Chief Signal Officer To See Korea Work
General S B Akin the Army chief signal officer left for Korea with a team to inspect communications facilities and seek lessons for Signal Corps research development and training. Akin who served as MacArthur s chief signal officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater will study current operations for improvements.
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Washington
Army
S. B. Akin
Korea
Akin
Signal Corps
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Turboprop Aircraft Sets New Record
Navy patrol seaplane Lamotte T. Cohn of Consolidated Vultee announced a 60 ton turboprop flying boat flew eight hours six minutes on a routine test over the Southern California coast. The feat sets a new American and world endurance record for turbo prop aircraft.
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Austin American
Austin
Texas
Lamotte T. Cohn
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp
California
BC Headache Powders and Tablets Ad
Headache relief promises extra fast action for headaches neuralgic pains and minor muscular aches from BC powders and tablets. Claims the full effectiveness comes from combining popular ingredients with quick dissolving action and identical relief for tablet or powder forms. Urges purchase with 10¢ and 25¢ sizes and directs use as directed.
No Motive Found For Family Killing
In Napoleon Ohio a 51 year old house painter Floyd Joseph Hefflinger killed his wife Marjorie 48 and three children Shirley 15 Floyd 3 and Joseph 2 then fatally shot himself. Coroner B L Johnson said the motive remains unknown though Hefflinger recently learned he had errors on a tax notice. Marjorie is in care after shock.
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Napoleon
Marjorie Hefflinger
Floyd Joseph
Shirley
Floyd
Joseph
B. L. Johnson
Hefflingers
Columbus
Johnson
Hefflinger
Rutledge Attorneys File Appeal Papers
Dr. Robert Rutledge of St. Louis has filed an appeal in Des Moines to challenge a 70 year prison sentence for second degree murder in the slaying of his wife's alleged seducer Byron Hartman in a Cedar Rapids hotel room. He has been free on $40 000 bond after more than a year of his term. The defense brief was submitted ahead of the Sept 9 deadline with the state due to reply by Nov 1 and rebuttal by Dec 1.
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Des Moines
INS
Robert Rutledge
St. Louis
Iowa Supreme Court
Record-setting American turboprop seaplane exceeds 350 mph
The XPSY1, Consolidated’s largest flying boat, matched and then surpassed the prior American turboprop endurance record with a 2 hour 20 minute test flight this summer. It tops 350 miles per hour and is designed for trans oceanic troop, patient, passenger, and cargo transport.
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Consolidated
Drivers Halt Strike At Santa Fe System
Seventy two truck drivers on strike since June 12 will return to work Sept. 5 after a settlement between the Chauffeurs, Teamsters and Helpers Union AFL and Santa Fe Trails Transportation System. The agreement provides health and welfare benefits, pay-adjustment changes and five paid holidays annually.
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Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Santa Fe Trails Transportation System
Chauffeurs, Teamsters and Helpers Union
AFL
Wylie Worden
Germans arraigned in Germany for possession of security plans
Two Germans including a Security Board employee were arraigned in an American court on charges of possessing information dangerous to occupation forces. Plans showing the layout of the US Army Ordnance Depot at Griesheim were presented. The defendants Guenther Scholz and Armann Cosmann, both of Wiesbaden, allegedly contacted Soviet authorities in Berlin.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Allied Military Security Board
Griesheim
Guenther Scholz
Security Board
Armann Cosmann
Wiesbaden
Fred Johnson
Berlin
36th's Gunners Just Too Good, Brass Says
NORTH FORT HOOD Aug 31 Leading 36th Infantry Division field exercise, Lt Col V P Hiner complains his 131st Field Artillery Battalion unit failed to bracket a target and hit it on first fire during summer training.
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Fort Hood
V. P. Hiner
Abilene
131St Field Artillery
Hiner
36Th Infantry Division
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