Farm Leader Urges Wartime Food Drive to Aid Europe
Goss of the National Grange urges President Truman to take drastic steps to curb the food crisis. He compares it to a wartime emergency and asks all sectors to tighten belts and help feed Europe as a slide shows a week’s ration for one person in Germany.
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Reep Setaer
Goss
National Grange
Europe
Presa Truman
Grange
Truman
Germany
Frankfort
Silhouettes of Town and Notes on Stars and Politics
Walter Winchell surveys New York nightlife with Lizabeth Scott in Desert Fury and Nellie Lutcher headlines at Town Hall. He muses on politics, war with Russia, Taft moderates, Martha Taft, and a Florida hideaway for the President, plus a CBS theater clash and an Agriculture secretary book dispute.
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Lizabeth Scott
Desert Fury
Barrynore
Liz
Nellie Lutcher
Town Hall
Sam Gabor
Conrad Hilton
Washington
Florida
Key West
U.S
Lee
CBS
Anderson
Whittlesey House
Americans Resent Regimentation Urges Wartime Powers Return
Walter Shead argues Americans resist peacetime regimentation but in a food crisis support wartime cooperation. He urges restoring wartime presidential powers curtailed after the war powers act to compel grain exchanges to raise margins and ease price pressure.
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United States
Weather control bill aims at rain and snow production
Illinois Representative Sid Simpson backs a half million dollar plan to let the government operate weather. The proposal would address cloud seeding fog dissipation and snow generation amid political caution about bureaucratic control. The piece notes varied public gripes about weather and hints at partisan dynamics.
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Sid Simpson
Illinois
Red Strength Lies in Politics for Russia
The writer argues Russia is weak militarily and economically but strong politically. He notes passport outflows, questions long war viability, and suggests peace could be achieved if the world resists aggression and Russia’s downward trajectory continues.
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Ussia
Russia
Kremlin
Greece
Europe
Atlantic Ocean
Hoover Urges Voluntary Food Saving To Prevent Global Famine
Herbert Hoover is praised for delivering clear, factual statements on the world food situation and the need for voluntary action by Americans. His appeal emphasizes individual responsibility to save food to avert a broader European and Asiatic famine, arguing it would be more effective than government regimentation.
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Mdey
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Husband Robbed Wife to Aid Tito, Ontario Woman Says
Windsor police issued a warrant for Joseph Wrdelan after his wife, Mrs. Joseph Wrdelan, accused him of robbing her to fund a trip to Yugoslavia to honor Marshal Tito. She claimed he took $200 earned in Ontario tobacco fields and $3,000 from a joint bank account to gift Tito.
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Marshal Tito
Windsor
Joseph Wrdelan
Yugoslavia
Wrdelan
Widelan
Ontario
Tito
Broker Shuns Plea and Leaps to Death in Chicago
In the Insurance Exchange building on the Loop, 55 year old broker George Grivich released his hold from a 12th floor sill after a scrubwoman pleaded with him to stop. He fell 11 stories to a skylight, leaving farewell notes about business issues and misstated income.
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Chicago
George Grivich
Julia Andruska
Insurance Exchange
Grivich
Internal Revenue
Berdie
Kit
John
Woman Hidden in Furnace After Robbery Attack
In Creston Iowa two men robbed Mrs. Fred Welcher of 300 dollars then bound gagged and shoved her into an unlit furnace. She was found unconscious by her son after police were alerted. she remains in hospital for shock and minor injuries. Police chief William M. Hiatt reports the assault occurred between 9 PM and midnight with the victim alone at home.
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Creston
Iowa
Fred Welcher
William M. Hiatt
Welcher
Hiatt
Geese Strike Skymaster on Takeoff Forces Emergency Landing
A National Airlines Skymaster carrying 25 aboard made an emergency landing at Southwest Airport after colliding with geese shortly after takeoff. Captain Herschel Clark reported multiple hits including a hole in the wing leading edge and a strike to the rudder. Passengers were transferred to later flights.
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Philadelphia
National Airlines
Southwest
Herschel Clark
Newark
Clark
Gems Worth $517,872 Stolen From Railroad Parcel Room
In Springfield Massachusetts jewels valued at $57,872 were stolen from the Union Railroad Station parcel room. The two brief cases containing 172 platinum diamond rings and other mounted stones disappeared from the check room in an unexplained manner. Lt. James L. McCarthy reported the loss, noted by Seymour Freiman of Linden New Jersey, a salesman for a New York jewelry firm.
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Springfield
Mass
James L. McCarthy
McCarthy
Seymour Freiman
Linden
N. J
New York
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