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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1920
Page
7
A Detroit newspaper series examines the ten year Sicilian Mafia feud in Detroit and neighboring cities. It recounts shootouts, police losses, and a rising toll of deaths including alleged gangland killings, courthouse incidents, and the erosion of law and order amid mafia power.
Bridgeport Republicans map a week of rallies with Senator William Borah of Idaho to speak Thursday at the Casino. Other events include district and local rallies featuring state and city candidates, judges, and out of town speakers across multiple venues and evenings in the campaign drive.
Lucius 5 Storrs, president of the Connecticut company, says a ten cent trolley fare is only a partial solution and that a full fix awaits actions by the next Legislature. He notes unpaid taxes must be addressed before any fare reductions, and that the firm will stop the old commuters’ ticket bonus, moving to monthly tickets at two and a half cents per mile. Daily commuters on monthly passes will continue, others pay single fares.
Members of the ninth, eleventh, and twelfth Democratic clubs arranged a large rally at St John Slovak hall Pembroke and Janeshaats Thursday night at o o clock. Secretary of Labor Wilson will be the speaker focusing on labor questions with Senator George Clark as chairman. A notable woman speaker from New York City and local candidates will also speak. A district parade precedes the rally forming at Shelton and East Main streets with Lawrence J. Gill chosen as grand marshal.
John T. King of Bridgewars is listed among the heaviest backers of the Republican national fund with a reported 800 donation and part of a larger Connecticut contingent including Horacee B. Chaney and O. H. Brewer. The national committee reports receipts around 2.406 million and expenditures near 2.741 million, with borrowing of 355 thousand for senate and house campaigns. Rockefeller and Rockefeller Jr. each contributed 1 thousand, while sixteen donors gave 0001 and nineteen gave 1000.
Henry A Rapingsky of West Haven was arrested for driving under the influence after his touring car crashed into a barn on Terry boulevard in Stretford. The car rolled over but there were no serious injuries. the vehicle was towed for repairs and bail set at 1900 dollars.
William Holmes of 52 Lexington Avenue and Mrs. Cynthia Robertson of 62 Highland Avenue were stabbed Saturday night in a browl on Lexington Avenue. Holmes attacked Robertson with a knife, she allegedly retaliated by stabbing Holmes. Razors believed used. A 13-year-old boy, Alfred Danney, wounded. Police seized multiple firearms. interior gunfire and a large disturbance followed.
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