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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1948
Page
4
Read daily ads for values in Thomasville city services and local business listings. Includes police and fire info, hospital, post office, and service ads for plumbing, upholstery, and chair repair with contact numbers.
The New York market opened with mixed results as many issues posted fractional changes while overall leaders like Youngstown Sheet and Wire and Sears Roebuck rose. Major losers included U S Steel Republic Steel General Motors Chrysler Studebaker and Textron with several others barely moving or down slightly.
Excerpts from major Padis hog markets show hog prices firming with mixed quality. Slaughter hogs range 18.40 to 19.00 per hundredweight for middle weights, while sows and canners move lower and calves hold around 23.50 to 27.50. Cattle values fluctuate with stocker and feeder classes also noted across Georgia and Florida markets.
North Georgia live poultry market remains steady with prices mostly unchanged or slightly higher. Offerings are limited to good demand and short in some spots, with weights generally under 2 1/2 pounds and prices paid at farm for fryers varying by grade and size.
AP reports fresh disasters as Communist armies encircle three Nationalist groups totaling 116000 near Nanking while a fourth was trapped at Suchow. Nationalists abandon towns near Peiping and Peiping aviation fuel and munitions burn in an explosion.
Lt. Commander Kona ordered a search back to Johnston Island as survivors clung to a life raft in six minutes. Calhoun said sharks circled from ditching until pickup. ten men aboard the Rendova were involved with 30 air crew from Okinawa en route to Spokane. Lane reported two men dead and one jumped overboard after more than 30 hours afloat.
President Truman said Marshall will remain in the cabinet as health status remains unclear. The former army chief of staff, who turns 68 on December 31, has been hospitalized since returning from the Paris United Nations meeting on November 22.
Rep John Rankin says he believes Russians supplied purloined U S secrets to Japan during the war citing a State Department espionage claim and linking this to Pearl Harbor. He cites a Moscow Japanese ambassador presence and accuses officials, while noting no names. The remarks arise in pretrial testimony in a libel suit by Hiss against Chambers.
Last Thursday and Friday he broke his hospital routine to meet Madam Chiang Kai-Shek wife of the President of China and to appeal for more American aid for Nationalist China against the Communists. Aides said he remained fully informed on world developments and worked on papers at the hospital. In Marshall's absence Undersecretary Robert A Lovett runs the State Department.
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