Korean Ship Sinks With 249 Dead Near Pusan
At least 249 people died when the coastal passenger vessel Chang Yung Ho sank Friday night off Pusan after violent seas and winds. Only seven of 256 aboard survived, including the captain He Yang Mo. Korean Transportation Minister Kim Buk Kwang said no Americans were aboard. the ship ran daily between Pusan and Yasu, about 100 miles west on Korea’s south coast.
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Ike Plug for Dewey Sparks Speculation
President elect Eisenhower praised Gov. Dewey at a New York dinner, fueling talk he may urge Dewey to run again or offer a post in his administration. The event launched a heart disease fund drive, with Dewey and Milton Eisenhower among the speakers.
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Milton Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State College
Benson To Seek Iowans' Counsel In New Agri Policy
Sen Bourke Hickenlooper said Iowa will have a voice in Eisenhower’s planned agriculture department. Ezra Benson affirmed he will seek practical farmer counsel from Iowa, noting Iowa’s 25 percent of nation’s grade A farmland and its leading output. Henson plans a Chicago meeting with the Midwest Republican Farm Council next week.
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Hickenlooper
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Ezra T. Benson
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Agriculture Department
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Benson
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Weather Summary: Cloudy with dipping temps tonight
Forecase notes a cloudy pattern with temperatures falling to around 15 above tonight or early Sunday, then partly cloudy and very cold Sunday night near 5 above. Observed readings at 2 pm: 23 SW, 24 SE, 22 NW, 24 NE.
Post-Conviction Trial Frees Man After 27 Years
Chicago, UP James Grant, 60, freed after 27 years in prison on a life sentence for assault, found not guilty in a post-conviction trial. Judge Leonard blasted the jury, saying the verdict was astounding as grant asserts prejudice and heat of the trial. Foreman Florence Ryan cited insufficient state evidence despite victim identification.
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James Grant
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Frank R. Leonard
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William G. Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Iowan Completes Wagon Journey To Missouri Farm
An Iowa farmer Christy Hendrichsen aged 55 completed a 500 mile pioneer style wagon trip to a 240 acre farm near Buffalo Missouri with hired man Irving Johnson. They traveled 23 days along U S highway 63 and stayed with farm families en route.
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Iowa
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Ledyard
Dee
U.5
Muscovites Complain Pants Too Long in Moscow Shop
Moscow residents and the Soviet press criticize a tailoring workshop for long pant hems under a speedup system. The article cites Trud and the Ninth Amliyer clothing unit on Chernyshevsky Street, noting suits with wrong lengths, wrinkles, and refused repairs.
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Amlier Clothing Making and Repair
Chernyshevsky Street
Mrs Anderson Quits Envoy Job In Denmark
Eugenie Anderson resigns from the post as the first female ambassador to Denmark after serving since December 1940. The Red Wing, Minnesota native announced her departure effective January 1943, ending a milestone assignment for the United States diplomatic service.
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House
Ice Storm Kills At Least 25 Across East Coast
A severe ice and snowstorm disrupted power, transport, and communications from the Atlantic seaboard to New England. At least 25 people died, 19 in New England, as freezing rain and snow swept the region causing widespread damage.
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Severe winter weather sweeps parts of the United States
Snow and freezing rain hit Atlanta, Florida, New York, and New England while storms cause floods near the American river in California. About 300 workers faced danger as a coffer dam breach sent a 40 foot water wall downstream. Norwalk residents faced a citywide emergency, 25 000 homes without heat or power, and heavy ice storms disrupted life across multiple states.
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Rosenbergs File Plea to Spare Lives
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg filed a clemency petition with the Justice Department asking President Truman to commute their death sentences for allegedly passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. The move, briefed by defense counsel, would stay execution until the president acts, with pardon attorneys to review and advise McGranery before the final decision.
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Julius Wand
Zithel Rosenberg
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Eisenhower names Smith undersecretary of State and Mashburn labor chief
President elect Eisenhower selected Gen Walter Bedell Smith to be undersecretary of State and Lloyd A Mashburn to be undersecretary of labor. Smith, head of the CIA and WWII Europe staff chief, served as Moscow ambassador after the war. Mashburn, a California Labor Commissioner and AFL council member, is a Republican.
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Eisenhower
Walter Bedell Smith
California
Lloyd A. Mashburn
Smith
Central Intelligence Agency
Europe
Moscow
Oo Mashburn
Fathers Union
AFL Building and Construction ‘Trades Council
Los Angeles
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Teacher Loses Job Over Kissing Game in Classes
Maryland teacher Louis L. Pund resigns after students report kissing game during class at Washington High School. Pund, who also says he is an ordained minister, moves to Baltimore to seek work as a musician after dismissal. In Des Moines, State Senator Ralph Zastrow of Charles City is named Republican floor leader and elected president pro tempore for a sixth term as the legislature readies to convene.
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Picture Page Games Bring Mixed Reactions at School
A photo page describes a cloakroom game where a student chooses among kissing, hand kissing, handshakes, or refusal for peers aged 12 and 13. Initially reluctant, most students join in the next day. In Alabama, a judge questioned a witness with the answer Rainwater.
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Punch
Cedar Rapids Foresters official Charles Byrnes dies suddenly
Charles E. Byrnes a Cedar Rapids former city treasurer and longtime Foresters field representative died Saturday afternoon shortly after finishing a talk at a Foresters workers meeting in the Montrose hotel He was 76 born Cresco April 17 1876 and had lived in Cedar Rapids since 1897 Surviving are his wife a son and a daughter and four grandchildren Funeral services were to be held at Brady funeral home in Cedar Rapids
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Immaculate* Conception Parish
Robert
Washington, DE
Hubert Covert
New York City
Brady
Pilots urge overhaul of inaugural air parade plans
AOPA representing 40,000 private pilots urged the government to rethink its “extremely hazardous” plan for a mass flight of 460 military planes over Washington for the presidential inaugural parade. They warned the jets over Pennsylvania Avenue could endanger the event and seek changes or cancellation.
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Ashingston
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Civil Aeronautics
Charles F. Horne
CAA
Pennsylvania Avenue
Feminine Parking Clash Injures Two in Miami Beach
In Miami Beach a two woman parking dispute ended with both drivers injured and hospitalized. Evelyn Weinman sustained a bitten finger while Rhee Martin suffered two front teeth knocked out as onlookers separated the brawl.
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Miami Beach
William Jackson
Evelyn Weinman
Rhee Martin
Army Court Brands Her Guilty, 63
Dorothy Krueger Smith, 40, daughter of a retired four star general, was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor for the premeditated murder of her husband, Col. Aubrey D. Smith, in Tokyo. The nine officer court martial found her guilty by six to three. defense appeals will pursue presidential review.
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Wirenhoto
Dorothy Krueger Smith
Tokyo
Adam Richman
Aubrey D. Smith
Army
Smith
Walter Krueger
Joseph ‘Sullivan
Army Barracks
Howard Levie
Army Court
Another Mistake Bombing Reported by U S Press
A Cincinnati resident unnamed says a Pennsylvania serviceman in Korea reported that U S planes strafed an American unit on December 21 killing one and wounding others. A New York soldier also claimed U S jets attacked American positions in Korea killing one and injuring six.
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Korea
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Air Force
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G.I
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Undutiful Son in Chicago Sells Mother's TV
Police sought Harry Wanders after his mother reported he stole her television and sold it.
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Harry Wanders
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