Record weighty words at congress over Knox housing
Rep Clare Hoffman probes veterans housing in Knox Indiana where Parkview Heights and GI home offers collide with a surplus property sale. Witnesses clash over bidding, FPHA rules, and priority for veterans while the record racks up controversy and anger among former soldiers.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol Hill
Clare Hoffman
Michigan
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George Craig
Brazil
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American Legion
Knox
Sam
Parkview Heights
Blywood Homes
Craig
Federal Public Housing’ Administration
FPHA
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Business Group Backs McCune for City Council
A Sixth District businessmen committee formed to support Earl H. McCune for City Council. Forrest E. Kirball, chair, told McCune supporters at 2018 Pacific Ave that McCune is the district’s only businessman candidate and urged his character as needed on the council.
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Earl H. McCune
Forrest E. Kirball
McCune
Pacific Ave
Long Beach
Union Demands Clubs For San Quentin Guards
The United Public Workers Union urged clubs to support San Quentin Prison guards courtly by demanding changes to prison regulations that prohibit guards from carrying clubs. They cited a guard stabbed twice since the rules took effect and protested to state director Richard McGee.
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San Quentin
C. I. Q. United Public Workers Union
Richard McGee
Restored landing craft trials signal Argentina fleet plan
Forster Shipbuilding Co completed trial runs in the harbor for the La Calera and La Falda, aiming to return them to their original condition for the Argentine Navy. Additional vessels, Villa Maria, Alta Gracia, and Cruz De Ejo, are near completion with ten more in the yard. Officers and sailors have arrived to ship the five to Buenos Aires if accepted. A 9500 ton salt shipment aboard the Liberty freighter Thomas J. Lyons left for Japan in 43 hours, credited to the bulk carrier. The salt will preserve fish, and nets are being made from cotton shipped here. A yacht, Dolphin II, sailed from Bermuda with six aboard. two disembarked, replaced by a Norwegian skipper and two deck hands. Leasing government ships to Alaska operators may extend another year, pending legislation, with a five year agreement possible. George Wallace predicts a partnership among tuna fleets in Long Beach and Los Angeles to address fishery depletion due to netting, while hook and line fishermen resist purse seiners in Mexican waters.
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la Falda
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Alta Gracia
Cruz de Ejo
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Buenos Aires
Liberty
Thomas J. Lyons
Vic Pierson
Marine Terminals Corp
Pierson
Lyons
Japan
Jeremiah S. Black
George Wallace
American Tunaboat Association
San Diego
Elior
Lone Beach
Los Angeles Harbor
Mexican Senator Sees Big Oil Cache
Denver reports Senator Antonio Bermudez of Mexico City says with U.S. drilling gear Mexico can develop vast oil reserves. He asserts Mexico can supply its own resources, defending Pemex and continental defense, noting active rigs despite steel shortages and promising wildcat results.
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Mexico
Antonio J. Bermudez
Mexico City
Petroleos Mexicanos
Americar ‘Association of Petroleum Geologists
Bermudez
Colorado Officials Discuss Arizona Water Project
Rep Paulson said Clifford H. Stone of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and Royce J. Tipton favor the Arizona project. He warned Stone may seek to dominate basin water affairs and possibly aim for a future secretary of the interior post. Colorado argues the Central Arizona Project could need water also required by upper basin states.
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Arizona
Paulson
Clifford H. Stone
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Royce J. Tipton
Colorado
Poulson
Stone
Interior
Mexicans Rally for Stricter Professional Training Law
In Mexico City protesters backed a proposed law requiring doctors engineers lawyers teachers and other professionals to obtain government approved training before practicing. The Supreme Court ruled the measure unconstitutional, saying citizens may not be deprived of the fruits of their labor though it noted licensing could be barred from practice.
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UP jDoctors
Supreme Court
Miguel Aleman
Chinese Reds Take Key Shantung City
Nanking reports that government loss of Weihsien to Communist forces detonated control of the north central Shantung Province. The city fell after government reinforcements did not reach the outnumbered garrison, though some dispatches claimed the garrison held part of the city.
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Nanking
Flaming Weihsien
Shantung
Montana Opposes Dam Plans on Columbia Headwaters
Victoria B C April 28 Montana delegate L A Colby of Missoula said Montana will oppose any dam plans on the Columbia River headwaters above Grand Coulee. He warned proposed storage dams would flood Montana farmland and force relocation of portions of their lines.
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Columbia River
Grand Coulee
Montana
L. A. Colby
Missoula
Pacific Northwest Trade Association
Fail Loada
Labor Department appoints Alaska representative in labor office
Acting Secretary of Labor David A. Morse named Leonard E. Evans of Minneapolis as the Alaska territorial representative for the Labor Department. Evans will assume the post effective Saturday, with the appointment announced in Washington on April 28.
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Washington
Secretary of
David A. Morse
Leonard E. Evans
Minneapolis
Labor Department
Page Boys Wear Vandenberg Buttons In Capitol
Senate page boys wore Vandenberg for President buttons inside the capitol. A history class voted a landslide victory for a Republican ticket of Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg for President and Carol E. Stassen for Vice President.
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Capitol
Senate
Page School
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Carol E. Stassen
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