Small Nations win voice at Paris peace talks and Middle East aid talks
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes smaller nations win right to discuss peace treaty drafts at Paris conference amid Russian compromise. Also covers Ku Klux Klan investigations by the justice department across seven states and British warnings on Palestine partition funding with Arab and Jewish resettlement costs and reparations financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Russia
Greece
Yugoslavia
Ukraine
Molotov
U. S
Versailles
San Francisco
Farm price gains mark largest monthly rise in 37 years
The July 15 month saw sharp price increases for cotton grains meat poultry eggs and dairy lifting the general price index by nine points the highest monthly rise in 37 years of records. The text also notes a partition proposal giving Jews the northeast Palestine and Arabs the central area with immigration controls and open Negeb desert under British administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Negeb Desert
Auto production faces slide as 1946 strikes imperil output
July production neared 313 thousand units but supplier plant walkouts threaten August goals. Dura division Toledo workers halted shipments delaying door handles and interior hardware while Studebaker and Hudson cut thousand plus jobs. Ford urged uninterrupted supplier plant activity to sustain output as GM Chrysler Hudson Packard Nash rejected UAW talks. Only Studebaker Willys-Overland Kaiser-Frazer joined invitation. Half-year 1946 production totals reach about 1.29 million cars and trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dura
Detroit Harvester Company
Toledo
Ohio
Studebaker
Hudson
General Motors
Chrysler
Packard
Nash
Ford
Reuther
Willys-Overland
Kaiser- Frazer
UAW
Furlough pay for G I s to be issued as bonds over $50
Congress approves a plan to pay unused furloughs to GIs with securities rather than cash to curb inflation. Bonds of 25 dollars each will be issued for excess payments, redeemable after five years and usable against life insurance. Cash remains for amounts under 25 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.i.s
Congress
U. S
National Service Life Insurance
Atomic energy seen as peacetime aid not replacement
Harry A. Winne, electrical engineer, says atomic power could aid peacetime tasks like irrigating deserts and melting ice caps, but will supplement rather than replace existing energy sources. He stresses practical limits despite fanciful predictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sahara
Greenland
Harry A. Winne
Winne
War profits clash as Garssons oppose tax refund claim
Erie Basin Metal Products Inc seeks to bar the U S government from refunding 358 874 58 for the 1943 fiscal year. The Garsson munitions empire faces Senate scrutiny over war contracts and alleged influence by Rep May. The tax court is asked to reject refusals to allow certain rentals salaries and expenses as legitimate costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc
U. S
Garsson Munitions
Empire
Senate
Mead
Dem
May
Combine War
Washington, D. C
Garssons
Eric Basin
Red Cross funds boost relief for prisoners of war
The International Red Cross Committee in Geneva authorized collecting 3 750 000 dollars from affiliated societies and governments to fund relief work through 1950. It maintained a 27 million card index for 15 million POWs and handled 107 million letters. Inflation woes hit Hungary. new florint planned to replace the pengo. OPA raised farm machinery retail ceilings by 6 percent and fertilizer prices eyed a rise, with ammonium sulphate ceilings up 10 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Red Cross Committee
Geneva
Switzerland
IRCC
France
Great Britain
U. S
Germany
OPA
Connecticut Forms Alcoholism Commission Takes Over Yale Plan Clinics
The new Connecticut Commission on Alcoholism assumes control of Yale Plan treatment clinics for alcoholics. Three other states have designated funds for alcoholic treatment and 14 cities across the country maintain established education committees on alcoholism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Commission On
Yale Plan
Washington Digest: Wheeler Defeat Signals End of Era
Washington observes the defeat of Senator Wheeler by Leif Erickson in Montana, marking the obit of a long career. The piece notes Truman’s loyalty to friends, Wheeler’s isolationist stance, and the senator’s mix of integrity and controversial views amid a changing Senate during OPA debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Truman
Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
Leif Erickson
Wheeler
Harry Truman
Interstate Commerce Committee
Truman
Harold McGrath
Senate
Sen
George Norris
Kenneth Wherry
Norris
Ellison
Cotton Ed’’) Smith
South Carolina
Henry Ashurst
New Mexico
Ashurst
William King
Utah
Lynn Frazer
North Dakota
Washington
Jerry O’connell
Erickson
Jerry
O’connell
Senator Wheeler
Ber
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
OPA
Bridges
Senator Bridges
Bird proof windshield approved by Civil Aeronautics
Barbs notes a new bird proof windshield won approval and jokes about a bird proof automobile. The piece cites the Metropolitan Information Service on life expectancy remaining for today's youth and Petroleum Notes on lack of central heating for 20 million homes. It also mentions veterans without homes and clothing ready to wear as of 1880 and 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Metropolitan Information Service
Twentieth Century Foundation
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Western Newspaper Union
KKK
Justice Department
Tom Clark
Philadelphia
New York
Michigan
Tennessee
Florida
California
Mississippi
Georgia
Department
International Bank
Bretton Woods
Luxembourg Palace
Paris
Tom C. Clark
Henry Ford II
Walter Reuther
Clio-United Automobile Chieftain
RED Cross
Hungary
State Business
Washington Digest
Bauxhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Solon
Schwellenbach
West
Labor
Potomac
Puget Sound
Labor Department
United States Senate
Lew Schwellenbach
Edgar Schwellenbach
Supreme Court
Washington Post
Glen Taylor
Taylor
Bankhage
Midwest
Midwest Tire CO
Locust St. Louis
Eastern
Jackson Co
O.P.A
Quality Concrete Block CO
E. Sea
Independence
Saline County
Missouri
William Schepers
Rock Road
J. J. Horgan
College Street
Kansas City
Clara Utz
Marshall
Christine Brown
Lulah Crawfef
CISCO
Ark
Florence
Co. J. Delbrid
Sioux Falls
von der Ahe
Olive St
St. Louis
Real Estate—Bus
Toelose
Josep Shields
Ancil Greve
Geo. Merilatt
Lost Springs
Kansas
Real Estate
MISC
Starks
Oklahoma City
Okla
T & Guntzler
North First
Saint Louis
HONEY
Clyde H. Ross Shubert
NEBR
St. Joseph
As Ria
Lydia EB
Pinkham
WNU
Doans
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