Buyers Strike Expands Across Nation Amid Meat Price Protests
The UAW-CIO mobilizes 800,000 members and call for a seven day meat buyers strike starting today. Demonstrations in several cities mark the launch of an anti inflation campaign as leaders demand restraint on prices for meat and other goods.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto Workers
America
Uaw-Cio
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
OPA
AFL
Auto Union
Firing Squad Executes Yugoslavs at Dawn
Gen Draja Mihailovic died before a firing squad at dawn less than 48 hours after treason and collaboration with the Germans were proven. The private ceremony also executed Radoslav Radic Milos Glisch Oscar Pavlovic Dragi Yovanovic Yanasje Dinic Velibor Yonic Djuro Dokic Kosta Musicki and others tied to the puppet government and Chetnik leadership. Official Yugoslav comment followed.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
Radoslav Rade Radic
Milos Glisch
Oscar Pavlovic
Zagreb
Dragi Yovanovic
Yanasje Tasa Dinic
Milan Nedic
Velibor Yonic
Nedic
Djuro Dokic
Kosta Musicki
Peter
Testimony Links Officials to Wartime Calls in Probe
Jeannie Bates, secretary for Midwest Munitions, testified before the Senate War Investigating Committee that the Washington office of the firm received two to three calls weekly from Representative May and from a Barkley office secretary. She said Barkley’s name appeared in hearings for the first time but she did not know if the senator himself participated.
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Jedean Bates
Midwest Munitions Combine
Rep
May
D-Ky
Senator Barkley
Washington
Combine
Rep. May
House Military Committee
Barkley
CIO Silent On Plans For Wage Strategy
Washington reports state CIO leaders offered no comment after talks with Phil Murray as he met with vice Presidents to decide wage and price policy. Murray said the executive board would adopt a wage price program guiding international unions amid rising costs and looser price controls.
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Washington
CIO
Philp Murray
Murray
Boise Butter Prices Jump After OPA Expiration
Boise prices show butter at 84 cents per pound for solid pack and 17 cents above prior OPA level with a five cent increase from Monday.
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Boise
Salt Lake City Sees Record Heat For July 16
Salt Lake City and surrounding area sweltered as temperatures reached 97 degrees marking a new high for the year. The heat stretched into a third consecutive day with forecasts predicting relief later in the week as a pressure system approaches from the southwest.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Mercury
Draft plan to limit deferments targets 19 to 29 men
Washington report notes selective service director Hershey urges states to extend as indispensable for national existence. The army seeks 25 000 men from the 19 to 29 age group with tighter deferments and new discharge rules to meet manpower goals.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Hershey
Typhoon Cuts Food Supply in Philippines
Reports from northern Luzon describe the season’s worst typhoon severely reducing rice planting and worsening an already scarce food supply. Communications were disrupted as relief efforts began, with planned August 1 rationing of grain.
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Manila
Luzon
Philippines
Heirens May Make Deal On Confession
Chicago officials pursue a possible written confession from 17-year-old William Heirens in the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping and two deaths. His lawyer says no confession has been made. A Daily Times report cites unnamed sources about case details.
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Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Chicago Tribune
Heirens
Degnan
Frances Brown
Josephine Ross
John Coghlan
Daily Times
Georgia Primary Draws Racial and Youth Voter Interest
Georgia voters went to the polls with Governor and ten congressional seats up in a primary. The day marked new participation by African Americans and 18 year olds, while the FBI noted ballot watching to protect civil rights. The governor’s race featured Eugene Talmadge on a white supremacist platform against James V. Carmichael and others backed by state leaders.
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Georgia
Congress
FBI
John F. Trost
Atlanta
Department of Justice
Supreme Court of the United States
Eugene Talmadge
Statehouse
James V. Carmichael
Ellis Arnall
E. D. Rivers
Hoke O’kelley
Talmadge
Arizona
Ernest W. McFarland
John R. Madock
Richard F. Harless
Sidney P. Osborn
Wyoming
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Lester C. Hunt
Frank A. Barrett
Earl Wright
Nels H. Smith
Arkansas
Oren Harris
Brooks Hays
Montana
Mike Mansfield
Wesley A. D
Ewart
Butter Strike in Tulsa Against 79 Cent Butter Price
Tulsa housewives used a phone chain to boycott butter at 79 cents a pound. Each caller urged two others to join and not buy butter until prices drop. An anonymous distributor warned the boycott would only divert local supplies to eastern markets.
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Tulsa
Okla
Nickle Cone Out PITTSBURGH Ice Cream Price War
Ice cream prices rise as seven cent cones become scarce in Pittsburgh. George Mehlich, a salesman, notes hardship for youngsters while markets still charge seven cents for cones and related treats.
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Pittsburgh
Tie Nicke
George Mehlich
Grain grading school planned at Pocatello this summer
The Production and Marketing Administration will run a grain grading school at Pocatello on July 26 and 27 for dealers and elevator operators from southern Idaho and Utah. University of Idaho agronomist D. T. Bolingbroke says the course will introduce new wheat varieties and teach scientific grain analysis. The program will be led by B. W. Whitlock of Portland and Willis B. Combs of Chicago, representatives of the regulatory inspection division.
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Boise
Production and Marketing Administration
Pocatello
Idaho
Utah
D. T. Bolingbroke
University of Idaho Extension Agronomist
Bolingbroke
B. W. Whitlock
Portland
Ore
Willis B. Combs
Chicago
Regulatory Inspection Division
The
Former Idahoans Visit Pocatello Garvin Family
Mr and Mrs Frank Garvin and daughters Frances and Jane of Detroit Michigan visit Pocatello today. They formerly lived in Blackfoot where Mrs Garvin was Gertrude Kinney. They tour with Dr and Mrs D C McDougall and plan to visit Blackfoot and Yellowstone before returning home.
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Frank Garvin
Frances
Jane
Detroit
Mich
Machinist Daniel Huddings Heads to Shrine Convention
Daniel W. Huddings of Pocatello a machinist at the naval ordnance plant leaves tonight for San Francisco via Seattle to attend the Shrine convention, staying at the Elks club.
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Daniel W. Huddings
Pocatello
Recall Fails to Oust Frisco Mayor Lapham
San Francisco voters rejected the recall effort against Mayor Roger D. Lapham, with 105 742 votes opposed to 73 673 for the recall. Budde led the campaign prompted by a spring streetcar fare increase, while Lapham, a former steamship executive, remains mayor at ten thousand dollars a year.
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San Francisco
Roger D. Lapham
Steamship Company
Henry F. Budde
Budde
Lapham
Steamship Lines
Chinese Reds Attack on Yangtze Line
The Nanking government said 130000 communist troops opened an offensive along the Yangtze River, nearing Nanking and Shanghai. Communists accused the government of provoking fighting and warned of a drift toward full-scale civil war. The defense ministry cited attacks on Luho near Nanking and Haimen across the Yangtze, with other ports also mentioned. Correspondents could not visit the front north of Nanking to verify details.
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Yangtze River
Shanghai
U. S
East China
Ministry of Defense
Luho
Haimen
Yangtze
Former secretary testifies on hush money questions
Elean or Hall testified she listened to a telephone conversation in which Rep May was asked about a $3,000 sum. Hall formerly worked for Erie Basin Metals in Elgin Illinois and Batavia Metal in Batavia Illinois and quit citing shady business. Boyd Anderson pleaded guilty to first degree murder of Police Officer John Farris and received a life sentence with hard labor after admitting the Jan 31 shooting during a burglary.
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Washington (Ap
Eleanor Hall
Washington
May
D.ky
Wallace
Boyd Anderson
Cascade, Mont
John Farris
A. H. Featherstone
Anderson
Farris
Journalist labels America nation of many contrasts
Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenburg after touring the United States describes America as a land of sharp contrasts from New York skyscrapers to small provincial towns. He notes stubborn racial attitudes in Mississippi and compares American restlessness with British restraint while praising American writers like Hemingway Faulkner Steinbeck and Caldwell.
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Moscow
Ilya Ehrenburg
United States
Izvestia
New York
Ehrenburg
Mississippi
Ehrenberg
Western
Europe
Hemingway
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Caldwell
Barkley Sees Early Break In OPA Deadlock
Washington reports Senate Democratic Leader Barkley expects an early break in the price control deadlock as a 14 member committee weighs compromising OPA revival. Downey says a deal may come before day’s end amid House demands to drop exemptions on meat, butter, eggs and other staples.
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OPA
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Senate
Kentucky
Senate House
Downey
Calif
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Truman
White House
War Reconversion Advisory Board
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Congress
Bomb Testing In Bikini Atoll Sets 75 Ships as Targets
The Joint Chiefs of Staff increased target ships to 75 for the July 25 nuclear blast near Bikini Atoll aboard the USS Mount McKinley. The lagoon hosts 29 fighting ships plus 17 transports and 28 landing ships with 12 small landing craft awaiting detonation. Time shifted earlier to 8:35 a.m. and could be delayed by weather.
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Im Bikini
U.S
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm
William H. P. Blandy
Blandy
Pilot Farrell Denies Slashing and Sex Offenses
Lt. Thomas Farrell, 25, testified in his trial denying slashing 18 year old Helen Stavrou and any unnatural relations. He said he had three occasions of intimacy with her and denied asking for a razor or using one to cut hair.
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Helen Stavrou
Farrel
Farrell
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Pocatello and Malad Tie for Second in Heat
Weather notes show Pocatello and Malad tied for second hottest in the region with 93 degree highs, Salt Lake leading at 97. Noon temperature today was 84, with a 93 high yesterday. Precipitation this month stands at 26 and normal is 42.
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Weather Bureau
Pocatello
Salt Lake
Outlaws Kill 25 Russians Across Poland
Glos Ludu reports 25 Russian soldiers killed in NSZ raids over the past month. An attack on a passenger train near Lublin captured six Russians who were later slain. Nine Jews held near Kielce, tied to a July pogrom, are missing. nine Poles executed for pogrom participation. NSZ bands roam Poland, striking trains near Bialystok and decimating demobilized Russians en route home.
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NSZ
Poland
Glos Ludu
Lublin
Kielce
Bialystok
Red Army
Germany
Kearns Air Forces Depot to Close September 1
The U S army air forces overseas replacement depot at Kearns Utah will close September 1 with most permanent staff reassigned to Hamilton Field California. Col Guy F Hix says the post cost nearly 11 million dollars four years ago and the field opened July 20 1942. It now has 998 buildings and about 200000 personnel have passed through en route to foreign duty.
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Kearns
Utah
U. S. Army Air Forces Overseas Replacement Depot
Hamilton Field
Calif
Guy F. Hix
Erickson Beats Wheeler in Close Montana Senate Primary
Leif Erickson, a former Montana supreme court justice, led Senator Burton Wheeler in a tight Democratic primary. With 689 of 1,156 precincts reporting, Erickson had 38,984 votes to Wheeler's 34,362, signaling a possible victory while Wheeler conceded.
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Leif Erickson
Montana Supreme Court
Burton K. Wheeler
D-Mont
Montana
Wheeler
Monetana
Erickeson
Erickson
Jury Acquits Red Agent In Espionage Trial
Russian naval lieutenant Nicolai G. Redin was found not guilty by a federal court jury on espionage and conspiracy counts. The 30 year old former Soviet purchasing representative was cleared of charges he bought secrets about the USS Yellowstone from shipyard engineer Herbert Kennedy. The seven men and five women deliberated about eight and a half hours after a 22 day trial.
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Seattle
Nicolai G. Redin
Soviet Purchasing Commission
Yellowstone
Herbert G. Kennedy
Redin
Peresons
Rescuer Dies Preventing Fire at New Hampshire Tenement
William E Enderson 71 perished amid a house fire in Littleton New Hampshire. He first discovered flames in the attic of the tenement he shared with his son daughter in law and seven grandchildren. After sounding an outer alarm he returned to the burning building and was trapped at an upper story window where smoke overcame him.
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Littleton
N. H
Willliam E. Enderson
Enderson
Amoke
Camp Invites Public Thursday At Camp Fire Girls Camp
Camp Fire Girls announce public visitors day on Thursday inviting residents to attend. Officials say the event runs during daytime hours at the designated camp site and welcomes families and neighbors to tour facilities and meet members.
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Camp Fire Girls
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