Tydings presses Congress for atomic civilian defense
Senate armed services leader Tydings urged military plans for civilian atomic defense and possible laws to mobilize industry. He pushed for action this session or the next, amid Cold War fears and recent atomic events.
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Tydings
Congress
Washington
D-Md
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate House Atomic Committee
Maryland
Russia
America
Dramatic new shrimp area found off Key West
Washington reports a major discovery of a large shrimp fishing area about 50 miles west of Key West Florida. In under a month of large scale work the grounds yielded $237000 in wholesale shrimp. Nationwide interest rises as boats from Florida Georgia the Carolinas and Texas converge on this nighttime harvest noted for red or pink shrimp varieties.
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Washington
Key West
Fila
Fish and Wildlife Service
A. W. Anderson
Anderson
Louisiana
Florida
Melbourne
Fort Pierce
Vogeler Confession Conflicts With Known Facts
Robert A. Vogeler, jailed in Hungary for three months, testified in a Budapest people's court that he used his ITT work as cover for espionage and that the Standard Electric Company was a cover for intelligence. His wife and associates doubt the confession, calling for leniency and noting discrepancies with known facts.
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Associated Press
Robert A. Vogeler
Hungary
People's Court
Budapest
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Destroyer Ludlow In Trouble Again
The destroyer Ludlow loaded with Navy reservists from New England and New Jersey blew a boiler off Cape May. It proceeded toward port with Gentian by, and later reported 15 knots on two boilers. The vessel was to reach Brooklyn Navy Yard by morning with 236 reservists set to travel home over the weekend. The Ludlow, 1,630 tons, has had prior difficulties during the training cruise.
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New York
Ludlow
New England
New Jersey
Cape May
N. J
Navy
Coast Guard
Gentian
Ladhew
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Missouri's Skipper Opens His Defense
Norfolk Va February 18 The skipper of the battleship Missouri testified he felt utterly alone for aid from his officers the day the vessel ran aground. Capt William K Brown opened his defense before a naval court of inquiry into the January 17 grounding in Chesapeake Bay and said he distrusted navigator Lt Commander Frank G Morris after a December trial run.
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Norfolk
Missouri
Naval Court of
Chesapeake Bay
William K. Brown
Frank G. Morris
Morris
Chinese Nationalists Strengthen in Sikang with 40000 Troops
Reports from Taipei say 40000 Nationalist troops have arrived in Sikang to reorganize for guerrilla warfare against the Communists. The force consists of remnants of Gen Hu Tsung nan's once 250000 man army, with Hu said to be in Sikang preparing for further operations.
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Taipei
Formosa
Sikang
Hu Tsung-nan
Majority Of Miners To Stay Out Of Pits Monday
Headlines declare most miners will be idle on Monday while President Truman will not seek seizure power. The article also notes stage set for British elections with Attlee blaming Russia for the Cold War and Churchill urging caution and continued atomic security talks.
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Clement Attlee
Russia
Winston Churchill
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Britain
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France
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Lewis
White House
National Coal Association
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
Motorman To Face Trial In Train Deaths
ROCKVILLE CENTRE N Y Feb 18 A Long Island Railroad train jammed with a theater crowd ran a red signal and collided with a second passenger train killing 29 and injuring 105. Motorman Jacob Kiefer 55 of Baldwin N Y faces trial.
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Long Island
Gulfport
Miss
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pan American
Acob Kiefer
Baldwin
Slow Peace Talks With Russia Seen If Conditions Meet
President Truman and Secretary Acheson reportedly favor a drawn out peace with Russia, tied to steady Western unity and a revived cold war posture. Acheson may outline policy in a major speech, aiming to balance power without provoking atomic crisis, while avoiding dramatic moves toward Moscow.
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Washington
Truman
State Acheson
Russia
Kremlin
United States
Acheson
U. S
Moscow
Winston Churchill
West
Vast School Construction Plan Emerges as Aid to Education Snarl Eases
Washington reports lawmakers consider a nationwide school construction program to relieve the aid to education impasse in Congress. The plan envisions grants and long term loans to states, with a $400 million package for new schoolhouses and aid targeting needy districts near federal installations, while debates over religious use and federal controls continue.
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Washington
Congress
House Labor Committee
Rep
McConnell
Ranking Committee
Protestant Churchmen In Statement of Principles
A Detroit gathering of 455 Protestant church delegates approved a statement opposing adherence to Communist socialist or capitalist dogmas. It calls for a Christian middle way emphasizing the worth of man and the common good, with nine core principles about economy, justice, and church action.
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Detroit
Councils of Churches
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
G. Bromley Oxnam
New York
Jesus
Fire Triggers Gas Explosions At Rulane Plant In Charlotte
A flash fire at the Rulane Gas storage yard in Charlotte sparked a series of more than 20 explosions. No injuries were reported though the blast damaged the filler building and six tank trucks. Fire crews fought the flames as thousands observed from a distance.
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Charlotte
Rulane Gas Company
Winter storms sweep across the nation causing floods and freezes
A cold wave roared north while floods rose in the south as blizzards hit the Dakotas and Minnesota. Fort Clark Florida set state cold records, Miami hit 47, and southern fields suffered spotty damage. Flooded Mississippi and Arkansas basins threaten 5,000 homeless, with 2,000,000 acres of Louisiana Mississippi cotton under water and planting delayed until March.
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Associated Press
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Fort Clark
Gainesville
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