World food agency proposed to ease hunger worldwide
The article discusses a proposed international food and agriculture agency urged by the United Nations commission at Hot Springs to coordinate postwar hunger relief. It outlines dual aims: raise production via science and technology while stabilizing prices and ensuring fair returns to farmers, plus creating jobs to enable consumption.
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Ovid Martin 'Ashington
Poscael International Food and Agricure Organization
Commission of United Nations Food Conference
Hot Springs
International Agency
World Agency
Commission
Food Organization
Science and Technology
The
Food Agency
Liberty ship James Guthrie sinks off Naples in mine strike
The James Guthrie and the Alexander Graham Bell struck mines near Naples while returning from delivering military cargo. The Guthrie was abandoned after two mine explosions and beached. no casualties were reported. The Alexander Graham Bell, towed to Naples for repairs, later reached a home port. Captains Grady L. Robertson and G N Axiotes led the ships.
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Washington
James Guthrie
Naples
War Shipping Administration
Alexander Graham Bell
Grady L. Robertson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fear grows as 30 more feared buried in wreckage
At Freckleton England Aug 24 investigators report 54 bodies recovered from a Liberator crash wreckage that also killed 35 children and nine American servicemen. Rescue teams aided by nearby troops pulled survivors from a 100 foot blaze that engulfed a school and snack bar.
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Freckleton
England
Wcere
Dewey Gains Boost as Paris Liberation Spreads War Confidence
Albany Aug 24 The Paris liberation news lifted Dewey supporters while Democrats remained cautious about its effect on the November election. Dewey hailed the Paris news as the start toward final Nazi defeat and urged Germany and Japan to surrender at once. He and aides discuss postwar policy with Hull and Dulles while a new publicity chief for the campaign is named.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas
Dewey
Germany
New York
Roosevelt
Paris
Europe
Japan
Berlin
John Foster Dulles
Dumbarton
2000 War Prisoners to Work in State
Washington Aug 24 Special An allotment of 5000 prisoners of war for agricultural work to harvest rice cotton and sugar crops in Louisiana has been made and they are moving into camps as fast as possible Senator John H Overton said General Richard Donovan in Dallas telegraphed today that 2430 prisoners were engaged in work in the state on August 10 and that the 5000 allotment would begin September 1 Donovan added no recommendation for 9200 workers had been received and the command would furnish POWs to Louisiana to the limit of availability.
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John H. Overton
Overton
Richard Donovan
Eighth Service Command
Dallas
Tex
Donovan
H. C. Sanders
Sanders
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