Meat prices dip then rebound in hog market swing
Consumers hoped for lower meat bills, but reports from the agriculture department the Fed and others show renewed price pressure. A surge of hogs into terminal markets caused initial chaos and price drops before supplies tightened and prices rebounded, with live hog quotes near 28.50 and pork loin 54 to 60 cents per pound.
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Lawrence N. Eldred
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Commission
Federal Reserve Bank
U. S
German Soviet Police Chief Targeted in Occupied Germany
German General Walter von Seydlitz narrowly escaped four shots fired at him in his moving car 50 miles southwest of Berlin in Saxony Anhalt. Gen Martin Lattmann was wounded in the arm, and an anti Communist Social Democrat member was arrested.
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Berlin
Walter von Seydlitz
Dena
Seydlitz
Martin Lattmann
Dessau
Wittenberg
Anhalt
Saxony
Anti-Red
United Press
Social Democrat
Stalingrad
Free Germany
Moscow
Germany
Eleanor Roosevelt Addresses German Women in German
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to about 1,000 German women in Stuttgart using German to urge against sovietism replacing nazism. She praised free peoples' horror of nazism and fascism, warned against foreign-imposed systems, and urged Germans to reclaim decision making for the people.
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Stuttgart
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
U.N. Assembly
Paris
League of Women“Physicians of
Wuerttemberg- Baden
United States
Blockade Boosts Western Germany as Berlin Struggles
The Berlin blockade backfires as Western Germany gains steel and coal for rapid recovery while Eastern production stalls. Allied officials say extra resources from the West fuel growth and may even pay for imports, despite airlift costs for 2,225,000 blockaded Berliners. Western Berlin factories run part time due to shortages.
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Berlin
West Germany
Lawrence Wilkinson
U. S
Germany
East Germany
Wilkinson
Charlotte Observer backs Dewey in presidential race
The Charlotte Observer announced Saturday night its support for Thomas E. Dewey for president, departing from its traditional independent democratic policy. The move marks a public shift by a major North Carolina newspaper in the 1948 campaign.
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Charlotte, N. C
Charlotte Observer
Thomas E. Dewey
Waves leader Mildred Horton resigns from Wellesley College
Mrs Mildred McAfee Horton who commanded the navy Waves during the war has resigned as president of Wellesley College in Massachusetts AP reports.
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Wellesley,mass
Mildred McAfee Horton
Navy Waves
Wellesley College
Carl E Bailey Arkansas Governor Dies at 54
Former Arkansas governor Carl E Bailey died of a heart attack in his Little Rock apartment Saturday afternoon He was 54 Bailey had been elected in 1936 and served two two year terms as governor in the state capital community obituary notes his passing and age.
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Little Rock, Ark
Carl E.bailey
Bailey
Middle East Bloc Of Two Countries Now Being Forged
At the United Nations 12 states including Greece Afghanistan Egypt Ethiopia Iran Iraq Lebanon Pakistan Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey and Yemen discuss a regional bloc. U S support favors Greece Turkey and Arabia with aid or technical help though Palestine and Soviet relations block consensus.
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Paris
U.N
Middle East
United States
Aegean
Mediterranean
Bay of Bengal
Greece
Turkey
Aran
Palestine
Russia
Afghanistan
Egypt
Ethiopia
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Yemen
United Nations Assembly
The
State of Siege Declared Across Bolivia
The Bolivian government proclaimed a state of siege nationwide late Saturday night. Earlier reports indicated arrests ordered for leaders of the national revolutionary movement.
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LA Paz
INS
National Revolutionary Movement
Lawyer's eastern case prompts swift western appeal
A lawyer travels to the East Coast to handle a case and promises to notify his western partner of the outcome. Days later he telegrams that justice has triumphed, prompting the partner to respond with orders to appeal at once. This Exchange appears in The Outlook.
Thomas accuses Clark of smear tactics over grand jury probe
Rep J Parnell Thomas asserts Attorney General Tom C Clark uses vicious smear tactics to cover up alleged Truman administration failure to prosecute the Communist threat. He claims a federal grand jury probe into salary kickbacks in his office is a political setup while welcoming FBI scrutiny.
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Washington
LLP
J Parnell Thomas
Tom C. Clark
Truman
Thomas
Hunting House
UN American Activities Committee
Grand Jury
Drew Pearson
New Jersey Republican
Clark
FBI
United States
Underground Industries Plan Reported Dropped
New York based Engineering News Record reports the abandonment of plans to place American industries underground for bombing protection. Studies in Germany Japan Italy Czechoslovakia show underground plants are not economically feasible due to high burial costs. Defense: it may be cheaper to field air power to intercept attackers before they reach the United States.
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New York
INS
Engineering News Record
Germany
Japan
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Troops Seize Seven French Mines From Strikers
Paris AP reports that French troops in full battle array seized seven large coal mines from Communist led strikers with minimal resistance. Government orders to fire if needed were issued, amid scattered clashes at Montceau les Mines and near Forbach, Metz, and other sites.
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Associated Press
Combefort
St. Etienne
France
Paris
Montceau-les-Mines
Forbach
Metz
Once Famed Clown Dies in Destitution
CHICAGO (UP) Sum Sui the famous grinning clown lay in Cook county morgue Saturday night destined for Potter's field unless someone pays his funeral. Charles De Melo entertainer of hundreds of thousands died destitute in county hospital at 68 after trying to return to the sawdust ring. He worked odd jobs and trained dogs for a comeback but collapsed from a heart attack two weeks earlier.
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Chicago
de Melo
Truman Sees Opponent as Man of Gall in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh Harry S. Truman derided Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey as a man of gall and crafty silence. He mocked Dewey’s promises as peculiar or fantastic and urged voters to distrust double talk. The crowd of about 15,000 inside Hunt Armory and 18,000 outside erupted as Truman pledged renewed energy through Election Day.
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Pittsburgh
Harry S. Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Truman
Hunt ‘Armory
CTO
Philip Murray
Murray
Arthur Baker
Mr. Truman
Hull urges Russians to uphold UN peace pledges
Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull urges the Soviet Union to honor its 1943 and 1945 pledges to cooperate with the United Nations. He criticizes Russia’s recent actions and calls for scrupulous adherence to the UN charter to secure lasting peace and security. The statement marks United Nations Day observances.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Russia
United Nations
Hull
Roosevelt
Moscow
Naval Medical Center
San Francisco
United Nations Organization
Soviet Union
Fire Breaks Up Halloween Party At Beneke Home
A Halloween party at Henry B. Bencke’s Cedar Rounds home ended with a fire in the rear that destroyed the garage and breezeway and damaged the house. Firefighters from stations 3 and 7 fought the blaze three hours. Captain Joe Gaskill suffered a cut finger but returned to duty, while Beneke received head injuries from a falling timber. He was treated and released. The fire was likely started by a jack lantern set at the rear of the house.
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Cedar Rounds
Henry B. Bencke
Oakland Avenue
Joe Gaskill
St. Luke’s Hospital
Beneke
Gaskill
Soviet Bid For Ultrafax Rights Rejected By RCA
Washington officials said Russia sought RCA rights to the ultrafax system able to transmit words at light speed. RCA declined the request and informed U S defense officers that the bid was rejected for security reasons.
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Washington
Russia
Radio Corporation of America
RCA
Soviet Union
U. S
Soviet veto threaten Berlin crisis resolution
Andrei Vishinsky signaled Moscow may veto the six power resolution in the UN Security Council to address the Berlin blockade. Argentine Foreign Minister Bramuglia conferred with Vishinsky after two hours, while Western powers pressed for immediate talks under the 1945 Moscow agreement and a currency settlement. Poland accused stalling until after the U S election.
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Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
Berlin
Security Council
Moscow
Vishinsky
Kremlin
Bramuglia
Ae Council
Germany
Cne
Vishninsky
Argeria
China
Canada
Belgium
5Xia
Colombia
United
Sta
U.N Assembly
Palestine
Israel
Poland
United States
Dewey Urges Navy Strength as Nation Policy
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, nearing the end of his presidential race, said the American navy should remain the strongest in the world. He spoke on Navy Day in New York State and tied the claim to postwar defense of freedom, noting Roosevelt's birthday on October 27.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York State
Theodore Roosevelt
G.O.P
America
Korean Troops Reclaim Eastern Outskirts of Posong
Report from U S army headquarters says Korean constabulary units have ended rebel control of Posong’s eastern outskirts. Two government companies pursue insurgents toward Kwangyang, five miles northeast of Sunchon, with little resistance reported. Yosu remains in rebel hands with unclear status of the seaport town.
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Seoul
INS
Posong
Eo U. S. Army
Kwangju
Kwangyang
Sunchon
Kwangyah
Yosu
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