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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1947
Page
8
The Bridgeport Te Telegram lists subscription rates including 12.00 for Sunday and 6.00 for 1 month with 20 cents extra per month for postage beyond 180 miles. The paper notes Associated Press rights and second class matter status in Bridgeport Connecticut.
The piece critiques politicians efforts to curb food costs and urges frank, strong leadership. It cites Attorney General Tom Clark urging reports on price fixing, the Commodities Exchange Authority pressuring grain margins, and calls for voluntary rationing or renewed controls. It warns that only decisive statesmanship can address inflation driven by government actions and wage disputes.
At the Atlantic City convention broadcasters consider a code to reduce advertising to 3 minutes in a 15 minute program, ban middle of news ads, and ban tasteless or occult content. The plan aims to restore dignity and attract higher quality advertisers while limiting over commercialization.
In a measured move, broadcasters receive praise for progressing reforms themselves, with officials signaling support but warning that government intervention could follow if needed to protect standards. The stance aims to balance industry initiative with regulatory oversight.
Supplies for fall flood local stores as factory output climbs and immediate delivery expands. Retailers alertly stock broad assortments, colors, and sizes, focusing on women’s purchasing while prices remain high. Officials note wartime shortages fading but living costs still squeeze families with children.
A columnist extols cheerful, uplifting behavior as natural and contagious. Bright personalities attract others, while gloom repels. smiles are easy, sourness harder to bear. The piece urges readers to live with optimism, keeping the torch lit for those they meet.
A Danbury News-Times column challenges American women to resist Paris fashion control. The piece cites a Paris fashion dictator urging longer, padded gowns and notes many wear them anyway, questioning why Americans submit to Hollywood and society styles while no definitive authority on women exists.
In a front page analysis, Ray Tucker credits President Truman with isolating Henry Wallace within a pro Communist stance, using pressure, publicity and political maneuvering to prevent Wallace from becoming a threat as a third party candidate. The piece notes labor leaders’ pushback on the Hartley Taft act and Truman aides’ roles in shaping the veto and subsequent political moves.
Off the record White House spokesmen predict former Iowa Republican Wallace will join Farley in declaring for Henry Truman in 1948. The mercurial speculation centers on a potential coalition between diverse party figures surrounding the president.
AP analysis flags Greece as a flashpoint in the Cold War. Russia blocks UN moves and expands influence through satellites, while the United States weighs two paths: militarily press Greece or broaden mutual defense ties across Europe and the Mediterranean to counter Soviet aims.
The piece notes John L. Lewis and A. F. Whitney reversing earlier hard lines as prearranged moves alter political currents. It claims Whitney abandons threats to withhold funds to block Truman and shows labor’s big three cooling toward Republican rivals Dewey Warren and Stassen.
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, once named as a potential 1948 presidential candidate, agreed with Truman executives on foreign policy. He attended a private dinner at a downtown hotel and pledged fealty to the current party leadership. Hannegan greeted Pepper at a Miami rally and praised him as a world figure.
Opposition figure Pepper shifts role as courier between campaigns and Henry and Wallace. The President faces a reduced intra party field with Wallace and Harold Ickes as dissenting critics, while Ickes and Wallace switch party loyalties for personal reasons.
A 39-year-old mental patient at Charity Hospital leapt from a fourth-story window, tearing from attendants. He was unconscious at rescue but unharmed beyond the fall after landing in a flower bed, sparing serious injury.
Justice Robert H. Jackson, addressing the Air Force Association, urged a complete revision of war laws focusing on air power and prisoner treatment. He warned that Soviet calls for new rules target a single weapon and argued the United States must build unmatched air superiority to deter war and uphold humane conduct.
Senator Byrd of Virginia denounced crisis legislation for Europe aid noting the US has spent about 20 billion abroad in two years. He urged frank, accurate appraisals of foreign conditions and warned against unilateral actions that bypassed the United Nations. He urged policy to align with Marshall’s UN commitments and criticized past interventions in Greece and Turkey without UN approval.
The state forecast for all New England states calls for sunny skies and a bit cooler conditions Wednesday with fair weather continuing into Thursday. Cooler Wednesday night with rising temperatures expected Thursday. Winds from Eastport to Block Island will be gentle and variable, mostly onshore in the afternoon Wednesday, with very good visibility overall.
Gov McConaughy names Morgan R. Mooney of West Hartford to succeed Rt. Rev. Walter Gray as chairman of the State Inter-Racial Commission. Mooney, a former deputy state labor commissioner and current personnel chief at United Aircraft, will serve until July 28, 1948. The 1947 Fair Employment Practices Act bans racial or religious discrimination by employers, agencies, and unions. the commission oversees enforcement.
Kenny Caristen, piloting a Sunday flight over Pender, Nebraska, spotted a house ablaze in the Meurice Sampson family yard. He landed, alerted the family, and they used iced tea to help extinguish the flames.
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