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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1926
Page
4
France's Georges Glande outlines a plan to harvest limitless power from sea temperature differences. Claude and Boucherot showcase a generator using tropic surface warmth versus deep, cold currents to produce energy.
A report outlines a theory that atmospheric pressure at eight bar could feed steam turbines via vacuum from deep sea Calder water. Professor Claude suggests surface rainfall power matching water falling 100 metres, with 400000 kilowatts per thousand cubic metres of hot old water per second. He notes high costs versus gravity plants and proposes hydraulic power near tropical ports using sea water tubes to cool tropics and aid colonies.
New York November 15 AP Senator Edwards of New Jersey told the American Rights Association meeting he has moved to place the question of repealing the eighteenth amendment before the people. He cited a joint resolution to start the machinery under Article V of the Constitution allowing state conventions to amend. He urged voters be given a chance to decide if the amendment should remain in the Constitution. He called the issue the most momentous in a generation, framing it as self government versus servitude.
Six masked men robbed eight victims behind a barber shop taking 2490 in cash and 1000 in gems in the first holdup. In a second incident two assailants stopped produce merchant Joseph Tillech as he walked to his office and robbed him of 1400.
Paris reports the wedding of Audrey Emery to Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia set for November 21 at Biarritz Russian church. Attendance aims for 600 guests and costs exceed 100000 dollars with royals from Europe present. The couple plan to live between Biarritz and Palestine before moving to America after marriage to study banking methods.
The Public Utilities Commission held a hearing on November 16 in Hartford over Southern New England Telephone charges to Thimble Islands summer residents off Branford. The five year contract set $100 annual rates, but subscribers expected a rate reduction at renewal. J D Veitch for the company said no renewal reduction was guaranteed. the commission took the matter under advisement.
New London November 15 AP Mrs Joseph Megiola a seventeen year old formerly of Groton lived under compulsion to attend sixth grade night school classes in Springfield Massachusetts until Groton school officials issued a certificate showing she passed the sixth grade in a public school. Groton records show she graduated sixth grade there in 1924. She was formerly Miss Rose Capano of Groton and was married last fall. A few weeks after the marriage the Megiola family moved to Springfield. Mrs Megiola sought employment at a Springfield thread mill but was denied until she produced a birth certificate showing her age. Mrs Peter Capano of Groton Rose’s mother has received the required certificate and will forward it to Springfield.
A suit contesting Abraham Hummel's will was adjourned for a week at the request of defense counsel Charles Abiard recently retained to handle the case. Abiard seeks time to review records and examine witnesses in Finland where Hummel was exiled and served a prison term. The estate, valued between 1500 and 2430000 dollars, is left to two sisters and a nephew, contested by Henry D Hummel of Portland Maine who claims to be Hummel's secret child.
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