Inside coterie opposed in Ohio politics
Washington June 1 Robert F Wolfe publisher of the Columbus Dispatch and Ohio State Journal testified at the senate committee inquiry into pre convention campaign expenditures He said Ohio politics are controlled by an inside group he opposed He planned to support Harding but would not back his candidacy if this group controlled it
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Washington
Robert F. Wolfe
Columbus
Ohio
Senator Harding
Republican Party
Pomerone
Harding
General Wood
Senator Pomerone
Strike spreads in Waterbury as factories report losses
Waterbury reports show the strike expanding to 35 more skilled workers at Scovill Manufacturing and a 19 percent rise in quitters at Chase Company. Blake and Johnson’s machine division operates for the first time in a week with one third of workers back. Strikers leave town for work elsewhere, while police search for dynamite suspects tied to John H. Goss’s residence explosion with two suspicious figures seen nearby.
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Waterbury
Scovill Manufacturing Company
Chase Company
Blake and Johnson Company
John H. Goss
Soviet Opens Trading Office in London
London reports say the Soviet government won permission to open a central trading office in London following a meeting between Gregory Krassin and British leaders. Other items note robberies in Connecticut and East Lyme escapes, plus Florida Republican party disputes ahead of next week’s convention.
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London
Gregory Krassin
Lloyd George
Evening Standard
Million in Wages Added to Payrolls in New England Mills
Boston June 1 wages across New England textile centers rise as about 800000 operatives gain a general wage increase. About 1,000,000 dollars added weekly, wages up roughly 10 percent from four years ago. Most unorganized workers accept. some unions have not acted or refused. Also mentions jitney bus overcrowding warnings in Bridgeport and Vera Cruz bubonic plague response by President Wilson offering medical aid. A Boston man, John Ross, arrested for pocket picking, held on breach of peace charge with cash bonds posted.
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Boston
Fnesland
Milionrkera
Vera Cruz
A. Pa
Wilson
Secon
John Ross
Columbus Avenue
Trafic
Roland
Gustave Brown
Bell Street
Ross
Wilson Signs Agricultural Appropriation Bill
President Wilson signed the annual agriculture appropriation bill that continues the cotton futures contract framework under which trading on the cotton exchanges is conducted.
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Washington
Wilson
Burglars Take Clothes From Yer Man Machine
Burglars entered Yer man Machine at 22 Butler Street last night and stole a suit of clothes and four silk shirts. The robbery has been reported to the police.
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Yerman Machine
Butler Street
Rent pay refusal by 160 families in Springfield blocks
About 160 families in three Springfield apartment blocks refuse rent advances and plan to fight rent increases. Members of the Rent Payers' Protective Association, led by president W. F. Grady, backed by the executive committee, say they will persevere to the finish. The blocks were purchased by Hartford interests.
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Springfield
Mass
Rent Payers’ Protective Association
W. F. Grady
Hartford, Conn
Incipient Riot In Waukegan Brought Under Control
Rioting between Great Lakes Naval Training Station sailors and Black residents in Waukegan, Illinois, was contained after 200 additional provost guards arrived by motor trucks. Shots were fired but no injuries reported. Police detained five sailors after the disturbance began when stone-throwing youths shattered a officer’s windshield, leading to a confrontation at a local hotel.
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Chicago
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Waukegan
Great Tension in Germany Amid Political Fight
London reports Berlin unrest due to Germany's political campaign. A democratic party meeting ended in a serious clash as Communists attacked nationals with sticks and chairs. Deputy Von Graefe suffered a broken arm and rib. another conservative secretary was maul ed and unconscious. Landowners reportedly fled to Berlin to escape violence.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Democratic Party
Mecklenburg
von Graefe
Governor seeks coal administrator and funds
Boston June 1 Governor Coolidge asked the House for authority to appoint a coal administrator and for a 25000 appropriation to cover administration expenses. He blamed New England coal shortages on shipments abroad, noting that out of 1.3 million tons at Hampton Roads in April all but about 400 tons were shipped overseas. He urged equitable distribution of available coal until foreign shipments halt.
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Boston
Coolidge
House
New England
Hampton Roads
Suit for $600 filed against Bridgeport and New York Delivery Express
A suit for 600 dollars for services was returned to the Clerk of the Common Pleas Court. Antonio Palumo is the plaintiff, and Stephen L. Kelley and Thomas L. Caskey doing business as the Bridgeport and New York Delivery Express company are the defendants.
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Clerk of the Common Pleas Court
Antonio Palumo
Stephen L. Kelley
Thomas L. Caskey
Bridgeport and
New York Delivery Express Company
Raf fle fined and jailed for liquor sale without license
Meriaen Conn on June 1 reports John Raf fle was fined 100 dollars and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail for a second offense of selling liquor without a license in his Pratt street saloon. Judge Dunne suspended the jail term after Raf fle agreed to close his establishment. The Columbia Motor Car Corporation sues Lawrence Lucas and others in the June term of the Court of Common Pleas, seeking foreclosure of a mortgage after a February 19, 1920 judgment and an unsatisfied execution placed on the defendant’s real estate.
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Meriaen, Conn
John Raffle
Pratt Street
T. P. Dunne
Raffles
Columbia Motor Car Corporation
Cit
Lawrence Lucas
Court of Common Pleas
Government appeals dismissed in anti trust suit
The Supreme Court dismissed government appeals in the federal anti trust case against the Quaker Oats Co. on motion by the government.
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Washington
Junement
Quaker Oats Co
Supreme Court
One Dead and Five Injured in Truck Train Crash
Old Saybrook Conn June 1 One dead and five seriously injured in early morning crash when train 653 from Saybrook Point to New Haven struck a light truck carrying six near the station. Mrs Clarence Granger 28 a newlywed killed almost instantly. Husband critically injured with fractured skull and brain concussion. Others Dw ht Merrill driver scalp wounds hip injury taken home J W Rogers fractured leg scalp wounds and other injuries to Backus Hospital Norwich Harry Getchell skull fracture hip possibly broken to Lawrence Hospital New London Harry Boles 70 scalp wounds bruises taken home. Continued on Page Six.
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Old Saybrook
Conn
Saybrook Point
New Haven
Clarence Granger
New London
Lawrence Hospital
Merrill
J. W. Rogers
Backus Hospital
Norwich
Harry Getchell
Harry Boles
Father demands justice after boy’s motorcycle death
The father of 12 year old John Cleotura pleaded for punishment for the jitney bus driver after a motorcycle accident at Madison and Capitol avenues. Coroner John J. Phelan hears that speed and loss of control may have caused the crash. Witness John Siocco said the motorcycle was close to the jitney and he was thrown out, unable to recall exact details.
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John Cleotura
Madison
Capitol Avenues
John J. Phelan
John Siocco
Plaintiff Wins Big Judgment in Common Pleas Case
A judgment for 1500 dollars was rendered for Joseph Perkoski against Chas Grimwood of Bridgeport by Judge J Moss Ives. The decision states all material allegations were proven, alleging Grimwood induced a mortgage for 1500 on Wallingford property as part payment for a house by falsely stating its value. the mortgage proved worthless. Pasquale Feraco seeks Superior Court action to compel Elliott Wade to convey Hillside Avenue property paid 25 dollars for, plus 3 dollars in damages.
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Chas. Grimwood
Bridgeport
Joseph Perkoski
Airfield
J. Moss Ives
Court of Common Pleas
Wallingford
Pasquale Feraco
Superior Court
Elliott B. Wade
Hillside Avenue
Wade
Foreclosure action over $2.50 in Fairfield land
The June term Superior Court hears a mortgage foreclosure suit brought by Anna L. Foote of Andover against Helen Domonkes of Fairfield. The case concerns a $2.50 debt secured by land on Fisk Place in Fairfield. The matter proceeds per local procedure. A dated dispatch notes a Turkish armistice with French forces in Cilicia. A Maplewood student Mary Louise McKenna, age 11, piloted an airplane flight with her father, reaching about 1,700 feet. J. Z Remsen was the pilot.
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Fisk Place
Fairfield
Superior Court
Anna L. Foote
Andover
Helen Domonkes
Mary Louise McKenna
Maplewood School
Maurice McKenna
J. Z Remsen
Officially Tagged for Parking Car This Morning
Bridgeport enforces new parking rules. Police commissioner Hyman Jacobs of New Haven had his car tagged on Pairfield avenue. At headquarters he admitted the offense and was allowed to depart. Lieutenant warned there will be a $10 fine next time. Jacobs replied there will not be a next time.
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Bridgeport
Hyman Jacobs
New Haven
Jacobs
Pairfield Avenue
Elm City
Leutenant
Mayor Says He Will Disclose When Ready
Mayor Wilson refused to discuss the police department leak and the Burns detectives raids saying he would reveal disclosures only when ready. He defended previous complaints to the police, noting no results and promising Bridgeport backing when he speaks.
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Wilson
Burns
Bridgeport
Woman Ordered to Pay Mason for Well Contract
In Long Hill, Mary Wallwick must pay Michael Mason 398 dollars after Mason proved the contract to build a well on Wallwick’s premises was fulfilled to his satisfaction but Mason did not accept the work. Judge Z Moss Ives presided in the Court of Common Pleas finding Mason not satisfied and that he spent 393.02 to complete the well.
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Long Hill
Michael Mason
Mason
Mary Wallwick
Court of Common Pleas
Z. Moss Ives
Ives
Few Accidents Over Holiday in Bridgeport
Bridgeport reports a quiet holiday with only two ambulance calls and no trolley accidents. A 37 year old woman, Rose Kania, fractured a left rib after slipping from a jitney at Greene Street and East Main Street, blamed on a skirt entanglement. James Schavour, 27, riding a motorcycle, suffered a compound fracture to his left leg when his bike collided with a car at Houstontic Avenue and Grand Street. he received first aid and was taken to Bridgeport Hospital.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut Company
Rose Kania
Greene Street
East Main Street
J. A. Maxwell
James Schavour
Clinton Avenue
Housatonic Avenue
Grand Street
Bridgeport Hospital
Hope to Clear Up Robberies
Detectives on the East Side hold ups and burglaries link William Nichols of Walter Street and Giuseppe Calaglia of Mask Booth Street to recent thefts. Investigations seek to clear other robberies. Nichols Calabria and other suspects have cases continued to June 3 in City Court. Vitele and DeFiso not believed connected. Samuel Sherman of New Jersey, driver in Milford accident, arrested and held on $200 bond for violating state automobile law.
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William Nichols
Walter Street
Guseppe Calshria
M Booth Street
Nichols
Calabria
Paul Vitele
Rado Mvenue
Margaret DeFiso
New York City
Vitele
De-Fazo Girl
Muel Sherman
New Jersey
Milford
Fischer
Sherman
Sensational jail break rocks Erie County Prison
Local police report the escape of Joseph Brady an alleged auto thief from the Erie County Jail in Buffalo New York. Brady and accomplice William Marney who faces a murder charge seized a keeper at gunpoint and fled Sunday morning. Brady is already linked to two Bridgeport auto thefts this year with vehicles recovered in Newark New Jersey and Jersey City. Authorities were pursuing Brady when he escaped.
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Joseph Brady
Erie County
Buffalo
N. Y
Brady
William Marney
Bridgeport
W. G. Crabtree
Noble Avenue
Newark
N. J
William Rutishauser
Gordon Street
Jersey City
Sisters Hurt In Auto Crash At Dover New Jersey
Miss Ellen Northey clerk in the Town Clerk's office has a broken shoulder fractured collar bone and several broken ribs. Her sister Miss Evelyn Northey in the City Clerk's office may have a fractured skull. Both are in a hospital at Dover following the noon accident yesterday. Also in the auto were Mrs John Northey a little boy and two young men.
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Ellen Northey
Evelyn Northey
Dover
N. J
John Northey
Palmer accuses Post of autocratic deportation bias
Attorney General Palmer told the House rules committee that Louis Post shows perverted sympathy for criminals and anarchists and uses his own view of the law to govern deportations. He accused Post of jail deliveries and releasing self confessed anarchists, undermining Congress’s intent and endangering public safety. Continued on page six.
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Washington
He A. P
Louis * Post
Labor
Palmer
House Committee
Post
Rules Committee
Local P. O. Employees Eligible For Pensions
Rout 104 clerks 98 carriers and a few laborers of the local post office are affected by the Sterling Lehrbach bill approved by the President on May 22 1820 when it became a law. The act covers civil service retirees with 13 years service or 70 years old and sets annuity formulas based on years of service and average salary in the last decade. Rates range from 60 percent for 30 years served to lower percentages for shorter service with minimums and maximums indicated.
Not Victim of Assault Plot Drops as Rumor
Prosecuting Attorney Alexander L. DeLaney dismissed a circulating story that he was the target of an assault near his Lyon terrace home. He said a man was intoxicated, armed with a rock, and ejected from the residence. A separate report notes a bag of mason's tools was stolen from a new house at 111 Myrtle avenue, belonging to Amelio Cesarta of 547 James street.
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Alexander L. DeLaney
Lyon Terrace
DeLaney
Myrtle Avenue
Amelio Cesarta
James Street
Fifteen Shriners Headed to Imperial Council in Portland
About 25 Shriners from Fairfield county with spouses plan a multi city pilgrimage to the Imperial Council Session of Nobles of Mystic Shrine in Portland Oregon and other cities from June 8 to July 8. The route includes New York Philadelphia Chicago and Seattle with stops at Kansas City Albuquerque Riverside Los Angeles and Glacier National Park before returning home to New York.
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Fairfield County
Imperial Council
Nobles of Mystic Shrine
Portland
Gre
New York
Pennsylvania Station
Chicero
Kansas City
Riday
Albuquerke
N. M. Satuday
Dakotas
Minneapolis
St Paul
Chicago
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Gregory Street
B. Jacobs
Connecticut Avenue
Violet Weaver
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State School For Girls
East Lyme
Republican National Committee
Warren
Michigan
Dupont
Delaware
Parsons
Leonard Wood
Frank ©. Lowden
Hiram Johnson
H. I. Anderson
Jacksonville
A. L. Church
W. L. Vanduser
Charles B. Warren
Anderson
George W. Bean
Tampa
Cilicia
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Will
Gen. Palmer
Cronan
Edward C. Cronan
Tonght
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