Yeager Describes X1 Test Flight At World of Speed
West Virginia airman Captain Charles Yeager, Air Force test pilot, discusses his super sonic X1 flight from Wright-Patterson AFB. He notes no sensation of speed in the cockpit despite speeds above Mach 1 and explains engine noise and shock wave avoidance. He has flown the X1 30 times and recently returned from Muroc tests.
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Dayton. O
West Virginia
Charles
Chuck) Yeager
Air Force
Muroc Field
Calif
West Hamlin
W. Va
Dayton Daily News
Air Material Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Yeager
Herbert Shaw
The
Daily News
Global Airliner Mark Recorded
World War II ace Thomas G. Lanphier arrived at La Guardia at 11 95 am setting a round the world flight record on regular airlines. He completed the circumnavigation in 119 hours 47 minutes, beating the previous 147 hour 15 minute mark held by Eddie Eagan.
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New York
Thomas G. Lanphier
la Guardia
Lanphier
Globe
Eddie Eagan
President Truman
Smithsonian Institution
Senators Urgeries With Franco Spain
Two of three U S senators who returned from Europe urged recognizing Franco Spain and backing an Export Import Bank loan. Senator Maybank said Spain needed food cotton and wheat, while McCarran praised Franco after nine days there.
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New York
Europe
Franco Spain
Elmer Thomas
Spain
Pat McCarran
D-New
Franco
State Department
Mailbox Blasters Jailed at Home
Fifteen Irving teenagers who admitted blowing up 13 rural mailboxes with firecrackers are under a stay at home week ordered by County Probation Officer Sam Davis. They were turned over to Davis by Assistant US District Attorney William Cantrell Jr. rather than federal court.
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Dallas
Irving
Sam Davis
William Cantrell Jr
Davis
Japs Hopes Dim for Atom Bomb Says Yukawa
Dr. Hideki Yukawa, 1949 Nobel laureate, told reporters Japan likely could not have built an atom bomb had World War II lasted longer. On his way to Stockholm to receive the prize, he noted he only knows the bomb’s principle and did research for the Japanese government during the war.
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New York
Hideki Yukawa
Japan
Columbia University
Stockholm
Yukawa
Hiroshima
University of Michigan
War Department
Europe
Russia
Goudsmit
Weather forecast for Austin Texas area
The Weather Bureau in Austin forecasts a warmer early period with rising temperatures. Expected high around 101 degrees, low near 16 to 28 degrees, with sunrise and moon phases noted and last quarter moon. Rain chances are mentioned but details are unclear.
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US Weather Bureau
Austin Rea
Centralexas
Austin
Groves Denies Hopkins-Wallace Pressure Claim
Groves rejects pressure allegations as Senate scrutiny grows. He cites espionage concerns and Russian efforts to steal atomic secrets, noting Soviet contacts suspected at Berkeley and Chicago labs and praising wartime intelligence led by Dr. Samuel Goudsmit.
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Groves
Hopkins-Wallace
Berkeley
Calif
University of California Atomic Radiation Laboratories
Chicago
New York City
Russia
Washington
New York
Samuel A. Goudsmit
Harry Hopkins
Leslie) Groves
Henry Wallace
Phantom Slayings Suspect Quizzed
Texarkana Texas police and Mt. Pleasant authorities questioned a 25 year old man on a vagrancy charge linked to the phantom murders that shook Texarkana in early 1946. The suspect was identified after being found wandering in the Negro quarter and overheard talking about a Texarkana killing during prayers.
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Texarkana
Texas
Mt. Pleasant
Virgil Starks
Miller County
Arkansas
Morris Rolston
Tillman Johnson
Max Tackett
Ark
Witnesses tie Bridges to Communist links in perjury trial
San Francisco reports two new government witnesses corroborating earlier testimony that Longshore Leader Harry Bridges and aides Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson had ties to the Communist Party. Witnesses described a 1935 San Diego caucus and a 1938 Bridges remark, while detailing party roles and newspaper affiliations.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Communist Party
Union
Henry Schmidt
J. R. Robertson
Stanley Benjamin Hancock
Erie
John H. Schumaker
San Diego
Schmidt
Hancock
San Diego Sun Circulation Department
Pasadena Star-News
People’s World of San Francisco
Santa Cruz Sentinel-News
Union Sun and Journal of
Lockport
N. Y
The
Erie Dispatch
San Diego Sun
Federal Writers’ Project
People’s World
People's World
Schumaker
State Federation of Labor
12Th
B Streets
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Gospel OF Christ
Jess Hall
Floy Hall
First Baptist Church
10Th and
Colorado
J. M. Dawson
Washington, D. C
Challengng
America
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D-Va
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Truman
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D-Ga
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