OPA Chief Denies Meat Famine Forecast and News on Sugar
OPA Chief Paul Porter reassures housewives there will be no meat famine this fall and winter and that ceiling prices will be enforced. Government experts estimate sugar price increases will raise food budgets by 160 to 200 million dollars in the coming year, about two cents a pound. Porter cites meat plant slowdowns as a result of past price surges and predicts supplies will improve after six to eight weeks while pledging strong action against black markets. He notes agents will monitor counters in butcher shops.
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Washington
OPA
Paul Porter
Porter
AFL
John R. Steelman
Wage Stabilization Board
U. S. Maritime Commission
Siu-Sup
CIO National Maritime Union
CIO Marine
Joseph Curran
NMU
CIO
Committee For Maritime Unity
Mine Owners Split on Terms
Washington reports the government faces prolonging control of seized soft coal mines as owners split over terms for returning operation to United Mine Workers guidance. The southern group led by Edward R Burke rejects five cent royalty, a federal safety code, and a unionizing pattern for supervisors.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
AFL
John L. Lewis
UMW
Interior
J. A. Krug
Ben Moreell
Lewis
Morcell
Edward R Burke
Four Men Hijack $28,000 Fur Shipment on Highway 40
Four men armed with 45 caliber automatics hijacked a truckload of furs valued at about $2,000 on U S Highway 40 thirty miles east of Kansas City.
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Kansas City
U.P
U. S. Highway 40
Highway Move Brings Down House In Bend Oregon
A two story house being moved along the Dallas California highway toppled from a trailer and broke apart near Bend. The block halted traffic for hours as the structure collapsed to pieces during the transport.
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Bend
Ore
Pacific Northwest
California
Kenosha News Donates Historic Files to Libraries and Society
The Kenosha News Publishing Company donates century-old newspaper files to the Simmons Memorial Library and the Kenosha Historical Society. Complete files of the Kenosha Evening News since 1894 and the Telegraph Courier weekly are included, with access arranged for public perusal and research use. The papers reserve rights for research copies and plan to microfilm future preservation.
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Kenosha
Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library
Historical Society
Simmons Memorial Library
Kenosha Evening News
Kenosha Historical Society
Extra Workers Are Needed as Harvest Nears
Kenosha county farms enter closing weeks of production with rising need for pickers. Edward R. Jorgensen cites a demand for about 40 men from the Wisconsin labor pool, with Jamaican and Mexican workers promised. Oriole Springs Orchard and Thompson Marken Orchard specify 20 and 15 pickers respectively to harvest bumper but small apples, while tomato work for Campbell Soup and other operators also requires outside labor.
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Kenosha County
Edward R. Jorgensen
Wisconsin
Jorgensen
E. V. Ryall
Oriole Springs
A. C. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Thompson and Marken
Somers
Campbell Soup Company
Wallace Speech Triggers GOP Attack On Truman Policy
Republicans accused President Truman of courting political gain by backing Wallace for softer policy toward Russia. The split in the administration over foreign policy widened as Will Clayton said the Wallace stance was not cleared by the State Department. London officials and press criticized Wallace, while Taft Brewster and others accused Truman of undermining Byrnes and betraying the secretary of state.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
Byrnes
Commerce Wallace
G.O.P
Wallace
New York
State Department
Will S. Clayton
Department
London
Great Britain
Brewster
Taft
Ohio
Young
Ind
Clarence Brown
Commerce
Maine
Henry Wallace
Brown
PAC
Political Action Committee
England
White House
Changes In Vet Training And School Programs
Gail D. Hansis announces changes under Public Law 346 affecting GI Bill schooling and on the job training for Wisconsin veterans. The VA and Wisconsin State Industrial Commission will review about 5,000 job training programs serving roughly 11,000 veterans to ensure conformance, with a two year maximum unless apprenticeship standards and industrial approval apply. Training must provide actual progressive skills leading to an occupation.
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Kenosha
Gail D. Hansis
Schwartz Building
Hansis
Veterans Administration
Wisconsin State Industrial Commission
The
Industrial Commission
Harry A. Nelson
Evicted Milwaukee Family Finds Jury Room Home
In Milwaukee Civil Court, Judge Robert Cannon orders the Johnson family to use the jury room as temporary housing after eviction from a $38 monthly apartment. The judge directs no rent and seeks permanent housing by Monday with help from local residents offering meals, taxi service, and diaper deliveries for the 10-member family led by Lucille Johnson.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Lucille Johnson
OPA
Cannon
Johnson
Navy
Johnsons
Harry Small
Little Dickey
Wisconsin Chief Justice orders action to block McCarthy run
Madison Wisconsin Chief Justice Marvin Rosenberry ordered Fred Zimmerrnan and the state board of canvassers to show cause why Appleton resident Fred Wettengel should not be allowed to file in the state supreme court to bar Circuit Judge Joseph McCarthy from running for United States senator. Argument set for Sept 20. Stearns argues votes for a judge running for any office are void under the Wisconsin constitution, applying to federal or congressional office as well as state office.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Marvin Rosenberry
Fred Zimmerman
State Board of Canvassers
Fred Wettengel
Appleton
State Supreme Court
Joseph McCarthy
United States
Rosenberry
Six Killed as Hindu Moslem Rioting Reopens in Bombay
Six persons were killed and 37 injured today in renewed Hindu Moslem rioting that has wracked the city for the past week. The unrest erupted in Bombay with clashes spreading through the day. Police and local authorities imposed curfews as investigations began.
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Bombay
U.P
CIO Seamen and AFL Picket Lines Clash in Shipping Strike
CIO seamen faced off against AFL sailors in a nationwide shipping strike with limited disturbances. About 30 International Longshoremen’s Association members walked a New York pier, while 200 Longshoremen refused to work despite calls to cross. AFL ended its strike after wage gains were secured. NMU sought parity with AFL but kept picketing.
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CIO
AFL
International Longshoremen’s Association
National Maritime Union
New York City
ILA
Joseph P. Ryan
Ryan
NMU
Joseph Curran
Baltimore
William Rentz
AFL Seafarers International Union
AFL Sailors of the Pacific
Maryland
Paul Hall
New York
Siu-Sup
East Coast
Gulf Coast
West Coast
Fire Destroys Arkansas Hotel in Hot Springs
A fire at the Great Northern in Hot Springs Ark gutted the 75 room hotel with about 100 guests. at least one man died, and a legless Spanish American War veteran was reported missing. More than 20 people were hospitalized as firefighters battled the blaze and attempted to reach potential victims.
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Hot Springs
Ark
U.P
Great Northern
City
Army-Navy
Vandenberg Pledges Back Byrnes Policy at Pact Talks
Paris reports Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg pledged full cooperation with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and criticized President Truman s endorsement of Henry A Wallace. Observers say the Byrnes Molotov clash deepens as the American delegation tabs the Wallace speech and weighs its impact on the peace conference strategy.
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Paris
U.P
Arthur H. Vandenberg
James F. Byrnes
Henry A. Wallaces
Vandenberg
Byrnes
Truman
Tom Connally
Tex
Russia
Army escapes charge: Be thune held on raid at Camp Gordon
Charles Bethune, 25, of Waukesha, was arrested in a local tavern by FBI agents for allegedly escaping from the U S disciplinary barracks at Camp Gordon Georgia on September 1. He was taken into custody yesterday.
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Guam
Cmdr
Ichiro Shinoda
U. S
Chichi Jima
Kunzio Mori
Milwaukee
A.P
Charles Bethune
Waukesha
Camp Gordon
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jilted Englishman Ends Lonesome Milwaukee Honeymoon Plan
Nor Iman Thorp of Nottingham England arrived in Milwaukee after delays to claim his bride Miss Wellstein an ensign in the nursing corps whom he met in New York last October. She now says the engagement is off and Thorp faces a long, disappointed journey home.
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Milwaukee
Wis
U.P
Iman Thorp
Throp
Nottingham
England
Wellstein
New York
South Africa
United States
Montreal
Viola
Miss Wellstein
Thousands in Hunt for Gold Near Crescent City
In Crescent City California thousands flock to the Myrtle Creek area northeast of town chasing a reported rich strike by Tom Cronin. Assayer Ernest Hay cites Cronin’s ore samples at 50 to 75 dollars per ton with about 20 000 acres of copper pyrites in the region. Over 500 prospectors have filed claim applications and more than 300 are located near the strike.
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Crescent City
Calif
Sutter's Fort
Myrtle Creek
Here
Tom Cronin
Cronin
Ernest Hay
del Morte
Hay
County Recorder’s Office
Madison Youth Killed When Auto Leaves Road
Arnold M. Dorn aged 17 of Madison died when the car carrying five companions skidded off a Dane county road in Blooming Grove and overturned. None of the other youths were injured.
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Madison
Wis
WAP
Arnold M. Dorn
Dane County
Blooming Grove
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N. J
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Cleveland
Moreell
U.S
GOP
Benjamin Franklin Rayburn
FBI
Dillinger
Buffalo
N. Y
Louisville, Ky
McCarthy
Stearns
Associated Press
Protestant Episcopal Church
Randolph Dyer
St. Louis
House of Deputies
Philadelphia
Arkansas Hotel
Army
Great Northern Hotel
Rock Island
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Wain
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