Agency Finds Reckless Use Of Poisons
Washington February 2 AP The Food and Drug Administration warned of more dangerous drugs on the market and careless use of the rat poison 1080 while praising improved supplies. Commissioner Dunbar cited coffee price shocks short weight shipments counterfeit fruit fillings and phony medical devices as key problems in the past year.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Industries
Paul B. Dunbar
Dutch Plane Crashes Off Dutch Coast
A KLM cargo and mail DC-3 crashed into the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Seven crew members including a stewardess are feared lost, with no survivors found hours after the crash near the Hook of Holland. The aircraft was en route from Amsterdam to London, carrying mail and crew of four plus three airmen. One identified crew member was 26 year old British national A. J. Legg.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
North Sea
A. J. Legg
Groundhog Seer Predicts Early Spring at Gobblers Knob
Punxsutawney groundhog failed to see a shadow marking the start of spring. The annual ritual, performed in pea soup fog, saw a rival quarryville woodchuck echo the no shadow forecast, boosting faith in superstition amid cloudy skies.
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Gobblers Knob
Quarryville
Pennsylvania
Snowfall Dims Hopes In Hunt For Big Plane
In Whitehorse Yukon February 2 AP men and 44 occupants of a missing C-54 struggle through arctic weather. A B-17 from Fort Nelson BC remains aloft as joint US Canada search enters seventh day with only ten planes departing due to conditions. Signals on 500 kilocycles from Smith River and Teslin area yield no wreckage or confirmation as crews report vapor clouds over an ice fault.
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Y. T
Watson Lake
Alaska
Smith River
Fort Nelson
B. C
Martin Costello
U. S.canada
Costello
Yukon
Teslin
U S Rejects Move To Try Jap Emperor
Washington officials rejected as unthinkable a Soviet proposal to prosecute Emperor Hirohito and others for war crimes. The United States called the idea propaganda and said it would have no part in such a trial. Russia suggested an international tribunal for Hirohito and several Japanese, aiming to break the postwar agreement curtailing Class A trials.
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Alexander S. Panyushkin
State Department
Washington
Dean Acheson
Panyushkin
Alexander I. Zinchuk
United States
Hirohito
Japan
Russia
U. S
John Kee
West Virginia
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Manchuria
Temperatures Today Readings From Sky Harbor Station
Weather log lists early morning temperatures with times from 12:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Readings include 32, 38, 39, 39, 37, 42, 35 and 47 degrees at various hours. Data shows a cool start warming toward dawn with fluctuating readings.
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Sky Harbor
Canada Expels Two Czechs In Ottawa Retaliation
Canada orders Hugo Bohounek and Richard Bergman to leave within seven days in response to Prague expelling two Canadian legation staffers last month. The move follows the Czech press accusations of espionage and improper hospitality against the expelled Canadians.
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Ottawa
Canada
Prague
Canadian External Affairs Department
Hugo Bohounek
Richard Bergman
Reginald Danko
Cpl
Gaston Vanier
Royal Canadian Air Force
Czechoslovakia
Danko
Vanier
Car Collision Kills Six Men
Six men died when a carload of college students collided with another auto on United States Route 1 in Trenton New Jersey. Two student occupants died. four of the five men in the other car were killed. Police said the Trenton car may have U turned into the oncoming northbound lane. All students were from the New York area.
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New York Area
South Korean Forces Report January Guerrilla Losses
Seoul February 2. South Korean defense ministry says January clashes killed 813 Communist guerrillas and North Korean soldiers and captured 283. The figures reflect ongoing counterinsurgency operations and border confrontations.
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Seoul
Korea
South Korean Defense Ministry
Ohio River floods rise as rain and sleet overwhelm states
Heavy rains and sleet push the Ohio River toward flood stage as waters rise in Kentucky and West Virginia while Tennessee Arkansas and neighboring states face evacuations. Thousands displaced amid winter cold in the Pacific Northwest and icy Texas to New England.
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Ohio River
Texas
New England
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Arkansas
Pacific Northwest
Ohio
Cincinnati
Truman May Invoke Taft Hartley If Coal Crisis Worsens
President Truman said his request for a 70 day coal strike truce does not rule out action under the Taft Hartley Act if an emergency develops. He urged John L. Lewis and soft coal operators to agree to 70 days of full production while a fact finding board, outside Taft Hartley, studies their contract dispute and asks for replies by Saturday.
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Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
John L. Lewis
World Atomic Accord Called Must By U S
President Truman affirmed U S demand for tight international control with inspections before outlawing atomic weapons including the hydrogen bomb He sees no need for formal UN notification re the AEC work continuation and rejects a separate UN move on the H bomb while urging rigid inspections and international control efforts.
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Washington
Truman
United States
United Nations
Energy Commission
Three Children Die In Blaze In Bennington VT
In Bennington Vermont a house fire on February 2 killed three children Mary Ann Baldwin seven Jacqueline five and Lawrence 15 months. Father Roy Baldwin 31 suffered severe burns trying to reach them before collapsing at the bedroom door.
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Bennington
Mary Ann Baldwin
Jacqueline
Lawrence
Roy
First television theft reported in Phoenix recovered
Detectives Van Doren and Heyser found a $215 television in a boxcar behind 22 East Jackson Street while checking boxcars for vagrants. The 85 pound set owned by Beach Washers and Appliance Co Tucson was taken from a parked truck at First and Jackson. Recovery occurred shortly before a switch engine moved the car. John Albright reported the theft yesterday afternoon.
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Phoenix
George van Doren
Charles Heyser
East Jackson Street
John Albright
East Yale Street
Beach Washers and Appliance Company
Tucson
First
Jackson Streets
Tectives
Six Die in Zarzal Police Station Attack
In Zarzal near Cali Colombia a bandit assault on a police station left six dead including four bandits and two policemen, according to a government communique dated February 2.
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Cali
Colombia
Zarzal
Blow Claimed By Ho Rebels
Viet Nam News Service reports Ho Chi Minh forces killed or wounded about 4 000 of 20 000 Chinese Nationalist troops trying to cross the French Indochina border. Chinese under French air cover faced Ho’s anti-French forces. Ho’s office said counter-attacks were repelled and French reinforcements failed.
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Viet Nam
Ho Chi-minh
French Indochina
Russia
China
Sherman Puts Soviet Pacific Force Near 0
Tokyo February 2. Admiral Sherman reports Russia operates 60 to 70 submarines in the Western Pacific, with 270 to 280 submarines total and about a quarter in the Pacific, while the United States plans to boost naval strength in the area including an increase in carriers to two. He notes possible Soviet land assembly at Vladivostok and stresses the real submarine threat. the briefing follows a joint chiefs conference with Bradley Collins and Vandenberg.
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Russia
Western Pacific
Adml
Forrest P. Sherman
U. S
United States
Pacific
Sherman
Navy
Far East
Vladivostok
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Boxer
Yokosuka
Omar N. Bradley
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Chiefs of Staff
Far East Command
Japan
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman Fills NLRB Vacancy with Styles Appointment
President Truman announced the appointment of Paul L. Styles as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Styles, then regional director at Atlanta, replaces J. Copeland Gray whom Truman chose not to reappoint.
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Washington
Truman
Paul L. Styles
National Labor Relations Board
Styles
Atlanta
J. Copeland Gray
Gunman Frees Pal In Mental Hospital
A gunman bluffing his way into Metropolitan State Hospital freed Atwood White, 24, of Boston, an ex convict awaiting trial on armed robbery and related charges. The pair fled in a waiting car after overpowering two attendants during a five minute visit.
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Mass
Metropolitan State Hospital
Atwood White
Boston
White
Havey
Francis Gannon
Salvatore Lisacki
Gannon
Lisacki
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