Plane Crash Near Seattle Kills Seven. Dozens Injured
DC-4? plane crashes after being turned back from Seattle Boeing Field. Seven dead include Reba Monk of Santa Monica and Virginia Grafton. Ten hospitalized in Seattle and Renton with severe burns from gasoline fire.
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Alaska Airlines
Seattle-Tacoma
Reba Monk
Santa Mon
Santa Mon Who Was Credited By Surviv
Fred Smith
Tacoma
Wash
Ed Lestia Howe
Seattle
Spokane
Ole King
Anchorage
Virginia Sumworth
Virginia Grafton
Gordon Johnson
J. E. Johnson
Palmer
Alaska
Pearl Stella Jones
Seattie
Des Moines
158Th Street
Renton
Sons Alaska
Boeing Field
Paris Strikes Prompt Government to Seek Extraordinary Powers
France faces a nationwide strike as 2 million workers idle after wage demands of 1 125 to 2 500 francs monthly. Premier Schuman seeks extraordinary authority to quell unrest and push back Communist led CGT. Parliament votes to draft additional troops for six months while labor leaders split.
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Lievin
Labor Confederation
Isbor m
Robert Schuman
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Four Deer Killed In Hancock Area Hunt Leads To Season Details
Hunters reported in the Hancock area as game wardens described a six day deer season with restrictions. Only bucks with at least two points and only proper does or spike bucks allowed. accidental kills must be reported at checking stations including the Hancock bridge station. Season ends Saturday with ongoing hunts in surrounding counties and states.
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Hancock
Hancock Bridge
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Washington County
Frederick
Garrett
Allegany
Devil
Worchester Counties
Sprankle Murder Case In Court
The trial details a motel shack confrontation between Sprankle and Andrews ending in Andrews’s death from skull fractures. The state argues repeated attacks with a club while a witness testified to loud arguing and blood on a cot. Sprankle admits beating but says it was self defense. Jurors and witnesses are listed. prosecution aims to finish that night.
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Andrews
Sprankle
Club
Ingram
Langenstein
Andrew Ina
Aml
Lanin
Sprankling
Louise Stone
Walt
Klee Cram
Washington County
Strankla
Andrew
Kenneth McLaughlin
James J. Treacy
Freighter Friend Ship Sails to Le Havre with Grains
The 10 900 ton freighter Friend Ship, loaded with 208 carloads of grain and flour, departed Philadelphia on its first leg to Le Havre France. The cargo will be distributed to starving people in France and Italy.
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Friend Ship
Philadelphia
le Havre
France
Ifrance
Italy
Fear 16 Dead In Philly Fire
A major fire in Philadelphia killed 16 people in a two to three story brick building used by the Tourst relief organization. Fire sparked by high winds swept through the Oxford and Marshal streets structure, trapping residents on upper floors and prompting multiple rescues as onlookers and reporters observed several jumps from windows. Firefighters battled the blaze as witnesses recalled people clinging to window sills and a man found on the roof.
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Seattle-Tacoma
James Ryan Farris
Seattle
Harold K. Phillips
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Mrs. Jones
William Patterson
Patterson
Oxford
Marshal Streets
Berry
Nicodemus Bank Opens To Public In 1947 Milestone
A historical note traces Nicodemus National Bank from its first Savoy Restaurant site to the Edward Mealey house remodeling in 1912, the 1924 name change with Charles Hilliard as first president, and growth to assets of 15.66 million by 1947. John D. Hollyday becomes president after Hilliard’s 1940 death. current officers listed include Ellsworth Roulette, W Ray Tabler, Hamp Shervin, E Guy Neikirk, and directors Cromer, Foltz, McElwee.
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Land Hotel
Savoy
Hotel Hamilton
Glick Shoe
Edward Mealey
Charles Edward Hilliard
Marshall E. Reed
John D. Hollyday
Ellsworth R. Roulette
W. Ray Tabler
W. Hampton Shervin
E. Guy Neikirk
Charles W. Cromer
Robert G. Foltz
Herbert W. McElwee
William Cunningham to speak at Chamber reception for new members
Sports writer and radio commentator William Cunningham will address the Chamber of Commerce reception for new members at Franklin Court Auditorium on Wednesday night. He began at the Dallas Morning News and later worked for the Boston Post and Boston Herald, with a long run on Mutual Broadcasting System starting in 1943.
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Wiliam Cunningham
Chamber of Commerce
Franklin Court Auditorium
Cunningham
Dallas Morning News
France
Boston Post
Boston Herald
For sale ad amid Yukon Sun misprints and odd phrasing
A fragment from the Yukon Sun advertises a 28 or 2 model pickup claiming it runs fast with dramatic lines and a volcanic price. The note mockingly mentions rhubarb protecting teeth and cites an animal nutrition lab in Lthacy, with stray words at Y.
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Yukon, Chin
Yukon Sun
Mercury Dips Across States With Coldest North Yet
Readers report extreme cold across the nation with Greenville Maine at zero and Montpelier Wisconsin at one above. Ithaca New York reached nine above as Midwest temperatures eased, while Phoenix Arizona and Blythe California led the nation at 69 degrees. Magnesium metal was first produced in Germany about 1913.
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England
Greenville
Montpelier
Ithaca
N. Y
Midwest
Great Lakes
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Northwest
Phoenix
Ariz
Blythe
Calif
Germany
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