Flying Enterprise sinks after two week sea ordeal
Captain Kurt Carlsen and mate Kenneth Dancy left the crippled freighter as a gale overwhelmed the Flying Enterprise. The 6,711 ton ship sank 35 miles southeast of Lizard Point after a two week battle, debris litters the water, and a small American flag flew from the superstructure as it disappeared.
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Falmouth
England
Flying Enterprise
Kurt Carlsen
Kenneth Dancy
Enterprise
Isbrandtsen Line
Carlson
Dancy
Lizard Point
Carlsen
Carlsen and Dancy Escape from the Flying Enterprise
Eyewitness accounts describe Capt. Kurt Carlsen and Tug Mate Kenneth Dancy clinging to survival after abandoning the stricken Flying Enterprise. They were aided by Turmoil crew on January 11 in Falmouth as Dancy aided Carlsen from the water and both were brought aboard.
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Safe Harbor
Hamburg
New York
Carlson
Dancy
U. S
Willard Keith
Keith
Falmouth
MEC
Carlsen
England
Kurt Carlsen
Kenneth Dancy
Turmoil
Enterprise
Leslie Ford
Southampton
Ford
Richard van Evelingen
Dan Parker
Parker
Colin Stebman
Capt. Parker
Stebman
Capt
Flying Enterprise
Stedman
23 Die as Irish Airliner Crashes in Welsh Mountains
An Air Lingus DC3 on a London to Dublin run struck Mount Snowdon near Caernarvon during a gale. All 23 aboard died, with three bodies found away from the wreckage. among the dead were two Americans. The crash occurred before 7 10 p m local time, the carrier's first fatal accident since 1936.
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Caernarvon
Wales
Air Lingus
London
Dublin
Allies Withdraw After Violent Fight With Reds
Allied raiders clashed with a Communist force northwest of Yonchon before dawn. The Reds used grenades and heavy small arms fire as the Allies withdrew under mortar fire at 6 am. A separate two hour engagement near Mundung valley involved about 20 to 25 Reds. Daily front quiet, Fifth Air Force confined to 16 sorties due to snow and clouds. The Eighth Army said enemy casualties in early January reached about 5,879 with 3,340 killed.
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Seoul
Korea
Yonchon
Mundung
U. S
Eighth Army
Sasi
Western Front
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Reds Pressure in Korean Truce Talks Deepens Crisis
Friction over armistice terms rises as Communist broadcasts warn of a grave crisis if Allies reject final Red demands on supervising a truce. The UN accuses Reds of seeking forced repatriation of Allied prisoners and the day’s subcommittee session ends early. Panmunjom talks resume Friday amid high tension.
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Munsan
Korea
Panmunjom
Subcommittee On
Syngman Rhee
Wisconsin
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Peiping
Hsieh Fang
Kissing Topic Studied by House Committee
New York January 10 The House investigating committee examined kissing and its risks as part of its cosmetics chemical inquiry. Dr Marion B Sullezberger warned lipstick dermatitis can occur if a man is allergic to lipstick ingredients after kissing his partner.
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New York
House
Congressional Committee
Marion B. Sullezberger
Fifth Avenue
Gordon McDonough
R-Calif
Butte Marine Pat Callahan Beats Odds in Korea Battle
Butte Marine Corp Pat Callahan survived two wounds a severe ankle sprain and pneumonia in 11 months and one day of fighting with the Fifth Marines on Korea's Punchbowl. He earned the Bronze Star for gallantry and is entitled to wear the Combat V for a daring action that aided the withdrawal of wounded. He returned home at 19 to Christmas with his mother and relatives reflecting on a starkly different holiday from 1950.
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Marine Corp
Pat Callahan
Butte
Callahan
Fifth Marines
Corp
Korea
Helen Callahan
West Galena
Emmett Kelly
Waukesha
Defense Department
Guzik Acquitted in Contempt of Congress Case
Guzik known as Greasy Thumb, linked to Capone gang, was acquitted of contempt of Congress by U S District Judge Edward Tamm who ruled his refusal to testify was within his constitutional rights. The decision emphasized government of laws not men after prior rulings limiting compelled testimony.
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Washington
Jacob
Greasy Thumb
General De Lattre Near Death in Paris Clinic
Paris report says General Jean De Lattre De Tassigny, 61, French high commissioner and Indo China commander, was in a dying condition after surgery for a prostate tumor. France radio said he is considered lost.
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Paris
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Indo-China
de Lattre
MacArthur
38 GOP Senators Demand That Jessup Be Recalled
Washington January 10. Thirty eight Republican senators urged President Truman to recall Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup claiming the American people have no confidence in him. Jessup, a UN negotiator in Paris, faced partisan charges linked to McCarthy claims about Communists in government.
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Truman
Philip C. Jessup
Jessup
McCarthy
Rwis
Paris
U. S
United Nations General Assembly
Senate
Styles Bridges
R-N. H
White House
Congress
Far East
State Acheson
Generalissimo
Chiang Kaishek
China
GOP
Bridges
Lodge
Mass
Morse
Ore
Ives
N. H
Tobey
Aiken
Flanders
Case
S. D
Williams
Del
Truman names McGrath to lead government cleanup
President Truman announced he will task Attorney General J Howard McGrath with cleaning up government corruption. Republicans assailed the move as a whitewash while McGrath, confined by illness at home, offered no comment. The plan shifts focus from a proposed independent commission to the Justice Department lead role.
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Washington
Truman
House
J. Howard McGrath
McGrath
Congress
Hillings
Calif
Justice Department
Bakewell
R-Mo
Acheson and Eden Exchange Views on Asia Policy
Secretary Acheson and Foreign Secretary Eden wrapped a six day global survey with talks on the Far East. They reported good progress though no firm decisions, amid concerns over Japanese revival in textiles and Hong Kong pressures from the anti Communist boycott. The Indo China threat prompted questions on Southeast Asia security and possible U S backing.
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Washington
Acheson
Anthony Eden
Far East
Southeast Asia
Japan
State Department
Truman
Winston Churchill
John Foster Dulles
Eden
Pacific
Hong Kong
Red China
Indo-China
U. S
Aged Montanan Survives Shot to Headwalks to Ambulance
In Kalispell Montana on January 10 Albert Stickles a 74 year old man was wounded when a shotgun discharged as he stepped outside to shoot a woodpecker. He walked eight yards through heavy snow to reach an ambulance. Doctors say brain surgery may be needed and recovery could cost him an eye.
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Kalispell
Albert Stickles
Kalispell Hospital
Stickles
Eli Milton
Miltons
Desperate Fugitive Shoots Self in Auburn Cemetery Siege
In Auburn New York a fugitive held a woman hostage for six hours in a cemetery caretaker’s house before leaping from a second floor window. He wounded himself in the stomach, was captured near the scene, and is believed to be named Daniel Walker though he disputed the name. Jacqueline Cooperman, a 17 year old from Los Angeles, had been seized earlier. Walker also wrote a note to her ending with an apology.
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Auburn
N. Y
Daniel Walker
New Jersey
Walker
Syracuse
James Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Jacqueline Cooperman
Los Angeles
Miss Cooperman
Jackie
Bob
Churchill Cuts Short His New York Visit
Prime Minister Winston Churchill ended his New York trip early due to bad flying weather and planned to travel by train to Ottawa. Host Bernard Baruch cited the air as unsafe for flying while Churchill, 61, kept dictating memos and outlining a speech for Ottawa.
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New York
Winston Churchill
Ottawa
Churchill
Bernard Baruch
Divorce suit filed over movie scene etiquette in Michigan
Robert Smith of Benton Harbor filed for divorce on Thursday alleging cruelty by his wife Dorothy Scates Smith. He says she forced him to stand in the lobby whenever film scenes showed bathing suits or abbreviated costumes.
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ST. Joseph, Mich
Robert Smith
Benton Harbor
Dorothy Scates Smith
Truman to campaign if Eisenhower wins Repub nomination
President Truman signaled he will campaign against Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower if he secures the Republican nomination. He said no Republican would be good for the country and declined to reveal his own reentry plans, while praising Eisenhower and pledging to back the Democratic nominee. He also announced DOJ should lead the anti corruption study and McGrath will supervise the clean up. Palmer of General Cable named to monitor hiring discrimination on government contracts.
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Washington
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Europe
Gen
Department of Justice
Mc-Grath
Mec- Grath
Dwight R. G. Palmer
General Cable Corporation
Mr. Trumans
Butte May Escape New Cold Wave
Helena weather officials warned of a Canada originated cold wave bringing subzero readings to northern Montana and spreading south and east by Friday night. Winds and snow caused travel hazards with U S 2 blocked near Essex and Lookout pass requiring chains on U S 10.
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Helena
Helena Weather Bureau
Montana
Divide
Canada
Northcentral
Weather Bureau
Continental Divide
Highway Department
Essex
West
East Glacier
Lookout
U. S. 10
Idaho
Radar Screen Crew Discounted by Coast Guardsmen
Coast Guardsmen discounted a report from a vessel that it had detected an unknown object on radar while scanning the stormy North Pacific for the abandoned freighter Pennsylvania and its 46 man crew as night fell.
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Seattle
Wash
North Pacific
Pennsylvania
Carl Heinta
Coast Guard
Butters Native Among Seamen Hunted in Pacific
The freighter Pennsylvania and crew search continued as Cygnet III radar spotted a distant object while Northwest search forces scoured the North Pacific. A 33 year old Montana native Neil M. Blank served as third engineer aboard the Pennsylvania, abandoned in a storm with 45 crew members believed to be in lifeboats.
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Pacific
Neil M. Blank
Butte
Pennsylvania
North Pacific
Blank
E. H. Hammond
Curtis
Herman Blank
Harrison and
McKinley
Mire Raymond Gransberry
Glen
Francis FE. Sullivan
Great Falls
United Press
Seattle
Port Angeles
Wash
M. B. Williams
Coast Guard
Mariner
Navy
Neptune
Wilams
George P. Plover
Portland
Ore
Coast Guard Pbm Mariner
Defense Progress Report Is Made
Secretary Lovett told Congress production lines are yielding tanks guns planes and other gear at about 24 billion dollars annually and the pace is rising He warned it may take time to remove bottlenecks in major defense item production after testifying behind closed doors to the Senate armed services committee.
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Washington
Lovett
Congress
Pentagon
Senate Armed Services Committee
Russell
Senate Group
Russia
Truman
Free Nations
Weather Forecast Partly cloudy with snow flurries Friday
Montana west of Divide mostly cloudy with local snows Friday and Friday night. Highs around 25 to 35 across the region. Cool wave from the north brings winds 10 to 20 mph turning westward 20 to 30 mph into Friday night. Airport and Mines readings show mild overall with lows near 14 to 17 and highs 31 to 32.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
United States May Protest Hungary Ransom Demand
President Truman requested Mansfield to address the United Nations Assembly in Paris as the U S debates paying a ransom for four American airmen held by Hungary. Mansfield and Vorys were central to the delegation with focus on the mutual security act amid Russian charges.
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Paris
United States
United Nations Assembly
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Washington
Truman
U. S
Mamsfield
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Mansfield
Congress
Jonn M. Vorys
Ohio
Vorys
Transit Strike Paralyzes Baltimore Transit System
Baltimore's 3,200 transit workers walked out at 4 a.m. demanding a 24 cent pay raise to raise base wages to 1.87 dollars an hour. The city faced a major traffic snarl as no streetcars trackless trolleys or buses moved during rush hours.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Transit Company
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