Stewardess Leads Passengers To Safety In Seattle Crash
Seven die and 10 hurt as a four engine Alaska Airlines transport over ran a Seattle Tacoma runway and struck a car. Stewardess Reba Monk 22 of Santa Monica credited with guiding many passengers to exits before dying of burns. Other victims include Fred Smith Tacoma Leslie Howe Seattle and Spokane Ole Ring Anchorage Virginia Stillworth Palmer and Stella Jones Seattle.
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Seattle
Alaska Airlines
Seattle-Tacoma
Reba Monk
Santa Monica
Calif
Fred Smith
Tacoma
Wash
Leslie Howe
Spokane
Ole Ring
Anchorage
Alaska
Virginia Stillworth
Virginia Grafton
Gordon Johnson
J. E. Johnson
Palmer
Pearl
Stella Jones
House panel restores part of $108 million Western Europe aid
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to restore 38 million of the 108 million cut from Western Europe aid, keeping 360 million for China and bringing total committee aid to 587 million. The measure remains 70 million short of Truman’s initial request for Italy France and Austria. Most of the restored 38 million funds Italy wheat support.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Western
Europe
China
Truman
Italy
France
Austria
Fulton
R-Pa
Representative Lodge
Conn
Postwar boon fades as citizens grow wary, Tucson reports
Marquis Childs surveys America from Tucson and finds that despite high production, ordinary people sense the postwar boom is cooling. The piece appears on pages 30 and 31 with notes on comics, horoscope, Amusements, financials, and various features.
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Marquis Childs
Tucson
Ariz
America
Ida Jean Kain
Dr. Brady
Mary Haworth
Mrs. Lamarre Denies Being Meyers' Girlfriends in Grand Jury
Mrs Mildred Lamarre testified before a Grand Jury investigating Maj Gen Bennett Meyers wartime deals. She denied ever being Meyers girlfriend and said reporters asked about the claim. Her husband Bleriot Lamarre accompanied her as they answered questions about the Aviation Electric Co Dayton Ohio and the $150000 payment alleged in Senate inquiries.
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Washington
U?p
Mildred Lamarre
Bennett E. Meyers
Meyers
Air Force
Senate
Lamarre
Aviation Electric Co
Dayton, C
Weather Clears In Syracuse As Snow Falls Elsewhere
The weather outlook notes Syracuse escaping heavy snow with an overnight low of 19 degrees while nearby areas report up to 18 inches. Watertown records 15 inches, Dunkirk 22 inches, and Utica Albany Fort Plains see single to low double digit readings as Andrew P. Keller forecasts a high of 37 and a low of 26.
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Syracuse
New York
Utica
Albany
Fort Plains
Watertown
Dunkirk
Andrew P. Keller
Train Collision In Union Station Yards
A Burlington Zephyr passenger train collided with a switch engine in the Union Station yards in St. Paul Minnesota early today. Seven people were hospitalized but not in critical condition. One person was treated at the scene.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Burlington Zephyr
Union Station
Paris Subway Halt as CGT Strikes Sweep City
Strikes by CGT led halted Paris subway service after noon as leaders urged all workers to action. Government anti strike laws disputed with gas pressure rise reported in the capital and outages reached Nice Marseille and Cannes. Assembly backed an 80 000 man call to the colors amid tumult signaling broader national walkout potential.
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Paris
General Confederation of Labor
C.G.T
C.G. T
National Assembly
Nice
Marseille
Cannes
Vessel sinks near Tsingtao sinking, 19 missing or dead
An overloaded fishing boat sank ten miles off Tsingtao last Wednesday. Nineteen soldiers and the owner drowned, according to military officials, with at least eleven soldiers still missing.
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Tsingtao
China
Dormitory Fire Kills Six in Philadelphia
A blaze at the Volunteers of America dormitory for homeless men killed six and injured 170, many as Santa Clauses on the streets. The fire started about 12 40 AM as freezing weather froze water on walls, forcing jumps from second and third floors. Reporter Charles Berry noted several men leaping to escape.
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Philadelphia
Santa Clauses
Volunteers of America, Inc
Charles Berry
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Eight Jews killed in Holy Land violence sparks regional strike
In Jerusalem violence erupts after the UN partition decision with eight Jews dead and a three day Arab general strike planned. British high commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham and Arab Higher Committee secretary Husin Khalidi discuss the volatile situation.
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Jerusalem
United Nations
Palestine
Sir Alan Cunningham
Hussein Khalidi
Arab Higher Committee
Khalidi
Cunningham
Arab Committee
Damascus
David Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency
Ben-Gurion
Versity
Holy Land
Russians Build Infrared Death Rays Reported by Berlingske Tidende
Copenhagen dispatch says the Soviet Union is developing infra red death rays and a defense carpet of beams around strategic areas. Berlin correspondent I B Noerlund notes German inventions and captured Nazi brains aid Soviet work with experiments near Moscow. Rays are described as 15 to 20 kilometers long capable of devouring heat.
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Copenhagen
INS
Berlingske Tidende
Berlin
I. B. Noerlund
Soviet Union
Moscow
Noerland
Italians to receive emergency ration aid for mothers and children
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund announced that supplemental rations will begin tomorrow in Italy for about 700 000 needy mothers and children. The program aims to ease hardship as the emergency fund coordinates relief in Rome and across the country.
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Rome
United Nations International Childre+h’s
Italy
When Finances Hit Bottom Look Up Says Barnum
A quip on finances notes that hard times can turn around, citing Barnum’s line about “when your financial condition is flat on its back, remember it’s looking up.” The joke ties high living costs to hopeful humor.
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Barnum
Arab Demonstrations Roam Cairo Over Palestine Partition
Thousands of Arab sympathizers marched through Cairo denouncing the U N partition plan while shouting anti American and anti Russian slogans. Jewish shops closed and Jews kept off the streets as demonstrations occurred near the American University and Abdine Palace. In Damascus rioting was reported as well.
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Cairo
Palestine
American University
United States
Egypt
Uni
Abdine Palace
Bidault Sees Merger of Western Zone
French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said if the London conference fails to agree on Germany the French zone may merge with British and American zones to form a unified western Germany. He spoke in London before the foreign ministers council at Lancaster House. Russia reportedly rejected a French proposal on Austrian German asset settlements, a major hurdle to an Austrian peace treaty.
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London
Georges Bidault
London Conference of Foreign Ministers
Germany
Bidault
Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
Lancaster House
Posal
Austria
Secretary Harriman Warns Congress on Possible Price Freeze
Secretary Harriman told the House Banking Committee that delaying selective price and wage controls could force a general freeze later. He urged limited, direct controls and consumer rationing now, with emphasis on essential items and key industrial goods to prevent broader inflation.
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Washington
W. Averell Harriman
Congress
Harriman
House Banking and Currency Committee
Truman
Jesse Wolcott
House Banking Committee
Wolcott
Welders Strike Shuts Hudson Auto Plants
In Detroit a wildcat strike by 21 welders shut Hudson Motor Car Company plants and forced 12,000 workers to be laid off.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Company
Missouri quake shakes Polar Bluff at 2 40 a m
An earth tremor lasting about 30 seconds woke residents in Polar Bluff Missouri at 2 40 a m. No damage was reported and no injuries were noted.
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Polar Bluff
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