Soldiers Sell Services To Russians For $250
Two American troops Sgt. John Frankey and Cpl. Paul Abel admitted taking part in a Soviet led kidnapping ring in Vienna. They kidnapped Oswald Eder a former German prisoner of war and turned him to Soviet authorities after payment of 7000 Austrian schillings.
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Austria
United States Army
John Frankey
Brockton
Mass
Paul Abel
Bolivar
Oswald Eder
Russia
Eder
U. S. Army
Abel
Frankey
U S Official Vows To Block Any Soviet Try At West Berlin
United States High Commissioner John J. McCloy pledged to stop any Soviet bid to seize West Berlin and warned countermeasures against traffic blockades at Helmstedt. His remarks followed reports of a planned May youth rally in Berlin and ongoing tensions with Soviet and East Berlin forces.
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West Berlin
Berlin
United States
John J. McCloy
Helmstedt
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Young World
Frankfurt
American Berlin
Maxwell D. Taylor
Charles Dix
Noted Leaders Quote On War And Welfare
Princeton New Jersey Governor Thomas E Dewey says life is more than unemployment sickness and old age. Atlanta General Lucius D Clay, former German governor, warns war could rise if European aid and preparedness fade. Omaha General Curtis LeMay notes the atomic bomb allows massive strike power, with the Strategic Air Command ready to deliver a tonnage equal to all allied WWII output in days.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Atlanta
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Omaha
Curtis le May
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Court Challenges Lewis Demands in Coal Strike
A federal ruling doubts four contract demands by John L. Lewis and may narrow disputes with coal operators, potentially accelerating a settlement to the 370,000 member strike. An injunction was issued against the terms as a White House panel prepares a report, with Taft-Hartley action discussed. The coal supply plummeted from 75 days to about two weeks as shutdowns spread and violence flared in West Virginia and Kentucky pits.
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John L. Lewis
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Richmond B. Keech
United Mine Workers
Denham
Judge Reech
UMW
White House
Truman
West Virginia
Kentucky
Archbishop of York urges new A-Bomb pact for Britain
York England February 10 AP The Archbishop of York demanded that Britain seek another international agreement on atomic weapons before the hour of doom begins to strike.
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York, Eng
York
Britain
Temperatures Today Readings Across The Sky Station
A Weather Bureau style table lists hourly temperatures from 12:30 a m to 9:30 a m for Sky Station. Values show 53 at 12:30 a m, 33 at 1:30 a m, peaking near 56 later, with 50 to 59 range across the morning readings.
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Sky A
Police And FBI Seek Trails In Arizona Bank Robbery
FBI agents and Phoenix police continue a low clues search after the Bank of Douglas robbery with 116000 taken. Five items are named as clues including a black Dodge car a money can a cotton bag a size 36 sweater and rope. No link found yet to a prior January 31 1947 daylight holdup.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Phoenix
Bank of
Unique Horse Rodeo Opens Tomorrow in Scottsdale
The Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce presents the two day Unique Scottsdale Horse Rodeo featuring horses as competitors competing for cash prizes and ribbons totaling 1000 dollars. More than 400 horses anticipated for the parade along Scottsdale streets led by Grand Marshal Oscar Strobel. Festivities begin at 10 am with a ham and eggs breakfast. Parade ends at Loveland Polo Field Camelback and Invergordon roads. Notables include Harold Daugherty and Dick Griffith with guests Donna Griffith and Marlene Zimmer.
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Oscar Strobel
Loveland Polo Field
Camelback
Invergordon
Harold Daugherty
McCormick Ranch
Boys Club of
Jacque Mercer
Minotto Appointed To Rome ECA Job
James Minotto Phoenix rancher and businessman is named special assistant to the chief of mission in Rome for the U S Economic Co operation Administration. He will head to New York then sail to Rome for a two year post aiding export drives to earn dollars for European nations. Minotto, born in Berlin, has long been active in Arizona politics and business and returns from a European tour with plans to advance ECA recovery efforts.
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Rome
United States Economic Co-operation Administration
Washington, D. C
New York
York
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James
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Norway
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Berlin
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Minotte
Arizona Senate
Three Killed As Plane Hits Mountainside
GREAT FALLS Mont Feb 10 AP An Air Force C 54 transport plane from Great Falls Air Base crashed into a mountain about 40 miles southeast of here last night killing its three crew men The four engine plane hit less than 100 feet below the crest of the 7640 foot mountain five miles north of Raynesford Names of the victims burned bodies found in the fire blackened wreckage by a rescue party about 1 am today Burkes said An Air Force parachuting rescue team left here by auto at dawn to recover the bodies The team has been standing by since a search began in the Yukon Territory for a missing C 54 with 44 aboard led by Lt Wallace Boyd a paradoctor Rancher Gus Loberg at the foot of the mountain heard the crash and rattled his home windows with the explosion
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Mont
Here
Birney Burke
Raynesford
Burke
Air Force
Yukon Territory
Wallace Boyd
Gus Loberg
Loberg
Cotton Field Holdup Man Still Sought
Martin Garcia, 42, Waddell Ranch foreman, was robbed of 700 dollars by a gunman described as an African American man about 30, five feet eight inches tall, 160 pounds, wearing denim trousers and a light sweater. He escaped in Garcia’s 1947 green pickup with a metal cash box, prompting a sheriff's hunt near Litchfield and Gillespie Dam with air support.
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Martin Garcia
Waddell Ranch
Garcia
Litchfield
Gillespie Dam
L. C. Botes
Second Snowslide Kills Five Persons
Five people died and two more are believed buried when a snowslide buried homes of power plant workers near the Tignes Dam in Savoy France. This marked the second avalanche disaster of the week following a mine tragedy at Alpe d Huez where twelve miners were killed.
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Grenoble
France
French Alps
Tignes
Savoy
Alpe d’Huez
Fuchs admits selling vital data since 1942
Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British atomic scientist, confessed that since 1942 he knowingly passed on to Soviet Russia vital British American atomic secrets. He faces two Official Secrets Acts charges at Old Bailey with a possible 14 year sentence. The court heard he took £100 in 1946 as a symbolic token of subservience to communism.
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London
Klaus Fuchs
Soviet Russia
Bow Street
Fuchs
Old Bailey Criminal Court
Dr. Jekyl
Mr. Hyde
The
Atom
Christmas Humphreys
Harwell
Quick Vote On Formosa Aid Seen
Congress moves to aid Korea and Formosa with 88 million dollars. The package splits 60 million for the Republic of Korea and 28 million for Formosa defenders. House passage was 240 to 134, Senate quick passage expected within 30 minutes of debate.
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Washington
Congress
Far East
South Korea
Formosa
Senate
House
Republic of Korea
Korea
Tom Connally
Texas
Senate Foree Relations Committee
Chute To Plane Radio Rescue Amid Yukon Snow
Whitehorse lost radio contact with 10 crewmen of a wrecked C-47 and five parachutists who leaped to the rescue on a treacherous Yukon mountainside. The five included two American airmen and three Canadian. They landed safely after 1000 foot jumps, receiving snow shoes skis and medical supplies. Major J. Baczewski treated three severely injured airmen at the crash site.
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Whitehorse
Yukon
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Mackie
Edmonton
Alta
Air Force
Maj
J. Baczewski
U. S. Air Force
Frank Serwatka
Washington
Baczewski
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