Saipan Battles Ice Cap Storm Aids Greenland Rescue Effort
The carrier Saipan, en route to Greenland with 13 stranded airmen, wrestled through 100 mph gusts and heavy seas. Captain Kane reduced speed multiple times as five helicopters and two torpedo bombers faced damage, but mission chiefs remained confident flights would occur in clear weather with winds under 40 mph.
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Ss. S. Saipan
Green- Uxd
Greenland
Saipan
Nortak
Wednesay
Joseph L. Kane
USN
Kane
Cape Race
Naval
Williams V. Davis, Jr
Spies Boost Not Hurt NH Liquor Sales
Salem Massachusetts Tax Commissioner Henry Long’s inspectors failed to dent New Hampshire store business as Bay State residents shopped for liquor. Store volume last week reached 30 000 to 35 000 dollars, aided by publicity. Salem Police Chief George Diskey ordered Massachusetts officials away under loitering threat and confiscated a license list. Attorney General Ernest D Amour said no action could be taken against Long.
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Salem
Massachusetts
Henry
Long
Hampfire State
New Hampshire
Massacusetts
Long Kn
George L. Diskey
Liqior Commission
Welles Faces Severe Exposure After Found In Maryland Field
Sumner Welles the former undersecretary of state was found unconscious in a snowflecked Maryland field with fingers and toes frozen. He remained in serious condition from severe exposure and shock and may require amputations. Welles left his Oxon Hill estate early Sunday amid heart ailment history and personal stress from the death of Laurence Duggan.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Maryland
Welles
George R. Huffman
Soe
Oxon Hill
Arnold Welles
New York
Laurence Duggan
Duggan
State Department
Secy. Or
Cordell Hull
Atty
Tom Clark
Two More Runners Sought In Red Espionage Probe
US House committee probes Communist espionage networks as it resumes after Congress recess. Sen Mundt says investigators seek two more couriers linking Elizabeth Bentley and Whitaker Chambers, with gaps from 1938 to 1941 and after the war.
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Washington
Congress
House
M-American Activities Committee
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Rep. Mundt
Miss Bentley
Reds
FBI
Mundt
Chambers
Communist Party
Twins Born Here 22 Days Apart
Mr and Mrs Samuel Faulkner of 31 Sudbury Street welcomed a five pound daughter Kathleen at 11 45 pm last Thursday and a four pound son Samuel Jr at 11 10 am yesterday, born 60 hours apart at Portsmouth Hospital. Doctor Doyle says rare but not unheard of occurring. parents new to the world.
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Portsmouth Hospital
Samuel Faulkner
Sudbury Street
Kathleen Faulkner
Samuel, Jr
John J. Doyle
Boston
New Hampshire Gas and Electric Company
Faulkners
Catholic Cardinal Mindszenty Arrested in Hungary Spy Case
Cardinal Mindszenty, Catholic primate of Hungary, was arrested on espionage treason and black market currency charges. The Ministry of Interior announced the arrest while Vatican sources noted no confirmation, amid church-state tensions in a Communist regime.
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Hungary
Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Ministry of Interior
Vatican City
Vatican
Peace Hopes Fade As Chinese Reds Demand Revenge
In Nanking on December 27 AP reports Communists publish a list of war criminals to be punished by a peoples court led by top leaders including Chiang Kai shek Madame Chiang Kai shek Premier Sun Fo and other national authorities. The move suggests the Reds intend to fight on and abandon any chance of peaceful settlement, possibly turning the capital into a battlefield as troops arrive.
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Nanking
China
Gemmiunis
Peoples Court
Chiang Katshes
Chiang
Sun Fo
Ore
Peoples
Fires and Alarms Plague Portsmouth Area Over Christmas
Portsmouth firefighters battled two major blazes and several minor alarms during the holiday period. A four room Islington Street bungalow suffered about 2500 damage with occupant Harry Beevers escaping unhurt. A small storage shed at Gosling Road near Woodbury Avenue was a total loss. Alphonse Chaloux was injured when an oil burner exploded at his Old Kings Highway cottage, which was destroyed by fire. Other incidents included a sprinkler alarm at Gold Craft Shoe on Islington Street and a chimney fire at a Greenwich Road home.
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Portsmouth
Islington Street
Harry Beevers
Public Service Company
Gosling Road
Woodbury Avenue
Moody
Alphonse C. Chaloux
Kings Highway
Ogunquit
Leslie Brooks
Roland
Gold Craft Shoe Company
Greenland Road
Bert Davis
Yes Q
Harry T. Rand
Elwyn ‘Road
Rye
Christmas Mail Termed Largest Since War Days
Portsmouth post office handled 564 399 pieces of Christmas mail between December 13 and Christmas Eve the largest volume since World War II. Postmaster Peter J. Hickey credited area residents for cooperation and noted 23 temporary clerks 34 extra carriers and naval base support with three navy trucks and extra rural route carrier.
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Portsmouth
Peter J. Hickey
Hickey
Public Works Department
Portsmouth Naval Base
Navy
Spare the Vet Warning on Waste in Government Health
A Hoover task force warns Congress against economies that harm veterans in federal health services. The report cites 44 agencies spending about 1.25 billion dollars this year and 24 million people aided, with VA alone projected to equal 1948 federal medical spending. It urges clearer beneficiary definitions and notes hospital duplication risk.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Veterans Administration
Local Sailor Held In Fatal Crash
A Portsmouth sailor, Henry J. Rousseau, 21, of 5 Raynes Avenue, was ordered held in $1,000 bail in Dover municipal court on a reckless operation causing death charge. He drove a car in which Pauline Merrill, 18, of Rochester, was fatally injured on December 6. Dover police said Rousseau furnished bond.
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Portmouth
Superior Court
Dover
Henry J. Rousseau
Raynes Avenue
Pauline Merrill
Rochester
Rousseau
UN observers accuse Israel of breaking Holy Land truce
UN observers in Palestine report Israel violated the truce by attacking Egyptian forces in the Negev. The Bunche memo to the Security Council notes Israeli hostilities contradict the cease fire and cites Egyptian complaints. The council weighs urgent action as fighting intensifies in the Negev and in Indonesia.
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Paris
United Nations
Palestine
Israel
Holy Land
Negev Desert
UN Security Council
Ralph J. Bunche
Bunche
Negev
Indonesia
Netherlands
the Hague
East Indies
Security Council
Council
Egypt
William E. Riley
Holland
Yale Decorations Tops Awards in Portsmouth contest
Christmas decorations in Portsmouth and Rye drew 55 entries in a judging contest by the Portsmouth Garden Club and the Chamber of Commerce. First prize for best house decorations went to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Gardner of 1360 South Street, with several households and businesses earning honors in multiple categories.
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Portsmouth Garden Club
Chamber of Commerce
Charles H. Amhoff
Garden Club
L. P. Latimer
University of New Hampshire
Victor
Ce. Amee
Kittery Point
Portsmouth
Rye
Frederick D. Gardner
South Street
Frank D. Butler
Pinehurst Road
Herman C. Smith
Court Street
Herbert P. Warry
Sagamore Avenue
Fred B. Severenece
Newcastle Avenue
Robert McLane
Rockland Street
Ralph T. Wood
Willard Avenue
John J. Castellano
Hillside Drive
Alberic Ouellette
Richards Avenue
Frank D. Gillespie
Ash Street
Elmer Rothman
Essex Avenue
Andrew Jarvis
Sherburne Avenue
Amother
Carroll Cut Rate
Congress Street
Hobbs Insurance Agency
State Street
Nationwide Toll Tops 377 in Christmas Weekend Fires
The nation's death toll from traffic and miscellaneous accidents rose to 377 over the Christmas weekend. Of 267 traffic deaths, 110 were from miscellaneous incidents, including at least 32 fires. Notable blazes claimed multiple family members in New Brunswick New Jersey Barre Massachusetts Terre Haute Indiana Kansas City Alabama Bessemer Philadelphia and other locations. Three people froze to death in Maryland and Tennessee as frigid conditions persisted.
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National Safety Council
New Brunswick
N. J
Barre
Mass
Terre Haute
Ind
Kansas City
Bessemer
Ala
Philadelphia
Falmouth
Maryland
Tennesse
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Ilinois
Indiana
Town
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mis
Hampton Couple Injured in Icy Route 101 Crash
State police report Oliver Fugere and his wife Hazel suffered fractured right legs when their car skidded on ice on Route 101 near Raymone and overturned. They were taken to Exeter Hospital along with Mrs Wilfred DeFroch of Exeter who had a sprained ankle. Earlier on Christmas Eve a Portsmouth man Anthony Lezzaro, 20 Bronson Street, sustained minor injuries in a Dover collision as a passenger in one of two cars.
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Hampton
Raymone
Oliver Fugere
Hazel
Portsmouth
Fugures
Exeter Hospital
Wilfred DeFroch
Exeter
Dover
Anthony Lezzaro
Bronson Street
State to Clarify Charges Against Treasurer Kimball
Concord reports that Governor and executive council approved warrants alleging overpayment of 243000 by State Treasurer F Gordon Kimball. Special Counsel Kenneth Graf said the suit does not allege misfeasance and will provide details listing items dates and amounts claimed.
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Kimball
Concord
Dale
Executive Council
F. Gordon Kimball
Kenneth F. Graf
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Ar Aviation Reporter
Air Force
Ray E. Tarbox
Ernest R. D'Amour
Herbert Hoover
Joyce Shouse
Cincinnati
Joyce
Yale
The
Associated Press
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal CO
Market Street
N. H
Pope
Warrens Stardust Inn
Kittery
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