Truman seeks broad powers over controls and price regulation
Truman proposes a broad wartime style control bill granting price ceilings on vital goods with criteria to ensure fairness, enforceability, and hearings. It also outlines wage controls via a wage board to justify necessary increases and protect production, while noting political opposition and a separate excess profits tax plan. A separate note recalls old theories on eel origins and reports a race-related shooting threat near Dentville Mississippi with armed white and Black partisans.
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Iulture
Cigarette Prices Raised At Wholesale By Tobacco Company
The American Tobacco Company raised wholesale prices on Lucky Strike, Bert Berbert Tareyton, and Pall Mall by seven tenths of a cent per pack, effective today. Retailers expect a one cent per pack increase for consumers. R. J. Reynolds also boosted Camels from 7.35 to 7.75 per thousand.
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New York
American Tobacco Company
R. J. Reynolds
Toll at German plant explosion remains undetermined
Rescue teams battled flames and toxic fumes as 18 buildings were damaged at a Ludwigshafen plant in the French occupation zone. Officials said no Americans were killed, with 22 000 workers affected and explosions threatening ongoing rescue efforts into the night.
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Berlin
National Zeitung
Ludwigshafen
Farben
U. S. Army
William H. McKee
Murfreesboro
Tenn
I. G. Farben Chemical
Germany
Assassination of Paper Carton Firm Leader in Grand Rapids
Gumbin, 56, president and part owner of General Fiber and General Carton, was killed when a shotgun blast shattered his head after a red light incident on Wallace street. The motive remains unclear as police search for two or more killers. He and brother Herman owned Rockford Paper Mills in Michigan. birthday party planned that night for Nathan Gumbin, with family and relatives attending.
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Wallace Street
General Fiber Company
General Carton Company
Herman
Grand Rapids
Mich
Rockford
Mil'’S
Nathan Gumbin
Owen
Jack
Blossom
Walkertown Man Confesses To Slaying Of Wife
J Earl Freedle 47 surrendered to Forsyth county officers claiming he shot his wife Virginia to death at their Walkertown home. Deputies found her body near the kitchen door. Freedle said a 3 am argument after work at Reynolds Tobacco preceded the shooting.
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Winston-Salem
J. Earl Freedle
Forsyth County
Virginia
Walkertown
Ernie G. Shore
George Fontaine
Reynolds Tobacco Company
Eccles Testimony Split Over Reserve Plan Amid Updates
Eccles announced the plan for the Federal Reserve Board on behalf of the full board, while Truman later said Eccles spoke only for himself. Snyder opposed the plan as ineffective, and Truman surprised by naming McCabe from Philadelphia as FRB chairman while asking Eccles to stay as vice chairman and push his ideas.
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Government Securities
Eccles
Whole Reserve Board
Truman
Snyder
Special” Reserve
Roosevelt
FRB
McCabe
Philadelphia
Robber Sentenced for Glendale Mills Payroll Robbery
In Spartanburg Judge T S Sease sentenced Claude alias Hugh Manns to 15 years in prison for the February 26 Glendale Mills payroll robbery totaling $18000. The General Sessions Court announced the verdict today.
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Spartanburg
Claude
Hugh, Manns
T. S. Sease
General Sessions
Glendale Mills
Alamance County Names New Health Officer
Dr. Robert R. King Jr of Boone is named health officer for Alamance county by the health department. More than 90 percent of forest fires are started by carelessness.
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Burlington
Robert R. King, Jr
Boone
Alamance County
Health Department
Farben Heads Cleared Of Plotting War
The Farben tribunal ruled that German industrialists cannot be found guilty of planning aggressive war in this case. It said a higher level line exists in guilt for waging war, noting plans were made by a secret, closely guarded circle and that Krauch was far below that circle.
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Kru
U. S
Farben
Krauch
Flying boat crash kills 18 in Buenos Aires
Maritime police report 18 people died and four injured when a flying boat crash landed in Buenos Aires today. The incident raises questions about the aviation safety at the time.
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Buenos Aires
Moore Central Approved to Abandon 10-Mile Rail Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Moore Central Railroad Co to abandon a 10 mile line in Moore County July 29. The action ends service on the line and removes future operations from the corridor.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Moore Central Railroad Co
Moore County
Ethos
North China walnut exports prewar volume
Before the war, about 30 million pounds of walnuts were shipped annually from North China.
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North
China
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