Dust Storm Kills Three as Gulf Front Storm Rages North
A sweeping dust storm across Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico caused zero visibility, traffic chaos, and multiple deaths. The storm toppled roofs, ignited grass fires, grounded flights, and darkened San Angelo and Chickasha before the back edge cleared.
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Dallas
Tex
Southwest
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Louisiana
Mississippi
Reed Killian
Ada
Okla
New Mexico
Oklahoma
West Texas
Kansas
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Albuquerque
N.M
Air Force
Texas
Biggs Air Force Base
el Paso
Wynnewood
San Angelo
Chickasha
the Weather Bureau
Arizona
Arkansas
Tornadoes Strike Illinois Killing Six in St Clair County
A derecho-like tornado ripped through St Clair County Illinois early today killing six people including a four year old in Centerville Station and Summerfield with several missing. Millstadt Belleville area towns suffered property damage while St Louis and Belleville reported downed wires trees and injuries minimal. Air Force crews from Scott Base aided Summerfield rescue as police barred crowds from debris sites. Temperatures surged to 74 degrees earlier in the day.
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ST. Louis
St. Clair County
Illinois
Summerfield
Here
Millstadt
Til
Centerville Station
Scott Air Force Base
Belleville
Two More Indicted in Twin City Labor Bombings
Two additional defendants were indicted in Minneapolis and St Paul for February dynamite blasts that damaged a car and a home tied to the Twin City Beverage Drivers Union. George Heid Diane Harvey and others face charges of setting off dynamite to force union compliance.
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Minneapolis
Twin City
Hennepin County Grand Jury
George Heid
Teamstern
Diane Harvey
Gerald Connelly
Atty
Lord
Connelly
Bryant Flick
Kenneth Lattin
Edward Redden
St. Paul
Antonio Felicetta
Joseph Wagner
Felicetta
Wagner
Offi
Cials
Twin City Beverage Drivers’ Union
Hennepin County
Lattin
Union
Missing C47 Sighted in Spain
A US Air Force C47 transport missing since Friday with six crew members was reportedly sighted in the 8,000 foot Guadarrama mountains near Madrid. The Getafe base rescue post could not confirm a crash or survivors due to heavy snow and poor communications over Cerro de San Pedro Mountain.
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Madrid
Spain
Guadarrama
Getafe
Cerro de San Pedro
Arms shipment to Syria reported by Dulles
Secretary of State Dulles told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a relatively small shipment of arms is going to Syria from the Soviet bloc. The report ties a new Arab state to Communist arms flowing from abroad.
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Washington
Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Syria
Soviet Bloc
Balloons Stir Up Fuss at Russ Embassy in London
The Soviet charge d affaires Nikolai Belokhvostikov protested balloons descending on the embassy on Millionaire Row. He said members of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists were sending up provocative children’s balloons outside the grounds. Some drifted into the courtyard and tangled in Ambassador Jacob Malik’s rose bushes as Anthony Nutting expressed regret but noted no crime had been committed.
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Nikolai Belokhvostikov
Foreign Office
National Alliance of Russian Solidarists
Belokhvostikov
Alliance
Jacob Malik
Anthony Nutting
Smoking Linked to Lung Cancer
New York cancer expert Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Sloan Kettering says tobacco smoking, especially cigarettes, is the single most important external factor linked to lung cancer. He notes a new study supports prior links and reports five times as many men than women develop the disease due to differing smoking habits.
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New York
Ernest L. Wynder
Sloan- Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
American Chemical Society
Magnuson Shows Grand Champion Pen at Minnesota Barrow Show
Albert Lee report notes Burton Magnuson of Austin Route 1 exhibited the grand champion pen at the Minnesota State Barrow Show. His pen was named champion junior pen and lightweight champion after earlier wins in the light weight junior division. He competes with the Austin FFA and marks a first for local exhibitors. Brown & Brown of Iowa showed the show’s champion individual.
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Albert Lea
Burton Magnuson
Austin Rt. 1
Minnesota State
Barrow
Magnuson
Austin Ffa
Austin Area
Brown & Brown
Iowa
Crane crushes two at Torrejon air base work site
An American instructor and a Spanish student were killed when a giant crane toppled at the Torrejon air base construction site in Madrid. Police and investigators cordoned off the area as the U.S. Air Force led the inquiry into the accident during ongoing base work.
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Madrid
Spain
Torrejon
U.S. Air Force
Unsmiling Grace to Adorn Stamp
Prince Rainier III selects Grace Kelly portrait for Monaco wedding commemorative stamp. The unsmiling, bare-shouldered image contrasts prior studio photos and will appear with a portrait of the Prince and the crown between intertwined R and G. Stamp denominations range from one to 500 francs.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
Prince Rainier III
Grace Kelly
Monacans
Protectorate
Jules Piel
France
Queen Elizabeth
Miss Kelly
Prince
Minneapolis Teens Fined After Waseca Disorder
Three Minneapolis youths Mayer 16 Aguiler 17 and Lee 17 paid $40 fines after pleading guilty to disorderly charges before Municipal Judge John McLoone. A fourth youth Lindquist 18 pleaded innocent to careless driving and a fictitious license and was freed on 100 bond to appear March 2.
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Waseca, Minn
Minneapolis
John McLoone
Thomas Lindquist
James E. Mayer
Stanley Aguiler
Terry Lee
Minneapolis West High
Waseca High
Lindquist
McLoone
John Bullard
Dulles confident in US policies before Senate panel
Secretary of State Dulles told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States and its allies can defeat Russia's new front through unchanged policies, while critics urged adjustments. The hearing focused on Soviet strategy, Saudi tank sale, and arms embargo in the Middle East.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Dulles
United States
Russia
United Front
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Negro Leaders Call Nationwide Protest Over Bus Boycott
The Associated Press reports Negro leaders urge a one hour work stoppage on March 28 for National Deliverance Day of Prayer linking to the Montgomery bus boycott. Representative Adam Clayton Powell calls a prayer coupled action while a mass rally and 24 hour pilgrimage in Montgomery accompanies indictments against 100 boycott leaders.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Adam Clayton Powell
D-Ny
New York
Alabama
Powell
Ike Ends Vacation Flies Home From Georgia
President Eisenhower ends a south Georgia vacation and flies back to Washington. He has indicated plans to announce his 1952 re election decision around March 1. He hunted quail and wild turkey daily and played golf after a heart attack in Denver.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
South Georgia
Washington
Denver
Humphrey
Ater
Howard M. Snyder
Snyder
Dentist Robert Okey Found Dead In Car In Washington County
Autopsy underway to determine cause of death for St. Paul dentist Dr. Robert Okey 36 whose body was found in his car parked in a field in Washington County after a 24 hour disappearance. No signs of violence. ignition off and gas tank full.
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ST. Paul
Washington County
William Watson
Robert Okey
St. Paul Medical Arts
St. Paul Hospital
Raymond Reeves
Robert Bowell
Train Wreck Kills 32 in East Germany
East German state news agency ADN reports at least 32 dead and four seriously injured in a collision near Bornitz between Riesa and Oschatz. A fast freight train with two locomotives struck the side of an express from Dresden, derailing all three engines.
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Berlin
Saxony
East Germany
ADN
Bornitz
Riesa
Oschatz
Dresden
Maple Lake Teacher Dies After Basketball Practice
Frank Stupea 39 a Maple Lake High School industrial arts teacher and driving instructor died Friday shortly after volunteering with fellow faculty to practice against the regular team Stupea a former Minneapolis public school educator was a Gilbert Minnesota native survived by his wife and three children
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Maple Lake
Minn
Frank Stupea
Maple Lake High School
Stupea
Minneapolis
Gilbert
Affable Bandit Robs Bar of 2500 Dollars in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis at Dutchman’s Bar on upper Nicollet Avenue a well dressed man with a briefcase talked with patrons for over an hour. At about 4 p.m. he produced a pistol, forced bartender Donald Wragg to fill his briefcase with cash from the safe and register, then fled with $2500. Andrew Henneman, proprietor, deposited bank money into the safe earlier.
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Clement Macis
State Penitentiary
Joliet
Ill
Macis
Kenneth Sloboda
Cook County
Chicago
Minneapolis
Upper Nicollet Avenue
Andrew Henneman
Henneman
Donald Wragg
Wragg
St Paul Man Fatally Struck by Car Near University
Alfred R. Helberg, 41, of 1046 Stinson Ave, was fatally injured when struck by a car at Chatsworth and University in St. Paul. He died after arrival at Ancker Hospital. The driver was held for questioning as Minnesota’s 1956 traffic deaths reached 37, down from 80 a year earlier.
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ST. Paul
Alfred R. Helberg
Stinson Ave
Chatsworth and University
Ancker Hospital
Minnesota
Lightning Blamed for Syrian Airliner Explosion
Damascus officials say the Syrian Airways Dakota that exploded in flight Friday was struck by lightning. The twin-engine plane crashed about 15 miles from Aleppo while en route to Damascus, killing 19.
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John Gilbert Graham
Gloria
Denver
Colo
Graham
Here
Damascus
Syria
Syrian Airways
Aleppo
St Cloud Sailors Ship Snowball Gifts South
St Cloud naval reservists sent snowballs as souvenirs to New Orleans during a training mission led by Lt Comdr Loren Thorson. Sailors viewed naval installations while bringing cheer, noting the 14 inches of local snow contrast in the southbound gesture.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
Northland
New Orleans
Loren Thorson
Cloud
Dog Team Drives Off Angry Alaska Moose
Anchorage Alaska story recounts trapper Hugh Scott chaining a 900 pound moose to a tree after it charged his dog team on the Anchor River. With a chain as a weapon he subdued the animal, freed his dogs and walked for help, vowing never to trap again without a rifle.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Hugh Scott
Anchor Point
Anchor River
Here
Kenai Peninsula
Scott
Moose
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