Globe Master disaster claims 101 lives on Christmas flight
A C-124 Globemaster crashed after takeoff from Larson Air Force Base near Moses Lake Washington killing 101 servicemen en route home for Christmas. Fires consumed the wreckage as rescuers searched for those trapped. weather was not a major factor.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Air Force
Adjutant’s
Larson Air Force Base
P. W. Wassum
Washington
Spokane
Cardiff
Wales
Ireland
Globemaster
Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Major Wassum
Wassum
Texas
Washington, D. C
62Nd Wing
Tactical Air Command
Larson
Washington State
Allied Air Strikes and Ground Battles Across Korea Fronts
Allied warplanes swept north of the front lines and bombed Communist positions from the Western Front to the Haeju Peninsula amid zero temperatures and snow. Ground clashes included a 35 minute fight east of Wire Hill and an Allied raid near Panmunjom as Chinese troops pressed on White Horse Mountain with propaganda barrages.
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Seoul
Haeju Peninsula
North Korea
Yalu River
Manchuria
Wire Hill
Reds
Panmunjom
White Horse Mountain
Iowa widower ordained as priest in Romep A era
Patrick Norton of Dubuque Iowa aged 69 was ordained a priest after becoming widowed years earlier. He left his job as a magazine distributor to pursue ecclesiastical studies at Beda's Pontifical Irish College.
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Romep
Seer
Patrick Norton
Dubuque
Beda
Pontifical Irish College
Eisenhower names business leaders to head defense agencies
President elect Eisenhower selects Charles E. Wilson of General Motors as secretary of defense to lead a civilian team. He also names Robert Ten Broeck Stevens as Army secretary, Robert Bernard Anderson as Navy secretary, Harold E. Talbott as Air Force secretary, and Roger M. Kyes as deputy secretary of defense.
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New York
Eisenhower
Defense High Command
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Wilson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
South Plainfield
N. J
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Quartermaster General
Robert Bernard Anderson
Vernon
Tex
Texas
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Harold E. Talbott
Chrysler Corp. Finance Committee
Dayton Wright Company
War Production Board
Roger M. Kyes
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Kyes
Corporation
Motor Truck and Coach
Jersey Man Convicted Of Barbary Piracy
Sidney H. Paley 32 of Jersey City New Jersey convicted by a consular court in Tangier International Zone Morocco for planning and aiding a hijack of $100000 worth of cigarets from a Dutch ship. Judge Milton Helmick sentenced him to three years imprisonment. first American tried abroad on piracy and Barbary Coast postwar case.
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Tangier
International Zone
Morocco
Sidney H. Paley
Jersey City
N. J
High Seas
Milton Helmick
Paley
Barbary Coast
Fog crash kills three in Brunswick Germany
A head on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in heavy fog between Seesen and Derneburg Germany killed three people and injured fifteen. Railroad officials in the British zone reported the accident today.
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Brunswick
Germany
Seesen
Derneburg
Naperville Volunteers Lead Large Search for Missing Children
About 1 000 volunteers, including 500 AFL Building Trades Council members, joined a citywide hunt in Naperville within a 10 mile radius for six year old Jean Peterson and three year old Edward Rosenthiel missing since December 7. Police consider kidnap possible as searchers probe former quarry sites and homes under construction.
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Naperville
Ill
Jean Peterson
Edward Rosenthiel
AFL Building Trades Council of
Second Man Held In Brink's Probe
FBI reportedly holds a second man connected to the 1950 Brink's holdup. The 37 year old suspect, once with about $60,000 of the loot, was identified in affidavits as one of the masked gunmen who tied up five armored car workers. U S Attorney Garrity declined comment as affidavits linked to the case were removed from files.
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Boston
FBI
U. S
George F. Garrity
Joseph “Specs
O’keefe
Robert Best Treason Figure Dies in Federal Prison
Robert Henry Best, an American newspaper man serving a life sentence for treason by broadcasting Nazi propaganda in World War II, died last Tuesday at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield Missouri after an illness of some time. He was convicted in Federal Court at Boston on April 16, 1948.
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Springfield
Robert Henry Best
U. S
Best
Boston
City Churches Prepare Christmas Programs Across Denominations
Churches across the city finalize Christmas observances with pageants candlelight services and special masses. Catholic St Victor’s offers midnight Mass and morning services. St John’s Grace Lutheran and Methodist plan pageants and living pictures with candlelight. Immanuel and St Andrew’s host concerts and Holy Communion. Bethel Union Presbyterian First Universalist Mount Olive Lutheran East Clano and New Apostolic schedule programs and festive activities through Christmas Day.
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St. Victor's Church
St. John’s
St. John’s Church
Children of Grace Lutheran Sunday School
Methodist Church
Immanuel Church
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Richard F. Hulburt
11Th Street
Odd Fellows Hall
Bethel
Bethel Evangelical United Brethren Church
Union Presbyterian Church
First Universalist Church
Santa Claus
New Apostolic Church
Children of
Mount Olive Lutheran Church
East Clarno Church
Shipping Season Ends on Great Lakes at Fort William
The Great Lakes Steaming season officially closed Friday night at midnight as a few vessels remained on the lakes for home ports. Wintry gales threaten the lakes and the last ships cleared Fort William with favorable sailing weather forecast.
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Toronto
Great Lakes
Lakes
Fort William
Massed Picketing Hits Two Quad Cities Papers
Mass picketing at the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus blocked publication as 15 to 20 striking printers gathered at both plants before 6 am. Police escorted non-striking workers. no violence reported. Davenport Times and Democrat not affected. Chicago strike dates noted.
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Moline
Ill
Moline Dispatch
Rock Island Argus
Davenport
Times
Democrat
AFL
Chicago
Giant Navy Globemaster Lands After In-Flight Fire
The Giant Navy Globemaster, the world’s largest land plane, landed safely at Moffett Field after an engine fire knocked out one engine. The craft carried 130 passengers and 18 crew, touching down on three engines.
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Sunnyville
Calif
Moffett Field
Ammunition Shortage Cited in Kumhwa Battle Setbacks
U N units limited daily artillery ammo during the Kumhwa action in late October. Frontline officers called the holddown order a major error as Communists outshot the Allies 214 to 1 until the command released stockpiled guns and shells in a heavy barrage.
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Tokyo
Korea
Eisenhower
Kumhwa
U. N
High Command
Triangle Hill
U. S
Santa quits after rough play at New Orleans gas station
New Orleans Santa Claus resigns from a Loyola University freshman job after about 200 children mobbed the station. Lollipops balloons were grabbed and Santa's wig and buttons were torn off. He fled to the station house as traffic was snarled and attendants secured the doors.
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New Orleans
Santa Claus
Harold Barker
Loyola University of the South
Barker
Santa
Wiley Urges UN Probe Into Soviet Economic Claims
At the United Nations Wiley proposed a two hour survey by a UN committee to examine inside Russia the Soviet claims of economic progress. He clashed with Soviet delegates in the Special Political Committee over Russia vetoes of membership and trade policy criticisms followed by a reply against Arkadyev’s charge of U S monopoly power.
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United Nations
N. Y
Sen. Wiley
U. N
Russia
Wiley
London
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Special Political Committee
Gromyki
G. P. Arkadyev
U. S
Viroqua Woman Dies In Highway Accident
WEATBY Wisconsin Mrs. Wallace Brodhead 60 of near Viroqua was fatally injured Friday night in a collision blamed on poor visibility and slick pavement in heavy snowfall. The crash occurred on Highway 14 just south of the Vernon County community. The woman's husband and five others were hospitalized at Viroqua.
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Weatby
Wis
Wallace Brodhead
Viroqua
Wisconsin
Highway 14
Vernon County
Stronger Twin Says Two Words After Separation
Rodney Dee Brodie, the stronger of Siamese twins Rodney and Roger, shows improvement after the separation surgery. Rodney answers when spoken to and has begun taking nourishment, while Roger remains in very precarious condition. Surgeons warned the first hurdle has not yet passed amid concerns of cerebral edema or anoxemia.
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Chicago
Rodney Dee Brodie
Rodney
Roger
University of Illinois
Munition Hoard Found by Raiders in New York
Westchester County police searched an abandoned gasoline station in Mamaroneck and seized two truckloads of munitions including napalm grenades bazooka shells rifle clips and gunpowder linked to a Cuban revolutionary plot. Three men were arrested including 29 year old munitions dealer Alfred Manheim.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Westchester County
New York City
Alfred Manheim
John KE. Hoy
Asst
Dist
Atty
M. Morton
Anheim Carlos Prio Socarras
Cuba
Miami
Prio
Batista
Sleet Storm Knocks Out Power and Wires in Monroe
A southeast winter sleet storm blanketed southern Wisconsin bringing freezing rain and up to seven inches of snow. Widespread power and telephone outages followed as ice weighed down branches and poles, with crews working through the night to restore service. No major accidents were reported though traffic was hampered by ice and downed lines.
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20Th Avenue
9Th Street
Power Company
Times
Wisconsin
Monroe
St. Clare Hospital
Ralph A. Lindsay
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
United Telephone Co
Lindsay
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Ernest C. Dettwiler
Stout
Joseph Schwarzenberger
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Robert Best
Yale
Rock Island
Navy Transport
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