U S Provides 36.5 Million Aid for Chinese Rationing
The American aid program via the Economic Cooperation Administration allocates 36.5 million dollars for China’s rationing. Shipments include 23.5 million in rice and wheat from Burma, Siam, and the United States, 8 million in petroleum from the Persian Gulf, and 13 million in cotton or fibers plus 31.5 million in nitrogen fertilizer. A 500 thousand dollar Chinese aid reserve funds surveys of industrial projects.
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Ashington
Economic Co-operation Administration
Far East
Middle East
ECA
Paul G. Hoffman
Burma
Siam
United States
Persian Gulf
Wetherlands Indies
Hoffmann
China
Nanking
Shanghai
Peiping
Tientsin
Canton
Lana's Pastor Object of Church Inquiry
A Los Angeles Presbytery special judicial commission will study Rev. Stewart F P MacLennan's marriage to Lana Turner and report at the June meeting. Protests were received from the Buffalo Niagara and Oklahoma City Presbyteries. The church forbids a minister to marry a divorced person within a year of divorce.
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Los Angeles
Long-range Farm Bill Predicted By Senate Aide
Washington May 12 Senator Aiken Vermont asserted the Senate agriculture committee will advance a long range farm program before the president’s message. He said committee approval could occur today or tomorrow and that President Truman would likely accept the bill as is. The proposal includes price supports for six crops with parity based levels and ranges from 80 to 90 percent as supplies move from 130 to 70 percent of normal.
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Washington
Aiken
R.-Vt
Senate Agriculture Committee
Truman
Department of Agriculture
Union to Decide Loyalty Pledge
In Boston on May 12 nearly 2300 delegates at the CIOs steelworkers convention will vote on whether to continue boycotting the Taft Hartley non Communist pledge. President Philip Murray said the decision is not final and urged fighting the law in Federal Courts if needed. Inland Steel case tests the affidavits requirement and pensions talks are tied to the issue.
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Boston
CLO
Bert Hanson
Chicago
Philip Murray
Murray
National
U. S
Inland Steel
NLRB
Director's Wife Plans Divorce
Hollywood report states Nancy Hawks, wife of film director Howard Hawks, planned to file for divorce today. The couple share three year old Kitty Hawks, with Hawks retaining custody of a daughter from a prior marriage to Athol Shearer. Nancy is ill in a sanitarium.
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Howard Hawks
Nancy
Tody
Kitty Hawks
Hawks
Athol Shearer
Laurence Beilenson
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