Winter Weather Rips Across Wide U S With Snow and Ice
A major winter storm brings cold and precipitation from the Rockies to the East. Kansas Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle feel the worst with subzero temps and school closures. A Denver route train derailment amid snowstorm injures passengers near the Colorado New Mexico line.
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Chicago
Fihe
Rockies
Seaboard
Kansas-Oklahoma- Texas Panhandle
Mountain States
Gulf Region
North Central
New England
Colorado-New Mexico
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Alamosa
Durango
Colo
Colorado
Montana
Dakotas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Aberdeen
S. D
Sioux Fas
Willmar
Minn
Louisiana May Receive Sleet Forecast For Major Areas
A freezing weather alert covers Louisiana and Mississippi with predicted snow or sleet in northern sections. The Weather Bureau expects rain to turn to snow or sleet in southwest Louisiana and reports drizzle from Shreveport to Monroe with temperatures in the forties.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Misissippi
United States Weather Bureau
Shreveport
Monroe
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
Theater chain owner Roy E. Martin killed in private plane crash
Roy E. Martin 62 owner of 105 theater chain died with three others when a private plane crashed into the Pearl River near Bay St. Louis Mississippi. The accident also killed George Doles Jr. and Miss Dorothy Robertson with two other passengers missing. Martin's ties to Columbus Georgia and Mardi Gras travel are noted.
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Bay ST. Louis
Miss
Roy E. Martin
Mardi Gras
Here
Pearl River
George Doles, Jr
Martin
Doles
Columbus
Georgia
Dorothy Robertson
Mississippi
Bruce Elmore
New Orleans
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Edward Martin
James B. Levert
New Orleans Airways
New Orleanian
Costa Rica foils attempted coup as Calderon backers clash
Feb 12 San Jose reports a plot to topple Costa Rica's government failed after violent night clashes. Police killed one, several wounded as gangs linked to Calderon Guardia wore Republican Nacional and Communist party armbands. Calderon trails by 10,000 votes to Ulate Blanco. defense minister Picado and officials vow to repel any further coup attempts.
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Reginald L. Wood
San Jose
Costa Rica
Rafael Calderon Guardia
Republicano Nacional
Vanguardia Popular
Communist
Calderon
Otilio Ulate Blanco
Union Nacional Party
Ulate
Teodoro Picado Michalski
Dene Picado
Bella Vista
Picado
Taft Busy in Minnesota Contest for GOP Support
Senator Robert A. Taft campaigns in Minnesota where he faces Harold E. Stassen, a strong state backer of Taft’s Ohio presidential bid. Taft’s focus on Marshall plan and tax cuts draws mixed applause in Illinois and Indiana as Stassen maintains entrenched grass roots here.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Chicago
Bloomington
Ill
Gary
Hammond
Ind
Taft
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Philadelphia
G O. P
Abraham Lincoln Ceremonies Set in Springfield
Ceremonies mark the 139th birth anniversary of Lincoln with events at his tomb and the farewell address site in Springfield. The Lincoln Friendship Train departs from Wabash station, the American Legion holds a tomb pilgrimage, and Gov. Green participates in wreath laying. Col. Roy L. Dalfers places a wreath for President Truman.
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Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Europe
Asia
Wabash Station
Lincoln
American Legion
Oak Ridge Cemetery
James F. O'Neil
National Legion
NBC
Dwight H. Green
Roy L. Dalfers
Truman
Abraham Lincoln Association
Labor politics hit trouble in 1948 election drive
Washington February 12 Organized labor faced double trouble as grand jury indictments risk chilling union political spending under Taft Hartley and factional splits within A F L and C I O. The C I O indictment targets Philip Murray and the union’s political posture, while internal disputes hinder unified action and field plans for third party alignment.
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Washington
Organized Labor
A. F
Philip Murray
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
A. F. of L
Labor League For Political Education
Miami
Bill Hutcheson
A. F. of L. Carpenters
Dan Tobin
Henry Wallace
Murray
Turkish Fighter Planes Shot Down Over Bulgarian Coast
Bulgarian coastal guards shot down two Turkish fighter planes near Sozopol in the Black Sea. One pilot drowned, the other was wounded and captured after warnings by red lights were ignored. Anti-aircraft fire was reported.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Sozopol
Housing bill passage seen in Congress this year
Senator McCarthy predicted Congress will pass a long range housing bill this year. He urged no government owned public housing and urged private enterprise as the chief means, aiming for 1,500,000 new dwellings yearly with cost sharing to prevent 70,000 from being priced out.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wis
Congress
Wisconsin
Vicechairman
House Senate Housing Committee
Joint Committee
Markets Pause as Lincoln's Birthday Halts Trading
U S price cutting continues with retailers and manufacturers lowering costs while global stock and grain markets stall on Lincoln Day. London, Canadian, and Australian exchanges largely wait for U S reopen as Singapore and Manila trend down. Winnipeg notes inactivity and steady oats and barley futures amid mixed livestock movements. Procter and Gamble, Lever Brothers and Colgate Palmolive-Peet cut wholesale soap fats by five percent.
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New York
United States
London
U.S
Singapore
Mania
Winnipeg
Chicago
East St. Louis
St. Paul
U. S
Procter and Gamble
Levur Brothers
Colgate-Palmolive-Peat
Lightning Strikes Substation Darkens Monroe Power
Lightning hit a Mississippi Street substation transformer at 1 a.m. blacking Monroe for about 110 minutes. City electrical chief T A Pitt said meters interlocked with the transformer caused wider outages. fuses were replaced and other areas saw only temporary darkness.
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Monroe
Mississippi Street
T. A. Pitt
Gandhi rites sweep India as ashes immersed across the nation
Tens of millions join funeral ceremonies for Mohandas K. Gandhi across India. Ashes buried or sent to provinces, with rites at the confluence of the Ganges Jumna and Saraswati near Allahabad and in Karachi Lahore. Nehru witnesses at Allahabad ceremony.
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Allahabad
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Ganges
Jumna
Saraswati
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
New Delhi
Gandhi
Porbandar
Poona
Broad Ganges
Pakistan
Indus River
Karachi
Lahore
Bombay
Soviet accusation says Britain and France courted Hitler's war on the USSR
Moscow charges that Britain and France before World War II encouraged Hitler to turn on the Soviet Union. A Soviet information bureau statement cites 1937 1938 German documents and Munich pact allies to claim they sought to isolate the USSR and aid eastern aggression.
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Russia
Britain
France
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Great Britain
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Fuehrer
Soviet Information Bureau
German Foreign Office
Red Army
United States
U. S
U. S. State Department
Foreign Office
London
Hitler
Austria
Neville Chamberlain
Viscount
Earl of
Halifax
Baron Konstantin von Neurath
Obersalzberg
Berchtesgarden
Massive snow slide wipes out five-car train in Colorado
A snow slide in the Cumbres mountains near the Colorado New Mexico border derailed a five car train on the Denver and Rio Grande Western line last night. Brakeman George Ottoway and Railroad Express Messenger Victor Ingle were hospitalized with injuries. One woman passenger reportedly froze her feet as crews evacuated survivors. The wreck blocked the line for hours before passengers and crew reached Alamosa at 4 a m. local time.
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Denver and Rio Grande Western
George Ottoway
Railroad Express
Victor Ingle
Oltoway
Snegle
M. F. Morgan
Cumbres
Colorado-New Mexico
Here
Maynard to Face Inquiry Over Grain Market Profits
Chicago trader E T Maynard faces congressional probes into a grain market windfall exceeding 200000 dollars with reports he earned 40000 to 50000 more from cotton. Committees include Senate agriculture, a Senate appropriations subcommittee, and a House panel. Maynard says no inside information and cites newspapers for price signals.
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Washington
E. T. Maynard
Chicago
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate Appropriations
House
Anderson
Maynard
Knowland
California
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
Senator Young
North Dakota
Agriculture Committee
Young
Congressional
Chicago Board of Trade
Agriculture Group
Groom Upset Over Kidnapping In Georgia
In Blackshear Georgia a teen groom says he is right upset over James Davis a 22 year old Californian accused of kidnapping his bride to be Mildred Aspinwall Teston. The missing bride sent a call from Hawkinsville saying she is safe and hopes to phone tomorrow. Sheriff L L Taylor reports a kidnapping warrant against Davis as the couple had planned to marry in Alma Georgia after a ride in Doniver Testons car.
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James B. Davis
California
Doniver Teston
Teston
Davis
Sitzie” Aspinwall
Alma
Sittie
Monroe City Seeks City Manager Form Of Government
Petition drive for adopting a city manager form of government in Monroe gathered over 1500 signatures but the effort is postponed to better organize. Walter Kellogg denies rumors of selling Monroe Utilities and notes early meetings to gauge public sentiment and required signatures.
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Monroe
Walter Kellogg
Five Governors to Confront Democrats Over Civil Rights
Five Southern governors led by Arkansas Governor Ben Laney will travel to Washington February 22 to press Democratic leaders on President Truman's civil rights program. The group includes Strom Thurmond Beauford Jester Gregg Cherry and William Tuck. They plan direct talks with Howard McGrath and push for concessions and possibly a mass meeting of Southern congressional delegations.
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Little Rock
Truman
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Laney
Washington
Howard McGrath
National Democratic Committee
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Beausford Jester
Texas
Gregg Cherry
North Carolina
William Tuck
Virginia
Tallahassee
Fla
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Paul
Peter West
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Senate Republican Policy Committee
Rep. Wolcott
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