Conference Rules Committee Endorses British Voting Plan
After 20 hours of debate the peace conference rules committee adopts a British compromise on voting machinery with a two thirds rule for final decisions while allowing simple majority recommendations. Former enemies Italy Romania Bulgaria Hungary and Finland may be heard in committees and sessions on their treaties.
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Paris
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
Byrnes
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Foreign Ministers Council
Trieste
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
United States
Great Britain
France
China
Canada
Brazil
Belgium
Greece
India
New Zealand
Netherlands
South Africa
Norway
Ethiopia
U S Plans End to UNRRA Contributions and Liquidation
Geneva reports under secretary William Clayton announced the United States will make no further funds to UNRRA. Fiorella LaGuardia urged liquidation by Oct 1 with DP relief ending by early 1947. He warned of Russian army diversions in Austria and called for policy reconciliation.
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Geneva
Switzerland
William Clayton
UNRRA
United States
Clayton
Fiorella LaGuardia
New York
China
Europe
Orient
LaGuardia
International Refugee Organization
Red Army
Byrnes and Molotov Clash Over Conference Voting
Tass dispatches from Moscow report Byrnes challenging Molotov in Paris over the conference voting procedure. Molotov pledged to publish the exchange in Soviet press, with Izvestia and Trud carrying 1500 words of Tass dispatches, including 350 words of Molotov’s indirect quotes.
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Moscow
Tass
Byrnes
Molotov
Paris
Izvestia
Trud
Noxon’s Sentence Commutted to Life in Massachusetts
John F. Noxon Jr., 49, who faced execution for the murder of his infant son, had his death sentence commuted to life by Gov. Maurice J. Tobin with the executive council's approval. Noxon, crippled by infantile paralysis, maintained innocence and rejected mercy killing pleas. the case may proceed to a full pardon petition led by former Gov. Joseph B. Ely.
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Boston
John F. Noxon, Jr
State
Maurice J. Tobin
Pittsfield
Executive Council
Noxon
Joseph B. Ely
Yanks Face Court Martial For Soviet Entry
Capt Harold Jess and Lt George E Wyatt, freed after 27 days in Russian hands, will be court martialed for unauthorized entry into the Soviet zone. They are released from house arrest and returned to duty pending a date not yet set.
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Berlin
Harold Jess
George E. Wyatt
Pilotless Drone Flight Heralds Guided Missile Age
SAN FRANCISCO reports on a historic unmanned B-17 drone flight from Hilo Hawaii to Muroc Calif calling it a forerunner to accurate long range guided missiles armed with atomic warheads. Brig Gen Richardson says the mission proves control equipment could guide missiles 2 500 miles and more with 15 hour endurance.
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Globes Co
U Ten
San Francisco
Hilo
Hawaii
Muroc Air Base
Calif
William L. Richardson
Army Air Force
Guided Missiles Division
Air Force
Manhattan
Fairbanks
Alaska
Murmansk
Honolulu
South Atlantic
Richardson
United States
Earth
Harvey Alness
Bayport
Minn
Bikini
Alness
Wyatt admits housing goal too high yet hopeful for progress
Wyatt says the initial prefab target of 250000 homes is cut to 100000 and shifts to increase on site construction from 650000 to 738000 units and reconversion to raise occupancy. He notes 225000 housing units completed in January-June and 496000 started, with overall aims to start 2700000 homes this year and next. he cites material shortages but optimistic continued growth and rising monthly completions.
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Wyatt
Washington
Wilson Wyatt
Army to convert barracks into 5746 family homes
The War Department announced a nationwide plan to ease housing shortages by converting army barracks into 5,746 family units at 62 installations. A similar number will be built in fiscal year 1947. As units are finished families will move in freeing space for veterans and civilians. The larger peacetime army and surplus facilities drive the shortage at remaining installations.
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Washington
INS
War Department
Department
Senate probes rifled files in Garsson arms case
Washington AP A Senate war investigating committee turned over to the FBI a year-old case alleging pre dawn tampering with files on the Garsson munitions combine. The office break in the Senate office building at 2 am led to copies removed and returned before 5 am. The FBI will pursue a six point plan including full Garsson probe and possible grand jury action. The Batavia Metal Products sale to Stein and Staff is also noted.
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Associated Press
Mead Ety
Senate War Investigating Committee
Clark
Justice Department
Mead
Garsson
Washington
FBI
Garrison Munitions Combine
Lealer
Senate
D-N.y
Garsson Combine
William A. Paisley
Criminal Division
Chicago
Batavia Metal Products Company
Baavia
Army to adopt blue winter uniforms for all ranks
The army announced plans to issue blue winter uniforms for soldiers from private to general and green off post outfits for Wacs. A public survey will test shade and design, with demonstrations at camps and public wear to gauge reaction before final selection. Civilian clothing shortages may delay implementation.
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Washington
INS
Army
G.i.’S
Wacs
War Department
United States
Quartermaster Corps
37 Hour Wait For New Vernon Car At Open Door
Luther Plattenberger camped on a blanket at the Vernon Motor company door waiting for the new car sale opening. Seven other locals joined, hoping to secure one of three vehicles available at 8 am Thursday. Per distribution rules, top priority goes to Mt Vernon area applicants, then Lisbon, then Mechanicsville, with choices including a coupe, a two door sedan, and a pickup or wagon.
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MT. Vernon
Prospect
Luther Plattenberger
New Vernon Motor Company
Walter Meeker
Plattenberger
Mechanicsville
Plattenbergers
California
Ellis Lambertson
Two C R Area Nurses Answer Polio Help Plea
Two Cedar Rapids area nurses have joined the Red Cross appeal for polio relief. Florence Huff will depart for Denver and Millie Quaas has gone to Minneapolis. Additional graduates are still sought for assignments in Denver Minneapolis Madison Tulsa and Iowa City.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
Red Cross
Pearl Hermanstorfer
Linn County
Florence M. Huff
Twenty-first Street
Denver
Millie Quaas
Coggon
Minneapolis
Huff
Jane Lamb
Clinton
Miss Quaas
St. Luke’s School of Nursing
St. Louis
Navy
Madison
Wis
Tulsa
Okla
Iowa City
Hermanstorfer
Slaughter Loses Missouri Seat In Primary Battle
Enos Axtell wins the Democratic nomination in Missouri's Fifth District by 2,301 votes over Rep. Roger C. Slaughter as Truman era politics split party lines. Jim Walsh trails. Reeves on GOP ticket. Slaughter accuses PAC of communist influence while Truman-backed Axtell gains broad support.
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Associated Press
Truman
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri Congress
Missouri
Enos A. Axtell
Jerome Walsh
OPA
Axtell
Slaughter
Walsh
Albert L. Reeves, Jr
Army Engineers
Virginia
West Virginia
Kansas
New Hampshire
Arkansas
Cio-Pac
Pender‘gast
Kansas City
House Rules Committee
PAC
Democratic Party
Harry F. Byrd
Frank P. Briggs
Harley M. Kilmore
Harry H. Woodring
Roosevelt
Weather Forecast For Iowa Remains Mild With Showers
The weather bureau predicted continued mild temperatures in Iowa with occasional thundershowers through Wednesday, followed by cooler conditions on Thursday and Friday. Cedar Rapids reported 80 degrees at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tuesday’s high reached 85 between 2 and 5 p.m. and temperatures varied from 78 at 7 p.m. to 63 at midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Weatherboy
OPA Signals Small Price Hikes on Shirts and Fabrics
The OPA announced a planned 1.5 percent increase for flannel shirts with a two to three cent retail rise for men’s flannel work shirts. Manufacturers receive a 1.5 percent wholesale boost next Monday, plus 10 percent on lead and 5 percent on Paris green. Wholesale and retail oilcloth costs rise 13.5 percent.
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Washington
OPA
Paris
Wholesale Foods Highest on Record
Wholesale food prices reached an all time high for the week ended Tuesday with a D&B index of 5.32, two cents above the prior record set in 1919. Increases in flour oats barley hams bellies butter cheese hogs and lambs drove the rise while prices for wheat corn rye potatoes and livestock fell. The index tracks the wholesale price per pound of 31 commonly used foods.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet, Inc
OPA Hikes Canned Veg Prices to Offset Subsidy Loss
Washington AP report says the Office of Price Administration raised ceiling prices on corn peas and tomato products by one to two cents per can and added one cent for 12 ounce frozen corn and peas. The agency also lifted controls on canned and frozen snap beans packed before last March.
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Washington
OPA
Father Divine's Marriage Record Sparks Notice in Washington
AP reports that Father Divine, Harlem religious leader, obtained a marriage license in Washington listing a 21 year old white Canadian bride named Edna Roger Ritcheings from Montreal. Divine is described as 41 and a widower in the license record, with April 29 cited as the marriage date.
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Washington
Father Divine
Harlem
Edna
Roger Ritcheings
Montreal
Canada
Divine
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U.S
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Rochester
Miami
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James Stein
Herman Staff
Paisley
Byrd
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