Flying research at Langley aims for faster safer planes
At Langley Field experts led by Col. Lindbergh study wind tunnels pumping air through models and full size aircraft to improve speed power and safety. Four hundred researchers test engines wings and props while seeking anti detonation methods flutter prevention and better altimeters amid top secret defense needs.
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Devon Francis
Associated Press
Langley Field
Charles A. Lindbergh
House
Washington
Congress
Army Post and Research Center
H. G. Welles
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Hitler unveils white uniform at alliance dinner
Adolf Hitler wore a new white uniform at a Berlin dinner hosted by Joachim von Ribbentrop for Italy's Galeazzo Ciano. The outfit featured a silver belt and the Iron Cross, Nazi party badge, and a veteran-wound medal. Hitler, who was gassed in the war, displayed his standard honors.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Hitler
Germany
Fuehrer
Iron Cross
Hotler
Betty Boop to star at Hable's Palace Theatre in Hollywood Revue
Betty Boop with a 25 performer company fromHollywood appears today and Thursday at Hable's Palace Theatre in Hollywood Revue. On screen today George Murphy and Dorothea Kent perform in Risky Business. on Thursday June Lang and Paul Kelly appear in Forged Passport. No price increase.
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Betty Boop
Hable’s
Virginia dairy products set record high in 1938 output
Production of butter ice cream cottage cheese condensed and evaporated milk in Virginia last year reached a record high, with gains in multiple dairy categories. Creamery butter rose 15 percent, ice cream up 5 percent, condensed and evaporated milk up 28 percent, and dried milk near 1933 levels.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. S. Department
Dairy and Food Division of
Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers Association
Britain’s Air Power Displayed to Parliament Members
A party of 300 MPs and government officials viewed a war ministry air show in London. One plane sped at about 500 miles per hour, faster than the fastest chasers in print. Two mystery planes also flashed by with details withheld.
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London
Britain
War Ministry
Wrist Watches For Graduates Handley High winners named
A Handley High School graduate boy and girl will receive wrist watches within a week or when Hodgson and Brown’s window clock ends. Fifty one boys and one girl are listed, with the clock face assigning the boy winners to the hour hand and the girl winners to the minute hand. The clock stop will reveal the victors, a 15 year old tradition at Handley. The rest is unrelated trivia about a cake and a doctor from Jugoslavia.
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Handley High School
Hodgson and Brown
Handley
This Woman Is All Wrong
Perth Amboy New Jersey May 24. Mary Wills a 31 year old woman is found to have the heart on the right side and the stomach spleen and liver on opposite sides from normal. Dr Kavarsky notes the heart is directed backward and calls the case a medical rarity likely to be reported to the American Medical Association.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Mary Wills
A. E. Kavarsky
General Cable
Miss Wilus
American Medical Association
Considerate Of His Napping Wife
Vincent Pallitto forgot his apartment key and climbed out a hall window to reach his roof. The roof was slippery and pitched causing a slide to a chimney where he stayed until neighbors called police. An emergency squad rescued him. His wife woke and let him in.
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New York
N. J
Vincent Pallitto
Pallitto
Evangelization Emphasis in Presbyterian Assembly
The Rev. Charles Whitefield Welch of Louisville, moderator of the General Assembly, urged unity for evangelization of the non Christian world. He predicted a unanimous vote for a church union program and outlined a concordat of steps toward organic union with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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Cleveland
Charles Whitefield Welch
Louisville
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church In
United States
Christian Church
Welch
Presbyterian General Assembly
Department of Church Cooperation and Union
Our Church
Protestant Episcopal Church
Boy Walks Two Miles to School for Eight Years
Thirteen year old Philip Michel from Falls City Nebraska walked two miles daily to his district schoolhouse for eight years and never missed a day.
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Falls City
Neb
Philip Michel
Armstrong Rodrick Bout From London On Broadcast
The week’s second boxing card features Henry Armstrong versus Ernie Rodrick in a London relay heard Thursday afternoon at 3 45. BBC and WJZ NBC will air with British announcers Woodroofe and Dalby describing.
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New York
London
America
Henry Armstrong
Ernie Roderick
BBC
England
WJZ
NBC
Cleveland
Thomas Woodroofe
W. Barrington Dalby
Winchester Needs Modern Soft Water System for Growth
Letter from Pearl Nicholson of Winchester urges building a Cedar Creek Valley soft water dam serving Winchester Middletown Stephens City and Kernstown to spur regional growth. The writer also notes school water shortages book access and vocational training needs while praising community development and health improvements.
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Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Cedar Creek
Middletown
Stephens City
Kernstown
What Frederick County Needs Most
A health unit and better educational system would benefit citizens. Many students lack health certificates due to defects such as poor vision and hearing and underweight. A health unit would provide needed care and an improved school system would address sanitation and lighting issues in at least one poorly equipped school.
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Frederick Coun
Frederick County
Lawrence Reveals Shame Over Arab Revolt in Wartime Conspiracy
London May 24. A newly released chapter from T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom shows him regretting his role in the Arab revolt and accusing promises of self government of being hollow. He says he deceived the Arabs and refused honors, later serving as a private in the Royal Air Force and dying in a 1935 motorcycle crash.
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London
Col
T. E. Lawrence
Lawrence
Turkey
Royal Air Force
Four year old hanged by rope tricks in Mill Valley
In Mill Valley California on May 24 four year old Charles Wilson liked acrobatics with his swing rope. When he did not come in for dinner his mother Mrs. Thomas D Wilson found him hanging by the neck unconscious. Emergency efforts failed.
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Mill Valley
Calif
Charles Wilson
Thomas D. Wilson
Rainfall Averages From 1913 to 1938
Historical rainfall figures show May to date point sixty one inches and year to date thirteen point sixty six inches. Monthly averages for 1913 through 1938 are listed with totals by month and an average annual rainfall of thirty five point nine inches. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Hopkins Turtle Derby Draws Seventy Entries
Baltimore May 24 The Hopkins turtle derby field includes seventy hopefuls from Johns Hopkins Hospital and beyond. Favorites include Bassini the previous winner and Hypochondriac out of Luck with others such as Holy Smokes and Fatigue. Races proceed in a fifteen foot circle at 3 PM under floodlights with interns nurses and teams from London Montreal and the Philippines entered.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins
London
Montreal
Phillippines
Bassini
Allen L. Erskine
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