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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
4
Shipping and produce wires report steady poultry and truck receipts across Chicago and St Louis markets on June 18. A separate note highlights 1926 auto top speeds at around 57 mph, slower than modern figures, with brief market data on grains and live stock.
Edmond Melin aged 73, longtime Missouri State Highway Department employee, was found shot in his room at 208 East McCarty. Coroner said no inquest planned. A 25 caliber revolver, four empty cartridges, and two slugs were found. A labeled list with names and contacts was found. Melin recently spoke of nervousness and had planned a Kansas City doctors visit. He and his family moved from Blackwater in 1916. survived by daughter Margaret Gill and a grandson in Belleville.
Kansas City June 18 AP Seven new members joined the Jackson county democratic committee as Chairman Harry A Morris pushed a drive to wipe out factionalism. The group also approved resolutions deploring alleged flouting of election laws and praised Attorney General Tom C Clark for naming Richard K Phelps as special prosecutor in a probe of last August’s primary fraud claims.
Thomas J. Hargrave president of Eastman Kodak was named chairman of the army navy munitions board to succeed Richard R. Deupree. President Truman appointed him on the recommendation of Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal. The reconstituted board plans mobilization in emergencies and guards strategic assets.
NATIONAL STOCKYARDS ILL June 16. Hoofs steady to lower across categories with hogs 25 lower than Tuesday's averages. Pigs 20.00-23.95. sows 25-40 lower. heavy weights 19.00-20.50. cattle slow with few loads. Steers 27.00. butcher yearlings weak. cows near standstill. bulls steady. Calves 17.00-25.90. vealers down. Overall slow trade and wary demand across all classes.
Joseph W. Downs, brother of Mrs. E. W. Bishop, an education department employee, was killed when the car she drove struck a guard rail on the Albany Post Road near Livingston New York. He was a Hudson Mohawk Insurance Company employee and a former army first lieutenant, alone in the car, dead on arrival. Downs was well known here from several visits and planned to visit his sister next week.
Ford said he had been questioned by the political police over relatives and expected to be arrested soon. The seizure and questioning of Ford, whose club houses mainly American and British officers, marked the first such move by the police since August threats to arrest Hungarian staff of the Allied missions. The developments coincided with a three power Allied Control Commission meeting likely to discuss Hungary’s political shifts and tensions between Russia, Britain, and the United States.
The agriculture department closes the wartime farm subsidy program costing the treasury just over 2 billion dollars. Most subsidies ended in 1946 with a few carried into 1947, mainly Cuban sugar. Subsidies linked to price controls ceased as ceilings were deemed too low to spur production. It is estimated the aluminum stockpile would yield about 125 pounds per U.S. family.
John Foster Dulles warned that Soviet policy to set up police states could spark violence or war. Speaking at Northwestern Universitys 38th annual commencement he argued for peaceful or moral resistance to halt Soviet imposition of their system.
A Socialist leader aligns with Wallace on disarmament and economic cooperation while questioning reliance on personal Stalin meetings. He advocates universal disarmament under international control and cautions against fueling an armament race. He supports pooling oil reserves and generous American aid within a cooperative framework.
A list of new fiction and mystery titles appears alongside a note that Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and Lord Inverchanel have accepted invitations to attend the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show in October. Ray L. Cuff, chairman of a Future Farmers of America advisory committee, announced the development today. The article also recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt conducting Easter Sunday services aboard the Nourmahal in 1954 aboard the USS Ellis as the Navy’s first Commander in Chief to lead divine services for personnel in the absence of a chaplain.
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