Dewey Attacks Truman Tactics In Speech At Chicago
In Chicago Dewey accused Truman of mud slinging and reckless abuse across the nation. He criticized appeasement in foreign policy and said the current admin has failed at home, urging leadership, unity, and a decent respect for Americans' rights. He outlined plans for labor, business, and agriculture under his administration.
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Agricultural policy leader emphasizes soil, resources and electrification
The speaker pledges improved technical services for soil conservation and natural resource preservation. He cites the first long range price support program passed by the last Republican congress as the cornerstone of future agricultural policy and urges pressing the program forward for rural electrification.
Government urged to aid small businesses against heavy regulation
The speaker calls for government to take a friendly interest in small business growth and lift nuisance burdens, arguing current regulations complicate operations for small firms while large corporations can hire many statisticians. He adds that future administrations should enforce laws against business monopoly to protect the public.
Labor demands full rights and political neutrality in administration
A speaker asserts labor is entitled to an administration that fully supports the right to organize strike and collective bargaining and recognizes labor rights as rights. The statement warns against offering or withholding such rights as political favors as the piece continues on page eight.
Truman charges polls lull voters in run up to election
President Truman accuses Republicans of using polls to predict victory and lull voters. He compares the polls to sleeping pills and blasts the 80th Congress for inaction on high prices housing federal aid to education and other urgent measures. He vows to expose the Republicans and discuss their records.
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ECA Halts New Grants Without Signed Loan Deals
The Economic Cooperation Administration will not authorize new Marshall plan grants to European nations until loan agreements are signed. Britain and Iceland have current loan deals. France Italy Denmark Norway Sweden Belgium Ireland Netherlands and Turkey face a halt to new grants. Howard Bruce, acting administrator, said the pause aims to balance loans and grants and may be temporary.
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Gillette Attacks Wilson Record on Bipartisan Acts
Democratic Senate candidate Guy M. Gillette charged that Republican George A. Wilson opposes nearly all bipartisan foreign policy measures. He spoke at a ZCBJ hall rally after citing a Chicago Tribune editorial urging Wilson’s re election.
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Switzer to Speak at Cedar Rapids Democratic Rally
A second Democratic rally is set for Thursday in Cedar Rapids. Des Moines candidate Carroll O. Switzer will address attendees at 7:30 p.m. in the C.S.P.S. hall on Third street and Eleventh avenue SE, announced by Linn county Democratic publicity chair Frank McCarthy.
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Gillette attacks senator on foreign policy and Taft Hartley stance
Gillette accuses Senator Wilson of opposing bipartisan foreign policy and backing anti Union measures. He cites opposition to the Marshall Plan and Greek Turkish aid while supporting amendments to the Taft Hartley Act to curb labor injunctions and protect free expression.
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Visitor compares dog to family in humorous quip
A visitor told the hostess about her dog describing it as a big ugly mongrel but as part of the family. She asked which one the hostess meant. The line elicited a playful exchange reflecting a lively social moment.
Hideaway Found End of 30Night Bar Room Sojourn
Patrick J Fleming, 23, from West Virginia, hid in an attic above the Bond bar on Market Street for 30 days living on ham sandwiches and bourbon. He emerged when a customer spotted bourbon droplets from the ceiling, was taken to the police, and charged with petty theft and vagrancy. The bar proprietor Tom Sullivan and others suspected the bartender and staff misconduct while Fleming claimed he stayed for the free booze and bed.
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Missing Lenore Shanhouse Found in Montreal
Montreal police located 19 year old Lenore Shanhouse a Smith College student who had vanished from Northampton Massachusetts Monday. She telephoned her mother saying she had been kidnapped and later said she obtained her freedom and was well. Authorities planned to send her to Annapolis after confirming the circumstances of her arrival.
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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Bennett and Wolfe
DES MOINES IA Criminal conspiracy charges against Myron J Bennett the suspended Des Moines safety commissioner and Jack Wolfe Des Moines printing shop owner were dismissed by District Judge C Edwin Moore The judge set aside the county attorney information saying an abstract of testimony by Mayor Heck Ross and City Solicitor Sid Harvey was inconsistent with the summary The case was sent to the Polk county grand jury for reconsideration with subpoenas to witnesses planned for the proceeding
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German Woman Seeks Death Over Deportation to Reich
Kaethe Schlomtropp, 27, sobbing in Macon Georgia, asked federal judge Frank Scarlett to sentence her to the electric chair rather than return to Germany. She claimed an illegal marriage to Paul Mayer, an ex GI, and admitted violating immigration laws by harboring the pair. Judge Scarlett ordered deportation to immigration authorities. Mayer received a year and a day sentence.
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Pre-War Currency Worth Diminishes in Shanghai Case
In Shanghai the court ruled that $14,987 deposited by German national Albert Thordsen before Pearl Harbor was confiscated as enemy property. The Foreign Affairs Ministry offered a refund at the 1946 exchange rate, but the postwar rate collapsed to nine yuan per dollar, leaving Thordsen with far less than original.
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Thirteen German Generals Acquitted in War Plot Trial
An American war crimes court acquitted 13 leading German military commanders of plotting to start World War II and of conspiracy. Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb was convicted of crimes against civilization. Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle was cleared on all counts. The court’s nine‑month trial involved three field marshals, five generals, one general and four lieutenant generals with a reading of a 330 page judgment ongoing.
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Forecast Calls for Colder Thursday Night in Cedar Rapids
The weather man warned of cooler Thursday night after a mild Indian summer. A Pacific air mass moving from the northwest will drop temperatures and bring cloudy skies. In Cedar Rapids, Tuesday's 72 midday reading fell to 34 overnight, then rose to 70 by early afternoon.
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Truman warns rents rise if GOP victory in 20 percent leap
President Truman told Hartford voters that rent increases of at least 20 percent would follow a Republican win. He spoke during a campaign swing in industrial New England about housing costs and the GOP platform.
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Allied survey to review dismantling of German plants
United States Britain and France agreed to survey the dismantling of reparations plants in Western Germany to decide which may be left to aid recovery. Dismantling in the three zones will continue but removal of key plants will be halted pending review results. Many congressmen urge slowing dismantling to determine plants that could bolster recovery without boosting war potential.
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Western ministers seek Berlin settlement let Russia rethink veto
In Paris the Big Three foreign ministers suggested Russia might accept a Berlin crisis settlement beyond the UN. They reiterated readiness to be guided by the principles of a rejected plan calling for lifting the blockade, a single Berlin currency, and a four power council.
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West Maps Pact to Deter Soviet War
The United States Canada and Western European allies fast tracked a proposed North Atlantic security pact. Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg would join a twofold plan including a mutual assistance pact and a vast peacetime raid program for Western Europe with costs estimated from 2 to 5 billion dollars. The accord aims to deter aggression and could eventually expand to all Western Europe.
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Wholesale Food Index Dips to 1947 Low in New York
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index fell one cent to 6.47 this week, the lowest since July 8, 1947, comparing with 6.78 a year earlier.
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