Hollywood studio unions begin strike with widespread picketing
Thousands of CSU pickets surround Warner Brothers and MGM as Herb Sorrell leads a strike against the film industry after a 6 p.m. deadline. Pickets at MGM clash with police and deputies guard the gates while others pass through lines at several studios. Sorrell threatens further action against Paramount Universal Columbia 20th Century Fox and RKO.
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Hollywood
INS
Herb Sorrell
CSU
Warner Brothers Studio
MGM
Warners
Sorrell
Paramount
Warner Brothers
RKO
20Th Century-Fox
Columbia
Universal
Panoramic Pa Newc notes local beauty and oddities
Walter Dewberry’s garden on North Lee avenue is praised for its Zenias and marigolds. Rabbits have become scarce there, though reasons remain unclear. A East Side incident reports grandchildren finding a bird with a lit cigarette in its bill. it was smoothed out with a damp cloth. No Turn signs at Mill and East Washington now enforced. City projects resume after material shortages. Postmaster Jton Hanna shows off a two pound two and a half ounce garden tomato from East Bronok irrigation beds.
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Pa Newc
East Side
Mill and
East Washington Streets
Jton R. Hanna
East Bronok
Post Office
Daily Weather Report Summary for United States
Weather data shows a 24 hour period ending at 1 am with a maximum of 75 and minimum of 42 degrees. River stage at 48 feet. Year earlier figures list a higher minimum of 62 and maximum of 90 inches of precipitation.
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United States
Meat Famine Crisis Action Is Demanded
Washington observers report restaurant leaders pressed for removal of meat price controls. They will send a petition to OPA and, if rejected, appeal to the price decontrol board. The Army issued priority orders for 60 million pounds of meat as the crisis deepens.
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Army
MacArthur Says USSR to Negotiate Japanese Repatriation
General MacArthur announced Moscow authorized Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko to start immediate talks on repatriating about two million Japanese from Soviet zones in Asia. Russia aims to begin in October with 17,000 to 25,000 monthly from Siberia and Sakhalin, plus unspecified numbers from Korea and Manchuria. American plans, by contrast, move as many as 12,000 home daily.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Moscow
Kuzma Derevyanko
Asia
North Korea
Manchuria
Siberia
Sakhalian Island
Kurile Islands
Derevyanko
Allied Control Council
Sakhalin
Civil War Outbreaks Reported in Greece Amid Frontline Fighting
Reports from Greece describe intensified organized civil conflict with encirclement campaigns around Salonika in Macedonia. Correspondents note ceaseless fighting on frontiers as Premier Tsaldaris blames foreign influences and arms supplied from Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria. King George II departs London after plebiscite.
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London
INS
Greece
Salonika
Macedonia
Reuter
London Daily Telegraph
Constantin Tsaldaris
George II
Veteran Reporter Among Victims In Plane Crash
Royal Arch Gunnison, veteran news and radio reporter and North American Newspaper Alliance representative, was among 19 killed when an RAF Dakota transport crashed during takeoff at Hong Kong airport. Gunnison was en route to Singapore. his wife was in Boston area receiving word from the British air ministry.
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New York
INS
Mutual Broadcasting System
Royal Arch Gunnison
Hong Kong
Gunnison
Alliance
Singapore
British Air Ministry
London
Boston
Nation Pleads for Washington Action on Meat Crisis
Consumers nationwide demand federal intervention as meat shortages persist. The meat industry seeks end of OPA controls while cooks, miners, and hospital officials push for relief. In New York horse meat markets reopen and Portland officials call the situation very lousy. Restaurant groups urge price-control removal and a decontrol board review. Chicago housewives poll shows 65 to 1 favor ending OPA controls.
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Washington
OPA
New York
Portland
Ore
Restaurant Advisory Committee
Midwest
Chicago
Illinois
M A Pattison Given Honor at Union Township Dinner
About 130 people from Union Township PTA and Union high school staff gathered for a tureen dinner in honor of Milton A Pattison former principal. The event featured flowers decorations a toastmistress and performances by Gladys Grittie with Bob Rudesill on piano and remarks by Roy F Conway and John C Syling praising Pattison’s work.
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Union Township Pta
Union High School
Milton A. Pattison
PTA
Ed. Donley
David Curtis
J. Arthur Turek
Mr. Pattison
Gladys Grittie
Bob Rudesill
Roy F. Conway
John C. Syling
Pattison
Union Township
Union
Miss Elma Robinson
Seek to Avert New Maritime Strike Monday
The government seeks to avert a 25 000 member walkout of deck and engine room officers set for Monday. A Washington conference drew support from east gulf operators and CIO Marine Engineers, but west coast operators AFL masters and pilots declined. San Francisco proposed as a meeting ro ut point.
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New York
INS
Washington
Lewis Schwellenbach
CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
AFL
San Francisco
Death Record for Angeline Perrotta at 70
Public notice records the death of Angeline Perrotta aged 70 of 120 South Wayne Avenue, with reference to tinfart Endress R. D. 3. The date is Thursday September 26 1946.
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Tinfart Endress
R. D
Angeline Perrotta
South
Wayne Avenue
Senate Prohers Meet To Select New Chairman
The Senate Mead committee starts a two day program including a hearing with Admiral Ernest J. King over the Canal project and an election of a new chairman. Ferguson defends the probe while Truman calls the revival a dead horse in context of the 133 million dollar scheme.
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Washington
Senate
Mead Committee
Ernest J. King
Chief of
Naval Operations
Sen. Mead
N. Y
A Today
Truman
Canal
Mead
Sen
Ferguson
Mich
King
Navy
Greek Premier to Resign as King Arrives in Greece
Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris said he would resign once King George VI reaches Greece. He hinted at a UN Security Council complaint over external support to armed bands. a coalition cabinet was dismissed as impossible. The king is due this Saturday, and elections last March gave Tsaldaris a strong monarchist victory.
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Athens
INS
Constantin Tsaldaris
Salonika
George VI
Greece
UN Security Council
Tsaldaris
Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Albania
Two Feared Dead In Collapse At Toledo Brewery
In Toledo Ohio September 26 renewed rescue efforts were under way for two men believed crushed in the Buckeye Brewery boiler room collapse. Fred Muenzier 31 was pulled alive though seriously injured. Fred Britton 49 and George Dave 35 were identified among workers digging a ditch when a second floor fell and undermined a girder.
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Toledo
Buckeye
Fred Muenzier
Riverside Hospital
Fred Britton
George da Vie
Former WAC held in hotel murder case near Reno
Oc tober first preliminary hearing set for Mary Reape Drew 39 a former WAC charged with bayonet murder of ex sailor William Harry Appleton 24 found dead in a Washoe county hotel room. Police quote her saying she stabbed Appleton after years of being beaten. The couple checked in as Mr and Mrs H Drew Clifton New Jersey. A navy rifle was found at the scene noted as the death weapon.
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Reno
INS
Mary Reape Drew
WAC
Washoe County
William Harry Appleton
Miss Drew
Appleton
H Drew
Clifton, NJ
Shipbuilding Firm Profits Questioned by House Panel
The House Merchant Marine committee questioned St. John's River Shipbuilding Co over alleged profits exceeding two million dollars on capital listed at 600 by the maritime commission. The probe targets profits of 19 government yard operators as counsel announced a commission spokesman will testify tomorrow.
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Washington
House
Merchant Marine Committee
St. John's River Shipbuilding Co
Maritime Commission
Marvin Coles
Weiche
Ohio
Eight Russian Officials Arrested Over Farm Misappropriation
Eight provincial officials including Stavropol regional leaders were relieved of duty and arrested for misappropriating 15 000 rubles worth of collective farm food. The Kurbsky area in Jaroslavl province showed wider criminal practices, and Kubishev prosecutor was reprimanded for permitting such acts.
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Moscow
P. G. Kliuchnikov
Stavropol
V. G. Asanin
G. V. Salak
Regional Land Department
Kurbsky
Jaroslav
Kubishev
Lie Detector Test Planned
CHICAGO authorities planned a lie detector test for Arthur Wilson a 48 year old divorced husband of a Chicago school teacher injured when a home made bomb exploded under her car Wilson an oil field worker was taken into custody at Momence Illinois and brought to Chicago for questioning after Mrs Hertha Wilson 46 said she had received threatening letters from him The dynamite bomb exploded in her car yesterday after she drove from her apartment to class The blast threw the hood 75 feet shattered windows and shredded cushions The car surged forward half a block Marshal Pidgeon of the police bomb squad called the device powerful and probably home made and said it was wired to detonate when the brake pedal was pressed
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Chicago
INS
Arthur Wilson
Wilson
Momence
Hertha Wilson
Delegates Arrive for Pennsylvania NAACP Convention
Delegates from across Pennsylvania are to arrive Friday September 27 for the opening session of the State convention of the NAACP. The Second Baptist Church hosts sessions with Dr James A Gillespie of New Castle as general chairman and Dr Georgie Walker state president presiding. A dinner is planned Saturday night and the convention closes Sunday.
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Pennsylvania
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Second Baptist Church
James A. Gillespie
New Castle
Georgie Walker
U.S. Prepares For Tito Ouster Move In Yugoslavia
The State Department readies stern countermeasures if Marshal Tito's government demands removal of US information service personnel for treasonable conduct. Possible actions include ending publicity by the Yugoslav embassy in Washington and curbing pro Tito groups active since World War II.
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John A. Reichmann
Washington
State Department
Marshal Tito
United States Information Service
United States
United States Service
Yugoslavia
Transocean Press
Soviet demands full reparations from Romania
Paris dispatch reports Andrei Vishinsky, deputy foreign minister, demanding total war reparations from Romania and opposing U S offers of a partial settlement He cited American oil firms Astra Romana and Romani Americana profits in 1943 as aiding the German war effort and said the profits flowed while Russian blood flowed
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Paris
INS
Soviet Union
Romania
America
Andrei Vishinsky
Astra Romana
Romani-Americana
Russia
Vishinsky
Community Chest Chairman List Is Almost Completed
Howard B. Richards announces division heads for the 1946 Community Chest campaign opening October 14. Industrial division leaders are Howard B. Cummins and Austin A. Webb, banking group led by Joe S. McKee, residential workers headed by Mrs. Frank L. Burton, with several other specialty heads named including Grace Phillips Johnson, Joseph J. O'Brien, Speer Marousis, Nicholas Georgeadis, Norman Freeborne, Mrs. Charles H. Johnson Jr. and John R. Hodge among others. Dentists and charities positions remain unfilled, with charities slated to combine with another division.
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Community Chest
Howard B. Richards
Howard B. Cummins
Austin A. Webb
Joe S. McKee
Frank L. Burton
Grace Phillips Johnson
Joseph J. O’brien
Speer Marousis
Nicholas Georgeadis
Norman Freeborne
Charles H. Johnson, Jr
John R. Hodge
George F. Winter, Jr
W. G. Morgan
L. W. Dayton
W. Sharpe Faulierton
Charities
Kids Shanty Burned Near Butler Avenue
Fire crews from Fourth Ward and B trucks responded to a rear Butler Avenue shanty near Maryland Avenue at 8 45 p m Wednesday. The structure built by kids was almost completely destroyed but tamed by booster tanks from two engines. Fire Chief James E Thomas reports no injuries.
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Fourth Ward
Butler Avenue
Maryland Avenue
James E Thomas
Eisenhower on Atomic Bomb Not a Decisive Weapon
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower aboard the Queen Mary in the Atlantic said the atomic bomb cannot wipe out a nation with one blow. He added that the bomb's effect varies by country as each is a case in itself. He noted any weapon capable of destroying a country is not decisive, and reflected on Stalin's view that the bomb cannot decide a war's outcome.
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Atlantic
INS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Europe
Stalin
New Era Seen In Mail Service
Assistant Postmaster General announces a new era for U S mail with air delivery expanding nationwide. Officials plan five cent air mail rates October 1 and estimate about 63 million dollars yearly savings for letter writers choosing air service.
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United States
Chicago
America
Start Work On New Turbine At Pennsylvania Plant
Work has begun on the foundation for a new turbine at the steam plant of the Pennsylvania Power company in West Pittsburg. Farms are being built and reinforced steel is being installed as materials arrive daily. A circuit to the Cedar Street substation will be installed. Improvements estimated to cost over 3 million dollars.
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Pennsylvania Power Company
West Pittsburg
Cedar Street
Sympathy Strikes Grow in Pittsburgh as City Faces Injunction
New sympathy strikes spread across the Pittsburgh area on September 26 as labor leaders and county officials urge lifting of the injunction. Workers at Westinghouse Air Brake and Union Switch and Signal walked out, with 8,000 union members involved and a mass meeting of 16,500 United Electrical Workers planned at East Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Air Brake
Westinghouse Electric Company
United Electrical Workers
Mystery Ket rocket sighted over Finland in September
Helsinki reports hundreds of eyewitnesses saw a new type of rocket, termed a ghost rocket, move northwest from the southeast over Jyväskylä at about 15 miles up. Observers note slow speed, multicolored flames from successive explosions, and a lasting nucleus glow after it fell.
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Helsinki
Finland
Jyvaskyla
Scandinavia
Avert Delaware Utility Strike Reaches Amicable Settlement
In Wilmington Delaware an electrical union and Delaware Power and Light company settled differences to avert a strike. Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had voted to strike, which would have cut off all non emergency electricity and gas.
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Wilmington
Del
INS
Delaware
Delaware Power and Light Company
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Untitled baseball moment with umpire call and ad break
A tense finish unfolds with bases loaded as the umpire calls strike one then ball one. A radio interruption interrupts the crowd’s buzz as fans wonder what happened to the man on third and the broadcast ends with a casual cigarette ad.
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Warner Bros
F.G.M. Studios
Walter Dewberry
Lee Avenue
Walmo
Pa Newe
South Mill Street
Daily Weather Report
OPA Restaurant Industry Advisory Committee
By Howard Handlemann
I. N.S
Nation
International News Service
M. A. Pattison
Union Township P. T. A
Senator Mead
By Frank B. Allen
M. S
Soviet
Natalia Rene
1. N.S
U.S
Tito
U. S. Information Service
Elizabeth G. Brooks
St. Louis
Army Nurse Corps
American Nurses’ Association
Atlantic City
Gen
Philip G. Reed
U. S
Gael Sullivan
Anne X. Alpern
Duquesne Light Company
George Mueller
Equitable Gas Company
the Gas Co
Uesne Light
Allegheny County
John J. Kane
David L. Lawrence
Avert Delaware Utility
Arthur Mometer
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