Senate Committee OKs Rent Control Extension Plan
The Senate banking committee approved a bill to continue rent controls through February 29, 1948 without a blanket increase. It sets up local five member advisory boards to rule on area decontrol or increases, moves the program to Housing Expeditor Frank Creedon, and allows states to run their own controls. It also decontrols new housing and certain types, while evictions on nuisance grounds shift to state or local law.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
OPA
Frank Creedon
Creedon
Battle at Haifa Docks Amid Deportation of Jews
In Haifa harbor British troops clash with some 1,600 Jewish immigrants from the vessel Meledeth during transfer to deportation ships Empire Vigour and Empire Rival. A British constable is killed by accidental gun discharge. Shell Oil pipelines blown, eight storage tanks burn, damage estimated at 16 million dollars. Half the refugees reach Haifa aboard two warships. the rest aboard the towed refugee ship.
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Jerusalem
U.P
Cyprus
Haifa
Shell Oil Co
Whitman Dies at 78 Former New York Governor
Charles S Whitman, who served as New York governor after his 1915 election and won a subsequent reelection, died Saturday at age 78. He led the state through his final years in office and was a prominent legal figure before his political career.
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New York
Charles S.whitman
New York Zoo Hopes to Stop April Fools Calls
Bronx zoo officials plan to shield staff from prank calls on April 1 as the telephone company resumes screening. Last year 2,708 calls were blocked to Mr. Bear, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Fox and other residents of the New York Zoo.
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New York
Bear
Wolf
Fox and Company
Bronx Zoo
House Approves Oct 31 Date on Sugar Controls
The House approved a seven month extension of sugar allocation and price controls to October 31, transferring control from the OPA to the Department of Agriculture. Each person would receive at least 20 pounds over seven months, with a 35 pound yearly rate. The measure also reserves 50,000 tons for new industrial users and keeps inventory controls through March 31, 1948.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
OPA
Department of Agriculture
Wolcott
R-Mich
Tobey
R-Nh
U S Offers No Opposition to Mine Stoppage
Washington U P the government offered no opposition today as John L Lewis 400000 soft coal miners prepared to quit work at midnight for a six day period of mourning for the 111 victims of the Centralia US mine disaster Secretary of Interior J A Krug operator of the government held mines declined to challenge Lewis right to call the unprecedented stoppage and ranking Republican said Congress would not interfere. Krug said he would send the Senate a report on overall safety conditions in American soft coal mines.
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Washington
U.P
John L. Lewis
Centralia
Interior
J. A. Krug
Lewis
Congress
Krug
Senate
United Mine Workers
Ill
Allis Files Petition for New Bargaining Election
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co petitions for a new bargaining election among workers at its Milwaukee main works. The Wisconsin Employment Relations Board will hear the petition at 2 p m on April 9, according to a WERB spokesman.
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Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
WERB
Ghostly lights seen on severed Fort Dearborn stern
Navy tug Lipan crew report seeing lights aboard the severed stern of the Fort Dearborn as it was towed to Pearl Harbor. An inspection found the hulk’s electrical circuits dead. The ship split during a March storm. 12 of 42 crew are missing after abandoning in a lifeboat.
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Honolulu
U.P
Fort Dearborn
Pearl Harbor
Election set in Kenosha as voters pick council and judges
City voters in Kenosha will elect four council members and two board of education members along with a justice of the peace and a county supervisor from each ward. A six cornered race for county judge, a statewide supreme court contest and daylight saving referendum also headline the spring election slated for Tuesday.
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Kenosha
Board of Education
Kenosha County
Edward C. Nelson
Gilbert G. Petzke
John T. Steinmetz
Vernon Christensen
Joseph H. Greenwald
Joseph Lourigan
Harold Peterson
R. Merrill Rhey
Thomas Montemurro
Joseph Hamelink
John Gibbs Smith
Paul L. Whiteside
Jessie J. Wolcott
Secretary of State Urges Real Meeting on World Issues
Marshall denounced Soviet ultimatums at the conference and urged a genuine meeting of minds on German reparations and unification. Bevin proposed unification by July 1 with unrestricted movement of goods. Five injured in local road accidents in Kenosha and county over the weekend, including a damaged leg for Mrs. Huissen and a head injury for Ralph Cable. Duke fined for driving offenses after a multi-incident spree on Sheridan road.
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Moscow
U. S
Marshall
Russia
Foreign Ministers Council
Ernest Bevin
Council For the
Germany
Kenosha
Peter Huissen
Sixtieth Street
Louis Bernacchi
Fifth Street
Twenty-second Avenue
Bernacchi
Sixty-third Street
Kenneth Davis
Thirtieth Court
Twenty Sixth Avenue
Ralph
Thomas King
Homer Williams
St. Catherine's Hospital
Sheridan Road
Theodore Ruffalo
Racine
Seventy-fifth Street
William A. Duke
Tenth Avenue
Ruffalo
Peter Martin
Glida Packard
Louis Blood
Duke
Martin
Bevin
Council
Soviet Union
United States
Molotov
Ione American
Red Cross Drive Surpasses Goal in Kenosha County 1947
The Kenosha County Red Cross drive raised 18020.83 dollars led by Co Chairmen Gilbert S. Lance and Jessel S. Whyte. Cash gifts totaled 17155.08 with pledges 865.75 and an 315.65 rise from factory worker memberships. The drive continues into April with the chapter performing Home Service aiding 3100 people in 1946.
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American Red Cross
Kenosha County
Gilbert S. Lance
Jessel S. Whyte
Red Cross
Two Year Old Dies After Drinking Wintergreen Oil
Milwaukee news item reports 2 year old Carol Jaszewski daughter of Mr and Mrs Anton Jaszewski died after drinking wintergreen oil from a bottle in a medicine cabinet while her mother was away and her father slept.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Carol Jaszewski
Anton Jaszewski
Carol
Wisconsin voters face daylight time referendum and judiciary race
Wisconsin voters will weigh a daylight saving time advisory referendum and a supreme court contest between Justice James Ward Rector and Judge Henry P. Hughes. The ballot also names candidates for the second congressional district seat after Rep. Robert K. Henry’s death, with local elections across 41 communities. turnout is expected light but might approach 400 000 total ballots.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
Madison
James Ward Rector
Henry P. Hughes
Oshkosh
Rector
Gov. Goodland
Joseph Martin
Green Bay
Hughes
Fairchild
Robert K. Henry
Jefferson
Verona
Robert
Draft Officially Ends at Midnight in Kenosha County
Local Selective Service boards in Kenosha County terminate operations at midnight ending a system started in 1940. Inductions paused last October, registrations for 18 year olds halted, and re classifications stop. Board 3 held its final session Friday night, Board 2 met today, and Board 1 plans a closing assembly. Officials names include Local Board 1 Jessel Whyte chair and Hartwick Dahl among others. Records will be shipped to a central state federal site yet to be announced.
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Kenosha County
Board 3
Bards
Jessel S. Whyte
Hartwick C. Dahl
Donald W. Frost
Robert M. Smith
Warren A. Robinson
Walter J. Hannan
Stanley A. Przlemski
Fred C. Seideman
R. B. Whyte
Frank C. Bennett
Ralph E. Alderson
John Mutz
Mark Colwell
Chester Hockney
Doctors Trace Pain in Neck To Tight Collars
Medford Ore U P Inge mund Stennerson a local lumber man was relieved today. Doctors at the Mayo clinic in Rochester Minnesota decided after a week of examinations that chronic pains in his neck were the fault of his haberdasher. Their diagnosis said his shirt collars were too tight.
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Medford
Ore
U.P
Ingemund Stennerson
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Death of Harry L. Haines Former Pennsylvania Congressman
Harry L. Haines, 67, who served five terms as representative of Pennsylvania's 21st district in Congress, died Sunday in York.
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York
Harry L. Haines
Pennsylvania
Notes Found on 15 Centralia Miners Reflect Farewell
Fifteen of Centralia coal mine victims waited more than half a day for rescue, scribbling farewell notes to wives and families in pockets and on scraps. The messages urged church attendance, expressed love, and asked devotion to children, as gas flood filled the tunnel after the blast.
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Centralia
Ill
U.P
O. W. White
Vandenberg Proposes UN Controlled Greek Turkish Aid
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg urged amending the Greek Turkish aid bill to allow suspension of aid by the United Nations. The plan ties aid withdrawal to UN Security Council or General Assembly votes or if Greece or Turkey governments represent a majority, or if the act’s purposes are largely achieved. The proposal aims to avoid a Russian veto by requiring UN action.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Greece
Turkey
United Nations
Vandenberg
Fred L. Crawford
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Russia
Crawford
Security Council
General Assembly of
UN Security Council
U. S
House May Have Easter Recess If Bill Passes
A $2 471 498 548 appropriation bill and the first big step in a Republican drive against government press agents stand between the House and an Easter recess. If passed and sent to the Senate by tomorrow evening the House will adjourn Wednesday for a one week holiday returning Thursday April 10.
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Washington
House
Senate
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Floyd H. Guttormsen
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Daniel C. Lencioni
Matt Taylor
Mussolini
Walter Audisio
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