54. UNO delegates return home. Bradley urges action on veter_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

problems. Musk-ox task force braves Arctic wastes. First jet

squadron in formation flight. Find missing Italian royalty. Royal

opera opens in London.

55. Cardinals [in Rome] receive red hats. Taxi drivers ride on

Washington. China celebrates happy New Year. Mrs. Roosevelt in

Germany visit. Richelieu [battleship] comes home to France.

56. General Homma sentenced to die [in Manila trial]. UNO begins

move to Hunter College. Giant machine "lays" new homes like eggs.

Fast army plane [XF–12] is new airliner. Churchill gets honorary

degree [from the Miami University]. Shanghai hails Chiang Kai-Shek.

GI's "rest up" on Jap ski run.

57. President [Truman] calls meeting on food crisis. Jap Emperor

unbends on visit to people. New York opens emergency homes for

veterans. Fun and prices hit new high in Florida. Find child and

nurse in kidnaping. Navy shows first "hobby [lobby]" station. New

Red Cross drive opened by Truman.

58. Churchill [at Fulton, Missouri]. Truman [in Columbus, Ohio] in

major speeches. France closes its Spanish frontier. Peron, Tamborini

in race for presidency [in Argentina]. Cardinals [Spellman and

Mooney] hailed on return to U. S. French GI brides sail for America.

59. First pictures of atom test site [at Bikini Atoll]. Radio-guided

planes for atom experiment. Truman supports loan to Britain.

Churchill and "Ike" together on tour. Jap Empress on first visit to

people.

60. First report from looted Mukden. One-hundred-thirteen-day

General Motors strike comes to end. New volcanic island rises from

the sea [off Japan]. Churchill to F. D. R.—a last salute. Dam brings

vital power to France. Army demobilizes smallest train [in England].

61. Churchill, Byrnes in significant speeches [in New York]. General

Marshall home from China. Peron wins crucial Argentine election.

Meet Mrs. Attlee of 10 Downing Street. [Scientists] record

tremendous sun upheavals. GI show at Ernie Pyle theater [in Tokyo].

62. Churchill poses for portrait, leaves U. S. Show electronic

blanket. Pathe News report: United Nations. Destroy U. S. planes,

gunpowder [in Germany and Alabama]. Smith named Russia Ambassador.

Iran dispute submitted to UNO. UNRRA meets in Atlantic City.

63. UNO meets in New York. Hoover surveys food crisis in France.

"Bluebeard" Petiot at scene of his crimes. Army embarks on Jap

anti-typhus drive. Carrier Midway on Arctic cruise. Princess

[Elizabeth] christens H. M. S. Eagle.

64. Russia walks out. The Iran-USSR dispute before UNO Security

Council: the Iran question; Russia leaves; Iran is heard.

65. Insane pianist fights way back through music. President Truman

awards two medals of honor [to Commander O'Kane and Sergeant

McGaha]. Two million dollar fire ruins pulpwood, big bridge [in

Canada]. Pre-war gaiety in Paris festival. Thirteen-hundred-pound

rocket is U. S. biggest. [Crewmen] resume Oxford, Cambridge classic.

Mine phosphates for Europe's farms.

66. Tidal wave hits Hawaii. UN Council agrees on Iran dispute.

Goering takes stand at Nuremberg trial. First films of Warsaw as

Hoover tours city. Meager rations for the beaten Germans.

67. President Truman in Army Day speech [in Chicago]. One thousand

Japs, Formosans jammed on "hell ship" [at Sydney, Australia].

Yugoslavia's Tito is hailed by Czechs. A village of France [Dortan]

rises from war ruins. Russian fashions at Moscow show. War planes in

mammoth junk heap.

68. League of Nations ends for all time. Jap undersea fleet sent to

the bottom. French [troops] come back to Indo-China. Florida cypress

cut for lumber. First Lady [Mrs. Truman] at Children's Hospital. [U.

S. motion picture] exhibitors' team to serve U. S.

69. F. D. R.—a nation remembers. Physician reports President

[Truman] well after first year. DDT cleans up an entire county

[Muscogee, in Georgia]. Open UNRRA University in Munich. Land mines

in gigantic blow-up [in Texas].

70. General MacArthur asks nations to ban war. 1946 baseball season

begins. Auto industry marks its golden jubilee. Dreams come true for

a dying boy. Hirohito and family—first portrait. Army wives, kids

sail for Europe. "Missouri" carries [Turkish] Envoy's body [to

Istanbul].

71. Japs at polls in first free election. U. S. must conserve, or

Europe starves. Cadets at Annapolis—Middies at West Point [on a

three-day visit]. Million New Yorkers in biggest Easter parade.

72. The occupation job [in Germany]—one year after victory. Truman

reviews 8th Fleet's maneuvers. Byrnes off to Big Four Paris talks.

Royalty [of Sweden and Holland] meet amid old splendor. Khaki

University [in England] for vets only. Airborne lifeboat drops from

sky.

73. Big Four [Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and Bidault] in Paris

Conference. Forty-five dead, one hundred hurt in [Naperville]

Illinois train wreck. La Guardia seeks aid of Midwest farmers. Army

reveals Flying Wing bomber. President Truman on vacation cruise.

Mrs. MacArthur at Jap tea party. Famed auto race resumed at Nice

[France].

74. Seized films of Nazi V–2 launchings. Roxas is elected new

Philippines President. Jap silver hoard taken from sea. Plastic lung

aids polio victims. Deliveries from sky by parachute. Lightning rods

for Eiffel Tower.

75. Alcatraz riot. Kentucky Derby. Name [Mrs. Emma Clement, of

Louisville] American Mother of 1946. May Day celebrated in Paris.

76. Army wives and children join dads in Berlin. France votes down

new constitution. May Day in Tokyo, Prague and Berlin. President

Truman aids famine relief. Operation Musk-ox is completed.

Policewomen are "Tokyo's finest." Marshal Montgomery home [in

England] to stay.

77. Jap war lords on trial. Army tests Nazis' deadly V–2 rocket [in

the New Mexico desert]. President-elect Roxas [of the Philippines]

in U. S. meets Truman. Yank raiders combat China's black market.

Assault wins the Preakness.

78. Pearl Harbor—a Jap's-eye view. Hoover home from world food tour.

Disabled vets train for a normal life. President [Truman] honors

movies for $4,279,000 [Red Cross] drive.

79. Plane crashes into New York skyscraper. Byrnes reports on Big

Four Paris meeting. First "new Americans" since war land in New

York. UNRRA clothing, food saves lives in Europe. Berlin and Paris

mark VE-Day. Memphis holds Cotton Carnival.

80. Rail strike paralyzes nation. Work goes ahead on atom bomb test.

General Eisenhower on Far East tour. Variety Club award to

Evangeline Booth.

81. Railroad strike ends. Truman entertains 1200 wounded vets [in

Washington]. Louis, Conn train for championship battle.

82. Coal strike settled. One billion, four hundred million-dollar

loan to France. Hold national spelling bee finals. Target-animals

for atomic test. Bust [added to New York University's Hall of Fame]

honors Booker Washington. Repair U. S.-Britain cable link. Henry

Ford, shows first flivver.

83. Destroyer of Lidice hanged. Robson wins 500 mile Indianapolis

[auto racing] classic. Assault takes Belmont—wears triple crown.

Eisenhower speaks [in Washington, D. C.] on anniversary of D-day.

First films—Panama's wild Choco Indians.

84. Fifty-eight killed in Chicago hotel [La Salle] fire. Report on

Hiroshima atomic bomb damage. Elections in France, Czechoslovakia,

Italy. Industry celebrates fifty years of autos.

85. Britons parade on Victory Day. Allied dead honored on D-day

anniversary [in France]. China national government back in old

capital [of Nanking]. G. I. families settle in Berlin. England holds

its Derby classic [at Epsom Downs].

86. London erupts in mammoth celebration [on the eve of Victory

Day]. Gandhi leads Hindus in public prayers. News cameramen get

ready for atom test. U. S. Ambassador Smith in Moscow. Big oil blaze

rages in [Whiting] Indiana. Jap pearl growers back at work.

Australia sees richest foot race.

87. Baruch on atom control. Big Four [Byrnes, Bevin, Molotov and

Bidault] meet again in Paris. Peron inaugurated as Argentine

President. [Howard Hughes'] largest flying-boat moved to launching.

Mangrum wins National Open championship.

88. Japan today. Christen baby prince [Carl Gustaf of Sweden] amid

royal pageantry. Italians hail their new republican government.

General de Gaulle takes the limelight again. Train future Filipino

envoys at State Department [in Washington].

89. Vinson sworn in as U. S. Chief Justice. Campaign for Mexico's

presidency [led by Miguel Aleman]. Open New York to Prague air

service. Select [nation's] best barber shop quartet. Paris fashions

are in news again. Illinois takes national [collegiate] track crown.

Cornell wins international regatta.

90. Famine in China. [Staten Island] ferry station burns in

$2,000,000 fire. Army's [XB–35] Flying Wing in maiden flight. New

posts for Steelman, Snyder. Jap Crown Prince [Akihito] enters

school. Berlin carnival aids destitute. Grand Steeplechase run in

Paris.

91. Operation Crossroads [at Bikini]. Truman on prices. Hirohito

attends 90th Jap Diet. Helicopter aids war on insects [in Yakima,

Washington].

92. Allies on guard in Trieste. UNRRA fights famine in Hunan

Province. British women rebel at bread rationing. GI families take

up new homes in Japan. Nisei war heroes return to U. S. Britons bid

for war surplus cars.

93. Bikini atom explosion—Operation Crossroads. Able Day [in the

Pacific]. The atom explosion. Aftermath [59 ships destroyed or

damaged].

94. [Ted] Williams stars in All-Star game [Boston]. Aleman wins

quiet Mexican election. Philippines Army now under own flag. Truman

visits Gettysburg shrine. Benes is Czech President again. Japanese

in Corpus Christi rites. Clark honors Italian partisans.

95. Philippines gain independence. New boundaries set in Big Four

agreements. Byrnes returns home—hopeful for Big Four. Hamburg mob

protests Allied eviction order. Britain begins move out of Egypt.

Princesses [Elizabeth and Margaret] attend Henley Regatta.

96. King's death is Siam mystery. France marks Bastille Day. British

bombers begin U. S. tour. San Francisco trolleys make news. GI's

enjoy Pyle roof garden [in Tokyo].

97. Exclusive films of George Bernard Shaw. Hindus in weird

Juggernaut rites. Last German prisoners leave United States.

Two-section bus is Kaiser's latest. Anything goes in Siamese boxing.

France seizes German horsepower. Ship kept from Nazis is launched

[in Holland].

98. Shriners parade in San Francisco. Chinese Ambassador [Wellington

Koo] answers press. Paris hears choir boys' congress. McNarney opens

the Patton bridge [across the Rhine]. Germans make old rags into

cloth. Rubber boats ride Australia surf. Britain thanks U. S. for

loan.

99. Byrnes flies to Paris Peace Conference. Sister Kenny in U. S. to

fight epidemics [of infantile paralysis]. Eisenhower honors Army

Medical Corps. UNRRA chief La Guardia on tour in Italy. New York

welcomes Europe's homeless. Water ski champs in national meet [in]

Holland, Michigan.

100. Paris Peace Conference opens. De Gaulle calls for

France-Britain pact. Russia's might in Red Square parade.

101. Underwater atom blast. Operation Crossroads—blast number 2.

Test Baker. Zero hour. Results of the blast.

102. Inside Oak Ridge [Tennessee]. Voting causes Peace Conference

conflict [at Paris]. Truman, in Missouri, votes in primary.

103. Palestine violence breaks out anew. UNRRA conference hears La

Guardia [at Geneva, Switzerland]. Rio De Janeiro roars welcome to

General Eisenhower. Send gas-laden ship to bottom of [North] Sea.

[Jehovah's Witnesses] hold mass baptism in Lake Erie. Mash 2 million

pounds of potatoes [in Washington].

104. Biggest bomber [Army's new XB–36] in first air test. President

Truman on famed 6:30 a. m. walk. Trieste mob protests. Big Four

decision to place zone under international control. Monks rebuild

Cassino monastery. Big show staged for General "Ike" [in Brazil].

Huge French dam near completion.

Volume 18. 1946/47.

1. Palestine: terrorists on trial; refugees shut out.

Fourteen-year-old takes Soap-box Derby. Russia rebuilds Dnieper

[hydro-electric] dam. Churchill gets ancient honors. Truman begins

an ocean vacation. National sweepstakes regatta [between American

and Canadian speed demons].

2. New riots flare in Trieste zone. Price Decontrol Board sets new

rules. LaGuardia hailed by Czechs. New airplane [the Lockheed

Constitution] is Navy's biggest. Admiral Blandy asks atom control.

Women's champ swimming meet.

3. Sum up case against Nazi war criminals [at Nuremberg]. College

All-Stars crush Rams, 16–0 [in Chicago's Soldier Field]. Truman in

Bermuda on vacation cruise. Parachute supplies to Mt. Blanc. Rome

seeks relief from the heat.

4. Palestine-bound Jews riot at Cyprus camp. Talbert and Mulloy win

national tennis doubles. President Truman goes fishing. Revive wild

Italian horse race. Hawaii welcomes Nisei fighters. Chileans bag

undersea monsters.

5. Yugoslavs deliver bodies of U. S. fliers. National air races

flown in Cleveland. Safety device hurls pilot from his plane. Louis,

Mauriello train for bout. Italy burns 25 billion lire. New [Liberty]

highway follows Patton route [across France]. Entire Mexican city of

Guanajuato holds picnic.

6. General Eisenhower speaks at VFW encampment. King [George II] of

Greece regains throne. Camps care for Italy's children. LaGuardia

interviewed in London [as UNRRA director]. De Gaule honors heroic

island [Ile de Sein]. New thrills in famed Ice-capades.

7. Byrnes speaks in Stuttgart. Betz, Kramer win national tennis

finals. Meet Marilyn Buferd "Miss America, '46." First native [Jesus

A. Pinero] is named Puerto Rico Governor. Record wheat harvest eases

world's famine.

8. U. S. Fleet's goodwill visit to Greece. France gives peace

delegates a party. Monty [Field Marshal Montgomery] visits West

Point and Washington. Former Nazi captives give thanks at Lourdes.

General Mark Clark home to discuss Austria. Howard Hughes flies

continent in a B–23.

9. Camera catches crack-up of C–54. La Guardia gives views on

Europe. Ted Bishop wins the national amateur crown. Tests [at U. S.

Bureau of Mines] show causes of mine explosions. Queen Wilhelmina,

sixty-six, feted by her people. "Land yacht" is hotel on wheels.

Amphibian takes family on picnic.

10. Wallace sees Truman—cancels all speeches. [Army's new XP–84] jet

plane shatters U. S. speed record. First big apartments are opened

for vets [in Washington, D. C.] Jews in Austria camp seek Palestine

home. Repair radioactive atom-bombed ship [USS Laffey, back from

Bikini]. Czechs honor fallen U. S. airmen. Korea observes year of

freedom.

11. Rescue [Newfoundland] plane-crash survivors. Wallace resigns [as

Secretary of Commerce] at President's request. General Clark honored

[in Salerno, Italy] at site of invasion. Illini and Bears win as '46

grid season opens.

12. Inflation, crowds plague Shanghai. Start flood control on vital

Yellow River [in China]. A British mother on a pilgrimage to Arnhem.

Truman and 50,000 see President's Cup regatta [in Washington, D.

C.]. Five thousand [Italian] Boy Scouts are honored by Pope Pius.

Flying post office on first mail run.

13. Football: Army-Oklahoma; Notre Dame-Illinois. Funeral of Kalinin

former Russian President. Riots give way to floods in Bombay.

British designs make bid for world trade. U. S. freighter is split

off Britain.

14. Navy's "Turtle" sets non-stop air record. Greeks hail return of

King George II. American Legion in San Francisco parade. Truman asks

aid for community Chest, USO. Five hundred thousand pounds of TNT in

great test blast. Missionaries set sail for war-torn China.

15. Nuremberg: 19 Nazi leaders found guilty. St. Louis: World Series

opens.

16. Byrnes asks war talk end. Open Alcan highway to civilian

traffic. Red Cross clothing for China's children. Cotton pickers vie

for national title. British Stage their biggest fashion show. Jack

L. Warner is honored by Mexico.

17. Truman lifts meat price controls. Actors urge end of movie

strike. Columbia and Texas win grid thrillers.

18. Paris parley ends; Byrnes reports to U. S. Cardinals win World

Series.

19. "Queen Elizabeth" arrives [in New York]—brings Molotov. Nazis'

families pay their final visits. Tiny republic [of San Marino]

claims $10,000,000 war damage. Czech mine is named for President

Truman. U.C.L.A. tops California; Army routs Columbia.

20. United Nations meet in New York. Celebrate festival of Buddha's

tooth [in Ceylon]. Push-button parking for tomorrow's cars [in Los

Angeles].

21. Football: Penn smothers Navy; Oregon State tops Washington

State. Navy tests world's largest helicopter [XHJD–1]. "Queen"

leaves New York, bound for London. Gala audience as Paris opera

opens. Slowest entry wins strange motor race.

22. Molotov, Austin debate disarmament. Atomic Commission created by

Truman. "Winnie" [Winston Churchill] and "Monty" [Field Marshall

Montgomery] mark El Alamein. Motorcycle racers thrill 10,000

Germans.

23. Big Four meet in New York. United Nation delegates visit

Roosevelt grave. Lord Mountbatten's daughter is married. Acrobats

defy death in high wire stunts. Football: Ohio State vs.

Northwestern; Georgia vs. Alabama.

24. Landslide sweeps G. O. P. to power. Movie stars meet the King

and Queen [London]. Canada stages its biggest log drive. Skiers

tackle Mount Rainier.

25. Army vs. Notre Dame, game of the year. V–2 goes 104 miles up,

another crashes. Molotov calls on President Truman. Big names arrive

on Queen Elizabeth. Demonstrate unique automobile-airplane.

26. Truman, Martin pledge cooperation. Hunt U. S. flyers in distant

"Lolo Land" [in China]. Navy's constitution is biggest transport.

Take 1,250 refugees off listing ship [in Palestine]. Hindus, Moslems

form government for self rule. One hundred and ten thousand turn out

for Melbourne cup race.

27. Army beats Penn. G. O. P. committees plan new program. Bombs

thrown in Hollywood strike. Sink captured Nazi sub off Cape Cod.

Hirohito at Diet, cheered by mobs.

28. Coal strike threatens U. S. Amazing films taken of earth from a

V–2. Zionist leaders are freed by the British. Last Germans shipped

from Czechoslovakia. Aviation groups join in fight against fog.

Germans rebuild blasted cities. GI's rest in "Japanese Alps."

29. Football! U.C.L.A. tops Southern California. Yale beats Harvard.

Gonzales Videla is inaugurated in Chile. British people plan

memorial to F. D. R. War correspondents are honored by Army.

Supplies by plane to Alps weather station.

30. Strikers riot at Allis-Chalmers. Nazis on trial for war murder

of 335. Auto phone brings calls to motorists. Salvaged tanker aids

west coast lumber mills. U. S. books exhibited in Czechoslovakia.

Paris sees wheelbarrow wedding. School kids tour Banff by bike.

31. Army-Navy game one of the most thrilling battles in gridiron

history. Alpine plane crash rescue.

32. Strike news! Biggest expedition sails [from Norfolk] for

Antarctic. Court rules Cyprus deportations legal. Mexico inaugurates

its new president [Miguel Aleman]. Dunkirk, New York aids Dunkerque,

France. Search for parents of 30,000 children [in Germany].

33. One hundred and nineteen die in Atlanta hotel fire; Lewis calls

off the coal strike. Bombed Eder Dam [in Germany] operates again.

UNRRA supplies aid Formosa rice crop. Giants whip Redskins, enter

League final.

34. Forty-six dead, missing in tenement blast [in New York].

LaGuardia in final report to UNRRA. China holds first National

Assembly. Crippled B–25 makes crash landing. Horse racing is resumed

in Japan.

35. United Nations, a Pathe News report. Storms and high water sweep

U. S. Northwest. Bears beat Giants for National League title.

36. Rocket plane has 1,700 m.p.h. speed. Danube is opened to free

shipping. Leon Blum heads new French government. Delegates meet on

India Constitution. Stalin sees big Soviet air show. Army fires huge

V–2 at night. Fur breeders [in Alberta] get record crop.

37. Browns win AAC football title. UNRRA goes to work on China's

roads. Parisian crowds demand more meat. Ex-Navy ship now hauls

locomotives. Montparnasse [in Paris] sees gay student parade. Boys

learn cooking in Swedish schools.

38. Truman sees hope for secure peace. Veterans draw for 86 farms in

West. Television included in new 5–year plan. British chief visits

troops in Austria. Doll house museum recalls Paris' past.

54. UNO delegates return home. Bradley urges action on veterans