Soviet Serum Slows Old Age Advance
Russian scientists announce a rejuvenation serum ACS that slows bodily wear and may extend life toward 100 to 150 years over generations. Used clinically across the Soviet Union, it aids tissue and organ function, with growing public use among actors and artists under Ukrainian scientist Bogomoletz.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Leningrad
Alexander Alexandrovich Bogomoletz
Ukrainian Academy of Scientists
Tubercular Vets Walk Out Uncured
Washington reports hundreds of World War II veterans leaving tuberculosis hospitals uncured and risking spread. Dr. Paul R. Hawley of the Veterans Administration said most cases could be cured if patients followed medical directions, but many walk out against advice, unable to reenter for 90 days. Over 14 leave daily, with serious and often fatal results.
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Washington
Paul R. Hawley
Veterans Administration
T.B
Veterans Hospital
Rescue of sailors after rough sea near San Francisco
Five men aboard a small craft were found 30 miles south of San Francisco after drifting in 45 mph winds and heavy seas. The craft lost control while transferring a sick sailor from the Farallon Islands to the coast guard cutter Alert. The crew, drenched and chilled, were in good condition after a PBY plane spotted them and relayed coordinates to surface ships.
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San Francisco
Farallone Islands
Coast Guard
Alert
PBY
Coast Guardsmen Rescued After 24 Hour Ocean Drift
In San Francisco six coast guardsmen who endangered their own lives on a rescue mission were saved after drifting in an open surf boat for 24 hours. A coast guard cutter Air Partridge towed the 19 foot craft following an air sea search that covered eighty miles of the Pacific. The rescued men reported that
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San Francisco
INS
Coast
Decorated Vet Audie Murphy Urges Housing Bill Passage
Audie L. Murphy, America’s most decorated soldier, telegrams President Truman urging Congress to pass the Patman veterans housing bill. He questions lawmakers about their wartime sacrifices and warns a veteran’s soul can Tarnish without a home. Murphy, a former Farmersville, Texas youth, visits James Cagney as he considers film work. He holds the Medal of Honor, French Croix de Guerre, DSC, Silver Star, Purple Heart, and seven European campaign stars.
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Hollywood
Audie L. Murphy
America
Truman
Congressional
Farmersville
Texas
James Cagney
Murphy
Swift Meat Firm Walkout Averted
CHICAGO AP A threatened strike against Swift and Company was averted after the company promised to correct a misunderstanding from a 16-cent hourly pay boost urged by the Wage Stabilization board. The CIO Packinghouse Workers union claimed podjet 1,000 of 40,000 employees did not receive raises and said the dispute was settled by Secretary Anderson of the Agriculture Department.
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Chicago
Swift and Company
Meat Packing Company
Wage Stabilization Board
CIO Packinghouse Workers Union
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson. Anderson
Designer Dating Dress for Teens in Bazaar Feature
A teen fashion item highlights a rayon dress with suggestion sleeves and lattice neck detail in maize blue rose and aqua corsage colors. Available in junior sizes 10 to 16 with prints and described as a dating design by a designer who understands teenagers. Featured in Junior Bazaar.
Swift plant strike prompts wage increase confusion
The firm took control of 184 meat plants after January strike and reportedly told Swift to honor wage hikes for production workers. Company spokesmen blamed a misunderstanding and said the increases were always meant to apply to all production workers.
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Swift
Sumner Dies at 95, Noted Chicago Labor Leader
CHICAGO AP Steve Sumner, 95, a founder and longtime official of the AFL Milk Wagon Drivers union, dies after a long illness. A colorful figure, he fought gangs in the late 1920s and early 1930s who sought control of the union, fortifying his office with guns and bullet-proof glass and cruising in an armored car once owned by Samuel Insull.
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Chicago
Steve Sumner
Sumner
AFL Milk Wagon Drivers Union
Old Capone
South Side
Samuel Insull
Lent Fast Urged by Churches to Aid World Starving
In Chicago on Ash Wednesday, Catholic and Protestant leaders urged Lent fasting to relieve world hunger. Bishop Conkling called for prewar fasting to feed millions in need while Msgr. Casey described abstinence as self-imposed rationing to aid the starving.
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Chicago
Wallace E. Conkling
Episcopal Diocese of
George Casey
Relief Effort Proposes Weekly Fast Day Donations
A Protestant committee urges Christians to skip one meal weekly and donate the saved funds to relief agencies to ease suffering. The piece notes air express deliveries now travel up to 2,500 miles overnight at three miles per minute, cutting 75 percent of surface transport time.
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Air Express
Watch Lost 20 Years Ago Recovered in Pawnshop
A watch lost on a train ride between Birmingham and Cincinnati in August 1926 was found in a Nashville pawnshop and returned to its owner, R. A. Stanley of Louisville. The case was altered but the watch kept perfect time and was reunited with its owner after detectives pursued the lead.
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Louisville, Ky
INS
R. A. Stanley
Louisville
Birmingham
Cincinnati
Pullman Company
Nashville, Tenn
Stanley
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