Orleans parish salary bills move in Louisiana house
The Louisiana House committee reported favorably on a set of bills increasing salaries for Orleans parish officials. Proposals include raising assessor pay to 7,500, clerk pay to 6,000, and recorder of mortgages to 7,000, with additional clerical funds for the assessors and plans to add civil and criminal court divisions at a total state city cost.
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Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
City Affairs Committee
Orleans Parish
Ambrose M. Smith
14Th Ward
New Orleans
Orug
Maryland delegates seek uninstructed slate at convention
Democratic leaders at a Maryland convention pushed for an 18 vote uninstructed delegation to aid vice presidential selection at the national convention. Rayburn of Texas urged harmony as anti Roosevelt sentiment was checked. In Indiana, GOP delegates and candidates for governor and senator were chosen in district caucuses. The Socialist convention opened in Reading, while John B. Quinn criticized major candidates’ silence on the race. New York City school children facing a 90 hour parade would be needed to march past.
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Sam Rayburn
Texas
Maryland
Rayburn
Roosevelt
Indiana
Ralph Gates
Capehart
Indianapolis
James M. Tucker
Chicago
National Socialist Party
Reading
Washington
John B. Quinn
Harold E. Stassen
Nebraska
New York City
Deer scare rules harness limited bird shot in rifle
A man’s deer scare plan limits him to bird shot in a .22 rifle and directs aiming at the obvious deer anatomy when retreating. The text outlines his permit conditions and the challenge of humane management. The rest of the passage shifts to unrelated weather and local notices about pigeons telephones and a baseball league listing.
City to regain $700000 annual from state highway fund
A bill seeks restoration of $700000 yearly to New Orleans for construction and maintenance of streets in the state highway system. The sum, cut in 1934, is requested as the city's share of the gasoline tax.
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State Highway Fund
New Orleans
Hull seeks congressional backing for postwar peace agency
Secretary Hull met with seven House leaders to pressure support for a postwar international peace organization, aiming to advance liberty and equality for small nations. The group, led by Speaker Rayburn, included Bloom, McCormack, Ramspeck, Martin, Eaton, and Arends, with a possible follow up meeting a week later.
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Washington
Hull
House
State Department
Rayburn
Texas
Bloom
New York
Foreign Affairs Committee
McCormack
Massachusettes
Ramspeck
Georgia
Martin
Massachusetts
Eaton
New Jersey
Arends
Illinois
Hull plans Hershey trip amid frank White House talks
Hull has a vacation trip to Hershey, Pa. Rayburn called the session very frank and open. Martin said Hull discusses ideas for implementing peace as he had with a bipartisan Senate group.
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Hershey, Pa
Rayburn
Martin
Hull
Senate
Lend Lease Funds Shaped to Aid Britain and Europe
The wartime aid program faces a margin gap to avert a bare existence diet for Britain as UNRRA funds fall short of daily war costs. Committee notes nine Greek babies die per 1000 births and cites high cargo ship costs to Russia and other regions. Lend lease planning also targets Donets basin and Rostov Kiarkov rebuilds while Italy repays $81 million already spent on civilians.
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UNRRA
Greece
United States
Russia
Britain
Persian Gulf
Indian Ocean
Germany
Donets
Rostov and
Kiarkov
Navy surgeons adopt quick freeze anesthesia for wounded
Navy surgeons use rapid freeze units that generate ice in sixty seconds to cool the wounded arm or leg. The method chills the limb for 15 to 30 minutes, allowing a tourniquet without pain, then packs the limb in ice. Within 1.5 to 5 hours the extremity is ready for operation without additional anesthetic.
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Washington
Navy
United States Naval Medical Bulletin
Broadway Shortcuts Trim Play Titles to Snappy Sluglines
In New York theater circles shortcuts trim long titles to pithy nicknames. The Theater Guilds Jacobowsky and the Colonel becomes Jake while Voice of the Turtle is The Turtle. Arsenic and Old Lace is Arsenic and Mexican Hayride condenses to the latter word.
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New York
Theater Guild
Jacobowsky and
the Colonel
Jake
Turning Tables and Unpatriotic Birds News Brief
CAMP ELLIS Illinois S/Segt Roy J Wilson on flood duty along the Mississippi near Quincy rescued a coast guards man from a tree after a levee broke in the line of duty. In Chicago Paul Hick 19 asked if it was legal to use a gun in city limits for sparrows eating his victory garden seeds. The sergeant suggested a scarecrow.
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Camp Ellis
Ill
Roy J. Wilson
The
Army Engineers
Mississippi River
Quincy
Coast
Chicago
Paul Hick
Walter Rentfleisz
Hick
Victory Garden
U S Won't Join De Gaulle Talks Amid Ambiguity
London dispatch reports the United States will not participate in talks between Gen Charles de Gaulle and the British government. The Daily Mail urged Washington to clarify its stance on the French Committee of National Liberation. Critics warn lack of an agreement could cause confusion in liberated areas and potential conflicts with Eisenhower's military and political roles.
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London
United States
Charles de Gaulle
London Daily Mail
Washington
French Committee of National Liberation
Daily Mail
Newssper
de Gaulle
National Committee
France
News-Chronicle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cochran Returns to Washington After Burma Air Lift
Col. Philip G. Cochran commanding officer of the first air commando force returns to Washington to report to Gen. H H Arnold. He praises the potential of moving armies by air after the airborne invasion of central Burma. New York City hosts 900000 school children and 33000 teachers in almost 1000 buildings.
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Cochran
Washington
War Department
Philip G. Cochran
First Air Commando Force
Burma
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
New York City
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