Devaluation of the pound shocks world markets
London reports Britain's 30 percent pound sterling devaluation triggers a global reaction. Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps says no price increases planned now but will review changes as the situation develops. He notes bread and flour price marks were raised.
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Top Officials Of 2 Airlines To Visit City
A party of 25 top officials led by American Airlines president R R Smith and Delta president C E Wool man will survey Phoenix ahead of a through service launch linking Southwest and Southeast routes. The DC 6 contingent will fly noon Wednesday, meet local leaders, and announce interlining to permit Phoenix to New Orleans and Atlanta without plane changes.
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Delta
Brooklyn Beats Chicago In Low-Scoring Nine Inning Game
National League game summary shows Brooklyn 4 runs on 12 hits and 0 errors versus Chicago 0 runs on 0 hits. Barney Campanella Rush Hacker and Owen contributed for Brooklyn. Final score 4 to 0 with pitchers' duel and late offense securing the win.
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British Tourists Stranded as Pound Devalued in Madrid
Sept 19 British travelers in Spain faced currency crisis as banks suspend sterling exchange. Peseta value at 9.15 cents. officials warned about new rates and uncertain timing. British consuls promised aid for hotel bills and fares. similar limits hit Switzerland and Italy where travel money access was restricted.
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Nation's coal miners strike idles 485000 nationwide
Nearly all of the nations 485,000 coal miners stayed away from work in an unofficial strike over welfare and pension fund suspensions. UMW President John L. Lewis has not commented. Trustees halted payments as reserves depleted. industry expects no immediate hardship though some small industries may feel the impact.
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Auto Workers Set Deadline at Ford
Detroit September 19 United Automobile Workers CIO set a strike deadline of Thursday September 29 against Ford Motor Company unless fourth round economic demands are met. UAW President Walter P Reuther gave Ford notice of intent to cancel the union contract at that time.
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Coal Strike Widening With Idle Miners by State Totals
The strike leaves domestic consumers at risk of empty bins and dealers short of supplies if prolonged. Pennsylvania reports 168000 idle miners, West Virginia 118000, Kentucky 46000, Illinois 23000, Virginia 14000, Indiana 8500, Tennessee 8000, with Utah and Wyoming at 8000. 190 states saw non reporting, Illinois hosts 17000 Progressives still digging. UMW had shifted to a three day week in July. Robena Mine employs 3000 diggers, largest mechanized mine for U S Steel. 4500 others idle.
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Train Crash Kills One and Hurts About Fifty in Newton
A Southern Railway passenger train jumped the track at Newton North Carolina early today, killing at least one man and injuring about 50. Six cars plus the locomotive slid down an embankment, a diner cook was found dead, and a second may also have perished. Rescue workers rushed injured to Catawba General Hospital as ambulances ferried victims from the scene and the town mobilized.
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Asheville
Five More Hungarians Plead Guilty To Plotting Against Communism
Five additional defendants admitted guilt in a Budapest people's court for conspiring against Hungary and the Soviet Union. Tibor Szoenyi and four others joined prior confessors, detailing links to Tito and the OSS led by Allen Dulles, while Szoenyi struggled to recognize Dulles in photos.
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Crash Kills Noted River Explorer
Norman Nevillis a famed river guide aged 411 and his wife Doris were killed when their plane crashed after takeoff from Mexican Hat Utah. The couple’s 8-year-old daughter Sandra and Nevills’ mother witnessed the tragedy as the craft burned. They were reportedly bound for Blanding Utah for supplies. Nevillis was renowned for expeditions on the Colorado and Salmon rivers and River of No Return in Idaho attracting Pacific Coast adventurers.
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French plane crash near Pointe Noire kills 18
An international report notes a French military plane carrying 18 people crashed at Pointe Noire Airport in French West Africa. Early messages said everyone aboard was killed while a separate stock market note reports a peak cattle run of 26,000 at Kansas City stockyards.
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Markets At A Glance
NEW YORK STOCKS open lower with mixed industrials and selling in raw cotton. Chicago wheat drops on British pound devaluation fears. British pound devalues, data shows. Hogs slow and uneven, 25 to 50 cents down, top 21.25. Cattle uneven, 50 cents up to 25 cents down, top 34.75.
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Chicago
Trades Picket Prisoner Work at Phoenix Stadium
Representatives of the Phoenix Building and Construction Trades Council picketed city prisoners used as laborers at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. Prisoners were moving bleacher seats to high schools for football season. City Manager James T. Deppe agreed to remove them at 1 p.m. today, said Al Williams, council president.
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Noronic Disaster Death Toll Rises to 121
Toronto Red Cross reports 121 dead and 608 survivors from the Noronic fire. Official totals show 685 aboard, with 511 passengers. 550 is legal limit. Public inquiry ordered by Ontario Transport minister Chevrier to probe the disaster.
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Newly Opened High School Overflowing in Phoenix Area
Crowded conditions plagued Phoenix area schools as wartime birthrate children reach school age. West Phoenix High, at 19th Avenue and Thomas Road, had 100+ more students than planned, forcing double sessions at several primary schools and staggered classes in upper grades. Enrollment rose sharply in Roosevelt and Isaac districts, with 2321 and 1916 pupils respectively, and districts forecast peak attendance by mid year.
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Six Killed As Truck Plunges Into Muskegon River
Six field workers drowned when a truck loaded with onion pickers fell through guard railing on an old bridge over the Muskegon River near Newaygo Michigan. Nineteen Negro workers were aboard en route from Baldwin to onion fields in Grant. The driver William Jones, 44, said brakes failed. Two of the 13 survivors were injured. Victims named Foster Lyerson Jesse James Willie Mae Barnett Sadie Sine gar and two women known as the White sisters.
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Steel Peace Parley Stalemate Halts Strike Hope
Washington Sept 19 In a three hour government peace parley steel union and management leaders failed to budge with a midnight strike looming. CIO President Murray urged adoption of presidential fact finding board recommendations for pension and insurance as basis for talks while 71 top steel reps resisted renewing bargaining without firm board findings. Federal mediator Cyrus Ching held sessions but offered no forecast, stressing both sides were still feeling out positions. Murray insisted the only way to avert the walkout is to settle now under the board’s proposals.
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