Reserve Board Sees Strikes Cutting Output
The Federal Reserve Board forecast October industrial production would drop to the lowest level since the war, about 72 percent above prewar. President Truman avoided invoking Taft Hartley, while labor mediator Cyrus Ching pressed for a steel and coal settlement with U S Steel officials in New York as talks showed cautious progress.
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Bulletin
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Board
Truman
United
Cyrus Ching
U.S. Steel
New York
William Margolis
Margolis Biateraent
L.bethlehem Steel Corp
Eugene G.grace
Miners Pension Trustees Accused of Misuse
Ezra Van Horn, employer trustee for the coal miners pension fund, says John J. Lewis and Ser Bridges dissipated welfare money. He accuses fellow trustees of blocking information as Livengood seeks an accounting in federal court.
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Washington
Ezra van Horn
Coal Miners’ Pension Fund
John. J. Lewis
Ser Bridges
R-N. IL
Lewis
United Mines Workers
Bridges
van Horn
Tmerbers
George Livengood
Pennsylvania
U. S. District Court
Lewis and Bridges
Lewis and Bridges Are Mainly Yable
Livengood
Rep J Parnell Thomas Must Stand Trial
Federal Judge Boltzol orders Rep J Parnell Thomas to stand trial November 7 on charges of defrauding the government. Trial postponed earlier due to Thomas illness after reports from two private physicians. Thomas, former House Un-American Activities Committee chair, alleged to have taken kickbacks and misused funds.
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Washington
Alexander Boltzol
Rep
J. Parnell Thomas
R-N. J
Holtzoff
Thomas
House
Four Americans killed in London to Seal Beach air crash
A twin engine Amphibian plane crashed on takeoff from London airport killing four Americans including two Superior Oil Co officials. Survivor Earl Oscar Sivage, a coil pilot from Seal Beach, described escaping the burning craft as flames climbed the runway. The plane served a shuttle between London and the Near East and belonged to Superior Oil Co headquartered in Los Angeles.
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Oscar Sivage
Los Angeles
London
Andrew Cole
Seal Beach
Superior Oil Co
Sivage
Superior Oi Co
Robert Allen
Superior
James Lewis
Joseph Jordan
San Fernando
Calif
Earl Oscar Sivage
West Middlesex Hospital
O. K
Near East
The
Oil Company
James
Killng Cole
Cole
O. E. Cole
Long Beach
Young Cole
Air Transport Command
Cairo
Egypt
Seal Way
Truman Calls Off Cabinet Meeting
President Truman canceled Friday's cabinet meeting because Vice President Barkley and four cabinet members are out of the city.
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Truman
Washington
Barkley
Mother Traces Missing Son Faces Him Then Dies
MAPETOWN South Africa Oct 23 a mother Mrs R Levi Aden traced her missing Royal Navy seaman son around the world then collapsed and died upon facing him in a shocking twist. Her husband reported rites were said at her grave after she learned his ship had been torpedoed with all hands lost.
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Mapetown
South Africa
Seilor
R. Levi
Aden
Royal Navy
Mediterranean
Britain
United States
Australia
Enlisted Men Rally Behind Denfeld Amid Navy Crisis
Navy protests surge as Adm. Louis Denfeld faces ouster amid defense policy clashes. Secretary Johnson denies reprisal claims in a letter to Rep. Bates. A crowd of 250 sailors gathered at Denfeld’s office expressing support, while Congress debates legality and presidential actions.
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Frisco
Adm
Louis Denfeld
Naval Operations
Truman
Washington, D. C
Washington
Louis Johnson
Navy
Denfeld
Johnson
Rep
Bates
R-Mass
Congress
Congressional
Armed Services
House Armed Services Committee
Army
Air Force
Capitol
Rep. Arends
R.D
Arends
Armed Services Unification Law
Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Secretary of Defense
Department of Defense
Pentagon
Fice
Matthews
Vinson
D.-Ga
House Armed Services
Andipaittee
Observa
Tory
Capetown
Shalom
Upturn in Cost of Living in September
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.5 percent rise in consumer prices in September, the largest monthly increase in a year. All major items except clothing rose, with food and fuel leading gains. rents and housing costs also climbed while apparel declined slightly. Prices remain 3 percent below last year’s peak but 72 percent above August 1939 levels.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Fire Prevention Literature Lost in Wetaskiwin Fire
The Board of Trade apologizes as fire destroys prepared fire prevention week literature in Wetaskiwin Alberta on October 28. The loss includes materials meant for public safety outreach and awareness.
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Wetaskiwin, Alta
Mey
Board of Trade
Temblor Reported by Berkeley Graph Seismographs
A moderately strong earthquake was recorded on Berkeley Graph Temblor and at Ferndale at 6 30 p m yesterday and slightly rocked Eureka but caused no damage according to officials in Berkeley and Ferndale.
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Berkeley
Ferndale
Eureka
Hog Prices Drop Under 18 Per Hundred Pounds
Hog prices fell below 18.00 per hundred pounds in Chicago on October 28 1946 for the first time since OPA ceilings were removed October 15 1946. The top price was 17.75 as prices slid 2.6 to 4.0 cents per pound. The drop follows expectations from a large spring pig crop moving to market.
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Chicago
Prize Fighter Cerdan One of Passengers
Paris dispatch reports Air France flight from Paris to New York crashed into Algarvia Peak in the Azores. All 48 aboard perished including Marcel Cerdan the boxer. Passengers included violinist Ginette Neveu and Kay Kamen. Cerdan was bound for a title bout with Jake La Motta set for December 2 in Madison Square Garden.
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Paris
Azores
Air France
Marcel
Ponta Delgada
Seo Milguel Island
Santa Maria
Ginette Neveu
le Canada
Jo Hernandoreng
Kay Kamen
Kay Kamen, Ltd
Walt Disney
Madison: Square Garden
Jake Le‘Motta
Detroit
Jo Longman
Paul Genser
Morocco
Cerda
France
la Motta
Ingay
Orly Field
Casablanca
Miss ‘Neveu
United States
Edinburgh
Scotland
Miss.Neveu
America
Europe
Australia
Philip Sales
Newark
New York
John Abbott
Butte
Mont
Raoul Silbernage
Bronix
N.Y
Edward Supine
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edward Gehring
Manhasset
Hhe
Mattd Ryan
Atlantic City
Emery Komlos
Trene Sivanitch
Air. France
Dread Polio Fails to Keep Stork Away
A baby boy born at Long Beach Naval Hospital to Mrs Ruth Sloan and the late Sgt Delbert L Sloan arrives amid polio deaths in the family. The infant weighs unknown pounds and ounces, delivery was normal, and Mrs Sloan recovers. The Sloan family faces polio impact for three children under care of a relative at 138th Street.
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Long Beach Naval Hospital
Ruth Sloan
Rancho Los Amigos
Naval Hospital
Delbert L Sloan
Corona
Sioan
Tolst Military Police Batalllon
Fort Ma Uor
Polic
Sloan
Patricia Maces
Linda
Prandm
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Forrest
T.shermen
Jhaval
Associated Press
Reserve Board
Geconta
Lewis, Bridges
Sec
Marcel Cerdan
Formar
Ginette Neveulef
Jean Paul Neveu
Kate
Walt Bisney
Elton C. Fay
Cerdan
Stork
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