University of Iowa coed found strangled in rooming house
Margaret Ann Jackson of Burlington and 24 year old Robert Bednasek, a senior psychology student, faced murder charges after Jackson was found dead in a men's rooming house in Iowa City. Bednasek claimed innocence stating love confession and memory gaps.
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University of Iowa
Bednasek
William E. Jackson
Iowa Parole Board
Miss Jackson
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
Fog Delays New York City Transport for Second Day
Heavy fog blankets New York City hampering air and harbor traffic. Coast guard calls fog in lower New York Bay pretty thick as ships slow and schedules face disruption.
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New York
York
New York City
The
Coast Guard
New York Bay
Weather Knocks Nation With Tornadoes and Blizzard Deaths
Weekend storms left at least 34 dead nationwide with tornadoes plowing through Arkansas Oklahoma Missouri and Illinois and a moving blizzard sweeping the Rockies Great Lakes region and northern plains. Arkansas sustained $100000 in damage as six communities endured twisters. In Missouri six were killed near Poplar Bluff and ten more injured across six Arkansas towns. Lightning killed a girl near Modesto Illinois and a 98 year old stockman died of exposure in Miles City Montana.
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Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Illinois
Clinton
Beebee
Velvet Ridge
Cross Roads
Providence
Bradford
Garland Robbins
Poplar Bluff
Madison County
Muskogee
Okla
Hannibal
Junia Kay Loveless
Modesto
Ill
Miles City
Mont
Bliz
Mild-mannered man kills family and himself in Fort Lauderdale
Neighbors recalled Carl Amarella a mild interior decorator who shot his wife Millie and the couple’s three children Sandra six Larry four and Janet one before taking his own life with a German Luger. A note on sales slips described plans to dispose of money and papers and asked for minimal publicity.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Roland Kelley
Carl Amarella
Millie
Sandra
Larry
Janet
Amarella
Roy May
Broward County Sheriff's Office
G. H. Martin
West Orange
N. J
Kelley
U S Air Force reports pilot killed in F 80 jet crash near Munich
First Lieut. George Frederic Cham Berlin of Carson City Michigan was killed December 8 when his F 80 shooting star jet crashed near Munich. The U S Air Force announced the death.
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Frankfurt
Germany
George Frederic Chamberlin
Carson City
Mich
Munich
U. S. Air Force
Christmas Sales Lag Behind 1948 Record
New York reports Christmas shoppers may push total spending to a new high, though a 5 percent shortfall from last year is forecast. Department store sales through early December run 8 percent below a year ago per Federal Reserve data, while other surveys show a 1 to 5 percent decline in retail sales for the year. Price drops of 3 to 4 percent boost buying power, keeping volume near 1947 levels.
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New York
Santa Claus
Federal Reserve
Dan Bradstreet
Man Killed As Roof Falls At Wheeling Plant
In Mingo Junction a roof collapse at the Wheeling Steel Corp plant killed 41 year old William Stoodard who headed the pump room. Ralph Debacco, 35, was injured with a compound leg fracture and shock and hospitalized.
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Steubenville
Mingo Junction
Wheeling Steel Corp
William Stoodard
Ralph Debacco
Ohio Valley Hospital
Halliday Elected to Ohio Football Officials Board
John Halliday of Gallipolis was elected to the executive board of the Ohio Officials Association at the Southeast Ohio officials chapter meeting in Columbus. The association also went on record opposing the High School Federation rules and urged Ohio high schools to retain collegiate rules.
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Gallipolis
Athens
Southeast Ohio Officials Association
Ohio Association of Football Officials
Gallia County
Associated Press
High School Federation
Ohio
Ohio School Children Get 3 Million Dollar List
Delegates at the Ohio Education Association Convention were told that 3.5 million dollars authorized by the General Assembly for school bus replacements will be released December 19 by the state control board. Rep. Joseph H. Avellone noted the plans, while Carl H. Shanks said funds could have been distributed October 25.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Ohio Education Association
Joseph H. Avellone
Cuyahoga
State Control Board
Carl H. Shanks
Wilmington
Clinton County
First Newsprint Made At New Alabama Plant
Ground was broken for the Coosa River News Print Co plant at Childersburg Ordnance Works Reservation on April 16, 1948. The $32,000,000 mill aims to produce 100,000 tons of newsprint at full capacity, marking a major new U. S. source of newsprint after a decade.
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Childersburg
Ala
Coosa River
Ward and 18 Others Freed From Red China Jail
Ward and 19 staff members, held since 1948, were released from Chinese Communist custody. Ward recounted 13 months of confinement, including 28 days in freezing quarters and a hunger of bread and hot water. He called the trial and deportation a travesty while noting no physical abuse during confinement.
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Lakeland Victory
Tientsin
U.P
Angus Ward
Red China
St. Peter
Ward
Mukden
U.S. State Department
Reds
American Officials Freed From Korea After 81 Days
Two emaciated American officials returned from North Korea after 81 days in confinement. Albert E. Willis and Alfred T. Meschier had been held by the Soviet backed regime in exchange for U S aid. Willis’s wife described his drastic weight loss and frail condition, while Meschier said the men were reasonably fit now and not physically mistreated.
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Seoul
North Korea
United State
Economic Cooperation Administration
Albert E. Willis
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alfred T. Meschier
Kinderhook
Willis
Beatrice Willis
Pusan
Meschier
New Demands Filed For Fichter Ouster
National Grange receives additional accusations seeking removal of Joseph W. Fichter as master of the Ohio State Grange. Albert S. Goss says 17 misconduct charges from Wade Moreland and others will be presented to an executive committee meeting in January.
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Washington
Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio State Grange
National Grange
Albert S. Goss
Grange
Ohio
Wade Moreland
Nations Plan Atomic Partnership With Britain and Canada
U.S., Britain and Canada near a broad framework for a three nation atomic energy and bomb program. State Department will present proposals to Congress, aiming to concentrate weapon manufacture in the United States with Canadian and British scientists involved. The plan would end British ambitions on Belgian Congo uranium and stress rapid, centralized bomb production while avoiding dispersed efforts.
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United States
Britain
Canada
State Department
Eers
Congress
Hull
Congressional Atomic Investigation
U. S
Chemical Warfare Service
Abomba
Belgian Congo
Pettibone Club Closure Reported To Ohio Governor
Albert A. Woldman will report to Gov. Lausche on failed efforts to close the Pettibone Club near Chardon Ohio. Legal action followed after three department representatives ordered the club shut for building code violations. Club officials posted bonds for a hearing on charges of ignoring the citation.
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Jack Lewis
Abe Goldberg
Bainbridge Township
Waldman
Pettibone Club
Ohio
Conservatives Win Likely Landslide in Australia Election
Australia’s Liberal Country coalition appears set to secure a solid majority in the House of Commons. Early returns favored 55 seats for the Liberals and 17 for the Country party, with Labor around 46 and three seats unresolved as counts continued.
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Sydney
Labor
Victorius
Liberal-Country Party
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Country Party
Life Saving Squad Revives Family of Three in Hamilton
A life saving squad revived a family of three after physician found them unconscious. Mrs. Henri Schrader, 31, woke ill and tried to arouse her husband. The doctor found the 41 year old man, his wife, and two year old Keith unconscious, believed to be overcome by refrigerator gas.
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Hamilton
Henri Schrader
Keith
Jeweler's Wife Dies After Long Illness in Zanesville
Mrs. Maurice Schusterman, 58, wife of a Zanesville jeweler, died Monday after a long illness. A Dayton native and former Columbus resident, she had lived in Zanesville 30 years. Her husband runs jewelry stores in Zanesville Sharon Pennsylvania and Portsmouth.
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Zanesville
Maurice Schusterman
Dayton
Columbus
Schusterman
Sharon
Portsmouth
Timken to Resume Talks With Strikers
Timken Roller Bearing Co in Canton Ohio says it will resume negotiations with striking United Steelworkers today. The firm also plans wage advances of 25 to 50 dollars to all employees after the strike ends. The walkout began November 4 and negotiations paused over disciplinary actions for strike violence.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
United Steelworkers
Eight children die in Cascade cabin fire near Williamsport
In Cascade Pa a two story cabin burned Saturday night killing eight Edkins children and step child Edgar Cosgrove 14 Bert Edkins his wife survived with a 15 year old daughter later found alive The Cascade area near Williamsport hosts several hunter cabins as fire swept through the structure in moments
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Burns
Bert Edkins
Edgar Cosgrove
Edkins
Edward
Henry
Joseph
Raymond
Robert
Phyllis Beverly
Birtriss
Beatrice
Cascade
Pennsylvania
Four Die as Michigan Antique Shop Explosion Hits Birmingham
Cranes and bulldozers worked through the charred remains of an antique shop in Birmingham after a gas explosion killed four people and left two missing with four injured. Fire crews searched for a man and his 12 year old son believed trapped as flames engulfed the three story building leaving only the chimney standing. The blast shattered windows within three square miles and was heard eight miles away.
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Birmingham
Mich
Detroit
Cooperation Pledged For Hoover Report
A national conference led by the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report urged business leaders and labor to back government reorganization measures proposed by the Hoover Commission. The two day event aimed to push Congress to act on the reform steps recommended last spring.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover Commission
Citizens Committee
Smithsonian rejects Ohio Viking theory
Smithsonian researchers dismissed a study by Arlington H. Mallory claiming Viking relics in Ohio. Ralph Solecki's field investigation dated artifacts to the early 1800s and refuted furnace site identifications near Spruce Hill, Bournville, and misidentified Indian signal fires as Viking remnants.
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Smithsonian Institution
Ohio
Christopher Columbus
Arlington H. Mallory
Smithsonian
Ralph 8. Soleck
Solecki
Mallory
Spruce Hill
Bournville
Measure
Alte
Ex Premier Chang Chun Released After Release in Hong Kong
Hong Kong reports ex premier Chang Chun arrived by plane today after release. He had traveled to Kunming to press the governor Lu Han into the Nationalist camp as turncoat troops seized the city for the Communists. Chiang Kai-shek narrowly missed Kunming, and officials offered no immediate explanation for Chang Chun's release.
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Hong Kong
Chang Chun
Kunmin
Yunnan Province
Lu- Han
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kunming
Fire guts block-long amusement center. two missing
A five hundred thousand dollar blaze in Union City New Jersey gutted a block long amusement center early this morning leaving two employees reported missing. Fire crews battled the flames and searched for the missing workers as the cause remained under investigation.
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Union City
N. J
Library Hails Ohio Composer Oley Speaks Remembered
In Canal Winchester Ohio a memorial program at the Oley Speaks Music Library in the high school honors the late Ohio composer who died August 17 1948. Speaks wrote about 200 songs including Sylvia O Little Town of Bethlehem On The Road To Mandalay and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Gov Frank Lausche spoke at the open house service calling the memorial an inspiring contribution to music. He is buried at Union Grove Cemetery in Canal Winchester.
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Columbus
Oley Speaks
Ohio
Canal Winchester
Oley
Bethlehem
Mandalay
Union Grove
Frank J. Lausche
Rita Hayworth May Have Baby This Week
In Lausanne Switzerland Prince Aly Khan indicates Rita Hayworth may give birth this week. Claude Payot of the Lausanne tourist office says he has not been fully trusted with private details but senses the birth is imminent. The couple wed May 27 and have been awaiting the baby in Lausanne since November.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Aly Khan
Ahem
Rita Ayworth
Claude Payot
Rita
Truckers Approve Wage Increase Contract in Cincinnati
About 2000 AFL truck drivers in Cincinnati accepted a 26 month contract granting total wage boosts of 15 cents per hour. Local 100 Teamsters Secretary Otto H. Frobe said negotiations spanned two months with 125 contract haulers. Under the deal wages rise to a range of 1.50 to 1.70 dollars per hour.
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Cincinnati
AFL
Otto H. Frobe
Teamsters Union
Barton seeks Republican nomination for Ohio Secretary of State
James J. Barton of Cleveland announced on Monday his bid for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. He previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1947.
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James J. Barton
Cleveland
Ohio House of Representatives
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