York Homer Sets up 3-0 Boston Margin
Rudy York delivered a three run homer to left field as the Red Sox moved ahead of the Cardinals 3 0 in the first inning at Fenway Park. Dickson Ferriss and Garagiola worked on the mound with Buffs of defense throughout the game as Boston added two more in the eighth.
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Fenway Park
Boston
Rudy York
St Louis
Murry Dickson
Cardinals
Dave Ferriss
Red Sox
Schoendienst
Ferriss
Moore
Doerr
Musial
Slaughter
H. Wagner
Pesky
Higgins
Walker
Moses
DiMaggio
Williams
Dickson
Ted
York
Kurowski
Garagiola
al Brazile
Cardinal
Wagner
Schennuieeen
Marion
Bounder
Dick Sisler
Wilks
Yugoslavia Pays $150000 indemnity for airmen deaths
The United States received $150,000 from Yugoslavia as indemnity for the deaths of five American airmen shot down over Yugoslavia on August 10, as announced by the state department. Rail dining car meals will be freed from price ceilings on Friday per OPA. Juneau backs Alaska statehood by 7 to 6 in yesterday's election with early returns suggesting a near two to one lead territory wide.
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Washington
Yugoslavia
United States
State Department
OPA
Juneau
Alaska
The
Democrat
Halleck
R-Ind
GOP
Congressional Campaign Committee
Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
Agriculture Department
Anderson
Jed Johnson
D-Okla
Senator Green
D-Ri
Justice Department
Green
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
Explosive Ordnance Dump Kills Soldiers at Bremerhaven
Three American soldiers and three German prisoners of war were killed when 3000 pounds of enemy ammunition exploded at an ordnance dump near Bremerhaven. Three U S soldiers and six German prisoners were also injured in the blast. Washington reports resignations at the wage stabilization board as two members submit notices to the White House.
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Frankfurt
Bremerhaven
Continental
U. S
Washington
W. Willard Fritz
Wage Stabilization Board
White House
A. Colman Barrett
Earl Cannon
Truman
Peace Parley Near End As Treaty Text Adopted
The peace conference moved toward final treaty wording after adopting the preamble to the Italian settlement. Yugoslavia abstained on the preamble, while Articles 1 and 2 passed unanimously. Molotov criticized the Trieste plan, and divisions arose over article three on Italo Yugoslav frontiers with Belgium and Yugoslavia abstaining in key votes.
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Paris
Yugoslavia
V. M. Molotov
Trieste
Adriatic
Molotov
A. D. McIntosh
New Zealand
Russia
Ethiopia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Ukraine
Belgium
Rural teacher group meetings held across county this week
Miss Florence Warteneweiler county superintendent says group meetings for rural teachers explore teaching problems and help. Sessions already at the county office Smiley school and Browntown state graded served Monroe Albany and Browntown groups. today at Poplar Grove school and Monticello town hall for Spring Grove and Monticello groups. Thursday final sessions at Puddledock and Kelly schools for Adams and Brooklyn groups. Meetings host 7 to 14 teachers led by Warteneweiler and supervising teacher Miss Irene Olson.
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Florence Wartenweiler
Smiley School
Browntown
Monroe
Albany
Poplar Grove
Monticello
Spring Grove
Puddledock
Kelly
Adams
Brooklyn
Wartenweiler
Irene Olson
Cow Blames Itself for Oshkosh Power Jolt
A cow with an itchy neck blamed for two power outages affecting six farms in Winnebago County. Utility crews traced the fault to the cow rubbing her neck on a fence wire, causing a guy wire to sway and electric lines to short and blow fuses on successive clear nights.
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Oshkosh
Winnebago County
Will Filed in Probate Court for Nellie S Treat Estate
Nellie S Treat died Saturday leaving an estate valued above fifty thousand dollars. Her will, dated August 5 1946, names Grace Painter as caretaker and beneficiary for the house furnishings and the middle block store room while bequests to Marie Blum Werner Blum Universalist Church Eastern Star and Monroe Chapter D A R are specified. First National Bank is named executor to settle in county court.
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Nellie S. Treat
Herbert T. Johnson
Reger and Johnson
Fred T. Meythaler
Charles Meythaler
Meythaler
Grace Painter
Universalist Church
Marie Blum
Werner Blum
Eastern Star
Monroe Chapter
First National
First National Bank
Helen Altman
Miss Treat
Capt
N. B. Treat
Frank A. Treat
Red Plan to Claim Ryukyus Okinawa
Washington reports privately that a Soviet plan to claim the Ryukyu islands including Okinawa is anticipated. U S officials say the islands should transfer to China or be placed under a United Nations trusteeship administered by China. The note cites U S interest in Okinawa as a Pacific war battleground and mentions Formosa’s return to China and Russia’s stake at Port Arthur and the Darien region.
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Washington
Ryukyu
Japan
Formosa
Okinawa
United States
China
United Nations
Pacific
Yellow Sea
Russia
Port Arthur
Darien
Hurricane Fades as It Reaches Carolinas
A tropical hurricane that struck Cuba with 125 mph winds slowed to a calm breeze and weakened as it moved toward Florida and entered the Carolinas, where it effectively blew itself out last night.
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Charlotte
N. C
Cuba
Florida
Carolinas
Scarcity Dominates Business Theme Across America
A survey from 45 cities shows critical shortages of meat soap sugar and fats with many essentials vanishing from shelves or moved to stoop items. Housewife faces tougher shopping tasks as shortages deepen.
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America
Associated Press
Shoe price rise eyed after leather import move
An OPA official said price hikes on imported calf skins may raise costs of men’s and women’s dress shoes using calf leather. Reconversion Director John R. Steelman authorized higher prices to avert a projected 40 to 50 percent cut in shoe production over the next three months, citing a sharp drop in domestic hide production due to fewer meat animals entering markets.
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Washington
OPA
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Nation faces widespread meat and sugar shortages across 45 cities
The Associated Press survey shows 40 of 45 cities lacking meat, with soap scarce in all, sugar tight in 24, and toilet tissue top shortage in 16. Boise reports no shortage of beef, sugar or butter, while elsewhere mobs mob markets, and miners protest meat lard and soap shortfalls.
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Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Milwaukee
Boise
Ida
Columbus
Miami
Albuquerque
N. M
Brooklyn
Logan County
W. Va
New York City
New York
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Minneapolis
Coal miners face triple shortages in meat soap and explosives
Washington navy officer Capt. N H Collisson says meat scarcity traps miners who cannot obtain food soap or explosives. He warns glycerine used for explosives and cosmetics is the hidden bottleneck and could revive wartime priorities to choose coal or lipstick.
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Washington
N. H. Collisson
Collisson
Charles Dorrance
West Virginia Coal and Coke Corp
Navy
Mt Olive Seeks Surplus Chapel For New Worship Site
Mt. Olive Lutheran seeks a surplus U.S. Army chapel at Camp Grant to serve as a war memorial or shrine. The church has applied to the War Assets Administration for a 37 by 81 foot chapel seating about 300, with final decision by Washington officials. Meanwhile services continue at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
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Mt. Olive
Washington, D. C
Mt. Olive Lutheran
St. Andrew's — Episcopal Church
10Th Street
Four Youth Leaders Head to Missouri for Cattle Purchase
Four Green county agricultural youths leave Monroe for Memphis Missouri to buy about 100 head of beef calves for 4-H and FFA club projects. The group includes Robert E Davenport D E Willard Dale Doering and Thomas Thorp. Calves will be quarantined on the Thorp farm and shipped here likely Friday with distribution set for next Tuesday at the Thorp farm.
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Green County
Monroe
Memphis
FFA
Robert E. Davenport
D. E. Willard
Dale Doering
New Glarus
Thomas Thorp
Clarno
Thorp Farm
Davenport
Willard
Most Major U S Markets Close All Day Saturday
Most of the major securities and commodity exchanges will be closed Saturday for Columbus Day. The Chicago livestock market and Winnipeg grain market will remain open.
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U. S
New York
Chicago
Winnipeg
Keitel Pleads for Shooting Instead of Hanging
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel asked the Allied control council in Berlin to order his execution by shooting rather than hanging. He claimed the act would be a blessing to the German people and a credit to the German army, as the four occupying powers listened.
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Keitel
Nuernberg
Wilhelm Keitel
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Garsson-May Case Before Grand Jury
The government plans to present the Garsson case to a federal grand jury with Attorney General Tom Clark directing the inquiry. Senator Brewster urged May to testify publicly, saying he should have a chance to answer questions related to wartime munitions contracts before the November election. May, recuperating from a heart attack, has stated he did not profit from Garsson relations.
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Washington
Maylin
Tom Clark
Garsson
Bolitha J. Laws
District of Columbia Court
Clark
William A. Paisley
Isaiah Matlack
FBI
Senate Committee
Brewster
May
House Military Committee
Maine
Prestonsburg
Garssons
Senate
Henry and
Murray Garsson
Fireman Vanishes After Busial Fire Scene
Volunteer firefighter Early L. Herdrich rode a department truck to an automobile blaze. A bump caused him to fall and vanish from the roll call. He later reappeared walking from a doctor’s office with scratches and bruises after the return trip.
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Waupun
Early L. Herdrich
Herdrich
Charges Fly Over Meat Decontrol Crisis In Washington
The meat decontrol controversy surges nationwide with contrasting political charges. UNRRA Director General Fiorello H. LaGuardia says supplies are not leaving the country in UNRRA cartons. In Washington he declined further comment when questioned by reporters.
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Washington
UNRRA
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Not Mr Pepper to Junk Price Controls in Meat Shortage Debate
Senator Pepper of Florida, once a price control ally, says serious consideration should be given to scrapping all price controls as Truman reviews the meat shortage. Senator Mead of New York hopes for an emergency decision soon after talks with the White House, OPA, and Agriculture officials to ease the shortage.
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Washington
OPA
Senate
Truman
Pepper
D-Fla
Congress
Mead
White House
Agriculture Department
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Ill
Phychiatric Classification Board
William G. Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Menard
Roy G. Barrick
Joseph E. Ragen
Stateville Penitentiary
LaGuardia
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
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