Dock Strike Spreads Confusion and Chaos Nationwide
The third day of a strike by 80,000 AFL and CIO seamen and allied ship workers spreads confusion inland as 5000 freight cars are tied up. UNRRA asks to free 125 ships with relief cargo. Tugboat crews quit in New York Harbor threatening fuel and food supplies.
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Stres
America
AF L
William Green
CSO
Philip Murray
Paul Hall
New York
A.F.L. Seafarers’ International Union
Washington
U. S
UNRRA
F. H. la Guardia
Europe
Asia
the & I. Us
Sailors Union of the Pacific
C.I.O
Association of American Railroads
New York Harbor
William Bradley
Uinited Marine Division
International Longshoremen’s
A.F.L
AFL
New York City
William O'Dwyer
Churchill Plan for Canada visit amid sewer bond defeat
The Metropolitan Water Board bonds failed by large margins in a San Antonio election. Voters rejected 9.069 million, 4.819 million, and 2.1 million sewer proposals, plus tax levy and compensation bonds. Churchill to visit Canada next spring as officials call for plan to address health threats from inadequate sewers. Board members re elected. precinct results described as one sided.
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Metropolitan Water Board
Quebec
Winston Churchil
J. D. Falk
Canada
Bourd
Viscount Alexander
Falk
J. L. McMahon
Wm. C. Clege
New Braunfels
Topeka
Woodlawn School
West Magnolia Avenue
Zarramora Street
County Commissioners’ Coutroom
Talk
Pofs
Theo Weiss
the Light
PS. Anderson
San Antonio
Alamo Heights
City Water Board
Anderson
Strikes Across Nation Threaten Public Welfare
The truck drivers and seamen strikes disrupt New York New Jersey and coastal trade while a Pittsburgh power strike threatens a blackout. Milk food and general commerce suffer amid lawless picketing as inflation and postwar disruption worsen under Wagner Act policy and Truman veto of Case Bill.
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New York
New Jersey
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Pittsburgh
New York City
Congress
World air speed record set at Tangmere
Capt E M Donaldson of the Royal Air Force established a new world air speed record yesterday by flying 616 miles an hour in a twin jet Gloster Meteor IV at Tangmere England. The previous record was 606 miles an hour.
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T.ondon
E. M. Donaldson
R.A. F
Tangmere
England
OPA Outlines Future Prices
Washington dispatch reports deputy administrator George Baker outlines expected price trends under OPA for upcoming months. If milk and dairy costs surge, ceilings could return. rents stay steady. rayon and woolen clothes show modest moves. cotton goods hold due to high raw cotton prices. autos mostly flat with limited model boosts. major increases likely in refrigerators vacuum cleaners and radios.
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Washington
OPA
Georfyev Baker
Weekend Forecast With Warm Sunday Conditions
Partly cloudy Sunday with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. Maximum Sunday 90 degrees with a high of 68 indicated for the following period and Saturday night low around 71.
Strife Gains in Russia Reported Abroad
Paris reports reveal internal strains and dissension in the Soviet Union affecting foreign policy. Pravda and Moscow radio target bourgeois elements while Ukraine hostilities and mass deportations draw attention. Observers suggest Kremlin uses external dangers to rally unity and mask unmet wartime promises.
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Paris
Soviet Union
Pravda
Tzvestia
Moscow Radio
Russia
Stalin
Ukraine
Moscow
Kremlin
Power Strike Set in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh and its industrial surroundings brace for a power company strike set to start Tuesday at 12 02 a m if wage talks fail. The Independent Association of Employes seeks a master contract covering nine grades with a 20 percent raise and profit sharing among other demands. Also Pan American World Airways announced two new night flights from Mexico City to Brownsville and to Guatemala beginning September 20.
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Pittsburgh
Power Company
Independent
Association of Employes of
Duquesne Light and Associated Companies
Mexico City
Pan American World Airways
Browneville
Texas
Mexico
Guatemala
U S Decides To Delay Bomb Test
The White House announced an indefinite postponement of the third atom bomb test at Bikini. President Truman approved on advice of the joint chiefs of staff and defense secretaries to allow full study of the first two explosions. The underwater test would have been the most devastating to naval craft and its delay saves 39 million dollars.
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Washington
INS
White House
Bikini
Truman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Soviet Ask to Delay Atomic Energy Report Action at UN
An authoritative nonrussian source says Soviet delegates at the United Nations security council requested postponing final action on a scientific report to the atomic energy commission. At Lake Success an informal meeting of the AEC scientific and technical committee heard the Russian member ask for a delay until Monday. Prof. B P Alexandrov, though said to have raised no objection to the draft, waits for final word from Moscow as a colleague who handled controversial questions left for Moscow in recent days.
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New York
The
Atomic Energy Commission
U. N. Lake Success
iProf. 5
Alexandrov
Moscow
Halsey condemns atomic bomb use as unnecessary experiment
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey denounces the Hiroshima bomb as an unnecessary experiment and questions why such a weapon was revealed to the world. He asserts the decision to drop it caused extensive casualties despite Japan’s long prior weakening signals.
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Buffalo
N. Y
William F. “Bull
Halsey
Hiroshima
Hinlsey
Russia
Japan
UN Session Delays Discussed By Foreign Ministers
In Paris the council of foreign ministers will meet Sunday to press the Soviet push for postponing the UN general assembly. Bevin may back postponement for talks on Austrian and German questions after the assembly. Byrnes appears likely to oppose delay, with Molotov arguing against dual meetings. Byrnes left for Germany amid shifting American views on the timing.
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Paris
INS
Council of Foreign Ministers
UN General Assembly
Bevin
Assembly
New York
Georges Bi
Dault
Paul Yenri-Spaak
General Assembly
Byrnes
U.S
State Byrnes
Molotov
Russia
Germany
Abandoned Tots Care Arranged After Welfare Call
Philadelphia story reports Mrs Joyce Cawley, 18, who left two babies due to payment limits, arranging care for Betty Ann and Barbara Jean with relatives. Samuel J. Greene, district commander of the American Legion, and state adjutant official help her secure support. The babies are in good health at the Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty. Mrs Cawley’s husband, 25, a partially paralyzed ex serviceman, will return to the Naval hospital next month. She has been receiving state aid and milk, while the husband gets $11.50 monthly disability pension. The case drew public attention when she laid their combined payments on the Veterans Administration desk and demanded changes.
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Philadelphia
Joyce Cawley
Veterans’ Administration
Samuel J. 0. Greene
American ‘Legion
State Adjutant's Office
Cawley
Betty Ann
Barbara Jean
Richard Cawley
Richard Cawleys
Caley
Veterans’ Administration Office
Truck Tieup Deepens as New York Strikes Hit Life
The New York truck strike deepens causing widespread disruption across industries. Printing and garment trades suffer while food transport declines. Mayor O'Dwyer vows to use police power to move essential food and medical supplies if needed.
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NW York
Seta
New York City
Bel
William O'Dwyer
Missing tot Toby Tobias sought by reward offer
Kansas City dispatch reports Madeline Toby Tobias aged two, missing from her home with a new maid since two days, believed hitchhiking to St Louis. Her father Phillip Tobias, a loan company salesman, offered his entire savings of 200 dollars as a reward for information, while police search state highways for the child.
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Kansas City
G. L
Madeline
Toby” Tobias
St. Louis
Philip ‘Tobias
Toby
Shepherds Down MNRRA Airplane
In Greece near Pyrgos in the Peloponnesus two shepherds hunting ducks shot down an ANRRA plane as it dispersed DNT over a swamp. Reports say a peasant or halfavil misidentified the craft as a vulture and shot at it. the pilot was wounded and the plane had 52 pellet marks. Both shepherds were arrested.
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Athens
INS
Greece
ANRRA
Pyrgos
Peloponnesus
Halfavil
Gun Battery Replaced by Rockets on US Capital Ships
The United States announces plans to arm the battleship Kentucky and battlecruiser Hawaii with guided missiles, replacing traditional gun main batteries. Officials say the move signals a naval arms shift toward rocket weapons and atomically powered potential future designs, though ship propulsion remains conventional.
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Washington
United States
Kentucky
Hawaii
Vier Adm
E. L. Cochrane
Navy
Bureau of Ships
Mawaii
Bikini Uni
Seven Die and Fifty Hurt in French Trains Collision
SAINT LO France September 1 A head on crash between a fast passenger train and a freight train near here killed seven people and wounded fifty others with twenty four in critical condition. The report notes the tragedy disrupted rail service and prompted emergency response.
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Saint LO
France
Here
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