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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1947
Page
11
Hartford Sept 17 AP The Employment Security division reports a third straight weekly drop in unemployment benefit claims. For the week ending Sept 13 a total of 24 429 claims were filed down from 26 765 the prior week. Largest declines appeared in Bridgeport Norwich Hartford and New Haven.
First Selectman Clifford L Johnson and former First Selectman John Ferguson will address the Fairfield League of Women Voters at 8 15 p m Sept 26 in Roger Ludlowe high school's small auditorium The meeting will include addresses by Republican and Democratic town committee chairs Samuel Glover and David W Russell and cover candidates for other town posts A question and answer period will follow Public invited
Washington, Sept. 17 CAP The emergency board to investigate the wage dispute between the Railway Express Agency and the AFL Teamsters union was announced. Members: Leverett Edwards of Oklahoma City, former Judge H Nathan Swaim of the Indiana Supreme Court, and Norman J Ware of West Hartford Conn, economist and labor arbitrator. The board was created last Monday and must report within 30 days.
Captain Frank W. Fenno, formerly with the chief of naval operations, assumes command of the submarine base at New London. He relieves Captain Charles W. Gray, who will become professor of naval science at Cornell University.
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