Christmas death toll tops 300 in nationwide toll
The Associated Press reports a Christmas holiday death toll near 261 total with 213 highway deaths and 48 in fires, drownings, and other causes. California accounts for 55 highway deaths, largely near Los Angeles, with Illinois and Wisconsin also reporting heavy losses. A head on collision near Norristown, Tennessee, was the heaviest single incident with five dead.
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National Safety Council
California
Los Angeles
Illinois
Chicago
Norristown
Tenn
Associated Press
Wisconsin
Geen Ackerman
Mt. Vernon
Paul Gullitt
Ohio
Harold Hawker
Milwaukee
Joseph Lemanczyk
Rose Ann Meyer
Rt. 3
Apple
Okayama Eyewitness Account in Wake of Wars End
The report describes Okayama in southern Honshu as BRINDIV heartland with British Indian Division bases, detailing crowded housing, paper walls, and shared rooms. It contemplates earthquake and tidal wave damage, rice crops, and the impact on postwar democracy and occupation morale.
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Okayama
Hiroshima
Brindiv
Honshu
S. Y. Abbas
Hegas
Kobe
Capt. Abbas
Japan
Abbas
Governor backs regents in McMurray move amid budget talk
Gov. says the board did right in not naming Howard J. McMurray to an associate professorship in political science at the university. He criticized secret meetings, noted budget constraints with $24 million in treasury but labor/material shortages, and commented on Stassen as Republican favorite. He plans a simple inauguration ceremony January 6 and hints at past legislative tensions.
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Board of
Regents
Howard J. McMurray
University
McMurray
U. S. Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
Mark H. Ingraham
College of Letters and Science
E. B. Fred
McCarthy
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Brown group eyes leadership bid in wary GOP fray
A Michigan lawmaker urges independence from party bosses as Hoffman notes limited planning for leadership. Brown remains a rallying point for anti Dewey Republicans in the House, with potential to hold about 50 votes. The split risks a strategic bargaining stance ahead of Congress return. Most physicians of the early Middle Ages were clerics.
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Halleck
Martin
R-Mass
Michigan
Republican Party
Porter
Bowles
Henderson
OPA
Brown
Hoffman
House
Congress
Brown Group
Santa Claus dines at Freeport youngster’s holiday surprise
In Freeport Diane Young five invited Santa Claus to her home for Christmas dinner. The visit, after a department store sighting, caused a festive stir as the jolly guest spoke of the North Pole while trying to eat turkey amid whiskers and red suit.
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Freeport
Ill
Santa Claus
Diane Young
Charles A. Young
Diane
Diane Siae
Santa
North Pole
Plane Crash Off Ice Shows Two Men Lost
A pilot reports his craft skimmed the ice, one man exhausted and submerged after landing. The plane broke through the ice near a shore three miles away, forcing them to abandon attempts to reach land as broken ice blocked progress.
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Ackerman
Gullitt
Ellsworth
Wis
Pierce County
Roland Hoyer
Wold Chamberon
Minneapolis
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Mtt. Vernon
Ackeran
Ohio City
Hoyer
Moyer
Pete
Fragmentary Notice of Local Address and Names
Partial obituary or public notice lists Ser¢re end Sharon Schmid t and 11 Mrs. George Remmel associated with Mindoro Wis and a street address in Bouth idth street twine.
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Sharon Schmid@t
Bouthidth Street
Twine
George Remmel
Mindoro
Wis
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