Show NEWS RE REVIEW VIEW sugar rationing halted retail meat prices soar ITS OVER sugar Is back for the first time since april 28 1942 americans and especially housewives could go shop shopping ping without ration coupons as the government called a halt to the rationing of sugar for households restaurants and hotels secretary ecret ary of cl agriculture clinton anderson announced the move explaining pla ining that it was made mad e possible by the appearance of larger supplies of sugar than previously had been thought available price controls on sugar as well as rationing of the product tor for industrial du 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 were 1 allotment by the international emergency food council to the united states of tons of sugar from cuba in addition to that which was allotted earlier in the year 2 presence of still more surplus sugar in cuba which will help cut down demands from other parts of the world 3 about tons of javanese sugar BOW alow will trill be offered to world users I 1 UP AGAIN meat prices rapid and in some cases unexplained pla ined advances in the retail prices of meat have been reported from many sections section ot of the country some of the reasons offered tor for the price jumps were seasonal influences fluen ces higher feed costs heavy foreign purchases in a number of instances however packers admitted that they were puzzled over the sharp increase in retail prices steak which sold tor for 70 to 80 cents a pound six months ago was being listed as high as 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 not e to russia the united states has accused russia of using threats and coercion to instigate the recent communist coup in hungary A strongly worded note to the soviet union uhlon charged the soviet commander in hungary with violating terms of the yalta agreement which guaranteed that liberated nations would retain their sovereignty e implicit but not specifically stated in the note was a warning that the united states will call for a united nations investigation ol of the circumstances under tinder which hun g arys garys democratic regime was overthrown and communist rule installed main proposal embodied in the protest was that the united states great britain and russia make a joint investigation of the political situation in hungary russia previously rejected two earlier american requests for such a probe the U S position Is that hungarian premier nagy was forced into exile and was as compelled to resign in order to make way for the communist seizure of power pushbutton look no hands pushbutton automatic flight a new field in aviation was ushered in when a tour four engine army transport plane landed at wilmington ohio after a 2000 mile trip from long beach calif during which no member of the crew touched the controls it was the longest flight of its kind to be completed wholly by means of the pushbutton automatic system not to be confused cont used with drone planes or remote control flight in the automatic night flight setup set up all ne necessary eary flight data was led fed electrically tri cally into a master control panel from within the plane itself advocates training i ah A dr karl T compton chairman of commission on universal military training told congress that plan tor for was conceived as a means of safeguarding liberty and not as a means of preparing for war |