Seven Killed in Crash of Airliner Near Burbank
A Transcontinental and Western Airlines passenger plane en route to Los Angeles from San Francisco crashed in heavy fog near Burbank. Seven people died and 16 were injured, including San Diego officials City Manager Walter Cooper dead and Mayor Harley Knox severely injured. Captain J. P. Snowden and First Officer T. L. Bamberger among the crew killed. Donna Marr, hostess, injured.
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Los Angeles
Transcontinental and Western Airlines
San Francisco
Burbank
Walter Cooper
San Diego
Harley Knox
TWA
J. P. Snowden
Calif
T. L. Bamberger
Alameda
Donna Marr
War labor strikes idle Detroit plants in December
Detroit reports more than 10,000 workers idled as Briggs Manufacturing Mack Avenue plant with 5,800 employees shuts after a walkout. Graham-Paige stops operations and Chrysler Dodge plant's Super fortress parts line hits third day of stoppage over seniority disputes.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Mack Avenue
Graham-Paige Motors Corp
Chrysler Corporation
Dodge
Briggs
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Jess Ferrazza
Graham-Paige
Mystery Fire Setters Haunt Roseville Area Homes
Prosecutor Wilbur Held and Roseville officials pursue a female witness as ten mysterious fires strike three homes and four garages on Packard Avenue between Halloween and November 6. Damage peaks at Lippert residence with about $1400 loss as laddered blazes keep residents on edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roseville
Wilbur F. Held
Packard Avenue
Edda Leach
Samuel Lippert
Packard
Elmo Brown
Lippert
Teapot Dome figure Albert Fall Dies at 83
Albert B. Fall, 83, former secretary of the interior under Harding and a central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal, died in El Paso Texas. He had suffered ill health for years and spent time in William Beaumont General Hospital and hospitals in El Paso before death. Born in Frankfort Kentucky he earlier worked as prospector ranch hand teacher and lawyer in Las Cruces New Mexico. He authorized leases on public oil lands including Teapot Dome leading to investigations and prison terms.
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EL Paso
Texas
Albert B. Fall
Harding
Fall
William Beaumont General Hospital
Hotl Dieu
Catholic Hospital
John Morrison
Frankfort
Las Cruces
N. M
Interior
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Wyoming
Priests Mercantile Ady Open Evenings Till Nine
The Priests Mercantile Ady store announces extended hours open every evening until 9 P.M. Local shoppers can visit after work for daily essentials and community services.
Corregidor Survivor Visits Sister Here
A Corregidor survivor returns home to visit his sister, described as a hero who has given his life to the nation’s cause. The report honors those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, emphasizing reverence for wartime sacrifices.
Nose ordeal swirls around Hall and Dorseys trial
The article centers on actor Jon Hall and the Dorseys trial for felonious assault amid the Aug. 5 party dispute. Hall’s nose was injured with unclear weapon in the incident. the case unfolds as a Whodunnit mystery before the jury. Also featured is Sgt. John Szymelski, Corregidor survivor, returning home to share his wartime experiences.
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Los Angeles
Jon Hall
Tommy Dorseys
Allen Smiley
Hall
Jon
Dorsey
Japan Losses Mount in Central Philippines Convoy Battles
In a brutal air sea clash off the Central Philippines Japanese commanders sacrificed thousands of men and vessels to halt U S recon of Leyte. Seven convoy attempts were sunk or crippled, with 47 ships and 26 000 soldiers lost. A heavily loaded transport fleet was sunk spilling 5 000 men into the sea. A medium freighter and a destroyer burned as American bombers struck masthead height in a long engagement extending the Philippine seas.
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Associated Press
Philippines
Leyte
Central
Philippine
James R Emerick Wounded in Action in South Pacific
Technician Fifth Class James R. Emerick age 29 of Mount Clemens was seriously wounded November 19 while serving in the South Pacific with an infantry unit. He has been overseas nearly two years and suffered malaria twice. His brother Percy Emerick was killed in action earlier this year.
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James R. Emerick
Mount Clemens
South Pacific
War Department
Emerick
George
Utica
Percy Emerick
Huge Airport Grants Proposed for Macomb County
Recommendations to Congress for postwar Michigan airport planning urge the Civil Aeronautics Administration to appropriate 2 134 000 dollars to five or more Macomb County sites. Total Michigan spending eyed at 22 183 000 dollars for land prep, paving, lighting, radio and related airport work. Sites listed include Mount Clemens 64 000 and Center Line 1 700 000, Fraser 305 000, Richmond 40 000, Utica 25 000 with another project in Mount Clemens unestimated.
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Congress
Michigan
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Macomb County
Associated Press
Mount Clemens
Center Line
Richmond
Utica
Fraser
P. K. McWethy
Million Dollar Band Concert Delights City Audiences
About 1000 music lovers enjoyed the Moslem Shrine Million Dollar Band and Chanters in a Mount Cemen high school auditorium concert. Salvatore Cucchiara and Harry McDonald led solos while an encore featuring a nautical song drew laughter. Proceeds support the Shrine fund for crippled children of destitute families in the United States and Canada.
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Mount Cemens High School
Salvatore Cucchiara
Harry McDonald
Wagon Wheels
McDonald
Shrine’s Fund For
United States
Canada
Winter Cold Wave Grips Michigan with Record Lows
The first winter cold snap drops to 22 degrees in Mount Clemens the season's lowest. Detroit sees 21 with a forecast of colder nights to come. Sault Ste. Marie records 15 the coldest in the state while several cities report 18 to 20 degrees across Michigan.
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Mount Clemens
Associated Press
Michigan
Detroit
Mercury
Sault Ste. Marie
Houghton
Saginaw
Gladwin
Cadillac
St. Ignace
Jackson
Grand Rapids
Flint
Alpena
Battle Creek
Lansing
Marquette and
Lee
Holdup Gang Seeks New Trial In 1938 Sterling Robbery
Four men Forest Huff Welton Huff Peter Wojdan and Leon Coplipski now serving life at Southern Michigan State Prison filed notice of appeal with the Macomb county circuit court for new trials. They were convicted in 1939 of robbing Farmer Jim's Ranch on Schoenherr road, taking watches rings and over 1000 in cash as James McMurphy fired a rifle during the getaway. The Warren township attorney Arthur Willard filed the appeal and each defendant has served more than five years awaiting outcome.
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a_ Sterling township
Southern Michigan State
Jackson
Macomb County
Forest Huff
Welton Huff
Peter Wojdan
Leon Coplipski
Neil E. Reid
Mount Clemens
Michigan Supreme Court
Farmer Jim
Schoenherr Road
James McMurphy
Arthur Willard
Warren Township
Japs Now Get Seven Cigarettes Each Day
The Japanese will be allowed seven cigarettes daily instead of six. Nippon's Finance Ministry announced the change today in a domestic broadcast picked up by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Associated Press
Nippon
Finance Ministry
Federal Communications Commission
Canada’s conscription crisis cools amid calm on West Coast
Ottawa reports discipline restored among rebellious draftee troops on the West Coast. Quebec leaders press federal pledges against overseas conscription while the provincial order-in-council urges MacKenzie King to honor commitments. Parliament continues debate on the prime minister’s partial conscription policy as Maj. Gen Pearkes visits BC camps.
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Ottawa
Canada
Quebec
W. L. MacKen
King
G. R. Pearkes
Pacific Command
Vancouver
Prince George
Terrace
British Columbia
Yanks Smash Toward the Rhine on Roer Front
Two American armies pound 20 mile Roer front near Julich Linnich as they drive through Lindern Flossdorf and Roerdorf. Planes target German concentrations and supply lines in a relentless push toward the Rhineland, described as as bloody as the Argonne.
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William L. Ryan
Associated Press
Roer
Rhineland
Argonne Forest
Ninth Army
Lindern
Flossdorf
Roerdorf
Julich
Linnich
Sin
SeventH Army Breaks German Defenses Southwest of Haguenau
Under U S Seventh Army command the Fifteenth Corps breached main German defenses in woods southwest of Haguenau and clashed in the western outskirts of the supply center as First Army pressed toward Duren Inden and the Inde River bridges were blown by German forces.
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Fifteenth Corps
U. S. Seventh Army
Haguenau
First Army
Duren
Cologne
Inden
Even Free-Play Pinball Games Ruled Illegal
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled five to three that a pinball machine is a gambling device even with free plays. Justice Neil E. Reid led the controlling opinion upholding seizure of 60 machines in Port Huron and St. Clair County.
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State Supreme Court
Guy Oateman
Port Huron
St. Clair County
Neil E. Reid
Mount Clemens
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West Coast
Lockheed Air Terminal
Bond
Bataan
Hillcrest
John Stymelski
Stella Wagner
North
Walnut Street
Szymelski
Fire-Bug
Hunt
Walter Kimmerly
Harold Flechsig
Desmond Arnsby
Tech
John Szymelski
Corregidor
Pacific
Hell
Sergi. Szymelski
America
Tokyo
The
Saipan
Japan
Kichiro Karashima
Vern Haugland
Suicidal
Leonard Milliman
Holdup Gang
Harry T. Montgomery
Zie King
Rhine
Germany
Inde
Mr. Claus
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