Shaw Plans Rocket Driven Car At Indianapolis
Wilbur Shaw three time winner of the Indianapolis 500 announced a rocket propelled car project aimed at a 400 mph world speed record. Shaw as Speedway president will work with Anton Hulman Jr. on the venture which will be built in Indianapolis while a reaction engine is developed in the East. A test run is tentatively planned at Bonneville Salt Flats in fall 1948.
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Indianapolis
Ind
W.A
Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Shaw
Anton Hulman, Jr
Terre Haute
Bonneville
Utah
Galt Flats
Princess from Samoa Defends Modest Hula Dance
Laida Kreuz of Waukegan. Samoa princess and Great Lakes Naval Station civilian employee says the hula is a serious ritual, not a hootch}. she dances since childhood in Pago Pago and Honolulu. She performs for civic groups and clubs, praising hula and Siva Nifo Oti. She warns against misinterpretation and offensive dances.
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U.P
Laida Amataupulevasegaotupu Kreuz
South Seas
Chicago
Pago Pago
Tutuila
American Samoa
Sacred Heart Academy
Honolulu
Laida
U. S
Milton J. Kreuz
San Francisco
Aumualisinaono
Battles
U. S. Navy
Philadelphia Expands Airport Amid Growth Plans
Philadelphia's Southwest Airport area is set to become the world’s second largest flying hub. City engineers plan to add 565 acres along the Delaware River, increasing the facility to 2,400 acres with $5 million funded by the city council. This expansion aims to surpass idlewood and place Philadelphia near New York’s Idlewood project.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Delaware River
New York
Idlewood
Landis Proposes Federal Power to Close Unsafe Mines
Representative Gerald Landis of Indiana introduces a safety bill giving the federal government authority to close mines deemed unsafe by inspectors. Operators would have 30 days to fix conditions, with penalties including a 5000 dollar fine and one year in prison for defying a closing order. The measure would take effect when government ownership ends on July 1.
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Washington
Gerald Landis
Ind
Labor Committee
Landis
House
U.S. Territory Mapping Shortfall Urges Fast Action
Rear Adm. L. O. Colbert testifies before a House subcommittee that less than 45 percent of U S territory is adequately mapped. The Coast and Geodetic Survey leads the effort, stressing urgency to aid mineral resource development and public works planning.
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Washington
U.S
United States
House Appropriations
Adm
L. O. Colbert
Coast and Geodetic Survey
CGS
Colbert
Doctor accepts check despite insufficiency in new patient case
In Fort Wayne Dr. S P Hoffman did not question a $10 check from a seriously ill new patient. The check bounced with a no such account stamp, marking the first time in his medical career he accepted the payment despite the failure of funds.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
U.R
S. P. Hoffman
Senate backs tax cut plan but awaits Truman veto
Washington June 3. The Senate approved a conference version of a Republican bill to cut personal income taxes by 10.5 to 30 percent starting July 1. The House had approved the conference version yesterday. The measure now goes to President Truman who is expected to veto it. Enrolling and signatures are pending before sending to the White House.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
Truman
White House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Centralia Mine Checks Sent to Widows of Fallen Workers
The United Mine Workers District No. 11 announced that widows of men who died in the Spring Hill mine disaster received $1000 each. The payments come from the Health Welfare and Retirement Fund for UMWA members who died since June 1, 1946, with local unions to file applications soon.
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District No. 11
United Mine Workers of America
Spring Hill
United Miners Workers Health, Welfare and Retirement Fund
United Mine Workers Health, Welfare and Retirement Board
Priests Move Church Fifteen Miles to Argusville
At St. Marys Cathedral Fargo ND Rev L J Arrell and three assistants transformed a plan for a new Argusville church by buying a used Grandin church. They hauled the 32 wheel mounted structure to Argusville in one day and established a local parish house of worship.
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Argusville
N. D
U.P
Mohamet
Grandon
L. J. Arrell
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Fargo
Argusvile
Taxi cabs in Vincennes to get speed governors
Vincennes Indiana city council passed an ordinance requiring all taxicabs to be equipped with governors limiting speed to 35 miles per hour after previous step up arrests failed to slow downtown cabs.
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Vincennes
Ind
U.P
Monument Plan for Columbus Memorial in Santo Domingo
Scottish architect J L Gleave returns to Santo Domingo to oversee plans for a Columbus Monument on the Ozama riverbank near Ciudad Trujillo. The $4 million project, funded by 21 American republics, rises 80 feet with a chapel housing Columbus bones and a five mile beacon cross, plus a museum and library exploring pre Columbian and colonial voyages.
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Dan L. Thrapp
United Press
London
U.P
J. L. Gleave
King Cheops
Giza
Santo Domingo
Ozama River
Ciudad Trujillo
Gleave
Edinburgh College of Art
Gleaves
Christopher Columbus
Diego
Citudad Trujillo
Hemisphere
Columbus
Christopher
Columbus Chapel
Dominican Republic
Builders of Cars Named in Charges
Attorney General Tom C Clark announced charges against the railway freight car building industry for anti trust violations. The FBI found bid collusion price agreements and order allocations harming small builders and slowing industry growth amid severe railcar shortages. The case goes to a federal grand jury as shortages are expected to worsen.
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Washington
Tom C. Clark
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Justice Department
Former Linton Resident Dies in Colorado
Durwood Beveridge, son of Mrs. Leona Maddox Beveridge, died recently in Littleton Colorado. The family is formerly from Linton and left the city several years ago. Mrs B R McGriffin is a cousin and Andrew Beveridge is an uncle.
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Durwood Beveridge
Leona Maddox Beveridge
Littleton
Colo
Linton
B. R. McGriffin
Andrew Beveridge
Portable piano weighs 80 pounds folds into suit case
Inventor Peter N. Comstock unveils a compact 64 key keyboard priced under 300 dollars at the National Association of Music Merchants show. The instrument, demoed for kids by Dr. Raymond Burrows, folds legs under and fits on a card table, enabling knee driven pedal control.
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Harman W. Nichols
United Press
Chicago
U.P
Peter N. Comstick
Comstock
National Association of Music Merchants
Raymond Burrows
Columbia University
Service Record Deadline Extended for Post Photo Book
The deadline for receiving photos for the Frank Courney American Legion post's Service Record has been extended to June 15. Commander John E. Reeves said all members from Wars I and II are eligible to have photos and short resumes in the forthcoming book. Photos, about two by three inches, should be brought to the post home or mailed to Bill Cravens, Legion adjutant.
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Frank Courtney
American Legion Post
John E. Reeves
Reeves
Bill Cravens
Legion
Odd allergy cured by new drug in puzzling case
In Chicago the Illinois State Medical Society heard two doctors report a 63-year-old woman with partial blindness and eye pain. They diagnosed allergies to strawberries tomatoes bananas camel and cat hair as the cause of a spinal disease misdiagnosis. After treating with pyribenzamine the patient’s pain vanished and her vision improved to near normal.
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Chicago
U.P
Illinois State Medical Society
Otto F. Seidelmann
Thomas D. Allen
AWOL Truck Driver Re-enlists After Disappearance
Burton J. Jones, a Holdrege Nebraska milk truck driver and World War II veteran, vanished from a milk truck en route to North Platte. Three days later the loaded vehicle was found at an Elm Creek station with sour milk. A week later a Grand Island recruiting station news release announced his re-enlistment and transfer to a replacement training center 1,500 miles away.
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Holdrege
Neb. U.2
Burton J. Jones
North Platte
Elm Creek
Grand Island
Jones
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