Navy ramjet tests push speeds above 1400 mph in drop tests
Awe over ramjet engine tests as U S Navy and NACA record speeds exceeding 1400 miles per hour in drop tests. British estimates claim 900 mph in a dive. Tests aim for 1800 to 2000 mph with larger engines as part of an ongoing program involving Atlantic drop tests from aircraft.
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United States Navy
Navy
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Detroit News
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Atlantic Ocean
England
Airliner loops near ground. 53 aboard survive near El Paso
Captain Charles Sisto said the DC 4 dived and then looped while cruising 238 mph west of El Paso New Mexico. A blown engine shutdown saved the craft after three engines failed and the nose dropped. Fifty three aboard: 48 passengers and five crew were bruised but not seriously injured. emergency landing completed with crew regaining control.
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Charles’ Sisto
Los Anges
Souther
Los
Angel Sisto
Mt. Riley
N. M
Dallas
John Teck
Memphis
Melvin Logan
Los Angeles
Vother
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Noisy City Rankings Place New York Low in Study
A 300 city survey ranks Reno and Las Vegas as the noisiest, with New York slipping to 63rd amid persistent urban noise. Philadelphia and Boston are noted for high noise due to shipyards and traffic, while the quietest areas lie in the south and midwest. Other top 11 through 20 include Las Vegas Chicago Washington San Francisco Dallas Detroit St Louis Tampa Birmingham Cleveland El Paso Oakland Santa Barbara Minneapolis Louisville Oak Ridge Pittsburgh.
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Reno
Philadelynia
Dvey
Boston
New York
Duotone
Eh Nester
Vega
Philadelphia
Neste
New England
Stude
Las Vegas
Chicago
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Dallas
Detroit
St. Louis
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Fla
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Cleveland
el Paso
Oakland
Calif
Santa Barbara
Minneapolis
Louisville
Oak Ridge
Judge Wallace Clears Parking Case With Baby Intervention
In a court led by Judge Charles D. Wallace a mother charged with illegal parking faced a disruptive 14 month old. Bystander sister and bailiff Buster struggled as the baby cried until the bailiff took the child, calming it. The judge then imposed the usual $2 fine for illegal parking.
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Charles
Wallace
Oman
Palice
Hvar
Jent
Atom Secrets Case Tied to Los Alamos Photographs
Federal agents report two ex Army photographers connected to Los Alamos thefts. George Thompson 38 from Greenwood Missouri and Ernest Paparello 29 Union City New Jersey admitted thefts at Sandia and Los Alamos. Thompson pleaded guilty to Los Alamos thefts. bonds set at 10000 dollars each. Trial schedules and further hearings postponed to allow counsel.
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Albuquerque
Alamos
New Mexico
George Wellington Thompson
Greenwood
Thompson
Sandia
Santa Fé
Los Sinnos
Paparello
Bacon Ration Cut to One Ounce Per Week in October
London reports the ministry of food will reduce the bacon ration to one ounce per person weekly starting October 19. The cut, tied to packinghouse strikes in Canada, follows a prior two ounce allotment.
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London
Ministry of Food
Canada
Rent Raise 4 Allowed in Louisville under new law
Expeditor Frank R Creedon approved a 5 percent rent increase for the Louisville Kentucky area under the new rent control extension act. He ordered continuation of existing controls and ceilings in four other areas and removal of controls in Lawrence County South Carolina except Spear City. Creedon acted on local rent advisory boards recommendations, the first since the extension act took effect July 1. Local boards recommended continuing controls in Charlestown West Virginia, Duluth Minnesota, St. Petersburg Kansas, and Newcastle Indiana.
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Frank R. 'Creedon
Louisville
Creedon
Lawrence County
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Spearshe
Charlestown
W.va
Duluth
Minn
Petersburg
Newcastle
Ind
U S Protests Czech Charge of Bombing
Prague reports the American charge that U S planes bombed Czechoslovak factories to harm the economy during the war as stated by the foreign office in today’s communique. The U S protests the accusation as false.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Czew
Foreign’ Office
Fugitive Uses Minister as Shield in Duel at Findlay Church
A 27 year old gunman Leonard Johnson took a minister hostage inside a Findlay Ohio church after approaching with two strangers to sell a tire. Patrolman Van derveen crawled through a church window and shot Johnson in the back ending the standoff. The minister was unhurt and Johnson was wounded and hospitalized.
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Pamenas
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Leonard Johnson
Revi Knox
R.C, Vanderveen
Johnson
Glen Hardy
Hughes Hearing to Reopen Early in Senate War Panel
Washington October 9 The Senate war investigating subcommittee chaired by Ferguson announced it will reopen public hearings on Howard Hughes wartime plane contracts before November 17 the previously set date for resumption He said no definite date has been fixed and Hughes and other key witnesses have not been notified of the change plans
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Senate War Investigating Subcommittee
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Ferguson
Hughes
Hollywood -Millioraire
Death Claims Wife of Brazil President Dona Santinha dies after operation
Senhora Carmela Dutra, 63, wife of Brazilian President Dutra, died just before midnight after an appendectomy. She had been ill for over a year. President Dutra was at the Aeronautical Hospital when the death occurred. Dona Santinha was beloved for leading religious and charitable efforts and aiding underprivileged children.
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Senhora Carmela Dutra
Brazil
Senhora Dutra
Dutra
Aeronautical Hospital
Dona
Santinha
Two American fliers land in Shanghai after 500 mile flight
Shanghai report says two Americans George Truman of Los Angeles and Clifford W Evans of Washington completed a round the world flight segment landing at Launghwa airfield after an 8 hour 500 mile leg from Amoy. They endured headwinds of 41 miles per hour throughout the journey.
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Launghwa
Amoy
George Truman
Los Angeles
Clifford, W. Evans
Washington,d. C
Typhoon Devastates Iwo Jima Island Reported Ruins
A powerful tropical typhoon battered Iwo Jima 800 miles north of Guam, flattening buildings and leaving twisted wreckage. Coast Guard stations picked up a radio message describing 130 mph sustained winds and up to 160 mph gusts as 300 Army Air Force and Coast Guard personnel and dependents faced the storm. Chinese shipping firms in Hong Kong reported massive sea surges sweeping waves over walls, signaling widespread damage.
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Iwo Jima
Coast Guard
Air Force
Hong Kong
United States pushes Balkans vote on U N watchdog
The United States declared that the U N watchdog mission in the Balkans must have three Soviet satellites Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria cooperate with the Border Commission approved by the U N Security Council. The Bulgarian delegate warned that the U S majority could railroad the proposal, calling it a form of horse trading while emphasizing the committee will forward decisions to the Assembly.
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Balkans
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U. Ns. Sormation
Boris ‘Athanastov
U.S
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Thes Vate
Andrét
Vishinsky
Jardice
Argentina Plans Aid to Latin Neighbors
Argentine ambassador Oscar Ivaniasevich said in Washington that Buenos Aires is preparing a Marshall plan style aid program for Latin American neighbors. He noted consultations after the Rio de Janeiro conference and listed Bolivia and Uruguay among potential beneficiaries.
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Oscar Ivaniasevich
Aires
Sai Ma
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Consultadoris
Bolivia
Uruguay
Ie Allie
Compliance With Truman Plea Prompts Mixed Egg Prices
Prices for eggs and poultry rose in major wholesale markets as the nation observed Truman’s eggless and poultryless day. In New York and Chicago, extra fancy white eggs reached 66 to 67 cents a dozen. U S extras No 2 sold 58 to 60 cents in Chicago. Some poultry prices fell slightly, with roasters at 27 to 31 cents a pound and fowl down about a cent. A labor protest against a 0-day liquor holiday delayed grain conservation efforts, with AFL distributor workers union official John McKiernan predicting 100,000 job losses and urging a meeting with Charles Luckman to oppose the measure.
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Europa
New York
Chicago
U. S
A. F. L. Distiier
Workers’ Union
John McKiernan
Frankfort
Charles. Luckman
Citizens Food Committee
Luckman
U McKiernan
McKlernan
Senator Vandenberg in Michigan Hospital Recovery
Sen Arthur H Vandenberg is reported in Butterworth Hospital Grand Rapids Michigan for a checkup with no surgery. His wife is also hospitalized recovering from an operation two weeks ago according to sources close to the Republican foreign policy maker.
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Arthur H. Vandenberg
ReMich
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Butter Worth
Maker
Vandenberg
Bus Hits Abutment Near Bridge One In Montana
Miles City reports a Greyhound bus struck a bridge abutment 25 miles west of town this morning and caught fire. One person was injured though the bus was destroyed. The incident occurred on a highway segment identified as Bridge One.
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Greyhound
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Gascoigne Acquitted for Beating in POW Camp Case
San Diego October 9 Lieutenant Richard F Cancale of Lorraine Ohio was freed of charges after being accused of beating and mistreating fellow American prisoners in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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J.g
Richard
Cancale
Lorraine
Ohio
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