Woman struck on Washington bridge dies from skull fracture
Misa Olga Schweitzer of Port Chester was killed on Milford’s Washington bridge as a car driven by Michael Labentz struck her after she darted from a sidewalk. The coroner ordered the body taken to an undertaker and an inquest is set for Monday at 8 AM.
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New Haven
I1 Undertaking Parlor
Four Are Hurt as Auto Hits Pole in Fairfield
Three men were seriously injured and a fourth slightly after a car struck a telephone pole on Fairfield Avenue near Clinton Avenue around 3:30 am yesterday. Driver Robert Lyon fled but was arrested 7 am and held on reckless driving charges. Injured: Godfrey Larsen, John Sunderland, William Pendergast, Steve Pronzen. one victim Mrs Willan Venton was knocked down.
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Clinton Avenue
Park City Hospital
Robert Lyon
Nichols Street
Godfrey Larsen
John Sunderland
William Pendergast
Steve Pronzen
Willan Venton
Bennet Ireet
Vibert Davies
North Park Street
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Atluak
HoldUp Victim Nina W. Putnam Near Delray Beach
Nina W. Putnam, writer with a winter home south of West Palm Beach, was robbed at sea near Delray early morning. She and a companion lost cash totaling about 36,000, papers, a vanity case valued at 700, and a set of earrings worth 1,000 in an unmasked hold up by three men who stopped to offer assistance after a minor accident.
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Too Much Liquor Causes Death of Society Woman
Laura Biddle, Philadelphia society matron and wife of Craig Hiddle, was found dead in Los Angeles. Autopsy by A. W. Wagner suggests death likely from alcoholism, pending chemical analysis of stomach and organs. Investigators noted past heavy intoxication, and two bottles found in her apartment. Bruising on the body may have resulted from a fall.
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Football Star Rooney Dies in Norwalk from Lockjaw
John Rooney 27 left halfback for All Norwalk football died at his Shorefront Park home from tetanus following a broken left arm in a Norwalk Greenwich High Schools game a week earlier. He was treated with antitoxin but developed blood poisoning. Rooney, married with one child, worked for Southern New England Telephone. Funeral plans pending.
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John Rooney
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Shorefront Park
Lockjaw
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Robert M. Wolfe
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Greenwich
Wolfe
Southern New England Telephone Company
Schooner Virginia Pendleton Disabled Off Montauk Point
The Coast Guard Mojave towed the schooner Virginia Pendleton after distress off Montauk Point. The vessel,14 left Jacksonville 24 days earlier with lumber and railroad ties cargo for Portland Maine, is believed to be the same ship sighted missing since departure.
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Mystic
Connecticut
New York
Train wreck attempt disrupts Maroma New Haven line
Middletown Oct 18 AP An attempt to wreck the northbound Waley train from New London on the New Haven line at Maroma used a large stone between the rails. The engine struck the stone but did not derail. passengers were shaken but unharmed. The train was halted briefly for obstruction removal and then continued to Hartford under Conductor James Wecabe. Authorities are investigating.
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Mellon Opposes Tax Exemption For Under Five Thousand
Treasury Secretary Mellon rejects any plan to exempt all taxpayers earning five thousand dollars or less from federal income taxes. He warns such a change would slash revenue with no offsetting benefits. The remark responds to Garner’s proposal to raise exemptions and follows discussions ahead of Ways and Means committee action.
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Treaties for Europe Plage Revealed Tonight at Locarno
Locarno Switzerland October 18 AP reports a new German peace protocol born at Locarno. The Rhine pact or treaty of mutual guarantees lies at the heart of the peace system with arbitration agreements with France Belgium Poland and Czecho Slovakia. An aggressor is defined by refusal to arbitrate or defy arbitral sentences or violate frontiers.
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Greek Church Row Averted as Truce Declared
In BTamford on October 18 a heavy guard around a Greek Orthodox church was not needed after the Patriots faction called off plans to disrupt services. About 75 Royalists attended Sunday worship without incident. Royalist leaders said they will pursue court action instead of street confrontation.
Band Plays Jazz As Passengers Flee Burning liner Comanche
Band member Allen M Walker recounts how the Comanche band played I'm In Love With Everything But You as passengers donned life preservers and boarded lifeboats during the ship fire. He describes scenes of boats smashing, rescues, and the crew's grasp for survival amid burning wreckage with fellow musicians John E. Deacon Raymond Fines and Andrew Cassat in New York.
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Comanche
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Edward Curry
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Nner
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Andrew Cassat
New York
Passengers and Crew Of Burning Ship Saved
A Clyde liner Comanche fire off Mayport left all but one passenger and crew accounted for by afternoon. Missing William J. Lawler of Winthrop Mass is one of two unconfirmed. Eight people were injured during transfers to the tanker Reaper aiding the救, with victims resting in Jacksonville hospitals.
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Rose Pastor Stokes Seeks Divorce Law Challenge
Rose Pastor Stokes, radical speaker, says New York divorce law fosters scandal as she ends her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes after a Nyack hearing. She declines to discuss alimony, plans, or the co respondent named Grossman, stating they were mostly friends.
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George H Gillman
Yale students injured in quarry fall at Middletown
Thirteen Yale geology students were hurt when a platform over a 40 foot pit at Strickland quarry collapsed during a field trip near Middletown Connecticut. Seven men appeared to escape by leaping before the collapse and water cushioned the fall. Victims include Richard Dana and Frederic Spencer with serious facial and spinal injuries. Edmund Beaumont and Edwin Lewis among others with internal injuries and lacerations. A professor in charge aided and water saved several men from drowning.
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Frederic A. Spencer
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Man shot in restaurant fracas near death in Bridgeport
In a restaurant in Bridgeport a man was shot by a customer during a dispute. The manager, Juvus Franchi, was severely wounded in the abdomen but reportedly threw the attacker through a window before collapsing. Authorities describe the incident as a volatile fracas with hospital care ongoing.
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Park caretaker attacked by drunken arrestee George White
George White, 94 Putnam Street, was arrested last night on a $100 bond for assaulting Samuel Swan, the park caretaker at Washington. White was drunk and disorderly when Swan intervened, then attacked Swan causing bruises and cuts before Swan returned home.
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Pantry fire causes slight damage in apartment
A small fire in the pantry of an apartment at 771 Grand Street occupied by Louis Mark caused slight damage about 6 o clock last night. An alarm was turned in at Box 371, Grand and Oak streets, but the fire was under control of the Fire Department. No other damage reported at Berkshire dump at the foot of North Washington Avenue yesterday afternoon.
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Navy Concedes Mitchell Right to Change Aerial Policy
Washington report says the Navy will overhaul its air arm after acknowledging Col William Mitchell’s view that bombs from airplanes can sink battleships. Navy officers will train at army schools to learn ship destruction by air, reversing a decades old emphasis on observation.
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Car Hits Woman and Speeding Car Flees
Miss Mary Lodge sixty nine of 1759 North avenue was struck by an unidentified automobile as she stepped to board a trolley at Yeoman street and Fairfield avenue about 7 pm. Four men were in the car which sped away. Lodge suffered a broken leg and other injuries. She was treated at a nearby house then taken to St Vincent's hospital where her condition was listed as fair. Arthur Dean was the trolley motorman on duty when the accident occurred.
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Man Shot By Customer in Food Dispute
A man was shot in a Golden Hill Street incident following a dispute over food and service at the National restaurant. Leon Mitchell 47 Lexington Avenue fired two shots at Rulins Franchi the night manager. Franchi was mortally wounded. Mitchell was held after the altercation and the wounded men were taken to St Vincent's Hospital. Franchi is near death.
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Four Held After Stamford Frays
Stamford police report two violent fights Sunday leaving John Wadasko with a brain concussion and two others injured. Wadasko, 203 Ludlow, unconscious at Stamford Hospital. Mrs Wadasko and Mrs Brarnick, 35 Melrose Ave, detained after altercation. Wadasko tried to intervene. William Jacobson, 106 Henry I Street, serious bleeding after razor wound by William Olite. Olite, Henry Jackson, and Elizabeth Golden, all of State Street, in custody awaiting bonds.
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William Olite
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Henry Jackson
Elizabeth Golden
Ski Jumper Brung Anderson Shot by Hunter Near Berlin
Berlin, Oct 18 AP Brung Anderson, a nationally known ski jumper, was shot in the jaw by hunter Horace Richards who mistook him for a deer. Richards had wounded a deer earlier and, tracking blood, shot after hearing rustling. The wound could be fatal according to physicians.
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Return of German stock probes under federal review
The $600,000 proceeds from Paul Haberland’s stock in Garfield Worsted mills, seized as alien property in 1918, are under government inquiry. Allegations of fees paid to Edward Thurston and other related arrangements are being examined by the Justice Department, with the grand jury in New York weighing the American Metal company settlement. Haberland, a German native, was interned and later served in the German Army after Garfield Worsted mills were seized.
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Universal Service
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American Metal Company
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Massachusetts
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America
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Nilsson Granted Interlocutory Divorce in Los Angeles
Actress Anna Q. Nilsson was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from husband John Marshall Gunnerson a shoe manufacturer. They wed February 19, 1923 and separated last March in Los Angeles, dated October 18.
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Anna Q. Nilsson
John Marshall Gunnerson
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