Controls Necessary in Food Crisis and Export Rules
The piece argues for extending wartime export and import controls to avert soaring food prices and protect global relief efforts. It warns that lifting controls benefits wealthier nations, hurts hungry populations, and drains American dollars, while fertilizer and oil sectors show conflicting self interests amid postwar recovery. It notes bipartisan foreign policy has held but urges public debate on trade limits.
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Washington
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Columbia
White House
United Nations
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Potsdam
Congress
The
People
Britain
United States
America
Crossroads of Humanity Cited in Beekeeping and Ideology Debate
Washington debates a two path future as apiarist Charles Reese notes drones expelled from hives amid scarce pollen and a Rousseau style clash with French writer Andre Visson’s remark the world faces a contest between Americanism and Communism. A pundit links animal social structures to totalitarian regimes and warns of a slave class projected by Nazi and Marxist-Leninist theories.
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Charles Reese
University of Ohio
Reese
Andre Visson
Visson
Dispatch
Columbus
Nietzsche
Hegel
Marx
Hitler
Cot
Castle
Farm Budget Cuts Hit Train Fares Increased Clash
The House appropriations committee recommended a 32 percent cut in Agriculture Department funds for the coming year, slashing over 383 million dollars from President Truman’s request. Secretary Clinton Anderson and Democratic congressmen vow to fight the action into next year’s elections, warning major harm to soil conservation and farm price support programs.
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House Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
Truman
Clinton Anderson
Housing costs unlikely to drop soon says REI chief
James C. Downs Jr of the Real Estate Research Corporation says housing costs will not fall soon due to high national debt and strong demand for American capital. He notes the housing shortage is worse than a year ago and will worsen despite rising earnings and higher costs for builders. Separately the Interstate Commerce Commission approves about a 10 percent rise in basic passenger fares for 60 eastern railroads, cutting coach rates from 2.2 to 2.5 cents per mile and Pullman rates from 3.3 to 3.5 cents.
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James C. Downs Jr
The
Real Estate Research Corporation
Downs
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi
Ohio and
Potomac Rivers
Abolition of Capital Punishment Declared in Russia
Soviet authorities announce immediate abolition of the death penalty citing growing Strength and patriotism as factors for lasting peace. Moscow radio says the postwar international situation supports a long peace despite aggressive elements. Herbert Hoover accuses Russia of obstructing relief and blocking peace treaties with Japan and Germany.
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Russia
Moscow Radio
Germany
Japan
Herbert Hoover
United States
Appalling Waste Mounting Fire Loss Threatens Billion Mark
Chicago officials cite rising fire losses, predicting totals may exceed one billion dollars by 1950. National Board of Fire Underwriters president Frank A. Christensen links increases to physical and psychological factors, noting waste has more than doubled since 1941 and life losses may hit record highs.
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Congress
Chicago
Frank A. Christensen
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Truman
Christensen
Doan
Red Cross opens cake hungry vets school
In Jamaica New York the Queens Red Cross nutrition service launches the Red Cross School for Cake Hungry Vets after a poll of G I brides. The program aims to teach home baking as a route to husbands’ hearts with classes led by Dorothy Wettemann and Grate Lohmann.
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Red Cross
Jamaica
N. Y
G.i.s
New York City
Queens Red Cross
G.I
Red Cross School
Dorothy Wettemann
The
Grate Lohmann
Horseback Trek To Follow Trails Into Adventure
A Belle Fourche to Devils Tower caravan offers a summer tourist trek with nine trips in June July and August. Each eight day ride carries 25 to 30 riders through Black Hills National Forest to Devils Tower Wyoming with Western Trails Inc guiding cowboys at the head and a chuck wagon camp set ahead each night.
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Devils Tower
Western Trails, Inc
Black Hills National Forest
Overtime Parker Meter Offers Second Chance at Station
In Chillicothe Missouri a lone parking meter at the police station gives overtime parkers a second chance by paying a nickel within one hour of a ticket. After 61 minutes a dollar is required.
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Chillicother
Parkers
Aviation notes and plans for air education in postwar era
Sixty eight youngsters competed in a model aircraft contest in Kansas City Kansas under Model Aircraft Institute and sanctioned by the Academy of Model Aeronautics. A civic campaign in Du Quoin Illinois seeks 10000 to buy 93 acre site for an airport with Lions club backing. CAP expansion discussed at Washington meeting and a noted congressional dinner reviewed CAP’s 1500 units nationwide. Airplanes aided land inspection in western Kansas summer fallow and helped police when three youths fled in a stolen car. Prospector helicopter idea cited by Dr Francis A Thompson. Dr Frank A Brewster uses plane for travel between Holdridge Lexington and Oberlin. Army Air Forces to reopen aviation cadet training at Randolph Field with 500 civilian cadets starting July 1 for 52 weeks.
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Kas
Model Aircraft Institute
Academy of Model Aeronautics
Washington
du Quoin
Til
Lions Club
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
United States
Army Air Forces
Kansas
Glenn H. Johnson
Kansas Production and Marketing Administration
Manhattan
West Point
Air
West Point of the Air
Randolph Field
San Antonio
Tex
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Thompson
Northwest
Frank A. Brewster
Holdridge
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Oberlin
Brewster
el Paso
Points
Kentucky
Resino Iso
Sealed Power Corp
Dept
Muskegon, Mich
Bellang
Yodora
Gentile
G Wekesson & Robbins, Inc
Bridgeport, Conm
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Litia E Pimaham
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