Union Pickets Three General Stores Enter Second Day
Union Local 347 continues picketing two Buckley stores and one in Oak Hill as a strike enters its second day. Sherwood Spencer says lines will stay until a contract is signed granting higher pay, shorter weeks, and vacation pay. Company officials remain in the dark on settlement. manager says no contract has been submitted.
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Buckley
Oaks Hill
A.F.L
Sherwood Spencer
Charleston
Company of Hielals
Zilmer Davis
Général
Emmett E. Davis
South Kanawha Street
Spencer
Claude Gentry
General Stores
Elmer Davis
South Oak Broad Avenue
Oak Hill
Palestinians, Jews Clash as British Standby in Palestine Crisis
Four day triad as Jews demand prisoner of war status and challenge military court authority. Arab leaders condemn U.S. plans for federal zones in Palestine while Truman reportedly declines involvement. Jewish leaders hail a shift toward refugee resettlement and moral obligation amid mounting political tension.
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Ane
Irgual Zvai Leumi
Palestine
Truman
U.S
Amercia
UNRRA panel backs ongoing relief and rehabilitation funding
The UNRRA policy committee approved continuing relief and rehabilitation work on an international basis. Fiorello La Guardia opposed a provision limiting relief to international scope, asking who would decide who gets aid and if it is an international problem.
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UNRRA
Fiorello H. la Guardia
la Guardia
Division between Western and Eastern politics in postwar Germany
In the American zone McNarney cites economic strain with industry at 29 percent capacity and persistent shortage of coal and steel. Trade barriers hinder raw material flow, exports remain only three percent of imports, while public safety notes rising thefts and criminal gangs. Displaced persons repatriation 12,765,000 marks deficit described as optimistic despite a total population rise to 368,210 in a month. Tax increases and wartime decrees complicate effective taxation and zone stability.
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Germany
McNarney
Joe Joe the Cat Under Scrutiny by Mullens Police
Mullens City Patrolman Haynes Davidson investigates the antics of Joe Joe the black Persian cat of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eliot of Frantz Avenue Mullens Hil. The cat, after a roof-top chase and a dog-cat incident, was confined in a weighted basket and left under observation at the Elliot home.
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Seattle
Register
Mullens
W. M. Grigg
Bill
Pearl Kemp
Mouran Avenue
Washington
Grigg
Joe-Joe the
Cat
Joe-Joe
Joe Joeson
David
Elliot
Davidson
Joé-Joe
Elliot Home
Beer and auto price ceilings rise amid labor and freight shifts
OPA lists higher ceilings on beer for bars and restaurants and increased take home beer rates. Used 1945 46 autos now priced near new car ceilings as strikes ripple payrolls and production. AFL strikes hit Philadelphia hat factory and Wilkes Barre bus and bread sectors, affecting tens of thousands of workers and city supplies.
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Wee Sea
OPA
UNION
Southern Pacific
Ford
AFL
Wilkes Barre
Peoples Railway Company
Hazleton
Philadelphia
Chicago
Nehru Meets with Muslim League Chief Over Partition
Nehru and Mohamed Abdimah discussed direct action and partition in Bombay, but no agreement was reached. Nehru insisted on forming an interim Indian government with or without the Muslim League, warning that direct action could topple or be toppled by the government.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress Party
India
Bombay
Mohamed Abdimah
Nehru
Victim Of Road Mishap Regains Consciousness
Carl Rufus, 10, of Calorie is listed in serious condition after an automobile wreck near Cabin Creek on the Mullens Pineville road. He has regained consciousness but suffers a fractured shoulder and facial lacerations at Raleigh General Hospital.
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Wrives Mullens
Carl Rufus
Jimmie Rufus
Raleigh General Hospital
Rufus
Cabin Creek
Mullens
Pineville
Board to rule on four commodities August 20 1930s decision
After four days and over 100 witnesses, the board announced it would hand down rulings on all commodities at once. The set includes grains livestock cottonseed soybeans and dairy products to avoid inconveniences in markets and affected industries.
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Wwhd
Thompson
Camp attendees named for boys and girls
The list includes boys Fred Crews of Crab Orchard and Dean Stover of Cittsville and girls Avalon Deck Wanda Winfrey both of Sophia Sue Henley Whitby Mary Katherine Tolbert Mt. Tabor and Lois Akers Beaver. The selections were made by Wooten and County Agent H B Thomas and camp runs through next Thisday.
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Fred Crews
Crab Orchard
Dean Stover
Cittsville
Wooten
H. B. Thomas
Avalon Deck
Wanda Winfrey
Sophia
Sue Henley
Whitby
Mary Katherine Tolbert
Mt. Tabor
Lois Akers
Beaver
First Coal Supervisors Gain Collective Bargaining Status
The Jones and Laughtin supervisors became the first in coal mining to be recognized as a proper collective bargaining unit eligible for membership in a production workers union. Newfoundland is noted as the oldest British colony in terms of discovery.
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Lewis
Jones and Laughtin
Newfoundland
Witness recalls life in Tientsin and puppet reign in Manchuria
The witness described living in Tientsin from ages 20 to 27 before being taken to Manchuria to rule as regent and puppet emperor under Japanese control. He spoke without emotion as his testimony was read to the tribunal, with officials and a Russian guard blocking American reporters from questioning him.
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Tientsin
Manchuria
Puyi
Witters
Aftice
Tribunal
Court of Appeals Rules on Write-In Ballots in Primaries
The court of appeals held in three cases that a person whose name does not appear on the official primary ballot cannot receive heavy votes in a primary election.
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Court of Appeals
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