Truman Names 3-Member Decontrol Board For Price Rule
President Truman named Roy L. Thompson George H. Mead and Daniel W. Bell to form the decontrol board under the new price control act subject to senate confirmation. The trio will decide which items remain under ceilings and will be paid 12 000 a year.
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Federal Land Bank of
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Mead Pulp & Paper Company
Dayton
Ohio
NRA
War Labor Board
Office of War Mobilization
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Treasury Department
Budget and Treasury
Washington Bank
Senate
Sen. Wherry
R-Neb
OPA
Bell
Hawkes
R-N. J
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Tidelands Bill Cleared for White House Action
The House passed and sent to the White House a Senate approved measure granting states clear title to tideland areas rich in oil. Vote 188 to 67. It renounces federal claims along coasts and inland waters. Possible presidential veto noted by Interior Secretary Krug and others.
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White House
Truman
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
Supreme Court
Congress
Cedar Rapids Police Honorary Cowboys Handle Loose Bull
Patrolmen Murphy Davis and Frank O’Neill were deployed Saturday afternoon to 700 block of Twenty seventh street NE to corral a loose bull. They aided owner Willis Martin of 713- Thirty-second Street NE, guiding the animal back to its pasture. The bull snorted at them a few times but remained peaceful overall.
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Cedar Rapids
Murphy Davis
Frank O'Neill
Willis’ Martin
Thirty-second Street
Texas Candidates Head for Runoff
In Texas primary returns, Beauford Jester and Homer P. Rainey led a 12-candidate field for the Democratic governor nomination, with Jester at 35,907 and Rainey at 21,808 after 171 of 254 counties. Connally led the U S Senate race with 43,120 votes from 11 counties, well ahead of rivals. Sam Rayburn faced no opposition.
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Homer P. Rainey
University of Texas
U.S
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United Nations
Senate
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas Election Bureau
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Rainey
Sellers
John Lee
Smith
Jerry Sadler
Connally
Floyd E. Ryan
Houston
No New Wage Drives by Auto Union in 1946
DETROIT AP An authoritative source disclosed Saturday night that the CIO United Auto Workers plan no new wage drives in 1946. He declined to name, saying nothing short of chaotic inflation will induce the UAW CIO to rip open existing wage agreements. The policy committee is more concerned with making dollars valuable through price control than increasing workers pay envelopes.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Uaw-Cio
Arnall Offers High Rewards For Lynch Mob
Gov Ellis Arnall announced rewards up to 10000 for the mob of desperados who lynched four Negroes near Monroe Georgia, as Maj W E Spence blamed fear for lack of cooperation and said he would seek federal anti lynching support. A road house employee Lester Little was questioned and released after witness J Loy Harrison could not identify him as mob leader. Little previously served time for murder of a Morgan County warden.
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Ellis Arnall
W. E. Spence
Georgia State Patrol
Georgia
Arnall
Spence
Lester Little
J. Loy Harrison
Harrison
Little
E. S. Gordon
Morgan County
RFC extension approved to June 30 with loan to Philippines
House votes by voice vote Saturday ap proved an extension of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation program until next June 30 and authorized a 75 million dollar loan to the Philippine Republic. The Senate passed it without the loan provision, and had previously voted to extend RFC to June 30, 1952. The loan carries two percent interest.
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House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Philippine Republic
Senate
RFC
Jerusalem Again Scene of Gunfire
An armed band attacked the military detention barracks in Jerusalem where police hold 376 Jews arrested after the King David hotel blast. Sentries exchanged fire as British troops sealed the Talbieh quarter and ordered all residents home with passes invalid. Casualty details from the exchange were not immediately learned.
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King David
Talbieh
Palestine
Toddville Man Nabbed On Drunk Driving Charge
W A Frontress a 54 year old Toddville man was jailed in Linn County after Marion police charged him with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested at 2 45 p m on Seventh avenue in Marion and had previously been charged July 13 in Cedar Rapids for driving without a license after striking a pedestrian. Patrolman Harry Cloud transported him to the jail and noted he was driving with an instruction permit.
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Toddville
Linn County
Marion Pollice
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Frentress
Seventh Avenue
Center Point Road
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Harry Cloud
Youth Killed in Dubuque County Crash Near Balltown
In Dubuque County one mile south of Balltown, a car failed to negotiate a sharp curve and overturned. Dead is Glenn Joseph Brehm, 17, of Richardsville Ta. Two companions, Ralph Breitbach, 19, and Howard Leibfried, 18, both of Durango, were critically injured. Breitbach suffered a crushed left arm amputated at the shoulder. Sheriff Leo J. Martin reported the details.
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Glenn
Joseph Brehm
Richardsville
Dubuque County
Leo J. Martin
Dubuque
Martin
Ralph .Breitbach
Howard ‘Leibfried
Durango
Minister and Wife Reunited After Jealousy Flight
Kansas City dispatch reports Rev. John Paul Lambert and his wife Emalie returning home after a disappearance last Sunday night. She left a note saying jealousy hindered his work, and the couple planned a second honeymoon. Their daughters Joan and Judy advised bringing her back. A son died in the Pacific during his service. The congregation welcomed them at the airport and church members cleaned the church in preparation for their return.
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Kansas City
John Paul Lambert
Emalie Lambert
Oklahoma City
Lambert
Joan
Judy
Pacific
Fields Probed Over Surplus War Property Ties
Washington D C Ben jamin F Fields a Washington representative for the Garsson munitions empire is pressed by a House subcommittee to explain how he obtained surplus bronze wire meant for veterans housing and allegedly sold part of it to an Oklahoma contractor. The probe cites a Detroit firm seeking a war contract via Fields office while Republicans view the inquiry as campaign fodder ahead of November elections.
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ULP
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Senate
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Henry M. and
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Special House
Ross Rizley
R-Okla
Oklahoma
C. B. Warr
Oklahoma City
Rizley
War Profits
Garsson
Andrew J. May
John M. Coffee
Wash
Truk urged to become Pacific Gibraltar after atoll visit
U S Sen Bourke B Hickenlooper and Rep Albert J Engle toured Truk Island former Japanese base Southwest of San Francisco and urged converting it into a strong outer defense, more impregnable than Corregidor. They noted remaining Japanese installations and the island’s strategic value for defense and development.
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U. S
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Albert J. Engle
Mich
United States
Truk
Pacific
Michigan
Hicken= iooper
Corregidor
San Francisco
Gertrude Stein Dies in Paris at 72
Noted American author Gertrude Stein died in Paris Saturday at the American hospital after slipping into a deep coma. She was 72 and had long resided in France, with Alice B Toklas at her bedside. Stein, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, had just seen the American release of Brewsie and Willie.
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Miss Stein
Alice B. Toklas
France
Allegheny
America
Brewsie
Willie
Milwaukee Gas Strike Follows Six Day Walkout
Milwaukee ends a six day strike at Milwaukee Gas Light Company as production workers accept a 4.5 percent hourly raise plus a one cent Christmas bonus and vow to strike again for higher wages. Office workers threaten action on Monday seeking a 10 percent wage increase. Several towns remain without normal gas service while mains are cleared of air and preparations are made for Sunday gas restoration.
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Milwaukee Gas Light Company
Menomonee Falls
Hartford
Germantown
Grafton
Cejdarburg
Butler
Thiensville
West Bend
Port Washington
B. M. Feinberg
Sun Spots Hamper Publication of Peace Texts
Washington dispatches report sun spots disrupting Atlantic communications and delaying the simultaneous Sunday publication of peace treaty texts. Arrangements by the United States Britain France and Russia to release texts for Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland at 5 p.m. CST were hindered by long delays in transmitting from Paris due to Atlantic wireless circuits.
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Great Britain
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Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
State Department
Atlantic
Publication showdown over European peace treaties Middle East
Paris dispatch reports Soviet demand for full publication of Italy and four Axis satellites treaties or none at all. Molotov's reversal forces possible emergency Big Four talks as Bevin falls ill and Attlee may step in. Diplomats scramble to resolve disclosure dispute on eve of historic peace conference in Paris.
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Edward W. Beattie
Paris
Ernest Bevin
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Bevin
Forcd
V. M. Molotov
Clement R. Attlee
Bevin Place
Soviet Union
Attlee
Europe
Versailles
House Rejects Loosely Drawn Cancer Control Plan
Washington AP reports the House defeated a 100 million cancer control bill 139 to 126 on Saturday. Opponents called it loosely drawn and likely to promote chaos in federal cancer projects already underway. The measure would have authorized the president to mobilize experts and create an independent group to study cancer causes and prevention.
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House
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