Green fireball sighting boosts meteor chase in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE Nov 10 UP Another flaming green fireball was reported over northeastern New Mexico bringing reports of eight mysterious objects in southwestern skies over 13 days. Dr. Lincoln La Paz said five witnesses including Tucumcari police reported the latest sighting while search parties pursue two Belfid-like fireballs near the Mexico border.
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N. M
New Mexico
Lincoln la Paz
Institute of Meteoritics
University of New Mexico
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Roswell
Durango
Colo
Arizona
Mexico
Institute
Multimillion Dollar Ransom Plot Targets Chinese Americans
San Francisco reports a Communist Chinese ransom racket preying on Chinese Americans. Leaders Hsu Kai-yu and Liang Der-shing confirm families received letters demanding payments, often framed as taxes or fines. Widespread letters claim rewards reach up to eight thousand dollars, with a Chronicle report noting a $1,000,000 seizure in six installments in Phoenix.
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China
Chinatown
Hsu Kai-yu
Daily
Chinese World
Liang Der-shing
Liang
Hsu
San Francisco Chronicle
The
Chronicle
Phoenix
Ariz
Negotiators Near Accord In Korean Ceasefire Talks
At Panmunjom Allied negotiators proposed a cease-fire buffer zone with only minor local adjustments after other agenda items are settled. They indicated willingness to relinquish eastern territory for Kaesong in the west to protect Seoul. Subcommittees meet Sunday as both sides exchange proposals. Chinese radio cites a quick settlement if Kaesong is dropped.
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Korea
CP U. N
Kaesong
Panmunjom
U. N
Seoul
Koean
United Nations
Long Beach
Red China
Feiping Radio Tonight
Navy to Release 93000 Reserve Enlistees This Year
Washington announced that about 93,000 enlisted naval reservists will be discharged from active duty during the current fiscal year. They will be released after 16 months of service. all are veterans not in drill pay status when ordered to active duty. Congress cut the period from 18 to 16 months.
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Navy
Congress
Rebel Dockers Back In Threats Over Cease Fire
Um Leaders of insurgent Longshoremen threaten to tie up the port again unless terms of a 25 day old cease fire are observed. A back-to-work settlement was reached yesterday via the State Mediation Service. Strike leader John Sampson alleges 17 men were ordered off a Brooklyn pier in violation of the truce.
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New York
State Mediation Service
John
Gene) Sampson
Brooklyn
Long distance dialing begins in Englewood area
Mayor M Leslie Denning and Mayor Frank P Osborn tested direct 10 digit dialing marking the first nationwide long distance dial system. Englewood customers can reach 11 million telephones coast to coast by three digit area codes plus local numbers, vastly reducing connect times.
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M. Leslie Denning
Frank P. Osborn
Alameda
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Providence
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Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Milwaukee
New York
Romberg Dies in New York at 64 Composer of Operettas
Sigmund Romberg a renowned composer of operettas and songs died in a New York hotel suite at 64 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He wrote hits like The Student Prince Desert Song and Maytime and collaborated with George Gershwin on Rosalie. He arrived in New York Nov 3 from Beverly Hills and was found by his wife Lillian Harris Romberg. He produced 78 operettas and over 2000 songs in 40 years, studied violin from age 7 and piano from age 8, with a background in Hungary before moving to the United States in 1909. Funeral plans were not yet set.
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Romberg
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Calif
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Sinbad
George Gershwin
Rosalie
Florenz Ziegfeld
Hungary
Central Park
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Los Angeles
Rombergs
Weather Forecast for Tomorrow Night and Morning
The forecast calls for night and morning fog and low clouds with variable high cloudiness and hazy afternoon sunshine. Little temperature change expected tomorrow.
Screaming Red Troops Seize U N Outposts
U N war theaters report nearly 1000 Communist troops drove United Nations forces from two outposts southwest of Kumsong on the central front in a pre dawn attack. A sixth hour battle ended with the Reds withdrawing. Air action saw MiG 15 jets clash with Thunderjets as U N forces claimed multiple kills and damage. General Ridgway returned to Tokyo after a two day visit. On the east central front Marines celebrated their 176th birthday by routing enemy troops on a hill mass with heavy air support and a large bombardment.
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United Nations
Kumsong
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
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U.N
Matthew B. Ridgway
Tokyo
Munsan
Marine
Nudist Surprise Leads to Peeper Suspect Pinch
Patrolmen W J Jordan and R E Krogh spotted a man emerging from fog near 16th Street and Gundry Avenue at 2 40 am. They helped arrest a nude man suspected of peering into windows after being dispatched to check the report. The nude suspect matched the description and was briefly restrained.
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R. E. Krogh
16Th St
Gundry Ave
U N refuses to admit Red China at U N
Paris November 10 AP reports the 14 nation steering committee voted 11 to 2 with one abstention to keep the question off the General Assembly agenda. Russia and Poland opposed with Yugoslavia abstaining. Britain joined most nations in the majority citing Korea. Observers doubt Soviet patience.
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General Assembly
Poland
Yugoslavia
Britain
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Canada
Dominicean Republic
Norway
France
Iraq
China
Thailand
Mexico
Chile
Gladwyn Jebb
Korea
Soviet Union
Forbes Named Director of Bureau of Mines in Truman Move
SEY WEST Fla Nov 10 President Truman appointed John J Forbes a recess director of the Bureau of Mines to succeed James Boyd who left for private industry Forbes a Shamokin Pa native born Nov 21 1985 has served since 1915 and led the bureau's health and safety division since 1948 Elsey resigns as administrative assistant to join the mutual security program
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Fla
Truman
John J. Forbes
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Mines
Forbes
James Boyd
Shamokin
Bureau
George M. Elsey
Contents Snippet Listing Pages and Sections
The fragment lists where to find various newspaper sections such as Churches on A-6 and A-7, Classified Ads on B-5 to BS, Comics on A-8, Financial on A-4-5, Obituaries on B-5, Radio and Television on B-4, Shipping on AA, Sports on B-2 and B-3, Theaters on A-2, and Tides Temperatures on B4.
Western powers plan Middle East Defense Command
Paris dispatch reports the western Big Three powers and Turkey pledge to arm train and defend the Arab world against Communist aggression. They aim to set up a Middle East Defense Command and invite Arab nations to join and seek arms from the four sponsoring powers, focusing on planning and aid for Middle East states.
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Paris
Turkey
Middle East
Four teens among six dead in Pontiac crash at 3:45 a.m.
Six people die in a high speed collision near Pontiac, Mich. early today. Four teenagers, a 19 year old, and another driver perished, with one teen girl critically injured. Names include Patricia Harwell, Frank Swift, Raymond Smith, Richard Burgess, Murry Moore, Mary Jane Moore. survivor Janette Palmer, 16, and James Sabisch, 42, treated. The crash occurred two miles north of Pontiac.
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Here
Frank van Atta
Janette Palmer
Frank Swift
Royal Oak
Raymond Smith
Clawson
Richard Burgess
Alawson
Murry J. Moore
Ferndale
Moore
Mary Jane
Birmingham
Pontiac General Hospital
James iSabiseh
Lake Orion
Sabisch
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