55 Lose Lives As T. W. A. Plans Crashes
A TWA disaster recounts the crash near Rome after Cairo to Rome flight with 55 fatalities. American crew and passengers include Melvin Hanson and Francis Pope among others, with pilots Webb Hammitt and Hackett noted.
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T. W. A. Plans
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, Ill
Army Separation of Murphysboro Twins Draws St. Louis Photo
Seventeen year old Murphysboro twins George H. and Donald W. Launius were separated after George was accepted for Army training while Donald received a temporary deferment for a minor physical ailment. Capt. George C. O'Dell supervised pre induction exams in St. Louis. The Launius brothers, Sons of Mr and Mrs W Launius, 2027 in street, Murphysboro. Gale A and Nyle H Smith Tayle, also 17.
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Murphysboro
George H
Donald W.launius
George C. O'Dell
Taylorville
St. Louis
George
Donald
W. Launius
Gale A
Nyle H. Smith Tayle
Sudan records heaviest rainfall in four decades
Khartoum reports this year’s rainfall as the heaviest in 40 years according to the National Geographic Society. The article also notes that watermelons were introduced to America by early settlers.
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Sudan
Khartoum
The
National Geographic Society
America
U S Tanks Halt North Korean Bid for Pohang
U S and Australian air forces pounded the Pohang siege as battles rage around Kigye and Taegu. American Second Infantry and First Cavalry divisions repulsed enemy thrusts while Communist forces pressed near the port. South Korean defenses held key hills and roads into Taegu amid bitter fighting on the 120 mile front. An inventor from Racine Albert J Dremel holds patents on 55 devices for home and shop use.
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No. 2
Southeast Korea
Changu
Taegu
U. S. Second Infantry
Naktong River
Waegwan
U. S. First Cavalry
Pohang
U. S
Big Mhan Pershny Ks
Kigye
Prize City
Dremel Inventor’s Early Tool Designs Lead to 75‑Worker Plant
The inventor of a widely used wringer with a safety device started a series of Dremel inventions and built a local manufacturing plant employing 75 people. In 1935 he designed the Moto-Tool, a small grindex for home craftsmen and hobbyists, and his latest creation is an electric eraser for architects and others needing precise erasing.
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Dremel
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Kuwait Oil Co
Atlanta
Lewis Higgins
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Illinois Ave
Carbondale, Ill
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Sumter
W.F.W
Gay Herring
I Hill
N. C
Shigley Stopler
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U.S. Gost
Carfigtion Company
Illinois
Mlinnivan
Racine, Wis
Ity
Albert J. Dremel
Carbondale
Taylor
de Luxe Electric
Cline Vice Drug CO
C. C. Keller
Frederick Avenue
St. Joseph
Missouri
Hadacol
Floyd Mabe
South 7Th Street
Link Robinson
Lindsey
Newport
Kentucky
John Geary
Ursuline Street
Orleans
Louisiana
E. Hexworth
Ice
Texas
Dudley J. LeBlanc
Petar LeBlanc
Leeds
Acol
Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc
ECOMB
LeBlanc Corporation
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