B 36 Bomber Missing After Distress Messages Over Northwest
A Royal Canadian Air Force sighting near Queen Charlotte Sound prompted a search for a missing B 36 bomber from Alaska en route to Carswell Texas. Eighth Air Force reports engine trouble at 17000 feet with icing and fire, crew to bail out, possible water ditching 300 miles northwest of Seattle. 16 aboard, fuel ample, aircraft unaccounted for after three distress calls.
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Seattle
Royal Canadian Air Force
Queen Charlotte Sound
Puget Sound
Fort Worth
Eighth Air Force
Queen Charlotte
Vancouver Island
B.C
Eielson Air Force Base
Alaska
Carswell Air Force Base
Iles
Air Force
Tacoma
Spokane
Roger M. Ramey
Cecil Scott
Scott
Tolaska
United States
Forth Worth
Hawaii
Police Arrest Five in Cohen Bombing
Police round up five gang associates of Jack Dragna amid a Warren crime commission report naming Mickey Cohen’s top rival for Southern California rackets. Dragna, a Mafia chieftain, remained at large as eight officers sought him while the five were booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder in Cohen’s home bombing.
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Los Angeles
Jack Dragna
Earl Warren
Crime Commission
Mickey Cohen
Southern California
Dragna
Cohen
225 Construction Men Leave Atomic Plant
In Oak Ridge Tennessee 225 plumbers and steamfitters quit work three hours before shift end over a labor dispute at a $66,000,000 atomic plant. An Atomic Energy Commission spokesman said the idleness was not a union action and the company reportedly ran them off.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
A. E. Galyon
AFL Lumbers Local 102
Galyon
Funeral services for Harry L Hall former UMW leader
Funeral services for Harry Lee Hall 72 former president of United Mine Workers District 6 were held in Columbus. Hall headed the Ohio and West Virginia panhandle districts for six years, and had previously worked at district 12 headquarters in Charleston.
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Columbus
Harry Lee Hall
United Mine Workers District 6
Hall
Ohio
West Virginia Panhandle
District 12
Charleston
Man Dies From 70-Foot Fall At Local Glass Plant
Elmer E. Potter, 60, fell to his death down a 70-foot shaft at the Anchor Hocking Glass Co. plant in Lancaster on Monday, police said.
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Lancaster
Elmer E. Potter
Anchor Hocking Glass Co
Sleeping Child Rescued From Flames In Ohio Home
Gallipolis Ohio Fuel Gas Co official Ray St. Clair rescued two year old Shirley Ann Hersman from a rear bedroom fire at 14 Grape Street as her mother evacuated the three year old Carol Jean. The blaze, likely started by defective wiring, damaged the kitchen and replaced a birthday mixer. The rescuer arrived before firemen and shut off gas. Continued on Page 12.
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Gallipolis
Ray St. Clair
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Shirley Ann Hersman
John Hersman
Grape St
Curb Sought For Abuses In GI Training
Washington lawmakers seek limits on GI Vocational Training abuses while safeguarding veterans four educational opportunities under the GI Bill. Key questions focus on whether the act is a readjustment program or a bonus act and how far Congress should tighten oversight without harming entitlements.
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Washington
House
Congress
Rep
Wheeler
D-Ga
Teague
Texas
House Veterans Committee
Veterans Administration
Truman
Silver Shirter To Be Paroled
Terre Haute Ind William Dudley Pelley former Silver Shirt leader was to be released on parole today after nearly eight and a half years of a 15 year wartime sedition term. He would be met at the prison by Vigo County Sheriff and two Buncombe County deputies from Asheville North Carolina authorities seek a 2 to 3 year term for violating a suspended sentence based on a 1935 securities conviction.
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Terre Haute
Ind
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirt
John Trierweiler
Vigo County
Buncombe County
North Carolina
Asheville
N. C
W. H. McLean
Columbus Extended Forecast Shows Warmup, Rain and Snow Mix
Temperatures in Columbus will average 1 to 4 degrees above normal with a high near 37 and a low near 20. Expect colder conditions Friday and Saturday, a warmer trend Sunday, and light precipitation of 0 to 1 inch mainly as rain or snow on Wednesday and again Friday and Saturday.
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Columbus
Otterbein Student Missing After Canoe Capsize
A canoe trip on Alum Creek capsized near Westerville at 1 a.m. leaving Robert Nelson Buck 20 Alliance missing. Three fellow Otterbein fraternity brothers, George Welsh 21 Tom Buchanan 20 Ira Moody 20, survived and joined a police and student search. Buck star sophomore baseball player had recent offers from major league clubs.
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Columbus
Otterbein College
Robert Nelson Buck
Alliance
Westerville
Capital University
George Welsh
Zanesville
Tom Buchanan
North Lima
Ira Moody
Country Club Fraternity
Otterbein
Ohio adopts Massachusetts ballot voting machines
Secretary of State Charles F. Sweeney rules that voting machines may be used under the Massachusetts type ballot in Ohio.
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Columbus
Charles F. Sweeney
Ohio
Taft Seeks Middle Path on Welfare At Lincoln Day
Sen. Robert A. Taft urged a rebirth of freedom and a middle-of-the-road policy to expand education health and housing with federal aid kept as a secondary role. He criticized Trumanites as me too-ers and cautioned against socialism spreading abroad. He called for balance between aiding welfare and preserving liberty.
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Canton
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
United States
Taft
Cincinnati
CIO
Political Action Committee
Cincinnatian
Atom Group Chief Seen As Interim AEC Leader
Washington reports the Atomic Energy Commission may name a temporary chairman from proponents of rapid hydrogen bomb work as Gordon Dean replaces David Lilienthal. Lilienthal resigns tomorrow and Strauss also leaves the commission, signaling transition in AEC leadership.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Truman
AEC
Gordon Dean
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
United States
Strauss
Commission
Bricker Lays Out GOP Stand on Miners and Government Power
U S Senator John W Bricker addressed the Hamilton County Lincoln Day Dinner asserting only the Republican Party can restore balance between government power and public liberty and curb organized minorities led by John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union for allegedly menacing national peace and safety by defying the law.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Lincoln
U.S
John W. Bricker
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Bricker
Efforts Rise to Lift Freeze on TV Station Grants
Washington reports indicate hearings on color television will resume next week and likely coincide with renewed calls to end the 17 month old freeze on new television grants. Industry statements show growing restlessness among manufacturers and broadcasters to expand service nationwide.
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Washington
Expert Says Spencer's Memory OK
A Columbus psychiatrist testified that Delbert Spencer 51 showed good memory throughout his trial for the murder of Mrs. Pauline Bailey. Dr. J F Bateman described Spencer as rambling, illogical, and “over acting,” yet retaining memory during the proceedings. The hearing continues with two more doctors expected to testify.
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Columbus
Delbert Spencer
Pauline Bailey
Glouster
J. F. Bateman
Spencer
Lima State Hospital
Bateman
Alva Hanning
Athens
Marie Pincelli
Pincelli
Hanning
Gordon B. Gray
Egypt
Lizies
Mary
Lima Hospital
Smithfield
H Bomb seen in British election campaign
Britain faces a political battle over the hydrogen bomb as 1866 candidates compete in nine days of campaigning. Prime Minister Attlee's Labour and Churchill's Conservatives urge new international talks to curb atomic weapon use, with debate likely if the issue rises. Neither Bevin nor Churchill has yet named the bomb in their statements.
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London
Clement Attlee
Labor
Winston Churchill
United States
Russia
Laborites
Tories
Ernest Bevin
Churchill
Soviet Union
Candidacy of Truman In 52 Hinted
A California political leader suggested President Truman may seek re election in 1952. Democrats welcomed the hint as stirring interest but, as usual, viewed it as vague and not a definite plan. Public anticipation rose for his Jefferson Jackson dinner speech in Washington.
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Washington
California
Truman
Plans To Kill Heuss Found on Ex Nazi
An ex Nazi is under arrest in Hannover on charges of plotting to kill West German President Theodor Heuss. He has been held for three months while his sanity is examined after police found a diary detailing a bomb plot at Hannover railway station following Heuss’s visit to the city.
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Hannover
Germany
Theodor Heuss
Darmstadt
Heuss
Explosion rattles Helsinki Parliament building ahead of presidential vote
Police offered no explanation for an explosion that hit the Finnish Parliament early today, just as the Parliament prepares to elect the president tomorrow. The incident follows heightened security around the vote and raises concerns over political stability.
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Helsinki
Finland
Families Flee High Water in Eastlake Flooding
About 100 families were evacuated from near the Chagrin River mouth as high waters rose. Police, firemen and the Coast Guard helped move nearly 400 residents to safety in Eastlake, with some housed in neighbors homes or at shelter in a firehouse and church. Waters receded after the river mouth was cleared.
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Cleveland
Chagrin River
Lake Erie
Coast Guard
Lake County
Eastlake
Willabee
East
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Missisippi
Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ilinois
Atlantic Coast
Midwest
New York
Pennsylvania
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Potato Plan Offered
Washington lawmakers discuss a new government price support plan for potatoes aimed at reducing overproduction. The proposal would guarantee farmers a stated income per crop with supports varying by yield, contrasting the existing fixed per-bushel price support system.
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Washington
Brannan
Department
Two-Power Talks Call To End A War Threat
Dr Linus Pauling a top chemist urged U S Russia two power talks to halt the threat of an atomic war that could wipe out civilization He spoke to about 1000 people at a Carnegie Hall rally against the H Bomb in New York last night and urged diplomacy over extremism.
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New York
U. S
Russia
Linus Pauling
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Hall
City council action awaited by 100 taxicab drivers
About 100 of 407 striking taxicab drivers waited in Cincinnati for possible city council action on their bid to license and operate their own cars as cabs.
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Cincinnati
Czech Arrests Two Mormon Missionaries in Moravia
The Czech foreign office said state police arrested two American Mormon missionaries for attempting to enter a prohibited area. They disappeared January 28 while traveling through Moravia to visit LDS members near the border. Named are Stanley E. Abbot, 23, of Lehi Utah and C Alden Johnson, 22, of Idaho Falls Idaho.
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Prague
Czech Foreign Office
U. S
Moravia
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Mormon
Stanley E. Abbot
Lehi
Utah
C. Alden Johnson
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Lottery Ordinance Proposed in Cleveland Council
A lottery ordinance to empower Cleveland to license charitable lotteries was introduced in city council. The measure seeks to regulate games run for charitable purposes and establish licensing rules and oversight.
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Cleveland
Shelbyville husband allegedly poisons wife to die
Clarence E. White 38 of Shelbyville admitted to police he mixed a death drink for his wife Lolaida 46 and watched her die. He said he gave two bottles of rat poison dissolved in water after she complained of a bellyache. She died January 12. autopsy showed arsenic in her organs. White faces first degree murder charges after arrest yesterday.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Clarence E. White
White
Maurice Moberly
Shelby County
Fred Gravely
Lolita
C. J. Price
Indiana
Production Prospects Dim in Ohio Coal Strike News
Ohio coal mine strike factions show mixed signals as only small shaft and strip mines operate while 800 to 1000 miners work. United Mine Workers locals in District 6 prepare meetings on resuming work despite John L. Lewis orders. observers doubt a quick return.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Ford Sampson
Ohio Coal Assa
Sampson
Hocking Valley
United Mine Workers
Piney Fork
Powhatan No. 1
Nelms
West Virginia
John L. Lewis
Adolph Pacifico
Lewis
Columbus
Union
Cleveland
Edmund F. Smircina
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
UMW
Southern Coal Producers Assn
Northern
Southern
George H. Love
National
Bituminous Coal Operators Negotiating Committee
Statler
Washington, D. C
Love
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