Radar secrecy sparks Senate hearing on polar defense plan
Case, head of a Senate Arm Services subcommittee, defended withholding location and cost details of a proposed 3,000 mile Early Warning radar chain across the polar regions. Air Force officers asked to exclude Army and Navy officials, and some details were kept off the record as too classified. The plan aims to provide six hours warning to U S cities of Soviet bomber incursions, with seven stations already in operation and total costs estimated between 200 million and 1 billion dollars.
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Senate Arm Services Nittee
Case
Sterday
Canada
Polar
Air Force
Army
Avy
Fay
Ee Cai
Congress
Defense Department
United States
Major Admits Slaying Cop Last August
SARANAC LAKE N Y November 20 State announced Maj James A Call Air Force killed a Lake Placid policeman last August The slayer fled into the Adirondack Mountain wilderness and development at a news conference at the state police substation in Saranac Lake after arriving with Call from Hawthorne N Y State troopers The confession was written Call 23 admitted burglaries in Reno Nev and other crimes but details were not released Call identified three Lake Placid village policemen as the man who fired at them during a six man posse pursuit before waiving extradition and being sent to New York City
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N. Y
James A. Call
Air Force
Adiron Mountain
State Barracks
Hawthorne
York City
Muller
Call
Reno
Nev
Lake Placid
Cli Ping Ae Ene
Wiggins Warns Public Opinion Guards Press Freedom
Wiggins and two other editors led a Tampa AP meeting urging continued openness in government. James Pope, Norman Isaacs, and W. M. Newton Jr. spoke on access to committees and news conferences as essential to a fair press. A resolution praised Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones for upholding information freedom.
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Tampa
Fia
Associated Press Managing Editors Assn
J. Russell Wiggins
The
Washington Post
Freedom of Information Committee
American Society of Newspaper Editors
W. M. Newton Jr
Tampa Tribune
Sigma Delta Chi
James 5. Pope
Louisville Courier Journal
American
Norman FE. Isaacs
Louieville Times
APME
Walter B. Jones
Montgomery
Ala
Freedom of
Phenix City
Rmingham News
Jones
America
AP News
Charlies H. Hamilton
Richmond News-Leader
Student Legislature OKs Start At Desegregation
The North Carolina student delegates advanced a resolution calling for desegregation in higher education and a gradual integration plan. It was introduced by Negron of the University of LaBord Negron and targeted immediate action and orderly rollout.
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Oks
Ic Ac
North Carolina
Camms
Oman
Gonos
Eric Potter
Duke University
North Caro
Lina
U.S. Supreme Court
Folegerene
University of la Bop
Sder Negron
Egroest Raleigh
Nit
Bureau Denies Plan To Abolish Cherokee Agency
Washington reports that the Indian Bureau denies plans to abolish the Cherokee Reservation Agency in North Carolina. Senator Kefauver and Senator Sencer comment on the Indian commissioner Glenn Emmons statement, noting coordination staff work continues and a decision is due by Monday.
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The
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North Carolina
Sencar
D-Tenn
Tennessee
Kefauver
Glenn L. Emmons
Gel Ee
Weather Forecast for North Pacific to Great Lakes
Forecasters predict cloudy skies over the north Pacific coast Great Lakes and central states with scattered showers in Washington Oregon Ohio Valley and western mid Atlantic states Light rain and snow are possible in a tabo region with a warm front moving eastward from the Rockies to the Atlantic area Weather map from AP illustrates the pattern.
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Weather Bureau
North Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Middle
Washington
Oregon
North Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Mid
Atlantic States
Taboe
Rockies
Cactus Jack Garner to Turn 86 With Annual Deer Hunt
In Uvalde Texas on November 20 1946 Cactus Jack Garner plans his 86th birthday hunt. The former vice president who served 1932 to 1940 enjoys health freedom and simple routines feeding chickens tending pecan trees and reading. He expects to hunt with friend Ross Brumfield as in past years and hints at deer meat on occasion.
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Uvalde
Tex
Cactus Jack Garner
R’s
Cactus Jack
Garner
Ross Brumfield
Churchill honored in Israel with new technical college
A college in Israel will be named for Prime Minister Churchill. The British Committee for Technical Development in Israel says Churchill consented to use his name for a university and technical training center at Mt. Carmel overlooking Haifa, planned to cost about 20 million dollars.
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London
Israel
Churchill
British Committee For Technical Development
Doloo Mt. Carmel
Aifa
Betty Hutton Files Suit For Divorce
Retired actress Betty Hutton filed for divorce from Charlies O'Curran in Las Vegas as his absence in court delayed decree. Her sister Marion received a decree from writer Jack Jas, both citing mental cruelty. Betty plans to leave show business. Marion to marry musician Joao Schoen.
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Las Vegas
Betty Hutton
Charlies O'Curran
Marion
Jack Jas
Nevada
O'Curran
Miss Ton
Betty
San Bernardino
Ana Alan
California
Oan Schoen
Kay Starr
Danish Pill Plant Accident Shocks Workers
In Copenhagen a Danish pharmaceutical plant faced a mysterious incident as workers discovered errors in a pill recipe and a toxic exposure spread through the facility. The event escalated during a shift as staff began experiencing stomach and nerve symptoms, prompting safety reviews and an investigation into production lines.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Siena
New anti Negro movement in South uses boycotts to press segregation
An AP report surveys a rise of anti Negro groups in the Deep South using economic pressure to oppose integration. Mississippi Citizens Councils, backed by NAACP opposition, target outside agitators and deny credit to activists, while councils in 22 counties push coercive tactics to preserve the Southern way of life.
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South
Ku “Ym Klan
One An
Aa i Rights Assn. Headquarla
Citizens Councils
Mississippi
Supreme Court
National Assn
Drane J. Stringer
Columbus
Miss
Naacp Stringer
Senate
NAACP
Meharry Medica Gillene
Nashville
Tenn
Stringer
Milne
Associated Press
Mississippi Assembly
Sunflower County
Wilma B. Siedge
Ant
Tom P. Brady
Aces
Moore —Uently
Nola Council
Arthur J. Clark Jr
Indiarola
Moore
Indianola
Patterson
St. Best
Holy Ridge Planting Co
Philadelphia Doctor, 52, Murdered in Chester
Dr Elinor Langton a 52 year old Philadelphia psychiatrist was found beaten to death in a Chester automobile on a quiet residential street. Her bound wrists and ankles and torn clothing indicated a brutal murder. her body was moved from the vehicle and jewelry scattered. The chief of Delaware County detectives described the case as a brutal homicide as investigators probe the scene for where the crime occurred. Langton, unmarried, worked at the Veterans Administration clinic in Philadelphia and lived at the Drake Hotel. Her nephew Dr Harold Bryan identified her in a Chester garage.
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Chester
Elinor Majorie Langton
Philadelphia
Oes
Philadr
Earl Allen
Delaware County
Langton
Veterans Administration Clinic
Drake Hotel
Harold Bryan
cIivain St
Vincent M. Diodati
Professional Services
Veterans Administration Branch
Saran
Shenandoah
D. J
Isabell Scanlan Lang- Oo
Rheumatic Fever Drives Heart Disease Risk in Youth
Health report notes rheumatic fever remains a major cause of heart disease among young people, urging early diagnosis and preventive care to limit long term damage. The piece emphasizes community awareness and potential treatments.
Molotov presses West on conferences and German remilitarization
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov warned that postponing an all European security conference could provoke counter measures if Western ratification of Paris rearming accords proceeds. He urged delaying the conference and warned of a new war threat as Britain and the United States resist the move to remilitarize Western Germany and integrate it into NATO and the WEU.
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Stanley
V. M. Killatov
Soviet Union
West Germany
Atlantic Defense Alliance
Russia
United States
China
Dulles
Mendes-France
Washington
Moscow
Zrukov
Vasily Sokolov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Molotov
Leonid Dyichev
Department of Them
Britain
France
Germany
Western European Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
France cuts prison population after war convictions
Paris reports a reduced crime rate and release of most persons convicted of aiding Germany in World War II, shrinking France's prison population to about 20,600 from the 1946 total, with few convicts remaining as of January 1.
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Paris
France
Pontion
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