Flood, drought and plague devastate vital harvests worldwide
The UN and allied agencies warn that floods droughts and insect plagues reduce grain output across Europe Asia and Africa. India reports widespread hunger with 230 million undernourished while Britain Italy and France expand tilled acreages and Russia drives postwar cultivation forward despite drought threats.
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Barton E. Pattie
London
Emergency Committee For An
India
South Africa
Balkans
Russia
UNRA
Ukraine
Italy
France
Low Countries
Britain
Wife Awarded Money After Dice Game Losses
Mrs Mildred Pavelskin of Omaha won a civil judgment against three Milwaukee men for 1024 dollars after a jury found her husband Ben lost the sum in a dice game. The defendants Meldman Saloske and Halperin did not appear to defend, and a second suit seeks another 1380 dollars from a separate gambling session.
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Milwaukee
Mildred Pavelskin
Omaha
Nebraska
Ben
Leo
Chuck) Meldman
Leo Saloske
Leo Halperin
Pavelskin
Report Karl Frank Already Hanged
London reports former Reich protector for Bohemia and Moravia Karl Hermann Frank was publicly hanged as a war criminal. A Czech people's court convicted him for responsibility in the Lidice massacre, carried out in June 1942 as retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.
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London
Prague
Hermann Frank
Bohemia and
Moravia
Frank
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
India weighs abolishing rickshas amid dignity concerns
Calcutta reports India seeks to end rickshas after a labor inquiry described transport as a degradation to human personality. The plan follows China’s three year shift to pedicabs and buses with licensing costs rising to $242 to $273.
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Calcutta
India
Government of
India Via
Labor Investigating Committee
China
Madras
French East India Company
Simla
Labor Committee
Midras
Behrens Re-elected President of Wisconsin Lutheran District
The Rev. W. H. Behrens, pastor of Gospel Evangelist Lutheran Church Milwaukee, was re elected president of the Wisconsin district of the American Lutheran church at the sixteenth annual district convention yesterday. The meeting will continue through Thursday.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
W. H. Behrens
Gospel Evangelist Lutheran Church
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
American Lutheran Church
Holmen High to Hear Rev H L Orians Graduation Talk
Holmen Wisconsin will host the Holmen high school graduation in the school gym Thursday at 8 p m The Rev H L Orians of Milwaukee will deliver the commencement address The Class of 17 seniors will enter in cap and gown with a procession led by the high school orchestra directed by Frank M Smith The program includes invocation salutatory by Vilas Evenson valedictory by Dean Hanson and a vocal solo by Robert Smith of Galesville Diploma awards will be made by Principal Lincoln Halverson with Benediction by Rev John Spann The class roster features Dean Hanson Vilas Evenson Lowell Steliner Ambrose Brown John Ofstedahl Wayne Tabbert Charles Olson Dorothy Bratberg Alverda Berg Helen McCabe Wilfred Loveng LaVerne La Fleur Dorothy Jostad Vernon Gilbertson Doris Tucker Evelyn Skogen and Harley Meyer.
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Holmen
Wis
H. L. Orians
Milwaukee
Frank M. Smith
John Spann
Vilas Evenson
June Bratberg
Joanne
Marian Haug
Dean Hanson
Orians
Robert Smith
Galesville
Lincoln Halverson
Spann
Lowell Steliner
Ambrose Brown
John Ofstedahl
Wayne Tabbert
Charles Olson
Dorothy Bratberg
Franco Ends Asturian Tour With Optimistic Speech
In GIJON Franco wrapped up a tour of Asturias with a speech declaring Spain a true symbol of modern democracy. He asserted outsiders cannot take away Spain’s happiness and said no further transformations by revolution were needed.
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Gijon
Spain
Franco
Asturias
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Don Huth
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