Senators Open Debate on OPA
Washington June 6 An OPA bill to extend price control faces a Senate debate after a banking committee recommendation to extend one year beyond June 30 in a limited form. The plan ends livestock meat poultry eggs and dairy controls, shifts rulings to agriculture, and creates a decontrol board.
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Washington
Senate
Banking Committee
Chamber
Wagner
D-Ny
House
Bowles
Chester Bowles
Secretary of Agriculture
OPA
Pulp Mill To Shut Down In Powell River Strike
Victoria dispatch reports Powell River Paper Co mill nearing shutdown as 35,000 western BC loggers' strike enters 23rd day with a stalemate. Loggers reject Chief Justice Sloan mediation after proposing wage and hour terms. Operators had accepted a 15 cent raise, 44 hour week, and dues checkoff. union sought 25 cent raise and 40 hour week.
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Victoria
B.C
Powell River Paper Co
Powell River
British Columbia
Gordon Sloan
Envoy to Pope Temporary Recall by Peace Treaty
A Richmond minister quoted President Truman assuring Protestant church leaders that Myron C. Taylor, the president's personal representative to the Vatican, would be recalled at the latest by the time the peace treaties are signed. Dr John A MacLean of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church relayed the statement after meeting with Truman.
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Richmond
Truman
Myron C. Taylor
Vatican
John A. MacLean
Ginter Park Presbyterian Church
Southern Presbyterian Churches
Senator Eyes Out In Funds Plans Reclamation Trip
Senator Er nest W. McFarland of Arizona will fly to Phoenix from Washington to confer with state reclamation leaders. George W. Mickle, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce reclamation chair, said McFarland informed J. H. Moeur of the Arizona Reclamation association about the visit to discuss water supply projects and flood control.
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Phoenix
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
Washington
George W. Mickle
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Reclamation Committee
Mickle
J. H. Moeur
Arizona Reclamation Association
City Payments Tops For Year
City expenditures in Tucson total about 243 765 86 dollars for the year the largest monthly outlay to date under City Auditor L H Wixson. Payments include 66 000 for street and sewer bonds due July 1 30 cent rent to Eleanor M Gallaher and 41 500 transferred from water to the general fund. M M Sundt Construction Co receives 19 939 50 for sewer work while L M White Contracting Co gets 11 601 38 for seab oating pavements. Over 70 000 goes to monthly payrolls and premiums on property policies total 4 780 14 with the largest single premium 1 296 68.
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Tucson
L. H. Wixson
Eleanor M. Gallaher
Los Angeles
Santa Rita Foothills
Davis-Monthan
M. M. Sundt Construction Co
South Main Street
L. M. White Contracting Co
General Fund
Brother Shot by Brother in West 22nd Street Yard
Delmar Leeth 24 lay in serious condition after being shot in the abdomen by his brother Clyde Leeth 21 an exmarine. The incident occurred about 9 30 a m in the family yard on West 22nd street in Pima County hospital reported.
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Delmar Leeth
Pima County
Clyde Leeth
Exmarine
Leeth
West 22Nd Street
Clyde
Delmar
Nogales
Supervisors To Raise Pay For Office Staff
The board chair R H Martin said office personnel will receive a 10 percent raise if current plans are approved. The office budget is not finished yet but will include the raise for all staff. Some departments already hired extra help funded by special levies nearly matching the proposed raise.
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Board of Supervisors
R. H. Martin
Martin
Baseball Scores in Major League Night Card
New York defeated Chicago 4 to 0 and Boston won 5 to 4 against St. Louis. Cleveland at Washington noted as the only game scheduled for the night.
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New York
Chicago
Boston
St. Louis
Cleveland
Washington
Fire Extinguished At Northern Arizona Forest Fire
In Flagstaff Arizona smoke burned away as U S forest service crews claimed control of the largest northern Arizona fire on record in Coconino national forest. The blaze started Monday noon, burned 2000 acres, with 1000 men serving at times and never more than 600 at once. R W Hussey said winds reached up to 50 miles per hour and control would hold with 80 to 100 men on guard for a month.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
U. S. Forest Service
Forest Service
Arizona
Coconino National Forest
Here
R. W. Hussey
Bread Prayers Are Scheduled Across Cities For Bread Shortage
National bread shortage prompts prayer requests in Buffalo and measures to ensure fair distribution. OPA reports growing black market in bread with threats of prosecution in Philadelphia. New York and Chicago see lines forming, rationing cards issued. Texas and Oklahoma harvests up 25 percent, wheat outlook cited. Los Angeles reports widespread meat market closures, with 60 percent closed and 80 percent expected closed by week end.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Philadelphia
OPA
Texas
Oklahoma
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Highlights Of The News At 2 30 P M
At 2 30 p m the temperature here was 103 degrees. In New Delhi the Moslem league council approved the British cabinet delegation plan for Indian independence after a four and one half hour closed meeting. In Seattle labor leaders discussed an international minimum wage for mariners as feasible. In Moscow Izvestia signaled a positive move toward Argentina establishing diplomatic relations. In Washington a new trans Arctic air route from Seattle to Tokyo will cut U S Japan flying time from 44 to 26 hours. In Washington Clayton defended the British loan against Jones saying the 3 750 000 000 credit is not an exclusive U S Britain pact. In St Louis Musial declined a fat offer from the Pasquel brothers of the Mexican league. In Montreal Gouzenko charged Fred Rose with running a Soviet espionage ring.
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New Delhi
Washington
Army Air Transport Command
Seattle
Wash
Tokyo
U. S
William L. Clayton
Jesse Jones
United States
Britain
Clayton
House Banking Committee
Hotel Disaster Under Inquiry
Chicago hearing into the LaSalle hotel fire that killed 58 workers tested firefighter access and hotel delays. A freight elevator operator testified that extinguishers failed to curb the blaze as flames spread rapidly from lobby elevators. officials noted delayed fire department notification and multiple venues were ordered closed for hazards.
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Robert T. Loughran
Chicago
LaSalle
Emil Landsess
Henry Eckhardt
Eckhardt
Landsess
Eddie
Edward J. Kelly
Avery Brundage
Roy Steffen
LaSalle-Weson Hotel Co
Kelly
Division
John L. Fenn
Schubert
Central Park
Great Northern
Windy City
Playhouse Tavern
McGovern’s Liberty Inn
New Cuban Village
el Mocombo
Yanks Accused of Gem Thefts at Kronberg Castle
Frankfurt June 6 The theft of crown jewels valued around 1.5 million dollars from Kronberg Castle on the Kaiser Wilhelm grounds is blamed on American personnel, disclosed seven months after the act. Kronberg sits near Frankfurt, with Princess Margareta, Kaiser’s sister, in residence on the estate. Margareta’s son Prince Phillip of Hesse is detained in a U S civilian internment camp near Darmstadt.
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Frankfurt
Kronberg Castle
Kaiser Wilhelm
U. S. Army
U. S
Kronberg
Margareta
Kaiser
U. S Army
Newsweek
New York
Prince Phillip of Hesse
House of Hesse
Darmstadt
Vinson Named Chief Justice by Truman in Nominating Move
President Truman named Fred Vinson to be chief justice and John W. Snyder to succeed Vinson as secretary of the treasury. John L. Sullivan will be undersecretary of the Navy. The reconversion office will be terminated.
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Washington
Truman
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred Vinson
United States
John W. Snyder
Vinson
John L. Sullivan
Navy
Harlan F. Stone
House
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Chester Bowles
Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
New Deal
Kentucky
U.S. Supreme Court
Oregon Trains Crash Claims One Life Near Hot Lake
An eastbound Union Pacific passenger train failed to take a siding at Hot Lake and crashed into the streamliner City of Portland, killing brakeman Ned Unger of Pendleton. About 70 injured, five seriously. Engineers L M Zimmerle and Fred Johnson survived. Both trains sustained limited damage and could move once the helper engine was cleared.
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LA Grande
Ore
Union Pacific
Hot Lake
Here
City of
Ned Unger
Pendleton
Unger
L. M. Zimmerle
Streamliner
Fred Johnson
E. Ebell
Funds Sought for Vets Land Projects
Washington June 6 approval of appropriations to complete veterans preference reclamation projects will be asked in the senate. The interior bill for 1947 funds about 20 projects and was laid before the senate appropriations committee. Sen O Mahoney and Sen Hayden report an estimate from the reclamation bureau for needed funds to finish the veterans projects.
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Washington
Senate
Interior
Senate Appropriations Committee
Sen
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Hayden
D-Ariz
Reclamation Bureau
Subcommittee
Wyoming
Missouri Basin
Budget Bureau
Taxicabs a Big Issue in Congress Probe
Washington report details a House subcommittee hearing on the city taxi crisis. Abherholt and residents complain of cab shortages and rough treatment, while officials push for limits or expansion of cabs to improve service.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Gordon M. Abherholt
MacArthur Boulevard
House
House Caucus Room
John L. McMillan
South Carolina
St. Louis
Board of Aldermen
Atherholt
MacArthur’ Boulevard
St. Louis City Hall
House Resists New Draft Bill
Washington June 6 The House opposes the senate plan to extend the draft to May 15 1947 and revive induction of 18 and 19 year olds. Key leaders May and Short vow to fight teen age inductions amid possible conference committee tussles and pay raise provisions for enlisted ranks.
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Washington
House
Senate
Andrew J. May
House Military Affairs
Dewey Short
R-Mo
May
Short
Chiang Orders Fighting Ended in Manchuria Truce
Chiang Kai-shek ordered Nationalist forces to suspend operations in Manchuria to allow the Communist party to demonstrate intent to honor prior accords and end the civil war. The truce takes effect at noon Friday, with Marshall empowered to seek a permanent settlement and demobilization details within 15 days.
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Nanking
U.P
Chiang Kai-shek
Manchuria
Communist Party
China
George C. Marshall
Chiang
Harbin
George Hormel Dies at 85 in Los Angeles
George Hormel, noted meat Packer and founder whose company pioneered canning meats, died in Los Angeles yesterday at age 85. Born in Buffalo to immigrant parents, he wandered the country before entering Minnesota’s meat packing industry at 32. His firm expanded greatly, and he invested profits into expansion and later into real estate and other ventures. Hormel retired in 1927.
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Los Angeles
George Hormel
Buffalo
Minnesota
Cea
Hormel
AFL Seamen Tie Up Shipping
New York reports 4000 AFL seamen vote for a work stoppage to back a shipping strike plan. Rival CIO seamen clash outside Webster Hall as labor action spreads to Pacific and Gulf ports. Pic: 62000 AFL seamen walk out in solidarity amid broader labor unrest and mine production cuts.
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New York
AFL
CIO
New York Br
New York Harbor
Pacific
Gulf Ports
Sailors’ Union of the Pacific
The
Seafarers’ International Union
Webster Hall
National Maritime Union
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Department of Labor
Washington
House Labor Committee
Augustine B. Kelley
Pennsylvania
Kelley
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbah
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
AFL Sailors’ Union
Schwellenbach
Pittsburgh
Major League Baseball
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Giants
American Baseball Guild
Ind
Brooklyn Dodgers
William Benswanger
United Mine Workers
Debate Opens on World Cutoff With Franco Regime
Dr Herbert V Evatt chairman of the UN security council subcommittee urged the assembly to seek a world break with Generalissimo Francisco Franco if he remains in power when the UN meets in September The subcommittee urged rupture of UN relations with Madrid if Franco is in power by then The council adopted a rule allowing secretary general Trygve Lie to present statements on matters under review The report drew mixed reactions from Russia the United States and Britain with differing objections
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Francis W. Carpenter
New York
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
United Nations Security Council
Spain
Council
Russia
United States
Britain
GI Insurance Law Revised
Washington June 86 House approves amendments to the national service life insurance act. Rep Murdock D Ariz argues the measure makes protection comparable with private insurance and that private firms offer limited choice. Murdock hopes World War II veterans will use government insurance while lamenting lapse of World War I coverage.
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Washington
House
National Service Life Insurance Act
Murdock
Ariz
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Pasquel Brothers
Montreal
Igor Gouzenko
Fred Rose
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Frederick C.othman
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