Row Develops Over Probes Of Campaigns
Washington AP reports a major clash over congressional inquiries into this year’s campaign activities. Key disputes include inquiry speed and procedures for cases like the CIO’s Political Action Committee. Rep. Leo Allen accuses committee stalling and threatens resignation over inaction. Senate panel plans a September meeting amid debates on Barker’s Montana hearings.
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Washington
CIO
Political Action Committee
Leo Allen
R-Ii
Allen
House Campaign Expenditures Committee
Rayburn
Texas
Rep
O’neal
D-Ky
O'Neal
Domengeaux
D-La
Ellender Orders Barker’s Pay Stopped From Senate Panel
Barker says he was hired in June for two to three weeks and completed work. Senator Ellender later ordered Barker removed and halted payment on a voucher dated July 20. Barker insists he was not fired and that Ellender had severed the tie while away.
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Barker
Ed Johnson
Dcolo
Ellender
Ebiender
Johnson
Washington
Baker
Troop Ships Due in San Francisco in Rearrangement Move
Two ships are slated to dock in San Francisco on Wednesday under AP reports. The Army hospital ship Comfort from Manila with 414 patients and the Hillsdale Victory carrying 10 troops compose the planned redeployment.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Comfort
Manila
Okinawa
Kobe
Yokohama
Army Vet Shows Jungle Rats in Central City Display
Four trench or jungle rats from the Caroline islands arrive with an army sergeant and will be shown at First Avenue and Fifth Street E until Friday with 25 and 16 cent admission. The three foot long males have tusk like teeth and webbed back feet. They mostly get along but can fight at night and their cry resembles a baby.
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First Avenue
Fifth Street E
United States
Caroline Islands
Pacific
Sack of Eggs Turns to Bag of Cash in Kansas
Mrs. Van Hartman found a bag of silver coins and pennies in her ice box where she expected eggs. Her father R S Maxwell had hidden the money in the bag and feared she had taken the Lutheran church collection home by mistake.
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Hays, Kan
van Hartman
R. S. Maxwell
Army Deserter Given Life for Bed Murder
Robert Frederick Smith a 21 year old army deserter from Blue Island was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to first degree murder in the December 20 holdup slaying of Roy Gordon Belt of Grosse Pointe Michigan. Smith had hitchhiked with Beh a traveling representative of an airplane parts firm and a neighbor of Henry Ford.
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Grand Haven
Mich
Robert Frederick Smith
Blue Island
Roy Gordon Belt
Grosse Pointe
Smith
Beh
Henry Ford
Ma Kettle Returns to Marjorie Main in The Egg and I
In The Egg and I studio plans name Marjorie Main as Ma Kettle with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray leading chicken antics. Other notes mention Vivica Lindfors with Ronald Reagan in Night Unto Night, Irene Dunne starring No Sad Songs for Me, and Cornel Wilde’s Romance of Lord Byron among ongoing projects.
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HoeLtewoon
Claudette Colbert
Ma” Kettle
Claudette
Fred MacMurray
Marjorie Main
MGM
Vivica Lindfors
Warners
Ronald Regan
Phillipp Wylie
Ronnie
Kings Row
Casey Robinson
Columbia
Harry Cohn
Irene Dunne
Casey
Cornel Wilde
Lord Byron
Robert Turney
20Th
Amber
Rights fight over Byrd story heats film bid
A dispute over who controls Admiral Richard Byrd’s life story for film intensifies. Brian Don levy reportedly holds a 90 day option on Snowbird while Polan Banks asserts control of all Byrd life story production rights, film rights to five best selling books, and thousands of feet of Byrd polar expedition footage.
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Admiral Richard Byrd
Brian Donlevy
Polan Banks
Byrd
OPA Ups Prices on Five Building Materials
The OPA in Washington approved 5 to 10 percent price hikes on five scarce building items to match March 31 1946 profit margins. The items include stock millwork up 10 percent pine stock millwork and douglas fir doors up 9 percent stock screen doors and other stock screen goods up 5 percent cast iron enameled plumbing fixtures up 10 percent. Dealers may pass the full increase to customers.
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Washington
OPA
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