Nine Plane Crash Bodies Found Near Alaska
At least four air crews and a ground party found one survivor from a C47 crash. Nine bodies and one injured man were recovered from Little Tanaga Island and the Aleutians, with several named victims. The C47 vanished on a 200 mile hop from Platinum to King Salmon.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Air Force Base
WEA
5039Th
Elmendorf
Alaska Command
Nubbel TU
7Ren Information Office
Lihe Tanaga Isand
Aleutians
Navy
Adak
George
T. Jenkins
AD1
Alameda
Calif
Anthony C. Molina
Alan
Eli Monte
James G. Mallard
ADC
Los Angeles
King
Salmon
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Bethel
Little
Tanaga
Tanaga Island
Ronald Green
Elmendor
Congressman Armstrong Hears Reds Plan at San Francisco
Rep. C. K. Armstrong of Springfield Missouri, a friend of Myrtle Demmel of Long Beach, will attend a San Francisco peace conference as a private citizen to heckle Soviet leaders. He vows to question Gromyko and will devote seven days to seven questions, with a Sunday church break, recalling his high school valedictory ambition and a prediction from Mrs Demmel that he would reach the national capitol.
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Long Beach
San Francisco
C. K. Armstrong
Springfield
Myrtle Demmel
Carterville
Armstrong
Chance to live as cut-off foot carries on
An itinerant fruit picker Harrison Sanford, 46, of Jacksonville Texas, crawled a mile to Highway 101 after a fall from a freight train severing his right foot. Found by Mr and Mrs V A Petersen, he was rushed to Petaluma General Hospital then Sonoma County Hospital where doctors said he had a good chance to recover. Sanford, conscious throughout, said he had been working on prune picker in Marysville and fell beneath a boxcar near Novato.
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Santa Rosa
Highway 101
Here
Sonoma County Hospital
Harrison Sanford
Jacksonville
Texas
Sanford
Novato
V. A. Petersen
San Francisco
Petaluma General Hospital
Marysville
Seek Red Union Ban in Aid Bill
Senate action on the 7.3 billion foreign aid authorization inserted a Benton led amendment to discourage monopolies and bolster free labor unions in Europe. It directs funds to curb cartels and support collective bargaining amid concerns over socialist and communist influence. Taft opposed the move as meddling. House differences to be resolved after vacation.
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Washington
U. S
Senate
Sen
Benton
D-Conn
Taft
Ohio
Connally
D.-Tex
House
House Committee
McFarland
D.-Ariz
Truman
Europe
Delegates Arrive in U S En Route to San Francisco
A four member Czechoslovak delegation arrived in New York by plane to proceed to San Francisco for the Japanese peace treaty conference. The group included Mrs. Gertrude Sekaninova deputy minister of foreign affairs Josef Ullrich Czech ambassador to Britain Oldrich Chyle from the foreign affairs ministry and a secretary. They declined to answer reporters and planned to depart LaGuardia on an American Airlines flight that night.
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New York
San Francisco
Gertrude Sekaninova
Josef Ullrich
Britain
Oldrich Chyle
Foreign Affairs Ministry
la Guardia Field
American Airlines
Seizure Is Fatal to Rep Vaughan Sr dies at home
Fullerton Pennsylvania reports Rep Albert C Vaughan Sr aged 56 died at home from coronary thrombosis. He represented the 15th Pennsylvania District after succeeding Rep Franklin L Lightenwalter and had served as administrative assistant.
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Fullerton
Albert C. Vaughan Sr
Pennsylvania
Vaughan
Franklin L. Lightenwalter
Kin of Blaze Victim Sought
Efforts are underway to locate relatives of Ovid L. Butler aged 51 of 645 Olive Ave after he was burned to death in his apartment fire early yesterday. Firemen found him in bed surrounded by flames and unresponsive to artificial respiration. damage confined to one room. The body rests at Holton & Son Mortuary.
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Ovid L. Butler
Olive Ave
Holton & Son Mortuary
Butler
Laborites Lose in New Zealand
Wellington Sept 1 New Zealand voters kept Prime Minister Sidney Holland’s National Party in power with a sizable majority over the Labourites amid a national mood favoring law and order after a Communist backed Waterfront strike. Official counts expected Monday. Holland vowed to uphold subversive legislation, ban picketing, and strengthen ties with Britain, the United States, and France.
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Wellington
N. 2
New Zealand
Sidney Holland
National Party
Holland
South Pacific
Laborites
United States
France
War Bride Held in Slaying of Boy
A British war bride, Magdaline Snell Hamillik, 37, is charged with murder in the beating and strangling of a five year old boy she babysat in Reno. The child Robert Hamillik was found dead with a pajama top around his throat. Hamillik was arrested at Claude Podger's home and held without bail. Her husband’s last known address was Seattle and she arrived from there in April.
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Reno
Magdaline Snell Hamilik
Kingston-on-Thames
England
Merle Victor Hamliik
U. S. Air Force
Robert Peel
Hamliik
Claude Podger
Robert
Seattle
Denver
Brothers attempt to crack insurance safe to bail car thief
In Los Angeles on September 1 two Jensen brothers Coye 29 and Chester 23 joined their brother Howard Jensen in jail after failing to break into an insurance company safe to raise bail. Eight patrolmen used tear gas and shotguns to capture them as they fled from a window. Police said Howard faces car theft charges and had been arrested last April in a stolen car. Chester had posted his own bail earlier.
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Los Angeles
Howard Jensen
Coye
Chester Jensen
Chester
Brother Howard
Howard
Plans for U S troops rotation in Far East
Washington reports ongoing rotation of American troops from Korea to the United States despite truce delays. About 30,000 troops leave Korea monthly under a broader Far East rotation, with constructive service credited to speed returns. Marines, Air Force, and Navy follow varied timelines to move personnel amid combat deployments.
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Washington
Korea
Far East
FECOM
Japan
Air Force
U. S
Philippines
Okinawa
Navy
Korean
Attu Island
Aleutians
Truman greets labor on Labor Day in speech
President Truman sends greetings to the labor movement urging three aims. He calls for peak production and military strength to deter totalitarian domination, equal sacrifice in defense mobilization, and democratic, cooperative achievement of these goals. Marshall lauds labor's role in free world defenses.
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Washington
T Dem
Freedom
Defense
Marshall
Senate
Hauge
Truman
San Francisco
L A Dad and Baby Die After Bridge Collision
A father Isiah Smith 31 from Los Angeles and his two year old daughter Cherry were killed when their car struck a bridge near TUCMCARS New Mexico. Six others were injured including Mrs Ora Lee Smith of Oakland and her daughter. Mrs Smith and three other children suffered serious injuries.
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N. M
Here
Isiah Smith
Los Angeles
Cherry
Explosions Hit Borger Synthetic Rubber Plant
Violent blasts and a subsequent fire at the Phillips Chemical synthetic rubber plant near Borger Texas injure eleven workers. Firefighters and company crews shut down operations as thick black smoke drifted over the city. The plant processes butadiene into synthetic rubber and is a government built facility reactivated during the Korea era.
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Borger
Texas
Texas Panhandle
Phillips Chemical Co
Company
Phillips Chemical
Phillips Petroleum Co
Hawaii Sugar Strike Delayed In Sugar Industry
HILO Hawaii September 1 A strike in the states 120 million sugar industry scheduled to begin at midnight has been postponed 24 hours. Negotiations between management and the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union representing 18 500 workers are continuing off the record. The union seeks a one dollar hourly floor under a sliding wage formula while management has offered 89 cents. The current minimum is 80 cents.
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Hilo
Hawaii
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
Warren Leaves Hawaii for Home
Honolulu dispatch reports California Governor Earl Warren, en route from Japan after visiting California military units, stopping briefly in Hawaii. He expects the Japanese peace treaty to be signed in San Francisco early this month, and notes friendly ties with Japan. Warren plans to reach Travis Air Base near mid northern California by 2 am tomorrow.
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Honolulu
California
Earl Warren
San Francisco
Japan
Cebel
Hiroshima
Warren
Travis Air Base
Sacramento
Hadacol Mogul Enters Louisiana Governor Race
State Sen. Dudley LeBlanc of Abbeville formally announced his candidacy for governor of Louisiana. The 57 year old Democrat, who sold his Hadacol patent medicine company last week, seeks the nomination amid a field with ten Democrats and one Republican. His platform includes no new taxes, college access for all, more factories, a monthly old age pension, civil service reform, and cutting waste. He previously ran for governor in 1944, finishing fourth in the first primary.
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New Orleans
Dudley LeBlanc
Louisiana
Abbeville
Hadacol
LeBlanc
Film Firms Lose $450000 Trust Suit in Mississippi
In Vicksburg Mississippi on September 1 195? the Greenville Mississippi theater owners Joe Applebaum and Bertam E Sims won 450000 against major film companies for antitrust violations and restraint of trade. The jury awarded 150000 actual damages trebled to cover fees making a historic seven month trial. Defendants Paramount MGM Columbia Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox plus Paramount Gulf Theaters faced potential appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Greenville
Sidney Mize
Joe Applebaum
Bertram E. Sims
South
Applebaum
Sims
Greenville, Miss
Para
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