Air Force X-1 speeds past sound barrier at 963 mph claim
Air Force X-1 supersonic test reportedly reached about 963 miles per hour at 53,000 feet, a speed beyond any manned plane at the time. Aviation writer James J. Haggerty Jr. cites figures challenging security denials as officials debate declassifying data and potential enemy use.
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Air Force
Marvin Miles
Los Angeles Times
Washington
James J. Haggerty Jr
American Aviation Magazine
Defense Department
Haggerty
Ploesti
Pentagon
W. Stuart Symington
Charles Yeager
Houston to Vote Friday on Suburbs Annexation
Houston residents will vote Friday on annexing 79 square miles with about 110 000 people. If approved the ordinance becomes effective Friday night and would affect 1950 tax rolls. Opponents fear higher taxes while supporters say annexation prevents municipalities from choking Houston.
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Houston
Oscar Holcombe
Holcombe
Bombs Thrown as Police Clash With Demonstrators in Calcutta
In Calcutta on Thursday thousands of office workers hid as bomb throwing demonstrators attacked police during a Communist procession protesting a hospital strike. Several officers were seriously injured as about eight bombs were reported.
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Calcutta
India
US Strengthens Asiatic Forces
A high level White House meeting chaired by President Truman discussed Asia policy with top officials. Reports said the joint chiefs favored sending limited American advisers and arms to Nationalist forces in Formosa while opposing full Troop deployment. Rumors circulated that 32 retired American officers had arrived as advisers on Formosa.
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Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Stephen T. Early
Joint Chiefs
Formosa
H. Alexander Smith
RNJ
MacArthur
Tokyo
Smith
Japan
Okinawa
Philippines
Truman
Dean Acheson
Early
Bradley
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
Central Intelligence Agency
John R. Steelman
William C. Foster
the Treasury
John W. Snyder
Navy
Francis P. Matthews
Commerce
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Asia
Chiang Kaishek
Far East
Hiss Quits Stand as Surprise Witness Tests in Trial
Alger Hiss rested his perjury defense after five days on the stand. A witness for the defense, Karl Helfrich, testified about Chambers and Williams College plans in 1920 while prosecutors challenged the line of testimony. The trial also notes a prior attempt to obtain a psychiatrist’s opinion on Chambers’ sanity.
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Hiss
New York
Alger Hiss
High State Department
Estes
Priscilla
Whittaker Chambers
Karl F. Helfrich
Upper Montclair
N. J
Chambers
Williams College
Williams
Helfrich
Thomas F. Murphy
Murphy
Henry W. Goddard
State Department
Weather forecast for Austin area and Texas towns
Weather Bureau notes cloudy warm spells with accumulator readings and river forecast changes. Observed figures list Fort Worth 36 Amarillo 64 Alveston 37 and Antonio 30, with scattered readings across Brownsville and other stations.
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US Weather Bureau
Austin Pres
Central
Texas
Tavis Pitdarshail Ford
Amarillo
Alveston
Antonio
Lee Tae
Zilker Elementary Opens With twelve Classrooms for 300 Pupils
About 300 pupils will enter the new Zilker Elementary School in the second week of January in twelve classrooms designed for grades one through six. Hollis Sanders named principal. Becker School transfers form most of the student body. The $312,000 building includes a cafeteria auditorium and specialized rooms with age appropriate furnishings.
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Zilker
Lee Wilborn
Austin Public Schools
Becker Elementary School
St. Elmo and
Fulmore
Hollis Sanders
Becker School
Andrew Zilker
Austrn
Red River Gains Two New Traffic Lights
A traffic signal started Thursday at 15th and Red River with a second light at 11th and Red River to be operating by the weekend. Traffic Captain Warren Blackman said the signals will regulate flow on busy Red River Street and its key intersections not yet signaled.
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15Th
Red River
11Th
Warren Blackman
Red River Street
Farouk Engagement News Denied by Foreign Office
Cairo reports say the foreign office denies any engagement news about King Farouk, calling all such reports premature and unsubstantiated. The Cairo rumor linked Farouk to 16 year old Narriman Sadek, daughter of an Egyptian civil servant, with police interest noted around UN employee Zaki Hashian.
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Narriman Sadek
Egypt
Farouk
New York Post
Egyptian Foreign Office
Cairo
Foreign Office
United Nations
William Attwood
Stanley Swinton
Associated Press
Sadek
Zaki Hashian
Hashian
Post
Bob Hope Tops 1949 Movie Money List ExHos Hollywood
Hollywood notes that Bob Hope outpaced Bing Crosby to lead 1949 in movie grosses per exhibitors poll by Motion Picture Herald. Crosby slipped to second after five straight years atop the chart, with Abbott & Costello and John Wayne following. Westerns and British rankings are also listed.
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Hollywood
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Motion Picture Herald
Crosby
Hope
Sorrowful Jones
Abbott & Costello
John Wayne
Gary Cooper
Gary Grant
Betty Grable
Esther Williams
Humphrey Bogart
Clark Gable
Gable
Anna Neagle
Michael Wilding
Danny Kaye
Jane Wyman
Alan Ladd
John Mills
Jean Simmons
Miss Grable
Mills
Miss Simmons
Auto Injures Baby In Service Station
Andre Mathews year and a half old son of Mrs Rae Mathews was hurt by a car at the Mathews Service Station east of Austin on the Bastrop highway late Thursday afternoon. Johnnie Simpson 46 of St Johns addition owned the car and said the child played near it as he drove off. In a second wreck that night Miss Katherine Hastings Route 3 was treated for shock after her car struck a telephone pole on the Dallas highway just outside city limits.
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Andre Mathews
Rae Mathews
Mathews
Austin
Bastrop Highway
Highway Patrol
Johnnie Simpson
St. John’s Addition
Simpson
Katherine Hastings
Route 3
Brackenridge
Dallas
Infiltration warned in Belgian Congo uranium region
A Belgian report warns of Soviet infiltration in the Belgian Congo threatening uranium mines. It cites an on site center near the great mines and three outside agencies in French Equatorial Africa South Africa and Ethiopia. It calls for radical measures to counter the Soviet peril and public opinion briefings.
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Brussels
Belgium
Africa
Belgian Congo
Far
U States
Belgian State Security Bureau
Russia
French Equatorial Africa
South Africa
Ethiopia
Congo
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Gene Autry
George
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William Elliott
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