18 Children Perish As Homes Burn
Chicago dispatch reports a nationwide Christmas holiday death toll nearing 300 with at least 18 children killed in home fires. The cold wave left temperatures 15 to 20 below zero in New England and northern states while traffic and other incidents pushed total fatalities toward 300. Texas led with 38 dead, California 24, New York 21 as the nation endured extreme cold from Canada to the Atlantic.
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Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Canadian
Central Plains
National Safety Council
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California
New York
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Mother and Son Reunited After 40 Years in Spokane
SPOKANE Washington UP a mother Blanche Hamlett and son Jack E Cook were reunited on Christmas Eve after four decades apart. Hamlett who lived in Spokane until 1908 separated from her husband and gave Jack and siblings up for adoption in Bend Oregon. Cook now a lumberman and associate pastor in Valsetz near Salem says the reunion mirrors biblical Joseph and his brothers.
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Blanche Hamlett
Jack E. Cook
Walsett
Ore
Joseph
Egypt
Cook
Spy Crew Admits Error in Duggan Case
The House un American Activities Committee—led by Karl Mundt and Richard Nixon—said no further inquiry will be made into Laurence Duggan's conduct while at the State Department. An FBI check and Attorney General Clark cleared Duggan as loyal. The committee conceded they may have erred in linking him to a Red espionage network.
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Laurence Duggan
Karl E. Mundt
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House un-American Activities Committee
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State Department
New York
Tom C. Clark
FBI
United States
Mundt
House Committee
Richard M. Nixon
Calif
Bristol Woman Found Raped and Strangled
The body of 42 year old Lillian Rich Brackett was found in a Bristol yard. Her husband Harold Brackett 29 identified her and said they had been separated since October. Pathologist said she was raped and strangled with bruises from a struggle. A paycheck stub led police to her Plainville employer.
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Conn
Lillian Rich Brackett
Plainville
Harold
State Hospital
Rent Boss Plans Tenant Appeal Right Over Rent Hikes
Rent Director Tighe E. Woods said he will ask Congress to grant tenants a right to appeal general rent boosts by local boards, with landlords given the same right. He indicated no change in the existing system of local rent boards approving increases, while U P study shows rents rising nationwide despite efforts to hold them.
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Del
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Santa Monica Publisher Samuel McClure Dies at 85
Samuel Grant McClure, 85, publisher of the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and former prominent Ohio newspaper publisher, died Saturday of a heart attack in Santa Monica California.
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Calif
Samuel Grant McClure
Evening Outlook
Ohio
Truman Hikes Christmas Morning in Independence
President Truman spent a quiet Christmas at home in Independence. He started with a brisk early morning walk in snow covered streets, greeting a handful of townsmen, then returned to join family gift opening by the Christmas tree as a large turkey waited for the first family meal.
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Truman
American Legion
Reddish Rites Set Monday
Funeral services for Bishop Arnold E. Reddish age 40 will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the LDS Sixth ward chapel. Reddish was killed in an auto accident Thursday evening near Fort Hall. Burial is in Mountain View cemetery under Hall mortuary. No inquest unless requested by the Bingham county coroner.
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Fort Hall
Evan Jones
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Bingham County
Christmas Town Grows Quietly Amid Copper Riches
In Christmas Arizona the hamlet clings to scarce business as residents face shrinking population and reliance on nearby Hayden Winkelman for schooling and services. The 1878 copper rush and 1902 boundary shifts shaped the town named on Christmas Day after miners jumped claims and found the site.
Barkley Proposes New Ribbon for Airlift Crew
In Berlin Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley announced a new U S ribbon bearing a C 54 Skymaster to honor airlift personnel. He urged pilots to persevere until Berlin is blockaded no more as Bob Hope and Gen Lucius D Clay joined Christmas events amid postwar relief in western zones.
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Alben W. Barkley
U. S
Bob Hope
Gi’s
Lucius D. Clay
Barkley
Big Carrier Heads North To Rescue Airmen
The USS Saipan left Norfolk at 1 p.m. to reach a Greenland ice cap rescuing 13 American airmen stranded after a transport crash. A fourth Air Force rescue attempt failed, leaving two glider crew members on the 7700 foot ice. The carrier faces a roughly 2000 mile voyage with weather uncertainty delaying the mission.
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Greenland
Saipan
North Atlantic
Norfolk
Mississippi Slayer Captured After Fatal Christmas Night Shootings
In a rain drenched dawn capture at a shack near Hurley Mississippi, 48 year old Murdock Hinton confessed to fatally shooting his wife, daughter, granddaughter and Sheriff J E Nelson on Tuesday night. Hinton surrendered to a multi state lawmen group led by Sheriff Guy Krebs after a tip. He admitted planning the murders following his wife’s divorce and said he targeted the sheriff due to prior arrests.
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Ala
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George County
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Lucedale
Jennie Hinton
Hurley
New Orleans
Pascagoula
UN chief delegate War ren Austin recuperating in Key West
War ren Austin United Nations chief delegate is recuperating from a recent operation at the Little White House in Key West Florida. He arrived by plane last Monday to shake off an illness that has plagued him for months.
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Fla
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
White House
Austin
China Loses Kalgan in North China War
Chinese government reports admitted Kalgan has fallen to the communists. Meanwhile Hong Kong sources say Gov. T. VY. Soong of Kwantung Province plans an anti communist federation of South China as Chiang Kai-Shek faces possible downfall.
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Kalgan
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Hong Kong
Funeral Rites Tuesday For ET. Mathews
Ernest Thomas Mathews 67 retired UP switchman and Pocatello resident will be honored at 2 p m Tuesday at the Downard chapel with Rev. Dr. Willis Hamblin officiating. Mathews died Christmas Day from a Christmas Eve gunshot wound and left a daughter Mrs. West and two grandchildren Tom West Jr and Patricia West. He was born April 9 1881 in Plattsmouth Neb and moved to Pocatello in 1908. He served as president of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen No. 98 for years. survived by five sisters.
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Pocatello
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First Presbyterian Church
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Thomas P. West
South Fifth Ave
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen No. 98
Plattsmouth
Neb
James S
Martha Rouse Mathews
Nebraska
Omaha
Railroad
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West
Tom West, Jr
Pocatello High School
Patricia West
University of Idaho
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Ansley
Frank Middaugh
Gillette
Wyo
H. S. Caldwell
Elmhurst
Long Island
N. Y
C. W. Taylor
Kirkland
Wash
Marjorie Milligan
New York City
Fighting in Negev Desert. Egyptian anti aircraft gunners down plane
In the Negev Desert area of Southern Palestine fighting persisted as Egyptian anti aircraft gunners shot down one Jewish plane, the war ministry reported last night.
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Negev Desert
Palestine
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Billings Sees 1600 New Phones In Use This Year
B A Barickman, manager of the telephone company, reports more than 1600 new telephones have been installed and are in use in Billings over the past year.
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B. A. Barickman
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Roads Open but Slick in Southeast Idaho
Southeastern Idaho roads are open but slick, Idaho State Police report. U.S. 91 and 191 show drift snow on the Pocatello to Idaho Falls route. From McCammon to Malad hill the roads are icy. Western routes are mostly clear though shoulders remain solid ice.
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Malad Hill
Weather forecast predicts clear but cold day across Idaho
The forecast calls for clear skies and cold temperatures with about five degrees warmer than Christmas Day overall. Thermometers from Snake River flats near American Falls and Aberdeen show 20 degrees below Christmas morning, while Pocatello records ten below. Motorists face possible tire changes in five below zero weather and Monday's wash may freeze solid.
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American Falls
Aberdeen
Pocatello
Weather Bureau
Trade mark filings hit record 27739 in 1946
The United States Patent Office reported 27739 applications for trademark registration in 1946, the highest annual total to date, including renewals.
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United State Patent Office
Peace by pennies and prayers the Golden Rule plan
Dr. C F Vickrey of the Golden Rule Foundation sells peace like a bargain, urging Americans to give to global philanthropies and use tax benefits. He calls for a nickel-a-day pledge totaling 2 529 480 000 to fund an antiwar campaign, with a Dec 31 deadline and a push toward weekly 10 percent charitable deductions.
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New York
Dr. C. F. Vickrey
Vickrey
Golden Rule Foundation
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