Ku Klux Klan Masquerades in Connecticut Clubs Meet in Bridgeport
A Connecticut inquiry reveals Klan units using social club names to hold meetings in cities including Bridgeport Meriden Stamford South Norwalk and Wallingford. The Puritan club in Bridgeport and the Sphinx club in South Norwalk exemplify the disguised lodges with robes passwords and masked entrances as Klan organizers seek covert operation across the state.
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Ku Klux Klan
Connecticut
Meriden
Stanford
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
Stamford
Meriden Club
A. Humiber
Ef Jelan
New Haven
Hartford
Meride
New London
Bristol
South Norwalk
New Britain
Wallingford
Seymour
Milford
Manchester
New Milford
Naugatuck
Greenwich
Klan
Conn
Universal Club
Broad Street
Dast Main Street
Putnam Club
Bedel’s
Oak Street
Walingford
Ibe Wallingford Progressive Association
Masonic Temple
Klan No. 15
Castle Rock
Nome 8
Naugatuck Valley Feol and Gun Club
I. O
O. F. Hall
Main Street
Puritan Club
Herve the
Bridgeport
Norwalk
Sphinx Club
Ki Uulis
Ala Serttinel
Wallingford Klan
Oda
Odd Fellows
Navy Probe Continues as Officers Face Ceremonial Attendance
The Navy board, led by Captain King, charges that three petty officers attended a ceremonial event under orders. King denies membership in the Klan and states he did not direct attendance. Witnesses include Jesse Devine of Waterbury, Philis Dot of Meriden, Deputy Sheriff Robert J. Hieging, John J. Spelly, and Edward Dickson.
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Jiari
Tas Legilators
Philis Dot
Eastern Teague
Meriden
Robert J. Hieging
John J. Spellacy
Edward Dickson
Hartford
Tech School Students Visit Factories Here
About 50 Pratt Institute Brooklyn and Wechmeal College students toured local factories yesterday. They inspected the Waterchild and Shelton company makers of Ozone soap and Bridgeport Brass. The group lunched at the YMCA and heard Robert A. Crosby of Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce speak.
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Pratt, Institute
Brooklyn
Wechmeal College
Watrchild and Shelton Company
Ozone
Bridgeport Brass
Junior Chamber of Commerce
VY. M. c'4
Robert A. Crosby
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce
Girl Sues Father for Non Support in Superior Court
Three year old Rhoda Spencer of Bridgeport sues her father George H. Whits of Pelham in Superior Court alleging neglect to provide for her maintenance. Action brought by her mother who has custody after divorce.
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Rhoda Spencer
Bridgeport
Superior
F. George H. Whits
Pelham
Nover
Meetings Tonight on Commercial Transfers
Fragments indicate discussions or notices about commercial transfers at Broad Street area. Details are unreadable, but references to payments, encampment, and local street names suggest a scheduled meeting or public notice for business dealings tonight.
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Broad Street
Obituary notices for Cornelia Hubbell Walker and others
Obituary notices for Cornelia Hubbell Walker widow of John O G Walker who died after a long illness at 714 Park Avenue. Survived by two daughters Mrs Percy S Hill and Mrs P I Tholroyd and son John E Walker. Funeral from Read Memorial chapel North Avenue. Burial Mountain Grove cemetery. Also notices for Louise Pudell 485 Noble Avenue age 27 and Lasadio Nagy 827 Kings Highway Fairfield burial Mountain Grove. Fredericka K Pechell 699 Colorado Avenue burial Park Cemetery.
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Cornelia Hubbell Walker
John OG. Walker
Park Avenue
Percy S. Hill
P. I. Tholroyd
John E. Walker
Read Memoral
North Avenue
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Louise Pudell
Joseph Pudell
Noble Avennue
Stanley Pudell
Stephen Kollar
Abs. HL. Kiinkell
Bedford
Clara Kollar
J. Gasver
St ¢‘Harris Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Lasadio Nagy
Laczmio Nagy
Kings Highway
Fairfield
Ttungartan Reformed Church
Alexander Ludman
Radio Conference Adjourns Session Sets Recommendations
The Third National Radio Conference in Washington adjourned after approving recommendations to the Commerce Department. It calls for experimental establishment of super power broadcasting stations under strict Commerce regulation to prevent interference with smaller stations.
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Washington
Lnover
Lato
Commerce Department
Radio Industr
Connecticut Eclectic Medical License Hearings Continue
Testimony exposed alleged fraud in Eclectic medical board licensing, citing diploma mills in St Louis and Kansas City and questioning exam requirements. Attorneys argued licenses were issued without proper moral character proof or required physics biology and chemistry exams, with patients and public safety at stake.
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Massachusetts
Jonal
Addisons
Commissioner of Wealth
theConnecticut Medical Society
Allopathic
Connecticut
Welecite Examining Board
Connesticut
St. Nuwis
Eclectic Board
St. Luis
Kansas City
Kangan City
St. Louis
Yocheiman
Shenandoah Continues Northwest Route In Airship Reports
The Shenandoah kept a northwestward path along Southern Pacific tracks as reports describe its progress. Telegraphed updates to Los Angeles place the dirigible near Coachella and Salton Sea by 6:50 p m, with later notes of headwinds and lateness as it flew over orange groves toward Santa Ana.
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Los Angeles
Coachella
California
Salton Sea
Associated Press
Cal
Orang Groves
Faverside
Here
Santa Ana
San Diego
Milford Manufacturer Nominated for Congress in Third District
William Hoyt president Milford Chamber of Commerce and International Silver Co was nominated for Representative in Congress from the Third District at the Democratic convention in Milford he received 49 votes in 10 ballots. Also noted the return by Moscow authorities of Armenian Church valuables seized during the 1920 21 famine including gold and silver chalices communion cups and candlesticks.
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New Slaven
William Hoyt
Milford Chumber of Commerce
International Silver Company
Clongresas
Frank Baimeri
Moscow
New York
Pavement Collapse In City Blamed On Water Work
Belgian block pavement at Atlantic and Russell streets gave way yesterday afternoon under a live toll truck owned by Chris Rickard and a factory boiler weighing several tons. The boiler was not damaged. Public Works Director A J Nurthey suspected water company workers poorly filled a prior hole.
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Atlantic
Russell Streets
Chris Rickard
Pennsylvania
Public Works
A. J. ‘Nurthey
Water Company
Reprimands Jury Over Freeing Girl in Murder Case
Newark New Jersey October 1 Mary Bruno 22 was acquitted of murdering her alleged bigamous husband on August 21 after night deliberations in Judge Caffreys court. The judge reprimanded the jury for their verdict calling it a miscarriage of justice and said it sets a bad example for criminals.
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Newark
Mary Bruno
Caffrey
Bruno
Mary
Pirates on the high seas case in Brest narrows charges
In Brest on October 10 the Mulhouse owners of the Trench simamer reaffirmed their charges of piracy and conspiracy against Max Jerome Phatl of New York. They claim Phatl organized an aid crew to loot 16 000 cages of whiskey off the din coast, while the court limits its focus to the bootlegging allegation and not the broader piracy claim.
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Brest
France
Max Jerome Phatl
New York
Mulhouse
Simamer
Nidin
Phart
Abductor is Caught After Two Years' Search
Norwich reports Benjamin Saunders, long sought for abducting 11 year old Ethel Mildred Borrien of Plainfield, has been captured in Ohio after two years. The girl is held in Janesville, and her parents left Plainfield to bring her home. Saunders disappeared from Montreay with the girl. his wife died soon after.
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Norwich
LO —iBenjamin Saunders
Ethel Mildred Borrien
Gaorge 1
Jmainfield
Ingets
U S Ambassador Arrives in Mexico City
Mexico City October 10 James Monkwood Sheffield the new United States ambassador to Mexico arrived and was received with honors. Truck driver Jacob Comendik of 114 Lincoln Avenue is held on $200 bond for operating a vehicle while intoxicated by patrol officer Booth at Ellsworth Street and Railway avenues intersection.
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Mexico City
James Monkwood Sheffield
United States
Mexico
Gelb Jacob Comendik
Lincoln Avenue
Vonds
Tie
Ellsworth Street
Wairlift Avenus
Sistine Choir Soloists Impress at Parl Theatre Concert
The Sistine Choir Soloists presented a varied program including operatic arias duets and Neapolitan songs. Solists Vacchini Morgina Burani Ruffini Auchner Paganelli and Paganeli received strong applause for rich voices and refined technique in pieces from Faust Cavalleria Rusticana Tosca and Gounod’s Ave Maria.
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Parl
Vatican Shane
Faust
Adolpho Vacchini
Caruso
Ius
Mellie Bell
Cavaleria Rusticana
Spartaco Morgina
Bistine
Amedeo Burani
Trovatora
Giovanni Ruffini
Italy
Rsenonse
Tosu
Signorius
Ppo Paganelil
Nominating Convention Debates Wilder Slate In City Session
A Republican convention fumbled the Wilder nomination amid prolonged talks with John T. King and key figures including Portmaster Arthur F. Connor and City Attorney A. G. Delaney. The party split on slate support, with sessions adjourned for separate conventions and no fresh rules amendments adopted.
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Dla
Louis A. Kornblut
Thor A. Finn
James C. Sneannon
Emt A. Napolitano
Dorothy 4
King
Benator Wilder
Arthur FF. Connor
A. GC. Delaney
Andrew M. Cooper
Coolldge Club
Teh Tames
Shannon
Wilder
DeLaney
Angela
Ollock
Sensier Lloward Vn. Challenger
Wilhun A Redden
Cosen
Daniel J. Willams
Wider
D. Don R. Beebe
Miey
Vols Tohin
A. Spafford
Warry A. Pritchard
Bethe
Sarah J. Gooper
V. Oceorge Finklestoie
Josaps
Cubs
Ohn c. Hravens
Challenger
Whliam A Hedden
Neato
Wilderfiowerd Moody
Wiham
Foramen Wagen
Crown
Alfred WW. Burchel
Piated
Cly
Bandits Hide in Bank and Escape With $20,000
In Brislow Oklahoma on October 10 three masked bandits hid in the Gilton Safe Bank vault and surprised employees before escaping with loot estimated at $20,000 according to police reports.
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Brislow
Okla
Trve
Qilton Safe Bank
Qilton
Oklahoma
Jury disagrees in Enright libel suit
A New York jury of eleven men after nearly 12 hours of deliberation failed to reach a verdict in the $150,000 libel action brought by Richard E. Enright Police Commissioner against Assemblyman Louis E. Quillier and Magistrate Joseph Corrigan.
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New York
Richard E. Enright
Louis E. Quiillier
Joseph . Corrigan
German Loan Terms and Dawes Plan Bond Details
A scrambled report outlines a German loan under the Dawes Plan with 25 year bonds dated October 15 1924. It notes a 4 1 2 percent interest, issuance at 92, and a 7 3 4 percent yield to maturity. Public issues in key markets planned to be nearly simultaneous.
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Germany
Reparations Commission
Dawes
Maturipe
Bear Haven
Duerest
Mar
Dail Eireann Set to Meet October 15 for Boundary Plan
Dublin dispatch reports the Dail Eireann will convene on October 16 to discuss creating an Irish boundary commission after approval by the house of Commons and government. The aim is to complete all stages that day to permit the British government to appoint the third member of the commission.
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Dublin
Cassociated Press
Dail Mirann
Irish Boundary Commission
House of Commons
Ing
Manhat tan Jeweler Clarence Pierce Found Dead in Suicide
In York October 1 the body of Clarence M Pierce, a Manhattan jeweler, was found on a secluded road at Oakwood Beach, Staten Island. A bullet wound to the head and a revolver nearby indicated suicide, with 160 000 German marks in his coat pocket and 100 000 marks noted in the report.
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York
Clarence M Pierce
Manhattan
Oakwood Beach
Hiaten Island
Neak
Judgment Awarded in Bridgeport Case Over $700 Note
A judgment for the plaintiff for 861.76 dollars was entered after a Court of Common Pleas decision by Judge John A Walsh. The case, brought over a 700 dollar note from 2021, saw part of the debt secured by transfer of property equity to Mr. Toth of Bridgeport.
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Hislen Toth
Sohn Pakaoteh
Bridgeport
Court of Common, Pleas
John A Walsh
Toth
Property Equity
Motorist Dombroski Held After Town Tragedy
Oct 10 Joseph Dombroski of Wallingford was ordered held in 1060 bonds by Coroner Mix pending a finding on the death of 12 year old Veronica Wolak struck by a motor vehicle that night. The car did not start and a number claimed by Three Stilebova was found on the street. Dombroski could not recall the incident and his wife had no recollection. The police found Dombroski's rag at the scene and the owner admitted this.
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Wallingford
Joseph Dombroski
Mix
Veronica
Wolak
Stilebova
Dombroski
Steamship Firm Sued Over Son Death By Mother
New York Ost 10 The suit seeks 140000 damages against Charles W Mose Benjamin W Morse and the Frederick steamship company filed by Mrs Adelaide C Nelson mother of Lawrence Nelson who vanished when the steamer Jerederick foundered in 1918 The Frederick sailed from New York for Archangel Russia on January 3 1936 The case before Judge Godderd and a jury includes testimony that the ship was laid up in a Baltimore shipyard five years earlier and crew member James Collings testified he deserted at Portland Maine citing seaworthiness fears
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New York
Charles W. Mose
Benjamin W. Morse
Frederick Steamship Company
Adelaide C. Nelson
Lawrence
Jerederick
Nelson
Frederick Law
Baltimore
Juypk
Maree Company
James Collings
Portland
Labor Worried by Bitter Attack on English Premier
London reports the opening campaign of a disputed election features a harsh attack on Prime Minister MacDonald in the Independent Labor party organ The New Statement. The piece claims the attack reflects party crisis and accuses MacDonald of failure as foreign secretary and prime minister.
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LABOR
London
fAseac
Atet Press
Camsaga
Macdonald
Itelectual
Laborite Review
Independent Labor Par
Macdon
All Alon
Asquth
Democratic Nominees Attack Republican Rule at Haven Rally
Democratic candidates Charles Morris and Marry Brooks spoke at Haven Fair Haven rally led by the town committee chair Josepha Whitney. Morris assailed GOP leaders for independence, tax privileges, and resource waste, framing the administration as run by favorites.
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Haven
Charles, Morris
L._ Brooks
Josepha Whitney
New Haven
Democratic Town Committee
Fair Haven
Democratic Club
Morris
La Follette Wife Attacks Political Octopus Findings
Mrs Robert M LaFollette spoke in New Haven on October 10 defending the LaFollette Wagoner campaign. She denounced monopolies in transportation oil sleep and credit as the great octopus she says her husband fights in his presidential bid. She tied the efforts to fight the concentration of wealth to the campaign's core issues.
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New Haven
Robert M. LaFonlette
Lafollette-Wheeler
LaFollette
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