Economists See Decontrol Delaying Slump and Balancing Budget
Officials say removing price barriers may delay a business recession and help balance the federal budget. They project inflation stay modest, with living costs not rising sharply, while tax revenue increases from higher prices aid fiscal aims. Some warn decontrol could raise construction delays as builders curb new work.
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Washington
OPA
Truman
Mr. Truman
Congress
Supreme Court to Review Union Case Over Time Pay
The Supreme Court agreed to review a decision holding salaries of three operating engineers at General Industries Co. of Elyria did not violate the Wage Hour Act overtime rules. The case centers on whether exempt status and overtime eligibility were correctly applied.
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Washington
Supreme Court
General Industries Co
Elyria
Franco Warns Isolation Will Tend Toward War
Generalissimo Francisco Franco warned that United Nations isolation of Spain would raise the chance of war. He said U N action would cause disunion and harm the U N prestige, and urged nonintervention in Spain’s domestic affairs. Poland pressed for a break with Franco. Spain refused to join until calm and peace return.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
United Nations
Spain
Associated Press
U. N. Pres
U. N. General Assembly
New York
Poland
Trygve Lie
U. N
Taoist Priests Burn Leader Beaten to Death
Police report 36 priests at Pai yunkuan temple revolted and burned the abbot and a lay Taoist man on a bonfire after accusing them of violating temple rules. They dragged the men from living quarters to the gate, beat them, tied them, and set them alight with gasoline.
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Peiping
White Cloud
New Philadelphia Teachers Granted 31.25 Monthly Pay Rise
The board of education said teachers at New Philadelphia Public Schools receive a 31.25 increase per month effective immediately, funded by a three-mill school levy approved in last week's election.
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Philadelphia
Board of Education
Grange Backs Co op Credit Plan At 80th Convention
Albert S. Goss master of the National Grange urged in Portland that high farm production continue with surplus handling lessening acreage controls. He questioned the secretary of agriculture power to enforce allotments and endorsed a cooperative, farmer owned credit system, worker inclusion in Social Security, and a farm labor placement role for the Agriculture Department. He also called for study of a world food board concept to stabilize prices.
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Ore
Albert S. Goss
National Grange
Goss
Secretary of Agriculture
Sir John Orr
The
Food and Agriculture Organization
World Food Board
Grange
Department of Agriculture
Ragen Slayer Suspect Held on Theft Charge
CINCINNATI. Ivan G. Cannon 34 of Sumiton Alabama was ordered held for a Federal Grand Jury under $8000 bond after arraignment on automobile theft charges. Cannon said he refused $20000 to kill James Ragen Chicago racing news operator and added there are times when I am a mental case.
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Cincinnati
Ivan G. Cannon
Sumiton
Ala
U. S
J. Paul Geoghegan
Cannon
Chicago
James Ragen
Erie Railroad Opens Porter Services for Baggage Transfer
Erie Railroad will transfer hand baggage from passengers changing trains at Chicago to the parcel room of their next departure station. The service, described by R. B. Rogers as the first of its kind on any railway, starts Sunday and covers coach and Pullman travelers.
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Cleveland
Erie Railroad
Pullman
Chicago
R. B. Rogers
Erie
Rogers
Holy Land Rail Blast Kills 6 Police Officers
Officials reported dawn dynamite attacks on Palestine railways near Jerusalem killing six police officers and wounding two. A police trolley with two British constables and four Arab officers was blown near Beit Safafa, fifteen minutes before a mine damaged a train three miles from Jerusalem.
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Palestine Railways
Beit Safafa
Navy Antarctica maneuvers slated
The United States plans a four month, 13 ship Antarctic expedition led by Rear Adm Richard E Byrd. It aims to train personnel test equipment and develop naval techniques for polar bases while expanding oceanographic and geological knowledge. Russia Britain may have nearby activity but claims will be incidental.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Arctic
Anarctic
South Polar
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Antarctica
Forrest Sherman
Italy Treaty Break Forecast By Diplomats
In New York several cracks appeared in the Russia and Western powers dispute over Trieste but diplomats doubted a real break in the Italian peace treaty deadlock. Byrnes warned the U S could not yield on Trieste, while Molotov pressed for Paris Peace provisions and a possible three to four month deadline to remove foreign troops from Trieste. American and British troops are currently stationed there.
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New York
Russia
Trieste
Byrnes
United States
Molotov
Paris
Airliner Missing Over California Mountains With Eleven Aboard
A Western Air Lines DC-3 with eight passengers and three crew vanished in snowswept mountains north of Burbank California. The aircraft was inbound from Salt Lake City and last communicated at 3 24 a m PST as it attempted a landing over Newhall at about 9000 feet.
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Burbank
Calif
Western Air Lines
Here
Salt Lake City
Newhall
San Fernando Valley
Taft Announces Central America Vacation Plans
Cincinnati report says U S Robert A Taft and Mrs Taft will depart Washington November 19 for Yucatan and Guatemala, returning December 8 via Miami. Taft noted the trip has no political significance.
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Cincinnati
Yucatan
Guatemala
Central America
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Washington
Miami
U S and Britain Seek Limits on UN Veto
U S and Great Britain plan restrictions on the UN Security Council veto. Britain reportedly aims for Big Five accord on limited veto use. The American proposal would broaden rules, allow abstentions, and distinguish procedural from substantive council decisions.
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N. Y
United States
Great Britain
United Nations Security Council
Security Council
Fair Weather Seen in Storm Relief Effort
Army vehicles moved food to hundreds of families and thousands of livestock as Red Cross set up headquarters to aid Southeastern Colorado after a severe blizzard that claimed 15 lives. A Weather Bureau forecast called for fair skies as a seven-plane reconnaissance from Colorado Springs located multiple distressed families in the Edison District. William Hunt landed after spotting a distress signal traced in the snow and heard from a rancher about the area’s plight.
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Denver
Red Cross
Colorado
Weather Bureau
Colorado Springs
Edison
William Hunt
Steel cost boost held pending union wage talks
The Iron Age reports the steel industry will withhold general price increases until wage demands from the steelworkers' union are known. It notes that higher prices for some products may be announced around December 1 or soon after with little or no profit expected.
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New York
The
Iron Age
National Metalworking Paper
Relief drive opens in Cleveland to aid Austria
The greater Cleveland regional chapter of American Relief to Austria Inc will start a drive on November 24 to raise 100000 dollars to feed Austrian people this winter.
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Cleveland
Greater Cleveland
American Relief To Austria, Inc
Violence in Hollywood film strike harms non-strikers’ homes
For a second night violence flared in the AFL jurisdictional dispute with home made grenades damaging two non striking film workers’ homes. No injuries were reported as front porches and windows were shattered and plaster loosened amid protests over union participation in talks.
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Associated Press
AFL
Hollywood
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Pacific Coast
CIO Marine
CIO Longshoremen’s
Warehousemen's Union
AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
West Allis
Wis
Trans World Airline
New York
CIO Transport Workers Union
Board of Transportation
Council Action Slows Pastors Crusade in Steubenville
Steubenville officials delayed a planned crime cleanup by 60 days unless state steps in. City Council read a proposal to appoint private policemen to aid enforcement, with readings set for Nov 26 and Dec 10 and a 30 day effective delay if passed. The measure was drafted by City Solicitor Weinman amid ministers push for a “sledge hammer vice patrol” and a petition to Gov Lausche for a special grand jury and prosecutor to probe gambling and vice.
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Steubenville
William J. Weinman
Frank J. Lausche
Rayon Price Hike Expected
New York report notes clothing prices likely stay near current levels unless fabric or labor costs jump. Rayon goods may see a 12 percent yarn price rise, lifting fabric costs 15 to 25 percent, with dress manufacturers aiming to hold prices steady if possible. Isadore Agree of the National Dress Manufacturers Association comments on the stance.
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New York
Isadore Agree
National Dress Manufacturers Association
Sandusky County Tax Delinquency Down to History Low
Fremont report shows Sandusky County back taxes at a record low with only 97 dollars owed from a 174 241 dollar total. Treasurer Ralph Gust credits generally prosperous times and an active tax collection effort.
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Fremont
Sandusky County
Ralph Gust
Gust
Police and Firemen Seek $1.15 Million Pay Boost
Cleveland police and firemen, numbering 2,500, pressed Mayor Thomas A Burke for raises totaling 1,150,000 dollars. They asked for 460 dollars a year per man, while the mayor countered with 120 dollars a year and 300,000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Thomas A. Burke
Ickes Resigns Post From Citizens' Group
Harold L. Ickes resigns as executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts Sciences and Professions in New York citing a wish to avoid group judgment he cannot fully accord with.
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New York
Harold L. Ickes
Independent Citizens’ Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions
Acord
Cincy District OPA Office Closed by Deadline
The regional OPA office in Cleveland ordered the Cincinnati district office closed by December 31, affecting 253 local employees and five other district offices in Ohio Indiana Michigan Kentucky and West Virginia as stated by district director John E. Robinson Jr.
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Cincinnati
OPA
Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
John E. Robinson, Jr
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Kentucky
West Virginia
Oberlin Students Plan Europe Relief Budgets
Oberlin College students vote to trim meal costs by a dime weekly, creating a $5,000 relief fund for Europe. The first share meal was served last night, with funds to be sent via the American Friends Service Committee.
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Oberlin
Oberlin College
Europe
American Friends Service Committee
Ohio Army Lieutenant Found Shot to Death
Edwin B. Goodel, 30, of Urbana Ohio, a former Army lieutenant who served in the Pacific, was found dead from a chest wound in a New York hotel room yesterday after leaving a note stating he was tired of living.
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New York
Edwin B. Goodel
Urbana
Ohio
Pacific
Bank Head Dies at 82 in Wilmington Research
Alfred I. McVey, 82, retired president of the First National Bank of Wilmington, died yesterday at his home. He had taught school in Clinton and Highland Counties for 25 years.
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Wilmington
Alfred I. McVey
First National Bank of Wilmington
McVey
Clinton
Highland Counties
Steel Firms Face Fuel Shortage Amid Coal Contract Deadlock
Washington AP The government urges the Big Five soft coal operators to negotiate with John L Lewis before the November 20 deadline. Miners threaten to void the contract, risking renewed coal supply disruptions as steel firms report dwindling stocks of two weeks at U S Steel, ten days at Jones and Laughlin, and one week at Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Interior Secretary Krug plans talks with operators then Lewis, while industry leaders express cautious optimism and call for a workable agreement on unionization, royalties, and safety codes.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
U. S. Steel Corp
Jones and Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Krug
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Association
Krug and
The
Coal Administration
Huntington Engineer Heads River Division
Col. A. M. Neilson of the Cincinnati U S District engineer office said he received orders transferring him to the Huntington West Virginia District on December 1. He will supervise the Huntington district and relieve Col. Frank Gano, who moves to the Ohio Division Headquarters in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
A. M. Neilson
U. S
Huntington
W. Va
Neilson
Frank Gano
Ohio Division
Ohio Dentists Elect Professor as Leader
Dr. William W. Hurst professor of prosthetic dentistry at Western Reserve University was installed as president of the Ohio State Dental Association at its annual meeting He succeeds Dr J C Longfellow of Bellefontaine and will serve a one year term
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Columbus
William W. Hurst
Western Reserve University
Ohio State den Association
Hurst
J. C. Longfellow
Bellefontaine
Farm origins shape U.S. leadership and progress
Sam Simmons argues farm-born individuals frequently reach top ranks in banks, industry, law, medicine, and national leadership. He notes a persistent pattern from his Spencer hometown, where bankers and professionals grew up on farms, suggesting farm populations are a vital national resource and deserve supportive steps.
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Spencer
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