The Grand Deception and Eddie Chapman’s double game
The story recounts Eddie Chapman’s 1940s sabotage ruse at the De Havilland factory, the hoax broadcast to Nazi masters, and the postwar reveal by Time’s George Voigt. It notes Chapman’s fate, the British Secret Service angle, and the reconstruction of missing chapters in The Eddie Chapman Story.
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New York
Eddie Chapman
Germany
England
Hatfield
de Havilland
London
Chapman
Julian Messner, Inc
Frank Owen
Secret Service
Time Magazine
George Voigt
Voigt
London’s secret weapon Chapman aided by Secret Service
Describes Chapman as a top cloak and dagger operative working with the British Secret Service. He allegedly aidedLondon in disrupting German bombing by guiding bombs to miss targets. The account portrays him as lean, handsome, clever, and a socialite who profited after the war from fast talk and ventures in the Gold Coast and the Mediterranean.
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London
Secret Service
Voigt
Chapman
Gold Coast
Mediterranean
England
Britain Unveils Giant Electronic Brain for Aerial Combat
Britain's Air Ministry announced a three dimensional analogue computer named Tridac that simulates aerial dog fights on a three dimensional screen. The Farmborough Royal Aircraft Establishment houses the 6000 square feet machine with 8000 valves and 2000 knobs. It emits electricity powerful enough to light a small town.
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London
Britain
Air Ministry
Royal Aircraft Establishment
Farmborough
Providence Irons Out Its Records
In Howard Rhode Island six pants pressing machines are drying and pressing about two million state tax records flooded in Providence by Hurricane Carol. Salvageable documents were moved from the downtown area to the state prison and reformatory where inmates press the records with the machines, a faster method than hand irons and fans, with completion expected in a few months.
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Howard, RI
Providence
Berkeley thief steals purse from Ag nes Puck
Ag nes Puck, 60, was attacked in Berkeley as a thief snatched her purse containing $71 and a copy of Plato’s Republic. The incident, reported by UP, notes the thief fled the scene with the items.
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Berkeley
Calif
Agnes Puck
Warning on Drinking in The Capital
Federal Communications Commission employees are urged to avoid loud partying drunkenness brawling or any conduct that could bring unfavourable publicity to the federal service. The circular follows a Budget Bureau program to monitor conduct of federal payroll personnel. White House aides confirm the program aims to prevent loose practices in government agencies.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Federal
Commission
Budget Bureau
White House
Murray Snyder
Simulcast on TV Tonight Featuring Entertainers
A 5 p.m. simulcast on KCRG-TV and WMT-TV will feature Art Linkletter emceeing with Bob Hope Dinah Shore Ray Bolger Tennessee Ernie and Barbara Britton. Final Cedar Rapids Marion Community Chest campaign supplies were slated for delivery this weekend and the Marion kickoff is set for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the city library. The coal goal is 270362 dollars up 5.3 percent from last year thanks to a new Ellis branch community center expanding service to youths and adults.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Community Chest
Red Feather
Jane Boyd
Community House
YMCA
Linn County Mental Health Society
Salvation Army
Sunshine Mission
John W. Barry
Camp Huaga
Boy Scouts
Armg
Camp Fire
Marion
Ymca Youth Center
Public Health Nursing Association
Art Linkletter
Bob Hope
Dinah Shore
Ray Bolger
Tennessee Ernie
Barbara Britton
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Ellis Branch
Northwest
United Lutheran Convention rejects centralized plan
In Toronto the United Lutheran Church convention defeated a plan to grant broad new authority to its executive board by 291 to 257 after debate. Critics warned the change would erode democracy and concentrate power, while supporters argued for better coordination of church agencies.
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Toronto
United Lutheran Church Convention
W. Carl Satre
Toledo
Ohio
Clarence C. Stoughton
Springfield
Executive Board
Interim convention splits surface in church reorganization
The article notes the interim period between conventions seen as halting a key part of the church reorganization program. Dr. Satre indicates that modified substitutes may be offered later, keeping options open for future changes.
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Satre
Mental Magician Harlan Tarbell To Speak At Cedar Rapids
Jaycees hear the mentalist famed as magician extraordinary and magician's magician. Harlan Tarbell will present Mental Mysteries during Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber dinner meeting at 6 15 p m in the Chamber of Commerce building. Reserve by calling 45135 by noon Wednesday.
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Harlan Tarbell
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Mrs Roberts Names All Republican Presidents on 105th Birthday
Waterbury Connecticut report states Mrs Henry G Roberts marked her 105th birthday and, asked which President she preferred, replied she liked all the Republican ones after living through 25 presidents.
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Waterbury, Conn
Henry G. Roberts
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