Mine seizure to keep wartime coal strike from resuming
Secretary Krug and Vice Admiral Moreell take over U S coal mines as government seizure raises flag over 4500 pits. They aim to avert a resumption of the two week old strike. Lewis must decide on working status with a quick follow up meeting planned. Krug stresses coal contracts must be submitted to operators before release.
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the Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
White House
Mareel
Krug
Truman
Secretary of Interior
J. A. Krug
Adm
Ben Moreel
Lewis
United Mine Workers
OPA Plans Major Shoe Price Increase and Auto Rates
The OPA expects a about ten percent rise in standard low cost shoes for men women and children effective around June 1 with the entire increase passed to consumers. The agency also signals a roughly five percent auto price hike to offset higher parts costs and may allow some manufacturers to set prices on limited product lists subject to OPA veto.
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Washington
OPA
Not In Governor Race O'Daniel Ends Bid
Burlington case ends with mother returning to hospital infant reunion after eight hours. James Ashe and his wife Marge 20 27 10 days old baby. O'Daniel says no Texas governor bid. Rainey to announce intentions next day with 7 15 AM 9 PM broadcasts. Stevenson silent. Sellers supporters plan Sulphur Springs campaign opening June 8.
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Burlington
James Ashe
Margie
Chicago
Ashe
Union Station
Associated Press
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
Homer P. Rainey
University of Texas
Coke Stevenson
Rainey
Stevenson
O’daniel
Senate
New Deal
Dr. Rainey
Saw Power Company
Grover Sellers
Land
Sulphur Springs
Brotherhoods Submit Final Propositions on Rail Strike
Railroad brotherhoods said they delivered a final proposition to the government for settling the 250,000 rail strike and may meet President Truman. A. F. Whitney noted a possible White House invitation after talks with Dr. John R. Steelman. The unions trimmed wage demands to a $1.44 daily minimum with an 18 percent raise, awaiting carriers’ response as the 4 p.m. strike deadline nears.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
A. F. Whitney
Trainmen’s Brotherhood
John R. Steelman
White House
Whitney
Steelman
Dr. Steelman
Steeleman
Brother Hoods
Vet Housing Plans Are In High Gear
Amarillo city commissioners consider buying Palo Duro park land after sale postponement. The plan involves about 15 000 acres with state-held portions unaffected. In Washington, Truman signed housing bills to expand veterans home loans, subsidies, and material priorities, aiming to build 2.7 million homes in two years amid material shortages.
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Amarillo
A.R
Palo Duro Park
Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
Veterans
Congress
House
OPA
Testimony on Malmedy massacre ties Nazi guards to killings
DACHAU May 22 A former GI Homer D. Ford from Leeton Missouri testified he heard rifle butt impacts as German guards finished off wounded POWs at Malmedy. Six survivors gave accounts at the Dietrich elite guardsmen trial. Ford described seeing Germans shoot the wounded.
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Ford
United States
Pfc
Samuel Dobyns
Sandusky, C
Weather Outlook for West and East Texas Regions
The West Texas forecast calls for partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers across the Pecos valley and El Paso area this afternoon tonight and again Thursday. East Texas expects partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Warmer conditions are expected in the northeast and extreme north tonight with moderate to fresh southeasterly winds along the coast.
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West Texas
Pecos
el Paso
East Texas
Sugar Stamp Racket Reported On Plains
Fort Worth May 23 A Foy Curry Jr district sugar rationing officer says the OPA district in the Lubbock area is seeing a sugar stamp racket with bogus stamps pasted from old blue food stamps over expired sugar stamps. Grocers warned to inspect stamps or risk losing replacement sugar.
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Fort Worth
Lubbock
A. Foy Curry, Jr
South Plains
Curry
Motion To End Price Subsidies Defeated
A Senate banking committee vote defeated a motion to end all consumer price subsidies on food next July 1 by 11 to 7. Senator Capehart proposed the measure which would exempt subsidies on copper lead zinc and rubber. The panel notes government subsidies to curb retail food prices total about 1.6 billion dollars annually.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Capehart
R-Ind
Ford Canada to idle 10,000 workers May 28
Ford of Canada will indefinitely suspend production and idle 10 000 workers starting the night of May 28 due to material shortages from the U S coal strike. The Windsor plant was at 80 percent of its 500 unit capacity.
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Windsor
Ont
U.P
Ford of Canada
Ford
United States
Nations outline 20 nation food emergency council
The United States Britain and Canada proposed a 20 nation international emergency food council to address a global food crisis. Russia Argentina and 15 others were invited to join, to report to UN FAO and coordinate rapid food fertilizer and feed allocations without replacing current agencies.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Canada
International Emergency Food Council
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Russia
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Chile
China
Cuba
Denmark
Houston Post Adopts Plan to Aid Competitor
The Houston Post will not accept ads from advertisers who did not regularly advertise in the paper from April 7 to May 15. The policy aims to assist the Chronicle as its paper supply is threatened by a British Columbia strike, while the Post denies any intent to exploit the crisis.
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Houston
U.P
The
Post
Today
Chronicle
British Columbia
the Post
Public hanging reported for war criminal Karl Frank
Prague radio announced that Karl Hermann Frank former reich protector for Bohemia and Moravia was publicly hanged. He was convicted by a Czech court on charges of responsibility for the Lidice massacre carried out in June 1942 in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
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London
Prague
Karl Hermann Frank
Bohemia and Moravia
Frank
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
Bevin Announces Polish Troop Discharges to Resettlement Corps
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told Commons that 100,000 Polish troops in Italy and 60,000 in Britain will be discharged and enrolled in a special resettlement corps to ease the shift from military to civilian life. New shipment Gruen watches advertised by King's Jewelry at 1020 Broadway.
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London
U.P
Ernest Bevin
Commons
Italy
Britain
Mystery illness on brideship voyage claims three infant lives
New York reports three babies died aboard the Zebulon Vance during a 13 day voyage from Le Havre to New York. Sixteen other children were stricken as Army doctors investigate possible causes including food water and milk formula aboard the ship carrying 426 war brides and children from France Belgium Poland and Holland. Autopsies and tests underway at Fort Hamilton Army hospital in Brooklyn as officers say ship had adequate medical staff to handle routine emergencies.
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Associated Press
New York
Zebulon Vance
le Havre
John A. Schiess
Army Hospital
Fort Hamilton
Brooklyn
France
Belgium
Poland
Holland
Schiess
John Battenfield
Pravda reports American bombers shot down in China
The Pravda dispatch from Vladivostok claims seven American bombers were shot down while attacking Chinese Communist troops. Washington says no such incident occurred and notes surplus U S planes were lent to China.另 Malinovsky HQ says Soviet evacuation from Manchuria completed May 3.
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United Press
Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda Today
Vladivostok
People’s Revolutionary Army
Washington
War Department
Department
China
Tass
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Manchuria
Government Nears Goal on Wheat Exports in 1945 Season
U P May 22 officials said the state aims to export a record 420 million bushels of wheat from the 1945 crop, with pace at about 4 million bushels daily as of May 16 under the wheat bonus plan. If maintained, 75 to 85 million bushels would be added to prior exports and flour shipments to meet the target. Former UNRRA chief Herbert Lehman urged rationing meat bread fats and oils to avoid shortages next autumn and winter.
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Washington
U.P
Agriculture Department
U. S
UNRRA
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
OPA Ends Price Controls On Spinach And Pickles
The Office of Price Administration lifted price ceilings on frozen and canned spinach except for baby food, noting ample supply and sales under ceilings. Controls on pickles were also dropped as they were deemed not significant to the cost of living.
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Washington
U.P
OPA
Laredo Publisher Offers Newsprint Sharing
LAREDO, May 22. Wm. Prescott Allen publisher of the Laredo Times offered to share his newspaper's supply of newsprint with papers affected by the strike of loggers and semi workers in British Columbia. Allen said publishers have a responsibility to maintain the free flow of news for the public.
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Laredo
Wm. Prescott Allen
The
Summer School Enrollment Reaches 417 In Lubbock Schools
A total of 417 students had registered for summer school in Lubbock public schools before noon today. Floyd Honey, Senior High principal, said 62 were in grades 1-6, 55 in grades 7-8, and 300 in grades 9-12. Registration continues this week as classes open this morning. term runs six days weekly through July 6.
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Lubbock
Floyd Honey
Cool Weather Holds Across Texas With Light Showers
Light thundershowers yesterday and last night gave East and Central Texas the only rainfall while Snyder reported a low of 46 degrees and the lower Rio Grande area saw a high of 4. Moist easterly winds spread moist air statewide and conditions were partly cloudy elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Texas
Snyder
West Texas
Rio Grande Malley Mission
Weather Bureau
Larger Navy Sought By House Committee
The House naval committee voted to restore funds to the Navy appropriation bill to provide a post war Navy of 1,079 combatant ships. The panel plans to push on the House floor to override the appropriations committee which recommended a fleet of 965 ships.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Navy
House
Appropriations Committee
Navy to scrap cruiser Dallas under 20 percent rule
The Dallas battleship cruiser, under construction at Quincy Massachusetts shipyards, will be scrapped by the Navy for not reaching 20 percent completion. It stood 10.7 percent complete on March 1.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
Dallas
Quincy, Mass
Babson Urges Let Strikes Rage To Wake Voters
Roger Babson argues rail and coal strikes should continue unchecked to anger voters enough to curb labor actions. He favors extending anti trust laws to include labor conspiracies and says trains should halt except food shipments while mines stay closed until public action occurs.
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Babson
Truman
United Press
Wellesley Hills
Mass
America
Roger W. Babson
Tragic Death Probe Into David Nivens British Wife
Hollywood reports the coroner opened an inquiry into Primula Niven wife of actor David Niven who died after a blackout hide and seek game at Tyrone Powers home She fell 20 feet down cellar stairs fracturing her skull and lacerating a brain Lilli Palmer described lights out play as guests crowded in a closet and corridor Her death followed initially minor injuries and a hopeful recovery.
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Hollywood
Primula Niven
David Niven
Lilli Palmer
Rex Harrison
Mrs. Niven
Miss Palmer
Two Children Burn To Death In Dallas Home
Funeral arrangements were under way for six month old John Harris and two year old Gene Harris who died in a Dallas house fire. Their brothers Willie five and Louis four escaped uninjured. Investigators say two older children started the blaze by stuffing kerosene-soaked kindling into a stove after playing with fire.
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Dallas
U.P
John Harris
Gene Doris Harris
Willie
Louis
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