Factory Workers See Record Weekly Wages Rise
June 15 factory workers averaged $52.81 per week, a $1.05 rise from May 15 and a new peak after a third round of pay boosts. Building trades averaged $2.10 hourly, with bricklayers at $2.67, and New York reporting $3.20. FTC widens antitrust probe, urging closing of a Clayton Act loophole allowing asset purchases without stock buys.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Truman
Congress
New York
Federal Trade Commission
County Polio Toll 16 This Month
Sixteen deaths from infantile paralysis in Los Angeles County this month were reported by health authorities. Over the weekend three fatalities occurred and 20 new cases were added, bringing July’s total to 231 cases.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Stevenson and Johnson Face Texas Senate Runoff
In Texas both Coke Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson advance to a runoff after a high turnout. Stevenson, former Texas governor, campaigned quietly while Johnson, a U S Representative from the 10th District, used a helicopter and a bandwagon push. George Peddy placed third and urged independent voters to choose. The second primary is set for August 28.
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Lyndon Johnson
U. S. Senate
W. Lee O'Daniel
Beauford Jester
Associated Press
Dallas
Coke Stevenson
Stevenson
Johnson
George Peddy
Houston
Peddy
Roger Q. Evans
W. Lee O’daniel
Washington
Congress
Mrs Patterson Rites Tomorrow
Private funeral services will be held for Mrs Eleanor Medill Patterson owner editor and publisher of the Washington Times Herald at her Maryland country home she died of a heart seizure at 63 Her family ties include Robert Wilson Patterson editor of the Chicago Tribune Joseph Medill Patterson founder of the New York Daily News and Col Robert R McCormick cousin and Tribune editor pastor Rev Dr Dudley Stark will conduct services at the Dupont Circle mansion in Chicago
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Eleanor Medill Patterson
Washington Times-Herald
Graceland Cemetery
Chicago
Patterson
Maryland
Robert Wilson Patterson
The
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Medill
Capt
Joseph Medill Patterson
New York Daily News
Robert R. McCormick
Dudley E. Stark
St. Chrysostom’s Church
Preacher Faces Adultery Charge in Recorder Court
In Atlanta on July 26 a 45 year old Baptist preacher Rev D A Martin of Greenville South Carolina and Lois Chandler 27 faced a preliminary hearing on adultery charges. Detectives said they admitted being the parents of a baby left on a brother in law's doorstep in March 1947 and that Martin had a wife and two minor children in Greenville.
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Recorder’s Court
D. A. Martin
Greenville
S. C
Lois Chandler
City
M. W. Blackwell
Roy Pendley
Miss Chandler
Martin
Two Red-orbit Nations Use ERP
Washington reports a slump in Marshall plan purchases but assigns new ERP funds to Finland and Czechoslovakia, marking first Soviet sphere participation. Officials cite slow July-September allocations as cause and note total weekly authorizations around 100 million dollars with Belgium leading recipients among several nations.
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Finland
Czechoslovakia
Economic Co-operation Administration
Belgium
Sweden
Britain
Uruguay
Brazil
Mexico
Switzerland
Greek Premier Quits Then Reverses Resignation
Themistokles Sophoulis offered his resignation after dissension with nine Liberal deputies over wheat prices. The 87 year old premier withdrew the move after King Paul urged him to reconsider, according to a spokesman.
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Liberal Party
Themistokles Sophoulis
Sophoulis
Paul
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