Girl who dropped 80 floors smiles
NEW YORK (AP) – The elevator girl who fell nearly 80 floors – about 1,000 feet – when the cables of her car in the Empire State Building were snapped by an Army bomber crash Saturday, was alive and smiling today at Bellevue Hospital.
She is 20-year-old Betty Lou Oliver of Fort Smith, Arkansas, who took a job as elevator girl in the world’s largest building while she waited in New York for her sailor husband to return from overseas. She had given notice and was to have quit this week.
Betty Lou was alone in the car when the fog-blinded B-25 crashed into the building Saturday, and she remained fully conscious during the elevator’s terrifying descent. She is suffering from burns, bruises and a possible back fracture.
Anti-collision system discussed before New York crash
NEW YORK (UP) – Less than 24 hours before a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, the installation of an anti-collision system on the building to prevent such an accident was under discussion, it was disclosed Monday.
Panoramic Radio Corporation engineers met with Civil Aeronautics Administration officials here last Friday to consider the possibility of installing one of the systems, known as a stratoscope, on the building.
Dr. Marcel Wallace, Panoramic president and inventor of the system, said that if it had been installed before Saturday, radio signals emanating in all directions from the top of the Empire State would have warned the bomber pilot in time to prevent the crash.
2,184 Yanks arrive in New York
Troopship lands 2,300 in Boston today
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Franco would drop Falange
Seeks to reestablish relations with Allies but hold control
By Leigh White
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Lawrence: Why so few Jap captives?
Fears figures indicate Yanks kill wounded enemies
By David Lawrence
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Uniform rule in Germany is aim of Allied Council
Holds first meeting under Eisenhower; bolsters hopes Reich will be governed as an entity
By Daniel De Luce, Associated Press war correspondent
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Iron men just scared tin soldiers as Nazis quake behind barbed wire
By George Tucker, Associated Press staff writer
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Lochner hurt in Berlin crash
By Louis P. Lochner, Associated Press writer
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U.S. State Department (July 31, 1945)
Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference
Tuesday, July 31:
At 0900 Brigadier General Stuart Cutler, Commanding General, Berlin Headquarters District, came to the Little White House and called on the President and General Vaughan.
1000: Mr. Rowan, Prime Minister Attlee’s secretary, called on the President.
Mail was dispatched to Washington this afternoon.
1545: The President left the Little White House for Cecilienhof.
1600: The eleventh meeting of the Big Three was convened. This turned out to be a long session as the meeting did not adjourn until 1915. The President left immediately for the Little White House.
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The Syonan Shimbun (August 1, 1945)
248 enemy aircraft downed, damaged over Nippon Saturday
Foe Kure raiders pay heavy toll
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Another devastating airstrike carried out against foe ships
Third successive assault in three days
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Stalin resumes talks after short indisposition
LISBON (Domei, July 31) – Soviet Premier Josef Stalin who had been slightly indisposed and absent from the discussions since Sunday, resumed the talks this afternoon with American President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, according to a Berlin dispatch.
It is understood that during Stalin’s illness, Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov represented Stalin in the discussions with Truman and Attlee.
Berlin press reports state that Attlee will be returning to Britain after today’s meeting to attend the swearing-in ceremony, of the newly appointed British Cabinet Ministers, scheduled for tomorrow, leaving British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin to carry on at Potsdam.
Thai hospital bombed
BANGKOK (Domei, July 31) – The Home Defence Command announced that some six enemy B-24 bombers attacked the Thai capital with demolition bombs Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The announcement said enemy aircraft caused some damage to military facilities while the Siriraj Hospital, built by Rockefeller Foundation funds, was badly damaged. It added that three bombs of large calibre dropped on the hospital buildings caused heavy casualties. The poops of the hospital were clearly marked with huge Red Cross signs.