GE Works on Jet Fighter to Nip High Altitude Bombers
General Electric engineers disclosed ongoing work to create jet fighters capable of overtaking high altitude bombers. The Lynn Massachusetts center and a new assembly plant for J-47 engines mark a push to test at simulated altitudes above 70 000 feet.
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Lockland
General Electric Co
Army
Elgin Air Force Base
Fla
U. S
Air Force
Lynn
Mass
Fred Hopkins
Wright Field Industrial Planning
Charles E. Wilson
G.E. Presid
Russia
Wilson
Carroll Heirs Settle Estate Suit In Los Angeles
Heirs to the Earl Carroll estate and to Beryl Wallace have settled out of court. Executors asked approval of a compromise to define holdings of separate, partially overlapping estates, reducing Carroll’s value from 1.435 million and increasing Wallace’s originally 74 thousand. Both were killed in a plane crash near Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, last June.
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Los Angeles
Earl Carroll
Beryl Wallace
Carroll
Miss Wallace
Mt. Carmel
Real Estate Board to Hear Heald On Bezaleel Wells
E T Heald secretary treasurer of the Stark County Historical Society will address Real Estate Board members at Mergus restaurant at noon Wednesday. He will discuss The Real Estate Operations of Bezaleel Wells. Wells, early Ohio pioneer and founder of Steubenville and Canton, is the subject of Healds book Bezaleel Wells Founder of Steubenville and Canton.
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Canton
E. T. Heald
Stark County Historical Society
Mergus
Bezaleel Wells
Mr. Heald
Mr. Wells
Ohio
Heald
Steubenville
Wells
Rex Reigns Over City Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Mardi Gras brought massive crowds of about 100000 plus residents to streets of New Orleans. Rex the King of Carnival rode amid mule drawn floats while parades featured clubs and the Zulus led by Louis Armstrong. Revelers danced, laughed and masked away worries as Lent approached on Ash Wednesday.
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Dolly Ann Souchon
Edmond Souchon
Rex
Louis Armstrong
New Orleans
Comus
Municipal Auditorium
Congress Oleo Battle Resumed
Washington March 1 A five day hearing opens before the House agriculture committee as repeal advocates clash with dairy state opponents over taxing oleomargarine and whether colored margarine may be priced or colored yellow. Representative Andresen leads dairy opposition while proposing a variant repeal and coloring ban. The federal tax stands at 10 cents per pound for colored oleo and a quarter of a cent for uncolored margarine.
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Washington
INS
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
House
Senate
Andresen
Minnesota
Dean to Talk on Alcohol at Mt Union College
Albion King of Cornell University will deliver the address on basic scientific information about the alcohol problem at Mt Union College in Alliance. The talk is set for Wednesday morning in the Mt Union Theater.
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Repository Bureau Alliance
Mt. Union College
Mt. Union Theater
Albion King
Cornell University
Pastor Grove Leads Rural Life Commission Visit
Rev. Herman Grove of the North Lawrence E.A.B. Church is in Washington D C as representative of the Rural Life Commission and Seminary of the East Ohio Conference. He has served five years on the commission and was secretary for two. The conference continues through Friday.
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Herman Grove
North Lawrence E.A
California Fish Variety Survey by UC Scripps
In La Jolla California the University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography reports 673 kinds of fish in California waters. The survey lists 30 shark varieties from the foot long slime shark to the large basking shark.
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LA Jolla
Calif
California
University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Janis Paige Named 1949 Buddy Poppy Girl
Film star Janis Paige is chosen unanimously by the national Buddy Poppy committee to symbolize the typical volunteer girl for Memorial Week Buddy Poppy sales aiding disabled veterans.
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Janis Paige
Ohio Industrialist Glenn Toaz Dies at 64
Cleveland business leader Glenn A. Toaz 64 president of Howe Manufacturing Co. died at his Bedford home.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Glenn A. Toaz
Howe Manufacturing Co
Bedford
Soviet Peace Feelers Reported on Berlin Question
The Social Democrat said Russians issued new peace feelers on Berlin via Polish military intermediaries about two weeks ago. The offer included lifting the Berlin blockade if Western powers began talks on a single currency for the city. Western powers reportedly rejected, refusing to resume negotiations until their own currency is introduced in the western sectors.
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Berlin
Social Democrat
Delinquency Charge Brings $500 Fine Jail Term Set
Wilburt M. Wright, 26, of Moundsville West Virginia was fined 500 dollars and costs with one year in jail after being found guilty by Judge Paul D. Van Nostran of acting to tend to cause delinquency in a 15 year old girl during a hearing.
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Wilburt M. Wright
Moundsville
W. Va
Paul D. van Nostran
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Sam Wolf
Wallace Estate
Jessie L. Schuyler
Carroll Estate
Orleans
Lester F. Alexander
Boston
Canal St
Council
Flagg
Rose Johnson
Mrs. Johnson
B. H. Talley
Dean
Market Ave
South
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N.zaesce
Lollipop
Pete
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