Foremen Halt Move to Enter Struck Plant in Pickett
Foremen attempting to enter the strikebound Underwood plant at Broad and Alien streets were deterred after union warnings. About 15 foremen backed off as mass pickets gathered, with police ready to assist but cautioning risk of injury. Pickets diminished to token by 9 a.m. Heat and water services were shut at the main plant, and two smaller facilities on Gilbert and Bunnell streets followed, as the union refused access to essential maintenance crews. Company blamed union demands. union claimed maintenance workers refused to work. A separate NLRB election plan drew 140 group leaders to seek inclusion in the IUE-CIO bargaining unit.
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Underwood Corporation
Broad and Alien Streets
John Curry
Curry
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
Gilbert and Bunnell
Charles R. Weidman
Tom D. Williams
UE Cio
Underwood
Williams
National Labor Relations Board
Iue-Cio
NLRB
Bridgeport and Vicinity Weather Report
Fair and mild today with a high in the low fifties. Tonight will be fair and not so cold with a low in the mid to upper thirties. Tomorrow partly cloudy and mild with a high 55 to 60. New York City and Long Island Sound details follow with winds southwest, seas slight, visibility good.
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Bridgeport
New York City
Long Island Sound
Bridgeport Chest Drive Falls Short of Goal at 84.2%
NORWALK Nov. 11 Two city councilmen were found innocent of breach of peace charges in City court by Judge Alfred Santaniello after being questioned by police at 3 a.m. Aug. 11. The Bridgeport Community Chest drive ended with $771,615 raised, about $145,329 shy of the $916,944 goal, achieving 84.2 percent of the target. Pledges added at a Stratfield hotel extension meeting brought in $87,865, but this left last year’s receipts well ahead. Chest officials blamed unemployment and tighter economy for the shortfall. future budget cuts will be studied.
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Norwalk
Alfred Santaniello
William Murray
Ferman Cinque Jr
Bridgeport
Stratfield Hotel
Red Feather
Charles H. Abbott
Chest
Azenew
Community Chest
Council
Frauwirth Finds Dump Fire Suspects. Police to Question
Two special policemen at the Wordin avenue dump will be summoned to Police headquarters tomorrow afternoon to be questioned on orders from City court prosecutor Max Frauwirth. The probe concerns three dump fires Tuesday night and yesterday that kept firefighters stationed at the dumping site 22 hours.
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Wordin Avenue
President Possibility for Every Boy Cited in Joke
A brief humorous line asserts that every American boy has a chance to become president as he grows up, framed as a lighthearted observation about opportunities and taking chances. The fragmentary text suggests a general features section and a cartoonish note.
U S. Drafting Note on Red Attack Seeks Calm Tone
The State department drafts a conciliatory note to Russia after last Sunday's Far East clash that cost an American airman life. Officials cite unusual restraint from both sides and study Russia’s proposal to curb future violations using diplomacy.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
U. & Note
Eisenhower
U. S
Soviet Union
United States
Air Force
Georgi Malenkov
Charles E. Bohlen
William Hayter
Ike to dedicate his own museum in Abilene
President Eisenhower returns to his boyhood town Abilene Kansas to dedicate the $325000 Eisenhower Memorial Museum at Veterans Day ceremonies. He arrived from Washington and toured his family home for 75 minutes, the house kept as his mother left it.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmit
Abilene
Kan
Eisenhower
Washingzton
606 County Residents to Become U.S. Citizens Tonight
A mass naturalization ceremony in Klein Memorial auditorium will confer citizenship on 668 percent immigrants. Sponsored by the DAR, with Judge Abraham S. Borden presiding and Mrs. Mary Berger administering the oath. U.S. Senator Prescott Bush will address the assembly. Captain Elmer D. Horstmann will give the invocation.
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U.S
Klein Memorial Auditorium
DAR
Congress
Abraham S. Borden
Hartford
Mary Berger
Superior Court
Prescott Bush
Greenwich
Rudolph Petrak
Name Change Hope After Naturalization in New Haven
In New Haven on Veterans Day, Leon and Marv Unghek, soon to be naturalized, seek to change their surname from Unlucky to Glick. Unclick derives from Polish for bad luck. Glick would mean plain luck, the couple explained.
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New Haven
UCP
Leon
Marv Unghek
Glick
Wide Search For Missing Sisters In West Virginia
National Guardsmen pressed a detailed five mile by one mile search in Ra'teigh county for Irene Agee eight and Mary six who vanished after leaving Egeria school on November 1. The father, Steve Agree, offered a $50 reward for information leading to the girls' recovery dead or alive as temperatures dropped each night.
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Irene Agee
Mary
Egeria
Ra'teigh County
Here
Egeria School
Steve Agree
Reds soften church policy in Soviet decree
Soviet party chiefs ordered Red propagandists to curb insulting attacks on believers and clergy while continuing atheistic promotion. Signed by Nikita Khrushchev and published in Pravda, the decree says measures against religion grew too harsh though religion remains controlled, aiming to protect the honest Soviet citizen under religious influence.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Red
Nikita S. Khrusiechev
Pravda
Russia
West
Peron targets bishops and priests as enemies of government
President Juan D. Peron named three Argentine Roman Catholic bishops and two Italian priests as enemies of the government and warned he would act against clergy involved in illicit activities. He also accused Catholic Action of undermining the Peronist party but said there is no state against church in Argentina.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Catholic
America Honors Fallen Warriors in Veterans Day Observance
The nation paid tribute to veterans of its nine wars with parades and ceremonies. Bridgenort held a city hall green observance with a wreath at the monument and taps at 11 am. Mayor McLevy and the Veterans Day committee joined a 12 pm lunch at the Hitching Post. Bullard company marked the day with 11 o'clock ceremonies and a plant shutdown.
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Bridgenort
City Hall
John Banville
OAV
Veterans’ Day Committee
Mayor McLevy
Hitching Post
Bullard Company
U. S
Water Supply Cut For New Pipe Line Crossing
Water to homes in the Rouster river area near the North avenue bridge will be shut at 6 p.m. tomorrow as Bridgeport Hydraulic completes a new 48-inch pipe line. Dwight H. Hall, vice president and general superintendent, said work will continue through weekend if weather allows. Several streets will lose service for about seven to eight hours to drain the old line before the crossing. Emergency water will be available nearby. Residents are urged to store drinking water.
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North Avenue Bridge
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
Dwight He. Hall
Hall
North Avenue
Bridgeport- Fairfield
Greenfield Avenue
Tunxis Hill Road
Villa Avenue
Rooster River
Clinton Avenue
Briarwood Avenue
Brooklawn Avenue
Renwick Drive
Renwick Place
Dore Circle
McCarthy Censure Debate Sparks Stormy Senate Session
Senator Capehart proposed delaying a censures vote until January while Senator Jackson warned delay would fail. The Senate opened formal debate on rebuking McCarthy for alleged abuse of colleagues and conduct toward the Elections Subcommittee. Watkins led the inquiry. Case reprimanded McCarthy for personal abuse as others pressed to proceed with a direct vote.
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Washington
R-Ind
Senate
McCarthy
Jackson
D-Wash
Ralph W. Zwicker
Committee
Congress
Seniator
Waitkina
Utah
Case
Wisconsin
Knowland
R-Califf
Special Committee
Watkins
Dirksen
Bridges
R-Nh
Four Westport youths escape injury in auto crash
In Westport at 1 a.m. four teenagers were unharmed after the car they rode in left Wilton road near Kings highway and struck five State fence posts. driver Alexander Mack 17 Murray street said a cigarette ash briefly blinded him. Uninjured passengers were Peter Flora 17 and David Flora 15 Main street and Jack Patterson 16 Kings highway. Mack was charged with violating rules of the road and summoned to Town court. The car suffered extensive damage and was towed.
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Westport
Wilton Road
Kings Highway
Alexander W. Mack
Murray Street
George Nugent
Austin McAleenan
Peter Flora
David
Main Street
Jack Patterson
Mack
Teenage Arrested In Hit And Run Crash Norwalk
In Norwalk on November 11, 17 year old John H McArdle of 6 Elm Street was arrested at 1 a.m. for evading responsibility and driving without a license after his car damaged Ted Farcus’s vehicle at Bayview Avenue and Flax Hill Road and fled the scene. He was held on $160 bond and slated for city court arraignment on November 26.
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Norwalk
H McArdle
Elm Street
Ted Farcus
East Avenue
McArdle
Bayview Avenue
Flax Hill Road
McA
Bus Rider Beaten To Death By Racist Crowd
In Detroit on November 11 AP reports a bus passenger was beaten to death by fellow riders who accused him of being a rat. The assailants crowded him as he entered without paying, with the man reportedly hiding behind a heater panel before emerging.
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Detroit
Ine
100 cops linked in New York magic-card traffic scam
Five men including a policeman and an ex cop were held in connection with a magic card traffic ticket evasion racket that police say involved at least 100 motor patrol officers. The Brooklyn district attorney Edward S. Silver announced the case at a news conference attended by Police Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams. The ring extended from New York City to parkways.
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New York
Brooklyn
Edward S. Silver
New York City
Francis W. H. Adams Silver
Westport urged to curb river pollution plan
William S Wise director of the State Water commission urged Westport residents at a civic forum to ensure the town’s plans for a sewage treatment plant move forward. He noted the commission is pressing 37 communities statewide to clean up pollution in the Sangatuck river.
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Westport
Westport Woman's Club
William S. Wise
State Water Commission
Sangatuck
Imperial Avenue
Wise
UAL Weve
Water Commission
John F. Paul Resigns From Norwalk Council Post
Norwalk councilman John F. Paul of 125 Stuart avenue resigned yesterday effective immediately. Elected in November 1953, he quit to accept a position in the Public Works engineering division, in a letter to Mayor Irving Freese.
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Norwalk
John F. Paul
Stuart Avenue
Mee Paul
Irving
Freese
Public Works Department
Veteran Revisits Belleau Woods Shrine Created by Y D
A WWI veteran returns to Belleau Woods near Chateau-Thierry on Armistice Day. He recalls the 26th Yankee Division’s rushed ride into the Second Battle of the Marne and honors the Marines who created the shrine from the wood.
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Belleau Woods
Chateau-Thierry
Marne
The 26th Yankee Division World War I Fame
The 26th Yankee Division gained fame in World War I, formed from Connecticut Rhode Island and Massachusetts units. Connecticut supplied the 102nd Infantry with HQ in New Haven and Bridgeport members, noted for a historic fighting record. In World War II the division drew entirely from Massachusetts with the 12nd staying with the 43rd Infantry Division.
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Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
102Nd Infantry
New Haven
Bridgeport
43Rd Infantry Division
FBI Joins Probe of Woman Slaying in New Canaan
In New Canaan police asked the FBI for help locating Stanley Zdonick 38 of Naugatuck after a murder warrant charged him with killing his former wife Margaret Ford George 26 of Waterbury. Her body was found in woods off Route 123. The warrant followed findings he owned a 22 caliber revolver used in the fatal wound. Zdonick had been last seen with her the day she disappeared.
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New Canaan
FBI
Stanley Zdonick
Naugatuck
Margaret Ford Gseorce
Waterbury
Route 123
John C. Sturges
Henry E. Keller
Keller
Zdonick
George
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