Woods Hunted In Search For Missing Plane
Portland Oregon AP reporting a four engine C 54 transport missing with six aboard. Air Force search teams scanned Cascade Mountain ridges north of Portland as ground crews checked logging camps and ranches for crash reports. Low clouds hindered operations and the plane last communicated at 10 47 a m requesting descent to 6000 feet during a training flight from McChord Base.
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Portland
Ore
Air Force
Here
Cascade Mountain
Pacific
McChord Air Force Base
Tacomas
Wash
Civilian Airways Control
McChord
Politics Issue In Georgia's Flogging Trial
In Rome Georgia AP report the federal trial of 12 men for conspiracy in beating seven Negroes centers on politics and civil rights. Defense claims political motive and misidentification of defendants. government alleged the case targets the wrong 12. Defendants include Dade County Sheriff John W Lynch three deputies and eight private citizens. Jury selection began after a 35 member pool with two Negroes and six Klan affiliates amid juror rejections.
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Rome
Frank Gleason
Rossville
Frank A. Hooper
Dade County
John W
James Enfield Berry
Summerville, Ga
Morrow Doctor Slashes Wrist as Arrest Fails
Cincinnati AP reports Dr. Lambert J. Agin 36 of Morrow Warren County slashed his wrist while under arrest in Detroit on charges of illegally making narcotic prescriptions for his own use. Federal Narcotic Agent William Kaldy confirmed the incident.
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Cincinnati
William Kaldy
Lambert J. Agin
Morrow
Warren County
Detroit
Kaldy
Middletown Journal Publishes 64 Page Christmas Edition
Early Christmas Edition to hit Middletown with a 64 page publication tomorrow. The Journal will issue at noon due to half day work on Thanksgiving. Classified ads deadline is 9 a.m. tomorrow. All departments resume normal Friday schedules.
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Middletown
Journal
Contempt cited attorney to stay on Bridges case
In San Francisco Judge Harris held attorney Vincent Hallinan in contempt during Harry Bridges perjury trial proceedings. Hallinan narrowly avoided immediate jail and was allowed to continue representing Bridges after a stay, while Bridges and aides face conspiracy to defraud the government charges.
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Bridges
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
George B. Harris
Vincent Hallinan
Hallinan
CIO Longshore Union
J. R. Robertson
Henry Schmidt
Supreme Court of the United States
Hallihan
Harris
Imp Rt
James Macinnis
Mericans
Freighter Eagle adrift after dawn fire off Washington coast
The freighter Eagle, a Panamanian vessel, drifted helplessly after a fire swept its engine room off the Washington coast. An Army transport, Gen. H. B. Freeman, patrolled nearby awaiting the Coast Guard cutter Winona from Port Angeles to reach the ship. The Winona was not expected until 10 p.m. Pacific time. The Eagle reported no one needed medical attention before its radio went out. The Freeman had rushed to the scene, arriving within an hour of the distress call after a 60 mile dash.
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Seattle
Wash
Eagle
Washington
H. B. Freeman
Coast Guard
Winona
Port Angeles
General Freeman
S.O.S
Seven Minute Death Saved by Doctor Kneading Heart
J D Settles a 59 year old Pennsylvania Railroad machinist in Zanesville Ohio survived an operation after his heart stopped for seven minutes. Surgeon Dr Charles Morrey removed the heart and kneaded it, restoring a faint beat seven minutes later before the heart was replaced. He said the patient feels fine.
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Zanesville
J. D. Settles
Good Samaritan Hospital
Charles Murrey
Pennsylvania Railroad
Settles
Girl Identifies Suspect In Abduction and Attack
In Red Lake Falls Minnesota a seven year old girl identified Raymond Dempsey as the man who abducted and assaulted her then left her by a haystack. Dempsey, an unemployed cook, is jailed in Crookston for further questioning as Sheriff Noel J. Proulx says evidence is mounting. The child, frostbitten and scratched, was found near a farm 12 miles away after being seized in a car on Monday night.
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Red Lake Falls
Minn
Raymond Dempsey
Vivian Shannon
Vivian
Dempsey
Crookston
Noel J. Proulx
Red Lake County
Minnesota
L. N. Dale
Crookston Hospital
Four Arrests In Franklin County Quickie Divorce Case
Four men including a Franklin County juror were arrested in Franklin on continuing investigation of quickie divorces. Arrested were Kathryn Mable of Columbus James L Pedicord George A Bryan and Eddie Joseph all of Zanesville. Details of the arrests and their connections to attorney Thomas Josephs trial remain unclear. Prosecutor Bartlett declined to discuss indictments or how arrests fit the divorce mill case. The grand jury had reported three secret indictments after hearing witnesses in the case.
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Columbus
Msans
Franklin
Franklin County
Askingum
Zanesville
Ralph J. Bartlett
Franklin County Grand Jury
Liquor Theft Reported on Route to Ohio
The loss or theft of liquor valued at 4600 dollars consigned to the Ohio Board of Liquor Control was reported. Eastern Motor Dispatch Co says 100 cases of whisky are missing from an 840 case cargo that departed Peekskill New York on November 18. The shortage was found when the truck reached Columbus and the seal remained intact. Police in Ohio Pennsylvania and New York have been asked to investigate.
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Columbus
Ohio Board of Liquor Control
Eastern Motor Dispatch Company
Peekskill
N. Y
Ralph Benedict
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Turnpike Law May Be Tested By Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus AP reports Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy says the Ohio Supreme Court may decide if the new turnpike law is constitutional. The law gives the turnpike commission authority to issue revenue bonds and allows the State Highway Department to loan funds for preliminary studies.
Cleveland man dies in earth slide while soldering pipe
James Forlaine, 65, was killed in Cleveland when several tons of wet earth slid into a five foot ditch where he was soldering a water pipe. The accident occurred yesterday and authorities describe it as a fatal cave-in.
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Cleveland
James Forlaine
Two Claiming Presidency Of Panama After Rioting
Panama was shaken by rioting as two claimants battled for the presidency after Dr. Daniel Chanis resigned under police pressure. Roberto Chiari, sworn in as president, faced a tense showdown with Chanis who retained that he remained constitutional head. Police dispersed demonstrators with gunfire, tear gas and armored forces as a child was killed and 11 wounded in Cathedral Plaza during the crisis.
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Panama
Daniel Chris, Jr
Roberto Chiari
Chanis
National Assembly
Col
Jose Remon
Cathedral Plaza
Manuel Pazmino
Alejandro Gonzalez Revilla
Arcadio Aguilera
Remon
Panam
Dog Survives Imprisonment For 28 Days
In Zanesville Ohio AP report Punch a two year old black cocker spaniel disappeared October 17. After 28 days without food or water the dog was found November 14 in a closet of the Burton mansion weighing 12 pounds lighter but alive. A veterinarian fed him and he recovered though later developed pneumonia before returning to normal.
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Zanesville, O
Punch
Sybil Burton
Burton
Steel strike to slow auto industry output in early 1950
New York AP reports the steel strike will hamper fabricating plants through the first quarter of 1950. Iron Age notes inventories are unbalanced and many items are short. Some users are revising first quarter schedules downward while ingot operations run at 78.5 percent capacity, with a predicted rise toward 85 percent next week to restore pre strike levels. Demand for most steel products will remain tight for three to four months.
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New York
Iron Age
Metalworking Trade Weekly
Trade Weekly
Ironton man held for grand jury on murder charge
Ironte Ohio AP reports Municipal Judge John J Gallagher yesterday held Dempsey Wickline thirty for Ironte to the Lawrence County grand jury on a first degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of his father in law Everett Johnson November 14.
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Ironton
John J. Gallagher
Dempsey Wickline
Ironte
Lawrence County
Everett Johnson
Popcorn Cruncher Ruins Movie Quiet in Every Show
A humor piece notes how popcorn crunchers disrupt films across genres from dramas to cowboys and mysteries. It claims no escape from the noise, urging readers to join in by eating loudly. The mock guide frames the popcorn eater as an unavoidable character in any theater audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Pass
Taft Says Workers Should Fund Non-Workers Pensions
Senator Taft argues pensions for all over 65 would require all current workers' earnings and could cost about 12 billion dollars per year for a 100 dollar monthly pension. He warns such a payout could bankrupt the pension fund and force massive taxation passed to consumers. He questions whether the country and industries can afford it.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Once A Month Thefts Listed By Chambers
New York AP report on testimony in the Alger Hiss perjury trial. Whit taker Chambers says he received a monthly briefcase of State Department papers from economist Julian Wadleigh between 1936 and 1938. He says he sent them to a photographer for microfilming and then returned them to Wadleigh.
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NEW York
Whittaker Chambers
Washington
State Department
Julian Wadleigh
Wadleigh
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chambers
David Carpenter
Claude B. Cross
Stalin
Accused Youthful Slayer Returns From Columbus
Bobby Herlan, 15, accused of fatally shooting Dana's Run farmer Gordon Roe, was returned from the Bureau of Juvenile Research in Columbus to Washington County. The bureau found him mentally sane but with low normal intelligence and made no recommendation. Sheriff Dean Ellis charged Herlan with the shotgun slaying on August 1. He was made a ward of the court by Juvenile Judge Josephus T. Thomas.
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Marietta
Bobby Herlan
Bureau of Juvenile Research
Columbus
Washington County
Herlan
Bureau
Dean Ellis
Gordon Roe
Bobby
Josephus T. Thomas
Ohio Welfare Buildings Not Fire Inspected
Ohio state fire marshal has inspected only four of 28 Public Welfare Department institutions in eight years. A lack of staff and funds limits annual inspections, despite law requiring yearly checks for all public buildings.
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Ohio Welfare
Columbus
Ohio
Harry J. Callan
Callan
Author Committed to State Hospital for Alcoholism
Los Angeles AP report states Craig Rice, a crime writer of The Lucky Stiff and Trial by Fury, was committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital after her daughter testified at a psychopathic court that Rice, 41, has abused liquor for four to five years and requires institutional care for an indefinite period.
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Los Angeles
Craig Rice
Nancy Atwill
Miss Rice
Fury
Camarillo State Mental Hospital
Mabley and Carew to Give $80,000 in Christmas Bonuses
Cincinnati department store Mabley and Carew announces $80,000 in bonuses for employees to be distributed at Christmas. The AP report notes the store is among the city’s largest employers and the payout marks a significant year end incentive for staff.
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Cincinnati
Mabley and Carew Company
Consul staff freed by Chinese after Mukden trial
Angus Ward the American consul general in Mukden and four consulate aides were released by Chinese authorities after a month in jail on charges the U S State Department called trumped up They were released with Ward reporting via telephone from the corral and indicating the staff would depart Mukden The State Department had pressed for international pressure and concerted protest from 30 nations over the treatment of Ward and his colleagues
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Washington
Angus Ward
Mukden
Ward
State Department
Department
F Lomat
Toe
Cac
Clu
Ubd
Clubb
Mukden Forths
Pa H Belleene
Rochester
Foreign Service
Shiro Tatsumi
Francona
Alfred Kristan
Tatsumi
N. Y
Bidsward J. Rehberg
Rehberg
Mukeden
Acheson
Sonic Barrier No Barrier For Skyrocket Aircraft
Test Pilot Eugene F May states there is no sonic barrier for a well designed aircraft like the Navy built Skyrocket. The Navy says the rocket plane has exceeded the speed of sound in level flight during routine flights though official maximum speed remains undisclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muroc Dry Lake
Calif
Eugene F. May
Navy
Stude
Mays
Favoritism probe targets Army contract claims
Washington AP reports officials will testify next week on an Army denial that the Quartermaster Corps favored a $100,000 electric cooler contract. A Philadelphia manufacturer alleged tailored specs favored West House Electric and lower bidders, prompting a judiciary subcommittee review and discussions on monopoly power and small-business rust law revisions.
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Washington (Ap
Army
Quartermaster Corps
House
Philadel
Delphia
C Quartermaster
West* House Electric Company
Orville Morrison
Sunroec Refrigerator
Philadelphia
Ing Wes
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