80 Die in Worst Aviation Disaster At Cardiff Wales
A chartered Tudor airliner carrying Welsh football fans crashed near Llandow airport Cardiff yesterday. Eighty people died with three survivors. The disaster marked aviation's worst postwar single accident. Witnesses reported a sudden climb then a violent crash in a field near a house. Coal miners and families waited at the scene.
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Cardiff
Wales
Lord Pakenham
Dublin
Britain
Ireland
Llandow
Here
Tudor
Berlin
British Overseas Airways Corp
Bermuda
Samaria
Eastern Airlines
Washington, D. C
Potomac
London
March Wheat Hits New Seasonal Peak
A strong short covering move lifted March wheat to a new seasonal high on the board of trade while other grains held firm. Wheat and soybeans started strong with early highs, then retreated to near Saturday’s closes before another buying push in the final 30 minutes sent March wheat to its best price of the day and season. Visible supply stocks last week fell 2 601 000 bushels. Floods hit Rock Springs damaging business district as Baraboo river swelled, but merchants moved stock to higher places.
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Board of Trade
Rock Springs
Sauk County
Baraboo
Brodhead Youth Killed in Accident
Gordon Paulson twenty was killed when he stepped into traffic on highway 14 at Union in Rock county. Driver Robert Johnson twenty four from Brooklyn was unaware of striking anyone until reaching home. no one else injured. Paulson served in the army and was to be buried at Greenwood cemetery with military rites.
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Brodhead
Gordon Paulson
Chester Paulson
Highway 14
Union
Rock County
Sheriff's Deputies
Paulson
Robert M. Johnson
Brooklyn
Alvin Peterson
Albany
Roderick
Evansville
Everson Funeral Home
Johnson
DeForrest Lunde
James W. Milks
Robert E. Wallace
Gerald D. Sayers
High Court to Rule on Loyalty Program Challenge
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal from the Joint Anti Fascist Refugee Committee challenging the government's loyalty program. The group seeks a ruling that the program is valid and asks to remove its name from a subversive list. A DC Circuit Court rejection prompted the appeal with arguments set for early spring.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
U. S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
No Epidemic of Flu Indicated for Monroe
Officials report no influenza epidemic in Monroe despite reports of severe colds. Early season illnesses are more intense but within normal annual levels, with no extraordinary outbreaks indicated.
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Monroe
Texas Sheriff Slain On Mountain Road Mystery
Presidio County Sheriff O W Blackie Morrow was shot on a lonely mountain road while returning to Marfa. He lay dying beside a barbed wire fence after stopping to check a halted car. His gun and handcuffs were missing, investigators ponder if he was killed with his own weapon.
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Reesidio
O. W
Blackie) Morrow
Morrow
Marfa
Presidio
Mrs Retzlaff 76 Oneco dies in Freeport hospital
Emma A Retzlaff 76 of Oneco dies after several weeks illness at Freeport hospital where she had been for five days She was widow of Gustave Retzlaff born August 5 1873 in Germany She leaves three sons Rudolph John of Freeport George Winter Park Fla Robert Winslow and Wesley Dakota a daughter Agnes Phillips 18 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren two sisters Emily Miller Kelso Wash and Tony Lee Richmond Calif Services Wednesday at 3 from Burlington funeral home Elder Theodore G Herr of Seventh Day Adventist Rockford will officiate Burial Rock Lily cemetery Winslow Friends may call at the funeral home
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Paulson
Brodhead
Chester M
Ethel I Wisger Paulson
Gloria Jean
Amanda Paulson
West Luther Valley
Everson Funeral Home
Oneco
Times Speciary
Emma A. Retzlaff
Freeport
Rudolph
Gustave Retzaff
She
Germany
Emil Kienow
John
George
Winter Park
Fra
Robert
Winslow
Wesley
Dakota
Agnes Phillips
Emily Miller
Kelson
Wash
Tony Lee
Richmond
Calif
Burington
Burington Funeral Home
Theodore G. Herr
Seventh Day Adventist Church of
Rockford
Rock Lily Cemetery
John C. Riemer Dies at 49 in Freeport Hospital
John Clarence Riemer of Orangeville, born January 19, 1901, son of August and Ella Albright Riemer, died after a long illness in a Freeport hospital. He farmed between Rock Grove and Orangeville, married Bessie Kuhnke in Pontiac in 1929, and leaves a widow, three daughters, a son Delbert, two brothers Glenn and Clarence, three sisters Blanche Nott, Dorothy Fiene, Gladys Weunsch, with services at Zion Evangelical United Brethren church in Orangeville conducted by Revs. Rickleff and Kimmel. Burial in Rock Grove cemetery. calling hours at Burlington funeral home until noon Wednesday.
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Orangeville
John Clarence Riemer
Rock Grove
Freeport
August
Ella Albright Riemer
Bessie Kuhnke
Pontiac
Ill
Robert’ Roemer
Ridott
Viola
Berle
Rock Grove Cemetery
Burington Funeral Home
Plane Crashes Into Red Sea Off Cairo
Al Ahram reports an Israeli transport plane carrying 25 people crashed into the Red Sea yesterday near Cairo. The crash could not be confirmed by American, British, or Egyptian aviation authorities, and casualties are not stated.
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Cairo
al Ahram
Red Sea
Liberals To Back Laborites in Test in Commons
Government whips report nine Liberal MPs may refuse to back or vote with Labour on a Conservative attempt to unseat PM Attlee. The prior confidence test saw Liberals align with Conservatives but government won by 14. A housing vote and a spending vote loom. a loss could trigger elections. The Liberals last week backed a Conservative motion against steel nationalization.
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London
House of Commons
Labor
Attlee
King George
Laborites
Juvenile Robber Gang Rounded Up Near Lake Shore
Four youths aged 12 to 14 were rounded up after officers recovered a arsenal of firearms including a 30-30 rifle, a .22 rifle, a .32 revolver, and a .22 pistol. Detective Rothe confronted the suspects on a lake shore Sunday afternoon when guns were fired into the water. a revolver was recovered and a rifle was aimed as he moved in, the safety engaged moments before. The incident highlights a juvenile crime group facing police action and weapon possession charges.
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Pucury Gas
William Rothe
Lake Shore
Rothe
Belgium eyes Leopolds recall after vote in Belgium
Belgium faces a political crisis as a referendum shows 57.68 percent favor Leopold III’s return. Premier Eyskens meets cabinet, then travels to Pregny to confer with the exiled monarch who promised abdication if he failed to win a 55 percent majority. Vote breakdown shows strongest support in Flanders while provinces in Walloon regions vote against.
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Brussels
Belgium
Leopold III
Gaston Eyskens
Pregny
Geneva
Leopold
Flanders
Walloon
Social Christians
Eysikens
Interior Ministry
Brabant
Welloon
Soldier Michael D. McGarry Killed in Auto Crash
Pfc. Michael D. McGarry 23 of Milwaukee died when his car left the road and struck a telephone pole. He and two companions were driving from Sandoval to Salon near Scott Air Force Base in Belleville when the accident occurred.
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Odin
Michael D. McGarry
Milwaukee
McGarry
Scott Air Force Base
Belleville
Sandoval
Salon
Truman Proposes sweeping agency reorganization plan
President Truman today sent Congress a package of plans to reorganize federal agencies, abolish the maritime commission, and shift merchant fleet control to Secretary Sawyer. The White House says these measures, based on Hoover Commission ideas, would streamline government and save funds, with automatic effect in 60 days unless vetoed.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Truman
Congress
Maritime Commission Seaboard
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
National Labor Relations Board
Robert N. Denham
Denham
NLRB
White House
House
Senate
Messag
Reorganization Commission
Herbert Hoover
Commerce Department
Maritime Commission
Treasury
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce and Labor
Labor Department
Tax Sleuths Set For Income Check
Washington report notes income tax scrutiny increases for 1949 returns. 54 million expected returns to be examined by 3,500 added investigators, with Congress asked for 3,000 more. Electronic punch card machines check figures while investigators verify income and deductions, especially for high incomes and large deductions.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Congress
Wisconsin Congressmen Demand Immediate Hog Price Supports
Wisconsin Rep Byrnes Smith Davis and Withrow joined 23 House Republicans in pushing Secretary Brannan to announce new hog price supports at once. They cited Brannan’s February pledge to act “as soon as circumstances permit” and warned the March 31 program end could cause confusion among hog farmers due to delay.
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Ory
Ruus
Wisconsin
Brannan
Byrnes
Smith
Davis
Withrow
Shiocton Students Sit Down Over Principal Manley Row
Shiocton students stage a sit down at the Shiocton joint school district gym to pressure the board after declining to renew Monroe F Manley s 27 year contract. A petition signed by 188 of 165 students was presented as protests continued. Manley urged students to return to class but they stayed out.
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Leanton
Uury
Shiocton
Monroe F. Manley
Manley
Three Accidents Reported in County
Green county highway police investigated three accidents over the weekend. Minor injuries were reported to Mr. and Mrs. Clark A Kleckner. Kleckner’s car left Highway 69 north of Monroe, sliding into a culvert after attempting to avoid an oncoming vehicle. Willis Newcomer’s car struck a tree while turning into a bridge on county trunks four and a half miles northwest of Monroe. Helen Ninneman’s car skidded on county trunk K west of Twin Grove, striking a railing, with passengers Shirley and Charman Ninneman and Florence Grunder.
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Green County
Clark A. Kleckner
13Th Avenue
Kleckner
Highway 69
Monroe
Chesebro Farm
Helen Ninneman
21St Street
Twin Grove
Shirley
Charmain Ninneman
Florence Grunder
15Th Avenue
Weather Remains Cool With Little Change Expected
A cool weekend ends with no temperatures rising above freezing across the state. The sun melted snow on southern exposures today as the thermometer at 1 p.m. showed 20. Yesterday’s high reached 24 and the low 4 above zero. Tuesday’s forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and higher afternoon temperatures.
Senator McCarthy Names Scientist in Probe of Reds
Senator McCarthy charged a former navy scientist with top defense data as a communist and urged an investigation. He identified Stephen Brunauer, now a civilian in the navy ordnance explosives division, and named state department figures as communism sympathizers. The State Department defended Hanson and Brunauer as loyal Americans after thorough inquiries.
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Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Navy
Brunauer
Navy Bureau of Ordnance
State Department
Senate
Haldore Hanson
Hanson
Virginia
Minn
China
Esther Caukin Brunauer
Department
United Nations
Owen J. Lattimore
Walter Hines Page
Johns Hopkins University
Stanford
Lattimore
Baltimore
Afghanistan
Tydings
Dorothy Kenyon
U.S
United Nations Commission
Kenyon
New York
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