Living Costs Rise Amid Economic Dip
The nation faces rising living costs for a second month while a five month downturn shows declines in industrial production and store sales. Rail carloadings are down 8.7 percent from last year and industrial employment is 400,000 lower. A major steel firm cut operations 6 percent due to weak orders as loans slide for 18 weeks. Despite higher weekly earnings, the paradox persists with a weak May outlook for mineral output.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Adox
Federal Reserve Board
Demos Plan Parley To Study Taft Hartley Action
Democrats on the House labor committee vote to reopen talks on repealing the Taft Hartley law with a plan for a Wednesday meeting. Three factions clash over restoring the Wagner Act or keeping the Taft Hartley statute, while proposals for cooling off periods and limited essential-services stipulations are debated.
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Demos
Washington
House Labor Committee
Congress
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Andrew Jacobs
Ind
Thomas M. Burke
CIO
United Auto Workers
Jacobs
Burke
Wife Too Tough Divorce Granted After Abuse Claim
Fred Triebolin, 46, told the court his wife Rose, 58, wrote nasty notes, struck him with a blackjack, kicked him, and chased him with scissors around their home. The court granted his request for a divorce.
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Chicago
Fred Triebolin
Rose
Pinball device rocks cradle in Tennessee
Roy Morris Jr used an old pin ball machine to make a compact cradle rocking apparatus weighing three pounds with a timed rocking mechanism to control the rocking periods.
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Cradle Will Rock
Somerville
Tenn
Roy Morris, Jr
Attorney Plans Habeas Corpus for Convicted Physician
Cedar Rapids based attorney R. S. Milner said he plans to seek release from jail for Dr. Robert C. Rutledge via writ of habeas corpus. Rutledge, 28, a St. Louis baby doctor, was convicted of second degree murder in the stabbing death of Byron C. Hartman, 29, also of St. Louis. Milner was part of Rutledge’s defense team during the murder trial. He has not set a filing date.
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Cedar Rapids
R. S. Milner
Robert C. Rutledge
Milner
Rutledge
St. Louis
Byron C. Hartman
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