no such suit exists and attorney Malone has no authorization to file one in her name. Meredith, who has kept silent, declines to name her lawyers and has spent years abroad.
J A Loomis of Wallingford is dying at the Central hotel from a claimed heart break with pneumonia. Police searched statewide for his wife Eula and two sons Crawford and Stanwiech, while a Bridgeport woman named Mia Ella Toomis denied being Loomis’s wife. Doctors say only the wife and sons can save him, if they arrive before death.
Forbes, tied to a Veterans' Bureau inquiry and appealing for a new trial related to his conviction, was stricken with paralysis on eve of leaving for Chicago where he planned to present the appeal. Colonel Parkes had been sentenced to two years with 40 days to prepare his case for a potential new trial as friends reported readiness.
Sebring Florida March 2 fear that Captain R. A. Smith and Th. Yr Lott aerial photographers of New York were lost in the Everglades. Word from the men’s base said they left Saturday morning for a one day trip to photograph drainage maps and were not heard from by Saturday night. Both were experienced flyers and their safety was of serious concern as no sign of them had been reported in the Everglades.
Hartford dispatches report New York Boston and Boston papers send 60 000 words nightly on the Chapman trial. An extra staff of eight operators rush copy to the newsroom. Senger boys serve during the day in court to speed transmission and delivery.
New York March 23 Dominant athletics in American college life drew criticism from Dr Henry S Pritchett president of the Carnegie foundation in his annual report He urged simplification of overloaded educational machinery and warned that athletics increasingly dominates student life and undermines intellectual aims He argued education should build good citizenship and minds not corporate sports power and money while calling for intellectual sincerity as the guide to progress.
Washington March 2A warning from the Agriculture Department urges better safeguards for muskrat otter raccoon and opossum furs as wild fur in the United States dwindles. It calls for uniform laws and enforcement to regulate open seasons and trapping methods in cooperation with State Conservation and Game commissions.
Two robbers held up Buffalo messenger Howard Young on a Central Express car in Cleveland. They stole less than $2,008 of currency shipped from New York Central remittances. Young aided officials in inventory and was cleared of blame. The robbers demanded more, questioned Young, and fled toward La Porte after slashing packages.
A staged breakout at a penitentiary ends with prisoners using carbon and wire to burn through a metal ceiling and slide down a rope, wounding guard Bernstein and prompting rapid recapture nearby. O'Leary notes the plan had been known for weeks and the group fled in civilian clothes before a local vehicle drove away.
Four thousand persons attended a League of Times of the West meeting in Mans as a counter to Catholic and nationalist demonstrations. Delegates praised Premier Herriot for pacific, nondenominational policy and democratic ideals amid religious tensions.
A fire at the Grave Marker Plant in Mass damaged the White Markl and Terazzy Company's facility, ruining 1,390 headstones ordered by the United States government for soldiers' graves and injuring machines. The blaze, dated March 29, led to significant equipment loss and raised concerns over Pure Food Laws affecting Baker's Extracts.
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