Shea to Oppose Branca in World Series Opener
New York Dodgers prepare for the open with Ebbetts Field workouts while the Yankees at Yankee Stadium rest. Frank Shea will start for the Yankees against Brooklyn ace Hal Brent Branca, marking Shea as the first rookie to open a World Series for an American League team.
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Bucky
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Bill) Bevens
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Page Harris
Bobo Newsom
Allie Reynolds
Weather summary for Bridgeport and vicinity
Official weather report by William J Mealle Cooperative Observer summarizing showers this morning clearing this afternoon and cooler conditions, with Wednesday forecast for fair and clear skies. Includes yesterday's high and low, precipitation total for yesterday and month, barometer reading, tide times, and almanac details for Tuesday September 29.
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William J. Mealle
Cooperative Observer
U & Weathe Bureau
BRIDGEPORT
Lynge Speaks on Freedom at Rededication Week Event
Carl M. Lynge, principal speaker for the Business and Industry program, described freedom as the source of America's industrial strength and urged vigilance in protecting it. The meeting at Stratfield hotel drew about 150 attendees including Mayor McLevy and leaders Aram Tellahan Leo Dunn and William Alderson, who spoke on continuity and vigilance as essentials of freedom.
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Carl M. Lynge
Chamber of Commerce
Manufacturers’ association
Stratfield hotel
Lynge
Aram H. Tellahan
Arthur Clifford
Mayor McLevy
Leo Dunn
Labor committee
William H. Alderson
Tellallan
Gas Light Co to vote on pact with workers
Bridgeport Gas Light Co and its 300 union workers reached a tentative agreement in a midnight conference. The contract would expire December 15 with unresolved disputes referred to arbitration. Local 12,208 of United Mine Workers will vote today. State Labor Commissioner John J. Egan submitted the proposal. Company representatives were Stenslid A. Malony and David Day. Union leader is Kenneth Meyers.
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Bridgeport Gas Light Co
John J. Egan
District 6
United Mine Workers
Stensld A. Malony
David
Kenneth Meyers
Stratford Milford Health District Plan Proposed
Dr James Dolce urged Stratford and Milford to form a single health district with one department serving both communities. Milford Health officer resigns effective Oct 1 and state funds eight thousand dollars toward costs. Council will study proposals, consider taking over school health and public health nursing, and budget for next year.
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Stratford
Milford
Stratford Town
James Dolce
State Health department
Dolce
Council
Peter J. Ring, Jr
Board of Education
Public Health Nursing service
Ring
Terrorist blast kills 10 in Haifa
A barrel of explosives rolled over a wire barrier struck Haifa police HQ killing 10 and injuring 77. The Jewish underground claimed revenge for deportation of Exodus 1947 Jews to Hamburg. Britons and Arabs died including a 16 year old Arab girl. 14 Jewish civilians among the injured. British troops responded, arresting four suspects near Mount Carmel as authorities found an abandoned truck and a partial device in Hadar Hacarmel.
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JERUSALEM
Haifa
Jewish underground
Jewa
Hamburg
Germany
Sixth Airborne division
Hadar Hacarmel
Mount Carmel
Arabs oppose UN plan for Zion partition in Palestine
Arabs of Palestine declared they would fight the partition plan with Israel and rejected federalization. Jamal Husseini, vice chairman of the Arab Higher Committee, urged an independent democratic Arab state, while U N assembly debates the issue at Lake Success. Marshall and Vishinsky are at the talks. Yemen and Pakistan to be admitted to increase U N membership.
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LAKE SUCCESS
Palestine
Holy Land
Jamal Husseini
Arab Higher Committee
exted mufti
Jerusalem
Husseini
United Nations assembly
Jewish Agency for Palestine
Aska
United States
Britain
Greece
security council
Italy
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Finland
The council
Marshall
Washington
Truman
New York
Flushing Meadow Park
U.N
Yemen
Pakistan
Andrei ¥. Vishineky
Bendix Property Leased by Manning Maxwell Moore Inc
The Stratford Estates, Inc. property on East Main Street in Stratford, including several factory and office buildings, is leased to Manning Maxwell & Moore, Inc. for 30 years from December 1, 1947, with three renewal options of 21 years each, per Stratford Town Clerk papers.
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Stratford
Bendix Helicopter company
East Main street
Manning Maxwell & Moore, Inc
William Howard Wilcoxson
Stratford Estates, Inc
Stratford Town Clerk's office
Housatonic river
Three Brothers Die in Fire in Winslow
In Winslow Maine three young brothers Donald six Paul four and Terry two died of asphyxiation in a house fire. Their parents Mr and Mrs Robert Stuart were away at the time. Medical Examiner Charles E Towne identified the cause of death and said the trailed flames consumed their home.
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WINSLOW
Charles E. Towne
Donald
Paul
Terry Stuart
Robert Stuart
Fairfield Ends 300 Year Town Meeting With 60 Attendees
Last night at Roger Ludlowe High School Fairfield approved accepting 50 000 state aid for the Grasmere School addition and funded 1200 for a new police car plus 2500 to cover extra election costs from paper balloting. Judge Ned Ostmark served as moderator as the town moves to a representative town meeting system.
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Grasmere
Roger Ludlowe
Ned E. Ostmark
Sikorsky urges five point plan to boost U S helicopter industry
Igor Sikorsky testified in Washington before President Truman's Air Policy Commission proposing a five point program. It calls for a military helicopter program with pilot lines, Coast Guard funding for modern rescue helicopters, allowing agencies to buy helicopters for crop spraying and forest fire control, establishing helicopter air mail routes, and broad scale military helicopter training. He warned U S production leads but lags in advanced design and urged peacetime effort for preparedness.
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WASHINGTON
Igor I. Sikorsky
Sikorsky Aircraft division
United Aircraft corporation
pioneer helicopter builder
United States
Truman
Air Policy commission
Sikoraky
U. S Coast Guard
lfe
Department of Agriculture
Forestry section
Copter
Post Office department
Army
Navy and
Coast Guard
Sikorsky
U. S
Three Killed as U S Destroyer Strikes Mine Near Trieste
The U S destroyer Douglas H Fox struck a mine 18 miles off Trieste in the upper Adriatic today killing three enlisted men and injuring twelve, four critically. The ship listing after the blast required tugs to tow her to a Venice drydock as rescue ships, including the Ulster destroyer James C Owen, aided the casualties and recovered bodies.
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U.S
Trieste
U. S
Douglas H. Fox
Adriatic Sea
Naval
Fox
Venice
James C. Owen
Owen
R. N. McFarlane
Graham
Tex
U. S. army
Adriatic
McFarlane
Washington
U.S. navy
Mediterranean
admiralty
Charlies W. Travis
Annapolis
Norfolk
Ansonia Boosts School Budget for 1947 48
Ansonia Board of Education adopted a 459575 dollar budget for the 1947 48 school year at a special meeting in City Hall. The plan raises 54087 dollars from the prior year and awaits approval by the Board of Apportionment and Taxation before tax rates are set in February.
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ANSONITA
Ansonia Board of Education
Thomas J. Nelligan
Ansonia
Trainmen plan strike vote at New Haven
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen votes unanimously to authorize a strike of New Haven Railroad train yard and road employes after a meeting here. The decision follows Sept 16–17 talks with railroad officials over 1937 claims and a refusal to accept the national adjustment board ruling. The vote was taken with National President A F Whitney's approval and involved regional representatives.
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NEW HAVEN
the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
J. J. Hammill
national adjustment board
Hammill
A. F. Whitney
J. Lavin
Brotherhood
general committee
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Special session urged to rush Western Europe aid program
President Truman called congressional leaders to begin urgent deliberations on emergency aid to Western Europe. He asked Senate and House appropriations and foreign affairs committees to meet soon to assess needs, with a possible special session depending on consensus. He estimated 580 million dollars may be needed to cover France Italy and Austria through March 1948 and noted current supplies could not cover December.
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Truman
Europe
Congress
Senate
House
Soma
France
Italy
Austria
England
Belgium
Low Countries
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
jssue
Bridges
R-N.H
Senate Appropriations Committee
Eaton
R-NJ
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep
Taber
R-NY
House Appropriations Committee
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