66 Die In Flaming MATS Plane Crash
Funeral notices and disaster reports follow a seven hour fire that devastated a St. Lawrence River town. 66 perished in a Flaming MATS plane crash as Red Cross workers aided 212 victims, with shelter and clothing distributed by priests, nuns, and neighbors. Ex-Taylor county couple Bengle and Weta Dalton died in a separate car train wreck. their daughter Anemone Maile injured.
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Red Cross
St. Lawrence River
Taylor County
Indianapolis Ind
Bengle Baxter Dalton
Weta Prichard Dalton
West Hill
Anemone Maile
Indianapolis
Dalton
Barbour County
Jesse An Gertrude Mayle Dalton
Bryant Company
Mahle
Wallace Mayle
Simpson
Wardy Mayle
Flemington
Howard Kennedy
Morgantown
William Sheme
Moatsville
Bertsel Mayle
Joe Mayle
Cleveland
Henry
Sarah Mayle Pritchard
Yale
Pritchard
John Maley
Rosley
Grafton
Delbert Mayle
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Wesleyan Church
Weather Bureau
Bartlett Funeral
Priteyard
Salvation Army revives old time religion in Chicago
In Chicago the Salvation Army staged a 75th anniversary revival at the Princess Rink drawing about 100 members and a large crowd. Foot stomping hallelujahs recalled late 1800s services with theatrics and a morality play featuring a developer, an atheist and a drunkard as Maj. Ray Gabrielson urged reverent attention and the power of Salvation Army evangelism.
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Chicago
Salvation Army
Princess Rink
Evangelistic Organization
United States
Sister Flossie
Ray Gabrielson
Auliene
Cinthe E Bates
Drive ’em Away Used Car Bargains
Local dealers advertise a wide selection of used cars with low down payments and easy terms. Featured vehicles include a 1949 Ford four door blue heater seat covers for 295 dollars, a 1965 Chevrolet V eight 210 four door with 3100 actual miles, a 1955 four wheel drive Sta ton Wagon, and a 1952 Chevrolet four door sedan priced at 1095 dollars. For details and more options, see the Classified Advertising Section on page five.
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Staton
Wehoice
Rescued Man Lands In Jail At Ambassador Bridge
Jean Claude Simard age 23 was rescued from a girder 80 feet above traffic at the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor. He was booked for illegal entry into the United States.
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Detroit
Jean Claude Simard
Ambassador Bridge
Windsor
Ont
Simard
United States
House to Vote on Selling Government Rubber Plants
Washington report says the House is expected to approve the administration plan to sell the government's rubber producing plants to major oil chemical and rubber companies.
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Washington
Personal diplomacy not for Ike as George proposal falls short
Washington, UP—President Eisenhower rejects a George proposal to lead a 4-nation summit with Russia. Administration cites political risk, Russia’s leadership uncertainty, and the need for Paris pact ratification before any high level meeting. State Department officials expect Dulles and George to reconcile their foreign policy views.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Walter P. George
D-Ga
Russia
Republican Party
Yalta
Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Noth
Ing
Western
Germany
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Itsaties
State Department
John Foster Dulles
Speakers lined up for WVU industrial engineering conference
West Virginia University announces its sixth annual Industrial Engineering Conference set for April 14-15. Industry leaders will speak, with the event sponsored by the Department of Industrial Engineering the College of Engineering and the Mines school Fades Roren don Department.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Department of Industrial Engineering
College of Engne
School of Mines
Graham campaign in Glasgow nets 480 converts in opening night
Billy Graham’s Tell Scotland revival in Kelvin Hall attracts 14,000 inside and more than 5,000 outside as 480 converts pledge themselves for the six week campaign. Special trains and about 125 chartered buses bring crowds to the hall each night amid police traffic control.
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Scotland
Billy Graham
Graham
Kelvin Hall
Teleview
Ifrom
Man Granted Name Change After 42 Years alias Lon
Otto Lange received permission to change his name after testifying he had been known as Lon for 42 years. The judge approved the request noting the long familiarity with the alias and the desire for a permanent update.
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LONE
LONG
Detroit
Otto
Churchill hints at no defense minister role amid Yalta papers split
London reports say Winston Churchill joked about retirement and a possible British disarmament minister role with Harold Stassen as U.S. counterpart. He later indicated the idea was not ideal, while Washington reversed its stance four days after initially agreeing. The dispute over publishing the Yalta papers sparked pressure that could not be resisted.
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peCoreninit
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Mark Wis
Eman Shinwell
Shinwell
Devine
Chirehill
America
Omeient Lager Churchill
Harold B. Stassen
Satu
Washington
United States
Trtsh
Shind Agaist
Yalta
Doctor's Urge Costs Four Lives in Oklahoma Tragedy
Dr Ben T Galbraith a 31 year old physician admitted killing his wife with a wine bottle and poisoning their three children in McAlester Oklahoma. He confessed to setting fire to the home to hide the crime claiming he woke at 230 am and felt he had to kill his wife. He was arrested in Henderson Tennessee after the family's funeral in Bells Tennessee.
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Mcalester
Okla
Ben T. Galbraith
Medical Society
Bells, Tenn
First MATS DC-4 crash since 1948 kills 56 aboard
A four engine MATS Navy DC 4 crashed near the top of a ridgeline inside the Lualualei ammunition depot on Oahu. All 66 aboard were reported dead or missing, with rescue teams at the scene and Navy officials noting no confirmed survivors. The accident occurred after the plane departed Hickam at 7 p.m. Monday en route to Travis Air Force Base.
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United Press
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Francisco
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Haad
Hickam
Shrine to U.S. Cow Erected by Abandoned Orphans
In Yokohama Jap Abie orphans completed a scheme to honor a cow purchased from the United States after learning the orphanage lacked fresh milk. The cow died last October after birthing a calf, and the heartbroken orphans built a wood and stone shrine on a meadow near the orphanage.
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Yokohama
Japan
U.S
J. C. Breckinridge
America
United States
Jamison's Ruins Yields 6th Body From Farmington Mine
In Farmington West Virginia the sixth body of seventeen still missing after the Jamison No 9 mine explosion has been recovered. Carroll Ice 52 and Nick Kovar Basich 37 rescue crews lifted from a roof fall in the wrecked shaft. The production crew believed to be working that day remains missing as a massive recovery continues.
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Farmington
W. Va
Jamison No. 9
Carroll Ice
Nick Kovar Basich
Marines Simulate Beachhead Nuclear Strike In Nevada Test
Two thousand Leathernecks took part near Yucca Flat as a 500-foot tower detonation simulated a sea assault under a 26 hour Marine atomic maneuver. The blast yielded about 10 000 tons of TNT, visible across five states, with 30 helicopters on standby to air lift Marines into the area.
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Nev
Nevada Desert
U.S
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Proving Grounds
Yucca Flat
Sche Vile
Nevada
California
Oregon
Arizona
Utah
Keystone Pike Route Left Open for New Turnpike Link
Harrisburg Pa Up reports a second proposal to construct a link between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the West Virginia border. The plan would authorize the Turnpike Commission to choose the most feasible route. Senator Eustace H Bane of Bayette County and other sponsors backed the bid. A southwestern extension proposed earlier would run from a point in Beaver County through Washington and Green to West Virginia.
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Pennsylvania
Baver County
Washington and Green
West Virginia Bar
Stowaways Held After Wrong Way Boat Detour
Three West Indian stowaways were jailed awaiting repatriation as police report they hid aboard a ship bound for South Africa by mistake. They hoped for a trip to Britain before revealing their presence and learning of the misrouted vessel.
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Shin Resuimt
Britain
South Africa
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