Plane crash near Bombay kills 44. 13 American journalists among dead
A Royal Dutch Airlines Constellations plane crashed during monsoon rain near Bombay, killing all 44 aboard. Thirteen American newsmen were among the victims, among them Pulitzer Prize winners H.R. Knickerbocker and S. Burton Heath. The wreckage covered a two mile area on a rocky hilltop near Santa Cruz airfield. Indian authorities launched an investigation as Dutch technicians were dispatched to scene.
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Bombay
India
Royal Dutch Airlines
KLM
Santa Cruz
Ghatkopar
Indonesia
Netherlands
H.R. Knickerbocker
WOR
New York
Burton Heath
NEA
The
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Hague
Batavia
New Delhi
A. Barrows
Chicago Daily
James Branyon
Houston
Tex. Post
Fred Colvig
Denver Post
Mias
Hisie Dick
Mutual Broadcasting System
Tom Falco
Business Week
Magaine
Defense Takes Over In Tokyo Rose Trial
In San Francisco the Tokyo Rose treason trial enters a defense phase as counsel challenges the idea that Radio Tokyo aired POW messages on a program. Defense questions ex-Japanese officer Shigetsugu Tsuneishi about prisoner of war messaging and aims to show the segment targeted American troops rather than civilians.
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San Francisco
Radio Tokyo
Iva Teguri D'Aquino
Los Angeles
Pacific
Shigetsugu Tsuneishi
American Loop Holds 8-5 Lead In All-Star Tilt
In a rain shortened classic at Ebbets Field, the American League led the National League 8 to 5 with Stan Musial hitting a first inning homer and three hits for the NL. Joe DiMaggio and Kell contributed for the AL while Don Newcombe warmed in the NL bullpen. Derby plans and local notes follow in the latter pages.
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Brooklyn
Ebbets Field
Stan Musial
St Louis Cardinals
Nationals
Musial
Joel DiMaggio
D. DiMaggio
Kazak
Kells Botunder
Mize
Williams O
Kell
Seminick
Reese
Joe DiMaggio
Joost
Don Newcombe
National League
E. Robinson
J. DiMaggio
Michael
BE. Robinson
Joostla
Tebbetts
Michaels
Kingaport
Parnell
Ellis Binkley
Kingsport Times- News
Binkley
J. Robinson
Williams
Joe
Kinet
Tebbets
National
Ltrike
Dom DiMaggio
Spahn
Laborites Move to Seize London Port Amid Dock Strike
Britain's Labour government moves to seize London's port area to break a 16 day dockworkers dispute that halted 112 ships and slowed exports. A national emergency proclamation allows a government committee to run dock labor, deploy troops, and arrest suspects without warrants, with penalties up to 100 pounds or three months in prison.
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London
Britain
Dock Labor Board
Haseen
Alfred Barnes
George VI
House of Commons
House of Lords
Vets Dividends To Start Next January
The Veterans Administration will begin paying a $2.806 billion special dividend on about 20 million life insurance policies held by 16 million World War I veterans and servicemen. Payments will begin next January at about 200,000 checks daily, with individual amounts varying by policy type and duration.
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Washington
National Service Life Insurance
Veterans Administration
Carl R. Gray, Jr
Gray
Unemployment Not Yet Critical
New York AP report notes unemployment is rising but still only slightly above long term averages. About 3,778,000 people seek work, with projections of 3,000,000 to 3,500,000 under a continued prosperous economy. President Truman warns against higher unemployment.
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Rader
New York
Twentieth Century Fund
Truman
Congress
Carter Squires Reduce Tax Rate
Elizabethton Spit A county magistrates adopt a ten cent tax cut to 4.30 levy after initial two cent reduction proposal. Road fund rises ten cents to 20 cents with eight cents for Hampton School and two for Slam School. General budget set at 85,000 up 2,300 from last year. road budget 152 0990. Sheriff Hay Johnson back pay approved 1,700 from general operating balance.
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Elizabethton
Spit
Carter County
W. €. O'Brien
Hay Johnson
Young Mother Fatally Injured? No, Fractures Reported in Rail Crossing Accident
A young mother of two, Mrs Fay Thomas, 23, was struck by a Southern Railway freight engine near Hilton s crossing between Hiltons and Gate City Bristol Highway around 10 am Tuesday. She suffered compound fractures to both legs and facial injuries. she was taken to Holston Valley Community Hospital. The train, en route from Bristol to Appalachia, stopped after about 200 feet. witnesses said the crossing alarm sounded only after the collision. Mrs Thomas, wife of Kingsport Press employee William Thomas, is described as mother of a boy and a girl.
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Hiltons
Sphij
Southern Railway
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Fay Thomas
William Thomas
Kingsport Press
Thomas
Gate City-Bristol
Cullop Denies Firing Shots That Killed His In-Laws
Abingdon Virginia report says William S. Cullop 47 claimed he did not fire a shot in a bloody family dispute at the Dillons home. Frank Hill gravely injured, Mrs. Dillow killed, Cullop jailed for investigation as authorities gather evidence from the incident. A .38 or SA-caliber pistol was reportedly in possession of the sheriff.
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Cullop
Abingdon
William S. Cullop
Hunter Wolfe
Washington County
Green Springs
Johnston Memorial Hospital
William Dillow
Commonwealth
Dillon Home
Dillons
David Hilt
Hilt
Cubop
Dillon
Dillow
Scott Countian Clarence Bray Dies of Wounds
Clarence P. Bray, 32, of Scott County Virginia, farmer and World War II veteran, died at Holston Valley Community Hospital at 3 30 pm Monday from bullet wounds suffered early Sunday at his brother Charles Bray s home in Alley Valley. Sheriff Pendleton reported Charles Bray freed on 1000 bond on a malicious wounding charge and doubted further prosecution. Bray, a Hancock County native, was survived by his parents E Clark Bray and Mrs Ade Pendleton Bray, with other survivors noted.
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Clarence P. Bray
Scott County
Holston Valley
Charles
Alley Valley
Gate City
Bill J. Pendleton
Pendleton
Charles Bray
Clarence
Hancock County
E. Clark Bray
Ade’ Pendleton Bray
Republicans Demand New Hiss Hearing Over Grady the Cow
Republicans announced they will press the House Un American Activities Committee to reopen Alger Hiss hearings. Democratic opposition looms as Chairman Wood convenes to hear Elizabeth Lassuly of the CIO Food and Tobacco Workers Union about communist activity in DC. Nixon and Velde r urge witnesses not heard at the NY perjury trial.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Wood
Georgia
Elizabeth Lassuly
Food and Tobacco Workers Union
CIO
District of Columbia
Nixon
R-Calif
Veldeer
New York
Hede Gumpertz
Gerhart Eisler
U. 8
Yukon
Hiss
State Department
Hiss Han
Grady
Lis
Tragedy Crashes Plane After Onboard Fight Near Chatsworth
A Standard Airlines flight from New York to Long Beach crashed near Santa Susana Pass after a violent aboard fight. Eleven people died and 3 were injured among 48 aboard. Pilot Roy White asked police support at Burbank before the crash. Local authorities and aviation officials surveyed the wreck as firefighters battled remaining flames.
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Los Angeles
Standard Airlines
Santa Susana Pass
New York-to-Long Beach
Calif
Air Traffic Control Bureau
Burbank
Roy White
Riverside
Hurbank
Long Beach
Branley Weiss
Birmingham Veterans’ Hospital
van Nuys
Harold Tucker
Mary Ann Rose
Charlotte Grenadier
Control Bureau
Chatsworth Reservoir
Albuquerque
N. M
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Lockheed Air
Chatsworth
Plains
New York
Chicago
Kemas Ciy
Kansas City
Box Canyon
Standard
Curtis-Wright
Trans-National Airlines
Selunar Tables And Reservoir Stages Report
John Alden Knight's Selunar Tables outline major and minor periods for planning fishing and hunting days. Observations show Cherokee Reservoir at 6 a.m. Tuesday 1062.1 feet elevation, rising 0.5 feet by Wednesday midnight. Douglas Reservoir at 4 a.m. Tuesday 902.2 feet, rising 0.9 feet by Wednesday midnight.
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John Alden Knight
Cherokee Reservoir
Douglas Reservoir
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Charles Gratke
the Christian Science Monitor
Boston
S. Burton Heath
Darien
Conn
BLOR
Knickerbocker
Vincest Mahoney
San Francisco Chronicle
George Moorad
Portland Oregonian
KGW
William H. Newton
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
John Werkley
Time Magazine
Lynn Mahan
Theodor Swanson & Co
Dorothy Brandon
New York Herald Tribune
Willam R. Mathews
Tucson
Ariz
Tokyo Rose
Dickie Blankenbecter
Eft
Dickie Warren
Kingsport
Orville Duncan
Blankenbeeter
Warren
Bristol Highway
Derby
America
Sam Anderson
Latimer-Looney Chevrolet Co
E.B. Blankenheeler
D. W. Moulton
Andrew Brooks
John Dudney
Merchant's
Carter Squires
Crete
Great Lakes
Witnois
William F. Kaylor
Nelson Kaylor
Millard
Uss Cone
Scott Countian
John Randolph
Bill Mack
Attlee
H. H. Werener
Grady Jis
Neval
Hartley Shawcrose
Hi-Tone
North America
Albert Timothy
Workers’ Movement
Hereford
Ike Grady
Mack
Asya Mach
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