Coolidge Haunted by Mine Seizure Leader Blames Hammond
John L. Lewis, mummers' international president, accused John Hays Hammond of pressuring Congress to nationalize coal and push a semi regulation of the anthracite industry. He said Hammond tainted White House lawn talk to revive the old coal commission’s ideas, blaming Hammond for stirring nationalization talk rather than mine workers.
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Coolidge
Hammond
Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
Mummers’ International
John Hays Hammond
White Court
Coal Commission
Congress
Rammond
Republican Party
Lewis
United Wine Workers of America
Presa
Joan Hays Hammond
Swampscott
Lfe
Mackinaw Officers Plead Not Guilty In Explosion Trial
Captain George Wo Metway and Chief Engineer Jonn A Grant of the excursion steamer Mackinaw pleaded not guilty to negligence charges at the opening of their trial in Providence. The case centers on the August 15 explosion that killed four, with 600 aboard, as witnesses including Captain McVay and others testified regarding boiler conditions and welding work.
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Providence
George Wo Metway
Jonn
Mackinaw
Newport
Toon
Ciliren
Board of Federal Steamship
McVay
Engneer Grant
Grant
Vito
John J Fitzgerald
Mullen
Mackinacks
Naval Hospital
Wiliam G Windsor Jr
Rhode
Connecticut Factories Not Facing Coal Shortage
Connecticut manufacturers reported ample coal stocks from prior months despite the anthracite miners strike. At the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association meeting in New Haven directors discussed relief measures, noting many firms had not yet submitted statements. Further data will be compiled and released to the public.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Manufacturers' Association of
Hubbard
Death sentence for U S officer in girl killing
Manila Sept 2 Lieutenant John S Thompson of Far Rockaway New York was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Audrey Burleigh a sixteen year old society favorite in the islands army colony The court martial heard that Thompson pleaded guilty to manslaughter after abandoning insanity defenses and executed an about face as Brig Gen Symonds declared the sentence Efforts likely to seek a White House reprieve and Thompson told counsel he was sane and not guilty of murder.
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Manila
John S Thompson
U. A
Far Rockaway
Audrey Burleigh
Islands
Weat Pointer
Dewey Boulevard
Thompson
Symonds
West Point
White House
Washington, DC
Lieut
Lazarus
Railroad sues for flood damage in New Haven
New Haven court records show the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad suing the Uncas Power Company of Norwich for flood damage after an artificial release from the Shetucket river reservoir on August 28 1922 washed out the railroad bed. The road seeks 4683.38 in repairs and mentions an agreement with the Uncas Corporation from July 1807.
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New Haven
New York, New Haven
Hartford
Uness Pow‘er Company
Norwich
Superior Court
Shetucket River
Uncas Corporation
Mavng
Delinquent Taxpayers to Face Public Display
The Internal Revenue Bureau will publish the names of thousands of tax delinquents from across the nation for public inspection. Only the tax amounts will be shown. fines and penalties remain undisclosed. The list includes bootleggers and other offenders, with Detroit contributing over $112,000 in delinquent taxes.
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Washington
Internal Revenues Bureau
Internal Revenue Bureau
Detroit
Goolidge to seek law on railroad merger forcing action
President Coolidge and Senator Watson plan railroad consolidation via legislation next session. They back voluntary merges but will push compulsory consolidation after six to seven years if needed. Tax reduction and World Court adherence also inhabit the agenda with readjustment of labor boards and long and short haul disputes on railroads.
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Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
Watson
Indiana
Interstate Commerce Committee
van Sweringen
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tne
Aiga
Congress
Railroad Labor Board
White Court
Finance Committee
House
Scion of Cotton Mather Dies at 84 in Stamford
John Cotton Mather, New York insurance broker and descendant of Cotton and Increase Mather, dies at his daughter’s home in Stamford in his eighty fourth year. He never attended a theatre or joined clubs. survived by four daughters. Funeral Thursday at 3 pm at the Fitch home, burial in Spines Grove cemetery.
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Cotton Mather
Stamford
John Cotton Mather
New York Insurance Broker
Increase Mather
Harvard Unsersh
William H Fitch
Va Mather
Hs Fife
Wi Mather
Quellen
Gann
George Water
Murs Whitney
Johnson and Higgins
New York City
Misa
Mary F Banger
Fitchers
Edgar Haliday
Howard Hell
Norwalk
RP Clark
Chelaga
Fitch Home
Spines Grove Cemetery
Arrests in Norwalk gambling house holdup loom
Norwalk police expect three more arrests after an eight-man robbery at a Norwalk gambling club early Sunday. Victims said $5,000 to $8,000 was taken, with 40 gamblers held at gunpoint. Former Deputy Sheriff John E. Blake was held on a separate gambling charge.
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Norwalk
Bridgeport
Blake
Main Street
Stamford
Bridgeport Tax Collected Tops $66 000 in Year
Bridgeport tax staff report collection exceeded 66000 this year far above the 500 total from the prior year. The note appears in a condensed list of state and Fairfield County items across pages, with references to arrests, local officials, and regional events.
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Bridgeport
State
Fairfield County
Norwalk
Fairfield
Connecticut River
Baron Malsean
Ridgefield
Westport
Bonda Bedford
First Ecclesiastical Society of Huntington
Milford
Danbury
New York
Coal Page & of
Cotton Mather
Stamford Homme
Plan to raise funds for motion picture tax in New Haven
Connecticut Motion Picture Theatre Owners' association decisions set up a city bureau to raise an exhibitor funded pool to pay back distributors for state film taxes. Funds will be collected from exhibitors and deposited in Hartford banks to cover taxes on films delivered before last Sunday and after July 8. A Sunday meeting will brief owners on latest developments as distributors withdraw films and new contracts falter.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Motion Picture Theatre Owners’ Association
Charles C Pettijohn
Blodgett
Hartford
Th. Pettijohn
Joseph Walsh
State Association of Exhibitors
Kilfeather
Walsh
Charles Schneider
Schneider
Hamden
Uton
Tongman breaks truce with fatal street shooting in Brooklyn
Sam Wing, an 18 year old On Leong tongman, shot Brooklyn laundryman Tom Woo during a truce breach. Wing fled, was caught after a chase, and Woo was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition. Police say tongs face accountability before a peace cement hearing next week.
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New York
On Leong
Hip Sing
Sam Wing
Tong
Tom Woo
Brooklyn
Wing
Woo
Pavelick
Chicago
Kings County
Bowdoin Arrives at Holstenberg Greenland Arc tic Expedition
The Bowdoin flagship of the MacMillan Arctic expedition arrived at Holstenberg Greenland and awaits the Peary, 800 miles behind, as Navy planes survey the area.
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Washington
Bowdoin
National Geographic Society
Holstenberg
Greenland
Kellogg Presses China Progress in Ex Duties and Privileges
Secretary of State Frank B Kellogg told the American Bar Association that the United States will urge China to fulfill its sovereign duties in protecting foreign citizens and property while demanding the abrogation of special privileges for outsiders as progress is shown. He announced Silas H Strawn of Chicago as American Special Commissioner on extraterritoriality and treaty revision amid ongoing Brandon Conference discussions.
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Detroit
United States
Washington
Chicago
Brandon
Public Must Pay Tax Upon Films Indpendents Say
The Independent Motion Picture Association of America warns Connecticut’s film tax could cripple the motion picture inquiry nationwide. Frederick H. Ziott says no boycott, but theatres may suffer. Elliott notes some exchanges have closed New Haven offices to protect slim resources. Independent distributors will operate in New Haven despite potential actions by other film distributors. The group aims to educate the public as the film tax spreads to other states.
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New York
Independent Motion Picture Assaciation of
America
Connecticut
Paya
Frederick HW Ziott
Mr Elliott
New Haven
Scott
Elliott Declared
Elliott
Golden Distributing Company
Hays
Five Flyers Missing After Fuel Short Seaplane Incident
Navy patrols the Pacific as crews and volunteers double efforts to locate the missing seaplane PN-9 No 4 and its five crewmen. Reports indicate the craft ditched near Alalakeiki Channel Maui after a flight from Pearl Harbor. Searches extend across vast sea lanes with ships planes and submarines directing operations outside Honolulu.
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Pacific
Honolulu
Alalakeiki Channel
Toland
Maui
Banco
Pearl Harbor
Mani
U. S S&s Aroostook
Navy Arcraft
Aroos
Northwa
Toval
Postpone Flight of Third Plane Across Pacific
Weather delays the PB-1 non stop attempt from San Francisco to Honolulu. Secretary Wilbur may defer the PB-1 if PN-9 No 1 is lost or out of search, citing safety and guard concerns. Navy officials weigh drift and possible beaching near Hawaii.
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San Francisco
Calif
Stanford HB. Moses
Honolulu
Moses
Washington
Wilbur
Hawaii
Department
H C Richardson
Navy Department
Insane Man Sought Near Fairfield After Door Knock
Constable H R Elwood searches woods near Fairfield for a man described as 55 to 60, baldheaded with adhesive on the forehead, in tattered clothes. A resident reported a stranger asking to be hidden. another sighting near Jennings road links to George Adams of Shelton who vanished from a sanatorium.
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Fairfield
H R Elwood
Elwood
James Nelson
Villa Avenue
Nelson
Jennings Road
George Adams
Shelton
Incheshire
Stage Hands Dust Process Server in Taxi
Janet Beecher star of A Kiss in a Taxi is sued for separation by husband Dr Richard Hoffman who alleges she deserted him and took their son. A process server says he was assaulted by stage hands at a theater. beecher was later located in a taxi and served with papers.
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Star
New York
Janet Beecher
Richard Hoffman
Richard Wyndham Hoffman
Hoffman
Beauty Parlor Registration Ends In Hartford
Hartford seeks stricter rules for beauty parlor apprentices and students as the state board of hairdressers sets new age and education requirements. Examinations for instructor registration will occur in October with a reduced required study hours for certification.
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Hartford
Estabnga Munta
Atate Board
Hairdensers
Th General Assembly
Ber
Capital Avenue
Capitol Annex
Margaret C Sullivan
Artford
In. Carr & Holm
New
Aid
Katheine Crowley
Bridgeport
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Kellogg
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