Home Building Boom May End Federal Rent Controls
Washington AP reports that booming home construction may end federal rent controls next summer as 1948-activity shows over a million new dwellings yearly. Lawmakers doubt a new extension will pass. Truman Administration consideration remains unsettled amid defense-area doubts. Decontrol gains have risen since the law’s enactment. Congress backed a multi-billion housing bill to aid slum clearance and publicly owned housing, boosting construction and pressuring rent- control continuation.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Representative Walcott
Michigan
House Banking Committee
House
Seminole Wedding Held Under White Law in Florida
Max Bill Osceole, 20, and Laura Mae Jumper, 18, wed in Dania under state and church law, first Seminole Indian ceremony by white authorities. Rev. B. T. Beckham officiated at Pinewood Baptist Church, with nontraditional dress and consented to standard licenses and waiting period. The marriage is the first license issued to Seminole Indians in Dade County, previously governed by Green Corn ceremony in Everglades associations.
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Max Bill Osceole
Laura Mae Jumper
B. T. Beckham
Pinewood Baptist Church
Miami
W. D. DeHass
Dade
Dade County
Everglades
Injured 22-year-old dies after Canfield Road crash
Youngstown AP reports Richard J. Timmons, 22, died from injuries after his car struck a pole on Canfield Road near Mill Creek Park earlier yesterday. The fatal crash occurred in Mahoning County as emergency crews responded to the scene.
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Youngstown
Richard J. Timmons
Canfield Road
Mill Creek Park
Rita Hayworth Awaits Baby In Lausanne With Aly Khan
Princess Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan have traveled to Lausanne for the birth of their child. They arrived from Paris and hid in a hotel suite while Lausanne Information Service confirmed their stay until birth. The couple plans to move to Gstaad after December 15, with designer Jacques Fath preparing the maternity wardrobe and Aly indicating the child will be reared as a Moslem.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Rita
Aly
Paris
Prince Aly
Hollywood
French Riviera
Miss Hayworth
Mont Choisi
Information Service
Gstaad
Jacques Fath
Orson Welles
Way Is Paved For Marriage
Toshie Okutomi, 22, from Tokyo, and Orren Lucht, 22, of a farm near Mora Minnesota, wed in a Swedish Lutheran Church ceremony after a Congress bill eased immigration hurdles for their romance. The couple will reside on the Lucht 320 acre farm.
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Mora, Minn
Dan Cupid
Toshie Okutomi
Tokyo
Orren Lucht
Here
Toshie
Orren
U. S
Congress
Man Sentenced In Theft Here
Bennie Edward Biggs, 55, of Indianapolis, was sent to the Ohio Penitentiary for an indefinite term after being found guilty of stealing golf and tennis balls from a Middletown store while posing as a telephone repairman. The note mentions a diver’s depth record of 275 feet from Britannica.
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Bennie Edward Biggs
Indianapolis
Ohio
Common Pleas
Fred B.cramer
Biggs
Middletown
Vote November 8 Charter Revision Message
A political advertisement urges voters to support Charter Revision on November 8 with a slogan The Time is Now Do not let the tail wag the cow. It frames the issue as a decisive chance to revise the city charter and carries a yes vote recommendation by the committee Pol Adv.
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Pol
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