Middletown Journal Subscription Rates Advertised
Middletown Journal pamphlet lists subscription rates for carriers and mail in and outside trading area. Rates include 25 cents per week by carrier, 35 cents weekly for combined Middletown Journal and Sunday News Journal, and annual mail options from five to ten years with regional and U S prices. Verse from Luke 15:23 appears in the text.
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Evening Middletown
Sunday
News-Journal
Tradin
Evening Middletown Journal
New Journal
U.S.A
Byrd warns of rising federal deficit risks in 1949
Senator Harry F Byrd predicts a federal budget deficit of 7 to 8 billion dollars for the year starting July 1 1949 and a possible 10 billion dollar deficit by 1950. He argues rising peacetime spending and expansive programs threaten private enterprise urging Congress to curb waste and curb growth.
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Harry F. Byrd
Byrd
Congress
Shebangey
United Nations and Palestine War Question Peace Prospects
The article argues UN aims to bring world order and peace, but faces veto power from Russia and limited progress in Palestine. It notes Arab rejection of disarmament and UN authority, with London backing Arabs while the US sides opposed, raising doubt about the UN’s ability to end local conflicts and achieve global peace amid war readiness.
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United Nations
Russia
Palestine
London
Voice of America program sparks Senate outrage
The Senate denounces a State Department broadcast as misleading trash and drivel aimed at foreign audiences. Critics fear the lack of supervision allowed dangerous distortions of life in the United States. The piece questions the $27,000,000 funding and calls the broadcasts libelous.
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State Department
Voice of America
Senate
Lon
Washu
Congress
United States
Synthetic drugs spark new narcotics control challenge
Washington letter reports U S Commissioner of Narcotics Harry Anslinger warns that synthetic drugs pose a new global problem in illicit traffic. He notes two synthetics added to narcotics laws and twelve under study with some due on the market this year. He cites a global drug revolution, potential medical use limits, and a 1946–47 rise in seized drugs along with Mexico as a key smuggling route.
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Washington
Harry J. Ansilinger
U. S
Public Health Service
Anslinger
UN Commission On
Congressional Appropriations Committee
Mexico
India
Turkey
Iran
United States
Voters Help Themselves Chicago
Chicago voters may be honest in their political convictions but not otherwise. John S. Rusch, chief clerk of the election board, said they generally take about 4,000 polling booth curtains, 300 national flags and considerable other equipment at each election.
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Chicago
U.P
John S. Rusch
Election Board
Realism and UN limits in Palestine policy
David Lawrence argues that the Palestine impasse exposes not UN weakness but the failed diplomacy between Britain and the United States. He blames conflicting imperial aims, domestic pressures, and uneven arms policy, urging direct major-power agreement before UN action can advance broader international cooperation.
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Washington
United Nations
Palestine
Great Britain
United States
Russia
Britain
U.S
London
America
Rotary Bevin
Truman
New York City
Messrs
Dewey
Taft
Wallace
Israel
Trans- Jordan
League of Nations
Subversive War Warned In Speech And Housing Bill Push
Maj Gen William J Donovan warns of a non-military phase of war under way in the United States and urges vigilance. Willard L Tharp states the European Recovery Program will not measurably affect domestic prices. President Truman champions housing bill, stressing essential roles of children and dogs alongside Wall Street and railroads.
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William J. Donovan
OSS
U. S
Willard L. Tharp
Wall Street
President Truman
One Word Led To Another In Political Solstices
Arthur Baer analyzes a Philadelphia scene of national political conventions. The piece contrasts delegates and leaders, noting the seats, aisles, and rostrums as the crowd chants and shifts. He observes the shifting Democratic or Republican posture tied to railroad tickets, and laments changes as women's suffrage alters behavior.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Philadelphia
National Committee
War demands total mobilization not button fighting
Hal Boyle argues a true total war, should it come, would require immediate full mobilization of national resources, industry, and manpower. He warns against overconfidence and urges readiness to fight on the enemy’s soil, with every ship, gun, plane, and man united for a decisive, sustained effort.
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New York
Total War
Defensertment
Munitions Board
Washington
United States
America
Russia
Kasserine Gap
Africa
Belgium
Britain
Germany
Beauty parlors for men may become legal says columnist
In a candid column Erich Brandeis jokes about a New York bill to legalize beauty parlor visits for men and praises Assemblywoman Genesta M. Strong. He riffs on masculine vanity, nudist camps, and his own hair loss, imagining male grooming becoming big business if legalized.
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New York State
Genesta M. Strong
Connecticut
Broadway
New York
Awful
Horrie
Questions and Answers on Cajuns and Early U.S. Posts
The excerpt explains Cajuns as Acadians descended in Louisiana, notes the first U.S. post office was organized in 1691 under a royal patent to Thomas Neale, confirms George Washington’s birth date as February 11, 1732 with calendar revision, and defines the British cry yoicks as an exultant shout used to spur foxhounds.
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United States
Thomas Neale
George Washington
Washington
Mayflower passenger count and captain identified
The crew and passengers aboard the Mayflower totaled 101 people. The ship was captained by Christopher Jones, from Harwich, England.
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Christopher Jones
Harwich
England
Drive In Crowd Stands Out For Orderly Behavior
Dave Regan notes a drive in theater last night impressed by crowd discipline. Families with children behaved without aisles running or horn honking, conversations were inaudible, and overall order stood out from typical movie houses.
Atom bomb reshapes nations defense outlook
George E. Sokolsky argues the bomb alone cannot win wars. Groves notes delivery requires bases, air, sea, and ground forces, plus raw materials. He cites 1946 imports of bauxite, chrome ore, manganese, tin and uranium gaps, urging a well rounded, practical national defense beyond fancy weaponry.
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United States
Soviet Russia
Leslie R Groves
Japan
Inian
Guam
Tinian
Okinawa
Nagasaki
British Guiana
Curacao
Jamaica
Surinam
Canada
Africa
India
Mexico
Soviet
Russia
The Stars Say For Wednesday June 2 Genevieve Kemble
The forecast warns that progress may come with fragile gains as gales tear fences and wiser caution is needed. Influential figures may be swayed but treachery and questionable schemes loom. social or affectionate contacts demand vigilance to avoid sordid complications. A birthday person could gain support from key interests yet face lurking undercurrents and temptations.
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