Steel firms lift prices as food costs edge up
Steel producers hike semi-finished steel by about 50 a ton, with Iron Age estimating a 10 million annual cost rise for non integrated processors. Food prices show mixed movement as butter sinks further and a retail survey notes a second week of declines, while wholesale markets signal a temporary price rebound.
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Chicago
Iron Age
New York
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Co
Steel At
Cleveland
Charleston Among 10 Cities With Best Business Gains
The Charleston area ranks among the nation’s top 10 business cities for February with a 14 percent gain in business volume from January 1947. West Virginia joins Kentucky Indiana Ohio and Michigan in a strong regional zone showing an 11 percent rise versus 1847. Other top cities include Pueblo Denver Tulsa Houston Detroit Albany Bis marck Memphis and Pittsburgh. Rand McNally with Forbes publishes a monthly map based on the survey.
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Charleston
United States
West Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Pueblo
Denver
Colo
Tulsa
Okla
Houston
Texas
Detroit
Mich
Albany
N. C
Bismarck
N. D
Memphis
Tenn
Pittsburgh
Rand McNally and Co
B.C. Forbes and, Sons Publishing Co
Twin
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
West Coast
California
Arizona
Nevada
Oxegon
Washington
Willie Willis Reconsiders Jobs For Uncle Joy
Willie Willis notes Uncle Joy avoids dirty work despite low pay in white collar careers. Aunt Jane would press him, yet he resists any role risking soiled hands.
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Joy
Jane
Strike Decreed By Meat Union Amid Red Scare Claims
George M. Dimitrov, Bulgarian refugee, testifies to Congress that Americans are targets of Communist training in Russia. He cites packing industry leadership and predicts a strike by United Packinghouse Workers affecting major firms to push wage hikes. Helstein and others warn of low wages, while immigration hearings connect Communist influence to labor groups.
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George M. Dimitrov
Bulgaria
Congress
Qhicago
Russia-United Packing House Worksin
U. S
Foment
America
Unio
American Activities Subcommittee
Dimitrov
Maynard
Barnes
U. 5S
Political Repre
Indussentative
Sofia
try—Swift
Armour
Wilson
Bul- Cudahy
Faria
Agrarian Union
Ralph Helstein
Gressmen
Russia
Moscow
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Helstein
New York
Communist Party
Com- Communist International
International
George Hewitt
Communist Party National Committee
Immigration Service
Soviet Union
Eisler
Hewitt
Gerhart Hisler
House
Bills Island
Peter Harisiades
Josephine Sisking Johnson
New Masses
Yemen Ruler Slain in Revolt Amid Coup Claims
Cairo dispatch reports Yehia Hamid el Din 82, his 150 sons, and a chief adviser dead in Yemen amid claims of a coup. Sayed Abdulla Bin Ahmed el Wazier elected Imam. Emir Seif Hak Turahim named head of a constitutional government. Crown prince moves with 180 troops toward Hajja and Sana'a as forces seize Hajia post.
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Cairo
Egypt
Yehia Hamid el Din
Yemen
Muktar Abdel Latifi
Sayed Abdulla bin Ahmed el Wazier
Yehia
Emir Seif ¢] Hak Turahim
Imam Yehbia
Kadi Abdulla el Omari
Saif Islam Ahmad
Hajja
Aden
Paizz
Hajjia
Sana'a
Hajia
Tax Tales of Woe Light Up February Newsprint
In a humorous column, readers laugh at income tax woes as February 1 springing back to March 15 deadlines. A Detroit taxpayer recounts budgeting weekly expenses with a $38 take home while spending $43.50, and a drunken man returns to the tax office to pay again after claiming he already paid. A reader asks about a delayed refund as the piece notes.
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Bureau of Internal Revenue
Detroit
Everbody
List and fellow German leaders get life terms in war guilt trials
An American tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced Field Marshal Wilhelm List to life imprisonment for his Balkans command role as mass killings in Greece Yugoslavia and Albania were deemed war crimes. List close associate Gen Walter Kuntze also received life. Other officers received 20 to 7 year terms amid criticism of biased postwar tribunals.
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Wilhelm List
Walter Kuntze
List
U.S
Nuernberg
Germany
Mernberg
Balkans
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Kuntze
Life List
Ernst Dehner
Kurt von Geitrer
Hermann Foertsch
Be Te eee
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Czechs Desert Red Alignment in Anti Communist Move
The Czechoslovak Social Democratic party voted to ally with anti communist forces to counter Communist influence in the national front coalition. Emergency meetings unified Right and Left wings as 62 percent of parliament opposed the Communists. Election date pending cabinet meeting tomorrow.
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Social Democrats
Prague
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party
National Front
Social Democratic Party
Edouard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Svoabodne Slova
Catholic Peoples Party
Lidova Demokracie
Vac
Pease
Paull Seen as New Chairman of West Virginia Democrats
A. W. Paull Jr a Wheeling industrialist and longtime state Democratic leader is expected to become chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee serving until after the May 11 primary The Kanawha hotel meeting called by R D Buasley will discuss his resignation and the neutral stance expected during primaries The group will also decide the number of West Virginia delegates to the Democratic national convention and note a probable reorganization after the primary
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A. W. Paull
Wheeling
Kanawha
R. D. Buasley
Freville
Paull
Neely-Patteson
Neely
Meadows
Patteson
Bailey
West Virginia
Cold Wave Heads East From Midwest Into Northeast
A strong cold mass swept from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa toward Missouri and Kansas, with 70 mph winds. Forecasters said the Ohio river valley would see temperatures fall to 10 above zero, Minnesota and Wisconsin to 15 to 20 below, while the east coast expected milder conditions.
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Chicago
Midwest
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
North Dakota
Minnesota
Michigan
Missouri
Kansas
Ohio River
Minneapolis
Huntington
W. Va
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Pacific Coast
Gulf Area
Two Men Die In Hydrogen Sulfide Tank Incident
Princeton New Jersey February 19 two university maintenance men were killed and three others slightly injured when a storage tank failed flooding the Frick chemistry lab with hydrogen sulfide. Victims John Regan 49 and Harold L Sutphen 26 were overcome refilling the tank for a class demonstration.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Frick Chematty Laboratory
Cuniversity
John Regan
Harold L. Sutphen
Truman Calls Party For Head-On Battle On Privileged Few
Rain heralds descent of mercury as Charleston endures a springlike day. The Weather Bureau predicts much colder weather for the Kanawha valley today with highs near 20 degrees and lows around 10 above, followed by a rise to 28 Saturday.
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Truman
Charleston
U. S. Weather Bureau
Kanawha
South Charleston
Rent controls extended to March 31 in Congress
House leaders plan a stopgap bill to extend current rent ceilings through March 31 amid Senate talks for a longer extension. Debates focus on luxury-proviso limits and rent increases, with Ives opposing the high rent clause and Taft signaling possible amendments. The nomination of Tighe E. Woods as housing expediter is delayed as Congress weighs housing policy.
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Washington
Congress
House
Rules Committee
Senate
Sen
Taft
R.chic
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Banking Committee
Ives
R.-N
Senate Banking Committee
Tighe E. Woods
Membunt
Wallace May Try For Ballot in State
West Virginia may see third party effort to place Wallace on the November ballot. An anonymous caller to the secretary of state's office asked if the name The Progressive Party could appear. official approval depended on meeting all legal requirements. The caller later identified as Rev. Clive Knowles of New York, representing Wallace for President. Law requires petitions with about 1 percent of last election’s voters, roughly 8 000 names, to list a new party.
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Henry A. Wallace
West Virginia
Secretary of State
Wallace
D. Pitt O'Brien
Progressive Party
O'Brien
Associated Press
Clive Knowles
New York City
Unitarian Church
Knowles
Mec
Secretary For State
American Legion
Supreme Court
Communist Party
Democratic
118 More Listed As Speculators
Washington reports reveal 118 additional government employees named as commodity speculators in 1948. The list, given to the Senate agricultural committee, includes 46 from the Agriculture Department, 15 Army officers, and one Navy officer, totaling over a thousand such disclosures to date.
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Washington
Anderson
Senate Agricultural Committee
Agriculture Department
Army
Navy
New Kind of Wires Hung in Sun Slated to Produce Electricity
New heat to electricity wires proposed by B D Cullity of MIT in a report to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The thermocouple loop uses bismuth selenium and zinc antimony alloys to convert heat from sunshine or hot ovens into electric current, potentially safer than atomic heat use and more efficient than a small steam engine.
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New York
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
B. D. Cuility
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cullity
Truman Calls Democrats to Front in Election Fight
President Truman denounces what he calls reactionary conservatism and a privileged few as he urges the Democratic Party to press forward with social reform. He defends the 10 year program on social security, housing, education, and justice and vows it can be done despite critics. A Southern governors’ committee plans to present its case Monday to the Democratic chairman.
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Washington
Truman
Republican Party
Congress
Jefferson
Dixie
South
Jim
Henry A. Wallace
Reuther to Open PAC Drive Here
Walter Reuther of Detroit will launch CIO PAC activities in West Virginia with a public speech at the Municipal auditorium. Joan Easton announced the event and said the talk will cover the 1948 elections and labor issues. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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Walter Reuther
Detroit
Mich
United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers, Cio
CIO
West Virginia
Municipal Auditorium
Joan B. Easton
West Virginia Industrial Union Council
Easton
Reuther
Congress
United Automobile Workers
Philadelphia
PAC
Congress of Industrial
Cal
New Irish Premier Takes Office Amid Mixed Reactions
In a surprise political shift, Ireland installs a new premier amid divided public sentiment. Cheer and criticism surface as factions react to the leadership change and policy expectations.
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Stan Arnold
Teem
Ine Gazette
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