Valparaiso Fire Blasts Kill 47 In Chile Port Disaster
Rescuers comb wreckage as Valparaiso since New Year explosions claim 47 deaths and about 350 injured. Authorities fear the toll may rise while an official inquiry investigates the warehouse fire and blasts that shook the city of 200,000. President Ibanez and cabinet members arrived to coordinate relief as a three day national mourning is declared.
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Chile
Chilean
Highway Department
Carlos Ibanez
Santiago
Atomic Spy Rosenbergs Lose New Clemency Appeal
Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman denies a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentencing them to die in Sing Sing for conspiring to transmit atom bomb data to Russia. The case could fall to President Eisenhower if Truman does not intervene before the January execution window.
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NEW York
Atom
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel
Irving R. Kaufman
Sing Sing
Kaufman
White House
Truman
Eisenhower
Rosenbergs
Russia
Supreme Court
Ohio Parade Plans For Inaugural Float
Washington reports officials plan an Ohio float for the Inaugural parade to celebrate the state's 150th anniversary in the union. Katharine Kennedy Brown, Ohio's Republican national committeewoman, is in contact about the float. Cleveland mounted police, three elephants from a Greenville circus, and Steubenville High School band may participate.
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Washington
Ohio
Katharine Kennedy Brown
AFL Cautions Of Wage Plan
The AFL warns unions to use caution with new wage agreements based on the governments revised price index It says the consumer price index is incomplete and not an exclusive basis for wage adjustment It urges the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish a second index showing tax effects on workers purchasing power.
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Washington
AFL
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Weather Outlook: Temperatures Near Normal Then Fluctuate
Five day forecast shows average temperatures near normal to four degrees below normal with normal highs 36 to 44 and lows 22 to 23. Colder periods expected Saturday and Sunday, warmer Monday and Tuesday, then colder again Wednesday. Snow flurries Saturday with rain or snow possible Monday or Tuesday.
Aides Seek Cuts In Budget As Eisenhower Team Prepares
The incoming Eisenhower administration works on trimming the federal budget Truman will submit Next week. Aides expect potential reductions but vow no large cuts. Key figures include George Yeh and John Foster Dulles with Lt Gen Raymond McLain among appointees.
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Detroit
Joseph M. Dodge
GOP
George Yeh
United Nations
John Foster Dulles
Raymond 8. McLain
McLain
National Security Training Commission
Hank Williams Dies in Auto Crash Inquest Planned
Hank Williams, 29, renowned radio and recording star of Montgomery, Alabama, died in an automobile en route to a New Year engagement in Canton, Ohio. An inquest was scheduled for 10 a.m. at Oak Hill Hospital after Williams was found dead in the rear seat. Williams had been in poor health and had sought medical help before departure. his chauffeur Charles Carr reported two injections were given to help him sleep.
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W. Va
Hank Williams
Montgomery
Ala
Williams
Canton
Charles Carr
Carr
Virgil Lyons
Knoxville
Tenn
B&O Appeals Order to Abandon Passenger Trains
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad sought relief from an Ohio Supreme Court ruling after a state utilities commission denied permission to abandon passenger trains Nos. 955 and 956 between Zanesville Ohio and Parkersburg West Virginia. The line showed a loss of 30556 dollars in the first seven months of 1951 and a 68 percent drop in passenger patronage from 1946 to 1950.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Ohio Supreme Court
State Utilities Commission
Zanesville
Parkersburg
W. Va
Fur Coat and Lariat Rescue Woman From River
In Portsmouth New Hampshire Mrs Catherine Pratt aged 77 fell into the Piscataqua River on Thursday. A fur coat kept her afloat while Randall Noseworthy a civilian fashioned a rope lasso and drew her to the riverbank.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Catherine Pratt
Blaze Kills Father Of Day-Old Infant
Fire on the East Side killed Earl T. Fillmon and his sister-in-law Dorothy Marsteller when a short circuit in Christmas tree lights caused the blaze. Fillmon’s wife had just given birth to a baby boy and was hospitalized.
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East Side
Earl T. Fillmon
Dorothy Marsteller
Fillmon
Senate Rules Fight Seen At Openings Of 83rd Congress
Congress opens with a rules dispute over limiting filibusters as Republicans seek to reshape the Senate rules. Senate leaders resist, while Sen. Humphrey urges individual GOP votes if the plan is not endorsed. Morse backs the GOP on organization. Georgia's Sen. Russell calls the move "goon squad tactics."
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Eisenhower
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Humphrey
D-Minn
Morse
Oregon
GOP
Russell
Georgia
Taft
Ohio
Allies Hit By Fierce Raids on Korean Front
Allied forces repelled Red attacks on the Western Korean Front near Bunker Hill in sub zero weather. The U S Eighth Army counted about 45 enemy casualties in a bitter hour and a half fight before the raiders withdrew. On the Eastern Front Allied fire halted seven North Korean thrusts in sub zero conditions near the Punchbowl area, twenty miles from the east coast.
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Bunker Hill
U. S
Eighth Army
Crash Victim Dies In Ohio Plane Crash Near Chillicothe
Charles E. Terrill aged 55 of Conneautville Pennsylvania died in a Columbus hospital from injuries after his private plane crashed near Chillicothe on Tuesday. His wife Mildred aged 54 remained in fair condition in a Chillicothe hospital.
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Charles E. Terrill
Conneautville
Chillicothe
Mildred
Unloaded pistol accident kills youth near Radcliff
Ronald Earl Martin 18, of Columbus, died after an unloaded .22 pistol fired at his head in Radcliff neighborhood near Vinton County. Sheriff Strong, prosecutor Wade Lohr, and Sheriff William Brown ruled the death accidental, caused during a New Year visit to Andy Erickson’s home. Martin, a Galeski High School graduate, died at Hocking Valley Hospital in Logan.
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Columbus
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Miss Smith
Strong
Martin
Leonard Martin
Galeski High School
Otto Graham's Infant Son Dies in Cleveland
Stephen Graham six weeks old son of Browns quarterback Otto Graham died today. He had been ill with a bad cold for several days. A physician attributed the cause of death to asphyxiation from fluid congestion.
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Stephen Graham
Cleveland Browns
Otto Graham
West Coast
Goodyear Atomic to Hire Permanent Staff for Large Plant
Goodyear Atomic Corp. plans to hire about 4000 permanent workers for its Pike County atomic plant. Portsmouth employment office opens weekly for January hires. payroll at peak construction may reach $1.8 million weekly with 35 000 workers projected. Orwell security, a fire department and first aid units are in place. AEC and Kiewit note $3 daily travel allowance for all employees as approved.
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Portsmouth
Pike County Ckers Association
Kiewit
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Wage Stabilization Board
Commission Urges Overhaul of McCarran-Walter Act
A presidential commission led by Philip B. Perlman urged Congress to scrap the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and replace it with a system ending the national origins quotas and admitting about 100,000 more immigrants annually. The report cites isolationist roots and calls for a complete revision of the law, echoing Truman criticisms and Eisenhower campaign pledges.
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Congress
Truman
Eisenhower
Philip B. Perlman
America
U.S
Sen. McCarran
D-New
Legisation
Denies FBI Red Charges Against Greenberg Scientist
Jerome Mayo Greenberg a 30 year old physicist from Troy New York denied being a Communist and said he never worked on secret government projects. He claimed the indictment signals an effort to intimidate scientists and teachers as he was free on $5000 bond pending arraignment Monday. The government says he lied to FBI agents about Communist affiliation.
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Jerome Mayo Greenberg
Troy
N. Y
Justice Department
Greenberg
FBI
Recover Body Of Slain Girl
First degree murder charges filed in Desarc against James W. Head and wife Linda Head for the death of 5 year old Mary Wolfe. Medical examiner says the child died by drowning after being beaten with a leather strap and hidden in a chest on their farm.
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Lensman Wrecks Flight for Rose Bowl Shot
Pasadena report says Robert Harold Sinclair 26 bailed from a plane at 2700 feet over the Rose Bowl at halftime to shoot a football action picture. He suffered a cut hand in the tumble and could not operate his camera.
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Pasadena
Calif
Robert Harold Sinclair
Ohio Leads in Holiday Death Totals
Ohio recorded 21 violent deaths by 6 p.m. New Year’s Eve with 17 traffic fatalities and 2 each from fire and other causes. The four day period is expected to end Sunday with totals possibly rising, while Texas and New York will surpass Ohio later in the holiday.
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Associated Press
Texas
New York
Fayette
National Safety Council
Union Blasts N Y Mayor In Bus Row
The CIO Transit Workers Union blasts Mayor Vincent R Impellitteri as a New Year bus strike persists. With 3500 private line buses idle, schools and many businesses closed and commuter traffic sub normal, authorities weigh mediation while the 8200 drivers seek a 40 hour work week and higher pay amid a three way dispute.
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CIO Transit Workers Union
Renew Pleas To End Curbs In 82nd Congress
The House Small Business Committee urges ending price wage and material controls as part of its two year report for the 82nd Congress. The six Democrat five Republican panel argues decontrol would not trigger price rises and would ease a transition back to free competition.
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House
Small Business Committee
Congress
Police Ambush Safe Robbers in East Side Raid
Acting on a tip, police surprised a group of men transporting a stolen safe to a backyard. One man, James Buffa, 31, is dead from a shotgun blast. Five others were arrested as detectives conducted the ambush with many officers in working clothes.
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James E. McArthur
James Buffa
McArthur
East Side
Clergyman Supports Clemency for Rosenberg Spies
Cleveland Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver says he favors commuting the death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He confirms writing a letter to their counsel Emmanuel Bioch to add his name to any clemency plea to the president or courts.
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Abba Hillel Silver
Julius
Ethel Rosenberg
Atom
Emmanuel H. Bioch
Three Senators Leave Hill With Service of 100 Years
Three veteran U S senators retire after long service totaling nearly a century. Kenneth D McKellar 83 of Tennessee is Senate president pro tem and long time appropriations chair. Tom Connally 75 of Texas led foreign relations. Joseph C O Mahoney 68 of Wyoming chaired interior and insular affairs and military funds panels.
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Capitol Hill
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tenn
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Tom Connally
Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wye
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Appropriations
Senate House Economic Committee
Pro Soviet Bloc Still On Payroll Controversy
State Department list names 11 Americans on the United Nations payroll as communists or under communist discipline amid a broader probe of alleged infiltration. Senate and House committees debate who decides UN hires and the impact on national security and prestige.
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Washington
Secretary of
Dean Acheson
House Judiciary Subcommittee
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Justice Departments
New York
Federal Grand Jury
United Nations
United States
State Department
U.S
Senate Internal Security
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Henry & Block
Abraham Nadel
Irene Pogorelsky
Rhoda Rastoff
Anna Rubinstein
Lena Spiegel
Abrams Rossman
Evelyn Theler
A Stern
Dimitry Varley
Marshall Wolfe
David Zadlodowski
John D. Hickerson
State
Depty
Hiss
James F. Byrnes
Reds Release Missionaries
Four American Baptist missionaries freed after solitary confinement in Red China since April 1951 arrived in Hong Kong today. They appeared emaciated yet reported no torture beyond room confinement in Swatow. Names include Dr. Emanuel H. Rochester, Miss Abbie G. Sanderson, Miss Louise M. Giduluth, and Loren E. Noren.
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Red
China
Swatow
Emanuel H. Rochester
N. Y
Abbie G. Sanderson
Berlin
N. H
Takes Annual Swim In Frosty Atlantic
Eliot W. Hobbs 56 of Newport took his customary New Year’s dip in the frosty Atlantic solo on Thursday. In recent years the rest of the Rhode Island beachgoers at the same location have given up the annual ritual or passed away after the tradition.
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Eliot W. Hobbs
Newport
Atlantic
Rasteate Beach
The Messenger Carrier Earns The Community's Thanks
A reader praises the weekly Messenger carrier for delivering the paper in all weather. The writer vows to always pay promptly and expresses admiration for the courteous boy who brings the paper daily.
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