Crash boat rescues four survivors from missing Navy plane
A Kaneohe Harbor crash boat recovered two bodies and four survivors from a WV-2 Super Constellation missing off Oahu with 24 aboard. The search involved multiple Coast Guard and Navy vessels and aircraft. Names of survivors and dead were not released. The plane disappeared from radar at 3:50 pm while returning from a routine training mission.
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Honolulu
Kaneohe Marine Air Station
Oahu Island
Lansing
Coast Guard
Air Force
TOKYU
Japan
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Manchuria
Costello to Pass Christmas at Home
Racketeer Frank Costello may spend Christmas at home after Federal Judge John F. X. McGahey granted an extension to January 6 for appealing his income tax evasion conviction. He had served 11 months of a five year sentence before being released on bail.
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New York
Frank Costello
John F. X. McGahey
U. S. Court of Appeals
McGahey
Costello
Clearing and cooler today with a fair Wednesday
Forecast calls for sunny skies and a cooler day with a high near 45 and a low around 28 tonight. Winds WSW 20 to 25 mph diminishing to 15 to 20 mph, shifting to the west. Wednesday light variable winds shifting to southeasterly. Yesterday's high 61 and low 31. Sunset 4:35, sunrise 7:35. Record highs and lows noted. snowfall totals and normal figures included. For Thruway weather call HO 3-8911.
Santa Off Kids Visits You Tonight
A playful Christmas feature blends Santa’s trip with a Browne County tax tale and Arctic adventure. Santa, Mrs Claus, elves, and penguins dash across a wintry North Pole scene, while a note on a 2 percent sales tax aims at good children as a clock ticks toward Christmas Eve. The piece blends whimsical fiction with a cheeky taxpayer jab and a magical getaway.
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Santa Claus
Hamnton
N. Y
America Today
Browne County
Tle
William F. Danny
Patie
Old Saint
Reindeer
Royal Cahatian Mounted Police
Old Boy
Cander
Vixen
Barbara Records Ordered Returned From Apalachin Bottling Plant
State Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. McAvoy ordered the State Liquor Authority to return records seized on November 26 from Joseph Barbara Jr.’s Endicott bottling works. SLA agents had taken the documents claiming voluntary transfer by Barbara.
Santa Claus Beards Catch Fire in Italian Photo Shop Ad
In Bari Italy Salvatore Sin jiscall advertised his photo shop by wearing a Santa Claus suit and beard. A stray spark ignited his beard and pipe, igniting the costume. Passers by extinguished the flames and doctors treated the burns.
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Bari
Italy
Salvatore Sinjiscall
Santa Claus
Jos
Santa
Hoffa Retrial Scheduled In Wiretap Case
Government moves to retry Teamsters president elect James R. Hoffa and two others on wiretap conspiracy charges. U.S. Attorney Paul Williams has placed the case on the January 6 trial calendar after a jury failed to reach a verdict against Hoffa, Owen Brennan of Detroit Local 37, and Bernard Spindel, a professional wiretapper.
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New York
INS
Teamsters Union
James R. Hofta
U. 5
Paul W. Willliams
Hoffa
Owen B. Brennan
Teamster
Detroit
Bernard Spindel
Fair Exchange Sparks Mixed Feelings in School
In Vicksburg Michigan a Bonn Germany exchange student, Christopher Winklemann, age 16, lives with local families at Vicksburg High School. The Guardian reports most students welcome the program yet some fear cultural gaps. The scene centers on anxious parents in Germany and a transatlantic phone call that underscores the exchange’s impact.
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Vicksburg
Mich
Christopher Winkleman
New York
Bonn
Ger
Vicksburg High School
Santa
Winklemann
Germany
No Light Brightens Mike’s Christmas From Page One
A feature on Mike, a year-old sight-impaired child, who carefully plans a gift for his mother amid Christmas preparations. His mother Mrs James Sibole and the school for exceptional children describe his quiet optimism, his sense of wonder, and the emotional challenge of seeing only through others’ descriptions of a Christmas tree and decorations.
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Mike
Jerry
James Sibole
Sibole
Beys
Sputniks
NATO
East German Reds use Sputnik to cast doubt on nativity
In a controversial December dispatch from Berlin, East Germany’s Stalinist regime uses space satellite rhetoric to challenge Christmas beliefs. The piece portrays the authorities promoting atheism and diminishing the Christ child amid state celebrations.
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
Sputnik
Seymour Topping
Berlin
Cyrictmos
East Germany
Sputniki
East Ger Cr
Commmunists
Nine Tat
Radio Commu
Hofstra college Christmas card funds scholarships
In Hempstead New York Hofstra College circulated a family Christmas card signed by about 1250 staff members. Each signer contributed a donation that totals $500 to support upcoming year expenses for sophomores working through college.
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Hempstead
Hofstra
Jurors Postpone Scott's Sentencing in Murder Trial
Los Angeles jurors delay ruling on the fate of L. Ewingh Scott for the murder of his socially prominent wife Evelyn who disappeared May 16, 1955. Sentences possible are death in the gas chamber or life imprisonment. The case ties into post‑holiday tremors and a separate European auto price update.
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Evelyn
Los Angeles
L. Ewingh Scott
Algiers
Orleansville
Scott
Paris
France
California
Separe
Renaultjs
Citroen
Paris Police Seize Red Newspaper Over War Coverage
Paris police seized the Christmas Eve issue of the Communist newspaper L Humanite for articles about soldiers jailed for refusing to fight Algerian rebels. Under the headline Christmas is the Imprisoned the paper listed 15 convicted soldiers and called the war in Algeria an unjust bloodletting. The Interior Ministry ordered the seizure under a law on actions against publications endangering state security.
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Paris
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