Cosmic Ray Data Sought in New Mt. McKinley Assault
Boston based report details a 10 man and 1 woman army backed expedition to Mt McKinley to collect cosmic ray data and test cold weather gear. The mission aims to film the mountain face, advance scientific knowledge, and demonstrate high altitude supply techniques in sub zero Alaska conditions. The team includes Mrs Washburn and will parachute a research station to 10,000 feet as part of a two month operation. Historical note recalls earliest ascents in 1910 1913 and a fatal 1932 failed attempt.
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Boston
INS
Mt. McKinley
North America
Bradford Washburn
New England Museum of Natural History
United States Army
Arctic
Washburn
McKinley
Army Air Forces’ 10Th Rescue Squadron
Anchorage
Alaska
Fairbanks
North Peak
Old McKinley
South Peak
Hudson Stuck
Yukon
Nursery Spring Catalog Seeds Price Notice
Los Angeles AP reports an inflationary line in a nursery spring catalog showing seed packets priced at 35 cents and a larger bundle at 1 dollar. The note highlights rising costs affecting gardening supplies.
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Los Angeles
Pope Receives Hoover for Food Problem Discussion
In Vatican City Pope Pius XII met with Herbert Hoover for over 30 minutes to discuss European food problems with central and southern Europe as a focus. Hoover and aides described the session as cordial and followed by the presentation of Vatican reports and views on the issue.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Herbert Hoover
Central
Europe
Hoover Party
Vatican
Last quadruplet dies after Saturday birth in New York
The final of quadruplets born to Mrs. Judith Mazzei, 22, died Monday in New York. The birth and death highlight a rare multiple birth case with the family seeking information and potential follow up from doctors and health authorities.
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New York
Judith Mazzei
Chiang Acts to Gird Economy With War Measures
AP dispatch from Shanghai reports T V Soong arriving to oversee Chiang Kai shek’s emergency plan. Decrees set currency reform, ban gold and USD trades, curb strikes, reimpose wartime prices, cut expenditures, enforce taxes, and force conversion of private foreign holdings into Chinese currency, with auctions of state assets.
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Shanghai
T. V. Soong
China
Syuan
Chiang Kaishek
Chiang
Soong
United States
Decrees Tighten Controls on Foreign Exchange and Speculation
New decrees issued Sunday tighten currency controls and punish speculators, hoarders and profiteers. They ban $100 cash withdrawals from the country, prohibit foreign currency payments to foreign individuals and organizations, and require private bank account scrutiny to enforce the new regulations. They also abolish an export subsidy and import surcharge and set a $472,519,000 financing target for essential improvements.
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United States
Possible Robbery Of Million Foiled In Chicago
Police say three young men planned a $1,000,000 robbery at a Chicago real estate office housing 700 safety deposit boxes. Officers spotted an unattended car at the rear Sunday morning and interrupted the getaway as three men emerged.
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Chicago
Police seize cache of safe-cracking tools and cash
Officers activated lights on the fleeing vehicle and the men surrendered at once. Captain Ray Crane, chief of uniformed police, described the car as carrying the most complete array of safe-cracking tools he had ever seen. He said the company vault held at least $1,000,000 in cash across its safe deposit boxes.
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Ray Crane
Uniformed Police
Crane
Civil Air Patrol Commander Killed In Plane Crash
Civil Air Patrol national commander Col Earle Johnson 52 died when a twin engine Army C 45 piloted by him crashed near North Royalton after taking off from Cleveland airport. Crew chief Sgt Kenneth Wood Williamsport Pa and Pvt Edward J Malovic 17 Cleveland a marine hitch hiker also died. Johnson had returned to active service in 1942 to direct CAP from Bolling Field Washington DC and left Friday on a nationwide assignment.
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Cleveland
Earle Johnson
Civil Air Patrol
North Royalton
Cleveland Lairport
Kenneth Wood
Williamsport
Johnson
Edward J. Malovic
CAP
Bollingfield
Washington, D. C
CAP unit commander and Ohio aviation figure dies in crash
Witnesses report hearing an explosion from a CAP craft at 2000 feet as the unit toured. Johnson, awarded the Legion of Merit for wartime CAP direction, previously directed aviation in Ohio and was a farmer, financier, businessman, real estate operator and state legislator. He played for Ohio State in 1916, helping win the Western Conference title.
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Johnson
Legion of Merit
Waritime
CAP
Ohio
Ohio State University
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