Former Alaska worker confesses to 1943 Phoenix murder
John Darrow 51 surrenders to police claiming he killed his ex wife in Phoenix in 1943 with a .32 caliber pistol. He says he learned recently the woman, named Nelda June Bunner by his daughter, was alive in Phoenix and on the run from him. Coroner ruled death unknown at the time. county attorney doubted murder.
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Sacramento
Calif
John Darrow
Phoenix
Ariz
Bob Phobix
Darrow
Nelda June Bunner
Kenneth Gallahue
Louisville
Gallahue
Bunner
Alaska
Salmon sniff home rivers claims fish scientists
New findings from the University of Wisconsin show migrating salmon likely smell their way back from the sea. Professor Arthur D. Hasler and Warren Wisby trained minnows to distinguish lake waters by scent using mild shocks and food rewards, suggesting salmon use olfactory cues to return to their birth rivers.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science Today
University of Wisconsin
Arthur D. Hasler
Warren Wisby
Ketchikan Guests Stop At Baranof Hotel
Mr and Mrs Boz Harris of Ketchikan are stopping at the Baranof Hotel during their visit.
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Boz Harris
Ketchikan
Baranof Hotel
Names and salaries to be published for Senate payrolls
Washington column notes Secretary of the Senate Les Biffle orders publication of all names and salaries on Senators payrolls reversing a prior blackout by Carl Loeffler. The move aims to expose possible kickback connections and follows past investigations of congressmen. Continued on Page Four.
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Wassaeron
Senate
Les Biffle
Congress
GOP
Carl Loeffler
J. Parnell Thomas
Loeffler
Burnett Maybank
South Carolina
Maybank
Red Ink Top Priority for New Congress
News from Washington notes red ink spending as the top domestic issue as the new Congress opens. Democrats and Republicans criticize deficits while debating policy like the Brannan Farm Subsidy and unconditional spending for world peace. Senator Taft warns subsidies could reach 6 billion yearly, while Majority Leader Lucas defends deficit financing as necessary for peace despite personal opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
Congress
Treasury
Taft
Ohio
Senate
GOP
Lucas
Ilinois
Havana
Betty Lou Marbury to Lose Hand to Stop Bone Tumor
Ten year old Betty Lou Marbury in Memphis faces amputation of her right hand after Boston doctors confirm a malignant bone tumor. The operation, performed at a Baptist hospital, aims to save her life despite her hopeful refusal to fear.
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Betty Lou
Memphis
Tenn
Betty Lou Marbury
The
Commercial Appeal
Boston
Betty
Author of Anthony Adverse Is Dead
Miami, December 28. Hervey Allen, age 80, author of Anthony Adverse, died today at his home from a heart attack. Dr. Frank Stewart said the author was stricken early this morning. Allen and his wife kept their winter home The Gladys in South Miami since the early 1980s. From Pelican Helvig 8, Christianson of Pelican is registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
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Miami
Fla
Hervey Allen
Anthony Adverse
Frank Stewart
Allen
Gladys
United States Recognizes New Indonesian Government
Washington reported the United States formally recognized Indonesia's new government. H Merle Cochran named ambassador, with credentials underway. Truman also appoints Edward Down Jr as acting U S representative and Avra Warren as ambassador to Pakistan.
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Washington
United States
Indonesia
H. Merle Cochran
White House
Cochran
U.S
United Nations
Republic
East Indies
Pakistan
Truman
Edward H. Down, Jr
Nebraska
Waite House
Avra M. Warren
Maryland
Warren
Finland
Ben Ayers
White Mouse
Helsinki
3 Day Coal Week Declared Unfair By Southern Operators
Southern coal operators filed charges with the NLRB General Counsel alleging the three day coal mining week constitutes unfair labor practice. They accuse John L. Lewis of refusing to bargain in good faith under Taft-Hartley. The Southern Coal Producers Association seeks a court injunction and notes the regional director in Baltimore will decide on injunction action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Southern Coal
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Organizeion
Joseph E. Moody
Baltimore
Air Force debunks flying saucer sightings
The Air Force reports a two year probe of 375 saucer rumors found no evidence of actual flying discs. Investigators credit misinterpretations, mass hysteria, and hoaxes, ending Project Flying Saucer started at Wright Field in 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Air Force
USAF
Air Materiel Command
Wright Base
Dayton
Ohio
Wright Field
Famous runner Lovelock killed in subway accident
New Zealand born Olympic runner Dr John E Jack Lovelock 39 was fatally struck by a Church Avenue bound train in Brooklyn after reportedly suffering dizziness at the station. The former world mile record holder ran for Princeton Na J and Berlin 1936 where he set a 1 500 meter world mark. He served on the staff of Manhattan Hospital for Special Surgery.
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New York
John E
Jack) Lovelock
Brooklyn
Lovelock
Church Avenue
Princeton
Na J
Bil Bonthron
Berlin
Glenn Cunningham
Manhattan
Hospital
Relief Official Freed By Soviet Troops In Vienna
Israel G. Jacobson, American Jewish Relief official expelled from Hungary on spy charges, was released by Soviet troops and returned to the American sector in Vienna. He arrived at the Bristol Hotel used by the American Army and had been held at the Austro Hungarian border after his expulsion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Israel
G. Jacobson
Hungary
Jacobson
Bristol Hotel
American fliers missing for over a year found safe
The State Department reports two American airmen missing over a year in Communist China are safe and well at a Communist base near Tsiang tao. Navy Chief Electrician William C. Smith of Long Beach California and Marine Master Sergeant Elmer Bender of Chicago are identified as the crewmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
State Department
China
Tsiangtao
Navy
William C. Smith
Long Beach
California
Elmer
Bender
Chicago
Cunard plans a liner larger than Queen Elizabeth
Maritime circles in London report Cunard White Star Line plans a new super liner bigger than the 83 673 ton Queen Elizabeth now the world's largest. Pope Pius XII greeted diplomats at New Year greetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cunard
White Star Line
Pius XII
Indictment sought for two Bridges trial witnesses
Vincent Hallinan, Bridges defense chief, asked for the indictment of two prosecution witnesses Manning Johnson and Paul Grouch in the Bridges perjury trial. He claimed evidence showing Bridges was in California when they said they saw him in New York, as the case proceeds with Bridges charged over citizenship testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Vincent Hallinan
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Manning Johnson
Paul Grouch
Communist National Central Committee
Rossi
New York
Kenneth Clare
Oakland
Gullf
Hallinin
California
Communist Party
Fungal cancer discovery shocks AAAS meeting
A report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science cites Dr. Trene Corey Diller linking fungi to cancers in 20 human cancers and 100 mouse tumors. She notes fungi found in cancers but not in healthy tissue, though more work is needed to prove causation. Weather and forecast data follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Trene Corey Diller
Institute For Cancer Research
Philadelphia
American Cancer Society
Diller
Tropics
Stock Quotations From New York Close
Closing quotations show Alaska Juneau at 3, American Can 106 percent, Anaconda 38, Curtiss-Wright 7, International Harvester 27, Kennecott 50, New York Central 11, Northern Pacific 13, Q8. Steel 26 74, Pound at 280 percent. Daily sales reached 1,560,000 shares with market averages industrials 199.58 rails 52.55 utilities 41.23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brew York
Alaska
Steamer sailings listed for Vancouver Seattle and Souttabotuned
Princess Norah departs Vancouver tonight followed by Denali from Seattle on Saturday. Baranof is scheduled from the west with Souttabuned departure Sunday evening.
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Princess Norah
Vancouver
Denali
Seattle
Baranof
West
Rita Hayworth Gives Birth To Daughter Yasmin
Rita Hayworth, 38, delivers a baby girl weighing about five and a half pounds in Lausanne after a predawn hospital dash. The princess, named Yasmin, is described as very good looking by her father Prince Aly Khan, with Rita regaining consciousness minutes after the birth delivered under gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lausanne
Switzerland
Bec
Rita Hayworth
Aly Kuan
Rita
Montholst
Yasmin
France
Prince Aly
Ahshaven
Aga Khan
Aly
Rebecca Welles
Oraon Welles
Welles
Karim Aga
Atyom Mohammed, ii
Jean Yarde-Buller
Paris
Miss Hayworth
Villaris
French Riviera
Vallauris
New York Heat Records Fall as Winds Mix With Cold
New York cooled dramatically after a week of heat records. By noon the temperature reached 59.6 degrees, then fell to 42 by nine hours later, with mid forties expected. Upstate warmth earlier gave way to damaging winds that shattered plate glass, toppled signs and knocked over power poles.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Seattle Jockey Named Man of the Year in Sports
Gordon Gilsson, a Seattle native who began riding at Longacres Track, was named Seattle Man of the Year in Sports by the Post Intelligencer. A jury of sports fans selected him from a field of candidates after he had been named Jockey of the Year by New York writers.
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Seattle
Gordon Gilsson
Longacres
Giisson
New York
Glisson
It Sports
The
Post Intelligencer
Fighters Butt Heads Drawn In Los Angeles Bout
A boxing match between Tommy Campbell of Los Angeles and Irvin Steen of San Diego ended in a draw after three rounds when the fighters butt ed heads. Campbell sustained a cut over his left eye and the bout was stopped.
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Los Angeles
Tommy Campbell
Irvin Steen
San Diego
Campbell
Pacific Explorer Faces Sale Amid Subsidy Backlash
Washington reports the government seeks industry input on the future of the Pacific Explorer, a wartime converted fishing ship. Bids reached 120000 from Tangiers, with 45601 from Seattle. vessel operated from Astoria and Costa Rica, tallying tuna and crabs, while cannery groups protest subsidy effects.
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Washington
Jio
Fiee Maritime Commission Trently
Iomt
Tangiers
North Africa
Seattle
U.S
BEEZ
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Nick Bex
Bez
Pacific Explorer
Costa Rica
Astoria
Explorer
Ore
Anderson
A. W. Anderton
Fish and Wildlife Service
Maritime Commission
National Cannery Association
National Fisheries Institute
Charles Carty
The
Canners Association
Churchill Time declares him man of the half century
Time magazine selects Winston Churchill as the man of the half century for 1900 to 1950. The Time cover features Ernest Hamlin Baker’s portrait and a 1 cent supplement titled The Half Century. Time lauds Churchill as a pivotal, sometimes flawed leader who warned of dangers and helped rescue a free world.
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New York
Winston Churchill
Time Magazine
Ernest Hamlin Baker
Time
Churchill
CAB Lacks Evidence on Alaska Plane Loss
The Civil Aeronautics Board announced it lacks sufficient evidence to determine the cause of the Pacific Alaska Air Express disaster. The De-3 vanished with 17 people aboard during a routine Anchorage to Seattle flight on November 1, 1948, last reported at 10 000 feet, 148 miles southeast of Yakutat, Alaska.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pacific Alaska Air Express
Anchorage
Seattle
Yakutut
Alaska
Storms, Snow, and Loss Hit Pacific Northwest
Severe winter storm lashes the Pacific Northwest with snow and high winds. One man, Burnis McHenry, 28, is killed near Ryderwood by a wind snapped tree. Highways closed in British Columbia, trains halted, and traffic stalled from Revelstoke to Snoqualmie Pass as rivers threaten floods and power cuts occur across Washington.
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Associated Press
King Winter
Pacific Northwest
Washington
British Columbia
Burnis McHenry
Long Bell Lumber Company
Ryderwood
Canadian Pacific
Revelstoke
B.C
Vancouver
Cascade Mountain
Snoqualmie Pass
Snowbound Mountain Passes Cut BC Coast From Interior
Record snowfall sealed central interior roads isolating Vancouver and the coast. The Hope Princeton highway, a $12,000,000 link, faced slides marooning motorists as seven buses and 150 private cars waited. Heavy wet snow disrupted trains and communications while basements flooded in Victoria and rain persisted with a forecast of colder weather tonight.
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Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Coast I
Canada
Hope-Princeton
Hope
Princeton
Vancouver Island
Victoria
Pan Am brings 13, 26 leave Juneau in transit move
Thirteen passengers arrive in Juneau by Pan American Airways and 26 depart for Seattle Whitehorse and Fairbanks with a list of names including Louise Krause Alice Reay Emily Dean and others. From Annette Seattle and July later, Red Barber noted sports announcer began radio career at WRUF Morita.
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Juneau
Pan American Airways
Seattle
Louise Krause
Alice Reay
Emily Dean
Roy Downing
K. Amer
Ike Weathers
Roscoe Laughlin
V. Coomps
W. Graham
A. J. Phillips
B. Baker
Whitehorse
Bill Rivers
Anna Jack
Mary Schoppert
Marion
Robert Schoppert
Anna Schoppert
J. ¥. Nutter
Thomas Smith
Fairbanks
E. Roundtree
Lundwall
C. L. Jones
Shells
Mac Spadden
R. Gardner
G. Gardner
Arvid Johnson
Annette
W. L. Turner
Jack Hazlett, Jr
Ruth Cranefield
Pip Chester
William Fleming
Bonnie Fleming
Carl Heinmiller
Betty Heinmiller
Steve Homer
Russell Mill
Albert Peterson
Harold Warner
Donald Walker
Red Barber
WRUF
University of Morita
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GY Hell Syndicate, Inc
Security-Atomic Energy Commission
Pelican Helvig 8
Christianson of Pelican
Gastineau Hotel
U. S
AIR Force OF
Sears Roebuck
Sears, Roebuck and Company
RUSS
Georges Bidault
Caechoxtovakia
Independence
Veterans Administration
Veterans’ Mental Hospitals
Todas
Aince
Aince Judy
N. Y
Guvi
CAB
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