Trouble Areas of South America
A 1947 Rio de Janeiro conference backdrop frames a map showing Ecuador Peru Venezuela and Paraguay as troubled states. Putsch unrest in Paraguay occurred February 28 and Bolivia faces near continual siege. Intrusions, border clashes, and plots mark region with economic and ideological tensions fueling future turmoil.
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South America
Rio de Janeiro
Ecuador
Peru
Venezuela
Paraguay
Bolivia
Bishop Oxnam Pushes Nonpolitical Russia Mission
Methodist Bishop G Bromley Oxnam urgedPresident Truman to send a non political fact finding commission to Russia composed of ten representatives from major national life fields. He suggested Stalin send similar groups to the United States to observe and report back.
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Cleveland
G.bromley Oxnam
Truman
Russia
Oxnam
New York
Mr. Truman
Stalin
Church calls for mobilization for peace program
The speaker urged an inventive mobilization of the spiritual and educational resources of the church to support a positive peace program, criticizing diffuse and half-hearted campaigns and stressing timely action.
Darke County to Erect Annie Oakley Monument in Woodland Site
Darke County Historical Society plans a monument to Annie Oakley the famed nineties rifle expert. Vice President J Wendall Williams announced the plan after the cast of Annie Get Your Gun visited Oakley and Frank Butler's graves. The monument will be placed in a woodland area adjoining the local museum.
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Greenville
Annie Oakley
Darke County Historical Society
J. Wendall Williams
Society
Miss Oakley
Frank Butler
B n ai B r ith To Hold All Yiddish Program
Canton lodge plans its semimonthly meeting at the Jewish Center Thursday at 8 30 p m with an all Yiddish program led by Joseph Freifield. Members will read in Yiddish and play Yiddish folk song recordings as part of the business session.
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Canton B’nai B’rith Lodge
Jewish Center
Joseph R. Freifield
Library Grows Fast at Cornell University
Ithaca New York Cornell University's library expands to 1 350 000 volumes with 50 000 added in the last year Librarian Dr Stephen A McCarthy reports the growth reflects strong collection development and academic demand.
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Ithaca, N. Y
Cornell University
Stephen A. McCarthy
Flying Noahs Ark Delivers 133 Wild Animals
Genevieve Cyprus, 24, who cared for 133 animals aboard a four engine plane from Bangkok to Idlewild, described the chaos. Elephants balked at disembarking, monkeys and apes chattered and stoked the crew, while two Seaboard executives failed to move the elephants until a penny in a vending machine lured them down.
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New York
Brunet
Genevieve Cyprus
Yonkers
N. Y
Singapore
Bangkok
Siam
Idlewild
Cyprus
Seaboard & Western
Miss. Cyprys
24 Hour Walkout Ends At McDonald Steel Plant
In Youngstown on March 9 AP reports a 24 hour walkout by 50 stockers and 20 shippers at the McDonald Works of Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp ended at midnight. About 750 finishing mill workers were idled. A wage inequity committee from the CIO United Steelworkers Pittsburgh office will negotiate.
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Youngstown
McDonald Works
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
C. I. O. United Steelworkers
Pittsburgh
Area Store Inventories Decline In January
Fourth Federal Reserve District department stores reduced inventories slightly in January as promotions and cautious buying limited stock. End of month stocks were up 3 percent from a year earlier, basement stock fell 9 percent with radios phono graphs and TVs down 11 percent, men clothing down 8 percent, and major appliances down 5 percent.
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Fourth Federal Reserve District
Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank
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N.Y
Market Ave. N
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U. S
Conference On “the Churches and World Order
Department of International Justice and Goodwill
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Howard Y. McClusky
Ann Arbor
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Winton
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Meadowbrook
Picture Plus
du Mont
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Cleve
B’nai B’rith
Miss Cyprus
Hammond
Organ Studios
6Th St. SW
Steinway
McDonald Steel Plant
the Home Savings & Loan CO
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Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
Washington
Atlanta
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Airport
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Halle Bros
Knit
Halle’s
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