Foreign aid bill for France Italy Austria approved by Senate panel
Senate Foreign Relations committee endorsed winter relief totaling 597 million dollars for France Italy and Austria with safeguards on home supplies and spending. The panel rejected price control and selective rationing proposals. the measure awaits Senate action and an eventual appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Italy
Austria
Senate
WASHINGTON
Senate Foreign Relations committee
Senate House Economic Committee
Truman
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Congress
Wolcott
House Banking committee
Foreign Relations committee
State department
U. S
Senator Lodge
R.-Mass
Bridgeport Weather Summary From Local Forecast
Bridgeport and vicinity fair and cold today with increasing cloudiness Friday. Yesterday temperatures ranged from a low to a high with no precipitation reported. Tide times, barometer reading at 8 p.m., and almanac details for Thursday November 20 are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BRIDGEPORT
Bridgeport Police Car Crashes Into Vermont Bridge Abutment
Detective George H. Murphy of 19 Alanson Road and Anthony Carbone of 114 Bronx Avenue were injured when a Bridgeport Police Department car, driven by Murphy, crashed into a bridge abutment near Brattleboro Vermont shortly after noon. They were taken to a hospital.
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BRATTLEBORO
The Telegram
George H. Murphy
Alanson road
Anthony Carbone
Bronx avenue
Bridgeport Police department
Murphy
Injured in Crash Involving Police Car Near Brattleboro
Detective Murphy and Mr. Carbone were treated at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital after a police car crash near a bridge abutment. Sgt. Dominic Conte, missing after a hunting trip, was also hospitalized. Carbone received head lacerations and a possible fractured arm with twelve stitches. Murphy suffered head lacerations and back and chest pain. Both to be X-rayed Thursday.
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Brattleboro Memorial hospital
Dominic A. Conte
Vermont
Detective Murphy
Mr. Carbone
Sgt. Conte
Truman's Plea to Return Controls Hit by NAM Head
Police report a fire at Friendly Service Station 340 Wood Avenue ruled incendiary. A suspect, Stephen Scott 42 of 788 Norman Street, was nabbed after a 14 year old pointed him out. He was held on breach of peace and investigation. Firemen responded to 10 22 PM and recalled the blaze four minutes later.
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Wood avenue
Stephen Scott
Norman street
sheen
Scott
Wood
Elmwood avenues
George Butler
Inflation fears rise as powers push controls, Bunting warns
Earl Bunting, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, tells Bridgeport Manufacturers' Association that real inflation causes will persist if government expansion and wage price controls continue. He labels Truman's plan as police state policy and argues totalitarianism would follow domestically. Clark reelected for a third term as association president with a slate including Summer Simpson and T H Beard. The address frames a clash over freedom versus government intervention amid world events.
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Truman
Congress
Earl Bunting
National Association of Manufacturers
Bridgeport Manufacturers’ association
Eichnér
Bunting
Sumner Simpson
Raybestos
Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc
T. H. Beard
Dictaphone corporation
Alpheus Winter
T. N. Wakeman
Bridgeport Fabrics, Inc
A. V. Bodine
W. Gerald Bryant
J. F. Conners
N. H. Hoyt
R. A. Maloney
I. B. Schine
H. E B. Selim
H. W. Steinkraus
Walter Volkhardt
H. C. Wheeler
Mr. Bunting
Mr. Truman
School Board Adopts New Rules To Govern Exams for Teachers
The Board of Education approved rules for the Civil Service examinations for February teachers. For initial appointments the written part remains worth 600 and the non written 400, while for promotions the weights flip to 400 for written and 600 for non written. Yale University officials will prepare promotional tests. The city’s grant for Hallen school rises to 50 000. Weimann notes 1 871 school windows smashed since September.
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Board of Education
Spt
Joseph B. Jeffery
Yale University
Benjamin M. Leippner
Hallen school
Joseph A. Weimann
Weimann
Bridgeport
Socialists Report Campaign Spending in Bridgeport Election
The Socialist party of Bridgeport filed with Town Clerk Everett N. Perry showing $2,588 spent in the recent municipal election and a balance from contributions. Major donors include Mayor McLevy, City Attorney Harry Schwartz, City Clerk Fred D. Schwarzkopf, and others. most gifts were $10 or less. Additional items cover Whelan and GOP finances with separate committees and donations, including Brien McMahon and other local figures.
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Socialist party of
Bridgeport
Everett N. Perry
Peter Brewster
Socialist fund
Mayor McLevy
Harry Schwartz
Fred D. Schwarzkopf
John Shenton
John V. Donnelly
John G. Stevens
Republican party
G.O.P
William J. Prince
Mr. Stevens
Arthur Quinn
Robert Bruno
Harold Cotter
John LE. Cotter
Meyer Dworkin
Joseph A. Rich
Alderman A. Edward Sandula
Harry Silverstone
Nicholas Palladino
Ralph Vecchione
John Baxter
U. S. to Take Over Food Saving Drive
Washington officials say the Citizens Food committee led by Charles Luckman will cede administrative duties to Agriculture and other departments while remaining advisory. Luckman, who met President Truman, plans to return to Lever Bros. and notes industry commitments to conserve 100 million bushels of grain as part of the feed and food saving plan.
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WASHINGTON
Citizens Food committee
Charles Luckman
Luckman
Presdent
Truman
White House
Lever Bros. Soap company
French Premier Resigns In Red Crisis Blums Emergence Seen
French Premier resigns amid a red inspired crisis as Blum emerges as potential new leader. Campaign updates show the fund drive at 19.3 percent of its 807187 goal. educational group leads with 6295.90 raised, led by Dr. Henry W. Littlefield and Bridgeport teachers.
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Blum
Randall B. Hamrick
Stratfield hotel
educational group
Henry W. Littlefield
Bridgeport Teachers’ association
Meyers Facing Indictment in War Plant Kickback Case
Senate inquiry heard Maj. Gen. Meyers profited over 150 thousand dollars from a war plant and helped craft a false testimony. Lamarre, president of Aviation Electric, testified Meyers urged a shared lie to avoid risk. Justice Department planned to seek a grand jury indictment for tax evasion.
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WASHINGTON
Senate
Bennett E. Meyere
Meyers
Bleriot Lamarre
Aviation Electric company
Dayton
Ohio
Lamarre
Senate War Investigating committee
Clark
Justice department
Indianapolis
UN group agrees on Jerusalem plan
The United States and Russia endorsed a plan to have the United Nations Trusteeship Council govern Jerusalem if Palestine is partitioned into Jewish and Arab states. An Arab subcommittee urged the UN to keep hands off Palestine for now, as the 1947 Assembly nears final adjournment. The Palestine committee will begin detailed work on the reports.
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LAKE SUCCESS
United States
Russia
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Palestine
Assembly
special Palestine committee
E.S.T
London Scene of Gaiety As Royal Wedding Nears
London crowds fill the streets as Duke of Edinburgh Philip Mountbatten nears marriage to Princess Elizabeth. Nighttime festivities at the Dorchester end as the couple return to Kensington ahead of the ceremony. Warm weather lifts the drizzle while jubilant crowds line the route to Westminster Abbey for the historic royal wedding.
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London
Dorchester
Philip Mountbatten
Duke of Edinburgh
Kensington palace
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Philip
the
palace
Wesminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey
Whitehall
George
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham
Factory Manager Quizzed at Trial Over Labor Dispute
John D. Foley the Westport based general manager testified in Superior court on the fifth day of contempt and permanent injunction proceedings stemming from a labor dispute at H. O. Canfield Company Rub ber products plant. The firm seeks to make permanent a prior injunction against mass picketing while pursuing contempt charges against Local 206 United Construction Workers United Mine Workers AFL 15 individuals.
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H. O. Canfield company
Housatonic avenue
John D. Foley
Westport
Kenneth Wynne
Foley
J. Howard Roberts
Local 206
United Construction Workers
United Mine Workers of America
A.F.L
the
national union
Stratfield hotel
upson
Italy Faces Rising Violence Across Nation
Rome and Sicily grapple with escalating unrest as political turmoil and Communist led labor stoppages sweep Italy. In Caltanissetta a mob assaulted police headquarters and attempted to lynch the chief, while Bari Andria Barletta and Gravina see strikes and clashes as police reinforce.
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ROME
Italy
Sicily
Caltanissetta
Palermo
Bari
Barsald
Gravina
Andria
chamber of labor
Ansa
Barletta
Ramadier quits as France faces labor upheaval and strikes
Premier Paul Ramadier resigns after ten months of labor unrest and Communist led strikes in France. Security guards posted in Paris and other ports to prevent violence as ministers stay briefly in office, with Blum favored to form a new center government to confront Communism and De Gaulle challenges.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Leon Blam
Ramadier
France
Bidault
Blum
Guy Mollet
Socialist party
Auriol
Marseille
Mediterranean porte
Le Havre
Mollet
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Taft
EUROPEAN AID
joint Economic committee
BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM
William J. Mealla
Cooperstill
U.S
anene
satennene
Bridge
Carrie
Pasquale Conte
Gridgeport Police department
NAM
Telegram
Angelo Patri Dea
Constantine Brown
Herman Bundesen
atenee
md seed
seseee
Manufacturers
Whelan
Perry
Ninth District
Socialist club
Russell Matthews
Andrew C. Lindmark
John J. Durkin
Max Frankel
William Abraham
James J. Whelan
Democratic Town committee
Brien McMahon
Elizabeth of
England
Phitip Mountbatten
St. James’ Palace
J. D. Foley
H.O. Canfield
Georges, Bidault
foreign office
Robert Schuman
finance ministry
Edouard De- Preux
interior ministry
De- Preaux
Vincent Auriol
Daniel Mayer
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