Cruise of stowaways aboard Pendennis Castle shocks ports
Aboard the RMS Pendennis Castle near Southampton a surge of stowaways formed a makeshift club as Captain Charnley kept quiet about numbers. Passengers included James White and family from Glasgow, Christina Shea from Albany, and London’s Paul Ford, each seeking Christmas contact or work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holger Jensen
Pendennis Castle
London
Southampton
James White
Glasgow
Cape Town
Union Castle Co
England
Christina Lee Shea
Albany
Las Palmas
Miss Shea
State University of New York At Albany
University of Stockholm
Canary Islands
Sweden
Paul Michael Ford
Peninsular and Oriental Line
Durban
Ford
Molasses Tank Rupture Kills Seven Workers
New Delhi dispatch reports a molasses tank ruptured underground at a sugar factory in Gangavati, burying seven people including a woman and a child. Inside pressure caused the burst while workers dug a pit near the tank for a refinery task.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
UPI
Gangavati
Bombay
The
Press Trust of India
For & Ney
Wine crash in Argentina spawns dog drunken spree
A truck carrying 30,000 bottles of Argentine wine crashed into a wall near railway tracks in Cordoba. The brakes failed and the driver escaped with light injuries while neighborhood dogs drank spilled wine and reeled about, unable to walk straight after the 4:30 a.m. incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordoba
Argentina
UPI
la Razon
Nixon nominee tied to fraud suit over vast Argentina drilling deal
William P. Clements Jr., Nixon’s deputy defense nominee, faces a civil fraud and conspiracy suit filed by Antonio A. Diaz of Buenos Aires, naming Clements and Southeastern Drilling Co. now Sedco Inc. The case centers on a $4.2 million Argentine contract that helped build Sedco, with records destruction in 1964 and questions over Argentine law compliance. Clements says the suit won’t affect his nomination. the next steps include a conference in Dallas and Senate confirmation hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Schwartz
Lil Dallas
William P. Clements Jr
Nixon
Pentagon
Clements
Southeastern Drilling Co. of
Dallas
Associated Press
Dallas News
White House
Argentina
Southeastern
Sedco Inc
Sedco
Antonio A. Diaz
Buenos Aires
Diaz
Senate Armed Services Committee
Eee
Ies
Haskins & Sells
PSC to probe General Telephone service failures
Albany AP The state Public Service Commission will investigate General Telephone Co of New York after testimony in a rate case showed widespread complaints of misconnections back noises and long distance dialing problems. The company serves about 74 000 customers in 13 counties mainly in the Adirondacks and Catskills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
State Public Service Commission
General Telephone Co
New York
PSC
General Telephone
Adirondacks
Catskills
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W. P. Clements JR
U.S. District Court
Flair’s Shoes
Shoppingtown
Fairmount Fair
General Tel
FLAH
Flair’s Handbags
Northern Lights
Cortlandville-Mall
Flair’s Hat Bar
Flah's
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