The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-19
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ASHING TON Restaurant shutdowns spread today as Restaur- ant Associations fought the roll back of prices on meals containing meat. The meat shortage has al ready forced many meat packers md butcher shops to close.
 LAKE SUCCESS = Delegates to the United Nations Security Coun- cil took a day off from their war of words over Greece today to pon- der ways of ending the dispute at their next meeting tomorrow.
 HOT SPRINGS, Ark.-Prosecutor Curtis Ridgway said today that Chester w. Ellis, 39, an aluminium plant worker, has signed confes- sion that he accidentally set the Great Northern Hotel fire here Sat urday that claimed three lives.
 PEIPING-The 46-day-old Con- muniSt siege of Nationalist-held Tatung, important rail junction west of Peiping, was reported brok- en today as Gen. Flu Tso-yi's gov ernment army fought its way to- ward the city to relieve the defend- ing garrison.
 WASHINGTON - OPA to d a y boosted tanners ceilings on sheep skin leather by 26 percent. This paved the way for retail increases on shoes, leather jackets and other apparel made of this type leather.
 CLEVELAND-Bure early to- day cut their way through wall of the Parkview Savings Loan Go. here. broke into the vault, and es- caped with $65,000 in cash. The theft was discovered shortly after 6 am. when the first employees ar rived for work, found the wall bro- ken open and patchwork scattered around.
 President Truman today conferred with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes by transatlantic telephone, it was learned tonight, and 3yrnes appeared to be in good spirits after the talk. The call was fairly lengthy"
 WASHINGTON-The Bureau of Mines said it has been advised of an explosion in Mccoy, Va, mine where 50 or more men were said to be working A spokesman said the Bureau had no details about the blast.
 NEW YORK-HeavyWeight cham pion Joe Louis received S103,6ll. .89 for his knockout of Tami Mauriello .n two minutes and nine seconds at Yankee Stadium last night, while the unsuccessful challenger got S38.054 for his appearance of less than a round.
 NEW YORK - A Pan American Constellation carrying 34 passeng- CTS encountered engine trouble today and returned to New York's La Guardia Field Al minutes after taking off. As the plane circled the field at about 1,500 feet, part of i the gasoline was dumped. The landing was made without miShap The plane was bound for Vienna OTTAWA-An economist for the Bank of Canada, Miss Agatha Chapman, was charged today with conspiring with the Russian spy ring which was operated in Canada Miss Chapman surrendered to po- lice headquarters today when she was told that the government in- tended to prosecute.
 SEATTLE = Infantile paralysis claimed the fourth life here this month with the death today of Roy Brister, 6-year- son of MT. and Mrs Tavern Brister, North Bend Health authorities list nine such deaths in the state during the re cent outbreak.
 SEATTLE Reese H. Taylor President of the Union Oil Con- pany, declared at news confer ence here today that his firm which holds leases on lands in the Gen. tralia and Chehalis areas and large acreages in the Olympic Peninsula for exploration purposes, is ready i 10 spend millions of dollars if necessary in search for oil and new industry in Washington | state.
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