Eight survivors ferried from Sabena crash at Gander
Coast guard helicopter and flying boats conducted a dawn to dusk rescue at Gander Newfoundland base. Eight survivors were taken to Sir Frederick Banting Memorial Hospital while ten others awaited extraction at daybreak. Lt August Kleisch led the operation from 1 42 p m rescuers reached the crash site. Airline hostess Miss Jean Roocchi and other passengers were moved to ambulances after transfer to waiting medics.
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Gander Airport
Mld
AU. S. Coast Guard
Newfoundland
Gander Air Base
Coast Guard
August Kleisch
Gander
Kleisch
Jean Roocchi
Sir Frederick
Trick Catches Trickster in Chicago Youth Detained
A deaf youth handed Detective Joseph Conway a penciled note saying he was stranded in Chicago and needed money to return home. Conway gave a quarter, the youth thanked him and left. Conway then quipped about change and took the youth to central station where he was held without charge.
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Chicago
Joseph Conway
Conway
Central Station
Sugar Ration To Stand Through 1946
The agriculture department announced sugar rations will continue through 1946 with no major increases likely until next year’s crops reach the market. Production is expected to rise next year, but consumption and stock needs are forecast to exceed available supplies.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Wallace Not to Campaign for Democratic Party in November Elections
Washington AP Henry A Wallace has decided not to actively aid the Democratic party in the November congressional battles. Friends say he remains undecided on public opposition to current foreign policy before the Paris peace talks. He believes he cannot participate in the political campaign despite potential influence in the Truman faction.
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Wallace
Democratic
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Paris
Byrnes
Congress
Truman
A P Stores Convicted in Antitrust Ruling
Thirteen corporations and 16 officials who run A and P stores nationwide were convicted of conspiring to monopolize and restrain food trade. The ruling drew immediate appeals by the New York based Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and its officers.
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Danville
New York Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Walter C. Lindley
Telegraph Crews May Get Raise
Washington reports a federal mediator was named to resolve a wage dispute at Western Telegraph involving AFL unions and the company. AFL seeks 16 cent an hour raises for most workers and 10 cents for messengers. The parties disagree on whether the wage increase requires wage stabilization board approval.
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Washington
Western Telegraph Company
AFL
Labor Department
Wage Stabilization Board
Halsey Clarifies Bomb Comment Not a Toy
Admiral Halsey issued a formal statement in Washington after returning from Buffalo Minnesota denying he called the atomic bomb a toy or that scientists chose to drop it on Hiroshima. He said the remark was a mis take and unnecessary, noting Japan’s peace feelers and the new weapon’s reveal.
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Washington
Bull” Halsey
Hiroshima
Buffalo
MN. Y
Halsey
Typhoon Batters Guam Naval Army Base in Marianas
An erratic typhoon sweeping the Marianas caused extensive damage on Guam and at Harmon field with many hangars wrecked and the breakwater at Apra harbor punctured. No serious injuries reported except one man with a broken back and communications largely down.
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Guam
Marianas Islands
Charles A. Pownall
Marianas
Army
Rota
Pownall
Navy
Harmon Field
Japan
Naval Hospital
Apra Harbor
State auditor contends not proper defendant in election suit
Ada county district court hears Franklin Girard suit challenging Gov Williams reelection and the 1944 constitutional amendment extending terms for state officials. Auditor Er nest Hansen argues he cannot be sued and that N. P. Nielson is the proper Republican nominee. The case tests who may be enjoined from placing Williams on the November 5 1946 ballot.
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Boise
Ernest G. Hansen
Ada County
Franklin Girard
Girard
Hansen
Arnold Williams
Otto) Peterson
Williams
N. P. Nielson
Wallace May Talk On Russia At Paris Crisis
Diplomatic authorities say US relations with Russia will hinge on the Paris peace conference ending next month. A possible Truman Stalin meeting looms, with a potential Wallace move if Henry Wallace remains silent about his policy stance signaling a new approach to Russia.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Truman
Navy plane crash reported near Tecamaluca west of Mexico City
A United States Navy plane with six aboard, missing since yesterday, was reported by Cordoba police to have crashed near Tecamaluca about 30 miles west of Mexico City. The aircraft, tied to the U S embassy, left at 9 10 a m Friday for Corpus Christi Texas intending to refuel at Vera Cruz. Names of those aboard were withheld by U S authorities.
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Mexico City
Cordoba
Tecamaluca
Here
U. S
Corpus Christi
Texas
Vera Cruz
Wind and Rain Dampens Saturday Mood and Forecast
A man on the street endures a windy Saturday commute as rain and wind bring mud, unsettled hair and potential fevers. Temperature ranged 68 high, 57 low, mean 62 with no precipitation today. month total 86 versus normal 44. Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and cooler temperatures.
White House Social Season Opens After Long Hiatus
Washington announces the return of the White House social season with six dinners and five receptions starting November 26 and February 18. Diplomatic dinners will occur twice this year to accommodate a 1,150 strong diplomatic corps, with key events including a Jan. 7 diplomatic reception and a Feb. 4 army and navy reception.
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Washington
White House
Poland
Truman
Capitol
United States
Europe
House of Representatives
Sen. McKellar
Tennessee
Senate
Army and Navy
UNO May Fail Says European Study Group
A European study panel predicts the United Nations will fail to avert war in a major conflict. It endorses a world federation for peace and criticizes the UN veto in the security council. The group notes Russia is overstepping and that current world structure risks returning to war pathways.
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London
International Committee For the Study of
United Nations
World Federation of Nations
Russia
UNO
U.N. Security Council
West Coast Crews Return To Work Closing Strike
Washington AP reports mystery surrounds Evalyn McLean Reynolds death at the McLean estate Friend ship. Coroner MacDonald cites acute congestive heart failure with chemical tests to check sleeping pills. Detective Snyder says routine inquiry finds apparent natural causes. Mrs Reynolds wife of former Senator Robert R Reynolds of North Carolina, found unconscious in bed in her room at the mansion.
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Washington
Evalyn McLean Reynolds
Hope Diamond
A. MacGruder MacDonald
Louis M. Snyder
Reynolds
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
McLean
Hope
Capital Society
Train Derails In Utah No Injuries Reported
A westbound Union Pacific freight train derailed Saturday 212 miles east of Emory Utah on the main line. An axle likely broke on the 10th car causing 43 cars to derail but the eastbound track stayed open and traffic continued. Conductor K Downs of Ogden Utah and engineer Donovan E King of Evanston Wyoming named.
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Omaha
Peace Talks Hit Snag Over Romanian Oil Clause
A European peace conference faces a new hurdle as the Soviet bloc led by Russia rejects a British plan to protect foreign oil interests in Romania. After seven hours of debate, the Balkan Economic Commission referred to authorities whether a 7-7 vote on oil clauses in the Romanian treaty was legitimate. The British annex would require Romania to restore or replace allied oil losses, repeal discriminatory laws, and admit Allied officials and experts to operate wells.
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Paris
Russia
Romania
Balkan Economic Commission
Simplot Shipping Fertilizer From Pocatello For Fall Use
Simplot Fertilizer company in Pocatello ships six to seven railcarloads of superphosphate daily for fall application. Tests in fall 1945 show fall application yields better results than spring on several crops. Under construction at the plant is an employees clothes and shower room, according to plant manager O A Powers.
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Simplot Fertilizer Company
Pocatello
O. A. Powers
Nazi Records Detail Freezing Experiments on Inmates
Washington reports reveal grisly Nazi experiments that froze concentration camp inmates to death while researchers sought methods to save airmen. Prisoners were stripped exposed to cold air for hours or injected into ice baths in the so called research on the behavior of organisms at great heights.
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Washington
Army Still Dominant As 19th Straight Win Extends Streak
Army cruised to a 35 to 0 victory over Villanova on its season opener, extending its consecutive win streak to nineteen. Other major programs like Indiana Purdue Illinois and Arkansas faced tougher tests as Cincinnati jolted Indiana 15 to 6, while Purdue beat Miami of Ohio 13 to 7 and Illinois edged Pittsburgh 33 to 7. Arkansas needed stout defense to defeat Northwest Louisiana 21 to 14.
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NEW York
Army
Villanova
Indiana
Purdue
Arkansas
Illinois
Ilinois
Louisiana
Missing Americans Feared Slaves Among Wild Tribes in Western China
Unofficial reports claim B-29 crewmen missing since 1944 were living as slaves with the Lolo tribes in Szechwan near the Burma border. They allegedly tend herds and perform menial tasks under harsh conditions west of Sichang, with few outsiders able to verify the tale.
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Nanking
China
Burma
Szechwan
Sichang
Ning- Yuan
Assam
Tibet
India
Britain Gets Paper War As Newspapers Expand
Britain's war slimmed newspapers will gain six extra pages weekly beginning Monday. Demand has driven circulations to record highs while newsprint limits kept papers small. Government allocation will allow two extra pages three days a week and publishers may print as many as the public will buy.
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London
Britain
Detroit Star Football Star Charged With Rape
Guy Brown 21 a University of Detroit half back and Manhattan Kansas native was charged with the Aug. 28 rape of a white woman. Police say he may be questioned about a Sept. 19 assault as well as recent local rape cases. Brown, named athlete of the year, denied the charge and claims an alibi.
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Detroit
University of Detroit
Guy Brown
Manhattan
Kans
George Branton
Brown
Wayne University
George Murphy
Kansas
Clarence Smith
Slayer Hicswa Escapes Tokyo Hospital While Under Death Commutation
Pvt. Joseph E. Hicswa Jr escaped from a Tokyo hospital on Sept 17 and remains at large. He fatally slashed two Japanese civilians in a park on Nov 24 while awaiting transport home. He was sentenced to death but commuted to 30 years in prison after pleas from family in Wallington New Jersey and others, by President Truman in May.
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Yokohama
Joseph E. Hicswa
Tokyo
U.S. Eighth Army
Hicswa
Wallington
N. J
Truman
Russell Meet Opposition in UN Security Council
The American and British delegations to the United Nations Security Council reported separate challenges on why the Soviet Union seeks data on allied troop dispositions and air and sea bases in foreign non-enemy states. The Russian demand for an accounting as of Aug. 1 comes up for preliminary hearing Monday amid strong opposition to its admission on the agenda.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Security Council
Soviet Union
Council
CIO Reaches Parity With AFL Sailors in Wage Scales
After a 16 day maritime blockade, CIO and an independent union accept a government arbitrated settlement granting parity with AFL seamen in wages. AFL leader Harry Lundeberg refuses to restart work until masters pilots and mates agreements are settled.
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Associated Press
CIO
AFL
Harry Lundeberg
AFL Sailors’ Union of the Pacific
Wage Stabilization Board
APL
Marine Firemen
Reds Retreat From Kalgan
Chinese Communists reportedly hastily evacuated Kalgan as a government column neared within 30 miles. American travelers said hospitals factories and supplies were removed and evacuation used trains trucks camels and even rickshas. UNRRA specialists joined hospitals in the countryside and a cease-fire team with American personnel was taken into protective custody. No war evidence seen near Kalgan though government forces were close.
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Peiping
Kalgan
Charhar
UNRRA
Nanking
U. S
J. Leighton Stuart
National Assembly
Woman to Have Early Trial In Death Of Nampa Child
In Nampa Idaho 32 year old Ethelyn Peterson admitted beating her three year old stepson Phillip Wayne Peterson who died from skull and other injuries in a Nampa hospital. Prosecutor W K Jeppesen said she waived a preliminary hearing on a first degree murder charge and was bound to Canyon county district court in Caldwell. Her husband Phillip Peterson 24 father of the boy and co defendant asked for a preliminary hearing Sept 30. Jeppesen indicated she hoped to enter a guilty plea to a lesser charge and that action would be pursued quickly.
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Nampa
Idaho
Ethelyn Peterson
W. K. Jeppesen
Phillip Wayne Peterson
Jeppesen
Peterson
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