Railroads Seek 8 Percent Freight Rate Increase
Railroads want an eight percent rise in most freight rates, their sixth since World War II ended. If approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the move would lift annual freight costs by hundreds of millions, though no official carrier estimate is given. W. H. Dana, chair of the Western Traffic Executive Committee, says current rates fail to meet carrier needs. Wage negotiations with unions are ongoing, with a strike vote underway among non-operating workers and mediation steps in place.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
W. H. Dana
Western Traffic Executive Committee
Railroad Brotherhoods
Ing
National Railway Mediation Board
Dana
Sec Marshall and Bevin Discuss Berlin Crisis
In Paris on September 24 1950 U S Secretary of State Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Bevin held a one hour talk focusing on the Berlin crisis. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman did not attend an aide said Bevin would meet Paul Ramadier soon and British sources said the Ramadier meeting would cover differences and rearmament plans.
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Paris
U. S
Marshall
Bevin
Berlin
Robert Schuman
France
Paul Ramadier
Bevin- Ramadier
Ramadier
Britain
Composer Moved Out Wife Granted Divorce
In Los Angeles on September 24, Florence Baker known as radio actress and former wife of composer Lyn Murray testified in court that he never beat her. She said he did not want marriage or responsibilities and moved out taking his own tent. She obtained a divorce and custody of their two small children.
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Los Angeles
Lyn Murray
Florence Baker
U S and British Fleets Begin Wide Naval Tests
U S and British fleets launch extensive test operations. Britain's home fleet sails for the West Indies for a major exercise as American Task Force 38 heads to Japan and China on a routine cruise. In the Mediterranean, the 18 ship US force led by carrier Franklin D Roosevelt begins test operations under Adm. Conolly after two weeks in London.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Atlantic
First Lord of
the Admiralty
Viscount Hall
West Indies
English Channel
United States Navy
San Diego
Japan
China
Princeton
Tarawa
Yokosuka
Tsingtao
Asiatic
Mediterranean
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard L. Conolly
United States Naval Forces
Europe
London
Navy Command
Ants Get Rent Free Homes at Bronx Zoo in Trinidad Move
New York reports a Bronx Zoo exhibit opens a housing complex for several thousand Atta Cephalota ants from Trinidad. The parasol type ants use flower petal parasols and navigate a two way ant run between nest and garden, while a symmetry traffic circle remains mostly unused. Brayton Eddy notes ants swarm runways and ignore the circle, quipping there is little future for an ant.
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New York
Bronx Zoo
Trinidad
Brayton Eddy
Eddy
Thurmond Forecasts Dewey Loss in the South
Gov J Strom Thurmond and running mate Fielding Wright spoke to about 3000 in Augusta Georgia arguing that if states rights Democrats had not run, Dewey would have carried southern states but with their candidacy Dewey will not win any southern state.
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Augusta
Thomas E. Dewey
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Thurmond
Augusta Municipal
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Dewey
House Spy Investigator accuses Hoover gag order on espionage
House un American Activities Committee member Rep. Richard Nixon charges that the administration gagged FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover on espionage to avoid political fallout. The panel weighs possible indictments against three Americans connected to atomic secrets and the Arthur Adams ring.
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Lippie
U.P
House
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
R.-Calif
House un-American Activities Committee
Administration
Hoover
Tom CC
Clark
Nixon
Homer Ferguson
John McDowell
R.-Pa
Israel posts 20000 reward for Bernadotte assassins
Israel announces a 20000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Bernadotte’s killers. Prime Minister Ben Gurion says Stern gang bases and 246 members have been seized, with 184 arrested in Jerusalem. The government comments on Bernadotte’s UN report and Jerusalem’s status.
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Aviv
Israel
Folke Bernadotte
David Bengurion
Legislative Assembly
Stern Gang
Jerusalem
United Nations Palestine
Bernadotte
U. N
Haifa
Russia Korea policy picked to pieces headline
Prime Minister Lee Bum Suk said the withdrawal plan for Russian troops in North Korea aims to agitate for removing American forces from South Korea. The Soviet controlled Pyongyang radio touts the withdrawal plan daily amid war propanda.
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Seoul
Lee Bum Suk
North Korea
South Korea
Suk
Pyongyang
Secretary of Navy Raps 80th Congress
Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan says the 80th Congress has a record so bad that Republican leaders will avoid debating it. He told an audience of the Affiliated Young Democrats in New York that historians may search long to find a two year period with less aid to domestic problems.
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New York
John L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Young Democrats, Inc
New York City
American Congress
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Texas
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Norman Robert Kolreg
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Baby Kolreg
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