Grand List Cut $341,000 by Council
The 1923 grand list was reduced by $341,981 as the Common Council settled eight tax appeals and one assessment dispute not taken to court. Total reductions on 1921 1922 and 1923 lists amount to $353,359 with 49 court appeals compromised, costing city taxes on $1,757,051. Major cut approved in the Automatic Machine Teel company case with a $217,733 reduction from $420,286. Other settled 1923 assessments include Thomas P. Taylor, Comstock-Willett, Albert A. Langenegger, Mary Teska, James F and Margaret Heron, Margaret, Harvey and Lewis, and adjustments for J P Levy Shoe Co. and Moris Rome. A Parking Ordinance prohibits street parking on specific sides of Arch High Fulton Franklin and Chapel streets with fines up to $25. A traffic resolution would require stops at intersections per police signals to determine right of way. A North End park petition and other public measures discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
A. D. DeLansy
Automatic Machine Teel Company
Thomas P. Taylor Company
Comstock-Willett Company
Albert A. Langenegger
Mary Teska
James F
Margaret Heron
Margaret An
Harvey and
Lewis
J. P. Levy Shoe Company
John Irving Shoe Stores
DeLaneys
Moris Rome
Fairfield Avenue
Arch
High
Fulton
Franklin Street
Chapel Street
Main Street
Lyon Terrace
M . F. William Behrens
Howard F. Bryant
City Attorney and Ordinance Committee
Madison Avenue
Bavey Place
Llam IE. Hogan
Park
Utse
Tani
Earl Shook
Price Unopposed for Noirth District Alderperson Nomination
Seward B Price former secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Coolidge club candidate for the Sixth district aldermanic nomination will be unopposed. A conference among Assistant City Attorney Henry Greenstein district chairman Alderman Louis A Kornblut Royal D Pride and committee reps from the Coolidge club and King organization led to withdrawals ending a potential three way race. District King leaders faced undecided support, a special district club meeting likely to endorse Kornblut will probably not be held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seward B. Price
Chamber of Commerce
Cooldse Club
Henry Greenstein
Louis
A. Kornblut
Royal D. Pride
Coolidge Club
King
Kornblut
Mr. Pride
Coolidge
Democrats Name Goldstein Rienz for Legislature
Democratic nominating convention in Bridgeport unanimously named David Goldstein and Anthony Renzi for state representatives. Harmony reported with 13 justices of the peace also approved. Other nominees listed included Goldberg Keating Bent and others. Goldstein condemned the Ku Klux Klan and pledged action against a Connecticut company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Goldstein
Anthony
Renzi
Bridgeport
Eighth “District
Pragent
Paul Goldberg
Vincrent Keating
Wiliam W. Bent
Charles Weingarten
Barry Silverstone
Samuel Melw Litz
William P. Carr
Otto Heredus
Antonio Mannino
William Lavery
James Murphy
Irving Hilson
Attorney Goldstein
Aga
Connecticut Company
Republicans Pick Council Candidates In Three Districts
Republican aldermanic caucuses named candidates in three districts. In the Fourth District Francis X. McCarten was chosen after a unanimous vote following William McCormac’s nomination. Third District selected William J. Healy with Arthur Hagburg as contender. Sixth District named John H. Martin unanimous after nominating by John McCathron. An anti-organization ticket backed Karl L. Frehde in the Fifth District Taxpayers Association clubrooms. About 150 attended. 73 arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis X. McCarten
Black Rock Avenue
William McCormac
William J. Healy
Wilson Street
Arthur Hagburg
Hho
John H. Martin
Keeler Avenue
John McCathron
Martin
Tominge
Th District
Taxpayers’ Association
Main Street
Kerl L. Frehde
Benham Avenue
Duelong
Elector Application Window Closes Today in Revistrars Office
Vague OCR note urges eligible voters to submit applications today at the revistrars office to be eligible for the providential election. Details mention room hall and a deadline by election day, with guidance for those who will reach the venue.
Retired Wesleyan president dies in New York subway station
Dr William Arnold Shanklin, retired president emeritus of Wesleyan University, died suddenly of heart disease in Grand Central Station while en route to a Queens real estate tract he supervised since January. He led Wesleyan through a major era of growth, retired in 1923, and later pursued business in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wiliam Arnold Shanklin
Wesleyan University
Bellevue Hospital
Im. Shanklin
Wesleyan
Shanilin
Upper Iowa University
United States
William Howard Taft
James Sherman
Frank B. Weeks
Connecticut
Feld
American Council of Education
Weltig
Institute of International Education
American University Union
Europe
Mr. Shanklin
Carrollton, Mo
Wesley Dunsecombe
Loake Arnold Shanklin
Hamilton’ College
Clinton, N. Y
Garrett, Biblical Institute
Evanston
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bhanksin
Emma
Eligabeth Brant
Wort Scott
Shanklin
Wadoo Operation for Gallstones Proves a Success
Former Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo underwent bladder gravel removal at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Hugh H. Young called the brief operation simple with minimal pain, to last eight to ten days of recovery. McAdoo planned to address campaign managers and make speeches after leaving the hospital, while John W. Davis and his team were informed of his plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
William Gibbs Meaden
Secretary of the Treasury
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hugh H. Young
Young
McAdoo
B McAdeoo
John W. Davis
Giants Win Game Three 6-4 in World Series Thriller
New York Giants seize a 3-0 lead in the 1924 World Series by defeating Washington 6-4 at the Polo Grounds. A wild ninth inning rally nearly tied the game as Long John Watson closed the window on a Senators comeback, with the Giants airtight defense and steadier hitting proving decisive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
New York Giants
Washington
Mecora Wrowa
Polo Grounds
Giants
Senators
Ron
Long John" Watson
McGrawmen
Bame
Sandiot
Frederick G. Lieb
Zachary
Marberry
White Sox
Chicago Cubs
Park Theatre
Baltimore
St. Paul
McElwyn
Kentucky
Dr Fosdick Resigns From New York Presbytery
The Presbytery of New York delayed action on Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick’s resignation from the First Presbyterian Church of New York after he refused to renounce Baptist membership. A committee will report by Nov 10 on whether the church accepts the resignation amid ongoing Fundamentalist vs Modernist tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Emerson Fosdick
First Presbyterian Church
Fasdick
General Assembly
Presbytery
Edgar Whitaker
Fosdick
First Church
Jhip
Indiaampolla
Professional Blood Donors in Bridgeport
Bridgeport reports a quota of professional blood donors willing to respond to calls day or night for hospital transfusions. The article describes the workers as young college men, laborers, businessmen, and ex-soldiers pursuing easy money, with details on how the wage-earning method and transfusion practices unfold, in an interview with a prominent hospital practitioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Eminent Masons and Catholics Form New Toleration Group
In Utica New York fifty Protestants and fifty Catholics formed the Hamilton-Jefferson association to foster patriotic ideals and a spirit of toleration in economics politics and religion. Elihu Root heads the effort stressing non sectarian aims with a mixed faith membership limited to 100 men. Monthly meetings will discuss public welfare with the Constitution offered as an antidote to today’s evils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica
Associated Press
Masonic Order
Kights of Columbus
Hamilon-Jefferson Association
Uttea
Elihu Root
United States
My. Hoot
Root
Lta
Mrs Grady Named Vice Chairman of Bridgeport Democrats
Margaret Grady of the Fifth district was unanimously elected vice chairman of the Democratic party in Bridgeport by the Exeuctive Board’s women members. It marks the first time a woman holds the post in the city, with no other business reported and plans to campaign in respective districts until a joint meeting with male committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Grady
Fifth
Democratic Party
Bridgeport
Fourth
Democratic Ous
Grady
Goldstein and
Bionx Ag Jopncidsiel
Bilorthcott
Rook Bank
City Settles With Mrs Dunigan Over School Land
City attorney report says settlement with Margaret Dunigan involves conveying a city parcel near Beardeley School two hundred by five feet in exchange for relinquishing sewer rights on school property. City clerk urges attendance at citizens ceremony at the high school tomorrow night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Margaret Dunlan
Bayar Benrens
Mre
Dunigan
Beardeley School
Burdick
Hoover proposes national radio system via broadcasters group
Secretary Hoover opened the third national radio conference proposing a national system of radio programs through a broadcasters association to serve newspapers much like press associations. The address emphasized coordinated programming to benefit newsrooms and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Broadcasters’ Association
Hoover
Republicans Cleared as Court Dismisses Bomb Scandal Indictments
In Providence, Judge J Jerome Hahn dismissed the indictments against William C Pelkey and two allies over lack of prosecution after state witness Thomas Lalley was found missing. The case centered on alleged conspiracy to plant liquid bromine in the State Senate during a Democratic filibuster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. L
J. Jerome Hahn
William C. Pelkey
Republican State Committee
Wiliam (Toots) Murray
John T.toomey
Senate
George Hurley
Thomas Lalley
Brooklyn
Andi
Lally
Murray
Parkey
Ilae D Walling
Congress
Jane
la Follette
Johnstone Vance
New Britain
State
Fairfield County
New Haven
Virginia Chamber of “Commerce
Connecticut
Dian
Stratford High School
Salon
Pei Ca
Allee Russ
Huntington
Westport
Two Die In Massachusetts Sewer Gas Tragedy
In Leominster Massachusetts two city employers died and two others were overcome when trapped in a sewer manhole. Charles Murray aged 68 died heroicly while rescuing Michael Regan. Michael McLaughlin and Louis Lambert were overcome during failed rescue attempts. In New York City thousands fled Fifth Avenue after three manhole covers were hurled into the air by an explosion caused by compressed sewer gases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leominster
Mass
Charles Murray
Michael Regan
Michael McLaughlin
Louis Lambert
Lves
Regan
Murray
McLaughlin
New York
Fifth Avenue
Thay
Five Witnesses to Testify at Blodgett Hearing Tomorrow
Five witnesses including four municipal administrators will testify before State Tax Commissioner William H. Blodgett tomorrow afternoon at 2 in the Criminal Superior courtroom. Albert H. E. Macdonald of Crane Valve, Tax Collector Edward A. Drew, Outside Tax Collectors Russell F. Neary and Frank Finn, and William A. Lewis, secretary of the Board of Relief, are named as witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Blodgett
Albert HE. Macdonald
Crane Valve Company
Edward A. Drew
WestportOld Guard Wins as GOP Holds Town Offices
The Republican ticket, led by King Mansfield and Welford Lewis, won Westport's town offices by about 20 votes, restoring control after a year. Nash and Ayres were defeated for selectmen. Elsewhere in Fairfield and Litchfield counties, results showed Republican prestige with a few townies voting Democratic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OLD Guard
Westport
G.0. P
Nash and Ayres Beaton
Burr
Fairfield
Edward C. Nash
Harry Morgan Ayres
King W. Mansfield
Welford G.lewis
Another Teapot Dome Scandal in Baseball Crisis
Chicago dispatches report a possible government move to regulate baseball Federally. President Ban Johnson comments amid the expulsion of Jimmy O Connell and Cozy Dolan of the New York Giants, hinting at a Tea Pot Dome scale scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Ban Johnson
American League
Excelsior Springs
Jimmy O'Connell
Cozy Dolan
New York Giants
Stratford selects town officers in quiet Oct election
Stratford elects three selectmen and five constables under the council manager system. Top vote getters for selectmen were William E Bryer 348 Hev Nesmer Light 327 George B Ober 827 KE Bliss 69. Constables chosen were John Allen 322 Joseph Buskey 819 Charles B Golden 418 John A Nettleon 522 Stephen Panda 409. Voters approved ending off year elections Yes 358 No 21. The move reflects reduced power of selectmen and fewer needs for constables with a permanent police force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford
William E. Bryer
Hev. Nesmer Light
George B Ober
KE. Bliss
John Allen
Joseph Buskey
Charles B. Golden
John A. Nettleon
Stephen Panda
Ecmen Ang
Board of Selectmen
Apathy Warrants Small Vote in Trumbull Election
Apathy marked Trumbull town elections with 224 votes cast, far below the usual total. Republicans carried the ticket by a slim majority, while Banford St. Leach, a Democrat, was endorsed for first selectman. Continuation noted on page.
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Trumbull
Banford St. Leach
First
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Goldstein
Rienz
Healy
Grand Central
W’adoo
Gallstones
Davis
Frank Frisch
Eminent Masons
NEW Organization
Massachusetts
Face Blodgett
Litchfield
Kent and
Cornwall
Democratic
Stamford
Faitrfield County
Litchfield County
Kent
Fwirfield County
Sitchfeld County
Fwirfield
Mendel H. Perry
First Selectman
Frederick A. Burr
Newtown
Charles G. Morris
Schcal
Tae
Weston
John Held
Irustrator
Boad
Easton
Monroe
Pairfield
Whitchfeld
Pasaca
Braton
Milford
Spidera
Folly Curtiss
Mohroe
Norwalk Court
Bethel
Hendrick Will van Loon
Gould Betra
MeaAdon
Ignation
Wesley
Hamilton-Jefferson Club
Jden
Armeseul BebLe
General Motors
Chandler
Nina
Hrrhivf
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