Truman Addresses Grain and Food Export Policy
President Truman outlined efforts to lower grain prices and curb gambling in grain and fiber markets while urging Congress for possible special session. He cited government purchases of wheat, international aid to France, and a broad food campaign aiming to save 100 million bushels for Europe, with mixed views on rationing and price controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Justice Department
Kanana City
Minneapolis
Walter R. Scott
National Association of Commodity Exchanger and Allied Trades, Inc
Kansas City
John T. Culhane
The
Grain Exchange
Congress
Europe
France
Audi
Renta
OPA
Truman Aaid
United States
Chicago
America
Agriculture Department
Richard Uhlmann
Board of Trade
Washington
Labor Department
Citizens Food Committee
Italy
Trueman
Mons Poultry
Mr. Truman
Woman Sentenced in Bank Shortage in Hartford
Mrs. Helen R. Fournier a Bristol former chief teller at Bristol Bank and Trust was sentenced to 3 to 8 years in state prison and fined 5000 for embezzlement. The shortage ranges from 100000 to 125000 with totals cited between 155000 and 185731.56, and the judge condemned the single-entry bank bookkeeping loophole exposed by the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Helen R. Fournier
Bristol
Bristol Bank and Trust Company
Superior Court
James H. Murphy
Connecticut
Meade Alcorn
Alcorn
Mra
Wan
Bristol High School
Bristol American Trust Company
Will of Mrs. F L Day Filed for Probate
The will of Mrs Agnes Haslam Day filed with Probate Judge John P Flanagan names her husband Dr Fossenden J Day of 819 Myrtle Ave and her nieces Marguerite and Emily Haslam of Stamford as principal beneficiaries The will leaves household goods to her husband jewelry clothing and personal effects to sisters cash account to sisters and stocks divided among ten parts three to each sister one part to be split between niece Margaret Funnell and nephew Walter L Funnell Executorship is given to Dr Day and Marguerite Haslam
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Haslam Day
John P. Flanagan
Fossenden J. Day
Myrtle Avenue
Marguerite
Emily Haslam
Stamford
Day
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Citizens
Norwalk Board appoints Dr Langlie to fill vacancy
Norwalk October 16 Dr Theos A Langlie industrial relations director of the Research department National Association of Manufacturers was elected by the Board of Education to fill the vacancy caused by Donald Gustafson's resignation at a Norwalk High School meeting Langlie will serve a six year term beginning January 1946 The vote drew socialist and labor-related debate over representation and ideology tied to the appointment and its impact on the school board plans for spring construction of wings at Fitch and Winnipaukachoola
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Norwalk
Theos A. Langlie
National Association of Manufacturers
Board of Education
Donald R. Gustafson
Norwalk High School
Langile
Irving C. Freese
Frederick F. Lovejoy, Jr
Lovejoy
Faire Edwards
Stanley Mayhew
Dorothy S. Gloetzner
Langlie
Edward Miller
Irving Glazer
Christ Hirschman
Hirschman
Dorothy EB. Wilcox
Silvermine Avenue
Art
N.A.M
Dr. Langue
Miller
Froese
Louis P. Simon
Soviet Grain Surplus Hinted as War Crop Rebounds
Dispatches from Moscow say official crop reports show a bumper grain harvest far surpassing wartime years. If realized, rationing could ease for bread and possibly sugar, with exports to allies and promises already made to Czechoslovakia and France. The planning commission notes large gains across pig iron, steel, coal, oil, power, locomotives, and other sectors, and a rise in construction and retail trade in 1947.
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Anle
Moscow
Britain
Planning Commission
Girl 13 Ends Life Over Forbidden Dates
East Meadow N Y Oct 16 AP A 13 year old farmer's daughter Leona Seret hanged herself, police said, after her parents refused to let her date boys. Mrs Josephine Seret found the body in her bedroom closet. Police reported she had threatened to kill herself if denied further outings with boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Meadow
Josephine Seret
Leona
Nageau County
Koys
U S Exports To Russia Drop In First Half Of 1947
The article notes U S exports to Russia fell from 223 million dollars in the first six months of 1946 to 61 million in the same period of 1947. It discusses export controls, export relief, and the impact on Soviet five year plan and wartime reconstruction plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
United States
Fazio Promises Housing Action in Bridgeport
A Republican candidate pledges to act on housing in Bridgeport, criticizing Mayor McLevy for inaction. The piece notes Public Acts 405 and 407 expiring or allowing low tax assessments, urging immediate city action to relieve housing shortages and curb rent inflation. The call emphasizes using available laws before July 1, 1949.
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Common Council of
Bridgeport
McLevy
Military aid to Turkey on schedule for arrival
Washington reports the first shipload of Turkish army supplies under the American aid program should reach Turkey in about a week. Secretary McGhee outlined the Greek Turkish program and noted UNRRA materials found in Greece had been used in the Greek aid project. He saw no strong native communism in Greece and warned against Yugoslavian Albanian and Bulgarian support to guerrillas.
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Washington
Turkey
George C. McGhee
Marshall
Middle East
United States
McGhee
UNRRA
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Britain repeats Palestine stand in UN debate
Britain insists on a clear plan to wind up the Palestine mandate and withdraw within a limited period leaving details to be announced later while conversations with Jerusalem continue. The UN debate over Secretary of State Marshall's yearround assembly committee plan continues with Greece India and Luxembourg supporting the idea and several Soviet allies opposing.
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United Nations
Creech-Jones
Britain
Palestine
London
Jerusalem
Creach-Jones
International Court of Justice
Assembly
Marshall
Poland
Zygmunt Modzelawski
U.N
Modzeleski
Kuzma Kiselev
Russia
Greece
India
U. S
Lebanon
Netherlands
Joseph Bech
Luxembourg
Robert Peck Dies When Hit by Auto in New Milford
Robert Peck age 80 of Pickett district died after being struck by a car while walking in heavy fog near Route 7 in New Milford. Walter Camp age 70 of Kent was critically injured and remains in Danbury Hospital with multiple injuries. The driver, Archie Mersey age 26 of Boardman district, was arrested for operating a motor vehicle so as to cause death.
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New Milford
Robert Peck
Pickett District
Lillis
Walter Camp
Kent
Peck
Highway 7
Route 25
Danbury Hospital
Andrew J. Nearing
Archie Mersey
Boardman Dinetrict
Anid
Louis Marchese
John Jones
Carmen LaMorte
Ickes Registers as Nonpartisan Voter in Olney
Harold L. Ickes, a key Roosevelt administrator, registered as nonpartisan in Olney Maryland. Reporters asked about his party, and he replied by questioning Frank Knox being a Democrat, noting he previously voted Republican in the 1932 Illinois primary but did not vote for Hoover.
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Olney
Harold JL. Ickes
Ickes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frank Knox
Illinois
Hoover
Taft and Stassen Clash Over Policy On Platform
Senator Taft blasted President Truman’s foreign policy as a riot of inconsistencies while Harold Stassen urged Republicans to present a platform of hope. Taft warned of unclear facts and potential war, endorsing United Nations support and warning against Soviet expansion. Stassen urged a free world stance against communism with a faith in liberty. Taft signaled a possible presidential run after next Wednesday.
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Columbus
Robert A. Taft
Truman
Harold E. Stassen
Taft
Stassen
Ohio
Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Organizations
Congress
Stason
Minnesota
Stasnen
Staxsen
United Nations
Russia
United States
OPA
New Deal
Six Drivers Arrested in Fairfield Drive
Six motorists were taken into custody yesterday by Fairfield police as speed and stop sign enforcement intensified. The five men and one woman, listed with addresses in Fairfield and Newtown, received summons to appear Monday in Fairfield Town Court after passing stop signs. The two-day total arrests reached 13 as patrolmen Day Ganser and Bodo led the operation.
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Fairfield
Harry A. Day
Philip Ganser
Louis Bodo
Joseph 1D. Pracyn
Sterling Street
Walter F. Borck
Viglar Avenue
Blephen Kovacs
Old Spring Road
Vincent F. Palmaski
High Street
Carl A. Wenstrom
Riverside Drive
Sylvia Bryant
Eden Hill Road
Newtown
Fairfield Town Court
High Court Sifts Sales Tax on Utility Equipment
The Daly corporation seeks the Supreme Court’s ruling on whether it must pay sales tax on tangible personal property sold to public utilities and whether it must collect the tax from those companies. The case questions the applicability of the act and section 1325 of the general statutes to utility earnings and the obligation to charge and remit the tax.
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Telephone
Daly Corporation
Pas
Uew
Supreme Court
Restore Patent Rights To German Scientist Rudenberg
Federal Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr ordered Attorney General Tom Clark to restore patent rights on an electronic microscope to Reinhold Rudenberg a German scientist and Harvard University professor who fled anti Semitic activity in 1935. The patents owned by a German company were seized during war by the alien property custodian and later returned after Clark withdrew an appeal. Rudenberg now lives in Belmont Massachusetts and is an American citizen.
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Boston
Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr
Tom Clark
Reinhold Rudenberg
Harvard University
Rudenberg
Berlin
Wyzanak
Clark
Belmont
Mass
Bridgeport Board Debates School Use and Tuition Hikes
At a board meeting a school was kept open for kindergarten and two grades rather than close entirely. Island Brook delegates urged full reopening or at least two extra grades, but action was deferred pending broader district surveys. The board raised tuition for sending towns from 110 to 125 dollars for elementary pupils and from 168 to 110 dollars for grades nine to twelve. An amendment to the 1946 salary schedule guarantees teachers with a BA on April 1, 1947 receive at least 2100 dollars yearly, effective September.
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Island Brook
Brainard Schietinger
Pasquale Vaeco
Bridgeport
Mercury Hits 84 as Drought Holds
The report notes 210 visitors in a half hour were taken to the city by chartered bus. The forecast calls for fair and warm weather with a 25th straight day of dry weather if the forecaster is correct.
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Mercury
AFL Drops Lewis From Its Ruling Executive Board
AFL ousts longtime United Mine Workers chief John J. Lewis from the ruling council for the coming year amid a contentious convention. Daniel W. Tracy is elected to Lewin’s seat as Green appeals for unity and the federation contemplates legal action over its political program and Taft-Hartley issues.
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San Francisco
John J. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers
Daniel W. Tracy
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Cincinnati
William Green
George Meany
New York
Meany
Daniel J. Tobin
Brotherhood of Teamstern
AFL
Lewis
Tracy
Green
Unity Green
Organisation of Labor
Columbia
Ohio
Taft
Rohio
Federation
Cynthia Cox Injured in East Side Crash
A 23 year old woman, Cynthia Cox of 267 Fairfield avenue, sustained bruises to her left leg when the auto she rode in ran out of control on East Malin Street near Stillman Street and struck a parked car. Driver Frank Gaetano, 24, of Brooklyn, was arrested after police said brakes failed to stop the car that crossed an intersection.
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East Malin Street
Stillman Street
Cynthia Cox
Fairfield Avenue
Thomas V. Matthews
Frank Gaetano
Brooklyn
N.Y
Thia
Gaetano
George Kelly
George Frorman
Anid
Frank Schlonsky Hurt In Center Car Crash
Frank Schlonsky, 35, of 186 Ohio avenue, was admitted to St Vincenza hospital for observation about 12:15 am after injuries in a crash at Fairsfield avenue and Middle street. He suffered scalp and right hand lacerations. A passenger in a car driven by Robert Damon, 62, of 343 Ridgefield avenue, Damon’s car was struck by another auto driven by Norville J. Robinson Jr., 28, of Massachusetts, who was charged with violating the state auto regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Schlonsky
Ohio Avenue
St. Vincenza Hospital
Fairsfield Avenue
Middle Street
Schlonsky
Wok BK
Robert Damon
Ridge Field Avenue
Damon
Norville
JD. Robinson, Jr
Massachusetts
Po- Nee
Robinson
Voter oath administered to 228 Bridgeport residents
The voter s oath was administered to 228 Bridgeport men and women at City hall yesterday, bringing total new electors sworn in to 796 since the Board of Selectmen began. Sessions continue 9 a m to 8 p m today and tomorrow. On Wednesday, Salvatore Fazio s mother and wife were made voters.
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Bridgeport
City Hall
Board of Selectmen
Sesalona
Salvatore Fazio
Not With Mirrors Boston Sky Signa ture Menses
Boston report by Andy Stinia states sky signatures average about 15 miles in length and are written horizontally across the sky rather than standing upright as viewed from the ground.
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Boston
Andy Stinia
Hunters Warned Of Fire Hazards In Maine Ban
The Maine governor imposed a state wide ban on camping fires and wood building as drought fuels sub surface fires. State forest officials reported thirty eight small fires burning underground across two counties with more than 600 acres scorched and several hundred cords of pulpwood wrecked. The ban also bars hunting fishing and firearm possession on others property until rain returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York-New Jersey
Conservation Department
Maine
Horace A. Hildreth
State Forentry Department
Aaid
Raymond BE. Rendall
Hildreth
Rain halts duel between Argentine deputies in Buenos Aires
A planned duel between Lt. Col. Rodolfo Mujica and Oscar Albrien, Peronist deputies, was halted by a heavy thunderstorm. The two agreed to meet outside the city to settle a dispute over a political letter Mujica had sent Albrien. Four seconds, also deputies, postponed the duel until dawn.
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Buenos Aires
Rodolfo Mujica
Oscar Albrien
Peroniata
Outakirta
Adiaputa
Mujicen
Albrieu
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F. L. Day
T. A. Langlie
Mary Magruder Mingle
Louis Ibraman
U. S. Army District Engineer
Philippines
Maj
Gerald H. Hoffman
Fazio
High Court
East Side
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