First Transatlantic Copter Flight Starts Westover Test
Westover Air Force Base Mass July 15 Two large Sikorsky H 19 helicopters Hop a Long and Whirl a Way began a 4000 mile test flight to Weisbaden Germany aiming to prove feasibility of delivering helicopters by air to Europe The crew includes Maj Igor Sikorsky and pilots Capt Vincent McGov ern Lt Harold W Moore Capt Harry C Jeffers Capt George Hombrick with Sikorsky expert aboard and four air rescue mechanics on the C54 support plane.
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Atlantic
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New England
Arctic Circle
Weisbaden
Germany
Presque Isle
Maine
Goose Bay
Labrador
Narsarssuak
Greenland
Flavik
Iceland
Freswick
Scotland
Manston
Eng
Air Force
Vincent McGovern
Harold W. Moore
Harry C. Jeffers
George ©. Hombrick
Sikorski Aircraft Corp
Sikorsky
Jet Falls Explodes In Florida Street Crash Kills Pilot
Orlando reports a jet trainer plane crashed and exploded in a residential street. Second Lt. William H. Reigle, 25, of Bloomsburg Pennsylvania, was killed. The crash damaged a park where about 50 children played nearby. A bystander was hospitalized after a brick injury. several others suffered minor injuries from debris. Reigle was based at Pinecastle Air Force Base near Orlando.
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Orlando
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William H. Reigle
Bloomsburg
Reigle
Pinecastle Air Force Base
Here
Byrd Miller Senate race tests Virginia voters today
In Virginia a bitter Democratic primary pits Sen. Harry F. Byrd against Francis Pickens Miller with about 250000 voters expected. Polls opened at 6 20 a m and close at 7 30 p m as the contest centers on foreign policy isolationism and Byrd leadership amid two House races.
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Richmond
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd
Francis Pickens Miller
Senate
Byrd
Miler
Gen
Eisenhower
Miller
Blank space signals Truman support in Grenada weekly
Grenada Mississippi July 15 editor W. W. Whitaker used 219 inches of empty space under the front page headline Why a Democrat Like Truman Should Be Elected. The space spans seven of the eight pages showing a declared political stance.
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Grenada. Miss
W. W. Whitaker
Grenada
Truman
Aisle Slimmed Democrats Plan Bigger Traffic Jams
In Chicago the Democratic national convention will narrow the pavilion aisle at International Amphitheater from seven and a half to six feet to add a row of chairs along one side. The change aims to manage more delegates, though past traffic at the Republican convention showed jams as sergeants at arms and police intervened.
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Chicago
Daly
Montana Voting in Primary Today
Montana held its primary election with 274,929 eligible voters forecast to turnout in warm, partly cloudy weather. Incumbent Senators Mansfield and Ecton sought renomination, while five candidates vied for the Democratic nomination in the First District and three for the GOP in the same race.
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Flest
Fae
Supreme Court
J Lee Metcalf
Paul Cannon
Bob Noonan
Edward Cook
W. J. Sullivan
GOP
Wellington D. Rankin
Winfield E Page
Eldon H. Myrick
Wesley A. D'Ewart
CIO Leader Brands Eisenhower a Rank Amateur in Civil Gov
Washington July 15 AP a top CIO leader called Dwight D Eisenhower a rank amateur in civil government and said on major domestic issues he would be a prisoner of his advisers Beirne CIO vice president and head of 300000 CIO communications workers spoke before leaving for Chicago for the Democratic convention He noted Eisenhower would rely on advisers for domestic policy and could be helpless on issues like Taft Hartley civil rights federal aid and more He is a member of the Democratic platform committee at the convention and considered a possible successor to CIO President Philip Murray
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CIO
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joseph A. Beirne
Chicago
Eisenhower
Beirne
Platform Committee
Jeaders
AFL
Friends of Labor
Organized Labor
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Civil Defense Chief Bitterly Hits Congress
Washington July 15 Millard Caldwell said yesterday civil defense funds voted by a shocked and aroused Congress after bombs fall would be use less He bitterly criticized lawmakers for not providing money for defense programs and urged immediate action to fund readiness.
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Washingson
Millard Caldwell
Congress
Democrats Redesign Convention At Chicago Hall
The Democratic National Committee outlined a full 1948 style makeover at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. New vertical bunting, nylon fabric, stained glass like color, replaced eagle emblems with portraits of Truman Roosevelt and Lincoln removed to ease platform access. Televisions will feature a center aisle platform. Delegates enter through a Welcome sign as Kefauver Kerr and McMahon take housing spots in hotel HQs.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
United States
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Jackson
Wilson
Roosevelt
Halsted St
Frank E. McKinney
Democratic Committee
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Sen. Tait
Robert 8. Kerr
Oklahoma
Gen. Eisenhower
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
Stassen Room
Richard Russell
Geor
Schacht Invited to Iran and Egypt in Middle East
Cairo reports say Hjalmar Schacht, once a Nazi economic wizard, may be invited to help Egypt with its faltering finances while Tehran claims Iran invited him to assist with near bankruptcy. No official confirmation available. Schacht recently opened a private Hamburg bank and advised Indonesia's new republic last summer.
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Cairo
Egypt
V. Hitler
Hjalmar Schacht
Middle East
al Akhbar
Tehran
Etelnat
Schacht
Mohammed Mossadeghi
Iran
Hamburg
Germany
Indonesia
Republic
Young generation shows rising teen employment in 1940s
Washington reports Census Bureau data from an October survey indicating 28 of 100 boys and 17 of 100 girls aged 14 to 17 both attend school and hold outside jobs. The 1.6 million youths working compares with 300,000 in 1940, near wartime peaks of 2.3 million in 1944.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Bob Hope Awarded VEW Jolson Citation
Bob Hope received the Veterans of Foreign Wars Jolson Award for entertaining servicemen and hospitalized veterans. VFW Commander Frank C. Hilton announced the Aug. 4 presentation at the 53rd annual encampment in Los Angeles.
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Bob Hope
Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars
al Jolson
VFW
Frank C. Hilton
Hope
Los Angeles
Jolson
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