Army Rides Range In Jeeps Brings Back Its Rockets
Army missile test crews explore the New Mexico proving ground to recover parts and record impact data. Recovery teams traverse 4,000 square miles by jeep, photographing, surveying, and retrieving instruments from impact areas while tracking instruments locate the crash site.
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White Lands Proving Ground
New Mexico
New Mexican
Earth
Proving Ground
Proving Grounds
Delaware
Rhode Island
Rose that bears red white and blue blooms created in Memphis
Stephen R. Phelan in Memphis unveils Phelan's Flag the first officially true blue rose now striped with red and white. The three color bloom wins U S Patent Office approval as the first true blue rose. Phelan says the hardy plant grows from a red parent with wild traits and a tap root, producing buds that turn from red or blue edged to white then lavender blue.
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Memphis
Tenn
Stephen R. Phelan
Phelan
Freedom Impresses Aged DP At Passavant Hospital Janitor
62-year-old displaced Dragoslav Mitrovich from Chicago works four hours weekly scrubbing floors at Passavant Memorial Hospital. He gave his pension back to his employer and travels a life story from Belgrade to Ellis Island, praising kindness he now finds in America. He recalls war, exile, and a career as a geology geography professor, ending with a quiet faith in service and community.
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Chicago
Passavant! Memorial Hospital
Dragoslav Mitrovich
University of
Belgrade
Balkan States
Turkey
Mitrovich
Greece
Italy
France
Yugoslavia
University of Belgrade
Chachak
Quartermaster Corps
Osnabruck
Germany
Ellis Island
N. Y
Simple Photography Wins Awards and Stereo Depth
A 1933 National High School Awards winner by Donald Gross of Jerseyville Illinois shows a boy and his dog in a simple setting with solid lighting and careful cropping. The piece extols natural depth, side lighting, foreground elements, latitude of film, and practical camera settings for black and white and color photography.
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Donald Gross
Jerseyville
Illinois
Donald
Half Year Auto Production Seen At 2,957,000
Detroit based Automotive News predicted the first half would total 2 957 000 cars, the third best January to June period in industry history. It also forecast that second-half output would push 1954 to a 5 3 million car annual total, the third best production year.
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Detroit
INS
Automotive News
No Pupils On Hand, Schoolhouse Closing
RIDERS MILLS NY UP The little red school house will close for the first time in 164 years next September. No pupils this year either, but a teacher was kept just in case. Centralized schools are ending the era of the little red school house in New York.
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Riders Mills
N. Y
Little Red
New York
Cascade Park Pool Sunday Closings Prompt Debate
The Chatter Box recounts Park Superintendent John Madhock defending Sunday closings at Cascade Park pool since 1926 to allow cleaning and curb out-of-town rowdyism. He favors a water filter to avoid weekly draining, while locals back a survey on today’s crowd and potential Monday cleaning. Also notes AMA warning on sunglasses during the upcoming solar eclipse and eye injury risks.
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Cascade Park Pool
John Madhock
Johnny
Elyria
Cascade Park
Madhock
American Medical Association
The
Association
Overseas Radio Net Swamped by Mail From Listeners
In Frankfurt Germany the European radio network processes about 150000 postal deliveries yearly with 3000 weekly letters. Women seek husbands amid war widow and other pleas, while others request signed Doris Day photos or camping tents. Master Sergeant Robert Groover oversees the mail and cannot fill most requests.
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American Forces Network
Doris Day
Hollywood
Margaret
London
Turkey
Robert Groover
Hinesville
Groover
Denmark
Seven Men of Spandau Retold By Jack Fishman
Journalist Jack Fishman profiles seven surviving Nazi leaders held at Spandau Prison. The book draws on letters, wives, and friends to recount leaders like Hess Funk Speer Schirach Doenitz Raeder Neurath and their sentences, from life terms to 20 years, and hints at postwar fates.
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Germany
Spandau Prison
Hess
Funk
Speer
Schirach
Neurath
Doenitz
Raeder
Jack Fishman
Sunday Empire News of
London
Hitler
Spandau
Rinehart
Fishman
U. S
Rudolf Hess
Baldur von Schirach
Reichsbank
Walther Funk
Erich Raeder
Albert Speer
Bohemia and Moravia
Baron Constantin von Neurath
Ribbentrop
Streicher
Seyss-In‘quart
Adolf Out Of Favor As A German Name
A survey across seven German cities shows the name Adolf has fallen from favor since the Nazi era. Parents now avoid prominent political names or heroic figures, fearing future pop ularity issues, while names of movie stars and Hollywood actors remain popular with new parents.
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Adolf
Frankfurt
Hitler
Rhine
Elbe
River Tales of the Missouri River Smokestacks and Scout Griffs
Cecil R. Griffith known as Old Griff, chief Missouri River channel inspector for the Army Engineers, recalls river legends of the Tuscarora and Jim Johnson steamboats. He explains the work of inspectors who map shifting reefs to aid pilots, recounts Doniphan Kansas once a booming grain market, and notes Kickapoo’s rise and decline amid river town rivalries.
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Cecil R. Griffith
Missouri River
Army Engineers
Jim Johnson
Hull
Griffith
Old Griff
Kansas City
Kas
Rule
Neb
Waverly
Kaw
Kansas River
Peck
Bagwell
Missouri
Doniphan
A. W. Doniphan
Atchison
Kickapoo
de Bourgmond
Leavenworth
Kansas
Astronomers Seek Precise Time Standards in Space Science
New Haven Conn INS report notes astronomers aim for ultra exact time units. Yale Professor Dick Brouwer argues that despite atomic clocks progress, measuring time via Earth rotation and celestial observations remains the most accurate method. Historical day length variations between 1870s and 1902 1912 affected precision.
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National Bureau of Standards
Dick Brouwer
Yale
Brouwer
Yale Scientific
Grass Lake Township Sets Jackson County Border Borderline
Jackson County resident report notes Grass Lake Township forms the only separation between Napoleon Township and Waterloo Township. The detail highlights local geography and precinct boundaries within Napoleon area.
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Jackson, Mich
Grass Lake
Jackson County
Napoleon
Waterloo
Lita Milan Finds Accent Helps Her Win Western Role
Hollywood report says Columbia’s Western Rough Company cast a Latin type for Barbara Stanwyck’s jealous scene. Lita Milan, born in Brooklyn with Hungarian roots, spoke English with a European accent from education across several countries. Her multilingual background and accent aided her in landing the part, and she contemplates keeping the distinctive intonation as an asset.
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Hollywood
Brooklyn
Columbia
West‘ern
Rough Company
Barbara Stanwyck
Lita Milan
Lita
Thefilm
Miss Stanwyck
Glenn Ford
Edward G. Robinson
Atlantic Seaboard
Ita
Mythical Man In Bradshaw City Election Debacle
In Bradshaw Nebraska thirty seven votes were cast for John Sterner, a name later found not to exist in the city records. The clerk reallocated the ballots to John Steever, who already had seven votes, uncovering an error in the local election count.
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Bradshaw, Neb
John Sterner
Bradshaw
John Steever
New Sprays Hit Orchard Threat to Apple Crops
Cornell University experts in Geneva New York warn about red-banded leaf roller a major threat to the state's apple orchards. They say control is best when worms are young with sprays about ten days after bloom and a second application in late July or August to stop the second brood.
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Geneva
N. Y
Cornell University
Soap Sparks Iceland Geysers For Visitors
National Geographic Society reports that placing a bar of soap in a geyser in Iceland can induce eruption for visitors. The soap reduces surface tension and causes the geyser to erupt, offering a curious demonstration for onlookers.
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Iceland
National Geographic Society
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