Navy builds giant torpedo tester in California desert
The Navy nears completion of a 300 foot long variable angle torpedo launcher on the Morris Dam shore in Inyo Kern Calif. It will launch underwater missiles at downward angles up to 45 degrees testing at high speeds. A Pasadena lab uses high speed cameras to study miniature torpedoes before full scale testing.
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Navy
Pasadena Laboratory
Rightist Kim Koo Eyes Red Zone While Followers Warned
Korean Rightist Kim Koo said he may travel to Pyongyang despite warnings of danger and possible exile in Siberia or Moscow. Students loyal to him blocked his car driveway but allowed passage after he explained he would only go downtown. The trip follows North Korea tensions over Allied trusteeship and the May 10 election.
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Kim Koo
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Moscow
North Korea
Kim
Pyongyang
Kim Jong
Kimm Kiusic
Kimm Kiu-sic
Filipino Chief Vows Loyalty to Democracy
Elpidio Quirino, newly named president of the Philippines, pledges to uphold democracy at all costs and signals continuity with United States policy. He also orders a price cut for rice and corn via the national corporation and wins Congress backing.
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Elpidio Quirino
New Philippines
United States
Quirino
Manuel Roxas
Associated Press
Roxas
Philippine
National Rice and Corn Corporation
Philippines Congress
D. A. R. Continental Congress Opens With Defense Themes
The Daughters of the American Revolution start their 67th Continental Congress in Washington with over 4000 delegates. The meeting runs through Friday and centers on universal military training and a revised draft under themes of National Preparedness and National Defense.
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Washington
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Congress
Roulette System Players Win Early At Reno Table
Two college friends use a self described system at the Golden Nugget in Reno. After three days and 50 hours of play they are about break even, despite starting with $300 and gaining $1200 early. Roy Walford of San Diego and Albert Hibbs of Chillicothe, Ohio, are 23 and still chasing a killing.
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L. Vegas
Roy Walford
San Diego
Calif
Albert Hibbs
Chillicothe
Ohio
Golden Nugget
Supplies Flown to Stranded Expedition in Arnhem Land
Emergency supplies were flown today to an Australia American expedition in Arnhem land amid the northern territory floods. The report notes the expedition began with $200 yesterday, then moved to 50 cents on No 1 and zero, and by last night stood at $205. It recalls a prior Reno win of $12,000 last November and a near $8,000 gain before quitting. The players claim a system devised by University of Chicago undergraduates.
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Australia
Arnhemland
Northern Territory
Reno
University of Chicago
Third Party Plans Capitalist Dinner in New York
A $100-a-plate dinner at the Commodore Hotel in New York tonight will bring third party candidates Henry A. Wallace and Sen Glen H. Taylor to their first New York City speaking appearance. The event, sponsored by the National Wallace for President Committee, starts a fundraising drive with Rexford Guy Tugwell presiding.
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New York
Commodore Hotel
Henry A. Wallace
Glen H. Taylor
D.-Idaho
New York City
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Daughter of Lloyd Weds Ex Actor in San Francisco Honeymoon
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd, 21, daughter of former film comedian Harold Lloyd, married Bartlet Ross II, advertising man, at the Lloyd home here Saturday night. The couple honeymooned today in San Francisco as they begin married life.
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Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd
Bartlet Ross, II
San Francisco
Harold Lloyd
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