Dawn Flies Back to Curtiss Field End of Atlantic Dream
The Dawn amphibian plane led by Mrs Frances W Grayson retraced to the Sikorsky hangar at Sorti8s Field after a three hour flight from Old Orchard. Pilot Wilmer Stultz and navigator Eridh Goldsborough remained silent on future plans while Grayson announced winter tests to improve efficiency with a spring attempt hoped. Stultz said no one will fly blind over the ocean and promised he holds no hard feelings toward Grayson though he cited his resignation doubts.
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Associated Press
Frances W. Grayson
Long Island
Atlantic
Old Orchard
Agen
Denmark
Wilmer Stultz
Eridh Goldsborough
Old Orchard’ Beach
Cress
Sikorsky
Starr
Grayson
Stuitz
Bonds Found On Youth In Chicago Pawnshop Loot
A nineteen year old youth Otho Hamilton of Fortoria Kansas was found with fifty thousand dollars in bonds and socks stuffed in his clothing by Chicago police after loitering near a pawnshop. He claimed to have run away last week and taken the securities from his widowed mother’s 240 acre farm in Kansas. Hamilton said he met a man named Barkley who planned to convert the securities to cash in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Associated Piers
Otho Hamilton
Fostoria
Kansas
Hamilton
Pete Hamilton
Barkley
Berkley
Pastor Receives Purse From Olivet Congregation
A local service event noted members of the Olivet Congregation presenting a purse to Pastor Brow in Holden Hall. The gathering honored his years of service as he spoke about memory and gratitude, with several attendees praising his leadership.
Father Teaching Son Golf Tragedy Ends In Death
In Los Angeles a fatal golf accident occurred during a father’s lesson to his son. Donald Wealey, 12, misHit a shot and his club struck Jen H. Wesley on the head, killing him instantly. The incident happened on a golf course as the father demonstrated the proper drive and handed the club to his son before the fatal misstroke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Asociated Preas
Donald Wealey
Jen H. Wesley
Donald
Wesley
Deaty
Equal opportunity plea from Dean Ladd at Berkeley Divinity
Dean Ladd of Berkeley Divinity lectures on equal opportunity for clergymen, engineers, and doctors at 8. John’s Page reports on Saturday revelry ruins Sunday while Rev. Alexander Alison comments. A thousand dollars is raised toward a church rebuilding fund. A Probus club from Bridgeport gains national admission. Rev. Herbert Brown marks his tenth pastorate anniversary at Olivet church. Poli shifts to sculpture. federal plant quarantine against Japanese beetle explained by state entomologist. Family physician plans general denial in a patient love theft case. Albee forms a firm to build theatres here. A Newtown Halloween party lights the Fairfield County page. A Danbury-area power firm cuts large-consumer rates. Harry Moody is re-elected head of a New Fairfield church club. Veterans’ installation in Milford. Stratford budget up by sixty six thousand, possibly reduced. Naugatuck Valley Chamber of Commerce to discuss issues. Foreign news mentions a vice consul saved in wreck, possible suicide, and Maximilian Harden’s death. a Japanese bishop is named. Greek president shot but survives. Ireland storms and floods. Ruth Elder visits Paris. Connecticut flyer crash, high-speed chase. A high school boy foils a hold-up. An ex-guardian slain in York. police search for suspects. Editorials, cartoons, and radio programs noted. Yale injuries from Dartmouth game and Mohican defeat headline city league results.
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Bridgeport
Ladd
Berkeley Divinity
John
Albee
Formin
Buid Theatres
Fairfield County Country Club
Hallowe'en
Newtown
Danbury
Harry Moody
New Fairfield
Hunter
Huntington Woods
Friend
Milford
Stratford
Naugatuck Verley Chamber of Commerce Association
lPege
Maximilian Harden
Holenzoli Jern
Homan Catholic Church
Treland
Shannon
Ruth Elder
Paris
Napoeon
Gawn Flea
New York
Staltz
Connecticut
Lane
Maine
York
Jack Walsh
Dr. McCoy
Parker Cadman
Yale
Dartmouth
Mohicane
Newark
Weaterhwin
Newfield Park
North End Triangles
Brooklawns
Two Strathford youths held on burglary charges
Stratford police arrested John Rush seventeen of 125 Arch steel and John Tomatore seventeen of 82 Suggettis lane after a burglary at Malafonte's Market 1559 Biratford Avenue. A juvenile accomplice was also held. About $1.50 in pennies was taken. They were later turned over to Bridgeport police and will face City Court today.
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Stratford
John Rush
Seeventeen
Arch Steel
John Tomatore
Suggettis
Federal quarantine to curb Japanese beetles extends to Stamford area
State Entomologist explains an order taking effect November 1 imposes inspection of nursery stock in Bridgeport Fairfield Easton Weston Westport Norwalk Darien New Canaan Wilton Stamford Stratford Greenwich Trumbull and Shelton. The federal quarantine covers parts of New Jersey Pennsylvania New York and Connecticut after the beetle was first found in Stamford.
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Bridgeport
Fairfield
Easton
Weston
Westport
Norwalk
Darien
New Canaan
Wilton
Stamford
Stratford
Greenwich
Trumbull
Shelton
United States Department of Agriculture
William M Jardine
Fairfield County
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
Connecticut
W. A
Bedford III at Westport Home in Ill Health
Edward T Bedford president of Gorn Products Refining Co and noted philanthropist is confined to his Grems Farms home with rheumatism in his right hip. He has been home two weeks and showed slight improvement but missed the Y M C A dedication in Norwalk where he served as honorary committee chairman. Bedford and family have given over 200000 to local schools Norwalk Y M C A built Nurses Home and a new wing at Norwalk Hospital valued at 600000 total gifts and projects in area.
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Westport
Edward T Bedford
Gorn Products Refining Company
New York City
Grems Farms
Bedford
Norwalk
Hefford
Norwalk Hospital
Howland Dry Goods Engine Room Fire Traced
Firemen were called to the Howland Dry Goods Co store on Cannon street after an alarm from private box 33. In the basement engine room a small blaze burned on steam pipe coverings in a cement culvert and was extinguished with chemicals. Damage was slight as crowds gathered and Chief Daniel E B Johnson and Assistant Chief George E Beardslee responded.
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Howland Dry Goods Co
Cannon Street
Daniel EB. Johnson
George E Beardslee
Bishop Links Christian Life To Sports In Sermon
The bishop labeled critics of spectator culture as “Bleacher Athletes,” urging Christians to match sportsmanship with faith. He argued religion mirrors rules in games, urging baptism offerings and daily duties, warning against changing rules to fit convenience.
Poli Will Devote His Time to Sculpture, His First Calling
Sylvester Z Pol, 69, plans retirement from theatre work to focus on sculpture after selling his New England vaudeville circuit for about 30 million dollars. Born in Italy, he studied in Paris and built a chain of 20 theatres. he insists his future art will be done for love, not profession.
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Poli
Sylvester Z. Pol
Mr. Pol
Rose Tran
Helen Musee
New England
Bridgeport
Iowa
Fitin Avenue
New Haven
Indestan
Albee Announces Forming of Theatre War Syndicate
The Keith-Albee interests head E F Abbe unveiled a new syndicate with the Stanley Company of America and two unnamed movie concerns to build a theater chain in New England poll towns. Plans include new venues in Worcester Springfield New Haven Hartford Bridgeport Meriden and other cities, with a verbal accord keeping Poll towns free of direct Keith invasion until now. The move follows Poll chain ownership changes and signals expansion into cinema vaudeville in a six city corridor.
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New England
E. F. Abbe
Keith-Albee
Stanley Company of America
Samuel Schnee
Fem
Schneée
Schnee
Tits City
Max Shhoolman
Alan Strausa
Boston
Poll
Worcester
Springfield
Mass
New Haven
Hartford
Budgeport
Meriden
Keith
Poli Enterprises
Feld the Stanley Company
First National Pictures Corporation
Ex grid star Jack Walsh slain in Chicago
York Pa Oct 30 Ex Notre Dame football star and Chicago businessman's son Jack Walsh, 24, was found dead in York's foreign quarter. Police say he may have been attacked by three Negro men after leaving a dance hall. one suspect James Williams, 28, held without charges. Walsh died from a hemorrhage caused by a ruptured blood vessel in his head. Witness accounts vary. coroner Zech notes three alleged witnesses corroborate a brick assault and body being thrown against a brick wall. Walsh survived by widow and child. elder Walsh involved with American Chain Co. stockholder records.
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York Pa
Associated Press
Jack Walsh
Arinet
Notre Dame
Chicago
York
James Williams
Walsh
Willams
YMCGA
Polee
American Chain Company
Mra
L. A. Zech
Zech
Restaurant fight ends in street brawl at Cantal restaurant
Police faced a clash outside the Cantal on Fairfield avenue after a group from a factory outing attacked Officer Dennis Hackett. Malcolm Demming Callahan allegedly broke a door, Edward Fagan assaulted the officer, and Morris Reichman joined the fracas. Fagan was treated at a hospital and charged with assault, resistance, and breach of the peace. Callahan and Beterman were jailed on related counts with bonds set.
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Cantal
Feirfield Avenue
Dennis Hackett
Malcolm Demming Callahan
Hanove Street
Edward Fagan
Courtland Street
Hackett
Morris Relchman
Callahan
Fagan
Haberlin
Beterman
Canton
Mount
John Barton
Greek President Wounded in Assassination Attempt
President Coundouriotis was shot twice by an unemployed youth outside the municipal building as he entered his car for a congress, with a grazing wound to the forehead and a splintered bone in the right temple. He underwent a minor operation and later returned home, condition described as satisfactory.
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Athens
Associated Press
Coundourotis
Ita Forea
Kondourlouis
Car Plunges Into Piscataquis River Near Milo
In Milo Maine on October 30 a sedan owned by Malvin Melonson plunged into the Piscataquis River two miles north of Milo. Melonson and a passenger were rescued. George Dempsey drowned. The Surratts, also in the car, survived after breaking the window. Ferryman Clarequee Young rescued the siblings and alerted authorities. Dempsey did not survive.
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Milo Maine
Associated Press
Malvin Melonson
Tom
George Dempsey
East Mulinocke
North Bradford
Surratts
Clarequee Young
Young
Surratt
Dempsey
Jum
Milo
Melonson
Soviet Ship Seized in Egypt Sparks Fear of Crisis
Alexandria report says the Soviet steamer Tchitcherin, carrying cotton valued at about 90,000 pounds sterling, was seized as it left Alexandria for Odessa. The seizure follows a prior action against the steamer Costi, seized by Russian authorities at Odessa, raising political tensions.
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Cairq
Egypt
Alexandria
al Abram Saya
Equitable Trust Company of
New York
Odessa
Connecticut flyer crash claims four aboard in New Jersey field
Four aboard the five passenger cabin plane died when the craft plunged into a Hadley Field area field near South Plainfield New Jersey. Pilot Leroy Thomson 28 of Hackensack and his fiancee Elizabeth McGowan 2 a school teacher of Westwood along with Wesley Hubbell 27 and George Hrubauer 26 were killed instantly. The plane had taken off from Hadley Field after being flown from Boston last night. The crash drew crowds as authorities secured the site.
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South Plainfield
Associates Press
New Market
Leroy Thomson
Pamaie Street
Hackensack
Colonial Air Transport Company
Elizabeth McGowan
Westwood
Thomson
Wesley Hubbell
George Hrubauer
Hillsdale
Hadley Field
Air Mail
Earth
Hadley
Boston
Teterboro
Colonist Air Transport Company
Trumbull
Connecticut
Arectors
Side” Serv
Charles Drake
Soureaus
Reynolds Airways Company
Cvrner
Fokker
Astronda
New Brunswick
Thomson Felley
Colonial Company
Olive Oswald
Hubbell
Bootleg Schooner Pryzsymel Seized Near Mississippi
Coast Guardsmen seize the German registered schooner Pryzsymel at the mouth of the Mississippi. About 10 000 gallons of alcohol and 60 barrels of whiskey valued at 1 500 000 are the cargo. The captain and 11 crew members are detained for investigation.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Mississippi River
Family Physician Denies Suit Alleging Love Affair
Dr DeRuy ter Howland denies the $25 000 claim and says a general denial will form the basis of his answer in Superior Court. Joseph B Harris accuses Howland of intimate relations with his wife Edith Amcé de, starting February 1920, while Harris and his wife live together. Howland calls the filing a surprise from a longtime friend.
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Superior Court
DeRuyter Howland
Arthur M. Comley
Joseph B. Harris
Howland
G@ Ford
Frank L. Wilder
Coungel
Telegram
Dr. Howland
Harris
Hanis
Two Horses Shot in Newtown Prompt Hunter Suspicion
In Newtown Walker Farms district two of Frank Quibeck’s horses were shot with buckshot. One horse was killed, the other badly injured but likely to recover. Deputy Morris P. Beers is investigating with possible motives tied to ignorant drivers or an adversary of Quibeck.
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Newtown
Walker
Quibeck P
Quibeck
Fle
Sherif Morris P. Beers
First Japanese Bishop Installed by Pope at St Peter's
Rome observers witness the consecration of Gennaro Hayasa ka as bishop, the first Japanese in Catholic history to reach episcopal rank. Pope Pius XI presides as 40,000 fill St Peter's Basilica, sharing mass with diverse faithful and receiving the Apostolic blessing.
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Rome
Associated Press
Gennaro Hayasaka
Fius XI
St Peter's
Nippon
St Francis Xavier
Pius
Plug
Alth
St Peter's Tomb
High School Boy Captures Robber in Maine Town
Louis H Emmanuel a Portland High senior chased and tackled John L Lewis of New York after a holdup at the Jefferson Theatre box office. Lewis fired three shots. Emmanuel, working as a Temple Street lunch counter man, pinned him after a pursuit hundreds of yards. Police say Lewis admitted firing at the boy.
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Portland
Maine
Associated Presa
Louis H Emmanuel
John L Lewis
New York
Jefferson Theatre
Sturday
Emmanuel
Temple
Temple Street
Lewis
Atvie
Theae
Kathleen Eliott
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U. 8
Secretary of Agriculture
Fairfield Country
E. T. Bedford III
Howland Engineroom
Irving Peake Johnson
Vop
Colorado
Trinity Church
Letes
Mr. Polit
M Dablex
Jesus
Alison
Alexander Alison
Mr. Alison
England
Stefano di Stefano
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Pes
Coundouriotis
Sedan
Connecticut Flyer
Woodbury
Trumbesl Firm
Southbury
Jersey Field
Cee
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