Trains Crash Head On Near Raleigh Injures Six Teens
A head on collision between a Southern railway freight train and an eastbound passenger train near Auburn eight miles from Raleigh injures six teenagers and many others. Conductor R S Thompson of Greensboro said the freight halted after the curve, while Engineer A B Saynick of Greensboro on the passenger train from Greensboro to Goldsboro was treated for facial cuts and a fractured arm. Rex hospital admitted several victims including Mrs Minnie Kirby, her son Roy, and Mrs David Worrell with various injuries. many more received first aid.
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Raleigh
Southern Railway
Auburn
R. S. Thompson
Greensboro
A. B. Saynick
Goldsboro
Rex Hospital
Joe Beal
Minnie Kirby
Roy
Burlington
David Worrell
Pikesville
J. B. Creecher
Burdie Woodard
Princeton
Lucy Upchurch
Durham
Florence Richey
Eva Peterson
J. C. Stanback
Mary Douglas
Claude Miller
Herman Midgette
Creech
TWA Constellation Crash Kills 12 and Injures 11
An explosion and crash of a TWA Constellation Star of Cairo en route from Paris to New York left 12 dead and 11 injured near Shannon airport in Ireland. Pilot Capt Herbert Tansey was critically injured, and the wreckage scattered on a boggy island. Survivors and victims included Americans and foreign nationals. investigators examined the scene as rescue services ferried wounded to nearby hospitals.
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Panama Limited
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Associated Press
New Ork
Rineanna
Eire
TWA Constellation
Paris
New York
Shannon
Herbert Tansey
Falls Church
Star of
Cairo
Atlantic City
N. J
Miss Ferguson
Dudley Hill
Alexandria
Virginia
William Teele
TWA
Santa Monica
Calif
St. John’s
Barrington
Limerick
Ennis
Eire Department of Industry and Commerce
Hair snipper on Washington trolley targets young women
A streetcar hair thief dubbed Pack the Snipper strikes a third time in Washington. A tall, curly haired man snips pigtails and pageboy cuts from three young women, prompting police to warn of a potentially dangerous pervert and urging vigilance among riders and hospital staff.
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Washington
Jack
Diana Sklarsky
Jean Thompson
Janice Rome
Winfred Overholster
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Caution in overtime suits urged by lawyer
Edward Lamb warned unions and lawyers not to seek large, reckless sums in portal to portal overtime cases. He noted nearly 300 million dollars in Ohio claims and cautioned against prompting congressional backlash while a Supreme Court ruling requires pay for substantial time workers spend at job sites.
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Toledo
Seaf
Edward Lamb
Congress
Ohio
Lamb
U. S. Supreme Court
Fire Weather North Carolina Weekend Forecast Summary
Mostly cloudy and mild with light showers today. Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, colder on Sunday. West central regions may see reduced conditions. Sunrise 7 39, sunset 5 14. December 29, 1946.
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North Carolina
Station Data Fragments Amid Unreadable OCR
A garbled OCR snippet shows partial station data with city names and numbers. The readable elements include Atlanta Birmingham and values such as 26 24.85 and 53 400. The text lacks coherent context or events to summarize.
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Minuteville
Tlanta
Jeston
Government probes butter price drop in New York
Attorney General Tom Clark orders aides to examine New York butter price movements for possible anti trust law violations. The agriculture department also investigates recent market transactions ahead of Thursday's sharp price drop, at the urging of New York consumers council.
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Washington
Tom Clark
New York
Agriculture Department
Anderson
Justice Department
Clark
Consumers Council of New York
Department
Wendell
GOP Planning Tenure Bill
Washington reports that new Republican majorities in Congress plan swift action to limit presidential tenure to six or eight years. Senator Butler Nebraska says a resolution will be introduced soon after session begins, with House leaders proposing an identical move.
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Washington
Congress
Butler
R-Neb
House
Senator Bridges
RNH
Senate Republican Steering Committee
Republican Conference
Insurrection Spreads in Indo China Forcing France to Use Guns
Paris reports insurrection spreading to the south as Viet Namese and French clashes erupt in Hanoi and across Tonkin Annam and Cochin China. In Saigon a night of gunfire killings prompted a curfew a state of siege and mobilization of forces as colonial authorities fear further disruption of communications.
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Paris
Indo-China
France
Leon Blum
Hanoi
Viet-Nam
Tonkin
Annam
Cochin China
Saigon
France-Soir
Bilbo Report Criticizes His Tactics
Senator Ferguson reports a majority of the Senate war investigating committee has approved a Bilbo report criticizing Senator Bilbo for his relations with war contractors. Six of ten members have approved it, names withheld until full polling and filing. No more public hearings before the new Congress convenes January 3.
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Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
Bilbo
D-Miss
Congress
Mead
D-N.y
Sharp Drop in Nazi Feeding Costs via 1947 American Exports
Berlin reports a plan to export over 100 million dollars of U S manufactured goods from the occupation zone in 1947, a 400 percent rise from 1946. Exports will shift from raw materials to finished products as Allied observers anticipate a higher German food ration to 1800 calories.
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Berlin
Germany
U. S
Szymczak
Great Britain
Netherlands
United States
Taxi Driver Seeks Adoption of Baby Gail Elizabeth
Cincinnati December 28 Edwin Nichols a 43 year old taxi driver requests permission from the Hamilton county Child Welfare board to adopt Gail Elizabeth a one year old girl left with him by a homeless passenger who could not pay 1.25 fare. A board spokesperson said a decision awaits the investigation and a police search for the mother. The baby is living at the Nichols home meanwhile.
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Cincinnati
Edwin Nichols
Gail Elizabeth
Hamilton County Child Welfare Board
Luella Eastman
Galil Elizabeth
Nichols Home
Baruch Rejects Veto in UN Atomic Plan Stand
In Lake Success Bernard Baruch warns the United States will not yield atomic bomb secrets if the veto stays in any international control plan. He addresses UN atomic energy delegates at a closed session, urging removal of the veto as decisive for arms reduction talks.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Bernard M. Baruch
United States
United Nations
UN Atomic Energy Commission
UN Assembly
Baruch
Commission
Senate
Western Union Rates Raised in Major Increase
The federal communications commission approved a further 10 percent rise in Western Union message rates effective immediately, adding to a previous 10 percent hike. Interstate commercial news rates rose 15 percent and money order premiums averaged 4.3 percent, with an estimated annual revenue boost of 8.5 million dollars.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Western Union
Interstate Commercial News Department
Interstate
Commission
Plane Crash Kills Two in Michigan City Area
An American Airlines extra flight crash landed near International Friendship Gardens three miles east of Michigan City. The pilot and co-pilot died at Clinic hospital. At least 21 others were injured and admitted to Clinic and St. Anthony's hospitals. The aircraft had departed Buffalo for Chicago.
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Michigan City
American Airlines
International Friendship Gardens
Here
Robert Vinzant
Clinine Hospital
Clinic Hospital
St. Anthony's Hospital
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
American Air Lines
United Nations
Lake Michigan
Dairen Incident Still Not Closed
AP reports more details from two US Navy officers aboard the courier vessel at Dairen after a Soviet ultimatum demanded the ship leave the port within 20 minutes. Officers Lt. Cmdr. W Gordon Cornell and Lt. Charlie D Arthur provided contrasting accounts to earlier official statements.
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AP Shanghai
United States Navy
Dairen
Commadr
W. Gordon Cornell
Dongan Hills
Staten Island
N. Y
Charlie D. Arthur
Pittsbrugh
Wave Warning Now Possible
Dr. Francis P. Shepard of Scripps Institution describes a device to record probable tidal wave paths and give hours of warning. He spoke at the Geological Society of America meeting noting a tidal rise or fall signals an approaching wave and urged retreat in the opposite direction.
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Chicago
Francis P. Shepard
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
la Jolla
Calif
Geological Society of America
Shepard
Miracle Boy Emerges Unharmed After Shanghai Plane Crash
In Shanghai a four year old boy nicknamed miracle boy Wong dee dee survived one of three Christmas night airliner crashes with 28 dead among 33 aboard. He slept in wreckage 19 hours after the crash. Officials cited weather and facility issues as causes and promised safety upgrades at Shanghai's only commercial field.
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Vina Ferguson
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Charles Laby
Edith Augustine Delaby
Belmont Avenue
Newark
N. J
Shanghai
Wong Dee-Dee
China
Wong
Dee-dee
Chungshan
Stassen Named Presidential Hopeful Faces GOP Pushback
Stassen, the sole announced 1948 Republican candidate, faces a polite rebuff from GOP Chairman Carroll Reece over taking over his open forums. Reece cites cost and intra party tension as reasons, while Stassen vows continued forum work and possible cooperation with the national committee. ROF head Henry McKnight says they will expand in 1947 as an independent Republican activity aligned with the national party.
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Washington
GOP
Carroll Reece
Harold EK
Stassen
National Committee
Reece
Minnesotan
Henry T. McKnight
ROF
Newsmen
Republican National Committee
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Merit Farms
New York City
Ireland
Milo
Bilbo Report
Russia
U.S
William H. Newton
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