Tariff Cuts Win Broad Support Across Parties
A Princeton Institute survey shows voters from both major parties favor the 23 nation Geneva tariff agreement. About one third heard of it. support ranges 53 to 68 percent across regions, with farmers least supportive at 52 percent. The Geneva plan takes effect Jan 1 with concessions granted to the United States in exchange for tariff reductions by other nations. Congress members warn of possible businessman and farmer outcry as effects unfold.
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Sabu Drops English Films To Stay In America
Sabu will limit his future work to the United States citing high taxes in both England and the U.S. He is an American citizen and currently in Man-Eater of Kumaon with Song of India planned next. Al Jolson weighs Gene Kelly for The Jolson Story voice tests. Dana Andrews Merle Oberon star in Night Song. Ethel Barrymore and Carmichael praised the film.
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India
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Night Song
RKO
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Plan Marine Reserve Group In La Crosse
An organization of a marine reserve unit in La Crosse will be attempted at a meeting Sunday at 2 p m at the Veterans of Foreign Wars club rooms Third and Division streets. Ex marines ex service men and others interested are urged to attend. Lieut Dewey Storti will discuss the reserve plan.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
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Division Streets
Dewey Storti
Marine Corps Reserve
Queen Salote of Tonga Arrives in Auckland for Five Month Visit
Stately Queen Salote, six foot one, ruler of Tonga, lands in Auckland for a five month tour. At 47, she traces descent to a Kanokubele founder around 1610 in the 21st generation of chiefs.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Salote
Tonga
Thimble Holds 20,000 Gold Screws for Balance Wheel
An ordinary thimble could contain twenty thousand gold screws of the tiny size used in watch balance wheels, illustrating the scale discussed in the feature.
Eggs Coated With Plastic Film Preserve Freshness A Year
Chicago researchers report dipping eggs in oil or coating with a thin plastic film can preserve freshness for up to a year without refrigeration. The AAAS meeting also heard Iowa Wesleyan College’s S W Hackett on weeds as a potential feedstock for synthetic gasoline and oil from low-cost coals.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Gustav Egloff
Mary Alexander
Universal Oil Products Company of Chicago
S. W. Hackett
Iowa Wesleyan College
Middle West
Hackett
Free Lunch Tax Tale From India Budget Session
In New Delhi Finance Minister R K Shanmukham Chetty tells a parable about three businessmen debating who pays for lunch as a metaphor for taxation. Each plans to bill the government or their company, illustrating tax burden staying with the public.
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New Delhi
Scientists Grow First Isolated Common Cold Germ in Lab
NIH researchers Norman Topping and Leon Atlas report isolating and growing a germ from the common cold in fertile hen eggs. The finding, described in Science, used prison volunteers and suggests a vaccine may be possible, though officials stress early stages and uncertain nature of the germ.
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National Institute of Health
Norman Topping
Leon T. Atlas
District of Columbia
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Technical Journal
Science
R. W. G. Wyckoff
Institute
Cow Boy Rope Tale Amid Missouri River Rescue
GREAT FALLS Mont four residents recount an officer action when Patrolman Jack Peterson used a lariat to loop a collie caught in the Missouri River current. The officer notes his cattle work aided the rescue and the dog was saved without injury.
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Great Falls
Mont
Jack Peterson
Poland’s 1948 Reconstruction Plans Unveiled
Warsaw reports the ministry of national reconstruction plans to spend 2.506 billion zlotys in 1948, an increase of 45 percent over 1947. The budget equals about 25.06 million dollars, reflecting intensified postwar rebuilding.
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Warsaw
Poland
Ministry of National Reconstruction
Swamp Root Advertises Kidney Relief for Middle Age
An old advertisement targets adults over 40 with night waking and frequent urination due to minor kidney disorders. It promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root to flush kidneys and bladder, ease burning, and improve urine flow, promising vast success and a free trial offer from Kilmer Co. in Stamford Connecticut.
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Stamford
Conn
Reds Hammer Paichipao as Mukden Front Rages
Red forces struck Paichipao forty miles west of Mukden during heavy attacks on the defense lines. Reinforcements were hurried from north and south to aid Chiang Kai-shek’s northern base as censorship of news was announced from headquarters.
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Mukden
Paichipao
Chiang Kai-shek
Blackface makeup fascinates audience in Copenhagen staging
Anne Brown, American Negro singer, visited a Copenhagen theater presenting Jean Paul Sartre's La Putain Respectueuse. She shook hands with Danish actor Peter Malberg who plays a Negro and praised his makeup noting it achieved a color similar to what Trn vain sought for stage performance.
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Anne Brown
Jean Paul Sartre
Peter Malberg
Trnvain
Dane
Border crossings ease at Spanish French frontier
In IRUN Spain roughly 3.7 persons crossed the border in November as restrictions ease while the frontier stays officially closed. Unofficial figures show 1600 foreigners and 400 Spaniards entered France, and 1400 foreigners and 380 Spaniards returned to Spain. Officials also arranged exchanging 10 Spanish railroad freight cars for 10 French cars, idle since the border closure nearly two years ago.
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Irun
Spain
France
The Mayor Drives Sprinkler Duty in Harvest Season
Morrison Argentina reports Mayor Jorge Fourcada fills street sprinkler duties as workers quit for harvest. He says official duties free up time and someone must sprinkle the streets.
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Morrison
Argentina
Jorge Fourcada
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