Cyrus Ching May Be Wage Price Controls Chief
Washington reports 73-year-old Cyrus S. Ching, top labor troubleshooter, as Truman’s possible choice to chair a national wage stabilization board and oversee mobilization era wage controls. Ching’s discussions with the President suggest plans for wage price controls may be in the works as Tobin expands defense manpower readiness and census shows September employment at 62,226,000 with 2,341,000 idle.
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Cyrus S. Ching
Truman
Ching
National Wage Stabilization Board
Congress
Wage Stabilization Board
War Labor Board
U. S. Rubber Company
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Maurice Tobin
Defense
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
CIO
Tobin
Census Bureau
Color Television Controversy Heads Toward Courts
Washington authorities debate whether color TV should face court test before regular air launch. FCC proposed a voluntary dual tuning requirement for new sets, while manufacturers protest time pressure and potential cost. RCA and Admiral oppose the FCC plan arguing legal and public risks. More on page eight.
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Washington
U. S. District Court
FCC
Columbia Broadcasting System
Columbia Color
Radio Corporation of America
Commission
Admiral Corporation
Admiral
Summer Returns To Midwest But West Has Snow
Central region enjoys warm late summer heat while western states feel winter. Montana and Wyoming report snowfall with Dakotas forecast snow. Cody Wyoming records four inches and Billings Montana a one inch ground cover. Highs reach 70s and 80s from Great Lakes to Texas. Atlantic coast sees cool, cloudy showsers. Pacific coast and southwest remain fair.
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Billings
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Tragic 13 Year Old Girl Fatally Injured Near Mission
Mission British Columbia September report says a 13 year old schoolgirl Laura Grant disappeared after noon, was found fatally injured by a roadside near Fraser Valley town. Police began search with RCMP detachment. body found at dusk. she is daughter of R G Grant, a local farmer.
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Mission
B. C
Scott Names Two Must Items for Budget Plan
Raleigh Sept 30 Governor Scott outlined two non negotiable targets for North Carolina's coming budget. He insisted on continuing hospital construction under the medical care commission and raising A certificate teachers salaries to 2200 to 3100 annually with proportional scales for others. He noted the state may spend over 150 million yearly for 1951-53, but many needs would remain unmet.
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Scott
Tar Heels
Medical Care Commission
Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Nine Killed Five Missing As Mine Hits Destroyer
A floating mine off Korea blew a hole in the U S destroyer Brush killing nine men and leaving 10 injured and five missing. The ship, 2200 tons, hit the mine Wednesday off Tanchon North Korea and limped into Sasebo Japan under emergency repairs.
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Washington
Korea
U. S
Brush
Navy
Tanchon
North Korea
Sasebo
Japan
President Truman Sails Tonight On Week End Cruise
President Truman sails on a week long Potomac and Chesapeake Bay cruise aboard the Williamsburg with staff. The trip will anchor nightly with radio and navy courier plane contact to the White House. First vacation of such length since the Korean crisis.
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Truman
Williamsburg
Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
White House
Navy
MacArthur to press full surrender of Red Kara
United Nations debates possible push north of the 38th parallel in Korea. Russia and allies weigh tactics as Andrei Vishinsky seeks to stall the order, while a UN eight nation plan envisions forces and a UN commission to guide unification and rehabilitation. In Formosa, UN inquiry into Red China charges looms with hearings set for Nov. 15. New Delhi reports India voice says no strong endorsement of investigation yet.
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Andrei Vishinsky
U. N
Douglas MacArthur
Yugoslavia
India
Security Council
U. N. Commission
Korea
Taipei
Formosa
United Nations Security Council
Draft law aims to raise armed forces to three million
Washington dispatch reports a broadened draft plan to create a 3,000,000 man force for years, possibly a generation, with House Armed Services chair Vinson targeting revisions by November. Hershey proposed four changes: extend service to 30 months, broaden deferments, allow veteran duress of under 26, and lower standards.
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Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Lewis Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Army
Clovis Byers
Navy
Air Force
Truman
House Committee
Defense Department
CMORE
Surrender demand to be broadcast by MacArthur tomorrow
General MacArthur is expected to demand the surrender of Red Korea with terms likely unconditional. Four South Korean divisions near the 38th Parallel threaten a northward push as UN forces brace to press the line. The broadcast will air Sunday noon Korean time, hourly in MacArthur’s name, with terms not disclosed.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Red Korea
Red Border
38Th Parallel
United Nations
Red Army
Pusan
U. N
United States
Russia
Korea
South Korea
Red
William Jorden
Ingu
Leif Erickson
Uijongbu
Seoul
U.S
Reds Plan Massive Protests in Cologne and Ruhr
Cologne police report catching Communist plans for 10 000 youths to breach police lines in Cologne and similar outbreaks in about a dozen Ruhr area cities. Officials say 30 000 Eastern German agitators have crossed into West Germany to lead weekend demonstrations as authorities heighten siege defenses and ready flying squads.
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Germany
West Germany
Ruhr
New York's Police Commissioner Moves to Purge Graft
New York Sept 30. Police Commissioner Thomas F Murphy orders sweeping changes in the graft shaken department focusing on the detective division and high brass. He demotes 336 plainclothes officers returning them to uniform and patrols as he seeks replacements from newly appointed staff. Murphy, five days in office, acted after talks with Gov Dewey and Acting Mayor Impelliterri. The purge follows a million-dollar a year bookmaking racket probe and marks the first public call out against detective branch corruption. Gov Dewey notes state help and potential further action depending on results. Chicago hearing invites mayor police chief and state's attorney to testify before a senate crime inquiry next Thursday.
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Thomas F. Murphy
Murphy
Plaincloth
Thomas E. Dewey
Vincent R. Impellitteri
Brooklyn
Miles F. McDonald
Chicago
U. S. Senate
Capitol Ablaze After Liberation Rites in Seoul
Seoul awoke to fires across the shell damaged capitol after General MacArthur and President Rhee left the liberation ceremony. Officials say the blaze was deliberate as water mains were out and sand was used to fight the flames. Rhee vowed rebuilding and noted feeding, housing, and refugee care as urgent. UN planes patrolled while artillery echoed across the city.
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MacArthur
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
U. S
Kim 1 Sung
Tokyo
Japan
United Nations
Tobacco Prices Decline On Old And Middle Belts
RALEIGH Sept. 30 Final sales for the week show mixed flue-cured tobacco prices with declines on the Old and Middle belts while the Border and Eastern North Carolina belts rise. U S and state agriculture figures show Old belt losses of 1 to 3 dollars per hundred. Thursday gross sales reach 7,387,013 pounds at 55.39 average.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Carolina
U. S
State Departments of Agriculture
Middle Belt
Border
North Carolina
Flying Saucers Real Says Global School Weekly
Columbus reports that My Weekly Reader carried a Sept 18 22 issue with a fictitious Tom Trott feature claiming flying saucers are real and part of the air force. The piece aimed to calm fears while acknowledging experimental aircraft.
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Global School Weekly
Columbus
Tom Trott
Atlantic
Air Force
Eleanor M. Johnson
New Taxes On Goods and Services Start Nov
Washington reports new tax increases to take effect November 1 with higher withholding for wages and salaries starting October 1. A 10 percent tax will apply to quick freeze storage units and TV sets, paid by manufacturers who may pass the cost to consumers. An annual $150 tax per gaming machine rises from $100, and transportation taxes apply to international payments. Jewelry and fur sales face a 20 percent excise tax on certain non retail auctions.
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Washington
George J. Schoeneman
Schoeneman
United States
Canada
Surgeons Remove Shell Fragment From GI's Heart
Surgeons at Walter Reed General Hospital led by Dr Brian Blades removed a jagged shell fragment from the heart of a 33 year old sergeant wounded in Korea six weeks earlier. The three hour operation kept the heart functioning by hand pressure during parts of the procedure. The unidentified patient survived, an outcome doctors called remarkable given the usual fatal nature of such wounds.
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Washington
Korea
Walter Reed General Hospital
Brian Blades
Georges Washington University
John S. Paul
Francis N. Cooke
Walter Reed
Hot Rod Driver Loses License for 6 Months
In St. Petersburg Florida a 16 year old white boy whose stripped down motor car struck seven Negro high school girls had his driving license suspended for six months. Juvenile Judge Alfred P. Marshall said he hated to see the youth walk but imposed the sentence. The boy claimed his hot rod skidded as he tried to brake. None of the girls required more than emergency treatment.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Alfred P. Marshall
Robert J. Brennan, Jr
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