Rescue and death after GI Air Liner crash
Seventeen survivors were rescued after a Cascade Mountains crash of an Army chartered liner carrying servicemen from Scranton and Washington to Seattle. Six died. stewardess Adra Long, severely injured, led rescuers to the wreck. Pvt Odell Matthews and Pvt Howard Warmuth among the only walking survivors. Snow, five feet deep, hampered efforts as helicopters ferried out the injured and rescuers followed a blood trail to the crash site.
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Cascade Mountains
Adra Long
Berkeley
Calif
Scranton
Washington, D. C
Mrs. Long
Pvt
Odell Matthews
Howard Warmuth
Carbondale
Pawhet
Chicago
Matthew
Wallace M. Baker
Civil Air Patrol
Army
Washington
Ae Valiant
Coast Guard
Robert T. Norris
Long
Propaganda War Aliens Peace Talk Masks Communist Aim
A Korean War era dispatch notes a propaganda contest as Communists woo the West with peace talk while Red prisoners aboard an LST in Pusan Harbor staged a sit down. Allied officers warn trouble remains as sick and wounded prisoners are returned and Panmunjom armistice talks loom.
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LST
Pusan Harbor
Mark W. Clark
Lionel McGarr
Allied War Frisoner Command
South Korea
Panmunjoro
Panmunjom
United Nations
Korea
Raymond Beggs
Englewood
N. J
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Enemies Move POW Route Trucks Toward Front
Scores of Red supply trucks moved toward the Korean front along a POW convoy route, aided by alleged Allied immunity. Reconnaissance reported a crowded northern Korea road and pilots were told not to attack the vehicles. Anti aircraft fire challenged low flying Allied planes, with Lt. Robert L. Smithy noting he spotted one POW convoy.
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Seoul
C?i
Panmunjom
Ioad
Korea
Robert L. Smithy
Burdette
Ark
Air Force
Smith
Career Woman May Get Switzerland Post
The New York Times reports President Eisenhower will nominate Frances Elizabeth Willis as the United States first ambassador to Switzerland. Willis, 53, is the senior career officer in the Foreign Service and became the first woman Foreign Service Officer Class 1. She has served as counselor of the legation at Helsinki since 1951, with home listed as Redlands, California.
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New York Times
Eisenhower
Frances Elizabeth Willis
Switzerland
U. S. Foreign Service
Miss Willis
Foreign Service
Times
Helsinki
Finland
Rane
Redlands
Austria Chief Seeks Freedom and Peace for Nation
Vienna reports Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab presenting his new government program to Parliament. He urged the Big Four powers to restore independence as a prerequisite for lasting global peace and called for reduced occupation costs and troop maintenance payments by Britain France and the Soviet Union. He also urged thinner occupation controls amid hopes for easing political tension.
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Austria
Julius Raab
Raab
Britain
France
Russia
T Inces
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