16 Die in Nebraska Floods and Drifts Trap Tourists
Flash floods and tornadoes left at least 16 dead or missing in Nebraska as communities faced ruined communication and widespread damage. In Cambridge nine drowned in Medicine Creek floodwaters, with 100 left homeless. rail lines and roads washed out as storms spread east toward Iowa.
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Nebraska
Yellowstone
Cambridge
Neb
Medicine Creek
Here
Burwell
North Loup
Broken Bow
Thomas Mitchell
George J. Porter
Ashland
Loomis
Oxford
Gothenburg
Second Air Force
Red Cross
Lloyd C. Richardson
Burlington Railroad
Iowa
Carroll
Council Bluffs
Highway 6
Weather Bureau
Vacationists Rescued After Yellowstone Blizzard Tragedy
A week end blizzard trapped 70 summer vacationers on Beartooth Pass near Yellowstone. Three park workers died and at least four were injured. Rescuers found 17 people in a Sacramento doctor’s trailer and carried others to safety by snowplow and toboggan after more than 24 hours of peril. Park officials said all persons were accounted for and autos towed to safety.
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Yellowstone Nationtional Park
Bob Helm
Missoula
Mont
Engelberg
Sacramento
Calif
National Park Service
Edmund Rogers
Park
Beartooth Pass
Yellowstone Park
Red Lodge
Park Service Road
Vernon Kaiser
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Richard Muckels
Akron
Ohio
John P. Baker
Oil City
Penn
John McCrea
Wisconsin Delegates Favor Dewey at State Convention
A Madison poll of Republican convention delegates shows Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York as the favored presidential candidate for next year. Taft led fourth and third choices with 97 and 140 votes, Bricker ranked fifth in first choices, Vandenberg had 59 first-choice votes and 151 third-choice ballots.
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Madison
Wis
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Taft
Ohio
Bricker
Vandenberg
Mich
Last Rites Held For Journalist's Son In Berlin
Funeral services were held at Sacred Heart Church for Lynn Heinzerling Jr. ten year old son of AP correspondent Lynn Heinzerling of Elyria Ohio. He died after asphyxiation from gas fumes in an air raid shelter ruins he was playing in following a blast by the Army.
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Berlin
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Lynn Heinzerling, Jr
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Elyria
Ohio
Dayton Driver Killed In Salem Race Crash
Dayton driver Clay Corbitt died after a collision on the first turn of the opening race at Salem track. The 39 year old with 22 years of racing experience was involved in a five car incident with another competitor.
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Dayton
Clay Corbitt
Salem
Ind
Corbitt
Tanker Explosion Kills Two In Los Angeles Harbor
A $10 million explosion aboard the 11,083 ton tanker Markay at Los Angeles harbor leaves two dead and 12 missing with about 30 injured. Fire and rescue crews responded swiftly as flames crossed to nearby docks and berths. Investigators probe cause with Keystone Shipping accused of negligence.
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Los Angeles Harbor
Wilmington
Calif
Los Angeles
Texas City
Coast Guard
Long Beach
Keystone Shipping Co
Philadelphia
William Anderson
Keystone
Markay
American President Lines
American Lines
Shell Oil Co
Truman Seeks Bipartisan Aid Panel On Foreign Policy
President Truman with Senator Vandenberg names a 19 member nonpartisan panel from business labor agriculture education and research to advise on how much foreign aid the United States can safely provide. He warns that aid impact on the domestic economy requires careful study and may curb dollar flows to war damaged nations.
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Washington
Truman
Vandenberg
America
Business
Agriculture, Education and Research
United States
Forgotten Key Cost Man His Life in Cincinnati Accident
In Cincinnati a man identified as Joseph A. Grimes, 44, died after attempting to climb into an attic window. He fell from a porch roof and broke his neck, a forgotten house key cited as the fatal factor.
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Cincinnati
Joseph A. Grimes
Route 7 Crash Kills Autoist
A Pennsylvania man died after his car skidded and overturned on Route 7 south of Toppers Plains. Coleman Crose 29 of Oil City died in St Josephs Hospital Parkersburg W Va from a fractured skull. George A Jarkwill 37 of Seneca Pa owner suffered a fractured leg. Mary Swartz 16 of Oil City suffered head lacerations.
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Pennsylvania
Toppers Plains
State Highway Patrol
Coleman Crose
Oil City
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
W. Va
George A. Jarkwill
Seneca
Mary Swartz
Sebring Mayor Joseph E. Robinson Dies After Illness
Sebring Ohio mayor Joseph E. Robinson aged 58 from Beloit died yesterday after a three weeks heart ailment.
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Sebring
Joseph E. Robinson
Beloit
Reds to Join European Aid Talks Friday
Britain France and Soviet Union to meet in Paris on Friday to discuss American aid to Europe. V. M. Molotov Ernest Bevin Georges Bidault to join the talks as Franco British and Soviet ministers gather for preliminary discussions on Marshall plan aid.
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London
Russia
Britain
France
Europe
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
U. S
George C. Marshall
Filipino chef hanged himself after murder attempt
In Bar Harbor Maine a 65 year old Filipino chef Blas Reyes long employed by novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart hanged himself in a police cell while awaiting court action on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Medical examiner E J Morrison cited temporary insanity as a contributing factor.
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Bar Harbor
Mary Roberts Rinehart
E. J. Morrison
Blas Reyes
Brooks Shoe Plant Union Signs Pact
Nelsonville workers at the William Brooks Shoe Co plant ratified a new contract ending a January 15 strike. The agreement raises base rates from 50 to 60 cents for minors and 70 to 65 cents for semi skilled workers, adds a five cent base bump, and grants one to two weeks paid vacation plus two holidays. The plant will start on a restricted basis Tuesday with about 190 Local 146 members affected and seniority preserved during adjustment.
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Nelsonville
William Brooks Shoe Co
United Shoe Workers of America, Cio
Walter Tigner
Tigner
Lausche Weighing Offer To Lead Reich Military Government
Former Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche said he would not fly to Germany today to take an overseas post in the Reich’s military government. He sent word to Secretary of War Patterson that he could not undertake the trip but would discuss the job further before deciding.
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Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
Germany
Reich
War Department
Robert P. Patterson
Lausche
Hopes for Atom Treaty Abandoned for Summer
United Nations delegates said no atomic control treaty could be completed before the general Assembly in September. Russia and Western powers remain deadlocked on key points, making a three month timetable impractical.
Rush Hemisphere Aid demands from Marshall and allies
Secretary of State Marshall warned that Latin America and Canada will seek aid elsewhere if the United States does not help them obtain weapons and military know how. He testified alongside War Secretary Patterson Navy Secretary Forrestal General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz before Congress.
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Washington
Marshall
Latin America
Canada
War Patterson
Navy Forrestal
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chester W. Nimitz
Train Kills 3 Boys Near Somerset Center
Three teen boys were killed when their car was struck by a Cincinnati Northern passenger train near Somerset Center Jonesville Michigan.
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Jonesville
Mich
Cincinnati Northern
Somerset Center
Waves Delay Lake Victims' Body Search
State Conservation Department boatmen waited for Lake St Marys waves to subside before dragging for four men who drowned when two rowboats capsized during a wind storm Saturday. Survivors from Lima, Roger Lee 34 and Harry D Lee 32, described clinging to an overturned craft for 10 hours before rescue. Drowned were Harry E Lee 53 of Lima, George Gawson 60 of Head River Ore, Joseph Gawson 32 of Wheaton College Illinois and Paul Gawson 40 of Indianapolis Veterans Hospital.
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ST. Marys
State Conservation Department
Lake St. Marys
Lima
Roger Lee
Harry D
Harry E. Lee
Lee Brothers
George Gawson
Head River
Ore
Gawson
Joseph
Wheaton College
Paul
Veteran's Hospital
Indianapolis
Lie tests held for babies' kin in Massillon infant deaths
The parents of nine week old Rosemary Morton and eight week old Diane Jean Brand along with Mrs Morton’s brother Jack Wagner gave lie detector tests at Massillon Hospital. Cleveland police superintendent David L. Cowles announced results would be released today with tests conducted under tight secrecy.
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Cleveland
Massillon City Hospital
David L. Cowles
Scientific Investigation Bureau
Cleveland Police Department
Harry Morton
Rosemary
Leo Brand
Diane Jean
Jack Wagner
Ultrafax claims record radio data speed in testing
NBC President Niles Trammell announces Ultrafax a new radio system able to send 1,000,000 words per minute. He says it could transmit twenty five thousand word novels from New York to San Francisco in 60 seconds with each page treated as a picture and flashed rapidly for photocgraphic reproduction at the destination.
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Washington
NBC
Niles Trammell
Ultrafax
New York
San Francisco
Box Cars Hoarded by Canada Amid Transport Shortage
Ottawa reports Canada is hoarding American owned box cars to ease a growing transport shortage, surpassing last winter’s crisis. State Department reportedly protested to the Canadian government as old cars are scrapped faster than new ones are built.
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Ottawa — UP
Canada
State Department
Escaping Gas Ruled Cause of Celina Deaths
Celina coroner G I Mc Elroy said gas from a water heater caused the deaths of William J Brinck aged 67 and his son Paul 32. The two were found dead in their Celina area home yesterday.
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Celina
G. I. McElroy
William J. Brinck
Paul
Here
Yesiter Dava
Unions Face Greatest Blow In History
James Marlow outlines the Taft Hartley bill and its sweeping limits on unions. The piece traces labor law from Norris LaGuardia and Wagner to today, detailing required bargaining, bans on closed shops, injunctions, and new constraints on unions and bosses.
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James Marlow
Washington
House
Truman
Senate
Congress
Organized Labor
Labor
National Labor Relations Board
Veterans club picks Kyle Brooks as president
State Senator Kyle Brooks of Cincinnati was selected president of the Veterans Republican Club of Ohio at a meeting in Dayton yesterday.
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Vets Club
Dayton
Kyle Brooks
Cincinnati
Veterans Republican Club of
Ohio
Steel firm treasurer Leon F. Payne dies at 63
Leon F. Payne aged 63, treasurer of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp and former vice president and treasurer of Oil Well Supply Co, died yesterday in Pittsburgh UP report.
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Pittsburgh
Leon F. Payne
Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corp
Oil Well Supply Co
SenateVote Forecast To Override Truman Taft-Hartley Bill
In a near-certain party line forecast, Democrat strategists predicted a 66 to 27 Senate vote to override President Truman on the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill. Senator O Conor signaled support, while Taft urged appointing renowned citizens to the National Labor Relations Board, as the chamber prepared for the final vote after a lengthy filibuster.
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Senate
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Truman
O'Conor
White House
Sparkman
D.-Ala
O’conor
National Labor Relations Board
Mr. Truman
Paul M. Herzog
John M. Houston
James J. Reynolds, Jr
AFL drive to veto labor bill fails despite large spend
SAM SIMMONS argues AFL and labor groups spent about a million dollars urging members to press the President to veto the labor bill. About 700 000 letters and telegrams were sent, yet only one in twenty members were moved, who say the law will not enslave workers and that freedom to bargain remains essential.
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AFL
CIO
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