Congressmen Tour Yellowstone After Quake Devastation
A congressional delegation visiting Yellowstone's quake zone found a fresh rock slide blocking Hebgen Dam area forest access as tremors continue. Sen. Frank Moss called damage appalling and said several bodies may be entombed. Red Cross lists 16 missing including families from Massachusetts California and Pennsylvania.
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Hebgen Dam
New Slide
Congressional
Washington
Frank Moss
Utah
Rock Creek Camp
Not Dead Yet Boys Rush To Tell Parents After Yellowstone Quake
Two teen rodeo riders Mike Debaets and Bill Litzsinger, sleeping through the Yellowstone quake, learn from a Montana paper that two boys were killed. They call home in St Louis and Sappington, recounting their survival. After camping near the quake zone they sought work on a Lewistown ranch, then vanished and were presumed dead before surfacing.
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Lewistown
Mike
Alice Debaets
St. Louis
Bill
Raymond W ‘Litzsinger
Sappington
Littleton
Colo
Mont
Yellowstone
Turkey’s Constitution Mirrors U.S. Model
Turkey’s constitutional framework draws on the United States system, adopting similar structures such as a written charter, a separation of powers, and an independent judiciary to shape governance and legal limits. The comparison highlights shared principles of checks and balances and citizen rights.
Skipper Of Liner Is Fired In Atlantic Incident
Cunard Line dismissed Capt James D. Armstrong 55 after an Atlantic crossing incident at the captain's table. Armstrong, with 30 years service, faced a choice of resignation or firing and denied wrongdoing while awaiting legal advice. He was due to command either the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth next year.
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Liverpool
England
Britain
Cunard Line
James D. Armstrong
New York
Armstrong
Runkle Dies at 92 Former Kenton Bank President
Hugh Leston Runkle 92, longtime president of Kenton National Bank from 1906 to 1920, died in Columbus, Ohio, after moving there about 40 years ago. The notice also lists probate actions for W. B. Combs Sr. and Judson Ray Neal estates with executors named and claim deadlines in 1952 and 1959.
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Columbus, Ohio
Hugh Leston Runkle
Kenton National Bank
Kenton
W. B. Combs
Wilgus B. Combs
Mattie Combs
Middletown
Ohio
Butler County
Donald L. Ziegel
Thomas H. Stubbs
Judson Ray Neal
Virginia M. Penquite
Blanchester
Quake Jolts Los Angeles and Orange Counties
An earthquake rattled windows in parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Residents in Fullerton Anaheim East Whittier Pomona and Covina reported feeling the jolt but there was no damage.
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Los Angeles
Orange Counties
Fullerton
Anaheim
East Whittier
Pomona
Covina
Gasoline Fire Claims Fifth KC Firefighter
Delbert Stone, 29, died from burns suffered while battling a bulk gasoline station fire between Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. He became the fifth firefighter to die from the blaze after a large gasoline storage tank exploded. Nearly 100 people were injured.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Kan
Delbert Stone
Scrapyard plan pledges to save doomed battleship West Virginia
Seattle auto wrecker A W Trudeau leads 105 backers vowing a thousand tons of scrap to buy time for the West VirginiaAwaiting scrap she’s at Bremerton after sale to a New York firm for 781000plus dollars Trudeau calls the effort a civic bid to preserve the vessel as a museum in the future
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West Virginia
Seattle
Pearl Harbor
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Bremerton
Navy
New York Metal Company
Panama Canal
A.W
Bert) Trudeau
Trudeau
Union Metals and Alloys Co
New York
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Red Cross
Bozeman
Harry W. Patch
Jean
Harry Jr
Wakefield
Mass
Hugh Lee Moore
James E. Weaver
Burbank
Calif
Milford Kellogg
Atomic Energy Commission
Damascus
Laird R. Allen
Clairton
Anacortes
Wash
Ennis Mont
Manchester Ave
Uncle Toms Drive
N. Verity
Turkey
United States
Jos.r.baker & Sons, Inc
Middletown, Ohio
C &B’s
Oglesby Ball, Bank D Trust CO
Said County
Wilmer and
Wilmer
Oho
State Farm
Imbreamce
John Howard
Tytus Ave
PPA
Offici
Cer Melber, Verity
Tyee
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co
Bloomington, Hil
Kingan
Kingan’s Forest
Morrell Pride
Pillsbury
Merritt
Campbells
Morton
Jennie Lee
Salem Ghina Co
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