Knowland and Bridges Demand Acheson Resignation
Senate critics Knowland and Bridges assail Secretary of State Acheson over China policy after Peiping consulate seizure. They, with Hickenlooper, urge resignation while the U S moves to close all China consulates and repatriate 185 staff and about 3000 citizens. The State Department calls the incident a flagrant treaty violation and vows protest and evacuation efforts.
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Washington
Tom Connally
Senate Foreign ,Relations Committee
United States
Peiping
Texas Democrat
State Department
U. S
China
Pean Acheson
William F. Knowland
Calif
Styles Bridges
N. H
Acheson
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Knowland
Bridges
Hickenlooper
Russia
Red China
Truman
Red
Department
Tiervsin
Shanghai
Nanking
Tsingtao
Reds
U S Study Desirability of Vast Hydrogen Bomb
The Truman administration nears a decision on building a hydrogen bomb surpassing existing atomic weapons. Officials note global interest, high costs, and the inability to control such power, framing it as a potential national defense option amid secrecy and international curiosity.
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Washington
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Hanford
Wash
White House
Highway Crash Kills L. B. Woman
Mrs. Oretha M. Scribner aged 38 of 4815 Litchfield Avenue was fatally injured and died hours after a head-on collision on the rain slick Coast Highway north of Ocean City. Her husband Donald Scribner, 39, had a crushed chest. The other driver Mrs. Laura Frick, 24, of Orange suffered internal injuries and broken ribs, with her daughter Laura, 4, cut and bruised.
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Oretha M. Scribner
Litchfield Ave
Oceanside
Scribner
Oceanside Hospital
Donald M. Scribner
Laura V. Frick
Chapman St. Orange
Laura
Rain and Snow Drape Northern California Coast
A storm drenched northern California with heavy rain and powerful winds up to 80 mph, raising the season total to 6.05 inches in Long Beach and triggering widespread road closures, rescues, and hazardous travel as a new system looms off the coast.
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Crestline Village
California
Press-Telegram
Long Beach
Sacrament
California-Oregon Coast
Corner Summit
Nevada
U. S. 99
Pope to name two U S cardinals this month sources say
Vatican sources report Pope Pius XI will likely create two new U S cardinals at a special consistory in January. Boston and St Louis are the most probable choices, with San Francisco also considered.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
U. S
Vatican
Boston
St. Louis
San Francisco
Bolivia Proclaims State of Siege to Forestall Revolt
LA PAZ Bolivia January 14 A state of siege was proclaimed today as police said they arrested 14 persons in a move to forestall a revolt by the National Revolutionary Movement.
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Portland
Ore
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
British Columbia
California
Nevada
Jack Franey
Klamath County
Utah
Reno
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Weather Bureau
Puget Sound
Harper, Wash
LA Paz
Bolivia
National Revolutionary Movement
Snow Flakes Cover Parts of Los Angeles
Snowflakes fell in parts of Los Angeles marking the first snow in the city since January 11, 1949, when three quarters of an inch was recorded. The Weather Bureau reported initial sightings from Glendale and a Los Angeles suburb.
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Los Angeles
Weather Bureau
Glendale
Thera
Miners Trapped in Pa Mine Fed by Pipe Line
In Mahanoy City Pennsylvania rescue teams fed Joseph Burda thirty with eggs milk coffee and whisky through a metal pipe after a 60 foot fall left him and his brother Edward trapped. Officials blasted coal to clear a path and hoped to free Joseph before dawn while Charles their brother remained near the surface.
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Mahanoy City
Joseph Burda
Edward
Joseph
Charles
Boston
Water Mains Freeze Cut Fire Suppression On Island Home
A spectacular fire destroyed a $200,000 summer beach home on Vashon Island Washington as volume firefighters watched helplessly because frozen water mains prevented fighting the blaze. The one and a half log type structure and an adjoining caretaker's house burned to the ground. Volunteer Fire Captain Charles Kimmel said they stood and watched it burn, leaving hoses on the trucks since the water was frozen.
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Vashon Island
Wash
Charles Kimmel
Gasperi Seeks New Cabinet Amid Crisis in Rome
In Rome Alcide De Gasperi, veteran leader of the Christian Democrats, was asked by President Luigi Einaudi to name ministers for a new cabinet as a political crisis unfolded. The 68-year-old statesman, who headed five postwar governments, faced pressure to form a sixth amid coalition tensions and resignations.
Bridges Slugged By Exhusband in Hollywood Alley Fight
In Los Angeles a Portland truck driver Verle Penney was booked on suspicion of attempted murder after a confrontation with Tommy Bridges the former Detroit Tigers pitcher. Penney and Bridges disputed over Mrs Tone Penney as detectives reviewed the case.
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OS Angeles
Portland, Ore
Tommy Bridges
Detroit Tigers
E. M. Goosen
Verle Penney
Bridges
Tone Penney
Hollywood
Penney
Detroit
Portland
San Francisco Seals
Mrs. Penney
One-Pound Baby Receives Food at Hospital
A 1-pound premature girl born two months early at Torrance Memorial Hospital was fed dextrimaltose by eyedropper for the first time. Attendants say she is the smallest yet at the hospital and has a 50-50 chance of survival, needing two more months in an incubator after the first 48 hours passed.
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Torrance Memorial Hospital
Katherine Elizabeth
A. W. Hinckley
240Th St. Lomita
Byrd denounces Truman over coal strike actions
Roanoke Va January 14 United States Senator Harry F Byrd Democrat Virginia accuses President Truman of undermining constitutional processes by not invoking the Taft Hartley act in the coal dispute He warns coal stocks will drop to 30 million tons and fall six million tons daily undermining wartime coal reserves Meanwhile United Mine Workers locals in northern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania reject John L Lewis plan to return to work and more than 69000 miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia walk out as talks continue
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Roanoke
Len Byrd
D.-Va
Truman
Byrd
Lewis
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Nearly New Beverly Hills Church Damaged by Fire
A one year old Beverly Hills church was partially gutted by a three hour blaze that started in the recreation room. Rev Guy L Hudson the Beverly Hills Lutheran Church pastor said the building had 17 years of preservation by the congregation. Damage was estimated at 90000 dollars.
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Beverly Hills
Guy L. Hudson
Beverly Hilletheran Church
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