Miners Defy Orders From Lewis Across Coal Regions
Striking soft coal miners remained defiant of government and John L. Lewis orders for a second day. In Pennsylvania 1700 pickets patrolled highways with no pit activity as deserts closed around idle mines. A Library Pennsylvania miner said locals may vote on actions this Saturday while pledging not to work without a contract. Rumors of nationwide idle workers numbered 372,000.
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PITTSBURGH
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Library
Lewis
West Virginia
Pennsylvannia
Ohio coal mines stay mostly idle as strike holds
Bellaire Ohio reports the coal mine strike front remains unbroken with only a handful of small shafts operating. Between 100 and 1,000 miners are employed at those sites while AML major mines sit idle and rank and file sentiment grim for a return to the pits this week.
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AML
Miners Hint Birthday Not a Holiday as Strike Pulse Holds
In West Virginia the mine workers hint at celebrating Union Leader John J. Lewis’ birthday while backing a no work stance. The federal government slows enforcement of court orders as Lewis and operators plan a new contract meeting with the Southern Coal Producers Association set for tomorrow. A separate report from Ashtabula, Ohio notes 20 year old Matfin Larm of Geneva killed when locomotives backed into a car he rode in. five others injured.
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West Virginia
UMW
John J. Lewis
Truman
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Southern Coal Producers Association
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Northern
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ASHTABULA
Matfin Larm
Geneva
Former Nazi Arrested In Murder Plot
In Hannover an elderly man was arrested on charges of plotting to kill West German President Theodor Heuss. Det. Chief Friderici Peter said the suspect confessed to abandoning the plan at the last moment to avoid killing hundreds at the Hanover railway station. The man’s identity was not released and his sanity is under examination.
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Germany
Theodore Heuss
Friderici Peter
Hatriover police
Darmsadt
Heuss
Hasimover
simi
Shelbsaile Paneo
Mirurer
Shelbs County
Sheratt
pahor
White
Lolita
Pies
Shelby County
Inco and
Vitetersts
Incishapels
woam
WuUarson Offivers
bose
soeida
TERRY HAUTF
Ind
William Dudley Pelles
Shem John Trigrweiler
Viga Cann
Terre Haute
Buncombe Contr
North Caral
sheris
Asheville
N. C
Leher
Wo. MerLein
North Carolina
Petes tol
Trierweiler
Pelles
Pelle
tunge
Pelley
herd labor
Peller
Indiana
Hydrogen bomb looms in British election debate
In London AP report nine days before vote, both Prime Minister Attlee's Labour government and Churchill's Conservative opposition push for an international agreement to curb hydrogen weapon use. Bevin and Churchill have not yet named the bomb, while Eden warns at Bedford of new destructive weapons.
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LONDON
Clement Allee
labor
Winston
United States
Russia
Laborites
Ernest Bevin
Churchill
Soviet Union
Truman
U.S
Anthony Eden
Bedford
Democrats Welcome Hint Truman May Run
A California political leader hinted that President Truman is thinking about running in 1952. Democrats welcomed the hint as stirring public interest, though likened to no definite plan. Luckey said Truman implied a repeat team of 1948 supporters might be involved, voicing support for another run.
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Truman
WASHINGTON
California
George Luckey
California Democrats
White House
Luckey
Alfred E. Driscoll
New ,Jersey
GOP
primcy
Taft
Ohio
Driscoll
New York
New Jersey
College Youth Missing After Canoe Crash on Alum Creek
Four college students from Otterbemn and Connall University set out for a canoe trip from Westerville to a basketball game in Columbus. The canoe capsized on swollen Alum Creek about ten miles from the start. three bodies were recovered and two others rescued as rescue teams searched the flooded river.
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Taim
Otterbemn College
lernity brothers
Robert
Alliance
Westerville
Otteriain College
Connall University
Navy Veteran Receives First POW Payment
Navy veteran James Bigelow of Rockville received a POW payment of 1198 dollars as the first check from the War Claims Commission. About 250 other former POWs were to receive checks this week, with funds drawn from seized enemy assets and totals rising toward hundreds of millions for veterans and survivors. Bigelow, captured on Corregidor, wears an artificial leg from a mine injury and would not repeat the experience for any amount.
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Bigelaw
Rockvilled
Mas
wwe
Daniel FLyle
Georgia Lusk
Corregidor
pismer
Bigelow
Bige Jow
U.S.A
Philippine Island
Czech Arrest Missionaries Near Moravia
Prague reports two American Mormon missionaries Stanley Abbott 23 of Lehi Utah and C Alden Johnson 22 of Idaho Falls Idaho were arrested for attempting to enter a prohibited area after disappearing January 28 while traveling through Moravia to visit LDS members near the border. The Czechoslovak foreign office delivered the note to the U S embassy with the information.
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Czechoslovakis
Cech foreign office
U. S
Moravia
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Mormon
Stanley [E. Abbott
Lehi
Utah
C. Alden Johnson
Idahoma Is
Idaho
Flood Threat Grows Across Mississippi Valley
Widespread heavy rainfall increases flood danger across Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Indiana Wisconsin and Missouri as rivers rise. Weather Bureau reports higher water in the Mississippi Ohio rivers with ice storms snow and tornadoes blamed for damage and school closings across several states.
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Mississippi
Ohio
Associated Press
Aliasissippi
U. S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Louisiana
Indiana
Winais
Missouri
Charleston
Tennessee
Kentucky
Iinois
Atlantic
midwest
Cahesa
Minnesa Tayo
Pembina
Fargo
Teskansas Louisiane
Tenn
Hurrivane Hill
Wabash
Peru
Chiwenga
Jowesegioeng
Midrorhorn
Wisonein
New York
New Enelone
Des Moines
Madison Wire
Milwaukee
Himor
Jurnary posk
Evacuations as Chagrin River flood frees Eastlake
About 100 families evacuated near the Chagrin River mouth as high waters surged. After the canal into Lake Erie was cleared, police fire and Coast Guard aided the rescue of nearly 400 people from Eastlake, Lake County, amid flooding.
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CLEVELAND
Chagrin River
Lake Erie
Coast Guard
Lake County
Eastlake
Weather disrupts travel across New York and Pennsylvania
Power and telephone service disruption affects hundreds as midwest to northeast travel slows in icy conditions. Temperatures fall with widespread slick roads hindering commutes and transit. Heavy wintry weather prompts officials to urge caution and stay home where possible.
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pera
New York
Pennsvania
SOTVICE
midwest
House Members Seek Ways To Curb Abuses In GI Training Plan
House lawmakers debate tightening controls on the World War II GI education program to prevent abuses while keeping veterans eligible for training benefits. Representative Wheeler warned against overreach, and an exploration of stricter limits is set to continue, with pages planned for follow up.
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dawnnkers
Uke Wheeler
House
Congress
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Lay
Truman
Wheeler
Valentine Keepsake of Endless Love Across Years
Gordon Martin recalls a shy schoolboy who made a homemade valentine saying Ever thine and sent it to a girl who became his wife. The note survived school days, college separations, and time, remaining a treasured symbol of enduring devotion and a lasting marriage.
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Jone
amonel
Dog saves child on railroad tracks in Willimantic
Engineer S A Whyenoit of a Boston Hartford train spotted three year old Jackie Green wandering near tracks in Willimantic and pulled the boy and a tugging dog into the locomotive cab. Whyenoit braked the train stopping 45 feet from the child and the dog and then delivered them to his mother Mrs Marshall Green.
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Doctor Austin Coles Matt Dies at 65 in Florida
Word received here reports the death of Dr. Austin Coles Matt, 65, a nationally known urologist based in Dayton and Hollywood Florida. The notice notes his prominent medical career and ties to Dayton.
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DAYTON
Austin Colesmatt
Hollywood
Fla
Giant B-36 Bomber Reported Ditching Off British Columbia
An authoritative source says a B-36 bomber with 16 aboard ditched in icy waters off the British Columbia coast near Queen Charlotte Sound after icing and engine trouble. Officials at McChord and Fort Worth headquarters released conflicting details as search and rescue efforts began. the plane was on a long-range mission from Eielson AFB and was to land at Fort Worth.
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API
Queen Charlotte Sound
here
British Columbia
Eielson Air Force base
Fairbanks
Alastre
McChord Air Force base
FORT WORTH
Eighth Air Force
Vancouver Island
B. C
Evelson Air
Catewell Air Force
Aur
Forte
Tacoma
Scott
Diane
Svott
United States
Hawaii
Sumner Pike Named Acting Chair Of AEC Post
The White House announced President Truman will designate Sumner Pike as acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission pending a successor to David Lilienthal. Pike, a Republican, will begin Thursday and serve as a key commission member while the search continues for a permanent head.
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White House
Truman
Sumner T. Puke
David EL
Llosa
phair
Lewis
Mediation Effort Fades In National Rail Dispute
The National Mediation Board (AP) reports mediation efforts between union rail conductors and railroad trainmen have failed to progress. Francis A. Gall Jr. heads say Santa Fe mediation is shifting to a new phase as unions indicate broad support for action.
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Francis
GQ Nall Jr
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Order of Railway Conductors
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Zoeong
hehmainghy
Tragic Collision Kills Ky Driver. Indiana Man Injured
Felix McDonald, 220 Thorn Hill Kentucky, died when his truck hit another vehicle and caught fire. J H Borders, 52 Richmond Indiana, driver of the second truck, sustained burns and bruises.
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Felix McDonald
Thornhill
J. H. Borders
Richmond
Ind
Naval Plane Still Missing After Wide Gulf Search
In a dawn to dark hunt off Port Arthur Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, 13 planes scoured more than 30 000 square miles for a Navy aircraft missing since Friday. No trace found. last radio contact reported near 2 pm Friday.
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CONPCS CHRISTI
TEN
Gulf of Mexico
Port Arthur
Tex
Naval Air Station
CIO Seeks Revision Of Truman Tax Plan
The CIO urged Congress to revise President Truman tax proposals favoring broader personal exemptions for low income families and a top corporate tax of 33 percent with a gradual reduction for distributed earnings. It also called for an excess profits tax and a levy on undistributed corporate profits. Stanley Ruttenberg announced the position in Washington.
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WASHINGTON
labor organization
Congress
Truman
Stanley Ruttenberg
House Ware and Means
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