Meat Prices Rise Across Cities Hit Philadelphia Stores
Retail meat and milk prices climbed anew with Philadelphia butcher shops raising three to ten cents per pound and loin steaks at a dollar to 1.10. Milk cost increased in Pendleton Oregon and St Louis dairies added a cent a quart. Eggs up two cents in Portland. Federal actions target price fixing. grain margins double as corn and wheat hit records. July consumer prices index peaks at 126.5 with dollar purchasing power at 79.1 cents.
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Philadelphia
Twons
Iimates
Pendle
Ore
St. Louis
Portland
Chicago
Grand
U. S
Tom Clark
Agriculture Department
Commodity Exchange Authority
Chicago Board of Trade
National Industrial Conference Board
New York
Teamsters chief seeks NLRB ruling on non communist affidavits
Daniel J. Tobin announces the Teamsters have signed the required non communist affidavit and seeks a board reversal of its general counsel Denham on Taft Hartley scope. He argues autonomy and plans to press the case with Joseph Padway leading the appeal.
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Washington
AFL Teamsters
National Labor Relations Board
Daniel J. Tobin
The
Teamsters
Robert L. Denham
Denham
AFL
General Executive Council
John L. Lewis
Tobin
Joseph Padway
International Labor Organization
NLRB
CIO
Chicago
Lewis
Mine Workers For Cars
Woman testifies on dynamite purchase in yacht blast trial
Louise Overell testifies that she and co defendant George Gollum bought dynamite two days before her fathers yacht exploded at sea. The purchase was made at her fathers request during the murder case in Santa Ana California.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
George
Bud) Gollum
Thomasville Chair Workers Get Eight Cent Wages Increase
Thomasville Chair employees vote unanimously to accept a company union wage proposal raising all pay by eight cents per hour effective January 5 1948. The contract extends to September 15 1948, includes 65 cent minimum pay, check-off, and two weeks paid vacation. Local No 286 CIO leaders praise cooperation and plan community forums.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Chair Company
United Furniture Workers of America- Cio
Mike Ross
Ross
Ernest Marsh
Carlyle Eddinger
Clete Smith
CIO
Doak Finch
Tom A. Finch
Paul D. Hassler
Thornton H. Brooks
Greensboro
Early Bowers
Foster Rice
R. J. Wall
James Payne
J. T. Buchanan
Jet Fighters And Bombers To Be Tested
The Air Force will stage camera gun tests next spring at Murdoc air base California pitting Lockheed P 80 shooting star jets against North American B 45 four engine bomber. The tests aim to measure human aiming at 1000 mile per hour closing speeds assess armor placement and evaluate defense and offensive tactics.
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Washington
Air Force
Murdoc Air Base
Calif
George R. Webb longtime Aiken public servant dies
George R. Webb 77 former county probate judge and state representative died at his home near Aiken. He had led the South Carolina Beekeepers Association in recent years. Funeral services were planned for here tomorrow.
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Aiken
S. C
George R. Webb
Aiken County
State House of Representatives
South Carolina Beekeepers Association
Paratrooper Returns Lost Tickets From Game
University of North Carolina senior Donald F. MacDonald received back 18 lost tickets for the Georgia NC football game to Fayetteville. An unknown paratrooper sent the tickets from Fort Bragg with a note defending soldiers from being seen as swindlers and saying he could have sold them.
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Little Rock
8. C
Donald F. MacDonald
University of North Carolina
U. S. Army
MacDonald
Payetteville
N. C
Fort Bragg
Fayetteville
Seven Die in Arkansas House Fire Near Benton
In Benton Arkansas on September 16 a family of seven perished when a three room frame dwelling burned four miles west in the Quahita foothills. John Wallace 45 his wife Lorene 40 and five of their six children Corrine 13 John 10 Frankie 4 Reuben 3 Daisy 2 months died in the blaze. Only Rolce 11 escaped after a back exit escape during an explosion. A small liquor still ruins were found in the room of origin. The coroner J P Sims described the fire as fed by highly volatile fuel and spreading rapidly.
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Benton
Ark
Here
Quahita
John Whalen Wallace
Lorene
Wallace
J. P. Sims
Rolce
Sims
Corrine Wallace
John D. Wallace
Frankie
Reuben
Daisy
Britain Secures $60 Million IMF Support in Sterling Swap
The British treasury announced that the International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide Britain 60 million dollars in exchange for sterling in the coming days.
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London
International Monetary Fund
Britain
Trieste Faces Pressure as Yank Forces Warn Yugoslav Troops
American troops manning a frontier outpost between Yugoslavia and the new free state of Trieste fired a warning burst with a tank when a 34 Yugoslav unit pressed to cross the line. The AMG said the incident ended without serious consequences after negotiations.
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Trieste
Yugoslavia
New Free State of
America
Adriatic
AMG
Boriano
Proseco
Free State
Truman Dons Racing Cap On Cruise
President Truman, aboard the U S S Missouri east of the United States, wears a brown checkered cap like harness racers after a night of boxing matches. He plans a firing demonstration of the ship's 40 millimeter guns as the cruise continues.
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U.S. Missouri
Truman
Miami
Fla
Mrs. Truman
Market Advances into Higher Ground in Cautious Session
The New York stock market edged higher today with rare price moves of about a point. Leaders included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler U S Rubber Goodrich Gotham Hosiery Pittston Co Cooper Bessemer Schenley and Boeing Aircraft, while Great Northern preferred Westinghouse Electric American Can and J C Penney softened as bonds eased and commodities mixed.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Chrysler
U. S. Rubber
Goodrich
Gotham
Pittston, Co
Cooper-Bessemer
Schenley
American Woolen
American Smelting
Air Reduction
Southern Railway
Baltimore & Ohio
Oliver Corp
Boeing Aircraft
Great Northern
Westinghouse Electric
American Can
J. C. Penney
Kennecott
Flood Devastates Japan as 2280 Dead or Missing
Reports say floodwaters after a typhoon flood the Tokyo plain killing or missing about 2,280 Japanese. Damage spans 15 prefectures with 100,900 houses affected and roads bridges and farms ruined across Honshu. Evacuation planned for Hatteras inlet coast guard station in North Carolina due to hurricane swells.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Mie
Nagoya
Akita
Tone
Arakawa
Hatteras Manteo
Coast Guard
Hatteras Inlet
Cape Hatteras
State Patrol Readies Coastal Patrol for Possible Hurricane Duty
North Carolina patrolmen in the coast region are put on standby as a hurricane threat looms off Florida. Patrol officials cancelled all leaves for Troop B in the eastern part of the state to prepare for potential duty.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Florida
Planes from Atlantic hurricane refuge arrive in Greenville
Greenville army air base hosts 220 navy planes from Jacksonville and Oceana near Norfolk seeking refuge from an Atlantic hurricane. They arrived yesterday. Also slated to join were 77 gliders and 34 other aircraft from Pope Field Ft Bragg, but not yet arrived this morning.
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Carolinas
Greenville
S. C
Greenville Army Air Base
Jacksonville
Fla
Oceana Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Pope Field
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Charleston Warned As Hurricane Signals Go Up
The U S weather bureau issued a northeasterly storm warning with the red flag and pennant at Charleston as the Atlantic hurricane hovered about 500 miles southeast. Meteorologist John E. Lockwood said Charleston faces no danger for 24 hours due to the storm's slow movement and noted possible recurvature with uncertain path.
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Charleston
S. C
U. S. Weather Bureau
Customs House
West Palm Beach
Hatteras
John E. Lockwood
Man Bound Over in Second Degree Murder Case
Alvin J. Jones, 32, of Winston-Salem was bound over to superior court on $10,000 bond after a municipal court hearing. Judge Leroy W. Sams found probable cause in a second degree murder case arising from a traffic accident that killed nine-year-old Alian Lee Mathley on Lexington Road.
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Winston-Salem
Alvin J. Jones
Leroy W. Sams
Alian Lee Mathley
Lexington Road
UN Assembly Opens Amid U S Russian Rift
The 1947 UN session opens with warning that East West split must be halted. George C Marshall and Oswaldo Aranha attend as Iraq's Fadhil Jamali voices hope for UN victory despite Balkan and Palestine tensions and Soviet vetoes. Vishinsky signals willingness to cooperate through understanding.
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New York
United Nations Assembly Today
Russia
George C. Marshall
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Palestine
United States
Balkan
Security Council
Fadhil Jamali
Iraq
Council
United Nations
Marshall
Persnally
U.S
Andrei V. Vishinsky
Cooperae
Vishinsky
Two Men And Boy Rescued At Sea Off Sullivan Island
Two Charleston men and the four year old son of one were saved after five hours on an improvised raft when their motorboat capsized during a fishing trip off Sullivan's Island. Rescue involved two small planes from Charleston a shrimp trawler and the Sullivan's Island coast guard station.
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Charleston
S. C
Sullivan's Island
Pepper warns of no hope to curb prices and another recession
Sen. Pepper of Florida argues the Republican Congress caused rising living costs and predicts an imminent recession. Sen. Brewster blames food exports and wartime controls, while Capehart links prices to foreign aid but calls for higher production and longer work weeks. Pepper dismisses a special session.
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Washington
Pepper
D-Fla
Florida
Congress
Brewster
R-Me
Europe
Capehart
R-Ind
Indiana
GOP
No CIO Tie Says Thurmond in South Carolina
Governor Thurmond denied any ties to the CIO and said he received no money from the CIO in his race. He spoke at a Myrtle Beach regional realty convention after NA real estate group charges, asserting independence and pledging to speak for the people’s best interests.
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Columbia
S. C
Thurmond
CIO
Morgan L. Fitch
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Myrtle Beach
New York
The
Communist Party
Building Costs Block Housing Outlook Says Sen McCarthy
Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin argues housing scarcity can only be eased if all businesses cooperate to lower costs. He cites high material prices, wide resale spreads, and restrictive local codes as obstacles, and urges mass production and code reform to spur a construction boom.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wis
Senate-House
Hurricane center 220 miles east of Palm Beach stirs Florida coast
Weather officials warn of a powerful hurricane near the Bahamas moving slowly toward the Florida east coast. Grady Norton says the storm is stationary over the northern Bahamas and could strike land or move away. advisories urge preliminary preparations especially for the Everglades region and Lake Okeechobee vicinity.
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Miami
Fila
Hopetown
Abaco Island
Florida
Palm Beach
Abaco
Bahamas
Cape Hatteras
Grady Norton
Norton
Everglades
Lake Okeeechobee
Lake Okeechobee
Counsel For Boy Enters Plea Of Innocent
In Harrison New Jersey on September 16 a 14 year old boy Smigelski faced a murder charge in the kidnap strangling of his 11 year old friend The boy’s lawyer Anthony Calandri argued the case falls outside state criminal jurisdiction due to the youth.
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Harrison
N. J
Fred Walter Smigelski
Smigelski
Anthony Calandri
Weather Forecast for North Carolina in 1947
Partly cloudy and cooler today with thundershowers in the east. Tomorrow, partly cloudy in the west with possible rain in the east. Extended forecast shows near normal temperatures, slight cooling in mountains, and limited rainfall except coastal and eastern areas midweek. Sun times and dates noted for September 17, 1947.
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North Carolina
Bim
Temperature Rainfall Chart for Several Cities
Official weather bureau records show 24 hour temperatures ending at 8 80 a m with highs and rainfall values across multiple cities including Boston Charleston Charlotte Chicago Detroit Evansville Galveston High Point Jacksonville Little Rock Los Angeles Memphis Meridian Mobile New Orleans New York Raleigh San Antonio San Francisco and Washington.
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Charlotte
Official Weather Bureau
Max
Boston
Charleston
Chicago
Columbia
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
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Springfield
Mass
Thomas E. Dewey
Arkansas
Yank Guns
Free Territory
Truman Dons
E. Carolina
Gorizia
Mantova
Paris
Rome
UN Assembly
Sen. McCarthy
Florida Peninsula
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