Mister Katz Debates Tipping Racket and Cab Fares
In a playful vacation encounter, Mister Katz the Hygrade Dairy waiter rails against tipping as a racket while recounting advance tips to his bosses. He details cab fares, a Coney Island visit, and a quarrel with Lindy’s pricing, defending his own higher tips and calling out restaurant norms.
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Mister Katz
Pic Magazine
54Th St
Lll Manor
Paramount
West Point
Peggy Lee
Coney Island
Smith Followers To Form Party In St Louis Convention
Followers of Gerald L. K. Smith gather in Kiel Auditorium to form a new political party. They plan to nominate candidates for president and vice president as a two day convention opens in St. Louis. Don Lohbeck editors The Cross and the Flag is among the speakers.
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Gerald L. K. Smith
Covention
Kiel Auditorium
Smith
Christian Nationalist Crusade
Phil, W. Davis, Jr
Tulsa
Don Lohbeck
Lohbeck
the Cross
the Flag
Counterfeit Bills Alert Traced in New York and New Jersey
U S Secret Service warns merchants in New York and New Jersey to watch for B10 counterfeit bills with several thousand in circulation over the last two months. Pope Pius XII sends best wishes to US workers conveyed by David Dubinsky of the ILGWU. SS Alexander White freighter grounded then floated near Ambrose Channel and returned to anchorage. Shoe industry urged to cut margins to lower consumer prices per Mark Edison of NA shoe chains.
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New York
INS
United States Secret Service
New Jersey
Pius XIV
United States
Rome
David Dubinsky
A.F.L. International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Dubinsky
Alexander White
Fall River Navigation Co
Fall River
Mass
Ambrose Channel
New York Harbor
Bremen
Anchorage
National Association of Shoe Chain Stores
Mark Edison
85-Year-Old Pilot Seeks Jet Fighter Flight
An 85-year-old Los Angeles pilot James W. Montee announced he wants to fly a jet fighter with the Army. He arrived in Washington after a cross country flight piloting a twin engined Beachcraft for about half the 14 hour trip. A collision of unrelated notices follows.
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Washington
INS
Army
James W. Montee
Los Angeles
Calif
United States
Santa Monica
Soviets Seek Facts Vital To Invasion
UPI report shows Russian intelligence agents press U S businessmen across the country for seemingly ordinary items such as highway and railway maps telephone directories and photos. Investigations centered on Wichita San Antonio Rockford and Washington with officials warning these materials could aid air attacks sabotage or invasion.
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Topeka
Kans
U. S
Washington
Wichita
San Antonio
Tex
Rockford
United States
Staff Chiefs To Confer At Newport Conference
Secretary of Defense Forrestal will hold a conference with the joint chiefs of staff at the Naval War College in Newport Rhode Island starting today and continuing through Sunday. The meetings follow the Key West pattern of March 11 to 14 and are slated to occur at intervals in the future to discuss policy questions away from Washington headquarters.
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Washington
Defense Forrestal
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Naval War College
Newport
R. I
Defense Department
Key West
Fla
U.S. Seeks Release of Two Americans Held by Soviets
U S officials say Moscow is stalling talks on freeing Lt Sherman S Turner of Council Bluffs Iowa and Roland M Myers of Brooklyn North Carolina after their Aug 5 crossing into the Soviet zone. The men face uncertain detention as negotiations continue.
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U.S
Berlin
United States
Sherman S. Turner
Council Bluffs
Roland M. Myers
Brooklyn
N. C
Navy warns reserve drillers lose draft exemptions
The Navy warns organized reservists that missing as few as five weekly drills annually can revoke their draft exemptions. It also opens Academy entry to nonexempt volunteers with 14 days of active duty before the April exam.
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Washington
Navy
Naval Academy
Deaths of Chicago police chief and notable figures
Charles G Fitzmorris 64 police chief and city controller during William Hale Thompson era in Chicago. Jane Stewart organizer of National League of Women's Service of California in Baltimore. Gene Lamb 54 explorer author and lecturer in Los Angeles. Edward W Walters 58 former New York State assemblyman in Johnson City.
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Charles G. Fitzmorris
William Hale Thompson
Chicago
Jane Stewart
National League of Women’s Service of California
Baltimore
Gene Lamb
Los Angeles
Edward W. Walters
Binghamton
Johnson City
One Man's Opinion by Walter Kiernan
Walter Kiernan discusses rising counterfeit $10 bills and questions about authenticity. He notes Alexander Hamilton’s hair and missing Treasury steps in reverse engraving and jokes about political claims during an election year.
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Treasury
August Milk Is Expected To Bring Five Twenty Three
New York dairy areas forecast a uniform milk price of 23 per hundredweight for August deliveries to approved plants in the six state New York milk shed. A. J. Pollard estimates seven cent butterfat differential for each tenth of a pound around the 3.5 percent standard.
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New York
A. J. Pollard
New York d
Pollard
Skates Speed Production At Pesxtite Mill Okayoa
The Seidaiji Pesxtite Mill manager found loom workers slow. He assigned one girl to each loom, then added roller skates so a single worker could operate seven machines.
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Okayama
Japan
Seidaiji ‘Pesxtite
Governor Dewey appoints Herres to Middletown State Hospital board
Governor Dewey named Frederick J. Herres of Middletown to the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital board of visitors, replacing William O. Kahn of Port Jervis who resigned. Herres is 63 years old.
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Albany
Dewey Maday
Frederick J. Herres
Middletown
Middletown State
U S Aid to World Totals 16 Billion Dollars
In the three years since World War II, the United States government provided reconstruction grants to the rest of the world totaling 16.326 billion dollars. The figure excludes the European Recovery Program and covers loans property credits and grants from July 1 1945 to March 31 1948 reported to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
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Geneva
Switzerland
United States
United Nations Economic and Social Council
U. S
Germany indicts Julius Schaub for war crimes
Julius Schaub, accused of persuading Adolf Hitler to kill Jews, was indicted today by the German government in Munich. It marks the first war crimes indictment brought by Germany itself.
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Mernberg
Germany
Julius Schaub
Adolf Hitler
Munich
L T U Spurns Affidavits at Taft Hartley Convention
Milwaukee dispatch reports International Typographical Union officers refuse to file non communist affidavits under Taft Hartley Law. Delegates at the AFI printers union convention authorize noncompliance on recommendations of the resolutions committee. President Woodruff Randolph says the issue is about NLRB jurisdiction. ILTU has been found guilty of Taft Hartley violations in five cases by NLRB examiners.
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Milwaukee
International Typographical Union
Big A.F.I. Printers’ Union
Resolutions Committee
Woodruff Randolph
Indianapolis
Lt.vu. S
National Labor Relations Board
Randolph
Ilt.u
NLRB
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