Two Albert Lea Men Die in Fox Hunting Plane Crash
Otto Nelson a 60 year old Empire Milkers and Silo Company head and Roland Purdie 55 Foley Construction foreman were killed when their ski plane nose dived into a field while fox hunting near Albert Lea. The crash site was eight miles northeast on the Henry Gulbrandson farm. Civil Aeronautics Authority and Freeborn County Sheriff officials opened inquiries into potential downdraft or frozen carburetor causes. Nelson leaves a wife and two daughters. Purdie was unmarried.
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Albert Lea
Otto Nelson
Empire Milkers and Silo Company
Roland Purdie
Foley
Nelson
Henry Gulbrandson
Lerdall
Leonard
James Larson
CAA
Carl Lindahl
Freeborn
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Gulbrandson
Purdie
Maryland Guard officer halts amid stray bazooka shell
Sgt. Joseph W. Koerber spotted a bazooka shell in Baltimore street traffic and reacted by braking hard, skidding 25 feet. A police officer moved the empty shell to a roadside plot while a bomb disposal unit arrived hours later. Koerber said it scared him but there was no danger. Police still seek how the shell ended up there.
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Baltimore
Joseph W. Koerber
Koerber
110Th Field Artillery
Maryland National Guard
Joker Soaps Trafalgar Square Fountain Prank
An unknown jokester poured detergent into spots around the Trafalgar Square fountain, turning the pool into a frothy bath for spectators. The suds built into a snowy lather before washing away as officials watched.
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London
Trafalgar Square
Nelson
Changes at Stillwater prison urged by state inquiry
State Crime Bureau and public examiner's office at Stillwater prison conclude investigation into favoritism drinking and high prices. Jarle Leirfallom says sufficient information supports changes and improvements while warning the prison not to become a resort. Warden Leo Utecht stays away awaiting completion of the probe. Leirfallom asks inmates to cooperate for smoother operation.
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Stillwater, Minn
State Crime Bureau
Public Examiner’s Office
Stillwater Prison
Jarle Leirfallom
Leo Utecht
Leirfallom
Utecht
Indictment Upheld in Aliens Case Ties U S and Mexican
The Federal Appeals Court upheld the indictment of a U S citizen and a Mexican charged with aiding Pang Tsu Mow former Chinese purchasing agent to enter the United States illegally. Mow faces Formosa extradition charges over 5 million dollars of national funds. Oliver Kissick Berkeley California and Pedro Casar Acha Mexico City were charged and held for trial awaiting date.
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Mexico City
U. S
China
Pang Tsu Mow
Mow
Formosa
Oliver M. Kissick
Berkeley
Calif
Pedro Casar Acha
Antonio Fernandez Vera
Grain Official Named to Agricultural Group
New York Carl Farrington of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. is named among 14 members to a presidential agricultural advisory committee. Farrington, 47, graduate of Oklahoma A and M in 1928, has served in the Commodity Credit Corp. under Roosevelt and Truman. He identifies as a Republican.
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New York i
Carl, Farrington
Minneapolis
Archer - Daniels - Midland Co
Eisenhower
Farrington
Oklahoma A & M
Oklahoma
Commodity Credit Corp
Roosevelt
Truman
Fan Spark Blamed For Fire At Land O' Nod Plant
A heater fan sparked the blaze that caused about $15 000 in damage at the Land O Nod Co mattress and bedding plant. The fire damaged the second story during Sunday afternoon.
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Minneapolis
Land O’nod Co
Toll Reaches 12 In Minnesota Holiday Deaths
Violent deaths over the extended Christmas holiday rose to 12 in Minnesota. Victims include Otto Nelson and Roland Purdy of Albert Lea killed in a ski plane crash while directing a fox hunt, Melvin Trandall in a Highway 12 collision near Maple Plain, and Harold Wilbur struck by a car in Minneapolis. Mary Louis Ebinger, 10, died when a train struck a family car in Brainerd. A Dundas native, EuGene Freeman, and Donald Hecht, 21, died in California and Rock County respectively, with Freeman surviving relatives.
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Minnesota
Otto Nelson
Roland Purdy
Albert Lea
Melvin Trandall
Willmar
Maple Plain
Harold Wilbur
Minneapolis
Milwaukee Railroad
Mary Louis Ebinger
Northern Pacific
Brainerd
Dundas, Minn
Valero
Calif
Eugene J. Freeman
Frank Freeman
Dundas
Donald Hecht
Spring Water Township
Rock County
Hecht
Jasper
Minn
Filibuster Map Strategy Guides Senate Reform Effort
A four senator meeting led by Sen. Lehman aims to test new Senate rules to curb unlimited debate. They consider a Jan 3 motion to establish debate limits, seeking a 49 vote threshold to trigger a debate limitation and potentially spark a prolonged filibuster response.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Lehman
D-Alib Ny
Humphrey
D-Minn
Douglas
D-Ill
Ives
R-Ny
Lehman - Humphrey Group
Defense Dept Identifies 42 Korean War Casualties
Washington report lists 42 Korean War casualties in newer Defense Department release No. 719. It names 7 killed, 32 wounded, 1 injured accidentally, and 2 missing.
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Washington
Defense Department
MacArthur attacks Truman claim on War in Far East
Gen Douglas MacArthur condemns President Truman’s remark that he wanted to involve the U S in an all out war in the Far East. A White House pledge of no comment follows as MacArthur, now Remington Rand chair, recalls his desire to end the conflict with fewer American casualties.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Far East
MacArthur
United Press
White House
Washington
Roger Tubby
Tubby
Courtney Whitney
Remington Rand, Inc
U. S
United Nations
Korea
Trial of Slain Colonel's Wife Set for Jan 5
The court martial of Mrs. Dorothy K. Smith charged with killing her colonel husband will start Jan 5 in Tokyo. She is daughter of Gen. Walter Krueger, a Pacific war hero and former Sixth Army commander. Col. Aubrey Smith was stabbed in the right side with a hunting knife near midnight Oct 3 and died hours later at their Tokyo home.
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Tokyo
Dorothy K. Smith
Bundles for Britain founder engaged to Scottish peer
Mrs Natalie Wales Paine, founder of the wartime Bundles for Britain campaign, announces engagement to Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, a Scottish peer and member of Parliament. The 43-year-old widow said they will wed next month after meeting during his American lecture tour four years ago.
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London
New York
Britain
Natalie Wales Paine
Lord Malcolm Douglas - Hamilton
America
Labor unions urged to purge Communist leaders in wake of hearings
A Senate internal security subcommittee backed by a House panel urged unions to remove Communist leadership and pressed for laws barring Communists from union office. The International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers faces accusations of Communist influence as the committees seek perjury prosecutions and broader anti-subversive measures.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Internal Security
Sen. McCarran
D-New
Salt Lake City
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
UMMSW
McCarran
CIO
Communist Party
Justice Department
Ike's Advisers Study Wage-Price Extension
President-elect Eisenhower directs a qualified panel to study extending wage price control authority beyond April 30. An informed source says no preliminary decision yet. The group remains unnamed. He also appoints a 14 member agricultural advisory committee led by W. S. Myers to help draft the farm program before inauguration.
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New York
Eisenhower
Congress
Cision
Benson
Ezra Taft Benson
W. S. Myers
Agriculture College
Cornell University
Federal Agricultural Commission
Commodore Hotel
Cutler
Eisenhower Associates
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Stalin
Injunction Under Taft-Hartley Upheld in Dunkirk Strike
Federal Judge John Knight ruled the Taft-Hartley Act injunctive provision constitutional and ordered 1,500 workers at the American Locomotive Dunkirk plant to remain at work through March 2 to maintain vital nickel plated pipe supply for atomic work. CIO-USW plans Supreme Court challenge if needed.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John Knight
Dunkirk
American Locomotive Company
CIO
United Steelworkers Union
Knight
Cio-Usw
U. S. Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
Washington
Two Year Old Driver Crashes House in Detroit
In Detroit a toddler named Anthony Widby, age two, was left in a car by his father Jack Widby. The child started the vehicle and struck a house owned by Mrs. Helen Pattenaude, causing damage while suffering only a minor forehead bruise. Police did not issue a ticket.
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Detroit
Anthony Widby
Jack Widby
Anthony
Helen Pattenaude
Vatican elevates Indian archbishop to cardinal
The Vatican announced Arch bishop Valeriano Gracias of Bombay will join the College of Cardinals, becoming India's first cardinal. He fills the seat left by the death of Carlo Agostini, 64, patriarch of Venice, who died in Venice after illness, with a red hat due at a secret consistory January 12 along with 23 other appointees.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Valeriano Gracias
Bombay
Carlo Agostini
Venice
India
Agostini
Natural Gas Topic at Granite Falls Meet
Representatives from several southwestern Minnesota towns will meet in Granite Falls on January 14 to discuss the natural gas question. Four companies seek natural gas franchises in the area and the group will try to choose a path forward.
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Granite Falls
Minn
Minnesota
U N Air Blow Strikes Reds Near Pyongyang
U N. troops held a ground counterattack on the Central Front after a major 200 plane air raid on a Red supply center near Pyongyang. Cloudy skies grounded most aircraft while Sabres fended off several MIGs and B 29s dropped 120 tons on a Pyongyang airfield.
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Seoul
Dag-im U. N
North Korea
U. N
Air Force
Pyongyang
Fifth Air Force
Sea of Japan
Holiday Toll Sets Record but Below Last Year
The four day Christmas weekend killed 714 Americans with 533 in traffic. The period from 6 pm Wednesday to midnight Sunday produced no new national record and fell short of the 590 pre holiday forecast. The 1936 Christmas weekend total was 555, while the all time high four day toll reached 789 last year.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Believe Couple's Deaths Ruled Murder Suicide
Rural Golva North Dakota reported double tragedy as Mr Richard Thompson and Mrs Thompson were found dead in their home. Mrs Thompson shot in the kitchen while Mr Thompson suffered shotgun wounds outside the house. A six year old daughter alerted a neighbor by crying that her mother shot her father and planned to kill herself. A double barreled shotgun lay near Mrs Thompson.
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Golden Valley County
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