PAC Leader Hillman Dies at 59 in New York
Sidney Hillman, 58 59 and longtime head of the C P A C dies at his Point Lookout Long Island home after a heart condition. Hillman, immigrant turned labor leader, shaped 1944 campaign strategy and led the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. He leaves a prominent role in labor politics and questions on succession.
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PAC
Hillman
Point Lookout
Sidney Hillman
C. SO. Political Action Committee
Sidney
Tillman
Roosevelt
Chicago
Robert Hantegan
Long Island
Long Beach
Hannegan
I von Terred
Pound
John Cahill
Hillmas
Mack Lipkin
Selma Lerner
Trving Lerner
Dorothy Lerner
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
C7.c.p.a.c
C.lo
P.A.C
Washington
Zagare
Lithuania
United States
United Garment Workers’ Union
Thomas £. Rickert
Amalgamated
Eisenhower pushes expansion to 800000 peacetime army
General Eisenhower told the House military committee he sees no possibility of reducing the army below 800000, urging approval of legislation to appoint 25000 additional regular army officers. He outlined a peacetime force of 400000 for supporting roles and 100000 for air forces, with manpower to rise toward 870000 by July 1. He specified 50000 regular and 30000 temporary officers on active duty and said new officers would come from ROTC, officer candidate schools, and West Point, plus incentives for enlisted personnel to gain officer rank.
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Washuington
Eisenhower
House Military Committee
Juai Geeling
ROTC
West Point
Volunteers for Army Climb Signups Surge in June Week
An uptick in army volunteers reversed a monthlong decline with 13,094 recruits signing up during the weekend ending June 21, the largest weekly total since April. total volunteers since last fall’s intensive drive reached 821,894. Officials warned the gain may be temporary and cautioned it could affect draft needs. During July and August the War Department relies on recruiting for replacements and has made no selective service calls.
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War Department
Army
Tougher training for officer candidates announced
General Jacob L. Devers ordered longer training for officer candidates. Enlisted men seeking a second lieutenant commission must complete 24 weeks at Fort Benning Georgia, with only the top cadets kept after eight weeks. Successful graduates will receive two additional months at a special branch school. Three classes of 200 will start at Fort Benning every two months.
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Washingsun
Jacob L. Devers
Army Ground Forces
Fort Benning
Devers
Fort Botang
Seven Danes Condemned to Die in Peter Group Case
Seven Danes accused of belonging to the Peter group, an infamous terror gang active in Denmark under German occupation, were condemned to death. Four others received life terms. A later item notes President Truman scheduling his weekly White House news conference for 3 p.m. tomorrow.
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Copfenhagen
Denmark
Peter
Washington
Truman
White House
Widow Receives Pacific Pilot's Estate in Probate
Alberta Clark Harmon named executrix in the will of Gen Miard F. Harmon Jr. who died in the Pacific in February 1945. The will filed with County Judge Charles W. Anderson dated June 30, 1921 in Washington DC leaves all real personal and mixed estate to his widow. Value not stated.
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Miard F. Harmon Jr
Pacific
Alberta Clark, Harman
Charles W. Anderson
Washington, D.C
Harmon
Red Army Sets Five Year Plan for Modern Vehicles
Red Star reports a five year plan by a technical committee of the ministry of the armed forces to modernize equipment with new cars and trailers for the armed forces.
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Red Army
Moscow
Red Star
Theate Administration Ministry of the Armed Forces
Chetnik Leader Draja Mihailovic Defense Nears Clemency
In Belgrade on July 10 defense lawyers wrap up pleas for clemency for Gen. Draja Mihailovic once Yugoslav minister of war and 23 co defendants charged with treachery and collaboration with the Germans.
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Chetnik
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Lti
Draja- Mihailovic
Chetnikt
Sailor 18 Weds Grandmother 38 in Secret Georgia Match
Walter Hall an 18 year old New York sailor married Mrs Nedmia Baldwin 38 mother of three in Rossville Georgia last Saturday. The couple met a year ago when Hall visited Knoxville with her son. Hall says he is 18, younger than all three of his bride's children, the oldest 23 and the youngest a 1 year old mother of a son born July...
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Knoxville
Tenn
Juyan
RinThe
New York
Walter Hall
Nedmia Baldwin
Rossville
Hall
Five Die As B 17 Crashes Into Mount Tom
Holyoke Mass July 10 Twenty five army navy and coast guard men the entire crew and passenger set of a converted Flying Fortress on the homeward flight from Gander Newfoundland were killed when the B 17 crashed into Mount Tom near Chicopee Massachusetts. Salvage crews labored amid smoke and flames as guards fought remaining fires and officials noted the pilot may have misjudged the terrain. Personal mementos and a gold wrist watch stopped at 10 20 amid the wreckage underscoring the grim tragedy for armed service members and their families. Identification of the dead was expected to take weeks.
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Holyoke
Mass
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Next of Ks
Music Records
Pig Survives A Bomb in Bikini Lagoon
On Kwajalein July 10 UPI reports a pig found swimming in Bikini lagoon after the atomic blast that sank the Japanese cruiser Sakawa is alive. Three rats born aboard the Pennsylvania the day of the bombing also survive. Captain Fitzhugh Lee, task force information officer, wouldn't release details about other animals.
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Kwajalein
Renounce Austria Assets Move Stirs Austrian Politics
In Vienna on July 10 General Mark W. Clark informed Austria that the United States would renounce its share of German assets in Austria and turn over all German assets in the American zone. This follows Soviet commander Col. Gen. L. V. Kurrasov’s order transferring assets in the Russian zone to Soviet ownership, a move with potential deep political impact in Austria.
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Vienna
Mark W. Clark
United States
Austria
Clark
L. V. Kurrasov
Optometrists pledge eyes to aid the diseased
Three hundred optometrists at a Pittsburgh convention joined Beta Sigma Kappa and the American Optometric Association in pledging their eyes to eye banks to aid diseased persons and accident victims. Dr H E Pine of Chicago noted refrigeration advances make large scale eye banks practical and efficient.
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Pittsburgh
Hanks
Beta Sigma Kappa
American Optometric Association
H. E. Pine
Chicago
Pine
Poles Reveal More Expulsions and Accident Report
The Polish government said 609000 Germans were expelled from lower Silesia and 200000 from the Szczecin area. Witnesses described the crash near Mountain Park Amusement area with varied accounts of the plane circling before it reached the mountain and exploded. Holyoke fire crews noted heavy rain likely averted a forest fire.
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Wakdaw
Mey Lw
Lower Silesia
Szczecin
Stettim
Dyoke
Poland
Mountain Park
Holyoke
Atom Smashing for Leukemia Patient
A leukemia patient from Aurora Illinois traveled to San Francisco for treatment at the University of California’s atom-smashing cyclotron. Addie Ray Atkinson, 27, died in Houston after a 2400-volt electric line electrocuted him while cutting a limb from a tree in Brenham yesterday.
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San Francisco
Fred Habermeyer
Aurora
University of California
Houston
Vey — Addie Ray Atkinson
Brenham
Weather Outlook and Print Advertising Notice
Partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon through Thursday with scattered thundershowers. Temperatures peak near 96 Wednesday, fall to 72 Thursday with a 71 degree Wednesday night low. Tuesday high 96, low 67. Classified ads removed due to newsprint shortage.
Probe Asked Overpayment Probe Involving Batavia Metal
Undersecretary of War Kenneth Royall told a senate war investigations panel that he asked the justice department to probe an overpayment of more than 1 million dollars to Batavia Metal Products on a war contract. He also asked Clark to examine earnings and costs of Erie Basin Metal Products, an affiliate, as tax inquiries were already under way. Royall cited a May 1945 advance of 4.5 million dollars on bomb component construction.
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Washington
Kenneth Royall
Justice Department
Batavia Metal Products Company
Senate War Investigating Committee
Tilingis Munitions Combine
Tom ‘Clark
Erie Basin Metal Products Company
Hatavia
Batavia
Lightning Kills 2 on Texas Farm Tragedy
In Bailey County Texas James Lowe 24 and his nephew Anha Wayne Mallar were killed when lightning struck their tractor duo on a farm. The tractor continued circling the field after the strike with Lowe’s body remaining under the vehicle.
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Lubbock
James Lowe
Anha Wayne Mallar
Bailey County
Lowe
Ministry intervenes to end London meat strike
The Labour Ministry steps in to halt a three day meat strike that halted weekly rations for about 5,000,000 Londoners. Butcher shops closed and Smithfield Market drivers protested over hiring of three non union men. Del Rio dairies raise milk price by 1 1/2 cents per quart.
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London
Ministry of Labor
Maay
Smithfield
del Rio
del Rio Dairies
Lustig Sentenced to Four Years in Tax Case
Henry Lustig, president of the Longchamps restaurant chain, was sentenced to four years in prison for evading federal income taxes totaling 2,872,766. Judge Harold Kennedy also fined Lustig 115,000. Relatives and an accountant received prison terms for their roles in the conspiracy.
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New York
Henry Lustig
Longchamps
Harold Kennedy
Lustig
Allen Lustig
Prigen
Joseph Sobel
Pryor Trust Upheld by Supreme Court Ruling
The Texas Supreme Court upheld the will of Mrs. Ike T. Pryor creating a million dollar Stafford Pryor Charitable Trust based in San Antonio. The 1943 death left most property to the trust, with relatives contesting the will in the case styled Sarah A Stafford Boyd and others v Frost National Bank etc. Associate Justice C S Slatton dissented.
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San Antonio
Milion Dallor
Fexis Supreme Court
Ike T. Pryor
C. S. Slatton
Sarah A. Stafford Boyd
Frost National Bank
President May Veto Measure Sparks Dairy Price Battle
Washington July 10 The looming veto threat hangs as a bipartisan Senate majority moves to ban ceilings on milk butter and cheese The move adds to a price control clash with the administration after yesterday’s 49 to 26 vote to keep ceilings off meat poultry and eggs Democratic Leader Barkley warns a veto is likely and fears amendments could include cottonseed petroleum tobacco and other products The meat and poultry decision was supported by 31 Republicans and 138 Southern and Western Democrats with Wherry Neb proposing the amendment Toward debate on the measure Barkley says the fight continues
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Wherry Urneb
Wholesale food prices rise to 26 year high in weekly index
The Dun & Bradstreet weekly wholesale food price index climbs to a new 26 year high at 1188 based on a 31 commodity basket. A 34 cent advance over the prior week pushes the year to date gain to 79 cents, with the previous high in June 1920. Cotton futures hit 23 year highs in New York amid weak prospects and talks of price control.
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Exnan, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Wodnesday
New York
Washington
Mili
Amarillo Declares Off Limits To Service Members
Amarillo field is placed off limits to all personnel by Col. Joel O Neal. He said the order will stay in effect until the city can cope with hoodlums, after reports of gang fights between servicemen and civilians prompted the action.
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Amarillo
Tex
Amarillo Field
Joel O'Neal
O'Neal
Buyers Strike Spreads Milk Vendors Picketed Across Region
Widespread strikes threaten Wednesday with pickets at Cramp Shipbuilding Philadelphia and New York Shipbuilding, and outside four southern New Jersey dairies. Five Philadelphia unions to picket Reading terminal market Thursday as housewives in Wilmington refuse milk at inflated prices amid cost of living concerns after the OPA demise.
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International News Service
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Cramp Shipbuilding Yards
Philadelphia
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Reading Terminal
Wilmington
Del
OPA
Aulos
U S Ready to Extend German Disarmament Pact
The United States signals willingness to lengthen the German disarmament treaty from 25 to 40 years in response to Russian claims the original plan is inadequate. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Soviet Foreign Minister V. Molotov presented their positions in the four power council, with full texts released.
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Paris
United States
Germany
U. S
James F. Byres
V. M. Molotov
pro+ post
Ministers’ Council
UAW Calls for Wage Boosts Without Price Increases
The UAW group urges all C T unions to join the fight for wage gains without price hikes. It plans to seek extra raises for 60,000 Chrysler workers unless OPA pricing is restored to the June 30 level. Chrysler contract allows reopening wage clauses on 60 days notice.
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Swy
C.T. O. Tnitad Auto Workers
Chrysler
OPA
U. A
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