Senate Fights OPA Extension Bill Showdown
A heated Senate clash over the House approved OPA extension grows over a compromise price plan missing meat dairy and poultry controls. Senator Wherry predicts a fight to redo the bill while administration leaders expect passage and a possible Truman signature before the Sunday deadline. The House earlier backed the conference bill 265 to 105, extending OPA for a year with some price rises.
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Forrestal Pledges Aid To Army Navy Merger Plan
Navy Secretary Forrestal informed President Truman of his willingness to cooperate fully with the presidents Army Navy merger program. In a letter released by the White House he called the objectives attainable and said difficulties in drafting the necessary legislation could be overcome.
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Weather Summary for Syracuse Area and Eastern New York
Partly cloudy and warm today with scattered showers tonight and Thursday. Cooler Thursday with highs near 94 and lows around 48 recorded in 1943 and 1942. Humidity around 61 this morning, 55 by 8:30 A.M. Expect sunny, hot conditions in eastern New York with a coastal cool breeze and possible scattered afternoon thundershowers Thursday.
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New Holy Land Tension as 31 Jews Convicted in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem a British court convicted 31 Jewish extremists of carrying firearms, a crime with possible death penalties. The group Irgun Zvai Leumi included 30 men and one woman, holding three British officers hostage under threat of death. Benjamin Kaplan, 19, was separately found guilty of firing a weapon, raising tensions in a Holy Land already volatile from recent extremist activity.
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Stalin Big 4 Call Hinted With New Trieste Offer
French papers circulated unconfirmed reports that Molotov awaited a Moscow call that could alter the Trieste dispute as part of Italian peace talks. Byrnes and Russian officials had held private talks amid hopes for a compromise on the Adriatic port. A Foreign Ministers Council special commission met to address Italy's colonies deadlock.
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Wheat harvest paralyzes bins amid rail car shortage
Great Bend Kansas reports wheat choked bins as 1946 harvest peaks. Nearly 300 grain elevators across Kansas Oklahoma and Texas are full. Rail bottleneck limits movement and some grain piles on ground. Hope rises for a quick transport solution.
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Scorcher Roasts Syracuse With Heat Wave Peak
Syracuse endures a blistering heat wave as temperatures hit 93.1 and 94 degrees, breaking 1943 records. Weather forecasts promise a brief cooldown followed by rising heat and possible late night or early Thursday showers. Weather Bureau notes no early 1943 records apply yet. Concluded on page 2, column 4.
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Officer’s Sentence Is Suspended in Jealousy Slaying
New York. Captain Archie Miller received a suspended sentence and probation for an indefinite term after pleading guilty to first degree murder in the slaying of Captain Eugene Dale, the wife’s admirer, in a jealousy case.
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Truman cool to Senate foes overshadows 1948 campaign
President Truman shows political coolness toward Senators who opposed Edwin C. Pauley’s Navy Undersecretary nomination. Capitol Hill debates whether strained ties will affect future campaigns. A letter to Senator Tobey reveals lingering sentiment from the battle over Pauley.
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Arizona confession flies in to check Degnan case
Chicago detectives race to Phoenix to verify Richard Russell Thomas's startling claim that he kidnapped and killed sixyearold Suzanne Degnan. Thomas, 42, a man with prior morals and extortion offenses, says he entered the Degnan home to rob it, abducted the girl as she slept, and dismembered her body after she suffocated in a gunny sack. Investigators seek to reconcile his statements with established facts of the January 7 disappearance.
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Von Neurath says he always expected liquidation by Hitler
Baron Constantin von Neurath testified at the International Military Tribunal that he believed Hitler would liquidate him for opposing some policies. He said he could not explain why it never happened, framing himself as a follower of a different political thought. The Russian prosecutor pressed him on Hitler's treatment of opposition.
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Bartender Wins at Auction for Sphygmometer
Joseph Hoare a Buffalo bartender outbid others with 75 cents to acquire an unclaimed property sphygmometer at a police auction. He said he did not know what the device was when he bought it yesterday.
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Selective Service extension eyed to 19 to 45 group
David Lawrence discusses Congress widening the draft age to 19 through 45 and the potential impact on voluntary enlistments as pay increases lure men to join, in his editorial column on today’s page.
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Siam King Hinted Assassin's Victim
A report by 18 physicians says medical evidence supports the theory that a youthful Thai king named Ananda Mahidol was the victim of an assassin, according to a reliable bulletin from Bangkok.
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Two Autonomous Republics Abolished For Treachery In War
Moscow reports reveal that the Crimean and Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics were abolished as autonomous units and reduced to provincial status. Their populations, about 1.5 million, were largely retained but many displaced to other parts of Russia as punishment for wartime treachery. The decree said some inhabitants collaborated with German forces and formed rear diversion groups, while others did not oppose the traitors.
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Langer Behind In Primary Race
BISMARCK North Dakota Senator William Langer fell behind in the Republican primary as State Senator Joseph B Bridston surged ahead during the night. Bridston led by almost 1000 votes with tabulations today showing the margin growing while former Senator Gerald Nye conceded defeat in his bid to return to the seat.
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Two Chicagoans Die In Hotel Blaze
Two men died in Chicago from burns after a fire devastated the 30 room West Side Hotel last night. William Poulos aged 55 a bus boy and John Philps aged 50 a restaurant helper were deceased. William Storduls aged 55 a waiter remained in serious condition. Twenty men attempted to reenter the burning structure but were repelled by the flames.
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