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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1946
Page
1
CIO President Philip Murray left Washington for New York to check on a threatened transit strike. Assistants offered no reason, with one official saying listeners could draw their own conclusions.
Washington February 26 The house script calls for a showdown over the emergency home building program with fights over a price ceiling for existing homes and 1.6 billion dollars to speed the program Senate labor hearings continue with opposition to federal injunctions against labor violence and breach of contract suits Edwin W Pauley nomination for undersecretary of Navy faces a potential withdrawal move as White House efforts seek support in Congress See CONGRESS on Page 9
Last night the Tucson mayor and city council heard Chief Don Hays condemn the city jail as unsanitary and overcrowded. He said it was built for 35 prisoners but at times holds over 140, with some awaiting trial and others already serving time. The meeting followed an East Broadway zoning discussion and was followed by a protest from League of Women Voters urging immediate steps to alleviate conditions.
Paris reports the French government orders the frontier closed from midnight March 1, calling the Spain situation a danger to international security. The move follows Bidault's briefing and growing Franco-Spain tension after the execution of 10 Spanish Republicans and Spanish court-mmar cases. France had asked the US and Britain to discuss severing relations with Franco and consulted Bevin and Byrnes in London.
Dallas Morning News publisher G B Dealey, aged 86, died at his home in Dallas this afternoon.
The government authorizes higher ceiling prices for the meat packing industry and predicts retail meat prices will rise about 1 percent. Stabilization Director Bowles notes a 16 cent hour wage boost for packinghouse workers, with wage panels having recommended the raise. Wholesale and retail ceilings to be discussed with industry advisers in days. The average family price increase should not exceed 10 percent.
The Tucson City Council unanimously rejected the Shrine Club petition to reclassify a 300 foot East Broadway and Eastbourne lot from residence-2 to business-1. They voted to initiate proceedings for rezoning the easterly 85 feet, with further sessions required.
The funeral for Dr Charles S Kibler a Tucson physician and clinic staff member who died yesterday will be at 4 pm Wednesday at St Phillips in the Hills with Rev George Ferguson officiating Active pallbearers include William J Tucker Melvin T Spive P J Walsh John C Haynes George Diamos Dr Harold E Kosanke Dr Richard K Hausmann and Paul Neal Seiler Honorary pallbearers include Doctors Thomas A Brady Samuel H Watson Meade Clyne George Dixon John V Cogan Thomas H Cates Edward M Hayden Royal W Rudolph Clyde E Flood Hugh C Thompson Jr Charles F E Patterson Magill Schultz Ludwig Lindberg William H Gault Maj Roy Hewitt US Army Billings General Hospital Indianapolis and Capt Russell J Callander USNR Salt Lake City Also listed are Gerald Jones Edward Vander Vries William E Draper and Lt Com A Boyd Newborn of Veron Beach Florida Surviving are his wife his mother Mrs Edward Kibler and brother Dr Edward Kibler of Newark NJ as well as four sisters Mrs Frank Robbins Miss Kate Kibler Mrs Mary Orr and Mrs Allen R McClelland with other relatives
Governor Osborn avoided denying a March 18 special session while calling rumors guesswork. Sources say veterans housing issues motivate a session, with talk of a fourth-term pledge influencing timing.
Rioting Negroes battled police through the night in Columbia Tennessee as state highway patrolmen moved in with machine guns to quell what officials called the worst racial disorder in years. Over 500 patrolmen swept the Mink Slide area arresting more than 40 suspects and wounding several officers.
Phoenix milk producers and the Office of Price Administration remained in deadlock over the price of grade A milk. Milk has been withheld from normal channels for a week, with a possible face-saving device discussed to resolve the dispute.
Compromise settlements halted three major strikes in New York Detroit and Houston and paused a seven day CIO dairy workers walkout in Pittsburgh The New York transit threat was withdrawn after a CIO demand for exclusive bargaining rights was dropped A city transit committee will study wages and conditions in New York Houston planned to reinstate 700 workers and pay prevailing wages in the area The Detroit bread strike ended with a wage compromise for 921 AFL driver salesmen and bakers The Pittsburgh walkout was postponed just before the 12 01 a m deadline
Edwin W. Pauley, before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, asked for an exoneration from tobacco like charge that his Petrol corporation sold oil to Japan. He said he would consider withdrawal of his nomination to undersecretary of the Navy if Tobey retracts. Saltonstall suggested a public apology and Pauley stated he is still present.
The Paris plan for separating the Ruhr and Rhineland from Germany appears to be gaining British support and could draw American assent. Russia’s stance is uncertain as Soviet aims range from keeping a weak Germany to seeking heavy reparations. Russia fears a strong Western buffer and questions Moscow’s possible preference for a leftist Germany.
President Truman announced at a news conference that the Army and Navy have discharged more than seven hundred fourteen million people since last October. Secretary Patterson and Secretary Forrestal asked Congress for a twenty percent pay rise for all armed services to meet living costs and aid recruitment of skilled personnel for modern warfare. They backed interdepartmental pay committee recommendations and said the raise would help recruiting though it would not solve all enlistment challenges.
President Truman named 38 year old J A Krug a public power expert to be secretary of interior pending Senate confirmation. Krug would replace Harold L Ickes who quit after a dispute over Edwin W Paley’s Navy undersecretary appointment. Krug has long championed public power and led roles in the Tennessee Valley Authority and wartime agencies.
Twenty five thousand Chinese students and professors staged a mammoth anti Russian parade in Chungking with similar demonstrations reported in Hankow Peiping Chengtu Nanking and Tsingtao. Thousands urged withdrawal of Soviet troops from Manchuria while Chengtu students held a one day strike. Demonstrators carried placards in Chinese English and Russian asking Russia Friend or enemy and Down with the aggressor.
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