Largest Volcano In Japan Seven Killed 400 Americans Die Violently
The Christmas holiday brought widespread deaths in a nationwide AP survey. Traffic accidents killed 294, fires 53, and other incidents 48 over the weekend, with total fatalities surpassing 400 as safety agencies project 435 traffic deaths by Monday. A San Antonio blaze claimed a family of seven, and a Hyndman Pa fire left one woman dead while a Newark blaze destroyed three houses.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
San Antonio
Tex
Hyndman
Newark
Blair Grocery Fire Destroys Building In Blair Wis
A Christmas Day blaze in Blair Wisconsin destroyed a two story brick veneer building housing a grocery and an upstairs apartment. Estimated damage reached 20000 dollars with insurance partial coverage. Firefighters from Blair Taylor Ettrick and Whitehall contained the blaze to the structure and prevented spread to adjacent properties.
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Blair
Wis
Blair Business
Taylor
Ettrick
Whitehall
Bui
Mathilda Bersing
Helmer Benrud
Alma Center
Jerome Mattison
Blaske General
Bersing
Newell Nelson
Onalaska
Phillip
Indiana
Fire devastates Sauk City department store and apartments
A Christmas day blaze destroyed the two story Roy Grabill department store and upper floor apartments in Sauk City. Unofficial damage estimates reached 250000. several firefighters were hospitalized after injuries. Fire crews from multiple towns battled the flames as walls collapsed and the building reduced to rubble.
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Sauk City
Wis
Roy Grabill
Grabill
Prairie du Sac
Badger
Saraboo
Plain
Middleton
Wendelin Coenen
la Verne Frosch
Madison Hospital
Refugee Blood Trial as Doctor's Daughter Dies in Effort
Austrian refugee John Anzengruber donated blood to eight year old Mary Bailey in a bid to save her from hepatitis. Doctors pumped Mary's poisoned blood into his body in a rare exchange to cleanse the child's system. observers say the risk to Anzengruber remains until 21 days pass to ensure he did not contract the disease.
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Philadelphia
John Anzengruber
Anzengruber
Hahnemann Hospital
Mary Bailey
Amzengruber
Charles Bailey
America
Mary
Cold snap and warm front shuffle through La Crosse Monday
La Crosse residents brace for cold weather Monday with highs near 15 to 16 degrees and a low around 10 to 15 as a warm Dakotas air mass moves in. Snow flurries may fall late Monday into Tuesday, with Bemidji Minnesota recording 24 below and Wisconsin's north hitting 2 to 3 below zero in a pattern of rapid winter shifts.
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la Crosse
The
Mercury
Dakotas
Minnesota
United States
Bemidji
Minn
Wisconsin
Lagoon Rink Opens for Public Skating
The Lagoon skating rink is open to skaters Monday per the city recreation department. Officials announced a new city ski activity on Wednesday indicating ongoing winter fun for residents.
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Lagoon
Lost Injun Hunters Found Safe In Wilds
Two boys Freddie White eleven and Johnny Lauderdale five were found safe at home after spending Christmas eve and morning lost in rainswept woods of southern Oregon mountains. They sheltered under a fallen log with dogs seven miles from Azalea as search teams and forest rangers extended help after a 9:30 p.m. call.
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Roseburg
Ore
Oregon
Freddie White
Johnny Lauderdale
Azalea
Here
Douglas County
Red Eckhart
Grant Kin Dies in California Native of Perris
WA. S. Grant Sharp age 86, nephew of Ulysses S. Grant and Civil War veteran, died the day before Christmas in Rosemead California. He was a retired merchant and a Perris Missouri native.
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Rosemead
Calif
Trainmen Strike Disrupts Southern Region Rail Service
Train workers angry over holiday shifts interrupted service in the southern region of British railways on Monday, causing travel delays and disruptions across routes.
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London
British Railways
Local Weather Outlook Monitors Cooler Conditions
The forecast calls for fair skies with a drop in temperatures on Monday. Daytime highs will be 10 to 15 degrees above freezing and nights will stay near the same range.
Robbery Gunfire Wounds Girl During Tavern Hold-Up
In Chicago a teen gunman wounds Penny Meeks nine with a shot fired when she cried during a tavern robbery. Her father John 46 tackled one robber and the pair fled with 580 dollars. Suspects Bruce Meeks 19 and William Riley 30 are held without charge.
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Chicago
Oben Wa Alet
Bruce
Meeks
Near North Side
Sesame
John
Penny
William Riley
Riley
Detective Bureau
Cary Grant Marries His Film Protege
Hollywood reports Cary Grant and Betsy Drake wed in a secret Christmas Day Phoenix ceremony. Howard Hughes flew them to a desert home for the quiet nuptials conducted by Rev. Stan i Smith with Hughes as best man. Guests included Col. C. A. Hughes’ chief test pilot Will Hincke and Grant’s attorney Richard Mason.
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Hollywood
Cary Grant
Betsy Drake
Phoenix
Ariz
Howard Hughes
Desert
Clark Gable
Sylvia Hawkes
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Santa Barbara
Calif
Grant
Miss Drake
Sterling Hebbard
Stani. Smith
Hughes
Col. C. A. Hughes
Will Hincke
Richard Mason
Hebbards
Ehecess Hughes
Ola
Noaenen
Bevin Plans Tuesday Departure Despite Heart Attack
London reports Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will leave on schedule Tuesday for a com mission despite suffering a mild heart attack on Christmas Eve. Bevin intends to press ahead with the planned trip and duties.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Fire destroys Hyndman business district. woman dies
A Christmas tree fire in Corrine Fisher 60’s home in Hyndman Pa. killed Mrs. Fisher and leveled the town center. Mayor Ernest Harden put damages at 500000 with losses seen well over a million by other residents. Fire drew 20–30 trucks from nearby towns as Red Cross aid arrived.
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Hyndman
Pennsylvania
John Topper
Corrine Fisher
Ernest Harden
Cumberland
Paul Wise
Somers Fisher
Fisher
Corrine
Memorial Hospital
Red Cross
Bedford
Hixton Housewife Wins Week's Survey Award
Mrs. Elvin Nerby of Hixton is the first area winner of The La Crosse Tribune community ad survey for week six, earmarking her $25 award toward Christmas gifts for her son Duane and her husband. Second place goes to Mrs. H A Netzer with a $15 prize for Dec 5 to 11.
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la Crosse Tribune
Elvin Nerby
Hixton
Wis
Nerby
Tribune
Duane
H. A. Netzer
Charles Street
Richard Neumann
Powell Street
Robert Corbett
Prospect Street
Bert A. Gi
Galesville
Peter Rank
Cass Street
Martha Hinytzke
South 21St Street
Ane
Liberty John Rock
South 10Th S Street
Marjorie Berg
Blair
Helen Harvey
Avenue South
Pair Of Deer On City Tour Startle La Crosse Residents
A buck and doe whitetail deer wandered through La Crosse on Christmas Day, shocking adults and eluding pursuit as they crossed lawns, streets and alleys in the eastern residential district. Eyewitnesses from multiple streets reported sightings between 4:00 and 4:40 p.m., with occasional joint movement noted near 16th and Hyde avenue and near the Trane Co. plant.
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Rudolph
Red Nosed Reindeer
la Crosse
21St
Winnebago
Jerry Fries
Division Street
Eighth
Division Streets
Lincoln School
Fries
Cameron Avenue
West Avenue
Ferry
Joyce Ridgeway
Fay Ann Colwell
Ridgeway
Hyde Avenue
Ridgeway Yard
Robert Christianson
Oden Lokken
Weston Street
East Avenue
Trane Co
16Th and
Hybrid Calves In Spotlight
Two heifer calves SX-47 and SX-48 at Beltsville Maryland are the first United States crossbred calves with a dominance of Red Sindhi blood. The calves are one quarter Jersey and three quarters Red Sindhi Brahman milking strain, showing humps and large Red Sindhi ears while resembling Jersey in color. They will later be shipped to Jeanerette to aid breeding methods combining heat resistance with milking traits for southern dairy cattle.
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Washington
Beltsville
India
Department of Agriculture
United States
South
Jeanerette
Bureau of Dairy Industry
Massive quakes hit nine prefectures north of Tokyo
Tremors rocked a wide area north of Tokyo with Mt Aso eruption in Kyushu. Seven killed in Imaichi with three missing and many homes damaged. About a hundred American service members near Nikko escaped harm as tremors persisted for days. Pvt Charles Penton said Nikko hotel windows were broken only lightly.
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Tokyo
Japan
Imaichi
Mt. Aso
Kyushu
Honshu
Nikko
Charles Penton
Terrell, Tex
Kanaya Hotel
Tokyo Central Meteorological Observatory
Europe Celebrates Cheery Christmas Across War-Weary Europe
Europe marks its cheeriest Christmas in a decade with rising prosperity and more gifts while East and West tensions persist. Rome urges Christian revival as Christmas messages urge goodwill against communism. Prague calls it a victory for workers in communist democracies.
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London
Europe
Rome
Prague
Lidov Noviny
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Romania
Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
Britain
Germany
France
Italy
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Frank Italiano
Ernest O. Hanson
Rudolph Schlabach
George Jensen
Frank Schneider
South Sixth Street
Phete
Girl
Grant Kin
Thug
Tot
Bevins
Pennsylvania Lumber and Post Co
Helen
Hixton Housewife
Mrs. Nerby
Duane Elvin
Sky
Buttrey’s Fantle
Fantle
Jessica Beauty Shop
Oy! & & Home Appliances
Health Spot Shoe Shop
Hoeschlers’ Howards Clothes Modern Laundry & Dry
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