Fire levels Wildes home on Douglas highway Saturday
A Saturday night blaze destroyed the Keith Wildes residence on the Douglas highway with losses estimated over 60 000 dollars. Fire equipment was unavailable as onlookers watched a nearly new ultra modern house burn, likely starting in the garage from an electrical device. Mrs Alma Hendrickson, in the semi basement apartment, escaped with alarm raised by passer by Herman Porter. The Wildes were at a dinner party and returned to find little could be saved including the dog.
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Keith Wildes
Douglas Highway
Herman Porter
Mrs. Wildes
Tax injustice illustrated in Washington tax case
In Drew Pearson style critique, a warehouse worker Massey pays on a $150 dividend he did not own, as the treasury demands tax, a lien on $18.92 weekly, his firing follows, and hardship for his wife and two children grows while the wire-pullers evade jail. The piece frames systemic bias in favor of the powerful, contrasted with ordinary taxpayers facing penalties.
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Europe
Francis J. Massey
Washington
Treasury
Washington Gas Light Co
Massey
Internal Revenue Office
Tragedy at Mexican Christmas Party Leaves Dozens Dead
A Christmas party for needy children in Tia Juana Mexico turned deadly when a fire swept through a three story Coliseum building. Official counts placed the death toll at 41 or more with estimates up to 90. Many perished while trapped behind a locked fire escape as 200 to 400 partygoers rushed to a single doorway.
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Tia Juana
Mexico
Dist
Atiy
Francisco Gastanen, Jr
Miguel Aleman Hospital
Coliseum
Luis Alarid
Moscow appoints Czech Dolansky as vice premier
London dispatch reports Dr. Jaromir Dolansky, a trusted Czech administrator, named vice premier in a Soviet backed reshuffle. He succeeds the ousted Ru dolph Slansky, who faces treason charges. Dolansky, 56, has long held top posts from party secretary in 1945 to finance minister in 1946 and state planning chief in 1949 before his promotion.
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London
Moscow
Jaromir Dolansky
Czechoslovakia
Dolansky
Kremlin
Rudolph Slansky
Frague Radio
Communist Party
Slansky
National Assembly
Dean Saved Bullet For Himself Rather Than Be Prisoner
Dean William F. Dean, long missing U S 24th Division commander and Medal of Honor recipient, told a Communist correspondent he saved his last bullets to shoot himself rather than become a prisoner, but was captured after a ruse. He endured months in the hills, 60 pounds lost, and was finally betrayed near Taejon by two Koreans who sheltered him before North Korean soldiers closed in.
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Panmunjom
Korea
William F. Dean
U.S
Wilfred Burchett
Paris
Ce Soir
Dean
Pyongyang
Burchett
Chinan
Taejon
Allied Soldiers in Korea Pray for Peace on Christmas Front
Allied troops in Korea marked Christmas with religious services and gifts for orphans amid continued fighting. Cardinal Spellman celebrated mass for 600 soldiers during a front line tour while small Communist probes and a two hour tank infantry clash near Chiowon tested UN forces in the frosty front.
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Associated Press
Korea
United S Nations
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
U. N
Chiowon
Westcentral
Illinois Mine Disaster Claims 119 Lives at West Frankfort
The Orient No 2 mine in West Frankfort Illinois suffered a deadly blast killing 119 miners. One survivor Cecil Sanders 44 Benton Illinois rescued after 56 hours entombment. Rescue operations and warnings prompt investigation by federal mine inspectors.
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West Frankfort
Cecil Sanders
Benton
United Mine Workers Hospital
Sanders
John R. Foster
Orient No. 2
Lancers
Paul
Washington
Oscar Chapman
Interior
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
John Forbes
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Chapman
James Young and Daughter Stay at Gastineau Hotel
James Young and his daughter from Sitka are stopping at the Gastineau Hotel during their travels, according to a brief locality notice.
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James Young
Daughter
Sitka
Gastineau Hotel
Dundas Named Corporal at Shattuck Corps Cadets
Richard Dundas of Juneau, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Dundas, is appointed corporal of the Shattuck Corps of Cadets at Shattuck school Faribault Minnesota.
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Richard Dundas
Frank Dundas
Juneau
Shattuck Corps of Cadets
Shattuck School
Faribault, Minn
Tide Tables and Marine Tide Marks for December 25 26
Tide tables show December 25 with low tides at 4 36 am 5 1 feet and 6 41 pm minus 0 5 feet while high tides occur at 10 49 am and 182 feet. December 26 records high tides at 12 07 am 11 1 feet and 11 42 am with low tides at 5 34 am 4 6 feet and 6 32 pm minus 2 0 feet.
Territorial raid halted by firepower and air patrols
Reds opened with small arms, then added mortars and artillery, forcing the raiding party to withdraw. F-86 Sabres swept MIG alley all day, but no Communist jet was spotted.
Fliers in Hungary Case Face Ransom Demands
United States officials from President on down are puzzled by a ransom demand tied to four unarmed cargo fliers forced down in Hungary. A Budapest military court quickly convicted them for border violations and aiding spies, fining each about 30 000 dollars and ordering the plane confiscated.
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United States
Hungary
U. S
Washington
Budapest
Robert Vogeler
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
John J. Swift
Glen Falls
Dave H. Henderson
Shawnee
Olla
Jesse Duff
Spokane
Wash
Geb. Sarnewy
Bek
Land
Ark
West Germany
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Truman
Missouri
Inspection of Prison Camps Rejected by Communists
In Korea on December 24 the Communist high command rejected Gen. Ridgway's appeal for Red Cross inspection of North Korean prison camps. Peiping radio quoted Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh Hua i as saying inspections are unnecessary due to humanitarian treatment of Allied prisoners. The Reds warned that early armistice progress could allow prisoners to return home and accused the UN side of delaying talks. Maj. Gen. Lee San Jo expressed hope for an agreement before December 27 while prioritizing care for the sick and wounded.
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George A. McArthur Munsan
Korea
Communist High Command Today
Matthew B. Ridgway
Red Cross
Peiping
Kim Iy Sung
Peng Teh-Huai
United Nations Supreme Commander
Ridgway
Panmunjom
Red
Lee San Jo
R. E. Libby
Lee
Charges of Ancostal Are False Copied In Empire
Hanford, OPS director for Alaska, says George N. Apostol was removed as enforcement director for the Alaska district OPS for being unqualified. Apostol’s charges in the Empire are called vindictive and untrue. Hanford says he discharged him last Wednesday with Washington approval.
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Hanford
George N. Apostol
Alaska
Apostol
Empire
CPS
Washington
Cutter Storis Pinch Hits for Santa Claus
The Coast Guard cutter Storis operated over the weekend due to bad weather delaying regular transport. At the Post Office request she carried 6,000 pounds of mail for Skagway and Haines, departed at 2 am, and returned by 10 pm after delivering mail and picking up Daisy W. Phillips in Haines while stopping at lighthouse stations.
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Coast Guard
Storis
Storrs
Skagway
Haines
Daisy W. Phillips
Steel Workers Meet Thursday to Decide Next Steps
WF President Philip Murray called the United Steelworkers top policy makers to a session in Pittsburgh on Thursday with no stated purpose. The executive board will meet at 10 a.m. EST followed by the wage policy committee at 2 p.m., as the nation awaits a response to Truman’s plea to keep steel production going past December 31.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CLO United Steelworkers
USW
Truman
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
Regular hours at post office today in Juneau
Post office will operate under regular hours today and residents are urged to collect accumulated Christmas mail. No windows will be open on Christmas Day.
Temperature and precipitation update from local station
Climate report shows period ending 4 30 a m today with rising temperatures and precipitation totaling 0.11 inches over the past 24 hours at the airport. Since July 20 rainfall accumulates to 0 41 inches, reflecting ongoing wet conditions.
Eight Americans die in Tehran plane crash with 21 total victims
In Tehran a four engine MISR Airlines crash in heavy snow near a 10,000 foot range kills 21, including Dr. Henry G. Bennett U S Point Four director and seven other Americans. President Truman calls Bennett a great teacher of cooperation. The group included Hardy Mitchell Crilley and Jor dal.
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Tehran
Iran
Henry G. Bennett
U. S. Point Four
Egypt
Misr Airlines
Bennett
Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
Benjamin H. Hardy
James T. Mitchell
A. C. Crilley
Louis Hendrist Jordal
University of Michigan
United Nations Food and Beet Organization
Columbus
Perennial Cotton, Bio, Company
Emijean. Shnaeidesgat
Bodies of Ten Recovered from Burning Ship
Ten bodies recovered from the Danish ship Erica after a Thursday fire near Vancouver and Copenhagen docks. Among the dead are Elizabeth Brunlees, six, found on her mother’s lap, and several identified victims from Vancouver, Copenhagen, and Whitehorse. Coroner cites suffocation. 103 aboard survived including Angus Brunlees and his son Williams.
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Astoria
Ore
Erica
Elizabeth Brunlees
Raymond O. Luce
C. M. Taylor
C. G. Scott
Dorothy Myers
Vancouver
B. C
Horst Andersen
A. Sorenson
Copenhagen
Brunlees
Thorn Andersen
Lilly Haase
Iversen
City Clerk’s Office to Close Wednesday Morning
City Clerk C. L. Popejoy announced the office would be closed Wednesday morning but reopen for business from 1:00 to 4:30 PM. The notice stresses limited morning hours with full service in the afternoon.
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C. L. Popejoy
Denali and Baranof ship movements outlined today
Denali is scheduled to arrive from Seattle at 6 p.m. today heading westbound. Baranof is slated to sail from Seattle on Friday. Yukon Princess is scheduled to arrive from Vancouver on December 26.
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Denali
Seattle
Baranof
Vancouver
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