Mixed New York Stock Market Closes Early Afternoon Trading
Stocks show gains and losses around two points as volume nears 2.5 million shares. Chrysler advances amid merger talks with Bethlehem Steel while Youngstown Sheet & Tube sees strong demand. several steel and aluminum issues rise, with General Motors and Boeing among declines. Approximate 1 p.m. sales reach 1.43 million.
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Steels
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
New York Journal of Commerce Today
U.S. Steel
Republic Steel
U.S. Rubber
Woolworth
RCA
Child’s
Climax Molybdenum
Campbell Soup, Aluminum Ltd
Kaiser Aluminum Eversharp
Houston Oil
General Motors
Boeing
Anaconda Co
Kennecott Cooper
DuPont
American Tobacco
Santa Fe Railroad
Standard Oil
Hiram Walker
Uncles Testify Over 16-Year-Old Till Kidnapping Case
Deputy recounts Milam admission of snatching the boy from his bed on August 28 and releasing him unharmed. Mose Wright identifies Milam and Bryant as the men who entered his cottonfield shack to seize Till. Both defendants plead not guilty.
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John Ed Cothran
Milam
Smith
Bryant
Mose Wright
Wright
Til
Till
Old Belt Sales Open Amid Record Tobacco Prices
Eastern North Carolina Belt prices rose after Hurricane Ione closures. A season high average of 54 per 100 pounds was set on the Belt, while the North Carolina Middle Belt sold 4,934,326 pounds at a season high 53.56. Stabilization Corp. collected 14 percent of Tuesday and 12.39 percent of Wednesday gross. Conway Hemingway S C plan to close tomorrow while Lake City and Timmonsville close next Thursday.
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North Carolina
North Carolina Middle Belt
Middle Belt
South Carolina
Stabilization Corp
Conway
Hemingway
S.C
Lake City
Timmonsville
Tannery Fire Ravages Hans Rees Sons Plant
A blaze today destroyed two buildings and damaged a third at the 61 year old Hans Rees Sons Tannery in Asheville. A dozen other structures, including the administration building, escaped. Frank Buckner, the plant's general manager, said a loss estimate would likely be ready today.
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Asheville
Hans Rees Sons Tannery
Frank Buckner
Proposal Rejected to Speed Assigned Risk Policies
A Raleigh proposal to accelerate handling of Ft. Bragg assigned risk auto policies was rejected by the North Carolina assigned risk plans governing board. An Army civilian advisory committee had urged quicker processing to curb unlicensed carriers. Officials said the change would cut processing to about a day or two from five to six days, but the plan was not approved.
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Ft. Bragg
Fayetteville
The
North Carolina
Dulles Promise of Peace Across Global Security Framework
Dulles argues a decade of peace within a European security framework and outlines blocs on Soviet satellites communism. He cites Geneva spirit to curb aggressive powers and protect free governments. He pledges U S readiness to resolve Arab Israeli tensions and to deter Southeast Asian aggression. He notes China area easing as the PRC should respect world will over force.
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Geneva
Middle East
United States
Israel
Southeast Asia
Southeast Area
China
China Area
Russian Red Cross Aids Storm Victims
The Russian Red Cross and Red Crescent societies donated 25000 dollars for flood and hurricane victims in the eastern United States. Sergei A Striganov, charge d affaires at the Russian Embassy, presented the gift to the American National Red Cross, noting it is the first such Soviet humanitarian contribution in recent years.
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Washington
Russian Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
United States
Sergei A. Striganov
Red Cross
Kahoka Doctor Seeks Reserve Commission in Army
Chicago dispatch announces Dr. James Robert Bridges 92 of Kahoka Missouri a World War I Army Medical Corps captain has applied for a reserve commission Bridges offered to serve for the rest of his life or as long as the Army desires Since World War II he has examined draftees in his home county
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Chicago
James Robert Bridges
Kahoka
Army Medical Corps
5Th Army Headquarters
Bridges
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Chrysler Corporation
Cola Cola
Columbia Gas & Elec
Seesseee
Consolidated Edison
Continental Can
Continental Motor
Continental Oil
Buz Curtis Wright
General Electric
General Foods
Goodrich Rubber
Goodyear Rubber
Tllinois Central
Nickel Can
Tel & Telseessese Kennecott Copper
Kroger Company
Libby Owen Ford
Liggett & Myers
Lockheed Aircraft
Loews Theaters
Seeesesseees
Lorillard & Company
Louisville & Nashville
Magnavox Radio
Montgomery Ward Tere
Motorola Radio
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Murray Corporation
National Biscuit
Sesvese
National Cash Register
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National Lead Ee Peewee
Tex Gulf Products
Eevee
Paramount Pictures
Texas Gulf
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Penney JC
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Trans & Western Air
Pepsi Cola
Union Carbide
Atchison, Top & SF
Philco Corporation
Union Pacific
Atlantic Coast Line
Phillips Petroleum
United Airline
Atlantic
Pittsburgh
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Avco Manufacturing
Alponmer
United Corporation
Baltimore & Ohio
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Bendix Aviation
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United States Steel
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Sears Roebuck
Vanadium Corporation
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Thomasville
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E-Z Credit
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Savage
Gover
Toston
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