Floods Drought and Plague Threaten Vital Harvests Worldwide
The emergency committee for Europe warns 140 million people live on fewer calories than needed. Droughts in Hungary and other regions, locust swarms in Sardinia, and war damage in Italy impact crops. Russia reports 11 million more acres planted while UNRA notes drought risks in Ukraine.
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Barton E. Pattie
London
Emergency Committee
Europe
India
South Africa
Balkans
Russia
UNRA
Ukraine
Italy
France
Low Countries
Holland
Britain
Wife wins suit over dice losses in Milwaukee court
Mrs Mildred Pavelskin of Omaha Nebraska was awarded 1024 dollars by a Milwaukee jury after ruling her husband Ben lost the money to Leo Meldman Leo Saloske and Leo Halperin in a July dice game The same wife filed a second suit seeking 1380 more dollars alleged to have been lost in another gambling session
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Milwaukee
Mildred Pavelskin
Omaha
Nebraska
Ben
Leo
Chuck) Meldman
Leo Saloske
Leo Halperin
Pavelskin
Karl Frank Hanged For Lidice Massacre by Prague Radio
Prague radio reports Karl Hermann Frank former Reich protector for Bohemia and Moravia was publicly hanged as a war criminal. He was convicted by a Czech people's court for responsibility in the Lidice massacre, a Nazi atrocity carried out in June 1942 in retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.
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London
Prague
Karl Hermann Frank
Bohemia and Moravia
Frank
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
India Moves To Abolish Rickshas In Three Year Plan
Calcutta report details a government inquiry urging abolition of rickshas as a degradation of human dignity. The plan cites wartime limits, licensing costs and harsh working conditions, proposing medical tests, medical aid, restricted hours, canteen food, and recreation to assist pullers.
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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 in 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 prepares for 17th senior class graduation
Holmen Wisconsin special: Reverend H L Orians of Milwaukee will give the commencement address for Holmen High School. Eighteen seniors in cap and gown will process in with orchestral music. Invocation, salutatory by Vilas Evenson, vocal trio by Bratberg Haug, valedictory by Dean Hanson, benediction by Rev Spann, diplomaing by Principal Halverson. Program at 8 p m.
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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
Reverend Spann
Lowell Stellner
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
Harley Meyer
Franco Declares Spain a True Symbol of Modern Democracy
In GIJON Franco ends a tour of Asturias with a speech asserting Spain is the true symbol of modern democracy and that the country needs no further revolutions. He said outsiders may speak freely but cannot erase domestic happiness in the industrial port city of about 100,000.
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Gijon
Spain
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Don Huth
Green Bay
Marquette University College of Journalism
Racine Journal-Times
Waukesha Daily Freeman
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Hal Boyle
Bellanse
Lutherans Elect
Franco
B.F
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