Wreckage sighted of U S Army transport plane crash
A U S Army C 47 transporting 11 aboard crashed on a 12,000 foot Austrian plateau. Wreckage seen by A 46 bombers from Istres guiding rescue teams. Passengers include Col William C McMahon and Brig Gen Loyal M Haynes. Crewmembers from Tulln airport. Further details and casualties awaited.
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Frankfurt
Turin
Italy
Istres
Vienna
Air Division
U. S
Munich
Pisa
Marseilles
William C. McMahon
Buffalo
N. Y
Austria
McMahon
Mary Alice McMahon
Loyal M. Haynes
U.S. F A
U.S. F. A. Advisory Board
Haynes
Ralph Tate
General Snavely
General Tate
Thomas B. Mervine
Death of minor Republican worker shocks New York races
Joseph Scot toriggio, a juvenile Republican activist opposing Vito Marcantonio in New York 18th district, was beaten on election day and died days later. Marcantonio won by a slim margin amid alleged Fascist intimidation, while Governor Dewey vowed justice.
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New York
Joseph Scottoriggio
Vito Marcantomio
Marcantonio
Tom Dewey
Scottoriggio
Congress
Marcartonio
Vito Marecartonio
Collapse of Germany Seen by Draper in Berlin
Brig. Gen. William H. Draper Jr. warned that Germany faces economic collapse after a year of four power occupation. He urged fulfillment or revision of the Potsdam declaration as the only cure, noting the need to merge zones and treat Germany as a single economic unit.
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Berlin
William H. Draper, Jr
Germany
Potsdam
USSR Bars U S Broadcasters From Moscow Radio
Moscow announces foreign reporters cannot broadcast from Moscow due to overburdened stations. CBS correspondent Hottelet remains full time in Moscow, while ABC and NBC correspondents have been barred from on air radio briefings, with stories to be sent by telegraph.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Columbia Broadcasting System
Press Department
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russia
Richard C. Hottelet
CBS
U. S
Edmund Stevens
American Broadcasting Company
Robert Magidoff
National Broadcasting Company
Moscow Radio
U. S. State Department
Edward R. Murrow
Stalin
Hottelet
Farmer Killed as Tree Falls on Sicilian Island Worker
Preston Briggs, 41, a farmer in Sicily Island Louisiana, died when a tree he was cutting toppled. He was found six hours later pinned beneath a heavy limb. skull crushed. Funeral delayed for California relatives. burial at First National Funeral Home in Winnsboro. He leaves a wife, son Preston Briggs Jr, five daughters Annie Bell Mary Ella Bertha May Hazel Pauline and Walter Lewis, plus two sisters Mrs Addie McCall and Mrs Myrtle Bell Lightse.
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Sicily Island
Preston Briggs
California
First National Funeral Home
Winnsboro
Briggs
Preston Briggs, Jr
Annie Bell
Mary Ella
Bertha May
Hazel Pauline
Walter Lewis
Addie McCall
San Bernardino
Calif
Myrtie Bell Lightse
Bailey
Five Die and One Missing in Greenville Gas Explosion
Five people were confirmed dead and one is missing after a gas explosion and fire that leveled the Ideal Laundry plant and office in Greenville South Carolina. About 90 were injured with 30 in hospitals and 60 receiving at the blast site.
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Greenville
S. C
Ideal
General
St. Francis
J. Carl Trammel
J. Wylie Mims
Nehi Bottling Company
Jerline Simpson
Mamie Earle
Mary Brown
W. L. Harbin
State Guard
Plane Wrecked In Swamp Near Monroe Two Fliers Dead
Report details a plane crash in a swamp near Monroe resulting in two fatalities. The article lists donations to the Twin City Community chest from individuals and local businesses in Monroe and West Monroe, noting significant contributions from Hope Producing Company, McCain Richards, and Cypress Street Grocery among others.
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Monroe
Lida Benton
Barkdull Faulk
Ouachita Parish Grammar School
Twin City Community Chest Fund
M. A. McHenry
L. E. Maddocks
Hope Producing Company
Hope Producing Co
McCain-Richards, Inc
McCain- Richards
Lennon Motor Co
United Gas Pipe Line Co. & Union Producing Co
West Monroe
Lida Benton School
Madie Moore
Cliffe Olmstead
Fannie Munholland
E. M. Hammond
Addie Pearce
Bennie F. Fluker
Jessie B. Thurston
Anna M. Rudolph
Frost
W. H. Coats
H. A. Miller
James L. Pardue
Ivey Frost
L. J. Anthony
Emory W. Holmes
Herman Averitte
Oscar C. Nolan, Jr
Roy K. Morgan
Matthew Beard
Chas. Mennyweather
C. H. Garland
L. J. Monroe
R. C. Jouissaint
Cypress Street
Bourland Motor Company
Green Gables Courts
Mary FE Smith
West Moire
Garrett
Mrs Fredda Acker To Be Crowned Mrs America of 1946
Mrs Fredda Acker of Anderson South Carolina arrives in Jackson Mississippi for a formal crowning ceremony as the newly chosen Mrs America of 1946 She will be accompanied by her husband John L Acker and possibly their 16 month old son John L Acker Jr Bert Titcomb director of the contest said no time or place has been set for the ceremony
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Jackson
Miss
Fredda Acker
Anderson
S. C
America
Janice Pollock
Columbus
Ohio
John L. Acker
University of South Carolina
John L. Acker, Jr
Bert Titcomb
Tragic Plane Crash Ends Four Day Search Near Monroe
The wreckage of a Stinson 150Voy aircraft was found in Lafourche swamp ten miles southeast of Monroe. Scott Robertson Jr. and his pilot C J Henderson, both killed, were last heard from north of Vicksburg on Saturday night. A land party guided by Vernon Brooks and Clifford Henderson located the scene after a plane sighting.
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Scott Robertson, Jr
Shreveport
C. J. Henderson
Vicksburg
Lafourche
Monroe
Vernon Brooks
Northeast Aviation Company
Clifford Henderson
Municipal
Brooks
Bayou Lafourche
Subistence Pay for Ex-GIs Halted Over Earnings Reports
The Veterans Administration suspended GI bill subsistence payments for about 150,000 ex-GIs who failed to report earnings from school or job training. Monthly amounts were 65 dollars for unmarried and 90 dollars for married veterans, with tuition payments unaffected.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Stubborn Tax Fight Likely Across House
Washington reports indicate rising opposition to a quick 4 percent cut in individual income taxes as Congress opens. Rep Curtis and Rep Miller of Nebraska join others in questioning the plan while Rep Doughton of North Carolina urges balancing the federal budget first.
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Washington
Congress
G. Q O. P. House
Curtis and
Miller
Nebraska
Rep
Doughton
North Carolina
Coughton
House
Republican Steering Committee
Curtis
Cox
Georgia
Democratic House
Knutson
Minnesota
Doughten
Army resumes mailing terminal leave bonds to GIs
After weeks of delay the Army begins sending out millions of terminal leave bonds to veterans. By Christmas officials expect most of about 4 million claims to be paid with five year bonds or cash for small sums. Some holds due to address changes may delay receipt. undelivered bonds are returned for update. Navy disbursing at Great Lakes has paid over 500 000 claims.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Treasury
Navy
Great Lakes
Ill
Congress
Russia Ready to List Troops at U N
Lake Success and New York the United States pressed for full troop disclosure by all U N members. Molotov said Russia would accept a U S led process to report forces at home and abroad, specifying locations, numbers, and allied base details.
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Russia
Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations
V. M. Molotov
Tom Connally
Texas
U. N. Assembly
Warren R. Austin
U. S
Molotov
U. N
Louisiana Teachers Urge Emergency Special Session
C. T. Thompson of the Louisiana State Federation of Teachers travels to Monroe urging Governor Davis to call an emergency special session within 60 days to address a critical teacher shortage. He cites temporary certificates, substitute classes, and crowded classrooms and calls for immediate salary increases to retain and recruit teachers.
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C. T. Thompson
Louisiana State Federation of Teachers
Monroe
Mr. Thompson
James H. Davis
Louisiana
Communists Lead In Romanian Vote Early Returns
In Bucharest the communist dominated bloc led the first returns from the Romanian parliamentary election with 155 552 votes against 63 974 for the Magyar Popular Union and smaller totals for other parties. Officials reported 90 to 95 percent voter participation from about eight million eligible.
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Bucharest
National Peasant Party
National Liberals
Independent Socialists
Magyar Popular Union
National Peasant Democrats
Interior Ministry
Neville honors her hero sons at Neville High School
At Neville High School tributes honored more than 600 alumni and 23 who died in World War II with two bronze memorial tablets. The event featured an honor roll address, prayers, and music from the Neville Glee Club as dignitaries and graduates remembered the fallen.
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Neville High School
Neville
Arnold Bernstein
James M. Cobb
Thomas E. Flournoy
Minnie M. Ruffin
Peter Crandall
J. R. Cannon
J. C. Marsh
Thomas W. Leigh
Ernest D. Holloway
Neville High School Glee Club
Clara Hall
Thomas W. Davenport
Raw Sugar Prices Rise Under OPA Order
OPA boosted raw cane sugar by 36.5 cents per 100 pounds and for Semi refined sugar by 40 cents per 100 pounds. A retail price rise of about a half cent per pound for refined sugar is expected, adding roughly 50 million dollars to annual food bills, with a subsidy cut on domestically produced sugar.
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Washington
OPA
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
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U.S
Westbrook
Pegler
Draper
Wenth
Teuth
Hillman
Monongahela
John L. Lewis
Twin City
New
MRS. America
Bayou Lafourche Wilds
Harold W. Ward
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Union
Carlton
Krug
Truman
Key West
Fla
Welly K. Hopkins
William E. Leahy
Justice Department
Mississippi
Iowa
Wisconsin
Missouri
Minesota
T. Alan Goldsborough
Vickeburg
United States District Court
Natchez
Fereriday
Themeselves
Natche
Foxey Hall
Engle and Laub
R. M. Kelly
Robert Adams
Ernest Davis
W. S. Wilson
Nat- Oke
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