Wrecked freighter flight party endures 10 days in Arctic cold
Lotte and Cerf M, flying a four engine Avro 29 freighter for Edmonton to Vel, veered off course over the Arctic, ran low on food and suffered frostbite. After two hours of searching, a rescue plane found them 30 miles off course. The voyage began with a supply run to the Edmonton defense line.
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Edmonton
Alta
Nana
Lovie
Edmonston
Royal Alexandra Hospital
Ger
Arctic
Hart “Jercy
Lozie
Beast
Cerntak
Lotte
Cermak
Velplane
York
Latea
Benson quit offer rejected by Eisenhower
Washington reports three top administration officials sought to oust Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson amid farm policy tensions. Eisenhower reportedly turned down Benson's resignation after Benson faced internal opposition and growing GOP political concerns. The cabinet unity behind Benson was noted despite warnings about farm problems affecting party outlook.
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Alan Emory Washington
Nana
Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Benson
G.O.P
Cabiet
Merger Proposed to Create Central American Giant
A leaked proposal from Honduras and Nicaragua outlines a plan to fuse the two nations or form a federation, aiming to reduce Central America from five republics to four. It envisions a population around 2.7 million and an area near 100,000 square miles, with potential illiteracy and substandard living under a single administration. The report notes interregional bickering and distrust over unity, with no clear consensus among leaders.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Estaban Mendoza
NANA
Spain
California
Private Eyes Boom as Panoply of Secrets Grows
A New York report estimates over 150000 licensed private investigators in the United States handling more than 250 million dollars annually. Businesses supply about 60 percent of revenue while financial institutions and banks require credit checks and risk data. The sector, spanning roughly 000 outfits nationwide, highlights a trend toward information as a protection and competitive tool in finance, industry, and employment.
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Martin Arundel
New York
Nana
U. S
New
York City
Egypt Arms Deal Boosts Reds In Mid East
Egypt moves toward the Soviet bloc by buying Czech arms, boosting Moscow influence in a key oil region. Nasser strengthens the army to secure prestige and bargaining power with Western powers, aiming to deter Israel and secure a strategic position in the Middle East.
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Egypt
Mid-East
QO. M. Marashian
Cairo
Nana
Russia
Middle East
Europe
Asia
Africa
Arab World
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser
Amy
Israel
Mediterranean
Satellites to Get Soviet Reactors in Wider Atomic Push
The Soviet Union widens its atomic energy program in East European satellites promising research reactors to all. Neues Deutschland calls the atomic age the era of Communism and Lenin's doctrine. Yugoslavia receives a reactor and cyclotron with uranium and graphite supplies.
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Omer Anderson Bonn
Nana
Soviet Union
Russia
Eas
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Neues Deutschland
Communist Party
East Germany
Hiroshina Neues Deutschland
Hiroshima
Yugoslavia
India
Iron Curtain
Burma
Indonesia
Africa
Near East
Tigers in the Hotel ile Move at Raffles Hotel
A reminiscence of Singapore’s famed Raffles Hotel recalls private eye lore and 80 years of intrigue. A retired colonel recounts tiger tales beneath billiard tables, the famed Singapore sling, and a changing colonial world with residents like the Sultan of Selangor nearby.
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Ile
Credit Investigations
Re- Singapore
Nana
Somerset
Dan &Maugham
Raffles Bradstreet
Cffi J
Singapore Slings
Cieney
And
Ann
Hitler Mystery Deepens Over Alpine Lake Wreck
New report from Vienna cites a claim Hitler may lie at the bottom of a lake after a German aircraft crash near Linz. Divers recovered only grenades at 240 feet while efforts to raise the wreckage seek gold stones and important documents from Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker.
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New York
Nana
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
London
Atter Lake
Linz
Upper Austria
Hitler
Berin
Bartlett Robinson In First Film
Bartlett Robinson, New York stage actor, signed for a major role in The Spirit of St Louis. This marks his first screen appearance, joining Leland Hayward and Billy Wilder in a Warner Bros production about Charles Lindbergh’s historic Atlantic flight.
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Burbank
Calif
Bartlett Robinson
New York
Cadillac
Katherine Coffin
Peegenen
Prescott
Hayward
United States
West “Point of No Return
Pacific
Mister Roberts
St. Louis
South Atlantic
CinemaScope
WarnerColor
James Stewart
Charles
GOP Aims to Quell the Won't Run Talk
Washington dispatch reports top Republicans countering the view that Dwight D. Eisenhower is finished as a 1956 candidate. Aiming to keep him in contention, officials cite his health, desire to complete his work, and global support for his peace efforts. The piece notes visitors at Fitzsimmons Hospital and hints at ongoing strategy to reinstate Eisenhower in public life, with details continued on page 5.
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Martin S. Hayden
Washington
Dwight D. Eisen-hower
Inti
White House
Eisenhower
Fitzsimmons Hospital
Denver
Mamie Eisenhower
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Ike
Baimee
Akes
Tokyo
Kikue Hayashi
Kanazawa University
Japan
Hayashi
REDS
Singapore
Raffles
Tome
Selangor
Malaysia
International Fleet
Thomas R. Henry Washington
Brussels
Canada
Columbus O'D. Iselin
North Atlantic
Azores
Iceland
Belgium
Iselin
Betsy Palmer
Queen Bee
Joan Crawford
Nana Photo
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