Wife on trial in officer slaying in Germany
Mrs Yvette Madsen faces first degree murder charges after her husband Lieutenant Madsen was shot at their Wiesbaden area home. Prosecutors seek a Mon arraignment while Miss Madsen, treated for shock, asserts no motive and defense cites a mysterious note in the house. Investigators note precision of the single shot and mystery behind the case.
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Yvette Madsen
Wies
Kaden Air Base
Elmo Gower
Cumberland
Madsen
Oakland
Calif
Friends
Puz Dhed Air Force
Army
California Solon Lashes Virginia Prison Policies
A California Assemblyman touring Virginia called its prison system a monster and urged against extradition for Lester Tate, an escaped convict now in California. Kilpatrick noted Virginia uses tear gas and chains in some facilities, with road camps sometimes confining prisoners in solitary, windowless cells, while Virginia officials denied ongoing use of shackles.
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Richmond
California
Vernon Zilpatrick
Crime and Correction
Virginia
Kilpatrick
W. Frank Smyth
Virginia State Penitentiary
Three Navy Plane Wrecks Located
Williams Air Force Base Arizona reports locating and identifying all three Navy plane wrecks after a ground party reached the first site on a 6000 foot mountain near Superior. A helicopter sighted the other two wrecks five miles west. No signs of life were found at the last two sites. The body of the first pilot is en route to Williams and awaiting identification.
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Williams Air Force
Ariz
George Strand
Williams Air Force Base
Navy
Superior
Theother
Steel firms grant free pensions ending New Brighton strike
PICTSBURGH October 22 signing a free pension contract between the C E O United Steelworkers and Townsend Co ends a strike at the New Brighton Pennsylvania plant. The move brings total steelworkers contracts to 40 involving 48 250 workers.
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Pictsburgh
C.E O. United Steelworkers
Townsend Co
New Brighton
Aun
Witch New Steelworkers
Bulldozer Driver Halts Train Car Fire Near Long Beach
Darrell Crissman a 36 year old bulldozer operator for Hardwick Disposal Co. stopped a fire on a damaged refrigerator car on a spur near 223rd Street and Alameda River. He uncoupled the end cars and isolated the burning car preventing spread to 22 other cars. Police sheriff deputies and fire units aided as witnesses noted youths fleeing after the flames began.
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Pacific Fruit Express Cor
Long Beach
Wilmington
Engine Co. 35
Keystone
Engine Co. No. 38
223Rd St
Alameda Blvd
Darrell Crissman
Gale Ave
Two Die in Air Crash Near Tule Lake
A private plane crashed into a fence in a barley field near Tule Lake. Pilot Al Stevens of Klamath Falls and passenger Valmont D. Kiettle, 47, of Los Angeles died. John Kiettle, brother of Valmont, suffered second degree burns and was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital.
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Tule Lake
Oct
al Stevens
Klamath Falls
Ore
Valmont D. Kiettle
Los Angeles
John Kiettle
Klamath Valley Hospital
Communists Seek Bail for 11 Chiefs
The Communist party mounted a nationwide effort to win bail for 11 imprisoned leaders led by Eugene Dennis. Rallies petitions and protest messages to President Truman and Attorney General McGrath followed their five year sentences under the Smith Act. Appeals were filed with the U S Circuit Court of Appeals seconds after sentencing.
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New York
Communist Party
Truman
J. Howard McGrath
Civil Rights Congress
Washington
Eugene Dennis
U. S
Robert J Thompson
Goodyear and Union Reach Tentative Pension Accord
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co and United Rubber Workers announced a tentative pension agreement and recessed negotiations that began in Buffalo on September. The union dropped its April 1949 demand for a general wage increase while the company agreed to raise pension and insurance contributions to 10 cents an hour from the previous 0.5 to 2 cents. About 22,000 production workers at 10 Goodyear plants are affected, including one in Los Angeles.
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Buffalo, N
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear
Los Angeles
Burma Road to Serve as China Lifeline Again
From Kunming reports say the Nationalist government is repairing the Burma Road as a key supply route. They also discuss forming a buffer state with French Indo-China to counter Communists. The road was vital in World War II and remains the sole conduit left as Communist advances continue. Ho Chi Minh guerrillas affect rail and river routes in the region.
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Burma
Kunming
Yunnan
China
Red River
Haiphong
Indo-China
Ho Chi Minh
Diphtheria Fatal in Medford Epidemic
A six year old girl died of diphtheria in Medford Oregon marking the third death in a two week epidemic. Authorities report twelve cases in the outbreak.
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Medford
Ore
Airmen rescue 14 U S tourists at Lake Atitlan
Fourteen American tourists marooned for 10 days by floods and landslides were evacuated by a U S Air Force plane to Guatemala City. The group, including William Long and Burns Rick, were rescued from a resort near Lake Atitlan. The Panama Canal Zone squadron conducted a second rescue mission this week.
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Guatemala
U. S Air Force
Panama Canal Zone
Lake Atitlan
William Long
la Mesa
Calif
Burns Rick
Santa Maria
Clyde Kelly
Fresro
Clifford Tinsman
Beverly Hills
Muriel Fisher
San Francisco
William von Flusen
San Anselmo
John Defaria
Pine St
Tech Sef
Delwynne Lee
South Gate
Union leaders submit new peace plan in Missouri Pacific strike
Union leaders handed a fresh peace proposal to railroad officials aiming to end the 44 day old Missouri Pacific strike. Davidson, spokesman for the four striking unions, said the offer would be given to trustee Guy A. Thompson sometime tomorrow. He declined to reveal specifics but expressed optimism.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific
RE. Davidson
Guy A. Thompson
Knightstown Church Inherits Taverns Income Drawn From Bequest
Knightstown Methodist Church becomes landlord of a tavern building after a bequest from Charles O Malley, a Knights town cigar store and poolroom operator who died three years ago. The church trustees will keep the property because the lease provides steady income for the church.
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Knightstown
Ind
Flying General Rescued During Navy Demonstration
Heavy seas off the Virginia Capes hampered a refueling demonstration beside the carrier Roosevelt. Aboard the carrier was a critical audience of 21 tactical air command officers from Langley Air.
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Orfolk
Virginia Capes
Roosevelt
Tactical Air Command
Langley Air
False Teeth Breakthrough Demonstration At Base
A military demonstration showcased Centurefit dental refinement promising a perfect fit for loose dentures. Officers from Army Air Force and Navy watched as a breeches buoy rescue sequence failed when waves splashed the destroyer. A volunteer seaman withdrew. later a second attempt succeeded securing a rescue line. Centurefit offers a 100 percent fit or cost, with a Long Beach office at 610 Pacific Ave.
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Air Force
Navy
Armed Forces Staff College
Roosevelt
Aleeares
Centurefit Sales Laboratories
Charles Y. Banfill
USAF
B. Long Beach
Staff College
Cali
Wiarnia
Orce
Heyes
Nas
Long Beach
Pacific Ave
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