Outstanding Provisions Of OPA Bill
Washington July 23 major provisions of the OPA bill moving to floor action revive price controls to June 30 barring ceilings on meats dairy products grain cottonseed soybeans and food and feed items poultry eggs tobacco and petroleum a three man control board named by the president and confirmed by the senate would decide before August 20 whether ceilings are restored or removed and if the board fails to act the matter remains unresolved.
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Washington
House
Senate
Woman Too Tough To Die Succumbs At 115
SAPULPA Okla July 23 Aunt Lizzie Devers known as Aunt Lizzie died aged 115 claiming she was too tough to die after surviving five wars and a car crash. Cherokee Irish Dutch heritage fueled her nickname the meanest mixture. She once ran a 60 acre farm and recalled the Cherokee Trail of Tears trek. She enjoyed her first airplane ride recently.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Lizzie’ Devers
Ape Ener
Lizzie
Georgia
Oklahoma
Weather Outlook for Carolinas Warmer with T-storms
Considerable cloudiness with showers and thunderstorms. warmer, partly cloudy periods. Extended forecast calls for near normal to warm temps, possible afternoon thunder showers first half of the period. Official station data show varied highs from 52 to 98 and rainfall amounts across several cities, including Greensboro 1.79 inches and Raleigh 2.87 inches.
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North Carolina
Carolinas
Weath Bureau
Rao Charlotte
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
Greensboro
High Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
Miami
Mobile
Mt. Mitchell
aTeville
Ugs
New Orleans
Agusta
Raleigh
San Parent Me
Seeranters Bs
Washington
Ieston
Wilmington
Carpenter Not Concerned Over Living Costs
STOUGHTON MA July 28 Leonard A Whitten 60 years old says he is not worried about rising living costs. He built his two room home and grows his own vegetables hunts his meat and cuts his own firewood. He has no electricity or telephone and takes all summer off.
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Stoughton
Mass
Leonard A. Whitten
Ter
Killer Of Two Surrenders To Police
Kenneth Hanley, a 25 year old ex GI, surrendered after a week as a suspect in the killings of his wife Helen Hanley and her escort John Hoffman. He was found weak and wounded at his home after fleeing from Six Boys Woods. Hoffman identified Hanley before dying. Helen Hanley and Hoffman were shot near Mrs. Hanley’s parents’ home early Tuesday.
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Norristown
Kenneth Hanley
Six Boys Woods
James Burns
Patrick O'Hara
Hanley
Skip
Helen
John Hoffman
Collegeville
Leading Stocks Sell Off Amid Bearish Markets
New York July 23 report says leading stocks faced the heaviest selling in months. The market ticker fell two minutes behind trades as losses ranged from modest to over four dollars per share by midday. Officials blamed price control legislation, buyers' strikes, higher margins, and general business uncertainty for the relapse.
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New York
Camden County Marriage Mill Under Probe
In South Mills Camden County authorities investigated a marriage mill. First District Solicitor Chester Morris signed 25 warrants charging Camden's Register of Deeds J G Etheridge with issuing licenses without required physical exam certificates. Dr B G Wright admitted signing certificates without examinations. further action possible by the state medical association.
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Wright
Morris
State Medical Association
Wage Parley Aims For 77 Cent Hour Minimum In South
Leaders of the Textile Workers Union of America convened in Charlotte to push a 77 cent hourly minimum across mills under TWUA contracts. About 40 top officials and staff from Virginia to Texas discussed raising wages by at least 12 cents, noting current pay below 65 cents in some plants and contracts covering roughly 135000 workers, or over a quarter of southern workers.
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Charlotte
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Southern Mills
TWUA
Virginia
Texas
George Baldanzi
New York
Herbert Payne
Roy Lawrence
Lawrence
South
Communes Transferred From Rhine to the Saar Amid Occupation Moves
Paris reports that Gen Pierre Koenig orders transfer of 11 Rhine land communes to the Saar affecting about 600 square miles across 79 districts. Officials say the action aligns Saar administration with economic reality and moves inhabitants toward Saar coal mines.
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Paris
French General Commissariat
Pierre Koenig
Rhineland
Saar
France
Coblenz
Commissariat
Death Toll Updates After King David Hotel Blast
In Jerusalem a police spokesman said about 20 Jews detained over yesterday’s King David hotel bombing. Deaths rose to 48 with 41 bodies recovered. 50 people remain unaccounted for. Evidence pointed to Jewish attackers, some in Arab dress, who spoke Hebrew. Debris removal continued through the night as hospitals report ongoing injuries.
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Jerusalem
Kiesman
King David
Palestine Government
Old City
Palestine
Government
Tidelands Bill Sent Back Amid Political Showdown
Congress moves to place the Tidelands bill before President Truman as support for state ownership of oil rich tidelands grows. The Senate approved the measure 44 to 34 despite opposition from Barkley, with Ickes and Pauley opposing the president’s veto. The bill, three miles offshore, pits Pauley against Ickes over who should control offshore oil revenues.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
White House
Edwin W. Pauley
Interior
Harold Ickes
Barkley
Senate
House
Pauley
California
Ickes
Senate Naval Committee
Navy
Tidelands
War Profits Witness Admits Pressure To Be Hazier In Testimony
Red haired Jean Bates, former secretary in a munitions firm’s Washington office, testified that Joseph Freeman and Henry Garsson urged her to be hazy in sworn Senate testimony. She refused, saying she would not perjure herself, and noted they sought to suppress her mention of Albert Jacobson, a $9,975 annual war department consultant, in the office. The conversation occurred July 12 during an executive session fallout.
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Washington
Jean Bates
Joseph Freeman
Henry Garsson
Senate
Freeman
Garsson
Combine
Albert Jacobson
War Department
Farsson
Jacobson
Samuel Dickstein
New York Supreme Court
Anti Poll Tax Measure Lands On Calendar
Senate calendar includes the anti poll tax bill after Democratic Leader Barkley pledged to bring the measure to a vote before adjournment. Morse aimed to attach the repeal to tidelands title legislation, while southern senators threatened a filibuster and the chamber voted 54 to 23 to shelve Morse rider.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Congress
Morse
R-Ore
Ocean
D-Ga
Barkely
Pigeonhole
Attlee calls Jerusalem hotel bombing the worst outrage
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Attlee called the King David hotel bombing the worst outrage in Palestine. He cited 41 dead 52 missing and 58 injured from his latest figures with dispatches reporting 48 dead and 50 unaccounted for. Attlee said perpetrators were Jews and that Britain would pursue a just settlement with the United States for Arabs and Jews amid continued violence.
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London
Attlee
House of Commons
Palestine
King David
Jerusalem
United States
Two Bandits Are Killed In Missouri
Osceola Missouri July 23 a straight shooting sheriff and deputy ended an Ozarks vacation for two bandits less than 30 minutes after a Humansville bank robbed Sheriff Logan Peery and Deputy J E Kincaid cornered the pair changing license plates and killed both in a brisk gun battle The slain men were identified from social security and draft cards as Philip Joseph Cronin 45 of Lawrence Massachusetts and Bill
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Osceola
Ozarks
Here
Humansville
Logan Peery
J. E. Kincaid
Philip Joseph Cronin
Lawrence
Mass
Bill
Veteran Marine Denied Permit To Carry Gun
Boston report: Henry J. Donigan a 20 year old Marine veteran who served on Guadalcanal Guam Peleliu and Saipan was denied a revolver carry permit for his armored car guard job because he is under 21, the legal age for permits.
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Boston
Henry J. Donigan
Guadalcanal
Guam
Peleliu
Saipan
Madame Sun Yat sen warns China faces disaster from within
Madame Sun Yat sen in Chungking says Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang risks war with the United States and Russia to crush Chinese communists. She calls for American troops to withdraw and for ending military aid. Her remarks come as she notes severe straits in China and urges peace and order.
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Sun Yat-Sen
China
Dr. Sun
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Madame Sun
Chiang
Kuomintang
United States
Russia
Moscow Radio
Far East
Coalition plea and US arms stance amid Chinese political shifts
Madame Sun urges a Kuomintang Communist coalition and constitutional government, challenging Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Moscow radio accuses the US of backing Chiang against the communists, while AP reports officials weighing halting arms shipments to China to aid unification.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
China
Atomic Energy May Power Planes Progress Report
Officials from the Army Air Forces announced progress toward powering airplanes with atomic energy. Major General Curtis E. Lemay said no final solution exists and the completion date cannot be estimated. The Fairchild engine and aircraft corporation holds the primary contract with other firms collaborating.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Curtis E. Lemay
Air Staff
Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Corporation
New York
Lemay
AAF
Leaders Open Drives To Get Approvals
Administration leaders moved to secure house and senate votes to place compromise price control and rent authority legislation on President Truman’s desk before midnight. A presidential signature could restore trimmed price controls and full rent authority immediately.
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Washington
OPA
House
Senate Oleys
Truman
House debates to block revival of price controls
In Washington on July 28, Rep Brown of Ohio warned that reviving price controls would bring back scarcities and black markets. Some legislators sought to limit the compromise bill to rent controls while eliminating other measures. Brown urged the House to vote down the compromise. Administration leaders meanwhile hoped OPA, dead 28 days, would be reborn by midnight.
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Washington
Popa
Rep
Brown
Ohio
OPA
House Banking Chair Pushes OPA Price Controls Again
Chairman Spence of Kentucky says the administration seeks another OPA price control plan by night as Showdown votes loom in Congress. Senators Taft support the compromise amid past veto battles over OPA powers and major-food price ceilings. Paul Porter discloses the President's stance that the compromise is better than the vetoed bill.
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Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
OPA
Capitol Hill
Trumen
Paul Porter
Mran
House
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Migratory workers march as U S seeks better living
On July 23 the government plans to mobilize state and local agencies to improve migratory labor living standards and workforce use for 1946 food goals. General Graves Erskine and labor officials urge joint action to curb recruitment abuses and boost public understanding of migratory labor issues. More transients and returning veterans join the labor pool this year.
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Ington
Marine Corps
Graves B. Erskine
Retral and Employment Administration
Labor Department
Erskine
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