Britain repeats intention to end Holy Land rule
Britain informs the United Nations Palestine committee it will relinquish the Palestine mandate and withdraw from the Holy Land within a limited period. Colonial Secretary Creech Jones says Britain will not enforce the mandate alone or in a major role, while urging prompt UN action toward partition. Britain favors no indefinite transition period and notes costs of maintaining the mandate.
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Lake Success
Brittan
United Nations Assembly
Palatine
Holy Land
Tne
Britain
United States
Arthur Creech
Jenen
Assembly
Palestine Committee
Norway
Palestine
Jewiah Agency For Palestine
Arab Higher Committee of Palestine
Creach-Jones
Cuba
Argentina
Creech-Jones
Risia
Theas
Bittain
Hundrada
Ivea
Adid
Eamential
Ank
Anle
Weather brief for Bridgeport and vicinity today
Cooperative Observer William J. Mealla reports Bridgeport and vicinity will be cool today and warm through Saturday. The forecast includes yesterday's high and low temperatures, precipitation figures, barometer readings, and tide times, with almanac notes for October 17 and sunrise and sunset times.
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William J. Mealla
Cooperative Observer
Weather Bureau
Bridgeport and Vicinity
Tarrant Resigns From Bridgeport Police After Five Years
Edward T. Tarrant of 228 Alsace Street Bridgeport resigns from the police force effective October 24 after five years with the department. He served with the radio patrol in the third precinct Black Rock and joined in 1942 as a street patrolman. He intends to enter the insurance business. He attended Sacred Heart School and Central High, class of 1935.
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Sace Street
Bridgeport
Police Commission
Black Rock
Tarrant
T. Tarrant
Sacred Heart School
Central High School
Fazio Promises Housing Action in Campaign Speech
Salvatore J. Fazio a 33 year old Republican mayoral candidate opened his campaign with a WNAB radio talk criticizing Mayor McLevy for talking about housing without action. He urged concrete steps, cited a 1947 Connecticut law enabling bonds up to 15 million for local housing authorities, and pressed McLevy to stop vague rhetoric and act to aid hard pressed tenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvatore J. Fazio
WNAB
McLevy
Bridgeport
Calla
Fazlo
McLavy
G.O.P
Mc-Levy
Chest Launches Fairfield Drive Campaign Kickoff
The Olyfield Community Chest opened its 18th annual drive with a $73,808 goal and a kickoff dinner at Roger Ludlowe High School. Campaign leaders urged volunteers to work hard as 80 workers attended. George Trevor entertained, ice carvings impressed attendees, and church leaders offered invocation and benediction.
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Olyfield
Roger Ludlowe
George Trevor
New York Sun
Talea
George Welning
Robin Hood
Herbert J. Shay
Community Chest
Malcolm MacCallum
William J. Biake
SL. Thomman’ Church
Board backs bus transport and sidewalks in city North End
The Board of Education adopted a plan to record support for bus transportation in the North End when funding allows and to extend a maintenance survey. It urged sidewalks on Main Street from Minturn Circle to the Log Cabin and directed the Public Works director to begin work. The survey suggests about 225 potential riders if bus service is arranged.
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Board of Education of Record
Main Street
Minturn Circle
Log Cabin Inn
Joseph A. Weimann
Sheridan
Woodrow Wilkson
Welmann
Beardsley Park
Sylvan Crest
Success Park
George A. Laden
North End
Board of Education
Island Brook
Denmark demands U S quit bases in Greenland
Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen said Denmark will insist the United States evacuate all military bases in Greenland and stop weather stations. He plans to present demands to Secretary of State George Marshall, citing abrogation of the 1941 Danish American defense pact under article 10. Rasmussen said Nazi menace no longer exists and denied Communist pressure.
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Russia
Marshall
United States
New York
Gustav Rasmussen
Denmark
Greenland
America
Arctic
Rasmussen
George Marshall
Washington
Elizabeth Rasmussen
U.S
Nazi Germany
October Heat Battle Ends With Unseen Drought Clash
October day brought 81 degree heat from Summer while fog enveloped city and grounded LaGuardia. A DC-4 arriving from Boston could not land, diverting to Boston after 8:30 pm with 49 passengers. Other jets from Chicago and Dallas could not land at 400 feet visibility and followed. Passengers were shuttled to New York by bus.
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Boston
New York
LaGuaredia Field
Chicagro
Dallasalgo
Robert Montgomery
Reds to Have Grain Surplus For Export, Observers Say
Moscow observers report a Soviet state planning commission finding that Soviet Russia will export a grain surplus in the fall and winter. The harvest is slated to be 68 percent larger than last year’s drought hit output, with 56,700,000 more hectares harvested by Oct 5. Industrial and consumer sectors show accelerated recovery, and overall gross output in the first nine months of 1947 runs 18 percent above the prior year, though no actual production figures are released.
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Moscow
Soviet State Planning Commission
Soviet
Russia
Apid
Gropa
Planning Commission
Soviet Union
Palmiro Togliatti
Tinian Communist Party
Ex-GI Gets 18 Months In Atom Picture Theft
Former Army Sgt Arnold F Kivi 26 was sentenced in Federal court to 38 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing and concealing government photographs from the Sos Alamos New Mexico atomic bomb plant. FBI found 37 photographs and 10 negatives in his Brooklyn home, showing atomic research equipment.
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New York
Army
Arnold F. Kivi
Sos Alamos
N. M
Kivi
FBI
Brooklyn
Connecticut Hunters Warned of Forest Fire Hazard Nears Season
Governors in five states close woodlands amid a prolonged dry spell raising fire risk. Connecticut prolongs season plans with observers to guard against fires while New York and Vermont impose immediate bans. Adirondack forest land closed across nine counties. Deer season delayed by park closures and safety orders.
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Connecticut
Fingland
New York
Maine
Massachuusettas
Vermont
New Hampshire
Cone Tacticas Woods
McConaughy
Raymond Reinholz
Massachusetts
Kienholz
Rusecl PF
Hunter, Connecticut
Superintendent of Fisheries
Thomas E. Dewey
New Yorke
Adirondack
Bear Mountain
Commission
U S Sells 41 German ships to France under Potsdam plan
The United States will transfer 41 former German naval vessels and a 40,000-ton floating dock to France free of charge. The ships include three destroyers and 12 minesweepers among others. France will receive two destroyers at Annapolis when its cruiser visits next month. All craft are in German ports.
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United States
State Department
France
Britain
Russia
Officinin Anid
Aea Roeing
Annapolia
Cruleeer
George Peygnes
High Court Takes Sales Tax Suits From Utilities
Hartford October 17 Three suits protesting sales tax on public utilities and their suppliers were sent to the Connecticut Supreme Court for interpretation. Connecticut Light and Power, Southern New England Telephone, and M. J. Daly & Co. seek ruling on whether the tax applies to fuel and equipment used by line utilities. The cases note agreement that constitutionality will not be challenged.
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Hartford
Court of Errora
Walter W. Walah
Bueperior
P. B. O'Sullivan
Supreme Court
Connecticut Light and Power Company
Southern New England Telephone Company
M. J. Daly and Gona, Inc
Waterbury
Denlera
Une
Theix
Auit It Waa
Brewers Agree on Grain Cuts to Limit Output
Washington October 16 AP report notes top beer industry leaders approve a three month program to cut corn usage by 25 percent per barrel and stop edible barley and sorghum purchases. Expect no output drop, saving about 650000 bushels monthly with a further 350000 bushels from normal decline in beer production.
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Washington
Citizena’ Food Committee
Induatry
Uae
Food Committee
Charlies Luckman
United States Brewery Foundation
Anve
Europe
Brawepn
Nevasal Daya
Confere Ences
Cate
Bome
Luckman
Brave Era’ Foundation
Groupe Agrand
Ita
Grain Exchange Gambling Probed
Washington October 18 AP Man who presides over grain markets faces a probe as Attorney General Clark investigates Rain exchanges and fiber trading. Truman says no law violations found yet while citing gambling on grain exchanges as a cause of high prices. Anderson cites poor prospects for winter wheat as a factor in price shifts.
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Washington
APY
Truman
Clark
Anderson
Trueman
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Peta
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Cop
Edward T. Tarrant
Fazio
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Fairfield Drive
Western Europe
Ruasila
Commerce Department
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
Chicago Board of Trade
Mercury
Telegram
Omiea
Constantine Brown
Hermin Bunidesen
Editorinie Ve Eeneene
ATOM
Hunter
New Haven
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New London
High Court
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Pws Raper
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