Gales Cause Historic Insurance Losses Across Nation
New York report says northeastern storm Nov 24 26 caused at least 50 million dollars in insured losses to about 500000 policyholders, the largest disaster after Chicago and San Francisco fires. Other brief items note gunpowder accident in Lackawanna, hand amputation, a gold smuggling ring arrest, Communist China UN books on atomic energy, and a 380 annual pay raise for North Tonawanda police and firemen.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters
China
United Nations
New York Herald Tribune
Tonawanda
Uranium Field Starts Boom Town in New Mexico
Discovery of what may be the world's largest uranium field draws geologists engineers and prospectors to Grants New Mexico. The field on Santa Fe Railroad land between Grants and Gallup was found by Paddy Martinez guiding Navajo laborers in carrot fields.
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Paddy Martinez
Burma Surgeon Denies Disloyalty in Treason Trial
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the Burma Surgeon, testified in Rangoon that he was not disloyal to the Burmese government and blamed false reports by a Shan chieftain for his arrest. He spoke for four hours as his treason trial continued.
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Rangoon
Gordon S. Seagrave
Man escapes as train smashes car at Vine Street crossing
King J Tardi ff of Carthage escaped with minor injuries when his car skidded on icy pavement and collided with a locomotive at Vine Street crossing in Liverpool. The passenger train to Syracuse continued after the 11 25 A.M. crash. Tardiff was issued a ticket for failing to stop at a signal light.
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Vine St
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Syracuse
Watertown
Victor Tucci
Wallace Breed
Cardiff
New York Central Railroad
Gambler Has No Business Nets $84 000 in Hearings
Salvatore Moretti of Demarest New Jersey told the Kefauver Senate committee his 1949 income may have totaled 840 000 but he had no business. He refused to answer questions saying it could incriminate him and warned of contempt. He admitted a jail record and said he lost his records.
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New Jersey
Salvatore Moretti
Demarest
N. J
New York
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
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D.tenn
Moretti
Rudolph Halley
Joe Adonis
Adonis
Two Trainmen Die In Freight Mishap
Two Canadian Pacific trainmen were scalded to death when two steam locomotives and 14 cars of a doubleheader freight train toppled from undermined tracks during a rainstorm near Lambert Lake nine miles west of Vanceboro Maine. The engineers were Joseph Doiron 56 and C M McKay 50 both on the second locomotive.
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Canadian Pacific
Maine Central Railroad
Lambert Lake
Joseph Doiron
C. M. McKay
Catholic Groups Demand Rutgers Probe Over Abortion Magazine Story
Catholic groups in New Jersey pressed for a state investigation of Rutgers University administration after a student magazine story on abortion. Alfred A. Tennyson, president of the Diocesan Union of Holy Name Societies of Central New Jersey, called the undergraduate article in Antho vicious and blasphemous for its religious slurs.
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N. J
Rutgers University
Alfred A. Tennyson
Diocesan Union of Holy Name Societies
Central New Jersey
Antho
Seasonal Milk Decline in U S Farms This November
U S farm milk output fell seasonally from October to November but stayed near 1949 peak. The Agriculture Department estimates November production at 8.375 billion pounds, down from 8.451 billion pounds in November 1949.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Agriculture Department
Fuel Dictator Sought Says Texan Governor
Texas Governor Allan Shivers said that certain federal officials are again being urged to act as a fuel dictator and oversee energy distribution, framing the move as a need to ensure steady supplies amid shortages.
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Texas
Allan Shivers
Shivers
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