Fortunes from Investment Tips Tied to Bank Secretary
In Cleveland probate records reveal Miss Winifred E. Treat, who died October 13 at eighty, built an estimated 150000 fortune over 23 years as a banker's secretary by following investment tips from her employer. Her will filed for probate names 51 Jega Yees as relatives. In Chicago, Cook County reports an all time high vote registration of 2 9.
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Cleveland
Winlfred E. Treat
Chicago
Cook County
Feud Drives Private School Opening in La Grulla District
In Rio Grande City Ost 30 1t eighty three pupils enroll in a privately financed La Grulla district school amid public school conflict. Instructors Leonore Gonzalez and Carmela Naranjo say textbooks come from the county superintendent and salaries are paid by defeated trustee Fidelio Guerra. Judge Loren Brortes of Alice voided the election with a tie. a new vote is pending. Jose M. Vera notes lack of recognition from the La Grulla board and no credits for students, who may rejoin “our school system” if brought back. Samuel B. Graham, 55, Galveston public schools superintendent since 1985, dies.
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Rio Grande City
la Grulla
Stary County
Missis Leonore Gonzalez
Carmela Naranjo
Fidelio Guerra
Teresa Gaccia
Distriet
Loren, Brortes
Alice
Jose M. Vera
Ile
Ayres Rites At Arlington
Leonard P. Ayres a noted economist and statistician will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery at 3 p.m. Friday. His body will be placed on a train tomorrow after the funeral. He died yesterday at his home at age 67 after a heart attack. He forecast in September 1918 that World War I would end in the second week of November. He survived by family in Shaker Heights.
Probe to Begin On British Press
London reports an early start for a government investigation into the finance control ownership and management of the British press after six months of debate. Parliament ordered the probe last night and newspapers called it sinister fearful and intolerable with the Daily Mail dubbing it the first stroke in the murder of freedom.
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London
Sip
Commons
Daily Mail
Talk Put Off On Red Deportings
The Allied coordinating committee postponed a discussion on the Russian deportation of German workers from the Soviet zone until next week to allow Moscow to prepare a full report. Berlin papers licensed by the Russians allege Germans were compelled to move to Russia including technicians engineers and skilled workers.
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Red
Berlin
INS
Soviet Zone
Russia
Decontrol Speeded as OPA Lifts Household Items
The OPA moved fast to decontrol many household articles and select industrial materials and tools. The list includes radios, lamps, sewing machines, small appliances, kitchenware, sware and glassware, plus typewriters, office furniture, caskets, metal burial vaults, phonographs, clocks, bicycles, wheelchairs, tools, luggage, blinds, non mechanical refrigerators, safes, and more. Decontrol for linseed oil and several other items followed, with broader plans to end wartime controls on industry.
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OPA
Clintian Production
John JD. Small
T Hat American
Ndustry
Civilian Production Administration
CPA
John D. Small
OPA Extends Rent Ceilings Nationwide to 88 Areas
The Office of Price Administration announced further rent ceilings effective November 1. The expansion covers 88 more rental areas with a total population exceeding 3.5 million, bringing additional dwellings under rent controls Friday.
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OPA
Woman Fined for Attack on Teacher
Fort Worth, Oct 3. Mrs Ray Andrews fined 23 dollars plus costs after pleading guilty in county court to assault and battery on Eula C Nation principal of Azle Elementary school. The charge arose after Andrews allegedly entered a classroom and beat and scratched the teacher in retaliation for spanking her nine year old son.
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Fort Worth
INS
Ray ‘Andrews
Eula C Nation
Azle
U S Steel To Pay Dividend In 1946 Quarter
U S Steel reports third quarter 1946 earnings of 33 329 053 dollars or 3 428 dollars per common share down from 11 624 490 dollars or 0 11 per share year earlier. Directors declare a regular 1 on common shares payable December 10 to holders of record November 8. President Arevalo will attend New Orleans founding ceremonies next month in Guatemala City.
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U.S. Steel
New York
U. S. Steel Corporation
Guatemala City
Guatemala
INS
Juan Jose Arevalo
New Orleans
Rail Merger Studied by Western Rail Leaders
Kansas City report says Harold W Burt ness president of Chicago Great Western Railway announced a proposed merger of three Western lines to create a system from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico. He listed the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois as the other two lines involved.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Gulf of Mexico
Harold W. Burtness
Chicago Great Western Railway Company
Byrnes weighs approval for round the world B 29 flight
Secretary of State Byrnes faces a delicate decision after the War Department proposed a round the world flight by eight to 24 B 29 Superforts. State Department officials view the move as pressure on foreign policy and note formal permission was sent to Byrnes only recently.
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WaoHiNuIys
Byrnes
War Department
State Department
Army Air Forces
Department
Army
Navy
American Action Spends 102,485 This Year
American Action Inc, under investigation by the House campaign expenditures committee, reports 102,485 spent so far this year and 83,494 in contributions. Treasurer W Homer Hartz notes the Chicago organization led by Edward A Hayes did not engage in direct political activity before September 1.
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Washington
INS
American Action, Inc
House Campaign Expenditures Committee
W.homer Hartz
Hartz
Chicago
Edward A. Hayes
American Legion
Army to Aid in German Food Crisis
In Stuttgart Germany the U S army promised to provide trunks and drivers to collect food and fuel, stepping into Germany transport crisis to avert winter hunger and possible riots.
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Stuttgart
Hesse Approves New Constitution After Vote Split
WIESSADEN Germany Oct 30 The constitutional convention of Greater Hesse announced it had approved a constitution but left an article on socialization of key industries to a plebiscite set for December 4.
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Wiessaden
Germany
Constitutional Convention of
Greater Hesse
Construction Halted in Protest in Iowa
Dr. W. S. Keil says he stopped work on five new apartments for veterans after the OPA denied a 30 day eviction for Miss Bernice Katz. He explains he cannot move his 74-year-old mother into his five room unit because one room is needed as an office and the family already occupies the space. Mrs. Mary Kell lives alone in Bellevue and will face winter without a furnace or adequate housing.
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Iowa
City
OPA
Keil
Mary Kell
Bellevue
Bernice Katz
Portwood Heads Topeka For Teacher Association Addresses
Thomas B. Portwood assistant superintendent of schools travels to Topeka Kansas to address the Karisas State Teacher's association. He is expected to return about Friday.
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Thomas B. Portwood
Topeka
Kan
Karisas State Teacher's’ Association
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Get
Samuel B. Graham
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Orleans
CEN
Leonard P. Ayres
State of Texas
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Majestic
Prudential Insurance Company of America
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