No Removal Of Meat From Short Supply List
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said he would not remove meat from the short supply list to be announced Tuesday, stressing beef and pork in short supply due to July August holidays. He noted beef, hogs, and cattle receipts are down from a year ago, with 12 markets reporting 160000 cattle receipts and 26200 hogs.
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Anderson
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
Washington
Chicago
Kansas City
Light Frost Damages Reported Around Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids area saw light fruit and vegetable damage after a heavy frost overnight. Beans and tomatoes in exposed spots were damaged while protected gardens remained unharmed. Temperatures fell to 33 in Cedar Rapids with lows near 50 statewide and more mild weather forecast for the coming days.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Mercury
Chambers-Inskeep
Decorah
Fields Indicted for Contempt in Surplus Wire Deal
Washington ex convict Benjamin F. Fields, a contract expeditor, was indicted by a federal grand jury on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to produce records related to a $12,936 surplus wire screening disposal deal investigated by a House committee. Each count carries up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
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Washington (LLP
Benjamin F. Fields
Washington
Congress
House Committee
Fields
House
Pastor seeks tips on black market sugar purchase
The Rev. John F. Steven of Emmanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church said he has "met some response" to his sermon urging help finding black market sugar. He argued sugar regulation is so skewed that buying illegally or legally makes little difference, and asked parishioners for information on black market sources.
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Buffalo
John F. Steven
Steven
Emmanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church
Forrestal Sets US Navy Role in Mediterranean Policy
Secretary Forrestal stated that U S naval forces remain in the Mediterranean to help carry out American foreign policy and will stay for some time. The carrier FDR will be replaced promptly as needed, with cruisers destroyers and auxiliaries in European waters to support occupation authorities protect U S interests and back U S policy amid Turkish Greek and Yugoslav concerns.
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Washington
Forrestal
United States
Mediterranean
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F.D.R
Turkey
Missouri
Dardanelles
United States Navy
Atlantic
Mediterranean Sea
Europe
United States c
Bus rerouting decision left to public safety official
Cedar Rapids council ruled the trial period for the Second Avenue SE bus rerouting would be decided by Public Safety Commissioner Gordon Hughes. A Chamber of Commerce letter urged extending the trial for three to six months to gain experience through fall and winter before a final routing decision.
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Public
Gordon Hughes
Cedar Rapids
Retail Merchants Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants Bureau
Hughes
Second Avenue SE
Donations at the Children's Home Tuesday
Fruits and vegetables will be received all day Tuesday at the Children's Home, 519 Fifteenth Street NE, with board members on hand to show donors through. Those unable to deliver may call 27401 to arrange pickup of gifts.
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Cedar Rapids News
Fifteenth Street
Board of Directors
Not a Candidate Dougs Reiterates Not a Candidate
General MacArthur reiterates he has no political ambitions and is not a candidate for the U.S. presidency. He reaffirmed his intent to oversee the Japanese occupation through to completion, responding to a Nebraskan congressman's remarks about a 1948 campaign bid.
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Tokyo
INS
MacArthur
A. L. Miller
Nebraska
Ao Supreme Allied Commander
United States
Three Racers Collide One Driver Killed at Cedar Acres
Harley Phillips 28 a Bettendorf midget racer died in a three car crash during a Cedar Acres race program. Phillips reportedly faced a lung ailment contracted overseas and had told friends he might as well enjoy racing. The fatal accident followed Phillips winning a race after a late duel with Dick Koob of Rock Island. As Phillips looked back at Koob, his car struck the rear of Speed Teske of Janesville causing both cars to be hurled. Phillips’ car somersaulted and pinned him in the cockpit. He died at St Luke’s hospital from multiple skull fractures. Teske and Koob suffered minor injuries. Three other drivers had crash injuries during time trials.
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Ce-Mar
Harley Phillips
Bettendorf
Phillips
Dick Koob
Rock Island
Speed Teske
Janesville
Wis
Teske
Cedar Acres
Friends
Finlish
Koob
St. Luke's Hospital
T. Frank Hersch
Bettensdorf
Tony Russo
Racine
Art Wheeler
Cedar Rapids
Wayne Stuart
Des Moines
Trieste Civilians Ambush 10 G.I.s
In Trieste a crowd identified as pro Yugoslav Italian Communists ambushed and stoned 10 American soldiers Sunday night. Pic Raymond L. Rowe of California was hospitalized and several others were bruised. Pvt Jerome G. Gurskie of Shamokin identified seven arrestees from a group of 25 or more that waylaid the soldiers. The soldiers belong to Company K 351st regiment 88th division, following recent attempts to organize demonstrations against a military government ban.
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Trieste
Raymond L. Rowe
Alhambra
Calif
Jerome G. Gurskie
Shamokin
Gurskie
351St Regiment
88Th Division
Truculent Turtle Roars Toward Long Nonstop Flight
The navy P2V Neptune bomber nicknamed the Truculent Turtle aims to break the world non stop distance record from Perth to Seattle and possibly Washington. Four-man crew include Comdr Thomas C. Davies and Wives gather in Washington as the craft carries a baby kangaroo aboard.
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Washington
Central Pacific
U. S
Perth
Australia
Navy Department
Midway
Seattle
Wash
Navy
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Guam-Washington
Col
C S. Irvine
National Aeronautics Association
RAF
Irvine
Thomas C. Davies
Cleveland
W. S. Reid
Washington, D. C
R. H Tabeling
Jacksonville
Fla
E. P
Rankin
Sapula
Okia
Turtle
Army
Honolulu
Hawaii
Cairo
St Luke's and Mercy Benefit From City Action
Cedar Rapids city council vacates Eleventh Street NE stub to allow St Luke's Hospital expansion and refunds Mercy Hospital $370 for alley rights. Mayor Hahn supports giving land to both hospitals at no cost. Poe letter notes urgent need for expansion to serve growing hospitalization demand and minimize disruption by expanding west of current buildings.
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Cedar Rounds
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s ‘Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Frank K. Hahn
Arthur Poe
St. Luke's
Mercy
St. Luke's Hospitals
Poe
Archbishop Stepinac goes on trial for Nazi collaboration
Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, leader of five million Catholics in Yugoslavia, faced trial in Zagreb on charges of alleged Nazi collaboration. He pled not guilty as proceedings began on Monday.
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Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Aloysius Stepinac
Wac Captain Found Guilty Five Years
Kathleen Nash Durant, 43, a former Wac captain, is found guilty by a military court of larceny and embezzlement in stealing 1.5 million dollars in Hesse family jewels from Kronberg castle and sentenced to five years hard labor with dishonorable discharge. Her husband Col Jack Durant and Maj. David Watson face complicity charges awaiting trial.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Wac
Kathleen Nash Durant
Hesse Family
Durants
United States
Durant
John Swinnell
Brooklyn
Danube Freedom Deal At Peace Conference Split
At the Paris peace conference the Balkans economic commission backed broad Danube navigation guarantees in the peace treaty with Romania. An eight to five vote set a six month target to draft universal traffic rules with riparian states plus the United States Russia Britain and France. Vandenberg urged the move saying free Danube traffic protects centuries of freedom and would prevent a return to the Dark Ages amid Russian opposition and Czech Hungary tensions.
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Paris
Balkans Economic Commission
Romania
Len Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Commisson
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Europe
Vandenberg
Danube
October Draft Quota Raised for 35 000 Men
Washington report states the army set an October selective service quota of 35 000 men, up 10 000 from September, with the same 19 through 29 age range. Officials cited savings and efficiency from discharging near-term draftees and replacing them with new recruits who must serve 18 months under the extended draft law.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Newsmen to witness Nuernberg executions
The Allied Control Council agreed to permit two correspondents from each of the four occupying nations to witness the execution of Nuernberg war criminals. The decision followed a telegram from Hugh Baillie, president of United Press, to Gen. Joseph T. McNarney requesting access.
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Berlin
Allied Control Council
Nuernberg
Hugh Baillie
United Press
Joseph T. McNarney
Council
Judgment Reading Opens at Nuremberg War Crimes Court
The Nuremberg tribunal declared initiating war the supreme crime and signaled that 22 Nazi leaders faced conviction on conspiring to wage aggressive war. It acquitted the Reich staff and Nazi organizations but convicted certain SS SD and Gestapo leaders. Goering, silent, faced likely execution as judges outlined evidence and future verdicts.
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Mernberg
International Military Tribunal
Strongzly
Britain
France
Russia
United States
Reich Cabinet
Gestapo
Hermann Goering
Geoffrey Lawrence
Great Britain
Rudolf Hess
Meat Checkup Ordered By Bay State Governor
Gov Moist Tobin orders statewide meat inspection after emergency meeting. Inspectors and state police audit slaughterhouses and storage plants to root out possible market withholding and conspiracy or restraint of trade charges.
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Bay State
Boston
Public Health Department
Maurice J. Tobin
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