Urges Inquiry Into Steel Prices Sparks Senate Hearing
Washington dispatch reports CIO executives urging a probe into rumored steel price hikes. Sen. O Mahoney questions a price increase tied to freight rates and pension gains for steelworkers. Ben Fairless confirms planned price revisions as a response to costs and threats of a broader inquiry.
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Everett Kassalow
CIO
Full Employment Committee
Senate
House Economic Committee
Joseph O’mahoney
D-Wye
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Chicago
Fairless
Wife Guilty Of Slaying Husband In Riverside
Riverside Calif Dec 15 AP Mrs Sophie Petrillo 35 was convicted of murder in the second degree by a jury for the Sept 19 slaying of her husband Pete Petrillo 38 The jury of 10 women and two men deliberated since morning Mrs Petrillo collapsed crying out I loved him so The same jury will hear her sanity plea Judge Waite set Monday for that issue The conviction carries a penalty of five years to life in prison
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Sophie Petrillo
Pete Petrillo
Petrillo
Alma Ross Prima
Louis Prima
Mrs. Petrillo
Pete
Waite
East Berlin honors Vishinsky amid posters and flags
Berlin marked the visit of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky with a polished rubble scarred city face and flag displays. He arrived after the U N General Assembly session en route to Moscow. Reports note scientists are producing synthetic minerals under high pressure in stainless steel bombs.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Andrei Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Moscow
U. N. General Assembly
Windsor native named publicity manager for Chamber of Commerce
Thomas F. Collision of Windsor Illinois, long with New York aviation writing and advertising, is named publicity manager for the United States Chamber of Commerce. He will oversee the news bureau film and radio productions and the weekly magazine Business Action. He has been with N. W. kxar & Son Inc. advertising since 1942.
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Thomas F. Collision
New York
The
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Business Action
Windsor
Shelby County
Illinois
N. W. Kxar & Son Inc
Young Mother Gets 14 Years for Baby Murder
Chicago report says Dorothy Skeoch, 22, was convicted of murdering her 6 day old daughter Susan Elizabeth by choking with a plastic diaper last August 19 and sentenced to 14 years. Judge Julius Miner blamed the child's parents for their daughter's act and expressed shock at their treatment of her. Defense claimed temporary insanity.
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Chicago
Dorothy Skeoch
Skeech
Susan Elizabeth
Julius Miner
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Truman
Murray
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Chester Lamont
Astoria, Ore
Foley
Foley's Honey & Tar
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Foley’s
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Ward
U.S
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Dinette
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