Wednesday, October 16, 1929

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The Headlines

FOOD TIE-UP FEARED AS GASOLINE STRIKE HITS MARKET TRUCKS; Produce Men Organize to Meet Emergency--Walkout of All Drivers Here Again Looms. 54,000 MAY QUIT POSTS Filling-Station Crews Meet and Formulate Demands for Action on Friday. TANK CAR FIRED IN NEWARK But Violence Here Subsides as All Companies Oust Private Guards at Whalen's Order. 54,000 Threaten to Quit. Two More Companies Settle. FOOD TIE-UP FEARED; MARKET TRUCKS HIT Produce Men Meet Today. Calls Shortage Negligible. Armed Guards Withdrawn. Truck Fired in Newark. Coercion Again Charged. Demand Eight-Hour Day. Two Hold in Bail Here.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Singin' in the Rain

Nacio Herb Brown

The must-have

Duncan Yo-Yo

You Share a Birthday With

• Oscar Wilde (1854)
• Günter Grass (1927)
• David Ben-Gurion (1886)
• Eugene O'Neill (1888)
• Enver Hoxha (1908)

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Tech Check

Car Radio, Sunglasses (Mass Produced) & Coaxial Cable.

Cost of Living (1920)