Harvest This Year Second Largest In U S History Analysis
Government says harvest this year ranks as the second largest in U S history with 3 47 billion bushels of corn and 1 12 billion wheat, while surpluses prompt talks of output reduction next year and potential price controls. President Truman eyes legislative fights on Taft Hartley repeal and health and civil rights measures as cabinet salaries rise.
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Slow Terror Grips Czechoslovakia Purge Drives Arrestees
Unconfirmed reports say 30 000 to 40 000 people were seized or marked for arrest in a Red purge across Bohemia and Moravia. Landlords architects shopkeepers and small business owners faced confiscation and dispossession while government workers clergy military and even party members were swept up on accusations from treason to denunciations. The purge targets property and ranks amid church control and production pressure concerns.
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Communist Party
Bohemiag
Moravia
Chinese Reds Win Diplomats Defect in Paris
George Mong, Paris embassy counselor, said 11 Chinese diplomats deserted Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government, eight from the embassy and three from the consulate, prompting France to remove them from its diplomatic list while Paris still recognizes the Nationalists. Western powers consider recognizing Maoist China as talks continue.
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Peking
George Mong
Chiang Kai-shek
Canton
French Foreign Ministry
Asiatic Affairs
Mao Tze-tung
Ignorance Costly Story of 200 Bills
Navy petty officer James G. Stratton told police he was robbed on a Grand Central Subway platform and showed a knife cut in his shirt. He claimed $41,500 vanished, with $500 eaten by gambling, while his wife believed the money was stored safely.
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Navy
James G. Stratton
New York
Stratton
Grand Central
Government mulls three year burley marketing control extension
Brannan asks for public views on extending burley tobacco quotas for 1947 48 and 49 as production exceeds disappearance and October 1 stockpiles set a record. A referendum is expected in December with two thirds needed for approval amid surplus findings. The piece also covers steel industry negotiations and conflicts shaping military budget battles.
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Charles Brannan
Brannan
Truman Signs WWI Vet Benefit Bill Amid War Claims
President Truman signed a law boosting disability and dependency payments for World War I veterans by about 112 million dollars annually. The bill grants full compensation for presumptively service connected disabilities and extends the period payments may be made.
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Truman
Corn Cob Potholder Pattern Instruction Request
Reader seeks complete knitting instructions and finishing directions for Corn Cob Potholder from pattern No 5507. Includes request for illustrations and material list and asks send 20 cents with name address and pattern number.
Advice on recurring clogged drains and vent versus grease buildup
The editor suggests the issue may be insufficient pitch in the horizontal soil pipe causing grease and sediment to congeal and slow waste flow. Relaying the pipe is a possible fix. A grease trap from the kitchen sink with periodic cleaning is another solution.
Home Accident Deaths Reach 35000 in 1948
Chicago reports 35000 home accident deaths in 1948 making the home the leading source of fatalities. Falls caused 18200 deaths, burns and explosions 6000, mechanical suffocation 1800, with bedrooms and kitchens and yards identified as major hazard locations.
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Chicago
America
U S Motorists Learn to Drive More Slowly
Chicago report on the 1949 Safety Council yearbook Accident Facts notes 1948 traffic volume the highest in history 8 percent above 1947 yet the mileage death rate per 400 million vehicle miles at 8.0 was the lowest since records began, 30 percent below WWII era averages If the rate had remained higher last year an estimated 14 000 more lives would have been lost.
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Steve Early
Armed Forces
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Chicago
National Safety Council
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