Trains collide near Crown Point injuring many
A Delaware and Hudson Laurentian express en route from Montreal to New York collided with a freight train on a single track beside Lake Champlain. One trainman was killed and at least 50 people were injured, most lightly. Six injured were admitted to Moses Ludvision hospital in TiConderosa. The Laurentian passengers all escaped hospitalization.
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CROWN POINT
Delaware and Hudson’s
Laurentian express
Montreal
New York
Lake Champlein
Moses Ludvision hospital
Ticonderoza
Delaware and Hudson Railtroad
Laurentian
raul
Man Attacked by Trio May Lose Right Eye
Theodore Graham, 38, of Building 9 Father Panik Village, was attacked Saturday night on East Main near Steuben and may lose sight in his right eye. His brother told detectives the victim was beaten by three men.
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MAN
TRIO
Bridgeport hospital
Theodore Graham
Building 9
Father Panik village
Leo Budnick
East Main street
Steuben street
Bridgeport Area Weather Report Shows Cooler, Fair Day
Official weather bulletin for Bridgeport and vicinity notes fair, cooler today with highs in the 60s and lows in the 50s, cooler pockets reaching the 40s. Mostly fair tonight with increasing cloudiness Tuesday and light northeast to east winds shifting to southeast tonight. New York City mirrors Bridgeport conditions.
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DUS
BRIDGEPORT
NEW YORK CITY
Maurice Evans Sees Stratford A World Theater Mecca
Maurice Evans told over 500 people in Stratford that the new Shakespearian theater will turn Stratford into a world mecca for theater lovers when it opens next summer. He spoke at the ground breaking for the American Shakespearean Theater and Academy on a 12 acre Shore Road tract overlooking the Housatonic River.
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Katharine Cornell
American Shakespearean Theater
Academy
Stratford
D. James Morey
Maurice Evans
FREDERICK E. PHELAN
Shakespearean theater
Shore road
Housatonic river
Evans
Two Fur Coats Stolen From Riccio Home
John Riccio, a drug store owner, reported theft of two fur coats valued about 2809 from 3099 East Main Street. One coat is Persian lamb and the other mink. A purse with about 70 in cash and personal belongings was also missing. Entrance gained through a rear window left slightly open. Theft occurred between 7 pm Saturday and 7 am Sunday while house was unoccupied.
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East Main street
John Riccio
Joseph A. Walsh
Riccio
Walsh
Lieut. Walsh
Crisis reshapes Pakistan government as assembly dissolved
Pakistan moves to curb turmoil after Gov General dissolves Constituent Assembly and cabinets. Prime Minister Mohammad Ali forms a seven member cabinet including General Ayub Khan and M A H Ispahani. Ali returns from the United States amid boosted American aid to address the crisis.
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KARACHY
Pakistan
zgeneral
Mohammed AH
Ghulam Mohammed
Mohammed Ayub Khan
M. A. H. Ispahani
London
U. S
Mohammed Ali
United States
Constituent Assembly
Ali
Raft Adventurer Returns From 6400 Mile Ocean Voyage
William Willis, 61, veteran seafarer, arrived home after a perilous 115 day raft voyage from Peru to Samoa. He endured four months at sea with his cat Meekie and parrot Peekie, who was reportedly eaten by the cat. Tess Willis, his wife, waited at Callao Peru for his return as the rafted voyage reached New York.
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NEW YORK
William Willis
Pacific
Peru
Samoa
Tess
Callao
Willis
Meekie
Peekie
Prous phots
New York’s
international
San Francisco
Meckie
Pago Pago
Brooks family welcomes a son ending 14 all-girl line
Leslie Benjamin Brooks was born at 12 25 P M weighing six pounds in the Brooks family home on Rural Snake Root road. The 39 year old father Lloyd Brooks truck driver earned $50 weekly and had hoped for a son. Mrs Brooks spoke of loving the new baby as much as the girls though the sisters teased about clothes.
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PITTSFIELD
Maine
Brooks
Leslie Benjamin Brooks
Lloyd Brooks
Car Crash Kills Newtown Youth in Brewster
Kenneth Andersen, 22, of South Center district Newtown, was killed instantly when his car left Route 22 and struck a tree a mile north of Brewster on October 24 at 2 30 a m. Passenger Edwin GrIsgraber, 23, of Southbury, suffered a hip injury and was hospitalized in Danbury in good condition. State Policeman Heppert Liege said the car was demolished and Andersen pronounced dead at the scene.
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BREWSTER
N. Y
Kenneth Andersen
South Center district
Newtown
Edwin Grisgraber
Southbury
Danbury
Conn
Heppert Liege
Andersen
Putnam County Corp
Oklahoma Delegation To Tour Bridgeport Industry
A nine member Oklahoma Development Council team arrives in Bridgeport to launch a five day tour of local industries and businesses. Led by Milton Keating the group will visit 125 sites across Bridgeport Stratford Fairfield Milford and New Haven to showcase expansion opportunities within Oklahoma. They deny any intent to lure Connecticut industry away stating they merely want to inform manufacturers of opportunities in the region.
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Oklahoma Development council
Bridgeport
Milton Keating
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Stratfield
wll
Stratford
Fairfield
Milford
New Haven
Oklahoma
Hartford
Providence
Boston
Pirates
Oscar Monrad
Development Council
Hartford group
Monrad
Keating
Connecticut
Keeting
Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate dies in Tampa
J Tom Watson a 68 year old Republican candidate for Florida governor died after months of illness that stopped his campaigning. A former state attorney general, he was known for pushing Florida’s anti closed shop amendment and had switched from the Democratic party to run on the GOP ticket. He had previously run for governor in 1932 and 1938 without success.
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TAMPA
Fla
Tom Watson
Florida
Watson
Wa Son
Runaway Girls Found Hungry in Huntington
Two teenage girls from Father Panik Village, Ann Angeski 13 and Teresa Balcastro 14, were located in Huntington living in an unoccupied summer home. They had no money and couldn't cook canned goods after utilities were shut off. Neighbors reported hunger drove them to seek aid, they were fed and returned to their parents.
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Father Panik Village
Huntington
Ann Angeski
Teresa Balcastro
Father Pank Village
Shelton
Buddington road
Paul Szilagin
Bridgeport
E. F. Beiden
hher
Features for Everybody In Telegram Every Day
A compact listing of daily newspaper sections across Telegram. It outlines pages for features, obituaries, comics, puzzles, editorials, radio and TV programs, sports, theater, and fashion along with named contributors and page numbers. The brief confirms a typical multi-section layout.
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Telegram
Angelo Patri
Jacoby
Herman Bundesen
Erich Brandeis
Sylvia Porter
Rev H L Bromley Dies in 19th Year
The Rev Harlan L Bromley Sr 78 of 253 Gilbert Street a retired Methodist minister died yesterday morning in Bridgeport Hospital after more than six months illness. He retired and moved to Bridgeport in 1944.
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Harlan L. Bromley
Gilbert street
Bridgeport
Mr Bromley
Boy Slaps Girl Triggers Theater Disturbance
A clash among about 40 teenagers in the balcony of the Giebe theater at 1266 Main Street ended when police arrived. An AI-year-old boy struck a girl, prompting a near riot. Six officers and a city ambulance responded. the girl, treated by Dr. Jan Soroka, was in hysteria. The boy was taken to Juvenile Detention. Joan Leahy leads the investigation.
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Giebe
Main street
Jan Soroka
Gilbert street
Joan Leahy
Cow on Barn Roof Stuns Meriden Officers
Meriden police and owner George Bilger woke to a Holstein cow on the barn roof after dawn. They built a plank bridge from roof to a parked truck to guide Bossy down, with no damage reported to the barn or cow. Officers Sckolowski and Mase filed the incident report.
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MERIDEN
George Bilger
Bulger
Bilger
Bossy
Adam J. Sckolowski
Anthony T. Mase
French Premier Girds for Fight Over West Germany Ties
Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France vowed to push far reaching economic accords with West Germany to boost living standards in both nations. He urged close Franco German cooperation, noting West Germany as a major trading partner and a key producer of goods. The Saar future agreement with Konrad Adenauer was cited as easing obstacles to cooperation.
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PARIS
Pierre Mendes-France
Europe
France
Germany
West Germany
Mendes-France
Konrad Adenauer
Saar
Bee Stings Kill Man While Robbing Hive Near San Antonio
Edward Schiffers, 44, died in San Antonio after being stung repeatedly while attempting to rob a neighbor's bee hive. Justice of the Peace Blair Reeves said the bee stings apparently caused his death. The hive was at Schiffers' mother's home in the suburb, and he was stung on hands and wrists while trying to get money. He died shortly after arriving at a hospital.
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SAN ANTONIO
Tex
Edward Schiffers
horney
Justice of the Peace
Blair Reeves
Schiffers
Reeves
Population Growth Boosts Connecticut To 2.216 Million
Connecticut leads the Northeast in population growth with a 10.4 percent gain, about 209000 more residents since 1950. The Census Bureau, via Associated Press, lists the state population at 2,216,000 as of July 1, 1954, noting gains across 48 states and Nevada as 31 percent leader.
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Connecticut
Census bureau
Associated Press
Bridgeport
Stratford
Fairfield
West Virginia
Arkansas
New Hampshire
Nevada
Special session set for tonight at White House
President Eisenhower calls cabinet meeting for Washington to hear Dulles report on Paris accords. He will greet Dulles at National Airport on arrival from Paris, marking an unprecedented personal airport tribute by a sitting president.
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THURMONT
Eisenhower
Washington
Dulles
Catoctin mountains
White House
James C. Hagerty
Western
Europe
Ike
Hagerty
Eisenheimer
National
Paris
Bermuda
Milton S. Eisenhower
South America
Haserty
Presidential lodge
Camar David
United Kingdom
United States of America
Brussels
Hunters Blamed for Easton Woods Fire Near Bridgeport
Twenty acres of woods and brush east of the Easton dam and Bridgeport Hydraulic property burned last night. Seventeen volunteer firefighters battled the flames for nearly five hours, reaching access only from the Trumbull side on Madison Avenue. Fire Chief Arthur A. Bush said the blaze, which left smoldering stumps into the afternoon, was believed started by hunters. The crew fought with shoulder tanks as trucks could not reach the tract. State Forest Ranger Charles Sugg er inspected the area today.
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EASTON
Bridgeport Hydraulic company
Easton dam
Arthur A. Bush
Myles B. Wakeley
Trumbull
Bush
Madison avenue
Charles Sugger
Putnam park
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ALMANAG
Pact
Snake Root road
Associated Brees
Southwest
GOP
HARLAN L. BROMLEY, SR
H.L. BROMLEY
Bonn
EASTON WOODS
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