Food price fight pits Brewster and Taft in wartime echo
The GOP clash over high prices centers on wartime controls and rationing ideas. Brewster urges voluntary food restraint and a return to wartime controls, while Taft questions the approach. Harriman and Dodd back voluntary rationing to aid overseas needs, framing the issue as balancing budgets and aiding Europe against Communism. Clark invites reports on price fixing as the administration presses for action.
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Brewster
Jess
America
Taft Robio
Taft
Truman
Pepper
Capehart
Commerce Harriman
Cleveland
United States
Harriman
Presidential Study Commission
Dodd
Europe
Maine
Clark
Justice Department
Antitrust Division
Government seeks higher margins to curb grain boom bust
The Agriculture Department urged doubling cash requirements from speculative traders to curb volatile grain markets. J. M. Mehl, head of the Commodity Exchange Authority, said the move aims to reduce boom and bust danger. Current futures margins sit around 16 to 17 percent, with exchanges setting final levels.
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Sion
United States
Attorne
Agriculture Department
J. M. Mehl
Department
Commodity Exchange Authority
Maryland Farm Yields Rise in Snap Beans and Tomatoes
State farmers report peak receipts. snap beans processed at 13 80 tons and early fall spinach production tops 75 000 bushels. Maryland ranks fourth nation in processing tomatoes and sweet corn with 289 406 tons and 2 800 tons respectively, while yield per acre rises. Apples and peaches drop, corn and eggs slightly down. 1940 census cites 42 110 farms over 4 197 827 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spipath
Agriculture Department
Maryland
Iowa
York
Store Controversy Over Proposed Shop Sparks Civic Debate
Community concerns arise about traffic hazards from parked cars along the street and potential drops in nearby residential property values if a new store is built. Mr Young continues grading without basement or building work as counsel reviews possible injunctions. Council members debate liability and street extension options, noting no zoning restrictions in the site area.
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Young
Jack Hellane
J. Frank Elliott
Charles Street
Locust Street
Western Maryland
Jobless Claims Decline In Washington County
Jobless benefit claims in Washington County fell to 514 this week from 637 last week as more people find work. D Lee Staler of the Hagerstown Maryland Unemployment Compensation Board cites non active job seekers and rolling disqualifications as factors. Shilling notes skilled labor shortages limit unskilled hiring while industrial employment rises in textiles and rubber goods, with bricklayers carpenters and stone masons in demand.
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Washington County
D. Lee Staler
Hagerstown
Maryland Unemployment Compensation Board
Staley
Maryland Ucb
D. Paul Shilling
Shilling
Louise Denies State Claims in Prolonged Murder Trial
Louise testifies at the long murder trial that her marriage to Bud was planned around her 18th birthday and disputed the state’s portrayal of a motive. She describes a romance filled with yacht outings, parties, and a proposed union, while prosecutors allege greed and an illicit relationship as motives. The courtroom crowd swelters as the 90th witness discusses family ties and engagement details in the Overell case.
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Bud
Louise
Overell
Flintridge
Wilifred Gollum
Eugene Williams
Navy
California
Overells
Kenneth E. Forrison
Vets Cash In 324 416 Bonds Gain Stalled
Veterans continued to cash their $324,416 bond allotment with 321 ex servicemen redeeming bonds in the first five days for 70 567 23 dollars and an average of about 216 per bond The second week saw far fewer bonds cashed and a lower average of nearly 180 per bond indicating veterans holding smaller bonds were slower to cash them The total in circulation remains a closely guarded unknown factor as the program evolves through the weeks
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Second National Bank of Hagerstown
Nicodemus
Exservicemen
Less Meat Rations For Prison Inmates
Philadelphia officials say Holmesburg and Moyamensing prisons will suspend meat service three days weekly due to insufficient funds for 1947 food costs. They seek $110,000 in emergency funds as meat prices rise further in the city. The report notes meat costs now span 10 cents per pound increases and neighborhood stores charge up to $1.10 for sirloin. A World War I reference mentions Russians eating grass and bark during shortages.
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Philadelphia
Holmesburg
Moyamensing
Saltonstall Seeks Senate Term and Ranks GOP Leaders
Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall announced he will pursue only another Senate term and not the presidential nomination. He placed Dewey first among possible contenders and listed Warren Taft Stassen Eisenhower and Martin in his top six. Governor Bradford said Massachusetts is open as Dewey campaigns.
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Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Saltonstall
New Yorker
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Taft
Stassen
Eisenhower
Rep
Joe Martin
House
Robert F. Bradford
Nystrom to Harvard for extension administration studies
Paul E. Nystrom deputy director of the University of Maryland Extension Service will take a year's leave to pursue graduate studies in extension administration at Harvard. He is one of seven extension workers nationwide selected for Harvard scholarships, the program's first in this field. The rest of the item notes the U. S. Army colors 1780 and the steel industry power usage.
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Paul E. Nystrom
University of Maryland Extension Service
Harvard University
U. S
Harvard
T.S.A
France
Bloody clashes mark start of Italian treaty
U S officers Lt. John C. Dwyer and T/5 Willie Smith were captured near the Morgan line and released to return to the Army. Yugoslav troops moved to occupy rest of the territory east of the line, while the 88th Division withdrew without incident. A first Yugoslav detachment met US troops at Waltham, Mags, and celebrations followed on both sides as Tito supporters cheered.
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U. S
John C. Dwyer
Chicago
Willie Smith
Waycross
Bsonze
Morgen Line
Tolmino
Trieste
Marshal Tito
U.S
Joseph F. McDevitt
Waltham, Mags
Boundry
McDevitt
Tito
Pola
Istrian
Free
U. N. Security Council
Opera founder Eugene Martinet dies after weeklong illness
Eugene Martinet 55 founder and director of the Baltimore Civic Opera died last night after an illness of seven days. Martinet sang with the Society of American Singers the Brooklyn National Opera Company and several Schubert musical shows in New York. He also performed with other ensembles and productions in the city.
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Baltimore
Sepe
Eugene Martinet
Baltimore Civic Opera
Martinet
Society of American Singers
Brooklyn National Opera Company
New York
Hurricane I Nearing Coast and Uncertain Track
Weather officials report Hurricane I moving toward the coast with perplexing behavior. Forecasters note the storm’s center near 26.9N 75.9W, about 230 miles east of West Palm Beach, threatening Hopetown and Abaco with hurricane winds as they monitor any turn north.
Fined For Passing On Crest Of Hill
Herbert E. Sprecher Jr of 135 North Cannon avenue forfeited $10 and costs before Magistrate Harry E. Snyder on a charge of passing on the crest of a hill. Deputy Charles Deneen said he was forced toward a ditch on the Cave town pike to avoid a coal truck driven by Sprecher which was loaded with six tons of gravel and could not stop after the car in front slowed suddenly.
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Herbert E. Sprecher, Jr
North
Cannon Avenue
Harry E. Snyder
Charles Deneen
Cavetown
Sprecher
Baltimore Native Returns to Opera After Montreal Tenure
The Montreal Grand Opera Company and founded a civic opera there before returning to his native Baltimore in 1926.
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Montreal Grand Opera Company
Civic Opera
Baltimore
NLRB Asked To Reverse Ruling On Non Communist Forms
The piece reports on the NLRB pressure to reverse a ruling requiring affidavits for aid eligibility, tracing back to AFL CIO leaders Tobin and Lewis. Tobin urged AFL leaders to sign, while Lewis declined. The CIO postponed a decision until the Boston convention. Also notes Sir William Wallace as a historical aside.
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International Labor Organization
NLRB
To bin
CIO
AFL
Chicago
Tobin
Lewis
Teamsters
NURB
Denham
Boston
James Carey
Philip Murray
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