Fourteen Franklin Medals Awarded to World Scientists
Franklin Institute honors fourteen scientists with 1938 awards. Recipients include Dr. Wendell M. Stanley for virus research and Dr. Theodore von Karman for aerodynamic concepts. Medals span Elliott Cresson, Howard N. Potts, Edward Longstreth, Stuart Ballentine, George R. Henderson, John Price Wetherill, Louis Levy, and others for breakthroughs in communications, petroleum cracking, gun director electronics, dry electrosensitive recording, phospho asbestos, television, steam locomotive advancement, electric resistance welding, and electron mechanics of induction acceleration.
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Philadelphia
Franklin Institute
Institute
Franklin
Wendell Meredith Stanley
University of California At
Elliott Cresson
Edwin H. Colpitts
Orange
N J
Howard N. Potts
Eugene J. Houdry
Clarence Anding Lovell
Clarence Bigelow Parkinson
Bell’ Telephone Company
New York City
Edward Longstreth
Raleigh J. Wise
Arlington
N. J
Western Union
New York
Nicholas F. Arone
General Electric Company
Edwin H. Brink
Masonite Corporation
Laurel, Miss
Stuart Ballentine
Ray Davis Kell
RCA Laboratories
Princeton
George R. Henderson
Charles Duncanson Young
Whitford
Pennsylvania Railroad
John Price Wetherill
Wendell Frederick Hess
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy
N. Y
Louis ©. Levy
Jan A. Kajehman
Williamh. Cherry
New Dean Advises Morals Over Enjoyment at St. Mark
The Rev. Frederick Morris Morris arrives as dean of Cathedral church of St. Mark in Minneapolis. He tells parishioners preaching is for instruction and stirring the will, not for entertainment, and argues religion that costs little is worth little. He notes an ancestral link to Lewis Morris who signed the Declaration of Independence.
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Minneapolis
Cathedral Church of St. Mark
Frederick Myers Morris
Lewis Morris
Morris
Detroit Taxi Projections From 1947 Figures
The Automobile Manufacturers Association reports in its Facts and Figures booklet that about one billion Americans used taxis in 1947. Detroit cabs totaled 73,000 vehicles traveling nearly 5 billion miles to move fares, with gross revenue estimated at 856 million dollars.
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Detroit
INS
Automobile Manufacturers Association
Forgotten Hero of War Finally Gets the Breaks
Henry E. Irwin, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for a 1945 B-29 rescue, faced pay and housing struggles after service. A Bessemer fundraiser paid his mortgage, with confirmation of a paid-down balance and a benefactor settled debt, as Irwin forgave the mortgage and praised the relief.
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Bessemer, Ala
Henry E
Red
Irwin
Veterans Administration
Bessemer
National
Bears Delivered to New York Zoo Identify Cubs
The Lyngenfjord freighter brought nine polar bear cubs from Norway to New York. Crew and officers could not distinguish the cubs by sex. Dr. Leonard Goss of the New York Zoological Park was called in to identify them before transport to Chicago.
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New York
Lyngenfjord
Norway
Leonard Goss
New York Zoological Park
Chicago
Japanese Press Urged to Publish Cabinet Scandals
Tokyo reports indicate Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida pressed editors to reveal any links between members of his new cabinet and the scandals that toppled the previous administration. He told reporters reporters that papers should not hesitate to expose even the prime minister if found guilty.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Assault case weak says defense in Reuther shooting
Detroit defense counsel calls the case weak and aims to dismiss the assault charge in the planned trial of 39-year-old Carl Bolton for the April 20 shooting of United Auto Workers leader Walter Reuther. Bolton faces potential life imprisonment if convicted. Two witnesses testified Bolton offered 15 000 to hire an assassin and others tied him to the plot while the court set a late November trial.
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Detroit
Carl Bolton
Walter P. Reuther
C.I. O. United Auto Workers
Joseph W. Louisell
Bolton
Reuther
Stein
John Miller
John Pantella
I<enneth Bannon
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Japan
Army
Lee Moody
First National Bank of Bessemer
Midwest
Barclay Allen
SJ Davy
Burnet Ave
E. Genesee ST
Westinghouse Movement
Loew Building
Gail
Setterace
Agi
I. QO
Recorder
Christopher E
United States
Stillwater
Okla
Lemp
Optical Dept
G. D. Meade
Huperience
V.lemp Qounter
Aine
Salina Street
Kempton‘s
South
Salina St
Wil-Stan
Westinghouse
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