Record of Western Washington Floods and Landslides
Avalanches and heavy rainfall in western Washington cause extensive flooding across the Puget Sound region. In Shelton and Snoqualmie Pass rainfall totals reach six inches with widespread river valley damage. The Indian village Taholah isolated by a slide. Grays Harbor floods. Lake Hannah blast by Army to prevent highway flooding. Salmon Beach heavily damaged. Keene River cresting five feet above sand stage. residents evacuated by Army and Coast Guard.
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Puget Sound
Saljmon Beach
Rewben Mahbling
News Edio
Mason County Journal
Lake Hannnah
DuPont, Wash
Fort Lewis
Grays Harbor
Taholah
Chehalis
Sattle-Portland
Centralia
Teninn
Skokomish
Keen
Auburn
Army
Coast Guard
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Tacoma
Salmon Beach
Preston
Wash
Coast Goat
Willam Barton
Ching to Resign WSB Task to Be Mediation Chief
Washington on February 10 veteran mediator Cyrug 3 Ching Nagato chosen soon to resign from his temporary post as head of the Wage Stabilization Board and move to a new role as federal mediation director. The move will affect wage policy at a time of proposed 10 percent wage adjustments after last year’s levels.
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Meriator
Cyrug
Ching Nagato
Wage Stabiliantingy Board
Truman
Xouretr
Ching Woul Te Anceedet
Wage
Tard
Ac Ing
David Com Firominen
Patersen
N. SD
Arbiter Ter
Boy Confesses in $50,000 Fire
A Sayenerrh boy confessed to starting a $50,000 blaze at Daniel Webster Elementary School Friday night. Officials say he used burning materials, causing extensive damage and destruction of a top floor. Police and investigators questioned the youth as the fire damaged classrooms, masks and equipment.
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Boy
Erascisco
Daniel Webatey
Keaward
Walsh
Ena Francisca Youth Guldance Center
Rlid Tratone
Marti Miank Kelly
Michigan Blaze Doused After 30-Hour Inferno
Firemen brought a stubborn blaze under control in Lansing after 30 hours of effort. The $6 million structure suffered extensive damage with losses estimated at $5.8 to $6 million, and authorities confined the fire to upper levels as crews fought stubborn flames.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Central
Picture Tenner
Hawthorne Recall Campaign Aims for Special Election
Hawthorne volunteers launch Move On effort to collect signatures for a recall of Mayor Sharp Green and Councilmen Arthur Baguley. City Clerk Kenneth Keel says 120 signatures are needed with a ten day window to trigger a special election.
Musician Jailed in Alleged Outlaw Dope Sale Case
Hollywood police arrested musician Crerge Cass Burkard 88 after finding 15 cans of marijuana and other drugs in a hidden wall compartment in his apartment. Jackie Coogan and Robert Cangan 26 faced suspicions of violating narcotics laws but were released on a writ. Det. J. E. O Grady and others described the arrest following stakeouts. Burkard denied narcotics use while claiming marijuana was for personal use.
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Hollywood
Crerge
Cass Burkard
Jackie Coogan
Robert Cangan
Laws DP
McChire
Palm Springs
James Barrick
Coogan
McClure
Coomans
Juana
Coa
Kim
Parcotics
Barkard
J. E. O'Grady
Howrver
Gray
Garbun Top Dance Banda
Tides and Temperatures Sunrise Moonrise and Surf Calms
Fragmentary weather note lists tides and temperatures along with sunrise and moonrise references. Mentions locations, times, and measurements without clear context or complete sentences.
Hoover Renews Warning on Land War With Russia
Former president Herbert Hoover urges restraint and economic sacrifice to aid free nations without inviting land campaigns in Europe or Asia. He argues air and naval power deter aggression, warns against heavy budget and tax burdens, and opposes expanding land armies while denying isolationism.
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Hoover
Russia
Pacific
Europe
China
Sitain
Isurope
America
Truman
Death Takes Eddie Duchin
Eddy Duchin a famed piano bandleader dies at Memorial Hospital of leukemia at age 41. A Naval commendation for WWII service as a lieutenant commander was awarded shortly before his death. Duchin led a destroyer unit, participated in Normandy and Pacific landings, and built a famed orchestra at the Waldorf Astoria.
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New York
Eddy Duchin
Memorial Hospital
Maria Teresa Wynn Diechin
Buchin
Normandy
Third Fleet
Pacific
Iwo Jima
Okigawa
Cambridge
Mass
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Leo Reisman
Duchin
Queens
Mrs Roosevelt Urges Rollback of Price Controls
Boston informs that Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt argues price controls are inadequate and should be rolled back. She says controls were late, wages lag prices, and families with moderate incomes would be harmed unless corrective action is taken.
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Boston
Mass
Eleanor Roosevelt
Italy Pledges Five Divisions Under Atlantic Alliance
ROME February 10 Italy was reported to increase commitment under the Atlantic Alliance by promising General Dwight D Eisenhower five full divisions by June. Previously Italy had pledged three divisions.
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Rome
Italy
Atlantic
Alance
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allies Clash With Reds as Seoul Falls to 25th Division
Allied drive neared Seoul as the 35th Regiment of the 25th Division seized Yongdongpo and Kimpo Airfield, Inchon fell by 5:15 pm, and UN forces pushed toward Seoul. Aerial bombardment and naval gunfire pounded the area while Chinese and Korean Reds faced heavy losses, with 63,249 killed or wounded reported. the land corridor to Seoul opened amid ongoing combat. In a separate case, the federal court fined the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 25,000 for the December switchmen strike as industry pushed to maintain war production.
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Yongdungpo
Kimpo
Inchon
U.S
Han
Seoul
Yongdongpo
Long Beach
Eighth Army
U. S
25Th Division
Korea
The
Koks
U. S S
Missouri
United Nations
Seoul Inchon
Wolmi
Eighth
Hoengsang
Aederal Court
Brotherhood of Railroad
Michael L. lIgoe
BRT
Investigators of Reds in Films Recall Robinson
Washington Feb 10 The House un American activities committee prepared to recall Edward G Robinson for questioning after his prior testimony in December denying Communist ties He offered to cooperate and make hearings conclusive as members planned a broader probe of communists in the motion picture industry The committee issued a report on his January 11 testimony but said it did not close the case and internal objections arose over what the report implied about clearance
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Gibraltar
Hoover
U.S
Stalin
Brotherhood
Igoe
BRT
W. P. Kennedy
Sam Vander Hel
Frank W. Coyle
Washington
Hollywood
House UN- American Activities Committee
Edward G. Robinson
Robinson
Fm Robinson
Francis E. Walter D-Pa
MP Asks China-bound Rubber Ships Halt Action
London February 10 Conservative MP A C Basser said he would ask the government to stop two rubber shipments alleged to be consigned to Communist China. Bossom urged Colonial Secretary James Griffiths to state what action would prevent loss of strategic materials. Two ships carrying rubber valued around 3.5 million pounds were en route from Singapore to Canton via Hong Kong.
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London
A. C. Basser
China
Russia
United States
Bossom
James Griffiths
Singapore
Canton
Hong Kong
Berkeley Model and Husband Found Dead in Tragedy
Berkeley police say a model and her husband were found dead in their apartment. Inspector A R Frock labeled the deaths murder and suicide. Victims were David E Cary, 30, an instructor at a Dianetics institute in Los Angeles, and his wife Helen, 28, a model at California College of Arts and Crafts. Police theorize Mrs Cary shot him then killed herself.
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Berkeley
A. R. Frock
David E. Cary
L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics Institute
Los Angeles
Helen
California College of Arts and Crafts
Irish Actress Weds British Actor Forbes
Irish actress Constance Smith aged 22, known for The Mudlark, married British actor Bryan Forbes in London on February 10.
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London
Constance Smith
Bryan Forbes
Falling Iron Rips Train's Air Lines
A large piece of iron fell from a flat car on an adjoining track and ripped air and steam lines beneath the speeding Ohio State Limited in Erie Pennsylvania. The train was towed back to Powell Ave station and 20 passengers transferred. no injuries were reported.
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Erie
Ohio State Limited
New York Central
Powell Ave
Nimitz to Lead Spy Hunters Commission
UK Adm. Chester W. Nimitz will be sworn in Monday as chairman of a new Presidential commission to devise means of fighting spies, saboteurs and traitors in Washington.
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Washington
Chester W. Nimitz
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