Marine to be gifted $23,000 house for blindness
In Lakewood New Jersey a US Marine blinded at Iwo Jima will receive a $23,000 home funded by Ocean and Monmouth counties donations and unions. Ray Marine and fiancée Miss Mary Jane Shafto will accept the house Sunday, after a hand to hand battle left him blind March 7 1945. The drive was started by Ocean County Judge Harry E Newman publisher of the Lakewood Times.
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Monmouth
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Mary Jane Shafto
Marine
Ocean County
Harry E. Newman
The
Lakewood Times
Ex-Coffee Man Gibson Takes On Government Duties
Frederick C. Othman recalls Edwin T. Gibson, former coffee magnate, now acting administrator of the Defense Production Administration. Gibson faces Senate questions over policy and small business loans while the coffee price issue lingers.
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Washington
Edwin T. Gibson
Gibson
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
General Foods Corp
New York
Brazil
Truman
Defense Production Administration
Senate
DPA
William Harrison
Defense Production
House Appropriations Committee
Harrison
Great Britain
Sen. A. Willis Robertson
Virginia Democrat
Hong Kong
Korea
Mary Astor Returns Home From Hospital
Screen actress Mary Astor is back in her San Fernando Valley home after an overdose of sleeping pills last Monday night. Joan Blair Casparis, 33, a former dancer, is recovering in hospital after a similar overdose. Thomas G. Wheelock, 47, Astor's fourth husband, was with Casparis when Astor took the pills and said the suicide attempts were unrelated and a fantastic coincidence.
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Los Angeles
Mary Astor
San Fernando Valley
Joan Blair Casparis
Thomas G. Wheelock
Miss Astor
Miss Casparis
Demands End of Price Wage Lids
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers executive board call for an end to all price and wage controls when the defense act expires June 30. They label the act an iron collar on business and labor and oppose its extension amid Truman’s two year request. The resolution accuses supporters of undermining the American way of life.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Truman
Mine Workers
Negro Elected to Nashville Council
Nashville voters elected Alexander Looby, attorney and NAACP representative, to the 21 member city council, defeating Coyness L. Ennix by 944 to 289. This marks the first Negro council member in over 30 years under new district voting rules guiding the election.
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Nashville, Tenn
Alexander Looby
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Coyness L. Ennix
Looby
Ennix
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