Vice President Barkley forecasts quick actions on rent and export controls
Washington notes Barkley after a White House conference with President Truman said new action on rent and export controls could come soon, with no decisions yet on sequencing. The talks covered the administration’s legislative program, including a two year extension of the rent control law due March 31, and the president’s broader staffing and party leadership plans.
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Witte House
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Eratic
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Illinois
McCormack
Massassetts
Labor Disputes Continue to Drop Out
Labor unrest persists as union members walk off jobs at Armson Food stores amid wage and hours disputes. A spokesman cites failed union recognition as the catalyst for the strike started last Monday by the meat cutters’ group.
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Armson
Battler's Union
Adkins Assumes Arkansas Employment Security Office
Former Governor Homer M. Adkins today took over as administrator of the Arkansas employment security division in Little Rock. He succeeds Purlfoy Gill, who led the agency for four years after Adkins left office in 1945 and later returned to politics to back Gov. Sid McMath. Gill was named the first honorary lifetime member of the Arkansas chapter of the International Association of Public Employment Services.
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Homer M. Adkins
Arkansas Employment Security Division
Purlfoy Gill
Adkins
Sid McMath
Gill
Arkansas
International Association of Public Employment Services
Rita to Marry Prince As Soon As Possible
Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan announced they will marry as soon as he is divorced from his present wife. Aly Khan said he would wed Miss Hayworth once free to do so, and Hayworth expressed full agreement. Hayworth recently recovered from grippe in Aly Khan’s villa near here, per his secretary Mario Maggiane.
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Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Aga Khan
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Aly
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Mario Magfiane
Twins Born Five Minutes After Mother's Death
In Elgin Illinois, Carl H Larsen reports his wife Marcella died during labor and twin girls were delivered five minutes later via emergency cesarean at St Josephs hospital. The bereaved husband, a serviceman in the Pacific, plans to care for his existing son Gary and place the twins with his mother.
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Carleton H. Larsen
Larsen
Marcella
Larson
St. Joseph's Hospital
Chicago
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Lersin
Leah Kness
Gary J
Charles Larson
Rockford
Truman seeks permanent authority to reorganize government
Washington Jan 17 President Truman asked Congress for permanent power to reorganize the government to promote efficient economical conduct of public business. He urged comprehensive scope with no agency exempted and noted Hoover Commission support for restoring such authority subject to congressional veto. Reorganization plans would take effect in 60 days unless both houses reject.
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Kashmir Armistice Praise for United Nations Efforts
AP analyst argues the United Nations earned gratitude for securing an armistice in the Kashmir crisis and supervising a plebiscite to determine whether Kashmir joins India or Pakistan. The piece recalls Maharajah Hari Singh, past intrigues, and a note on a Mont Palomar telescope project.
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Kashmir
Dewitt MacKenzie
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Pakistan
UN Commission
Lake Success
Sir Hari Singh
Hempstead Scout Committee Sets Monthly Session Tonight
The Hempstead Boy Scout committee meets in regular monthly session to plan special programming for Boy Scout anniversary week from February 12. Meeting location is the county school supervisor's office in the county courthouse, per district chairman Clifford Franks.
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Boy Scout Committee
First Moor
Clifford Franks
Liberty Hill Home Demonstration Club Discusses Landscaping
The Lib erty Hill Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs. Irvit Betts on Tuesday January 11 at 2 pm. Mrs Lorraine Blackwood spoke on landscaping and shrub disease control while president Mrs I B Williams presided. Secretary Mrs E H Byers reported the treasury and last meeting minutes. Leaders for the year were appointed and monthly meeting hosts chosen.
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Liberty Hill Home
Irvit Betts
Lorraine Blackwood
Meeting adjourns at Mrs Light’s home after discussing story
Fourteen members and four visitors were served a sandwich plate before adjournment to Mrs W H Light's home in February. Longfellow's Ev is said to be based on a tale that moved from Canada into the United States by oral tradition before Longfellow wrote it.
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Longfellow
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United States
Wit
Woman Raped Aboard Train in West Coast Limited
Klamath Falls Ore Jan 17 A white man in long underwear crept into the berth of Mrs Opal Holmes and raped her aboard the Southern Pacific west coast limited as it headed toward Los Angeles The case is linked to the earlier Lower 18 murder on the same train route Prosecutor Dayton E Van Vactor said clues include the attacker wearing long undergarments and entering through the Tower berth Mrs Holmes wife of a North Richland Wash atomic plant employee testified she slept through the attack after playing poker in the lounge car with others and retiring around 2:18 am Two sailors were questioned and released The victim was en route to testify in a court case in Los Angeles and was taken to relatives in Glendale Cal
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Ore
Opal Holmes
Southern Pacific Railroad
West Coast Limited
Dayton” E. van Vacter
Los Angeles
Martha Virginia James
Norfolks
Robert Folkes
Lane County
Holmes
Glendale
Cal
Former Air Ace Pleads Guilty to Treason
New York January 17 Manti a 27 year old former air force lieutenant pleaded guilty to treason charges The Florissant Missouri resident was indicted last October for giving himself and his plane to the Germans in Mal y between Oct 13 1944 and May 8 1946 after going AWOL in Karachi India The indictment alleged Monti volunteered his services to the Germans was released as a prisoner of war and broadcast for the Nazis from Berlin as Martin Weithaupt Subsequently the indictment charges Monti became an officer in the S S Elite Guard After the Nazi capitulation he made his way to Italy and joined the American Fifth Army Some 150 jurors had been called before Federal Judge Robert A Inch at the start of the trial today
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Martin Manti
Air Force
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Maly
Karachi
India
Monti
Berlin
Martin Weithaupt
S. S
Italy
Fifth Army
Talesmen
Robert A. Inch
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