Poultryless Days Ended Amid Calls to Eat More Chickens
Washington officials and the Citizens' Food Committee led by Charles Luckmann declared Poultryless Thursday ended while urging higher poultry consumption. A plan aims to save 56 million bushels of grain by cutting producer flocks and broiler chicks, with a suspension pending a new program. The move follows pressure to remove bans as winter grain supplies remain ample.
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Citizens’ Food’ Committee
Charles ‘Luckmann
Los Angeles
Luckman
Washington
Poultry Industry
Thwarted Love Blamed for Wild Gunplay and Abductions
Rockford Illinois reports a farmer Glenn Marsh 26 abducted Mrs Katherine Anderson 26 after killing her husband Vernon 28 and her father Grant Muhrlein 52 of North Point Michigan. Marsh sought by police in four states as Mrs Anderson escaped after a 100 mile car ride and testified she once loved him but now doubts.
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Marsh
Katherine Anderson
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Grant
Muhrlein
Northpoint
Mich
Morris
Blinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Audrey
Blue Baby Parents Hold Homecoming Party at Hospital
Grateful parents of more than 30 children born through a recently developed operation celebrate a homecoming party at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. The delicate surgery originated at Johns Hopkins Clinic and was first performed in California in September 1946.
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Children's Hospital
Johna Hopkins Clinic
Baltimore
California
Children’s Hospital
Refinery Fire Contained After Two-Hour Incident
A fire of unknown origin swept an 80-foot cracking tower at the Frontier Oil Refining Corporation in Tonawanda New York. The blaze was brought under control in about two hours. It threatened nearby storage tanks holding 24 million gallons of petroleum products. No loss estimate was available immediately.
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Frontier Oil Refining Corporation
Leftist Mob Tops Statues in Rome Streets
In Rome on November 8 police dispersed a crowd as extreme leftists toppled marble statues of Caesars and Roman leaders in Pinci Gardens. The vandalism occurred as Salvatore Rebecchini, new Christian Democrat mayor, faced protests from party youths.
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Julius Caesar
Romana
Testimony on Hughes wartime contracts delays inquiry
Former Army colonel Elda A. Peterman defended the Hughes F-11 photo reconnaissance program amid a subcommittee inquiry into wartime plane contracts. Delays and bickering over witness order stalled the session as Hughes faced questions about government work and his right to question witnesses.
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Elda A. Peterman
Army
Howard ‘Hughes
Hughes
Subcommittee
Peterman
Ferguson
Tom Slack
Sen. Pepper
Pepper
Two Reno Police Die in Gun Fight
In Reno a gun battle in a Carleton Hotel suite left two veteran officers dead Detective Sgt Allen Glass and Detective Sgt Gene Cowan and another officer Roy Geach wounded an 18 year old Seattle youth was seized two other youths were taken into custody They say Seattle man David Blackwell fired seven shots before police subdued him at the scene.
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Seattle
Carleton
Lnto
Roy Geach
Police Department
Allen’ Glass
Gene ‘Cowan
David’ Blackwell
Palica
Geach
Friendship Train Leaves Hollywood For Europe Aid
Hollywood rolls out a festive sendoff for the Friendship Train bound for Europe with two breakfast cars, a diner car, and a 27 car parade. In Bakersfield and Fresno stops today the train collects wheat sugar evaporated milk soybeans and drugs to assemble 30 carloads by New York on November 18. Charles Luckman urges relief to keep Europe fed this winter.
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Europe
Charles Luckman
Long Beach Delivers Carload of Sugar to Aid Europe
Long Beach contributed an 80,000 pound sugar carload through the Mayor's Food Conservation Committee led by Francis H. Gentry. That night the drive raised 6813 dollars with 6756 used to cover wholesale sugar costs for Los Alamitos Sugar Co. Cash surplus will go to New York to pool with other funds for European f oodstuffs.
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Francis H. Gentry
Dupur
Los Alamitos Sugar Co
New York
Europe
Stevedores Return to Work at San Francisco Docks
San Francisco workers resumed duties after a half day dispute stalled loading. Ten ships were affected when Longshoremen Local 10 chief James F. Kearney ordered the hiring hall closed, with District Attorney Edmund Brown granting a 13 hour extension to vacate the Clay Street building. Gangs were ordered back to work late yesterday afternoon.
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1.O
James F. Kearney
Health Department
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Two Die in Bay Bridge Crash
San Francisco November 8 two men were killed and a third critically injured in a head on automobile collision on the span between Yerba Buena Island and San Francisco. Vernon Thompson 52 a San Francisco executive and Charles Sumner 50 a ball engineer were killed. The other driver Wilbert Smith 64 of Oakland received critical injuries.
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Vernon Thompson
Indis
Charles Sumner
Killen
Wilbert Smith
Oakland
Yerba
Buena Island
Long Beach Tideland Debate Spurs State Action
City officials joined Gov. Earl Warren in Los Angeles for a conference with state leaders to defend California tidelands. They pledged joint action through the National Association of Attorneys General to reestablish states rights to tidelands after a Supreme Court decree clouded titles. The talk highlighted Long Beach’s favorable position due to San Pedro Bay and noted federal officials showing restraint on federal claims to bays and harbors.
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Los Angeles
Earl Warren
California
National Association of Attorneys General
Supreme Court
Gov. War‘pen
Union
Congress
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Long’ Beach
Bodies of European War Dead Arrive in California
Army quartermaster depot at Mira Loma receives 72 bodies of European war dead from New York. They are the first group to be returned to Southern California from the European theater.
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Army
New York
Ney
California
Pileup Near Stockton Leaves Six Dead and Thirteen Injured
A multi-vehicle wreck ten miles south of Stockton California caused a fatal blaze after cars and two Santa Fe express buses collided. A man and a woman died in flames and 13 people were injured. The fire spread from burning asparagus tops and trapped passengers as two bus drivers freed others from their jammed doors. The Schlink family of Lodi suffered serious burns while the Stockton victims were among those burned.
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Theresa
Schlinks
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San Francisco
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Ewings
Coast Guard Freighter Jupiter Rescued From Lake Michigan
The cutter Sundew towed the 3000-ton Jupiter and her 28 crew 150 miles from St Joseph Michigan into safer open water halting the tow as a second vessel Mackinaw stood by. Harsh winds and snow hindered the operation though the Jupiter remained afloat and was to be taken to Manitowoc Wisconsin. A carrier and a lighter assisted near Rogers City Michigan as the limping ship faced damage and possible leakage.
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Neas
Coast Guard
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Great Lakes
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Cptter
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Wisconsin
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Coast’ Guard
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Michigan
Lake Huron
Ogers City
William
Warren
Lakes
Midwest Freeze Sweeps Across The Plains And Midwest
A severe early season storm blankets Minnesota with up to ten inches of snow while neighboring states report heavy flurries. Dickinson North Dakota logs twelve degrees above zero the coldest reading as bitter air expands from the Dakotas to Illinois Indiana and New York. Forecasters warn subfreezing temperatures persist tonight across Ohio western Pennsylvania and western and northern New York as Minnesota and Wisconsin feel continued snowfall.
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Midwest
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Illinois
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Chicago
Ohio
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International Falls
Canadian
Duluth
Wisconsin
Towa
Llinois
Gale Strikes New York as 60 mph Gale Hits City
New York on November 8 faced a 60 mile per hour southeast gale with rain sweeping streets and police emergency squads handling storm damage. Gusts reached 68 miles an hour with high tides and nearly an inch of rain, expected to ease as wind shifts and dawn rain subsides.
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New York City
la Guardia
Weather Bureau
Vienna Vice Mayor Dies at 71
VIENNA November 39 Paul Speltford vice mayor of Vienna died at his home this morning at age 71. He served in city government and was a familiar civic leader. Funeral plans were not immediately announced.
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Paul Speltford
Oienna
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