Primary Republican contests spark Bridgeport election night
Bridgeport voters in both parties head to polls from 6 to 8 tonight to decide mayoral nominees and aldermanic candidates in district contests. Kilpatrick insurgents challenge the Republican organization ticket with Young Men's Republican club rivals in every district. Democratic incumbent Atwater appears assured of the nomination for mayor.
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Republican Organization
Young Men's Repubican Club
Indies Tons
Burdick
Alfred W. Burdick
Alayor
F. Wiliam Behre
Kilpatuck
Punk Mens Republican Club
Rol
Frederck A Bartlett
Judge Briel
Atwater
Fred Atwater
Stratfield Hotel
Congress High School
Plane crash injures National Air Transport leader in Indiana
Harold Emmons, director of National Air Transport and former National Bureau of Aeronautics president, was seriously injured when his plane crashed near Decatur Indiana. Pilot Lieutenant Joseph Hopkins also injured. Emmons had been returning from the Michigan Wisconsin game. the army plane fell about 2000 feet into a tree after engine trouble. Emmons formerly led Lincoln Motor, Stout Aircraft, and held Navy and Army reserve ranks.
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Detroit
Associated Press
Harold Emmons
National Air Transport Company
National Bureau of Aeronautics
Indiana
Emma
Manson Wik
Chicago
Joseph J. Hopkins
Seldge Reid
Eminuas
Decatur
Hopking
Emmons
Lincoln Motor Company
Stason Aircraft Corporation
Organig
Stout Ankatt Corporation
United States Navy
Army Reserve Corps
Liberty Motors
Defense Department
Send Rescue Parties First Cobb Says For Flights
BY IRVIN S COBE. NEW YORK OCT 16 Special. I never could understand why when organizing Polar expeditions they don't send the rescuing party in ahead to establish a base and be all ready for the gallant explorers when they staggered in exhausted and starving. I'm beginning to feel the same way about these trans Atlantic flyers.
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Irvin S.cobe
New York
Transatlantic Flight News And Ruth Elder Coverage
Atlantic gate subsiding and Ruth Elder prepares for an ocean hop amid sleet. French aviators near Rio Janeiro. Ruth Elder stories printed inside and Germany’s press coverage follows on pages 1 through 12.
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Atlantic
Grayson
Ruth Elder
Rio Janeiro
Paria
Fall and Sinclair Go On Trial In Oil Land Fraud
Albert B Fall and Harry F Sinclair face criminal conspiracy charges over the Teapot Dome lease. The DC Supreme Court will impanel a jury, with verdicts shaping a historic prosecution of a former interior secretary and a wealthy oil operator.
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Sinclair
Washington
Associated Press
Naval Oil Reserve
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Albert B. Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome Naval Reserve
Wyoming
Mammoth Air Company
Harding
Edward L. Doheny
Elk Hills
Cal. Reserve
Doheny
Senate
Senate of Inquiry
Trie
Sventa
Noelther
Cheyenne
Wyo
Butcher Kills Sweetheart Amid Knife Fear Revealed
New York report of Harry Gilmore a 27 year old butcher who confessed a phobia of knives and killed Mrs Helen Brandon 26 with his bare hands after she taunted him with a knife during a World Series era dispute. He was taken into custody in his apartment near her home.
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Gilmore
New York
Associated Press
Harry Gilmore
Helen Brandon
Washington, D. C
Upper West
Brandon
Grange injures leg in Bears Yankee game
Chicago Oct 16 Harold Red Grange suffered a pulled tendon in his right leg during a National Football League game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Bears. Initially feared a broken knee, Grange expected a week of rest and hoped to play Green Bay next Sunday. This was his first serious injury after years of high level play and pro debut earnings are cited at about 300000.
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Harold “Red” Grange
New York Yenkees
Chicago Bears
Trafton
Beare
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Grange Yay Stuipied
Traftan
Green Bay
Minnesota
Silini
Gophers
Michigan
Norwalk Man Dies After Auto Crash
Norwalk resident Robert Thomas twenty seven of 182 Main street died from injuries after the car he rode in plunged over a culvert on the Post road at Brookside avenue Darien. Driver William MacInerny twenty three of 83 Lounsbury avenue was uninjured and released on bond after a manslaughter technical charge.
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Post Road
Brookside Avenue
Darien
Robert Thomas
Main Street
William MacInerny
Lounsbury Avenue
Thomas
Bramford Hospital
MacInerny
Edward Dorsey
Abolish Medical Experts Proposed at Crime Conference
New York reports a plan to abolish expert medical testimony in criminal cases and replace it with scientific stand ins by state experts after a mental examination of the accused. The National Crime conference in Washington this November will also discuss anti gambling laws prisoner training criminal records pistol legislation and parole system extension.
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New York
Assocated Press
Washington
Man Fatally Injured Boarding Trolley in West Haven
Bertram C. Lewis about sixty of New Haven was fatally injured and his wife bruised when struck by a car driven by Leater R. Sappington, a Ridgewood, New Jersey chauffeur for Mrs. Wade. Sappington was released on $1,000 bond after reckless driving charges. Lewis died at New Haven hospital from a fractured skull.
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West Haven
Associated Press
Bertram C. Lewis
New Haven
Bruiser
Leater R. Sappington
Ridgewood
Louis Schlauder
Lewis
Wade
New Haven Hospital
Sappington
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Westport Home Damaged by Fire
Westport Oct 16 A fire in the residence of William E Ripley on Evergreen Avenue caused about 1000 in damages. Ripley his wife and daughter Willette escaped as flames filled the cellar and floor joists. Assistant Fire Chief Frank Van entered the burning house but was rescued by two firefighters after losing his way in smoke.
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Westport
Spec.a
William E. Ripley
Evergreen Avenue
Ripley
Tia
Willette
Westport Fire Department
Frank van
Levine Arrives at New York Tonight
Charles A Levine, sole Atlantic flyer, will land aboard the Leviathan tomorrow and be greeted by City officials led by Grover Whalen. A quarantine escort will parallel the Monoplane’s docking, with a Battery arrival for Mrs. Levine and children. Mayor Walker presides at City Hall reception.
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New York
Associated Press
Father Knickerbocker
Charles A. Lavine
Fira
Atlantic
Grover A Whalen
Manhattan
Levine
James J. Walker
City Hall
Hotel Astor
Battery
Macom
Little Augie Rival of Kid Dropper Slain in Gang War
New York police seek the killers of Jack Orgen known as Little Augie a gang calefista slain by five gunmen on Delancey street Saturday night. Bodyguard Jack Diamond is critically wounded and silent. The murder is linked to the reorganized Kid Dropper gang dating back to Nathan Kaplan and a history of gang battles over labor protection services.
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Kid Dropper
Cobb
Marcon
Page & Butcher
Nile
Elanamen
Glass
State Department
Forligs
Betes
Mohicans
New Britain
Satuday
Bridgeport
Harry Starkle
Tigers
Wall'ngfad
New York
Associated Press
Lower East Side
Jackt Orgen
Calefista
Delancey Street
Jack Diamond
Orgen
Louis Kushner
Gange
Nathan Kaplan
the Kid
East Side
Man Found In Coma On Street Dies In Hospital
Patrick Mullaney of Bennam Avenue was found in a coma in the doorway of 4 Clap at 310 Fairfield Avenue at 1:80 yesterday afternoon. Ambulance called, Dr. David A. Greenspun treated him and he died at St. Vincent's Hospital at 10 last night. Police were notified in the afternoon that his condition was serious and he never regained consciousness.
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Patrick Mullaney
Bennam Avenue
Fairfeld Avenue
David A. Greenspun
St. Vincent's Hospital
Mullaney
Fairfield Avenue
Plan Conference To Aid Oceanic Flyers
New York October 16 AASC United Press proposal for a round table conference of cross seas flyers to correlate meteorological data was floated today by Dr James M Kimball weather bureau meteorologist to the Daniel Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics. The conference would be called upon the return of Colonel Charles A Lindbergh to New York on October 25 and has the endorsement of several trans oceanic flyers.
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New York
James M. Kimball
Weather Bureau
Daniel Guggenheim
Klan members freed on bail as flogging trial opens
Seventeen Ku Klux Klan officials held on bonds totaling 32000 after arrest in Crenshaw county for kidnapping and assault in 66 indictments. Bond set at 600 per indictment. Twenty eight others charged in 36 indictments remain to be taken into custody. Attorney General McCall led the grand jury probe.
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Laverne
Ala
Associated Press
Ira E. Thompson
Ku Klux Kian
Crenshaw
Charlie C. McCall
Alabama
Ariat
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Chariie McCall
Julius Lumpkin
W. J. Worthington
Arthur Hitt
Hitt
Stamford Factory Damaged by Fire
Fire at Carol, Inc. dress factory in Stamford caused about $10,000 damage. Firemen faced locked doors and steel shutters installed after a past bandit incident. The blaze began in a silk and thread store room, with smoke and water affecting nearby shops and the Automatic Electric Clock Co. plant.
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Stamford
Associated Press
Carol, Inc
Him Street
Fremen
New York
Automatic Electric Clock Company
Teilor
Bandits rob roadhouse. waiter slain protecting guests
Eight masked men robbed The Barn roadhouse near Chicago early today, taking about $10,000 in cash and jewelry from 80 men and women. Joseph Red Goodman, a singing waiter and semi pro football player, was shot in the head as he tried to stop the attack while two bandits with machine guns guarded the entrance. The burglary followed the orchestra’s forced performance as victims were lined up and stripped.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Joseph
Red” Goodman
Goodman
Fairchild aims to set low gasoline use record in 20 hour flight
Curtiss Field New York October 16 Associated Press George Metener pilot for Fairchild Aviation took off in a Weco 10 biplane powered by a 134 horsepower Fairchild Caminez motor carrying 107 gallons of gasoline seven gallons of oil and a barograph. He plans to circle Mitchel and Curtiss fields over 20 hours reporting progress by dropping messages. The prior record of 4.8 gallons per hour over seven hours was set October 1 and if successful the engine may be used in a Fairchild cabin monoplane to try a new long duration flight with 950 gallons of gasoline onboard.
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Curtiss Field
N. Y
Associated Press
George Metener
Fairchild Aviation Corporation
Army
Germany
Willi
Mitchel
Curtiss Fields
Ruth Elder scales danger in Atlantic flight stunt
Ruth Elder and pilot George Haldeman faced heavy sleet and engine trouble as they balanced a plane over the Atlantic to land near a rescue steamer. Elder crawled onto the tail to steady the craft while fuel was jettisoned. Back in Horta she endured a long night of entertainments and greetings, wearing her scarlet plaid outfit, and refused a haircut despite attempts to bob her hair.
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Horta
Fayal Islands
Agores
Associated Press
Ruth Elder
mid-Atlantic
George Haldeman
Ruth
Abe
G. F. Mackey
Cable
Paris
Roosevelt Field
New York
Mrs. Mackey
Haldeman
Rmeas
Two Men Fight Bloodily Then Resume Battle in Ambulance
Charles Sidtranes and Sergi Ternyly, both wounded, were arrested after a brutal House to yard to street fight on Goodwin Street. Hospitalized with bleeding wounds, they renewed fighting in an ambulance before police separated them. Both face assault charges.
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Charles Sidtranes
Goodwin Street
Sergi Ternyly
Seaview Avenue
Bridgewert Hospital
Sidrowez
Ternyly
Sidirower
Favorable Weather Reports Reach Aviators for Atlantic Hop
Old Orchard Maine October 16 AP reports of improved conditions raise hope the Shotaky plane The Dawn can resume its trans Atlantic hop to Europe tomorrow. Navigator Brice Goldsborough and Pilot Wilmer Stuke note radio ship reports showing diminished winds and a moving low toward Newfoundland. Igor Sikorsky praises the amphibian design for long ocean flights and safety, while stressing his role as builder.
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Old Orchard
Maine
Associated Press
Europé
Brice Goldsborough
Wilmer Stuke
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Acad
Mr. & Korsky
French Aviators Continue Journey From Paris
Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, flying from Paris toward Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, landed near Espirito Santo border in Bahia. They flew 1,200 miles for the day, with next stop likely Rio de Janeiro as dawn breaks. The French air service notes praise Brazil’s welcome and signals plans to resume early tomorrow, while Paris papers compare their effort with earlier emblematic flights.
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Rio Janeiro
Associates Press
Dieudonne Costes
Joseph Lebrix
Paris
Buenos Aires
Bahia
Espirito-Banto
Costes
Lebyix
Port Natal
Pernambuco
Iad
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