Rent Controls Expand Power Across Regions
The updated rent control law adds federal power to place controls on any community deemed critical to defense, while maintaining old rules. Woods retains post decontrol reimposition but limits apply. Marshall and Wilson gain broader authority to set controls and relax credit rules. New York remains an exception with its own statewide law.
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New York
Tighe Woods
Woods
Secretary of Defense
George Marshall
Charles E. Wilson
Defense Mobilization
Marshall
Wilson
Marshall and
Pleven 8th To Get Paris Cabinet Task
Paris reports former Premier Rene Pleven, a member of the Union of Democratic and Socialist Resistance, accepted an invitation to try to form a new French cabinet after Guy Mollet declined. The effort follows 25 days without a confirmed government since Henri Queuille’s resignation.
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Paris
Rene Pleven
Union of Democratic and Socialist Resistance Party
Pleven
Vincent Auriol
Guy Mollet
Henri Queuille
Mollet
Maurice Petsche
Petsche
National Assembly
France
Cleveland Police Suspensions Raised in Ongoing Scandal
Safety Director Alvin J. Sutton planned to seek suspensions for two more Cleveland patrolmen, Kenneth E. Nieman and Albert H. Adamich, amid a widening police scandal. They allegedly robbed $28 from an east side drug store during a burglary probe on July 21. With three others already suspended for taking merchandise from a radio store, hearings are set before the safety director next Tuesday morning.
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Cleveland
Alvin J. Sutton
George J. Matowitz
Kenneth E. Nieman
Albert H. Adamich
Alex Rosenberg
Filipinos Taught Work Ethic Cited by Manila College President
A Manila college president criticized Filipino work habits saying Russians work and do not talk, Americans work and talk at once, but Filipinos talk and do not work at all. The remark highlights cross cultural views on labor and behavior.
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Manila
Manila College
Factory Hiring At Rate of 1950 Factory Hiring At Rate of 1950
The Labor Department reported that June factory hiring stood at 48 per 1,000 employees, same as June 1950, due to weaker consumer demand. Layoffs fell from May to June to 9 per 1,000, a postwar low, while the quit rate rose in all industries, strongest in defense sectors.
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Washington
INS
Labor Department
Air Colonel Holds Young Wife Who Posed as Officer
A redhead, Medale Frances Evans, claimed to be a WAF officer and spent four days at Berkstrom Air Force Base in Austin. FBI jailed her with bail set at $1,000, while she wrote to her husband Sgt Rufus R. Evans of Biggs AFB seeking help. She sought a waiver of college credit to join the WAF and said the move would keep him from overseas duty and target a Las Cruces warrant officer.
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Austin
Tex
Berkstrom Air Force Base
Medale
Frances Evans
FBI
Rufus R. Evans
Biggs Air Force Base
el Paso
Col
Ben Lichty
WAF
Las Cruces
N. M
Youth Bound to Grand Jury in Burglary Attempt
Ronald H. Preacher a 20 year old of 510 Arlington Ave NW was bound over to the grand jury by Municipal Judge Donald L. McCarroll on a breaking and entering charge. A 17 year old companion was arrested after an attempt to burglarize a Sohio service station at 2045 Cleveland Ave NW. police reported a rear window was broken but nothing was taken.
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Ronald H. Preacher
Arlington Ave NW
Donald L. McCarroll
Preacher
Sohio
Cleveland Ave NW
Ralph Collins marks 46 years in coal mining career
In Linton Indiana Ralph Collins completes 46 years of continuous coal mine service. He reports only a "slightly bent" finger as a result of his long work history, with no other injuries or health issues noted.
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Linton
Ind
Ralph Collins
Planning Commission Confined to City Limits
Attorney General C William O Neill ruled that a municipal planning commission lacks power to set street construction standards beyond its city limits within a three mile fringe. The opinion told Lorain County Prosecutor Paul J Mikas that commissions may adopt rules governing plats and subdivisions in that outside territory.
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Planning Commission
Columbus
Lorain County
Paul J. Mikas
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