Prices Down Sharply in Butter and Other Goods
Prices for many cost of living items fell across major cities led by a sharp drop in New York and Chicago butter markets. Egg prices fell more than five cents a dozen in New York with reductions in other food items. department store clothing slashed 30 to 50 percent in a post Christmas sale. The Dairymen's League said it bought butter to prop up milk prices, preventing an estimated $600,000 loss to dairy farmers in the New York milk shed as prices were set for January.
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New York
Chicago
Newark
Boston
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Kansas City
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Associated Press
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association
Department of Agriculture’silk Marketing Administration
Co. J Blanford
Dairymen's League
League
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Vermont
Butter's Fall Called Normal
Trade sources attribute a roughly 15 cent per pound drop in butter since mid October to normal supply and demand. Production runs about one third higher than a year ago while consumer demand remains weak, pushing butter and cheese prices lower amid meat price shifts and subsidy implications.
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William Ferris
Chicago
E. W. Gaumnitz
National Cheese Institute
Gaumnitz
Plymouth
Wis
Agriculture Department
Russell Fifer
American Butter Institute
Widow Behn Seeks Court Ejectment Of Tucson Widow
Mary V. Haworth a 67 year old widow and sole survivor of the Feldman family faces losing her home after nearly 40 years in a Tucson dispute. Harry Behn and associates claim ownership and seek to eject Haworth from the property in a Pima county superior court case argued Friday. The defense contends the city allowed Haworth to remain on the land and that the city profited from the property through prior acquisitions for nonpayment of assessments.
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Tucson
Pima County
Mary V. Haworth
Feldman
Harry Behn
Robert
Bud) Williams
C. Wayne Clampitt
U. S. Controls Cuban Sugar Purchase
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson says the United States bought Cuba's 1947 sugar crop as sole agent for a group of nations to prevent competitive bidding that could drive prices higher. He noted an industrialist warned sugar could exceed 50 cents a pound briefly if allowed, stressing the action served nations the U S has long represented in negotiations.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
Anderson
Sen. Hatch
DNM
England
France
Belgium
Holland
Switzerland
Sugar price and rationing control predicted by Dyer
Daniel L. Dyer of D. W. Dyer & Co. sugar economists and brokers predicts Friday that sugar price and rationing control will be off. The item appears in the sugar section on page 10.
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New York
Daniel L. Dyer
D. W. Dyer & Co
Mt Lemmon Snow Quickly Melts On Peak
Light snow and sleet Thursday on Mt Lemmon melted rapidly says Tony Zimm er man general storekeeper at the 9000 foot peak. Drivers were cautioned to use care on the turns though the road was passable.
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Mt. Lemmon
Tony Zimmerman
Half Atomic Plan Okayed By United Nations Commission
The United Nations atomic energy commission approved the first part of a control plan in secret session with Andrei Gromyko absent. Dr. Julius Katz-Suechy signaled abstention on final votes while Baruch of the United States pressed for a veto in any system. The panel marked the date as It sought to advance the plan before transfers in membership and before a Security Council report due December 31.
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Larry Hauck Lake
Success
N. Y
Dee
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
S. P. Alexandrov
Russia
Julius Katz-Suechy
Alexandrov
Gromyko
Bernard M. Baruch
Poland
Baruch
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Britain
Atomic Commission
United Nations Security Council
Colombia
Belgium
Syria
Mexico
Netherlands
Egypt
General Assembly
Senator Asks Halt In Aliens Immigrants Debate Sparks Halt Call
Senator Elmer Thomas urged an immediate halt to all immigration into the United States saying no distinction by race or nationality. President Truman noted last October he favored liberalization to admit thousands of Jews refugees, while Republican leaders want to see his precise proposal before committing.
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Washington
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
United States
Thomas
Truman
Palestine
Congress
Mr. Truman
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Winter Strikes Hard In East
Cold wave grips New England and New York with subzero readings led by Caribou Maine at minus eighteen. Ice and snow spread from the Great Lakes toward the Midwest as forecasters warned of more frigid air and mixed precipitation through Saturday.
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New England
New York State
Caribou
Great Lakes
Giens Falls
N. Y
Mercury
Hudson Bay
Carolinas
Midwest
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Ohio
Pacific Coast
Rain Lingers Across Arizona With Snow At Flagstaff
Rain persisted across much of Arizona with snow reported at Flagstaff where about an inch had fallen by Friday morning and up to three inches more possible. Prescott saw intermittent rain, Phoenix recorded 0.34 inches, Tucson 0.44 and Nogales 0.67 as a broad storm edge eased.
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Arizona
Flagstaff
U. S. Weather Bureau
Prescott
Phoenix
Tucson
Nogales
Allen Quits Post As RFC Director
Washington December 27. George E. Allen longtime friend of President Truman resigned from the Reconstruction Finance Corp board effective January 16 and proposed a complete revision of the RFC act. John D. Goodloe named to succeed Allen. Allen planned to return to private business and may assist government tasks in future. The RFC board urged consolidation of powers into one law and removal of wartime and unnecessary peacetime powers.
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Washington
George E. Allen
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corp
RFC
Allen
John D. Goodloe
Kentucky
Goodloe
RFC Board of Directors
Congress
RFC Board
Netherlands Tries To Salvage Empire After Loss of Indies
The Netherlands faces a diminished imperial role as it negotiates a series of agreements to preserve economic ties with the former Dutch East Indies. Parliament approved the draft accord on November 15, and by Christmas new steps marked progress in redefining the Indies status amid postwar realignments.
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Glenn Babbap
Netherlands
Indies
Europe
Holland
Hitler
Empire
Delay Closing Vets Housing Amid Standby Order
The federal public housing authority halts full shutdown of veterans temporary housing in California Utah Arizona and Nevada. Contractors may continue 15 percent of building trades on near completion units while a survey determines funding and completion by January 15.
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San Francisco
Federal Public Housing Authority
California
Utah
Arizona
Nevada
FPHA
Langdon W. Post
FPHA funds to finish Tucson emergency housing units
William I Walsh of Tucson Housing Authority reports FPHA telegrams promise funds to finish emergency housing units near completion. Final unit selection rests with FPHA engineer Jack Shellaby. City officials say 76 flat-topped apartments and 124 Quonset huts at the University of Arizona near occupancy as funds are expected to continue work.
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William I. Walsh
Tucson Housing Authority
FPHA
Arizona
Jack Shellaby
Phoenix
Mgr
Phil J. Martin, Jr
South Cherry Avenue
East 18Th Street
South Second Avenue
East 20Th Street
North 12Th Avenue
East First Street
University of Arizona
Plane Wreck Found After Christmas Eve Flight
A Western Airlines DC-3 missing since Christmas Eve with 12 aboard was located in the Laguna mountains. Ed Neil of the San Diego Tribune-Sun counted 10 bodies, two badly burned, with wreckage on Cuyapaipe peak’s northeast slope. A search party led by ranch worker Happy Milan found the scene.
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San Diego
Western Airlines
Laguna Mountains
Ed Neil
San Diego Tribune-Sun
Neil
Happy” Milan
Cuyapaipe
Buddy Frowiss
Edgar Martin
Holtville
Ed A. Fitzhugh
el Fentro
Richard Milne
San Diego Free Lance
White Aims for Dual Senate Posts In GOP Shakeup
Sen White of Maine says he will seek both floor leader and commerce committee chair posts in the Republican controlled senate. Sen Reed opposes dual appointments and vows to challenge naming one man to two jobs. The plan would also assign Vandenberg to foreign relations and Taft to labor chaired roles, with Millikin to finance and the GOP conference.
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Washington
Sen. White
Maine
Senate
White
Commerce Committee
Sen
Reed
Sen. Vandenberg
Mich
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Sen. Millikin
Cole
Sen. Wherry
Ned
White Reed
Commerce Post
Kansas
Tobey
R-Nh
Vandenberg
Taft
Millikin
Train wreck injures up to fifty on Panama Limited near New Orleans
Six cars of the Panama Limited derailed on a narrow isthmus north of New Orleans. Forty to fifty passengers, many headed to the Sugar Bowl, were injured as five rear sleepers and a dining car overturned. Ambulances ferried the seriously hurt to Hammond and Ponchatoula hospitals.
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Panamia Limited
Chicago
G. R. Kimball
IL Ilinois Central Railroad
Ruddock
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Maurepas
McComb
Miss
Hammond
Ponchatoula
J. Hi. Price
Tobe Clements
Joseph L. Rickell
The
Illinois Central
Pontechartrain
Maurepas
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