Black crepe covers homes as 500 die in Christmas toll
The Associated Press reports more than 500 people died in violent incidents during the Christmas holiday period, with nearly 400 from traffic accidents. Texas led with 55 deaths. fires and other violent deaths added to the toll including a two year old choking, a bicycle collision in Clearwater, and a shotgun accident between brothers in Illinois.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Santa Claus
San Antonio
Tex
Texas
East St. Louis
Clearwater
Fla
Voy
Largo
Martinton
The
Safety Council
New York Officials Boost Pay After Election
The New York City board of estimate and council raise Mayor O Dwyer from 25000 to 40000 and the controller from 20000 to 30000 with other increases. Park commissioner Robert Moses stands out as the only official whose pay fits merit as other raises mock the public. The piece critiques elite arrogance toward voters who soon forget.
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New York
Board of Estimate
Council of the City of
O’dwyer
Robert Moses
Flying saucers may be space craft from another planet
New York dispatch reports sensational claim that flying discs are space vehicles from another planet, sparking controversy. Air Force spokesman denies the idea, stating studies find no support for extraterrestrial origins. The magazine author Donald S. Keyhoe asserts extensive eight month inquiry shows Earth under alien observation, with reports of sightings rising, and Project Saucer under Wright Field purportedly investigating interplanetary craft.
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New York
Des
Air Force
Thay
Donald S. Keyhoe
Serciautics Branch
U. S. Commerce Department
Earth
Keyhoe
U. S. Army Air Force
Wright Field
Project Saucer
Prsonnel Fl
Fog Blamed for Plane Crash in West Texas
In heavy fog, a private plane crashed killing two chiropractors from San Angelo and injuring two others near Slidell Texas. Major George Grape and Dr William Mc Laughlin died. 18 year old James Livingston survived shock and exposure.
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Slidell
Tex
West Texas
George Grape
San Angelo
State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
William McLaughlin
Big Spring
James Thomas Livingston
George J. Grupe
Grupe
Livingston
Fort Worth
Des Moines
Arms cargoes slated Feb 1
Washington officials estimate U S arms and military equipment will begin moving to western Europe about February 1, leaving five months to spend or earmark the 1 billion dollars Congress allotted for Atlantic pact allies. Negotiations with Britain over exact terms slow progress as eight pact nations await signed agreements. Formal talks with Britain expected soon to speed up signatures from the other seven allies.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Congress
United States Treasury
North Atlantic
Britain
State Department
New City Hall Opent City Officials Move In
West Monroe officials begin occupying the new three floor city hall at Natchitoches and Cypress. The mayor clerk judge and police chief occupy the first floor with courtrooms and jail on the upper levels. The building cost $144 855.43 plus furnishings pushing total to about $150 000.
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West Monroe
Water Department
C. C. Bell, Jr
Jesse Heard
Jeff Caldwell
Meter Department
Natchitoches
Cypress Streets
New York Faces Heavy Rain To Ease Drought
New York received its first heavy rain in months as engineers planned a vast 600 billion gallon reservoir system to serve New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The rain measured .61 inch helping water officials but not solving the current shortage.
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New York
Weather Bureau
City Water Department
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York Woman Pleads Insanity in Frankfurt Murder Case
Mrs. Yvette Madsen of New York, accused of murdering her husband Lt. Andrew Madsen in Frankfurt Germany, pleads insanity in the Frankfurt district court. Preliminary testimony shows the lieutenant laughed when allegedly insulted at a party. If convicted she faces life imprisonment.
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Yvette Madsen
New York
Andrew Madsen
Oakland
Calif
Frankfurt
Germany
Madsen
Tragedy at Shreveport Holiday Dance Drowns Byrd High Student
Six Byrd High School pupils faced tragedy after a car carrying five students plunged into Bickham bayou near Gross Lake during a holiday intermission. Henry Ann Meyer, 15, drowned, while four others escaped and were later rescued. Surviving students described the chaotic scene as deputies traced the accident to driver Ike Hawkins who lost control after glare from an oncoming car blinded him.
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Shreveport
Byrd High School
Bickham Bayou
Gross Lake
Henry Ann Meyer
Henry N. Myer
Miss Meyer
Carroll Rogers
Odell Rogers
Miss Roger
First National Bank
Ike Hawkins
I. F. Hawkinson
Alan Dean Calcote
A. D. Calcote
Caroline Bewley
X. R. Bewley
Norris Bigner
V. Z. Bigner
Lee Bushman
Bob Snell
Caddo Parish
Father Held in Girl Bludgeoning in Union
Police questioned 59 year old Charlie Eubanks of Union after his 16 year old daughter Virginia Grace Eubanks was found with a skull fracture in her home on Christmas Eve. She remained unconscious in a Charlotte hospital with no clear motive or weapon identified. An uncle called it foul play and vowed to pursue the investigation.
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Union
D. C
Virginia Grace Eubanks
Charlie Eubanks
Charlotte
N.C
James Estes
R. P. Gossett
Hiss Details Sublet of Washington Apartment in 1935
Alger Hiss testified in his perjury trial that in 1935 he sublet a Washington apartment to Whitaker Chambers by oral agreement and charged no rent beyond the same amount he paid, furnishing furniture and utilities without payment except for an Oriental rug as a gift. Chambers, a Soviet spy ring courier, lived there two months and provided government testimony.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Washington, D. C
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
State Department
Chambers
U. S
Thomas F. Murphy
Murphy
Most Autos Still Of Pre War Make
Washington December 27 The head of General Motors says about 55 to 60 percent of cars now on the road are pre war. Charles E Wilson notes used cars remain overpriced relative to prewar purchasing power and does not foresee radical car changes or a sub $1,000 model in the near future.
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Washington
General Motors
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
U. S. News and World Report
Truman Plans to Resume Work After Holiday in Missouri
President Truman will return to Washington tomorrow after a three day Christmas holiday in Missouri. He plans to work from his Kansas City hotel penthouse on state of the union economic and budget messages with no firm delivery date set. He attended Jackson county statue unveiling and a Masonic lodge installation before visiting relatives.
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Truman
Charles G. Ross
Washington
Congress
Andrew Jackson
Margaret Truman
Jackson County
Masonic Lodge
Grandview
Mary Jane Truman
Independence
Eleanor
Grace Minor
Minor
Cleveland Bus Strike Ends After Court Ruling
Cleveland transit workers ended a six day walkout by voting to accept an injunction ordering them to abandon the strike against the city owned transit system. Buses and streetcars were set to roll quickly as officials urged resumption of normal schedules.
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Cleveland
A. F. of L
Cleveland Transit System
Meaney
David Ralph Hertz
Judge Arts
Ohio
Thomas A. Burke
Burke
Woman's death in woods probed in Memphis park
Police awaited autopsy results to determine the cause of death of Mrs Martha White Lindsey Russell 50 found in a wooded city park. She was married to Dr George Russell and left a note saying she could not live with him. Survivors include two 16-year-old twins and another daughter in Tupelo Mississippi.
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Memphis
Tenn
Martha White
Lindsey Russell
Nashville
George Russell
George Beckers
Russell
Bill Demuth
Dr. Russell
Becker
Catherine
George
George Maynard, Jr
Tupelo
Miss
Temperatures Rise Across Much of Nation With Some Subzero Readings
The Associated Press reports temperatures trending toward or above normal across most regions while a few areas show subzero readings. A fresh cold air mass hits North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota driving temps below zero there. Readings vary with light rain in New England and the mid- Atlantic, drizzle in the southeast and north central, and rain along Washington and Oregon coasts. Light snow falls in Minnesota and eastern Washington.
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Associated Press
North Dakota
Minnesota
North Central
Midwest
New England
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Washington
Oregon
United States of Indonesia Now Proclaimed in Batavia
A 20,000 strong crowd watched the Hoisting of Indonesia's red and white flag at the high commissioner's palace as Sultan Buwono accepted turnover from Dutch official A. H. J. Lovink. Queen Juliana announced sovereignty from Amsterdam in a three minute broadcast. Republican troops patrolled the streets while 6,000 soldiers kept order amid fears of clashes with Communists.
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Kenneth
Batavia
Java
Holland
East Indies
United States of
Indonesia
Amsterdam
Juliana
Sultan Hermangku Buwono
United States of Indonesia
Netherlands
A. H. J. Lovink
Pacific
Indian Ocean
Pegangsaan
Hague
Buwono
Lovink
Wilhelmus
Crackdown on tax evaders eyed in Congress
Washington dispatch. Representative Forand says Congress may push a crackdown on tax evaders and loopholes before any tax rate increases. Treasury and tax experts estimate up to five billion dollars is lost yearly to evasion, with Republicans and Democrats debating excise cuts and broader reforms.
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Washington
Congress
Representative Forand
D-R.1
Ways and
Treasury
Congressional
Capitol Hill
Truman
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
House
America
Martin
O’conor
Carpenter Hangs Self in Prison in Maryland
John W. Barker a 22 year old carpenter and Mount Holly North Carolina native hanged himself with a torn bedsheet in the Howard county jail just before midnight. He had been convicted of first degree murder for bludgeoning his wife Nellis S. Barker to death with a hammer in their Savage Maryland home on August 4. He was to be sentenced this morning by Judge James Clark. The case followed a three month police hunt across the eastern seaboard. Barker was identified in Baton Rouge Louisiana on November 11 on a routine vagrancy charge.
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Ellicott City
Carpenter
Howard County
John W. Barker
Mount Holly
N. C
Barker
James Clark
Savage
Seaboard
Baton Rouge
Nellis S. Barker
Woman Held for Carving Husband
New York police say Mrs. Joseph Failla, a 38 year old Bronx dress maker, will face homicide charges after stabbing her husband to death on Christmas morning. Failla, who died from 13 stab wounds, reportedly fought over letters from another woman. she then swallowed sleeping pills and was treated at Fordham Hospital before being moved to Bellevue. The couple’s children witnessed the attack as Failla’s husband collapsed under the Christmas tree with the mink coat gift nearby.
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New York
Joseph Failla
Bellevue Hospital
Fordham Hospital
Joseph
Camilla
Failla
Bronx
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