May Cross 38 Plane Wreck Sighted With 53 Aboard
A B-29 pilot sighted wreckage from the May Cross 38 Globemaster disappearance with 53 aboard, including Capt. J. R. Fife of Norval California. Lights, flares and Mae West belts were seen, a second debris field 60 miles away showed no flares. Twelve search planes scoured the area as Charlie weather ship and a British cutter headed to the scene. Survivors are suspected. official says evidence supports this.
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J. R. Fife
Norvall
Calif
Spokcesman
United States Third Air Division
Paul T. Cullen
Second Air Force
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Newfoundland
Britain
Typhoon Near Eniwetok Threatens Pacific Atoll
A fierce typhoon with winds up to 126 mph bore toward the Eniwetok atomic proving grounds in the Central Pacific. By late today the storm lay about 240 nautical miles east of the atoll moving at 17 mph with hurricane force winds blowing in a 50 mile ring around the eye.
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Honolulu
IUP
Atomic Proving Grounds
Eniwetok
Central Pacific
Atoll
Bill Revokes Hunting License for Mistaken Shot
Sacramento reports the Assembly passed a bill granting the Fish and Game Commission power to revoke a hunter's license if a human is accidentally shot during an expedition. Assemblyman Lester T. Davis of Portola calls such shooting a mistake in judgment and not an accident, urging penalties.
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Sacramento
Mar
Assembly
The
Fish and Game Commission
Lester T. Davia
Portola
Cutter Aids 271-Foot Boat Near Anaheim Bay
A 271-foot motor boat named Boome erang ran onto a rock jetty in Anaheim Bay and was towed to safety yesterday by a Coast Guard cutter from the Long Beach base, the Coast Guard reported.
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Boomeerang
Coast Guard
Long Breach
Anaheim Bay
Tough on Pensioners editorial highlights pension pain
The piece argues that with only 75 dollars monthly, pensioners face harsher hardship from rising living costs. It notes food costs rise faster than average, and despite wage gains for workers, pension incomes stay capped at 75 dollars, prompting criticism of pension policy.
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Wage Stabilization Board
Higher Home Loan Bill OK'd in California Assembly
The State Assembly adopted bills to raise veterans loan limits to 8500 for homes and 815,000 for farms, and to extend the loan program to Californians on active military duty. The McCollister measure would lift home loans by 1000 and farm loans by 1500, sending both to the Senate for action.
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Sacramento
State Assembly
Cali
Senate
Richard H. McCollister
Mill Valley
Yanks Close Trap Most Of Reds Gone
In Tokyo on March 24 1950 Gen Douglas MacArthur said UN forces would cross the 38th parallel if needed and Earth rumor said the line held little military significance The offensive near Seoul cleared most North Korean troops who fled north of the Imjin River near Munson and the general offered field talks to end the war.
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Tokyo
Mar
INS
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Korea
38Th Parallel
U. N
China
Seoul
South Korea
Keres
Eighth Army
Imjin
Munson
Slain and Wounded in Pen Escape Try at Missouri Prison
Jefferson City, Mo. March 23 One convict was killed and another wounded during an escape attempt at the state penitentiary. Guards opened fire as the pair climbed the wall. Ollie L. Hickson 22 was fatally wounded in the left lung. Austin J. Terrell 22 was shot in the arm and taken to the infirmary. Terrell was serving a life sentence for first degree robbery.
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Jefferson City
L.E
State Penitentiary
Ollie L. Hickson
J.T. Leslie
Austin J. Terrell
Troy County
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MAC
Chicago
Chugifled
Considine
Drew Pearson
Za Radio Log
Bulletin
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