Teachers to Be Excluded In New List
A notice indicates teachers to be excluded in a new list with an admission reprimand noted as severe.
25 May 1923
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
1
A notice indicates teachers to be excluded in a new list with an admission reprimand noted as severe.
Monday night a three vote majority was needed to drop three teachers from the payroll. Kiely Mallon and McAndrew faced possible reappointment tabling amid protests by the Teachers Association. In Paris Premier Poincare offered resignations after a Senate vote on communists, but President Millerand declined to accept them.
Hartford May 24 report shows rural influence in Connecticut schools. Among 200 teachers in seven towns, 30 percent are farmers' daughters and sons, the largest share, with 28 percent children of mechanics and shopworkers and 28 percent children of professionals and businesspeople, 17 percent unclassified.
In Shanghai on May 24 government troops pressed a determined advance against Paomuku bandits to disrupt their communications and forces amid the international issue of foreigners kidnapped from the Shanghai Peking express on May 6.
Jak O Keefe a 16 year old Greenwich resident and Jacat High School sophomore died at Greenwich hospital from spinal meningitis. He recently acted in the high school play and is survived by his parents brothers and a sister. Requiem services will be at St Marys Roman Catholic church with burial in St Marys cemetery.
Stratford board of education approved a 200000 bond for a revised high school project after state authorization for 320000 could not be met. The plans were altered to reduce frontage to 40 feet, drop one floor, switch to fireproof materials, and combine gymnasium and training spaces into a smaller complex.
In Gelsenkirchen and Portmuth clashes leave eight dead or wounded as Communists seize police HQ and a four person policing commission is proposed. In Portmouth strikes widen with more mines, woodworkers, and carpenters joining while unions call for loyalty to the government against Moscow agitators.
May term of the Superior Criminal Court adjourned until the fall term as State Attorney Homer Cummings announced the manslaughter case against Dr Frederick J Adams will await further investigation. The charge stems from an alleged illegal operation related to Martha Helena Wotowicz who died at Bridgeport Hospital.
Hartford May 24 Senate backed pollution measure is under House review. Representative John Buckley proposes tabling to allow amendments or dropping the bill altogether. Buckley favors a strong act or no action, amid disputes over Wheeler’s exclusion from the Water Commission and partisan maneuvering.
Ten defendants led by Matthew F. Griffin and Harold L. Smith were sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the government over a plan to substitute water for whiskey destined for Greece. Griffin received 10 months in Mercer County prison, Smith 1 year and 1 day in Atlanta, and Dr. George Kherilla six months in Atlanta. Other sentences ranged from three to eight months for McTaniney, Simon, Levy, Gottesfeldt, and Kiemman.
A mother Mrs. Mary O Connor aged 94 and her three daughters died after burning leaves ignited gas in a cottage at Mountain Lake Park. The daughters rushed inside to save their mother but perished. Also killed were Miss Kate O Connor and Mr. Jett Grannon and Mrs. Mary Rooney. Two thousand dollars in gold was found hidden in a chimney and turned over to authorities.
Janitor David Appleton sues City of Bridgeport in Common Pleas court claiming the Board of Education voted a $100 yearly raise for school janitors starting April 1, 1922, but the Board of Apportionment refused to appropriate funds. The suit, a test case, cites a 1921 clash over authority between the two boards. Governor Len Small later signed a $54 million Hingis Saidler Bonus appropriation bill in Springfield, Illinois.
Hartford May 24 The Cities and Boroughs committee favored a general zoning enabling act over local zoning bills for Bridgeport Stamford Norwalk and others. A favorable report on the general bill was possible tomorrow with no discussion expected due to lack of quorum.
Man held two years as wife murderer, freed as insane at time of crime. Layom Nagy of Norwalk had first degree murder charges dropped by State's Attorney Homer S. Cummings. After confinement in jails and Middletown insane retreat, Nagy returns to Norwalk to resume life outside.
George Singer received a prison term of three to fifteen years for auto theft. Dorothy A Merritt died from injuries after a bandit raid on a home five months ago. The report details related legal actions and local incidents from the period.
Judge Frank D. Haines sentences George S Singer 34 of 138 Sanford Ave city to State prison on four counts of auto theft. Three counts carry up to five years, one count up to one year. Singer expresses remorse and hopes to reclaim citizenship as court notes empathy for his family. Continuation hinted on page fifteen.
Wallace Irwin’s playful note on the vice presidency appears in The Bridgeport Sunday Post. The Japanese schoolboy Willel the World discusses vices and suppressors with wit, mocking politics and law and reflecting on America’s troubles in a lighthearted column.
Dorothy A. Merritt of 1874 North Avenue died after a bandit battered her skull with a revolver butt during a January 2 jewelry theft at her home. Two men bound her sister Tiina and ransacked drawers, taking a diamond ring and other pieces. Police have no identified suspects.
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