Detroit car production lags week amid Briggs strike effects
Detroit area car output fell for the week as Briggs Manufacturing Co strike disrupted body supply to Chrysler and Packard. Production totaled about 92 000 units versus 172 612 last week, with GM and Ford operating well but overall demand rising with mounting orders.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Packard
Detroit Area
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Briggs
General Motors
Ford
Kaiser-Frazer
Buick
Oldsmobile
Car market pressures push used models to near new prices
Industry authorities say buyers can expect 18 month timelines for new cars and that most 1947 models still fetch near original factory prices on used lots. Demand exceeding factory output sustains these premium prices into the future.
CIO Votes to End Harvester Strike
In East Moline Illinois the CIO union announced it had called off its nine week strike at the International Harvester Co plant after workers voted at a late night meeting to return to work Monday morning. Arvid Sheets said job reclassifications, the dispute behind the walkout, would be negotiated with the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Moline
CIO
Internaional Harvester Co
Arvid Sheets
Sheets
Answers to Daily Quiz list of ten items
Answers to Daily Quiz printed on Page 4 cover ten questions. Notable points include civilian control favored, Hawaii Territory, a yes, the House of Commons, a quoted line about inviting Mary Alice and Margaret, custody by the Smithsonian Institution, the Spanish language, petroleum, the number sixty-four, and the phrase Great Soul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Territory of Hawaii
House of Commons
Mary
Alice
Margaret
Smithsonian Institution
Two Women Serve as Juvenile Court Judges in U S
Judge Camille Kelley of Memphis Tennessee becomes the second woman in the United States to join the ranks of Juvenile Court Judges. Judge Fay L Bentley of Washington DC is noted as the first.
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United States
Camille Kelley
Memphis
Tenn
Fay L. Bentley
Washington, D. C
Sale Listings for September and October in Winchester Area
A sequence of public sale notices from Winchester area listings includes Jos W Greyer in Delaplane on Sept 21 at 10 am for live stock farming equipment and household furniture. Alfred DeMazzon near Winchester on Sept 23 for antiques chinaware and glassware. E B Cooper front of Frederick County Court House Sept 25 for real estate. Sept 25 2 pm Mrs Stephens City. Sept 29 C J Emery Grimes for livestock and household goods. Oct 2 J H Funk Houser Estate front of Court House for bank stock and local industries stock. Oct 6 L R Fay near Winchester for antique furniture and kitchen fur niture.
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Jos
W. Greyer
Delaplane
Alfred DeMazzon
York Inn
Winchester
E. B. Cooper
Frederick County Court House
Eeee
Stephens City
C. J. Emery
Grimes
J. H. Funkhouser
Court House
L. R. Fay
Brookside Farm
Allis-Chalmers
John Deere
McCormick-Deering
Sunday church listings across Braddock Street area
Multiple congregations report service times and programs. Braddock Street Methodist Norval Hottle supt worship 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Centenary Reformed Flickinger pastor 11 a.m. Christ Episcopal Roe rector 8 a.m. communion 9:45 a.m. Sunday school 11 a.m. church continuation lists many churches with class times supt names and evening services.
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Braddock St. Methodist
T. J. Hawkins
Norval M. Hottle
Centenary Reformed
L. Flickinger
Christ Episcopal
James B. Roe
Church of the Nazarene
A. L. Lepley
T. Swisher
Congregational Christian
Robert A. Whitten
Bible School
Bazzle
Cork
St. Christian Disciples
William J. Hadden Jr
Claude M. Grove
First Assembly of God
M. N. Zezzo
First Baptist
E. T. Clark
Grace Lutheran
William EE. Eisenberg
Highland Ave. Presbyterian
Joseph S. Duckwall
Elwood Willey
Lee Rinker
Market St
Montague Ave
Edward A. Plunkett
Round Hill
Macedonia
Macedonia _ services
Winchester Presbyterian
Ronald S. Wilson
Russell A. Joyce
SS Council
Mary Bittinger
Ivy Room
Men's Bible Class Notices at Local Churches
W W Glass will teach the Frank T McFaden bible class at Loudoun St Presbyterian church at 9 45 a m tomorrow. C S Hartman Shawnee district Boy Scouts commissioner will announce the fall roundup. Golden Rule Bible class Braddock St Methodist meets 9 30 a m tomorrow then joins First Evangelical United Brethren and Good Samaritan class for combined worship led by C P McVicar and Curtis Blye. Wesleyan Men's Bible class Market St Methodist worships at 9 45 a m tomorrow.
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W. Glass
Frank T. McFaden
Loudoun St. Presbyterian Church
C. S. Hartman
Boy Scouts
Shawnee
Golden Rule Bible
Braddock St
Wesleyan Men's Bible Class
Market St
Senate to Probe Closing of Mills in New England and Virginia
The Senate business committee plans an investigation into Textron Inc for closing six mills in New England and Waynesboro Virginia. Investigators will be assigned to the mill cities to prepare for public hearings where all interested parties will be heard.
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Washington
Senate Business Committee
Textron, Inc
New England
Waynesboro
Sea Styles Bridges
I Rem em ber Mama first produced in 1944
The play I Remember Mama was first produced at the Schubert Theater New Haven Connecticut on September 28 1944 and later in New York on October 19 1944. It was adapted by John van Druten and based on Kathryn Forbes book Mama's Bank Account.
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Mama
Schubert Theater
New Haven Conn
New York
John van Druten
Kathryn Forbes
England’s wartime rationing and the black market era
The piece surveys rationing in England in 1940 by 40s era observer. It details clothing food fuel and petrol coupons prices in markets and the presence of a large black market. It notes high taxes and death duties limiting the wealthy while even the rich face shortages. It compares official controls to a government run school.
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Attles & Co
Priva
Oac
Frien
England
London
Doe
Fuel Office
The
Coal Board
Clothing Bureau
Labor Decontrolling Rations Seen By 1950 Election
The speaker predicts gradual de control of rationed goods under the Labor government before the 1950 general election. It may bring less strict rules week by week, with Mrs Doe reading reports of unrationed clothing petrol and meat. The public could either bless or rebuke the Labour government as rationing eases.
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England
Blackmarket
Labor
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Berryville Lumber Co., Inc
Berryville 19
John W. Rosenberger & Co
S. Braddock St
C. 1
Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
International
Christian Science
E. Cork St
First Brethren
Paul E. Dick
A. C. Frye
John Mann Methodist
E. H. Jackson
Arch Chapel
Loudoun St
Church of Christ
Nathan Williamson
Bible
Garland Whitlock
Mt. Carmel
Sacred Heart Catholic
Julian Bullock
Sherry
mAs
Men's Bible Class
Senate
Inkerman
Hardy Co
Farmall
Cumberland
Augusta W. Va
John Marshal Highway
W. Va
Fabius
Harold Bean
APPLE
Ees
Joseph W. Greyer
Coleman Dunn
Signs OF the Times
the All-Purpose Vehicle Lamp Motor CO
Smithfield Ave
Pine Motor Co., Inc
Dodge-Plymouth
Albin
Tommy D. Lockhart
Tyler Flight Service
Orporatio
Long Island
Baltimore
Winchester Airport
Palace Hotel
Tyler Flight Service Corp
York
D.S.T
China
Dresden
Sevres
Eric
Brac
Martinsburg Pike
Edwin T. Snider
Choice Building
U.S Highway No. 11
Rt. 641
Massie St
Benjamin Massie
James A. Conrad
Harrisonburg, Va
A. R. Funk
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