Snow Balks Plane Rescue at Labrador Outpost
Heavy snow and winds delayed air efforts to reach nine American airmen stranded on ice near Labrador’s Lake Astray. The group, 18 below zero, expected to spend a third night outdoors while emergency supplies were dropped in. A B 17 landed 275 miles southeast of Goose Bay, with seven crew and two passengers surviving. A C 47 rescue plane with skis and wheels planned to attempt an extraction once weather eases.
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Westover Field
Mass
Astray
Labrador
Flying Fortress
Goose Bay
Air Transport Command
Gaylight
Baffin Bay
ATC
Berlin Expands Warming Halls To Cut Deaths
Berlin broadens warming halls to 350 centers with capacity for 40 000 people. Open 10 a m to 8 p m daily to provide warmth hot drinks and shelter for mothers children elderly ill and outdoor workers. Welfare workers volunteers run programs and supply reading materials. City plans part time shelter for 3000 more in emergency barracks.
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Berlin
Swede Fined For Attempting to Seize Norwegian Brook
A Swedish worker near the Norway border was fined 650 crowns after trying to divert a brook from a neighboring Norwegian farm. The Sarna district court said the man sought to seize water rights despite the Norwegian farmer's legal use of the brook on the Swedish side for water power.
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Stockholm
Norway
Sarna
Reds Still In Hungary After Peace Treaty
Budapest reports about 25 000 Soviet troops including tank crews and pilots billeted in Hungary despite the peace treaty taking effect over three months ago. Observers note no definite commitment on Soviet troop numbers for lines of communication and that Hungary's sovereign status allows Moscow to arrange terms, limiting Western diplomatic leverage.
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Budapest
Hungary
Red Army
Baltimore Tries a Non Borrowed Lawnmower Sheep at Johns Hopkins
At Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore sheep graze the lawn at Monument and Wolfe Streets. Dr. Thomas B. Turner says the sheep stay and work as serums sources for influenza research, with borrowing avoided to prevent loss. Commuters enjoy the pastoral scene amid city noise.
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Baltimore
John Hopkins School of Public Health
Monument and
Wolfe Sts
Thomas B. Turner
Department of Bacteriology
Dr. Turner
Johns Hopkins House
Public Health
Tiny Luekemia Victim Enjoys Her Second Christmas This Year
Gail Tuchscher, a three year old leukemia patient from Marshfield Wisconsin, received a second Christmas visit from Santa after doctors doubted she could endure December. Santa brought a doll a white teddy bear and a dump truck. She smiled at gifts but grew tired near day’s end, remaining largely bedridden and in a rocking chair with her parents Mr and Mrs C L Tuchscher.
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Marshfield
Wis
Gail Tuchscher
Gail
Santa
Youths arraigned after Voigt Auto riot Sunday night
Richard Weigel, 1724 South avenue, pleaded innocent to unlawful assembly, assault and battery, and mutilation charges in a case linked to a near riot at Voigt Auto on Sunday. Bond set at $500. Nearly 20 youths faced hearings. 11 pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly and got six months in county jail. remaining charges await Jan 5.
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Voigt Auto Company
Richard Weigel
South Avenue
R. V. Ahlstrom
Voigt
Messiah Concert At Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Our Savior’s Lutheran church choir of 60 voices presents Handel’s The Messiah Sunday at 8 p m in the church parlors. Soloists Beatrice Meil Eleanore Scheitzach Jerry Wollan and Elvin M Saterbak headline with a string ensemble and piano organ provided. Directed by Alvin S Mikelson. No admission charge.
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Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Handel
Beatrice Meil
Eleanore Scheitzach
Jerry Wollan
Elvin M. Saterbak
Alvin S. Mikelson
Mavis Carlsson
James Berg
Tonya Modahl
Donna Hahn
Helen Rynning
Janice Gantha
Kathryn Ulvilden
Rosetta Wollan
Yugoslav Merchants Sentenced to Execution for Speculation
A regional court in Susak Belgrade yesterday sentenced three merchants to be shot for speculation. They were accused of selling goods to government stores for a terrible commission and high personal profit.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Susak
Mrs Myrtie Uihlein Dies in Milwaukee Home
Mrs Myrtie Dungan Uihlein 57 widow of Herbert E Uihlein died at home after an asthma attack. Her husband a director of Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co died Sept 18 leaving an estate over 1 000 000. Surviving are brothers David Dungan Hibbing Minnesota and Bert Dungan Superior Wisconsin. Buy Savings Bonds.
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Milwaukee
Myrtie Dungan Uihlein
Herbert E. Uihlein
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co
Aihlein
David Dungan
Hibbing
Minn
Bert Dungan
Superior
Wis
Little Neil Dies After Heroes Visit On Christmas Day
In Racine Wisconsin 10 year old Neil Wachs died on Christmas morning after a prolonged battle with a rare blood disease and pneumonia He had cheered football heroes who sent pennants programs and photos to his room and received visits from Notre Dame's Terry Brennan and Chicago Bears Bill Osmanski six days before his death
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Little Neil
Racine
Wis
Neil Wachs
Neil
Middle West
Western Conference
National Foot
Notre Dame
Terry Brennan
Chicago Bears
Bill Osmanski
Wachs
Insane Balloon Vendor Slays Italian Minister
Stockholm reports Giusepe Capocci, an asylum patient for dementia praecox, killed Italian minister Alberto Bellardi Ricci with scissors. On first leave in seven years, Capocci was granted Christmas leave after showing improvement. Authorities caution ongoing investigations into motive and security at the ministry villa.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Alberto Bellardi Ricci
Goldkuhl
Langbro
Giusepe Capocci
Capocci
Slavs Send Three Priests To Prison
A Yugoslav court in Ljubljana sentenced three Roman Catholic priests in a Balkan case. The verdict follows a trial that highlighted tensions between church and state authorities in Yugoslavia.
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Belgrade
Ljubljana
Yugoslav Priests Sentenced to Prison Terms on Espionage Charges
A retired financial clerk and priests received prison terms from 18 months to six years with forced labor for espionage. The week saw the number of priests convicted on espionage rise to 15 across Yugoslav courts.
UN Employes Yule Guests in New York State
In Binghamton Endicott and Johnson City 175 United Nations clerks typists interpreters and other workers are visiting roughly 100 homes for an American Christmas experience. The goodwill event showcases hospitality from the south central New York communities and offers memories of warm hearths snow and festive gatherings.
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Binghamton
N. Y
United Nations
Lake Success
The
Peace Organization
Binghampton
Endicott
Johnson City
New York
First James
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Rudolph Pralle
Ernie Nehring
Tribune
Frank Daily
Roland Puent
Dr. C. M. Heth
Earla
Frank Neuuer
Reds
BY Galbraith
Bepwice
M. Bec. U
Pat
Nurex
Pavo Nurex
Doerflinger
George Rummel
Mindoro, Wis
Hen
Coats
Myrtie Uihlein
Wotea
Schilling Paper CO
Phone 101
Budget Shop
Robel
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