Government 50 Million Bushel Corn Drive Begins Monday
Iowa officials announce a Drive to mobilize 50 million bushels of corn with a 30 cent per bushel bonus to farmers. J Loveland says emphasis on saving human life over marketing, with AAA and farm groups coordinating county and township meetings to promote selling dent corn, grading No 3 or better, by May 1 1946, for export to famine regions amid mixed farmer response and concerns over grain quality.
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J. Loveland
Iowa
A Council
Asday
AAA
Loveland
U.S
Farmit
Mon
Sugar Stamp Lid May 1 For Five Pounds Sugar
Washington (UP) Spare 940 in ration book No 4 will be valid for five pounds of sugar using May 1 and remain valid until Aug. OPA expects consumer sugar ration of five pounds for each four pounds can be maintained given current and prospective supplies. Regular sugar allotment noted in sugar form.
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Shington
OPA
State to ship 20000 quail and pheasant for bird program
The State Conservation Commission announced a plan to ship more than 20 000 quail and pheasants to cooperative groups. Eggs start in June with deliveries beginning early in June and birds kept in broader pens until weeks old before local stocking in low areas.
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Imen
Request For New PAC Probe Stirs House Debate
Washington reports a House row over a proposed new inquiry into the CIOs political action committee. Rep Rankin called the PAC a communist front and urged the Un American Activities Committee to investigate. Rep Murdock opposed, saying PAC members are exercising political rights. Rankin also accused Henry Wallace of aiding the PAC, while Wallace declined to comment. Mundt kept an open mind on the proposal.
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Washington
CIO
Political Action Committee
House
John E. Rankin
Miss
PAC
unAmerican Activities Committee
Rankin
Russia
John R. Murdock
Ariz
Murdock
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Wallace
Karl E Mundt
France Seeks Curbs On UN Spain Probe
The United Nations investigation into Franco Spain faces a French bid to limit the scope. France may push to anchor the inquiry in New York, restricting on-site visits to Spain or southern France. Australian spokesmen vow to oppose any restrictive amendments in the council.
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New York
United Nations
Spain
Security Council
San Francisco
Council
France
Russia
Australia
Henri Bonnel
Custer Survivor Visits Patterson in Washington
92 year old Custer survivor Lt. Horner of Bismarck North Dakota met Secretary of War Pattison in Washington to pay respects as one old soldier to another. He showed his Army discharge on sheepskin and recalled escaping death by riding mules during the Little Big Horn battle.
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Washington
Jacob Horner
Bismarck
N. D
Robert P. Pattison
Horner
Little Big Horn
Patterson
Custer
Court House at Dubuque Robbed by Pro Safecracker
The Dubuque county courthouse was burglarized last night with $1,500 in cash and four $1,000 bonds taken. A professional safe cracker is suspected after the vault door lock was forced, six private boxes pried open, and envelopes searched before the loot was removed. Entry likely through a window in the engineer's office. discovery reported by cleaner Mrs. Christina Kieffer.
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Dubuque
Recorder
Recorder's Office
Christina Kieffer
Des Moines Area Liquor Stores See 4.16 Rise in Early 1946 Sales
Iowa state operated liquor stores posted a 4.16 percent sales gain in the first three months of 1946 compared with 1945, totaling 6,779,233 in net sales versus 6,508,221. Thirty four stores showed declines, led by Burlington and Sioux City No. 1 with 28 percent drops. Anamosa had the largest rise at 34 percent. Des Moines No. 1 reported 276,567 in sales, with other totals including Waterloo 139,642 Decorah 136,809 Oelwein 50,082 and Waverly 33,342.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Liquor Commission
Burlington
Sioux City
Anamosa
No. 1
Waterloo
Decorah
Oelwein
Waverly
West Union
Wauton
Independence
Neighbors Help Fisk Farm With Spring Field Work
In Oran on April 23 neighbors gathered with 17 tractors and farming gear to assist Mr. Fisk who is ill in the hospital. The group, led by local men, finished field tasks after a communal dinner prepared by the women. Planting potatoes and garden work followed.
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Oran
Freq Fisk
Mr. Fisk
Harry Hyde
Frank Kane
Jim Kane
Otto Suhr
Harold Schmidt
Shorty Troupe
Leo Herzenack
Harold Wright
Fred Kulaw
Ava Ohls
Robert Ohls
Hans Hausher
Harvey Lane
Laurence Timmerman
John Welsh
Homer Strain
Forrest Short
Jesse Denton
Sylvian Sargent
B. Chase
Frank Chase
Werner Poehlen
Dick Brickman
Robert Mathias
Alfred Klug
Keith Kaile
Elmer Cummings
Herman Pearl
Clement Hannan
Bill Hannan
Cowles on Navy's Advisory Board
Navy Secretary James Forrestal named 58 civilian members to a new advisory panel for non military aspects of the service. The group includes three women and, among other appointees, Gardner Cowles Jr., president of the Register and Tribune, Des Moines, and Father E. J. Flanagan of Boys Town Nebraska.
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Washington
Navy
James Forrestal
Naval Service
Margaret Culkin Banning
Duluth
Minn
Bernard W. Bierman
University
Warn Bakers to Equalize Cut Warn Bakers to Equalize Cut
The government plans to crack down on bakers not evenly cutting flour use for bread versus pies and cakes under the emergency conservation program. Secretary Clinton Anderson, UNRRA chief LaGuardia, and others travel to rally farmers while a mobile brigade promotes a 30 cent per bushel bonus for wheat and corn delivered by May 25. January exports show U N relief totals of over 2 billion pounds across cereals, meat, sugar, and more.
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Washington
Clinton FP. Anderson
Anderson
UNRRA
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Robert H. Shields
Agriculture Department
United Nations
State Democratic Chief to Speak at West Union Meeting
Jake More, chairman of the Iowa Democratic central committee, will speak at West Union tomorrow night about the county party organization in the upcoming campaign. The Fayette county committee sponsors the 8 p.m. event in the courthouse, open to the public, with local candidates introduced.
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Jake More
Iowa Democratic Central Committee
West Union
Fayette County
Court House
Rail unions vote strike after failed talks in Cleveland
Two railroad brotherhoods the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers vote unanimously to strike on May 18 unless carriers reach a satisfactory settlement. General chairmen reject the president's recommendations as inconsistent with their demands and vow to press the issues to the limit.
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Cleveland
Brotherhoods of
Refuses to Send April Draft Quota in Nebraska
Clarkson Neb April draft quota denied by Colfax county selective service board chair Anton Odvarka Jr. He blocked 15 youths from induction, arguing no reason to send them if Congress may declare a draft holiday in May. Odvarka tied protest to action on the selective service law and warned of delaying farm boys’ departures.
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Clarkson
Anton Odvarka, Jr
Colfax County
Selective Service Board
Congress
Odyarka
House
Odvarka
Colfax County Press
Happy Day for Ten Scotch Drinkers
Ten Illinois residents will blind taste test American made Scotch against Scotch from Scotland on April 30. Chairman Charles J. Fleck says 60 glasses will be used and testers will judge if American whiskey can pass as real Scotch without labeling it imitation. If successful, Illinois may allow American Scotch to be sold as real Scotch.
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Chicago
Scotland
Charles J. Fleck
Illinois Liquor Commission
America
Fleck
Illinois
Auto Firms Asked To Finance Pensions
In Chicago UAW leaders launched a campaign for company financed pensions for aging workers and threatened a Chrysler strike over firings of those 65 and older. The executive board met to craft union appointments aligned with Walter Reuther and a rival faction led by R J Thomas, signaling pension clauses as a test case for all contracts.
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Chicago
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Chrysler Corp
UAW
Walter Reuther
R. J. Thomas
Chrysler
Reuther
Bilbo Promises a Six Month Filibuster
Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi vowed to speak for six months to defeat or kill the British loan, telling reporters he would keep talking until the measure died. He described his aim as crippling the loan effort and maintained a determined stance against the loan.
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Washington
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo
Mississippi
Nazi Scandals Drag Goering Into Courtroom Drama
Former Nazi official Hans Bernd Gisevius testified at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal that Hermann Goering orchestrated Blomberg’s marriage to a prostitute, pressed Hitler to remove Blomberg, and trumped up charges to oust Fritsch. He claimed Goering also influenced Austria's 1938 invasion to quell a generals’ revolt.
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Hermann Goering
Werner von Blomberg
Adolf Hitler
Hans Bernd Gisevius
Ministry of Interior
Goering
Werner von Fritsch
Blomberg
Austria
Hitler
War Crimes Tribunal
Gisevius
Guering
Fritsch
Karinhall
Walther von Brauchitsch
Germany
Durocher Acquitted in New York Trial at Ebbets Field
Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was acquitted today of second degree assault after a dispute with a fan at Ebbets Field during a Dodgers game with Philadelphia. Teammate Joseph Moore was also acquitted by a 12 juror panel after a 43 minute deliberation.
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New York
Leo Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ebbets Field
Joseph Moore
Dodger
John Christian
Durocher
Moore
Dodgers
Philadelphia
Duroch
Alabama Pitts
Sing Sing
Talks Shape Future of Old World at Luxembourg
Four foreign ministers from the United States Britain France and Russia opened a peace talks conference in Luxembourg palace aiming to set patterns for postwar Europe. Russia signals possible yield on Trieste while Britain resists a united Anglo American front. A three week session may lead to treaties with Italy and other defeated axis powers.
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Paris
Russia
Europe
Mediterranean
Trieste
Britain
United States
Great Britain
France
Victor Hugo
Luxembourg Palace
Georges Bidault
Ernest Bevil
V. M. Molotov
Byrnes
Jefferson Cafféry
Felix Gouin
Molotov
Bidatt
Italy
Tripolitania
North Africa
Venezia Giulia Arta
Yugoslavia
Business group forms to back OPA revolt against big interests
A new Council for American Business formed by independent businessmen denounces the national association of manufacturers lobby against OPA as a national scandal. They urge senators to extend OPA without change and urge President Truman to reject amendments that would cripple the act. They cite members in scores of firms nationwide and accuse NAM of greed and distorted statistics.
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Washington
OPA
New Council For American Business
National Association of Manufacturers
Truman
House
NAM
Council
Cork Trees to Give Shade at Redlands Press
Cork trees developed as a war project at the California state forestry nursery in Davis are being distributed free to local farmers and city dwellers. The trees are valued for their beauty and shade, not for any expected cork shortage.
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Redlands
Cal
California State Forestry Nursery
Davis
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