Vet's Alaska claim on atom blueprints to Russia
An Alaska wartime interview details Norton recounting discovery of blueprints for an atomic bomb inside a cargo bag during lend-lease plane inspections. He described the blueprint as highly intricate with the symbol 92 for uranium, and linked the find to possible ferry flights from Elizabeth City. He named ties to Russian pilots and officials, noting admiration for Wallace.
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Beer Problem Foams Over In Oklahoma
Oklahoma City reports the beer issue resurfaced in the state legislature as Senator Raymond Garvin advocated a local option on 3.2 beer amid opposition from Senator Byron Dacus over votes and committee referrals. The debate touched border counties seeing cross state酒 patronage and calls for a public hearing. Separately in St Louis, a father admitted to breaking his daughter's arm while trying to stop her from singing Christmas carols. he claimed it was an accident and faces assault and mistreatment charges.
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Truman Plans Christmas Staff Care as He Travels
President Truman will be away from the White House for Christmas. He directs staff with families to remain home or join him in Independence, Missouri, after his December 23 trip to Washington for a brief medical check. The plan prioritizes time with households while he conducts official duties.
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Million Workers In Italy Strike For Higher Pay
Rome date line reports more than one million civil servants began a two hour nationwide strike for higher wages. Public buildings guarded by police. buses and municipal services mostly run. Strikers seek wage scale revisions and parity with higher paid private sector workers. The three week old national telephone strike partially settled with anti Communist unions returning to work.
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Hot Dogs And Beer Exhibit At Columbia
Columbia University reacted to General Eisenhower's remark that people want champagne when hot dogs and beer are enough. A statue of Alexander Hamilton on campus displayed eight frankfurters and a sign reading Beer and frankfurters for all, with chalk stars on Hamilton’s coat tails. The incident followed Eisenhower's speech at St. Trews Society on November 30, as the Spectator noted that champagne and caviar could appear in the White House in the future.
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Ingrid Bergman and Rossellini deny secret marriage
Rome reports Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini denied rumors of a secret marriage and said they would wed after Bergman’s divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom is finalized. Friends quoted Rossellini saying he would not confirm pregnancy rumors as an invasion of privacy.
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Peter Lindstrom
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Six Dollar Per Capita School Apportionment Made
The state education fund issued a $6 per pupil apportionment announced by State Superintendent L A Woods. The payment totaled $9,335,802 based on 1597 Texas school pupils, the third of $48 per pupil for 1949-1950, totaling $22 paid so far.
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L A. Woods
Texas
German Children Campaign Against War Like Toys
In Berlin on December 16, more than 4000 children from about 200 west Berlin schools backed a campaign to ban militaristic toys. Youth groups urged toy shops to demilitarize stock and display posters stating they do not sell militaristic toys. The effort, led by Wolfgang Hanel, involved visits to 95 shops with 46 cooperative owners and 14 rejections. The campaign allowed jeep toy models and unarmed airplanes, while some shop owners argued for foreign toy soldiers and other warlike gear.
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Mediation Effort Aims to Halt Bell Telephone Walkout
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service opened talks to stop a threatened strike by about 50,000 Southwestern Bell workers across six states as mail ballot voting nears. CIO CWA official Frank P. Longerar reports scattered signs the walkout could occur.
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Frank P.longerar
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