Senate labors to save draft act in tight 12 hour window
Washington reports a hurried Senate effort to extend selective service beyond May 15 as House resistance to drafting fathers surfaces in a 45 day extension. Truman weighs an executive order to preserve draft machinery while housing officials seek to curb non housing project approvals. Party dynamics and potential OPA reforms shape looming votes and policy moves.
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Washington
Senate
House
Chamber
Selective Service
Truman
Congress
Housing bill reaches White House amid housing authority complaints
The emergency home building bill reaches the White House while housing authorities complain CPA permits excessive non-residential construction. Despite a seven week partial freeze on industrial and commercial building the national housing agency says the Civilian Production Administration is approving such activity.
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White House
CPA
National Housing Agency
Sausage grinder accident at Decker Packing plant
Juan Olivares aged 21 lost his right hand after it was caught in a sausage grinder at Decker Packing Company located on 114 Blue Star Street where he worked.
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Juan Olivares
Decker Packing Company
Blue Star Street
Fashion shift hints longer skirts caressing calf
Boston May 14 Fashion reports from London promise longer skirts “long enough to caress the upper calf.” The update comes from Hardy Amies, the first British designer to visit Boston since the war, signaling a shift in postwar style.
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Boston
INS
London
America
Hardy Amies
Sellers Files in Race for Governor
AUSTIN May 14 Attorney General Grover Sellers filed his ballot application for governor and affirmed loyalty to the Democratic party. He said he supported party nominees in 1944 and has voted the Democratic ticket straight since his first vote in 1914.
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Austin
Grover Sellers
Democratic Party
Sellers
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Labor Roundup Rail Strike Ballots Ready By AP
Labor round up notes strike ballots prepared for 1.1 million members in 15 nonoperating railroad unions seeking wage boosts after last March raise. Vote to close June 20, 30 day cooling off, possible fact finding, pending walkout for 280,000 engineers and trainmen. Picketing at Pratt Whitney plant in West Hartford described with clashes and arrests.
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Associated Press
Pratt and Whitney Division
Niles Bement-Font
West Hartford
Conn
Charles W. Sandstrom
Edward J. Hickey
Transit strike stalls Los Angeles cars and buses
Transit cars and buses of the Los Angeles Transit remain stalled for the twelfth day due to a strike by about 4000 operating employees.
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Los Angeles Transit Mnes
Truman Pressman Says Truman Photo Dropped From Union Hall
Truman Lee Pressman, general counsel for C. S. O. United Steelworkers, announced at the Steelworkers third biennial convention in Atlantic City, N J, that President Truman would not be pictured on the convention hall stage. He followed release of a junior report alleging the president favored a faultfinding law, which spurred introduction of anticlab legislation in Congress.
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Lee Pressman
C. S. O. United Steelworkers
Truman
Covention Hall
Pressman
Steelworkers
Atlantic City
N. J
Junion
Merger Talk Involves Three Railroads in Dallas
In Dallas today Robert Morfa, chairman of the Missouri Kansas Texas, said committees from the three lines the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Chicago and Great Western and Chicago and Eastern MWirois railways were discussing a merger. No report has been received from the three men from each railroad working on the merger.
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Dallas
MNS
Missouri-Kansas Texas, Chicago & Great Western
Chicago & Eastern Mwirois
Robert Morfa
M-K-T
Morfa
Navy Begins Probe of Waste On Ships
Orange May 14. Navy department investigates rumors of waste by personnel of the Texas group 16th fleet. Capt. Roger F. McCall at Orange naval station appointed to head the inquiry into ships prepped for inactive duty at Orange.
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Orange
Visi
Texas Group
16Th Fleet
Navy Department
Roger F. McCall
Orange Naval Station
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Navy Manpower Costs Rise On Franklin D. Roosevelt Maneuvers
At sea off Puerto Rico on May 14 aboard the Franklin D. Roosevelt, the supply officer faces a 63 cent daily food allowance per crew member, up from prior levels, in a cost-cutting move amid rising prices. The ship compares this to Nevada in 1941 when 50 cents covered meals, and today butter is served only once daily amid other economies.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Puerto Rico
Nevada
FDR
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