Hoover Explains FBI Technique on Texas Forum of the Air
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover described the agency as a service organization aiding local police. He said the FBI functions as a clearing house with expertise and free laboratory examinations for local cases and noted four Texas field divisions and 68 Texas graduates from 12 week training courses.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Texas Forum of the Air
Wright Patman
Texas
Hoover
Patman
Dallas
el Paso
Houston
San Antonio
Texas Police and
Sheriff Departments
Symphony Prize Awarded to Thor Johnson in New York
Thor Johnson, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, won the annual $1,000 Alice M. Ditson award from Columbia University. The announcement was made on Sunday in New York.
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New York
Thor Johnson
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Alice M. Ditson
Columbia University
Pledge Master Escapes Hell Week Prank Returns Home
John Santarelli pledge master for Phi Theta Upsilon at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry spent a week directing 23 pledges in chores. After being captured by the pledges and shipped to Kansas City he found shelter with his wife’s family and flew back to Chicago after buying a 25 cent fare. He says Hell Week is over.
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Chicago
John Santarelli
Kansas City
Santarelli
Blairsville
Phi Theta Upsilon Fraternity
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
Elmer Pickett
Western Union
Anglo Aviation Meet Showed Air Dinosaurs Maidenhead
At Maidenhead on May 8 a Royal Aeronautical Society air show displayed oldest aircraft in the land. A 1909 monoplane with a 25 horsepower engine reached 37 miles per hour, lifting a 650 pound canvas and rope craft briefly off the ground while crowds watched.
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Maidenhead
Enc
Royal Aeronautical Society
Italians Demand Action Over Bandit King Giuliano
In Rome on May 8 Italy's Socialists call for Interior Minister Scelba's dismissal over Sicily's bandit leader Salvatore Giuliano They seek debate in the Senate amid ongoing manhunt and past bounties The bandit famed as Robin Hood has waged war on the government and threatened to seize power as Carabinieri press on with patrols and traps
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Rome
Italy
Mario Scelba
Sicily
Salvatore Giu
Giuliano
Sicilian
Palermo
Ministry of Interior
Signora Maria Lombardo
Il Momento
Rosenberg Girl To Head FHA
Betty Jo McDonald, a Lamar Consolidate High School junior from Rosenberg, is president of the Texas Association of Future Homemakers of America. Elected vice presidents include Ollie Jo White Carthage Jane Degenhart Mansfield and Sue Fraser Huntsville.
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Dallas
Betty Jo McDonald
Lamar Consolidate
Rosenberg
Texas Association of Future Homemakers of America
Ollie Jo White
Carthage
Jane Degenhart
Mansfield
Tarrant County
Sue Fraser
Huntsville
Celesta Nance
Victoria
Norma Jean Bryce
Winnsboro
Lindlee Springer
Midlothian
Patsy Tucker Holden
San Marcos
Glenda
Helen Gypson
Hamilton
Dorothy Hyde
Kerrville
Virginia Richy
Nacogdoches
Eunice Rouser
Betty Green
Charley Jordan
Wolfe City
House May Okeh Education Bill
Senate backed federal education aid faces House scrutiny with 300 million annual grants proposed. Representative Wood predicts adoption, though past House inaction and by passes to school building programs remain debated. The plan targets state grants by wealth formula for operating costs and salaries.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wood
D-Ga
Truman marks 65th birthday with health praise and family day
President Truman, 65, declared he is hale and hearty due to hard work and avoiding mischief. He spent his birthday at Blair House after church with his family, noting the day also celebrated Mother's Day and the war’s European end anniversary.
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Washington
Truman
Blair House
White House
First Baptist Church
Dr. Pruden
Martha Truman
VE Day Observances Mark Fourth Anniversary Across Europe
Western Europe marks the fourth VE Day anniversary with cautious hope for stable peace. In Bonn German leaders draft a new federal constitution with a bill of rights, while Moscow’s Pravda accuses US and Britain of seeking imperialist world domination and warns of renewed war fears. Izvestia also denounces American imperialists and defends socialist strength as essential to lasting peace.
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London
Europe
Russia
Stalin
Bonn
Germany
West
France
Vincent Auriol
Paris
Tuilleries Gardens
Champs-Elysees
Britain
Izvestia
Moscow
United States
Yalta
Tehran
Potsdam
Soviet Union
Omar Bradley
Jimmy Doolittle
Red Star
Bradley
Pravda
Communist Party
Doolittle
Georgetown University
Pilot and Nurse Near Rescue After Mountain Plane Crash
Bill Grant and Sheila Cure, survivors of a border area crash, hiked toward a logging camp where a US Coast Guard helicopter waited to fly them out. Reunited with rescuers after a missing plane incident, they planned to fly to Vancouver via Princeton and RCAF airlift. Credit to RCAF and land crews for guiding the long trek.
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Vancouver
B. C
Bill Grant
Sheila Cure
Freedom
US Coast Guard
Border Area
Royal Canadian Air Force
Princeton
RCAF
Grants
Miss Cure
Cardston Alta
Grant
Lightning Creek
Glacier Peak
Here
Slav Press Complains About Budapest Radio
Belgrade Yugoslavia May 8 The Official Press charged Budapest Radio with linking reports on possible American loans to Tito’s government and Franco’s Spain. It called the Cominform campaign a smear against Tito’s regime and said the Cominform accuses Tito of deviating from true communism.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Budapest
Marshal Tito
Commerce Aide Starts South American Tour
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer sent aide Thomas D. O Keefe on a four month mission to review current and proposed construction and production operations in nine South American countries. His first stop is Quito Ecuador on May 11 with visits planned to Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile Argentina Paraguay Uruguay Brazil and Venezuela.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
South American
Thomas D. O'Keefe
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
Argentina
Paraguay
Uruguay
Brazil
Venezuela
Quito
Bevin Warns Berlin Garrison Airlift Not Over
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, in Berlin for talks ahead of the Paris Big Four, told Queen’s Royal Regiment troops the airlift will continue for weeks and he will press for German freedom and a peaceful postwar order. He urged free elections, trade, and press, and noted plans to discuss borders at Paris while defending Allied duty in Germany.
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Berlin
Ernest Bervin
Bevin
Paris
Queen's Royal Regiment
America
England
Pariament
Great Britain
Germany
Community of Nations
Evin
Currency Values in a Stacked Sequence
A sequence lists exchange levels from 1.00 to 2.50 with several midpoints including 1.25 1.335 1.35 1.40 1.45 1.55 1.65 and 2.25, ending at 2.50. The pattern shows increments at varying steps suggesting a progressive scale or price ladder.
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