RCA Ultrafax a Million Word Radio Sender
RCA unveils Ultrafax a rapid radio system claimed to transmit one million words per minute. It treats each printed page as a picture and flashes pages for near instant delivery with high speed photo reproduction. Ultrafax could revolutionize publishing as newspapers may be delivered by radio.
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Washington
NBC
Niles Trammell
New York
San Francisco
National Broadcasting Company
Congress
Radio Corporation of America
Trammell
Operation For Trooper Hurt in Crash
Trooper John E Cronin Jr of Troop B scheduled for surgery at Lewis County Hospital after a Saturday crash between his motorcycle and a state wagon on Route 12 near Lowville. He has a compound fracture of the upper right leg a 15 inch head wound and shock the hospital said his condition was fair. The station wagon was driven by Walter J Greening of Middletown and he was not held.
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John E. Cronin
Lewis County
Cronin
Edgar Boggs
Malone
Walter J. Greening
Middletown
Glenfield
Lowville Greening
Ask Repeal of Rail Act Urged by Insurance Firms
Washington witnesses representing major insurance companies urged Senate subcommittee to strike maternity and nonoccupational sickness benefits from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. They backed repealing Crosser Act provisions and restoring railroad retirement and unemployment acts to their pre-Crosser status.
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Washington
Senate Public Welfare
Congress
Hawkes
R-N
Robert L. Hogg
Chicago
Air School Is Approved In Ogdensburg
Ogdensburg air port manager John Robillard announced that the Civil Aeronautics Authority authorized a flying school program funded by government for veterans at the local airport. Some 175 veterans have already applied through the Veterans Administration. The program should begin within two weeks after required marker and hangar lights were installed. Robillard also operates a sea plane from Morissette dock alongside land aircraft.
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Ogdensburg
John Robillard
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Washington
Veterans Administration
River Boat Dewitt Clinton Sold for China Trade
The 4000 ton, 320 foot Hudson River excursion boat Dewitt Clinton, used as a troop carrier in two world wars, has been sold by the Maritime Commission for China trade. The vessel, familiar to Hudson River excursionists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, was delivered to Norfolk Dry Dock Co for reconditioning.
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New York
Dewitt
Clinton
Maritime Commission
Norfolk Dry Dock Co
Nebraska Flood Toll Grows As Rivers Burst Banks
Storms from page one inundated streams statewide. Ashland floodmired for a fourth time this year. Nine dead at Cambridge and four missing, with two more children feared drowned. Nearly 200 rescued from trees and rooftops. Communities along the Republican River cut off. hundreds of miles of rail lines washed out. Dogs warned residents of rising waters. Dinah credited with alerting a family. Tornadoes injure nine near Loomis and Gothenburg. Carroll flooded as five inches of rain fell. Montana Wyoming blizzard strands tourists and buries a truck under snow.
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Ashland
Nebraska
Cambridge
JM. Hollingsworth
Republican
Harry D. Strunk
The
McCook Gazette
FF. Coleman
Coleman
Ry. J. Estergard
Estergard
Harry E. Seago
Seago
Loomis
Gothenburg
Neb
Moderate Quake Rocks Frisco
A moderate earthquake of undulatory type struck San Francisco and nearby areas for about four minutes on Sunday afternoon. Damage was limited to a few broken windows and dishes knocked from shelves. The quake originated in the San Andreas Fault and was felt as far south as Monterey Bay, 90 miles away.
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San Francisco
San Andreas
Monterey Bay
Atomic Pact Before Fall Held Unlikely
UN efforts to craft an international atomic control treaty before September faltered as Russia rejects a veto free plan. The United States and Britain push for concrete safeguards, agency powers, and plant locations while wariness over enforcement persists.
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United Nations
General Assembly
UN Atomic’ S Energy Commission
Russia
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Atomic Energy Commission
International Atomic Control Agency
Veto vote tests Senate as Taft and Pepper lead debate
Final appeals were made to the Senate for today as Taft and Pepper were allotted 90 minutes in the last debate before the vote. The veto on labor control legislation followed a long party drive that began January 23 with hearings, saw House passage and compromise votes, and faced uncertain Senate support despite initial Democratic defections.
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Taft
Pepper
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
House
Mr. Truman
Capitol
Penalties feared by UN Palestine Commission in Israel
The UN Palestine Commission warned of possible repercussions if Britain executes three condemned members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. The commission suggested the actions could hinder its work and drafted a resolution at a secret meeting. A copy will be sent to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie with appeals from the condemned youths' mothers.
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Jerusalem
United Nations Palestine Commission
Irgun Zvai Leumi
UN Committee
Trygve Lie
Britain
Switzerland Receives Argentine Frozen Meat Shipment
Basel reports the first Argentinian frozen meat shipment arriving via the Rhine from Rotterdam. The Vlotan cargo was loaded into specially built refrigerator compartments aboard a Swiss motorship.
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Basel
Switzerland
Rhine
Rotterdam
Big Biceps Win At National Weight Lifting Meet
Dallas resident and 25 year old war veteran Edward Simons won the National AAU weight lifting championship. After securing the title he opened a stubborn jar of olives in 1 minute 10 seconds, claiming the muscles helped impress his wife. Simons recounted how a California show inspired his training.
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Dallas
America
Edward Simons
Tye
Simons
the Jar
California
Soviet Molotov meets London aims on aid and Europe
Russia and the West discuss a Moscow conference with uncertain terms and Molotov reserves knowledge of possible American aid. American economists in London urge pooling all Europe resources. Bevin Bidault talks in Paris and William Clayton arrives to discuss the Marshall plan.
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Moscow
Russia
Molotov
London
Europe
Paris
Bis
William‘l. Clayton
U.S
Marshall
Bevin
Anti Reds Win at AVC National Chairman Election
Chat Paterson of Washington DC, candidate of an avowed anti Communist group, was elected national chairman of the American Veterans Committee at the organization’s convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Paterson polled 36021 votes on the Independent Progressive slate.
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Milwaukee
Wis. P
Chat Paterson
Washington, D. C
American Veterans Committee
Paterson
Aunt Het by Robert Quillen
Askin manufacturers to cut prices is like askin fisherman to change bait when fish are bit in.
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Aunt Het
Robert
Quillen
Partition of Punjab Vote Divides Province Across Two Nations
In Lahore, the Punjab Legislature backed partition, voting 91 to join Pakistan and 77 to stay with Hindustan. Eastern Punjab Hindu Sikh members favored joining Hindustan 50 to 22, while Western Moslem Punjab voted 69 to 27 for partition. Riots left 128 dead as security sealed off demonstrations.
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Lahore
India
Punjab
Hindustan
Pakistan
Italian police arrest former Fascist boss in Rome drive
Italian police report arrest of Giuseppe Pizzirani, Rome’s last Fascist boss and former vice secretary of Mussolini’s final Republican Party, as part of a drive against a new neo Fascist network mainly composed of students.
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Rome
Guiseppe Pizzirani
Mussoalini
Republican Party
Dollar Rate Surges in Shanghai Black Market
The black market for U.S. currency in Shanghai rose sharply, with the rate leaping about 27 percent. A single American dollar bought 38,000 Chinese yuan, while the official rate stayed at 12,000 yuan per dollar.
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U. S
U.S
Fire Devils Blast on Prom Page One
A massive blast aboard the 520 foot Markay at 2 05 A M Sunday caused flames over 200 feet and spread to American President Lines docks. About 30 injured with 12 hospitalized. Cause under dispute as Keystone Shipping Co of Philadelphia faces negligence claims. Dead include Joseph W Schwartz 66 and De Forest Wilson. Coast Guard reports bodies in a hold. Property damage around 10 million. Markay valued 2.5 million. Two Shell Oil berths set ablaze. American Lines berths damaged.
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Atumass
American President Lines
Joseph W. Schwartz
Gaileyman
de Forest Wilson
San Francisco
Coast Guard
Thrrough
Jessian
Shell Oil Co
Ed Lewis Paint Consultant Offers Wide Experience
A veteran paint consultant with over 20 years in the field invites clients to present paint problems to Ed Lewis. The message stresses broad experience across all paint usages and offers personal counsel as a service.
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Ed” Lewis
Wis
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