Albania Ordered To Pay Britain For Corfu Dead
The International Court of Justice ordered Communist Albania to pay Britain 843 957 pounds for the mining of two destroyers in the Corfu Channel incident of October 1946, costing 44 British sailors their lives. Britain seeks damages for families and ship losses. Albania defaulted, with votes split among judges. Britain may use frozen Italian war reparations funds or Security Council measures to collect.
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the Hague
International Court of Justice
Albania
Britain
Ortu Channel
Adriatic Sea
Maurice Reed
United Kingdom
London
International Court
Corfu Channel
United Nations
Security Council
Iowa Student Denies Slaying in University Case
Robert Bednasek, 24, Cedar Rapids, appeared in justice court and waived to the grand jury after withdrawing a request for a preliminary hearing in the slaying of Margaret Anne Jackson, a University of Iowa senior found strangled in a men s rooming house. He remains held without bond as the next grand jury convenes January 3.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Robert FE
Bednasek
Soetee
Precoed
Margaret Anne Jackson
Justice Court
Justice of Peace
C. J. Hutchingon
Clair Hamilton
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Burlington
Robbers Lock Up Pair and Rob Bank of 3000
Two young men jailed two Morrison State Bank employees in a vault at 2 15 pm and escaped with about 3000 dollars. Bank president Wylie Reed reported the loss to authorities. Morrison lies in Noble County Oklahoma with employees Bob Moore and Mrs Fannie Casey as victims.
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Morrison
Okla
Morrison State Bank
Bob Moore
Fannie Casey
Noble County
Oklahoma
Wylie Reed
Wood Stove Near Wall Blamed For City Fire
A wood stove placed too near a wall caused a fatal fire in Fort Worth. Christine Parks, 82, and Ernest Williams Jr., 17, died after the blaze broke out late Wednesday. Parks, blind, lived with Williams and his mother, who was away working as a maid.
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Fort Worth
Nobel Physics Laureate Yukawa Arrives in Copenhagen
Professor Hideki Yukawa arrives in Copenhagen with his wife after winning the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics. He plans to meet Niels Bohr on Thursday and deliver a lecture at the Danish Institute for Theoretical Physics on Friday.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Hideki Yukawa
Airplane makes emergency landing at Barksdale base
A Carswell based B36 landed safely near Alexandria after pilot Captain Deane Curry feathered one engine during a navigation training flight. The crew was prepared for ditching as instruments malfunctioned though the landing was routine.
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Fort Worth
Barksdale Air Force Base
Shreveport
Carswell Public Information Office
Deane Curry
Kane
Alexandria
Barksdale
Carswell
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Christmas Is
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Outry
al Capp
Time Magazine
Noma
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Rubinstein
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New Hollywood
Lee “Hopalong” Cassidy
Hollywood
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Woodbury
Bulldog
Dublin
Gillette
GEM
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Illinois
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