Reds Kidnapped German Experts General Says
A former U S commandant told the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that the Soviet Union seized German scientists and technicians after the war to boost missile work. Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley said top German scientists were invited to the U S but no Nazis were involved. He noted rapid seizures at Peenemünde and claimed the West never saw the scientists who were sent to work on Soviet programs.
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Philadelphia
Russia
Germany
United States
Berlin
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Soviet Union
Frank L. Howley
New York University
Howley
Subcommittee
Robert Morris
West Germany
Wernher von Braun
Peenemuende
Baltic
West
U S satellite launch shown in staged rocket display
Baltimore report notes a tiny test satellite to be launched December 4. The 7 foot long Vanguard third stage rocket, built by Martin Co, will carry a 4 pound, 4 inch sphere satellite. Ascent includes a 40 foot nose cone, heat shielding to 1500 degrees, and spin tables guiding deployment at 287 miles.
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Baltimore
United States
Vanguard
Martin Co
Coast Guard tow off California Oregon coast rescues freighter
A Coast Guard cutter towed the 7,216 ton Olympic Pioneer after a propeller loss seven miles off Cape Blanco. The Seattle owned freighter bound from Seattle to San Francisco carried a crew of about 40. Captain Lie Hasen of Grays Harbor Washington reported the distress. The incident occurred Thursday night and the ship was steered toward Eureka California for safety. Sigrid Undset, Nobel laureate novelist of 1928, is noted as having begun her career as a clerk in Oslo.
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Eureka
Calif
Coast Guard
California - Oregon Coast
Olympic Steamship Co
Seattle
San Francisco
Lie, _Hasen
Grays Harbor
Wash
Cape Blanca
Sigrid Undset
Tslo
Knife Lost 30 Years Returns to Denver Operator
Denver linotype operator Loonie L. Shepherd recovered his pearl-handled pocket knife that he lost at age ten in Boulder Colorado. The heirloom engraved with LL Shepherd was mailed to his home yesterday with no return address on the package.
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Denver
Loonie L
Shepherd
Boulder
Cola
Kniife
L. L. Shepherd
Dry Says Taverns Crime Cesspools In Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Baptist leader Dr. J B Lackey decries three beer taverns as crime hubs in a televised speech urging Oklahomans to back county option on beer at the upcoming election. He argues local control can clean up honky tonks, counters claims taxes would rise, and warns nonvoters approve vice.
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Oklahoma
J B. Lackey
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma
Lackey
Beer
Man Sues Firm For Toupee Loss in Denver
Denver man John Goddard, 51, sues an insurance firm for 3180 to cover a red toupee damaged in a year collision. He claims the wig was torn when he was thrown over the steering wheel in an automobile-truck crash last year. The insurer says the policy does not cover head coverings. Judge Mitchel B. Johns set a pretrial date for December 1.
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Denver
John
Goddard
Mitchel B. Johns
Superior Court
Soviet Supreme Parliament Set to Meet December 19
The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union will convene its second regular session of the year on December 19. Officials say the agenda includes next year's budget and discussion of a new economic plan.
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REDS
Moscow
Soviet Union
Oklahoma State Twins Plan Kidney Transplant Opera
Oklahoma City reports Billy and Sam Merriman, 26 year old Shawnee twins, received final medical approval to travel to Richmond for a kidney transplant after matching identically. Sam, an Air Force lieutenant, could donate a kidney if cleared, with the operation possibly the first non Brigham Hospital linked transplant outside Boston.
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Oklahoma City
Billy
Sam
Richmond
Shawnee
Okella
Veterans Administration Hospital
Bill
Air Force
The
Sam Fain
Howden Air Force’ Base
Tex
Boston
Brigham Hospital
Drys Accused of Aiming at Oklahoma Legislature Control
Oklahoma United Drys were accused of trying to gain control of the legislature and influence the next governor and state business. George Fisher, campaign chairman, said the motives extend beyond beer 3.2 laws and include pushing closer to prohibition via professional organizers led by Clayton Wallace of New Hampshire.
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United Drys
George
Fisher
Oklahoma Unit 7 Z
Drys
Clayton. Wallace
New Hampshire
Shead
Abe
National Temperance League
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Nel Ashlock
Southwest Chemical Co
Angelo Colombo
Buffalo
N.Y
Sammy Monaco
Son
Black & Decker
Cache Road
Panama
Bell Scott Brociner
Arkay Kits
James Lansing Warsdale
Gerrard
Rek-O-Kut
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