Protests Grow Over House OPA Clampdown and Price Controls
Congress faces a flood of constituent mail condemning the House action crippling the OPA, with Senate skeptics urged to extend price controls. Army Times denounces lawmakers as hypocritical, warning inflation would surge without continued control while veterans face housing, draft, and pay implications. The piece notes GOP blame, producer profits protections, and industry worries about inflation and production.
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Army Times
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Armed Services
GOP
America
Taft
Ohio
National Association of Manufacturers
Frank Rathje
American Bankers' Association
Marriage Bars Defied by Love
In Honolulu a blue eyed New Orleans girl, Marguerite Faye Human, 19, and California oil heir John G. Ochsner, seaman first class, pursue marriage despite age and parental obstacles. Her stowaway tale led to probation. his mother in Oakland objects. They plan to marry when he turns 20, she vows to work.
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New Orleans
California
Oakland
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Marguerite Faye Human
John G. Ochsner
Kettleman Hills
Johnny
Hilda Carling Ochsner
Marguerite
San Francisco
Hayes
Phone Girl Is Witness To Slaying and Death by Own Action
Akron Indiana police describe a murder suicide case in which Ruth Eber 17 was heard crying for help at a switchboard after a shooting that killed her father Lester Eber 47 and left Ruth mortally wounded. Coroner Dean Sinson suspects Lester killed his wife then wounded Ruth before shooting himself with a .45 pistol. Ruth died en route to hospital while the daughter lay near the telephone.
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Ind
Joan Heeter
Ruth Eber
Lester Eber
Miss Heeter
Eber
Dean Sinson
Sinson
Ruth
Miner Sacrifices Life to Save Ten Colleagues in Davis Mine
In Kemptown West Virginia Peter Howard Scripp 33 gave his life to save ten coal miners. He jumped to the mine switches to divert runaway cars into an empty chamber and was crushed. The move prevented deaths or injuries among ten men at the pit bottom.
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Kemptown
W. VA
Peter Howard Scripp
Davis Coal & Coke Company
Scripp
Hit and Run Scores Three Hits in One Time at Bat
NOBLESVILLE IND Mr and Mrs Robert E Blanton reported a tractor trailer side swiped their car on Road 32 west of Noblesville then broke off a utility pole crashed through a farm fence got back on the highway and continued without stopping Their car was heavily damaged and the couple suffered minor injuries
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Noblesville
Ind
Robert E. Blanton
Blantons
Trapped Sailor Dies After Shanghai Jewelry Theft
An American sailor in Shanghai killed himself after police detained him following a jewelry store robbery. He had fled with three diamond rings, wounded a Chinese officer, and was cornered in a blind alley before the fatal shot.
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Yank
Shanghai
Seanghai
Eating Peanuts by Peck Coroner Rules Accidental Death
London report states Mrs. Ethel Roys, aged 27, refused to leave her Edmunds Suffolk home after a passerby warned of a fire citing a doctor's prohibition. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
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London
Edmunds
Suffolk
England
Ethel Roys
Allied orders authorize 12,125 tons explosives for Jap industry
Tokyo dispatch reports Allied headquarters approved production of 12,125 tons of explosives for Japanese industrial use in the six months ending June 30. The authorization highlights wartime economic measures and industrial mobilization.
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Jap Explosives
Tokyo
Gems of Thought Quotations Brief Excerpt
A compact collection of aphorisms and quotes on duty justice happiness aging and memory from Whittier Eliot Confucius Balzac and Swift. The lines reflect on shaping the future present reward and misperception of fortune with brief pithy statements.
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Confucius
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