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Show NEWS REVIEW Sugar Rationing Halted; Retail Meat Prices Soar IT'S OVER: Sugar Is Hitch For the first time since April 28. 1942, Americans, and especially housewives, could go shopping without with-out ration coupons as the government govern-ment called a halt to the rationing of sugar for households, restaurants and hotels. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson announced the move, explaining ex-plaining that it was made possible by the appearance of larger supplies sup-plies of sugar than previously had been thoueht available. which guaranteed that liberated nations na-tions would retain their sovereignty. sover-eignty. Implicit, but not specifically stated, in the note was a warning that the United States will call for j a United Nations investigation of the circumstances under which Hungary's democratic regime was I overthrown and Communist rule in- tailed. Main proposal embodied in the protest was that the United States, Great Britain and Russia make a joint investigation of the political Price controls on sugar, as well as rationing of the product for industrial in-dustrial use will continue, however. All sugar controls are scheduled to expire October 31 unless congress dictates otherwise. Three reasons which acted to bring about an end to sugar rationing ration-ing were: 1. Allotment by the International Interna-tional Emergency food council to the United States of 350.000 tons of sugar from Cuba in addition ad-dition to that which was allotted earlier in the year. 2. Presence of still more surplus sur-plus sugar in Cuba, which will help cut down demands from other parts of the world. 3. About 200.000 tons of Javanese Java-nese sugar now will be offered to world users. UP AGAIN: Meat Prices Rapid, and in some cases unexplained, unex-plained, advances in the retail prices of meat have been reported from many sections of the country. Soma of the reasons offered for tV, ,iri,it inm,,c wura' Rncini'il in- situation in Hungary, missia previously previ-ously rejected two earlier American requests for such a probe. The U. S. position is that Hungarian Hun-garian Premier Nagy was forced into exile and was compelled to resign re-sign in order to make way for the Communist seizure of power. PUSHBUTTON: Look, Vo Hands "Pushbutton" automatic flight, a new field in aviation, was ushered in when a pilotless four-engine army transport plane landed at Wil- j mington, Ohio, after a 2,000-mile j trip from Long Beach, Calif., dur- I ing which no member of the crew touched the controls. It was the longest llight of its kind to be completed wholly by means of the pushbutton automatic sys-tem, sys-tem, not to be confused with drone planes or remote control flight. In the automatic (light set-up. all necessary flight data was fed elec- j trically into a master control panel I from within the plane itself. Advocates Training; - p... jvi'.-pj - fcjv-uv,,,i,, influences, in-fluences, higher feed costs, heavy foreign purchases. In a number of instances, however, packers admitted admit-ted that they were puzzled over the sharp increase in retail prices. Steak, which sold for 70 to 80 cents a pound six months ago, was being listed as high as $1 25 in Scranton, Pa., and a dollar in New York. In Chicago, retail meat prices experienced a general increase of 10 cents or more on popular and scarce cuts in mid-June. There was one bright prediction, however: When the autumn beef run begins, prices are expected to drop as much as 25 per cent. HARSH WORDS: Note to Russia The United States has accused Russia of using threats and coercion coer-cion to instigate the recent Communist Com-munist coup d'etat in Hungary. A strongly worded note to the Soviet union charged the Soviet commander in Hungary with violating violat-ing terms of the Yalta agreement Dr. Karl T. Compton, chairman of commission on universal military mili-tary training, told congress that plan for UMT was "conceived as a means of safeguarding liberty and not as a means of preparing for war." |