Draft Measure Agreed To Extend Selective Service
Senate and house conferees agreed to draft 19 year olds while exempting 11 year olds, moving toward a nine month extension after July 1. The package also raises armed services pay, boosting back rank privates, warrant officers, and captains with percentage increases. The plan aims for quick passage pending Senate action and a presidential signature.
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Washington
Senate
House
Armed Services
Sen
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Sen. Bridges
Johnson and Bridges
Cost-Plus Provision To Be Retained In Compromise OPA Bill
Conferees on the OPA bill plan to retain a form of the cost plus amendment. Bowles calls it a delayed action bomb as a five member subcommittee works to reconcile Senate and House versions. The Taft and Wolcott amendments would raise ceilings to cover cost increases since 1941, risking widespread price revisions and higher consumer costs.
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Bowles
Washington
Chenter Bowles
Senate House
Wolcott
Senate
House
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Welcott
M-Mich
OPA
Sen
Taft
Ohio
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Polish-born spy gets six years in prison in Canada raid
Fred Hoxe, Polish-born Communist, is sentenced to six years for leading a Canada raid that exposed wartime secrets including RDX and atomic bomb data. Leonard Gunnoe and Harry Fowler, also linked, pay fines over ownership of two roosters seized during the operation. The judge condemned their actions as betrayal of Canada.
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Magazine
Taly Leonard Gunmoe
Russia
Stand
Harry Fowler
Gardner St
Avwentad
Ovine
Chase
Loury
Justice of the Peace
Gunnoe
Fowler
Poland
Canada
Four powers agree to postpone Italy colonies issue
In Paris on June 20 the United States Britain Russia and France signaled a tentative plan to delay a decision on Italian colonies. They would place colonies under four power control pending UN trusteeship review and withdraw troops from Italy and Bulgaria within 90 days after peace treaties take effect.
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United States
Britain
Russia
France
United Nations
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Italy
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Manip
Anmcuray Oe
Haly
Bulgaria
Rome
Byrnes
V. M. Molotov
Molothy
Georges Bidauty
Inkue
Truman Labor Bill Faces Delayed Action In Congress
A four man committee was named to study President Truman’s emergency strike control plan amid stalled labor talks. House members, led by Chairman Sabath, favor delaying action and may attach Case bill provisions to Truman’s proposal or to minimum wage legislation as they weigh strategy.
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MQ Ashington
Alei
Truman
Sabath
Oa House Rules Committee
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Mr. Truman
British Major Escapes Jews during hostage search in Palestine
In Jerusalem a British major escaped his captors and a second officer was reported killed as violence continued. British troops tightened curfews in Lydda and Haifa to curb movement of vehicles while the search for five abducted officers intensified in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
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Tel Aviv
Lydda
Haifa
P Coadwick
Jerusstem
Buchwim
Army
Sain Chad“ek
Bucharim
Tighland Teaops
Pallee
Mt Tanighe
Willie Willis On Time For Dinner Prompted Debate
A fragment captures a dialogue where Willie Willis defends timely attendance at dinner, arguing intention matters more than strict obedience and questioning the moral weight of punctuality in that setting.
Poland obtains larger Soviet credit than U S loan refusal
Polish Ambassador Oscar Lange said Poland secured a credit arrangement with Soviet Russia far exceeding the $90,000,000 loan the United States refused. The U S rejected Poland’s request citing lack of free public expression and Peasant party opposition led by Deputy Premier Mikolajyzek. The Polish government demanded details on trade arrangements with other powers, presumably Russia.
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Washington
INS
Oscar Lange
Poland
Russia
United States
Mikolajyzek
Australia urges pact on Pacific island bases
Dr Herbert V Evatt Australian foreign minister and UN Security Council delegate proposed to President Truman a comprehensive Pacific bases agreement. He cited Australia's policy to treat bases as part of an overall regional security plan.
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Washington
Herbert V. Evatt
Ranchers Hold Animals Await OPA Fate Near June 30
United States ranchers, fearing price shifts, hold back cattle and hogs as the OPA curbs loom toward June 30. Government reports show reduced beef and pork sales, with buyers taking half fattened cattle for later weight gains. Bowles notes producers are urged to curb sales amid possible removal of controls, while packers seem pushed from the cattle market last week.
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Wasmngiun
OPA
Idax
Awlculture Department
Ite Deps Meat
Bowles
Senate
Hous Senate
Agriculture Department
Tle
Moneymakers in Hexham and New York Hawkers Ads
An amalgam of ads and observations contrasts money making in Hexham England with street hawkers in New York selling five items for a quarter. The piece promotes selling used goods from attic to cellar and lists sample items and a local classified contact.
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Hexham
England
Poy
Atlantic
New York
Lnger
Wheat harvest prospects improve for 1946 crop
Government brief projects 1946 wheat production around 1.0 to 1.25 billion bushels, below last year’s record and below demand for famine relief. Export at least 440 million bushels planned from the 1946 crop. Winter wheat near 509 million bushels with spring wheat still to be finalized. June output shows substantial year to year decline.
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Washington
Paris Flea Plague Scratches Across City Venues
A flea outbreak in Paris disrupts daily life in subways theaters trains and public spaces. Deputies in the constituent assembly resort to fidgeting coins and fiddling to hide bites as the infestation reaches the opera drawing sharp attention from the audience and actors alike.
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Paris
France
Constituent Assembly
Suit Started to Revoke Charter of Ku Klux Klan
The state of Georgia filed a superior court suit to revoke the Ku Klux Klan charter in Atlanta, alleging terroristic acts and a plan to seize government power. The court ordered the Klan to show cause by July 1 why the charter should not be revoked, with figures such as Dr. Samuel H. Green and S. W. Roper named in the suit.
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Ku Klux Klan
State of Georgia
Eugene Cook
National Organization of the Invisible Empire
Klar
Stone Mountain
Georgia
Fulton County
Superior Court
Frank A. Hooper
Samuel H. Green
Realm of
W. Roper
Atorney
Dan Duke
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Eugene Talmadge
New Food Agency Formed To Distribute World Rations
Washington reports the creation of the Inter national emergency food council to coordinate famine relief. The new body pools spare food from Britain United States and Canada and others to aid hungry nations for the coming year. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson called it a step forward as the central nine member committee outlines its duties.
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Inter-1 National Emergency Food Council
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Combined Food Board
Ew Council
Dull
Britain
United States
Canada
Central Committee
Derby Committee Sets Tonight Meeting on Soap Box Event
The All West Virginia Soap Box Derby group co sponsored by The Ga welie and Chevrolet dealers will meet at 8 p m in the Kanawha hotel assembly room. Director B TM J Higginbotham expects over 25 attendees from city and county recreation departments state road commission school officials plant heads and others to outline plans for the July 20 derby on Grosst Lanes Little Tyler Mountain road and the downtown parade.
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Ga| Welie
Chevrolet
Kanawha Hotel
Little Tyler Mountain Road
Grosst Lanes
The Consumer Fights Back in Inflation Debate
Samuel Grafton argues inflationary binge harms manufacturers and retailers more than consumers. The columnist contends consumers are already proving resilient, shaping the economic upswing in a rough, decisive way. Read his comments on the national trend in The Charleston Gazette The State Newspaper.
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Samuel Grafton
Joser
Mr. Grafton
Charleston Gazette
Nehru Arrest Sparks Protests Across India
Nehru, serving as acting head of the All-India Congress, was arrested in Kashmir after defying a district ban. Protests spread as Congress leaders vowed to press on while a British interim government plan looms.
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All-India Congress
Delhi
Jawahiarlal Nehru
all-India Congress Party
Kashmir
Congress
India
Nehru
Srinagar
Pandit Nehru
Maulana Abul Kalama Azad
British
Punjab Youth Congress
Bombay
Friends of the State People Committee
Khan Sahib
Northwest Frontier Province
Punjab
Northwest
Reuters
New Delhi
Congress Party
Truman Agency Reorganization Plans Get House Rebuke
Washington June 20 The house expenditures committee rejected President Truman's plan to reorganize federal agencies by a 10 to vote three resolutions disapproving the program The main opposition centered on unifying all housing activities into a single agency and a proposed new cabinet post Department of Welfare The panel faces a difficult fight as the 2 day window to block the plan looms and action before July 16 is required The resolutions argue the plan merely shifts agency functions and would place the government in the building business
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Washington
House
Truman
Department of Welfare
Senate
Rep
Pittenger
BR Minn
Nlan
Senators call Soviet nuclear control plan unacceptable
Washington June 2 Senators called Russia plan for international atomic controls unacceptable. Senator Ball urged world actions without the Soviets if no agreement results from current negotiations. He warned of a possible showdown and supported transferring bombs and continued plant access to an international authority. Please Turn to Page 11 Col. 6
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Washington
Russia
Sen. Ball
H-Minn
Special Senate Atomic Committee
Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Ball
Special Committee
Minnesota
International Control Organization
Hingling the News: Petrilie Faces the Music
An odd novelty act bows in the show with key figures like See Petrilie and Btan Arnold mentioned. The piece hints at a forthcoming confrontation or performance as the act goes to face the music.
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Petrilie
Btan Arnold
Onprrishhy
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