Potatoes Face Free Market Without Government Support
Washington reports that unless Congress acts, the annual potato surplus will lose all price support next year ending decades of government stabilizing measures. The piece warns of a fully free market, no purchases for school lunch programs, and increased competition among states as farmers must unite to market potatoes themselves.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Maine
Idaho
Florida
British Medics Go Broke Is Claim
The British Medical Journal warns that doctors face bankruptcy amid welfare state policies. It urges higher NHS fees and warns of a nationwide doctors strike unless funding increases. The journal argues the medical scheme offers too much for too little and calls for a preliminary reform of its finances.
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London
British Medical Journal
Britain
British Medical Association
National Health Service
Finnegan's Out, Then In Again
Five boys reported seeing Louis Beaver, paroled from the Arizona state prison yesterday, break a window at Cubitte's jewelers in Safford and steal valuable items. Walter Clifford Jr. recovered a missing watch and captured Beaver near the Jones hotel. Beaver is back in county jail.
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Safford
Louis Beaver
Arizona
Beaver
Cubitte’s
Walter Clifford Jr
Safford Licemein
Jones Hotel
Smathers Wins Florida Senate Seat in Fierce Pepper Clash
George Smathers rises from congressman to senator in a hard fought Florida race against Claude Pepper. He campaigned on anti communism and a middle of the road stance while Pepper faced intense scrutiny. Smathers, born 1913 in Atlantic City, moved to Miami and built a political path via Florida universities and early law work.
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Miami
Fla
George Smathers
Sen
Claude Pepper
Sen. Pepper
Pepper
Smathers
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
Florida
Democratic Party
Senate
House
FEPC
Atlantic City
N. J
Frank Smathers
William Smathers
New Jersey
University of Florida
U. S
Fiberglas Show Demonstrates Versatility in Tucson
The Owens-Corning Fiberglas display in the Tucson Woman's Club shows Fiberglas as a lighter tougher alternative to metal with a range of products from building materials to drapes. Demonstration head John Wyverberg says the traveling exhibit aims to acquaint the public with Fiberglas uses, including sound and heat proofing, fire resistant cloth, insulation, and glass reinforced acetate tape able to tow a car. J C Dwyer from Phoenix assists, inviting architects engineers and contractors to attend.
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Tucson
J. C. Dwyer
Fiberglas
Phoenix
March Of Dimes Seeks 50 Million Fund Drive
Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said Americans must donate 50 million dollars to the March of Dimes to combat three years of record polio outbreaks. He warned the foundation is in serious financial trouble and needs 20 million more this year to meet demand from over 100,000 cases in three years, versus 10,000 annually twelve years ago.
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Chicago
Basil O’connor
National Foundation For
A Bomb Work Speeded Up Across the United States
Washington reports informed sources say a large new atomic explosives plant will be built with a sizable portion of the 1.05 billion dollars Truman seeks to expand A bomb production. The project may be sited in Kentucky and could rival Hanford and Oak Ridge in scale, including facilities to turn explosive material into finished warheads and expand raw material refining.
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Washington
Dec
Truman
Congress
Atomic Energy Commission
Kentucky
Hanford
Wash
Oak Ridge
Los Alamos
Pont de Nemours Co
Savannah River
South Carolina
du Pont
Cafe Owner Out For Trade
Norman Oklahoma December story about Pfc Melvin Hough, away in Korea, who would have inherited a cafe labeled Herb's in Norman. His mother operates the cafe and is surprised by a local claim that his business is advertised abroad. A Norman woman shows a letter from a son in Korea noting the sign Eat at Herb's, 751 Asp, Norman, Oklahoma.
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Norman
Okla
Korea
Herbert L. Hough
Pfc
Melvin Hough
Mrs. Hough
Role of Synthetic Fuel Plants Eyed
New York December 2 James Boyd director of the U S bureau of mines says synthetic fuel plants can play a major role in solving shortages of strategic chemicals He reports that synthetic fuel processes could speed up the manufacture of other synthetics such as rubber plastics and nylon Boyd told the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that political instability in Indonesia and Communist threats in Malaya and Indo China threaten as much as 90 percent of the country s natural rubber supply
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New York
James Boyd
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Boyd
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Indonesia
Malaya
Indo-China
Busby Berkeley names 12 U S cities with the prettiest women
Dance director Busby Berkeley, long known for spotting film beauties, claims Baltimore heads his list of cities with the most gorgeous women, followed by Louisville San Antonio Houston Philadelphia Grand Rapids Richmond Norfolk San Francisco Portland and Miami. He excludes Hollywood and New York, saying locals are often imports, and notes Janet Leigh will star in a future RKO dance.
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Hollywood
Busby
Berkeley
Baltimore
United States
Louisville
San Antonio
Houston
Tex
Philadelphia
Grand Rapids
Mich
Richmond
Norfolk
U. S
America
New York
Town News Across America Highlights Strikes and Odd Thefts
Oakland reports CIO radio operators end strike with Transocean Air Lines pending federal mediation and a return to eight planes. Galveston notes two missing ducks infected with cancer at UT medical school, with offer to surrender and observe the birds. Camp Atterbury details large family ties in the 28th infantry division, including multiple brothers. Lynn reports cabdrivers donating blood for a paid day off. Chicago covers car thefts of mismatched shoes and left-hand gloves in separate incidents.
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Oakland
Calif
U.R
Transocean Air Lines
Transocean
Travis Air Force Base
Fairfield
Korea
Galveston
Tex
University of Texas Medical School
Medical School
R. H. Rigdon
University
Camp
Atterbury
Ind
28Th Infantry Division
Pfc
John V. Mulfair
Pvt
Harold Mulfair
Harrisburg
Path Cleared For Tax Bill
Washington Dec 2 The House poised to pass a 3.4 billion excess profits tax bill after approvals by Ways and Means and Rules. President Truman sought 4 billion, debate begins Monday with final vote Tuesday as Senate hearings on a similar plan start. Lawmakers weigh 75 percent tax on earnings above 85 percent of normal, capped at 67 percent of a corporation's earnings.
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House
Truman
Ways and Means Committee
Rules Committee
Senate
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Millikin
R-Cole
White House
George
D-Ga
Car crashes into Newport Beach showroom during loss of control
In Newport Beach California automobile dealer witnesses a rival make car ram into a showroom after driver Theodore Silvera twenty seven from San Diego lost control on a curve. The impact sheared roof supports and left dealers too afraid to remove the car until an ar ranged arrival for fear of collapse. A neighboring garage handles the same make as Silvera’s car.
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Newport Beach
Calif
Theodore Silvera
San Diego
Silvera
Mrs Pauline W Schaffer Invited to Northwest Drama Conference
Mrs Pauline W Schaffer wife of Enos P Schaffer 1346 W Franklin Jr invites to air at the Northwest Drama conference in Eugene Oregon February 9 On leave from Pacific Lutheran college Tacoma Washington she spends the year in Tucson pursuing a doctor s degree in speech and drama.
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Enos P. Schaffer
W. Franklin Jr
Eugene
Ore
Pacific Lutheran College
Tacoma
Wash
Schaffer
Tucson
War Work Hiring Lags
Washington reports show strain in shifting from civilian to military production. Civilian goods boom wanes as controls free workers for defense, with expectations of worse before better. Evidence includes 300,000 rise in jobless last month, Kaiser-Frazer halving production, 10 percent November drop in private homebuilding, and credit curbs slowing instalment buying.
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Washington
Dec
Census Bureau
O Ae
Kaiser-Frazer
K-F
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Rev Reeves To Speak Here At University Catalina Methodist
Rev Edwin E Reeves of La Mesa California director of evangelism for the Southern California Arizona conference will be in Tucson most of next week to lead a Crusade for Christ and His Work evangelism drive at University Catalina Methodist Church. He will speak at 10 45 a m Sunday and again Wednesday 6 30 p m and Friday 7 p m. The Methodist Men will host a ladies dinner Monday at 6 30 with Mr W Evans Bagley presiding. A workers conference is set for 2 30 p m Sunday. Mrs Alma Clayton heads the membership and evangelism committee and will direct the week long campaign with attending leaders from the church.
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W. Evans Bagley
Rev. Reeves
Crusade For Christ
Alma Clayton
Phoenix
University Catalina Methodist Church
Clayton
Maurice G. Ballenger
Joe M. Young
Alberta Kailsing
James Copeland
Chennault Wins Title to CNAC Air Assets in Bank Case
In San Francisco federal court Judge Herbert W. Erskine ruled that Major General Claire L. Chennault and Civil Air Inc. associates acquire CNAC assets from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. The decision releases more than 1.5 million dollars in CNAC property, denying a claim by the Chinese Communist government to funds and equipment.
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San Francisco
China National Aviation Corp
CNAC
Claire L. Chennault and Associates
U. S
Erskine
Chennault
Whiting Willaeur
Civil Air Inc
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Cee Na Awe
Benn Wins British By-Election Restore Five-Seat Majority
BRISTOL England Dec 2 Labour Party's House of Commons majority was restored to five after Anthony Wedgewood Benn won the special election for a vacated seat. Benn beat Conservative James Louis Lindsay 19367 to 12018, filling the post once held by Sir Stafford Cripps who left government and Parliament due to ill health. The prior four-seat slip followed a Belfast by-election loss.
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Bristol
England
House of Commons
Anthony Wedgewood Benn
Benn
James Louis Lindsay
Stafford Cripps
Elror
Exchequer
Commons
Labor
Belfast
Ireland
Truman Attends Army Navy Game Amid World Crisis
President Truman travels by train to Philadelphia with Mrs Truman to attend the Army-Navy football game ending his day of rapid briefings. He met with cabinet leaders on Korea, urged Congress for 16.8 billion for military forces and 1.05 billion for atomic weapons, and named Millard F Caldwell to head civil defense. He planned talks with Prime Minister Attlee on Korea and avoiding a third world war.
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Truman
Philadelphia
Union Station
Margaret
Secret Service
White House
Municipal Stadium
Congress
Millard F. Caldwell
Florida
Attlee
Britain
Korea
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