40 MPH Winds Swirl Snow Into Newly-Cleared Roads
Westerly winds of 40 miles per hour whipped heavy snow into freshly opened highways and rail lines across western states. Trains stalled and more than 6,000 passengers were stranded as blizzard conditions spread from Wyoming to the Dakotas. Airlifted supplies aided milk and bakery needs while road reopenings were lost to drifting snow. Highways in Wyoming, Oregon and surrounding areas faced renewed closures, with temperatures near or below zero in many regions.
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Rocky Mountain
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Omaha
Denver
Nebraska
Montana
Dakotas
United States weather bureau
north
Arizona
Oregon
Russia backs Yugoslavia claims on Austria
London dispatch reports Russia renewed support for Yugoslavia's demand for about 800 square miles of southern Austria as Big Four deputies meet in Lancaster House to discuss the Austrian peace treaty. American sources say Russia softened some bids yet remained firm on frontier issues, with Zarubin representing Russia. Acheson decries Hungary Mindszenty case as a “wanton persecution” and signals possible United Nations action. Vatican notes Pope Pius XII protests the Mindszenty arrest and convokes a special cardinal consistory.
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LONDON
Russia
Yugoslavia
United States
Tito
Europe
Austria
Lancaster House
Samuel Reber
Stalin
Sovet
Georgi N. .Zarubin
Britain
George N. Zarubin
Moscow
Zarubin
WASHINGTON
Dean Acheson
Hungary
Acheson
United Nations
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Lajos Ordass
VATICAN CITY
Pope Pius
Vatican
Sacred College of Cardinals
Cows Snooty
Farmer Jim Green reports his cows have become overly finicky in milking and handling routines. The issue highlights unusual cattle behavior and potential adjustments at the Vicksburg farm.
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VICKSBURG, Mich
Jim Green
Bitter Soviet attack on North Atlantic pact rejected
In New York and Washington, Associated Press reports, Soviet delegate to the UN accuses the proposed NATO alliance of aggressive policy. Secretary Acheson counters that the pact aims to deter aggression and aligns with UN purposes, as Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg negotiate the security agreement.
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Associated Press
PASHINGTON
Dean Acheson
United States today
Russia
Acheson
Norway
United Nations
New York
Canada
United States
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Dog Lift Now Salt Lake City Plan Parachutes Dogs
Woodrow Waiton of the state aeronautics commission said sheep herders in eastern Utah urgently need sheepdogs. The Civil Air Patrol will parachute dogs into flocks. parachutes provided by the commission. Land delivery is blocked by snowbound roads.
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SALT LAKE CITY
Woodrow Waiton
state aeronautics commission
Utah
civil air patrol
Market declines pause as stocks and futures churn
Reports from Chicago and New York show a day of mixed action with prices in the grain pits fluctuating widely while cash commodities and Wall Street quotes edged higher in spots. Grains led modest gains after a morning dip as traders absorbed selling orders, though wholesale and futures prices may not immediately affect retail prices.
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CHICAGO
em securities
Wall Street
New York
New. York
board of trade
irite
Naming racehorses proves a delicate craft in Ottawa
London correspondent of the Ottawa Journal notes Lord Willoughby de Broke invited John Jarvis’s four yearlings for a naming challenge. Pedigrees are supplied and owners and trainers brace for the task, a ritual some see as equine godparenting with witty results and regional gossip.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Willoughby de Broke
John Jarvis
Lord Oxford
Asquith
Lord Derby
Lord Rosebery
Negotiations Continue Over Alberta Mine Strikes Funds
Calgary February 9 The District 18 United Mine Workers of America and Alberta coal operators associations, with mediator K A Pugh, press toward a new contract before Feb 16. Union seeks a 15 cent per ton boost to the miners welfare fund from the current five cent rate.
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CALGARY
District 18
United Mine Workers of America
C.C.L
Alberta
K. A. Pugh
miners’ welfare fund
Two Years In Pen For Habitual Criminal
Ronald Stanley and Kenneth McGracken of Edmonton were convicted by a supreme court jury of attempting to break and enter the Public Drug Store at 11229 Jasper Avenue on Oct. 8. Stanley, already under an indeterminate sentence as a habitual criminal, received two years in penitentiary to run concurrently with his present term. McGracken received an 18 month jail sentence.
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EDMONTON
Ronald Stanley
nneth McGracken
supreme court
Jasper Avenue
Stanley
C. GC. McLachlin
McCracken
Congress Hears Demands Sever Hungary Relations
The Hungarian Mindszenty case triggers protests as a consulate closes and nine Hungarian officials quit in the United States. U.N. discussions, parliamentary denunciations, and calls to sever diplomatic ties accompany warnings of possible political refuge status for staffers. The episode stirs Western reaction and prompts inquiries into British and other allied positions ahead of potential U.N. action.
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New York
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Budapest
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United States
Hungary
United Nations
Mindszenty
Canberra
Herbert Evatt
United Nations general assembly
U.N
Great Britain
Netherlands
France
Hungarian people's tribunal
Drugs in childbirth debate sparks midwives analgesia push
Britain weighs new analgesia for childbirth as a Bevan era committee urges midwives to use safe drugs like pethridine and Trilene to relieve pain. A grave midwifery shortage worsens nationwide with only a fraction of births currently receiving analgesia.
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LONDON
Reuters
Britain
Aneurin Bevan
Medical Research Council
home secretary
England
Wales
Newfoundland joins Canada in principle after Commons approval
Ottawa reports a historic Commons vote approving in principle Newfoundland’s entry into the Canadian union on February 6 1949. Prime Minister St Laurent outlined terms, senate action, and future steps, while on division one protest arises. Debate focuses on 99 year US base leases and peacetime defense cooperation.
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OTTAWA
houses of commons
Newfoundland
Canada
alvision
Dill
house
senate
Confederation
J. I. Hamel
Bloc
Populatre
Quebec
St. Maurice-Lefleche
St. Laurent
U.S
chamber
United States
Wreckage Sighted of Scandinavian Plane With 28 Aboard
OpenHagen Feb 9 The wreck of a Scandinavian airliner missing since yesterday en route Madrid to Copenhagen was sighted off the Swedish coast. The Viking aircraft with five crew and 23 passengers, all Spaniards, was found in the sound between Denmark and Sweden near Malmoe. Patrol vessels and aircraft scoured foggy seas and skies, reporting no definite confirmation yet. A piece of wreckage and a VOR beacon were located off Barsebaeck in Sweden.
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U.P
Copenhagen
Madrid
Scandinavian Airlines
Denmark
Sweden
Malmoe
S.A
Dagny
Barsebaeck
United Nations Intervention Sought in Mindszenty Case
The U S House Foreign Affairs Committee urged UN involvement after receiving a State Department letter from Dean Acheson. He said the United States should explore all practical avenues, including a UN approach, in the Mindszenty case amid Hungary’s trial and imprisonment concerns.
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WASHINGTON
house of representatives
United Nations
Cardinal Mindszenty
house foreign affairs committee
Dean Acheson
United States
Government orders probe of recent price breaks
Washington reports the U S government ordered an investigation into recent price breaks on farm commodity futures markets reflecting concern over market manipulation or instability. The development comes amid a series of sharp price moves across agricultural futures.
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