Hard on Bulls Spanish Matador Faces Blame in Mexico
Mexico City reports record crowds and high prices as Manolete the famed Spanish matador headlines frequent bullfights. Financials rise with four weekly shows, pawnshop dockings, and ticket scalping while tourists flock to Plaza Mexico, El Toreo, and the sport’s spectacle.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Manolele
Spain
Anclete
Federal District
Javier Rojo Gomez
Plaza Mexico
el Torco
Manolete
Manuel Rodrigues
Wiley
Federal Public Welfare Department
el Toreo
Korda Buys Film Rights to The Kings General
Sir Alexander Korda announced purchase of film rights to Daphne Dumourier’s The Kings General. Production planned in Technicolor spring 1930s with interiors at Worton Hall Studios London. Price near £110,000 with author profits. the novel already topped 1,000,000 copies in circulation and daily sales over 4,000.
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Hollywood
A.P
Alexander Korda
Daphne Dumourier
Oearly
Cornish
Worton Hall
London
Korda
Pepper Shortage Forecast Amid Price Ceiling Tightening
Pepper shortages loom in the United States unless the 10 cent per pound price ceiling is raised. Cinnamon and nutmegs also look scarce this year as India and the Netherlands East Indies are key producers. India reportedly has an 18,000 ton surplus, but asking prices are about double U.S. limits. East Indies shipments have not yet begun.
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New York
United States
India
Netherlands East Indies
East Indies
Private Ships To Carry U.S. Goods
Washington directive from the War Shipping Administration orders privately owned and chartered ships to carry the largest share of export cargoes under the American flag. Government vessels will be reduced, with the government chartering many ships to private companies to handle both commercial and government shipments.
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Washington
A.P
War Shipping Administration
Poles Struggle to Identify Seized German Ships Chiefly Tugboats
Warsaw AP reports Poland’s Ministry of Navigation and Foreign Trade seeks return of seized vessels. Many ships renamed or rebuilt hinder identification though 14 Polish tugboats and 14 ships formerly based at Gdansk are to be returned. A four year plan to rebuild Poland’s merchant fleet has been prepared.
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Poland
Ministry of Navigation and Foreign Trade
Gdansk
Danzig
War With Russia Good bye To Everything
Mrs. Marjorie D. Spikes, Women's Affairs Attache with the British Embassy in Washington, said in Knoxville that there can be no war between western democracies and Soviet Russia and that such a conflict would be “just goodbye to everything.” She described Britain’s policy as seeking to pull as a partner in the United Nations for world government, not forming individual alliances.
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Marjorie D. Spikes
Washington
Soviet
Russia
Spikes
Britain
United Nations’ Organisation For World
Recruiting Officers for Postwar British Army Academy
The Army unveils plans to merge Royal Military College Sandhurst and Royal Military Academy Won-wich into a single Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. An 18 month free course with pay leads to a regular commission in all branches. Admission includes written and oral exams, six months service in ranks, and British status. Admiralty explores naval officer commissions with possible financial aid to improve access. The postwar army, navy, and reserves undergo structural reviews and promotions policy evolves.
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Royal Military College
Sanost
Royal Military Academy
Wonwieh
Artillery
Engineers
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
Infantry
Armoured Corps
Ordnance Corps
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Household Cavalry
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Army Service Corps
Electrical and Mechaical Engineers
The
Academy
Engineers, Signal
REME
Dartsmouth
Flowal Neva College
Admiralty
Navy
Naval Volunteer Reserve
British Soccer Stars In South Africa May Tour Australia
In Johannesburg AP reports Jimmy Woolf of Southampton Duck Kemp of Liverpool and Jimmy Clark of Sunderland could join the Springbok team for a planned tour of Australia in M7. They recently left British forces in South Africa and would play as permit players for a year before becoming full amateurs if reinstated.
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Jimmy Woolf
Southampton
Duck Kemp
Liverpool
Gaalie
Jimmy Clark
Sunderland
England
Springbok
Australia
South Africa
South African Football Association
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Colombia Secures Economic Independence
In Bogota, Colombia claims partial economic independence as wartime changes boost industrial production above agricultural exports. Foreign exchange holdings reach an all time high, while diversification of agriculture reduces reliance on coffee exports.
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Bogota
Colombia
Kaiser car agents expanded to international markets
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation and Graham Page Motors Corporation appoint sixty automobile sales agents in counties outside the United States. Representatives chosen for Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, most of Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, India, Burma and Ceylon to manufacture Kaiser and Frazer cars and agricultural machinery.
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Willow Run
Michigan
A.P
Uni
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Graham-Page Motors Corporation
Kaiser and Frazer
Middle East
South Africa
Latin America
Australia
New Zealand
Iceland
India
Burma
Ceylon
Big Bombers Going Out
Lieutenant General Stan Baker, wartime commander of the United States Air Force, predicted in an interview that the next war will see vast fleets of big bombers largely replaced by guided missiles like the German V-2, probably armed with atomic warheads. He said many changes in theory and practice would be needed in the atomic age.
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New York
Stan Baker
United States
Air Force
Rock-Throwing Boys Get Target Handicap
In Louisville Kentucky maintenance crews replace broken old fashioned sash windows with 12section glass panes to cut cost from rock throwing. The effort reduces damage per rock to about 30 cents though it does not end the practice.
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Louisville
U S Wool Supply Estimate for 1948
The International Statistical Bureau estimates the United States wool supply in 1948 at 1 614 000 hundredweight, including January 1 1946 on hand 325 million pounds and imports about 600 million pounds. Clipped wool totals 206 940 000 pounds and pulled wool about 0 0100 000 pounds.
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New York
International Statistical Bureau
United States
Polish Church Rebuilt After War Damage
The Augustinian Fathers Church of St Catherine in Cracow Poland has been fully restored after destruction during the occupation. The building dates back to the early 14th century and the restoration was confirmed by a Warsaw dispatch from the Polish Press Agency.
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New York
Sweden Helps Europe in Food Shipments
Sweden has sent more than 400000 tons of foodstuffs valued at £12500000 to needy countries in the last two years. Deliveries of grain sugar and butter were made to Finland and Norway principally.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Czechoslovaks Seek Peace Amid Munich Remembrance
In Prague fourteen million Czechoslovaks balance ties between Soviet Russia and western democracies. They seek peace and a steady recovery, while affirming the 1940 mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union and recalling the Munich betrayal that reshaped their postwar outlook. May 6 elections will test diverse political currents.
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Prague
A.P
Russia
Britain Faces Manpower Cut As Italian POWs Repatriated
London reports Britain, already short of labor, will lose 146,000 Italian prisoners of war used in farming and industry as they are repatriated. Officials note Italians have aided agriculture, with 50,000 on land replaced by 100,000 Germans already employed. The War Office cites uncertainty on German usage.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Agriculture
Waree
England
United States
Canada
U N VILLAGE WARY OF UN HOST SITE IN LAKE SUCCESS
In Lake Success New York residents and Nassau County officials weigh the impact of hosting United Nations operations at a government owned war plant. Tax questions arise as to who pays for the facility and its vacancy effects on thousands employed there. Local officials consider using a reconstruction finance corporation owned property and county mansions to house workers while The New York Times editorial criticizes the U.S. government for not aiding site selection.
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Lake Success
New York
United Nations
Long Island
Nassau County
U.N
mTy CyToscope Company
Schuol
UM. Poset
P. Schuvier van Bloem
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Lake Succes
J. Russel Sprague
Pedomie Srting
Sprague
New York Times
U.S
the Times
San Francisco
London
Yoon
Germans to evacuate from Danzig province
Polish officials estimate 276000 Germans remain in Gdansk province of 420000 prewar total. Plans are under way to evacuate Germans weekly to Allied occupation zones in Germany.
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Gdansk
Danzig
Poland
Germany
US ceramics face world market shifts says Lester
Frank B. Lester of the League of America discusses postwar ceramic trade. U.S. output meets domestic needs but lags export potential due to higher labor costs. tiles and fine chinaware may remain costly to compete abroad. He plans to tour Europe to discuss marketing and research with European producers. The U.S. could lead in tile and utility chinaware while other regions rely on cheaper labor.
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Lester
U.S
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England
France
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
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Europe
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Poland
Hungary
Balkans
Russia
Znojmo
Ditmar Urbach A. S. Ceramic Company
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Bowman Warns World in Dire Shape From Earth’s Form
Baltimore A P Dr Isaiah Bowman Johns Hopkins University president says fears of a terrible world are confirmed by evidence in the earth’s shape. He quips that instead of a globe we have an oblate waistline in the form of mother Earth, underscoring global embarrassment.
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Baltimore
A.P
Isaiah Bowman
Johns Hopkins University
Bowman
Earth a curved, flawed form says Hopkins speaker
Dr Bowman at a Hopkins commemoration mocks mathematical earth models calling the earth a self-like form, notes the orbit is an ellipse and the 23 degree bow toward the celestial path, criticizes map projections as scandals while warning the geoid is imaginary and projections are a hairline as wide as the Amazon.
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Bowman
Hopkins
Korda Buys Sound City Studios in England Deal
Sir Alexander Korda reportedly acquires controlling interest in Sound City England's third largest film studio. The purchase includes Worton Hall studios valued at 1,250,000 pounds, with Bound City located 20 miles from London on 200 acres along the Thames River.
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New York
A.P
Sound City
England
Alexander Korda
Worton Hall
Bound City
London
Thames River
Nazi theft of Rome libraries recovered in postwar cache
Eighty freight cars guarded by American troops carried back to Rome 106,008 rare books stolen by the Germans from two libraries. Allies later recovered volumes at Hallein salt mines and in castles such as Lichtenberg Mittersil and Fish Horn. The Archaeological Institute and Herziana Library collections, built by scholars for many nations, were partially restored after the war.
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BOME
A.P
Rome
Schour
Neuianadong
Austria
German Archaeological Institute
Greece
Herzians Library
Fine Arts
AMLG
Archaeological Institute
Hallein
Alt Auseen
Arsa
Lichtenberg Castle
Alfelden
Mittersil
Duchess of Windsor
Fishhorn Castle
Bruck
Goering
Kiss Invasion in Japan Sparks Public Controversy
A report on how Japanese film industry and audiences reacted to kissing scenes in imported Hollywood movies. The piece notes initial bans, nervous production adjustments, and eventual acceptance after American films set the trend. It contrasts Japanese sensibilities with American audiences and cites cultural reactions.
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Japan
Hollywood
Thomas Raucat
Raucat
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