McGuire backs Lodge by bolt on bias issue
Connecticut politics flare over party lines as former congressman John McGuire accuses Democrats of desperate tactics while Abe Ribicoff faces a backlash from Republicans led by Lodge supporters. Bailey and McGuire trade charges of mudslinging and loyalty as campaigns heat up.
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McGuire
John
Lodge
Abe Rubicoff
Republican Party
Connecticut
New York
Dewey- Ives
United States
Three Firms Face Union Deadlocks in Strike Tension
The article details wage, vacation and holiday pay deadlocks at Underwood and Brass, with Union seeking a union shop amid nearby Adrian Michigan plant gains. State mediators are to meet Monday at 10 a.m. in the Stratford hotel as a strike deadline looms for about 1,400 workers.
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Charles Werkeiser
Phillip Koons
State Mediation Board
Union and Underwood Corporation
Stratfield Hotel
Underwood Union
Underwood
Dundore
Keats Explains 7 PM Voting Ban In State
Secretary of State Charlies B. Keats issues guidance on a 7 p.m. voting cutoff for Election Day. Electors may not vote after 7 unless inside a booth or already checked off as qualified by 7. Keats cites Section of the 1953 laws. Polls open at 6 a.m.
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Charlies B. Keats
Keats
Eisenhower Eyes Detroit Speech Emphasizes Prosperity
President Eisenhower told a Detroit audience that the regime has a heart and will keep solving unemployment without resorting to a war economy. He highlighted record car production, urged voting, and backed Senator Homer Ferguson amid McNamara challenge. He warned against red scare tactics and called for a GOP Senate and House sweep.
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Eisenhower
Detroit
Firenhower
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Ferguson
Patrick V. McNamera
Ferragon McNamara
AFL
CIO
Blair Moody
McNamara
Wayne County General
Louisville
Cleveland Hopkins
Cleveland
Washington
Ohio
GOP
George Bender
U. S. Senate
Thomas A. Burke
Robert A. Taft
James A. Rhodes
Frank J. Lausche
Queen Mother Elizabeth Visits Empire State Building
Queen Mother Elizabeth of England made a surprise visit to the Empire State Building in New York, officially listed as the 1,800,001st visitor. She viewed a four state area from the tower amid large crowds, with over 1,000 outside and about 5,000 by departure. She later attended a luncheon at the Bankers Club unveiling a portrait of herself and King George VI.
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New York
Empire State Building
Queen Mother Elizabeth of
England
Queen Mother
New Jersey
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Financial District
Bankers Club
King George VI
Finance Firm Robbed in Providence by Masked Gunman
A masked gunman robbed the People's Finance company of 3478 last night in Providence. The robber, wearing a red ban deanna mask, waved a 45 calibre automatic at Leslie D. Carroll of Danielson and Morris Leonard of Pawtucket as they operated the loan office.
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Providence
People's Finance Company
Leslie D. Carrol
Danielson
Word game hints and clues fuel a broad weekly contest
The piece discusses a puzzle week with a $125 prize split among players with one wrong word. It notes entries rising to 10,000, but per-player entries dropping to one and a half. It highlights difficult clues across and down including MAT as the top answer and explains why several word choices fit or fail, with emphasis on DECENT and RECENT versus RECOMMEND and PAL.
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Pal
State to speed job dredging harbor project
A spokesman said bids will be sent in the first week of December with January start expected. Six firms in the East and Midwest can handle it. Three weeks are set for engineers to survey the harbor site and plan dredging to fill meadows to 30 to 35 feet. Waste material will be dumped along the Sound or near Johnson's Creek. Dredging cost is about 2000000 dollars. Inner harbor channel will deepen to 40 or 45 feet from 30. Chamber of Commerce and State Development Commission back the project for savings on highway and harbor costs. Twenty-one nations conventions have been held in Chicago.
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East
Middle West
Sound
Johnson's Creek
Inner Harbor
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce
State Development Commission
Chest Extends Fund Campaign to Surpass Goal
Campaign totals show 88 percent of the annual objective raised with 200 plus attendees at a luncheon sponsored by Hovland Dry Goods. Joseph H. Lederer urged broad giving to 22 Red Feather agencies as divisions report varied progress including Education 16,314 9 15 percent Stratford 29,487 86 9 percent and Industrial 411,568 75 6 percent.
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Cheet
Hovland Dry Goods Company
Joseph H. Lederer
Lederer's, Inc
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce
Red Feather
Lederer
Stratford
Field telephones wife in Britain after Polish release
Field, freed from five years in Red Poland on false charges, telephoned his British born wife in London saying he hopes to join her in a few days. Mrs Field said the Cleveland architect will phone daily from a rest home outside Warsaw while recovering and awaiting the journey. He spoke with their two sons for the first time since his release last Monday after Poland admitted he had been jailed on false charges. Field vanished in Warsaw in 1949 while seeking his brother Noel who had disappeared months earlier. He was arrested at Warsaw airport by secret police official Josef Swiatlo who later aided his freedom and exposure of the unjust imprisonment.
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London
Hermann Field
Red Poland
Kate Field
Cleveland, O
Warsaw
Poland
United States
Field
City Trust Plans to Rebuild Branch Bank
The Endgeport City Trust plans rebuilding the East Main branch with ice and a parking area designed by architect C Welling ton Walker. Fifteen tenants including nine apartment families will be moved by April 30 next year. Bank will permit customers to bank at the site during construction. Tenants include Tom Thumb Market Bulash Realty Reich Liskov Nishball and others. The bank’s merger in 1949 left William F Severn as director. other branches remain at East Main and Fairfield Post Road.
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Ice
C. Wellington Walker
Bitzer
Tom Thumb
Bulash Realty and Insurance Company
Upton S. Reich
Samuel Liskov
Charles Nishball
Endgeport-City Trust Company
North End Bank and Trust Company
William F. Severn
Severn
Burritt Lumber Company
Ridgeport City Trust Company
East Main Street
Faurfield
Post Road
Yale Alumni Convocation Attendance by Dr James Gold
Dr James Douglas Gold of 39 Myrtle Avenue will attend the Yale University Alumni Convocation in New Haven this weekend. A Yale Class of 1288 alumnus, he serves on the Yale University Alumni board.
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YALE
James Douglas Gold
Myrtle Avenue
Yale University
New Haven
Dr Gold
Plane Crash Reported In Kingsport Scene
Tennessee observers rushed to the scene of a reported plane crash and found a group of youngsters working over a smashed gasoline model plane. The incident was reported from Kingsport on October 29 and involved state highway patrol units arriving at the site.
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Kingsport. Tenn
Kidnap figure shot in St. Louis mystery
Joseph Costello ex convict tied to the Greenlease ransom probe was found wounded at his home. Police say he claimed his 38 caliber revolver discharged accidentally during an early morning incident. He told a reporter he wished it were three inches lower before surgery.
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ST. Louis
Joseph Costello
Greenlease
Taday
Thomas Hale
Costello
Polce
Euty Hospital
Trumbull Polio Case Highlights Local Infections
A Trumbull nine year old girl ill with polio becomes the second family member affected after a brother recently recovered at Englewood. Health officials note polio rates among Salk test groups appear lower statewide with a few cases in first and third grades and some parental refusals. Gamma globulin has been given to exposed neighbors while New Milford and Bridgewater report 12 cases with one in Bridgewater. A Sandy Hook two year old is described as a mild case. Judith Collier, 16, of Southport, admitted to Englewood, remains in fair condition on respirator support.
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Trumbull
Salk
Murphy
Margaret
Trautman
New Milford
Bridgewater
Grace-New Haven Hospital
New Haven
James C. Hart
Bureau of Preventable Diseases
State Health Department
Newtown
J. Benton Egee
Sandy Hook
Englewood
Egee
Southport
Judith Collier
William Collier
Pequot Court
Iron Jung
Polio Fells Sister After Boy's Death
In New Britain on October 29 AP reports Richard Allen Crosby age three died Sunday of infantile paralysis. The day prior his seven year old sister was listed by the Health department as stricken, bringing the city's polio tally to 14 for the year.
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New Britain
Richard Allen Crosby
Health Department
Two Britons recalled after Moscow brawl
The British foreign office announced the recall of two embassy staff in Moscow after The London Daily Telegraph reported they knocked out several Russian policemen in a party aftermath. The incident occurred as Clement Attlee led a Socialist delegation toward Red China. names were not disclosed.
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London
Foreign Office
Moscow
London Daily Telegraph
Labor Parity
Clement Attlee
Russia
Red China
Telegraph
Denver Train Crash Claims Two Boys and Injures Five
Two Denver boys died and their parents two sisters and a brother were seriously injured when their car collided with a Rock Island freight train on the northwest Denver outskirts. Richard Bezler, nine, was killed. his brother William, six, died at a hospital an hour later. The parents and three other children Shirley Ann eleven Carol Diana eight and James thirteen were injured.
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Denver
Rock Island
Richard Bezler
William
Conrad G Begler
Shirley Ann
Carol Diana
James
Boy, 13, Killed in Train Tragedy
A 13 year old boy from Boy Scout Troop 6 is reported killed in a train incident. The story includes details of his family and funeral plans, with the tragic accident involving a classmate named Jim. Local recollections describe the event near West River school and a high bridge overpass.
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Boy Scout
John
Raymond
Michael
Rosemary Neylan
Caro Guardino
Frank Schulus
Pittaheld
Mass
Gregory F. Doyle
Brnidan Port Avenue
St Gabriel's Church
Stu. Mary’s
Billy
Bob Ward
Post- Telegram
Jim
West River School
High Street
Teachers Open State Session in Bridgeport
A report on the statewide teachers meeting notes how the Educational Commission frames shifts from prewar standards to the atomic era. Speakers include Dr Melby, Dr Alderson, Supt Joseph Jeffrey, Mayor Jasper McLevy, and Bridgeport educators Flora Lister William O’Brien Anna Finn Fred Roth Fred Sheehan and Marjorie Banks as the day’s program moves to afternoon discussion groups.
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Governor's Educational Commission
Melby
Minnesota
William H. Alderson
First Methodist Church
Joseph FE. Jeffrey
Jasper McLevy
Bouroe
Connecticut Education Association
Fairfield County
BTA
Central High School
Anna Finn
Bridgeport Teachers’ Association
CEA
Frederick E. Roth
Bassick High School
Wifred Sheehan
Hartford
Marjorie Banks
Planes seek Prince Ali Reza in Iran border search
A force of 29 Iranian and U S Air Force planes combed a wild region near the Soviet border today in search of Price Ali Reza missing on a plane flight since Wednesday.
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Tehran
Iran
Price Ali Reza
Wednesdar
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