Rescue makes five survivors of crash sighted by trail
A search party followed the waistdeep snow trail of Lt Charles R Harden, pilot of a C47, to five survivors from a C54 missing with 44 aboard. Harden, hurt but alive, hiked five miles through snow to summon help, while the rescued crewmen were taken to a military camp hospital for treatment.
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Lachlan MacDonald
Anchorage
Alaska
Times
Whitehorse
Yukon
Caribou Mountain
Charles R. Harden
Harden
Elmendorf Field
Edwin Gulczynski
Camp Carson
Crlo.fianes
Mount Caribou
Engineer Corps
Biggs Field
el Faso
Texas
Snag
Yukon Territory
Fort Nelson
B. C
Mighty Mo Refuses Refloating Effort in Dense Fog
In NORECLS Virginia on January 31, the battleship Missouri resisted a tremendous refloat attempt. Hours later a Navy tug and a merchant ship ran aground in Hampton Roads while entering Norfolk harbor through dense fog. It remained unclear if the tug was among 14 earlier attempts to pull the 45,000 ton battleship from the sandbar where she ran aground January 17.
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Norecls
Missouri
Hampton Roads
Norfolk Harbor
U. S. Lines
Steel Navigator
Navy
Norfolk
Willoughby Spit
Porktary
Tomorrou
Allen E. Smith
Morrow
Committees Back Korea and Formosa Aid Packages
House and Senate committees approved a combined aid package totaling 60 million dollars for South Korea and 23 million for the Chinese Nationalists defending Formosa. The one-package bill aims to speed action, with House approval by a 17 to 1 vote and Senate backing for Formosa.
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Washington
Senate
House
South Korea
Formosa
House Foreign Affairs
Kee D-W. Val
Rules
Korea
Kee
House Committee
Rep
Jackson
R.calif
Connelly
D.-Texas
German Vessel Sinks Eight Missing in North Sea
The 740 ton German freighter Diamus sank near Langeroog with eight crew unaccounted for. A British tug Rumania aided in rescue efforts as survivors were reported. In Washington, the House beat down another effort to broaden the cotton acreage allotment bill, while Speaker Rayburn expressed hope the legislation would pass both houses. The cause of the sinking was not immediately determined.
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Hamburg
Germany
North Sea
Langeroog
Washington
Gram
Rayburn
Wismar
Antwerp
Belgium
Senate
Seven Die as Japanese Storm Hits Northern Honshu
Tokyo dispatch reports seven killed and 25 injured with seven missing after a sudden wind and rainstorm. Collapsing houses in northern Honshu blamed for four deaths. a falling chimney caused another. A child blown from a bridge and a fisherman drowned. Seven fishermen missing off Fukushima coast near Honshu.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Fukushima
Honsy
Mediation Tries to Avert Phone Strike Threat
Federal mediators opened talks to avert a telephone walkout that could idle 250000 workers and halt service as unions press for wage gains and a 35 hour week. Cyrus Ching flew to Washington to confer with Joseph Beirner of the Communications Workers Union as rail and auto strikes also loom. President Truman urged resumption of normal coal production and asked both sides to accept a federal fact finding plan with a 60 day horizon.
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Cyrus Ching
Washington
Joseph A. Beirner
C. S 0. Communications Workers Union
Detroit
E. Marvin Sconyers
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
U. A.W
Chicago
National Alway Mediation Board
Erode
Order of Railway Conductors
the ‘Brotherhood of Railroad
Ashington
Truman
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pan
Pacific fleet adds six destroyers amid wide coverage
Teletype summary notes six more destroyers assigned to the Pacific fleet as part of ongoing expansion. Reports mention other home town notes and various sections including sports theaters tides obituaries and women’s activities across the edition.
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Pacific Fleet
Radia
Peleverog
Pega
Bell strike unlikely to halt Local calls in Long Beach area
Local Associated Telephone Co. manager C. W. Duncan says service will remain automatic for local calls in Long Beach, Seal Beach, and Lakewood even if a nationwide Bell System strike occurs. Long distance calls would be affected, with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph handling about 430 Long Beach operators. District head San Pedro details and emergency priority noted.
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Bell Telephone
Long Beach
C. W. Duncan
Associated Telephone Co
Seal Beach
Lakewood
Associated Company
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
The
Pacific Co
San Pedro
C. E. Scott
Duncan
Bell System
Associated
Truman orders continued work on hydrogen bomb program
President Truman instructed the Atomic Energy Commission to pursue all forms of atomic weapons including the hydrogen or superbomb. He said the effort will continue until an international plan for control is achieved and will be carried out to defend the United States while pursuing peace and security. debate and cost estimates cited include up to four billion dollars, with some figures as low as one hundred million.
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Washington
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Atomic Enery Commission
ING
United States
Congress
Senate House Atomic Committee
Scien Ando
Russia
Navy Yard Decision Due by Week End
The fate of Pong Beach Naval Shipyard will be decided in the latter part of this week after a conference with Secretary of the Navy Rice and Representative Doyle. Doyle and his staff will review all factors before finalizing a decision and announcing it later this week. Kesler and California congressmen met with Matthews to discuss the closing order.
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Pong. Beach Naval Shipyard
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Ricease Senet
le Doyle
Doyle
Father Pts
Navy
Matthews
Sec
California
Raymond C. Kesler
Vancington
Kesler
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