Dynamite Blasts Reported From Buried Miners Trap
Rescue workers trying to reach brothers Joseph Burda 30 and Edward Burda 25 after a mine cave in at Mahoney City Pennsylvania heard dynamite blasts believed to be from one or both men seeking a path to safety. A 13 year old Frank Burda escaped. Heavy rains hampered efforts as 150 rescuers labored in mud to reach the trapped men.
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Mahoney City
Joseph Burda
Edward
Pennsylvania
Frank
Joseph
Siege State Proclaimed by Bolivians
LA PAZ Bolivia January 14 The Bolivian government declared a state of siege to ensure public order amid subversive plotting. Plotters were unnamed but likely targeted MN R elements from last August's uprising. The communique warned of exceptional gravity amid antigovernment plots and rumors of a new MN R plan.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
National Revolutionary Movement
M.N. R
Page A-2 Briefs From The Telegraph Summary
Bridges perjury trial recessed. Several notes indicate stored perishables to be donated. Various pages list sections including art reviews, church notices, classifieds, comics, financials, music, and sports. Nearby city items, tides and temperatures are on Page A-2.
One-Pound Lomita Baby Fights to Survive At Torrance Memorial
The smallest baby ever born alive at Torrance Memorial Hospital, a girl weighing about one pound three ounces, remains in an incubator with only oxygen. Born two months early to A W and Frances Hinckley of Lomita, she shows active response, likely to be named Kathryn Elizabeth, with at least two months in hospital ahead. Her siblings Freddie and Linda Susan weighed normal at birth.
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Torrance Memorial _ Hospital
A. W
Frances Hinckley
Lomita
Freddie
Linda Susan
Kurt Shery
Shery
Kathryn Elizabeth
Airlines Fly 48 Tons of Siam Gold to United States
Government of Siam ships forty eight tons of gold worth about 40.32 million dollars to the United States using seven Trans Ocean Airlines flights from Japan. The gold, reportedly owned by the Siam government, was guarded by armed crews during fueling stops and flights, with secrecy maintained until an emergency repair at Elmendorf Field Alaska.
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York
United States
Government of
Siam
Trans-Ocean Airlines
Japan
Elmendorf Field
Anchorage
Alaska
China
New York
Bank of Siam
Bangkok
Thailand
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Far East
Frogmen Find No Life Signs In Sunken Sub Truculent
Frogmen entered the broken submarine Truculent in the Thames estuary and found no signs of life. The hunt for survivors followed a collision with the Swedish tanker Divina, with 63 of 80 aboard reported lost and ten bodies recovered at sea. Divers reported tangled wreckage, and a naval inquiry was convened to investigate.
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Shatham
England
Thames
Ane WU Slovo
Admiralty
Raisling
Divina
Communist guerrillas seize large part of Tingan on Hainan
Private reports from Hainan say Communist guerrillas advancing from the island's south captured much of Tingan, 25 miles south of Haikou, after carrying 100 gains at Beinan. Earlier reports noted scattered forces and regular landings on Hainan's west coast near Kanem aided by coastline guerrillas.
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Taipei
Formosa
Hainan
Tingan
Haihow
Ate Nae
Beinan
Kanem
Nine-floor Fall Kills Tommy Lee, Radio Chain Head
A nine story fall from a Wilshire Blvd. building claimed the life of Thomas Stewart Lee, 43, head of a California radio television and auto empire. The Los Angeles heir to a large estate had been declared mentally incompetent and under guardianship since 1948.
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Los Angeles
Wilshire Blvd
Thomas Stewart Lee
California
Lee
Wiltern
Palm Springs
Thomas S. Lee Enterprises
Don Lee Broadcasting System
Don Lee
Automobile Distributing
KTSL
Jeanne Shiffler
Bot Hanley
E. J. Thee
San Rafael
Indianapolis
General Hospital
Nora S. Patee
Lewis Allen Weiss
Willet H. Brown
Lee Enterprises Board
Portland in icy storm nearly isolates city in brutal blizzard
A Pacific blizzard and cold wave crippled Oregon Washington Idaho and parts of California and Nevada. Portland faced isolation as airports and highways shut with 70 mph gales and deep drifts. Five airmen rescued 46 stranded travelers near Moses Lake. 13 deaths were linked to the storm.
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United
Pacific States
Portland
Ore
Midwest
Shawneetown
Northwest
Michigan
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
North
California
Nevada
North Dakota
Minnesota
Tenois
Indiana
Ohia River
Donnie Stumps
Ritzville
Wash
Vancouver
B. C
Pacific Northwest
Reno
Air Force
Moses Lake
Warships collide off Portugal in maneuvers
The Portuguese submarine Del fim, with Vice Adm. Oliveira Pinto aboard, collided today with the patrol ship Santome off Setubal Bay during maneuvers. Both ships were damaged, with no casualties reported. A large bow hole forced the Santome to be towed to port by the submarine.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Delfim
Adm. Oliveira Pinto
Santome
Setubal Bay
Thousand homeless after island blaze in Puerto Rico
Red Cross officials estimate about 1500 people were made homeless by a fire sweeping Punta Borinquene near SAN SWAN Puerto Rico last night. The blaze destroyed homes and displaced residents as authorities investigated the cause and relief efforts scaled up.
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San Swan
Eue
Puerto Rico
Red Cross
Punta
Rossellini Annulment Cleared For Bergman Marriage
In Turin an assizes court ruled that Austria’s annulment of Roberto Rossellini’s marriage to Marcella de Marchis is valid in Italy, lifting a barrier to his marriage to Ingrid Bergman. Bergman’s Italian attorney says a Mexican divorce from her husband may follow.
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Turin
Italy
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman
Assizes
Rossellini
Marcella de Marchis
Miss Bergman
Peter Lindstrom
Hollywood
Quirino to Undergo Kidney Surgery at Johns Hopkins
Baltimore January 14 President Quirino of the Philippine Islands will have an operation Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital to remove a kidney stone. A hospital spokesman said the decision followed a conference with doctors after three days of diagnostic tests.
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Baltimore
Nian Quirino
Philippine Islands
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Quirino
Five Killed Ten Hurt as Busses Collide
Five persons died and at least 10 were injured when two buses collided on an icy snowbound highway near Gaylord Michigan. A Michigan Tech hockey team bus from East Lansing to Houghton carried team members. one player was reportedly hurt. The Greyhound bus carried 21 passengers from St Ignace to Detroit.
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Poeroad
Mich
Jan
Michigan Tech
Here
Grayling
Michigan
Greyhound
Houghton
East Lansing
St. Ignace
Detroit
Bay City
Steve Hooper
Gaylord
Lower Peninsula
Joe Lane
Smith
Rain Predicted for Local Area Tonight and Tomorrow
The weatherman revised the forecast predicting rain across the weekend with scattered showers tonight and tomorrow. Snow is expected above 3000 feet today and near 1500 feet tomorrow in the mountains, with winds 10 to 20 miles per hour in Long Beach and windy conditions continuing.
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Pacific Coast
California
Weather Bureau
Long Beach
British Freighter Bombed at Swatow
A British freighter was damaged in Swatow in a Chinese port by three Chinese National B24 bombers. No casualties were reported aboard.
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Swatow
Perns NG Atule Teghter
Damad
Two Children Die of Cold in Northwest
Ritzville Washington January 14 two small children Donnie Stumpf eight and Irene nine froze to death while attempting to walk home with their father after their car stalled in drifts. Sheriff Frank Lucas said the father Fred Stumpf was taken to Ritzville hospital in serious condition with his own health likely affected by the incident.
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Ritzville
Wash
Here
Frank Lucas
Lucas
Donnie Stumpf
Irene
Fred Stumpf
Ritzville Hospital
Peiping Reds Seize Yankee Consul Office
Chinese Communists seized the U S consulate in Peiping and took government property, prompting recall orders for all official personnel in Communist areas and sparking calls on Capitol Hill to designate the regime as outlaws. The State Department said Americans would be withdrawn as negotiations continued and noted President Truman was kept informed.
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Angus Ward
China
U. S
Mukden
Washington
State Department
James E. Webb
W. Walton Butterworth
Peiping
United States
Red Capital
White House
Truman
Capitol Hill
Kefauver
D-Tepn
Sen. Bridges
RNHL
Asia
Sen. Young
R.-N.d
Connally
D.-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chinese flag freighter Tung Ping aided by transport
A Chinese flagged freighter named Tung Ping, formerly the Jacob Luckenbach, sent a distress call 800 miles west of Honolulu. The U S Army transport Pyr Frank J. Petrarcha and Coast Guard support move to assist. No. 4 hold was filling with water as the vessel sails toward Honolulu. Minnetonka, on weather patrol, was 350 miles away. The Tung Ping departed Westminster, British Columbia, January 6 for Forsmosa.
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Leta
Honolulu
U. S. Army
Pyr
Frank J. Petrarcha
Coast Guard Office
Jacob Luckenbach
Minnetonka
Long Beach
Westminster
B. C
Forsmosa
Snow Cancels Ski Trains to Cascades
Milwaukee Road announced ski trains to the Cascade Mountains over the weekend were cancelled due to heavy snow. Seattle police were slowed by snow and traffic, as the area endured four major blizzards yesterday and kept patrol car sirens from working.
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Seattle
Wash
The
Milwaukee Road
Cascade Mountains
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Radio Chain
Imer R. Conn
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Kansas
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Germany
Conn
Grant Park
Associated Press
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