CARE ships baby food to European infants amid famine
CARE announced shipments of new baby food packages designed for infants six months to one year, with contents including milk powder cereal and vitamins. The program, part of a broader aid effort, aims to reach families across Austria Belgium France Czechoslovakia Finland Eire the Netherlands Poland Hungary Britain Italy Greece Germany and Berlin. Packages cost ten dollars and may be sent to individuals or designated recipients through CARE at 50 Broad Street New York.
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Starv
EU Care
Europe
Distri
Care Offix
CARE
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
France
Czechoslovakia
Finland
Eire
Netherlands
Poland
Hungary
Britain
Italy
Greece
Germany
Berlin
50 Broad Street
New York
Walter Kaner Named PR Director for NY Jewish War Veterans
Walter Kaner, famed radio broadcaster known to G I's as Tokyo Mose for the Armed Forces Radio Network in Japan, is appointed Public Relations Director for the Department of New York, Jewish War Veterans.
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New York
INS
Walter Kaner
G. I's
Pacific
Tokyo
Armed Forces
Japan
Department of New York
Soviet Press Says US Transferring Troops From Italy
Moscow reports claim United States is moving troops from Italy to American zones in Austria and Germany. Tass dispatch notes a “considerable increase” in U S forces in Austria. Last Italian units sailed from Leghorn about 100 days ago under the Italian peace treaty.
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Moscow
United States
Italy
Austria
Germany
Leghorn
Newark
Intrigent
Tass
Vienna
Salzburg
U. S
Glass Steals Show at Pittsburgh Exhibition
The Western Pennsylvania Historical Society in Pittsburgh hosted a glassware exhibition featuring over 300 pieces, some dating to 1797, highlighting glass industry roots alongside the city’s iron and steel fame.
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Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania Historical Society
Jap professor predicts major Kansai quake forming panic
Kyodo reports Kyoto University physicist Dr. Ken Sasa warned a large earthquake is inevitable in Kansai including Osaka, Kyoto, Wakayama. Residents evacuated and prepared as Sasa cites rising earthquake energy and subsurface changes. a December warning followed by a quake elsewhere.
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Pokyo
Dee
Kenzo Sasa
Kansai
Kuto
Osaka
Wakayama
Kyodo
Sasa
Kyoto University
Honshu
Pruning Tips From a Gardener’s Saturday Work
Saturday afternoon I prune shrubs and trees noting best practices for Nandinas crepe myrtle and evergreens. I prune Nandinas near ground to provoke new growth, trim crepe myrtles as trees or shrubs to suit space and preserve shape, and avoid heavy pruning on early bloomers like Forsythia.
Delinquency Decline in Philadelphia Juvenile Arrests
The Crime Prevention Association reports a 12.7 percent drop in arrests of boys under 18 in Philadelphia during the first nine months of 1947. A total of 2,366 arrests compared with 3,856 in the same period of 1946. the association runs seven older boys clubs in the city.
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Philadelphia
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Crime Prevention Association
The
Dream apartment project near Portland golf course
A $2.5 million postwar development near a Portland golf course will showcase apartment living with 5 acres of native trees. Each unit features a landscaped patio and two private entrances, with children's play fields and putting greens for adults. Nearly 1,000 units planned.
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Portland
Ore
Avesta Orchestral Society Plans 25th Anniversary Concert
In Stockholm the Royal Academy of Music hosts a unique history making event. The Orchestral Society of Avesta formed by workers from the Avesta iron works and mining city in Calecarna plans a 25th anniversary concert with its own soloist and conductor.
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Stockholm
INS
Royal Academy of Music
Gustaf III
Avesta
Calecarna
Illinois journalism school touts unmatched archives and guides
Champaign Illinois officials of the University of Illinois School of Journalism claim the program houses the most complete American journalism files with over 4 000 reference volumes on advertising printing typography and freelance writing. The article notes early American WWI history citing a U S Marine rifleman firing the first shot across a German cutter in 1914.
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Champaign
Ill
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School of Journalism
University of Illinois
United States
America
U. S
Christmas Tree Hunt Ends in Two Drownings
Georgetown South Carolina December 24 A Christmas tree hunt ended in the drowning deaths of a mother Mamie Dell Craven Ray 24 and her five year old daughter in Long Branch swamp. Their bodies were found hours later as they attempted to wade to a tree.
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Georgetown
S. C
Long Branch
Mamie Dell Craven Ray
New Look For Whiteside County Cities In Air Age
Seven Whiteside county cities will get the new look for this air age with airway markers being painted on the roofs of buildings in Sterling Rock Falls Tampico Morrison Erie Lyndon and Prophetstown.
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Prophetstown
Illins
Whiteside County
Sterling
Rock Falls
Tampico
Morrison
Erie
Lyndon
Military Meeting Called by Shek to Recover Manchuria
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek summoned military leaders to a conference at Nanking to plan regaining initiative in Manchuria as Chinese Communists press their seventh offensive toward gateway cities surrounding Mukden, with reports stating the attack nearing its most crucial stage.
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Eralissimo
E Kai-Shek
Mukden
Manchuria
Nanking
Red on the Trousers Noted in Mexican War Memoriam
A fragment recalls a red stain on the trousers of officers and NCOs during a Mexico campaign, commemorating Marines involved in a shed incident and the service of armed forces.
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