GE raises prices on household and industrial goods
General Electric announces price increases from 6 to 12 percent on many items including refrigerators ranges washing machines and electric motors citing higher costs and wage gains. President Wilson says costs rose about 72 million dollars since earlier price cuts and that some products are unaffected.
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New
Yor
General Electric Company
Charles E. Wilson
C. I. O. United Electrical
G. E
Wilson
Kuhn Seized In German Nazi Leader From Bund Recaptured
Fritz Kuhn former Bund leader and Nazi offender was captured in the French zone at Bernkastel near Trier after four months on the run. He faced a 10 year sentence and planned to open a chemist lab in the French zone before his arrest.
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Germany
Flinn
Federal
Terre ‘Haute
Ind
Maynard M. Sands
Veterans’ Information Center
Independence
George C. Carson
Independence Chamber of Commerce
William J. Randall
Jackson County Court
Terre Haute
Sands
Munich
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Kuhn
Bernkaste
Trier
Fuehrer
America
Dachau
Hedwig Mutz
Fritz
Anee
Walter
Bernkastel
C. Kuhn
Franz Pitzer
Hitler
United States
Morehan
Sitdown Strike Ends at Philadelphia G E Plant
Production at a Philadelphia General Electric plant returned to normal after a sitdown strike of 700 workers ended. The workers, upset by a new time study, voted to resume at 7 a m. Linwood T. Ford of Local 119 CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers said the strike was not union sanctioned and urged an immediate halt.
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Philadelphia
General Electric Company
Linwood T. Ford
C. I. O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Ford
Truman train tour sparks crowds and quips in Missouri
President Truman rode his special train through Sedalia and Warrensburg drawing crowds of thousands. He joked with local reporters and visitors while urging Congress to pass price control and a 600 million dollar federal aid measure for education.
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Independence
Congress
Mr. Truman
Truman
U. S. S. Missouri
Tokyo ‘Bay
George Henry
Rockhill
Road
40 & 8 Society
Missouri
Kansas City
Jackson County
Thomas F. Flinn
East Eighth Street
Mary Jane Truman
J. C. Truman
Rufus Burrus
J. Kelly Pool
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Philadelphia
Frank
Warrensburg
Homer R. Garrison
Senate
House
President Truman Departs Independence Ahead of Storm
The train carrying President Truman left Independence station at 7:35 this morning just ahead of a violent thunderstorm.
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President Truman
Independence Station
Blast Victim Dies After Front-Fire Collapse
A blast and ensuing fire caused about 13 000 dollars in damage as a victim slid from the front of a house to the ground. Mrs Harris Robinson recalls this as the second fatal accident in the Quigley family.
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Harris Robinson
Ellis
Dan McNay elected Missouri Boys' State governor
Dan McNay of Kansas City was elected governor of Missouri Boys' State. Stanley Parks and George H. Wilson were named auditor and state judge respectively. Lloyd Horsham of Independence became a state supreme court justice. McNay won on the Nationalist ticket, defeating Steve George of Clayton. Leo Mann of St. Louis was elected lieutenant governor.
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BooNviLte
Dan McNay
Holmes Street
Kansas City
Missouri
American Legion
Stanley Parks
Woodland Avenue
George H. Wilson
East Twenty-second Street
Lloyd Horsham
Independence
Steve George
Clayton
Leo Mann
St. Louis
Storm Strikes City Damaging Buildings and Causing Flooding
Lightning hit the Candler building at 2107 Grand Avenue twice, top cornices fell toward Grand and Twenty first streets, and rain flooded gutters. Several stores and traffic lights lost power while city crews aided locations including Stone store, A P Food store, Sewall Paint, Merchandise Mart, Bell Service, Green Mill, and Crown Drug.
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Candler
Grand Avenue
Grand
Twentyfirst
Firestone
East Linwood Boulevard
A. & P. Food
Linwood
Forest Avenue
Sewall Paint Company
West Eighth Street
Merchandise Mart
Bell Service Company
Green Mill Sweet Shop
Main Street
Crown Drug Store
Troost
Third Veto Fails Continued From First Page
The White House documents show President Truman vetoed his 137th bill, most often on minor measures. In the Seventy-ninth Congress Democrats held the majority, with many vetoes ignored. The current session notes twenty-nine vetoes, including three recent ones, while overrides occurred on the income tax cut and news vendors social security exemption.
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Truman
Congress
One Passenger Believed Aboard United Flight 624
San Diego report says only Albert William Stampel of Stratford Conn a Navy dischargee traveling to New York was a through passenger on United Air Lines Flight 624. The DC 6 crashed near Sunbury Pa with twenty seven other passengers who likely boarded in Los Angeles or Chicago and a new crew relieved the San Diego departure.
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LaGuardia Field
New York
San Diego
Cantr
United Airlines
Sunbury
W. R. Patrick
Albert William Stampel
Stratford
Conn
Stamp
Four Die In Air Crash Near St Marys Kansas
Four Des Moines men were killed when their Cessna 170 crashed in a wheatfield four miles south of St Marys Kansas during an electrical storm at about 825 this morning. Victims: Warren H Ridgley Jr owner Roy Clifton Richard McDole and Russell C Churchman Sr. Wing detached in the storm, site near Heisler Island along the Kaw River. Everett Hart Kansas National Guard captain called to the scene said the wing was found about a mile from the main wreckage.
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St. Marys
Kas
Des Moines
Kansas Wheatfield
Kansas Highway Patrol
Warren H. Ridgley, Jr
Roy Clifton
Richard McDole
Russell C. Churchman
Kaw
Blood Bank Visit Aims to Boost Donor Numbers in Kansas City
The Red Cross blood bank unit will be in Kansas City on Monday to serve Veterans hospitals in Wadsworth Kansas and Excelsior Springs Missouri. Donors aged 18 to 60 in good health may call Harrison 2341 for a 11 AM to 6 PM appointment. W. E. Bixby notes urgent need. First donors include Clifford C. Jones Jr. and Carl Harre.
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Red Cross Blood Bank
Wadsworth
Kas
Excelsior Springs
Veterans
Kansas City
W. E. Bixby
Jackson County
Red Cross
West Eleventh Street
Harrison
Bixby
Clifford C. Jones, Jr
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Carl Harre
Barbed Wire Club
Maj Thomas H Stryker Rites Held in Japan
Memorial services for Maj Thomas H Stryker 47 former Kansas City businessman and public official who died in Japan will be held at 2 pm tomorrow at Bonfils chapel Community Christian church Rev Frank J Pippin officiating Stryker served as commandant of Keio University near Tokyo and previously worked in insurance and floral businesses and in parks administration Funeral services will be held in Yokohama with burial at Arlington National Cemetery
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Thomas H. Stryker
Kansas City
Japan
Bonfils
Community Christian Church
Frank J. Pippin
Major Strucker
Keio University
Tokyo
Yokohama
Arlington National Cemery
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Union Station
Mrs. Truman
Margaret Truman
Vivian Truman
George P. Wallace
Frank Wallace
Secret Service
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Thirty-second Street
Strong Avenue
Kansas
Brush Creek
Fifty-first Street
Ward Parkway
Marion Stephens
South Early Street
W. W. Raymoor
South Twelfth Street
LE Beep Icgberaress Gee
Victors
Greater
Newcomer's
Ade
General Hospital
Wornall Road
Colleen O'Laughlin
West Eighty-first Street
Wornall
Falene
Salene
Sam Fujisaki
Delavan Avenue
Robert Clawson
West Sixteenth Street
O’laughlin
Dorsey Fleming
Robert Chapman
J. M Pickrell
Kensington Avennue
White House
FEAR
Maj
T. H. Stryker
Dade
Jaccard
Qaccards Jewelers
ARROW
The
Sussex
Jack Henry
Men's Apparel Forum, Ltd
Sterling
Sterling Porringer
Fed
Eee
Wonder
Haiti
Bakker'e
Walnut
Main
Kans
C. O
Mars Furniture
Broadway
Federal van and Storate CO
Allied van Lines
McGee
Expert Repair Service
Watch Repair Dept
Peck’s
Conte
Aoe
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