Mass Draws 5000+ Catholics to Fairfield Alumni Field
More than five thousand Catholics filled Fairfield University's Alumni Field for Bridgeport diocese's first large scale Martian year evening Mass. Most Rev. Lawrence J. Shehan presided from a portable altar at the field’s western end. Candlelight lit the crowd as Marian year prayers were recited under Rev. Bartholomew J. Skelly. Rt. Rev. John H. Anderson delivered the sermon.
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Bridgeport
Lawrence J. Shehan
Bartholomew J. Skelly
St. Teresa’s church
Trumbull
John H. Anderson
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Board cuts three Bridgeport men convicted in numbers ring
The Connecticut State Board of Pardons reduced the minimum sentences for Luciano Pusio, Joseph Schiavone, and Louis Verilli from one year to 10 months for conspiracy tied to a Bridgeport numbers racket that grossed about $6,000 daily for five weeks. The board also denied mercy petitions for 36 other prisoners and rejected Edward H. Abel’s plea, who killed Charles Ludlow in Hartford in 1936.
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HARTFORD
State Board of Pardons
Bridgeport
Luciano Pussio
Joseph Schiavone
Louis Verilli
state
Louis Feinmark
Lorin W. Willis
Pardons board
Charlea Ludlow
Edward H. Abel
New Haven
Abel
Ludlow
State street
Official Weather Summary for Bridgeport and New York City
Partly cloudy and warmer in Bridgeport and vicinity today and tonight with afternoon highs in the 60s and nightly lows 50s to mid 40s inland. Sunday remains partly cloudy and warmer. New York City experiences similar conditions. Tide times listed. barometer and humidity readings noted. date October 9 marked as the day in autumn.
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BRIDGEPORT
NEW YORK CITY
Hurricane Hazel Picks Up Speed Near Caribbean
Hurricane Hazel gained forward speed to 12 miles per hour as it moved west northwest across the central Caribbean. Navy hurricane hunter planes could not penetrate the storm, and weather officials warned vessels to use extreme caution. The center remained about 300 miles south southwest of Port au Prince and forecasts indicated the storm would stay on its west northwest path toward Jamaica.
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MIAMI
Fla
Caribbean sea
San Juan
P.R
Caribbean
weather bureau
Jamaica
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Office Boy, 68, Left Estate of 150000
Chicago report says 68 year old office boy John W Nelson died at a Chicago drug company. Coroner McCarron notes Nelson left $150,000 in cash stocks government bonds and a savings account. He was a lifelong bachelor who never smoked drank or saw a movie and left no will. Cousin is named as nearest relative.
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CHICAGO
Walter McCarron
John W Nelson
McCarron
Nelson
French Premier demands London plan vote on German rearmament
Paris dispatch says Prime Minister Mendes-France used constitutional powers to force a confidence vote on the London agreement for West German rearmament. If defeated, he would resign, risking a political crisis as Western defense debates continued. He sought unconditional approval amid a Radical Socialist motion backing his continued negotiations.
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PARIS
Pierre Mendes-France
West Germany
assembly
London
Mendes-France
France
State Bar to Honor Sikorsky in Connecticut awards
Hartford, Oct. 8 AP Herbert 8 Macdonald, president of the State Bar of Connecticut, says the association will award its distinguished public service prize this year to Igor I. Sikorsky of Sikorsky Aircraft division, United Aircraft. The banquet is Oct. 19 at Hotel Statler. Sikorsky is a pioneer who designed his first aircraft in 1899 in Kiev and has since created many notable aviation advances.
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HARTFORD
Herbert 8. Macdonald
State Bar association of Connecticut
Igor I. Sikorsky
Sikorsky Aircraft division
United Aircraft Corporation
Hotel Statler
Connecticut
Richard Rodgers
Edward J. Hickey
Helen Keller
Sikorsky
Kiev
Russia
PHA official outlines income limits and reform plan for Bridgeport housing
Bridgeport officials discuss raising income limits for federal low rent housing if surveys show no market under current levels. Herman Hillman and Harold Poole describe steps to fill 300 vacancies, including resident managers, project upgrades, and a settlement house program with National Federation of Neighborhood Villages. Mayor McLevy requests a list of comparable projects for study.
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Public Housing Administration
Bridgeport Housing Authority
Herman Hillman
New York
PHA
BHA
Harold C. Poole
Bridgeport
Hillman
Charles E. Slusser
Poole
McLevy
Slaying of Babysitter and Boy Shocks Springfield
In Springfield Mass an 18 year old high school sophomore Kenneth R Chapin was arrested on murder charges for the stabbing and bludgeoning deaths of Lynn Ann Smith a 14 year old babysitter and four year old Stephen Goldberg. Chapin a pall bearer at Lynn Anns funeral was described as a good quiet boy by teachers. He confessed in a signed statement detailing the attack after being arrested outside Springfield Technical High School. No motive was revealed. The victims were found stabbed multiple times in the Goldberg apartment.
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SPRINGFIELD
Mass
Lynn Ann Smith
Raymond P. Gallagher
Kenneth R. Chapin
Forest Park
Stephen Goldberg
Gallagher
Chapin
Dist. Atty
Stephen A. Moynahan
Goldberg
Pd- Nee
Lynn Ann
James J. McCarthy
Springfield Technical High School
Donald Gifford
Retail Merchants to Conduct Festival King Queen Contest
Ringmaster Joseph H. Lederer announced a new look for the seventh Barnum Festival with the Retail Merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce to sponsor next year’s King and Queen contest. The decision was approved by the Festival executive committee at Kensyth Street offices, and the Retail division’s sponsorship was described as expanding participation and universality.
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Joseph H. Lederer
Chamber of Commerce
Carlson Brothers foundation
Kensyth street
Post Publishing company
Sam Rosoff
Roeoff
Lederer
Lawson Corbit
Edward C. Burnstein
Lyman F Rogers
Nelson Pleasanton
Ray M. Colonar
William Emery
Lucille Viets
Mayor McLevy
Lodge Sees Greenwich Killingly Expressway As Route To Growth
New Haven Oct 6 AP Governor Lodge touted the $400 million Greenwich to Killingly expressway as a broad ribbon of concrete that will bring opportunity to doorstep communities. He defended his highway program against rival criticism, pledging three phases including expressways, interior roads, and urban congestion relief while noting about $6 million yearly state aid to 169 towns and cities.
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NEW HAVEN
Governor Lodge
Greenwich
A. A. Ribicoff
Connecticut
Deadline for enrolling voters in city hall session
The final voter enrollment session runs 9 am to 8 pm in City Hall Common Council chambers for the November 2 election. The Board of Selectmen and Town Clerk Louis E. Hafele administered the elector's oath to 500 people, bringing yearly additions to 2,801 with 69 restorations, totaling 449 restorations.
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City hall
Board of Selectmen
Louis E. Hafele
Eisenhower’s Denver Address Cut Off On Air
President Eisenhower’s nationwide broadcast was cut off about 45 to 50 seconds before completion. CBS officials said the cut followed long standing policy while Mutual noted they had no choice due to the feed. The FCC’s equal time rules loom over potential Democratic responses. The president finished the last 100 words before 5,500 attendees at City Auditorium.
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Eisenhower
CBS
Republican National Committee
NBC
Mutual Broadcasting Co
City Auditorium
Robert Montgomery
White House
Montgomery
New York
Mutual Network
Mutual
Federal Communications Commission
Democratic party
Husband Denies Mrs Luce to Quit
Henry R. Luce, editor of Time, returned from Rome with his wife Mrs Clare Boothe Luce Ambassador to Italy and said she does not plan to resign in the foreseeable future. Mrs Luce had denied plans to quit and a report from Rome suggested she might resign within months.
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NEW YORK
Henry R. Luce
Time magazine
Rome
Clare’ Boothe Luce
Italy
Idiewild
United Press
Eisenhower warns of two-driver government if Democrats win
President Eisenhower warned that a Democratic victory in November would unleash a “cold war of partisan politics” with a divided government. Speaking to 5,500 at Denver’s Municipal Auditorium, he urged Americans to keep the partnership, arguing GOP control would prevent the nation from winding up “in the ditch.” The rally featured Nixon praising the session as a major political event.
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Eisenhower
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White House
congress
Colorado
Hisenhower
83rd Congress
Nixon
America
Ike
Senate
House
Eisenhorver
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