Longest Pushbutton Flight Successful in High Altitude Test
James Anast and Capt. Thomas J. Wells report the Wednesday afternoon automatic flight met expectations under difficult conditions. The test logged air-log deviations before radio checks, and navigational fixes needed refinement for smoother landings. Continued improvements include better navigation, flare-out landing assist, and a second Eclipse Pioneer instrument installation.
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James Anast
AWFD
Thomas J. Wells
Amast
Garden City
Kan
Wella
Eclipse Pioneer Instrument Co
AAF
Dewey Plans Westward Vote Seeking Trip in 1948 Push
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will launch a West Coast and Midwest itinerary in July as part of a broader 1948 Republican presidential bid. Washington chatter frames the trip as a strategic vote seeking tour rather than sightseeing, with Albany dispatches labeling it accordingly.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
West
Dewey
New York
Mississippi
Albany
Marshall Includes Britain, Russia in U S of Europe
Secretary of State Marshall said a proposed European economic program should include Britain and Russia as well as other nations. He spoke at Harvard and explained that Churchill’s United States of Europe idea influenced his thinking about European economic recovery with U.S. financial aid, while stressing European initiative.
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Marshall
Russia
Great Britain
Harvard University
Winston Churchill
United States
Churchill
United States of Europe
Harvard
Mead To Testify In Garsson War Fraud Trial
Defense lawyers secured a subpoena for former Sen. James M. Mead to testify next Tuesday in the Garsson war fraud case and to produce documents allegedly withheld. Mead, ex-chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee, aided the probe into wartime links of Andrew J. May and Henry and Murray Garsson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marketing of Crops, Farmers' Greatest Problem
Ohio State University dean L. L. Rummell told the annual conference of vocational agriculture teachers that the farmer’s main challenge is marketing. He noted war production rose 35 percent despite shortages and urged emphasis on farm business management and consumer-demand studies to supply home markets with quality foods at economical costs. Other speakers included B. J. Bath and Bryan P. Sandles.
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Columbus
Ohio Farmer
L. L. Rummell
Ohio State University College of Agriculture
Annual
Conference of Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Rummel
B. J. Bath
State Agriculture Department
Bryan P. Sandles
Father of Eight Receives Elementary School Diploma
Allen Smith a 79 year old Chicago resident and father of eight earned an elementary school diploma at a Phillips evening school graduation He achieved perfect attendance over four years and plans to enroll in high school next September Born December 5 1867 in Tuskegee Alabama to former slaves.
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Chicago
Allen Smith
Phillips Evening School
Smith
Tuskegee
Ala
Schmidt Acquitted by Vienna Peoples Court
Vienna dated report states Dr. Guido Schmidt former Austrian foreign minister under the anschluss era was acquitted of high treason by a five man peoples court. The court found no proof he betrayed Chancellor Kurt Schusch nigg or engineered the 1938 link with Germany to serve his own interests.
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Vienna
Guido Schmidt
Anschluss
Schmidt
Kurt Schuschnigg
Germany
Truman Ends Canadian Visit
President Truman wraps up a Canadian stay with a holiday from official duties in Ottawa. He tours the countryside with his staff, attends a luncheon at Seigniory Club, and toasts Parliament before returning to Washington by night aboard the l car special train via Toronto Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
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Ottawa
Ont
Truman
Canada
Washington
United States
Toronto
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Soviets Likely To Reject Demand For Big Three Inquiry
Washington officials predicted Russia would reject or weaken the call for a Big Three inquiry into Hungary and said the United States would likely take the matter to the United Nations to spotlight Soviet activity in the Balkans after a protest accusing Moscow of flagrant interference in Hungarian affairs.
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Washington
Russia
Hungary
United States
United Nations
Balkans
Moscow
Swedish Relief Worker Slain by Russians
In Vienna on June 12 Russian soldiers fired on a Swedish relief mission car killing Arne Carlsson Vienna chief of the Swedish Save the Children organization. A Swedish legation spokesman called the shooting a deplorable accident and said no protest would be lodged with the Russians in Vienna.
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Vienna
Arne Carlsson
Save-The-Children Organization
Legation
Ohio roads sustain over 3 million in rain damage
Murray D. Shaffer state highway director estimated that a rainy spring caused more than 3 million dollars in damage to Ohio roads culverts and bridges across the state.
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Columbus
Murray D. Shaffer
Meat price surge sparked by demand and market changes
Chicago reports record beef prices with steers and yearlings averaging around 26 dollars per hundred pounds. Hogs reach 24.75, while retail meat costs climb as packers blame consumer demand and producers cite supply dynamics. Officials note a 46 percent rise in last week's meat output to 317 million pounds.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
CPA
Newark
N. J
Joseph Vian
Independent
Retail Butchers Association of
New Jersey
Agriculture Department
Ex-Sen Walsh Dies After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Former U S Senator David J Walsh aged 74 died at St Elizabeths Hospital in Boston from a cerebral hemorrhage. He had chaired the Senate Naval Affairs Committee during World War II and served Massachusetts politics for nearly 50 years. He died a week after hospital admission for high blood pressure as funeral services were held for his sister Nellie Dooley.
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Boston
U.S
David J. Walsh
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Nellie Dooley
Massachussetts
Costly Fire Hits Cincinnati Firms
Fire of undetermined origin gutted a two story factory, spread to the Cincinnati Street Railway barns burning nine cars, and was under control after four hours with 29 fire companies. Five firemen were injured, a policeman hurt, and damage estimated between 200000 and 500000 dollars. Several tenement houses were in the path of the blaze in the west end industrial area.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Street Railway
West End
Barney J. Houston
Conferees Agree on Rent Control Extension
Washington June 12 conferees from the House and Senate have agreed on a bill extending rent controls through February 29 next year with a provision for voluntary increases up to 15 percent if landlords and tenants sign leases running through 1948.
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Washington
House-Senate
All Over Oranges Battle in Automatic Flight
A quirky contest aboard an automatic C-54 over Kansas tested orange juice from Florida against California oranges. Capt Wells and Carl Steineckert led rival camps while Sperry's Welden Downs judged the tasting as the plane crossed Garden City and approached Wilmington.
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Kansas
California
Florida
Thomas J. Wells
Orlando Fla
Ohio
Carl Steineckert
Long Beach
Calif
Steineckert
Douglas Skymaster
Garden City
Kan
Capt. Wells
Steueckert
Welden Downs
Sperry
Downs
Sugar Rationing Ends Wednesday Across Nation
Sugar rationing for consumers ended at midnight marking five years of coupon control era. Prices stay under control and industrial sugar rationing continues though set to end later. Agriculture Secretary Anderson ordered the end, ahead of a Congressional vote on related legislation.
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Cie
Anderson
Congress
House
13 Bulgarian Red Joes Are Expelled
SOFIA Bulgaria June 12 The Bulgaria Grand National Assembly expelled 25 legislators of the Petkov Agrarian party the main opposition to the Fatherland Front. The assembly said the 25 resigned but 23 said they did not. Nikola Petkovy the party general secretary is under arrest for plotting against the state. The assembly resolution said the Agrarians lost prestige and are no longer members of the Grand National Assembly.
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Softa
Bulgaria
Grand National Assembly
Petkov Agrarian Party
Fatherland Front
Nikola Petkovy
Agrarians
Three convicts tie guard to pole, flee near Yakima
In Yakima Washington three escaping prisoners handcuffed a guard to a telephone pole while en route to the state prison. They fled into rocky brush with John Frantz captured about six hours later in a rock cliff hideout.
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Yakima
Wash
Here
John Frantz
Time Element Probes Mysterious Massillon Baby Deaths
Massillon police chief says he is open to all theories in the pediatrics ward deaths of two baby girls last Friday night. Investigators pursue a new angle while focusing on a time element and ruling out outsider involvement per psychologist Dr Persis Simmons.
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Massillon
Stanley W. Switter
City Hospital
Pediatrics
Persis Simmons
Bureau of Juvenile Research At
Columbus
Reds in Unions To Be Investigated By House Panel
Washington June 12 The House Committee on Un American Activities votes to begin hearings June 23 on alleged Communist infiltration of labor unions led by CIO Electrical Workers Union members from Bridgeport Schenectady and New York City. A no report on the Southern Conference for Human Welfare was approved and will be released Sunday.
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Washington
House Committee
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
Thomas
CIO Electrical Workers Union
Bridgeport
Conn
Schenectady
N.Y
New York City
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Wildcat Coal Walkouts Near End In Pa Mines
UNIONTOWN Pa June 12 P A rash of wildcat walkouts by miners protesting union curbing legislation appeared near end today as miners returned to U S Steel Corp mines where previous shutdowns affected steel operations.
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Uniontown
U8, Steel Corp
Plane Travels 2 000 Miles Automatically
The All-Weather Flying Division tested a push-button automatic flight system aboard a DC-4 during an eight hour forty six minute flight from the coast to its destination. The craft traveled 2 000 miles with no human control, aided by a master cockpit system that fed flight data to the plane. The flight aimed to reduce weather hazards without replacing pilots and was overseen by Capt. Thomas J. Wells and a crew including Capt. James H. E. Toner and Lt. Stephen J. Mazurek.
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Caa
Army
Garden City
Kans
Cincinnati
Thomas J. Wells
Orlando
Fla
James H. E. Toner
Butler
Stephen J. Mazurek
Jonesville
Mich
Franklin Shaver
Mannington
W. Va
Welker McKee
Wooster
William Lewis
Paynesville
George Johnson
Xenia
Carl Steineckert
Columbus
W. E. Downs
Wright Field
Dayton
James Anast
French Rail Strike Ends After Government Salary Boost
Paris reports end of a six day national rail strike as the government agrees to raise salaries for the last half of 1947 by 9.9 billion francs about 33 million dollars. The rail workers union ordered a return to work after overnight talks reached a settlement.
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Paris
Railroad Workers
Wesley ousted as Wilberforce University president
Wilberforce State University president Dr. Charles H. Wesley 55 was dismissed by the AME Church board effective tonight. The action moved control from Wesley to new president Dr. Charles Leander Hill, with Wesley remaining head of the College of Education and Industrial Arts. About 940 students learned of the dismissal, staging a demonstration and burning an effigy of Bishop Ransom. The 96th commencement was set for 4:30 PM today.
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Wilberforce
Wesley
R. C. Ransom
A. M. E.’s University Board
Charles Leander Hill
Bishop Ransom
Joseph Gomey
College of Education and Industrial Arts
State of Ohio
Theological College
College of Liberal Arts
A. M. E. Church
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