Blizzard Thaws Traffic Across Dakotas and Minnesota
A snow blizzard with fifty mile per hour winds sweeps the Dakotas and Minnesota causing at least four deaths and halting most traffic. A southern Wisconsin near blizzard with 47 mile per hour winds triggers a fatal plane crash and a road death. Up to 16 inches of snow blankets the region as highway crews pull equipment off snow clogged routes.
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Minneapolis
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Winter Storm Claims Several Lives and Delays Travel
A severe blizzard across the Midwest and Plains left multiple fatalities. In North Dakota near Elbowoods eight kerosene can explosions caused a fire killing three under four years old as parents struggled for supplies. In Minnesota Marshall sees a 63 year old man die of a heart attack in snow, while a pilot from Indiana perishes in a plane crash near Madison after entering a blizzard. A Minneapolis man dies in a collision near Viroqua amid wrecked tracks. A Madison woman gives birth at home as deputies fail to free a car. mother and baby survive. Snow and mixed precipitation disrupts roads, cuts lines, and closes Cedar Rapids and Iowa City airports amid forecasts of freezing rain and wind northward.
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Elbowoods
N.C
Marshall
Minn
Henry Berhakke
Arthur G. Goete
Amen
Viroqua
Wis
Sidley McCord
Madison
Nebraska Plao
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Indiana
Sailors Saved As 14 Die In Atlantic Tanker Disaster
Off Cape Cod, 84 men aboard two tankers battled a nor easter. Coast Guardsmen rescued 25 crew as 14 others perished. The 13 crew members stayed aboard Fort Mercer to attempt tow lines, while salvage tugs arrived later.
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Coast Guard
Eastwind
Fort Mercer
Cod
Mass
United Press
Cape Cod
Coast
Pendleton
Jesse T. Bushnell
Pasadena
Tex
Peter Moran
Plane Kills Woman On Aztec Pyramid
A fighter plane slashed into a group of Americans atop the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, killing Eleanor Schiltz Wernimont, 34, wife of the U.S. embassy agricultural attaché Kenneth Verrimont, and injuring two tourists. Sister Ellyn Schiltz Bailey, 40, and her daughter Geraldine, 19, were critically hurt. The Colombian student pilot Jose Velazquez, 18, and companion Francisco Alayde, 18, escaped injury. Velazquez and Alayde fled after the crash.
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Mexico City
San Juan Teotihuacan
United States
Eleanor Schiltz Wernimont
Stone Pyramid
Here
Ellyl Schiltz Bailey
Yorkville
Jil
Bailey
Geraldine
Jose Jalil Velazquez
Bogota
Colombia
Velazquez
Francisco Alayde
Kenneth Verrimont
Aurora
Ohiowa
Neb
Not In Reciprocity Editorial on USSR Magazine Distribution
An editorial criticizes the USSR propaganda magazine printed and subsidized in the United States. It argues the publication misleads readers and condemns its circulation here, noting it is the second time the paper has raised concerns. The piece references continued coverage on page 22.
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Ussr
Russia
Vet Loans Voted to Aid Home Financing
Washington February 18 The House approved 125 million in government loans for veterans unable to arrange private financing for G I homes. Loans of up to Hope will be made from the run.
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Washington
House
G. I. Homes
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