Altitude Record Smashed by Navy Skyrocket at 1300 MPH
Navy rocket powered Skyrocket reaches unofficial altitude of 77,674 feet and speed of 1300 mph during Aug. 15 test. Pilot Bill Bridgeman, in a pressurized cabin, launched from a Super fortress to gather high speed data. Official records list lower altitude and speed benchmarks from earlier years.
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EL Segundo
Calif
Bill Bridgeman
Marvin Miles
Los Angeles Times
Bridgemen
Army
Albert W. Stevens
Orville A. Anderson
John Cunningham
Bridgeman
E. H. Heinemann
Douglas
Police Seek 16 Year Old Boyfriend in Beverly Potts Disappearance
Cleveland police hunt for a blond 16 year old linked to Beverly Potts's disappearance from Halloran Park. The youth, who lived near the Potts family, has a larceny record and may match a gas station hold up suspect. Reward grows to 3400 dollars. two suspects high on list as detectives restart the case.
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Cleveland
Beverly Potts
West Side
Beverly
West
Beverly Thum
W. S. Gates
Halloran Park
Potts
AFL Stagehands Union
Robert Potts
James E. McArthur
Columbus
Nancy Kinney In Custody After Kidnapping Case
Zanesville detective said 15 year old Nancy Kinney is in custody after a reported Aug 14 kidnapping. Chester Risen of Columbus, 28, is not in custody. Relatives received a call from Nancy and Risen saying she was OK and unhappy at home. Kinney’s foster mother and Risen’s grandmother discussed withdrawal of the charge.
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Zanesville
Robert Snelling
Risen
Henry Risen
Earl Kinney
Nancy
Farm Bureau Slams USDA Farm Policy Review Meetings
Roger W. Fleming of the American Farm Bureau Federation charges the USDA Farm Policy Review plan dates to 1934 and Alger Hiss. He accuses officials of aiming to break up large farms to equalize land holdings, weakening farmers' voices in their own groups.
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Indianapolis
American Farm Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Roger W. Fleming
Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Alger Hiss
Solicitor’s Office
USDA
Fleming
Indiana Farm Bureau
Hiss
U.S
Slot Machine Owner Plans Junking of Equipment
Jerome A. Distel, a self styled slot machine owner, said he will junk about $25 000 worth of machines after Ohio passed a law making ownership a felony. He stores “a hundred or so” slots in a west side warehouse and expects around $200 from selling them for junk. Distel argues the law targets slot gambling while bingo and race books escape penalties.
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Portsmouth
Jerome A. Distel
Ohio
Distel
Trash hauler dies in city incinerator blaze
In Green Bay Wisconsin Gilbert Trudeau 49 died from burns after he was pulled from a municipal incinerator furnace four hours after an accident at the dump site. He was shoveling trash when his glove snagged and his clothing burned away except for his belt and shoes.
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Green Bay
Wis
Gilbert Trudeau
Trudeau
Three Die as Greyhound Bus Hits Semi in Wisconsin
A Greyhound bus crashed into the rear of a semi-trailer on highway 41 in Kenosha Wisconsin last night killing three of 37 aboard. Several passengers were hospitalized with injuries as authorities investigated the fatal collision.
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Kenosha
Wis
Greyhound
Envoys from 48 Nations Gather for San Francisco Peace Talks
A 39 man Russian delegation heads toward San Francisco as envoys from 48 nations arrive for the Japanese peace treaty conference at the Presidio. New Zealand and Australia await the talks, with Acheson and the U.S. delegation due to arrive by air. Senator Connally’s attendance uncertain amid Senate business. The plan includes coast to coast television of sessions starting with President Truman's keynote address.
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San Francisco
America
New Zealand
U.S
Presidio of
Dean Acheson
United States
Senator Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreigns Relations Committee
Connally
Washington
Senate
Lalso
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Acheson
John Foster Dulles
Wiley
General MacArthur
Tokyo Bay
Middle West
Bell System
Truman
War Memorial Opera House
Tokyo
Mainichi
Japan
E. Saito
M. Fujimoto
T. Mataumoto
Biggest Raids In Kentucky History Crack Down
Kentucky state police led by Guthrie Crowe raided the Latin Quarter and the Manana in Wilder, arresting 68 people on gambling charges and breaching peace. Four scantily clad women faced charges. five staff at each club were charged with running games of chance. Capt Estill Jones called it the force’s most planned crackdown since 1948 with no local officials consulted.
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Newport
Kentucky
Guthrie Crowe
Latin Quarter
Clubanana
Wilder
Campbell County
Manana
The
Estill Jones
Philippine congressman De La Paz dies in Los Angeles sanatorium
Emilio De La Paz aged 56 and head of the Nationalist Party in the Philippines died at a Los Angeles sanitarium. A former lawmaker and prominent political figure, his death is announced from the city.
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Los Angeles
Emilio de la Paz
Philippines
Lower Prices In Food Seen
Food prices are expected to ease this fall with strong farm crops and processed food output. J Frank Grimes of Chicago, head of the Independent Grocer Alliance, predicts significant sales especially in canned goods and urges members to reduce inventories in preparation for price declines.
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New York
J. Frank Grimes
Chicago
Independent Grocer Alliance
IGA
Professor Murray Dies While Vacationing in Montana
Livingston Montana report Frank Murray 58 professor of law University of Kentucky died yesterday while vacationing in Livingston Montana He was on leave at the state park and had taught at UK for many years.
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Livingston, Mont
Frank Murray
University of Kentucky
Montana
No Permanent Stoppage Seen By Allies in Korea Truce Talks
Allied spokesman said there is no indication of a permanent breakdown in Korea truce talks amid new communist charges of neutral zone violations. UN command probes, with Gen Ridgway urging resume talks, while Reds deny all accusations and press protests. fighting and air drops continue across eastern Korea.
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Korea
Tokyo
United Nations
Kaesong
Munsan
James MacMaster
Eighth Army
Kansong
Inje
Senate Crime Committee Calls For Fight By Captive Cities
The Senate Crime Investigating Committee urged cities nationwide to unite against organized crime and graft in a final report ending its 15 month inquiry. It called for a private national crime coordinating council and federal wiretap legislation while naming Florida Governor Fuller Warren and William O Dwyer in connection with corruption and crime networks. The report warned of narcotics trafficking in the District of Columbia and trafficking in gambling with official complicity.
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Washington
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Senate
Congress
National Crime Coordinating Council
Florida
Fuller Warren
William O’dwyer
Mexico
New York
District of Columbia
Warren
O’dwyer
Shim
Truman invokes Taft Hartley to end copper strike
President Truman used the Taft Hartley Act emergency provisions to try to settle a nationwide copper strike that began Monday. A three member board of inquiry was appointed to report by next Tuesday, though the panel cannot propose a settlement.
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Washington
Truman
National Defense Program
Tornado Sighted Over State Prompting Airport Precautions
A pilot reported a tornado moving northeast while flying north of Zanesville. Weather officials advised securing all aircraft at Port Columbus as the report was relayed to Cincinnati and Columbus weather stations.
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Ohio
Aes
Weather Bureau
Jack Bolton
Columbus
Zanesville
Olbe
Cincinnati Air Terminal
Port Columbus
Three Die While Erecting TV Antenna in Dayton
Three members of the Brown family died when a television antenna being erected on a trailer home fell across a power line and electrocuted them. The victims are Chester Brown age 47, his wife Evelyn 46, and their daughter Dora Esther 17, caretakers at Greencastle Cemetery.
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Dayton
Chester Brown
Evelyn
Dora Esther
Greencastle Cemetery
Eclipse of Sun Due At 5 a.m. Tomorrow
The second partial solar eclipse of the year for the eastern United States will begin shortly before 5 a.m. tomorrow, be visible at sunrise, and end at 7:05 a.m. local time.
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Columbus
United States
Senators Back Hoover Call for Ethics Study Commission
Four senators voiced support for Herbert Hoover's warning of rising intellectual dishonesty in public life. Senator Fulbright proposed a special commission to study ethics in government after a Senate inquiry found sensational testimony about influence in lending by the Oyta Finance Corporation.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Fulbright
D-Ark
Hoover
Ulbright
Senate
Oyta Finance Corporan
Choice of Enlisting Extended to Nov 30
The Defense Department announced a trial policy extension allowing draftees to join their chosen service branch after pre-induction physicals. Officials said the experiment has worked well and its future past November depends on the next three months.
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Washington
Defense Department
Department
Ohio Payrolls Rise 24 Percent in Year
Ohio workers saw a 24 percent payroll increase for the year ending June 1951, according to Ohio State University's Bureau of Business Research. The report notes gains in employment, average weekly earnings up 13 percent, and hours worked up 10 percent over 1950.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Bureau of Business Research
Fire Prevention Week Designated in Ohio
Gov. Frank J. Lausche announces October 7 to 13 as Fire Prevention Week in Ohio. The designation aims to boost public awareness of fire safety and prevention nationwide.
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Columbus
Frank J.lausche
Ohio
McCarthy Proposes Trial by Jury for Acheson Jessup
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy urged submitting his charges against Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup to a trial by jury at a National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He said he would resign the Senate if the charges were disproved and urged resignations of others he labeled as disloyal. The VFW called for removal of State Department officials it deemed unfit and weak in diplomatic action.
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New York
Joeseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Dean Acheson
Philip C. Jessup
Ery McCarthy
Deans of
Foreign Wars
Senate
McCarthy
Acheson
Jessup
Sonsletien
Ade Tne
VFW
State Department
Gypsy Queen Dies In Canton Hospital
Mrs Anne Mitchell, regarded as queen of a large US gypsy clan, died at Aultman Hospital Canton after arrival by plane from Angola Indiana. About 300 followers gathered outside the hospital as word spread through the gypsy grapevine and tribal members planned a physician for her.
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Canton
United States
Aultman Hospital
Anne Mitchell
Angola
Ind
Bob Mitchell
Weather Outlook Sees Near Normal Temps All Week
Weather columns note average temperatures near normal with a cool Saturday and Sunday. Warmer conditions expected Monday and Tuesday, cooler Wednesday. Precipitation around 1/2 inch, with showers Saturday and again around Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Nancy Kinney
Farm Bureau
Labor Pay
West Coast
Seoul
George W. Taylor
Wage Stabilization Board
White House
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Taylor
Fred Bullen
Standing
Feinsinger
University Off
Pennsylvania
Senate Crime Committee
Senators
Queen
Weather Outlook
Craurccy
Sestak Deetee
Tate
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