Illinois Hotel Fire Kills 2 in Benton Illinois
Fire destroyed the Hudson hotel on Benton's public square early today killing two former coal miners, Mike Eliff and George Summers. Owner Amy Groverman helped evacuate guests before being trapped herself. The blaze gutted the building housing a bar and drug store with losses estimated up to 300000 dollars. Fire crews from eight southern Illinois cities battled the three story blaze starting before 2 a.m. and remaining on scene midmorning.
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Benton, Ill
Hudson
Benton
Public Square
Marvin Hobbs
Mike Eliff
George Summers
Amy Groverman
Groverman
Ricco di Stefano
Nelson Whittington
Whittington
Southern Illinois
Mt. Vernon
Marion
McLeansboro
West Frankfort
Christopher
Johnson City
du Quoin
Acheson Urges Total Diplomacy Against Soviet Expansion
Secretary of State Acheson called for total diplomacy to curb Soviet expansion in a unified effort short of war. He urged a single minded campaign across government, business, agriculture, the press, and the public, to meet Soviet thrusts and build confidence in democracy.
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Washington
State Acheson
Acheson
Congress
United States
Soviet Union
Greece
Turkey
Indonesia
Lawler Begins Survey of Public School Building Needs
Dr. Eugene Lawler an educational research specialist from Evanston and Northwestern started collecting data on public school building needs. The study aims to produce a 20 year program for the board of education and involved meetings with school officials to gather enrollment and housing data for population trend analysis.
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Eugene Lawler
Evanston, II
Northwestern University
Board of Education
Sawyer
Harold R. Maurer
Elizabeth Lyman
C. R. Nicolazzo
Detroit Strike Toll Reaches 700,000 Vehicles
Ward's auto motive reports that six months of strikes cost the auto industry over 700,000 vehicles in production, impacting Detroit area plants and suppliers.
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Detroit
Ward
Bill to Change U S Elections Shelved in House Rules
Advocates of Lodge Gossett plan to rescue the proposal from the house rules committee pigeon hole. The committee voted 7 to 4 to shelve the measure, which would offer a constitutional amendment to divide states electoral votes pro rata by popular vote.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Truman
Sabath
House
Rules Committee
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Rep. Gossett
D-Tex
Senate
Wall of St. Paul Store Collapses Into Street
Two sections of the condemned front wall of a 67 year old department store building collapsed into a busy street in the St. Paul loop today. Firemen ordered evacuation of the three story Bannon's Department Store for fear further portions might give way.
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St. Paul, Minn
U.P
St. Paul Loop
Bannon’s Department Store
Secret talks hint at early miners fund benefits
Washington reports a secret meeting today between John L. Lewis and Senator Bridges spurring talk of resuming pension and other payments from the miners welfare fund. Hungary also demanded recall of three ranking U S legation officers Col. James B Kraft Lt Col John T Hoyne and Maj Donald E Griffin.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Senator Bridges
N. H
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Budapest
Hungary
United States
Foreign Ministry
James B. Kraft
John T. Hoyne
Donald E. Griffin
Star of Silent Moon dies in San Francisco
Marguerite De La Motte 46, noted silent film leading lady with Douglas Fairbanks Sr., died today in San Francisco. Death attributed to a brain blood clot after an operation.
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San Francisco
Marguerite de la Motte
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Murderer of nurse executed in Arkansas chair
Thomas Edwin Black, 29, was executed at Tucker Prison Farm Arkansas for strangling his girlfriend Betty Jane McCall, 25, a nurse from Texarkana. The execution followed a prior conviction and remains a landmark case in state capital punishment history.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
Thomas Edwin Black
Arkansas
Betty Jane McCall
Texarkana
Newsmen Bopped by Adventuress Outside Honeymoon Suite
Virginia Hill, now in a hotel honeymoon suite with Austrian Hans Hauser, clashed with reporters outside the Ambassador East in Chicago. Hauser faces deportation as an enemy alien. Hill fled in a mink coat after grabbing a photographer, while the couple planned to stay.
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Adventuress
Chicago
U.P
Virginia Hill
Sun Valley
Hans Hauser
Justice Department
Europe
McCarthy Seeks to Name Names in Spy Ring Claims
Senator McCarthy said he will outline cases and name names in the probe of possible communist infiltration in the State department. The foreign relations subcommittee recessed until Monday as it weighs his accusations and prepares further hearings and responses from witnesses including Dorothy Kenyon and Phillip C. Jessup.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wis
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations
Dorothy Kenyon
Wisconsin
United Nations Commission
U. S
Phillip C. Jessup
Jessup
Dying 3-year-old Scotty Hanson Flown to New York for ACTH Treatment
Three year old Scotty Hanson of Two Harbors Minnesota boarded a Northwest Airlines plane to New York for emergency ACTH therapy at Memorial hospital. Senator Hubert Humphrey helped arrange admission and Scotty traveled with his mother Mrs Gust Hanson and grandmother Mrs Minnie Bratt. The family hoped the hospital would determine a full diagnosis after arrival.
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New York
Scotty Hanson
Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey
Minn
Memorial Hospital
Memorial
Gust Hanson
Minnie Bratt
Ripley, Minn
Scotty
Northwest Airlines
la Guardia Field
Wherry Attacks Acheson Over Gubitchev Case
Senator Wherry assails Secretary of State Acheson for proposing a suspended sentence and deportation for Valentin A. Gubitchev, the Russian convicted spy. Wherry calls Acheson bungling evidence of unfitness to lead the State Department.
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Washington
Wherry
Neb
Acheson
Valentin A. Gubitchev
Gubitchev
GOP
Senate
Three National Eagles Officers Face Charges
A Putnam county grand jury indicted three national officers of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and one state officer on charges including publicizing a lottery and blackmail. Defendants are Matthew L. Brown of Springfield, Joseph A. Gunderman of St. Marys, Barnett H. Goldstein of Portland, and a fourth officer. Indictments were secret until today. arraignment set for April 10 with bonds at 2000 dollars each.
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Ottawa
Putnam County
Order of Eagles
Matthew L. Brown
Springfield
The
Grand Aerie
Joseph A. Gunderman
St. Marys
Grand Worthy
Ohio
Eagles
Barnett H. Goldstein
Portland
Ore
Grand Aerie Legal
Washington State
Hfe
Grand
Common Pleas Court
Goldstein
Billy Rose Stars In Own Drama Of Stolen Gems
New York showman Billy Rose personally recovered part of $25,000 worth of gems seized from his mansion. Joseph Vitulano, a gang driver, surrendered after Rose alerted his lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays, who will represent him. Police already arrested two other suspects. Willie Lalamio remains at large.
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New York
Billy Rose
Rose
Joseph Vitulano
Rose Mansion
Billy
Vitulano
Arthur Garfield Hays
Hays
Willie
Blackie) Lalamio
Liberty
Sander acquitted in mercy death murder case
Dr. Hermann N. Sander of Candia New Hampshire, 41, is acquitted at Hillsboro County Court after a brief trial of the murder charge in the mercy death of a cancer patient. The verdict brings cheers outside the Manchester courthouse and celebratory bell ringing across Candia and nearby churches.
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Doctor Sander
Hermann Sander
Manchester
N. H
Sanders
Louis E. Wyman
Dr. Sander
Reginald Borroto
Abbie Borroto
Sander
Baptist Church
East Candia
Methodist
Candia Village
Wescott
House of Delegates
The
New Hampshire Medical Society
Concord
Three Soviet Officials Voice Peace Theme
Three leading Soviet politburo figures Malenkov Beria and Voroshilov urged openness to East West talks on peace and atomic controls. They signaled the USSR ready to negotiate within the United Nations or major councils, framing a bid for renewed dialogue with the West.
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Moscow
U.P
Politburo
Russia
West
Soviet Union
United Nations
Council of Foreign Ministers
G. M. Malenkov
Communist Party Central Committee
Leningrad
Malenkov
Beria
Voroshilov
Josef Stalin
V. M. Molotov
Stalin
Molotov
Anastas Mikoyan
U. S
Millard Tydings
Attlee Narrowly Survives First Parliamentary Test
Britain's Labour government barely won its first major test in Parliament by 14 votes 310 to 296 against a Conservative motion opposing the nationalization of iron and steel The result leaves Labour with a slim majority of six and faces a Monday vote on a housing amendment to the king's address Labour leaders warn defeat could trigger resignations and a new election
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London
Britain
Attlee
House of Commons
King George
Labor
Bandits Bind Rob Center Director at Milwaukee Social Center
Two men bound and gagged Andrew Hetzel 55 social center director in Milwaukee early today. They forced him to reveal the safe combination and stole 450 dollars from the center then left. Hetzel freed himself by kicking loose and called the police from a nearby residence.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Andrew Hetzel
Hetzel
Wisconsin Weather: cloudy and warmer into weekend
Forecast calls for cloudy conditions and rising temps in Wisconsin tonight and Saturday. South state lows 15 to 20 degrees, while Park Falls logged 11 below zero last night. Downtown Kenosha reached 32 this noon.
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Wisconsin
Park Falls
Kenosha
Triplet birth dates three days apart shocks small town
In Jonesville Louisiana a farmer's wife, Mrs. Lester Hardie, gave birth to triplets over three consecutive days. Doctor Nasif notes the unprecedented sequence, while the family adds to its total of twelve children and faces a crowded three-room houseboat home.
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Jonesville
Chicago
American Medical Association
Lester Hardie
Hardie
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