Senate passes price control bill to extend OPA
In a 53 to 11 vote the Senate approved a one year extension of price controls and stripped ceilings from meat dairy eggs and tobacco effectively reducing wartime powers. House and Senate must reconcile differences before sending to President Truman.
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Senate
Washington
Price Agency
OPA
Truman
Chester Bowles
Paul Porter
White House
Robert A. Taft
James W. Huffman
Ohio
House
Senate House Committee
Bowles
Porter
Senate House
Secretary of Agriculture
Bridges Accepts 22 Cent WA Seamen Wage Increase
Washington AP reporting Harry Bridges yielded ground as a midnight deadline neared for a broad maritime strike. He signaled acceptance of a 22 cent per hour wage rise for West Coast CIO longshoremen only until September 30 while warning of a new crisis in about three months. Conciliators believed talks could avert a strike, but the sector remained on edge until a formal agreement.
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Washington
iHarry
Bridges
CIO
United States backs international atomic development authority
Bernard Baruch outlined a plan at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission meeting calling for an international authority to oversee atomic energy. The proposal includes renunciation of the bomb, a world security program with enforceable sanctions, and the U S to destroy its bomb stock and halt production.
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United States
International Atomic Develop Nt
Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations ‘Atomic Energy Commission
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Baruchi
Baruch
Baruch Calls for UN Punishment Power on Atomic Violators
Baruch told the United Nations that the world must end veto protections for atomic violators and push strict control. He urged safeguards against mass destruction weapons and warned peace rests on cooperation and real disarmament, not armament races.
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Baruch
All Honest Volunteers Help Recover Money After Mail Sack Loss
Libertyville Illinois police chief Joseph Saam supervised a rescue operation after a train tore open a mail sack near the Milwaukee Railroad station. Nearly all of the 44000 dollars in new bills were recovered by 40 volunteers, with 275 dollars missing.
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Ill
Joseph Saam
Milwaukee Railroad
Saam
Bolivia Revolt Is Put Down
A seven hour Bolivian revolt backed by part of the air force was crushed by President Gualberto Villarroel's government. Casualties were reported and many pilots sought asylum in Chile and Peru after the failed coup led by civilians and army officers seeking to topple Villarroel, who had seized power in 1943.
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Buenos Aires
Beli Ja
Bolivan
Gualberto Villarroel
Chile
Peru
Relique
Villarroel
City Workers in Canton End Ohio Strike Vote
Striking CIO unionists in Canton water garbage sewer and street departments prepared to resume work today under a two week truce pending arbitration of their wage dispute with the city. The CIO United Public Workers Union members voted 93 to 82 to return to their jobs after the city council set up a seven member arbitration panel.
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CIO
CIO United Public Workers Union
Harmony fills Public Hall as eight international quartet contest heats up
In Cleveland at Public Hall the Eighth International Championship Contest of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America fills the north ballroom with four part harmony. Thirty-one quartets compete for 15 finals spots while the winners earn championship medals. Cleveland entrants include the Lamplighters Forest City Four and Ramblers with Massillon’s Harmonaires among contenders.
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Kansas City Serenaders
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Forest City Four
Ramblers
Texas
United States
Tick Ridge Man Held in Slaying of Companion
County officials question 20 year old Willard Eddie Norris after a dawn shooting. Norris allegedly killed Forrest Male with a borrowed .22 rifle, then returned the gun and went home. Norris, his cousin Floyd Male, and Floyd’s wife Freda were being questioned. The shooting occurred by a car as Norris returned from borrowing the rifle for groundhog hunting.
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Willard
Eddie” Norris
George Bateman
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Forrest Male
Mt Hermon
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Bateman
Gordon Gray
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Floyd Male
Freda
Field
Freda Maile
Nortis
Fisher
Five Bandits Captured After Chase Down River
Five robbers who looted a Tecumseh Ontario bank of 12000 dollars led a cross border pursuit by American and Canadian police down the Detroit River last night Four were captured on Peche Island today three men and a woman remain in custody while officers search the island for the remaining gang member the daylight raid targeted the Tecumseh Branch of the Provincial Bank of Canada
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Jpi
Tecumseh, Ont
Detroit River
Peche Island
Tecumseh
Provincial
Bank of Canada
Sandusky County Seeks To Eliminate Gambling
Fremont prosecutor A. L Hyzer announced letters were sent to all Sandusky County mayors and the county sheriff urging cooperation to eliminate punch boards slot machines and similar gambling devices.
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Sandusky County
Fremont
A. L Hyzer
Truman cites China airlift cost of 300 million in lend-lease report
President Truman told Congress the United States spent 300 million to airlift four Chinese armies to disarm Japan after VJ Day. He noted total lend-lease aid from 1941 to 1945 reached 49.097 billion, with China receiving 31.336 billion and the British Empire, Russia, and France among the largest recipients.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
China
British Empire
Russia
France
Jap War Crime Blame Put on Tojo and Allies
Tokyo dispatch reports the international war crimes prosecution asserting individual responsibility of Hideki Tojo and related defendants for acts carried out in the name of the emperor.
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Tojo
Tokyo
International War Crimes Prosecution Today
Directi
Hideki Tojo
Osborn Fairfield Herald Earns Second in Editorial Service
Estes Park Colorado hosts the National Editorial Association convention where the Osborn Fairfield Herald is named second among weekly newspapers for excellence in editorial community service. First place went to the Sun Prairie Star and Country Iman in Wisconsin.
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Ohio
ESTES
Exiled Umberto II Spends First Night in Barcelona
Umberto II of Italy, arriving from Barcelona where he spent his first night in exile, expressed eagerness to join his family. The Queen and children reached Portugal earlier by sea as the exile tale unfolds. Comedian Charles Butterworth to be buried in Hollywood with funeral services planned for tomorrow.
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Lisbon
Umberto II
Italy
Portugal
Hollywood—P
Charles Butterworth
Mine Foremen Union Battle Flares Anew
Washington reports a renewed fight over unionization of mine foremen in the soft coal industry. About 123 coal companies sue to block government and United Mine Workers from signing a contract to enroll mine supervisory workers. The government has run the pits since the 59 day strike ended with a deal.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
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Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Major Bowes dies at 71 in Rumson estate
Major Edward Bowes famed for the radio Amateur Hour and the Wheel of Fortune died at his Rumson New Jersey estate on the eve of his 72nd birthday. He had arrived in failing health from New York City about three weeks earlier and received last rites from Francis Cardinal Speelman. Bowes had long denied persistent death rumors and retired about 14 months ago.
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Rumson
N. J
Edward Bowes
Francis Cardinal Speelman
Bowes
New York City
Middleport Woman Dies After Suddenness
Gallipolis staff special Anna Singer of Middleport died Thursday afternoon at Holzer Hospital after a sudden illness. She is survived by husband James Singer twelve children and multiple relatives. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Mount Moriah Baptist Church Middleport with visitation at 243 Pearl Street.
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Anna Singer
Middleport
Holzer Hospital
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Florence Siler
Pomeroy
Marcia Sawyer
Institute
W. Va
Dorothy Casey
Anna Margaret
Rita
James
Jane
Joan
Roland
Helen
Richard
Sandra
Carrie Payne
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Pearl St
Jewelry cache found in YMCA attic worth over $100,000
Electricians wiring the Orange YMCA attic unearthed a stash of stolen jewelry valued by Essex County investigators at more than $100,000. A former resident of the YMCA was detained for questioning by detectives.
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Orange
N. J
Alfaic
Orange Ymca
Essex County
Leon Skiarey
Black Market Cleanup Fines 24 in Pittsburgh Sugar Case
Twenty four people including four former OPA officials were fined a total of 61 950 in federal court as a cleanup of Pittsburgh's black market in sugar concluded. The court imposed bail sentences in most cases but suspended them.
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Pittsburgh
OPA
Ohio political leaders plan fall campaign meetings
In Columbus, Democratic and Republican leaders from Ohio gather for a weekend to map fall strategies. Democrats, led by congressional candidates and county officials, meet with national figures like Richard Nace Oscar Ewing and George Killian for vote-getting plans. Republicans hold a WWI veterans session with Thomas J. Herbert welcoming the executive committee and county club officers at a dinner, as B. Carroll Reece and John W. Bricker speak, with Senator Robert Taft possibly addressing attendees.
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Columbus
Richard Nace
Oscar Ewing
George Killian
Thomas J. Herbert
B. Carroll Reece
GOP
John W. Bricker
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Union Accuses Firm Manager Charged After Plant Dispute
R. W. Davis general manager of the Allis Chalmers plant in Norwood was released on a $3,000 bond after arrest on charges filed by two strikers. He faced counts of removing auto parts without owner permission and malicious destruction of property tied to cars parked by pickets on Allis Chalmers property last Monday to bar non striking workers.
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Cincinnati
R. W. Davis
Allis‘Chalmers
Norwood
Lwas
Liberty
Davis
Charles W. Fritz
Allis-Chalmers
West Virginia Ordnance Works Exempted From Surplus Plan
The Ohio West Virginia Tri County Industrial Association reports that the West Virginia Ordnance Works is exempt from the Surplus Property Disposal Program through congressional action. A government representative will visit Point Pleasant to negotiate a sale with a manufacturer seeking to set up a firm there. Clyde L. Barton, president, said the group’s delegation returned from Washington with the news.
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Point Pleasant
Ohio-West Virginia
Tri-County Industrial Association
Washington, D. C
West Virginia
Soap Laden Trailer Crash Injures Two In Carthage
A tractor trailer carrying nine tons of powdered soap wrecked into two powertine poles and caught fire in a suburb of Carthage injuring two people and causing about 13000 dollars in damage. Police closed the slaying probe into President Whitcomb after an opinion by George E Hardy. Funeral services were planned in Jasper for Senator Bankhead.
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Carthage
Boston
William A. Whitcomb
George E. ‘Hardy
Powers Outline Global Atomic Authority Proposal
A grey statesman urged creating an international atomic development authority with control and licensing over dangerous activities, promotion of beneficial uses, and proactive research. He warned treaties banning possession are insufficient without enforceable security guarantees and an authoritative world leadership in atomic science.
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Earuch
International Atomic Development Authority
Grey Statesman
Byrnes Leads Arrival at Four Power Conference
Secretary of State Byrnes was first to arrive for the four power talks in Paris as Molotov and Bevin were due. The ministers signaled the meeting could be the last chance to avert division of Europe into eastern and western spheres, with separate peace treaties possible if negotiations fail.
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Paris
Byrnes
Europe
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Benes Bevin
Bevin
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Made in Japan label to return to U.S. shops
Allied headquarters announced a forthcoming shipment of about three tons of sample items from Japan. The goods include bathtub toys Christmas tree ornaments and ivory carvings. It marks the first such display in American dime stores since prewar days.
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Tokyo
Japan
Allied Headquarters
Hexachlorobenzene ascaracide eyed by Ohio State professor
Prof R E Rebrassier of Ohio State University says hexachlorobenzene also known as 666 shows promise as a parasiticide for livestock. He notes its effectiveness against mites and lice in a one percent liquid paraffin solution while cautioning about DDT toxicity and wartime chemical advances in parasite control.
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R. E. Rebrassier
Ohio State University
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