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Who Killed OPA
Truman Says - - - -
Congress Says - - - -
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WASHINGTON, July 1, —(£>)—
All vestige of Federal Price and
Rent Control expired Monday in
a cloud of recriminations over
^vho killed the OPA.
President Truman blamed Con
gress, especially Senator Taft, who
with Carroll Reece, Chairman of
$/OP National Committee, blamed
the President.
Senator O’Daniel, Texas Demo
crat, threatened a filibuster to
prevent reinstatement of price
control which the OPA Adminis
trator promised would come
shortly.
Frisco Busses, Cars
At A Standstill
Citywide Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, — f/P)_
With streetcars, busses, and cable
cars at a standstill due to the
municipal transportation strike,
thousands of autos funneled
► through the downtown section as
San Franciscans went to their
jobs this morning in anything
that would run.
The street car system normally
carried between 800,000 and 1,
000,000 commuters in a day.
The striking carmen are ask
ing for 15c an hour increase to
make $1.10 per hour for carmen
and $1.15 for bus drivers.
Russia Says U.S.
Try To Dictate
Soviet Policy
MOSCOW, July 1, —{&)— The
press freedom amendment bill ap
propriating United States funds
for UNRRA was denounced by a
Pravda writer as “nothing else
but” a tendency on the part of
the U. S. to “dictate” to other
countries and to infringe upon
their “sovereign rights.”
Marshall MacDuffie of New
York announced in Berlin yes
terday that he would resign as
chief of the UNRRA mission to
the Ukraine in protest against the
freedom of the press amendment,
le maintained that eight U. S.
.orrespondents were allowed by
he Russians to tour the Ukraine
rnd White Russia. Their news
dsipatches were not altered by
Soviet officials.
EMPRESS WATCHES GIRLS WORK — Empress Nagako (third from right) watches
schoolgirls clean the grounds of the Japanese imperial palace damaged by U. S. bombs during the war.
Truman Makes
July Payroll
50,000,000 Sweeter
WASHINGTON, July 1, -(/Pi
President Truman made the July
“pay call” for officers and men
of the armed forces, “sweeter” by
$50 million dollars, but he waited
until Saturday night before he
signed the bill.
The new law provides for a
higher wage scale for those in
uniform, starting at a 50 percent
boost for privates and apprentice
seamen and ranging down to 10
percent for top-ranking generals
and admirals.
Jews Blame
British For Attack
Jewish Community
PALESTINE, July 1, —(/P)—Some
threats of retaliation came from
the Jewish Underground as Brit
ish troops held 2,000 persons for
investigation following a sweep
ing week-end of Security oper
ations during which 4 persons
were killed and a number were
Injured.
The secret radio of the Jewish
Resistance Movement trumpeted
“Britain Declared War On Jew*
ish Community” and added om
inously, “We Will Return It."
The British said that operations
in Palestine were begun, “to re
sotre law and order.”
U. S. Agriculture
Will Not Bid
WASHINGTON, July 1, — (/P)—
The Department of Agriculture
served notice that it will not en
gage in a bidding spree in trying
to get wheat and meat for famine
relief on the market. At the
same time the Department sus
pended wheat and meat setaside
orders pending develdpment and
clarification.
Rents Skyrocket,
Tenants notified
To Get Out
UNDATED, July 1, —(/P)—Rents
soared upward as much as 33 1/3
percent in isolated cases and even
higher as the death of the OPA
yanked the lid off ceiling prices
in all but two States, New York
and Oregon, and the District of
Columbia.
In Miami, many tenants were
notified of raises from one-third
up. One 20-unit apartment
house on Miami Beach hoisted
$50 rents to $150.
The Cleveland PlainDlealer re
ported numerous telephone calls
complaining of rent hikes between
15 and 40 percent.
In Denver, one Justice of the
Peace said he had issued a thou
sand blank forms used in the 10
day eviction notices under Colo
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OPA-less Shopping
Produces Little
Increase in Prices
UNDATED, July 1, Prices
during the first few hours of:
OPA-less shopping produced a |
few surprises for the American
buying public.
A nation-wide survey showed
the price of milk rose 2c per qt..
In Connecticut and some sec-;
tions of Massachusetts little flue-1
tuation was reported. Other food j
prices, even meat, for which 10 J
per cent boost was forecast, show
ed little change.
Most of the nation’s larger food
stores operated under OPA ceil
ings. In a few instances indep
endent merchants announced price
reductions.
In stock market prices, steels,
motorp, coppers, rubbers, and mail
orders rose from a dollar to more
than three dollars a share. Cotton
figures in industrial dealings ear
ly this morning, jumped more
than three dollars a bale, and in
New Orleans, reached the $5 limit.
rado law. The National Apart
ment Owners Association sent
teregrams to the owners of 50,000
apartment houses asking them to
hold rent increases within 15 per
cent of the present rates.
ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN
OFF BIKINI, July 1, —(A3)—Three
out of the 73 old target warships
were sunk and eight others were
badly damaged in the spectacular
test of the fourth atomic bomb.
Vice Admiral William Blandy
made the report tonight as ves
sels of his task force moved into
Bikini lagoon to survey the dam
age. The report was based on
cursory inspection. Many of the
ships are burning. The total could
be higher after a complete check
up.
Whether the atomic bomb will
force the world navies into new
construction and battle-tactics will
remain the big question.
The bomb wrought a great deal
of damage to the ships anchored
in the lagoon but the blast didn’t
sink a capital ship even though
they were directly under the ex
plosion.
Adm. Blandy declined, in the
news conference, to draw any con
clusions of the test, and said it
was not his job.
Scientists aboard the flagship
said they thought the bomb blast
was about equal in force to the
one used at Nagasaki.
A recapitulation of the bomb's
destructive f>ower is shown in
the sinking of the two attack
transports Carlisle and Gilliam,
and the destroyer Lamson which
capsized and later went down.
The destroyer Anderson is so
badly damaged that it is expected
to sink momentarily.
The Jap cruiser Sakawa was
ripped open at the water-line and
may sink. Fires are still burning
aboard the carrier Independence
which suffered as great damage
as any vessel afloat, is listing bad
ly damaged, especially on the top
side.
The battleship Arkansas, the
Jap battleship Nagato, the sub
marine Skate, the heavy cruiser
Pensacola, a landing tank ship
and some 25 other vessels received
slight damage.
The underwater test bomb will
be held within the next three or
four weeks, Blandy said, depend
ing on how soon we will be able
to make preparations to get the
fleet into position.
The fourth bomb burst with a
huge flash, sending up great mul
ticolored balls; and a tremendous
column of lethal cloud.
No tidal wave or quake resulted
and no lives were lost.
Observers reported the palm
trees on the atoll seemed intact.
The bomb burst with a blind
ing flash at 11:00 a.m. Sunday
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