Nine Minnesotans seek lost Ward gun that fired Pearl Harbor shot
Nine former Ward gun crew members from Minnesota vow to locate the old four inch cannon that fired the first American shot in World War II from the destroyer Ward off Pearl Harbor. The gun, removed early in the war, has no known fate and may be stored, scrapped, or rusting in a Navy yard.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Navy
America
Ward
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Ordnancemen
Karl Lasch
C. W. Fenton
Forest Lake
Lasch
New cancer treatment found using thorium X on skin cancers
Dr J J Sher and Dr William E Howes reported a simple skin cancer treatment using radioactive thorium X on 39 patients with 51 cancers. In all but one case skin lesions disappeared and no new lesions developed over a year of follow up. The technique was shared at a Radiological Society of North America meeting in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
J. J. Sher
William E Howes
Brooklyn N. Yo Cancer Institute
Radiological Society of North America
Two Hurt as Car and Gas Truck Collide Near Zavalla
In Lufkin Texas on US 69 Brooks E Gray of Greenville South Carolina driver of a car crashed into a saline transport truck. The car caught fire as 4000 gallons of gasoline burned briefly but no explosion occurred thanks to a sergeant Gaskamp who fired into the tank. Gray suffered burns to face and hands. The slower moving truck, owned by Hudson Company of Henderson, had minor injuries to its driver.
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Zavalla Sagas
Brooks E. Gray
Highway Patrol
Cotton Gaskamp
Gray
Greenville
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Dallas
Beaumont
Hudson Company of
Henderson
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Paris
Russia
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Wales
Vorkoutek
Tiksi
Potshura
Lena
Dvina
Yenessei
Ingirka
Amur
Lake Baikal
Bering Sea
Alaska
Red Army
Arctic
Nova Zembia
Vorkoutsko
Iron Curtain
France
Reds Hunt For Shrdlu After Stalin Birthday Error
A typographical mistake at Unita, the Communist newspaper in Rome, prompted an investigation of staff. The first edition misstated Stalin’s birthday as a great enslavement rather than a great event, leading the party to recall almost the entire edition.
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Rome
Unita
Stalin
Bruce Cabot Plans Tiger Hunt in India with Maharajah
Bruce Cabot stars in Fancy Pants and Bo Hope Lucille Ball co starrer. He will be guest of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar for a tiger hunting expedition in India.
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Benen
Paramount
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