Amethyst Escapes Under Combat Battery in Far East Return
The Amethyst freed from Chinese coast batteries after a perilous escape a British naval message reports. Lt Cmdr J S Kerans led the crew as Admiralty and Prime Minister Attlee commended their gallant action and the fleet welcomed them home with praise and pride. Nickel alloy research notes 6000 possible metal combinations.
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Admiralty
Cmdr
J S. Kerans
Attlee
Far East
Sir Patrick Brind
Ron
Amethyst
Admiralty Board
Si Patrick
Sir Patrick
Katzin Family obituary notes wartime service and career
Phil Katzin interrupted by three years of army service in 1943 then resumed in Winston-Salem with a WSJS radio show. He appeared as a guest artist in New York and performed at the Trianon in Washington DC before a South American tour. Survived by Eli and Theresa Katzin and five brothers. Naomi Katzin born June 25 1925 in Long Beach NY is mentioned with husband and parents. An infant Susan Jane Katzin born February in Winston-Salem is noted. Britain's present industrial production is 26 percent above prewar.
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Inston- Salem
WSJS
New York City
Trianon
Washington, D. C
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Theresa Jesblott Katzin
Phil A
Leonard J
Edward E
Alfred J
Stephen S. Katzin
Winston-Salem
Naomi Katzin
Melrose Street
Long Beach
N. Y
Susan Jane Katzin
Amos Stabs Self In Bethel Colony Of Mercy Incident
Amos aged about 38, son of Real estate man James Amos of High Point, stabbed himself three times in the left chest at Bethel Colony of Mercy near Lenoir. He was in fairly critical condition at Blackwell hospital with a pierced left lung. no motive shown, reported by colony manager Jim Claffee at 12 09 pm.
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Amos
McLean
Jim Claffee
Senate Appropriations Committee Staggers Over Legislative Riders
The Senate Appropriations Committee faced heated debate on earmarked funds for foreign aid including 2 billion for surplus farm products and a 50 million loan to Spain. After ruling such provisions as legislation, the panel rewrote them as spending limits. Unresolved items may return as separate amendments.
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House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
United States
Spain
Appropriations Committee
Old Dominion Politics At Fever Pitch
A discussion of Virginia politics centers on reform ideas and the question of government control. The piece notes figures such as Byrd and Miller and mentions Walter Johnson, commonwealth attorney, weighing party battles and possible nominees in a narrowed Democratic race between Battle and Miller.
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Old Dominion
Miller
Byrd
Walter Johnson
Northumberland County
Johnson
Four Die in Plane Crash Near Fort Dix After Midair Collision
A Navy F6F Hellcat and a Eastern Airlines DC-3 collided over Farm country near Fort Dix N J killing nine aboard the DC 3 and four aboard the fighter. Army Navy and civil investigators rushed to the scene as relatives and authorities identify victims and search wreckage.
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Chesterfield Township
William A. Somerby
Fort Dix
N. J
Alice Sutherland
East 93Rd Street
New York
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Colesville
Gesina Deholl
McMillan Ave
Birmingham
Ala
Richard P. Katzkin
Rosewood Ave
Winston-Salem
N. C
Phillip A. Katzkin
Susan
Melrose Ave
Winston- Salem
Katzkin
Richard Katzkin
Howard S. Leroy
Connecticut Ave
N. W
Washington, D. A
Jane Margeson
Methune Drive
West Hartford
Conn
Jane Griswold
Hollister Drive
East Hartford
E. Curry
Arlington
Walcott Andrews
Melrose Lodge
Tryon
Sally Shaw
Brookline Drive
W. Hartford
Leroy Roland Matthews
Jackson Heights
Queens
N. Y
Julien B. Simmons
Peter Gobleck
4Th Street
Philadelphia
New York City
Hartford
la Guardia
Wilmington
Del
Washington
Atlanta
Memphis
New Jersey
Jane P. Margeson
James P. Margeson
U. S
Northwestern Airlines
Fountain City
Wis
Bomber Bases In Britain During World War II
The text notes USAF bomber bases in Britain at Scampton Marham and Waddington under an agreement with the RAF. It recalls a 1947 USAF B-29 visit showing runways adequate for the superfortress and compares the B-29’s size to wartime B 17s B 24s and British bombers.
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USAF
Britain
RAF
Scampton
Marham
Waddington
Navy plane buzzed airliner before deadly collision
Captains Armstrong and Rivenbark testified a Navy pursuit plane swerved near the eastern airliner carrying 65 persons about 20 miles from the Willow Grove Naval Air Station, minutes before another Navy craft collided with the craft, killing 16. The incident occurred at 8 54 a m near Philadelphia.
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Miami
John B. Armstrong
H. R. Rivenbark
Willow Grove Naval Air Station
Philadelphia
Part of Bank Loot Recovered in Pembroke Case
The FBI reports $13,533 of $20,667 stolen from the Scottish Bank of Pembroke on July 21 has been recovered. The money was found at the Lumberton area home of two brothers, Clifton Rice and Pasque Rice, and in a mule barn, with a former teller J. S. Blackwell implicated. Clifton Rice, 17, and Pasque Rice, 21, are held with Blackwell. bonds set at $20,000 each and $5,000 for Blackwell. They face federal court action in Fayetteville starting Sept. 19.
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Fayetteville
FBI Today
Pembroke
Charles W. Brown
Charlotte
FBI
Lumberton
Clifton Rice
Brown
Pasque Rice
U. S
Helen Snow Barrington
Rice Brothers
J. S. Blackwell
R. M. Stevenson
Blackwell
Cooler Weather Approaching Carolinas From North
The Associated Press reports a cool air mass moving from Canada and the midwest toward the Carolinas. If it clears the Western North Carolina mountains, cooler weather is expected tonight in western areas, by Monday in the Piedmont, and by tomorrow afternoon along the coast.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
North Carolina Mountains
Weather Bureau
Canada
Midwest
Charlotte
Nessee
Piedmont
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