New Yorkers see Alaska climate as no hard ship
New Yorkers would adjust to Alaska winters, said Army division engineer D. H. Boyd. Anchorage winter averages about twenty degrees above zero with brief deeper cold spells. He is recruiting engineers, surveyors, and draftsmen for Army Alaska construction projects.
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Alaska
New York
D. H. Boyd
Army
Portland
Ore
Boyd
Anchorage
Alaskan Territory
Seven Injured When Train Leaves Track Near Austin
Seven persons were hurt, none critically, as a Chicago Great Western passenger train derailed near Austin Minnesota. Sheriff Al Reinartz said youngsters may have tampered with an open switch, whose lock could not be found.
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Austin
Minn
Chicago Great Western
Here
al Reinartz
Shaw Rests After Slight Rise in Temperature
In England playwright George Bernard Shaw, 94, rests comfortably after a slight fever. He has been bedbound or in a wheelchair since breaking his thigh in a garden fall last month and a revived kidney ailment now troubles him while in hospital.
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Shaw
Deaths of prominent figures listed in Baltimore Sun
Obituary notices list Robert S. Ford 58 Baltimore editor, Dr Walter Walker Palmer 68 Columbia physician educator, William C G Bud Winfield 46 Fresno designer of racing cars, Dr Ellis A Fuller 59 Southern Baptist Seminary president Louisville, Dr Walter Walker 68 Columbia physician educator Tyringham MA, Sir Arthur Charles Davis 72 Lord Mayor of London 1945 46 Cambridge England.
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Walter Walker Palmer
Columbia University School of Medicine
Tyringham
Mass
William CG
Bud” Winfield
Fresno
Calif
Ellis A. Fuller
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Walter Walker
Arthur Charles Davis
London
Cambridge
Eng
Copper sent around globe to Red China
Senate investigators heard that over 3.5 million pounds of copper were shipped from occupied Japan to New York and then to North China under SCAP control. Walter Spritzer of Kane Import Co testified that copper bought from Isbrandtsen Line ships after leaving Japan was reshipped to North China Import Corp. Senator O Connor noted larger exports since 1949 and called the shipments a devious, costly path illustrating urgent Chinese Communist needs.
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Washington
U. S
Japan
China
Senate
Walter Spritzer
Kane Import Co
New York City
Isbrandtsen Line
New York
North China Import Corp
Senate Commerce
O'Conor
Eight Russians Found In North Korea
In Pyongyang North Korea eight Russian civilians said the Soviets ran everything in the country. They refuse to return home and are in protective custody by Eighth Army military police. They appear to be the first Russian civilians found by advancing Allied forces in North Korea. None are linked to the Russian advisory group.
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Pyongyang
North Korea
Eighth Army
Police Probe Death of Harvard Youth
Cambridge police and state investigators opened a probe into the death of Jerry Brickman 20 of the Bronx a Harvard Law School student found unconscious at a university undergraduate house. He died at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston after doctors initially suggested a brain bleed but an associate medical examiner ruled the death due to a fractured skull and brain lacerations.
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Cambridge
Mass
INS
State
Harvard Law School
Jerry Brickman
Bronx
New York City
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston
Michael A. Luongo
CBS to Help Fight RCA Color TV Suit
CBS granted permission to intervene in RCA and NBC’s case opposing FCC approval of CBS color television system. RCA contends the CBS mechanical color approach is inferior and seeks to block the agency’s endorsement. The action proceeds in Chicago with CBS joining the fight on the FCC side.
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CBS
RCA
Chicago
Columbia Broadcasting System
Federal Communications Commission
Radio Corporation of America
National Broadcasting Co
FCC
Three Die in Avondale Mine Blast Near Wilkes Barre
A gas explosion at Glen Alden Coal Company's Avondale colliery in Wilkes Barre killed three men and seriously injured one. Rescue teams recovered the bodies of Andrew Moniak aged 43, Joseph Sicienski 54, and Francis R. McLaughlin. The injured worker was George Michak, 36, as the blast hit just before 1 A.M. while men were driving a rock tunnel.
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Wilkes-Barre
Glen Alden Coal Company
Avondale
Andrew Moniak
Joseph Sicienski
Francis R. McLaughlin
George Michak
75 year old mountaineer admits 24 year old slaying
Hamilton County Sheriff Rex Richey said Taylor Lee Dempsey, 75, confessed to shooting Chattanooga attorney James Scott on Signal Mountain 24 years ago after hearing Mrs. Dempsey talking with him. Dempsey burned Scott's cabin three years later and is held on $10,000 bond to face murder charges.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Hamilton County
Rex Richey
Signal Mountain
Richey
Taylor Lee Dempsey
James Scott
Ford Plant Opens in Woodlawn Suburb
Ford Motor Co began production today at a new 35 million dollar pressed steel plant in Woodlawn. Two full shifts employed 450 workers as three of nineteen production lines started.
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Buffalo
Ford Motor Co
Woodlawn
Scandal of U S Election Campaign Reported
Pravda said the American election campaign is taking on an increasingly scandalous character. The Communist Party organ claimed this assessment from New York State.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
New York
Governor Delivers Radio Address Under Guard in Milwaukee
Milwaukee police protect Governor Oscar Rennebohm as 14 officers guard him after a warning of an assassination attempt. Western Union says an unidentified caller dictated a telegram to the governor warning he should not appear in Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Oscar Rennebohm
Western Union
Malik Seeks UN Council Action on Secretary General Choice
Russia's Jacob Malik urged the UN Security Council to keep trying to elect a new secretary general rather than refer the issue to the veto-free General Assembly. The move aimed to delay a 14-nation resolution backing a three year extension of Lie's term, with an Assembly session planned to act tomorrow. Malik opened the council session insisting the body continue to seek a solution without naming a candidate.
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Lake Success
Lie
Malik
Teachers Found Dead in Apartment in Richmond Indiana
In Richmond Indiana a 25 year old grade school teacher Mrs Joan Ford and her husband Ralph Ford were found dead in their apartment Detective Sergeant John Murphy identified the victims saying a butcher knife was found through the heart and a shotgun lay beneath Ralph Ford with the bodies a few feet apart authorities reported.
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Richmond
Ind
John Murphy
Joannae Ford
Ralph Ford
Murphy
Ford
Chinese Communists Enter North Korea in Force
Reports confirm Chinese troops are in North Korea with a regiment identified in combat south of the Chosin Reservoir. A U S 10th Corps spokesman did not release the regiment number or details but indicated the unit is in action. Observers note organized, regrouped forces preparing a fanatical last stand amid resistance across northern Korea.
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Suiho
Korea
North Korea
U. S. 10Th Corps
Chosin Reservoir
China
U. S
26Th Regiment
Radio Hams Wed As Nation Listens
Two amateur radio operators married yesterday with thousands of hams nationwide tuned in. Frances L. Brigman of Kan niapolis and Jack E. Krepp of Franklin Pa were married in the bride's home by Rev Walter G. Benson. Jee Brigman, father of the bride, gave a running account over a ham band.
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Kannapolis
N. C
Frances L. Brigman
Kanniapolis
Jack E. Krepp
Franklin
Walter G. Benson
Jee Brigman
Ex-Con Brother Jailed for Duping Fraternities
Edward J. Stack, 30, of Detroit, is jailed after posing as a Theta Chi member and swindling fraternities at Colgate UNH Penn State. He used fake credentials to gain access, stole valuables including a cash box with 350 dollars, and left bounced checks and missing watches. Police say he has prior forgery terms in Michigan and Florida.
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Stack
Theta Chi
Colgate
Joseph Hubbard
Durham
N. H
University of New Hampshire
Hubbard
Penn State
Harry Taylor
Michigan
Florida
Election From Page One Broadcast Sparsity
The story outlines Truman’s unopposed political broadcast from St Louis due to lack of funds for radio time and notes Harold Stassen aside from Dewey Eisenhower as possible 1952 nominees. It also covers House committee accusations against Democrats over lobbying reports, a Defense Dept absentee voting setup for servicemen, a drop in Progressive Party nominations, and Taft backers calling for an Ohio campaign expenditure probe.
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Truman
St. Louis
Harold E. Stassen
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stassen
Dewey
Civilians slain in Pakchon by retreating Reds
Allied troops discover 80 North Korean civilian bodies at Pakchon, 46 miles north of Pyongyang, with hands tied behind their backs, allegedly killed by retreating North Korean forces amid the Korean War.
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North Korea
Pakchon
Red
Pyongyang
Mystery Pair Involves Gold Seizure At London Airports
British customs wait for an American couple to reveal plans after seizing half of 56 000 dollars in gold from a New Yorker identified as Mrs C Schwartz. The other half remained at the airport with a man named Schwartz, believed to be her son, both en route to Bombay. The Treasury license is required for export. The couple had yet to declare any goods when checked.
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London
Bank of England
Mrs. C. Schwartz
Treasury
New York City
Schwartz
Bombay
India
England
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