Parents Choose to Let Boy Die Rather Than Prolong Pain
Alameda AP report says Rodney Gale, year old, with cancer, will not receive nitrogen mustard therapy as doctors warned it would only prolong suffering. Parents Bonney and LeeRoy Gale, facing a terminal fate, declined treatment and awaited the end. He grew weaker as his family faced a Christmas without a child.
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Alameda
Rodney Gale
LeeRoy Gale
Rodney
Bonnie Gale
Father Gale
Children’s Hospital
Britain to Approve U S Atlantic Admiral
Rome Nov 21 AP Britain was reported ready to approve the appointment of an American admiral to command the Atlantic naval forces. NATO agreed on responsibilities and a new English Channel commander under a British admiral. Eisenhower’s SHAPE HQ will direct western defenses in the Channel and North Sea.
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Rome
Britain
Atlantic
NATO
Western Sea
British Isles
English Channel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
SHAPE
Channel
North Sea
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Denmark
Channel Command
NATO Council
Eisenhower
Alfred M. Gruenther
Eiscenhower
Men in Service to Get Turkey
United States armed forces worldwide prepare Thanksgiving menus centered on turkey with varied accompaniments. Navy and Marines will share or adapt fare, Army and Air Force menus echo the navy in the United States and adjust abroad. Over half a million pounds of turkey shipped to the Far East as football broadcasts entertain service members.
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Boston
Turkey
United States
Navy
Marine Corps
Army
Air Force
Far East
Mother of L. B. Men Succumbs in Biggsville Illinois
Mrs Laura Mabel White age 73 mother of Jack Harold White of Covina Avenue died Sunday on the eve of a major operation. Funeral services held today in Biggsville with entombment planned in the family mausoleum. Survived by two daughters, nine grandchildren, and two sons. Jack and Lloyd White traveled from Los Angeles to attend. She had been a frequent visitor to Long Beach and spent part of last summer there.
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Biggsville
Ill
Laura Mabel White
Jack Harold White
Covina Ave
Mother and two children die in gas fumes
In Stockton on November 21 a 19 year old mother Vera Hendren and her two children Vera Jacqueline Hendren 15 months and Victoria four months perished from gas fumes in a small home. A sheriff's spokesman said the stove had been used to ward off cold air and the room lacked a gas vent. The bodies were found by the husband Donald Hendren when he returned from work at 50m.
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Stockton
San Joaquin County
McGhee Considered as Envoy to Turkey
Washington November 21 Assistant Secretary of State George C McGhee is reported under consideration as ambassador to Turkey He heads Near East south Asian and African affairs for the department The disclosure follows President Trumans appeal for Keman to Russia and rumors that Ambassador Alan G Kirk may retire
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Washington
George C. McGhee
Turkey
Department
Truman
George F.‘Kemnan
Acheson
Policy Planning Board
Russia
Alan G. Kirk
179 More Casualties in Korea Reported by Defense Dept
The Defense Department released details of 179 additional battle casualties in Korea on November 21. The new 1st division report records 18 killed, 145 wounded, five missing in action and one injured in a noncombat accident.
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Washington
Defense Department
Korea
Czech Urges A Weapon Ban At U N
Paris report: Czechoslovakia delivers a cautious reply to western disarmament proposals, opposing immediate prohibition of atomic weapons. Canada backs the plan, with Lester Pearson arguing for NATO’s regional role in the UN and urging a step by step disarmament process. Pearson notes U S bases in Canada and Russian bases in Poland and Czechoslovakia as focal points.
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Paris
Czechoslovakia
United Nations
Russia
Andrei Kin
U. N. Assembly
U.S
Dean Acheson
Vishinsky
Gertarde Sekaninova
Canada
U. S
Lester B. ‘Pearson
North Atlantic Treaty Organizations
NATO
Pearson
Selaninova
U. N. Security Council
Poland
Asian War Wives Leave Korea for California Flight
Eleven Asian war wives and their twelve Korean American families depart for the United States aboard a military air transport, beginning a 36 hour journey via Honolulu to San Francisco. The group marks the first wives to join American husbands in Korea, many bearing war memories and hopes for a new life and family reunions.
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Tokyo
Jeff
United States
Korea
Peiping
Seoul
Honolulu
San Francisco
Whack Brychel
Adam C. Brychel
Chicago
Two Saved Then Perish in Crash Near Bed Ford
Police identified the victims as W. L. Doyle of Toledo Ohio and Mrs Virginia Bartlett of Indianapolis both about 36. Doyle and Bartlett had been aboard a plane guided to a safe landing hours earlier by Captain Millard Lossing of Air American Airways who then refueled at Hagerstown and took off again before the crash three miles from Bedford Pennsylvania.
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Bedford
Ufa Tan
W. L. Doyle
Toledo
Ohio
Virginia Bartlett
Indianapolis
Boyle
Bartlett
Doyle
Washington
D.C
Millard Lossing
Pittsburgh
Air American Airways
Hagerstown
Rains Flood Southeast France Town as Rivers Rise
Paris reports heavy rains in southeast France flooding streets and highways across several towns. The Rhone Saone and Loire rivers swelled with floodwaters. One person drowned and livestock perished. Montelimar suffered its worst flood since 1935 with cars abandoned and residents rescued by boats.
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Paris
France
Rhone
Saone
Loire
Montelimar
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