Former R P I Student Describes Berlin Bombing
Lieutenant Arthur T. Howard, former RPI chemical engineering student, recounts as one of the first U S bombers to hit Berlin during World War II. The account, dated March 5 from an England base, recalls the tense briefing, bitter cold descent, flak and fighter attacks, and the moment of confirmation that Berlin was bombed.
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Arthur T. Howard
RPI
Army Air Corps
Berlin
United States
International News Service
England
Howard
Chemical Engineering
Institute
Joseph Howard
Cortland
Katherine Howard
New York
U S. Flying Fortress
War research financed by government
Postwar policy on government funded research faces patent and ownership questions. About 2 billion dollars of public money supported rapid wartime advances in materials, synthetic rubber, and related tech. With Defense Plant Corporation plants and patent pooling, knowledge spread, but after the war no clear policy exists on ownership and control of patents developed with public funds.
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War and Navy Departments
National Research Council
National Inventors’ Council
United States
Defense Plant Corporation
West Virginia
Harley M. Kilgore
Asst
Wendell Berge
Harry Steenbock
Wisconsin Agricul
When should public funded patents become public property
A historical note on the Steenbock vitamin D discovery funded by federal and state grants. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation controlled licensing and royalties, restricting use to licensed flour dairy and stock feed producers. The case questions whether such public-benefit inventions should be public property and how wartime technology should be treated. A separate item reports Helena Arkansas celebrating the first Teacher's Day at the Eliza Miller Negro School.
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Tural
Steen- Dbock
Steenbock
University
Wisconsin
Alumni Association
George S. Haight
Chicago
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
University of Wisconsin
Helena
Ark
Eliza Miller
Court Adjourns As Jurors Lacking For Week In Rensselaer
In the March term of Rensselaer County Court only seven jurors are present for examination as potential trial jurors. Judge Harry E Clinton recessed the term until next Monday when another panel will report. Out of 34 summoned, 12 were absent. 5 excuses were accepted, leaving seven remaining, including Mrs Chester Day Averill Park Wilbur Fisk Pleasantdale Willam Hayner Troy Ethel Miller Levi Avenue Anna Oceffler 660 Fourth Avenue Mrs Eva Pomeroy Averill Park and Harry Thayer Berlin.
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Rensselaer
Harry E Clinton
County Court
Supreme Cowt
Supreme Court
Talesmen
Clinton
William E French
Philete Craver
Chester Day
R. D
Averill Park
Wilbur Fisk
Pleasantdale
Willam J Hayner
Troy
Ethel Miller
Levi Avenue
Anna M. Oceffler
Fourth Avenue
Eva Pomeroy
Harry Thayer
Berlin
Acrona
Court recessed until 10 am next Monday
The judge, noting circumstances, recessed court until 10 o clock in the morning next Monday with both sides present yesterday or today.
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Clinton
Man Walks With Wife Struck By Car near Utica
Walter H Cooley was killed while walking arm in arm with his wife near Utica when struck by a car driven by George D. Gremer of Cold Brook. Mrs. Cooley escaped injury as authorities said the impact threw her husband ahead of her.
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Utica
Walter H Cooley
Pro Japanese Clique Seen In England
London article in the Daly Mail accuses appeasing British financiers, businessmen and MPs of seeking a compromise peace with Japan. Simon Harcourt-Smith brands these figures traitors and warns of a Japan plotting to fool Britain while Prime Minister Churchill and Eden pledge full strength after Germany is defeated. The piece criticizes pacifist sentiment and calls for arousing self-interest to resist Japan. Empress of Japan marks 41st birthday urging pledge of labor fidelity in Tokyo radio report.
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London
Daly Mail
Japan
Simon Harcourt-Smith
Daily Mail
Churchill
Anthony Eden
James Grigg
Britain
Germany
Harcourt-Smith
Asia
Pacific War
Hong Kong
King Kong
Batavia Radio
New York
INS
Tokyo
Whiteview Pilot Hurt in Plane Crash
Lieut Lynd J Cox of White View was injured in a plane crash in Florida. The War Department notified his parents that he is hospitalized in Lakeland with facial and head cuts but initial exams show no serious injuries. Cox, 19, was commissioned last spring and assigned to a Boca Raton field. He attended La Salle Institute and Siena College, former cattleman, with family seeking further information through Red Cross Home Service.
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Berlin
Bud
É. V. Bowden
Hannibal
Franklin G. Vansant
Pitman
Central Park
Germany
Jerry
Floyd H Mann
Gadsen
Ala
Max
Max Lyon
Indianola
Homer Phoenix
Wolf Pack IE
William E. Phoenix
Fire Department
Phoenix
335
Fourth Street
Mitchel Field
Holland
Belgium
France
Wolf Pack
U.S
England
Lynd J Cox
Whiteview
Florida
War Department
Lynd J. Cox, Jr
Lakeland
Fla
Cox
North Greenbush
Boca Raton
LaSalle Institute
Siena College
An Record
Wynaniskill
Red Cross
Home Service Department of
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer Board Rejects Labor Party Objections
The Rensselaer County Board of Elections overruled objections from the Right Wing of the American Labor Party against left wing party designation of state and county committee members. Objections signed by George Nugent and Abraham Nowitz were filed Thursday. no hearings occurred. The board ruled papers lacked facts to dismiss the Left Wing petition. Printing will proceed for A. L. P. candidates for state and county committees, with primary on March 28 to resolve intra party dispute.
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Rensselaer
Rodmans-Fremer Rey Nf
Thea I~wer Qean Labor Party
Board of Elections
Elections Board
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Troy, N. Y
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Pac. TM. Reg
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Lieut. L.nd J. Cox, JR
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the National Cash Register Company
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