Slow Sentimental Journeys State GIs Delayed by Airplane Woes
Hundreds of American soldiers rushing home for Christmas faced long delays across the nation as fog, flight mixups, and holiday crowds stranded GIs from the Pacific to Chicago. In Oklahoma City 49 servicemen waited after a nonscheduled Transcontinental plane halted, with 17 staying for a possible flight. Red Cross offered bus transport for 32 others.
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Red Cross
Los Angeles
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Navyman
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Saugerties
San Francisco
Oakland
Great Lakes Airlines
Davenport
Southwest
Snow and Cold Grip Much of Nation as Christmas Snow Falls
The article describes a broad winter weather pattern across the United States with heavy snow in the northern third, a snow belt inland from the Pacific, and cold temperatures from Montana to New England. It notes specific readings from Miami to Milwaukee, ongoing subzero conditions near the Canadian border, and gradual moderation as the storm system moves east.
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Santa Rosa Island Relics Unearthed
SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 24, 4? A scientist reports discovery of two ancient Indian cultures indicating offshore Santa Rosa Island was inhabited 10,000 years earlier than believed. Curator Pil C Orr of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History calls the groups new to Pacific Coast archaeology. Orr and an assistant spent three months on the island. One culture named Redheads and the other Black Bottoms painted their dead red or used black paint on certain parts of the deceased. Primitive artifacts include a finely made stone pipe like modern pipes. most early Indian pipes are cigar shaped.
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Santa Barbara
Santa Rosa Island
Pil C. Orr
Spellman Praises U S Fighting Men in Korea Mass
In Korea on Christmas Day Cardinal Spellman told American troops at a midnight mass that their sacrifice embodies Christmas meaning. He spoke of longing for home, families blessing, and prayers for peace, urging unity for liberty and the brave dead’s memory.
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New York
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Monarch Declares Libya Independent Nation
Monarch Mohammed Idriss El Senussi proclaimed Libya's independence as a sovereign state. The former Italian colony is listed as the world’s poorest yet strategically vital to Western defense plans, with Tripoli and Bengali as capitals and three member regions: Tripolitania Cyrenaica and Fezzan following a United Nations backed path to independence.
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Tripolitania
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Israel Ships Cargo of Fruit to Moscow
Israel will send 125000 boxed oranges to the USSR for Odessa with payment in pounds sterling. This marks the first Israeli citrus shipment to the USSR since 1948, amid an abundant harvest here. Oranges are scarce and costly in Moscow.
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Black Sea
Odessa
Moscow
Dean Proven Alive by Red
Maj Gen William F E Dean long missing commander of the U S 24th Division told a Communist correspondent he saved his last bullet to kill himself rather than be captured but Reds caught him through a ruse The correspondent Wilfred Burchett said he interviewed Dean in a risen camp near Pyongyang Photos of Dean were identified by Mrs Dean Dean a Medal of Honor writer was listed as missing for 17 months Burchett recounted Dean fighting at Taejon July 20 1950 and eluding capture after losing weight and suffering injuries He saved his last 12 bullets and was betrayed near Chinan by two Koreans a broken shoulder and illnesses followed Dean regained health last September and weighed about 180 pounds A Dean letter to his wife delivered to truce negotiators is described as propaganda value by Rear Adm Libby.
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Taejon
South Korea
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OPS Extends Price Controls to Armed Forces
OPS and the Defense Department announced a joint committee to prevent overcharges in military procurement. The panel will review price and repricing policies across all military levels and may extend OPS controls to airplanes tanks and other weapons. It will include representatives from Munitions Board Atomic Energy Commission DPA and GSA along with OPS and DoD.
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Lyndon Johnson
Texas
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Ten Bodies Recovered From Burned Danish Motorship Erica
Coroner Raymond Luce reports salvage workers removed ten of eleven victims from the burning motorship Erica near Astoria. Seven bodies were found in the lounge and two on a lower deck. all appear to have died from suffocation.
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