Telenews Digest: January 1950 #5 Two-deck bus runs wild - New leader in Asia - All American air show

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: “Two-Deck Bus Runs Wild”- A double decker bus in NYC runs wild, causing a pileup where two people die and 44 are injured; victims are taken to the hospital and the police question the others; “Floods Force Evacuation”- In Kentucky, where the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers meet, flooding forces thousands of people to evacuate; people get around on boats due to the high waters in the Ohio to the Missouri River Valleys and in the Pacific Northwest, blizzards and such occur; in Illinois, near the Wabash River, people are sheltered in empty freight cars as temporary homes; “Submarine Rescue Fails”- Salvage vessels in England search for the crew of the submarine Truculant, which was rammed and sunk by the Swedish vessel Divina; after 15 sailors are saved, divers investigate; “French Camps for Nationalists”- Hundreds of Chinese nationalists enter the Vietnamese area of Indo-China, where French forces who are there to protect Vietnam from Communist rebels await to put them in internment camps, although the Vietnamese oppose having them there because they would be a burden on the economy; “New Leader in Asia”- Indonesian citizens check on the election of their new leader Sukharno, leader of the opposition to the Dutch colonialists, while the leaders of all 16 Indonesian states meet in a secret room to choose their new leader; Sukharno wins and he arrives in Jakarta to be sworn in as crowds watch it; “Piggy-Back Plane Test”- France replaces conventional wind-tunnel testing of new supersonic plane designs by utilizing a half-sized model that is released in the air by a huge bomber; then the pilot glides the engine-less craft back to Earth; “Design for Living” -Household designs are displayed in Chicago’s first Good Design Exhibition, where chairs take the spotlight, but where other devices are also displayed, such as a combination electric range and drawer-type refrigerator and other electric ranges; “News in Brief”- In China, Russian and Chinese leaders meet at the headquarters of China’s new Communist government; Mao Tse Tung accepts the credentials of Russian ambassador Rothchin; in Moscow, the Kremlin is host to the first ambassador sent out by the Chinese Communists, Ambassador Wang, who is greeted by Russian President Chernik after his credentials are approved; in Germany, French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman arrives in the French zone of Germany to talk with German leaders; he is greeted by High Commissioner Francois Ponthe, though the Germans did not greet him with enthusiasm after giving them their strongest rebuff in months, saying no to re- armament and access to an ore mine; in Puerto Rico, Dutch Prince Bernhardt, husband of Queen Juliana, arrives on large flattop on way to visit Dutch possessions in South America since the Dutch will be migrating due to overpopulation and high birth rates in Holland; he meets the governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Marin, before going to Curacao and Aruba, two oil-rich possessions, before going to Brazil, Argentina, and then Canada, before returning to Holland by way of Washington; in Florida, contestants at the Grapefruit Queen contest strut their stuff; “Hialeah Opens”- People come to see a race, the Hialeah Inaugural Handicap at the Hialeah Track, , won by Itentauh; “All-American Air Show”- 18th Annual All-American Air Maneuvers, where planes perform stunts and where large ones fly in formations and others make smoke designs in the air