Jackknife and Engineer Key to NC4 Atlantic Flight
Navy lieutenant Jim Breese recalled in Santa Fe how a pocket knife connected ignition on the NC4’s engine during the 1919 Newfoundland to Plymouth Atlantic crossing. The risky move, raising volts to 12 then switching back, helped start the final takeoff and the historic flight completion.
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Steve Lowell
Santa FE
Jim Breese
Breese
Cmdr
Albert C. Read
Newfoundland
Lisbon
Plymouth
England
Trepassey Bay
Navy Flying Boat
Azores
Rockaway Beach
Long Island
Trepassey
Cape Cod
Naval Air Station
Chatham
Mass
Halifax
NC4
Binkery
Marc A. Mitscher
Horta
Read
E. F. Stone
W. Hinton
H. C. Rodd
E. H. Howard
Europeans Wonder What Is Score on McCarthy and Army
Mrs. Edward F. Anderson, president of the Women s National Republican Club, said Europeans are puzzled by the McCarthy Army hearings and the time spent on them. She called the televised hearings a big mistake but added Republicans will rally behind Eisenhower and seek a Republican Congress in November. She noted McCarthy has many followers who support his original issues and will back him and the party at election time.
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New York
Edward F. Anderson
Women’s
National Republican Club
Eisenhower
Sen
McCarthy
Re-Armament Debate Focuses on West Germany Role
Senators Knowland and Mansfield urge quick German rearmament even if the European Defense Community stalls. With four of six EDC members ratified, France and Italy remain nonparticipants while talk turns to bringing West Germany into NATO for Europe’s defense.
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Sen
Knowland
California
Mansfield
Montana
West Germany
European Defense Community
EDC
Russia
Germany
France
Italy
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Europe
Eisenhower urged to meet Southeast Asia leaders
Gen Romulo proposed in a Portland commencement speech that the President discuss a policy declaration with Southeast Asia leaders. He named leaders from India Pakistan Indonesia Ceylon Burma and Thailand plus a Philippine representative to help shape a Charter like the 1941 Atlantic wartime peace arms statement.
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Portland
Ore
Eisenhower
Southeast Asia
Carlos P. Romulo
Philippine Islands
Romulo
University of Portland
United States
Philippine
Magsaysay
India
Pakistan
Indonesia
Ceylon
Burma
Thailand
Great Britain
Voluntary Measures Suggested for Future War Mobilization
A 15 member advisory group drawn from labor and industry urged that in any future war emergency the United States should rely on voluntary measures rather than conscripting labor. The report to the Office of Defense Mobilization says voluntary steps used in World War II should suffice even for atomic warfare.
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Washington
Labor and Industry
Office of Defense Mobilization
ODM
Actress and Texas Oil Man Are Wed
Washington ceremony unites actress Jean Peters and oil man Stuart Cramer III at New York Avenue Presbyterian. Parents and close friends attend the church wedding. both 25 and 27, first marriages for each. They first met in Rome last summer.
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Washington
Jean Peters
Texas
Stuart Cramer III
Rome
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Miss Peters
Cramer
Communists Sentence 12 Anti Reds to Die
The Kung Sheung Daily News reports that Communist Chinese authorities in Hunan Province sentenced 12 members of the China New Socialist party to death after a roundup in April. Eleven others were given life terms, with 169 arrests noted in the operation.
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Hong Kong
Hunan
Kung Sheung Daily News
China New Socialist Party
Pushbutton Theft in Omaha Targets Car Interior Parts
Omaha police report suspects attempted to steal vehicle horn components but settled for the horn button. They also took engine, radio, heater, gear shift assembly, transmission, muffler, battery, fender skirts, three hubcaps and three tires.
Bungling Charged in Probe of 1946 Slaying of Officers
In MERNBERG Germany Deputy U S Prosecutor William D Canfield reopened the 1946 case charging former Army captain James M Leech of Lima Ohio with murder for the killing of Maj Everett S Corran Capt Adrian L Wessler and 1st Lt Stanley M Rosewater. Canfield criticizes the earlier investigation and cites delays and missteps by the case’s leader.
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Bungling
Sullivan
Leech
Maj
Everett S. Corran
Washington, DC
Adrian L. Wessler
New Rochelle
N.Y
Stanley M Rosewater
Omaha
Neb
Thieves Take City Building from 621 Leeton
Dallas police hunt thieves who jacked up a 20 by 30 foot sheet iron building from its foundations and hauled it away. A contracting firm bought the structure from the city a week earlier. It last was seen Friday afternoon and valued at 800 dollars.
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Dallas
Leeton
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