Plane Aircrew Limp To Moisant After Coastal Engine Trouble
A Navy PB-1 Catalina with eight aboard returned safely to Moisant field near New Orleans after engines 2 and 3 failed and engine 4 showed low oil pressure. Pilot LL W. W. Heath of Bayonne New Jersey said the crew fought to reach land about 600 miles southwest in the Gulf, aided by prayers and steady flying. Co-pilot Air Force 1st Lt. W. J. Aman of Hartville Ohio described the hazardous moment as the plane drifted on a middle Gulf route. The aircraft had originated about four hours out of Corpus Christi when distress began.
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Here
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Moisant
LL W. W. Heath
Bayonne
N. J
Air Force
W. J. Aman
Hartville
Ohio
Gulf
Aman
Corpus Christi
Heath
Man grapples hold up man in liquor store
Benjamin Coleman said he should have yelled Bree Whisky as a hoodlum entered his Baltimore liquor shop. Coleman grappled with the intruder shouting Holdup but passersby ignored the scene and the thief fled. In Fort Worth, police reproach low level crime as an electric meter is stolen from city hall basement.
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MD. Il
Benjamin Coleman
Coleman
Roncher
Fort Worth
Iupi
Voth Soldier Sentenced For AWOL Into Czechoslovakia
Pvt Charles E Wood, Texas native and member of the Jett squadron, was court-martialed by the Fifth Corps and sentenced to two years in prison dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay for going AWOL into Czechoslovakia for three months last December. He was returned by Czech authorities March 28.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Charles E.wood
Fifth Corps
Medal of Honor Heroic 19YearOld Crump Immortalized
Cpl. Jarry K. Crump of Forest City North Carolina 19 earns the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade with his body to save wounded comrades at a frontline position near Camp Rucker Alabama Eyewitness Capt Willem Loyens of Hamlin New York describes Crump firing at point blank range bayoneting enemy troops and repeatedly exposing himself to danger Crump's self sacrifice left 38 enemy dead in the vicinity and he survived the ordeal for the highest U S military decoration
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Washington
UPI
Jarry K. Crump
Forest City
N.C
Camp Rucker
Ale
White House
Truman
Willem T. Loyens
Hamilen
N. X
Crump
Lyons
Rep Cole Attacked as Cowardly in R‑WY Row
Washington reports Rep. Ede Arthur Hall R Wyoming accused colleagues on Thursday of cowardly attacks on Rep. Sterling Cole N. He defended his primary bid and criticized critics for electioneering while both men dispute redistricting.
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Gashington
CPI
Arthur Hall
Chary
Housé
Ators
Sterling Cole
Ansthrose
Hall
Schuster Suspect’s Pictures Sent Out
Police distributed 100000 circulars identifying a suspect in the Arnold Schuster murder case. John Mazziotta, 36, linked to the weapon, queries if the killer is Mazziotta. Authorities offered no comment while tying the revolver to the Brooklyn theft.
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Schuster
New York
ARG
Arnold Schuster
Brookpants
Willie
Ton
John
Cheppy
Mazziotta
EeProoklyn Pier
Yarborough Promotes Texas Clean-Government Drive
Ralph W. Yarborough, running against Gov. Allan Shivers, declares corruption exists in Texas and Washington. He urges a joint effort to clean up state government in Austin and beyond, stressing a shared burden for reform.
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Austey
GRI
Ralph W. Yarborough
Washington
Texas
Allan Shivers
Austin
Pilot Sued For Teaching Son To Fly
LOS ANGELES report on Evelyn Salmon suing husband Herman Salmon for divorce alleging extreme cruelty after teaching their 11 year old son to fly Randall Salmon boasts the boy can land take off fly instruments and navigate a plane in response the husband lists his flying skills and pride in his son.
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Los Angeles
Evelyn Salmon
Herman (Fish) Salmon
Salmon
Randall
United Nations Urged to Probe Peron Terror
Argentine exile groups appealed to the United Nations to investigate what they termed a reign of crude terror under President Juan D. Peron. They alleged a climate of fear and brutality with police state methods, torture, and prisons overflowing, comparing tactics to Nazi Gestapo methods. The Territorial Enterprise, the old Virginia City paper, resurfaced on the ghost town streets amid the Comstock Lode revival.
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Juan D. Peron
Gestapo
Virginia City
Tri
Territorial Enterprise
Comstock Lode
RE Creme
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