Hurricane Roars Across Florida and Gulf Reach
The storm battered Florida towns from Deerfield Beach to Cape Florida with heavy damage and widespread outages. Six marooned residents, three missing on a private yacht, were evacuated as Coast Guard and Red Cross coordinated aid. Army air reconnaissance and adjusted flight operations followed as planes were moved inland in response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deerfield
Millionaire's Row
Pakma Beach
Miami Beach
Caesara Creek
Coast Guard
Cape Florida
Miami
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Cuba
Nassau
Florida
MecDill Field
Mid
Scott and Chanute Fields
Truman Orders Aid For Stricken Area
President Truman directed the Federal Works agency to make surplus personal property available to state and local governments in the hurricane area. The action follows a request from J W Follin and cites Public Law 233 to provide Federal aid without reimbursement for Florida and potentially Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
President Truman
Truman
Federal Works Agency
Washington
Brasil
J W. Follin
Federal Works Administrator
Florida
Georgia
Anseta
A’atee
Trial nears end in yacht murder case
The Mary E case centers on the Overell deaths as prosecutors press defendant Collum and co defendant Golhum about dynamite purchases and removing boat stanchions. Collum testifies he rejected a plea offer from Sheriff Musick while denying involvement. Louie is named heir to the Overell fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E
Overells
Clollum
Golhum
Overell
William EB. Beirie
Gollum
Erugene Williams
Investistineg
Colhim
Collum
Paul
James Musick
Musick
Yeater
Sailor Adrift Rescued by Fishermen Off Watch Hill
Philip Isaaca, 22, of New Haven, was rescued three miles off Watch Hill Rhode Island by the fishing boat Connie M after his 17 foot sailboat foundered in high winds. He had sailed from Sagamore Head near Guilford to New London and used an outboard motor when his mainsail tore, leaving him adrift overnight while a purg-rig remained. Isaaca is a student at the University of Connecticut Fort Trumbull branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Philip Isaaca
Boulevard
New Haven
Stonington
Watch Hill
R. 1
Eniueas
Jenaca
Sachema Head
Guilford
University of Connecticut
Fort Trumbull
Connie M
Joseph Madeira
Isaacs
Low bid totals set for Fairfield school additions
Fairfield officials report bids for the Grasmere and Stratfield school additions, with Edwin Moss and Son leading the low bids at 607000 for one project. Alternates include kindergarten expansion and corkboard floors, while state aid and local bonds fund the plans to ease overcrowding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Moss and Son
Stratfield School
E. and F. Company
E. E. Bray
Gellatly Company
Harry Maring, Jr., Inc
Frouge Company
DeFence Company
F. D. Rich Company
M. E. Maloney and Company
Grasmere
Fairfield
Board of Education
State
Public School Commission
Aise
School Crossings Surveyed Westport
Sgt. Ralph Meeker of the Police Department surveys all elementary school crossings in response to a State Highway Commission request. He will prepare a detailed report with recommendations for added safety of school children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Ralph Meeker
Police Department
State Highway Commission
Meeker
Allie Smarth Death Notice From Pine Rock Park
Memorial services are set for Alice Smarth of Pine Rock Park who died Tuesday afternoon on her thirtieth birthday at Newington Veterans Hospital after a rare illness. The service will be Friday at 2 30 p m at the George Potter and Sona funeral home The Pines 880 Fairfield Avenue Bridgeport burial at Lakeview Cemetery Born Bridgeport September 16 1917 she was the daughter of the late Helen MacDougal and William Smarth She served as a supply clerk private in the Air Forces beginning July 26 1944 in New Haven and was medically discharged August 15 1945 She is survived by her father William Smarth a brother Donald and Mrs Clayton Butler and her grandmother Mrs Caroline Rice of Pine Rock Park
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allies Smarth Shelton
Alice Smarth
Pine Rock Park
Newington Veterans’ Hospital
George Potter and
Sona
the Pines
Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport
Lakeview Cemetery
Mire Smarth
Helen MacDougal
William Marth
Miss Smarth
New Haven
William Smarth
Donald
Pine Rock
Mra
Clayton Butler
Remington Street
Caroline Rice
Witness Denies Involvement In Newport Harbor Tragedy
The witness and Gollum admitted buying 50 pounds of dynamite at Overell’s request. The tragedy occurred last March 15 when her parents died aboard their cruiser shattered by dynamite in Newport harbor.
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Day
Newport Harbor
Gollum
Overell
Marshall urges curb on UN veto charter revision
In a forceful speech Marshall called for reform of the United Nations veto and for an interim peace and security committee. He urged restricting veto to war threats, independent reviews of peaceful disputes, and steps toward Palestine resolution and Korean independence, while proposing a study group to liberalize voting in the Security Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Europe
Almple
United States
Assembly
U. N
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Greece
Palestine
U. N. Committee On
Korea
Russia
U. N. Atomic Einergy Commission
Rusara
France
Security Council
Marehall
U.N
Council
Grand Jury Hears Right Witnesses in Murder Cases
The grand jury hears right witnesses after a man attacked a woman with a butcher knife. Three other prisoners linked to homicides will be arraigned as cases proceed. Vincent J. Mole 23 Norwalk sailor. Mrs Ann Nicastro Mattiello 28 Norwalk died by revolver on June 7. William Fair 23 Brooklyn shot and killed former fiancée Shirley Simmons 17 on July 6. Louis Gray 28 New York charged in fatal assault against Vincent Niper 81 on Aug 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand
Vincent J. Mole
Norwalk
Ann Nicastro Mattiello
William Fair
Brooklyn
N. Y
Shirley Simmons
Fairfield Avenue
Louis Gray
George Street
Vincent Niper
Driver of Fire Truck Dies of Heart Attack
Washington dispatch reports fire truck driver Charles Weitzel age 39 was stricken with a fatal heart attack while speeding down Connectcut avenue. Chief Edward Sackett stopped the vehicle and pulled the emergency brake after Weitzel slumped over the wheel. Firemen arrived at the scene to find a housewife had reported a water leak from the house heating system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Connecticut Avenue
Charles Weitzel
Edward J. Sackett
Forrestal Sworn In as Secretary of Defense
Washington AP reports James V. Forrestal sworn as new Secretary of Defense under armed forces unification. This cuts the President's cabinet from ten to nine, with Defense taking the core armed forces representation. Cabinet line up now includes State, Defense, Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, plus the attorney general and postmaster general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James V. Forrestal
Officials Probe Toy Plant Blaze In Bridgeport
A toy plant blaze trapped smoke in a basement room as nearly 350 Lindstrom employees fled to the street. Firefighters William Wilson and Frederick Evers were overcome by smoke but treated at the scene. Assistant Chiefs and off duty firemen aided the response while workers assisted in the basement access efforts. The fire was contained to the storage room with no workers normally on site at the time, and loss could not yet be estimated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Wilson
Frederick Evers
Elwin Callahan
Eleanor Laidlaw
Bridgeport Pressed Metal Company
Lindstrom
William O'Malley
Arthur Platt
Sylvester Jennings
Silliman Avenue
Fairfield Avenue
Ash Streets
Edward F. Parker
Solomon Katzman
U. S. Orders Cut in Grain Exports
The Agriculture Department announced reduced grain exports as prices soar and food concerns rise. Senators criticize Bridges for buck-passing while cabinet members weigh policy ahead of a Truman plan review. Officials project smaller crop yields may force a cut to about 425 million bushels from last year’s 575 million. Norris E. Dodd notes higher foreign needs this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Cabinet Food Committee
Marshall
Agriculture
Anderson
Commerce
Harriman
Cabinet
Truman
Norris E. Dodd
Europe
Clipper Ship boom runs from 1840 to 1850
Between 1840 and 1850 about 1 060 clipper ships were in operation, most of them controlled by U S business men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Forrestal Sworn Nation's First Defense Secretary
James V. Forrestal took the oath as the United States first Secretary of Defense directing Army Navy and a separate Air Force. President Truman, en route home, said he did so due to the international situation and to have a unified armed services immediately. Secretary Marshall urged UN to press Greece crisis amid Soviet criticism as Forrestal meets officials and the unification law takes effect at midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James V. Forrestal
President Truman
Truman
Forrestal
Marshall
United Nations Assembly
Russia
Greece
Mr. Truman
Inter-American Defense Conference
Rio de Janeiro
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Associated Press
Missouri
Charlea G. Ross
Rosas
Clark Clifford
Ross
Ayatem
Fred M. Vinson
United States
Navy Department
Army
Zwerdling Co Strike Settled Ends Walkout
Zwerdling Co workers return to duties as 20 bakers resume, with truck drivers and sales staff to follow when branches reopen. Superior Court denied a temporary injunction against Local 145 seeking to stop alleged mass illegal picketing at the Iranistan avenue bakery, after attorney cited blocked ingress and egress for lawful business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zwerdling
Superior Court
Bald Head Club Plans Danbury Meeting September 27
Canaan September 17 AP report details the Bald Head Club of America Inc announcing its annual meeting will be held in Danbury on September 27. The group, formed 85 years ago, dubs itself the jolliest club in America, tracing origins to John Redemeyer who once wrote about six bald men in a Connecticut newspaper space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan
Jim Rutledge
Bald Head Club of America, Inc
Danbury
Jolliest Club In
America
John Redemeyer
The
Connecticut Western News
Press
Rodemeyer
Danbury Teachers Press for Contract Backing and Pay
Danbury teachers working without contracts for the 1947-48 year voted to urge the Board of Education and Superintendent Walter P. Sweet to record their stance on pay disputes. They seek $72,000 for salary purposes, basing claims on a May agreement tied to 60 percent of promised increases and 50 percent if State Aid bill passed. No action yet from the Board. a town meeting remains under consideration pending finance approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danbury
South Street
Board of Education
Walter P. Sweet
Supt Sweet
Danbury Teachers’ Association
LeRoy Jackson
General Assembly
Teachers’ Association
Finance Board
U S Troops Save Japs From Flood After Typhoon
U S troops aided survivors after a devastating typhoon flood across Honshu, with confirmed deaths reaching 367 and 113 injured in one report, plus earlier tallies from Kyodo of 04 dead 158 injured and 2 017 missing. Flooding inundated 173 820 houses and 500 000 acres of crops across five more prefectures. The Tone River threatened Tokyo area but without new casualties expected. two U S soldiers were among the dead.
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Yomiuri
Kyodonewa
U. S
Honshu
Tone River
Kanto
Tokyo
Kyodo
AFL Union Files Test Case on Communist Affidavit Rule
The AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers filed with the National Labor Relations Board a formal test case challenging the non-Communist affidavit requirement. The case appeals a regional ruling and questions NLRB General Counsel Robert N. Denham's interpretation under Taft Hartley that top officers must sign affidavits to allow grievances or representation cases.
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Washington
AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Denham
AFL
CIO
Fairfield School Opens Drive For Funds To Reconvert Barns
Fairfield Country Day School launches a $150,000 campaign to reconvert red barns on Mill Plain road into new quarters. General chairman William C. Keator Jr leads a special gifts committee with support from J Reid Williamson and others as plans aim to ready classrooms by September 1944. A community-focused effort includes a campaign dinner for workers on October 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Barns
Mill Plain Road
Fairfield Country Day School
William C. Keator, Jr
Keator
J. Reid Willamston
Ita
Lau
Rence W. Gregory
Unquowa
Mill Plain Roads
Sturges
Bradford Boardman
Edwin F. Blair
Joni Coyle
Henry Manville
Irving R. Carter
Marion Graves
Laurence W. Gregory
J. Moyer Mahaney
Robert Evans
Sales at Annual Social Affairs Exempted from Tax
State Tax Commissioner Walsh told municipal finance officers that annual bazaars picnics and social affairs run by churches and other organizations are exempt from the state sales tax as casual sales. He cautioned that multiple events in a year trigger tax collection unless concessions are run on a percentage basis with a commercial operator. He also noted that municipalities pay tax on items like water meters cold patch and pipe sold for public works and clarified that sales to the community are exempt while sales by non profits are taxable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter W. Walsh
Municipal Finance Officials Association
Housatonic Lodge
Stratford
Walsh
Johnson touts town improvements and health gains
Selectman Johnson outlines completed projects including $50,000 for reconstruction, sidewalks on Legion field and under Round Hill viaduct, Riverside drive bridge, Duck Farm bridge, and widened Burroughs road. He cites new town offices, improved garbage handling, sand-fill disposal, stricter health enforcement, dog pound, police commission, pension system, parks, lifeguards, and beach access at Sasco. Plans for Jennia Beach, erosion fight leadership, and 50 veterans homes begun on Reef road are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Field
Round Hill
Riverside Drive
Duck Farm
Jennings Park
Post Road
Miller Street
Southport
Owen Fish Memorial Park
Southport Beach
Sasco Beach
The
Selectman
Town Hall
Silliman School
Burroughs Road
Selectman Johnson
Yale School of Public Health
Selectmen
Independent Police Commission
Sturges Park
Grasmere
Veterans’ Housing Authority
Reef Road
Import of mammals and marsupials to New Zealand began
The record notes that New Zealand had no native mammals or marsupials until humans introduced them, marking a pivotal shift in the country’s ecological history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Joseph D Griffin Dies in Fairfield After Long Illness
Joseph Daly Griffin a 34 year U S Aluminum plant engineer retired on V J Day 1945 died at his Fairfield home after a long illness. Services Saturday at 10 30 a m at the Shaughnessy funeral home and 11 a m at St Thomas church with a requiem mass burial in St Thomas cemetery. Born in Fairfield son of Patrick and Elizabeth Griffin. Survived by wife Sarah, daughter Betty Griffin, three sisters and a nephew and niece. He lived in Fairfield and Bridgeport most of his life and was a member of Unquown Tribe No 4 Order of Redmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Daly Griffin
U. S. Aluminum Company
Post Road
Fairfield
John M. Shaughnessy
St. Thomas Church
St. Thomas Cemetery
Patrick
Elizabeth Daly Griffin
Griffin
Bridgeport
Order of Redmen
Sarah E. Collins Griffin
Bettey Griffin
Morris Kiley
Elizabeth Griffin
Anna Graham
Joseph Kiley
Philadelphia
Misa Regina Kiley
Funeral services for Henry Thomas Gehrmann
Henry Thomas Gehrmann of 9 Berkeley Street died Tuesday at Norwalk Hospital. Services were held today at Raymond Funeral Home with Rev. Phillipa Brooks Warner of Trinity Episcopal Church officiating. Burial followed at Norwalk Cemetery.
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Henry Thomas Gehrmann
Norwalk
Berkeley Street
Raymond Funeral Home
Phillipa Brooks Warner
Trinity Episcopal Church
Norwalk Cemetery
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Gulf
Secretary of Defense
TOY Plant
Franconia
N. H
Bridges
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Congressional Committee On Economics
Taft
Senator Bridges
South America
Zwerdling CO
Bald Head Club
Danbury Board
A.F.L. Union
Fairfield School
Meriden
Samuel Mellitz
Superior
Wallingford
Board of Health
Allen B. Vermilya
Harry B. Flood
Johnson
Joseph D. Griffin
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