Disaster at Transvaal bridge train wreck
In Transvaal near Waterval Boven a speeding passenger train jumped a 50-foot bridge over the Elands River late at night and plummeted into the river. At least 75 dead, 90 missing and 85 injured. Most victims were natives. only one body recovered identified as European. The eastbound train traveled from Witwatersrand to Lourenco Marques in Portuguese East Africa.
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Waterval Boven
Transvaal
South Africa
Elands
Witwatersrand
Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Police hunt ax murderer in Hollywood
The body of six year old Linda Joyce Glacott was found in the backyard near her Hollywood home after a search prompted by her mother’s pleas. Police say an axe was found beside the battered body and identify a suspect previously seen with Linda, a relative of the Hausman family, amid a manhunt linked to a prior morals case. Linda’s death is described by authorities as murder. the family laments the tragedy.
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Hollywood
INS
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Lillian Glacott
Linda
Nina Martin
Mae
Baldwin Hills
Scott Co.Stone
Rube Hausman
Linda Joyce
Mrs. Glacoft
Ultimatum to end coal strike faces White House action
Washington reports that John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers paid $1,420,000 in fines for defying a no strike order. Lewis is given 24 to 48 hours to push a coal contract as Truman weighs Taft Hartley moves or other actions before the Dec 1 truce deadline. Coalition talks stall as Southern Coal Producers push tighter fund controls and oversight.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
White House
Lewis
Truman
Taft Hartley
Justice Department
Southern Coal Producers Association
Soviet Bloc Danube Commission Is Declared Invalid
The United States labeled the new Soviet bloc Danube commission invalid, saying it replaces a 1921 framework and enables Moscow to monopolize river trade. Washington argued the setup violates peace treaties with Bulgaria Hungary and Romania and breaches established international waterways concepts dating over 130 years.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Danube River
Galatz
Romania
Soviet Union
Bulgaria
Hungary
Europe
Student Kills Self On Wedding Night
Thomas Lee Schwader, 20, a junior college student, killed himself in his car near the Los Angeles River hours after his wedding night quarrel with Edna Hamman. A note on his marriage license urged his former sweetheart to try suicide, and authorities say he shot himself with a shotgun after a dispute with a former sweetheart. The couple wed Sunday in Yuma, Arizona.
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Lynwood
Calif
Thomas Lee Schwader
Los Angeles
Edna Ham
Yuma
Ariz
Jackie
Compton College
John Jones
Sheriff's Homicide Squad
What Noted People Are Saying What Noted People Are Saying
International News Service reports three views from leaders on Soviet pressure. Dean Acheson says Soviet thrusts threaten freedom and must be met where they occur. Paul G Hoffmann doubts Kremlin hold without Western Europe in its orbit. Warren Austin urges the Soviet Union to end hate, meet with others, and lift the iron curtain to strengthen peace.
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Berlin
Dean Acheson
Detroit
Paul G. Hoffman
Kremlin
Western Europe
Lake Success
N. Y
United
Truman Plans Key West Stay for Three Weeks
President Truman will fly to Key West Florida on November 28 for a three week stay. Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret are expected to join him for part of the visit, according to Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross who confirmed weeks of circulating reports.
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Washington
Truman
Key West
Fla
Charles G. Ross
Second Air Born Baby Brought To America Aboard Atlantic Plane
A Polish woman aboard a Scandinavian Airlines flight carrying 60 displaced persons to New York gave birth mid Atlantic near Prestwick to a girl. It is the second mid ocean birth in a month. The mother Mrs Leokadia Rolbiecki and the infant are reported doing well. The plane later landed in New York with the family bound for Dahlgren Illinois.
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America
Atlantic
Prestwick
Scotland
Gander
Newfoundland
Scandinavian Airlines
New York
James C. Parker
U.S. Air Force
Germany
American Overseas Airlines
Rolbiecki
Bremen
Allies Slow Dismantling of German Industry
West German Chancellor Adenauer said Britain, France and the United States agreed to slow dismantling of German war industry. He outlined progress from the Paris foreign ministers conference and noted plans to allow Germany to join international bodies, expand shipping, set up trade consulates, and ease occupation restrictions amid talks with Western high commissioners.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Britain
France
United States
Adenauer
Paris
West Germany
Allied High Commission
Merchant Marine Officers Readied for Nationwide Strike
Two thousand American Merchant Marine officers plan a midnight strike that would halt Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipping. Federal mediators report slim odds of averting the walkout, with peace talks set to continue at the Labor Department.
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Washington
INS
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Labor Department
Truman to Greet Acheson at Washington Field
President Truman planned a drive to Washington National Airport to greet Secretary of State Acheson on his return from a Big Three foreign ministers meeting in Europe. Acheson’s plane was due between 1 and 1 30 p.m.
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Washington
Truman
Washington National Airport
State Acheson
Europe
Acheson
15 Miners Rescued After Eight Hours Underground
In Mahanoy City Pa 15 coal miners were rescued after eight hours trapped behind a rock fall at Philadelphia and Reading Maple Hill colliery No 6 slope. They were found with air and food intact and suffered no injuries. Rescue teams breached the restraining wall to reunite the men with surface crews.
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Mahanoy City
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company
Maple Hill
Santa Fe Freight Train Derailment Near Golden
Eighteen cars of a 75 car Santa Fe freight train derailed 35 miles west of Wickenburg near Golden. No one injured. Crews work to clear track as the California Wickenburg Phoenix run resumes today. Cause under investigation. Several cars overturned and split open.
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Wickenburg
Santa Fe
Here
Phoenix
Golden
Padlocks on Two Phoenix Brothels End in Jailings
Sheriffs padlocked the Hayes Rooms at 335 East Jefferson Street and the Imperial Rooms at 319 East Jefferson Street after a raid led by Deputy County Attorney Joe Walton undersheriff John Calhoun and Chief Earl L. O Clain. Six women were jailed on vagrancy charges, including Rae Morris Bellvie Clark Dorothy Mae Martin Delores Grayson Shirley Wilson Lonnie Clark Hughlene Shelton. The raid followed injunctions granted by Superior Court Judge Rent L Jennings and a prior investigation by Detectives Harry Roberts and Fred Nichols which charged Edwin Weiss with Robbery and James Haynes with Pandering.
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Tatum
el Paso
Hayes
East Jefferson Street
Joe Walton
John Calhoun
Earl L. O’clair
Superior Court
Rent L. Jennings
Walton
O’clair
Phoenix
Rae Morris
Bellvie Clark
The
Imperials
Dorothy Mae Martin
Delores Grayson
Shirley Wilson
Lonnie Clark
Hughlene Shelton
Imperial and Hayes
Harry Roberts
Fred Nichols
Edwin Weiss
North Richland Street
James Haynes
Tulsa
Okla
Haynes
Imperial Rooms
Gazette
Maricopa County
John D. Calhoun
Hayes Rooms
East
Jefferson Street
Two Navy Fliers Sought Off Oahu
Off Barbers Point Oahu two Navy fliers abandoned a two engine fighter when both engines quit. Rescue units searched the area for a pilot and radar observer as night fell over Honolulu.
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Navy
Oahu
Honolulu
T. H
Barbers Point
Bridges Jury Now Totals Five
In San Francisco on November 15, jurors were being selected to try Harry Bridges and two CIO longshore union lieutenants for perjury and conspiracy related to Bridges naturalization in 1945. Federal Judge George B. Harris halted a defense bid to bring in other union officials as witnesses, and by yesterday afternoon five jurors, two women and three men, had been tentatively seated.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Congress of Industrial Organizations
George B. Harris
Bridges
Henry Schmidt
J. R. Robertson
Fog Envelops Cattle Truck Crash Into Train
In heavy ground fog 12 miles northwest of Stockton California a cattle truck slammed into a Western Pacific freight train at a Thornton Sacramento highway grade crossing. The collision killed both truck occupants and burned their bodies beyond recognition. The truck likely belonged to a Dixon livestock firm. The impact derailed four freight cars and toppled one. No crew members were injured.
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Stockton
Calif
Western Pacific
Here
Dixon Livestock Company
Thornton-Sacramento
Marsh Behind Flight Record Set To Break Transcontinental Flight
Cincinnati airport tower officials reported radio contact with Capt. Norman Marsh 170 miles southwest of Owensboro Kentucky at 10 15 am as he aimed to break the transcontinental light plane record. CAA said tail winds were favorable but could not verify his average speed. Oklahoma City CAA officials stated he was three hours behind schedule at 3 49 am today.
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Cincinnati
Norman Marsh
Owensboro
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Oklahoma City
CAA
Typhoon Toll Rises to 975 in Central Philippines
In Kabankalan Negros Occidental 117 more bodies were recovered from the October typhoon scene, lifting the death toll to 975 with around 60 missing and presumed dead in the central Philippines.
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Manila
The
Red Cross
Kabankalan
Negros Occidental
Philippines
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Ipor
Goibe
Arizona
Progir
Bulletin
Danube
International News Service
M. m
Leokadia Rolbiecki
T. Stensrud
John Rowell
Sydney
N. S
Merchant Marine
Wreck
Saving Fand Society
Philadelphia
Marsh
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