Stratford Fire Board Seeks Triple Combination Pumper
The Stratford board of fire commissioners asked First Selectman James Lalley to arrange a Friday meeting with the finance board to plan purchasing a triple combination fire truck with chemical tank hose bed and 500 gallon pump plus two 20 foot ladders. Secretary William Farmer will seek bids and funds this fall. delivery would take at least 90 days, pushing arrival to mid winter. A Mack International representative attended, and a new firehouse and alarm system are also discussed.
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First
James Lalley
Stratford Board of Fire Commissioners
Finance Board
William Farmer
Board of Finance
Mack International
Baird Ordered to Pay Wife $350 Monthly in Divorce Case
Andrew Daniel Baird of Greenwich must pay Estelle Dunwoodie Baird 250 to cover debts and 65 monthly for their daughter Barbara after a divorce hearing. Judge Joe H. Reed heard testimony of repeated cruelty including choking and threats. custody deemed for the four year old.
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Andrew Daniel Baird
Greenwich
Estelle Dunwoodie Baird
Brooklyn
Union Bridge
Barbara
Joe H. Reed
Ruth Alma Duff
Orchard Street
Cos Cob
Jhe
New York
Baird
Bartender Faces Charge After Drink Handout
Patrolman Thomas Weller witnessed Walter Carbonneau at a Middle Street cafe distribute a drink to a customer. Carbonneau is charged under the Volstead Act and held on $200 bond awaiting City Court arraignment tomorrow at 87 Center Street.
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Thomas Weller
Middle Street
Walter Carbonneau
Treat
Carbonneau
Center Street
Open New Stand at Railroad Station
A new soda fountain and refreshment stand has opened at the railroad station. Managed by the local restaurant, it serves weary travelers with a wide assortment of candies drinks sandwiches cakes cigarettes and more in the east end of the Indies waiting room near the news stand.
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Lotal
Indies
Plan Service In Honor of Park Donor
Bridgeport plans an Appreciation Service for James Beardsley and park donors in front of the Beardsley monument at the park entrance on Tuesday June 14 at 3 p.m. Huntington Road School's PTA leads about 400 pupils marching from the school to the park to sing and lay wreaths. City officials including Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, Board of Education President Elmer Havens, and Schools Superintendent Samuel Slawson will speak. Miss Mary Ford leads the program. Public invited.
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Bridgeport
James Beardsley
Beardsley
Parent-Teacher’s Association of
Huntington Road
Clifford B. Wilson
Elmer H. Havens
Board of Education
Samuel J. Slawson
Jeremiah Holmes
Mary Ford
Connor May Seek Seat on New City Board
City Hall hears rumors Tax Commissioner Arthur F. Connor may join the upcoming board of assessors replacing his office in November. Friends advocate his candidacy and groom him for appointment amid reports he has a strong chance to win a position.
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City Hall
Arthur F. Connor
Board of Assessors
Connor
Ste
Police Drive Is Successful in Crackdown on Violations
Police drive against motor law violators reports some success with two drivers arrested this morning. Hertalan Creecy of 166 Spruce Street and Louis Kaszas of 2097 Fairfield Avenue, both jitneys, were charged with overloading their vehicles and straying from scheduled routes. Kaszas on Barnum Avenue route and Creecy on Ash Greek line. They were operating through Iranistan Avenue and Gregory Street when arrested.
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Hertalan Creecy
Sprucestret
Louis Kaszas
Fairfield Avenue
Kaszas
Barnum Avenue
Cresey
Ash Greek
Iranistan Avenue
Gregory Street
Ambulance Calls for May Report and Local Death Notice
Ambulance calls for May totaled 158 with 121 patients treated. Four sent to Bridgeport hospital and 56 to St. Vincent's. A coal dealer, David A. Alling, longtime partner in FL A. & D. R. Alling, died at home aged 77 and was a prominent Mason and civic figure. A floral show to be held at Christchurch, Stratford, by the Ladies' Guild.
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Bridgeport Hospital
St. Vincent's Hospital
New Haven
David RR. Aming
FL A
D. R. Alling
Mr. Alling
Lafayette
Pyramid Temple
Mystic Shrine
Trideeport
Connectcut
Christchurch
Stratford
Ladies’ Guild
Naval Ensign Living Abroad Now Listed as Draft Evader
The First Army Corps Area lists 202 men who registered with Division No. 3 local board as draft evaders. Two errors appeared: Harold H. Gernet of 186 Ellsworth Street, an ensign who served overseas, and William C. Rhinehart of 222 Harral Avenue, an Ordnance Corps member who served at Edgewood arsenal. Rhinehart showed discharge papers after police involvement. Bridgeport police are not yet instructed to aid army authorities.
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Bridgeport
First
Army Corps Area Headquarters
Harold H. Gernet
Ellsworth Street
William C. Rhinehart
Harral Avenue
United States
Gernet
Navy
Rhinehart
Ordnance Corps
Edgewood Arsenal
Connecticut Labor Federation elects leaders for year
The Connecticut Late Federation of Labor elected officers for the year including President Patrick F. O'Meara of New Haven to a fourth term. Other officers named were Vice Presidents Cornelius McCue Daroury Frank J. Cooney Martford Thomas Brennan Norwich George Chandler Greenwich Secretary Ira B. Ornburn New Haven Treasurer Frederick I. Neeb Meriden. The conference adopted 20 or more resolutions praising McLean's naval bill amendment and Postmaster General Hays for mail access to newspapers. Discussion covered ex service men training and their link to labor, with Sylvester Benway among speakers. The convention ends this afternoon with a special evening entertainment planned.
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Connecticut
McLean
Naval
Lake Torpedo Boat
Hays
Thomas Mooney
California
Sylvester Benway
British Start to Clean Up in Upper Silesia
Berlin reports a British offensive to clear Upper Silesia is underway with Italian aid. Gen Hunnecker plans a forward sweep from Gross Strehlitz to Beauthen Koenigschutte and Kattowitz as Italians move on Piess and Rybnik. A neutral zone forms between Polish insurgents and German forces. The English occupy Gleiwitz and Rosenberg, giving Poles an hour to evacuate Rosenberg. no resistance occurs.
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Berlin
Silesia
Hunnecker
Gross Strehlitz
Beauthen Koenigschutte
Kattowitz
Piess
Rybnik
Gleiwitz
Rosenberg
Rosenbers
Syhirekau
King George Honors Head of Singer Co
King George of England conferred the title of Knight Baronet on Douglas Alexander of Samford and Bridgeport. He is president of the Singer Manufacturing Company and recognized for services during the war. The honor reflects the Singer company's wartime contributions and his local ties.
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King George
England
Douglas Alexander
Samford
Bridgeport
Sir Douxton
Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Company
Bridgeport Retail Prices Fall 35 Percent From Year Ago
Bridgeport retailers report prices 39 to 85 percent lower across apparel dry goods shoes furs and furniture versus a year ago with the dollar now worth 30 to 35 cents more in a department store. Daniel M. Jones of D M Reid's and the Retail Board say market stabilizing and trade brighter than months past.
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of Chamber of Commerce
Bridgeport
Federal Reserve Banks
Daniel M. Jones
D. M. Reid's
Chamber of Commerce
New England
Catona Boy Dies as Truck Crashes Across Street
A Coroner’s hearing revealed Cocci Catona, seven, had just discharged from a New York hospital for car trouble before being struck near Madison and Harral avenues in front of the City garage. A Mack truck driven by Harry Moran, 20, Stratford, rolled over the boy as it slowed for two children, with witnesses noting the truck’s slow speed down the hill and the child darting from his father’s shop.
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John J. Phelan
Cocci Catona
George Street
New York
Madison
Harral Avenues
City
Harry P. Moran
Broadbrook Avenue
Stratford
Moran
James Mercaldi
Mercaldi
Elizabeth Cody
Madison Avenue
Ind
Reserves His Decision On Hoffman Case
Judge Reed reserved his recommendation as final arguments closed in the Hoffman divorce case. The Shelton man, German Genevieve Carman Hoffman, faced claims of desertion and non support with several references to prior Shelton City court appearances. Medical experts Dr Lynch and Dr H LeBaron Peters testified, while Judge Coughlin noted lack of substantiation for some claims and suggested the wife may be better entitled to a decree on grounds of intolerable cruelty.
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S. Grover Hoffman
Shelton
Naugatuck Avenue
Deton
Milford
Genevieve Carman Hoffman
Joe H. Reed
Thomas C. Coughlin
Shelton Home
Hoffman
Coughlin
Pliintiff
Kome
Lynch
H. LeBaron Peters
Bridgeport
Reed
John B. Dillon
Manhatan Avenue
Shelton Toown Court
Moffman
Dinner to honor airmen at Brainard Field opening
President Stanley T. Bullard and Lieutenant W Walker Seeles of the inter-state isolation commission of the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce will attend a Hartford Club dinner honoring the airmen who will open the new Brainard Field Hartford's municipal landing field.
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Stanley T. Bullard
W. Walker Seeles
Connecticut Chamber of Commerce
Brainard Field
Hartford
Hartford Club
Relative request in missing person case for Alex F B McClelland
Relatives of Alex FB McClelland report a four month absence from his home at 62 Dennybrook road Erichton Massachusetts and urge Bridgeport police to search for him. A run letter to headquarters says foul play is feared. McClelland is about 5 8, 160 pounds with a left complexion and works as a chauffeur.
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Alex FB. McClelland
Dennybrook Road
Erichton
Mass
Bridgeport
McClelland
Four Trolley Lines Re routed Linking Beardsley and South Park
Connecticut company announces reforms in trolley routing linking Beardsley park line with South Park avenue line for direct runs between Bridgeport parks Seaside and Beardsley. Oak street and Brooklawn avenue lines will also be linked, reducing transfers and aiming to ease summer heavy park travel.
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Connecticut Company
Bridgeport
Seaside
Beardsley
Beardsley Park
South Park Avenue
Oak Street
Brooklawn Avenue
North Park Avenue
Brooklawn
Stratfield
Wire cutting raids spark arrests in Birkenhead
Four people arrested at Birkenhead after a violent struggle with police during wire cutting raids. In Cork a youth was shot by Crown forces at Macroom for ignoring an order to bait. Military police wounded an old man at Ballyvourney as shooting continued. Large troop and police reinforcements are reported to be dispatched to Ireland ahead of a Sinn Fein call before July 11 for the opening of Southern Ireland Parliament. In Newport Rhode Island Julia Estell French to remarry Howard Williams, a Boston insurance man. Pueblo Colorado reports debris clearing with about 50 bodies recovered among the ruins. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer resigns. successor likely within 24 hours.
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Cork
Crown
Macroom
Ballyvourney
London
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Southern Ireland
Believe clue to hired killer found
New York June clue obtained in a pawnshop leads police to believe they are on the trail of the man who sold his services as the killer of wealthy Cleveland publisher Antel Kaber. A ragor bearing curs oriental inscription matches a razor missing from the Kaber home. Dublin police report gunfire and bomb attack on a police lorry wounding five constables and several civilians.
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New York
Antel Kaber
Cleveland
Kaber
Girl Fatally Struck By Bryant Car In Hartford
Mary Novak five of 124 Columbia street died this morning at St. Vincent's hospital after being struck by a car driven by W Gerald Bryant of 330 Park Place near Park avenue and Gregory street. Bryant faced manslaughter charges after witnesses and coroner's inquiry, with bond set at 1000 and case continued to June 25.
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W. Gerald Bryant
Park Place
Mary Novak
Columbia Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Bryant
John J. Phelan
Park Avenue
Gregory Street
Babe Sent To Jail For Day In Speeding Case
The Babe of the New York Yankees was sent to the Tombs for one day and fined 100 dollars for speeding in his motor car. Magistrate House delivered the sentence in Traffic Court, noting it was his second offense and explaining the severity of the punishment.
S O S From Freighter Stirs Up Excitement
Multiple ship reports out of New York tie an unnamed steamer to a collision near New Foundland coast. Rumors swirl about Rochambeau ice sighting and possible trouble at sea amid Titanic memories. Prohibition graft probe nears charges in Kansas. Knights Templar state field day set for Hartford October 8. Philadelphia bust uncovers wheel-mounted still with Augustus Schoenflelinger arrested.
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New York
Twelifax
New Foundhand
Seapool
mid-Atlantic
North Atlantic
New Haven
Knights Templar
Connection
Hartford
Templars
Philadelphia
Augustine Schoenflelinger
Lasker Put At Head Of Ship Board
President Harding appoints Albert D. Lasker to chair the U S Shipping Board after months of vacancy. Lasker accepts and notifies the President. Other board members named include George J. Chamberlain Meyer Lissner Frederick S. Thompson W S Benson T W O Connor Edward C. Plummer.
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Lasker
Ship Board
Washington
White House
Harding
Albert D. Lasker
Chicago
U. S Shipping Board
Chicagoan
Int.” News-Service
George J. Chamberlain
Portrea
Meyer Lissner
Los An- Frederick
Bill on City Manager Plan with Governor
The bill with amendments will let Stratford residents decide on a city manager form of government. Governor Take holds the bill and, when signed, Stratford charter committee will begin a campaign and distribute charter copies. A special election will be held in July to vote on the proposed change.
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Stratford
Take
Stratford Charter Committee
Siynne
Oma
Weeks Warns War Unthinkable Yet Warns Against Disarmament
Secretary of War Weeks told New York University graduates that disarming would be folly yet avoided endorsing war. He urged prepared defense to safeguard sovereignty until global consent ends fortifications and navies. Weeks received an honorary Doctor of Laws and said he does not love war.
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New York
United States
New York University
Rauical
Weeks
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