Bullet Shatters Bones in Leg of Pacific War Vet
Donald Legge 29, a Pacific War veteran, suffered compound fractures when a .38 German pistol he was handling discharged. The weapon had been a recent gift from his brother. He was wounded while testing the gun near his home and received aid from local residents and an ambulance. Legge served four years, much overseas, and is recovering at a hospital.
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Clark Legge
National Ave
Pacific
Donald
Allen Legge
Columbus
Saipan
Siapan
George Eagle Woods
John
L. F. White
Woodstock Lane
Mr. White
Leroy Jr
Jerry
Legge
Maurice Legge
Albin and
Clark Jr
U. S. Army
Charlotte
Shirley
Dorothy Anderson
Arlington
Berlin Fraulein And American Die In Gas-filled Apt
United States officials report a German girl's despondency may have caused the deaths of Ilse Grambow and John George Fuldner in a gas filled Berlin apartment New Year's Day. Fuldner, 41, of Ryton North Carolina, worked as an investigator for the American military government in Berlin. Autopsy indicates both were drinking before death and the girl was found in Fuldner's kitchen near a stove where gas had been turned on.
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Berlin
United States
John George Fuldner
Fuldner
Alabama Baby First in Nation For New Year
Leonard Blake Gunnells of Prattville Alabama is named America’s No 1 baby under a new nationwide birth registration system. The nine pound newborn, son of Oliver Gunnells a 26 year old tileworker, bears serial number 101 49 000001.
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Montgomery
Ala
America
Leonard Blake ‘Gunnells
Prattville
Oliver Gunnells
Ralph W. Roberts
Vital Statistics
Alabama
Autauga County
Autauga
Na 1 Association of Registration
Canada
For Sale CHUNK WOOD and a Spaniel Pup Wanted
Chunk wood for sale. Call 6101 or 7518. Wanted black spaniel puppy male. Dial 5783.
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Dial
Triple yolk egg found by Gore baker on New Year
Mrs. W. F. Anderson of Gore found a three yolk egg while preparing a New Year's Day cake. The egg was set aside and delivered to the newspaper office by her husband Mr. Anderson, a painter. The flock reportedly includes Rhode Island Reds hatched last spring.
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W. F. Anderson
Gore
Anderson
Rhode Island
Philippines Back India's Call for Asia Indonesia War Conference
New Delhi invited the Philippines to join India's Asian conference on Indonesia. Manila endorsed Nehru's plan for Allahabad talks to seek joint action, with economic sanctions against the Dutch seen as likely. Indonesian guerrillas harass Dutch positions in Java amid a Dutch cease fire order.
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New Delhi
Philippines
Indonesia
Manila
Department of Foreign Affairs
Nehru
India
Allahabad
Batavia
Java
Republican
Netherlands
Sumatra
Bus Strike Threat Stalemate Reached In Virginia
Richmond officials and union leaders reported a stalemate after talks at Governor Tuck on wages. The Virginia Transit Co and the tri county council of the Amalgamated Assn failed to resolve a 25 cent per hour raise for about 1600 workers.
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Richmond
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Tuck
Virginia Transit Co
Tri-County Council
Amalgamated Assn
Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employee of America
WTC
Flames Destroy All Possessions Of Family Of 7
A Friday night fire leveled most of the Nuri family home on Northwestern Grade. Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Nuri and five children were away. seven fire units battled high winds that froze equipment. Cause undetermined though kitchen area suspected. space heater and gas range present. The Nuris found temporary shelter with relatives.
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Northwestern
Nuris
Shoreham
Washington
Brills
Jasper Vance
Orville Garrett
Stewart Castleman
Friendship Fire Company
Sarah Zane
Clearbrook Volunteer Fire Co
Winchester
Taylor Barr
Barr
Nuzis
Siren Mistaken For 1949 Signal At New Year Fest
Whistles and bells rang five minutes early as a fire alarm at 11 55 p m on December 31 triggered the local observance. Residents mistook the alarm for a welcome to 1949, joining in as the last moments of 1948 faded. The alarm was for a trash fire behind the Baltimore and Ohio tool shed on N Kent St. Firemen put out the blaze without deploying hoses and warmed themselves after the chilly street ride.
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N. Kent St
Baltimore and Ohio
Florida Frost and Snow Sweep Across Nation
Frost damaged crops in Florida as a blizzard hit the Great Plains and western regions. Reports from Warren O. Johnson cite losses to corn sweet potatoes squash and new beans with lettuce and cabbage also hurt. Temperatures fell to near zero in western areas while heavy snow caused drifts and road closures from Wyoming to the Dakotas and Colorado.
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Florida Everglades
High Great Plains
Florida
Warren O. Johnson
Federal
Rocky Mountains
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Rio Grande Valley
Texas Gulf Coast
W. M. Percy
Chicago
Percy
Plains
Dakotas
Virginia Apple Crop Ranks Third In Nation in 1948
Virginia produced 8,640,000 bushels of apples in 1948, up 70 percent from 1947 and just under the five year average. The state ranked third in the nation behind Washington and New York, with an estimated national production of 90,288,000 bushels.
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Richmond
Virginia
Washington
New York
Peace talks at official dinner in Nanking prompt calls for cease fire
At a dinner for educators and officials Gen Chang Chih-chung urged peace while Shanghai and other cities petitioned Yenan for a cease fire. Nationalist generals in north China were rumored to seek a separate peace as Peiping and Tientsin faced siege.
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China
Chang Chih-chung
Shanghai
Yenan
Peiping
Tientsin
Chang
Shao Li- Tze
Moscow
Teng Wen-yi
Central
Shen Chang-Huan
Spencer Moosa
Associated Press
Moosa
Kashmir to Vote On Joining India Or Pakistan
The Indian defense ministry says fighting in Kashmir has ended and a plebiscite under UN supervision will decide whether the principality joins India or Pakistan. The state, with a Muslim population and a Hindu Maharajah, borders both dominions to the north.
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Kashmir
India
Pakistan
New Delhi
Indian Defense Ministry
United Nations
Red Workers Called To Speed Output
London January 3 Pravda the organ of the Russian communist party urged Russian workers to speed up farm and factory production to fulfil the five year plan in four years. The fourth year of the postwar plan begins with emphasis on improving work quality across economic and cultural construction and party and state activity.
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London
Pravda
Russian Communist Party
Moscow Radio
Yale Students and Crew Die in Seattle DC-3 Crash
A DC-3 charter flight carrying 27 Yale University students and three crew members crashed near Boeing Field in Seattle on takeoff. Fourteen killed, 13 taken to hospitals, including 10 Yale men identified by name. The crash followed a slick ice runway and a violent fire, with survivors aided from the wreck.
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Seattle
Yale University
Yale
Osborn G. Reese
Leonard B. Wickman
Bellevue
Wash
Noel Brown
David Bruce Haerle
Portland
Ore
Roger Young
Harry Franzheim
Russell H. Palmer
Vancouver
Wallace Hartley
Mercer Island
Don L. Garrett
Ralph Laird
Camas
James Bryan
Washington
Oregon
Seattle Air Charter
New Haven
Conn
Boeing Airplane Co
Lynn Brown
Boeing Field
Brown
State Patrol
John Roderick
Vatican rejects Hungary offer over Mindszenty jail status
The Vatican said direct negotiations with Hungary cannot proceed while Cardinal Mindszenty remains jailed. A Vatican authority cited the communist government’s position and insisted the personal case of Mindszenty must be resolved before any agreement with the Roman Catholic Church.
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New York
New York Times
Rome
Vatican
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Mindszenty
Supreme Court Upholds Closed Shop Bans
The Supreme Court unanimously up held state laws banning closed shops that require only union members to be hired and remain in good standing to keep jobs. Justices Black Rutledge and Frankfurter favored the rulings with concurrences, and Justice Murphy dissented only on Arizona.
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Washington
Supreme Court
American Federation of Labor
Arizona
Nebraska
North Carolina
Justice Black
Murphy
Rutledge and
Frankfurter
Truman Sets Out Tax Boost and Welfare Plans for Congress
President Truman plans to ask Congress for higher taxes on business, repeal of Taft Hartley, broader welfare programs, and a $43 billion peacetime budget. He will deliver the state of the union message Wednesday amid expectations of rising costs from the cold war and tighter economic controls.
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Washington
Jan
Truman
81St Congress
Congress
New Year's Party Turns Into Surprise Gay Wedding
Miss Georgia White of Richmond wed Andrew Graham in a spontaneous private ceremony at a Baltimore home on New Year’s Eve. The Army nurse and former VMI economics instructor’s marriage was witnessed by their guests and parents Mr and Mrs George White of Norfolk.
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Baltiqore
Georgia “White
Richmond
Andrew Graham
Georgie
Miss White
Medical College of Virginia
Baltimore
VMI
George White
Norfolk
First 1949 Infant Born in City Is a Girl
The city welcomes its first 1949 infant a girl born at Winchester hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Warner of Stephenson. Baby Warner arrived at 2 16 p m January 1 and joins 27 month old Stephen Kenneth.
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City
Winchester Hospital
Edgar Warner
Stephenson
Warner
Evelyn Berg
Warner's
Stephen ‘Kenneth
Harvey Cain
Bunker Hill
Cain
Marvin R. May
Bluemont
May
Anna Louise Racer
Reverend W. J. Hadden Resigns Cork Street Pulpit
The Cork Street Christian Church executive board will meet tonight to act on the resignation of pastor William J. Hadden Jr who asked to be released to resume studies at Vanderbilt University and pursue a Ph D He has received a call from a Clarksville church and would enroll at a Pens distance The Maple Shade New Jersey native married to Margaret Shumate of Martinsville Virginia they have two children Beth and Billy The church has grown under his leadership with 62 members added and sanctuary renovations
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Cork Street Christian Church
William J. Hadden Jr
Hadden
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Clarksville
Pens
Vanderbilt Universe School of Religion
Cork St
West Cork St
Maple Shade
N. J
Margaret Shumate
Martinsville
Beth
Billy
Rev. C. Line
Gore
Winchester Church
Polio Sees 569 Cases in Virginia in 1948
Richmond January 3 reports Virginia's 1948 infantile paralysis incidence at 569 cases, the fourth largest since records began. Twenty three deaths recorded so far, with potential for higher toll. historic tallies include 756 cases in 1944 and 685 in 1935.
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Richmond
Virginia
Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Attlee to reshuffle cabinet over defense leadership
In London on January 3 Prime Minister Clement Attlee plans a cabinet reshuffle likely to replace defense minister A V Alexander amid criticism from Parliament and press. Sources say changes may be announced this week to revitalize Britain's wartime downsized defense.
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London
Clement Attlee
Britain
A. V. Alexander
GOP Old Guard Crushes Revolt Against Taft
Washington dispatch reports the GOP and a Southern Democrat coalition in the House approved a rules change to curb the powers of the rules committee. The administration backed proposal passed by voice vote after a roll call 275 to 142, setting procedures to move stalled bills on certain Mondays if the committee does not act within 21 days.
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Washington
Jan
House
Sabath
R-Ill
Rankin
Mechal
Republicans Move to Block Rule Change in House
Report says Republicans in a conference session aim to rally enough Democrats to defeat a rule change. The House lineup includes one American Labor member and one vacancy, signaling potential coalition chances between Republicans and Southern Democrats to block administration measures. Senate pre-session maneuvers gave the Old Guard Republicans a solid edge over a reform-minded group.
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Jack Bell
Pial Ey Ee Oes
Socrats
House
Senate
Chamber
Richmond Home Safe Loot Totals 7900 In Cash And Valuables
Richmond report details a home break in while the family vacationed at White Sulphur Springs. Intruders opened a second floor safe with a power tool and hauled away cash, a stamp collection valued at 12000, plus other stocks bonds and jewelry. Local notice mentions a secular meeting and an auction sale of Mrs Kelter and Miss Lydia Orndorff items.
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Richmond
Edward T.haynes
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
House of Delega
West End
South End Fire CO
Harry Rainsberger, Jr
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