Pledged to Chest in First Report Meeting
The 35th Red Feather campaign in Bridgeport shows $146,619 pledged toward a $916,914 goal in the first week. Auditors’ tabulations from a Stratfield hotel luncheon reveal 16 percent of the goal, with GE pledging $42,600 and 26,000 from GE employees. Governor Lodge praised the Chest for civic effort and unity, warning against government takeover of voluntary charity. Divisional tallies place Industrial at $57,089 and 11 percent of quota, Business and Finance at $53,510 and 278 percent, Residential $1,069, Commercial $3,887.50, Professional notes continue.
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Greater Bridgeport
Bullard company
Governor Lodge
General Electric company
Ledge
Red Feather
Community Chest
Council
Chest
Bridgeport
Frank U Hayes
James Jolly
sam
W. Earle Witsil
Commercial
Paul F Goulding
Official Weather for Bridgeport and New York City
Bridgeport and vicinity show mostly fair conditions with a slight shower chance toward evening and continued warmth with highs near 85. Tonight will be fair with lows 65 to 70. Wednesday turns partly cloudy and windy with scattered showers or thundershowers. New York City mirrors Bridgeport.
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BRIDGEPORT
NEW YORK CITY
Sheen Warns In New Haven On Communist Brainwashing
The Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen spoke to 1,600 at Klein Memorial condemning communism as an evil and urging prayers to wash Reds brains of Marx and Lenin. He said the beast of brainwashing turns the world into a madhouse and urged apostles with light and heat to spread truth. The talk supported by local Catholic groups benefited the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
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Fulton J. Sheen
New York
Klein Memorial
Jesus
China
Sheen
Marz
Lenin
Sacred Heart Altar and Rosary Society
Philip Sheridan
Society for the Propagation of the Faith
Lawrence J. Shehan
Bridgeport
United States
Bishop Sheen
communista
Socialists Back French Premier Mendes France
Paris reports socialist delegates from across France backed Premier Pierre Mendes France in the push to gain a confidence vote on his London nine nation accords for rearming West Germany. The party authorized deputies to support him. four abstained as the vote loomed.
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PARIS
Pierre Mendes-France
London
West Germany
French National Assembly
Mendes-France
Assembly
Five Year Town Capital Plan Totals 5 Million
Stratford Town Council reviewed a five year capital expenditure program estimated at 5,000,550. Planning chair George F. Wright said adoption would not raise taxes. The plan funds new schools in Putney Lordship Birdseye Garden and a new high school, plus a firehouse safety building police library expansion and land for a town dump. Finance Director Allen B. Vermilya projected 220,000 needed in year one with bonds possible without tax rate increase. debt service would offset later expenditures. Wright urged council review and possible amendments at the November meeting. Daniel C Carten was named to Stratford Housing Authority to fill a vacancy.
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Stratford Town council
George F. Wright
Putney
Lordship
Birdseye
Garden
Allen B. Vermilya
Wright
Daniel C Carten
River Valley road
Stratford Housing Authority
Russians to Quit Big Chinese Base at Port Arthur
London dispatch reports Russia agreeing to withdraw troops from Port Arthur by next June and to extend a long term loan of 52 million rubles to the Peiping regime. Moscow says joint use of the port and technical assistance to build 18 enterprises will follow, as Beijing and Moscow seek closer ties.
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LONDON
Russia
Port Arthur
Manchuria
Japan
Memen
Rioting at South Dakota State Prison Seizes Guards
Four guards held hostage by rioting inmates demand better food and more toilets. One guard released. six convicts hospitalized with heart attacks or injuries. Warden Jameson returned to hold talks as rioting subsided. 3 guards still held. Inmates blamed political talk and cited grievances including solitary confinement and staff beatings.
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SIOUX FALLS
South Dakota State Penitentiary
Leonard Skurda
Skurda
G. Norton Jameson
Rome
Fred Nichols
Sigurd Anderson
Nichols
Jameson
Hurricane Hazel Threatens Haiti and Caribbean Coast
Hurricane Hazel with 115 mph winds nears Haiti, 600 miles southeast of Miami, moving northeast at 8 mph. Warnings extend to Windward Passage, Haiti, extreme eastern Cuba, and Bahamas. Steamships race for safety as storm tracks toward the north northeast. hurricane reconnaissance avoids penetration due to turbulence.
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MIAMI
Fla
Hazel
Republic of Haiti
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Cuba
Miami weather bureau
Bahamas
weather bureau
Santa Inez
Cape Cod
Donore
Benare
Jacksonville
Infant Dies After Separation Surgery On Miller Siamese Twins
MEMPHIS Oct 11 One of the Miller Siamese twins died hours after a complex skull and brain separation operation. The surviving twin Claudette remained in fair condition as physicians warned Siamese twins joined at the skull rarely survive such surgery. The twins had shared a skull and were placed in incubators after the four hour operation.
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Memphis
Constance
Chicago
Reger
Brodie
Claudette
Miller
Louis Miller
Uiem
Wilson's 'bird dogs' remark stirs labor ire in Detroit
Detroit October 11 AP Defense Secretary Wilson drew sharp protests from CIO and United Auto Workers chief Walter Reuther after saying he sympathized with jobless in surplus labor areas yet preferred “bird dogs” to “kennel-fed dogs.” He also warned Michigan unemployment would balance by Christmas as new models roll out. Reuther demanded a public retract or retirement from public life.
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DETROIT
Wilson
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Eisenhower
Reuther
Michigan
Mrs FDR Honored On 70th Birthday At New York Dinner
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt celebrated her 70th birthday in New York attending a dinner for the AmericanUN, drawing 1000 guests at 15 a plate to back United Nations educational work. Dag Hammarskjold Trygve Lie Bernard Baruch John D Rockefeller Jr Relph Bunche Len Lehman Gardner Cowles Henry Morgenthau Jr and other notable figures paid tribute at the event.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
Alan
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Trygve Lie
Bernard Baruch
John D. Rockefeller
Relph Bunche
Len Herbert Lehman
liader Gardner Cowles
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Roosevelt
Democrats Hit Eisenhower Security Report On Dismissals
The Eisenhower administration reported that 6,926 federal workers were struck from payrolls under its security program, with 1,743 of those fired or resigned for suspected subversive activities. Democrats labeled the figures a hoax as the political fight over security risks intensified.
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WASHINGTON
Civil Service Commission
Stephen A. Mitchell
Olin D. Johnston
D-SC
Leonard W. Hall
Nixon
Congress
Mitchell
civil service
Eisenhower
Brown football player Lester Peavy in hospital after collision
Brown University physician Dr. Edward Crane reported Lester Peavy, a 21 year old Brown end from Willow Street, shows improvements after suffering a brain hemorrhage in a head on collision with a Rhode Island player during Saturdays game. He is conscious and answering questions as his condition stabilizes at Rhode Island Hospital.
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Edward Crane
Brown University
Lester Peavy
Willow street
Crane
Providence
Bridgeport
Brown
Rhode Island
Rhode Teland hospital
Enrollment Up 100 Pct As West End Pupils Rise
Easton and Trumbull plan to care for their own ninth graders. Bridgeport enrollment climbs from 658 to 1,400 in three years after P.T. Barnum Apartments housing opened. Whittier will drop ninth grade next fall to ease space. nonresident pupils from Trumbull and Easton total 97 of Whittier’s 220 ninth graders.
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West End
P. T. Barnum
Joseph KE. Jeffery
Sears
Jackson, Longfellow and Whittier
Jeffery
Board of Education
Longfellow
Jackson
Barnum Apartments
Whittier school
Whittier
Trumbull
Easton
aston
Bassick High school
Maplewood
Harding
Central High
Monroe
Whittien School
Trump bull
Bridgeport
Jackson School
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LODGE LANDS AGENCY
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Mendes- France
Bonn
Telegraph
ing.Oe
Stratford Planerce
Moscow Radio
South Dakota
George Reed
EM. Lambertson
Robert Young
W.T. Knudtson
Union Station
AMT
Eigin
MRS. FDR
DEMOCRATS FLAY
Call Administration
Jackson and Longfellow
Hi Nabor
Ofin Miller
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