Ceiling tags decreasing as price controls shift
Washington reports ceiling tags removed from many grocery items including canned goods fresh produce and all frozen fruit. Beef cattle hogs and lamb return to OPA controls with about ten percent higher prices. retail meat ceilings resume in a week. Unlisted items become price free though some fruits vegetables and processed products remain regulated.
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Washington
Torrow
Agriculture Department
OPA
London meat market strike for unionizing workers
More than 3,000 workers at Smithfield market and nearby London meat distribution centers walked out to compel 500 colleagues to join a union affiliated with the British Trades Union Congress.
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London
Smithfield Market
British Trades Union Congress
888 Tonic Claims Health Benefits for Stomach Digestion
An old advertisement touts 88S Tonic as a remedy to poor digestion and sleep loss caused by stomach gas and sour taste. It claims to boost gastric juice flow, improve appetite and sleep, and aid nutritional anemia by building red blood cells. It urges readers to buy at drug stores and join the many bottle purchasers.
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Penne
SSS Tonic
Labor and Duty in a Laboring Man Cartoon
A sequence of dialogue panels satirizes work ethic and labor unions with remarks on labor’s nature, the virtue of hard toil, and the dangers of idleness. Characters include a father, junior reporter, teacher, grocer, and Decatur residents, highlighting generational views on labor, income, and temperance.
World War Question Seizes Mackenzie Column
The column weighs whether new global conflict looms from Russia and Western Allies clash. It notes wage questions, labor views, and social anecdotes before turning to Soviet aims in the Dardanelles Far East and a wary U.S. stance on Japan and Pacific bases amid rising Russian influence.
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Russia
Ventur
Soviet Union
Moscow
Uncle Sam
Dardanelles Straits
Middle East
Mediterranean
England
Far East
Manchuria
Korea
Japan
Russell Brines
Associated Press
Tokyo
U. S. House of Representatives
Pacific
United States
Mercy trip ends in death near Pin Point
A 38 year old Savannah woman Bertha Mertens, known as a Good Samaritan, was strangled and beaten to death near Pin Point. A 26 year old laborer Pete Coleman was held for investigation after a mob fired on police as he was moved to jail.
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Savannah
Chatham County
W. F. Chapman
Chapman
Pete Coleman
Pin Point
Coleman
Bill Harris
Savannah Morning News
Samuel A. Cann
MacArthur Warns of Ideological Clash Threatening World Peace
The general notes the uneasy ideological struggle between democracy and communism after America’s occupation of Japan. He calls it a "dread uncertainty" that could secure peace or become a springboard for war, highlighting several critical, definite threats to world peace and the possibility of war.
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Ger
Pearl Harbor
MacArthur
Japan
Communism Headed to Eight Washington in Official Report
The Library of Congress prepared a report under a Dirksen backed resolution examining communism in action. It notes Russian workers under police discipline and state control of leisure. It compares living standards, freedom, and religion in the Soviet system to the United States.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Library of Congress
Rep
Dirksen
R-Nl
Russia
United States
Parents recall daughter lured to mercy mission death
The slain woman Miss Mehrtens was reported to have left with a man at dawn after being told neighbor Jack Harper needed help following an accident. Her body was found near the road beyond the house, prompting a wider search.
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E. M. Mehrtens
Chapman
Jack Harper
National President To Give Charter To Local Club
Sheldon F. Waldo national president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce arrives in Decatur for a charter presentation to the newly organized Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce. The banquet at Omerville Road school follows a luncheon in Athens, part of a two day Alabama stop during his first Jaycee tour since Milwaukee election. The Decatur club organized with 103 charter members.
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Sheldon F. Waldo
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Decatur
Waldo
Decatur Club
Changes Seen in Japanese Democracy Under MacArthur
General MacArthur expressed in a public statement that Japan must maintain a steady course toward true democracy and reject radical left regimentation. He argued democracy rather than radicalism will determine Japan’s future as a bulwark for peace or a potential springboard for war.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
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