Rickenbacker Survived Crash But Eight Dead in Wreck
Eastern Airlines plane with Capt Eddie Rickenbacker and 15 others, 8 aboard dead, 8 injured, crash suspected 15 miles south of Atlanta. Rickenbacker listed among the injured, in shock, transfusion not yet required. names include Rep William Byron and various survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Eastern Airlines
Ddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
William D
Byron
L. J. Bishop
Eddie Rigkenbruther
H. BE. Littledale
Short Hills
N. V. Hansell
Piedmont Hospital
G. BE. Perry
L. E B. Thomas
M. Vanderhoop
Scarsdale
N.Y
Juan Maria
San Salvador
A. Leibowitz
Hansell
Woman Killed in Hit and Run Near Council Bluffs
Mrs. Merritt D. Logan was struck and killed by a speeding truck on a highway edge near Council Bluffs Iowa. Police sought the hit and run driver as her husband and 14 year old son avoided the vehicle.
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Council Bluffs
Merritt D. Logan
Fair Weather Forecast Promises Warmer Iowa Tomorrow
A light snow fell in eastern towns but statewide forecast calls for fair weather in 24 hours. Colder conditions expected in east and south central areas tonight with rising temperatures in west and central regions tomorrow afternoon. Record highs and lows noted across Sioux City Council Bluffs Mount Ayr Spirit Lake with light precipitation elsewhere.
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Des Moines
Dubucue
Davenport
Iowa City
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Mount Ayr
Spirit Lake
Anabel
Mt Ayr
Charles City
Dubuque
Qmsrba
Northwest Town
Question Value Sport Program
Chicago. Feb 27 UP large draft rejection figures suggest U.S. sports programs wasted millions. Northwestern’s Leon Kranz argues excess focus on individual skill discourages poor performers and ends training as competition fades. He urges body development over mere skill building and cites Cook County draft rejection rises from 21 percent in 1917 18 to 43 percent in 1940 41, criticizing golf and bowling as overemphasized exercises.
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Chicago
America
Leon G. Kranz
Northwestern University
Cook County
Coors County
Daylight Raid Over London Shatters Air Shelter
London faced a second daylight raid as a hit and run aircraft dropped bombs after rescue crews removed 12 air raid precaution workers from a bombed hospital converted for ARP duty. The attack demolished a dwelling, trapped several people, and hit a dining hall where staff were at recreation. Many rescuers, some wounded, refused hospital care and continued recovery work.
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Homer Jenks
United Press
London
Confident the British Can Win the War
Chicago Duly News foreign correspondent Leland Stowe predicted Britain could win the war if American aid arrives immediately. He argued Greek terrain and Greek British resistance could block a German push to invade Britain, but affirmed confidence in Allied prospects with timely American support.
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Des Moines
Iter
Athens
Salonika
Leland Stowe
Chicago
Stowe
Greece
England
Twnyee
Britain
British moves in Balkans widen with Ankara talks
Britain plans new Balkan maneuvers as Sir Stafford Cripps joins Anglo Turkish talks in Ankara. Eden and Gen Dill confer with Turkish leaders while Cripps travels from Moscow. A Balkan defense pact with Turkey may be considered to curb Nazi expansion, with Molotov's stance awaited.
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Harrison Salisbury
United Press
Britain
Japan
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Ankara
Russia
Anthony Eden
John G. Dill
Eden
Jugoslav
Cripps
Councily
Balkans
Balkan
Turkey
V. M Molotov
Ambassador to Britain leaves for Lisbon and London
John G. Winant the new U S ambassador to Great Britain sailed from LaGuardia on the Pan American clipper to Lisbon then London. He was joined by Benjamin Cohen his future assistant in a flight carrying 3060 pounds of mail. In a predeparture statement Winant said the United States would pursue military aid to Britain as directed by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, with actions depending on the American people.
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New York
John G. Winant
Nhew
Winant
Pogo
Baghard
United States
Colstate Hull
Great Britain
Frank Walle Th dies. former IOwn seamen VP in CA funeral today
Frank Walle Th, former vice president of operations for a major railroad, died in Los Angeles Bay. He began as an assistant division superintendent and retired as VP in charge of operations. Born in Ralls and a former Evanston resident, he will be buried at Glendale.
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Ghondale
Frank Walle Th
Iove & North Western
I Whin
Los Angeles Bay
Walters
Willy
Chicago & North Western
TPQ
My Ted, Pewis
Cermar Ralls
Forimar
Rvanston
Clendale
Tractor Accident Fatal To Farmer In Tama
An elderly farmer, 84 year old Toelseby Balvin, was killed when his tractor overturned and slid into a deep gully near Chelsea Tama on February 27. Balvin, riding a saw rig, was en route to saw wood for a neighbor when the accident occurred.
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Tama
Seply
Balvin
Inne
Chelsea
House defeats closed shop amendment to defense bill
The House voted 81 to 11 against Rep. Howard Smith’s amendment to a 1.53 billion defense bill that would bar the closed shop on defense projects. The measure would boost Guam and the Sama in a Pacific defense push, with cash and contract authorizations for navy base work in the Atlantic, Alaska, and the Far East, and funding for the army to mobilize about 1.418 million troops by July 1.
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John BR. Beal
United Press
Washington
House Today
House
Senate
Guam
Samina
Pacific
Navy
Atlantic
Alaska
Far East
Howard W. Smith
Clifton Woodrum
Vau
Wage Increase For Railroad Employees Tacoma Dispatch Style
Washington February 27 UP wage increases for approximately 60,000 railroad employees take effect at midnight under a war department minimum wage order. The order sets a common wage of 36 cents per hour for workers on mainline roads with adjustments for other grades. A fatal pier incident tied to a 600,000 annual figure is mentioned in the same report.
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Washington
Pier Phan
Escaped Mt Pleasant Inmate Struck by Train
An escapee from Mt Pleasant state hospital, William Bre, 45, was hit by a train while on the run after escaping February 23. He was taken to Kirksville hospital for treatment. condition and extent of injuries not yet known.
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Mt. Pleasant
William Bre
Beenuk
Damate
Mt. Piessant State Hospital
Tadiis
Kirkssvalle
Reward Offered for Body of Missing Son in Mississippi River
Carl Sanderson of Waukon, Iowa, offered a $50 SHON reward for the recovery of his son Clarence and the body of seven others believed to have drowned when their car went into the Mississippi River last Sunday near McGreer or McGreeur. The incident involved a car plunging through the trestle into the river.
Jury Deliberates In Melia Trial
Knoxville La Pis 27. A jury today deliberated the fate of Matt Melia 40 Attica La farmer retried for the slaying of his sister in law Mrs Josephine Melia last July 31 Melia confessed shooting his brother Joe and Mrs Melia after an argument over hog feeding on the farm the brothers operated joined He previously was acquitted on connection with the death of his brother whom he said he shot in self defense His claim to be shot Mrs Melia accidentally resulted in a hung jury when he was tried for her death last fall.
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Knoxville
Matt Melia
Attica
Josephine Melia
Melia
Joe
Join
Drilling Machinery and Wells Target Vast Iowa Operation
A fragmentary notice describes drilling machinery for Iowa oil wells and a large-scale project near Bedford and Traylor County. It mentions Payor Company, Pryor & Pockhart, and individuals Fred Ho Jones and Harper, with uncertain dates and locations in Wichita Kansas and nearby territories. The text hints at contracts, timelines, and substantial land areas, including an objective of about 100,000 acres.
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Lelie
Fred Ho Jones
Aneravons
Pryor & Pockhart
Wichita
Kan
Bedford
Gyten Toseesstin
Y Harper
Pally City
Strikes Hold Up Defense Industry At Bethlehem Steel Plant
United Press reports labor disputes in defense industries slowed production at Bethlehem Steel's Lackawanna New York plant, with 9000 workers striking over grievances and wage demands. The strike, tied to defense orders worth about 250 million dollars, is the largest among 17 such actions, and could trigger a 123 million dollar strike at Ford plants as mediation is sought. Pickets number about five thousand. Bethlehem officials did not comment. The United Auto Workers CIO called the situation intolerable at Ford River Rouge Highland Park and Lincoln plants, with a large majority of the 100 006 production workers affected.
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United Press
Defense Industries
Ford Motor Co
CIO Steel Workers’ Organ Quine Committee
Lackawanna, N. Y
Bethleyim Steel Corp
National Defense
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Detroit
Ford
The
Motor Company
Lackawanna
Bethlehem
SWOC
Mafor
Uaw-Cio
Ford River Rouge
Highland Park
Lincoln
Mich
Movements in War Zone Today
United Press analysis notes that a journey to Ankara signals shifts in Russia Balkan policy. Stalin’s potential rigidity or flexibility affects Allied planning and Molotov’s delayed Supreme Soviet speech adds to uncertainty. The piece suggests Ankara talks aim to shape future Balkan developments amid German actions.
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Rep
U. S
I. W. T. Mason
United Press
Ankara
Sir Stafford Cripps
Russia
Balkan
Stalin
Europe
Stafford
Aussia
Molotov
Secesion
Supreme Soviet
Carbon Monoxide Death in Waterloo Man
Frank Alabaugh, 53, of Flampton, Ja., died after being overcome by carbon monoxide gas in Waterloo. He collapsed in the garage of his son in law, Hd Kethenbentel, after returning from work.
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Waterloo
Frank Alabaugh
Flampton
Hd Kethenbentel
Daubert Dies in Marshalltown Park Official Incident
C FR Ghakel Dearbert, identified as Marshalltown parks supervisor, died after a kidney ailment while swimming near Town State College. He served 17 weeks previously and received a national award for swarmiin work. Survived by his widow, four sons Russell Sieimeming coach at Micleeon State, LeeRos, Clar preg, and a daughter Virginia Conn.
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Marshalltown
Ghakel Dearbert
AL AL UL
Marshalltown Parks
Enach Town State College
A. A. UL S
Diubert
Tawe State
Ts W
Russell Sieimeming
Micleeon State
LeeRos
Clar Preg
Erkent
Virginia Conn
Plead Not Guilty To Murder Charge
Ned D Richards of Davenport Iowa pled not guilty to a charge of manslaughter in the death of Roy Bullock a 58 year old former contractor from Onslow Indiana after a Feb 3 fight. Richards waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to a district court jury with a $5000 bond.
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Davenport
Ned
D Richards
Roy Bullock
Bullock
Onslow
Richards
Chicago Taps Tax Evasion Case Against Billy Skidmore
Government evidence piles up as witnesses describe monthly graft payments to Williand R. Billy Skidmore, a Chicago gambling kingpin accused of evading more than 500000 in income taxes from 1932 to 1938. Testimony covers payoffs for protection from police, with go-betweens and direct payments from gamblers to Skidmore via a south side junk yard office.
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Chicago
Williand R
Billy) Skidmore
U.S
Albert Woll
Skidmore
Cook County
South Side
James Hamlin
la Grange
Fred Muthausen
Willow Springs
Muthausen
Hamlin
Hivalin
Lieut
George la
Thousands of draftees called in March for U S Army
Washington reports Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that between 130000 and 340000 selectees will be called in March, boosting U S Army strength beyond one million. He noted 20 of 27 new replacement centers should be ready to train by April, Rolla Missouri lagging behind. About 104000 March selectees will go to placement centers, the rest directly to combat and National Guard units.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Rolla
Troops Sought for Bethlehem Steel Strike at Lackawanna
Erie County sheriff and Bethlehem Steel officials ask Gov Lehman to send state troopers to the Lackawanna plant where strike protests and limited violence have occurred. CIO pickets and nonunion workers faced intimidation and damage to autos. a negor picket was arrested for knife attack. Local authorities fear defense production disruption.
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Carlos Soto
United Press
Lackawanna
N. Y
Erie County Sheriff's Office
Bethlehem Steel Company
Herbert H. Lehman
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Bethlehem
Lehman
Albany
William Mahoney
Edward F. Entwisle
Erie County
Couple Sentenced in Boy's Death in Iowa Beating
Sioux City couple Arthur Levering and Violet B Harris faced long terms after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the beating death of Gordon Ardell Harris, 45. Levering received a life term at Fort Madison prison. Harris got a sentence at Rockwell City reform school. The 45 year old died of brain hemorrhage after a forceful beating over his refusal to eat.
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Sioux City
Arthur Levering
Violet B. Harris
A. O. Wakefield
Levering
Fort Madison
Harris
Rockwell City
Gordon Ardell Harris
Oumueta Erreurs
Corener
Paul Osineup
Explosion Destroys Powder Mill In Ayton Kingsley
A massive blast at a powder mill near Ayton killed one man and injured several others. Firefighters from Concord, Maynard, and state services responded as the mill and surrounding area suffered severe damage. Authorities describe extensive debris and a large evacuation zone as investigators determine the cause and scope of the explosion.
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Ayton
Arto
American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp
Concord
Rosa Vaomitles Pacar
Harmingiin
Charis Melkippon
Maypard
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New York City
R. B. Sewell
J. 8. Rosenfeld, Sr
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Co. M. Tappen
H. A. Lilledale
Charke Feinsberg
Iowa
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R. R
William H. Lawrence
United Press Stalf
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mass
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