Public Turns Up Nose At High Prices
Consumers resist soaring meat costs as supply flows into markets after price controls are lifted. Packers warn several days needed to move even fair amounts of premium cuts, while buyers in cities from New York to Portland show reluctance and organize strikes.
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Associated Press
American Meat Institute
New Jersey
Independent Butchers Association
Washington
D. C
Aha
Neb
Helena
Mont
Portland
Ore
New York
Byrnes Presses Patient but Firm Policy Toward Russia
Secretary of State Byrnes voiced distress over war talk with the Soviet Union while urging a patient but firm foreign policy that rejects one sided concessions. He defended freedom and the right of peoples to chart their own future, calling for cooperation with the USSR without unconditional capitulation.
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Washington
Byrnes
United States
Foriegan
Russia
Soviet Union
Paris
Moscow
Europe
United Nations
Henry A. Wallaces
Wallace
Stuttgart
Congress Committee On Visit To Dixie
A 12 member House agricultural sub committee completed a three day hearing in Mississippi with about 40 farmers urging continuation of a permanent federal cotton program. Planters from Missouri Arkansas and Tennessee favored marketing quotas price supports soil conservation one variety cotton and a 4 million bale annual carryover.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Ay
House Agricultural
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
North Carolina Weather: Clear to Partly Cloudy and Cooler
Weather report notes clear to partly cloudy skies across North Carolina with cooler temperatures today and tonight. The period includes Sunday October 20 1946 with sunrise and sunset at 5 38.
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North Carolina
Russian Issue Hits Show-Down
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Dewitt Mackenzie outlines looming international showdowns centering on Russia. He notes Brynes says the alliance must be willing to give and take to avoid grave consequences while the big three face acid tests including Moscow demand for joint defense of the Dardanelles, which Turkey has rejected.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Russia
Brynes
Byrnes
Soviet Union
America
Moscow
Turkey
Dardanelles
Ankara
Greensboro Man Assured Parole After Short Term
Raymond Kennedy, 36, of Greensboro, faced a new term after robbery and larceny convictions. Superior Court Judge Will Pless Jr urged the parole board to release him after half of a three to five year sentence, with a $100 damages payment, saying previous board actions were injustices.
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Greensboro
Raymond Kennedy
State Parole Board
Superior Court
Will Pless, Jr
Parole Board
Iranian Cabinet reshuffled under Premier Qavam
Premier Ahmed Qavam reshuffled his government keeping foreign affairs and interior, while sending aide Prince Mozzafar Firouz to Moscow as ambassador. The new cabinet, seen as more nationalist, was presented to the Shah after Qavam resigned to form a new government following the Qashqai revolt in southern Iran.
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Teheran
Ahmed Qavam
Foreign Affairs
Interior
Mozaffar Firouz
Moscow
Iran
Qavam
Tran
Majiis
Arbitration Predicted in Walkout
Pittsburgh witnesses a potential end to a city crippling power strike as 3200 independent unionists may vote for arbitration. George L. Mueller of the Independent Association of Duquesne Light Employees says members are expected to approve arbitration and he plans to present the case to Labor Secretary Schwellenbach in Washington before returning.
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Pittsburgh
George L. Mueller
Independent Association of Duquesne Light Employes
Germans Hold Free Election Tomorrow
In Berlin on October 19. More than 2.3 million eligible voters will cast a first free vote in 14 years for city and borough councils. Allied powers guard secrecy and fairness as Lt. Col. Louis Glaser frames the vote as a choice between eastern and western democracy, with women comprising 63.5 percent of registered voters. Voters must stamp ration cards at polling stations amid multi-location voting concerns and multiple inspection teams.
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Berlin
Germany
Europe
Negro prisoner escapes Central Prison by scaling wall in Raleigh
Hosea Parker a 30 year old Negro prisoner serving long term sentences for felonious burning breaking and entering with intent to commit felony maliciously burning a public building and related offenses escapes from Central prison by placing a dummy in his bed and climbing the high wall authorities said Parker is serving consecutive sentences including 10 to 15 years for felonious burning of a store building 7 to 10 years for breaking and entering 1 year for malicious burning 10 years for breaking and caging 8 years for breaking entering and larceny and 10 years for breaking entering and larceny in Greene Lenoir Duplin and Bertie counties.
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Raleigh
Hosea Parker
Central Prison
Clyde Robinson
Robinson
Parker
Greene County
Greene
Lenoir
Football Game Features Thomasville Gathering
Thomasville high school meets the Winston-Salem Children Home orphanage team in Finchfield at 2 30 on the second day of the 1946 Everybody Day revival. Friday parade prizes include a white spun glass float and an ancient 150 year old coach, sponsored by Hudson Belk Thompson Auto and Jesters Fine Clothes.
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Thoamsville
Finchfield
Thomasville High School
Winston-Salem
Hudson-Belk Company
Thompson Auto Company
Jester's Fine Clothes Store
Spon
Civil Conflict Predicted as China Leaders Meet
In Peiping Oct 19 observers forecast a civil confrontation within two days as China’s top generals conferred after victorious armies moved toward Paoting in Hopeh. Gen Chen Cheng chaired a Nanking attended session with Gen Tu Li Ming and Gen Chao Chia-Hsiang amid clashes and troop moves in Manchuria.
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Peiping
China
Paoting
Hopeh
Chen Cheng
Nanking
Tu Li- Ming
Manchuria
Chao Chia-Hsiang
Cotton Markets Close Across New York New Orleans and Chicago
The New York cotton exchange closed for the day on October 19 with no short Saturday session. Chicago followed suit with no trading on the board of trade and similar closures were reported in New York and New Orleans.
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New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Cotton Drop Prompts Senate Inquiry On Market Raid
The agriculture department called for a three day price break inquiry as cotton futures slid about 25 cents a bale. Senate agriculture chair Elmer Thomas accuses a bear raid, while J M Mehl from the commodity exchange acts says a facts will emerge from trading analysis. Thomas also reiterates plans to buy 1,000,000 bales for shipment to Germany and Japan, though officials say they know nothing of a new program.
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Elmer Thomas
Dokla
Senate Agriculture Committee
J. M. Mehl
Commodity Exchange Act
Thomas
Agriculture Department
Germany
Japan
Cotton Section
United States Yugoslavia Clash Over American Citizens
Washington and Belgrade traded charges over alleged enslaving and mistreatment of Americans in Yugoslavia. The United States cited 165 detained in camps, forced labor, and transfers to Russia, while Yugoslav officials denied any slave labor or Americans in bondage. Officials noted 7,000 to 3,500 Americans claimed citizenship among detained, with 80 to 90 percent wanting to return home, and discussed exit permits under Potsdam.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Tito
State Department
Russia
Belgrade
Sergeije Makiedo
Bund
Hitler
Makiedo
America
U. S
Germany
Yugoslvia
New Orleans Cotton Exchange Fails to Open Trading
New Orleans cotton exchange did not open today for trading. The brief report notes the market remained closed as of October 19.
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New Orleans
Jerusalem Curfew Imposed Over Jewish Quarters
British authorities in Jerusalem order a daily curfew from 6 30 p m to 5 30 a m for residents within marked Jewish districts amid a surge of extremist attacks. Brigadier R H Bower cites multiple fatal and injuring incidents involving British personnel and an Arab civilian. A prior curfew followed the July King David Hotel blast.
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Jerusalem
R. H Bower
Bower
King David
Winston-Salem Chosen For 1947 State WCTU Meeting
The North Carolina WCTU selects Winston-Salem as host for the 64th annual meeting in 1947. Delegates named to attend the world WCTU gathering in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and to the 1947 national convention include Mrs. L. E. Brown of Charlotte and Mrs. W. H. Causey of Winston-Salem. Also chosen for the state legislative council are Mrs. Brown and other Raleigh and Durham members.
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Lumberton
North Carolina
WCTU
Winston- Salem
L. E. Brown
Charlotte
W. H. Causey
Winston-Salem
Asbury Park
N. J
Brown
Causey
T. H. Plemmons
EF. R. Hlardin
Virginian Samuel Epes Faces Life Imprisonment After Conviction
Samuel C. Epes of Richmond Virginia was convicted of murdering his wife Mary Lee Williams Epes. The state supreme court rejected his appeal for a new trial, leaving him to face life in the state penitentiary. The 1945 case involved poisoning and suffocation with a sodium pentothal overdose and a later body burial at Fort Jackson.
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Columbia,&. C
Samuel C. Epes
Richmond
State Supreme Court
Epes
Mary Lee Williams Epes
Fort Jackson
Medical Corps Army
Louisiana
D. Gordon Baker
State Senate
Edgar A. Brown
Barnwell
Chief Defense Council
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A. Pilg
Roy Harmon
Washington, D. C
Navy
Bay Ridge
J. Melville Broughton
Thomasville
Broughton
A. L. Elliott
Howard Steed
Legion
W. H. Jones
Thomasvile Veterans
Congressional Committee
Dixie
Duplin
Bertie
New York Cotton Exchange
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