U S denies Soviet charge on Jap base Yokosuka
The State Department rejected a Soviet claim that the Yokosuka naval base is being converted into a modern facility. It called the allegation wholly without foundation and said the base is used for occupation objectives and sanitary upkeep.
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Washington
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Yokosuka
Japan
Alexander Stanyushkin
Far Eastern Commission
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
MacArthur
U S
Panyushkin
Associated Press
Far East
Shantung Peninsula
Tsinan
Tsingtao
U.S
Naval
Cairo
Potsdam
Navy
Waukon Considers Woodworking Plant Proposal
Fifty business leaders met in Waukon to study a plan for a woodworking factory producing specialty novelties. Attendees each subscribed $100 to seed a promotional fund and a committee was formed to study production costs and retail distribution. Leo Joyce, a resident of Allamanee County, proposed the project from Chicago.
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Waukon
Leo Joyce
Allamanee County
Chicago
Wilson High pep rally and Wisconsin game broadcast on KCRG
KCRG KCRK will air the Wilson High School pep rally tonight at 7 30 to set the scene for the Grinnell Wilson game which follows live. Bob Brooks handles play by play. Tomorrow at 1 45 Brooks covers the Iowa Wisconsin game in Iowa City. Boris Karloff stars in a radio adaptation of On Borrowed Time tonight at 7 on Great Scenes From Great Plays. Truman campaign address at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn carried at 10 30 on KCRG KCRK.
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Pumpkins Have Faces A Halloween Play at The Children's Theater
Elizabeth Thompson Barry authors a Halloween tale to be staged at The Children's Theater tomorrow morning at 9:45. Sister Mary Lorenz directs the production, guiding young performers in a morning show slated for the theater.
Radio Listings For KCRK Por With Busy Weekend Schedule
Radio guide lists KCRK Por on FM 96.9 and Channel 243 with a dense weekend slate. Programs include Fulton Lewis Jr at 6 00 and Henry J Taylor at 6 30, then sports segments and variety shows across afternoon slots and late evening features.
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Miss Shanhouse Denies Kidnap Tale On Phone Call
Syracuse AP report says 19 year old Smith College student Miss Shanhouse blamed a talkative telephone operator for spreading a kidnap rumor. She arrived in Syracuse en route to Washington with her mother after being reported missing from Northampton Massachusetts. Police had located her in Montreal after she left the campus Monday. The caller added no new details about meals or sleep. She said she left college and took a train. The uncle Harry Shanhouse issued the defection report.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Lenore Shanhouse
Smith College
Washington, D.C
Montreal
Northampton
Mass
Miss Shanhouse
Harry Shanehouse
Rockford
Ill
Nobel Prize Goes To DDT Pioneer Mueller
STOCKHOLM. Dr. Paul Mueller, a shy Swiss research chemist, won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine for discovering DDT as a powerful insect killer. The 49 year old’s work began in his teens and earned a 44400 dollar award. His 1942 finding showed DDT’s astounding effectiveness against typhus lice, saving countless soldiers and civilians from insect borne diseases. Mueller conducted his work independently after German scientists had synthesized and reported the chemical earlier.
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Stockholm
Paul’ Mueller
Mueller
Butter Prices Down to Lowest Decontrol Level
Chicago wholesale butter prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell to 58 cents a pound, the lowest since OPA controls were lifted. It marked the fourth straight decline, matching the April 22, 1948, level. Week losses reached 7 cents per pound with futures down 60 to 80 points. Egg prices also eased, top grade extras dropping two to four cents a dozen.
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Chicago
INL
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
OPA
Yanks Subdue German Living Cost Rioters in Stuttgart
In Stuttgart, U S army constabulary used tanks and cavalry to break a riot after a mass 40 000 worker meeting over high living costs. Twelve demonstrators and at least two German policemen were injured. no shots were fired. American MPs faced stones and bottles before reinforcements and constabulary dispersed the crowd.
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Stuttgart
U. S
Constabulary
Mother Who Struck Baby Breaks Down as Child Dies
In Los Angeles a 21 year old mother Georgette Brucks sobbed after being told her seven month old son Howard died. She admitted beating the infant because he cried and said she could not control her temper. The baby was taken to hospital with a possible skull fracture and later developed pneumonia.
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Los Angeles
Georgette Brucks
Frances Blumfeld
Howard
Mrs. Brucks
Dairy Groups Back Colored Oleo Ban in Lieu of Tax
Washington insiders report three dairy groups urge replacing the oleomargarine tax with a flat ban on colored yellow margarine. Margarine makers call the plan unacceptable while arguing it would curb butter imitation and let customers buy uncolored margarine without tax. Paul T. Truitt blames butter interests for attempting to cripple margarine and predicts a future repeal of federal margarine taxes and bans.
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Washington
INS
National Association of Margarine Manufacturers
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
American Butter Institute
National Creameries Association
Paul T. Truitt
Margarine Manufacturers Group
U.S. Traffic Toll Rises in September
The National Safety Council reports a 4 percent rise in September traffic fatalities to 3,040, reversing a prior downtrend. For the first nine months of 1948, deaths total 22,430, down 3 percent from the 23,010 recorded in the same period of 1947. September marks the second month this year with higher deaths than 1947.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Seven Firemen Overcome In Minneapolis Blaze
Seven firefighters were overcome by smoke and hospitalized after battling a stubborn southside blaze that began in the basement of the old Odd Fellows hall on East Lake Street. More than 20 units fought the fire as it spread to a neighboring building and the hall roof collapsed before containment late in the afternoon. Fireman Howard W. Stone, 33, remained in critical condition, while six others were in fair or good condition, with three released after treatment.
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Minneapolis
Odd Fellows Hall
E. Lake Street
Howard W. Stone
First sleeping cars return to Japan trains after six years
First sleepers to operate in Japan since wartime removal will resume on November 11. The cars were suspended during World War II as an economy measure and have since been kept for occupation personnel, with civilian service limited until now.
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Tokyo
Pink cars as feminist dress code in traffic plan
Washington AP report cites Mrs Veronica Dengel of New York University proposing pink or mauve automobiles to signal women drivers. She argues color and removable interiors would reduce male aggression and keep cars cleaner for mothers with children.
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Washington
Veronica Dengel
New York University
New Scientific Devices May Alter Climate
New York report describes Project Cirrus testing to alter North American winter weather using ground and airborne devices. Generators emit silver iodide to seed clouds, potentially producing rain or snow. ground and air units include charcoal and hydrogen burning versions. Experts from GE and collaborators note the system could cover vast atmospheric depth with wide climate implications.
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New York
INS
Science
North America
Armed Services
Army Signal Corps
Office of Naval Research
Cirrus
New England Forest
Florida
Dr. Vinnegut
United States
Justifiable homicide ruling in West St. Paul case
A coroner's jury freed Mrs. Walter J. Wallner of criminal charges after finding the act in defense against her husband’s threats and heavy drinking, noting the deep leg wound was not criminally intended. Wallner, editor of the West St. Paul Booster, said she would keep publishing the paper. The note also mentions pre-Columbia Indians raiding as far west as the Mississippi and south to the Gulf.
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West ST. Paul, Minn
Walter J. Wallner
Wallner
West St. Paul
New York State
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Berlin Airlift Quota Raised by 1000 Tons Daily
Maj. Gen. William H. Tunner, head of the U S British airlift, said Berlin supplies quota was raised by more than 1000 tons daily. A target of over 5500 tons daily will begin once 66 additional C-54 planes join the operation, boosting capacity toward about 5800 tons per day.
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Germany
William H. Tunner
Berlin
United Press
Southeast Asia
Truman
Lucius D. Clay
Washington
Clay
Tunner
Air Force
Elizabeth
N.J
Meridian Miss
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