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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1926
Page
2
Chicago Oct 26 Standard Oil company of Indiana cut the price of gasoline by one cent a gallon making it 20 cents a gallon. The reduction was met immediately by the En clair company.
Three marines, part of a detachment arriving from the large unit, will serve as armed air guards in Springfield for now. They will confine duty to night hours, accompany mail cars between Union Station and post office, and guard the Union cavern where mail transfers occur.
Canton investigators and state officers fear tampering as they pause further questioning of Patrick Fugene McDermott, dubbed Ker man, in the Mellett murder case. Prosecutor C B McClintock and Detective Ora Stater seek access but face obstacles in reaching McDermott and his co-defendants in the slaving indictments.
Pending Bernard McDermott’s return to Canton, quizzing of his brother proceeds while attorney E I Mills seeks access to McDermott in Stark county workhouse. Judge Agier warns McDermott may file illegal detention claims. prosecutor McClintock paints defense as obstructive, noting defense seeks witnesses.
Garrard B. Winston under-secretary told the Institute of American Meat Packers in Chicago that gold based stabilization of European currencies is a major step of restoration. He said it removes burdens from international trade and secures markets for American farmers, noting Fed aid to England and Belgium as they shifted to a gold basis.
In Yosemite National Park bears raid road cabins and ranger camps as Interior officials search for a solution without harming the animals. Tear gas fails as the bears show no tear glands. experiments with a black bear in Washington Zoo prove ineffective. During tourist season the bears gain laziness from abundance and pry into cabins for bacon, sometimes tearing walls or windows to gain entry.
Westport lists voting machines installation in selectmen office ahead of Friday and Saturday demonstrations with two instructors for new voters. Rotarians host to Miss Delda Schrotzky at weekly lunch. she heads Girl Scouts dramatization bureau in New York City. Plans finalize for fourth annual father and son banquet at the Y gym November 12 with a larger turnout and a notable speaker.
Harrisburg Pa Oct 26 Twenty six fraternal organizations based in 11 states risk losing their Pennsylvania licenses to sell insurance after an order to show cause by Insurance Commissioner Elinor Barford. She noted some societies operate with high expenses and some exceed seventy two percent of premiums.
Four suspects, three men and a woman, were arrested in a fashionable Atlanta hotel room on charges of robbing the Tinion Trust Company of Indianapolis. They were found with $11,000 in cash, a $50 Liberty Bond, five pistols, and cartridges. The quartet arrived by car late Monday and are held without bonds.
London October 26 Laborites to day failed to move the House of Commons to commit Dean Inge for breach of privilege over alleged remarks in his book England Awake that new type of labor member is sometimes a drunken blackguard. The speaker ruled privilege could not be raised.
Boston October 26 A pianist Charing Oberstein of New York searched for his daughter Henrietta Oberstein nineteen a pianist traced to the W C A but vanished The youth left home in despair thinking she failed examination at the New York Conservatory of Music but later it was learned she had won a scholarship
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