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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1949
Page
1
The Tokyo region including Yokohama reports 68 dead and 223 injured with 60 remain missing after the typhoon flood. About 100000 workers sandbag levees to prevent further floods as property damage rises and U.S. military housing and facilities suffer.
Tokyo areas reel from September typhoon Kitty with 66,000 homeless in Tokyo Bay region. Levee breaks along the Waterosi River cause 31 drownings near Aioi, while Tone River floods threaten the Kanto plain. Eighth Army reports one American casualty. Red Cross and government aid 49,000 Tokyo residents sheltered.
General MacArthur touted Japan's shift from survival to health with coal, chemicals, and electric power gains. Exports rose from 103 million in 1946 to 173 million in 1947 and 258 million in 1948, already surpassing 1948 in six months of 1949. Population grew by 9.5 million in four years with no mass unemployment or unrest and no large dole.
Miss Cavanaugh testified about telephone solicitations from Madison car dealers in 1947. She described wiring for a Cadillac, then an Oldsmobile, and later receiving calls from Buick and Cadillac dealers. She ended up with three new cars and an old Buick.
Sixty five county school buses will undergo their pre school inspection tomorrow at Woodland Way School. The check up is the first of three required annually by state law and will be conducted by representatives of the DMV, insurance engineers, and Board of Education mechanics under V R Martin. A bus drivers meeting precedes the inspection in the school auditorium to review traffic regulations and safety rules and to show safety films.
A Senate committee continued probing Vaughan's finances with a staff check still in progress. Jess Larson, General Services Administrator, testified on steps to curb five percenters who take fees to assist firms win contracts, while Drew Pearson faced questions over alleged bribery comments by Col Mara.
Pangborn engineers have developed new cleaning methods for Rotoldast machines, increasing output to 240 tenne blocks per hour with four workers and cutting cash costs to one third, a savings passed to car buyers. The Pangborn brochure compares today’s methods with past years and covers the company history.
The piece critiques politicians and generals as tensions rise in Europe and Asia. It notes Nazi leaders still at large, Soviet propaganda, and shifting alliances including Yugoslavia and China. It portrays Berlin as a tense chessboard amid competing peace claims.
Reports describe poor grain quality in several regions as heavy rains hit the Soviet Union. Potatoes deteriorated, sugar beets and hay prospects varied, while Europe faces mixed yields with France drought and Britain near average wheat output.
First Lt. Delespedale and Vivian Harbaugh welcome two German‑raised dogs, Voldi and Silver, shipped from Europe to Bremerhaven and then homeward. The pets, who understand German, adjust to life with the Harbaughs in Germany and now in the United States after a long voyage.
Superintendent Brish announced cost reductions due to higher enrollment and expanding locations. Kindergartens will be offered at Fountaindale Broadway Surrey Halfway Funkstown Hancock Antietam and Washington Street, with other county and city sites possible if demand meets a 20 pupil minimum. Eligible children are five by December 1, 1949.
From Uniontown Pennsylvania Inander named Assistant Secretary GE Defense by President Truman. The Legion offers a $15,000 salary and an annual expense account over $25,100 for the spokesman of 3 000 000 Legionnaires. Clarence E. Smith of Raleigh North Carolina was elected chef de chemin de fer i national commander. the auxiliary will elect its 1949 50 commander Mrs Norman Sheehe a Rockford Wisconsin mother of 12 unopposed for the post. The speaker Johnson vowed to strengthen defenses.
The upcoming census will use sampling to ask a subset of questions to every fifth person and deeper queries to one in twenty. It will cover education, birthplace, employment, income, marriages, and personal data, plus housing details and farm statistics. Analysts expect about 150 million people, with more women than men, and a continued farm decline to around 757000 farms by 1900 levels.
The Secret Service issued a warning about a new counterfeit ten dollar Federal Reserve note circulating. It is drawn on the Chicago Fed with a large G in the bank seal, uses thicker serials, bears fake signatures, and features a darker green back. If handed a counterfeit, do not return it. contact police and Secret Service, detain the passer, note description, and license plate.
Readable list shows broad seafood selection including trout, spots, porgies, bass, fillets of bluefish haddock sole cod salmon. steamed crabs and jumbo shrimp. soft crabs large. crab meat. lobster tails and chowder clams oysters sourced from Chesapeake area and South African suppliers.
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