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Vienna's starvation paints sobering postwar scene
Des Des Moines May 7 report details Vienna's dire postwar hunger amid collapsed food supply. L. C. Hartman of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Sunday Schools describes families starving, with milk and fuel scarce, prices sky high, and residents resorting to forest wood and bare subsistence as aid from Hoover grants meets only a fraction of need.
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