British Elections Near as Local Races Loom
London reports both Labour and Conservative HQs stepping up for local council races set for April 5 to 9 and May 9 to May British voters may cast two ballots in six weeks with national issues like centralization and housing shaping campaigns. Women voters focus on food, electricity, and postwar hardships as parties warn of national stakes in local contests.
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London
Labor Party
United States
Bath Abbey House
Transport House
Britain
Louis H. Bean
Agriculture Department
Congress
Realty Men Seek Rent Control and Public Housing End
At its 41st annual convention the National Association of Real Estate Boards urged Congress to end rent controls by March 1949 and shift to private housing. The group called for liquidation of federal public housing and demolition of temporary units by mid 1950, with localHousing shortages treated as local matters. Veterans housing support noted but details omitted.
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New York
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Washington Committee
Truman
Washington
Community Chest drive leaders thank supporters in Pocatello
Community Chest drive leaders C Ed Flandro Harold Ory and Stan Day thank all who aided the drive in Pocatello. They release expense figures totaling 703.46 covering printing pledge cards publicity and office costs while inviting public review of itemized invoices.
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Pocatello
Drive
C. Ed Flandro
Harold Ory
Stan
Ory, Day
Bertha Atkin
Darwin Brown
Roy Brown
Lucille Bailey
Edith Ball
Helen Brown
Myron Bullock
Nate Block
Ray Balmforth
Paul Bistline
W. C. Carnes
J. C. Carnes
J. L. Craig
O. R. Craven
E. A. Collins
Rose Cordon
Frank Sopening
Major A. Dietz
John Denman
T. C. Evans
al Ebel
Maurice Fereday
Ruth Fletcher
Col. M. P. Goodfellow
George N. Green
Blaine Gasser
Margaret Golob
L E. Glennon
Les Giauque
Forrest Howard
N. M. Graves
Calvin Hale
Lloyd Haight
Ernie Hanson
W. R. Hearne
Dée Hodkins
Dave Hill
L. C. Johnson
J. Lindberg
Don Larsen
M. N. Lutzker
Herman Kevinson
Elaine Lee
Mel Morgan
Carl McIntosh
Vivian Matson
Bob Purrington
Myron Porges
John Peterson
Harold Read
Ralph Comstock Jr
John Rademacher
Ora Barber
Jim Bagwell
Howard Bernhagen
Don Bistline
Webb Cox
Bob Dietz
James Fissell
Pat Fennell
Martell Fogg
Clifford Green
Francis Goldsberry
Archie Gesens
Russell Humphries
Zeke Hubbard
Lew Harrison
Jack Holt
Jack Halliwell Jr
Bill Hall
Elle Hopkins
Bus Isham
Bud Molinelli
Bud Morgan
Keith Micollerup
Ralph Moon
Jack Nevins
Bill Nye
Sam Otto
Pete Peterson
Park Price
Wallace Rhodes
R. E. Severn
Perry Swisher
Ralph Stephenson
Clarence Stephenson
Roland Smith
Wayne Tucker
Tommy Terrell
Howard Tucker
Tom Walker
Sterling Williams
W. H. Watts
Art Young
W. P. Havenor
Henry Dahlquist
French Premier Demands Confidence Vote Amid Strikes
In Paris a near riotous session ended with Premier Henri Queille pressing the National Assembly to grant a confidence vote or resign. Across the country Communists protest the crackdown as government troops and tanks confront 1500 dock strikers at Dunkerque gates.
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Paris
Henri Queille
National Assembly
Ecommunists
Dunkerque
Cooperative homes projects urged by resolutions committee
The resolutions committee proposes solving problems through cooperative homes projects. Members include Fred L. Chapman of Minneapolis as chairman with Lowell Baker of Spokane Harvey W. Draper of Houston Theodore H. Maenner of Omaha Walter W. Rose of Orlando and Roy C. Seeley of Los Angeles.
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Resolutions Committee
Fred L. Chapman
Minneapolis
Sullen Coed Found In Bad Storm
Lillian De Bell a 17 year old Colorado college freshman missing since Nov 1 was found walking along a highway in a snowstorm near Yorkville Illinois. She refused to discuss her whereabouts or talk to authorities despite being identified by a Catholic priest and later reuniting with her parents who were en route to collect her.
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Yorkville
Lillian de Bell
Colorado State College of Education
Greeley
Theresa Catherine Foster
University of Colorado
Hayden
Kendal County
John T. Phen
Colorado
Judge Orders Hearing Into Tucker Motor Car Solvency
Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe set December 17 for a bankruptcy hearing into Tucker Automobile Corporation. He overruled dismissal of a stockholder suit alleging insolvency and declined an injunction to halt asset disposal pending the hearing.
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Tucker
Chicago
Michael L. Igoe
Tucker Automobile Corporation
Preston Tucker
Igoe
Mother Burns Self and 3 Children in Closet Fire
In Dixon Illinois a 31 year old mother Margaret Warfel locked her three sons Richard 7 Charles 6 and Robert 18 months in a clothes closet then tried to burn them and herself to death The coroner reported the fire killed all five people and investigators described a despondent motive police said
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Dixon
Ill
Paul Sodergren
Margaret Warfel
Richard
Charles
Robert
Sodegren
Sugar checks slated for Idaho Falls beet growers
Eastern Idaho sugar beet growers will receive 1 535 000 in checks within days. W J O Bryant Utah Idaho Sugar Co Idaho manager said the payments averaging 8 75 a ton would be mailed over the weekend.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
W. J. O'Bryant
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
O’bryant
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