Power Strike Injunction Dissolved in Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh Common Pleas Court judge dissolved an injunction against Duquesne Light Co. power workers at the city’s request. City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern said the measure had served its purpose by forcing negotiations and noted no public harm occurred. The move came as sympathy strikes by steel, electrical, streetcar, and bus workers disrupted the region’s life.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Duquesne Light Co
City of
Common Pleas Court
Walter P. Smart
Anne X. Alpern
Alpern
AFL
CID Steel and Electrical
Harold Smith
Amalgamated
Atom Showdown Vote on UN Report Darkens Atomic Controls
Scientists from the United Nations atomic energy commission prepared for a showdown vote on their report on atomic energy controls. Soviet Russia holds the key to a unanimous result as the ANB technical committee meets in secret at UN headquarters. The report, adopted after 18 meetings, awaits Soviet approval for formal adoption. The UN Security Council resumes work with a closed meeting ahead of the general assembly session starting October 23 in New York.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet Russia
ANB
Commission
United Nations
Russia
UN Security Council
General Assembly
New York City
Council
Manhattan
Irvine Sets 5:30 A.M. Start for B 29 Record Flight
Col C S Irvine commander of the distance record seeking B 29 Pa causan Dreamboat today tentatively fixed a 5 30 a m start time Honolulu time for his top of the world flight to Cairo Egypt with a 11 a m EST target.
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Honolulu
Col
C. S. Irvine
Pacausan
Cairo
Egypt
Bed Vanishes After Fire Truck Ride
Hammond Indiana story notes Mr and Mrs Clifford Sharp caretakers at Black Oak fire station iron bed placed on rear of a fire truck during housecleaning. The truck went on an alarm and returned without the bed. Sharp searched the route but the bed was not found.
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Hammond
Ind
Clifford Sharp
Black Oak
Sharps
Sharp
Two Shipyards Under Scrutiny In War Profits Probe
The House Merchant Marine committee focuses on Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards and St Johns River Shipbuilding in wartime profit inquiries. Witnesses argue profit comparisons overlook factors reducing net gains, with many firms showing profits of only a fraction of 1 percent of ship costs.
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Washington
U.P
House Merchant Marine Committee
Marvin Coles
Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Inc
St. Johns River Shipbuilding Corp
Bethlehem
Maritime Commission
St. Johns
Henry K. Kaiser
Kaiser Co., Inc
OPA Grants Increase In Cocoa Price Ceiling
OPA sources said the cocoa ceiling price would be boosted within a day or two. The increase aims to let importers compete in the world market and would be passed on to consumers.
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Washington
U.P
OPA
Kenosha July barometer shows rise in car loadings and payrolls
The Kenosha Chamber of Commerce barometer reports July gains with 1,532 car loadings received and 1,767 forwarded, a jump from 1945. Industrial payrolls reached 13,300 workers, weekly payroll at 647,300 dollars, and average hourly earnings at 1.28 dollars, with slight changes in utility meters and housing permits.
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Kenosha
Expect U S to Take Meat Action
Senator Burnet Maybank said he was advised there would be government action on the meat situation within 48 hours. He declined to name his source but called it official and telegraphed President Truman requesting immediate lifting of meat controls.
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Columbia
S. C
U.P
Burnet R. Maybank
Maybank
Truman
Meat Shortage Prompts Kenosha Restaurant Shutdown
Kenosha restaurant owners plan a 6 a.m. Friday meat shortage shutdown with all city eateries closing on October 3 unless the OPA meat price rollback is rescinded. State and regional associations pact to join—including Racine and Madison—citing losses under rollback. Local AFL union counters with strike threats and wage increase protests.
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Kenosha
Robert Carson
Kenosha Association
Elmer Conforti
State Association
Green Bay
Clintonville
Fond du Lac
Superior
Conforti
Racine
Madison
Wausau
AFL
Paul Porter
OPA
Porter
Gertrude Studee
Bertha Higgins
Sue Bern
Helen Walker
Pearl Langer
Barney Richter
Southeastern Wisconsin
Wisconsin Restaurant Association
Association
Galston Announces Opening Dates for Hunting Season
Conservation Warden Allan Galston set October 5 as the opening date for waterfowl and other game seasons. Duck hunting runs Oct 5 from 5:32 a.m. to 5:05 p.m., with daily limits including seven ducks and one wood duck. other birds have specified limits and dates through Nov 18 and Oct 5 for rails and gallinules.
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Allan Galston
Kenosha
Galston
Brant
Canada
Sea Runner Freighter Overdue. Blimp Searches Port
The Graceline freighter Sea Runner carrying 2,137 troops from Okinawa is 18 hours overdue in San Francisco. A blimp has been dispatched to locate the vessel as the Marine Exchange makes the announcement.
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San Francisco
Sea Runner
Okinawa
Marine Exchange
Surrender Sheds Light on Milwaukee Escape Convict
Donald Livingston 22 of Pittsburgh surrendered after two days on the run from the House of Correction in Milwaukee. He had beaten Lane Mayo 37 of Somers, and told Capt. Kraemer he planned to turn himself in at the Illinois-Wisconsin line. Livingston said he was on parole in Ohio and requested notice to Ohio authorities to settle the forgery sentence as well.
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Donald S. Livingston
Pittsburgh
Lane Mayo
Ralph Mayo
Somers
House of Correction
Milwaukee
Livingston
Adolph Kraemer
Mayo
Mil
Waukee
Kenosha
Kraemer
Illinois
Wis
Chicago
FBI
Ray Carlson
Nevada
Carlson
Ohio
Washington Witness Testifies Fire Bosses in Electronics Unit
Lt Gen Robert M Littlejohn War Assets administrator testified before a special House committee that he ordered widespread firings in the electronics section after irregularities were found in the surplus property disposal program. He said Brig Gen Mollison urged action and that he told him to remove anyone with a case. The committee cited the suspension of Walton H Bostwick as a central figure in the probe.
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Washington
Robert M. Littlejohn
War Assets Administrator
House
Littlejohn
J. A. Mollison
WAA
Walton H. Bostwick
Electronics
Woman Publisher Jeannette Leeds Dies in Indiana
Richmond Ind. Mrs Jeannette Gaard Leeds 84 vice president of Palladium Publishing and mother of Rudolph Leeds publisher of the Richmond Palladium Item died Wednesday in Richmond.
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Richmond
Ind
Jeannette Gaard Leeds
The
Palladium Publishing Corporation
Rudolph G. Leeds
Richmond Palladium Item
Vegetarian thief passes up 3 pound roast beef
Theo dore Schulz reports a burglar stole $20 from his Springfield home after raiding the icebox. The intruder, a vegetarian, took several dishes but left untouched a three-pound uncooked beef roast.
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Springfield
Ill
Theodore Schulz
Schulz
Vishinsky assails U S claims on Balkan costs at meeting
In a Balkan economic commission session Andrei Vishinsky accused the United States of statistical juggling to minimize Soviet reparations while glossing over American profits during WWII. He cited Willard Thorp and Romanian sources, and urged faster action by the Big Four to speed up peace conference machinery.
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Paris
U.P
Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Vishinsky
Balkan Economic Commission
Romania
Willard Thorp
Thorp
United Nations
Ferguson urges probe into housing delays before Senate panel
Sen. Ferguson of Michigan called on the Senate War Investigating Committee to pause other cases and focus on housing delays, labeling the administration housing program a fraud. He urged using the full staff to study the housing situation and strip red tape to speed living quarters. The panel opens two days of hearings on the wartime Canal oil project, surplus property from abroad, and the Inter-American highway.
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Washington
Ferguson
Mich
Senate War Investigating Committee
Central America
Michigan
Wilson Wyatt
Wyatt
Adm
Ernest J. King
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Canada
Secretary of the Navy
King
Joint Chiefs
Army Moves to Claim Quarter Of Meat Output
The Army issued priority papers seizing 25 percent of meat from federally inspected packers for the armed services and veterans hospitals as a political battle over continuing price controls on scarce foods intensifies. White House aides avoided discussing a 60 day meat suspension while McCormack pushes OPA relief and critics call the move politically motivated ahead of elections.
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Charles G. Ross
Liberty
House
McCormack
D.-Mass
Army
Armed Services
War Shipping Administration
Veterans Hospitals
Massachusetts
Paul Porter
OPA
Carroll Reece
Kilgore Named Head of Senate War Committee
Senator Kilgore of West Virginia was elected chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee after Senator Mead of New York resigned. Kilgore will assume the post on Oct. 1 as Mead exits to pursue the New York governorship bid.
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Kilgore
Senate War Committee
Washington
D.w.va
Senate War Investigating Committee
Mead
D.-N.y
New York
Frog Found Alive After 2 Million Years Hidden in Rock
Geologist says a green frog unearthed seven feet underground in Artesia New Mexico survived in suspended animation for two million years in a caliche mineral bed. The frog and a lizard were found when workers dug a cellar for a home site. The lizard died after the discovery and the frog soon perished.
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Artesia
N. M
U.P
Charles Ashton
John A. Matthis, Jr
Train wreck near Victorville leaves seven dead and many injured
The Union Pacific Transcon suffered a wreck on a mountain curve near Victorville California with seven killed and over 70 hurt. Five bodies were recovered from wreckage and two remained inside cars as rescuers removed injured by flatcars and airlifted the critically injured to Los Angeles hospitals. The engine tender and first four cars derailed and a baggage car splintered across the rails.
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Victorville
Cal
Union Pacific
Transcon
R. E. Williams
Williams
Victorville Army Air Base
Auto
Los Angeles
Marty Jewett
Victorville News-Herald
Normandy junk worth twenty million becomes sale bid
The Normandy once a $60,000,000 pride of the French Merchant Marine is valued at $161,680 as hull and machinery salvage. Lipsett Inc New York offered the Maritime Commission the top bid for the former luxury liner.
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Washington
Normandie
Lipsett Inc
New York
Maritime Commission
Coors
Lipsett
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White House
Reece
Long House
Ashton
Caliche
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