Rationing Return Unlikely Despite Ongoing Shortages
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said rationing is unlikely to return as the U S shifts to a simpler rationing form for processors and distributors. He warned bread grains meats and fats will remain scarce in 1947 despite good crop prospects and noted the U S lacks machinery to enforce broad consumer rationing. Sir John Boyd Orr of FAO joined the program discussion.
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Washington (Ap
Anderson
United States
Congress
Agriculture Department
John Boyd Or
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
John
Japs Stretch Rice Supply By One Third
In Tokyo a food crisis looms as rice may last only two months for three. MacArthur warns against undisciplined mobs after leftists pressed for emperor rice control. government moves to retrench political freedoms and curb factory protests while public committees run harvest collections.
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San Francisco
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Russell Brines
Tokyo
Supreme Headquarters
MacArthur
Brines
Communist Party
Japan
Plane Plows Into Parachutist Over Adrian Airport
A private two seater piloted by Sterling Mead struck parachutist Warren Berg during a jump at Adrian airport. Berg escaped with a possible ankle fracture after using an emergency chute as the plane nosedived. Mead suffered minor head lacerations and landed at the scene.
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Adrian, Mich
Warren Berg
Detroit
Adrian
Sterling Mead
Berg
Mead
Bixby
Rochester
Ind
Baruch Plan Linked to Russia Stance in Atomic Control
United Nations atomic energy commissioners say approval of an atomic control plan will be lengthy and Russia's attitude will be decisive. They note Baruch's plan could be the sole comprehensive proposal, with nations likely offering amendments. Delegates foresee no official comment until Wednesday as discussions resume.
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New York
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
U. S
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
United States
International Atomic Development Authority
White House
State Department
Britain
Weather and political notes from June with regional temps
The piece blends weather impressions and a brief political aside as June temperatures are reported. Poca tello shows 81 high and 44 low on June 15 with a 62 average. Surrounding stations list highs from 71 to 93 and lows from 37 to 60, with no precipitation.
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Thatcher
Salt Lake
Sunday Society
Idaho Falls
Dubois
Burley
Boise
Butte
Factories bulge with sugar awaiting government release
Idaho and Oregon Amalgamated Sugar refineries hold 68 percent more sugar than a year ago as OPA stocks nationwide run short. Officials say accumulation here allows shipment to shortage threatened areas. Sugar sales require certified orders acting as ration coupons. Nyssa, Ore. report continues on page eleven.
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Boise (P
Idaho
Oregon
Amalgamated Sugar Company
OPA
Nyssa
Paratrooper given life for Seattle murder and assault
John Richard Lindsey, 24, a former paratrooper, was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder in Seattle after killing Erwin B. Tiffany, 24, and wounding Lindsey's wife Marie, 24. He also received a 20 year term for the assault on Mrs. Lindsey. Marie testified to living with Tiffany during the trial.
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Seattle
John Richard Lindsey
Marie
Wenatchee
Erwin B. Tiffany
Tiffany
Lindsey
GOP Looking To Future For Candidate
Prospective Republican presidential candidates stay closer to home as Harold Stassen retreats from Nebraska and Wisconsin races. Stassen backs Thye in Minnesota while LaFollette presses McCarthy in Wisconsin. Taft hints at possible 1948 involvement amid the shifting GOP landscape.
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Washington
Harold Stassen
Nebraska
Dwight Griswold
Stassen
Hugh Butler
GOP
Edward J. Thye
Sen
Henrik Shipstead
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Joseph P. McCarthy
LaFollette
McCarthy
Griswold
Butler
Robert Taft
Ohio
Rose Guilty of Espionage in Canada Case
Rose, the sole Communist member of Canada's parliament, was convicted on a conspiracy charge to pass wartime secrets to Russia through a Moscow directed network. A 31 minute jury verdict leads to a next Thursday sentencing with potential seven year terms. Co conspirator Dr Raymond Boyer faces related charges. Igor Gouzenko testified as star witness, detailing embassy information that exposed the ring.
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Montreal
Pred Rose
Russia
House of Commons
Rose
Raymond Boyer
Boyer
Igor Gouzenko
Ottawa
Gouzenko
Favorable bid urged for Geneva Utah steel plant revision
Trinidad citizens and firms telegrammed U S Attorney General Tom Clark urging favorable government consideration of the revised bid for Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp for the Geneva Utah plant. Two major C F I coal mines lie in the Trinidad district. The Steel Corp bid was accepted last month by the War Assets Administration pending justice department review.
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Trinidad
Colo.Fi
United States
Tom Clark
Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp
Geneva, Utah
Steel Corp
War Assets Administration
Justice Department
US Atomic Control Plan Faces Slow Acceptance
The United States seeks a durable peace through Bernard Baruch's atomic control plan presented to the United Nations while Europe braces for a Russia showdown at a Paris foreign ministers conference. Washington watches atom plan progress in New York as Paris unfolds talks, with officials doubtful of swift breakthroughs.
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Washington
United States
United Nations
Bernard Baruch
Paris
Russia
New York
Young veteran and fiancée slain in Bell Gardens home
Clayton Peter Asten 25 and Loma Frances Quiroz 25 were found dead by sheriff's deputies in the Aslon home in Bell Gardens. The youth's father Samuel Aslon 50 shot himself in a hotel room and was held on suspicion of murder in the deaths. Justice court records show a three week old eviction suit by Asten against his father.
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Los Angeles
Clayton Peter Asten
Loma Frances Quiroz
Sheriff's
Aslon
Bell Gardens
Samuel Aslon
Garner Brown
Justice Court
Young Asilon
Twin to Get a Nine Story Hotel in Twin Falls
Esquire Hotel corporation files articles of incorporation in Boise for a nine story hotel and roof garden on Shoshone street north. Capital stock $250,000. Incorporators include Grant O. Padget T. C. Bacon Asher B. Wilson C. R. Nelson E. Hollingsworth and B. F. Magel of Twin Falls. Work to start possibly next year with fourteen other locals associated. The project aims to be the largest building in Twin Falls by six stories.
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Twin Falls
Esquire Hotel Corporation
Secretary of State
Boise
Grant O. Padget
T. C. Bacon
Asher B. Wilson
C. R. Nelson
E. Hollingsworth
B. F. Magel
Padget
Shoshone Street
Twins Falls
Players Banned In Major League Bulletin
Cincinnati report: Fred T Martin Louis F Klein Jr and Max Lanier who left the St Louis Cardinals for the Mexican league were declared ineligible for five years in baseball commissioner A B Chandler's official bulletin.
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Cincinnati
Fred_ “T. Martin
Louis F. Klein, Jr
Max Lanier
St. Louis Cardinal
Baseball
A. B Chandler
U S Officials Guard Olympic National Forest Timber
Interior Secretary Krug, at Olympic national forest ceremonies in Port Angeles Washington, rejects lumber pleas to cut primeval stands. He says only Congress can permit harvesting in national parks and that national interest prevails in park matters. He cites Roosevelt era ideals and the need to preserve pristine forest wonders for future generations.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Krug
Olympic National Forest
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
National Park
Yosemite
Yellowstone
Great Northwest
Maine
Dakota
UP Trains Faster Streamliner City of Portland
The City of Portland cuts its Chicago to Portland run to 39 hours 2 hours faster than before with no extra fare. The Portland Rose combined with Los Angeles Limited from Chicago to Green River Wrvo runs to Portland in 51 hours 50 minutes, 9 1/3 hours quicker, with reserved coach seats included.
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Streamliner
Portland
Pacific Coast
Portland Rose
Los Angeles
Chicago
Green River
Wrvo
Maritime Workers Accept Wage Settlement Debates Continue
The nation’s maritime unions began voting on a wage settlement amid a near nationwide back to work movement. Seven union committees in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other ports ratified while many workers remained idle awaiting results. Longshoremen on the Pacific coast urged rapid ratification to return to work, with Seattle Los Angeles and San Francisco reporting readiness to resume duties.
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Associated Press
Washington
Committee For Maritime Unity
New York City
Boston
NMU
Norfolk
New Orleans
Pacific Coast
Coast Negotiating Committee
Seattle
Los Angeles
Portland
British Plan Last Word On Freedom in India
The British cabinet mission to New Delhi will issue its final word on Indian independence. It faces opposition from the Congress on parity between Hindus and Muslims in an interim government and on provincial grouping during transition. The Muslim League accepts the British independence proposals but seeks a separate Muslim state.
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New Delhi
All- India Congress Party
Lord Wavell
Congress Party
India
Britain
Moslem League
Pakistan
Truman Proposes 12 Point Plan to Unify Armed Services
President Truman sent identical letters to Senate and House committee chairs proposing a 12 point program to unify the military. The plan creates a single national defense department headed by a secretary, grants air forces parity, and establishes a national defense council and security resources board. It drops a single chief of staff idea and praises War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal for progress in unification.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Army
Navy
Army Navy
Senate
House
Military and Naval Committee
Department of National Defense
Council of National Defense
National Security Resources Board
Patterson
Forrestal
Heat Wave Grips Midwest With Record Kansas Temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau said a new heat wave blanketed the central plains with highs up to 110 degrees in Phillipsburg Kansas and 108 in Elis and Concordia Kansas. Other readings included 105 in North Platte Nebraska 104 in Dodge City and Topeka Kansas 101 in Kansas City and St Joseph Missouri. The hot mass was expected to drift eastward into Iowa southern Minnesota and parts of Illinois.
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Dodge City
Topeka
Kans
Omaha
Oklahoma
Guymon
Colorado
Akron
Denver
South Dakota
Pierre
Missouri
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Minnesota
Ilinois
Molotov Adds Austria to Peace Talks Agenda
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov agreed to add Austria to the foreign ministers conference agenda while urging vigilance on the Italian political scene to prevent fascism from triggering civil war. He reversed prior policy by consenting to study Austria as a problem rather than limiting it to the American draft treaty.
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Paris i
V. M. Molotov
Austria
Molotov
Austia
Washington
Army officer fined for unauthorized punishment at Lichfield trials
Lt. Farellay from Oklahoma City became the first officer convicted in the Lichfield cases. Col. White announced the verdict as the court reduced charges, clearing him of cruel or unusual punishment but finding him guilty of permitting punishment. He was fined 250 dollars and given a reprieve.
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Bad Nauhei
Lichfield
Eng
Bonde
Oklahoma City
Okla
Martin G. White
Tyler
Texas
Oklahoma University
Pleas for Release for Slayer of Three
Pleas for the release of George Mortensen, a 48 year old Ogden miner, were presented to the state parole board by a delegation led by Arthur L. Cranford. Mortensen was sentenced to life for the 1936 killings of his former in laws in their Ogden home after a quarrel with his wife. Supreme Court Justice Lester A. Wade rejected extenuating circumstances as a justification, noting jurors found the slayings cold blooded.
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Salt Lake City
George Mortenesen
Ogden
Pare Dons Board
Arthur L. Craneford
Mortensen
Supreme Court
Lester A. Wade
Second District Court
Wade
U S and Britain Clash With Russia in UNO Council
In New York on a Saturday meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council the United States and Great Britain sparred with Russia over the refugee crisis. Nikolai Feonov of Russia challenged Western powers over political uses and urged an on the spot inquiry into refugee camps in Europe. John J. Winant replied that U S interests are humanitarian and not political.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Russia
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Nikolai J. Feonov
Europe
John J. Winant
U. S
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War Department
Jack W. Durant
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Hudson
Wis
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Frank M. Bosworth
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