FM To Free Radio Speech, Inventor Says
Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of FM, says there is no true free speech on radio until the nation has many stations. He describes FM as reducing static and interference and notes over 600 FM license applications, signaling rapid growth.
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Edwin H. Armstrong
Armstrong
Cedar Rapids
Collins
Radio Company
Institute of Radio Engineers
Chamber of Commerce
Federal Communications Commission
Inventor Armstrong
Empire State Building
New York City
Commission
divorce petition seeks custody and property in Cedar Rapids
In Linn County Iowa the petition of Mary Kasey seeks an absolute divorce from Arless Kasey. The case asks for custody of minor children, division of household furniture and a 1932 Chevrolet Coach, title quieting to the Cedar Rapids property, costs, attorney fees of 7500, and child support of 20 dollars weekly. Defendants must appear within 20 days after the final publication or face judgment.
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District Court of
Iowa
Linn County
Mary Kasey
Arless Kasey
Arless
William Kasey
Patline
Shirley Kasey
Elmer Lloyd Fersey
Judith Kasey
Yvonne Kasey
34Th Street
Nel
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Barnes, Chamberlain, Hanzlik and Wadsworth
Hisley Building
Iowna
Radio Pioneer Details FM Plans and Market Hurdles
Armstrong outlined a frequency channel discovery and a plan for a license feed from FM transmitter manufacturers. Commercial FM receivers cannot be converted from existing radio sets, and he could not estimate market timing or price. Four FM transmitter applications exist with the FCC from Cedar Rapids.
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Armstrong
Federal Communications Commission
Cedar Rapids
Ammunition Blast Rocks Kurihama Peninsula Area
An explosion on the Kurihama peninsula below Tokyo destroyed 800 to 1000 tons of Japanese mines shells and torpedoes being moved for disposal under the American 316th ordnance company. No American casualties were reported. Explosions damaged dwellings across Tokyo Bay and blew in doors and windows over a wide area.
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Tokyo
Kurihama Peninsula
316Th Ordnance Ammunition Company
Tokyo Bay
Explosion at Wharf Triggers Fires and Series of Explosions
The blast near a wharf involved an American Negro ordnance battalion. The explosion started fires that set off additional blasts, with continuing detonations observed two hours later.
Desperadoes Kill Two Mexican Millionaires
Police search for four desperadoes after a robbery at a modest Mexico City home left two elderly millionaire brothers dead and their sister severely beaten. Victims Miguel Villar Iledias and Angel Villar Iledias died by strangling and beating. about $100,000 was stolen from their sister Maria. The brothers were said to have a fortune near $4,000,000.
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Mexico City
Miguel Villar Iledias
Angel
Maria
Stricken Baby Improves After New Drug Use
In Muncie Indiana doctors report encouraging signs as 17 month old Gayle Eleanor Harvey shows subsiding tubercular meningitis after streptomycin treatment. The baby's mother Jean Harvey and physicians express cautious optimism as lab findings suggest the infection is retreating.
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Muncie
Ind
Gayle Eleanor Harvey
Jean Harvey
Kamikaze Officer Cowardice Report Emerges
Tokyo dispatch from Co mei news agency details alleged cowardice among kamikaze leaders in Manila and Luzon. The piece, written by a kamikaze correspondent before his death, accuses Lt. Gen. Yoshii Tominga of fleeing Luzon and leaving the corps leaderless and doomed.
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Tokyo
INS
Japan
Comei
Luzon
Yoshii Tominga
Manila
Kamikazes Fail to Reach Japan in Luzon Hills
In northern Luzon hills kamikaze pilots, cut off from Japan, failed to reach a port as American air and surface defenses blocked exits. A Japanese submarine would not take aboard survivors, and several hundred kamikaze chose to end their lives in the hills. One bitter note was a bomber loaded with whisky instead of passengers.
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Luzon
Japan
Jap Sentenced to Year for Sugar Sack Theft
A 19-year old Japanese laborer was sentenced to one year in prison for stealing a 10 pound sack of sugar from a Sixth Army warehouse where he worked in a cleanup gang.
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Otsu
Japan
Sixth Army
Hope Fades for End Of Sugar Rationing
Washington reports from the agriculture department dim prospects for ending sugar rationing by spring. Sugar branch chief Earl B. Wilson said the Philippines sugar situation is not good and little if any sugar may be available in 1946 and 1947.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Earl B. Wilson
Philippines
Jap Officer Taken in Indo China by French
French jeep column returning personnel from Saigon to Cholon came under a bold grenade attack. One French soldier was killed and another wounded in the incident in Indo China. A Japanese style hand grenade was used.
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Indo-China
Saigon
Cholon
Japanese Officer Among Annamese Nationalists Seized in Cholon
Disturbances in Cholon led to the seizure of a dozen Annamese nationalists and a Japanese officer in civilian Annamese dress. He is the fourth Japanese officer captured under similar circumstances in recent days.
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Cholon
If He Can Take This He Can Drink Anything
Springfield Ohio hospital authorities say Willie Martin aged 22 admitted after attempting suicide by drinking a mixture of iodine turpentine rat poison kerosene lighter fluid shoe polish and wine. He is ill and under care.
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Springfield
Ohio
Willie Martin
Martin
Labor Aid of Peron Ascribed to Coercion
A Radical party spokesman in Buenos Aires charged police coerced workers into joining the Oct. 17 demonstration that brought Col. Juan Peron back to power. Carlos Cisneros, secretary of the Radical party national committee, said the mass appeal for Peron’s return was a reproduction of fascist and Falange demonstrations.
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Buenos Aires
Radical Party
Juan Peron
Carlos Cisneros
Peron
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