Fourteen Army Flyers Rescued After B-29 Crash in Alaska
Fourteen airmen parachuted from a burning B 29 over the Aleutian peninsula and were rescued by three amphibian pilots near Naknek and Dillingham. The bomber, part of the Alaskan Air Command, wrecked during a search for another missing B 29. Injuries were minor for most, with one hip injury reported.
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Mason City
Iowa
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Waterloo
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Orville Tosch
Ray Petersen
Dillingham
Dennis Fenno
Dillingham Air Service
Russia Aims Big Coal Output Increase For 1947 Plan
Moscow reports the cabinet set a 16 percent coal output rise as part of five year plan goals for 1947. It cites war damage and shortages as delays and calls for stronger leadership, housing expansion, and rapid schooling for 1,850,000 new workers to boost heavy industry and military equipment.
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Major Speech by Truman Sets Baylor Address in Texas
The White House announced President Truman will give a major address at Baylor University in Waco Texas on Thursday. The speech, described as very important, will run 20 to 25 minutes and be broadcast at noon CST. Truman travels to Kansas City Sunday with a party including the Mexican ambassador before heading to Mexico, then returns for a visit with his mother in Grandview Missouri.
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Baylor University
Waco
Texas
Charles G. Ross
Kansas City
Mexico
Baylor
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Wallace Graham
Grandview
The Sky's the Limit for Diesel Nece laret Saturday
A Brooklyn woman identified as Mrs. Sandelbaum asks for information in a brief letter to Sirs. The fragment mentions a diesel topic and a class, but the passage is incomplete and lacks clear details or outcomes.
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Brookyn
Stassen Backed by McCarthy for Presidential Nomination
Washington reports Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin endorsed Harold E. Stassen on Saturday for the Republican presidential nomination, signaling unified support amid a crowded field.
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Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Harold E. Stassen
Cold snap nears Iowa with zero degree lows forecast
Cedar Rapids area braces as a strong cold front moves from the northwest. Overnight low temps dip toward zero in the northwest while the south and east rise to around eight above. Snow covered much of the state with four inches in Ringgold and three in Decatur. roads icy mainly in the south. The 2:30 pm reading hit 25 degrees after a low of 18 overnight.
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Montana
Dakotas
Iowa
Ringgold
Decatura
Dubuque
Highway Patrol
U S Army Exits Western Europe After WWII
In Paris, the last American-style fountain closes and the final Paris post exchange sale ends. At midnight Friday the western base of the wartime supreme command folds, and in Gennevilliers the Stars and Stripes are lowered signaling a withdrawn U S Army from liberated Europe.
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Europe
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Deadly explosion on Ben Froemming during trial run
A diesel engine explosion aboard the motor ship Ben Froemming near New Orleans killed three people and injured seven during a trial run on the Mississippi. The ship, en route to Pasagoula for final canoeing, towed to a repair berth after the blast buckled deck plates and wrecked the engine room. The dead included two Americans and a Colombian third engineer. Joel W. Moore of Bush-Sulzer Engine Co. was among the injured. The vessel had 22 Americans and 28 Colombians aboard when the accident occurred during the evening meal.
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Joel W. Moore
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Pasagoula
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Ingalls
Mantz Sets Transcontinental Propeller Plane Speed Record
Paul Mantz, famed stunt pilot, flew a P-82 a two fuselage Mustang craft from Burbank to LaGuardia in 6 hours 7 minutes and 36 seconds setting a new transcontinental propeller driven speed record. He beat the May 1944 record by Lt. Col. Jack Carter. The jet record by Col. Wil timer Councill remains 4 hours 13 minutes 30 seconds. Mantz tested the dual fuselage plane setup.
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Paul Mantz
LaGuardia Field
Burbank
Calif
Jack Carter
Wiltimer Councill
Mantz
NFTW emails 140000 phone workers in 35 states for 30 day strike notices
More than 140,000 telephone workers in at least 35 states including Iowa filed 30 day strike notices under the Smith Connally act as a coordinated program by the National Federation of Telephone Workers to press 1947 contract demands. NFTW president Joseph A Beirne suggested there may be no telephone strike.
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National Federation of Telephone Workers
NFTW
Denver
Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
Senate Labor Committee
Two US Officers Reported Seized by Chinese Reds
The war department says two American army officers Major Robert B. Rigg and Captain J W Collins were captured Friday by Chinese Communists near Chialunchein near Changchun. The US military attache in Nanking supplied the information with a full report to follow. Rigg's last US address was Chicago and Collins's was Evanston Illinois.
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War Department
United States
Nanking
Robert B. Rigg
J. W. Collins
Chialunchein
Changchun
Rigg
Chicago
Collins
Evanston
Chiang Kai-shek Named Premier of Inflation-Hit China
Nanking AP report says Chiang Kai-shek assumed the premiership after T. V. Soong resigned as president of the executive yuan. Soong left amid a hostile legislative yuan clash over inflation and blamed Communists for China's woes while Chiang pledged steady leadership.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Soong
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Ceil
Junior G Man Solves Jewel Heist With Boy Detective
Spokane FBI agents tracing $13,450 in jewels find a boy helper, Rodney Peterson eight, reporting tips and tracking suspects. Rodney identifies his junior G mans badge and aids the case after clues lead to Dale Randant six and others while gems are recovered.
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Maynor
Rod Rodney
de Rodney
Rodney
Jerry Sullivan
Dale Randant
Dale
Harvey Dubois
Harvey Exhe
Palmer
Tom
U S Moves to Back Greek Government Amid Crisis
United States signals to Britain to keep troops in Greece or risk civil war and Communist expansion. Dean Acheson presented a tentative plan including financial aid and non troop support while Congress fast tracks funding as Truman weighs long term protection.
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Lord Inverchapel
Greece
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D-N.y
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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President Truman vows ongoing fight to avert food crisis
President Truman warned that the food battle is not over as the U.S. faces an export quota of 400 million bushels of grain and flour by late June. He urged continued shipments in May and June to aid postwar reconstruction and world stability.
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Truman
Truman Opens Red Cross Fund Drive With $60 Million Goal
President Truman on Friday night launched the Red Cross fund campaign urging big donations to reach a $60 million goal and maintain full wartime relief strength.
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Truman
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Grain Market Probe Deemed Routine Step
Traders view the government’s Commodity Exchange Authority inquiry into Chicago wheat futures as a routine check to confirm positions and holdings. The order asks futures commission merchants to report open accounts through Friday, with data due March 10, amid volatile prices.
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Conciliation Move Averts Quaker Oats Strike
A federal conciliator will visit Cedar Rapids Monday to avert a threatened strike at the Quaker Oats Company. Walter C. White will seek a union management meeting at 10 a.m. to resume contract talks over rest period retention. Separately Eighty City Lines bus workers threaten a March 5 walkout amid stalled negotiations and missing arbitrator communication.
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Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Louis Jedlicka
United Cereal Workers
Walter C. White
Des Moines
Jedlicka
CIO
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers
U. S.S. Labor Department
Bureau of Conciliation
Ee Poe
City Lines
E. A. Prochaska
St. Louis
Prochaska
S and Electric Railway
AFL
Barn Floor Caves in at Farm Auction
An auction in Fabius New York collapses a barn floor trapping a 20 by 10 foot hole. Auctioneer William Evans and 17 others were injured with 40 spectators dropping into the basement area. Several injuries are minor but the incident leaves attendees shocked.
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Fabius
William Evans
Jerusalem club blast raises fears of martial law
In Jerusalem a bomb hit an army officers club in the security zone killing 15 and injuring 15 with 24 missing. Three terrorists were captured as Sir Alan Cunningham prepared a policy statement and authorities weighed martial law amid extensive fire and debris.
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Alan Cunningham
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Trapped 54 Hours in Rocking Chair Rungs
Edward Berrigan, 73, remained hospitalized after 54 hours ensnared in the rungs of a rocking chair in Saugus Massachusetts. He said he fell Wednesday, his feet became tangled, and he could not free himself until a neighbor found him Friday.
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Saugus
Mass
Edward Berrigan
Truman hails press in valiant service and one world ideal
President Truman lauds the U.S. press for its valiant service in expanding understanding of a one world concept. He cites Wendell Willkie journalism awards and says the press has outgrown provincialism and narrow isolationism while embracing broader global duties.
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Truman
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Moscow plans soaring skyscrapers for Stalin era
Moscow's chief architect has proposed erecting a number of skyscrapers in the capital for Stalin. The plan envisions towering structures influencing urban development and national prestige, with design ideas reflecting the era's grand modernization push.
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