Terrific Refinery Blast Kills Three in Fort Worth Area
Three men died and eight were injured when a Magnolia Oil Refinery blast at Hodge near Fort Worth caused fires. One identified victim was George Ashton, 42, with other fatalities unnamed. Injured workers listed include Thomas Cooper, M. D. Smith, C. F. Unryh, W. T. Wallace, W. A. Reagan, Lloyd Jarmar, George R. Nesbit, and Murray O’Neal. Fire crews contained flames within an hour as ambulances staged nearby and traffic disrupted in the plant vicinity. Police and state authorities investigated the blast as traffic along Hodge Station routes jammed local highways.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Magnolia
Hodge
Sulavon
Fvni Ywv
George Ashton
Thomas W. Cooper
M. D. Smith
C. F. Unryh
W. T. Wallace
W. A. Reagan
Lloyd Jarmar
George R. Nesbitt
Murray O'Neal
Hodge Station
Desperado Jack Tatum Arrested by FBI at Florence Junction
FBI agents captured Jack Tatum at a Florence Junction filling station after a months long pursuit. The 27 year old, who escaped Minden Nevada jail on August 13, fled with brother Lewis in a stolen car and was later linked to several state line thefts and parole violations. The Tatum family has multiple members jailed or awaiting return to custody across California Nevada and Arizona.
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Tatum
Phoenix
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jack Tatum
Minden
Douglas County
Nev
Lewis
Florence Junction
Hudson
FBI
Jack
Joseph Tatum
Arizona State Penitentiary
Florence
William A. Murphy
California
Nevada
Stewart Motor Company
Murphy
San Quentin Penitentiary
Joseph
Arizona
Sam Tatum
Marysville
Calif
Carson City
Six Missing As Boat Sinks After Crash
Boston dispatch reports six crew members of the fishing trawler Corinthian missing after the 7600 ton freighter Mormacfir rammed and sank it 60 miles southeast of Halifax in dense fog. Five of eleven aboard were rescued. Coast Guard and a weather-station cutter rushed to aid. The Corinthian, 112 feet, 161 tons, owned by Gorton-Pew, operated out of Gloucester. The Mormacfir departed New York Sept 16 for Oslo.
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Boston
Corinthian
Mormacfir
Halifax
N. S
Gloucester
Mass
Coast Guard
Moore-McCormack Lines
Coos Bay
Lloyd's Registry
Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company, Ltd
New York
Oslo
Norway
Twin Truck Drivers Stage Wild West Night in Sunnyslope
Two 26 year old identical twin drivers brandished .38 revolvers in Duffy's Tavern initiating a chase through North Seventh Street. Deputies arrested them at Chez Wen Tavern after confiscating two revolvers a .30 rifle and a 20 gauge shotgun. They claimed to be aiding a kidnapped woman but provided a confusing story and were jailed for investigation on firearms charges.
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Bill Hines
Sunnyslope
Duffy’s Tavern
North Seventh Street
William Moore
C. H. Totten
Chez Wen Tavern
Moore and Totten
U.N. Assembly Elects Romulo President in 4th Session
The United Nations General Assembly opens in New York with Carlos P. Romulo elected president on the first ballot amid hopes for peace. Romulo urges unity against Communism and calls for the peaceful settlement of disputes under the Mexican resolution. Norman J. O. Makin presides for Evatt who could not attend. Evatt highlights economic challenges and U.N. role in aiding underdeveloped nations.
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Flushing Meadow
N. Y
INS
General Assembly of
The
United Nations
Carlos P. Romulo
Romulo
Peace Assembly
Quirino
Philippines
Pacific
Assembly
Paris
U.N
Norman J. O. Makin
Australia
Herbert V. Evatt
Makin
Evatt
Five Laborers Killed In Hollister Truck Crash
Five farm laborers were killed and 29 injured when a labor contractor’s open truck plunged over a 20 foot embankment near Hollister California. The driver survived and two other men aboard were unhurt. Red Cross mobilized aid at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital as Army doctors joined local physicians to treat the injured.
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Hollister
Calif
INS
San Juan
San Benito River
Joe Gomez
San Benito County
The
Red Cross
Howard O’brien
Hazel Hawkins
O'Brien
Ford Ord
Noronic Toll Rises to 126 with Three Recovered
The known dead from the Noronic disaster climbed to 126 as divers recovered an unidentified man and two women from the water near the ship’s hull. Police said all three likely drowned after leaping from the burning vessel. Forty-five bodies had been identified by noon today.
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Toronto
INS
Betrayer of Priest Slain in Prague Church Conflict
In Moravia a Communist informer who betrayed a village priest was shot in the Liska Forest near Vatasske Mezirici, two miles from Kelo. The killing signals rising tension as Prague clamps down on church opposition amid arrests of priests and lay leaders. The government accuses the Vatican of spying as it pushes a bill to bring the church under state control.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Liska
Kelo
Vatasske Mezirici
Moravia
Slovakia
Bohemia
Rude Pravo
Vatican
President Leaves Strike Prevention To Mediator Ching
White House says President Truman will not intervene personally in the steel or coal mine disputes. Cyrus Ching resumes talks with steel industry reps as government seeks to avert a steel strike. CIO Chief Murray arrives at Labor Department with union delegation awaiting outcome.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Cyrus Ching
Ross
Ching
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Philip Murray
Labor Department
CIO
Pittsburgh
Baseball Scores From Today in the American League
In Chicago the White Sox defeated New York 17 to 30 as Kuzava, Malone, Reynolds, Page and Berra starred. Cleveland beat Boston 28 to 5 with Lemon Gromek Hegan Tebbetts contributing. Detroit triumphed 6 to 13 over Philadelphia behind Gray Hutchi White and Robinson. Brooklyn and Chicago traded slim major run totals with late innings miscues, final scores 59 to 0 in a dramatic display.
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Chicago
New York
Kuzava
Malone
Reynolds
Page
Berra
Secret Service raid nets $48000 in gold seizure
Guy William Bates of Nogales was among eight men arrested in a Pasadena raid by Secret Service agents who confiscated 48000 in gold and said they had disrupted an international gold smuggling ring. A revolt in Suiyuan province near the Mongolian People's Republic is reported from Canton. Leonardo Keeler of Chicago, who helped develop early lie detectors, died at 48.
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Guy William Bates
Nogales
Ariz
Secret Service
Pasadena
Calif
Inner
Suiyuan
Mongolian People’s Republic
Canton
Markets At A Glance New York Stocks Rigidity Dip
Markets at a glance show lower New York stocks with leaders off earnings while rails decline. Chicago wheat futures rose on short cover as September contract advanced. Hogs moved slowly with prices down to 23 to 30 cents, and oats steadied to 350 cents lower, top at 33.75 dollars.
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New York
Eharnt
Chicago
Temperatures Today Guide For Readers Bow Woman
Odd fragment notes temperatures and prices with stray words. This item reads as a damaged weather and guidance snippet with unclear context and no coherent event or named entities to anchor a fuller summary.
Talks Open On Unity In Atomics
Washington opens three nation discussions among the United States Canada and Britain to decide each nation’s role in atomic strategy and the renewal of the modest three party partnership. The talks are exploratory and aim to shape the future division of atomic materials and aims before January first. Secretary Acheson leads the combined policy committee with Webb acting in his absence.
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Washington
Canada
Great Britain
America
United States
Britain
Dean Acheson
Acheson
United Nations General Assembly
New York
James E. Webb
U. S
Citizens Cite Areas of Filth Squalor Slum Plan Debate
Proponents urge Phoenix City Council to adopt a resolution and approve a 265000 survey to precede a 6000000 slum clearance project. Emmett McLoughlin cites health, policing, fire protection and tax benefits as outcomes of public housing. Page 2.
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Lewis Thomas
Phoenix
Emmett McLoughlin
Phoenix Housing Authority
McLoughlin
Auto Fire Kills Dad and Daughter in Lethal Crash
In Los Angeles a man Rodney E. Tyler aged 35 and his 12-year-old daughter Roberta of Redondo Beach perished when a butane laden trailer truck struck their stalled car and exploded its gasoline tank. Spectators heard the girl scream as they could not approach the blaze.
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Los Angeles
Rodney E. Tyler
Roberta
Redondo Beach
Calif
Tyler
Robert Corsini
Tax ruling says all rentals taxed at 2 percent
Attorney General Fred O. Wilson ruled that owners who regularly rent homes or apartments are subject to a 2 percent sales tax on gross income from the property. The opinion, for the Arizona Tax Commission, extends tax liability to duplexes and single units and applies to regular rental activity, not casual rentals.
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Fred O. Wilson
Arizona Tax Commission
Arizona
Wilson
Commission
TAX Commission
Driggs
Edward Jacobson
Jacobson
RAF Chief Tedder To Visit San Antonio Bases
Texans wait as Sir Arthur Tedder air marshal and chief of the British Royal Air Force plans a Thursday visit to air bases in San Antonio. The trip announced on September 20 by AP confirms the high level diplomatic and military ties during wartime.
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San Antonio
Tex
Arthur Tedder
Royal Air Force
Heart Disease Kills Actor Richard Dix
Hollywood dispatch reports screen star Richard Dix died of heart disease at 54 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after critical illness since Sept. 12. Once Hollywood’s highest paid actor, Dix rose from stage to fame in the 1920s with epics like Cimmaron and Redskin, and earned renown as a leading action star in The Vanishing American and Manpower. Born Ernest Carlton Brimmer in St. Paul Minnesota on July 18 1895, he studied at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern.
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Hollywood
Richard Dix
Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital
Dix
Cimmaron
Redskin
France
Ernest Carlton Brimmer
St. Paul, Minn
University of Minnesota
Northwestern
Dramatic School
Baldpate
He-Man
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U.N. Assembly
Yugoslavia
Vladimir Clementis
Noronic
Cleveland
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Hegan
Parnell and Tebbetts
Detroit
Philadelphia Weag
Gray
Hutchi
White
Robinson
Scheib
Brissie
Astroth
Brooklyn
Banta
Campenella
Schmitz
Muncrief
Leonard
Owen
Scheffing
International News Service
Associated Press
United Press
Leonardo Keeler
Elwood Driggs
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