Worst air disaster toll at 83 aboard transport plane
MOSES LAKE Washington 83 of 115 aboard died when a huge four engine Air Force transport crashed after takeoff from Larson Air Force Base en route to San Antonio Texas. The crash left 32 survivors with serious injuries as rescue crews battled flames and confusion. Maj P M Wassum later fixed the death toll at 86 in a Pentagon report.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Air Force
An Antonio
Tex
Maj. P. M. Wassum
Washington
Pentagon
Larson Air Force Base
Raymond K. Ferguson
Batesville, Ark
Cardiff
Wales
North Pacific Rim
Korea
Montana
Richard O’keefe
Wendell L. Burton
Findings In Waterfront Probe Pose Tough Problem For Meany
Washington reports the waterfront crime probe tests AFL leader Meany already under pressure from New York State Crime Investigation Committee findings about payoffs and corruption connected to the longshoremen union. Meany cites AFL constitution limits and says action will wait until internal processes run their course.
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Rowland Evans JR
Washington
New York
George Meany
AFL
Meany
AFL Longshoremens Union
New York State Federation of Labor
Ryan
Men On Snowy Road To Yule After Plane Tragedy
MOSES LAKE WASH Four airmen described as a cheerful group are seen under snow carrying bodies to a truck after a Globemaster crashed and burned. Soldiers tag victims while morgue trucks take the dead away, as two rows of cats wait near the wreckage.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Globemaster
Air Force
Plan Report On McCarthy Benton Fight
The Senate elections subcommittee will report next week on its probe into the charges Benton and McCarthy have made against each other. A Monday meeting will finalize a draft. the panel aims to publish the report in the coming week and also issue a preliminary election laws study. Benton had urged an investigation of McCarthy in 1951.
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Washington
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Sen. Benton
D-Conn
McCarthy
R-Wis
Subcommittee
Hennings
D-Md
Sen
Hendrickson
R-Nj
Senate
Benton
Wisconsin
Siamese twins Rodney and Roger Brodie in Chicago operation update
Rodney Lee Brodie, head-joined with his brother Roger Lee, showed encouraging signs after a long separation surgery in Chicago. Rodney gripped a yellow rubber lamb and asked a question while Roger remained in a deep coma. Doctors noted Rodney’s brain drainage change and uncertain recovery for Roger, with both twins having shared brain circulation earlier. A separate case in Greenwood, Mississippi, reports the death of four month-old twins joined at the head.
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Robert R. Goldenstein
Chicago
Rodney Lee Brodie
Roger Lee
Rodney
Roger
Greenwood
Miss
Brodies
John Edward Flowers
Bonadurer Jr Succeeds Dad In Handling Skyrocker Display
La Crosse New Year's Eve fireworks atop Grandad Bluff will proceed with Bill Bonadurer Jr taking over from his father William Bonadurer Sr. after 22 years of leadership. Sr will be away for Rose Bowl events. Jr vows improved show with two new numbers.
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Bonadurer Jr
Dad
la Crosse
Grandad Bluff
William Bonadurer Sr
Bonadurer
Bill Jr
West
Long
Bill
Aunt Kappy Parcel Reaches Home After Postal Search
Mrs. Richard A. Tausche of La Crosse reports she claimed a Christmas parcel found by the Post Office after it had been misrouted en route to Norfolk Virginia. The package carried a note from Aunt Kappy to Dear Ellen and was delayed when the label fell off.
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Kappy
Richard A. Tausche
S. 20Th St
Tausche
la Crosse Tribune
Norfolk
Norfolk Post Office
la Crosse
Ellen
Local Weather Forecast for La Crosse and Vicinity
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions expected Sunday with little temperature change. Forecast covers La Crosse and surrounding area with modest afternoon highs and light winds.
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la Crosse
Bey of Tunis Yields to French Reform Decrees
The Bey Sidi Mohammed Al-Amin capitulated to Paris pressure and agreed to approve French reform decrees for electing village and town officials and other measures. Tunisian council had said the reforms did not go far enough for self rule. unrest and rioting had plagued Tunis. France drafted broader measures and warned the Bey.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Paris
Sidi Mohammed Al-Amin
France
Carthage
Hannibal
Jean de Hauteclocque
de Hauteclocque
Prince Chelley
Zakia
United Nations
Parents Of George Join Christine For Christmas Holidays
Mr and Mrs George Jorgen sen of the Bronx arrive in Copenhagen to spend Christmas with their daughter Christine who was formerly their son George. Tears mark the reunion at Kastrup Airport as Christine continues post conversion life after two years of treatment by Danish hormone expert Dr Christian Hamburger. Christine, once a male clerk in the US Army, studied color photography during the transition and presented a movie to the public last week.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
George Jorgensen
Bronx
New York
Christine
George
Kastrup
Christian Hamburger
Eisenhower Prepares Inaugural Messages and Briefing
President-elect Eisenhower plans a Monday lunch with The Committee on the Present Danger and key aides John Foster Dulles Harold Stassen and others. He is drafting two major messages the inauguration speech and a State of the Union to outline his domestic and foreign programs.
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Eisenhower
America
Congress
Commodore Hotel
James B.conant
Harvard University
Mutual Security Agency
Roger M. Kyes
General Motors
Defense
Kyes
Charles E. Wilson
Jersey City man jailed for piracy off Barbary Coast
Sidney H. Paley 32 known as Nylon Sid was sentenced by a U S Consular Court in Tangier International Zone Morocco to three years for aiding the hijacking of 100000 in American cigarettes from the Dutch motorship Combination in the Mediterranean off Spain on October 4. He confessed to hating the sea and guns. Overrules Associates.
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Tangier
International Zone
Morocco
U.S
Jersey City
Sidney H
Nylon Sid) Paley
Combinatio
Mediterranean
Spain
Consular Court Convicts Paley in Barbary Coast Piracy Case
Consular Judge Helmick finds Paley guilty on two counts of aiding and plotting piracy with Elliott Forrest, leader of a six man raid from the Esme. Sentences three years each, to run concurrently. verdict appealed by two civilian associates.
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Milton J. Helmick
Barbary Coast
Helmick
Paley
New York
Elliott Forrest
Forrest
Esme
Thomas Greenish
Mackay Radio
Charles Lichtensteiger
Neall Ruge
Soviet bloc escalates hate America drive at United Nations
At the United Nations in New York the Soviet bloc launched a intensified anti American campaign during the waning pre holiday hours. The Assembly planned an extraordinary session to adjourn until Feb 24 while voting 48 to 0 with two abstentions on a Austria independence appeal. The U S abstained as Russia and allies attacked defining aggression saying it threatens peace. Britain abstained as Selwyn Lloyd noted Christmas cards.
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United Nations
N. Y
U.N. Assembly
Economic Committee
Austria
Russia
U. N
Britain
France
U. S
Soviet Bloc
Andrei Gromyko
A. M. Baranovsky
Soviet Ukraine
Dutch Catalina Crashes in Lebanon Injury Nine aboard
A Dutch military Catalina flying boat with nine people aboard crashed on a mountain slope in North Lebanon. All nine were taken to a hospital in Tripoli. Details on injuries or fatalities were not released. The aircraft apparently strayed into Lebanese airspace.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Tripoli
Whitehall Man Dies In Korea
Whitehall Wisconsin special report notes George M. Skogstad 21 son of Mr and Mrs Ben M Skogstad Whitehall was killed in an accident in Korea on December 15 the War Department informed his parents Saturday Born January 3 1931 in Whitehall he entered service January this year He trained at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky and came home on furlough in July He was an infantryman and arrived in Japan in August for training reaching Korea in October He is survived by his parents and maternal grandmother Mrs Ida Rice of Whitehall
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Whitehall
Wis
George M. Skogstad
Ben M. Skogstad
War Department
Skogstad
Camp Breckinridge
Japan
Korea
Ida Rice
Try To Break Iran Deadlock Over Oil Payments
Washington dispatch reports Ambassador Loy W. Henderson will return to Tehran to attempt a new solution to Britain Iran deadlock over compensation for nationalized oil properties. Acheson Eden discussions hinted at progress while plans to involve Anglo Iranian Oil Co to transport and sell Iranian oil are explored. officials doubt a quick settlement.
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Washington
Loy W. Henderson
Tehran
Britain
Henderson
Acheson
Paris
Eden
United States
Iran
State Department
Durkin outlines three labor department objectives
Secretary of labor designate Durkin pledges to strengthen the department to better serve workers. He aims to improve labor management relations to reduce production losses and seeks amendments to the Taft Hartley Act acceptable to both sides and the public interest. Durkin plans informal talks with Senator Taft and will not push amendments without in office.
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Washington
Martin P. Durkin
Secretary of Labor
Labor Department
Department of Labor
Durkin
Adlai Stevenson
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Plum’ Union
Gen
Eisenhower
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Art Hartley
Taft
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