Pup trapped in 38 foot well sparks rescue ideas in New Mexico
In Carlsbad New Mexico a 2 month old puppy remains at the bottom of a 38 foot dry well nine days after being pushed in by a 5 year old. Residents including Boy Scouts and readers have proposed unusual rescue ideas from lowering a basket and rope to sending in a ladder and even a child in coveralls, while the pup survives on milk and cereal.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Ira Stockwell
Teresa Curtis
Dan Hardin
Poe Hardin
Hardin
New Mexico
White Christmas Possible Amid Record Cold Across Nation
A cold front brings temperatures from 2 below in Minneapolis to 72 in Miami with snow flurries in Kingsport. Weather forecasts call for lows of 10 to 15 degrees and mid-20s on Thursday, with Christmas Day partly cloudy and cold. The National Safety Council projects a holiday period death toll of 510 from Thursday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight.
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The
Mercury
Kingsport
Midwest
National Safety Council
Miami
Fla
Los Angeles
Cal
Longshoremen stab at Brooklyn polling place in union battle
Three longshoremen were stabbed today amid a second wave of violence at a Brooklyn polling place where rival unions battled for waterfront control. Roadblocks were set along the Oklahoma Arkansas border after three bandits robbed Vian State Bank. In Delta Baths Mississippi a tenant-house fire killed four children and burned another. Nehru warned Pakistan that accepting U S aid could wreck Kashmir talks. Louis Jacquinolt withdrew from the French presidential race, replaced by Rehe Coty on the ballot.
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New York
Brooklyn
Greenville
Miss
Delta
Baths
Ere
Fort Smith
Vian, Oxla
Arkansas
Oklahoma - Arkansas
Versailles
France
Louis Jacquinolt
Rehe Coty
Play Gallows Claims Life Of Stage Director
Richard B. Looser a 34 year old director of an amateur theater group died in Grass Valley California from a rope stunt gone wrong. He had built gallows and set a mirror to study costumes and arranged a break away slip knot for safety but the knot failed causing strangulation. Deputy Coroner Shirley Brattin ruled the death an accident noting the rope’s toughness prevented the knot from functioning as planned.
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Grass Valley
Cali
Fia
Richard B. Looser
Looser
Shirley Bratain
Brattin
Parliament Fails On 11th Ballot In France Presidential Vote
In Versailles on day 11 of voting the French Parliament again failed to elect a president. Marcel-Edmond Naegelen, backed by Communists, led with 372 votes, 32 more than Louis Jacquinot, a little known overseas France minister. Balloting continues as unity candidate appeal grows.
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Versailles
Republic
Marcel-Edmond Naegelen
Vincent Auriot
Naegelen
Louis Jacquinnot
Overseas
France
Joseph Laniel
Jacquinot
Letter Said to Be From Missing British Diplomat Burgess
In London a friend of Guy Burgess’s family said a letter postmarked from southeast London and mailed Monday appears to be written by the missing British diplomat. If authentic, the note would be the most specific communication about Burgess and Donald MacLean since their disappearance near May 25, 191.
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London
Guy Burgess
Burgess
Donald D. MacLean
Iron Curtain
Kingsport Looks To Long Holiday For Christmas
Kingsport readies a long Christmas break with many closing for four days. Banks post offices city and county offices will shut Thursday through Sunday while stores vary hours with extended closures. Industrial plants plan reduced schedules and newspapers suspend publication Christmas Day.
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Kingsport
First National Bank
Kingsport National Bank
Times-News
Kingsport Times
Kingsport News
Howard Long
Long
Tennessee Eastman Company
River Drags Doctor After Fatal River Jump
New Orleans reports Coast Guard boats and fishing vessels joined in a search for the body of a prominent physician who killed his estranged wife with a carving knife and then jumped from the 400 foot Long Bridge into the Mississippi River. The victim, Mrs Mae Sterbeow, 27, was found in a blood spattered hallway of the doctor’s home. Witness Mae Meyers, 22, said she accompanied Mrs Sterbeow to retrieve items for a Christmas party and observed the doctor in robe and pajamas. He handed her two chairs the wife wanted and said it was nice to have met you.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Mississippi River
Mate
Sterbeow
Mae Meyers
Woman Lodges Kidnap Charge Against Sheriff
In Wacks Jonesville Virginia a Hancock County Tennessee sheriff was arrested on a kidnaping charge. The warrant was served by Lee County Sheriff W P Bays. Preliminary hearing for Sheriff George Taylor of Hancock County was set for June 15 1954. The charge cites the kidnapping of four year old Jackie Lynn Mullins from Mulberry Virginia to Sneedville Tennessee. The child was reportedly returned the same day.
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Virgil
Wacks Jonesville
Hancock County
Tenn
Lee County
W. P. Bays
George .Taylor
Jackie Lynn Mullins
Commonwealth
Edgar Bacon
Taylor
Sara Ray
Mulberry
Sneedville
Bays
Mrs. Ray
Police Capture Last Fugitives In Michigan Prison Break
Richmond Indiana officers arrested two remaining escapees from the Jackson Michigan prison after disarming Roman Usiondek in a hotel room and questioning Robert Dowling. The pair had been sought since Saturday night and were traced from a parked car near the Mack Hotel. The getaway involved a pistol with one bullet and an anonymous Detroit informer locating the fugitives. Further details described Usiondek as a psychopathic killer and Dowling as less dangerous but capable of violence if confronted.
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Richmond
Ind
Southern Michigan
Lucas Roche
Robert Dowling
Roman Usiondek
Mack Hotel
Dowling
Usiongek
Roche
Usiondek
John Rizio
Detroit
Jackson
Mich
Walter Jeros
Hamtramck
Highland Park
Jeros
Uslandek
U S May Send Acceptance Note To Russia Soon
Washington officials weigh sending a note to Moscow welcoming its commitment to atomic talks and proposing steps to begin. Plans include possible through diplomatic channels or secret discussions under UN Disarmament Commission sponsorship. A preliminary exchange could occur via ambassadors or a Berlin conference setting.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Russia
Moscow
State Department
Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations Disarmament Commission
Dulles
Molotov
Berlin
Atom
Army Bandit Holds Up Ft Meade Bank In Daring Robbery
FBI agents and police scour Fort Meade Maryland for a short man in Army uniform who robbed Citizens National Bank on the military reservation. He forced three women tellers into a vault, escaped with about $40,000, and fled before officers found him. The gunman, about 5 feet 7 inches, wore a new Army field cap and overseas cap, carried a brown leather case, and had a 20 minute head start after freeing the tellers.
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FT. Meade
FBI
Citizens National Bank
Hazel Gore
Miss Gore
Five Children Die In Flaming House
In Marinette Wisconsin five children aged from six years died in a second story bedroom fire. Their father Robert de Gayner age 29 suffered critical burns while trying to reach the children on a porch roof. His wife was hospitalized for shock as officials said the fire started on the second floor and quickly consumed the building.
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Marinette
Wis
Robert de Gayner
Cost Of Living Down In November Says U S Government
Washington reports the consumer price index dipped three tenths of one percent in November, the first decline in eight months. Food prices fell about 14 percent, driving the drop and affecting 1,100,000 railroad workers tied to the index for wage adjustments. Transportation costs eased due to lower used car prices. Housing rose slightly, while medical care and personal care ticked up.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Appetite Gets Rudolph In Bad With Post Office
DETROIT UP Rudolph Caruse a 20 year old Dearborn suburb resident faced disciplinary action by the Post Office Department. On his first day he stopped for coffee and reported a missing restaurant truck to police. A teletype alerted authorities and foreman Mack Kudin returned the truck after finding it idling outside the eatery. He was disciplined and returned to duty after a stern lecture.
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Detroit
Rudolph
Post Office
Rudolph Careuse
Dearborn
Mack Kudin
Kudia
Carcuse
John A. Yagley
Chanting Songs Drown Out Last Appeal To Return
PANMUNJOM Thursday time ran out at midnight on efforts to change the minds of 22 American war prisoners who stayed with the communists. The 90 day explanation period ended as pro Red captives chanted, sang, and danced to drown out last minute appeals to return home. The U N Command said broadcasts ended. no repatriation requests were received from the 22 Americans, 1 Briton, and 327 South Koreans who remained with the Reds. The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission approved a meeting inside the pro-Communist compound tomorrow with Allied and Red correspondents. Loudspeakers outside broadcast 12 times, four appeals to the 22 Americans, one Briton and 77 South Koreans not interviewed individually. Only 17 Americans counted inside the compound. three at nearby hospital, two inside huts. Prison officials said 19 were inside the compound. News correspondents identified Sgt. Richard Corden of East Providence R I and others among leaders of the non Korean prisoners.
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Panmunjom
North
U. N
Neutral Nations
Richard Corden
East Providence
R. 1
Corden
Andrew Condron
Claude Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Richard Tenneson
Alden
Minn
Williams
White
Phian
Merville, Ark
RB. Douglas
San Lee Pws
Two Die In Wreck Near Elizabethton
Two men were killed and a third injured seriously in a traffic wreck near Elizabethton Tennessee late last night. State patrolmen identified the dead as Porter L. Collins of near Elizabethton and Kermit Peerings a schoolteacher at Decatur. James Clifford Hardin of Carter County was hospitalized with head injuries described as critical. Officers said their automobile was demolished when it left the highway.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Solunar Tables by John Alden Knight
Solunar Tables present schedule of solunar periods with notes on best times for hunting and fishing. The article lists locations such as Lake Migtoa and Cherokee with observed water depths and wind details. It mentions sunrise and sunset levels, and planetary positions including Jupiter and Mars affecting activity.
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John Alden Knight
John Alden Keignt
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Kashmir
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A. B. Coleman
Kingsport Chamber of Commerce
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Margaret
WAC
Sth Army
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River
Mississippi
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Leon Barrett
Route 4
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Carver Office Equipment Company
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Whitney Business School
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Creasy
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Mars
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