U S People Advised To Ration Food
Washington under secretary of Agriculture Nor ris E Dodd urged voluntary food rationing to avert European famine and save allied governments. He proposed two forms: households cut livestock product purchases and farmers reduce grain feed, stressing government cannot impose rationing. He warned Europe and India face grave food shortages and urged eating less meat and preferring grass fed beef. Cleveland also urged voluntary meat cuts to conserve wheat for Europe, warning against price spirals if controls lagged.
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Washington
Norris E. Dodd
Dodd
Secretary Anderson
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Geneva
Eope
Europe
Sen. Taft
Ohio
India
Far East
Soest
Switzerland
Russia
Cleveland
INS
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
Italian Pact Ratification Is Now Final
Paris dispatch reports Italy is restored to full international standing as ratified copies of the Italian peace treaty are filed with the French government by the United States Britain and Russia. The accord ends Italy's wartime status, with postwar borders and withdrawal timelines outlined, while Trieste and Venezia Giulia are reshaped in accordance with Allied decisions.
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Paris
Italy
Russia
United States
Britain
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Molotov
Moscow
France
Austria
Venezia Giulia
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Libya
Eritrea
Somaliland
Marshal Tito
Pola
United Nations
Two Teens Admit Setting Fires for Fun in Sioux City
Two boys aged 16 and 17 confess to starting six fires in Sioux City buildings for amusement. They admit fires on Sept 7 at an abandoned post office and an abandoned house while firefighters labored. They also acknowledge July 22 arson at a home under construction causing about $1,000 in damage. A 16-year-old girl is questioned about accompanying them.
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Sioux City
INS
Oo Jedy
OYS
Nine Die in B-17 Crash at Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen Md officials said a B-17 bomber on a routine training flight crashed into the Bush River killing nine persons. One survivor was reported. Names of all aboard withheld pending next of kin notifications. There were eight military personnel and two civilians aboard according to the post public relations office.
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Aberdeen
Aberdeen Army Proving Ground
Bush River
Post Public Relations Office
Pre-Autumn Cool Wave Grips Iowa
A pre-autumn cool wave grips Iowa with forecast for continued cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures Tuesday. Eastern Iowa expected highs 70 to 75 with overnight lows 35 to 40, Cedar Rapids at 66 at 2:30 p.m. Monday, 62 by 7 p.m., and 51 at midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Nebraska
Driving Up Guy Wire Cures Sneezing Attack
Charles Brooks was driving when a sneezing spell struck. He veered and his car climbed 10 feet up a telephone pole guy wire before sliding free. Brooks escaped unhurt and found his sneezes ceased afterward.
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Milwaukee
Charles Brooks
Brooks
British Sell 80 Million in Gold To Bank in U S
London AP The Bank of England sold gold valued at 80 million dollars to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A treasury spokesman said 20 million pounds from government reserves financed the first such sale since the $3.75 billion American loan was frozen on August 20.
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London
Bank of England
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Treasury
Britain
U S Secretary Seeks Rapid Help for Britain’s Economy
London dispatch reports United States Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder expressing eager support for Britain to reestablish its economy on a sound basis. He endorsed Secretary of State Marshall’s offer of American aid to a European self help program.
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London
John W. Snyder
United States
Louis Walcott To Stage Title Bout At Madison Square Garden
The scheduled non title bout between heavyweight champion Joe Louis and Jersey Walcott of Camden was scrapped and the pair will meet in a 15 round title fight at Madison Square Garden on December 5.
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New York
Joe Louis
Jersey
Walcott
Camden
Madison Square Garden
Yankees Win Pennant as White Sox Top Red Sox 6 3
The New York Yankees clinched their 15th pennant while the Chicago White Sox defeated the Boston Red Sox 6 to 3. The Yankees, long established as a baseball dynasty, waited in their clubhouse for the outcome.
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NEW York
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Red Sox
Boston
Iowa Man Killed Aiding Fellow Worker Near Houghton
Frank Bohnenkamp 38 of West Point died Sunday when he helped Cecil Edgington, a house mover, who touched a high voltage line at the Frank Conrad farm near Houghton. Edgington was seriously burned while Bohnenkamp was also killed aiding him. Bohnenkamp survived by his wife and six children.
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Houghton, Snr
INS
Frank Bohnenkamp
West Point
G. R. Blackburn
Bohnenkamp
Cecil Edgington
Lowell
Frank Conrad
Houghton
Edgington
Marshall Urges U.N. Action to Guard Greek Independence
Secretary of State Marshall urged the United Nations to protect Greece from the Yugoslav Bulgarian and Albanian guerilla threat renewing his charge that those nations jeopardize Greece and the UN itself. He outlined rule of conduct for members and urged broader use of UN machinery while keeping US aims aligned with international stability.
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New York
Marshall
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Greece
United Nations
General Assembly
Security Council
Russia
American Association For the United Nations
U.N
U.N. Paceabere
High Prices Attacked at Grass Roots
Washington report: Attorney General Clark launches a nationwide drive against local price collusion at the start of the United States attorneys conference. He urges public tips on illegal price fixing among producers and handlers, with local inquiries rather than central complaints in Washington.
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Washington
Clark
United States
Aes
Anti-Trust
New Corn Record and Beef Steer Price Set on Monday
United Press reports corn on the Chicago board of trade hit a new all time high as September corn rose to 2.6534 dollars a bushel, surpassing the previous record by 2.14 cents. Another record was set as choice beef steers brought 35.60 dollars per hundredweight, a yearly peak.
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United Press
Chicago Board of Trade
Miners Return to Pits After Unauthorized Walkout
Grimethorpe England AP reports Britain coal miners end an unauthorized strike that began August 11 and resume work at the pits on Monday as talks resume.
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Grimethorpe
England
Britain
English Diet In Britain Described As Plain And Unexciting
Rex Conn reports from London on Britain's diet during wartime rationing. calories run around 2,800 to 2,900 daily with uniform allowances and strict quotas for meat fats and sugar. Some Britons fare better due to non-discriminatory rations while queues for unfrozen fish and vegetables persist.
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Rex Conn
the Gazette
London
Britain
Twenty Missing in Ship Sinking Off Scottish Coast
In Glasgow the Ocean excursion boat sank in heavy seas in the Firth of Clyde Sunday night. Twenty persons were dead or missing, mostly women or children, with only three of 23 aboard known to have survived. Five members of the Ione family were among the missing.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Ocean
Firth of Clyde
Ione
Fire at Shover Oak stable destroys barn and three horses
Three riding horses perished when a fire at Shover Oak farm 4707 First Ave SE destroyed a barn. Damage was estimated at 10000 dollars. Firefighters from Cedar Rapids fought the blaze aided by a Cedar Memorial hydrant three thousand feet away. Owner Robert Sweet of Central City rented the barn to Tom Mackin who kept two other horses there.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Quad
Central Station
E. P Kohout
Shover Oak Farm
Robert Sweet
Central City
C J Smith
Seventeenth Street
Tom Mackin
Bever Avenue
Harold Goodwick
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Kohout
Old Marion Road
Sweet
Mackin
Mob Violence Strikes Trieste Over Friction Turned International Territory
Trieste saw mob violence as Italian and Slavic factions clashed during treaty rati fication. Three people were killed and vehicles damaged as gangs prowled streets. A British public relations officer was stoned and American newsmen were chased. police reported no arrests in the initial unrest.
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Trieste
No Land Areas in Hurricane Danger
The Atlantic hurricane was in a slow recurvature toward a more northerly path, located about 250 miles east-northeast of Nassau and roughly 500 miles east of Miami. No land areas are threatened and no warnings have been issued, according to Chief Forecaster Grady Norton.
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Miami
Nassau
Grady Norton
Taft backs veto-limitation push in UN reform plan
Los Angeles dispatch reports Senator Taft R Ohio saying the United Nations crisis makes veto limitation more urgent. He agrees with Secretary Marshall on a UN stand against aggression but notes action in Greece hinges on the veto, a separate question.
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Los Angeles
INS
Sen
Taft
Ohio
United Nations
U.N
Marshall
Nabbed in Slovakia over Benes assassination plot
Slovakia announced it had arrested 80 ringleaders tied to a plot to overthrow Eduard Benes and assassinate him. The interior ministry said many were government workers and that the group had branches across Slovakia. A former Vlasov band terrorist’s confession helped break the plot already linked to last week’s bomb attempts on Masaryk Zenkl and Drtina.
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Prague
Slovakia
Eduard Benes
Interior Ministry
Czechoslovak National Ministry of the Interior
Jan Masaryk
Petr Zenkl
Prokop Drtina Masaryk
United Nations
New York
Hlinka
Vlasov
Benes’ E
Coe Chapel Drive To Visit All Cedar Rapids Homes
YMB members prepare a three day house to house canvass in Cedar Rapids to raise funds for a new Coe College Sinclair Memorial chapel. The drive kicks off Tuesday with precinct leadership assigning captains and mayors to divide work. the effort runs three days, with a city wide finish by Thursday evening and ongoing contributions through Sept 28.
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Cedar Rapids
Sinclair Memorial Chapel
Coe College College
YMB
Montrose Hotel
Coe College Chapel Fund
Coe College
Cedar Rapids- Marion Ministerial Association
P. F. Bezanson
Drive For
Greek Court Sentences 53 Communists to Death
A Greek military court in Salonika on Monday condemned 53 members of a Communist extremist group to death for abetting a plot to seize the city and for taking part in the slaying of two air force officers and wounding nine others when grenades hit a truck on a Salonika street on April 13.
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Salonika
Vandenberg and Connally Decline U.N. Delegates Invitation
Grand Rapids dispatch reports Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and Senator Connally of Texas declined an invitation to serve as delegates at the United Nations general assembly opening this week. Vandenberg said he will travel to New York in 10 days or two weeks to consult with U.N. leaders.
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General Assembly
Marshall
U.N
United States
Palestine
United Nations
Grand Rapids
INS
Sen
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Connally
Texas
United Nations General Assembly
New York
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