Commodore Dixie Kiefer among six killed in Beacon plane crash
Beacon New York authorities say wreckage of a navy plane and six bodies were found on Mount Beacon. Commodore Dixie Kiefer 49, commander of the first naval district air bases, is identified among the dead. others unnamed. The craft departed Caldwell New Jersey for Quonset Rhode Island, last heard near Steward Field West Point, crashing 15 minutes later.
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Atomic Bomb Warfare From Space Ships In Foreseeable Future Says Arnold
General Hap Arnold predicts atomic bomb warfare from inter stellar ships is within the foreseeable future. In his annual report he warns of robots crossing shorelines and urges a strategic air force to strike at the source using atomic bombs. He envisions V-2 like delivery from space ships for shorter flight times and harder detection, noting space capable weapons are nearly practicable today.
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Hap Arnold
Army Air Forces
United States
Tito's Forces Victorious In Election Fight
Belgrade voters backed Marshal Tito's national front in the Sunday constituent assembly election with over 90 percent turnout of 8 020 671 eligible voters. Opponents boycotted. abstention minimal. Women voted for the first time as celebrations marked the holiday atmosphere.
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5,000 Married Veterans To Give Up Education Plans
In Raleigh on November 12 the North Carolina State College chancellor Col. J. W. Harrelson warned about housing shortages forcing about 5,000 married veterans to abandon GI Bill education goals. He urged apartment dormitories to house veterans and families attending college.
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Seven Violence Deaths Over Weekend Reported
The Associated Press notes seven weekend fatalities from violence and accidents in the Carolinas. A pair of motorcycle auto crashes killed three people: Vicciferro and Kirkwood in near Greensboro. Parkes in Mount Airy. A Newberry, South Carolina accident claimed Harold Dehardt. Chesnee saw a two year old, Anita Newton, fatally injured in a fall. Charlotte police reported two weekend homicides involving Black residents.
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America
J. Vicciferro
Stamford
Newberry
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Harold Eldridge Dehardt
Chesnee
Anita Newton
Charlotte
North Carolina Press Association Dispenses With 1946 Awards
The North Carolina Press Association voted to dispense with visual awards for 1946. An executive committee named a committee to report at the January meeting in Chapel Hill on January 24–25 and make recommendations for future awards starting in 1947. A new directory of North Carolina newspapers will be published early next year.
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Worker’s Job Investment Highlighted in Gastonia Survey
Washington reports a United States chamber of commerce survey calling Gastonia a typical American city. It estimates a worker’s job equates to a seven thousand dollar investment and cites a need for about 350 billion dollars in capital to create 50 million industrial jobs, stressing capital investment to raise wages and job numbers.
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United States Chamber of Commerce
Gastonia
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Chamber A
Ralph Brad
Break in labor grid appears as 2,500 CIO electricians return to work
Idle workers 272,500 nationwide amid unresolved disputes in steel and auto industries. About 2,500 CIO electricians in New Jersey resumed work at Thomas A. Edison plants in Kearny Belleville and West Orange, while up to 270,000 employees across General Electric Westinghouse and GM electrical divisions face possible strike rates by the war labor board over essential consumer goods.
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Nazis Solved Fuse Project In Quick Time
The Nazis duplicated in the war s end the proximity fuse the second most important weapon after the atomic bomb. The Nazi fuse passed lab and field tests mounted on a rocket propelled missile for use against allied aircraft before allied hands captured the equipment. Gen H H Arnold released the third report detailing the near completion of the American electronically activated fuse.
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H. H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Secretary of War
Army Air Forces
Washington
United States
Heavy bombers to police Europe under Arnold plan
Gen H H Arnold in the third annual Army Air Forces report states very heavy bombers will patrol Europe. The only very heavy bomber then in operation is the B 29. Europe will retain light bombers fighters troop carriers recon night fighters and liaison units. B 17s and B 24s will not be used for combat patrols but may serve as cargo carriers.
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Germany
Germans Solve Secret Within Five Months After Fuse First Used
The report notes that the Germans apparently solved the secret within five months after the fuse was used for the first time, indicating rapid progress in their wartime efforts.
Plane crash near Caldwell linked to naval officer Kiefer
A twin engined bomber crashed on a mountainside en route from Caldwell New Jersey to Quonset Point Rhode Island. Joseph Brown Sr and Jr saved bodies and summoned Beacon police. Commodore Kiefer identified by pocket items and arm cast from Formosa battle. He served as commanding officer of the Quonset naval air station and was wounded in both World Wars.
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Quonset Point
R. I
Joseph Brown
Joseph, Jr
Texas Oil Company
Glenham
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Samuel Rogers
Ralph Carter
Beacon Police
Aire
Kiefer
Kansas City
Naval Air Station
Quonset
Discharged Yank Seeks Office In Japanese Diet
An American World War I veteran, Zansaku Azuma, born in Japan 53 years ago, candidate for the Japanese diet. He came to the U S in 1911 and enlisted in 1918, discharged in 1919, lived in Los Angeles, returned to Japan in 1930, and now runs a mine with 50 workers. He runs as an independent promising to fight corruption and foster U S Japan cooperation.
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Zansaku Azuma
Japan
United States
Sacramento
Calif
United States Army
Azuma
Los Angeles
Montomgery calls four power government effort flawed
British Field Marshal Montgomery warned in Berlin on Armistice Day that allied cooperation has fallen short of the four power effort and that continued setbacks threaten international cooperation. He framed the day as a sermon on cooperation and warned progress depends on united action among nations.
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Era
Berlin
Jerome Kern Dies at 60 After Cerebral Thrombosis
Jerome Kern, composer of Show Boat and songs like Ol Man River and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, died yesterday afternoon at Doctors Hospital. Dr Harold T Hyman said the death was caused by a cerebral thrombosis. His scores and tunes have been widely sung in the United States for over three decades.
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Harold T. Hyman
Kern
Anderson Sees No Cotton Quota For Next Year
MEMPHIS November 12 Clinton P Anderson secretary of agriculture arriving to confer with cotton officials said there probably would not be a cotton acreage quota for 1946. He predicted a farm labor shortage next year despite unemployment as people are not yet ready to return to farms. The mechanization of cotton production will place the south's staple in a better competitive position for world trade and to meet competition from synthetics. He said he is interested in wages staying high due to farmers dependence on this market.
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Clinton P. Anderson
Indonesians Seek Soviet Aid in Java Crisis
Indonesian Foreign Minister Soebardjo urged Soviet intervention to counter British Indian forces in Surabaya and push back Dutch rule. He appealed to Molotov and promised Indonesians would help Allied forces disarm and evacuate Japanese troops on Java.
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Congress Prepares For Stormy Debates On Energy War Training And Jobs
Congress steeled for contentious votes on atomic energy oversight with a proposed broad commission draft, debated universal military service and training plans, pressed ahead on a full employment bill, and set hearings into Pearl Harbor with a list of 48 witnesses, amid party and senior official tensions.
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Energy pool proposal aims to curb atomic arms race
Washington reports say Prime Minister Attlee urged Truman and Mackenzie King to pool atomic findings for peaceful use, shared among nations after safeguards. The plan would include Russia France and others, with roundtable talks continuing after a Potomac cruise and dinner. Leaders Byrnes Halifax Anderson Leahy Pearson attended the discussions.
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British Atomic Advisory Commission
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Lester Pearson
Middle Belt Price Average Nears Fifty On Tar Heel Tobacco
Raleigh reports the middle North Carolina flue cured tobacco markets opened with a start average of 46.94 per hundred pounds, the season highs. Last week the belt totaled 128,851,589 pounds at 43.34 and eastern markets rose with more sales hitting 49 and 50 dollar averages. Several eastern markets expect to end sales this week.
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Goldsboro
Nationwide Farm Acreage Surges Amid War Effort
The commerce department reports U S farms gained 82 million acres from 1940 to 1945, bringing total farmland to 1 142 817 821 acres in 1945 versus 1 060 852 974 in 1940. Some regions lost due to reallocation while Utah Alabama and western states gained land.
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