B 29 breaks transcontinental flight record
The B 29 Dreamboat established a new U S transcontinental record of five hours 31 minutes 44 seconds from Burbank California to LaGuardia New York covering 2164 miles at about 450 mph. Pilots Col Clarence S Irvine and Lt Col G R Stanley led the crew with two civilians aboard for observation.
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Burbank
Calif
LaGherdia Field
William Zindt
National Aeronautical Association
Jack H. Carter
Guam
Washington
Clarence S. Irvine
G. R. Stanley
Lockheed Air Terminal
Iowa
LaGuardia Field
Irvine
William F. O'Hare
Humboldt, Ia
Cremation charges dropped in baby deaths case in Tennessee
In Fayetteville, Tennessee, murder charges against H. H. Peters his wife and her son Harry F. Carrollway were dropped due to lack of evidence. Two workers at their Manchester tourist camp alleged five babies were burned there but a lab test found no human ashes.
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Fayetteville, Tenn
H. H. Peters
Harry F. Carraway
Manchester
Tenn
Theaters Post Wednesday Film Schedules and Times
The Gazette lists Wednesday showtimes for Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Marion and more. Films include Our Vines Have Tender Grapes The Southerner Follow That Woman Crime by Night and G I Honeymoon plus Boston Blackie etc. Benjamin Franklin born in Boston January 17 1706.
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Rialto
G. I
Boston
Blackie
Marion
Benjamin Franklin
Southerner Realistic Tale of Small Town Sharecroppers
The SouthernER stars Betty Field and Zachary Scott in a realistic portrayal of Sam and Nona Tucker who, like Steinbeck’s figures, seek independence by leaving a large cotton outfit to farm a river bottom on share. They confront a petty neighbor over rights to water and future hopes for their family.
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John Steinbeck
South
Sam
Nona Tucker
Zachary Scott
Betty Field
Picayune
Sam and Granny Farm Comedy and Co feature Review
A film notes Sam the farmer faces pests, drought and flood with satire and grit while Granny adds gruff humor. Percy Kilbride provides comic relief as a neighbor with a Yankee twang. The co feature Follow That Woman adds light mystery with a murder and suspects finale.
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Sam
Jody
Percy Kilbride
Ferne Gater
Farm Goals To Be Discussed In Des Moines Friday
Iowa's tentative 1946 farm goals call for practically all-out production in crops and livestock for at least another year. A. J. Loveland says the plans, received from Washington, will be debated by the state USDA council and farm leaders at a 9 am all-day meeting in Des Moines.
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Iowa
Linn County
Maude Elizabeth McKernan
Said County
Court House
Cedar Rapids
Arthur Axmear
Trewin, Simmons, Perrine & Albright
DES Moines
PMA
A. J. Loveland
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Loveland
Usda Council
Visiting officer’s finger prints confuse Muncie station
In Muncie Indiana plainclothes visiting officers are in the fingerprint room as local officers prepare to fingerprint a prisoner. By mistake one visiting officer was fingerprinted instead of the prisoner causing a brief mix up and a mugging incident term used by the dispatch.
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Muncie, Ind
Muncie
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