Aboard 48 Aboard Saved Crippled Airliner Lands Quietly
Capital Airlines Flight 77 with 44 passengers and four crew circled Charlotte for two hours before a foam blanket protected the runway during a landing with a defective hydraulic right wheel. Captain Corky Corcoran guided the four-engine jet to a safe touch down as passengers prayed and a passenger worked a crossword puzzle. Four crew steadied nerves and the cabin remained calm amid the emergency.
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N.C
Capital Airlines
New York
Birmingham
Mobile
Ala
Cagt. H. A
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Alexandera
Hayden
Boston
Corcoran
Army Seizes Control of Central Sumatra
Col Simbolon, a 37 year old army commander, declared himself head of civilian and military authority in central Sumatra. He pledged to restore power after demands for economic improvements are met. The move followed a bloodless coup with censorship and disrupted Jakarta links, and no clashes were reported with Java authorities.
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Indonesia
Sumatra
Ali Sastroamid
Join
Col. Simbolon
Tare
Fire Army
Java
Cable and Wireless Company
Coast Guard Escorts Limping Plane From Honolulu
A Coast Guard amphibian aircraft met and escorted a damaged airliner carrying 53 passengers and a three member crew from Honolulu to the west coast after engine trouble. Indonesian political events forced strict communications with Sumatra and Jakarta.
Judge bans woman from taking notes at trial
A judge rules that a woman is barred from recording shorthand during the ongoing trial. The decision draws attention to courtroom procedures and the balance between witness testimony and contemporaneous notes. Further details appear on Page B-10 and related sections.
Wrecks End Holiday Travel With Eight Fatalities
A spate of violent crashes during Yale holiday travel left eight dead Friday night and today, with four in the local area and four in Orange County. One more victim died from injuries suffered last Sunday, pushing the toll higher. Names and ages of the deceased include Witfred Parrest and Claudia Parrent, among others, with details of fatal collision near Artesia Street where the Parrents’ car, traveling 80 mph, was hit by a Union Pacific train.
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Tae
Witfred P. Parrest
Gardenia Age
Claudia Mae Parrent
Jimmy Jan McCoy
E. 46Th
St . Michael J
Moynihan
la Pat Pl
Westminster
John Gordon Smith
Catalina
Newport Beach
Mary Lucille Smith
Arthur G. Gonzales
Pacific St
Santa Ana
Christopher Monk
Ail
Oak St
Lomita
Parrents
Union Pacific
Artesia St
Paramount Blvd
Parrent
Toll Deaths Rise As Christmas Travel Peaks
The nation faces a record Christmas travel toll as fog and drizzle impair visibility. By midday 120 deaths were tallied since Friday 6 p.m. with totals reaching 131 including four killed in Florida. Safety officials predict a new all time highway fatality record as 45 million cars take to roads during the four day holiday period.
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Florida
The
National Safety Council
Weather Update Sunny Through Sunday With Gusty Canyon Winds
Sunny through Sunday with gusty north winds near canyons tonight. Temperatures fall tonight becoming colder across the region. Weather advisories remain minimal as winds ease after midnight.
Last British and French Leave Egypt
The last British and French troops departed Egypt tonight under night fighter protection. Final units, including a French battalion and tank squadron, left eastern harbor banks for landing craft as UN troops ringed the beachhead. The action, seven weeks long, ends with little military gain.
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Port Said
United Nations Emergency Force
Stutz Canal
E-Dey
U. N
Scoutmaster Killed as Car Hits Caroling Bus
Walter Warloe 41, Scoutmaster, died Friday night when a speeding car struck his bus as he and four Boy Scouts tried to push it off the road in Granada Hills. Kris Warloe, 12, was critically injured with possible leg amputation. driver Alex Suniga 30 and passenger Isobel Yepez 24, both Northridge, alleged to be drunk. Police said Suniga will be booked on manslaughter. Warloe was returning Troop 38 from a caroling patrol in the Sylmar area when engine trouble halted the bus.
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Sastroamidiojio
An. Fos Angeles UI
Simbolon
Romanding
Republic
Honolulu
United Air Lines
Simbol
Herman
Santa Barbara
Granada Hills
Walter Warloe
Warloe
Kris
Alex Suniga
Northridge
Isobel Yepez
Sus
Neen
Sylmar
Nixon surveys Hungarian refugee issue in Europe
Vice President Richard Nixon arrived by train from Austria to review refugee processing centers and the air departures for the United States. He planned a visit to Riem Airport and a dinner with Bavaria's Wilhelm Hoegner, while a guard of Bavarian police stood nearby.
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Munich
Germany
Richard MM. Nixon
Austria
Eisenhower
Nixon
Riem
United States
Bavaria
Wilhelm Hoegner
Salzburg
Eiserhower
Queen Mary Rocked Off Atlantic Calmly Calm Seas
Cunard Line officers inspected the 81,000 ton liner Queen Mary after it suddenly rocked in mid Atlantic en route from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton. Capt George Norris reported a vibration at 8 p.m and officials cited possible propeller or shafting trouble. The ship calmed quickly and completed the voyage, with no docking planned. it will sail again Dec 29.
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England
Wje
Cunard Line
Atlantic
New York
Mow Fork
United States
Europe
George Norris
Cepteip
Rebels Still Control Areas in Hungary Despite Soviet Rule
Vienna dispatch reports that areas like Heves County northeast of Budapest remain under rebel control through revolutionary councils that refuse to recognize Premier Janos Kadar. The government ordered disbandment, miners issue a three point ultimatum demanding Kadar’s resignation, troop withdrawal, and staged production resumption.
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Vienna
Hungary
Heves
Nep Szabadsag
Janos Kadar
Budapest
Kadar
Gorilla First Ever Born in Captivity at Columbus Zoo
Columbus officials announced the birth of the first baby gorilla ever born in captivity. The birth is presented as a historic breakthrough challenging prior beliefs that gorilla births in captivity were impossible.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Zoo
Montreal City Sees 330 Traffic Mishaps in 12 Hours
Police report 330 road accidents in 12 hours amid a citywide spike. Ten people injured, no deaths. Main causes cited as carelessness and alcohol. Damage estimated over $25,000. The strange incident included a gorilla in a car escape story fragment.
John Gets Four Years for Treason
Otto John former West German intelligence chief was sentenced to four years in prison for treasonable relations with the Communists during his 17 month stay behind the Iron Curtain. The verdict followed a six week trial heard by seventy witnesses. John claimed drugging and crossing into East Berlin on July 99 1954. The court rejected the claim as untrue. Trial costs of about ten thousand dollars are to be borne by John. He returned from Communist East Germany in December 1955.
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Berlin
East Germany
Ernst Thaelman
Germany
Neuzelse
Potsdam
Thaelmann
Maerkische Union
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Svecdlovsk
Urals
Karlsruhe
Otto John
Federal Supreme Court
West Germany
John
East Berlin
F. W. Geiert
Hasperit
Five-Mar Supreme Court
Commmunists
East Gergsmany
Allies Free Rezi Butcher of Malmedy
Heidelberg Germany Col Joachim Peiper once sentenced to die for the Malmedy massacre of American troops in 1944 was freed today from Landsberg Prison. The U S Army announced his release after a unanimous parole board recommendation. The release follows a history of war crimes trials and protests by Senator Estes Kefauver.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Joachim Peiper
Malmedy
Landsberg
U. S. Army
Peiper
6Th Panzer Division
Europe
England
France
United States
West Germany
Tourists Take South Pole Flight From Punta Arenas
A DC6 operated by Aerea Nacional carried 68 people on a tour flight from Punta Arenas to over the South Pole today. The aircraft departed with 60 passengers and an eight member crew from the southernmost city.
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Chile
South Pole
Aerea Nacional
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