99 Lose Lives As T. W. A. Plans Crashes
List of Americans aboard the Cairo to Rome TWA flight includes William C. Gist and Melvin Hanson with others from the U.S. embassy in Cairo and a Dhahran air base. Paris office crew named Captain Walton Webb and others. TVA pilot Francis Pope aboard on vacation. Plane last heard near 1:57 a.m. local time. crash would rank among the worst in world aviation history.
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William C. Gist
Justie Ervin Gist
Lake City
Iowa
Gist
U. S
Cairo
U. S. Air Force Base
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Melvin Hanson
Derek Owen William
Harry Richard Woods
Paris
T.W.A
Walton B. Webb
Haldon Hammitt
Harley B. Hackett
Melvyn C. House
Herbert J. Stiles
Jose . G. Bernard
Jeanne Claire Lorenzie
T.V.A
Francis Pope
Helanita
Mary Louise
Paul F
Rome
Northwest Airlines
Lake Michigan
Cardiff
Wales
Webb
Philadelphia
Hammitt
Baylis
Pike County
Ill
Ramona Branson
Wichita
Kan
Hammitts
Camdenton
Horen Hakimian
Lewis College
Lockport
Army Separates Twins From Murphysboro Family
Seventeen year old Murphysboro twins George H. Launius and Donald W. Launius were separated after one was accepted for Army training and the other granted a temporary deferment for a minor physical ailment. They posed with Capt. George C. O'Dell and other locals during pre induction examinations in St. Louis. Their parents are Mr and Mrs G W Launius of 2027 Jackson Street. Gale H and Nyle H Smith, both 17 from Taylorville, are mentioned in the photo.
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Murphysboro
George H
Donald W.launius
George C. O'Dell
Taylorville
St. Louis
George
Donald
G. W. Launius
Jackson Street
Gale H
Nyle H. Smith
Sudan Records Heaviest Rainfall in Four Decades
In Khartoum and across Sudan this year, rainfall totals are the highest in 40 years according to climatologists. Separately, the National Geographic Society notes watermelons were introduced to America by early settlers.
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Sudan
Khartoum
The
National Geographic Society
America
U S Tanks Stop North Korean Bid for Pohang
On the Pohang front U S and Australian planes pummeled besiegers with jellied gasoline rockets and machine gun fire. In the Taegu area the 2nd Infantry repulsed Naktong river crossings while the 1st Cavalry halted a small entrenched assault. Persistent fighting near Kigye left Reds unable to seize the hills controlling routes to Taegu.
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No. 2
Southeast Korea
Changyong
Taegu
U. S. Second Infantry
Naktong River
Waegwan
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Pohang
U. S
Kigye
Prize City
Inventor’s 59 Home Craft Devices Fuel Wisconsin Factory
Albert J. Dremel, 62, owns patents on 59 devices for home, office, and shop. His plant in Racine employs 75, producing the Moto-Tool grinder and a new electric eraser for architects and accountants. Dremel’s innovations began with a safety wringer and expanded into electric phonograph motors and small power tools.
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Ity
Albert J. Dremel
Dremel
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Gulf Oil Co
Kuwait Oil Co
Atlanta
Lewis Higgins
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Illinois Ave
Carbondale, Ill
Walnut Murphysboro
Gwynne Shelor
Sumter
S. C
V.F.W
Chicago
Gay Herring
Pink Hill
N. C
Shirley Stopler
U.S
Priskies
Albers Milling Company
Carnation Company
Illinois
Ilinnican
Iinventor
Racine
Wis
Carbondale
P. m. To
Taylor
de Luxe Electric
Cline Vice Drug CO
C. C. Keller
Frederick Avenue
St. Joseph
Missouri
Floyd
Link Robinson
Lindsey
Newport
Kentucky
John Geary
Ursuline Street
New Orleans
Louisiana
E. Hexworth
Waco
Texas
J. Scieszinski
Kruger
Ottumwa
Marilyn Sue
Kide
Dudley J. LeBlanc
LeBlanc
Hadaco
Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc
Hadacol
the LeBlanc Corporation
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