Charleston Plane Crash Kills 19 West Virginia Guard
A C-47 carrying 21 aboard crashed on a mountain near Charleston while en route to a funeral, killing 19 including 12 officers and nine enlisted from the 167th Fighter Squadron. Maj Woodford W Sutherland of St Albans died in a separate Eglin Field collision earlier. Survivors Maj Teane E Bonifas and Capt Harry K Blackhurst were wounded.
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Charleston
W.va
Air Force
Goodman Air Force Base
Kentucky
Woodford W. Sutherland
St. Albans
Eglin Field
Fla
Sutherland
167Th
West Virginia Air National Guard
Teane E. Bonifas
Portland
Ind
Harry K Blackhurst
Goldie Seabolt
Jack Copen
Copen
Kanawaha
Keatley Whittington
Plane crash near Santa Barbara kills 22 aboard
Civil aeronautics officials probe a Southwest Airways crash that killed 22 passengers and crew. Sheriff John D. Rose and investigators search ashes for clues while two engines reportedly failed during the Friday mishap near Santa Barbara California.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Civil Aeronautics
Southwest Airways
Rh.a
John D. Rose
Des
Pt Pleasant Man Narrowly Missed Charleston Air Crash
Capt John W. Gerwig formerly manager of the United Fuel Gas Co office here escaped a deadly air crash in Charleston Sunday afternoon. A member of the 167th Fighter Squadron he had just assisted at Major Woodford W. Sutherland’s funeral cortege and returned to duty after his unit was activated in October. Capt and Mrs Gerwig and their family reside at 2606 Garfield Ave.
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Point: Pleasant
John W. Gerwig
United Fuel Gas Co
Charleston
Gerwig
167Th
Hut
Woodford W. Sutherland
Point Pleasant
Gerchnor
Garfield Ave
Patron of O. Henry Dies in Columbus
Funeral services for Dr. John M. Thomas of Columbus will be held Wednesday afternoon. Thomas, who lived from 1800 to 1908, once encouraged O. Henry to write while he served as Ohio Penitentiary physician. He died at his home Sunday after reading every work by prisoners, including Williams Sidney Porter who used the pen name Henry.
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Columbus
John M. Thomas
O. Henry
Ohio
Thomas
Williams Sidney Porter
Henry
Firemen Suffer Smoke In Crown Overall Co Blaze
In Cincinnati a fire at the Crown Overall Co basement rag chute started a blaze that knocked out six firemen and seriously affected six others. Marshal Edward Avey was among the injured. The origin of the fire was not determined and estimated losses reached $1000.
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Cincinnati
Edward Avey
Crown Overall Co
Avey
Oldest Licking County resident dies at 101
Mrs. Catherine Howe of Granville, likely the county’s oldest resident, died yesterday at age 101.
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Dees Granville
Catherine Howe
Licking County
Truman seeks inflation control plan with mobilization board
President Truman convenes industry labor and farm leaders at the White House to shape a tighter inflation control system. The newly named Mobilization Advisory Board of 17 members, led by Charles E. Wilson, discusses changes to the Defense Production Act as officials acknowledge current controls have fallen short.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Mr. Truman
Mobilization Advisory Board
Charles E. Wilson
Eric Johnston
Inquiry Aims to Shield Small Businesses in Mobilization
Representative Celler announced a congressional inquiry into whether small businesses are being harmed in the mobilization drive. He alleged defense committees include unpaid members acting as sales managers for their own firms. The plan was revealed at a three day economic mobilization conference in White Sulphur Springs, with economists and officials in attendance.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Rep
Celler
D-Ny
House Judiciary Committee
University of Chicago
Giher
Miner’s Body Recovered After Friday Spruce Mine Cave In
In Eyeeleth Minnesota the body of Anton Korcha 53 was recovered from hard packed ore after a cave in at the Spruce Mine where Frank Putzel 43 remains missing. Iron Mining Co officials said Korcha died almost immediately in the 564 foot level collapse. Rescue efforts continue for Putzel.
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Eyeleth
Minn
Iver Iron Mining Co
Anton Korcha
Frank Putzel
Evintly Korcha
Putzel
Flood Strains Minnesota Towns Amid Rising Rivers
The Minnesota River breaches levees at North Mankato with about 4300 people fleeing flood areas. In St Peter 159 volunteers bolster dikes while most residents escape. damages reach about 1 million dollars as Red River rises and flood warnings extend to Fargo and Moorhead.
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Mankato
Minn
Red River
Fargo
N. B
Moorhead
Marshall
Alabama
Iowa
South Dakota
North Mankato
St. Peter
New Ulm
Tombigbee
Big Sioux
Sixous Falls
Little Sioux
Cedar Rivers
Trio of Spies Advance Reds Atom Effort 18 Months
Senate Atomic Energy Committee assessed espionage damage by four individuals, saying Klaus Fuchs among them led to an 18 month acceleration of the Soviet atomic program. Bruno Pontecorvo Allan Nunn May and David Greenglass were the others. Saypol announced new prosecutions. The Rosenbergs were sentenced to die. Hoover advised against broad atomic-field inquiries.
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Atom
Washington
Russia
Cone
Soviet Union
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Klausg Fuchs
New York
U.S
Irving Saypoi
Saypoi
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Fuchs
Bruno Pontecorvo
Europe
Allan Nunn May
David Greenglass
Greenglass
Reds
Los Alamos
N. M
Ethel Rosenberg
Tulius
Saypol
Rosenbergs
Civic Leaders Debate Ohio Reds Issue at Public Hearings
A joint Senate House committee in Columbus held a second public hearing on Ohio subversive activity probing laws and the potential for a permanent anti subversives commission. Civil service investigators heard testimony from Gertrude Jones and Frank J. Collopy amid complaints of unfairness and delays. The day also featured anticipated tax committee arguments opposing Mechem sales tax changes.
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Senate
House
Cincinnati Reds
The
Civil Service Investigation
Gertrude Jones
Frank J. Collopy
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Civil Service
House Taxation Committee
C. Stanley Mechem
Athens
Missing Divorcee Case Nears Final Solution
Ohio sheriff expects Minerva Braddock missing four months to appear today for her house keys and car. Braddock flew in from Dallas and refused to explain leaving a $25,000 home and a 1949 auto. She spent Saturday with a sister near Columbus. case likely closes after talks with Braddock.
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Washington
C. H
Orland Hays
Ohio
Minerva Braddock
Dallas
Tex
Cleveland
Columbus
Don Pastor
Clarence Painter
Creola
Vinton County
Hays
House Debates Draft Draft Universal Military Training
The House will begin voting this week on the draft universal military training bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn plans to add remarks on foreign troops and warns of a terrible danger that could trigger another world war amid tensions from Manchuria and Korea.
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Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
Manchuria
Rayburn
Korea
U. S
White House
Hickenlooper Calls for Liquidation of RFC
Washington reports Senator Hickenlooper says the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has an odor of unmorality and should be abolished. He supports a small new agency for lending to deserving firms, while opposing a plan to replace the RFC board with a single administrator.
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Washington
Hickenlooper A Lown
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hickenlooper
RFC
Senate Banking
White House
RFC Board of Directors
George
Dixie
Senate
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Auriol Leaves Canada and U.S. After First State Visit
President Auriol of France departs Montreal after completing his first state visit to the United States and Canada. The 66 year old leader, his wife, and aides are scheduled to fly home to Paris aboard a French government plane at 3 30 p.m.
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Montreal
Auriol
France
United States
Canada
Paris
Army to Use Fleetwood Hotel as Hospital
The Miami Herald reports the U S Army plans to take over the Fleetwood Hotel on Miami Beach to treat Korean War casualties, converting the building into a field hospital for wounded service members.
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Miami Herald
Fleetwood
Mian Beach
House Committee Advances 43 Percent Budget Cut Plan
The House Appropriations Committee proposed a 43 percent cut to a major defense budget, tabling the Universal Military Training Bill to pass an appropriation measure totaling $478,586,368 for non military defense agencies through the current fiscal year ending June 30.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Eisenhower to Inspect Atlantic Pact Troops in Europe
General Dwight D. Eisenhower will fly to Germany for a four day inspection of British French and American units under the Atlantic Pact Military Command. This marks his first tour since taking command of the West European defense forces last week.
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Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Eisenhower
Mills Bros Circus to perform at multiple Ohio towns
The Mills Bros Circus opens Saturday at the Ohio State Fairgrounds and will perform in Newark Newcomerstown Zanesville Logan Middleport and Pomeroy. The circus schedule follows the opening show.
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Logan
Pomeroy
Columbus
Mills Bros. Circus
Newark
Newcomerstown
Zanesville
Middleport
Ohio State Fairgrounds
Marshall Sees U S Letdown On Defense Support
Secretary of Defense Marshall warned of waning public backing for the defense program amid a worsening global threat. He urged universal military training and warned progress hinges on foreign actions, predicting a ten year tension and a slow buildup ahead.
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Washington
Marshall
U . S. News and World Report
House
Russia
Auto Plunge Drowns Four in Mad River
A car rolled down a steep levee into the Mad River near Dayton, drowning four people. Recovery of the bodies occurred about five hours later from a 20 foot depth. One victim was a man in his thirties, another a woman near that age, and two others were a man and a woman in their sixties. Ralph Walls of Dayton identified a description matching his brother Chester as one victim, and he believes the car was taken without the brother’s knowledge.
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Dayton
Ralph Wails
Chester
Walls
Britain France Demand Discipline On MacArthur Policy
President Truman faces pressure from home front supporters of General MacArthur and allied nations urging decisive action over his Korea policy remarks. Senators Knowland and Ferguson floated options from reprimand to a committee to question MacArthur. Britain and France prepare informal protests to curb UN commander’s positions and potential troop use on Formosa.
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Washington
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
U.S
Capitol Hill
MacArthur
State Department
Perot MacArthur
Korea
Congress
Krnowland
State Acheson
Ferguson
R-Mich
Chinese Open Floodgates But Yanks Escape Water
Chinese Communist forces opened 10 of 18 floodgates at the Hwachon Reservoir Dam in central Korea sending massive waters downstream while Allied forces remained largely above the rising flood. The U.S. Eighth Army reported no real strain and that the water receded by Monday night with no danger to United Nations troops.
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Tokyo
Hwachon
Korea
Pukhan
United Nations
Eighth Army
Reds
Allied
Vanoes
Rede
Chunchon
Chunchon-Wonlu
AP Corres
Fent Leif Erickson
U. S
Seidion
Anchon
Pukhan River
Secul
Hwaehon
Chorwon
Tafts Stand Sparks British Bewilderment Says Russell
Bertrand Russell in Look magazine says Taft and allies urge defending Asia and Africa from Communism but avoid opposing the Russians in Western Europe. He argues Britain must keep Western Europe free for military reasons and cites Ruhr steel capacity as a factor in potential Russian gains.
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New York
Robert A. Taits
Bertrand Russell
Look Magazine
Taft
America
Europe
Russell
Britain
Ruhr
Belgium
France
Russia
China
Asia
Flussell
Haseel
Dr. R. T. Morgan Dies at Age 73
Dr. R T Morgan 73 a physician with four decades in medicine died today. A native of Gallipolis he once practiced in Washington Court House and was well known in Marion.
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Marion
BR. T. Morgan
Gallipolis
Washington Court House
Lausche asks Utilities Commission to stop race wire
Gov Frank J Lausche today urged the State Utilities Commission to halt the spread of a rival wire service. He said action is needed to curb unfair practices affecting Ohio news delivery and public information.
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Lausche
Frank J. Lausche
State Utilities Commission
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