Flier Survives Alaska Crash In Birthday Rescue
Mrs Morrow Tait the round the world flier and her navigator Michael Townsend escaped unharmed after their plane crashed 30 miles southwest of Tok Junction in 30 below weather. They followed the Glenn highway for emergency landing and were taken to Tanacross by Alaska highway patrol. The incident happened on Mrs Morrow Tait s 25th birthday amid engine trouble on the leg from Anchorage toward Montreal.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Morrow-Tait
Michael Townsend
Here
Anchorage
Tok Junction
Alaska Highway Patrol
Tanacross
Man sought in slaying of two year old in Cincinnati hotel
Police named William Pollard a former mental patient as the man who registered with two year old Joseph Nichols in a Cincinnati hotel last Tuesday and left with the child. The battered body was found in a hotel dresser drawer. Pollard had been hospitalized previously and was released from a Veterans hospital in October. The child's mother identified Pollard after viewing his photographs in Cincinnati.
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ST. Louis
Joseph Nichols
Jeremiah O'Connell
William Pollard
Cincinnati Police Department
Cincinnati
George Pearly
Pollard
Longview Hospital
Veterans Neuropsychiatric Hospital
Chillicothe
Betty Nichols
Huntington
W. Va
Wanted Swap Rooster to Start Business Early
In Booneville Mississippi a local ad asks to swap a rooster that crows at 5 a.m. for a country rooster that crows at 4 a.m. The reason given is to begin business early.
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Booneville, Miss
Dad finally gets two boys and a girl in city triplet
Fred Herman a 36 year old landscaper and his wife Jean welcomed twins and a daughter after doctors predicted a multiple birth. A string of triplet deliveries in Cleveland marked a remarkable week as Fred joked about needing a better paying job.
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Cleveland (Ap
Fred Herman
Fred
Jean
American Freed By Greek Rebels
Greek Army says Francis L. McShane 43 of Newburgh New York and three Greek engineers were released yesterday by Communist guerrillas who abducted them November 10. McShane and a Greek driver were taken near Georgitsi seven miles east of Tripolis in the Pedoponnesus. The driver was freed. the others had been missing. Top executive with Atkinson Drake Park and partners were involved.
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Athens
Francis L. McShane
Newburgh
N. Y
McShane
Beverly Hills Couple Honored As Mr and Mrs American Citizen
Movie star Melvyn Douglas and his wife Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas were named Mr and Mrs American Citizen of 1948 by B'nai B'rith Lodge No 487 at its 49th anniversary observance. Jack Benny presented the citation praising their exemplification of Americanism during 1948.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Melvyn Douglas
Helen Gahagan Douglas
D-Cal
Jack Benny
Lucky Break for Belvidere Farmer After August Farm Accident
Elmer Rubeck of Belvidere Illinois escaped serious injury after a neck fracture in a Friday the 13th accident while filling his silo. Neighbors rushed to help and finished the task, and Rubeck called it a lucky day saying he did not know how many friends he had until then.
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Belvidere
Ill
Elmer Rubeck
Rubeck
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