Boy to Learn Family Dead in Blazing Fire
Altoona Pa December reports 11 year old Tommy Ebbert recovering from serious burns at Mercy Hospital. He remains unaware his mother brother three sisters and grandmother perished in the fire that destroyed their home ten miles away. Father Warren Ebbert also hospitalized. Lionel Company provides a Christmas toy train as a fund is set up for gifts and aid pours in from railroad workers and well wishers.
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Altoona
Tommy Ebbert
Mercy Hospital
Tommy
Warren Ebbert
Lionel Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bridges aide loses bid for ILWU Local presidency
In San Francisco on December 19 Phil Sandin defeated Henry Schmidt by about 100 votes for president of the local ILWU chapter. Bridges and Schmidt were previously convicted of perjury over Bridges’s Communist denial and are free on bond pending appeal. The I W U right wing bloc had attacked Bridges over Truman’s emergency speech and called for a constitutional ban on Communists in ILWU posts.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Phil Sandin
Henry Schmidt
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Schmidt
Kremlin
Minute Man corps proposed by Greenville VFW post
Greenville Ohio December 19 ex servicemen may form a minute man civil defense corps under federal plan aimed at swift, no cost national readiness. Veterans would pay a helmet and insignia fee, supply own transport and clothing, while on duty covered by military benefits. Calls for president to authorize, with support sought from American Legion Amvets and others.
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Greenville
Civil Defense Commission
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Harold Spitler
Spitler
V. F. W. Post
National Service
Tragedy After Family Dies in Encino Station Wagon
Raymond Bennett, 36, is found dead in the same station wagon where Mrs. Margaret Rowney and her four children died six days earlier in carbon monoxide poisoning. The couple’s deaths, linked to a vacuum cleaner exhaust, occurred in the Rowney home garage in Encino California. The family pet Inky, a cocker spaniel, was also found dead. No notes are reported.
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Encino
Calif
Margaret Rowney
Raymond Bennett
Inky
Bennett
Charles Shea
Rowney
Violet Buell
Baltimore
Dutch Consul's Wife Is Injured in New Orleans
Mrs. Alois Terkuhle wife of the Netherlands consul general in New Orleans was injured in an auto taxi collision. Police reported a cut on the right ear and head contusions from the crash occurring today in the second precinct.
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New Orleans
Alois Terkuhle
Second Precinct
Remmer Freed as Kefauver Subpoena Sought in San Francisco
Los Angeles December 19. Elmer F. Bones Remmer northern California gambler is freed today except for a later date with the Kefauver crime investigating committee in San Francisco. He faces a January appearance after being questioned in the ambush slaying case of Sam Rummel, lawyer for Mickey Cohen. Remmer was also released on $20 bail on a drunkenness charge and could forfeit it. Also jailed were Thomas J. Whalen and Edmund M. Scribner.
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Los Angeles
Elmer F
Bones) Remmer
California
U. S. Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Mickey Cohen
Sam Rummel
Remmer
Sen
Estes Kefauver
San Francisco
Thomas J. Whalen
St. Louis
Kefauver Committee
Edmund M. Scribner
Bakersfield
Calif
Rich Raaf
Scribner
Miss Raaf
Whalen
Soviet Embassy Installing Hoses in Washington
The Soviet embassy is installing 75 foot fire hoses as a precaution against possible bombing. James B. Carey of the I. O. Electrical Workers said non union plumbers were hired, calling it a sign that Russia is unfriendly to organized labor. Plumber J Shapiro, who is installing the equipment, said he acted on competitive bidding and noted the setup is common in hospitals and large buildings.
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Washington
James B. Carey
Co. I. O. Electrical Workers
Carey
Russia
J. Shapiro
Shapiro
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