Echo of Bombs Sparks Support for National Science Foundation
An echo from the war era prompts Congress to consider funding a national science foundation. Debates highlight risks of directing scientific research and emphasize the need for freedom from government control. Critics stress the social sciences' underfunding and point to outbreaks of rumor driven violence in Kielce and Detroit as warning signs.
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WNU Service
Hye Street
N.wi
Washington, D. C
Hiroshima
Congress
Senate
National Scientific Research Foundation
Nagasaki
The
American Association of University Professors
Theodore Koppanyi
Kielce
Poland
Detroit
Possession Is Law In The Peace Conference Era
In a strained editorial voice the column notes possession as key to property disputes and references expropriation fears surrounding Austrian assets. It humorously recounts Philadelphia incidents with a rogue horse and a rat as proxies for slow procedural justice, then shifts to Congress and the OPA bill as lawmakers face late sessions and jammed deadlines.
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Philadelphia
Wheeler Loses Montana Senate Bid as Talmdge Rises
Veteran senator Burton K Wheeler is defeated in Montana Democratic primary amid postwar sentiment shifts and internal party strife. Leif Erickson challenges, CIO PAC opposition and railroad unions cited as factors, while Wheeler defends his record and principles. Georgia’s race features Gene Talmadge’s white supremacist bid with large Black vote mobilization against him. The context includes court orders affecting primaries and segregation policy.
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Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Cio-Pac
Leif Erickson
Wheeler
James V.carmichael
Talmadge
U.S. Supreme Court
Georgia
el- As Arnall
Inventories Tighten as War Producers Face Controls
The Civilian Production Administration proposes strict limits on finished goods inventories to 80 days for appliances and other scarce items as a curb on hoarding amid fears of higher prices. Exports may be restricted if shipments worsen shortages in foreign markets. price controls could avert such steps. In a separate case, Nikolai Redin, a Russian naval lieutenant, was acquitted of spying charges after the judge rebuked prosecutors for overstating international tensions. Redin, arrested in Portland while heading to Russia, thanked the jury and reaffirmed US Russian friendship.
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CPA
Nicolai Redin
America
Lloyd Black
Set-Aside Terminated in Wheat Sale Control Changes
Government ends mandatory set-aside for wheat farmers to sell half their 1846 crop. Officials foresee shifting to a terminal level if price ceilings return. End of set-aside removes department guarantee against price rises but keeps export siphoning machinery. new procurement likely if price control ends, with continued heavy export goal.
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Senate
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Department
New Castle Plan Aims for Balanced Growth and Renewal
In New Castle Indiana the 1907 Maxwell factory era expanded the city from 3 000 to 20 000. A civic planning push led by Scott Chambers seeks better housing parks an auditorium a hotel airport and community center with improved traffic and blight removal as part of an industrial city that preserves small town charm.
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Kirkpatrick
WNU
Blue River
New Castle
Ind
Maxwell Automobile
Sunate
Scott Chambers
City Plan Commission
Aiian Club
Two Elderly Fans Ride Scooter Despite Accident
MEMPHIS TENN Two elderly women Mrs Mattie Driver aged 60 and Mrs Ida L Frisby aged 82 were injured when a motor scooter they rode together went out of control and sent them to a hospital. Frisby sustained a shoulder injury while Driver had a head cut but both said they would not give up the childhood sport. Frisby said she was doing something she had always wanted to do and Driver planned to ride again to Chattanooga once released.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mattie Driver
Ida L. Frisby
Former WAC Sees Name as Casualty
Mrs. Charles W. Bruder a former second lieutenant in the WAC scanned the war department casualty list and found her name listed as dead or missing. She had been released last December after serving in recruiting duty in the United States and blamed a Washington records mixup for the error. Her husband remained an Army officer serving in the European theater.
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Billings
Mont
War Department
Charles W. Bruder
WAC
Bruder
Washington
Airmail Laundry Solves London Delays With Melbourne Mail
A London resident solved long laundry delays by sending clothes to Melbourne, Australia for airmail treatment. Return delivery arrives within 10 days, easing frustration over two week delays in receipts. The improvised scheme highlights cross hemisphere mail speed and domestic frustration.
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London
Melbourne
Australia
Vigilantes Keep Active in Richland Grove Despite Seven Years
The Richland Grove Vigilantes formed seven years ago to catch horse thieves remain active though they have not pursued a steed thief since August 24, 1899. Composed mainly of founders' kin, the group values sentimental and social ties and maintains a current membership of 130, meeting annually.
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Sherrard
Allnough
Richland Grove
Aviation Notes Highlight Local Air Club and Field News
Parowan Utah forms a flying club for ages 16 to 100. Lieutenant Mahoney in Gilman Ohio improves DDT dusting to fight corn borers. Colorado flyers visit Christman Geld Fort Collins for rural aviation day. Ted Hodges Laguna Beach faces rent rising to 10 dollars a day. Thunder Bird Field No 1 Glen dale Arizona to be handed to the American Institute of Foreign Trade for veteran training in foreign service. Slick Airways reports successful air conditioning of freighter cabins with Aber-glass insulation and dry ice cooling. Iberville South Plaquemine Louisiana editorial questions the value of an airport despite car reliance.
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Parowan
Utah
John Mahoney
Gilman
Slick Airways
Slick
Plane sowing grass seed on 1200 acres in Illinois
A small airplane sowed grass seed on 1200 acres of tough land in Illinois with a 40 to 50 foot swath, carrying 160 pounds per load. Cost averaged 3.20 per acre versus 6 per acre by hand, and about 90 percent of California growers this year will seed by planes while Texas expects air seeding for parts of the next rice crop.
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California
Texas
Canby
Minn
Citizens Investment CO
Minnesota
Jenty
Melcher
W. W. Prymer
Burlington
Iowa
Red River Valley
W. C. Isaacson
Breckenridge, Minn
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