Remote controlled Flying Fortress completes ground assisted flight
A 46 000 pound B 17 drone flew from Roswell Army Air Field with no human input for 30 minutes. Ground crews in jeeps and a mother plane steered takeoff landing and flight via radio. Maj. Whittaker and Lt. Col. Kelly directed the operation witnessed by high level Army Navy officials ahead of Bikini Atoll tests.
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Roswell
N. M
Army Air Field
Flying Fortress
W. F. Tooman
Boise
Ida
Bikini Atoll
Marshalls
Douglas H. Whittaker
Monmouth
Ill
Thomas C. Kelly
Oklahoma City
Hutchins Attacks Military Control of Atomic Energy
University of Chicago Chancellor Robert Hutchins challenged Major General Leslie Groves at a Washington hearing, urging peacetime use of atomic discoveries and arguing that military control would hinder permanent peace. He called for passage of the McMahon bill and focused on international cooperation to prevent war.
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Washington
Hutchins
Civilian Control of Atomic Energy Urged
The statement emphasizes civilian control of atomic energy and free exchange of basic scientific information to accelerate research. It argues industrial uses of atomic power are near and could be demonstrated on a large scale within months.
Brooklyn Teacher Guilty of Anti-Semitic School Board Case
New York Brooklyn teacher Miss May A. Quinn was found guilty Thursday of writing anti-Semitic sentences on a school board blackboard, according to INS dispatches.
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New York
INS
May A. Quinn
Brooklyn
Teacher reinstated after trial over antisemitic board notes
A civics teacher at P.S. 227, Brooklyn, was fined two months salary and placed under suspension by the superintendent Miss Quinn after trial on five charges stemming from her tenure. Four charges were dismissed, but the board of education upheld a committee finding her guilty for writing sentences on the board copied from an antisemitic pamphlet, with reinstatement ordered for March 1.
Slayer Quizzed on Missing Persons Case
Thomas Henry McMonigle, under death sentence for the Thora Chamberlain murder, was questioned by the FBI about the recent disappearances of five Midwest persons. The cases involve an Oklahoma couple and three Michigan schoolgirls missing between November 1 and November 18.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Thomas Henry McMonigle
Bobby Soxer
Thora Chamberlain
Federal Bureau of Investigation
McMonigle
James Atteridge
San Quentin
Der
San Jose
E. J. Connelley
FBI
Oklahoma
Michigan
Wainwright Plans Retirement After Bataan Memorial
Gen. Jonathan Wainwright announced he will retire from the army within 18 months and settle on a Texas ranch after returning to the Philippines to dedicate a memorial for Americans who died in the Bataan campaign. He spoke during Bronnsville charro days in Browntime. He will reside at Kerrville, Texas, near Gov. Coke R. Stevenson’s ranch.
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Texas
Philippines
Bataan
Wainwright
Bronnsville
4Th Army
Kerrville
Coke R. Stevenson
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