Plot Against French Govt Disclosed Four Generals Implicated
French interior minister Depreux disclosed a wide plot by the Black Maquis to overthrow the republic and install a military dictatorship. Four generals and several civilians were implicated alongside former resistance leaders and Vichy collaborators. The group drew up a plan to incite fear of a Communist putsch and form a provisional military directorate.
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Edouard Depreux
Black Maquis
Depreux
Guillaudot
Jean Loustauneau-Lacau
Marshal Petain
Isle d’Yeu
Inform
Maquis
Paul Ramadier
River highest in 103 years at St Louis levee collapse
St Louis faced its highest Mississippi crest in 103 years as the Chouteau Island levee near Granite City gave way under water pressure after an earthquake. Water flooded 2000 acres, with other levees holding but doubtful to stay. No deaths reported as $9 million in flood damages were tallied.
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Mississippi River
Corps of Engineers
Chouteau Island
Granite City
Dupo
Degognia di
Mississippi
Missouri
Alton
Here
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St. Louis City
St. Mary's
New Madrid
Terminal Railroad Association
North St. Louis
City Cleans Up in Wake Of Big Wind
Cedar Rapids continued cleanup after a violent Saturday gale felled trees and cut power and telephone lines. More than 60 trees down, crews worked all night. streets blocked at Third Street SE and Greene Avenue NE. Power restored to most towns by Monday afternoon. Palo remained without service.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
R. K. Ahiman
Deere
Third Street
Wilson and Company
Greene Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Ahiman
Parks Department
Earle G. Nichols
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Nichols
Marion
Palo
No Automatic Rent Boosts In New Law
With President Truman signing the housing and rent act, Cedar Rapids will keep existing rent controls in Linn County. Tenants may sign voluntary leases by Dec 31 1947 for up to 5 percent increases, subject to rent-office approval and registration. Eviction protections rely on local courts and specific act provisions.
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Cedar Rapids
Truman
Inn County
T. J. Wilkinson
Area Rent Director
Wilkinson
Truman signs rent control extension amid real estate lobby attack
President Truman signed the rent control extension bill allowing voluntary rent hikes up to 15 percent while denouncing the real estate lobby as subversive. He called the measure unsatisfactory and urged a six point housing program and a congressional probe of the lobby. The law extends controls eight months and shifts eviction standards to state laws, with Creedon appointed housing expeditor through Feb. 29, 1948.
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Washington
LLP
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Frank Creedon
Creedon
Co Ae
Railroads Seek Freight Rate Hikes Across Regions
Chicago dispatch reports that the nations railroads will petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for freight rate increases of up to 25 percent in the East and up to 15 percent in the West and South. The notice, sent to the National Industrial Traffic League, is signed by John F. Fitzpatrick J. G. Kerr and W. H. Dana as traffic executives.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Industrial Traffic League
John F. Fitzpatrick
Traffic Executive Association
J. G. Kerr
Southern Rate Association
W. H. Dana
Western Traffic Executive Committee
Clothing Output To Halt 12 Days
The Amal gamated Clothing Workers of America announced a nationwide stop in men and boys clothing manufacture from July 3 to July 14. The union said the concurrent paid vacations will satisfy manufacturing companies and minimize impact during the slow season.
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New York
INS
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Tne
Amalgamated
Vessels Collide Off East Coast Near Nantucket
Off Nantucket lightship a collision damaged the army transport St Albans Victory and the Danish motorship Bolivia. St Albans Victory had 24 feet of water in the engine room with 40 crew seven soldiers and a war bride aboard. Bolivia suffered a five foot bow tear with a crew of 30. All passengers and crew were later reported safe with no injuries and lifeboat rumors proved false as planes observed moderate seas and no listing.
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Boston
INS
Nantucket
St. Albans
PBY
Agencies Funds Still Up in Air
Washington AP Congress Fiscal experts huddle over funding federal agencies as year end nears with only one of 12 regular appropriation bills cleared. Only two departments treasury and post office will have funds to operate past midnight unless action, with a stop-gap measure allowing expenses in anticipation of appropriations. A senate resolution permitting expenditures is before the house appropriations committee, some members reluctant to act.
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Washington
Congressional
Senate
House
Treasury and
Post Office Departments
Truman
Russia Opposes All Embracing European Plan in Paris
Moscow via Tass rejected a broad European economic program under the Marshall plan and urged deciding only the amount of U.S. aid. Russia insisted aid be free of political considerations, while France pressed for needs of Europe as a whole.
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Russia
Europe
Paris
America
Death of Henry G A Lauber ruled self inflicted drowning
Coroner ruled Henry G A Lauber death the result of his own actions. The 71 year old retired Penick and Ford employee disappeared Friday and was found Sunday morning in brush along the Wapsipinicon river two miles south of Independence. Identification came from a will dated June 18 found in his clothing.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry G. A. Lauber
Penick and Ford
Wapsipinicon River
Independence
Lauber
Here
Oelwein
Associated Press
Wapsie
Klumpar
Edgar Butters
Emery Hart
Wilson Wage Increase Pact Reaches Wilson Plants
Packinghouse workers at Wilson and Company secure a 6 cent an hour wage raise under a pact with CIO United Packinghouse Workers. The deal, retroactive to June 16 and subject to ratification by eight Wilson locals, covers about 15,000 workers including 4,500 in Chicago and those in Omaha Los Angeles New York Kansas City Kan Ce eo Albert Lea and Faribault.
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Chicago
INS
Dismissal of LeMont Upheld by City Dads
The city council unanimously upheld the dismissal from the fire department of Richard LeMont a 33 year old fireman who Friday pled not guilty to arson. The dismissal was effective 7 a.m. June 28 and LeMont remains free on a $3 000 bond.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard LeMont
LeMont
E. P. Kohout
Liberty
Gas Lock Blamed On Govt Policy Of Steel Exports
Walter S Hallanan chairman of the National Petroleum Council in Minneapolis charged that government policy exporting steel pipe and tube is creating a transportation bottleneck delaying gasoline delivery to consumers. He cited 82 250 tons of tubular exports in the first quarter and argued a Texas to Chicago pipeline would solve shortages. He noted refining cuts by strikes and the Texas City disaster but warned no overall oil shortage exists in the near or long term.
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Minneapolis
National Petroleum Council
Walter S. Hallanan
Pittsburgh
Plymouth Oilpany
Europe
Russia
Texas
Chicago
Middle West
Hallanan
Texas City
Vote Cashing of G I Bonds Approved by Subcommittee
Washington VP A House Armed Services subcommittee approved a bill allowing veterans to cash terminal leave pay bonds after Sept 1. Current law requires five years of holding. In service personnel would choose cash or bonds. Bonds yield 20 percent annually. Full committee expected to approve Tuesday. House leaders predict quick passage in both chambers.
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Washington
House Armed Services
House
Senate
Camp Good Health Fund Seeks More Support After Storm
Camp Good Health escaped damage in a Saturday storm as lights failed from 8 15 p m to midnight but children slept safely. The Cedar Rapids camp run by Public Health Nursing Association hosted 75 handicapped children this year, 15 more than last, with four dog visitors. Donations totaled 5472 95 toward a 1572 05 shortfall.
Boy Five Survives Pond Tragedy After Rescue by Stranger
In Devon Connecticut a five year old boy, Russell Thomas, was saved when another bather stepped on him at a park pond. Firemen arrived and applied artificial respiration, reviving the child as onlookers watched.
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Devon, Conn
Russell Thomas
Devon Park
Cargill Appeals Board of Trade Case Over Treble Damages
Cargill Inc a major grain dealer filed a notice of appeal Monday challenging a Chicago board of trade decision that dismissed its suit to collect treble damages in a fencing dispute alleging senne t damages.
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Chicago
Cargill, Inc
Chicago Board of Trade
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