Desperate Son Plans to Kill Man in Québec Bomb Death Case
An 18 year old Brown University freshman Patrick Parker of Rye New York told police he planned to kill the man blamed for his father R J Parker’s death in the Sept 9 Quebec Airlines crash. He admitted holding up a liquor store to raise money to reach Canada and avenge his father though he said he would repay the loot. A .32 caliber pistol and 55.60 were found in his car. He faces armed robbery charges in Walpole Mass. court.
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Plainville
Mass
Canada
Patrick J. Parker
Rye
N. Y
R. J. Parker
Kennecott Copper Company
Quebec Iron and Titanium Company
St. Joachim
Que
Quebec City
Parker
Brown University
Walpole District Court
Robert Wilkinson
J. Albert Guay
Guay
Quebec Airlines
London
Wilkinson
Uneasy Calm Holds Panama After Coup
Panama City awoke to an uneasy calm after President Daniel Chanis resigned in a bloodless coup staged by the National Police. Vice President Roberto Chiari was sworn in by the Supreme Court chief justice after Chanis yielded to police ultimatums. Police chief Jose Remon and aides were briefly detained, with diplomatic mediation preventing bloodshed and enabling a peaceful transfer of power.
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Panama City
INS
Panama
Daniel Chanis, Jr
Roberto Chiari
Chanis
Supreme Court
Jose Remon
Remon
Bolivar Vallarino
Saturnino Flores
Missing Harvard Freshman Sought After Flight Mishap
A party of 40 woodsmen searched Bald Mountain near Newport New Hampshire for a Harvard University freshman who disappeared Sunday during an airplane flight from Bridgeport Connecticut to Boston.
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Newport
N. H
Mns
Bald Mountain
Harvard University
Bridgeport
Missing plane feared down near Oslo with 35 aboard
A missing Aero Holland twin engine plane carrying 35 people including 28 Jewish refugee children is feared lost after radio contact near Fornebu Airport. Rescue teams comb forests and lakes as Swedish Danish and Norwegian forces aid in the search. a sister ship with 27 children landed safely in Göteborg.
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Olso
Norway
Fornebu
Gjersjoen Lake
Skagerrak
Aero Holland
Hague
Goeteborg
Sweden
Tunis
North Africa
Israel
Scandinavia
Thorvald Anderson
Olso Fjord
Wherry Urges End to Foreign Aid and Isolationism
Senate minority leader Kenneth S. Wherry of Nebraska told the National Association of Real Estate Boards in Chicago that the United States should curtail foreign aid and expenditures. He urged cutting Economic Cooperation Administration funds by at least 1.5 billion dollars, arguing that other nations must solve their own economic problems through policies and productive reforms.
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Chicago
Senate
United States
Kenneth S. Wherry
Nebraska
National Association of Real Estate Boards
America
Wherry
Scott Lucas
Illinois
Fire Rips Through Kessler’s Drug and Department Store
A general alarm fire tore through Kessler's Drug and Department Store in downtown Pottstown at about 10 a.m. Several of the more than 50 firefighters were overcome by smoke as flames threatened adjacent buildings in the business district. The blaze was reported still raging an hour after it began.
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Pottstown
Kessler’s Drug and Department
Fear of Espionage Suspect Held by Hungary in Missing ITT Executive
In Vienna, Henry H. Scudder of ITT warned Hungarian authorities will press Robert A. Vogeler to confess to espionage and sabotage as he disappears while returning from a Magyar border crossing. Vogeler, eastern European representative for ITT, vanished after a private car trip.
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Vienna
INS
Henry H. Scudder
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
Robert A. Vogeler
ITT
Vogeler
Jackson Heights
Long Island
Hungary
Scudder
Legation
Budapest
Aus
Hermann H. Field
Cleveland
Ohio
Poland
Warsaw
Prague
Noel
State Department
Foreign Office
Food Group Urges Action To End World Hunger At FAO
Director General Norris E Dodd urged FAO delegates from 58 nations to make 1950 a year of action and end chronic undernourishment. He warned that surpluses provoke restrictive measures and called for national funding to build services for aid-receiving countries, noting FAO cannot create them from outside.
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Washington
INS
Norris E. Dodd
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Dodd
FAO
Supreme Court Meets in noon opinion-day session
The Supreme Court met at noon today in an opinion-day session. The event occurred in Washington with Associated Press reporting.
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Washington
Supreme Court
B-29 Survivors Relate Ordeal On Wild Sea
In Bermuda 18 airmen from a B 29 crash endured three days at sea on two life rafts after their plane broke apart in 4 100 mile waves. Surviving crew describe loss of two companions, a desperate fight to stay afloat, and a long rescue by a Canadian destroyer. They faced exhaustion and saltwater injuries but are expected to leave hospital within a week.
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Bermuda
Haida
Air Force Hospital
Manuel R. Oropeza
Globe
Atlantic
Hamilton
Dan R. Sewell
Kindley
St. George’s Hospital
John Grable, Jr
Cpl
Raymond Briet
Arlington
Calif
Pfc
Robert H. Dobson
Decatur, Ill
William H. Pratt
Brockton
Mass
Dobson
John O. Burch
Los Angeles
Burch
17 Month Old Attacked and Killed Near Huron Dance Hall
In Central California, the body of 17 month old Josephine Yanez was found near a Huron dance hall after being assaulted. A statewide manhunt began as investigators ordered an autopsy and questioned numerous witnesses while crowds gathered.
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Huron
Calif
California
San Joaquin Valley
Josephine Yanez
Joe Yanez
Fresno
Little Josephine
Griffin Ranch No. 2
Josephine
James Thuesen
Clark Savory
Infant Born With Bladder Outside Dies
A 1 month old baby boy Ronald Staggs died at Good Samaritan Hospital after a corrective operation. Born Oct 3 at Yuma Hospital, he was son of LaMar and unnamed mother of Somerton. Financial aid came from Crippled Children's Division. Burial followed via Grimshaw Mortuary with a friend from Yuma.
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Good Samaritan Hospital
Ronald Staggs
LaMar Staggs
Somerton
W. J. Kaman
State Welfare Department
Yuma
Grimshaw Mortuary
Typhoon Drifts Toward Okinawa
A tropical hurricane that struck Guam last week drifts toward Okinawa with reduced gale force. Located 700 miles northwest of Guam, its center winds are near 10 mph. It is forecast to be 420 miles southeast of Okinawa tomorrow and could veer toward Iwo Jima or Minami Island.
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Tokyo
Guam
Okinawa
United States Typhoon Warning Network
Iwo Jima
Minami Island
Captain Taylor of Noronic Suspended by Canadian Judge
Ottawa reports Justice Kellock ordered Capt William C Taylor of Sarnia Ont suspended for a year after the Noronic fire at Toronto dock that killed 118. The ruling faults owners and captain for fire safety lapses and failing to evacuate passengers. Measures to tighten vessel safety were urged and the company must cover transport inquiry expenses.
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Ottawa
Noronic
Supreme Court of Canada
Toronto
R. L. Kellock
Transport Department
William C. Taylor
Sarnia
Ont
House of Commons
Justice Kellock
Kellock
Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd
Taylor
Co. D. Howe
United States
Detroit-Cleveland
Cleveland
Detroit
Noted Leaders Comment On Atomic Threats And Readiness
International News Service reports from Boston New York and Nashville quotes from Gen Lucius D Clay former German governor warning about global safety after atomic weapon spread Gen Dwight D Eisenhower urging military training and Vice President Alben Barkley expressing a wish for all Americans to live without fear of want referencing Andrew Jackson nickname Old Hickory
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International News Service
Boston
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
United States
Nashville,tenn
Alben Barkley
Old Hickory
Hiss Testimony Over Car Gift to Communists Admitted
Federal Judge Henry Goddard let Whittaker Chambers testify about an old Ford roadster Hiss allegedly gave to the Communist Party in 1935. Chambers said the car was for the Party’s use by workers, a point barred in the first trial but allowed here. The case concerns Hiss denying secrets to Chambers and meeting him after 1937.
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New York
Henry W. Goddard
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Chambers
State Department
Communist Party
Goddard
Samuel Kaufman
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Kennecott
Neale Butterfield
Glenda Joyce Brisbois
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Ida
Saul Clark
Sen. Wherry
U. S
FAO Council
Paris
Supreme Court Meets
Capt. Taylor
Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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