Truman weighs meat price controls in cabinet talk
President Truman weighs adjusting price controls or importing meat as Cabinet discussed ways to ease a meat shortage. Senator Taft urged immediate removal of OPA meat controls, while Representative Celler pushed emergency measures and suspended tariffs on Argentine imports.
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Washington
Truman
Anderson
White House
Argentina
Taft
Ohio
OPA
Celler
New York
Mr. Truman
Westbrook Pegler on Truman Dewey Palestine remarks
The column accuses President Truman and Governor Dewey of appealing to Jewish voters over Palestine and refugee immigration in a political contest. It notes Dewey's 1944 Wagner Act stance and argues foreign policy is a federal issue, not New York state business, with refugees settling nationally.
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New York
Palestine
United States
Truman
Dewey
United Palestine Appeal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Wey
Surplus Sales Probe Renewed in War Material Inquiry
Washington news: a three way collision triggered by UNRRA chief Fiery director La Guardia renews congressional investigation into war surplus sales. Slaughter and Small clash as UNRRA rails diversion to Yugoslavia drawn into debate amid fatalities and rail shipments figures.
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Washington
Iorello H. la Guardia
UNRRA
Congressional
House Committee
Guardian
Slaughters
D-Mo
John D. Small
Civilan Production Administration
la Vuardia
CPA
Slaughter
Missouri
Truman
China
Yugoslavia
Jet la
Small Id
Unrras
Small
Motion to delay Cawthorn trial over vital testimony
In New Orleans on October 11 a motion for indefinite continuance was filed for former State Senator Joe Cawthorn amid charges of jury tampering. The defense argues Mayor Julius Jackman ill prevents testimony. if denied they seek a separate trial for Cawthorn and three co defendants in the Burton tax evasion case tied to ex Governor James Noe and juror Marcel Labranche. A rushed trial was declared by Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah.
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New Orleans
Joe Cawthorn
Federal
Cawthorn
Julius Jackman
Alexandria
Wthorn
Willim T. Burton
Lake Charles
James A. Noe
Icon
Marcel Labranche
Burton
Wayne G. Borah
Wage board remains in business amid resignations
President Truman faces a decision as the wage stabilization board shows it is still operating after two industry members submitted resignations over policy. The resignations stem from the September seamen pay boost and desires to end wage controls, with Wirtz to issue a statement on the board’s future.
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Washington
Truman
Earl N. Cannon
A. Colman Barrett
John R. Steelman
Cannon
Barrett
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Nurses Die In U S Transport Plane Crash In Rio
A United States military transport plane carrying American nurses crashed in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Early reports said eight nurses were killed.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States
Tijuca
Archbishop Stepinac Sentenced to Eighteen Years Hard Labor
Zagreb reports Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac was convicted of collaboration with the Axis and sentenced to 18 years in prison with hard labor. Ten others, including the archbishop's secretary and several priests, received prison terms. two co defendants were sentenced to death. Monks were acquitted. The court ordered confiscation of the prel ate's property.
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Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Alojzije Stepinac
Axis
People’s Court
Stepinac
Ante Pavelic
Marshal Tito
OPA raises newsprint ceiling prices while studying decontrol
The Office of Price Administration boosted standard newsprint ceilings by 10 a ton to 84 and kept decontrol requests under study. The move, effective immediately, targets domestic and imported newsprint and aims to curb foreign shipments and producer shifts to other papers amid record demand and shortages.
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Washington
OPA
United States
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Paul Porter
House
Interstate Commerce
Price Agency
Strikes Tie Up Nation as Talks Stall in Major Cities
Associated Press reports widespread labor unrest keeps thousands idle with top two strikes far from settlement. Eastern and Gulf ship operators withdraw from talks delaying maritime tieup resolution. In Pittsburgh, 3200 Duquesne Light workers strike with 18 days of disruption and hotels face walkouts. Other cities see transit and business setbacks as wage demands rise.
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Associated Press
National Maritime
Maritime Commission and
Labor Department
Pittsburgh
General Business
Duquesne Light Company
Chicago
Columbus
Three Arrested for Publishing Atomic Bomb Photographs
Three men, George Wallace Comer Miles Frederick Daubenheyer and James Barnes Rike, were arrested by FBI agents in Baltimore for unlawfully publishing photographs of a classified atomic bomb. They face arraignment today after charges filed in federal court.
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Baltimore
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States
Washington
Justice Department
Fred Hallford
George Wallace Comer
Belair
Army Air Forces
Miles Frederick Daubenheyer
Bel Air
U. S. Navy
James Barnes Rike
Chattanooga
Tenn
Rike
Hallford
Army
Tinian
Pacific
Red Sox Edge Cardinals 6 3 to Take 3 2 World Series Lead
Howie Pollet started for St Louis but Boston beat the Cardinals 6 to 3 at Fenway Park to move ahead three games to two in the World Series. Joe Dobson pitched for Boston as Bobby Doerr and Don Gutteridge dotted the lineup in place of the injured Doerr. The matchup features lineup details and early inning action from game five.
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Fenway Park
Boston
Howie Pollet
Cardinal
Boston Red Sox
St. Louis’ Cardinals
St. Louis
Eddie Dyer
Cardinals
Joe Dobson
Joe Cronin
Bobby Doerr
Don Gutteridge
Gutteridge
St. Louis Browns
Cards
Leon Culberson
Shannon
Wally Moses
Mike Higgins
Roy Partee
Schoendienst
Moore
Cf Pesky
Musial
DiMaggio
Slaughter
Rf Williams
Lf Kurowski
York
Garagiola
Higgins
Walker
Lf Culberson
Marion
Partee
Pollet
P Dobson
Ballanfant
Hubbard
Barlick
Berry
Dobson
Pesky
Williams
Red Sox
Pellet
Truman says atomic bombs stay in United States
President Truman denied reports that the United States has armed Britain with atomic bombs. He stated there are no bombs “over there” and emphasized all weapons remain at home. The denial aimed to ease international suspicion of a formal US Britain atomic partnership.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Britain
Mr. Truman
Montana logger battles five grizzlies
Frank Fiest of Kalispell recounts a fight with five grizzly bears near Kalispell. He was badly chewed and clawed but shot and killed three of the bears. the remaining two limped away. Deputy Game Warden Ross Wilson is searching for the wounded bears.
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Montana
Frank Fiest
Kalispell
Ross Wilson Lis
United States backs Turkey on Dardanelles role in Potsdam talks
In notes to Moscow and at the Paris peace conference Washington rejects Russian plans for a direct share in defending the Dardanelles and for talks with Turkey on Montreux revision. The U S says Potsdam envisaged only preliminary exchanges leading to a conference of all signatories including the United States.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
Dardanelles
Moscow
State Department
Black Sea
Walter Bedell Smith
Smith
Potsdam
Montreux
Russia
Paris
United Nations
Greece
France
Jefferson Caffery
Bulgaria
Caffery
Constantin Tsaldaris
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Britain
Allied Control Council
Sofia
Vishinsky
Tsaldaris
Germany
Boris
German Girl Wins First Exit Permit To United States
Berlin reports Anna Maria Christina Heinke 23, daughter of a man who died in a concentration camp, received the first exit permit for a German girl under the GI fiancee law to marry Robert J. Lauenstein 23 of St. Louis Missouri. They plan to marry on arrival after a romance begun in Dessau and formalized in Berlin last December.
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Berlin
Anna Maria Christina Heinke
United States
Robert J. Lauenstein
McDonald Ave
St. Louis
America
Congress
USFET
Commons Pays F D R Honour With Roosevelt Memorial
London congress hears unanimous praise for Franklin D Roosevelt. Attlee and Churchill lead support for a Grosvenor Square memorial funded by $1 subscriptions, aiming to honor a leader who aligned with Washington and Lincoln in guiding Allied victory. Churchill said he felt buoyed during the war by Roosevelt.
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London
House of Commons
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Washington
Lincoln
Attlee
Churchill
Roosevelt
Grosvenor Square
United States
Americcan
American Pilgrims Society
Britain
Forgotten purse to aid San Francisco artists gains court approval
A dormant $8 243 purse donated by New York artists about 40 years ago for 1906 earthquake victims is opened for distribution to local artists in San Francisco. Arthur Mathews oversaw the fund. his widow Lucia Mathews and trustees Haig Patigian and W B Foville were named by Judge Edward Murphy to administer the fund.
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San Francisco
New York
Art Colony
Arthur S. Mathews
Mathews
Lucia K. Mathews
Edward Murphy
Superior Court
Haig Patigian
W. B. Foville
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Hjalmar Schacht
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