Fifth District Court Trials on Rubber Plant Strike
The Fifth District Court heard multiple cases linked to the National India Rubber Company strike on July 19. Sentences included three months in jail for one arrestee and $20 fines for two others, plus various verdicts of guilty and not guilty on reveling and threats, with bail figures set for appeals. juvenile cases sent to Sockanosset School and probation for a bicycle theft.
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Fifth District
National India Rubber Company
Anthony F. DeSilvia
Providence
DeSilvia
de Silvia Luigi Pasquale
Theodore Silva
James H. Moffit
Mr. Moritt
Silva
Nunziato de Pasquale
Wardwell Lumber Co
Joseph L. Buffum
Charles B Rockwell
Lucien
Photographer Arrested In Boston Over Alleged Black Hand Threats
Italian photographer Giuseppi Esposito, who ran a studio on Hope Street, was arrested Friday afternoon by U S immigration Special Officer John A Rider. He is held in the Boston detention building awaiting Washington instructions with possible deportation after the war. Police say he authored Black Hand letters to officials of the National India Rubber Company. Esposito came to the United States eight years ago and once worked in Derby Connecticut as Frank A Esposito.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guiseppi Esposito
Hope Street
Hope Drug Company
John A Rider
United States Board of Immigration
Boston
Washington
Esposito
Tom Howick
Rhode Island Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
National India Rubber
National India Rubber Company
Esposite
Italy
Derby
Conn
Frank A. Esposite
Warren Soldier Charles S Myers Killed in Action
Mrs Elizabeth Myers of Child-street East Warren received word from the War Department that her son Private Charles S Myers was killed in action on July 15. He was 22, unmarried, enlisted in the One Hundred and First Artillery in September, and went to France recently after living with his mother. He had worked in a shoe factory in North Abington prior to enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Myers
Child-street
East Warren
War Department
Washington
Charles S Myers
Myers
North Abington
Mass
One Hundred and First Artillery
France
Real Estate Transfers Recorded at Town Clerk Office
Frank E. McKenna transfers two building lots on Wood Street to Luigi Rabi sno in a recorded real estate transfer filed by the Town Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank E. McKenna
Luigi Rabisno
Wood Street
Will Resume Operations at National India Rubber Co Plant
The National India Rubber Co plant will resume full operations on Thursday and more than three quarters of the Gaiter and Pump rooms workers who quit have applied for re employment. About 40 to 50 former workers may seek work elsewhere as their services will not be needed locally. A crude anti union notice urging strikers not to return at old wages was found and removed by Chief Dwyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National India Rubber Company
Gaiter
Employment Bureau
H. W. Brown
Dwyer
Rhode Island Dentists Create Record For Defense Service
Rhode Island dentists have served two years aiding Rhode Islanders entering army and navy service. A 100 percent local record is reported by 165 dentists based on state reports and letters from the National Council of Defence. They performed 11 472 items of work for between 5000 and 6000 patients without compensation. Named local dentists include H. W. Church M. J O'Brien and William J Tobin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Rhode Islanders
National Council of Defence
Walter R. McIntire
Rhode Island Council of Defence
McIntire
H. W. Church
M.J O'Brien
William J Tobin
Flag Tearing Incident Near Hope Street
Howard Paull, son of ex-councilman Frank Paull, chased a flag thief who toppled an American flag outside a Hope Street home. The man, described as short and thickset in dark clothes and cap, sped away toward Thames Street after dropping the banner at Dr Merriman’s residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Paull
Frank Paull
Training Camp Transfers From Providence Arrive
John Cabral Mello of North Tiverton a volunteer for special occupational work was sent to the local board for training with enlistees and assigned to the Engineers Corps. Ward Elliott of Aquidneck was sent to Syracuse with 100 limited service men to form fire companies and guards at embarkation points after preliminary training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cabral Mello
North Tiverton
Providence
Esterda
Forrest Lytle
Engineers Corps
Ward Elliott
Aquidnick
Syracuse
N. Y
Bristol Red Cross Auxiliary to Become Branch
Members of the Bristol Red Cross Auxiliary are urged to attend a general meeting at the Y M C A on Friday at 8 oclock. Hon Rathbone Gardner president of the Providence Chapter will advocate changing the Bristol Auxiliary to a Branch citing its excellent work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Red Cross Auxiliary
Rathbone Gardner
Providence
the Red Cross
Bristol
Mailing Yourself Money and War Savings Stamps
The piece promotes Thrift and War Savings Stamp use as a way to mail money to oneself for later return with interest. It argues cashing stamps beats receiving money from home and ties stamps to contributing to a wartime victory.
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Warewell Lumber CO
ALE— Locks & Hardware
Bristol, R. I
Connery
Henry E.polytan Studio
State Street
Star Theatre
Fox Presents
the Didliz
Louise. Glaum
Nell Shipman
Fifth District Court
F. H. Hammill
Warren
Army
Navy
Bristol Red Cross
Edward D. Kunz
F. T. Remieres
Hope and
Bradford Streets
Franklin Street Garage CO
Sansone Bros
Goodyear
Franklin Street
Garage CO
Depoteh
Relstok
Or — Praeal Ipers
BIRD
Maeterlincks
Blue Bird
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