Controls Necessary in Food Crisis Export- Import Regulations Vital
The piece argues for extending wartime export and import controls to stabilize world food aid. It warns that lifting exports could raise wheat prices, favor wealthier nations, and hurt hungry people, while imports like fertilizer must balance aid with production needs. It cites bipartisan foreign policy and the president's duties amid postwar recovery.
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Congress
Britain
United States
America
Crossroads of Humanity and Politics in Wartime Discourse
Columnists compare animal social structures to human politics, noting bees and ants show regimented systems while warning that tech-led regimes risk totalitarian futures. The piece cites Reese on pollination scarcity, Visson on ism struggles, and parallels Nazi and Marxist ideas with imagined social engineering in species.
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Washington
Charles Reese
Extension Apianist
University of Ohio
Reese
Andre Visson
Visson
Columbus
Nietzsche
Hegel
Marx
Hitler
Icra Tabs
Farm budget cuts hit and train fares rise debate grows
A House appropriations panel proposed a 32 percent cut in Agriculture Department funds for the coming year, striking at soil conservation and farm price support programs. Secretary Clinton Anderson and Democratic members vow protests through next year’s elections. The plan would end the Agriculture Adjustment Administration by July 1 1948, affecting 3.5 million cooperative farms and payments to farmers. Housing costs are unlikely to fall despite hopes for relief, says James C. Downs Jr., citing high debt and strong demand.
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Department of Agriculture
Truman
Clinton Anderson
James C. Downs Jr
The
Real Estate Research Corporation
Downs
Abolition of capital punishment announced by Soviet Russia
Soviet authorities announce immediate abolition of the death penalty citing growing strength and peace prospects. Moscow radio says postwar climate supports long lasting peace despite aggressive elements. Herbert Hoover accuses Russia of obstructing relief to US and Japan and Germany.
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Russia
Moscow Radio
Germany
Japan
Herbert Hoover
United States
Interstate Commerce approves 10 percent rail fare hike East of Mississippi
The ICC authorizes a roughly 10 percent rise in basic passenger fares for 60 eastern railroads. One way coach rates move from 2.2 to 2.5 cents per mile, sleeping and parlor cars from 3.3 to 3.5 cents. Coach round trips rise about 15 percent. Pullman round trips about 4 percent. Railroads citing a $54 million passenger deficit last year won approval.
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Mississippi
Ohio and
Potomac Rivers
ICC
French President Decorates Lily Pons With Legion Rosette
President Vincent Auriol awards Lily Pons the Legion of Honor rosette as the French opera star continues a nationwide concert tour in France.
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Vincent Auriol
France
Lily Pons
Appalling Waste Mounting Fire Loss Warns
Chicago report cites National Board of Fire Underwriters president Frank A. Christensen warning that fire losses may exceed one billion dollars by 1950 as he backs a federal action program from Truman fire prevention talks. He cites physical and psychological causes, noting waste has more than doubled since 1941 to 616 million dollars for the year ending April, with hotel fires in 1946 surpassing any prior year.
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Chicago
Frank A. Christensen
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Truman
Christensen
National Board
Foot in Molasses Tank Traps Brooklyn Man in Rescue
Joseph Giknis a 40 year old Brooklyn coal company mechanic climbed into an empty molasses tank car to retrieve a monkey wrench. He became stuck up to both feet and required six officers and a boatswain chair to hoist him out after two hours.
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New York
Joseph Giknis
Giknis
Brooklyn Coal Company
Magnet Removes Needle From Throat of Girl
In Pittsburgh a three quarter inch magnet suspended by string removed a two inch sewing needle swallowed by a 16 year old girl. Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh medical school reported the case at Western State Psychiatric Institute. The girl, diabetic, could not have surgery. Westinghouse scientists created the magnet from a new alloy.
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Pittsburgh
Ativersity of Pittsburgh Medical School
Western State Psychiatric Institute
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Huge Dope Cache Seized From New York Freighter
Federal agents seized heroin valued at 1 147 500 dollars from the French freighter Saint Tropez in New York harbor. The 459 ounces of heroin were found in a money belt and a linen locker after a routine inspection led to a 48 hour search. The case links to a prior seizure on the John Ericsson and points to an international smuggling ring.
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New York
Saint-Tropez
Garland Williams
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
New York Area
John Ericsson
Ericsson
North River
Marseilles
Lawrence Murray
Cesar Negro
Burglar Requests Brain Operation This Time
In Pittsburgh a 38 year old burglar named Millard Wright underwent a prefrontal lobotomy at his own request to rid himself of criminal urges. Doctors call the operation a surgical success though mental results remain uncertain as Wright awaits sentencing under the habitual criminal act.
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Pittsburgh
Millard Wright
Wright
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