Blizzard Storm Halts Travel Across Large American Regions
A powerful blizzard and snowstorm disrupted the Northwest and Great Lakes, bringing record cold and high winds. The system caused at least five deaths in Washington, halted highways and rail service, and prompted flood fears as rivers rose. Miners debated resuming a three day work week amid a labor dispute led by John L. Lewis.
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Rocky Mountain
Orego Washington
Idaho
California
Nevada
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Wyoming
Ellensburg
Washington
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Waington
De Gasperi Heads New Government
Rome reports President Einaudi asked Alcide de Gasperi to form a new Italian government. He will begin talks with leaders as the outgoing cabinet remains in temporary service. Coalition options include CDs liberals Republicans moderates and independents.
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Luigi Einaudi
Alcide de Gasperi
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Christian Democrats
Einaudi
Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando
Umberto Terracini
Italy
Constituent Assembly
Atlantic Alliance
Terracini
Modena
Orsi Foundries
Stock Market Bounces Back After Sharp Drops
New York stocks recovered late yesterday after a day of losses with the Associated Press average down 20 cents at 71.70. Volume reached 3,330,000 shares, the highest since May 14, 1948, as gains led by radio television and rail stocks offset declines in General Motors Coca Cola and Kennecott Copper.
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New York
Associated Press
International Telephone & Teleraph
Farnsworthadio
Radio Corp
Admiral Corp
Emerson Radio
Montgomery Ward
General Motors
Coca-Cola
Kennecott
Unexplained Glider Crash Kills 13 at Fort Benning
At Fort Benning Georgia an unexplained glider crash killed 13 airmen including 11 student paratroopers and a glider pilot Second Lt Robert D Henley. Five of 17 aboard survived with one later dying. Three of the remaining survivors were in critical condition.
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Air Force
Uncle Sam
Lawson Air Force Base Hospital
Robert D. Henley
Columbia
Melvin L. Minnix
Minnix
Ile De France Blocked by Wage Strike
Paris January 14 Officials of the Ile De France cancelled sailing due to a wage dispute with the crew. About 1000 passengers scheduled to sail from Le Havre were sent back to Paris by train. The liner would be tied up at least until February 2 as talks continue. The crew sought a 3000 franc monthly raise for themselves and all company ships, which the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique refused. The company did grant a bonus for engine room workers and studied a length of service bonus plan.
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France
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Hair Case Extradition Set For Wake Forest Student
Raleigh authorities prepare for the return of Raymond D. Hair a Wake Forest senior charged with murder. SBI Agent Powell flew to Los Angeles with a warrant to extradite Hair for killing Roy W. Coble on a college parking lot December 15. Extradition papers were sent to California’s governor as plans moved forward.
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Raymond D. Hair
State Bureau of Investigation
Los Angeles
Calif
Wake Forest
California
SBI
James W. Powell
Hair
Roy W. Coble
Coble
Powell
Pi A baby girl weighing about one pound plans to survive
TORRANCE Calif Jan 14 A baby girl weighing about one pound three ounces is holding her own in a Torrance hospital. Doctors say Kathryn Elizabeth Hinckley is kicking and crying in an incubator. The 30 year old mother A W and Frances Hinckley gave birth last Thursday night. Dr K T Sherry attended the birth and said the infant will receive oxygen and will get no food for 36 hours.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
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UMW
John Busarello
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W. Va
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Dinaldo Cappellini
Weirtall Steel Company
Brownsville
Joseph E. Moody
The
Southern Coal Producers
Torrance
Calif
A. W
Frances Hinckley
K. T. Sherry
Kathryn Elizabeth
Nine Story Fall Kills Thomas S. Lee in Los Angeles
Thomas Stewart Lee 43 head of a California media and auto empire died after a 12th floor fall from a Wilshire Boulevard building. He flew in from Palm Springs for a dental appointment and was found on the Wiltern theater roof. Lee, once named heir to a $9.43 million estate, had been declared mentally incompetent in 1948 and guardians managed his affairs.
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Thomas Stewart Lee
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Truculent sinking death toll at sixty five in English collision
In Chatham England the submarine Truculent sank after a collision with the icebreaking tanker Divina from Stockholm. Sixty five lives were lost with fifteen rescued. Divers searched the silent wreck as navy investigators opened a board of inquiry at Chatham barracks to determine how the disaster occurred.
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London
Henry Moore
Truman Fair Deal at stake as GOP Southern coalition forms
The House faces a power struggle as administration Democrats ally with Republicans and Dixie senators to curb rules committee power. They aim to block action on the FEPC civil rights bill on January 23, while the coalition uses procedural moves to restore earlier committee control.
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Truman
House
Gop-Dixie
Rules Committee
Wake Forest Trustees Near Offer to Modlin
Wake Forest College trustees reportedly offered the presidency to Dr. George Modlin of Richmond University. Modlin has not confirmed, citing need for definite plans and funding details.
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Wake Forest College Trustees
University of Richmond
Raleigh News and Observer Today
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Richmond University
Modlin
Wake Forest College
News and Observer
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Elizabeth City
Princeton University
Itinerant preacher beaten by masked men in Georgia
Michael Picardi, a 59 year old itinerant Italian preacher raising funds for a Columbus Ohio church, said masked assailants stripped and flogged him in Cairo Georgia after accusing him of living with a Negro family. Sheriff Strickland confirmed reports of tensions but Picardi denied the accusation and FBI noted the case.
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Columbus
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18 French Posts In Indonesia Annihilated
The Vietminh announced an offensive in northern Indochina near Hoa Hinh southwest of Hanoi claiming 18 French posts annihilated 402 soldiers killed 158 wounded and 218 captured along with 30 machine guns 200 rifles 13 mortars and 200 tons of ammunition and equipment seized.
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Ho Chi Minh
Hoa Hinh
Hanoi
Boat Builder's Wife And Child Die In Fire At Lake Ontario Home
In Chaumont New York Mrs Helen Hart 43 wife of boat dealer and yachtsman and her four year old daughter Judith Miller Hart were killed when their home on Point Salubrious near Lake Ontario burned. Husband Robert F Hart Jr was in New York City for a motorboat show. Firemen recovered the bodies in the bedroom ruins.
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Main Duck Island
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Hart
Judith Miller Hart
Definitions and road policy shift at Capitol Square hearings
State highway and municipal commissions push for precise definitions of roads and highways. The highway commission voted to reallocate about 16 000 miles from primary to secondary and add 500 miles to the primary system while preserving route numbers and total road spending.
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Teen babysitter arrested in Torrington boy death
Police say Florence Michalak 18 admitted placing a pillow over a two year old boy’s face to stop him from crying. She was booked on a charge of assault with intent to murder and held without bail.
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Torrington, Conn
Hugh C. Meade
Florence Michalak
Convicted Man Held After Beating of 4 Year Old Stepson
PASCAGOULA Miss Jan 1 A former convict is held on an open charge as investigators probe the brutal beating of four year old stepson Charles B Donsereaux. The boy is listed in poor condition at Jackson hospital after being brought from the foster parent Alvin Bostick 32 a parolee from a Pennsylvania prison Police Chief E E Blakeney said Bostick is the suspect and a parolee awaiting outcome of the case.
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Pascagoula, Miss
Charles B. Donsereaux
Jackson Hospital
Alvin Bostick
E. E. Blakeney
Bostick
Pennsylvania
Foster mother to face child cruelty charge in Beverly Hills
Nine year old actress Lora Lee Michel testified she was whipped for gaining a pound. Foster mother Lorraine Michel aged 65 was arraigned on child cruelty charges and held on $1000 bond with trial set for February 7.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Tiny Lora Lee Michel
Lorraine Michel
Michel
Indictment for Starvation Deaths of Two Children
New York prosecutors charged Guy and Mary Scienzo with manslaughter in the starvation death of their three year old son and also indict daughter neglect for their four year old child who survived. Camilo Leyva admitted to killing his mother and father with a hammer after a family quarrel and confessed to detectives.
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New York
Guy
Mary Scienzo
Camilo Leyva
Boys held after placing metal obstructions on tracks
Chicago police detained two youths after they admitted laying 500 pounds of metal obstructions in the path of two speeding streamline trains. One boy said he wanted to see a train wreck and sparks fly after reading about wrecks in the papers.
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