Housewives Boycott Meat as Corn Crop Forecasts Aid
The Associated Press reports housewives press ongoing meat boycott amid price fears. Cleveland retailers note declining sales while Louisville and San Francisco actions spread. Chicago activists plan demonstrations and phone chains. Government predicts record corn crop feeding 3.506 billion bushels. meat industry says conversion to meat takes a year for pork and two for beef.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Frank J. Klinger
Cleveland Retail Meat Dealers Association
Seles
Chester G. Newcomb
Cleveland Provision Company
Chicago
Progressive Party
Henry Wallace
Cook
American Meat Institute
Mercury Upward Start in Iowa Weather
Scattered rain clouds moved across Iowa from the west on Wednesday after storms with high winds in western points. Hundreds of acres of corn were reported flattened near Hamburg in the High Creek area, and hail was observed. Cedar Rapids recorded 0.11 inch of rain as a warming trend began, with morning temperatures at 48 and a high Tuesday afternoon around 3 to 5 pm. By 2:30 Wednesday, the temperature reached 86 according to Chambers Inskeep.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
High Creek Steag
Hamburg
Cedar’ Rapids
Chambers
U S grain outlook eyed by ECA official
Dennis A Fitzgerald, head of the Economic Cooperation Administration Western Europe, said record U S grain yields could raise European purchases with little or no extra cost. He noted Gov forecast of crop improvement and discussed shifting more export grain purchases to private trade under the European Recovery Act.
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Washington
Dutlock
Iwi
Europe
Chee Fitzgerald
U. S
ECA
Fitzgerald
Commodity Credit Corporation
Waterloo raid targets seven clubs under sheriff action
Acting on a complaint by A C Sweetman of Waterloo Sheriff H T Wagner and deputies raided seven clubs Tuesday night with search warrants. One club contained a slot machine two others had small gambling devices. Five clubs were found free of gambling equipment.
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Waterloo
A. C.sweetman
H T Wagner
Black Hawk
Arhvela
Sonnyside Country Club
Ellis. ‘Club
Moose
Eus
Eagle's Club
Jerusalem Night Battles Intensify Amid Ceasefire
Heavy fighting raged near Jerusalem from midnight to dawn despite the UN cease fire. Observers and mediators, including Count Folke Bernadotte, noted intensified shelling and street fire as both sides clashed in and around the city.
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Jerusalem
U.N
Folke Bernadotte
Ruth Has Relapse Condition Critical
New York AP reports Babe Ruth, baseball’s famed homerun king, in critical condition at Memorial Hospital with rising temperature and pulmonary complications. Earlier briefings noted improvement, but a later bulletin confirmed renewed fever and health concerns after years of treatments and prior hospital stays.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Homerun King
Memorial Hospital
Ruth
Aran
Ruth Mhass
Babe
Berlin crisis deepens as West powers vow air bridge stay
Western powers prepared to maintain the Berlin air supply amid a cold war standoff. General Hoyt Vandenberg and Secretary Symington expressed optimism, saying the airlift would continue through winter weather. Soviet claims of ample Berlin food and air safety violations circulated as talks in Moscow faltered and Soviet bloc production faced coal shortages.
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Berlin
Ud Symington
Hoyt
Vandenberg
Moscow
Hiere
Jass
Swanderhit Zjoby
Templehat
Fairdrame
U.S
China
Ithe
Feu
Canspo
Frost Patterson Elected Iowa Legion Commander at State Meet
Frost Patterson of Fontanelle won the Iowa Legion post as department commander after a floor contest at a state convention. He defeated George R. White of Marshalltown 2087 to 1090, with the nominating committee's selections then approved unanimously. White supporters challenged the result on the floor.
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Frost Patterson
Fontanelle
Iowa
Legionaires
Fontanelle Gro‘cer
George R. White
Marshalltown
Patterson
White
Don Hemmingsen
Algona
Légion
Fort
Dodge
W.earl
Hall
Mason City
Nomini Committee
Untitled Fragment Recalls Bethel Connecticut Ad Names
Fragmentary OCR item mentions Bethel Connecticut and a with sewn Erie Haon note, unclear names and organizations. Readable details are minimal, but the text references a location in Bethel and a possible Erie connection, leaving overall context uncertain.
West Branch honors Hoover birthday amid crowds and cleanup
West Branch drew an estimated 15 000 attendees to honor Herbert Hoover at his birth site. The town faced post event cleanup with wrappers and trash along Hoover park and Wapsinonoc creek. Local volunteers and officials praised the turnout as possibly the biggest day since 1854.
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Herbert Hoover
Ashe
Herberts Hoovers
West Branch
United States
Hoover Park
M. R. Fawcett
White House
Hagdhing Trafic
Hoover
Henry Pearson
Linn Supervisors Postpone Naming Evaluation Firm
Linn county supervisors delayed choosing an evaluator for the county real estate revaluation project. They reviewed bids from Doane Agricultural Service Farm Management Associates and Appraisal Engineering Company but found no clear specifications and postponed a decision until next Tuesday.
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Linn
County
William * Crissman
Hage
Brihe
Lever
T Doane Agricultural Service
St. Louis
Arm Management Associates
Kansas City
LaCrosse
Wis
Crissman
Sietony
Doane
Crisstman
Neerin
DiDavis
Farm Management, Associates
Anto
Betty
Clarence Beeson
Cedar Rapids
Petty Jone
Cal
Government vows protection for witnesses in espionage probe
Secretary Marshall stated the U S government will protect individuals testifying in the Communist espionage investigation if they comply with U S law. The remarks followed subpoenas served to Russian teacher Samarin and his wife who testified before the House committee amid Soviet protests.
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de Tate
Washington
United States
Marshall
Michael Ivanovitcch Samatin
U. S
Samarin
House Committee
Nist
Alexander Panyushkin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Aban Petipat
Panyushkin
New York Times
State Department
Marion Foster girl killed by milk truck in Marion
An 18 month old girl, Marion Foster, died after being run over by a milk truck in front of her home on Ninth Street in Marion. Police say driver Algie Thomas of Cedar Rapids stopped to deliver, children played nearby, the child crawled under the truck, and the rear wheel passed over her. She died at St Luke's Hospital after 2 p.m.
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Virgil Foster
Marion
Luke's Hospital
Leighton Ford
Algie Thomas
Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids
Ford
Thomas
Ninth Street
Thoman
Bachelor in Sweden Sent Laundry to U S
In New York, a report says Swedish bachelors face long laundry delays of up to three weeks. One man mailed a shirt to the United States for washing, and Scandinavian Airlines promised faster return, hoping to bring it back by Thursday.
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New York
Sweden
United States
Scandinavian Airlines
Stockholm
Wrong switch ties up Cedar Rapids traffic on Third
Downtown traffic jammed for four or five minutes as a Rock Island freight and a Milwaukee freight were rerouted after a switchman threw the wrong switch. A tower operator, unnamed, cited the misrouted trains and the crossing at Third was cleared after both trains backed up.
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Rock Island
Milwaukee
Soviet spy case links Red Star payoffs to Bentley evidence
A witness named Miss Bentley testified about payments totaling $2,000 from a Soviet official linked to espionage efforts. She described meetings in New York and Moscow orbit, and told of a Red Star assignment while under FBI surveillance. The testimony aims to illuminate alleged Soviet payoffs and recruitment.
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Anatol
Skovietnemess
Bassy
Red Star
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Peradic
FBI
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Che Jonly
Yfront
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Moscow
Neae
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