Yeager declares 100 mph beyond speed of sound in X-1
Dayton, Ohio, Dec 7 Capt Charles Yeager, Air Force test pilot, announced he flew 100 miles per hour faster than sound in the X 1 rocket plane. He said the feat exceeded sound speed of 760 mph at sea level during tests at Muroc Field and Wright Patterson HQ. He noted the sensation as comparable to sitting in an armchair. The X 1 uses four rockets with 25,000 horsepower and alcohol liquid oxygen fuel.
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Dayton
Ohio
Charles Seager
Air Force
Yeager
Herbert Shaw
Dayton Daily News
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Muroc Field
Calif
West Hamline
W. Wa
Noted novelist Rex Beach found dead at his Florida home
Rex Beach, 72, a nationally known novelist, was found dead from a pistol wound at his Sebring area home. The death was ruled suicide by a county judge and sheriff. Beach had battled throat cancer and paused work on his psychological novel Woman in Ambush. He left behind a long career and relatives including his brothers Elmer Beach and Fred Stone.
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Sebring, Fla
Rex Beach
Here
J. Howard Livingston
Broward Coker
Beach
Miami
Elmer Beach
Raleigh
N. C
Fred Stone
Los Angeles
Stone
Florida
Groves denies Hopkins and Wallace sought atomic secrets for Russia
Lt Gen Leslie Groves testifies before the House that neither Hopkins nor Wallace pressured him for atomic secrets or materials. He notes wartime pressure aimed at giving the Russians what they asked, but says no high official pressured him and he knows of no secret document removals. He expresses concern about Russian spying on the project.
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Washington
Leslie R. Groves
Harry Hopkins
Henry A. Wallace
Groves
House
Hopkins
Wallace
H. H
H. HH
G. Bacey Jordan
Air Force
An- American Activities Committee
Great Falls
Mont
Oak Ridge
Jordan
Fulton Lewis Jr
Lewis
Father Slays His 3 Children With Shotgun
A Fort Belvoir construction engineer, John Conner, 38, killed his three children Celia five Michael eight and Stephane eleven with a 20 gauge shotgun in their Alexander Virginia home as police ordered him from the kitchen. His wife Janet fled to neighbors in fear and neighbors called police. Conner was taken to Alexandria police headquarters and faced no immediate charges.
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Alexander, Va
Fort Belvoir
John Conner
Alexandria
Conner
Janet
Cameron Valley
Phillip Mitton
Mittons
John
Mitton
Celia
Michael
Stephane
John Sims
Roger Stinnett
Stinnett
Andusband
Fifteen States Act to Place Carb on Sex Fiends
Brief notice lists actions by fifteen states to curb sex crimes and imposes carbohydrate controls as part of a broad crime strategy.
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California
Pact Ends 8 Week Aluminum Strike With New Contract
Pittsburgh December 7 The CIO United Steelworkers and Aluminum Company of America reach a settlement ending an eight week strike by 17 000 workers across nine states. The agreement includes $100 a month pensions plus social security and a company financed social insurance plan.
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Pittsburgh
C. I. O. United Steelworkers
Aluminum Company of America Today
Rough Ride Postman Finally Gets to Hospital
P John Gard a 55 year old Winnipeg postman was knocked down in a street accident. His ambulance broke down and a fire truck was called to push it then became stuck. A police car collided with another car en route before a passing motorist carried Gard to a hospital where he was reported in good condition.
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Winnipeg
John Gard
Gard
Cold Wave Sweeps Into Middle West
A cold wave barrels into the midwest driving temperatures below zero and snowstorms across the upper Great Lakes region. Minnesota and Wisconsin face deeply negative lows as a Pacific storm tracks from Oregon to Washington and toward Japan, with blizzard conditions in the west and heavy snows in the north.
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Midwest
Great Lakes
East Coast
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Ocean
North America
Japan
Hudson Bay Area
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Iowa
Dakotas
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Washington
Oregon
Weather Bureau
Portland
Ore
Ocean
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Earthquake Reported in Carnia Mountains North of Gorizia
A strong earthquake was reported early today from the Carnia Mountains north of Gorizia Italy causing panic among mountain residents. Astra the Italian news agency said details were forthcoming.
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Gorizia
Italy
Carnia
Here
Astra
Liquid Thorium X treatment claims skin cancer cure
In Cleveland a new skin cancer therapy was shown using Thorium X liquid applied like iodine. Doctors J J Sher and William E Howes of the Brooklyn Cancer Institute report 39 patients with 51 cancers. all but one lesion disappeared and no new lesions appeared during follow up. The treatment requires doctor application, as radioactive substances cannot be sold to the public.
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Cleveland
J. J. Sher
William E. Howes
Brooklyn
N. Y
Cancer Institute
Radiological Society of North America
State Hearings Open on Curbing Fiends
A State Assembly committee opened public hearings in Los Angeles to study sex crime problems. The three day session will hear medical and psychiatric reports first, then law enforcement recommendations, with church civic and public groups set to speak on Friday.
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Los Angeles
State Assembly
Navy Yard at S F May Close Down
A Navy board recommended Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco be closed for economy. The move would cut about 6000 civilian employees, drawing immediate protest from the Chamber of Commerce led by President Paul A. Bissinger. The yard, with dry docks and a submarine base, employs about 22.5 million dollars annually.
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San Francisco
Navy
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
California officials back death penalty for child sex crimes
A conference of 75 state county and city officials urged the Legislature to impose the death penalty in murders tied to sex offenses against children and to allow the death penalty for kidnappings tied to sexual crimes. They also urged optional death for child molestation or woman violation in kidnapping cases and proposed revealing a defendant’s sex-crime history to juries. The proposals will go to a special legislative session next week.
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Acramento
William Simpson
Los Angeles County
Fred Stroble
Joyce Glacoft
Arthur Waite
Ventura County
Earl Warren
James Thuesen
Fresno County
Strike Grows at Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge Tenn Dec 7 A wildcat strike expands in the atomic city as about 300 carpenters and laborers reportedly walk out delaying high priority atomic installations. An Atomic Energy Commission official and National Labor Relations Board representatives rushed to resolve the walkout.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
National Labor Relations Board
Colombia Quints Hoax Unfolds Across Cities
Bogota papers debunk a San Alejandro quintuplet birth hoax. Medellin reports say five children exist but ages range from 5 to 13, with a prisoner alleged as the hoax author. Officials and correspondents traced tale to misreporting and a misinterpreted mayoral remark.
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Colombia
Bogota
Medellin
Angostura
San Alejandro
Fl Tiempo
Maria Arroyave
Social Security Institute
Nero
Fermin
Ramiro
Rodrigo
Nabor
Francisco
Eleazar Alfonso
Sharp earthquake tremor jolts Carson City residents
A sharp earthquake tremor struck Carson City at 10:45 a m and many felt it as very sharp with a loud rumbling sound but no damage or injuries were reported.
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Carson City
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Lucia Stryminski
Conshohocken, Pa
Henry Stryminski
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