OPA Bill Signals New Price Controls and Board Oversight
The administration backs further price ceilings for meats dairy grains cottonseed and soybeans with a three man board to decide decontrol. The compromise bill extends price control to June 30 1947 with a revised formula for manufacturers and a transfer of decontrol authority to the board and Agriculture Secretary Anderson. It also tightens wholesale pricing rules and limits subsidy payments while preserving retroactivity to June 30 1946.
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OPA
House Senate
Senate-House Committee
Senate
Threeman Control Board
Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson
Federal
Treasury
Madame Sun urges coalition government to halt Chinese crisis
Madame Sun breaks political silence calling for aid to a government chosen by the Chinese people. She appeals to major parties to form a coalition immediately, saying unity and human rights matter more than Kuomintang or Communist gains. She hopes for Nanking talks but warns patched truces fail without a final Chinese people’s decision.
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Madame Sun
Kuomintang
Nanking
China Reds Capture 12 000 National Troops
Communist forces report a major victory near Nanking with 12 000 government troops captured. Spokesman Wang Ping Nan claims 6 000 surrendered after ordered to attack Communist lines near Taihing. Gen Wang Tieh Han, commander of the 49th Army, is said among the captives as heavy divisions fell in. The Communists say they hold a line north of the Yangtze near Jukao, about 100 miles east of Nanking and northwest of Shanghai.
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Nanking
Wang Ping-Nan
Taihing
Wang
Wang Tieh-Han
Yangtze River
Jukao
Shanghai
War Profits Rumors Hit Washington Office of the Combine
The committee contemplates funds to supplement $85,000 already received as it probes claims that Freeman and Henry Garsson pressured Mrs Bates to alter recollections about certain fences in the Washington office. Senator Brewster says no funding amount is set. May is expected to resist the subpoena for Tuesday. The Coffee case involves a $2,500 defense contractor check to Brewster's secretary. Coffee says DOJ found no basis for action and the committee requests DOJ records of the inquiry.
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Meader
Freeman
Henry Garsson
Combine
Bates
Washington
Brewster
House
May
Coffee
Department of Justice
Department
Justice Department
War Investigating Panel Eyes May Testimony In Wyman Link
The War Investigating Committee probes May testimony on Wyman relations with a Midwest munitions firm and a German immigrant, RohI, in Hawaii Constructors. The inquiry links Wyman to a $11 million Canal project road contract via RohI Connolly Co. and related firms, amid broader Pearl Harbor context and potential future congressional review.
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Ate
May
Col
Theodore Wyman
Pearl Harbor
Wyman
Canal
Canada
Senate Committee
Truman
House
Wynan
Hans Wilhelm Rohl
Rohl
Hawaii
House Committee
Rohl-Connolly Co
Associated
Mead Committee
Congress
Joint Committee
Prohibition Party Proposes $75 Old Age Pension at 60
California prohibition party leaders approve a new platform calling for a biennial program including a $75 monthly pension starting at age 60, contrasting with the current $50 at 65. The slogan Drink Less and Live Longer accompanies the platform.
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Sacramento
Calif
INS
California
Prohibition Party
Congressional Pearl Harbor hearing praised but calls for more facts
The speakers urged supplementing the report with diplomatic facts and questioned the completeness of the probe. Brewster suggested probing diplomatic commitments by Roosevelt in talks with Churchill, while Keefe warned the investigation missed key information. General Short and former Secretary Stimson defended or praised the findings as fair.
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Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Senate House Committee
Keefe
R-Wis
Joint Committee
Pearl Harbor
Dallas
Walter C. Short
Stimson
Huntington
N. Y
Helpers Needed To Pick Cherries In Oswego Area
OSWEGO The cherry crop is being harvested with many growers seeking pickers or offering to sell their crop at reduced prices, allowing buyers to pick the fruit themselves.
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Oswego
Delay Keeps Congress in Session Until Next Week
Senate Democratic Leader Alben W Barkley said after a conference with President Truman that Congress cannot adjourn until mid next week. He cited railroad retirement legislation terminal leave pay bill and the International Aviation Treaty as well as the new OPA bill still before the Senate.
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Washington
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Truman
Congress
Barkley
Bolivian uprising ends with President Villarroel killed
Fighting raged in La Paz as revolutionaries seized the presidential palace. Villarroel was gravely wounded and reportedly tossed from a balcony, his body hung from a lamp post as rebels moved to establish a new regime. His wife and two daughters were missing, embassies sheltered refugees amid the crisis.
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Revolutionary Movement
Bolivia
Villarroel
la Paz
el Alto
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May Committee
G.O.P
Fergison
R.-Mich
Krewster
Pro
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Betty Brigg
Erin
South Salina
Jefferson St
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Rome
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