Barkley Sees Little Hope For OPA Revival Bill
Democratic Leader Barkley says Senate House conference found no common ground on reviving price controls under OPA. He cites rough Radcliffe subcommittee draft and possible shift of control to civilian production to avoid perceived OPA arbitrariness. CIO calls for national buyers strike and wage gains as prospects darken. Senate rejects revocation of bans on future ceilings for staple items. House agrees with reservations limiting OPA propaganda funding in the deficit bill.
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Washington
Barkley
Leutenants
Truman
Radcliffe
Spence
House Banking Committee
Senate
House
OPA
Idaho Mobilizes Against Potato Moths Threat
Idaho authorities moved quickly to stamp out a tuber moth infestation described as the worst threat to the potato industry. The moths were found in a Burley processing plant from California shipments. Emergency funds were authorized to spray fields within a mile of Burley and consider spraying near Idaho Falls St Anthony and Caldwell.
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Boise
Idaho
George Mersley
California
Horsley
Arnold Williams
H. C. Manis
University of Idaho
Burley
Wilson Kellogg
Williams
Idaho Falls
St. Anthony
Caldwell
Intermountain Equipment opens new showroom and warehouse
The Intermountain Equipment company debuts a new showroom and warehouse at 210 North Fourth with public opening today. BE. A. Collins, manager of the Pocatello branch, oversees the modern concrete structure and supper at 7:30 p.m. Invitations for refreshments have been issued.
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Intermountain Equipment Company
North Fourth
BE. A. Collins
Pocatello
Fire damages Wasatch Oil plant injuring two workers
A flash oil fire at the Wasatch Oil Refining plant in Woods Cross Utah injured two workers Reed Thompson and William Henrie both of Bountiful. Thompson fractured both ankles while Henrie suffered minor injuries. The blaze started when tubes were opened to clean a cracking unit and hot oil ignited on contact with air. The fire was controlled within 30 minutes with aid from the plant unit and Bountiful fire department.
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Woods Cross
Utah
Wasatch Oil Refining Company
Reed Thompson
William Henrie
Bountiful
Thompson
Henrie
B. Owen
Owen
Senate OKs silver trading authority in conference report
Senate approved a house senate conference report authorizing the treasury to buy and sell silver at 90.5 cents an ounce for an indefinite period. The house has not yet acted. the vote came hours after agreement was reached. The item reflects a reconciled version of the measure.
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Washington
Senate
House
Treasury
Denham Survey Ship Destroyed by Mersey Explosion
A flaming explosion destroyed the 103 ton survey ship Denham in the Mersey River, killing eight of its nine crew members as hundreds of seashore vacationers watched in New Brighton England.
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New Brighton
Eng
Denham
Mersey
Texan Connally Sets Seven Points to Prevent World War
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Connally outlines a seven point program to deter a third world war. He urges US support for the United Nations, troop readiness, a strong military, Inter American security measures, compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ, global control of atomic energy, and full backing of UN economic and humanitarian efforts.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Paris
Senate
United Nations
Security Council
International Court of Justice
Premature magnesium flash bomb disrupts rehearsal aboard ship
During a rehearsal for an underwater atomic test, a 100 pound magnesium flash bomb detonated 51 minutes early aboard the USS Mt. McKinley. Vice Admiral Blandy assured the public the real atomic weapon would not fire prematurely and said the event posed no danger to personnel.
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MT. M’kinley
W. H. P. Blandy
Crossroads
Blandy
Blast Claims Nine Lives in Onset Mass
Gas explosion wrecked four buildings in Onset killing nine people and injuring about fifty. Police and fire officials said no missing persons were reported though a transient could be buried in debris. Crews cleared streets as investigators probed the punctured gas main cause and what triggered the blast.
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Onset
Mass
Chester A. Churchill
Alton H. Worrall
This Ain't Hot in Early Pocatello Times
Weather note from an old Pocatello file shows 24 hour high of 85 at 5 pm yesterday, low 45, mean 65. Compare to last year high 91 low 68. Sun sets 8 04, rises 5 08, current 12 20 temperature 67, forecast high 95 and fair warmer conditions.
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Scott
Pocatello
CIO Orders Halt to Meat Buying
Officials of the CIO United Auto Workers called for a week long embargo on meat purchases as prices cracked under the meat strike. Walter P. Reuther said the campaign was progressing and aimed to reduce weekend meat purchases to nothing. Reports showed a slowdown in meat and butter sales nationwide while supplies rose and prices eased.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
San Francisco
E. F. Forbes
Western State Meat Packers’ Association
Quick Action Saves Lives in Salt Lake City Fire
Fire Marshal Willis Smith credits prompt reporting for averting a disastrous blaze at a hotel on Second South near Main and State. A discarded cigarette in the basement started the fire near an elevator shaft. smoke filled the five story hotel but 200 guests fled with no serious injuries. Two women and a child were treated for smoke inhalation. damage is about $2000.
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Salt Lake City
Willis Smith
Second South Street
Main
State Streets
la Salle
Chicago
Smith
Two War Veteran Major Kenneth McBride Visits Idaho
Major Kenneth McBride of the Marine Corps, a Salmon postmaster and longtime American Legion figure, is a Pocatello visitor. He plans to visit Salmon before returning to duty. A veteran of two wars, he saw front line action in World War II and was awarded five Purple Hearts.
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Kenneth McBride
Marine Corps
Salmon
American Legion
Pocatello
Senators Subpoena Rep May to Appear in War Profits Probe
The Senate war profits committee subpoenas Rep Andrew May Kentucky Democrat to testify next Tuesday about alleged intercession for Erie Basin Metal, Batavia Metal and allied firms tied to $78,000 in war contracts. May says he acted to aid the war effort, not for personal profit.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
Midwest
May
Erie Basin Metal Products Company
Batavia Metal Products Company
Vvv
Wael Uvmae
Mead
D-N.y
Senate
House
Rep
Sabath
Combine
Murray
Russia Balks at US British Representations
A Soviet official said Moscow rejects American and British protests over the seizure of Austrian property. The note to Austria confirms no change in the occupation authorities stance on confiscating $22,000,000 worth of Austrian plants and other German seized assets from 1938.
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London
Russia
United States
Austria
Veteran McFarland Dies in DC Electric Chair
Marine veteran Karl McFarland was executed in the District of Columbia jail at 10:05 a.m. for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Dorothy Berrum of Wisconsin in October 1944. He walked to the chair with a cigarette, asserted innocence, and had escaped with Joseph Medley earlier in 1945, a breakout that spurred a congressional inquiry.
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Washington
Karl McFarland
McFarland
Guadalcanal
District of Columbia
Dorothy Berrum
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Knoxville
Tenn
Miss Berr
Unit Vote Sees Talmadge Secure Fourth Georgia Governorship
In Georgia a paradox emerged as Gene Talmadge won many county unit votes in the Democratic primary open to Black voters. Carmichael, backed by Gov. Arnall, claimed a larger popular share but failed to match Talmadge’s unit strength.
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Atlanta
Reéd-galluseé
Gene Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
James V. Carmichael
Top Leaders Withhold Strike Threat
Washington reports CIO and AFL leaders advised against immediate strike action. CIO called for a labor management government conference to set new pay rates and stabilize the economy while urging protection of existing contracts. Murray warned of rising living costs and urged nationwide buyer boycotts where possible.
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Washington
CIO
Truman
Explosion at Salt Lake City home injures woman
Deputy Sheriff George Beckstead said investigation found a cleaning fluid explosion caused a fire that seriously burned Mrs. Lillian Schweppe, 52, in her southeastern Salt Lake City home. Neighbors described a blinding flash as a son Floyd Schweppe, 19, awakened and smothered flames on his mother.
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Salt Lake City
George Beckstead
Lillian Schweppe
Schweppe
Floyd Schweppe
Union Demands Ten Year Back Pay at Belle Plant
United Mine Workers District 50 served notice on the Belle plant of E I Du Pont De Nemours for portal to portal pay covering the last decade. Regional Director William Blizzard cited a Supreme Court opinion of June 10 supporting the claim, with Du Pont workers reportedly spending 10 to 45 minutes daily in walking to work and preparing after clocking in.
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Charleston
W. Va
United Mine Workers District 50
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
William Blizzard
United Mine Workers District 17
Supreme Court of the United States
Steve Anderson
Mt. Clemens Pottery Company
Mt. Clemens, Mich
Supreme Court
Anderson
Blizzard
du Pont
Youth in California Faces Two Homicide Charges
Albert Jones a 14 year old in Oroville was charged with murder in the death of 15 year old Patricia Crandall and with the fatal shooting of housewife Mrs Harold Nielsen. Authorities say Jones confessed to strangling Crandall and setting her home on fire after an alleged assault on the Nielsen family. He previously faced charges for attempting to murder Mrs Nielsen and assault with intent to murder their daughter and a neighbor child.
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Oroville
Calif
Albert Jones
J. M. McPherson
Patricia Ann Crandall
Harold J. Nielsen
Army Denies Union Busting at Aberdeen Proving Ground
The army denied union busting charges after firing five Aberdeen Maryland civilian employees tied to the UPWA Local 250. The War Department cited national security, offering no detailed reasons, while union officials say the move signals anti union actions at the proving ground where secret missile and weapons tests occur.
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Washington
Army
Aberdeen
MD. Proving Ground
War Department
CIO Public Workers of America
Abram Flaxer
Harry Spector
UPWA
Patterson
Floyd L. Parks
Bureau of Public Relations
Alfred B. Quinton, Jr
The
Proving Grounds
Plane Smash Fatal to 13
A C-47 crash west of Goodland Kansas during a severe electrical storm killed 10 passengers and three crew members. The wreckage scattered over a quarter mile in a wheat field three miles west and a mile north of Goodland. pilots and farmers nearby aided search before military officers from Topeka and Lowry field arrived to take charge.
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Goodland
Kans
Here
Kansas City
Victor Follett
Join Hermer
First Army
R. C. Smith
Topeka
Lowry Field
Suburban Chief Offers Clothes to Two Boys
Police found two 12 year old boys swimming and running from officers near a Glen Ellyn pool. The boys left their clothes behind. Chief Lee W Brierton offers to return the clothes and issue a reprimand if they visit his office.
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Chicago
Lee W. Brierton
Glen Ellyn
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