Auto Industry Faces Blame for Recession Amid Probing Press
Detroit May 4 The auto industry resents being the prime target as the nation slides into recession. Executives argue high material and labor costs drive car prices, while dealers sustain service and goodwill. Ward's predicts 1958 production around 4.5 million, the lowest since 1952, with potential rebound in 1959 models.
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Frank Snyder
Detroit
INS
Washington
Ward's Automotive
United Auto Workers
Cac
Alan G. Rude
Universal C.lt. Credit Corp
Rude
800 AT EBC SERVICE BRIDGEPORT MASONS MEET
More than 800 members and officials of Bridgeport Masonic orders attended the 26th annual Masonic worship service at Central High School auditorium. The Rev. Albert W. Sheckells pastor of First Baptist Church delivered the sermon titled Keeping Sane in a Crazy World. Ralph Wells directed arrangements.
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Bridgeport
Masonic Orders
Central High School
Everyman's Bible Class
Organization of Bridgeport
Albert W. Sheckells
First Baptist Church
Ralph Wells
House Action Urged On Labor Legislation
Secretary of Labor Mitchell and Senator Mundt urged the House to act on labor union cleanup legislation while the Senate studies the bills. Mundt warned House delay until Senate action risks futility, as Senate leaders promise a significant bill before adjournment. Mitchell welcomed renewed hearings by a Kennedy-led Senate subcommittee aiming to report a bill by June 10 for Senate consideration.
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Washington
Mitchell
Karl Mundt
R-Sd
House
Senate Labor
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Senate
Yankee ship voyage ends with sale to Reed Whitney
The Yankee, captained by Johnson, finishes global cruises and is sold to Reed Whitney of Wilmette. The crew included Johnson’s wife, son Robert, cook Victor Nelson, mate Edward Crosby, and Dr Strahan. Whitney plans to continue 18 month trips for paying passengers at $5,000 each, with Johnson and wife planning four years cruising in Europe and the Mediterranean in a new 48 foot ketch built in Holland.
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New Guinea
Johnson
Captain Johnson
Etecta Search
Rochester
N.Y. T
Robert Parkin Johnson
Victor Nelson
Royal Oak
Mich
Edward Crosby
Osterville
Mass
Strahan
Tohlete
Yankee
Reed Whitney
Wilmette, NL
Navy
Gloucester
Mediterranean
Holland
Junior Achievement Awards Luncheon Today
The sixth annual Junior Achievement Awards luncheon will be held at noon in the Bridgeport Brass Foundation Community Center. Nearly 900 teens and adults are expected for inspiring remarks by Arthur Hull Hayes and the presentation of awards and scholarships to outstanding JA members. Kenneth E. Raine will preside with Richard P. Vacco as toastmaster, and the event is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers Association. A new airline service offers Belfast to New York via Reykjavik for 252 dollars.
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Bridgeport Brass Foundation
Tuassecmey Gorey Newell Eseee
Arthur Hull Hayes
CBS Radio
Loon
Kenneth E. Raine
Junior Achievement
Western
Connecticut
Richard P. Vacco
Central High School
Dialio Products
Southern New England Telephone Company
Chamber of Commerce
The
Manufacturers Association
Bridgeport Strike Over GE Job Sparks Picket Action
Local 203 protests a renovation contract awarded to Gellatly by GE. Pickets will march 6:30 to 7:00 a.m. as workers pass lines. union claims 2,500 production employees could be reassigned and denounces the deal as unfair. NLRB probes, GE cites lack of eligible workers and aims to keep Bridgeport plants competitive.
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Santosanni
Gellatly
Geltof
Santeianni
Rew
Louis J. Santoianni
International Union For Electrical Workers
Ad “Naloney
Lan
Bridgeport
Santoianni
SS. Santojanni
Newtown Borough Election Tomorrow Amid Nonpartisan Race
May 4 Newtown borough voters prepare for the annual election at Edmond Town Hall from 2 to 8 pm. Warrants burgesses and borough officers will be chosen and the evening business meeting will follow at 8 pm in the Alexandria room. The town is among the state’s oldest boroughs with a long local history.
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Warurn
Borough
Alexandria
General Assembly
Newtown
UE Spurring Drive for Union Election in Bridgeport
Williams of the NLRB says a vote will be held soon if no objections arise from unions or the company. If objections occur a formal hearing will occur and evidence sent to Washington for a decision. Williams believes the UE will win a bargaining election as Columbia Records employees grow dissatisfied with the UE’s actions in recent years.
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Williams
NLRB
Washington
New York City
Columbia Records
Bridgeport
CIO
Gunman slain at roadblock ends Brookings kidnapping
A gunman Henry Thomas Hill shot at Brookings officers at a roadblock while using his 16 year old girlfriend as shield. He killed two highway youths and abducted four Brookings residents for a car theft. Hill, paroled from San Quentin in 1948, was killed when he refused capture and fired two shots. The girl and four hostages escaped unharmed.
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Associated Press
Henry Thomas Hill
Cola Beach
Ore
Hill
Carpenterville
George Haines
Dave Tambeck
George Sullivan
Chris Jensen
Haines
Brookings
Orc
Glenn Sabin
California
San Quentin
White
Sabin
Deorethy Louise Decker
Lynwood
Calif
Pat Sims
Sims
Brooklings
Here
San Francisco
Britain
France
Moscow
Gromyko
Ideals of Poland honored at St Michael's service
Polish and local leaders joined a special Mass at St Michael's church for deceased Polish members. Rev Bronislaus Hajowski from Wyry Poland attended after arriving in the U S last week. The service included a recitation and folk dancing by local children as ward authority kept watch. Lleras expressed hope for U S aid to boost coffee exports and development machinery amid competition.
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Dona Radzimirska
St. Michael’s School
Falcon's Nest
Stanley Bialy
Joseph C. Stanczyk
Clement Kichuk
Blanco Szymanski
Frank Zielinski
Frank Lachowicz
Senate Set For Big Battle On Jobless Pay
Senate postures for a broad unemployment payment bill, likely to win Republican backing. Senator Byrd says House plan is voluntary and inadequate, with benefits lasting up to 30 weeks in some states. He urges a more extensive extension, proposing longer duration beyond 30 weeks. The House plan, urged by Eisenhower, adds 13 weeks.
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Senate
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Douglas
House
Republican Platform Committee Public Hearing Tonight
The first public hearing by the Republican Platform Research Committee is tonight at 7:30 in the Elks auditorium 65 South Main Street South Norwalk. Rep Fred Pope Jr majority leader of the State House of Representatives and committee chairman will preside. The public from all affiliations may attend and share views on topics for potential planks in the state platform.
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Republican Platform Research’ ‘Committee
Elks Auditorium
South Main Street
South
Norwalk
Fred Pope, Jr
Fairfield
State House of Representatives
Turnpike Project Targets July 4 For Milford Road Work
Landscaping near Milford Stratford Fairfield and Bridgeport pike sections is in early stages with July 4 as the target completion date. Contractor Amidon says viaduct work should progress more quickly, though some parking and concrete finishing on the bridge may remain. A plan set last winter aimed for January 1, 1948 completion overall, but strikes and weather delays slowed multiple projects, delaying pours into mid-December to avoid extreme cold.
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Milford Stratford
Fairfield
Bridgeport
Amidon
Lleras Elected Colombia Chief After Turbulent Campaign
Lleras wins Colombia presidency amid peace after years of bickering. Leyva, in exile in New York since 1953, accuses the junta of backing Lleras and alleges his own campaign lacked media time. Government broadcast urges calm as guards atop heavy security watch for repeats of last Friday’s kidnapping by seditionists during a brief abortive revolt.
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Colombia
Leyva
New York
Lieras
Lleras
Woman physicist to speak on IGY at CGO meeting
Miss Virginia Withington of Yale physics will address the Catholic Graduates Organization of Greater Bridgeport on the International Geophysics Year. Her talk titled Laboratory The World starts at 8 30 p m in the Catholic Community House with a social hour to follow.
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Thomas Lee
The
Potomac
Eisenhower
Pratt Thomas
Columbus
Miss
Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation
Gettysburg
Virginia
Stratford
Washington
White House
Virginia Withington
Yale University
Catholic Graduates’ Organization
CGO
Greater Bridge-port
Park and
Waldemere Avenues
Miss Withington
Vassar College
U.S. Navy Reserve
Arctic
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Kollsman Company
Sikorsky Aircraft Division
United Aircraft Corporation
Frank W. Cummiskey
Graduate Newman Club
Columbia’ University
Catholic Graduates’ Club of
Hartford
Catholic Graduates‘ Club of
New Haven
Catholic Action
CYO
Special Cops to Meet in Duke of Abruzzi Hall
The Bridgeport Special Policemen's Association holds its regular meeting tonight at 7 o'clock in the Duke of Abruzzi Hall located at 75 Hurd Avenue.
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Bridgeport Special Policemen’ S Association
Duke of Abruzzi Hall
Hurd Avenue
Hartford Parley Backs Polish Freedom Drive
About 1000 members of the District of Connecticut Polish American Congress met at Bushnell Memorial to repudiate the Polish communist regime and press for full Polish freedom. Delegates from 278 Polish societies marked the 167th anniversary of Poland’s May 3 1791 constitution and urged economic aid, caution on Cold War concessions, restraint on nuclear testing, and reaffirmation of self determination for all nations.
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Hartford
Conn
District of
United States
RINGS FOR MARRIED MEN SPLIT STUDENT VOTES
A USC marriage class poll shows most students favor wedding rings for married men including two thirds of men and all but one single woman. A married woman opposed rings, saying they signal being hen pecked and prefer independent partners.
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Los Aingeles
University of Southern California
Loyalty Day Parade Held in Danbury Connecticut
The Loyalty Day parade covered a three mile route from Triangle and South streets through Main Street to Wooster Square and back along White and Wildman. Prizes were awarded at Lee's Field. Miss Christine Heim led the event under steady rain with many units from Connecticut and neighboring states, assisted by Danbury police and state emergency services.
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Connecticut
Triangle
South Streets
Main Street
Wooster Square
White Street
Wildman Pehtab
VFW
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Christine Heim
Danbury
Danbury Police Department, Under Chief J. Howard McGoldrick
Fire Police
Aux
Triangle Street
Red Cross
Jewish War Veterans Organization
Washington, D. C
American Legion
Ridgewood Country Club
Road work slated for New Fairfield roads
Hartford May 4 Bituminous surface treatment of state highways will begin this week weather permitting State Highway Commissioner Newman E Aggraves today listed routes for first work 3 8 miles of Route 37 in New Fairfield from the Sherman town line southerly 2 2 miles of Route 17A in New Fairfield from Route 39 to the Danbury town line 4 4 miles of Route 39 two sections also in New Fairfield from Route 39 westerly and from the Sherman town line easterly
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Hartford
Newman E ‘Argraves
New Fairfield
Sherman Town
Danbury
Maher Discharged From Hospital After Fall Injuries
Adrian W. Maher of 1087 West Broadway Stratford was released from Bridgeport hospital after a week of treatment for fractures of both elbows, suffered when he fell in a Stratford business parking lot last Sunday. He is a member of the Bridgeport law firm Maher and Maher and has served as Stratford Town court prosecutor, Democratic State chairman, and from 1945 to 1953 as U S attorney for Connecticut.
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Adrian W. Maher
West Broadway
Stratford
Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport
Maher and Maher
U. 5
Connecticut
Rock Roll Riot Flares As Street Fights Roil Roxbury
After arena fights police break up disturbances, gangs roam Roxbury and Back Bay stabbing, beating, and robbing. A 25 man all male group in motorcycle jackets and pink coats attacked three men and robbed them. Two teens assaulted a woman in Dudley Street subway, slashing her arms and stealing her pocketbook. A Roxbury gang beat another man and stabbed one in an attempted robbery. Show set for New Haven Arena next Thursday. officials yet to decide on extra precautions.
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Roxbury
Back Bay
Dudley Street
New Haven, Conn
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