Plane crash in Seattle kills Yale students and crew
A DC-3 charter carrier carrying 27 Yale students and 7 crew members crashed minutes after takeoff in Seattle. At least 14 of 80 aboard died, 15 survived, and one was missing. Boeing workers aided rescue as flames engulfed the aircraft near a hangar. the fuselage and door were damaged and firefighters hurried to detach it.
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Seattle
Yale University
Yale
Washington
Oregon
Seattle Air Charter
New Haven
Conn
Aney
Boeing Airplane Company
Lynn Brown
Boeing Field
Brown
Tragic DC-3 crash survivors recount Seattle blaze
Eye witnesses describe a chartered DC-3 carrying 27 Yale men back to campus catching fire after a foggy takeoff. George Cole, 21, injured with a sprained ankle, twisted leg, and cuts, recalls being hurled from a snapped seat belt as flames enveloped the wreck. He and others describe frenzied attempts to escape through windows and damaged interiors at King County Hospital.
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Seattle
Jan
Yale
King County Hospital
George Cole
Clarence G. Cole
Holiday Death Toll Surpasses Three Hundred Mark
The New Year holiday period saw over 300 fatalities from traffic and other accidents. A Yale University plane crash near New Haven killed at least 14 of 27 passengers and three crew, with wreckage searches ongoing for missing victims. Overall fatalities include 205 highway deaths, 96 from misc accidents.
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Yale University
New Haven
Conn
National Safety Council
Hope Abandoned For Plane With 32 Passengers
Coast Guard abandons large scale search for missing DC 3 with 32 aboard after days of patrols by Air Force Navy and Coast Guard. Search will focus near the last radio position 50 miles southeast of Miami as hopes fade. Manila reports Philippines foreign affairs endorsing Nehru’s conference proposal on Indonesian problems.
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Miami
Fis
San’ Juan
Puerto Rico
Coast Guard
Air Force
Navy
Manila
Philippines
Parents Learn Of Son's Death in Portland Plane Crash
In Portland Oregon on January 3, Mr and Mrs George Haerle learned their son Dava was aboard a chartered plane that crashed near Seattle. The Haerles, who had urged him to take a train home to Yale, later confirmed through Yale student George Cole that Dava Haerle sat on the ill fated two engine flight. He was not among the 13 survivors taken to King County Hospital.
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George Cole
James
Fellows
Portland
Ore
Goodbys
Seattle
George Haerle
Dava
Yale University
Union Station
Yale
Haerle
Cole
Young Haerle
King County Hospital
Fifteen Japanese Sentenced in War Crimes Trial
Fifteen Japanese including the wartime military police chief and several former generals received heavy prison terms for the killing of 45 captured American fiefs. Twelve others were acquitted by a U S Eighth Army commission after a five month trial period.
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Tokyo
Eighth Army
Shanghai Council Plea for Immediate Cease Fire Peace Talks
Shanghai city council urged the National government to order an immediate cease fire and open peace talks with the Chinese Communists. The appeal, approved by the council, was broadcast via radio to Yenan for relay to Red leaders, signed in the name of 6,000,000 Shanghai residents.
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Shanghai
Yenan
Nanking
China
Peiping
Spencer Moosa
Moosa
Body Of Woman Found In Bus In Alexandria Va
The body of a woman about 45 was found wedged under a parked school bus by driver Brashdun Bunch in Alexandria. She was fully clothed, wearing street clothes, and Lutheran literature was found with her. Cause of death is undetermined and she has not been identified.
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Alexandria
Brashdun Bunch
Bunch
Mt. Vernon High School
Benny Basore Tip Wins Top Prize For Housewife
A Fry avenue housewife won the $3.50 first prize in last week's Daily Mail news tip contest for naming Benny Basore, the popular Latta figure known for dispensing gum. Second prize went to a Central avenue man for a tip about a bus crash burning, $2.60. Third prize, $1.50, split between tips on an automobile and a theng ing collision, and a Corbett street miss who reported hyacinths sprouting. Tipe are accepted weekdays 7 AM to 2 PM. Washington, Jan. 3. George B. Barnard, 67, longtime Interstate Commerce Commission member, died suddenly of a heart attack last night.
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Benny Basore
Latta
Daily Mail
Benny
Daily Mall
Central Avenue
Corbett Street
Washington
George B. Barnard
New Castle
Ind
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mayor to Seek Bond Authority for Crossing Eliminations
Mayor Richard H Sweeney announced plans to seek General Assembly authority to issue up to 1,000,000 in bonds for underpasses and overpasses at Hagerstown grade crossings. Voters will decide yea or no at the March election.
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Hagerstown
Richard H. Sweeney
General Assembly
Tor Atch
Sweeney
Mercersburg Couple Dies in Apparent Gas Incident
A Mercersburg World War II veteran, Harry C. Barges, 28, and his companion Pauline Keel, 21, of Bedford Pennsylvania, were found dead from carbon monoxide in a Pontiac near Mercersburg Academy. They were last seen at 12:30 AM. The station wagon belonged to a relative of Barges. Police say the watchman initially misread the scene as a casual moment. The case is under investigation at the Chambersburg sub-station.
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Mercersburg
Mercersburg Academy
Harry C. Barges
Pauline Keel
Bedford
Albert Eeminger
Pennsylvania
John H. Burke
Chambersburg
Merceraburg
Legislators To Leave Tomorrow For Maryland Assembly
The Washington County delegation heads to Annapolis for the opening session with bills on Hagerstown’s new charter, ward line revisions, and referendums. A Sunday movie question may go to a March vote, while Mayor Sweeney backs a $1,000,000 bond plan for grade crossing eliminations funded jointly by state and city.
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Jay
Europe
Ato
State Roade Commission
Washington County
Maryland
General Assembly
Annapolis
Hagerstown
Reuben Musey
City Taxable Basis Increases for 1949 Budget
The city reports a 4 million dollar rise in the assessable tax base, reaching 58 million dollars. The proposed budget totals 2,124,209, down from 2,419,390 last year, with anticipated revenue from a 50 cent per $100 tax rate estimated at 261,000 versus 243,000 previously.
Gas Station Window Smashed By Bullet In Shooting Scrape
Police hunt a colored man after a shooting scrape on Jonathan street. Detective Norman Wolfe reported a pistol bullet crashed through the Baker gas station window in the 400 block of Jonathan street. A warrant is out for one man, with jealousy over a woman cited as a possible motive. The victim’s name was not learned.
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Norman Wolfe
Jonathan Street
Wolfe
Baker
Oswald To Speak To People Tonight in Hagerstown
Edward Gowald Jr announced he will address Hagerstown residents at 6 35 PM over WJEJ to explain his bid for Mayor. Oswald has served nine years as City Attorney and legal adviser to the Mayor and City Council as he seeks the Democratic nomination.
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Edward Gowald, Jr
Hagerstown
WJEJ
Oswald
No Charges Against New Year's Drunks
A number of drunkenness arrests from New Year's morning were released without charges after sobering in cells at police headquarters. Police Chief Max W. Rickard noted taverns staying open until 2 AM and typical revelry, but said there was no hoodlumism marking the celebrations and did not expect a completely clean slate. CIO blamed for violence in Calvis Lex Company strike at Dayton.
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Max W. Rickard
CI0
Washington
CIO
ConaTecniegal
Calvis Lex Company
Dayton
Oho
Record Budget Of 43 Billion Predicted In State of the Union
Washington reports the Republican Old Guard blocked liberal GOP rebels, clearing a path for Taft's reelection as policy leader. President Truman will address Congress within a week, likely calling for higher taxes on business, repeal of the Taft Hartley Act, and a peacetime budget near 43 billion dollars. He will outline a broad social program and may retain price and ration controls amid inflation concerns. The response from economists is divided on future control measures as the nation enjoys a surge in prosperity and production.
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Washington
Senate
Todey
Aslf
Taft
Ohio
Jan
Truman
1St Congress
Congress
Capitol Hill
Council of Economic
Leon Keyser Ungwald
John D. Clark
Cupid Decline Seen In 1948 Washington County Marriages
Washington County shows fewer marriages, deeds, mortgages, and divorce cases in 1948. Marriage licenses dropped to 3,146 from 3,499 in 1947 and 4,928 in 1946. Deeds and mortgages totaled 4,416 versus 4,671 in 1947 and 5,161 in 1946. Equity court filed 427 cases in 1948, 390 of which were divorces or annulments, about 50 fewer than the prior year.
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Washington County
Equity Court
Vatican rejects Hungarian offer to settle church hostilities
New York Times Rome dispatch reports the Vatican rejected a Hungarian government proposal for direct talks to resolve church state differences. The Vatican said the offer cannot be considered while Cardinal Mindszenty remains jailed, and noted the government’s willingness to reach an accord with the Roman Catholic Church irrespective of Mindszenty's case.
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New York
New York Times
Rome
Vatican
Jovef
Mindezenty
Mindszenty
Growers In Everglades Finding Heavy Damage
Florida Everglades growers report frost caused heavy damage to crops as frost and freezing temperatures hit the region. Federal forecasters noted ongoing, incomplete damage assessments with strong winds and drifting snow in plains states.
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Everglades
Florida Everglades
High Great Plains
Florida
Warren C. Johnson
Oklahome
Texas Gulf
W., M. Percy
Chicago
Limited Draft Examinations In County Show 311 Examined
A report by William Tobias shows in this county 311 men have been examined and 13 inducted from a total of 4,681 selective service registrants. Sixty-seven registrants under 19 were not eligible, with five inductions and 17 pre induction exams planned for January.
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Selective Service
Israel Spokesman Flatly Criticizes British Policy
Tel Aviv Jan 3 A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain is maneuvering a sulky boycott of Israel toward actual war. He noted Churchill coined the phrase and urged the Security Council to see Britain as out of court as an impartial U.N. member, accusing Britain of aligning with Arab states.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Foreign Office
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Security Council
U.N
Middle East
Maryland bill to pay veterans bonus from sales tax
Baltimore reports Senator Kimble announces a plan to fund a Maryland veterans bonus from retail sales tax receipts during the General Assembly session in Annapolis. He suggests a $500 payment to every war veteran if proceeds could be diverted, with opposition to the tax noted. Market news notes a blanket of inactivity in New York trading openings.
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Baltimore
Maryland
General Assembly
Annapolis
Kimble
R-Allegany
No. 1 No. 1 Baby Born New Year's Day in Alabama
Leonard Blake Gunneils of Prattville Alabama is identified as America's No 1 baby under a new nationwide birth registration system. The nine pound boy born New Year's Day carries aerial number 101-49-000001 and represents Alabama leading in alphabet order with Prattville Autauga county. The system aims to simplify birth registrations across states.
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Montgomery
Ala
America
Leonard Blake Gunneils
Pratteville
Als
Oliver Gunneils
Uleworker
Ralph W. Roberts
Vital Statistics
Alabama
Autauga County
Prattville
Autauga
National Association of Registration Officials
Canada
National Office of Vital Statistics
Offee
Washington
Births rise at Washington County Hospital in December
One hundred twenty babies were born at the Washington County Hospital during December, up from 114 in November. Sixty eight were boys and fifty two girls. December births last year totaled 118.
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Washington County Hospital
Weather forecast and medical residency note in Maryland
Maryland region expects occasional rain tonight and Tuesday with some freezing rain in mountain areas. Virginia and West Virginia also see rain with milder and colder periods. In health news, Dr Ernest M Larmore Jr completes a year as general resident at Washington County Hospital and proceeds to White Hall Md to practice.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Ernest M. Larmore, Jr
Washington County
Charlee J. Cotter
Ent
Larmore
White Hall
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