Taft Bipartisan Clash Over Consumer Buying Power
Leon Henderson warned that price increases have reduced consumer purchasing power, while Senator Taft disputed the claim and urged no real drop in purchasing power. Henderson proposed tax cuts and a congressional inquiry into housing and prices for economic stability.
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Leon Henderson
OPA
Taft
Henderson
Joint Congressional Committee On the Economic Report
Americans For Democratic Action
House
1946 Virginia Apple Crop Seen Exceeding Prospects
Virginia processors bought 6.503 million bushels of apples in 1946, topping the state's expected output. Domestic plants picked 5.163 million bushels with 1.34 million bushels from plants outside Virginia. Prices averaged 2.33 dollars per hundred, down from 4.13 last year. canning apples and apple sauce commanded up to 3.43 per hundred.
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Virginia
Virginia Co - Operative Corp Reporting Service
Plans for Ruhr Coal To Be Pushed by U S
Secretary of State Marshall said the United States seeks a quick rise in Ruhr coal production in Germany as essential to Europe's recovery. He noted no current plans to include France, Russia or other nations in talks, which will start in Britain and America late next week.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
Germany
Europe
Ruhr
France
Russia
Three More Delegates May Attend Rural Institute Delegation
Miss Agnes Shirley county home demonstration agent said there is room for three more Frederick county women on the delegation to attend the Institute of Rural Affairs at VPI beginning July 29.
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Agnes Shirley
Frederick County
Institute of Rural Affairs
VPI
Union Prayer Service Tonight At John Mann Methodist Church
A union prayer service of the colored churches in the city is scheduled for 8:30 tonight at John Mann Methodist Church.
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John Mann Methodist Church
Freedom Party Beaten in Budapest Riot at HQ
In Budapest last night 12 members of Dezso Sulyok's Freedom party were beaten as 50 to 60 demonstrators shouting Communist slogans stormed a party headquarters near the American and British officers club. Police arrested all 12 victims while raiders were not detained. District secretary Lajos Honti was severely injured and carried to jail with ongoing profuse bleeding hours later.
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Budapest
Dezso Sulyok
Freedom Party
Lajos Honti
Honti
Anti-Fascist Group Members Sentenced for Contempt
Dr Edward K Barsky chair of the joint anti Fascist Refugee Committee and 10 other members were given jail terms and fines for contempt of Congress. Five others received suspended sentences. The defendants from New York were convicted of withholding records from the House Un American Activities Committee. Barsky got six months and 500 dollars fine. Howard Fast and others received three months and 300 dollars each. Turkey growers plan to cut 1947 turkey production by 16 percent.
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Washington
Edward K. Barsky
Joint
Congress
New York
House
UN American Activities Committee
Barsky
Richmond B. Keech
Howard Fast
Russia proposes UN quotas for atomic ore under control
Andrei Gromyko of Russia urged the United Nations to adopt a convention specifying quotas of atomic ores for each nation under international control. He said the quotas are of utmost importance. Frederick Osborn, U. S. delegate, said he was not ready to discuss quotas now. The idea arose during talks on mines and ores bearing atomic materials.
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Lake Success
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
United Nations
Gromyko
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Frederick H. Osborn
United States
Pineapple Workers End Hawaiian Strike
Honolulu July 16 The strike in Hawaii s 65 million pineapple industry ended today as abruptly as it began six days ago. Federal labor conciliator Nathan P Feinsinger announced the CIO Longshoremen s and Warehousemen s union had called off the strike and that the industry had agreed to reopen contract negotiations immediately. ILWU Chief Harry Bridges said workers would return to their jobs at noon. The cost of Federal meat grading averages about three hundredths of a cent per pound.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Nathan P. Feinsinger
CIO
ILWU
Harry Bridges
Plane crash kills two brothers and cargo of chicks
Two Watrous brothers Francis and Arthur of Meriden Conn were burned to death when their single engine C 64 plane crashed into a telephone pole on Route 211 near Luray nine miles from town. The wreckage scattered on the highway as state police moved the bodies and some chicks escaped the plane before dying. A CAB official suggested heavy mountain fog forced the pilots to follow the highway. A local reporter Naddeo arrived as the crash scene unfolded at Panorama Virginia.
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Lee Highway
Immede
Washington
CAB
Photographers at Midlburg crash scene photograph wreck
Naddeo and Tom Kelly Brown and Bigelow representatives were taking commercial pictures at Middleburg Warrenton and Luray. They found two motorists reporting the plane crash and reached the scene as the plane burned. The bodies of air freight pilots Arthur Watrous were not yet removed. Naddeo said his photos were accepted by the Associated Press.
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Ther
Naddeo
Tom Kelly
Brown
Bigelow
Middleburg
Warrenton
Luray
Kelley
Arthur Watrous
Associated Press
Hair tuft worn by Hindus on crown
The tuft of hair on the crown worn by some Hindus is called the shikha. It is not limited to any specific Hindu tribe and can be worn by all castes, though very few people bother to wear it.
Special Grand Jury Called for Frederick Circuit Court
Special grand jurors directed to appear in Frederick circuit court Monday include J. C. Hiser W McLeod Huyett G Light Edgar L. Payne H C Carbaugh and Ted Cawthorn. Cases for investigation include Avisa charged with auto larceny and Charles Franklin Dornan accused of stealing a saw rig.
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J. C. Hiser
W., W. McLeod
Huyett G. Light
Edgar L. Payne
H. C. Carbaugh
Ted Cawthorn
Grand Jury
Avisa
Charles Franklin Dornan
Cused
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