B 29 Proves Ability To Defend United States
The B 29 Pacusan Dreamboat completed a 10 925 mile Honolulu to Cairo polar flight to test defense capability and navigation. Col C S Irvine said the mission proved the plane could defend the United States anywhere and highlighted polar navigation challenges.
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CATRO
Honolulu
Cairo
Arctic Circle
United States
Payne Field
Desert
Here
C. S
Bill” Irvine
St. Paul
Neb
Boeing
Irvine
United States Army
Washington
Carl Spaatz
Army Air Forces
F. J. Shannon
Royal Aero Club of Egypt
N. P. Hayes
Seneca
Arctic
Baffinland
Iceland
Khartoum
United States orders large force of B-50 bombers
Boeing Aircraft disclosed Monday that the United States army air force ordered a substantial number of giant B-50 superbombers. The new planes are described as more powerful than B-29s and part of the effort to intensify air power.
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Seattle
AFP
United States Army Air Force
Japan
Boeing Aircraft Company
AFL Chief Demands Higher Wages and End to Controls
AFL President William Green urged wage hikes as productivity rises and called for a removal of government wage and price controls except for rent ceilings. He praised John L. Lewis’s welfare fund for miners and urged unions to pursue social security funds. The convention, with 7,151,808 members, pressed for lower prices through steady production and criticized CIO leaders, the Soviet Union, and policy shifts during the steel strike.
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Chicago
AFL
William Green
AEL
John L. Lewis
Green
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
AFL United Mine Workers
AFL Executive Council
Illinois
Dwight H. Green
Executive Council
CIO
Soviet Union
Armetinga
Tribesman and aide search wilds for captives
In western China two Chinese officials and a Lolo tribesman entered rugged terrain near the North Burma border to locate an American pilot and 31 others held by Lolos since a Sept. 20 airliner crash. Only these two passable by natives.
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Chungking
China
Sichang
United States Army Graves Registration Service
United States Air Forces
Andrew Longbotham
Pasadena
Chinese National Aviation Corporation
Ho Kow-Kwang
Burma
Chinese Journal Reveals Lololand Terrors
The West China Border Research Society journal reports ongoing Lololand terror in far western China where five Americans are believed held by Lolos. It recounts a 1943 expedition by Lin Yue-hwa and Hu Liangchen detailing nightly gunfire and bandit attacks on Chinese homes.
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Chengtu
China
Journal of the
West China Border Research Society
Lololand
David C. Graham
Lin Yue-hwa
Hu Liangchen
Yenching University
Lin
Leipo
Persors
Prowler Kills Wife After Warning by Husband Army Lt
In Arlington Virginia Army Lt Dean M Bressler 26 shoots across a bedroom at a night prowler feared by police killing his wife Margaret 28. She dies two hours later in hospital while her 17 month old son and unborn baby are noted. Medical examiner calls death accidental.
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Arlington
Army
Dean M. Bressler
Bressler
Margaret
No End Seen To Argentine Beef Embargo
Washington AP reports officials see little chance the embargo on fresh and frozen Argentine beef will ease while foot and mouth disease exists in some herds. Argentina has little to sell, though a live cattle import from Mexico may be lifted later. Prices discourage more meat output and calf ceilings fell, but retail prices should stay steady.
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Washington
Argentina
Department of Agriculture
Mexico
Agriculture Department
Tom Stewart
Dtenn
Senate
James M. Mead
D-N.y
Stewart
UNRRA
Fiorrello LaGuardia
Atlantic Sports
Chicago
United Press
Buenos Aires
OPA
Clinton P. Anderson
Friendly Spirit Toward Americans Dispatch
Editor John Strohm narrates a six part dispatch from Soviet Russia after a visa allowing free travel. He portrays ordinary workers and farmers expressing gratitude for American aid and curiosity about the United States while noting hardships and limits under communism.
Who Is John Strohm
John Strohm is a 34 year old Chicago resident with three children. Born in Clark County NL near the Wabash, he has international interests and has traveled to 55 countries. He studied at the University of Illinois and interviewed Gandhi during a world trip before joining Prairie Farmer.
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America
Stalingrad
Moscow
Volga
Hotel Savoy
John Strohm
Chicago
Clark County
Masonic Order
University of Illinois
Citrus Crop Is Placed In Jeopardy
Florida faces an oncoming hurricane with winds over 100 mph that could damage a record 150 million dollar citrus harvest. Officials predict inland strike between Sarasota and Tarpon Springs near Tampa Bay, with strong winds inland up to 40 miles and dangerous tides along the west coast.
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Miami
Florida
West Coast
Gulf of Mexico
W. QO. Johnson
Sarasota
Tarpon Springs
Tampa Bay
Johnson
Cedar Keys
Key West
Florida Keys
Miami-Palm Beach
Gold Coast
Don Graham
Red Cross Disaster Relief Committee
Tampa
Insurance Firms Invest Billions in Housing Markets
Chicago report says life insurance companies have spent about 125 million dollars on new residential building in the United States and Canada following 150 million already invested in housing in recent years. The disclosure came at a housing forum of the American Life convention on Monday.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
American Life Convention
Cordell Hull Reported To Be Out of Danger
Cordell Hull who suffered a stroke a week ago appears to be out of any immediate danger Bethesda Naval hospital said on Monday in Washington.
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Cordell Hull
Washington (Ap
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Daily Record Indexes and Feature Sections Noted
The page lists sections including Deaths Editorial Features Farm Movies Sports and State with scattered unreadable headings and a Marion reference, indicating a collage of daily newspaper features and indexed topics.
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Ssacaeeness
Z Daily Record
Weeuteeee
Saceenes 6 Farm
Owas Annaved Marion
Cse
Os Caeaeeee Smorts
Ose
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Superfort
Wilds
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Theeneral
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North America
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Iron Curtain
U.s.sr
By John Strohm
NFA Service Inc
Byelorussia
Ukraine
Caucasus
Wilagal Alavalilga
Josef Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet Russia
Stalin
Russia
New York
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U. S
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Farm Women of
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Coast
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