Premature Blast Sparks Atomic Debate Among Experts
United Press reports American scientists weighing Russia’s atom test as possibly a laboratory pre mature blast. Yale physicist Watson says not necessarily a bomb. Carnegie Tech’s Creutz notes detectable radioactivity miles away. Truman’s announcement shocks bomb developers. Urey calls it inevitable and faster than expected. Osborn and McNaughton stress verification and observers.
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GOP Chief Rails At Scare Claim On Atomic Blast
House Republican Leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts denounced the Russian atomic explosion as a scare story needing more official evidence. He argued the president’s announcement hinted at a new administration request to Congress and suggested timing implied forthcoming action.
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Truman Confirms Soviet Atomic Test and Call for Control
President Truman disclosed that the USSR conducted an atomic explosion in recent weeks while urging international control of atomic energy. White House secretary Ross summoned reporters to hear the president’s cabinet briefing and emphasized the importance of the announced development.
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Arizona lawmakers to Attend Flying E Ranch Barbecue
Democrats revenue comes from a state withholding income tax. Vic and Mrs. Kelly will manage the Flying E Ranch barbecue starting at sundown. Invitations go to legislative leaders and their wives and to newspapermen and their wives. The attendee list includes Speaker Raymond Langham and numerous Arizona Representatives and Senators. Governor McKay plans to visit Lee Eyerly at the Flying E Ranch, four miles west of Wickenburg, with Governor Garvey welcoming the Oregon governor at Sky Harbor.
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Tucson
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Arizona
Lee Eyerly
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Sky Harbor
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Mystery Explosion Reported Last Winter
A Geneva dispatch reported an explosion of earthquake proportions possibly from an atomic detonation. Swiss meteorologists logged the blast as mysterious with no details released, while government secrecy shielded the event. Early speculation placed the source in eastern Europe or central Asia, with Siberia among theories.
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First Man To Buy His 1950 Christmas Cards
A columnist recalls starting Christmas preparations early with a August memory of Dick's Drive Inn and a Dog Days Special. He aimed to beat the rush but discovers his wife and children already have a stack of festive cards, raising the question who bought theirs first.
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Wanger trial debated premeditation in shooting
The court indicated premeditation is a jury issue as the defense argues the shooting of Mrs. Wanger was accidental. Eyewitness Armilda Caraway testified amid cross examination while officers denied coercive interrogation. The defense pressed claims of entrapment and false statements as the State sought to prove the motive and sequence of events surrounding the bar confrontation and gun handling.
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Sulfa Drugs Lose Favor With Doctors
The AMA Council withdraws acceptance of sulphathiazole and sulfathiazole sodium citing availability of less toxic sulfanamide drugs and penicillin. It notes sulfathiazole causes fever rash acute leukemia and leukopenia in about 18 percent of patients treated.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
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