Chou En-lai urges US fleet removal from Formosa
Tokyo AP report cites Chou En-lai addressing the National People's Congress. Monitors relay a translation claiming China intends to kick out the US fleet from Formosa Strait and to liberate Formosa. He affirms Formosa as China's sacred territory and rejects foreign intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Redchina
Chou En-lai
National People’s Congress
Formosa
Chou
Formosa Strait
Ormosa
China
United States
Snow in Vermont Brings Early Harbingers
Sept 23 update from Montpelier reports light snow and rain mixing began overnight, following UP Summer departure from Vermont. Snow fell in the area for about an hour signaling upcoming winter patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Montpelier
Japs See Evidence Of Red H-Bomb Blast
Tokyo reports Asahi quotes Japanese scientists claiming near conclusive evidence of a Soviet hydrogen bomb test. They say the explosion on Wrangel Island near Nome, Alaska, was of hydrogen bomb magnitude, following Moscow’s announced atomic test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Russia
Wrangel Island
Nome
Alaska
Asahi
Moscow
Dumaine Drops Railroad Suit in New Haven Control Fight
Frederic Dumaine Jr has dropped his legal bid to regain control of the New Haven Railroad after a proxy vote loss. Patrick B. McGinnis won by 2,067 votes out of about a million shares. Dumaine remains a director and will scrutinize McGinnis policies and speak out when warranted.
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Hartford
Frederic. Dumaine, Jr
New
Haven
New York
Patrick‘ B. McGinnis
Dumaine
Cyril Coleman
Coleman
New Haven Superior Court
McGinnis
New Haven
Two Youths Held in Fairfield Break In
Det George Lasko and Sgt Philip Ganser of Fairfield Police arrested Ralph Demasi 18 of 88 Bamforth Avenue Danbury and Julius Kochis 16 of 20 Carthage Street Fairfield yesterday at 2 30 pm They broke into Kingsway bowling alleys on Kings Highway Fairfield early Tuesday charged with breaking and entering held on $1000 bonds pending town court arraignment Police said the youths rifled a pinball machine and damaged equipment in the establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lasko
Philip Ganser
Fairfield Police Department
Ralph Demasi
Bamforth Avenue
Danbury
Julius Kochis
Carthage Street
Fairfield
Kingsway
Kings Hnghway
Weston crash kills woman driving station wagon
Mrs. Domenica Clement, 83, of Ridgefield RFD 4, died at 10:45 a.m. when her station wagon collided with a Ward Bakery truck on Route 57 at Goodhill Road in Weston. William J. Phelan, 48, of Bridgeport, the truck driver, suffered a nose laceration. Clement’s husband Robert, 51, was injured and taken to Norwalk Hospital. Preliminary reports cite failure to stop at a stop sign as the cause. Clement died of multiple skull fractures.
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Weston
Domenica Clement
RFD
Ridgefield
Bridgeport
Goodhill Road
Westport
Ward
William J. Phalen
Wilmot Avenue
Clement
Robert
Norwalk Hospital
David Smith
Phelen
Weston Road
Phelan
Roger Hate
Steep Hall Road
Tenor
James Melton
Plaintiffs Ask Case Specifics in Auto Antitrust Suit
Hathaway Motors Inc and two Waterbury figures seek more exact allegations in a million dollar antitrust case against 18 auto manufacturers. Defense motion filed by General Motors and Colonial Motors of New Milford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haver
Hathaway Motors, Inc
Erwin Hathaway
B. Hathaway and Son
James Walsh
Waterbury
General Motors Corporation
Colonial Motors Corporation
New Milford
U. S. Court Sets Aside Sale of Hotel Taft
Federal court in Hartford set aside the 1950 sale of the Hotel Taft in New Haven after ruling the price paid was far below its value. Judge J. Joseph Smith sided with New York stockholders who protested the $642,000 sale of a property the court valued at $1.4 million or more. The Taft Scalts corporation sold the hotel to the New Haven Realty corporation on January 20, 1950.
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Hartford
Taft
New Haven
J. Joseph Smith
New York
Taft Scalts Corporation
New Haven Realty Corporation
Lodge Accepts U S Storm Aid In Connecticut
Hartford AP says a federal task force arrived to coordinate disaster aid for storm damaged areas in Connecticut. Governor Lodge signed the federal aid agreement as Brig. Gen. Hesketh and the task force begins work. Estimated aid requests range from 250000 to 100000 dollars. Eisenhower had already allocated 1560000 for Rhode Island and Massachusetts hurricane areas.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Eisenhower
A. D. O'Connor
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Governor Lodge
Lodge
William Hesketh
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Derby man takes sons. police seek suspect after threats
Mrs Joseph Tyburski reported her husband vanished with their two sons and threatened to harm them. Derby and Ansonia police, joined by state officers, scoured for Tyburski after he left the Farre foundry and took his five year old and younger son from St Michael's School. A warrant charged him with injury to children and enticing a child.
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Derby
Joseph Tyburski
Tyburski
Farre Foundry
Ansonia
St. Michael's
Connecticut phone repair men return from storm work
About 140 Connecticut telephone workers returned home to Hartford after ten days of dawn to dusk labor restoring service damaged by Edna in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The Southern New England Telephone company dispatched crews in two caravans with about 30 trucks, then 20 more, and they lived in hotels around Boston and Dover while working 7 am to 7 pm every day.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Hamshire
Southern
New England Telephone Company
Boston
Dover
N. H
Cheshire NAMES McNamara AS FIRST CHIEF OF POLICE
John G McNamara of Waterbury was named Cheshire's first chief of police tonight. Frank Washburn, chairman of the Cheshire Board of Police Commissioners, said the appointment is the first step toward a paid police force. McNamara has eight years of police experience, mostly in Waterbury as a detective.
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Cheshire
John G McNamara
Waterbury
Frank Washburn
Cheshire Board of Police Commissioners
McNamara
Prison Term Given in Forgery Case
Stanley Winner, 29, of 54 Ogren Street, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and forgery in Superior Court. He was sentenced to one to four years in State’s prison by Judge Louis Shapiro for breaking into Fellawdbes Steel and stealing blank checks, forging Edward J. Owens’s name to cash a $97 check. The State cited prior forgery and auto theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Winner
Ogren Street
Louis Shapiro
Winner
Fellawdbes Steel Corporation
Edward J. Owens
Winne
Fairfield Bank
Otto J. Saur
Ronald Springer
Pacific Street
Stamford
Guily
Springer
Edith Springer
Francis C Smith
Noroton
Greenwich Yacht Club
Robert Springer
Shapiro
Marshall Payne
Rockland Road
Norwalk
Payne
Court suit filed against Jewish Home assets in liquidation
Alfred J Bohlinger New York state superintendent of insurance filed suit in Supreme Court seeking possession of assets of the Jewish People's Home of Ridgefield Inc and the Jewish Fraternal Home Fund of Ridgefield with Jacob Cooper of Stamford as trustee. The case aims to liquidate International Workers Order ties and stop asset transfers pending litigation. Judge Raimond J Devlin issued an injunction. Earlier action alleged Ridgefield real estate was used as a communist summer resort and meeting place rather than a home for the aged.
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Alfred J Bellinger
New York State
Superintendent of Insurance
Supsnor Court
Jewish People’s Home of
Ridgefield, Inc
Jewish Fraternal Home Fund
Ridgefield
Jacob Cooper
Stamford
Bohlinger
International Workers Order,“Inc
U.S
IWO
Raimond J. Devlin Ha
Adndants
Bodfinger
Ridgefield Real Estate
Mrs J F Curley Dies in Larchmont New York
Mrs Margaret Eversman Curley of 15 Kane Avenue Larchmont New York wife of Major James F Curley sister of Dr William H Curley Sr of Bridgeport Connecticut died Tuesday Services set for St Augustine church at 10 a m with a requiem Mass Burial in West Point Cemetery West Point New York Survived by her husband a son James D Curley and sister Miss Alice Eversman all of Larchmont
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Larchmont
N. Y
Margaret Eversman Curley
Kane Avenue
James F. Curley
Major Curley
William H. Curley
Bridgeport
James D. Curley
Alice Eversman
Francis Burdge Gains After Heart Operation
Francis M. Burdge, 35, of Louisville, Kentucky, former resident, regained mobility after a delicate heart operation on September 8 in Bridgeport. He rested comfortably at the home of his brother in Stratford following hospital release. A surgeon opened his heart and fracturing a mitral valve closed by rheumatic fever from childhood. Relatives said he left the bed briefly and walked yesterday.
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Francis M. Burdge
Louisville
Bridgeport
Hus Piot
Coday
Fred Bray
Lobdell Drive
Stratford
Burdgs
Truck Owner Fined 1053 for Overweight Load
Superior Court Judge Louis Shapiro fined Joseph Esposito, 34, of Frederick Street Trumbull, a truck owner, 1053 on an overweight charge but remitted 953 as a $10 fine. He was arrested in Newtown July 2 after a truck he owned hauled gravel 11 775 pounds over the registered cross weight. Assistant States Attorney Otto J. Saur said the state statute provides a minimum fine of 9 and a maximum of 10 for each 100 pounds overweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Louis Shapiro
Joseph Esposito
Frederick Street
Trumbull
Newtown
State Motor Vehicles Department
Esposito
Gkallty
Otto J. Saur
Shapiro
Settlement in liquor case linked to fatal crash
Manchester news reports a settlement of an undisclosed amount in a $30 000 damage suit against a restaurant operator who allegedly served liquor to Louis W Birnie. Birnie, intoxicated, crashed on Oct 5 1951, drowned after his truck left a bridge railing. settlement awarded to his father Charles Birnie.
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Manchester
Louis W. Birnie
Charles Birnie
Birnie
John G
Unites
YMCA Drive Reports At Second Membership Meeting
The YMCA will hold its second membership drive report meeting Friday at 6 15 pm in the Y to report progress toward a 2900 member quota. Drive leaders David B. Smith and A Forrest Louks said Aqua Maids will perform a dance at the dinner with six swimmers involved. The event includes a Miss Membership Campaign of 1954 selection from Aqua Maids and a mermaid draw featuring H Butline Naramore Albert W Louks and Harry K Brown as mayoral candidates. The No Change party leads in memberships with 58 signed, led by Earl Mastin Roderick Smith and Frank Krajcik. Individual leaders include Harold Strouse Walter Rubsamen Roderick Smith David Ruffel Arthur Hawles William Ferebee and Richard Brew.
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YMCA
David B. Smith
A. Forrest Louks
Ain Warnesa
H. Butline Naramore
Albert W. Louks
Harry K. Brown
Earl Mastin
Roderick Smith
Frank Krajcik
Harold Strouse
Walter Rubsamen
David Ruffel
Arthur Hawles
William Ferebee
Richard Brew
Dulles Speech Televised by Major Networks in New York
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles delivers a policy speech before the United Nations General Assembly. NBC and Dunfont will carry the remarks live, with ABC radio recording for later broadcast at 8:30 p.m. NBC airs at 9 p.m. and CBS at 11:30 p.m. in New York on September 23.
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New York
John Foster Dulles
United Nations General Assembly
NBC
Dunfont
Dulles
Do Pam
ABC
CBS
Police Group Elect Wethersfield Leader in ID Association
Louis Harper of the New Britain police force was named president of the Connecticut division of the International Association for Identification at the Osborn Prison Farm meeting. Other officers include Det George Mochl of Hamden as first vice president and George Yurchi of Remington Arms in Bridgeport as second vice president.
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Wethersfield
Louis Harper
New Britain
Connecticut
International Association For Identification
Osborn Prison Farm
George Mochl
Hamden
George Yurchi
Remington Arms Company
Bridgeport
Ferdinand Hovenv
Greenwich
Means Sought To Keep TB Patients In Check
Hartford September 23 Up State Tuberculosis commission director Dr Paul Phelps proposed a small secure hospital for recalcitrant TB patients who leave state hospitals before cure. He suggested 25 beds to protect the public. The commission cited 414 patients leaving last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
State Tuberculosis Commission
Direcor
Paul
Phelps
Greater Hartford TB and Public Health Society
Lodge
Autoist Arrested In Stratford Crash
A Stratford couple narrowly escaped injury when their car was rear struck on Ferry Boulevard at the Barnum avenue cutoff. Mrs. Michael Virestek, 50, of 167 Winfield drive, was taken to Bridgeport hospital for observation. Henry Johnson, 33, of 25 River Street Milford, drove the other vehicle and received a summons for violating state auto laws.
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Stratford
Ferry Boulevard
Barnum Avenue
Bridgeport Hospital
Michael Virestek
Winfield Drive
Po- Hee
Henry Johnson
River Street
Milford
Johnson
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Strationa Ave
Tel
Edison
Bacon
Chucks
Lamb
U. S
N. E
Jewish Home
J. F. Curley
Enuine
Joery
Hoover
Mudrick's
Boston Ave
Francis Burdge
Y. D. Grave & Son
Appine
Lynnbrook
Briarcliff
Westbury Reserve
Maryland
PINE
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Rumi
EL Picador
West Indies
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Wright
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ASP
Fairfield Ave
Call Jacobson
Jacobson CO
State Street
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