Major Larry Dennis to pilot P-80 Shooting Star at Cedar Rapids show
Major Larry Dennis will fly the P-80 Shooting Star in the Fourth of July air show at Municipal airport, Cedar Rapids, at 3 30 p.m. He is chief of the flight test division at Wright Field and served in the South Pacific during World War II. The display includes a Des Moines Centennial connection and a limited landing window with fuel flown in from Carney Nebraska.
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Larry Dennis
Army
Air Force
Cedar Rapids
L. D. Dennis
Avenue NW
Army Air Forces
Wright Field
Air Force Research and Center
Biak
United States
Dennis
William Norris
Major Dennis
Carney
Neb
Norris
H. H. Wilson
Air Force Headquarters
Washington, D. C
Des Moines
Wilson
Locust Street
Dayton
Ohio
Capital Building
Civil Air Patrol
Blame City Council For LaSalle Hotel Fire
A coroner's jury in Chicago attributes most blame for the LaSalle hotel fire on the city council for inaction after a 1945 recommendation. The June 5 blaze killed 61 people, the worst hotel disaster in Chicago history, and the verdict calls the deaths accidental with unknown origin.
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Chicago
INS
LaSalle Hotel
Clark Notel
la Salle
LaSalle
Man dives into Lake Michigan to save cat
Benjamin Bauer leaped into Lake Michigan Monday night to rescue a white cat. After a few seconds he called for help, telling two sailors who rescued him that he jumped in to save the cat and then remembered he cannot swim.
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Chicago
Benjamin Bauer
Lake Michigan
Notice of Will Probate Hearing in Cedar Rapids Iowa
In the District Court of Iowa to all concerned notice is given that the purported Last Will and Testament of Gericks Brems late of this county deceased will come for hearing in Cedar Rapids in the Court House for proof and admission to probate on July 8 or 9 1946 at 9 o clock a.m. Arthur Axmear Clerk of District Court. Yessler and Fahey attorneys.
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Wilt
Iowa
Sgericks Brems
Cedar Rapids
MacArthur Returns To Philippines For Ceremonies
General MacArthur arrives in Manila with Mrs. MacArthur and son Arthur for three days of ceremonies and a public address on July Fourth at Independence Day events. Filipino cheers greet the liberator as Gen Kenney and Romulo’s family join the welcome.
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Manila
INS
MacArthur
Arthur
Philippines
Roxas
Romulo
Bataan
Japan
Gen
Kenney
United States
Nehru to Become Congress President This Weekend
Jawaharlal Nehru will assume the presidency of the Congress party this weekend in Bombay, succeeding Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, as announced on Tuesday.
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Bombay India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress Party
Abul Kalam Azad
Forrestal Inspects Bikini Lagoon Atomic Damage firsthand
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal and Admiral Blandy risked minor radioactivity exposure to inspect Able day plus one damage at Bikini. They viewed the Sakawa sink, the Skate's radiation readings mounted, and the New York bore heavy blast effects as crews noted the ship’s safety monitors and chalked mutinous decks.
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MT. Mckinley
Bikini
Forrestal
W. H. P. Blandy
Bikini Lagoon
Sakawa
Joint Task Force One
Independence
Blandy
Nolan
New York
Turret Photo Shows Armaments Survived Bomb Event
Parsons notes a chair by the gun and a turret photo captured by the bomb’s flash. Blandy says a crew would have faced gamma radiation if aboard the New York. casualties would have been high. He adds the ship’s heavy parts remained undamaged while deck materiel was damaged.
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Parsons
Blandy
New York
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Benjamin
Ior
Arthur Axmear
Yessler and Fahey
Montcoméry
Joseph L. Myler
Skate
W. S. Parsons
Nevada
James Nolan
St. Louis
Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Bomb Laboratory
Mer
Pencewioey Ward
Cap
Torrington
Hoppe
Canoas
Ben Pearson
Montgomery
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