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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
2
National rail actions delay commerce and press officials plan security upgrades. Auto price pressures mount amid rising costs while defense and naval spending areas receive renewed attention and policy focus from policymakers.
The great railroad strike shuts down transport across the country as 225000 members of locomotive engineers and railway trainmen walk out over pay. Government tries to end the walkout with wage offers while freight and passenger services collapse and terminals fill with stranded travelers. Separate talks on coal and postwar recovery continue as officials seek a lasting peace and recovery framework.
The text notes Betsy Noel did not design the American flag. Francis Hopkinson of Philadelphia is named the actual designer. It also covers unrelated tips on defrosting freezers, historical dances, ham curing times, global agriculture, and glove mending with thread types.
A survey shows US life insurers paid daily benefits totaling over 8 million dollars in 1945 to aid Canada. The report highlights large sums for MIA cases and athletic benefits, with overall payments reaching a record level and far exceeding prior totals.
The committee favors congressional approval of naval expenditures above 4 percent of the next fiscal year's budget ending June 30 1947. The postwar navy would man 500000 enlisted personnel and 58000 officers with fleets including battleships heavy cruisers light cruisers and carriers. Additional ships would be placed on the inactive list, and a substantial reserve and organized reserve force would be created. The report discusses industrial supply, wage adjustments, and impacts on automobile production and labor endeavors in the context of postwar defense mobilization.
US government officials defend famine aid as they announce a plan to ship 400 million bushels of grain abroad for the year ending June 30. DA Fitzgerald notes Americans face lower wheat per person than Canada Argentina and Australia. He adds US funds cover 72 percent of UNRRA aid and 83 percent of UNRRA wheat purchases while a premium for grain delivery is not expected to continue beyond the season.
The Ford Motor Company posted assets exceeding 600 million dollars in 1945, despite dropping from billion dollar status. The family holds most of the 3,452,900 shares. Assets totaled 815,515,214 with cash 421,712,270 notes receivable patents machinery real estate inventory and reserves.
A Chicago mother Marjorie Ashe abandoned her ten day old infant at Illinois Central hospital claiming she could not bear showing the child to others yet. The distraught husband James took the baby home as she wandered in a Burlington Union Depot dazed. They reconciled after a tearful embrace and the husband declared their baby the most beautiful in the world.
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