New York Central Opens Rochester Freight Facilities
The New York Central Railroad starts regular operation of new Rochester area facilities to speed mainline freight. Upgraded track layout signaling and the Wayneport plant for icing perishable freight bound for New York City Boston and intermediate points aim to speed through service.
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Suitor Kills Mother After Rejection in Hotel Lobby
Des Moines report details a 7 year old boy Jimmy O Dell bravely kicking a would be killer as bullets struck his mother Mary O Dell 35 in a hotel lobby. The tragedy joined other brief front page items from across the nation including a plane crash near Nashville three crew killed and a child health remark from Dr Benjamin Spock at a White House conference.
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Mary O'Dell
Jimmy
Mrs. O'Dell
Washington
United States
Soviet Russia
Benjamin Spock
Rochester, Minn
Child Health Institute
White House
Marines Lose Hel icopter on Mercy Flight in Korea
A Marine helicopter en route to evacuate the wounded was shot down near the Changjin Reservoir in Northeast Korea. The pilot is presumed lost. the crash was caused by Communist ground fire, marking the second helicopter downed in the war.
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Deaths of Noted Figures Include Writers and Athletes
Soviet writer Paval BAZHOV famed for Stone Flower and film prize winner dies in Moscow. James Kevin McGuiness, 56, Hollywood producer and writer and former New York Sun and New Yorker staffer dies in New York. Robert P. Hall, 72, ex major league baseball and hockey player dies in Wellesley Massachusetts. Canol Gray Montgomery, 41, cosmic ray authority dies in New Haven Connecticut.
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Moscow
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Wellesley
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New Haven
Conn
Sea Monster Tales Traced to Driftwood and Seaweed
The National Geographic Society reports that numerous sea monster stories originate from floating driftwood or large seaweed masses mistaken for creatures.
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Radio City Tree to Have Starry Rival in New York
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will gain a ceiling of stars in a Haydn Planetarium collaboration. A huge star network will depict constellations and the Milky Way over the promenade between the French and British buildings from Fifth Avenue to the skating rink. The 85 foot Norway spruce from Mt. Kisco weighs 10 tons and is No. 18 in the series.
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Flagman Shot Three Teens Held After Caboose Shooting
Three teenaged boys were held after a Nickel Plate flagman was shot on a caboose platform near Angola. Herbert C. Groger, 55, Conneaut Ohio, was struck in the abdomen and taken to Buffalo General Hospital where the slug was removed. Police report three .22 rifles fired by the youths and investigate two other caboose shooting reports in the area.
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Over-age pilots recalled for Britain's defense expansion
Britain expands defense with veteran ex-RAF pilots recalled to train younger airmen. The recruitment age has been raised from 31 to 60, signaling a surge in defense readiness.
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Floods Hit West Ohio Thaw Halted by Cold Wave
Flood waters moved into western Nevada and northern California as Ohio welcomed a cold wave halting the rapid thaw. In Illinois, Greenville and Mt Olive reported over 750000 dollars in tornado damage, killing three and injuring about 20.
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Mrs F D R Guarded After Death Threat at Waldorf
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt spoke at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel after police received a death threat claiming a gunman would shoot her. Uniformed and plainclothes officers guarded the dinner at Bethel Hospital with about 1,200 guests in attendance. There were no incidents reported.
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Chef Questioned In Slaying Of Boy
Alfred Kurt Von Wolferdorf a 66 year old chef was held as a material witness in the murder of 14 year old Robert E Leonard whose body was found shot to death and partly nude last Tuesday in a tumble down shack on a Rock City farm about 25 miles north of Poughkeepsie He was arrested yesterday and held in Dutchess County Jail on $10000 bail.
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Noel AP Photographer Captured by Chinese Forces
AP photographer Frank Noel, 52, captured near Keto six miles south of Changijin Reservoir in northwest Morea, while aiding convoy under attack. Marine Captain Capraro witnessed the abduction as Noel pursued help after volunteers to reach a stranded Marine regiment. Noel, Pulitzer winner for Water in 1943, has a long wartime reporting record and is married to Evelyn Graves of Albany with no children.
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Still Making Everybody Happy With Piet’s Beer
Ted Lewis praises Piet’s beer in a New York promotion calling it the light, delightful choice. He declares it the beer that makes everybody happy and recommends Piet Bros. for nationwide appeal.
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Piet Bros
New York
Young Dixie GOP Has 2 Party Goal
In Salem North Carolina Southern young Republicans wrapped a three day council meeting aiming to establish two party government in the South. William E Stevens head of the Southern Council said the group is serious about Dixie turning multi party. A B Hermann executive director of the RNC and John Tope national young Republican chairman pledged support for the drive.
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Foresters Highlight 23 US Professional Schools List
A report notes there are 23 professional forestry schools in the United States operating as branches of well established colleges or universities. The count underscores the breadth of accredited programs across the country.
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Pravda Attacks Truman over War Hysteria Claims
Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party paper, accuses President Truman of needing war and promoting war hysteria. It denounces his peace talk as a false mask and says US forces threaten Korea and Taiwan while China defends its borders.
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Arkansas Fire Claims Five Lives in Osceola
A fatal blaze in Osceola Ark kills five people including planter William R. Dyess 27 his wife 26 their two sons William Jr 7 and Richard 3 and a visiting playmate Donald Blodgett Jr 7. The couple and children perished in a temporary home on the Dyess 1000 acre plantation nearby.
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