Fairfield Hears White Heat Over Election Outlook
Special to the Telegram notes a heavy anticipated turnout in Fairfield for Monday's election, with about 1,600 voters expected amid publicity for independent candidate Rev Allen J Beeman. District One votes at Town Hall while District Two votes at Tunxis Hall. Community figures debate outcomes with John H Perr and Beeman predicted, Burr feared to poll low. Republicans face internal division amid talk of an independent movement challenged by Democrats who favor Burr.
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William O. Bir
Burr
Beeman
Republican Party
Basket Baby Patsy Adopted by Bay State Family
Miss Josephine Lillis, supervisor of Charities, will care for Patsy the basket baby found at St. Vincents hospital this spring. Patsy will be taken to Lawrence, Massachusetts, by the adopting family once the move is complete. Nurses at Hillside Home voiced regret as Patsy left the Margaret M. Ford cottage.
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Josephine’ Lillis
Charities Department
Patsy
St. Vincents Hospital
Lawrence
Mass
Margaret ‘M. Ford
Hillside
Funeral of Seaman John Slimak With Military Honor Guard
Seaman John Slimak age 19 of 206 Bunnell Street Bridgeport will be honored with a military funeral at the Slovak Church on Central Avenue. Delegations from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars will attend as the guard of honor and pallbearers. Burial is at St Michael's Cemetery following the service after the wreck of the destroyer Young near Los Angeles.
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John Slimak
Bunnell Street
Bridgeport
Young
Los Angeles
Los
Gyul and Methodius” Slovak Church
Central Avenue
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ard Ac Ag
Guard of Honey and Pall Penters
St. Michael's Cemetery
Modification of immigration law tentative plank
New York September Modication of the present immigration laws was chosen as a tentative plank by the drafting committee of the American Industry platform. The group aims to survey industry views and present them to both Democrats and Republicans at the coming conventions. The plank would urge modifying laws to meet labor needs without reducing workers earnings ability. The skeleton ideas were discussed and will be expanded for the next platform committee meeting in an industrial center outside New York.
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New York
Platform of American Industry
Organ Lion
Charles Cheney
South Norwalk
Conn
Cheney
American Manufacturers’ Association
Talk Of Changing School Plans Stirs Contractors
Discussion of using over 20 percent of Warren Harding High school floor space for manual training stirs contractors bidding on the million dollar project. They fear a change in plans could void bids and cost ten or more builders about ten thousand dollars, though the Board of Education has not signaled any shift.
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Warren Harding High School
Tom
Board
Vome Public Property
Aviator Makes Vain Attempt To Reach Dying Wife
Evans J. David of Deyton Ohio started by airplane to reach his wife in Lowell Massachusetts before she died. He flew from Cleveland to Curtisfield in four hours thirteen minutes arriving just after learning of her death. He planned to continue by train to Boston and then to Lowell.
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Evans J. David
Deyton
Ohio
Lowell
Mass
Curtisfield
Cleveland
David
Boston
First Film Showings Of Japanese Earthquake At Palace
The Palace theatre will show the first motion pictures taken of the Japanese earthquake and its aftermath. Matthew L. Saunders, manager, announced the 1000 foot film will run tonight and Sunday, detailing the disaster before during and after. Max Sirkin of this city sues Nathan Dodd of Bridgeport for 2000 dollars claiming breach of store sale agreements.
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Palace Theatre
Matthew L. Saunders
United States
Satate
Japan
Max Sirkin
Nathan Dodd
Bridgeport
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