White House Moves To Scrap Wage Controls And Decontrol Prices
The OPA lifted price ceilings on coffee and freed vegetable fats oils margarine and dressings as the White House moved toward broader wage and price decontrol. The action followed filings by the coffee industry advisory committee and came amid warnings from La Guardia about economic disruption. The wage stabilization board faced calls for liquidation as price ceilings fall and a rapid shift to free market wages loomed.
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Washington
OPA
White House
Coffee Industry Advisory Committee
UNRRA
Fiorello H. la Guardia
la Guardia
Oklahoma City
Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Sary
AFL
CIO
John R. Steeltman
W. Willard Wirtz
Steelman
Decontrol Board
Industrial Walkouts Shrink New York Trade
New York faces 56 industrial disputes crippling commerce as docks warehouses and rail sidings stall. 357 ships bottled up in harbor and 55 000 workers affected, with 4200,000,000 in shipments idled and milk shortages linked to trucking.
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New York Trade
New York
Twoarge
U. S. Maritime Commission
New York Harbor
Commerce and Industry Association
Charles A. Pierce
Division of Research and Statistics
New York State Department of Labor
George C. Randall
Railroad Association
Railway Express Agency
Santa to Haul Heavy Load Toymakers Predict Record Christmas
Chicago reports Santa Claus will bring the heaviest toy load since 1941, with factories resuming shipments of electric trains, skates, construction sets, bicycles and metal wagons. Guns and tanks fade from the market while jeep models stay steady and electronic devices appear after wartime shortages.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
Jeep
Plane Joy-Rider Gets Costs and Probation
Allen Firman eighteen and a sixteen year old companion flew a small plane from Norton Field on September two. Firman must serve one year probation and pay damages for the crash in a Circleville corn field. The youths pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the plane theft. The 40th Annual Pumpkin Show in Circleville was damp as Judge Parker granted a temporary injunction delaying enforcement of a liquor ban near the fair.
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Columbus
Allen Firman
Norton Field
Firman
Joseph M. Clifford
Circleville
Earl D. Parker
Pike County Common Pleas Court
Parker
Pickaway County Common Pleas Bench
Gas Fumes Suspected in Couple Death
The bodies of Floyd King and his wife Pauline, wed last June, were found in a downtown lodging house in Columbus. Police believe fumes from a gas heater caused their deaths. In Ashland, A M McCready, 46, longtime advertising manager of the Ashland Times Gazette, hanged himself with a belt at the newspaper building. George Szell began his first Cleveland Orchestra season with a sellout Severance Hall concert. Walter Weaver, 16, a jockey trainee, died after a training accident in San Mateo, with funeral services planned in Columbus.
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Columbus
Floyd King
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pauline
Ashland
A. M. McCready
Ashland Times-Gazette
A. D. Lewis
Cleveland
George Szell
Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall
Walter Weaver
San Mateo
Inventor Appeals Judge’s Decree in Neon Products Suit
Fred Hotchner of Los Angeles has filed an appeal with the sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Judge Frank L. Kloeb of Toledo in his suit against Neon Products Inc of Lima for an accounting and damages over alleged breach of contract.
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Cincinnati
Fred Hotchner
Los Angeles
Calif
Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Frank, L. Kloeb
at_ Toledo
The
Neon Products, Inc
Lima
Appeals Court Upholds Labor Board Order
The Sixth U S Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a National Labor Relations Board order directing Hal Peterson and C D Beck & Co of Sidney to stop discouraging employees from joining the CIO United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union. A separate item reports William C Insche 30 of Chatham suffocated in a Newark sewer ditch cave-in.
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Cincinnatiwm
Sixth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Yeserday
National Labor Relations Board
Hal Peterson
C. D Beck & Co
Sidney, C
Ciio-United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implements Workers Union
Newark
William C. Insche
Chatham
Roosevelt demand for Russian lend-lease aid exposed
Washington report details 1942 White House insistence that Moscow protocol shipments be released regardless of impact on U S war production. WPB minutes show the push affected aircraft cord springs ammo bearings and other critical items, highlighting interwar tension between Moscow supply and U S manufacturing schedules.
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Washington
Gpi
Roosevelt
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Mr. Roosevelt
Civilian Production Administration
Minutes
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Goering Case Board Probes German Help
In Nuernberg sources say 22 German employees in the jail are under scrutiny by a three man board examining Goering's death by cyanide hours before his hanging. Col. Andrus, the prison commander, insists his staff are innocent and suggests a German attorney may have supplied the poison vial.
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Nuernberg
Army Board
Hermann Goering
Col
B. C. Andrus
Goering
Gun Expert Clears Farmer in Slaying of Mrs McKinley
ASHLAND Ohio A Common Pleas Jury acquitted 62 year old Charles E Briggs of second degree murder for the July 31 shooting of 23 year old Mrs Mabel J McKinley a Wayne County mother of three A gun expert testified the rifle sight was faulty and Briggs said he aimed to frighten her away from his farm where she was picking berries
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Ashland
Common Pleas
Charles E. Briggs
Mabel J. McKinley
Wayne County
Briggs
Jeep Walkout Climaxes Production to Resume
ZANESVILLE officials of Local 79 CIO Ceramic Workers say about 1,100 Mosaic Tile Co employees will walk out at midnight Friday unless higher pay, a union shop, and a shorter term contract are agreed. The dispute follows a long involvement over labor terms at the tile plant.
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Zanesville
CIO Ceramic Workers of America
Mosaic Tile Co
Toledo
Columbus
Marwill
Jeep
Saret Rhodes
Lausche Challenges Herbert Over Brandy Price Change
Gov. Lausche accused his Republican opponent Thomas J. Herbert of approving an illegal price increase from 35 to 42.20 a case for 55 000 cases of Victoria brandy in a 1944 state contract. He urged Herbert to confirm whether the change had legislative authorization and alleged the Alaska Pacific Sales Co. failed to deliver, inflating costs by 396 000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Frank J. Lausche
Thomas J. Herbert
State Liquor Department
Herbert
Lausche
John W. Bricker
van Wert
Alaska Pacific Sales Co
Ohio
Willoughby
Dover
Highway Plans Include Ohio Link to Turnpike
The Pennsylvania Highways Department protects new highways costing about 65.6 million dollars to connect the Pennsylvania Turnpike and other through routes with Pittsburgh, Ohio, and West Virginia. A Fenn Lincoln Parkway extension toward the Ohio line is proposed but lacks detailed plans. Early surveys consider a bridge over the Ohio River near Pennsylvania with a link to U S Route 30 near East Liverpool.
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Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania Highways Department
Ohio State Line
East Liverpool
Ohio River
Fennsylvania
Car Shortage Bottlenecks Ohio Livestock Runs
Ohio farm livestock movements slowed by worker shortages and railroad car bottlenecks. Springfield Washington Court House and Marion stockyards turned away hundreds of hogs as cattle cars filled. Cincinnati and Columbus packers limited receipts as many employees remained absent from the meat famine. Porkers dropped from 30 to 25 per hundredweight. Cincinnati handled 6,900 hogs, Columbus receipts about 2,000 from the Livestock Cooperative.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Springfield
Washington Court
House
Marion
Columbus
Cincinnati
Livestock Cooperative Association
Pitt Company Names Umpire in Arbitration Move
Duquesne Light Co backed by a 24 day strike names Marice R. Scharff of New York to represent it in future company union arbitration. The Independent Association of Employers of the Duquesne Light Co may not follow. Philadelphia parents refused further comment. Child scalding death in Cincinnati as three year old David Shaile dies after falling into hot bath.
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Pittsburgh
Duquesne Light Co
Marice R. Scharff
New York
Association of
Leo T. Crowley
Philadelphia Co
Duquesne
Sho
Cincinnati
David Shaile
Herbert P. Lyie
Byrnes Returns From Paris Peace Conference With Cautious Optimism
Secretary of State Byrnes arrives in Washington aboard the Sacred Cow and reports progress at the 21 nation Paris Peace Conference while signaling ongoing tensions with the Soviet bloc. The administration suspends a 90 million dollar Czech loan and contemplates further action as Czech policy draws fire from Moscow.
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Washington
State Byrnes
Furone
Ceene
Byrnes
National
Truman
Atlantic
State Department
Vandenberg
Mich
Paris
Russia
Molotov
United States
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Poland
Prague
Statks
Russisia
Plane Crash Kills Thirteen Near Laramie Wyoming
A passenger plane crashed three miles west of Laramie in a blinding snowstorm shortly after 1 am. Eleven people died at the scene and two later at Laramie Hospital. The aircraft, en route eastward with Cheyenne as its intended destination, was scattered over 300 square yards.
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Laramie
Wyo
Albany County
E. E. Knight
Knight
Cheyenne
Huntington Railroader Awarded $25,000 in Federal Case
Andrew F. Kiser, 44, of Huntington West Virginia, was awarded 25000 by a federal court jury for injuries from a locomotive accident on the Crest line of the Pennsylvania Railroad July 27 1945. He had sued for 50000 claiming permanent spinal injuries from a collision with a string of cars.
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Cleveland
Vup
Crestline
Pennsylvania Railroad
Andrew F. Kiser
Huntington
W. Va
Kiser
Baptist Convention Reports Large Membership Gain
Canton dispatch notes Ohio Baptist churches added 2,000 members in 1945, boosting total denomination membership to 102,700 as the three day convention closes with officer elections and resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Convention of
Ohio Baptist Churches
Ohio
Electric Chair Death Sentenced for Taxi Driver Murder
Cincinnati report says Fred Wormack, 22, was found guilty of first degree murder in the June slaying of taxi driver James White, 33. The Criminal Court Jury sentenced him to die in the electric chair after failing to recommend mercy.
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Cincinnati
Fred Wormack
James White
Merer
Soviet Budget Cut Recommended by Finance Minister
Soviet Finance Minister A C Zverev urged the supreme Soviet to cut the defense budget by 38 3 billion rubles for the next year, about 11 093 billion dollars at 3 3 rubles per dollar. City workers in East Liverpool received wage hikes of 35 52 to 38 48 monthly for 125 AFL affiliated and unorganized employees approved by Mayor Earl Greenawalt.
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Moscow
A. C. Zverev
Supreme Soviet
Russia
East Liverpool
Earl Greenawalt
Public argues OPA caused meat shortages and high prices
SAM SIMMONS accuses the presidents speech of deceit and contends that the wartime price and allocation agency OPA caused meat shortages by interfering with commerce. He cites high farm cattle supplies and claims shortages across bed linens soap newsprint and toilet paper followed OPA policy.
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Taft
Wherry
OPA
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Labor Board
CPA
Goering Case Board
Zanesville Tile
Lancaster
Charles W Haley
Brandy
Pitt Company
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
U.S
Wiley Rutledge
Frank Murphy
Felix Frankfurter
Hugo S. Black
Fred M. Vinson
Stanley F. Reed
William C. Douglas
Harold H. Burton
Romania
Hangman
John C. Woods
San Antonio
Tex
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Kalls
Wyoming
Huntington Railroader
Baptist Convent
Sam Simmons
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