GI Baby Marianne Clark celebrates first birthday year of travel
Marianne Clark born January 1 at Middletown Hospital was 1951's first area baby. Daughter of Lt. David Clark and wife, she has traveled nine states and flew 1000 miles from Boston to Dayton on Christmas Eve. Now 1, she weighs 25 pounds and will fly to Fort Devens with her parents this afternoon.
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Brown
Marianne Clark
Middletown
Amanda
Journal
Bill Weith
George van Gibson
Middletown Hospital
Marianne
David Clark
Robert Nicholson
Forrer St
Boston
Dayton
Fort Devens
Debbie Nicholson
Carlisle Barracks
Clark
Lieutenant
Lemon-Monroe High School
Armco
Army
Excello
UN Damages Two Red MIGs in New Year Air Battle
United Nations and American sabre jets opened 1952 with a dog fight over Northwest Korea in which 31 Allied planes battled 60 Communist jets. Two U.S. propeller planes were shot down behind enemy lines, with no Sabres harmed.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Fifth Air Force
United Nations
Eighth Army
Yonchow
Frank F. Everest
Ohio New Year Toll Rises With 23 Deaths Across State
The Associated Press reports at least 23 people have died in Ohio during the New Year holiday ending at midnight. Seventeen deaths occurred in traffic accidents and six from miscellaneous mishaps since 6 p.m. Friday.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Churchill Aides Made Viscounts In New Year Honors
Four members of Winston Churchill wartime cabinet were made viscounts by King George VI in the New Year honors. The four are Robert Hudson wartime Minister of Agriculture Sir John Anderson Port of London Authority chairman and former Chancellor of the Exchequer 1943 45 Sir Archibald Sinclair wartime RAF air minister and Brendan Bracken publisher of the influential newspaper.
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London
Winston Churchill
George VI
House of Commons
Robert S. Hudson
John Anderson
Port of London Authority
Archibald Sinclair
RAF
Brendan Bracken
Influen
Continental Manhunt On Kor 2 Dangerous Killers
Paris AP reports a continental manhunt for two condemned killers Leon Meurant 32 and Michel Courtin 22 who escaped from Amiens prison. Meurant, Belgian, faces murder charges including the 1945 Countess Sauty de Chalon case. Courtin killed a farmer’s wife and daughter in 1950. Police across European borders hunt them as they claim to return with the “real killer.”
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Paris
Leon Meurant
Europe
Michel Courtin
Courtin
Meurant
Sauty de Chalon
Amiens
France
Germany
Louis Clavier
Honore
Arizona Peaks Scoured For Lost AF Transport
Rescue efforts across the nation searched for multiple missing aircraft including an Air Force transport missing since Sunday with 28 aboard. A C-46 was found near Little Valley New York and 14 of 40 aboard survived, while another C-46 remains missing in Alaska.
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Arizona Peaks
New York
California
Great Lakes
Arizona
Alaska
Air Force
West Point
Transocean Airlines
Point Barrow
Spokane
Wash
Travis Air Base
Calif
Eisenhower Backers Anticipate Major News Soon
Republicans backing General Eisenhower foresee a significant development to show he is a viable GOP Presidential nominee. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts plans a Sunday news conference to present “factual material” they hope signals availability, with Senator Duff noting it should not be bad news.
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Washington
Gen
Eisenhower
Sen
Lodge
Massachusetts
Beverly
Mass
Duff
Pennsylvania
North Atlantic Defense Forces
Europe
Defense Organization
New Hampshire
New Year Across The World Brims With Sound And Hope
Nations welcomed 1952 with celebrations from Times Square crowds near one million to Berlin and Moscow revelry. Truce talks continue as cannonades echo in Korea and Paris and London mark the moment with parties and public festivities.
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Korea
New York City
Times Square
Truce Talks Stalled as 52nd New Year Opens in Korea
Reports from Panmunjom describe a dead stalemate in armistice supervision talks. Communists agreed to share data on about 50,000 missing Allies and discussed civilian repatriation, while Vice Admiral Joy warned progress would require time and patience.
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Munsan
Korea
Adm
C. Turner Joy
U.N
Joy
U.S
Howard M. Turner
Panmunjom
U.N. Command
Turner
Two Pontiac Girls Killed After Party
Royal Oak police report two Pontiac high school girls Jessica Anastos 15 and Barbara Holloway 17 were found dead in a snowbank after leaving a Ferndale New Year’s party. Autopsies to determine strangulation. earlier sightings described a tall blonde youth and a fleeing man at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
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Detroit
Pontac
Royal Oak
J. C. Privette
Oakland County
Woodward Ave
Ten Mile Road
Jessica Anastos
Barbara Holloway
Ferndale
Ernest McLaren
Pontiac
Sam Harrell
Gerald Sielaff
Harrell
Sielaff
Holloway
Anastos
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Cold Wave Sweeps U S After Rockies Blizzard
A severe cold wave spread from the Rocky Mountains into the Midwest and plains with strong winds and sharp temperature drops. Chicago registered 52 degrees while Wednesday morning's forecast called for zero to five below. Havre Mont marked minus 25 and Oklahoma City saw a 50 degree fall from 79. Colorado suffered one of its worst storms, leaving hundreds marooned and at least two dead.
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United States
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Great Lakes Midwest
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Havre Mont
Dakotas
Oklahoma City
Texas
Ohio Valley
Colorado
Ohio Voters Rise as Census Reveals Growth in Adults
The Census Bureau reports Ohio's adult population climbed from 4,583,907 in 1940 to 5,280,602 in 1950, an increase of about 696,695 potential voters. The data reflect shifts in voter eligibility and demographics across the decade.
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Washington
Ohio
Census Bureau
South Koreans Warn Of Armistice Before Unification
President Syngman Rhee warns Western Allies against an armistice with the Communists before Korea is unified. He calls any appeasement in 1952 unacceptable to loyal South Koreans and predicts a grim year due to ongoing military reverses and UN policy.
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Chinhae
Korea
Syngman Rhee
North
South Korea
Rhee
United Nations
Holiday Toll 441 With Day To Go
Accidents over the four day New Year weekend claimed 441 lives as of today with almost a full day remaining. Highway and street toll stood at 292, below the 350 projected by the National Safety Council. Fires took 44 lives and other accidents accounted for 105. A plane crash Saturday night in upper New York state added 26 fatalities.
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Boston
Grandfather Frost
London
Chelsea
Truman
Washington
Missouri
Stalin
Associated Press
National Safety Oil
Upper New York
Survivors recount New Year crash ordeal in New York region
Fourteen survivors of a non scheduled airliner crash near Allegheny Mountain in Southwestern New York were hospitalized on New Year’s Day as rescue teams recovered 26 victims. CAB officials planned an on scene investigation amid concern over a spate of C46 crashes. A Miami stewardess recalled losing altitude as the right engine failed, and a baby died in survivors’ arms before sheltering beside a parachute fire.
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Little Valley
N. Y
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Allegheny Mountain
New York
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
W. Nyrop
Nyrop
Elizabeth
N. J
George Albert
Miang. Fla
Albert
Elizabeth Albert
New York State
Pearl Moon
Miami
Continental Charters
Jo Frankell
Won't Surrender New Year Drinks
In Chicago, John Bock and his wife Lillian face a divorce case as attorneys discuss reconciliation rules. The court orders Bock to pay 30 weekly support after Mrs. Bock accuses him of habitual intoxication and refuses to stop celebrating New Year’s Eve.
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Chicago
John Bock
Bock
Lillian
Superior Court
Georg M. Fisher
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TWA
Vandalia
Bill Werth
The
Churchill
Belgium
Iron Mountain
Phoenix
Hamilton Air Force Base
Goodfellow A. F. Base
Little Valley N. Y
Continental Charters, Inc
Fla
By Marvin L.arrowsmith
Philadelphia
Berlin
R. E. Libby
Lee Sang Cho
U. N
Libby
Red Armies
Lee
South Koreans
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