Bristol casino dance raises funds for infantile paralysis drive
A Bristol Casino event marked the President’s birthday with a dance to aid the March of Dimes, drawing state town and federal officials, local leaders, and worker-town residents. Secretary of State Armand H. Cote led the grand march as the drive extends with button sales and street solicitations to close the fund by tomorrow evening.
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Sori
Bristol
Armand H. Cote
J. Howard McGrath
Malcolm J. Shaw
Frederick W. Martin
Martin
Lewis Dickinson
Barrington
Constance Farley
Leo Jacobson
Warren
Louise Doyle
Pasquale Pagnano
William J. Smith
Gerald Staples
Arthur Lapan
Roosevelt
Peggy Mathewson
Bris
Fish
Joseph T Belanger
Walter Machado
Carmine Langello
Walter Senecal
Domenic Canna
Albert Silvia
Governor appoints Rev Parshley to Rhode Island Civil Service Commission
Canon A R Parshley, rector of St Michael's Church since 1929, was named to the Rhode Island Civil Service Commission to replace John Nicholas Brown whose term ends today. The six year term requires Senate ratification and carries no salary, with commissioners paid 15 dollars per day in session.
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Canon Parshley
St Michael’s Church
State Civil Service Commission
John Nicholas Brown
McGrath
State Senate
St. Michael’s Church
George L. Locke
State Board of Health
Brown
Rhode Island Civil Service Commission
St Michael's Church
Rhode Island
H St George
Rhode Island officials plan extradition of Warzacks from California
Bristol townsmen await the return of Anthony Warzacks wanted for questioning in a murder. Rhode Island Police Chief Ferrara and Lt Nolan set out from Bristol with extradition papers to Modesto California where Warzacks is imprisoned on a larceny charge and may be released to Rhode Island before serving the sentence. Officers and Columbine Troop: Bristol Girl Scouts held a skating party at Rockwell Pond and welcomed Mrs Reginald Dimond and Mrs Edmund Cunningham as troop assistant.
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Anthony J Ferrara
Bristol
Portsmouth
Rhode Island
State Police
Tadas
Modesta
Cal
Anthony Warzacks
Thames Street
Daniel Hugh Quinn
Warzacks
California
Ferrara
Warzacki
Modesto
Columbine Troop
Bristol Girl Scouts
Rockwell Pond
F Reginald Dimond
Edmund Cunningham
Activities Reported By Bristol BWRS Since First Meeting
Since July 23 1940 the Bristol Branch of the British War Relief Society sent funds and clothing to New York HQ. Memberships and donations total $150 90 with Christmas cards raising £18 00 and emblem brooches lipsticks sold at Miss Wilson's Shop adding $13 75 for a grand total of $300 65. Donations cover only $6 64 in expenses while membership fees of $2 00 invite new members through Hope Street. Monogrammed buttons are issued to donors by RO WW RS HQ New York.
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Bristol
BWRS
New York
Italo American Club Leaders Clash In Bristol Politics
The Bristol Italo American Democratic Club faces a power struggle as a rival faction led by Ponte leone Mancieri claims leadership and accuses others of acting without club mandate. They plan Sunday meetings to select candidates and officers while the town committee and other factions weigh council and school board races.
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Beng
Bristol
Democratic Club
Philip Sansone
Vincento Saviano
Ponteleone Mancieri
Manciert
Democratic Town Committee
Mancieri
John Romano
Romano
Joseph George
Anthons daPonte
Joseph Willams
Conneil
Anthony Jo Nunes
Bristol WPA chief urges local manufacturers to hire relief workers
Relief Administrator Orlando Brisbane appealed to Bristol manufacturers to absorb WPA labor as the new fiscal year began. He said 160 local WPA workers were seeking private employment but most had found none, and he would vouch for those who gain private jobs. Five Bristol plants cooperated, including Aratex Inc and Bristol Manufacturing Co.
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Orlando JT
Basbane
Bristol
Providence
Bisbane
WPA
Pristal
Aratex, Inc
Bristol Manufacturing Company
Collins and Aikman
Herreshoff Manufacturing Co
The
United States Rubber Company
Rotary Hear Plan to Centralize Relief Information
Vernon C Norton outlined a Central Clearance Index proposal to streamline public assistance in Rhode Island and other states. The plan aims to save money, prevent duplicate benefits, speed up aid, protect client privacy, and limit file access to authorized agencies.
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Vernon C Norton
Office of Government Reports
Rotary Club
Norton
Washington
West Virginia
Rhode Island
Social Security Board
Williams Heads Bristol Scout Drive for 550 Dollars
W Fred Williams Jr leads the Narragansett Council annual fund drive in Bristol. He will meet Holmes House tonight with team captains Charles Otten Jr Ralph T Church J Francis Connell ES Mapes Frank Giglio and John Cordeiro. The Bristol goal is 550 dollars as part of supporting over 1000 Rhode Island Boy Scouts.
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Williams
Engagement announced at President's Ball in Bristol
Dr Domenic V A Capone and Miss Rose Russo announced their engagement at a President's birthday ball in Bristol. The couple plans an early spring wedding. Miss Russo, daughter of Mrs Anna Russo, is from 37 Congregational Street and works at Crown Fastener Co. in Warren. Dr Capone, son of Mr and Mrs Matthew Capone Sr of 3 Usher Street, is an optometrist who studied at Colt Memorial High School and the Massachusetts School of Optometry.
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Domenic V.A. Capone
Rose Russo
Bristol Casino
Anna Russo
Congregational Street
Miss Russo
Colt Memorial High School
Crown Fastener Co
Warren
Capone
Matthew Capone
Usher Street
Colt
Massachusetts School of Optometry
Mello Building
Baptist Church Sermon and Union Service Plans
Rev. Arthur W. Burdon will preach on Christian Perspective at 10 30 Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church. A union service with the First Congregational Church is set for 7 30 p m in the same parish.
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Arthur W. Burdon
First Baptist Church
First Congregational Church
Church led weekday religious education plan under study
A local School Committee review considers a plan by clergy to excuse pupils for an hour weekly for church school instruction. The program, voluntary and parent guided, mirrors Chicago-Church Federation experiments with roughly 1000 students, proposing high school credit and a $10,000 annual supervision cost.
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Chicago Church Federation
Dr. Johnson
Bristol
Churches Unite On Plan For Religious Education Reform
Church leaders from Protestant Roman Catholic and Jewish groups plan a Chicago conference this week to align on a shared program for weekday religious education in cities like St. Louis and Minneapolis. They favor keeping religion out of sectarianism in public schools while supporting secular schooling with religious content.
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Ito
Wea
Christian Science Monitor
New York
Chicago
William H. Johnson
Chicago Church Federation
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Luther A. Weigle
Yale Divinity School
Ferng
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Roger Pryor
Eve Arden
Cliff Edwards
Lowell Thomas
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Frederic March
Betty Field
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Jerome Cowan
Ken Murray
Lillian Cornell
J. Carrol Naish
Earl Carroll
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