Democrats Stamp Armistice With Wallace Pepper Support
The Democratic National Committee reached a pre election truce with Henry Wallace and Sen Pepper of Florida. The committee will handle campaign speeches for the ticket in November and Sparkman predicts Truman will run in 1948 with both Wallace and Pepper backing him. committee officials said sponsorship does not affect speaking rights.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Henry A. Wallace
Sen
Pepper
Florida
Rep. Sparkman
Alabama
Committee
Truman
Wallace
Sparkman
Byrnes
National Committee
Hannegan
Former OPA Official Indicted In Sugar Fraud Case
J Ed win Cooke former head of the sugar dairy unit at OPA headquarters Washington and three farm products organizers were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to defraud the government by illegal sugar allotments. They allegedly issued large sugar allotments in 1943 to Eau Claire Farm Products Co and received 8200 dollars. Co defendants Arnold B Holin Noel A Diamond Walter H Freund organized Eau Claire Farm Products to make sweetened condensed milk for resale through Midland Farm Products. Cooke left OPA in June 1944. The conspiracy was uncovered by OPA internal intelligence agents.
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Madison, Wis
J. Edwin Cooke
OPA
Washington
Cooke
Eau Claire Farm Products Company
Arnold B. Holin
Momence Milk Cooperative
Momence
Ill
Noel A. Diamond
Midland Farm Products Company
Chicago
Walter H. Freund
Milk Products, Inc
Eau Claire
Midland
United States
Charles Cashin
Truman Lifts Gag On Canal Paper
President Truman lifted secrecy on Joint Chiefs of Staff papers about the 134 million sand oil project. Admiral William D. Leahy, the President’s chief of staff, advised the Senate war investigating committee of the change.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Truman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
William D. Leahy
Meat shortage easing predicted in two to four weeks
OPA official Geoffrey Baker said beef and pork supplies should improve by late October as fall market runs begin. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers cited expected decontrol and higher output, while chairman Roy A. Thompson noted action unlikely before late November.
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Washington
Geoffrey Baker
OPA
Baker
Roy A. Thompson
Price Decontrol Board
Thompson
Beef Industry Advisory Committee
Anderson
Truman
Tragedy as Trucker Die Under Wife’s Bed in Dunmore
Police report a 75 year old retired trucker lay dead under his bedridden wife’s bed for six days. The wife, also 75 and paralysed, could not summon help and reportedly starved while her husband died while feeding her. A salesman found the couple after hearing the wife cry for help.
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Dunmore
Charles Schall
Three Hammond youths killed sleeping on railroad tracks
In Hammond Indiana three high school boys Melvin Altgilbers Gary and Joseph Walker 15 and Charles Schick 16 died after dozing on Nickel Plate tracks. A fourth teen Gene Blair 15 escaped by rolling into a ditch as a freight train passed.
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Hammond
Ind
Nickel Plate
Gene Blair
Melvin Altgilbers
Gary
Joseph Walker
Charles Schick
Altgilbers
Hammond Technical High School
Blair
Mike
Schick
Walkler
Melvin
Chicago
Fort Wayne
State To Seek Gas Tax Cash Release In Iowa City
Special Assistant Attorney General Herbert J. Ries said a filing will seek release of over six million dollars in state gasoline tax funds held in trust by two Iowa City banks. Real estate dealer L. V. Carlton, who lost a Supreme Court challenge to the tax, plans to object to distribution.
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Iowa City
Herbert J. Ries
Johnson County
L. V. Carlton
Iowa Supreme Court
Russia presses Turkey in new note over Dardanelles
The Soviet Union urged joint defense of the Dardanelles with Turkey and other Black Sea powers, warning Ankara against military steps with non Black Sea states. Radio Moscow released Sept 24 notes asserting only Black Sea powers should control the straits and criticizing Turkey for wartime cooperation with Axis movements.
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London
Russia
Dardanelles
Turkey
Black Sea
Radio Moscow
Romania
Bulgaria
United States
Greeks Welcome King George VI on Athens Return
King George VI arrived in Athens after five years in exile. Crowds lined a four mile parade route from Faliron Bay to the Greek cathedral as Prime Minister Tsaldaris led the welcome. A royal convoy passed under a 100 gun salute with Crown Prince Paul and Princess Fredrika present.
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Athens
George TI
Greece
England
Fal‘eron Bay
Paul
Fredrika
George
Fugitive Benson Shot by Federal Officers Near Sanish
John Frederick Benson, 31, sought in the August 10 Rackley Kansas FBI agent shooting, was killed by federal officers at 3:55 a.m. after he used his wife and seven children as shields and failed to surrender. The St Paul FBI office reported the capture attempt ended a weeks long investigation.
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Sanish
N. D
John Frederick Benson
FBI
Rackley
Kan
M. B. Rhodes
St. Paul
Benson
Rhodes
Kackley
Local Page Fragments Remain Incomplete News Teasers
A snapshot of a newspaper page shows scattered headings for index comics courts deaths editorials features Marion and state news. The readable segments hint at sports and entertainment items, but most content is garbled with stray letters and partial titles.
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Ceee
Fee We Neice
Oye Sos
Marion
Cseeenees
Ocgacacees
Eisenhower Denies Political Ambassadorship Rumors
General Eisenhower dismissed rumors he might take a political post saying there is no possibility of him being connected with any political office. He spoke after speculation he could become ambassador to Great Britain.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Eisenhower
Great Britain
Jet Plane Blast Fatal To British Test Pilot
Geoffrey De Havilland, famed test pilot from a noted aviation family, was presumed killed Friday night when a radical tailless jet plane exploded at about 10 000 feet as he attempted a world speed record flight.
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All-Hallows-On-The-Sea
England
Geoffrey de Havilland
Scione
Bridges wed Nancy Berdecio in San Francisco
Harry Bridges CIO leader and head of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union married Nancy Berdecio in San Francisco on Friday. His divorce from his first wife was finalized last week.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
CIO
International Longshoremen’s’ and Warehousemen’s Union
Nancy Berdecio
Slavs Face Ban Over Pact Stand At Peace Conference
At the Paris peace conference a commission backed an American proposal to bar Yugoslavia from treaty signatory privileges if it refuses to sign the pact. Yugoslavia rejected the French boundary line with Italy, insisting it will not sign the treaty nor withdraw forces from northwestern Istria. The U.S. proposed that terms apply to states named in the preamble only if they become treaty signatories. The debate highlighted tensions over Trieste and the boundary, with Britain and the U.S. seeking an independent Trieste statute. A subcommittee reported failure in finding common ground on the statute.
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Paris
Yugoslavia
Italy
Marshal Tito
Istria
United States
Vishinsky
Trieste
America
Connally
Yugovayid
Britain
July Traffic Deaths per Mile Hit Historic Low
The National Safety Council reported July traffic deaths per vehicle mile fell to 7.4, the lowest on record, with precautions by drivers and pedestrians credited. The prior low was 8.7 in May 1945, and August totals show 3,010 deaths, down 24 percent from 1941 but up 17 percent from last year.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Longer work weeks urged to boost wartime production
John D. Small, civilian production administrator, said a longer work week is necessary to raise overall production. He noted 58 million employed with 2 million job openings and warned of manpower shortages by year end unless overtime is paid. He cited August output gains across radios, stoves, irons, and vacuum cleaners and projected 1 million auto units in Sep–Nov.
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Washington (Ap
John D. Small
Small
Ife
Small’s
CPA
Cooler Weather Follows Showers In Cedar Rapids
Weather report notes a sudden cool down in Cedar Rapids from 85 degrees Friday afternoon to 50 by 2:30 pm Saturday with light rain. Forecasters warn frost may occur in northern areas as temperatures drop further Sunday. Total rainfall reached .90 inches after a late Friday downpour and street flooding last Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Weatherboy
President Truman visits West Point for peace pledge
President Truman arrived at Stewartfield in the Sacred Cow to visit the United States Military Academy at West Point. He reviewed a cadet company, received a 21 gun salute, and planned to attend the Army Oklahoma football game while expressing belief in a permanent peace.
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West Point
N. Y
Truman
Stewartfield
United States Military Academy
Maxwell D. Taylor
Scientists Call for Global Control Of Atomic Power
A 22 page UN report by 12 nations urged that controlling atomic power start at the mining of uranium and thorium with safeguards at each development stage. The document favors international scientific collaboration and warns diversion to military use grows easier as production advances. It aims to resume political talks on atomic control.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Russia
Britain
Atomic Commission
Eighth Time Tommy Manville Calls It Quits
New Rochelle New York reports Tommy Manville announces his eighth wife Georgina Campbell left the home after a ten month marriage. He cites jealousy and says she may not return, though he cannot be sure.
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Tommy
New Rochelle
N. Y
Tommy Manville
Georgina Campbell
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