OPA Raises Prices on Building Materials and Household Goods
Washington OPA grants 1 to 3 percent retail increases on building materials and lifts six percent for toilet tissue and paper towels to cover rising costs. Eye glass lens ceilings rise 22 percent but likely little effect on prices. New law aims to restore dealers’ profit margins to March 31 levels. affected items include roofing products, cement, bricks, pipe, asbestos shingles, and metal lath.
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Washington
OPA
Congress
Worrow
East Central
South Central
California
New Jersey
Ohijo-Michigan
Burglar Burger Busy Still Take Inventory
Lincoln and Marathon counties deputies and police seek to inventory loot recovered from Edward Burger of Wausau after his guilty plea for breaking and entering. His car near Engelman had rifles, dynamite fuses, clocks and more. storage trunks held albums, cameras, stamps, cash and other items.
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Merrill
Wis
Lincoln
Marathon
Edward Burger
Wausau
Burger
William Home
Tomahawk
Man
Lincoln County
Frank Richey
Engieman
Richey
Everett Gleason
Rum Producer in Barbados Exceeds 1.3 Million Gallons
Barbados based rum producer in the British West Indies reported production above 1,300,000 gallons in the last year. The figure highlights the firm’s scale and regional output for the period.
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Barbados
British West Indies
Yugoslav Air Encounter Ends With Warned Release
An American crew and two Hungarian doctors survived a skirmish over Yugoslav territory near Ljubljana. Yugoslav fighters dived on their plane at 14,000 feet causing bullet damage. the Turkish captain was wounded. The crew crash landed in a cornfield northwest of Ljubljana without further injuries. They were later moved to U S forces near Gorizia for meals and processing after a 37 mile truck ride from Ljubljana and described safe treatment during internment. The Turkish captain remained hospitalized in Ljubljana.
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Ljubljana
Udine
UNRRA
Crombie
U. S. 88Th Division
Morgan Line
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Gorizia
United States
Wooden Leg Under Auctioneer's Hammer
Fred Spahn of Sutton Nebraska, an auctioneer since 1916, sold a wooden leg at a sale of unclaimed stolen goods at the Omaha police station. He earned $1.25 for the leg, remarking it was the first time in 30 years on the auction block he had sold a wooden leg.
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Omaha, Neb
Fred Spahn
Sutton
Neb
Omaha
Spahn
Farmer Uses Dingoes To Guard His Chickens
In Tamworth New South Wales a poultry farmer trains five dingoes to protect his flock. He raised the dogs from pups and uses them to round up chickens and deter thieves, challenging the belief wild dingoes cannot be domesticated.
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Farmer
Sydney
Australia
Tamworth
New South Wales
Birthday Acknowledgment Noted for Local Residents
A birthday note references William 8 and mentions residents and addresses including Boma 312 Losey Boulevard South Pred Wienke 529 Winnebago Street Mrs. Rudolph Olson Sparta Wis.
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William 8
Boma
Losey Boulevard
Pred Wienke
Winnebago Street
Rudolph Olson
Sparta
Wis
Poles Accuse Britain of Interference in Poland
A Polish embassy spokesman accuses Britain of interference as London demands assurances of free general elections. Britain withholds a 16 million dollar Polish gold return until those assurances are met, while the United States also protests Poland’s June 30 election irregularities under the Yalta pledge.
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London
Britain
Poland
Warsaw
Foreign Office
Potsdam
Ritish
United States
Russia
A C Case Strikes Are Major Problems
Edgar L. Warren director of the labor department conciliations says the Allis Chalmers Milwaukee and J I Case Racine strikes are the nation’s two major long running issues. He reports no new developments but warns a second wave could emerge without effective controls.
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Milwaukee
Edgar L. Warren
Conciliation Service
Department of Labor
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
J. I. Case Company
Racine
Warren
Warm Weather Forecast For La Crosse Area This Week
Weather predictions show a gradual temperature rise in La Crosse and vicinity with highs near 80 on Friday and 82 to 84 Saturday. A.D. Sanial of the U S Weather Bureau says warming likely through Monday. Scattered showers may arrive Saturday night, with some indication of showers Monday.
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la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ricksha Strike Shuts Shanghai Streets in Protest
Sixty thousand ricksha pullers in Shanghai protested high rents charged by ricksha owners causing major disruption in the city.
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Shanghai
China
Meat Packers Serve Notice on Major Firms
Ralph Helstein of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers says 30 day strike notices have been filed against Swift Armor Wilson and Cudahy. He hopes to avoid a strike through new rounds of negotiations with all four firms and notes a previous government seized plants end. Unions seek $1 minimum wage for common labor, wage parity, guaranteed annual work week, vacation benefits, and a welfare fund.
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Chicago
Ralph Helstein
CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America
Swift, Armor, Wilson and Cudahy Packing
Helstein
CIO
AFL
Confederated Union of America
National Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers
CUA
Coal to oil industry growth eyed in South Africa
CAPETOWN The prospect of South Africa leading world oil from coal was raised by S G Menell managing director of Anglo Transvaal Consolidated Investment Co Ermelo in the Transvaal hosts the only successful oil from shale plant in the world. He said producers aim for longer term industrial development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capetown
South Africa
S. G. Menell
Anglo-Transvaal Consolidated Investment Co
Ermelo
Transvaal
Food price rise in 17 cities exceeds August 1939 levels
A July report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows food prices in 17 cities, Milwaukee among them, up 80 percent over August 1939. Houston records the smallest gain at 64 percent while Memphis tops at 94.6 percent. Overall retail prices rose 5.8 percent from mid June to mid July, with food prices up 13.8 percent—the largest monthly increase for food on record.
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Washington
Milwaukee
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Houston
Tex
Memphis
Tenn
Lightning Ignites Fire At Mrs Cramer’s Home In Jamestown
A thunderstorm struck Jamestown and caused a fire at Mildred Cramer’s residence. Lightning hit the house, setting insulation on the doorbell wiring aflame and igniting an aerial wire while the bell rang.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Mildred Cramer
Tito Defends Yugoslavia Against U S Air Demonstrations
Tito warned that foreign air incursions over Yugoslavia show his thesis in action. He cited whole squadrons flying over as proof of his stance, highlighted by a Ljubljana Flying Fortress sighting days after the first U S craft was shot down. Patterson declined to report on the meeting.
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Tito
Yugoslavia
Ljubljana
U. S
Patterson
Solomon's Justice Modernized Miss St. Albans tie decided
Judges in St. Albans Vermont counted votes in a bathing beauty contest and announced a tie between Betty Fallon and Monica Bashaw. They then proclaimed Betty Fallon Miss St. Albans and Monica Bashaw Miss Franklin County in a briefly staged ceremony.
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ST. Albans
Betty Fallon
Monica Bashaw
Franklin County
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Ef Tribune
Galbraith
Topr
Tess
NEA Service, Inc
T. Morro
Cenol Company
Lth
Petti
Tribune
Barron
Bern Wee Ass
Une
Happy
Ricksha
Hoeschiers
Main Street
Solomon’s Justice Modernized
Firestone
Complete Optical Service
C. H. van DE Steeg
Optometry
M. R. Kemski
la Crosse, Wis
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
Jewel Tea
Jewel Tea CO
Riversides
America
Montgomery Ul
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