62 Year Prisoner Returns Home From Soviet Camps
Franz Napokoj a 62 year old Carinthian timber worker from Fuernitz returns to his village near Klagenfurt after 42 years in Russian captivity. Captured in 1915 after WWI fighting in Poland, he endured Siberian camps, escaped to Irkutsk, lived under a second name, and remarried twice. He gained exit visas following Austria’s freedom treaty through the Moscow embassy.
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Klagenfurt
Austria
Franz Napoloj
Fuernitz
Napokov
Siberian
Red Army
Novosibirsk
Vapokej
Irkutsk
Nepakej
Karaganda
Napokoj
Moscow
Wisconsin man wins gumbo mud tale championship
BurlingtonWisINS reports Albert B Hopkins of Madison won the 1958 gumbo mud tale contest bringing the medal back to Wisconsin after 26 years. Hopkins recounts gumbo mud that balls when wet and could suffocate hogs, while runner up E J McDougall of Bremerton Wash tells of wind-testing childhood North Dakota risk stories.
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Burlington. Wis
INS
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Burlington Siars’ Club
Champis
Albert B. Hopkins
Madison
Hopkins
E. J. McDougall
Bremerton
Wash
North Dakota
Truck Bus Crash Kills Two. 28 Hurt Near Rock Springs
Two passengers died and 28 were injured when a bus and truck collided about 45 miles east of Rock Springs Wyoming. Victims tentatively identified include 45 year old Adolphine Tonar of Denver and 9 year old Gail Demos of Cheyenne. truck driver was John Collins of Columbus Nebraska.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Adolphine Tonar
Denver
Gail Demos
Cheyenne
John Collins
Columpus
Neb
Malibu Fires Threaten Floods After Destructive Blaze
A wildfire siege across Southern California scorched 45 000 acres since Christmas, destroying 67 homes and one life. With winter rains approaching authorities warned of possible severe floods in denuded hills. President Eisenhower labeled the fire region a disaster area as firefighters battled the last flames and celebrities aided efforts near Santa Monica.
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Malibu
California
Eisenhower
Dows
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Hollywood
Santa Monica
Ralph Edwards
Hone
Alan’ Ledd
Yane Russel
Murderers Mostly Kin Or Friends
Boston reports Albert Morris of Boston University concludes from 700 murder cases that relatives and friends are the typical immediate victims and that shootings dominate as the method. Women are less often killers and victims, with stabbings and similar violence second after shootings. Unskilled and unemployed individuals appear most represented among the killers.
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Boston
Albert Morris
Boston University
Min Ee
Steers
Bureau of Census
Alien address report forms available at offices
SAN FRANCISCO Alien address report forms will be available at immigration offices in San Francisco Sacramento Fresno and local post offices beginning January. More than 200000 aliens are required by law to report their addresses to the government each January. Violation can bring a fine up to 200 a jail sentence and deportation according to Bruce G Barber district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Barber stressed that aliens must not mail in their reports. Forms should be filled out and returned to the Immigration Office or post office in person. Mexican contract laborers are examined from filing the report. Peltins a
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San Francisco
Sacramento
Fresno
Bruce G. Barber
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Barber
Immigration Office
Post Office
Peltins A
Piccolo Picked By Pickle Packers
A thief broke into the new transmitter at KQED on Pickle Packers hill above San Bruno and stole six tubes and three voltage meters worth about £550. KQED staff reported the loss and the association plans to offer piccolo lessons as a reward. the incident was recorded amid a chaotic weekend scene in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
KQED
Pickle Packers Association
San Bruno Mountain
John
United
Peet
Chicago
Chiang Set To Attack In Formosa Threats
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek declared a New Year message that Nationalist forces would counterattack as soon as the anti Communist movement gains momentum on the mainland. He promised to warn mainland Chinese in advance to gain support and said Communists fear a concerted strike amid expected peace talks.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Red
Chou Enlai
Kuomintang
Ex-Fighter Held for Wife's Death in West Covina
Francis M. Ogg, 37, a swimming-pool contractor and ex-prizefighter, is held on suspicion of murdering his wife Edna Rosedale Ogg, 47. He claims her death was accidental and was booked at West Covina jail after returning from Las Vegas. He said he ran to the desert gambling resort because he feared people would think he harmed her.
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West Covina
Francis M. Ogg
Edna Rosedale Ogg
Oge
Las Veras
Desert
Avalanche Kills Seven in Fukui Japan New Year Tragedy
Seven people died near Fukui Japan as an avalanche buried n 18 people in a convoy of five Japan Express trucks. A snowplow led the convoy when the avalanche swept two trucks into a valley. Over 100 rescue workers helped dig out survivors and the victims.
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Fukui
Japan
Here
Japan Express Company
Irish Raiders Kill Policeman at Derrylin Station
Nationalist raiders carried out a commando style attack at the Derrylin Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Fermanagh killing a policeman. The blast opened a front door and submachine gun fire followed as British troops mobilized to the area amid a renewed four week surge in violence. The raid marked the second Derrylin assault since the early month outbreak.
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Belfast
Derrylin
Royal Ulster ‘Constabulary
Constabulary
Fermanagh
der Irylin
Smaller Farm Output Seen
Washington says farm supplies will keep shaping prices and incomes in 1957 though demand remains strong. 1956 output, part sold in 1957, will hit a record high, but the soil bank program may cut 1957 output. 14 million acres of wheat and sizable corn and cotton acreage likely placed in the 1957 conservation reserve, with a 20 million acre goal. Hog marketing should be smaller next year. beef dairy and poultry outputs also expected to ease.
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Washington
Sns
Agriculture Department
Soid Bank
Department
Mona Lisa vandal sparks minor damage at Louvre
A Bolivian man Hugo Unjaga Villegas, 42, was charged after hurling a rock at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre. The glass protected painting suffered a small chip and a hole in the robe but remained valued as priceless. He claimed the act was a whim and admitted picking up the stone outside the museum. The painting will return to its place within days.
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Paris
Mona Lisa
Louvre
Leonardo da Vinci
Mauseum-Art
Mona Lise
Hugo Unjaga’ Villegas
la Paza
Villegas
Hungarians Protest Quiet New Year's Eve in Mourning
Budapest readers report an underground call for a silent black New Year’s Eve in protest of the government and in memory of Hungarian dead. Leaflets urged mourning as curfews tightens, while production and coal mines falter and Soviet aid looms with a potential $400 million need.
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Budapest
Janos
Kadar
Hungary
Jawaharlal Nehru
Soviet Union
Christmas Tree Burning Friday in San Leandro Hillside
A Friday event titled Burning of the Greers will begin at 7 30 p m to honor Tree day as discarded trees are collected Sunday Approximately 300 trees will be burned on a San Leandro hillside above Bay O Vista Dads clubs from the San Leandro District Council of Dads Clubs will burn the trees at the city dump with Fire Department cooperation Volunteers will seek donations for city recreational programs Gil Wack is T Day chairman.
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San Leanaru
Bay-O-Vista
Dads Clubs
San Leandro
Fire Department
Dads Club
Gil Wack
T-Day
Plane Explodes Killing Family of Three Near Puyallup
A Seattle family of three died when their small plane apparently exploded in flight and crashed into a vacant field near Puyallup. Cornelius Root, a UW journalism professor, his wife June, and stepson Joseph Herb, 19, were identified by state officials. The trio had spent Christmas in San Francisco and were returning for New Year’s. CAA and McChord AFB officials reported Root radioed about wing trouble, then contact was lost with the Beech Bonanza.
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Seattle
Puyallup
Here
Cornelius Rodt
June
Joseph Herb
Rook
University of Washington
San Francisco
Civil Aeronautics Administration
McChord
Air Force Base
Root
CAA
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