Gale Deals Hard Blow To Florida
The hurricane delivering up to 140 mph winds swept across Southwest Florida causing $15 to $20 million in crop damage and displacing thousands. Flooded Everglades farmland, evacuated residents filled schools, and highways were submerged. Army planes tested dry ice cloud seeding while pilots recounted the perilous eye entry and repairs after the storm center passed north of Miami.
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Miami
Florida
Atlantic
Nathan Mayo
Everglades
Fort Lauderdale
Red Cross
Pompano State
Pompano Beach
Hammondville
Marine Corps
American Red Cross
Thomas Fedele
Chicago
James Warnick
Troy
N. Y
Pan American Airways
Havana
Nassau
Bomb blast injures two at U S Consulate in Jerusalem
A bomb exploded at the U S consulate in Jerusalem injuring two women, Mrs Ethel De Levie of Providence and Palestinian worker Miriam Fipple. Police suspect Arab underground group Jihad in reprisal for U S split plan while consular staff remained at posts as debris cleared.
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Jerusalem
Dead End
Consulate Garden
Ethel de Levie
Providence
Miriam Filpel
Jihad
United States
Palestine
Robert MacAtee
Palestine High Commissioner
Jewish Defense Army
Hagana
Beirut
Runaway Horse Delays Chicago Airport Landings
A horse ran loose at Chicago Municipal Airport on Sunday night halting six inbound and two outbound flights for about half an hour. Police corralled the animal at one end of the runway and allowed arrivals to proceed. The horse escaped again and later a second horse was found nearby and taken to a paddock.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago ‘Municipal
Murray Urges Joint Political Action by AFL CIO and Rail Unions
CIO President Philip Murray appealed at the AFL convention in San Francisco for an immediate joint program with the AFL CIO and railway unions. He warned the Taft Hartley act shows strong enemy forces and urged concrete steps to coordinate action on local state and national levels despite structural differences.
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Boston
CIO
Philip Murray
AFL
San Francisco
Murray
Denny to Join NBC as Vice President and General Counsel
Charles R. Denny Jr. will quit as Federal Communications Commission chairman and become NBC vice president and general counsel around November 15, NBC announced.
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New York
Charles R.denny, Jr
Federal Communications Commission
National Broadcasting Company
Dr Stewart Testifies in LeMont Case
Dr R A Stewart medical superintendent of the Independence state hospital testifying for the defense in the Richard LeMont hotel fire case said the defendant showed a temporary pathological intoxication type of alcoholic insanity caused by one drink. He added the condition could recur but noted the examination lasted about two hours and other information was hearsay.
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Cedar Rounds
R. A. Stewart
Independence State Hospital
Richard LeMont
Stewart
Paul V. Wilson
LeMont
Dave Elderkin
Elderkin
le Mont
Plot Against Life Of Bevin Reported
London Evening Standard reports a plot to assassinate Foreign Secretary Bevin. Scotland Yard special branch uncovered the conspiracy. special detectives guard Bevin and security measures will be heightened at all public and private events.
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London
INL
London Evening Standard
Bevin
Scotland Yard
Special Branch
Joe’s Tax Refund Saga from 1945 Uncle Sam Check
Washington columnist recounts Joe’s comic tax misadventure starting in March 1945. He overpaid 1944 taxes, waited years for a refund, and finally received a rubber check dated Sept 8 1945. The tale ends with Joe drafting a note to Treasury undersecretary Archibald L. M. Wiggins.
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Frederick C. Othman
Washington
Joe
Samuel
Columbus
Bureau of Internal Revenue
House Appropriations Committee
Revenue Bureau
United States Treasury
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Archibald L. M. Wiggins
Archibald
Waiters Hold Out After Rebuffed $45 Weekly Hike
Ninety striking employees of Book Binders Restaurant in Philadelphia reject a $45 weekly increase. The firm offered $55 with no tips from a base of $10 weekly plus tips, while workers demand a $16 weekly boost with tips. Owner John Taxin says current average pay under the $10 plus tips plan is about $90 weekly.
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Philadelphia
INS
Old Bookbinders Restaurant, Inc
AFL
Waitress and Waitresses Union
John Taxin
U N General Assembly Rejects Soviet Balkan Plan
In Lake Success the U N general assembly political committee defeated a Soviet proposal to remove American and British troops from Greece. The vote also backed U N oversight of foreign aid to Greece. Russia faced strong rebuttals from Herschel V. Johnson and others amid a clash over Comintern revival and Balkan tensions.
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Beirut
Arab League
Palestine
United Nations General Assembly
U.N
Holy Land
League
Irgun
Zvai Leumi
Hagana
Herschel Johnson
Lake Success
Russia
Greece
Andrei Vishinsky
Comintern
Belgrade
Herschel V. Johnson
United States
Vishnnsky
Balkans
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Johnson
Hector McNeil
Dimitri Manuilsky
Poland
Joseph Bech
Luxembourg
Balkan
Vishinsky
U. N
Fiery Missile Stirs Texas Border Area Mystery
A flaming object crossed the Texas Mexico border and crashed near the Zamalayuca mountains in Mexico with a loud explosion. Two witnesses heard the blast as smoke rose, with Mexican army reserve captain Saras Aranda reporting the sighting east to west toward the United States. Local meteorologists questioned meteor theory, suggesting the explosion occurred about 15 miles from El Paso.
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EL Paso
Texas- Mexico
Zamalayuca
Mexico
Juarez
White Sands
Proving Grounds
Southwest
Fabons
Texas
Fabens
Saras Aranda
United States
Aranda
Cascta
Colonia Reforma
Jim Halloran
el Paso Times
Halloran
Funeral for Cedar Rapids Attorney B L Wick Draws 500 Friends
Nearly 500 friends and acquaintances of B L Wick Cedar Rapids attorney who died last Wednesday gathered for his funeral in Turner chapel conducted by Rev J O Simon Lutheran minister The 83 year old Quaker requested Dr Simon conduct the service and W R Boyd presided Also speaker C F Clark Wick a Norwegian immigrant was a noted Iowa history authority The funeral diary entry reflects his final wishes and high personal standards
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Cedar Rapids
B. L. Wick
Wick
Turner Chapel
J. O. Simon
W. R. Boyd
C. F. Clark
University of Igawa Law School
Simon
Lutheran Church
Boyd
Mr. Wick
Iowa
Linn County
AFL Seeks One Million Dollar Boost for Union Education Drive
The AFL leadership backed a plan to raise an extra million dollars annually via a per member tax to fund an educational and public relations program. The executive council proposed increasing the tax from two to three cents per member, applicable to all 7,600,000 members, with the change to be decided by the convention before Thursday's adjournment.
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San Francisco
AFL
Cedar Rapids names food committee for national drive
Mayor Frank Hahn appointed Rex B. Conn and D. D. Offringa to chair Cedar Rapids new food conservation committee responding to a telegraph from Charles Luckman head of Truman’s food drive. The panel will meet Friday and push meatless and bread-saving measures as part of the national feed Europe program.
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Cedar Rapids
Rex B. Conn
the Gazette
Frank Hahn
D. D. Offringa
Linn County
Hahn
Charles Luckman
President Truman
Chamber of Commerce
feed-Europe
Cedar Rapids Mission Cares for Abandoned Boys After War Loss
Two young brothers aged 2 and 4 were left alone at Sunshine Mission nursery when their mother fell seriously ill and an overseas service death claimed their father. An attendant asked the older boy where his father was, and he answered that daddy was in heaven. The boys were sheltered at the Mission until relatives could be found.
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Sunshine Mission Nursery
Cedar Rapids
Restaurant industry asks easing of meatless days
Washington AP The nation 120000 restaurants seek changes in the meatless and poultryless days program. Robert J Wilson secretary of the national restaurant industry advisory committee said the industry will cooperate to save 100000000 bushels of grain for Europe but modifications are needed to prevent individual injustices.
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Washington
Truman
Robert J Wilson
National Restaurant Industry Advisory Committee
Europe
Truman asks governors to join war on hunger nationwide
President Truman urged the 48 state governors to adopt statewide conservation programs as part of the war on hunger. He planned to discuss modifications with Food Committee Chairman Charles Luckman later that day. The report notes restaurant groups seek meat by products on meatless Tuesdays and eggs on poultryless Thursdays, plus longer term food-saving efforts and a conservation emblem for public eateries. Distillers threaten suits under Taft Hartley if distillers shut, while unions argue the whisky holiday may not help and some small restaurants fear closures two days weekly.
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Luckman
U. S
Cedar Rapids
Labor
Business
The
Red Cross
Hahn
Washington
Truman
Wilson
Food Committee
AFL Distillery and Wine Workers Union
Joseph M. Jacobs
San Francisco
Mr. Truman
Joseph O'Neill
Sclons Fired On in Greece
An AP report from Athens says U.S. embassy spokesman confirms Representatives Teague and Jackson were fired on by mortars north of Kilkis near the Bulgarian border. Both avoided injuries.
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Sclons
Greece
Athens
United States
Teague
D-Texas
Jackson
Calif
Kilakis
Continued Mild Weather Forecast Across Iowa
Pleasant temperatures and clear skies dominated Iowa as the weather bureau signaled persistent Indian summer conditions. Forecasts for Tuesday through Thursday call for above seasonal warmth, with crop experts noting a week of mild weather could protect corn from frost damage. Cedar Rapids reached 73 by 2:30 p.m. after a 52 degree early morning low.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Chambers
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