Truman Shuns Price Controls At News Conference
President Truman voiced concern over the high cost of living and said he is crafting plans to address it without repeating past price control errors. He indicated a decision on selective controls is still under discussion and praised Congress’s work as he nears a recess, while signaling foreign policy unity and upcoming defense department changes.
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Washington
Truman
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
OPO
Averell Harriman
Taft
Ohio
AFL
Houston
Tex
Harriman
Kremlin
Congress
Phantom whistler haunts tiny Paradise town
In Paradis Louisiana 200 residents fear a phantom whistler threatening bride to be Jacquelyn Catlow. Sheriff deputies guard her home as state police investigate whether the intruder is a prankster killer or lunatic. Wedding set for October 1 with escort if needed.
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Paradis
Bayou
Jacquelyn Catlow
Herbert Belsom
New Orleans
Jacquelyn
Vincent B. Eberer
N. J. Khoury
Cadow
New Orleans States
Roy Mheinecke
Belsom
Cadow Yard
Leon Vial
Clifford Catlow
Herbert
Meteor Display Seen From Airliner Over Rockies
Denver reports reveal a giant meteor or meteorite seen by a United Airlines crew east of St. George Utah. The event sent hundreds of ground sightings across Wyoming and Colorado from Laramie to Trinidad, with pieces splitting and fading but not falling. Pilots described a white hot football shaped body and a V tail, while air traffic staff doubted meteors despite astronomy students.
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Denver
Wyoming
Colorado
Rockie
H. A. Gurney
United
St. George
Utah
Gurney
Earth
Laramie
Wyo
Fort Collins
Greeley
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Trinidad
CAA
Lowery Air Base
Lowery
Stock Market Is Coasting Today
NEW YORK. Sept. 21. The stock market coasted along a narrow price route today. Most changes were limited to 30 cents a share or less. Gains and losses were mixed. Leading issues included Bethlehem Steel Chrysler J I Case Admiral Corp Kennecott Cooper Phelps Dodge Cooper Air Reduction Westinghouse Electric American Woolen Chesapeake and Ohio Johns Manville U S Gypsum.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
J. I. Case
Admiral Corp
Kennecott Cooper
Phelps Dodge Cooper
Air Reduction
Westinghouse Electric
American Woolen
Chesapeake & Ohio
Johnsmanville
U. S. Gypsum
U. S. Steel
General Motors
Douglas Aircraft
Philco
Consolidated Edison
Allied Chemical
American Can
General Electric
Pennsylvania A. A
American Airlines
Wolves and hyenas kill 23 children near Allahabad
Reports from United Provinces of India say wolves and hyenas killed twenty three children in nearby villages. Authorities have dispatched armed men to wipe out the beasts as the death toll rises.
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Calcutta
India
Allahabad
United Provinces
Acheson Proposes Four Point UN Security Plan
Paris reports France backs U S Secretary Acheson four point plan to empower the United Nations with a military force to counter aggression worldwide. Dulles calls the proposal the most important since World War Two as the 59 nation assembly prepares to take up the items on its agenda. Vishinsky warns of a speeding ticket as the Soviet delegation travels near Glen Cove while the assembly committee considers priorities for its six main committees.
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Paris
France
United Nations
U. S
Dean Acheson
U. N
New York
United Nations General Assembly
Acheson
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Assembly
Russia
Andrie Y. Vishinsky
Steel Workers May Issue Wage Demands Exposed
Pittsburgh September 21 The top policy makers of the CIO United Steelworkers met in private talks as President Philip Murray said wage demands would be discussed. The union's executive board is preparing a campaign to win union shops across the steel industry. A union shop requires union membership as a condition of employment.
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Pittsburgh
CIO United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Super Speed Cargo Ships To Travel Seas Unescorted
Washington Sept 21 An official study considers building super speed cargo ships capable of traversing combat zones without escort to outrun subs dodge torpedoes and attack from the air A substantial scale program is planned with designs for defense features possibly a deck helicopter to scout for subs or depth charge use Vice Admiral Edward L Cochrane leads the maritime administration in evaluating modern war needs and speed limits in shipyards from WWII days to today
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Washington
Maritime Administration
Edward L. Cochrane
Cochrane
Navy
Azore
Gray-Haired Kurt Schuschnigg Defends Liberty At ABA
Prof Kurt Schuschnigg of St Louis University spoke to the American Bar Association about totalitarianism and the judiciary. He warned that judges purged for racial or confessional reasons allow tyranny to paralyze a people. He noted his own life in Austria, prison, and later liberation by American forces. He and his wife have applied for citizenship in the United States.
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Washington
Kurt Schuschnigg
St. Louis University
American Bar Association
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Austria
Hitler
Schuschnigg
Vera Fugger von Bahnehusen
Prof
Ion
St. Louis
General Marshall sworn in as defense secretary
Washington Sept 21 Gen George C Marshall was sworn as secretary of defense in a small ceremony attended by Felix Larkin and Stephen Early. He immediately convened a staff conference with the joint chiefs of staff as senators and representatives approved his nomination. The step clears his quiet succession and teams him to bolster anti Communist defenses at home and abroad with Western allies in New York next week.
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Congress
Truman
George C. Marshall
Senate Armed Services Committee
Marshall
China
General Marshall
Defense
Stephen T. Early
New York
U.S
Korea
United Nations
Washington
Felix Larkin
Defense Department
Stephen Early
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Secretary of Defense
Senate
House
Europe
Teachers May Get Extra Pay
RALEIGH Sept 21 An unexpected check for several hundred dollars will be sent out to each of North Carolina 26 000 public school teachers come December provided general fund revenue holds through October The advisory budget commission reversed an August stance and says the contingent pay boost promised by the 1949 legislative session will be granted The raise for A certificate teachers would raise pay from 2064 2754 to 2300 3100 with commensurate increases for B and graduate certificates The boost is estimated to cost about 7 000 000 and will be paid as a single check by the state board of education The move follows a June plan that teachers wait until next June to collect the increase based on the surplus but revised estimates of tax collections prompted the reversal The commission cites an estimate that the general fund will exceed prior expectations by about 5 000 000 this year and 7 500 000 more than previously projected
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Advisory Budget Commission
State Board of Education
Scott
Eugene Shaw
Heavily Armored Red Column From North Nears City
American marines battled for Seoul as a mysterious armored column from Manchuria, 40 tanks and 200 support vehicles, neared the capital. MacArthur predicted a week before a safe allied victory parade. Marines entered northwest Seoul after crossing the Han River, with 10th Corps advancing from Inchon. Reds from the south retreated or sought civilian outfits. the city faces a large battle as the 500 year old capital braces for heavy fighting.
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Leif Erickson
Tokyo
Seoul
Manchuria
U. S
Han River
10Th Corps
Inchon
Douglas MacArthur
Han
United Nations
Missouri
Yellow Sea
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Pacific Fleet Marine Forces
Shepherd
MacArthur
Constellation
Honolulu
Russell Brines
Brines
Red China
Antung
Yalu River
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
China
Suwon
Korea
Relman Morrin
Red Commander Says Ideals Have Changed
U S First Cavalry reports trapping about 5000 Communist troops near Tabu north of Taegu. Senior Col Lee Hak Ku of the 13th division surrendered, saying his ideals shifted to democracy after studying ideologies. He is the highest ranking POW so far in Korea, with remnant forces of the North Korean third and 13th divisions believed in the pocket.
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Jack McBeth
Hal Boyle
U. S. First Cavalry
Korea
Tabu
Taegu
Hobart R. Gay
First Cavalry
Lee Hak Ku
Lee
Col. H. C. Britt
Eustis
Fla
Tito Urges US to Stop at 38th Parallel in Korea
Belgrade dispatch reports Premier Marshal Tito told a visiting U S congressional delegation the United States should fight to the 38th parallel in Korea, then seek a country wide plebiscite. Tito’s remarks came during a three hour talk at his Belgrade villa as senators Pepper Brewster and representatives Cooley and Podge pressed for frank answers on U S Yugoslav relations, religion, Communism and aid.
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Alex Singleton
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
United States
Korea
South Korea
North Korea
Sen
Pepper
D-Fla
Tito
Yugoslavia
United Nations
D-Find
Brewster
Rme
Rep. Cooley
D-N. C
Reb. Podge
D-Tex
Trieste
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Acheson Will
Glen Cove
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Timothy O'Neill
O'Neill
Gray-Haired
Kurt Schuchnigg
Arthur L. Edson
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