Children Perish As Homes Burn During Christmas Fires
Chicago UP reports a nationwide Christmas toll near 300 with at least 18 children killed in house fires. Cold wave drives temperatures 20 below zero in parts of the country as New England and northern states face record lows. Traffic deaths total around 257 with 172 on icy roads. fires claim 33 and other incidents 52. Texas leads fatalities with 38, California 24, New York 21.
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Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Canadian
Central Plains
National Safety Council
Texas
California
New York
Canada
Rocke Mountains
Dutch Ignore U N Order Capture Java
Dutch troops seize Madioen defying UN cease fire and complete Java occupation. Indonesian forces resist in central Java as the war of attrition widens. A Republican emergency regime forms amid paratroop-led captures of Jogjakarta with leaders detainee and some released.
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Madioen
Java
Indonesia
Republican Radio
Jogjakarta
Sumatra
Madoerea
Mother and son reunite in Spokane Christmas surprise
SPOKANE Washington UP reports E Cook of Valsetz Oregon reunited with his birth mother after decades apart. Cook, a lumberman and associate pastor, learned his mother had lived in Spokane since 1908 after giving him and siblings up for adoption when her marriage ended.
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Spokane
Wash
Spy Committee Drops Duggan Case After Possible Mistake
House un American Activities Committee leaders say they may have erred linking Laurence Duggan to communist espionage. They will take no further inquiry into Duggan’s conduct as a State Department official after Attorney General Clark found Duggan a loyal government employee.
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House
Laurence Duggan
Karl E. Mundt
S.D
House UN American Activities Committee
Duggan
State Department
New York
Tom C. Clark
FBI
United States
Mundt
House Committee
Richard M. Nixon
Calif
Bristol Woman Raped and Strangled, Identified
Police identified Mrs. Lillian Rich Brackett of Plainville, 42, found slain in a Bristol yard. Her husband Harold, 29, said they had been separated since October. Pathologist reported rape and strangulation with bruises from a struggle and a paycheck stub led to her employment at a Plainville factory.
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Lillian Rich Brackett
Plainville
Harold
State Hospital
Rent Boss Proposes Tenant Appeals Over Rent Hikes
Washington United Press report says Rent Director Tighe E. Woods will ask Congress to grant tenants and landlords the right to appeal general rent boosts imposed by local boards. He notes current system would stay if Congress rejects changes. Rents rise nationwide postwar with thousands of units decontrolled or increased.
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Tighe E. Woods
Congress
United Press
Truman
White House
Wilmington
Del
Publisher Samuel McClure Dies at 85 in California
Samuel Grant McClure, 85, longtime publisher of the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and former Ohio newspaper figure, died Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif., from a heart attack.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Samuel Grant McClure
Evening Outlook
Ohio
Truman Takes Morning Hike On Christmas
President Truman spent a Christmas morning at home in Independence Missouri. He walked a mile in 18 degree weather with a favorite American Legion cane greeting a few townsmen before returning to open gifts with his family around the Christmas tree. A huge turkey awaited the first family.
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Independence
Truman
American Legion
Reddish Rites Set Monday
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the LDS Sixth ward chapel for Bishop Arnold E. Reddish, 40, who was killed in an auto accident Thursday near Fort Hall. Elder Evan Jones will officiate. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. No inquest unless requested by the Bingham county coroner.
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LDS Sixth Ward
Arnold E. Reddish
Fort Hall
Evan Jones
Sixth Ward
Mountain View Cemetery
Hall
Bingham County
Christmas Town of Christmas Arizona Struggles to Survive
In the ghost town of Christmas Arizona a small population clings to memories of a copper boom. Few services remain with no church school or bar, a shrinking tax base, and most shopping done in Hayden and Winkelman. Former store owner John Gojkovich moved away, leaving Mrs. Lois Peterson selling trinkets to about 70 residents.
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Lois Peterson
Globe
Peterson
Gojkovich
Hayden and Winkelman
Barkley pledges new airlift ribbon for pilots in Berlin
Vice President elect Alben Barkley announced a special ribbon for airlift personnel during a Berlin speech to 1500 pilots. He called their work a great filibuster as the Soviet blockade of Berlin persists, and urged them to persevere until the city is free.
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Berlin
Alben W. Barkley
U. S
Bob Hope
Lucius D. Clay
Barkley
Carrier Heads North To Rescue Airmen In Greenland
The USS Saipan sailed from Norfolk to Greenland to aid 13 American airmen stranded on a Greenland ice cap. A ski-equipped C 47 may land on the ice if weather allows as a fourth rescue attempt follows a failed towline rescue by a glider team.
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Washington
Air Force
Greenland
Saipan
North Atlantic
Norfolk
Mississippi Slayer Captured After Fatal Christmas Night
In pouring rain a Mississippi farmer, Murdock Hinton, surrendered to lawmen near Hurley after killing four people including his wife and daughter. He was captured 22 miles from the crime scene and confessed at Pascagoula and Jackson. He cited long family trouble and a recent divorce as motive, and said the sheriff’s arrest record drew his anger.
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Mississippi
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Oecomer
Hinton
Hinds County
George County
J. E. Nelson
Lucedale
Jennie Hinton
Hurley
Mobile
New Orleans
Jackson County
Pascagoula
UN chief delegate War ren R. Austin recuperating in Key West
War ren R. Austin, the United States chief delegate to the United Nations, is recovering 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 troubled him for months.
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Key West
Fla
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
White House
Austin
China loses Kalgan as communists seize key North China city
Government reports admit Kalgan has fallen to the communists amid Beijing area tension. Hong Kong reports say Gov. T. V. Soong of Kwantung Province plans an anti communist federation in South China as Chiang Kai Shek faces expected downfall.
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China
Kalgan
North China
Hong Kong
T. V. Soong
Kwantung Province
Chiang Kai-Shek
South China
Chiang
Funeral Rites Tuesday For ET Mathews
Funeral services for Ernest Thomas Mathews 67 retired UP switchman and Pocatello resident of 40 years will be held Tuesday at 2 in Downard chapel. He died Christmas Day from a gunshot wound. He is survived by his daughter Mrs West two grandchildren five sisters and former wife Jennie Fox. He was born in 1881 in Plattsmouth Nebraska and worked for the railroad since 1905.
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Switchman and Co Pioneer
Downard
Willis Hamblin
First Presbyterian Church
Mathews
Thomas P. West
South Fifth Ave
Pocatello
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen No. 98
Plattsmouth
Neb
James S
Martha Rouse Mathews
Nebraska
Omaha
Jennie Fox
West
Tom West, Jr
Pocatello High School
Patricia West
University of Idaho
Arthur Babcock
Ansley
Frank Middaugh
Gillette
Wyo
H. S. Caldwell
Elmhurst
Long Island
N. Y
C. W. Taylor
Kirkland
Wash
Marjorie Milligan
New York City
Fighting continues in Negev as plane downed in Palestine
In the Negev Desert area of Southern Palestine fighting persisted and Egyptian anti aircraft gunners reported shooting down one Jewish plane according to the war ministry last night.
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Cairo
Egypt
Negev Desert
Palestine
War Ministry
Billings Telephones Add 1600 New Instruments
B A Barickman manager of the local telephone company reports more than 1600 new phones have been put in use in Billings during the past year.
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Billings
B. A. Barickman
Telephone Company
Roads Open But Slippery in Southeast Idaho
Southeastern Idaho roads are open but slick with drift snow on U S 91 and 191 between Pocatello and Idaho Falls. From McCammon to Malad hill the highways are icy while western routes are mostly clear. shoulders remain solid ice in many areas.
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Idaho
U. S. 91
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
McCammon
Malad Hill
Weather outlook shows clear but cold week
The forecast calls for clear skies and much colder temperatures with readings around five degrees warmer than Christmas. Thermometers on the Snake River flats near American Falls and Aberdeen show twenty degrees below Christmas morning, while Pocatello records ten below. Drivers should expect potential fire risk and Monday’s wash will freeze solid as the weather bureau warns of continued frigid conditions.
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Snake River
American Falls
Aberdeen
Pocatello
Weather Bureau
Trademark registrations surge at USPTO in 1940s year
The United States Patent Office recorded 27 739 trademark applications including renewals, a peak for the period, indicating a busy department and heightened activity in registrations.
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United State Patent Office
Peace by Paycheck: Golden Rule Founder Sells War Savings
Dr C F Vickrey founder of the Golden Rule Foundation urges Americans to donate to charities as a way to invest in peace. He proposes a nickel per day from every worker, totaling 2 529 480 000 dollars toward antiwar efforts, with a year end deadline and tax benefits for giving. He promotes universal philanthropy and calls for 10 percent weekly charity deductions to fund peace.
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Claire Cox
New York
Dr. C. F. Vickrey
Vickrey
Golden Rule Foundation
U. S
John Charles Thomas
Divinity School
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