Looking Ahead Russians Open Peek-Holes in Iron Curtain
The World Staff of Associated Press notes Russians increasingly engage with the press in selective interviews and issued statements. Andrei Gromyko repeated a UN committee remark after rejecting the U S atomic energy oversight proposal. Molotov and Novikov also offered press access while maintaining limits on information.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Diots
Andrei Gromyko
U. S
United Nations Committee
Molotov
Foreign Ministers
Paris
Novikov
United States
Truman
Official budget revisions eyed for late summer
Federal Reserve analysts predict 1946 earnings for manufacturing trade and service firms will match or beat 1945 levels despite strikes and reconversion duties. Depreciation and amortization charges were heavy last year and tax credits this year could total five to six billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Federal Reserve
Prisoners of war crimes will stay jailed under occupation
War department officials say German and Japanese war criminals sentenced to life will remain in jail as long as U S occupation forces stay in Germany and Japan. They will be turned over to the army provost marshal with no parole in occupied territory, and their fate if forces withdraw is unclear. If returned to the United States they could enter federal prisons and parole. The final disposition depends on Allied commissions rules.
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Ashington
United States
U. S
Germany
Japan
War Department
Allied Commissions
Tokyo
Nuernberg
Taft Dinner Sparks 1948 G.O.P. Presidential Talk
Senate colleagues question if a Taft dinner with Republican senators signals his bid for the 1948 GOP nomination. Amid talks on Republican campaign chances, speakers lauded Taft's record during the postmeal gathering.
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Senate
Taft
Ohio
G.O.P
Kaltenbach Death Tied to Soviet Detention Camp
The Department of Justice reports Fred Kaltenbach an Iowa born American died in a Soviet detention camp. Kaltenbach had been indicted for treason for alleged broadcasts from Berlin during World War II.
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Depart— of Justice
Fred Kaltenbach
Berlin
Britain intensifies drive to develop rocket weapons
Sir Alwyn Crow states he is conferring with supply ministry officials as Britain undertakes exhaustive efforts to advance rocket weaponry. The remarks highlight government focus on strategic armaments amid security concerns.
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Alwyn Crow
Supply Ministry
Britain
May Dancing at Garsson Wedding Under Rolls Royce Supervision
The report notes Rep May dancing at the Garsson wedding under Rolls-Royce staff oversight. It mentions the Bailey bridge as a prefabricated span built from one river side and outlines British innovations entering the U S on a commercial basis. Rolls-Royce licenses jet engine rights to an American firm. British scientists are developing atom propelled liners and gas turbine locomotives to aid shipping.
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Rolls-Royces
America
Rolls-Royce
Packard
Ford
German scientists collaborate on airborn atomic bomb destruction research
A quoted figure notes German scientists are collaborating on a research effort aimed at developing a method to destroy atomic bombs while they are in the air, expressing hope for progress in this dangerous field.
Britain unlikely to supervise Polish elections says foreign office
Unofficial Foreign Office sources indicate Britain is unlikely to intervene to supervise the upcoming Polish elections, despite a suggestion from Polish Vice-Premier Mikolaiczyk.
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London
Foreign Office
Britain
Mikolaiczyk
Iron Lung Fred Snite Competes in Bridge Meet
Fred Snite Jr. of Chicago, known as the man in the iron lung, arrives in Little Falls for the Central Minnesota American Contract Bridge league tournament. He will watch via mirrors and direct attendants to play his hand while he lies horizontal in the iron lung.
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Little Falls
Minn
Fred Snite, Jr
Chicago
Snite
Minocqua
Wis
Meat loving Holstein Keifer Makes Hudson Rescue
In New York the Holstein named Keifer leaped into the Hudson River as it was to be loaded for shipment. Police used a tugboat crew long shoremen a police launch a police emergency squad and an electric crane to haul the animal back to shore.
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New York
Hudson River
Shostakovich Ninth Symphony Premier at Berkshire Festival
The Boston Symphony Orchestra will debut the composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony in the Western hemisphere on July 25 at Tanglewood to open the Berkshire festival.
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Lenox
Mass
Dmitri Shostakovich
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood
British Inventors May Sue Britain for U S Royalties
The British government agreement settles all claims of British citizens for inventions handed to the United States during the war. It covers radar, penicillin, jet propulsion, atomic energy work, and other secrets, with royalties due on British patents used in America. The movement aims to recover royalties and underscores deep wartime collaboration with American research centers in Oak Ridge and beyond.
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America
United States
British Information Services
Britain
Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Alexander Fleming
Air Commodore
Whittle
James Chadwick
U. S
Roosevelt
Churchill
Ottawa
Jap Mine Hazard Could Threaten Pacific Shipping Five Years
Pearl Harbor reports warn that some 30 000 Japanese mines may drift into the Pacific for at least five years after wartime losses. Rear Admiral Arthur D Struble notes six ships damaged since V J Day, with stray mines sighted near Hawaii and 600 miles off California. Mines drift northward, though sterilizers aim to neutralize them, it takes years for corrosion to sink cases, risking collisions from Japan to America’s coasts.
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Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Arthur D. Struble
Pacific Fleet
Struble
Hawaiian
California
North
America
Siruble
Japan
No Kind of Example For His Honor To Set
Mayor F M Wilson failed a city driving license test when his new car rolled backward into a store. Examiner A M Ambrey witnessed the mishap as bystanders fled and glass shattered. both officials were unhurt, but the office and vehicle were damaged. Ambrey commented on whether the license would be issued.
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Warrenton
Ore
F. M. Wilson
Examiner A. M. Ambrey
Dorothy Johnson
Examiner
Ambrey
Allies Fail to Secure Pu Yi Testimony From Russians
Allied war crimes prosecutors said they could not obtain Henry Pu Yi the puppet emperor of Manchuria from the Russians, hindering efforts to present his testimony.
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Pu Yi
Tokyo
Henry Pu Yi
Manchuria
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