Cost-of-Living Pay Raises Spark Debate Over New Index
The report notes immediate pay boosts for over a million workers under a government formula, with auto workers at Ford and Chrysler affected. It contrasts the old index with a new one by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, drawing criticism from CIO official Stanley H. Ruttenberg who says the new index undercounts price rises and distorts measure, potentially altering escalator clauses in contracts.
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Eric Johnston
Ford
Chrysler
Johnston
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
CIO
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
Labor Bureau
Ruttenberg
Truman visits Key West submarine base in loud shirt
President Harry S. Truman arrives at Boca Chica airport and is escorted to the Key West submarine station for his ninth vacation visit. He wears a loud gray shirt and light blue trousers and receives a security check as Secret Service tightens around the guarded entrance. He plans swimming at the enlisted men’s beach and a busy schedule next week addressing grave domestic and international issues.
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Key West
Fia
Harry S. Truman
United States
Duval
Boca Chica
Washington
Truman
Secret Service
Blair House
Senator Fulbright Calls Hearings Largely Fraught With Lies
Senator Fulbright said he has never heard so much lying and urged winding up the inquiry into RFC influence by next Friday. He noted witnesses’ denials and said the committee faced outside pressure but yielded improperly to it. He mentioned possible income tax exemption issues for consideration by taxation committees.
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Washington
Fulbright
Aeet Ee Ina
Econstruction Finance Corporation
Miulbright Aid
Ero -Toaiy Ulig Ea Ree
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Truman
Senate
White House
Donald Dawson
E. Merl Young
House
Iowa Plane Crash Kills 16 at Mid-Continent Flight
Sioux City March 3 The worst Iowa air disaster raised the death toll to 16 from a mid Continent Airlines DC-3 crash near a cornfield. Nine survivors included a guardsman and an Airbase electrician who helped pull a man from the flaming wreckage. Suspected fatalities included several residents of South Dakota and North Dakota amid a list of identified and uncertain victims.
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Mid-Continent Airlines
Sioux City
Iowa
Archie McKillop
Artesian
Oes
Civil Aeronautics
Opera Clear
Air National Guardsman
Cale Olson
Robert Toman
Camp Polk
Olson
Second Effort To Form French Cabinet Fails
Paris dispatch reports Henri Queuille of the Radical Socialist party abandoned the electoral reform deadlock as Premier Pleven's government resigned. Socialist Guy Mollet was summoned to conference. George Bidault of the Catholic Popular Republican movement was asked to try forming a temporary cabinet to avoid elections due next autumn.
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Paris
Henri Queuille
Radical Socialist Party
Rene Pleven
Auriol
Guy Mollet
Mollett
Council of Europe
George Bidault
Catholic Popular Republican Movement
Bidault
Pearson Sues McCarthy For 5 Million Damages
Drew Pearson files suit in U S district court against Senator McCarthy and at least seven others for 600000 damages on two counts including an alleged physical attack and a speech publication. The action seeks 3000000 in a third count and 1500000 jointly against all defendants for alleged business harm and false public opinion.
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Washington
Drew Pearson
McCarthy
R.-Wis
U. S. District Court
Senate
Pearson
Weatleaton Times Herald
Westbrook Pegler
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Stock Market Nearly Idle
New York reports a nearly idle stock market with prices essentially unchanged. Traders cited little movement as quotations hovered within about a one dollar range, with gains for New York Central Paramount Pictures Du Pont Zenith Radio General Motors and American Telephone and losses for Southern Railway International Paper Philip Morris Kennecott Bethlehem Steel Chrysler and Montgomery Ward. Bond trading was sluggish with prices mostly unchanged or inching slightly higher.
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New York
New York Central
Paramount Pictures
du Pont
Zenith Radio
General Motors
American Telephone
Southern Railway
International Paper
Philip Morris
Crackles A Sure Cure for Neuroses Hard Work in Heavy Dome
A brief item notes a proposed remedy for neuroses involving intense effort in a heavy workload setting. It frames hard labor as a potential therapeutic approach and hints at a discussion of mental health treatment in a practical context.
Progressive Towns Lose Because of Resolution
Raleigh March 3 Resolutions by the state highway and public works commission plus remarks by Commissioner George Coble signal a plan to penalize progressive towns and cities more than counties for progressiveness in 1931 The Powell bill’s method of funding to municipalities is challenged with concerns Lexington would gain while other towns with unpaved streets would lose The article notes prior county road system issues and failed bills for state road system funding and county bonds, while funds from gasoline taxes are used elsewhere Continued on page Belgr
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Raleigh
State Highway and Public Works Commission
George Coble
Powell
Lexington
General Assembly
Heavy Chinese Fire Slows Marine Drive After Four mile Gain
From Hong Kong and Tokyo dispatches the report describes Chinese Communist suppressions in Swatow and Kwangsi with executions and travel bans amid peasant unrest. American Marines push toward Hoengsong amid heavy Chinese artillery and Korean War fighting along the central front with U N and allied forces under pressure.
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Hong Kong
Swatow
Kwangsi
China
Wah Kiu Yat Po
Formosa
Tokyo
Hoengsong
Yeoa
Colummn
United Nations
William Buffalo
nim-Changpyong
Haanhung
Commonwealth Brigade
Yongdu
Hongchon
South
Ae Ee Aoa
Seoul
Yoju
U. S
Hill 937
U S Dares Russia to Allow Global Arms Count
The United States urged Russia to permit a United Nations census of all arms and forces, pledging to count soldiers, sailors, guns, tanks, and planes. The move follows Russia’s note accusing the West of larger forces and aims to compare armed power between blocs. General Bradley supported the plan as a security tradeoff, to be discussed by big power ministers.
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United Nations
United States
Russia
U. S
Soviet Union
Britain
Frank C. Nash
The
Senate Foreign ‘Relations
China
Nash
United
U. N. Atomic Energy Commission
Truman
Armaments Group
Atomic Commission
Commission
U. N. General Assembly
Vandals Break Up Gravestones in Historic Springfield Cemetery
Deputies search for vandals desecrating 23 gravestones in the historic High Point area cemetery near Springfield. Caretaker Ernest Weed found 11 markers toppled with six broken, later 12 more stones tipped. Names include Tomlinson, Ragan, Parson, Ricks, Hardin. earliest marker from 1776, oldest broken from 1804. memorial association treasurer calls stones priceless.
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Faming
Springfield Meeting
High Point
Ernest Weed
Blair Richardson
Memorial Committee
J. S. Lee
C. B. Mattocks
Memorial Association
Woman Receives Arm-Kidney Transplant Dies From Clot
A Los Angeles woman lived four days with a kidney harvested from a donor in Alhambra connected to her arm. Postmortem shows death from a blood clot, not the surgery. The kidney began functioning five credited days after the operation.
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Los Angeles
Howard W. Merrill
Monte Sano Hospital
Alhambra
Calif
Merrill
Careful handling guide from Russian zone factory
Berlin dispatch notes a People’s owned factory in the Russian zone issuing care instructions. The printed text cautions against hot water washing, rubbing, brushing, or tearing. It warns to rinse then pull a specific tan shaped item from heat sources such as stoves.
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Berlin
Rias Ates
Pracast
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