Truman's OPA veto sustained by House vote margin
The House sustained President Truman's veto of the OPA extension bill 173 to 142, failing to reach the two-thirds needed to override. The action clears the way for OPA to die at midnight unless a simple extension is adopted by Congress.
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OPA
Truman
Senate
Brent Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Congress
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Spence
Jesse P. Wolcott
R-Mich
Banking and Rules Committees
Joan W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Adolph J. Sabath
D-Ill
Rules Committee
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Mass
John W. McCormack
Truman vetoes OPA extension bill over price control clash
President Truman vetoed the OPA extension and urged a new plan with a full year of stabilization. He cited inflation risks and described amendments by Taft and others as likely to raise prices for autos, appliances, and other essentials. Bowles resigned effective July 10 as Congress faced the deadline midnight.
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Washington
UPA
Truman
Congress
Bowles
Chester Bowles
Mr. Truman
Sen
Robert Taft
R-O
Taft
OPA
Kenneth Wherry
R-Neb
Fred Crawford
R-Mich
House Prices May Jump 25 Percent If OPA Extension Passes
Washington June 29. Cost of the average newly built home may rise 10 to 25 percent if the OPA extension bill becomes law, housing expeditor Wilson Wyatt told reporters. He warned the rise would push a low cost house toward $10,000. Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small urged industry and labor to exercise restraint in prices and wages to avoid a gloomier outlook.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Wilson Wyatt
Truman
Wyatt
John D. Small
Setaeion
President Truman to explain OPA bill on radio
President Truman will broadcast at 7 p.m. MST to explain his position on the OPA bill. Both local radio stations will carry the address.
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Washington
Truman
Byrnes Demands Full Peace Conference by July 20
Paris reports say Secretary of State James F. Byrnes urged a full dress peace conference by July 20. The Big Four foreign ministers disagreed on a date while Molotov signaled hope for a meet in two to three days. Byrnes warned that Western powers could pursue separate peace treaties if Russia stalls.
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U.P
James F. Byrnes
V. M. Molotov
Byrnes
Russia
Trieste
Molotov
Pima County Employee Sees Tiny Raise Amidst Inflation
After six and a half years Mrs. May Bake, chief clerk in the Tucson precinct justice office, earns only five dollars more per month than her January 1 1939 hire wage. Her pay was cut last October after a dispute over constable office location. supervisors have not acted by fiscal year end. The Pima County Bar Association urged reinstatement and adequate staffing. Bake wrote to the board about hardship, but received no reply.
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Pima County
May Bake
Tucson
Board of Supervisors
Justice of Peace
C. W. Gardner
Justice Court
Pima County Bar Association
British seize Jewish Agency headquarters in Palestine raid
British troops and police launched a dawn operation to occupy the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem and conduct searches in Tel Aviv and eight Jewish communities. High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham cited evidence of the agency's role with violent groups and imposed a curfew while promising not to proscribe the agency.
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Palestine
Jewish Agency
Holy Land
Tel Aviv
Alan Cunningham
Britain
Middle East
Evacuation Nears as Bikini Atom Test Prepares
More than 35,000 ship crews to be evacuated two days before the Able day nuclear test over Bikini lagoon. Adm. Blandy and Col. Clark weigh weather and wind shear risks as Los Alamos scientists christen the bomb named Gilda with Rita Hayworth on its side.
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Dave’s Dream
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W. H. P. Blandy
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Kwajalein
Allan Clark
Roger Ramey
Air Arm
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Bikini Island
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Manhattan District
Gilda
Rita Hayworth
Adm
Blandy
Nagato
Nevada
Harold K. Wood
Clyde Pewitt
Franklin
Tenn
USS
Independence
Pennsylvania
New York
Arkansas
Worldwide News Highlights From June Twenty Ninth
The day’s brief items report 98-degree Phoenix heat. Sjahrir’s kidnapping claim and Soekarno’s dictatorship in Indonesia. Taylor grazing act budget setbacks. Arizona lawmakers back Truman veto on price controls. Crossroads cost tops 70 million. Indian powwow preparations at Flagstaff. labor talks on eight hour rules. radar lab debut in commercial aviation.
A-Bomb Fleet Formed As City for Bikini Test
In Bikini on June 29 the A-bomb fleet was arranged like a floating city. The Nevada battleship anchors near the center with Nagato towering above, while Saratoga and Prinz Eugen lie on opposite sides. Ships are cushioned by water, aiming to study effects on naval targets and toxic fallout.
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Bikini Lagoon
Nevada
Nagato
Saratoga
Prinz Eugen
Atom Bomb Test Broadcast Timed For Tomorrow
Bill Downs of CBS will summarize Bikini bombing plans in a 11 30 a m Tucson time broadcast over KTUC tomorrow. NBC and CBS programs will air on KTUC and KVOA between 3 and 4 p m tomorrow as the bomb is expected to be dropped between 3 00 and 3 30.
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Bill Downs
Orient
CBS
Tucson
KTUC
NBC
KVOA
Queen Battleship Nevada Prepares To Die At Sea
Aboard the USS Nevada off Bikini Lagoon on June 28 the battleship awaits a postwar atomic blast. The ship is moored with anchors and loaded with ammunition as officers anticipate internal magazine explosions and a final sinking beyond the screen of nearby vessels including the Independence and Nagato.
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Bikini Lagoon
U.P
Hughes
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Nagato
Salt Lake City
Sakawa
Pensacola
Skate
Friedly
Boy Suspected In Degnan Case
Chicago June 29 state’s attorney William Tuohy said he was convinced 17 year old William Heirens, University of Chicago student, is the kidnap slayer of Suzanne Degnan. Heirens' fingerprints showed nine points of similarity to the ransom note and hidden writing on the note revealed the letters eire. Heirens was arrested after a battle with police. his parents visited him as officers sought a rational statement.
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Robert T. Loughran
Chicago
U.P
William Tuohy
William Heirens
Husky University of Chicago
Suzanne Degnar
Tuohy
Suzanne Degnan
Eire
Heirens
Pera
Leonard E. Pera
State’s Attorney
Bridewell
George Heirens
Carnegie-Ilinois Steel Corp
Degnan
Evalyn Peterson
Lind Seizes Lead in National Collegiate AA Golf
Charles Lind of Denver University shot 73 in the third round to reach 216 total, tying par over 54 holes and taking a narrow lead. Georgia's George Hamer posted 69 to move to 218, two behind, while John Cahill of Arizona lagged with 231 after three rounds in Princeton.
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Princeton
N. J
Charles Lind
Denver University
George Hamer
Georgia
Dark Horse
John Cahill
University of Arizona
U S Act Affects Polish Voting
J M Roberts Jr argues the United States loan reinstatement and allied actions complicate Mikolajczyk and the Polish Peasant party ahead of a plebiscite. He notes government pressure, raids, militia training, and questions U S satisfaction with the current Warsaw government as Poland prepares for national elections.
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J. M. Roberts, JR
United States
Mikolajczk
Mikolajczyk
Poland Referendum Nears as Violence Illuminates Campaign
In Warsaw on June 29, Poland prepares for a national referendum with 11 million voters. Officials report about 8,000 politically motivated killings in the past 10 months and rising terror, including attacks on voting commissions. Opposition leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk says he faces arrest threats and mass police arrests while denying foreign interference as voters decide yes or no on a one chamber legislature, state control of industries, agrarian reform, and Poland’s western frontiers on the Oder and Neisse rivers.
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Warsaw
Poland
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Polish Peasant Party
Oder
Neisse
Phoenix confession branded as hoax by police
Richard R. Thomas, 42, admitted he invented his confession to escape punishment for raping his daughter. Police branded the confession a hoax in the case tied to the Chicago kidnap murder of Suzanne Degnan, age six, with Thomas eliminated as a suspect.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Richard R. Thomas
Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
U S to Get More Butter
Agriculture department spokesmen predicted more butter will be available next week after the military set aside program on butter ends tomorrow. The government has taken about 43 million pounds under the program in two months, about 20 percent of total creamery butter production.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Baseball scores from AMERICAN and NATIONAL leagues
In AMERICAN play Washington defeated Boston 8 to 12, Cleveland beat Chicago 2 to 0, and Philadelphia edged New York 2 to 0. In NATIONAL action Boston lost to Brooklyn 3 to 12 while New York topped Philadelphia 10 to 8.
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Boston
Cleveland
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Philadelphia
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Brooklyn
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