Austria Holds Line Over Former German Property Claim
Vienna cabinet in an extraordinary session announced it would not aid Russia in enforcing a reported Soviet seizure of former German property in eastern Austria. The communique said action would breach the control agreement transferring powers to Austria and require orders from the Allied commission. Chancellor Figl set July 10 for a national assembly meeting to discuss the issue.
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Vienna
Austria
L. V. Kurosov
Allied Commission
Russia
Leopold Figl
National Assembly
Mark Clark
Kurrasov
Potsdam
United States
Urrasov
OPA Critics Fight Meats Exemption In Revival Bill
In Washington, Taft and Wherry push to exempt meat from price and rent controls, with Senator George of Georgia backing the idea to curb black market dynamics. Senate tests on the meat issue loom as Barkley presses to defend the administration’s position amid opposition from Porter and others.
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Washington
OPA
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Nebraska
New Life
George
Georgia
Senate
Barkley
Banking Committee
Paul Porter
Wagner
D-N.y
McCarran
D-New
Truman
Mr. Truman
Chester Bowles
Portland
Wife Who Shot Mate Charged in Indiana
Mrs. Flossie Walker, a middle aged washwoman, faces manslaughter charges after confessing she shot her invalid husband rather than send him to a veterans hospital. Sheriff Fisher questioned her account and hinted at possible accomplice involvement. The husband, a retired railroad worker, had been bedfast after war service.
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Columbia City
Ind
Flossie Walker
Veterans’ Hospital
Fremont Fisher
Jean Carbone Wins and Weds Capt Beschen in Quiet Nevada Ceremony
In Reno Mrs. Jean Pauline Carbone 19, a British war bride, won a bitter divorce from former Army Lt. Harold Carbone of Rochester and married Capt. Darrell A. Beschen at his Dunseath Iowa home. Witnesses included attorney John Robb Clarke and actress Reno Brown. Her son was born Feb 9, more than 13 months after the couple separated in London.
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Reno
Nev
Jean Pauline Carbone
Army
Harold Carbone
Rochester
N. Y
Darrell A. Beschen
Dubuque
Justice of the Peace
Dunseath
Carbone
Beschen
Shreveport
John Robb Clarke
Reno Brown
Russian Demands Block Peace Conference at Paris
Soviet insistence on dividing the 21 nation peace conference into separate groups for Italy Bulgaria Hungary Romania and Finland threatens to derail the talks. Molotov demanded rules first and China’s invite was debated as Byrnes sought to keep invitations moving. Bevin met Byrnes and Tsien Tai at the American delegation later.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Georges Bidault
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Foreign Ministry
Paris
Bidault
Big Four
Council of Ministers
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Italy
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Finland
Sallen
Sede Molotov
Byrnes
Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers
Council of Foreign Ministers
China
Bevin
State Byrnes
Tsien Tai
Quads' Parents Plan To Wed On Tuesday
Norah Carpenter former British barmaid and William Red Thompson fathered quadruplets left for Pittsburgh with their three surviving children. They will marry Tuesday in Pittsburgh according to the New York Daily Mirror.
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New York
Norah Carpenter
William “Red” Thompson
Pittsburgh
Central K West
Miss Carpenter
England
P Son
New York Daily Mirror
Wells Attack On Royalty Goes Ignored
London reports say Britain's newspapers and radio ignored H G Wells's attack on the royal family over alleged Mosley funds. Buckingham Palace refused comment and Wells's editor defended the piece as a serious posed question with no proof offered.
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Wells
London
Britain
H. G. Wells
Benito Mussolini
Oswald Mosley
Socialist Leader
Independent
Labor Party
Buckingham Palace
Ulick Alexander
Privy Purse
Mosley
House of Hanover
House of Savoy
Ieee Guatemaiten Achenm Te Akeene
Weather Beef Sparks City Editor Clash
A Cedar Rapids weather feature sparks a row as the weatherboy complains about unavailable beef for Sunday dinners. The editor logs three prior beef complaints while noting Saturday temperatures hit 96 degrees at 2:30 pm with a forecast of warm, humid conditions and a high near 98 degrees later.
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Cedar Rapids
the Weatherboy
The
Weatherboy
May Defends War Contract Record In Senate Probe
Washington AP Chairman Andrew J. May of Kentucky says he did not profit from Illinois munitions contracts and urges Mead to publicly release his June 4 testimony. He notes he testified before Mead’s committee in executive session and questions the press’s portrayal while claiming full support for constituents and the war effort.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Illinois
May
Senate War Investigating Committee
Mead
D-N.y
Senator Mead
Mead Committee
Solon Asked to Face Senate War Investigators
Senator Mitchell demanded that Rep. Andrew J. May be brought before the Senate war investigating committee after testimony tied a munitions combine to a lumber firm linked to May. Mitchell described a man claiming Erie Basin Metal Products offered a $5,000 bribe to influence the inquiry and urged initiation of legislative proceedings to compel May’s testimony.
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Washington
Mitchell
D-Wash
Andrew J. May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Senate
Prestonsburg
A. J. May
Erie Basin Metal Products Company
Combine
Farouk
Egypt
Erie
Congress
Rep
May
House
Mead
D-N.y
Veteran to contest eviction in court fight with O Daniels son
Dallas resident and 33 year old veteran Asia Brient plans a court challenge to eviction by Mike O Daniel, son of U S Senator W Lee O Daniel. American Veterans Committee attorney Morris L Jaffe represents Brient as picketing veterans from Southern Methodist University protest rent hikes following price control expiry. Brient says no jury will allow eviction. O Daniel disputes rent increase while admitting serving notice.
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Dallas
Asia Brient
Satur
Lord
OPA
U. S
Brient
O’daniel
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