Real Estate Board asks rent boosts amid wartime controls
The National Association of Real Estate Boards pressed Congress for higher residential rent ceilings, with an expected 15 percent increase by apartment owners. They argue wartime price regulation harms housing costs but data show labor taxes and insurance stay high, while construction is halted and loan rates fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Congress
House Banking Committee
OPA
Navy Veteran Killed in Auto Crash Near Nashville
Grady M. Collins an 18 year old Navy veteran from Mc Gehee was killed when his car left the Nashville Hot Springs highway near Nashville after midnight Saturday. Lloyd Long 18 of Belzonia Mississippi escaped with minor injuries after riding with him Collins recently received a medical discharge after 18 months service in the Pacific having entered the Navy at age 4 stricken with the war record.
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Grady M. Collins
McGehee
Nashville Hot Springs
Nashville
E Lloyd Long
Belzonia
Mlss
Collins
Navy
Pac
Two Purse Snatching Reports on South Main Street
Hope city police reported two purse snatching incidents on South Main Street below Third. A white male took a girl’s purse Saturday night and a second girl, a black male, reported Sunday night. No arrests reported.
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South Main Street
Hope City
Outlook for Peace Bright at Frisco
Brighter hopes for world peace rose as United Nations talks near a conclusion. Big Powers and small nations debate veto limits for a proposed 11 nation security council. Evatt seeks restrictions, while Connally and allies push for unity and faster progress toward trusteeships.
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John M. Hightowr
Associated Press
San Francisco
United Nations Conference
Security Council
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Russia
France
Britain
United States
China
Evatt
Tom Connally
D-Tex
C. K. Webster
Connally
Hector David Castro
el Salvador
Mamdough Bey Riaz
Egypt
Truman
Paragould Flooded as Ditches Overflow After Heavy Rains
Parts of northern and eastern Paragould and much of Greene county were flooded today due to overflow from ditches after days of heavy rain. The St. Francis River was expected to rise to levels near those seen in spring floods, with three levee breaks east of Paragould still open and river conditions closely watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paragould
Greene County
St. Francis
Fence District Upheld in Town Court
The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of act 41 of 1943 allowing fencing districts to annex lands in towns. The Lincoln circuit court ruling sustaining annexation by B. L Hudley and others to the consolidated fence district of Lincoln county was affirmed. The court also upheld a Logan circuit court jury which convicted Virgo Jones of grand larceny for stealing $70 of cured meat, with a one year sentence. A Mississippi chancery court decree denying Rose Feldstein’s motion to set aside her divorce was reversed on residency grounds.
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Little Rock
Supreme Court
Lincoln Circuit Court
High Court
B. L Hudley
Star City
Fence
Lincoln County
G. A. Reed
Logan
Virgo Jones
Booneville
W. M. Guinn
Jones
State
Mississippi Chancery Court
Rose B. Feldstein
Raymond Feldstein
Philadelphia
Feldstein
Mississippi
Pearl Harbor's impact reshapes Hitler's plan
Berlin learned Pearl Harbor surprised Hitler who hesitated four days before a Reichstag war declaration. Allied notes reveal German underestimation of Japan, lack of coordinated strategy, and Hitler's shift after Oshima's cautions and Japan's naval blows.
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Joseph W. Grigg
Wiesbaden
Germany
Pearl Harbor
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Hitler
Japan
United States
Europe
America
U. S
Britain
Berchtesgaden
Berlin
10th Army Breaks Through Last Okinawa Line
On Okinawa the 10th Army pushed south capturing two towns and four hills in the final Japanese defense line. Marines and Army divisions advanced toward the Kunishi ridge and Yaeju Dake escarpment while Japanese collapse pressed. The U S lost a light warship and food the toll of ships sunk or damaged rose to 78 in the Okinawa campaign.
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William F. Tyree
Guam
10Th
Okinawa
Yaeju-Dake
Kunishi Ridge
East China Sea
Oroku Peninsula
Naha
Itoman
Pacific Fleet
U. S. Navy
Chinese Near 2 ex-U.S. Air Bases
Chinese forces push toward recapturing two former American air bases as they advance on Kweilin and Luichow in Guangxi and Hunan. A unit nears Kweilin while other columns move toward Yining and Liangchiangyu, with Nanning already held. Recapture would create a regional air network for operations against Japanese coastal shipping and the eastern Chinese corridor.
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Walter Rundle
Chungking
Kweilin
Luichow
High Command
Kweichow
Yining
Peishou
Kwangsi
Liangchiangyu
Ishan
Linchow
Nanning
China
Hong Kong
Canton
Manila
Allie
Borneo
Brunei Bay
Brunei
Sultanate
Douglas MacArthur
Labuan Island
Muara
Rooketon
Labuan
Brooketon
Singapore
Indo-China
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Royal Australian Navy
U. S. 13Th
Tarakan
MacArthur
George C. Kenney
Philippines
Asiatic
Sirsapore
Shanghai
U.S. Paper Use Reaches Nearly 300 Pounds Per Person
A report highlights that the United States consumes about 290 to 300 pounds of paper per resident annually. The figure underscores high demand across households and industries for paper products and related services.
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United States
North South split on poll tax and FEPC in Congress
The House voted 223 to 95 to discharge rules and judiciary panels from poll tax repeal debate and set a vote for tomorrow, backing a measure against poll taxes as a voting qualification. A second clash looms over a permanent FEPC with debate likely to follow a rules committee decision. Northerners push racial equality while Southerners defend states rights.
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Miele Tam F. Arbogast
Washington
Gusewaay
Rules and Judiciary
House
Texas
Judiciary Committees
Senate
Congress
FEPC
Rules Committee
Cox
D-Ga
Rankin
D-Miss
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
Bender
Ohio
Roosevelt
Truman
Wallaceburg Exceeds Quota in Seventh War Loan Drive
Wallaceburg township in Blevins surpassed its target by purchasing 30125 dollars in Bonds toward a 30000 quota. County figures show total sales of 521702.75 dollars, reaching 82 percent of the 642000 dollar county quota. E Bond sales reached 702.75 dollars, 83 percent of the 305000 E Bond quota.
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Wallaceburg
Blevins
Syd McMath
Yanks Advance in Northern Luzon Fast Flight
The 37th Infantry Division pushes a swift nine mile advance in northern Luzon capturing the highway junction town of Baguio and moving five miles toward the Cagayan valley. The operation isolates a large Japanese force in the mountains east of the valley.
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Manila
USS. 37Th Infantry
Bagabag
Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Increase in Rent Ceiling to Be Asked
James C. Downs Jr. speaking for the National Association of Real Estate Boards urged Congress to raise the OPA rent ceilings. He testified before the House Banking Committee as a Senate showdown loomed on extending the price control program. Downs argued rent control remains uniquely effective at its original level, highlighting owner discrimination claims and overseas returnees among real estate members.
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Washington
Congress
James C. Downs, Jr
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Downs
House Banking Committee
House Committee
Senate
House Group
Boy Drowns at Massard Prairie Creek Near Fort Smith
A 10 year old boy Donald N Chaffin drowned while swimming at Massard Prairie creek near Fort Smith. He lost footing in deep water and his body was recovered by his half brother First Lt John B Boatright but resuscitation efforts failed.
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Fort Smith
Massard Prairie Creek
Donald N. Chaffin
N. E. Chaffin
John B. Boatright
Sukagawa Engine Works Bombed in Major B-29 Raid
In a Sunday precision strike, B-29 Superfortresses rained at least 820 direct bombs on Sukagawa engine works 115 miles northeast of Tokyo, with other targets around Tokyo and Minami Daito Island also hit. Iwo pilots claimed 26 enemy planes down, seven likely destroyed, nine damaged, while Americans reported no losses.
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William E
Guam
Hitachi
Sukagawa
Tokyo
Minami Daito Island
21St Bomber Command
Japan
Manami Daito
Radio Tokyo
Okinawa
Pacific Fleet
Okino Daito
Minani Daito
Tokyo-Yokohama
Tachikawa Army
Atsuki
Texarkana Bus Company Ends 24 Hour Strike
Texarkana officials agreed to rehire a 64 year old dispatcher ending a 24 hour bus drivers strike that halted city transportation leaving about 25 000 people without service in the Texarkana area Saturday.
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Texarkana
Texarkana Bus Company
Dictatorship Granted by Jap Diet
The Japanese Diet passed a wartime emergency bill granting Premier Suzuki near dictatorial powers and surrendering most Diet prerogatives. The bill moves to the House of Peers, with fears it abolishes the Diet’s war policy role. Tokyo and Basel reports note protests and possible Vatican diplomacy rumors amid wartime upheaval.
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San Francisco
House of Representatives
Tokyo
Baronantaro Suzuki
Diet
House of Peers
Tokyo Radio
United Press
Houe of Representatives
Diet Committee
Basel National Zietung
Japan
United States
Vatican
Washington
Myron Taylor
Truman
Rome
Taylor
Europe
Roosevelt
Kantaro Suzuki
Koenig Symbolizes Rise of DeGaulle Leaders From Obscurity
General Pierre Koenig rose from a French captaincy to a Free French hero at Bir Hacheim in the Libyan desert and later led as Paris military governor. The profile traces his ascent from Africa to the French resistance in London and into the governance of Paris as part of De Gaulle’s provisional government.
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Pierre Koenig
DeGaulle
Goerge Tucker
Hal Boyle
Paris
Horatio
de Gaulle
Koenig
Scandinavia
Egypt
Cyrenica
Shepherd’s
Cairo
Bir Hacheim
Tobruk
Ritchie
Erwin Rommel
French Foreign Legion
Rommel
North Africa
London
France
Stilwell Foresees Two-Year War On Japan From Okinawa Visit
Gen Joseph Stilwell, inspecting Okinawa, warned the war with Japan could last at least two more years and may require ground action in Manchuria after the home islands fall. He argued bombing alone cannot defeat Japan and praised troops for learning to fight from caves.
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Robert Gieger
Japan
Stilwell
Vinegar Joe
U. S. Sixth Army
Luzon
Philippines
Okinawa
France
Postoffice to Close Wednesday Afternoons for Summer
Hope postoffice will close at noon each Wednesday starting June 13 as part of a summer half holiday. Only one city mail delivery occurs that afternoon while rural carriers run their usual schedule and all mail continues to be dispatched on time. Local stores have long observed the Wednesday half holiday during warm months.
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Hope Postoffice
Robert M. Wilson
Postoffice
All Hope
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Havana
Honolulu
American Steamship Lines
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Almon E. Roth
National Federation of American Shipping
Roth
Sweden
Mr. Roth
South Main St
Frisco
General Bradley
F. L. McCormick
Main Street
Moberly
Bradley
Vate
Hiroshi Oshima
Malaya
Oshima
Atlantic
10Th Army
U.S
South
North Borneo
Gen. Stilwell
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