Radar in daily life and warfare foreseen by 1940s writer
David Dietz envisions radar becoming common on airports and ships enabling real time tracking of aircraft within about fifty miles and guiding traffic in fog. He cites British WWII use tracking geese and birds producing echoes that misled Nazis and notes future holds hunting aid and coastal river mouth observations. Tomorrow radar goes to Bikini.
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David Dietz
Atomic Energy
Great Lakes
Sault Ste. Marie
England
British Army Occupational Research Group
Luftwaffe
Luce Negro Appeal Provokes DAR Head
Washington AP report says Mrs. Jobius Y. Talmadge DAR president general criticized Rep. Clare Boothe Luce for pressing to allow a Tuskegee Institute choir to appear at Constitution Hall. Talmadge released a telegram reply calling Luce’s threats undemocratic and noting the committee acted outside DAR bylaws.
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Luce
Talge
Dars
Four Die in Army B 25 Crash Near Forestville Md
Four army air crewmen died when a B 25 crashed in a wheat field one mile south of Forestville Maryland. The War Department identified the men as Major Edward F Sumner age 31 and two veteran flyers among the crew.
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Washington
Forestville
War Department
Edward F. Sumner
Veterans listed with military honors and service details
Of Dallas Texas holder of the Silver Star Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal purple heart land presidential unit citation Master Sgt Thomas J Bukovac 24 Washington DC veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack 55 missions over the African European theater and holder of the Air Medal with five clusters Master Sgt George E Denton 39 Washington DC and Cpl Charles W Edgar Brookline Mass
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Dallas
Texas
Thomas J. Bukovac
Washington, D. C
Pearl Harbor
George E. Denton
Charles W. Edgar
Brookline
Mass
Egyptian Presides At U.N. Council
Dr. Hafez Afifi Pasha, Egyptian delegate, assumed the United Nations Security Council chair on a Wednesday session and urged collective action for global interests. Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko shifted to the far left of the U shaped council table during the meeting.
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New York
Hafez Afifi Pasha
United Nations Security Council
Afifi
Andrei A. Gromyko
Delegates Reorder Seats At Romano Conference
In a clockwise seating shuffle the British representative Sir Alexander Cadogan moved the Russian seat, placing Edward R. Stettinius Jr. beside him while Gromyko shifted from the right end to the far left.
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China
Egypt
Gromyko
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
U.S
British Control Area In Japan Is Expanded
Tokyo reports that British occupation troops gained control over more areas in Japan on Thursday. The newly controlled regions include the island of Shikoku and the prefectures of Okayama and Tottori on southern Honshu, bringing the total population under British control to about six million.
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INS
Japan
Shikoku
Okayama
Tottori
Honshu
Manville's Eighth Wife Mails Farewell to Tommy
Georgina Manville mailed her farewell note to the press announcing she left asbestos heir Tommy Manville. At Bon Repos New Rochelle she said she would not return after a quarrel over an orchestra player staring during a musical. She planned to keep jewelry and clothes she received. she urged a divorce if needed.
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New York
Tommy Manville
Georgina
Bon Repos
New Rochelle
Tommy
Hobo News
Mariville
Manville recalls sixth wife Billy Boze and stolen finery
In Georgina's testimony Manville likens her case to Billy Boze, his sixth wife who after a divorce tried to reclaim jewels and clothes he had given her. He recalls Boze collecting trunks and finery despite her refusal to accept anything.
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Georgina
Billy Boze
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