Public Opinion Holds Grid for U N World Council
A UN Washington report notes Trygve Lie warnings on world distrust and the push to revive the San Francisco spirit. Eleanor Roosevelt cites tempered expectations and value of the UN, with radio bureau plans expanding coverage to 16 countries and multiple languages.
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U.N. Food Conservation Push Targets Meat Eggs and Poultry
President Truman's food committee chief Charles Luckman unveils a five point plan urging Americans to curb meat pork and eggs to save grain for Europe. The broader effort hints at meatless days and smaller bread loaves as possible measures with potential aid needs of up to 800 million dollars for Europe.
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Real income gap widens between wage earners and farmers
The Investors Syndicate survey shows wage and salary earners have about 96 cents buying power per dollar from a year ago while farmers enjoy about 1.09. Rising food costs drive the wage earner squeeze as families pay 1.31 for food, 1.06 for rent, 1.18 for clothing, and 1.23 for miscellaneous expenses, signaling economic instability.
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Investors Syndicate
United States Recognizes Communist Poland Split in UN Row
In a contentious UN dispute the United States grants full diplomatic recognition to the Comminterna, arguing Ukraine and White Russia lack sovereignty. The issue centers on who should represent pro Russian Poland on the Security Council amid Stalin Roosevelt Yalta plans.
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Little Hope for Coal Shortage Averted This Winter
Washington officials express little confidence that the coal shortage can be avoided this winter. Production lags exports and domestic use by several million tons each month due to a coal car shortage. Winter stocks are shrinking rather than growing, despite hopes that weather would free up cars from road work to aid coal fields. A railroad spokesman notes diversions would merely offset typical winter efficiency losses by about 10 percent.
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Pacific raft voyage tests ancient Polynesian theory
Dr. Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmen built a 45 by 18 foot bamboo and balsa raft at Callao Peru and sailed 4300 miles westward for 101 days to San Francisco. They relied on currents and winds with no motors or sails to prove Polynesian arrival around 500 A.D. The expedition cost about $40,000, financed by Heyerdahl and loans.
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Invisible Powder Used to Trap Grocery Store Thieves
In New York Joseph Silverman ran a five clerk shop and money vanished. Detectives used methylene blue on the cash box exterior and a clerk Sidney Goldfarb aged 37 showed blue on his hands confirming contact. Goldfarb was arrested and jailed on $500 bail as $15 reportedly vanished.
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Joseph Silverman
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Injured Boy Crawls Two Miles for Help
A. N. Meek Jr. survived a Wertzville crash after crawling over two miles through rain soaked underbrush to summon aid for his dying father. The 20 year old Johnstown resident suffered a fractured thigh and other injuries while the plane from Ocean City to Johnstown plowed into trees in a rainstorm. He reached a road, faded, and woke at Mrs. Beistline’s home where aid and state police were alerted.
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Wife Makes Arrangements For Murder by Her Husband
Mrs Laura Flagg a 24 year old cocktail waitress was killed outside a San Francisco drug store after warning a pharmacist her husband planned to shoot her A gunman Burton C Flagg 28 divorced husband admitted the murder saying he could not live without her The weapon he used he turned over to the pharmacist for police
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Ralph Kattge
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ManSaved by Cry for Help in Bottle Washer Incident
In Jackson Michigan Lyle Miller a 40 year old worker near a bottle washing machine cried for help to stop the current and was pulled from the machine by helper Forrest Hill aided by Aaron Badie after electricity was shut off. He was revived by a fire department inhalator squad. Police cited a defective drill cord wet clothes and water in the machine as factors.
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Shepherd Dog's Bark Reveals Child's Body in Sapphire Mtns
In Missoula Montana a shepherd dog bark led searchers to the crumpled body of 4 year old Arnie Olson beneath a cliff in the Sapphire mountains about four miles from a wood cutting camp run by his father Elmer Olson of Victor. Federal forest service radio report quoted fire dispatch er Fred Fite.
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Sensational catch by player saves child from fall
James Carew, a 12 year old baseball fan, halted a two year old Seim Jr. from a second floor window fall. He caught the infant and returned him unharmed to his sobbing mother, ending a potential tragedy.
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