Hanford scientist warns AEC delays and mismanagement
Dr C W J Wende former Hanford reactor planner testifies before the joint senate house atomic committee urging restraint and criticizing lack of business sense at the AEC He cites prolonged planning failures at Hanford GE’s role and inadequate manpower and facilities while warning of a drift in policy and direction. Also reports a meteorite found near Cloverdale by Harry Scheerhorn with scorched ground and gold nuggets.
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Washington
Ecientiat
Hanford
Atomic Energy Commission
C. W. J. Wende
Manford
General Electric Company
Richland
Waeh
Joint
Senate-House Atomic Committee
Hickenlooper
Iowa
AEC
Los Asimos
N. M
Oak Ridge
Wende
A. B. Groninger
Han
Commission
Sibley
Harry Scheerhorn
Scheerhorn
Cloverdale
Weather outlook with showers and cooling trend
Partly cloudy and a bit cool tonight with isolated thunderstorms in the far east. Friday turns fair and slightly cooler across the region.
Convict Becomes Guinea Pig For Medical Tests
Louis Boy a Sing Sing inmate serving a life term for an NYC garage cashier murder volunteered for multiple medical experiments since 1942. He took atabrine during malaria studies and later aided influenza vaccine testing, even undergoing a blood exchange for a leukemia patient. Doctors caution on his ultimate fate months after the last procedure.
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Boy
New York City
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rockefeller Institute
Four Engine KLM Plane Crashes Off Bari Killing Dozens
A KLM four engine plane crashed into the sea near Bari Italy in bright weather. Officials report 24 bodies recovered including 16 men five women and three children with many burned. Survivors appear unlikely and wreckage search hindered by rough seas. The craft was en route from Batavia to Amsterdam with some passengers believed from Batavia.
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Bari
Italy
KLM
Rome
Batavia
Java
Amsterdam
Pen pals wed after 18 month romance in Meadville
Two 77 year olds Mr. and Mrs. J W Coldren married in a public ceremony following an 18 month pen pal correspondence. The bride Linda A Keppner from Guy Mills and groom a Harrisburg great grandfather. They plan a honeymoon at the Town send club convention in Columbus Ohio next week.
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Meadville
J. W. Coldren
Linda A. Keppner
Guy Mills
Karrisburg
Columbus
Love Child Refuses Speak To Mother In Court
Gerald Sullivan a 14 year old boy declined to speak to his mother Mrs Anna Sullivan 45 in a juvenile court hearing about potential neglect and custody after he escaped to the outside world on March 14. The closed session before Judge Frankland W L Miles will decide if the mother kept the boy hidden in a guarded room most of his life and if she should retain custody.
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Boston
Gerald Sullivan
Gerald
Anna Sullivan
Frankland W. L. Miles
Two Iowa Children Die in Vehicle Accidents
Two Iowa children died in separate vehicle incidents. Eight year old Garylee Lincoln of Boone was killed when his bicycle collided with a gravel truck on Highway 30. Nineteen month old Thomas Bruce Louthan of Sioux Rapids died from a crushed skull after being run over by a pickup in his family yard.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Garylee Lincoln
Roy W. Jay
Boone
Highway 30
Thomas Bruce Louthan
Bruce Louthan
Sioux Rapids
Louthan
Fire damages Metropolitan Opera House balcony
A fire broke out in the third balcony of the Metropolitan Opera House last night causing about $10,000 in damage. The Met is closed for the summer and the fire marshal's office has launched an inquiry into the cause.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Met
Mareshal
Cass County education center project advances with $75,000 aim
An organization plans a $75,000 effort to develop the Cass county education center on West Tenth Street. Lee Johnson of Lewis chairs the campaign with C A Zellmer Joe Lawton James Winston and C D Becker as co chairs. District and township leaders are named across Massena Cumberland Maine and Anita. The 25 acre site lies east of Sunnyside park and will host 4 H faire grounds community center and livestock show facilities with parking and a new terrace and picnic areas.
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Cass County Education Center
West Tenth Street
Lee Johnson
Lewis
C. A. Zellmer
Joe Lawton
James Winston
C. D. Becker
Ed Amder
Massena
Harold Hansen
Cumberland
Elden Kay
Maine
Gail Burke
Anita
Brighton
Alfred Jensen
Pymosa
Harold Studelberg
Benton
Kenneth Pierce
Grant
Willie Sarsfield
Washington
Don Ray
Grove
Bernard Steffens
Franklin
Wilbur Breckerbaumer
Cass
Gail Wissler
Bear Grove
Harley Weber
Union
Collins Bower
Ed Shellberg
Pleasant
Willard Muller
Noble
James McLaren
Edna
Glen Eblen
Victoria
Ernest Hansen
Griswold
Ed Blankenship
Vernon Kuhr
Bob Reason
Bob Groves
Carl Reed
Viota
Eno Schroeder
Lyman
Sunnyside Park
Palm Street
Tenth
Fourteenth Streets
Bpin
Sunnyelde
Fourteenth
Palm Streets
Atlantic Park
Chamber of Commerce
Street Circus
Atlantic Cemetery
Tenth Street
Hiss Denies Giving Papers to Chambers
New York jurists report Algar Hiss testifying at his perjury trial he never supplied government papers to Whittaker Chambers or knew Chambers after 1937. He denies being a communist or fellow traveler and denies feeding secrets to spies. Summer visitors from Boston include Mr and Mrs Val Schoenthal staying with relatives in town.
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New York
Algar Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
Val Schoenthal
Boston
L. O. Schoenthal
Ralph Goodwin
Mr. Schoenthal
Harvard
Fire blasts Lineville Oil Co. tanks injure town nearby
An oil storage plant explosion at Lineville Oil Co. destroyed three tanks and 20,000 gallons of gasoline and fuel oil. The blast, seen 20 miles away, halted Rock Island trains for two hours and caused no injuries or further fires. owner Lloyd Crecelius estimated losses at 20,000 dollars with no insurance.
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Lineville
Lineville Oil Co
Rock Island Railroad
Lloyd Crecelius
Hubert Hill
Leon
Trenton
Wayne County
Missouri
Iowa Man Drowns After Boat Capsize on Minnesota River
David J. Conn, 72, of Boone Iowa, drowned when his fishing boat overturned six miles north of Mankato Minnesota. Conn toppled into the river after a fish strike or snag, leaving his companion C R Williams to swim to shore. Conn was crippled by a prior hip fracture.
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Mankato
Minn
Iowa
Minnesota River
Here
David J. Conn
Boone
C. R. Wiliams
Conn
Williams
Pilot skill saves 43 as plane crashes near Memphis
An American Airlines Convair carrying 43 people crashed two miles from municipal airport after takeoff. Captain Ed Hatch of Memphis guided the plane to land in a field, skidded across a highway and hit a large tree, saving all aboard. Thirty eight were injured as a wing smashed and an engine burned near the City of San Antonio flight.
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Memphis
Tenn
American Airlines
Convair
Ed Hatch
Fort Worth
New York
San Antonio
Hatch
Des Moines waitress dies after truck overturns west of Atlantic
Anna Mae Dressie aged 21 of Des Moines died in a Des Moines hospital after the truck she rode in overturned near Atlantic on April 26. Driver Harold Snethen aged 25 and James Roach aged 22 escaped with minor injuries. Dressie had been unconscious since the accident and suffered multiple skull fractures and a crushed chest.
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Anna Mae Dressie
Des Moines
Atlantic
Miss Dressie
Harold Snethen
Snethen
James Roach
Atlantic band concert at city park tonight
The weekly concert directed by Ralph W. Young begins at 8 o clock this evening in the city park. The program includes Only a Rose The Thunderer March Patriotic March arranged by Buchtel Coast Guards March Bright Star Overture Men of Ohio Bye Bye Blackbird Henderson Cruising Down the River arranged by Yoder Wings of the Army National Anthem Advance March Bennet.
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Atlantic Band
Ralph W. Young
Buchtel Coast Guards
Bright Star
Men of
Ohio
Henderson
Yoder Wings of the Army
Bennet
Senate TEARs at injunction on strikes split vote
Washington reports a close senate fight over Taft Hartley injunctions against critical strikes with backers winning preliminary votes while opponents push to defeat the injunction option. Senators Lucas and George foresee a razor thin result as second ballots approach. A separate report details a grisly murder in Morrison involving the nude body of 28 year old Mrs Harvey Stahihut found in a tavern cooler with brutal throat slashing and mutilation. Sheriff Meyer describes the scene and the investigation timeline including the husband’s actions and the missing suspicions.
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Washington
Senate
Lucas
George
D-Ga
Douglas- Aiken
Mayer
C. H. Bartruff
Reinbeck
Morrison
Dike
Vaughan Granted Permission to Accept Peron Medal
A House subcommittee reversed a prior decision and approved Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan to accept a Peron government medal from Argentina. U S officials must have congressional approval to receive foreign decorations.
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Vaughan
Peron
Washington
House
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Argentina
Armed Services
U. S
Congress
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Gerhardt Eisler
Germany
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N. Y
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Sioux City
St. Louis
Blayne Swift
National Guard
132Nd
Chambers
Milton J. Babich
Wisconsin
Weapon
Babich
Milwaukee
Wis
International Soundphoto
IOWAN
Maniac
Vunharmed
Stahihate
Stahihat
Wallace E. Morgan
Waterloo
Bartruff
Waitkus
Eddie Waitkus
Philadelphia Phillies
Philadelphia
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