OPA criticised by Reno packing firm owner
Reno meat packer Frank E. Humphrey attacked the Office of Price Administration over meat price ceilings and regulations. He said OPA policies have throttled production, pushed packers to lose money or sell on the black market, and created a vicious cycle of shortages. He urged a return to a free market to restore supply and fair prices.
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office of price administration
Frank E. Humphrey
Humphrey Meat Packing co
Reno
OPA
Humphrey
Truman says world food crisis continues as U.S. meets half-year goal
President Truman warned the world food crisis is not over and urged continued sharing of grain during upcoming months of hunger abroad. He said the United States will meet its half-year goal of 6,000,000 tons but final shipments will not leave American ports until after July 1.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
United States
Moore
Rokla
senate
CIO and
political action committee
O'DANIEL
Senator O’Daniel
D-Tex
OPA
Chester Bowles
hig post
Bowles
VICIGUS
SIO
Russia
CIO
Barkley
Sandard
Morse
conference committee
CPA
secretary of agriculture
agriculture
Philip Murray
Murray
congress
Mystery Death Of Trial Witness In Bratislava
Rabbi Samuel Frieder died suddenly in Bratislava on June 27 while awaiting testimony in the Oswiecim camp case against Anton Vacek. Reports say he may have been poisoned, with most of his testimony believed to be available in writing for the Peoples Court proceedings.
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BRATISLAVA
Czechoslovakia
Rabbbi
Samuel Frieder
peoples court
Anton Vacek
Oswiechim
Meat Supply Scarce Nationwide as Shortages Persist
The Associated Press reports a nationwide meat shortage with half of retail shops closed and restaurants burdened by rising costs. Senators, retailers, and consumers push for relief as packers stock dwindles and beef is scarce, while some stores limit frankfurters and labor cuts surge in major ports.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
National Restaurant association
senate
OPA
O’DANIEL
D-Tex
J. W. Stevens
Clyde F. House
Department of agriculture
New York
Nedick Stores, Inc
Omaha
Choice of China Given Approval by U S Officials
Washington June 27 officials who asked not to be named said the United States approved China's choice of Dr Wellington Koo as the next ambassador to the United States. Dr Koo, formerly Chinese ambassador to Great Britain, is to succeed Dr Wei Tao Ming who has returned to Nanking.
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WASHINGTON
United States
China
Wellington Koo
Koo
Great Britain
Wei Tao Ming
Nanking
West's Lumber Industry Hit By OPA Suits
San Francisco reported that the OPA filed suit against 40 lumber firms in California Oregon Washington and Arizona seeking 89 043 530 in treble damages for alleged violations tied to 65 649 123 board feet of lumber. Northwest operators called the move political while enforcement listed eight alleged practices including dummy addresses re sawing without regrading and overcelling sales.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Pacific coast
price administration
OPA
California
Oregon
Washington
Arizona
Aberdeen
Wash
Henry W. Anderson
Twin Harbors Lumber co
OBA
Twin Harbors Lumber company
R. G. Robbins
R. G. Robbins, Lumber co
Portland
northwest
Donald D. Baldwin
Mark Seattle Lumber co
Ralph Golub
U. S
Tom Clark
congress
Eisenhower Seeks Doubling of Army Officers to 50,000
General Eisenhower asked Congress to double the regular army officer corps to 50,000. He testified before a Senate subcommittee that the enlarged corps would be needed for the next 25 to 30 years or until the United Nations becomes a definitively effective force. The subcommittee approved the request and full committee action was planned for Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON
Dwight D. Eisenhower
congress
army
senate
Eisenhower
UNO
United Nations
Outcast Coffee Drinkers Rescue Boss From Ice Box
In Des Moines Iowa June 27 statehouse workers drinking coffee during a break were framed by their bosses as the likely culprits. The group became trapped inside a new cafeteria walk in cooler while inspecting it. Their shouts and door kicking drew in outside coffee drinkers who freed them including Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Harry D Linn and two others.
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DES MOINES
Iowa
statehouse
Harry D. Linn
Searchers Saved From Desert Death
Riverside dispatch reports a nine man desert rescue after an air crash in the Pinto mountains. Army helicopter pilot 1st Lt. Robert Frost dropped water and airlifted the gravely ill to Twenty-nine Palms, then returned for others as Deputy Coroner Seymer L. Cash and deputies, with Army personnel, fought extreme heat and wind to reach the wreck and recover the body of Arthur L. Coddington. The team endured 140 degree heat and near freezing winds before reaching safety and hospital care for the rescued.
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RIVERSIDE
Calif
Seymer L. Cash
Cash
James L. Williams
Banning
Pinto mountains
Arthur L. Coddington
Lockheed Aircraft corp
Burbank
Coddington
Wickenburg
Ariz
Palms Springs
Army
Robert Frost
Frost
March field
Thomas B. Wright
Lewis La Joe
Harold J. Bish
Twentynine Palms
U. S. forest service
Caddington
Western Allies Reject Trieste Proposals After Deadlock
Paris June 27 The western Allies rejected two Soviet proposals on Trieste, keeping the foreign ministers council deadlocked over the Italian peace treaty. Molotov offered an autonomous Trieste under Yugoslav sovereignty or joint Yugoslav Italian sovereignty, both deemed unworkable by Byrnes Bevin and Beaux. The ministers scheduled to meet again to discuss the Romanian peace treaty, with no date set for resuming Trieste talks.
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PARIS
Trieste
foreign ministers council
V. M. Molotov
Adriatic
Italy
slavie
United States
London
Molotov
Russia
Moscow
Yugoslavia
house of representatives
U.S
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bigault
Byrnes
Rankin discounts libel suits in election contest
Rep Rankin of Mississippi told the house that two libel suits in federal court seeking 650000 damages were filed yesterday to injure him in his election contest next Tuesday. One suit for 100000 was filed by Brig Gen Herbert Holdridge retired legislative representative of the Veterans League of America. The other by 11 league members seeking 50000 each. Holdridge alleges statements were false and defamatory in the Democratic cloakroom of the house.
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WASHINGTON
Rankin
D-Miss
house
Herbert C. Holdridge
Veterans League of America
league
Holdridge
Hankin
Locomotive Order From Soviet Union For 12 Locomotives
The American Locomotive Company announced it received an order for 12 locomotives from the Soviet Union. The five foot gauge 2 10 0 type will be built at the Schenectady plant.
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NEW YORK
American Locomotive co
Soviet Union
Schenectady
Veto Demonstrated as Spain Issue Stays On Agenda
United Nations Security Council debate ends with Gro myko using the Big Five veto three times to block British Australian proposals on Spain. Evatt and Cadogan criticize the veto as a moral condemnation of Franco and warn of an all or nothing U N policy amid a five hour session. The incident prompts Mexico to defend Castillo Najera and Spain’s exile leadership cites regret over the clash.
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NEW YORK
United Nations security council
Andrei A. Gromyko
EVATT
Herbert V. Evatt
Spain
Gromyka
POWER
Sir Alexander Cadogan
empire
U.N
Gromyko
Francisco Castillo Najera
Mexico
Evant
Castillo Najera
San Francisco
Russia
BEC
posal
general assembly
council
Alexandre Paradi
security council
Franco
Matsuoka Dies at 66 in Tokyo Hospital
Yosuke Matsuoka former Japanese foreign minister linked Japan to the Axis dies in Tokyo at 66 from tuberculosis after a storied career marked by room for defense at a war crimes court. His death ends a controversial chapter in wartime diplomacy and wartime policy.
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TOKYO
Yosuke Matsuoka
Japan
University of Oregon
Kenichiro
Tokyo Imperial University hospital
Europe
Gestapo
Alfred Meisinger
Matsuoka
Statin
Russia
Girl Magician Fights Robber in Street Incident
Philadelphia report states Ruth Samsel, a 25 year old magician, startled and fought off a robber who grabbed her pocketbook and ring. She scratched his arms and face as he fled, saving $36 and the ring.
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PHILADELPHIA
Ruth Samsel
Housing Problem Solved With Trip to Germany
Springfield, IL June 27 The Bean family plans to join Lt. Col. Charles R. Bean in Heidelberg Germany, and will have housing. Mrs Grace Bean sails July 9 with five children and a 19 room house awaits them in Germany.
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SPRINGFIELD
Charles R. Bean
Heidelberg
Germany
Grace Bean
To Back Study Of War Profits
President Truman promised cooperation in a senate committee probe of war profits. Chairman Mead of the special committee said Truman would issue an executive order if needed to make departmental records available. The meeting with Mead and other committee members lasted about 15 minutes at the White House.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
senate
Mead
D-NY
special
White House
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