Truman ends price controls with broad decontrol order
President Truman issued a sweeping order lifting price ceilings on autos, materials, furniture, metals, paper, coal, laundry and most goods except housing, sugar, and rice. Wage controls end except where government seizure applies, while OPA rent ceilings may rise. Housing orders from the veterans program stay unchanged. The move follows Election Day gains by Republicans.
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Washington
Truman
OPA
Wage Stabilization Board
Wilson Wyatt
Sen
House
Decontrols Figure In Miners Wage Demands
Washington dispatch says decontrols will influence miners wage demands as tariffs move, with Undersecretary Clayton announcing talks with 18 nations and Truman framing trade aims. Political pushback from Senator Wherry hints Republicans may scrutinize tariff cuts while labor and farm interests push for protection.
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Washington
United States
William L. Clayton
Clayton
Wherry
R-Neb
Senate
State Department
Congress
Hull
Truman
Ldt
Tru
Weather Forecast Shows Cloudy Skies and Showers
Sunday will bring increasing cloudiness in Carolina with showers possible Sunday night in the mountains and lingering into the afternoon temperatures varying across locations. The bulletin lists temperatures and rainfall amounts for principal cotton areas and nearby cities including New Orleans Philadelphia Raleigh Richmond Norfolk and more with varying highs and lows and scattered precipitation amounts.
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Tow Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Orleans
New York
New York Ay. Ook
Norfolk
Philade
Lo ‘ Ortlane
Orth
Raleigh
Richmond
Revive Boat Dual On Mississippi
Mississippi river packets Gold en Eagle and Gordon C. Greene staged an impromptu race from Greeneville to above Arkansas City with the Eagle conceding coal costs. Captain J Winters of the Eagle proposed a formal speed test next year after the Greene surged ahead at the Arkansas City point. Both boats are among the last remnants of the river packet era.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Gordon C. Greene
J. Winters
Greene
Greeneville
Miss
Arkansas City
Winters
Eagle
Decontrols Impetus To Full Production
New York November 9 industry and business leaders say wage and price decontrol will spur full production. They foresee higher prices a return to normal competitive levels and reduction of black markets. Lew Hahn National Retail Goods Association general manager says business must prove it can self regulate better than Washington agencies.
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New York
Lew Hahn
National Retail Goods Association
Washington
Hahn
Textile Mill Workers Vote For Higher Wages Nationwide
Delegates representing 85 000 Textile Workers Union of America members vote to demand a general 20 cent an hour wage increase in 158 woolen and worsted mills across 20 states. Union leaders say talks proceed without strikes, with contracts due to expire Feb 1 1948 and arbitration available.
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Boston
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Emil Rieve
International Union
Tertile
Southern Cotton Ray
Atlanta
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Kentucky
Ohio
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Washington
Oregon
Rieve
America
William Pollock
Program's Millionth Baby Expected Nov 11
Washington officials say the federal maternity aid program will bill for its millionth baby this week. A bureau official expects Baby 1,000,000 to arrive around Armistice Day, likely within days.
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Washington
United
Armada May Rush British Blockade
The colonial office acknowledged reports a Jewish armada planned to rush the Palestine blockade. Scotland Yard placed special guards at London government buildings as a precaution against an expanded campaign by Jewish terrorists. Read of bombings in Rome and threats to widen actions beyond the Holy Land, and of Jerusalem violence on the Jewish sabbath.
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Colonial Office
Palestine
Scotland Yard
Voice of Fighting Zion
Irgun Zvai Leumi
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Jerusalem
Downing and
Charles Streets
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Downing Street
Britain
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London Evening News
Ira
Irish Republican Army
Assassi
Food Supplies Expected To Rise Despite Higher Prices
The agriculture department said food supplies will be large in the coming months with retail prices higher than a year ago. Beef and pork will be more plentiful, while poultry, eggs, and butter may be tighter. milk and fats show seasonal declines and price trends point to 1947 as production rebounds.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Turkey
Petition Seeks North Carolina Site for UN Headquarters
Salisbury Evening Post editor says a petition from Moore County residents led by Carthage businessman Colin Spencer asks the United Nations to consider Southern Pines and Pinehurst as a permanent UN headquarters site. He urges broader North Carolina support to unite the Sandhills proposal and boost the state’s role in the free world.
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Salisbury
Spencer Murphy
Salisbury Evening Post
United States
Assembly of the United Nations
Southern Pines
Pinehurst
North Carolina
United Nations
Murphy
Moore County
Colin Spencer
Carthage
Sandhills
Mecklenberg
Daniel Boone
Weather Blitz Grips Colorado as Blizzard Toll Hits 11
A week-long Colorado blizzard raged causing 11 deaths as high winds and heavy wet snow shut highways. While the south saw unseasonably warm temps, California mountains and northwest states faced snow, with Nebraska and Wyoming blanketed and Texas Oklahoma Kansas receiving rain or cloud cover. Temperature swings ranged from one below zero in Wyoming to 88 in Florida.
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Associated Press
Colorado
California
Nebraska
Wyoming
South Dapta
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Big Piney
Wyo
Fort Myers
Fla
GOP Leaders Still Favor Conventions
Atlanta dispatch reports Georgia Republicans resist peer preference primaries preferring the traditional convention system. Leaders say the old method expresses the will of the people and may shore up Dewey support in the solid south for 1948. Columbus manufacturer Wilson Williams urged a regional primary to avoid factional conflicts. Virginia Republicans voiced the primacy of conventions over primaries.
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Atlanta
Dewey
Roosevelt
Wilson Williams
Columbus
Tom Dewey
Williams
Georgia
South
Nashville
A. V. Lane
Richmond
Curtis M. Dozier
Virginia
Truman Decontrol Expands Free Bargaining Across Industries
President Truman says wage decontrol ends government wage checks and returns free collective bargaining. He appeals for labor management peace, urging cooperation to boost production and keep prices low. AFL CIO reactions favor eliminating the wage stabilization board, while decontrol covers all industries except remaining federal seizure sectors.
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Truman
AFL
CIO
Wage Stabilization Board
Great Lakes
Rubber Will Remain Under Gov't Grip
The government will continue as the nation’s sole buyer and seller of natural rubber at the request of the rubber industry. Reconversion Director John R. Steelman announced that “for the present” means beyond December 31. Federal agencies have debated ending control when crude rubber allocations end.
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Washington
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Offici
Five Men Charged in New York Linotype Fraud Case
Five men face larceny and forgery charges in a $1 million embezzlement probe against Mergenthaler Linotype. James Collins, aka Julius Davis, Julius Lobel, and Jimmie Collins, arraigned in Brooklyn court, remanded without bail for November 14. Other defendants include Isa dore Rappaport Joseph Milstein and Irving Cohen. Nickel jailed on $100,000 bail. others free on $25,000. District Attorney McDonald says indictments likely next week.
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New York
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Brooklyn
James Collins
Julius Davis
Julius Lobel
Jimmie Collins
Lukius Helfand
Collins
Mergenthaler
Isadore Rappaport
Joseph Milstein
Irving
Izzy the Eel
Kings County
Miles F. McDonald
Furniture association backs Truman order to ease controls
J. T. Ryan of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association says President Truman’s plan to decontrol household furniture will please the industry. He predicts no general price rise but a return to normal lines, more new goods, and broader styles as producers lift output now that materials are widely available. The group urged full decontrol to boost competition and restore normal market conditions.
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J. T. Ryan
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
Truman
Sedgefield Inn
Ryan
Agencies Affected by Liquidation Move and Closures
The article notes OPA and Price Administrator Paul Porter plan to resign as liquidation starts for pricing, local price boards close nationwide, and a liquidation agency will wind down operations. WSB Chair Wirtz says the stabilization board will end soon with 6,700 wage control cases to be resolved. The National Housing Agency faces unspecified prospects.
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OPA
Paul Porter
WSB
W. Wirtz
NHA
National Housing Agency
FBI reports crime rise in 1946 first nine months
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced that crime increased 8.1 percent in the United States during the first nine months of 1946 over the same period in 1945. Robberies rose 19.2 percent murders 15.3 percent negligent manslaughter 9.4 and assault 7.9 with burglaries up 11.3 based on 400 large cities.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
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