Siren Echoes from Wartime London in Today’s Recall
War correspondent recalls comparing today’s alert with London’s WWII siren drills. In Washington Eisenhower leads 15,000 workers to relocation areas as officials empty offices, while London’s past warnings drove residents to shelter and streets emptied of casual traffic. The piece contrasts the different aims and moods of evacuations versus evacuations in wartime.
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Associated Press
London
Washington
White House
Whitehall
No. 10
Downing &T
Thames
Eisenhower
Treasury
State Department
House of Commons
Ike Leads Exodus As Alert Sounds For Atom Attack
Washington test of atomic-age civil defense sent officials scrambling from the Treasury and Pentagon. Sirens at 12 08 pm evacuated 15 000 workers, with Wilson and Eisenhower taking separate routes to emergency centers. Dulles Nixon and Congress stayed at desks. foreign embassies did not join the drill.
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RTTI
Pentagon
Eisenhower
Washington
Adm
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Civil Defense
George Canning
Marin
Cleveland
Ohio
Ike
Exodus
Alert
Atom
INS
White House
Coast Guard
Treasury
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
John Foster ‘Dulles
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Senate
Congress
Capitol Hill
George M. Humphrey
Australia to Send Troops to Malaya
Australia decided to send about a battalion, possibly 1,000 men, to join Britain's seven year fight against Communist guerrillas in Malaya. Prime Minister Menzies said the force would be stationed initially in Penang and that no date for embarkation had been set. The cabinet also ordered Australian destroyers Arunta and Warramunga to remain on Far East duty after current exercises.
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Canberra
Australia
Malaya
London
Toin
Robert Menzies
Malayan Federation
Singapore
Menzies
Penang
Cabinet Defense Committee
Arunta
Warramunga
Far East
Mrs Ruth Lester Awarded Four Thousand Dollars in Fire Loss Suit
A judgment of 4000 dollars was awarded to Mrs Ruth Lester of Fourth Ave in a suit over loss of personal possessions from a fire caused by a collision at the intersection of Bream Street and Fourth Ave on April 23 1944. Defendants included O K Trucking Co Eugene W Webb P M Springston and The Gazette truck. Webb testified Springston ran the stop sign. Springston accused Webb of speeding.
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Ruth Lester
Fourth Ave
O. K. Trucking Co
Eugene W. Webb
Charleston Gazette
P. M. Springston
Gazette
Bream St
Lester
Webb
Springston
Housewives Spoiling Coffee With Water
Brazilian delegate Horacio Cintra Leite says in 1946 restaurants and housewives brewed 42 cups per pound. Now the average is 63 cups per pound, causing weaker tasting coffee.
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Washington
Horacio Cintra Leite
Pan-American Coffee Bureau
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