Rain Swells The Mississippi Flood Threat Rises
Rain floods lower and middle Mississippi Valley raising flood risk in Arkansas Louisiana and Mississippi with ice storms snow and power outages across the Midwest and Northeast. 3000 evacuations begin below New Madrid while river crests forecast above January peak and storms cause widespread damage and travel delays.
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Mississippi Valley
U. S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Louisiana
Missis
New Madrid
Charleston
Missouri
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Midwest
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Michigan
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Des Moines
Madison
Wis
Milwaukee
Buffalo
N. Y
Weather Bureau
Cairo
Ill
Ohio
Dragna Mob Held As Bomb Plot Suspects
Los Angeles police rounded up five associates of Jack Dragna, named by Governor War ren's Crime Commission as Mickey Cohen's top rival for Southern California rackets. Relatives of Dragna were among the suspects, booked on conspiracy to commit murder in Cohen's bombed home case, with rifles and pistols seized. The commission notes Dragna as a major West Coast mob figure in perpetual underworld jockeying with Cohen, while the mob activity in the region has slowed but not ended.
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Los Angeles
Jack Dragna
Earl Warren
Crime Commission
Mickey Cohen
California
Dragna
Frank Paul
Tom Dragna
Frank
Tom
Louis
Guilermo Adamo
Cohen
Lynn White
Dragnas
West Coast
Sacramento
Cohen Mob
Mickey
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegel
San Quentin
Influenza Sent Pope Pius XII to Bed
Pope Pius XII is confined to bed with a slight touch of influenza and fever, Vatican briefed. The 73 year old pontiff, whose birthday is March 2, was reportedly stricken during the night according to a high Vatican source.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Vatican
Pelley Freed On Parole From Federal Penitentiary
William Dudley Pelley former Silver Shirt leader was to be released on parole today from the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute Indiana after serving nearly eight and a half years of a 15 year term for wartime sedition in a February 14 AP report.
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Haute
Ind
William Dudley Pelley
Berlin Aide Sent Home Secretly Under Guard
Frankfurt report says a woman employee of the Allied Military Security Board in Berlin was quietly sent back to the United States last week. She traveled on a Military Air Transport Service flight from Frankfurt to Westover Field Massachusetts. A U S high commission spokesman confirmed a woman had been sent back but provided no details citing classification secret.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Allied Military Security Board
Berlin
United States
Military Air Transport Service
Westover Field
Mass
U. S. High Commission
State Department
Langham warns of changes if Arizona social aid load grows
Arizona House Speaker Raymond J. Langham said continued high social security load may force economic and administrative changes. He criticized the state welfare system and urged clearer authority, potential eligibility restrictions, tax fund limits, and funding to meet state-defined eligibility. He cited rising federal debt and warned of nationalization trends if reforms lag.
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Arizona
Raymond J. Langham
Arizona House of Representatives
Phoenix
Langham
Department
Federal
Social Security Administration
Washington
191 Percent Gain In School Costs Shifts Tax Burden
Arizona education now takes a larger share of tax dollars than a decade ago. Fifty percent of 1948-49 tax collections went to education, up from 38 percent in 1939-40, with school costs rising 191 percent while overall taxes grew 123 percent. The Arizona Education Association urges new revenue sources, possibly via an initiative petition, to ease property taxes.
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Herb Nelson
Arizona
Arizona Education Association
AEA
State Auditor’s Office
General County
Dog and engineer save child on railroad tracks
A mongrel dog and railroad engineer S A Whyenott saved two year old Jackie Green who wandered onto the tracks 75 yards from his Willimantic home. Whyenott saw the boy and dog struggle and braked the Boston Hartford train stopping about 25 feet away.
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Willimantic
Conn
Jackie Green
S. A. Whyenott
Whyenott
Czechs Admit Jailing Two Mormon Missionaries
The Czech foreign office said state police arrested American Mormon missionaries Stanley E. Abbot and C. Alden Johnson on charges of trying to enter a prohibited area. They disappeared Jan. 28 while traveling Moravia to visit church members near the Polish border. authorities did not specify where they are held or the exact location of the prohibited zone.
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Czechoslovakia
Czech Foreign Office
Luvacy Scipiynss
Tn Gaal Fruitlilgan
Moravia
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Stanley E. Abbot
Lehi
Utah
C. Alden Johnson
Idaho Falls
Ida
Foreign Office
Olomouc
Prestetov
Prostejov
Bruntal
Opava
Mine Strike Continues In Full Force
Pittsburgh AP report details a second day of no-contract no-work walkouts by soft coal miners across major producing states. Hundreds of pickets patrol Pennsylvania roads to shut pits, while two men in Labrobe are wounded by buckshot. Police investigate if the shooting ties to armed guards at a non union pit, amid ongoing national strike action.
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John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Labrobe
Frank Kozar
Leroy Harris
West Virginia Coal Association
United Mine Workers District 17
Association
Jesse V. Sullivan
Ohio
Virginia
Illinois
Alabama
West Virginia
Pike Named Head of Atom Agency
President Truman selected Sumner T. Pike as acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Pike, a member and the only remaining original member, will succeed David E. Lilienthal, who resigned.
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Washington
INS
Truman
Sumner T. Pike
Atomic Energy Commission
Pike
Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Wickenburg Area Combed For 2 Fliers
An aerial search for two men missing since Saturday on a flight from Yuma to Holbrook extended to the Wickenburg area. More than 50 planes combed Central Arizona as CAPT. Moore said searches around Payson Prescott and Winslow found no trace. A ground rescue plan was readied and a mobile radio unit to be set up at Wickenburg.
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Yuma
Holbrook
Wickenburg
Arizona
Arthur Austin
Les Gardner
Thomas FE. Moore
Civil Air Patrol
Payson
Prescott
Winslow
Howard Childers
Moore
State Chamber of Commerce
Bonn Leader's Death Foiled
Hannover police foiled a plot to murder West German President Theodor Heuss. One man was arrested and is undergoing mental examination. officials say no political motive is known and no accomplices have been identified.
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Bonn
Germany
Theodor Heuss
Hannover
Ministry of Interior
Noted Officials Survey Gambling, War and Disarmament
Washington Senator Homer Ferguson declares federal statute can wipe out big syndicate gambling and accuses government of fostering slot machines for tax money. In New York General Dwight D Eisenhower cautions that good deeds may do more harm. In Washington John OD Hickerson says the U S is ready to sympathetically examine any proposals toward sincere agreement and eliminating atomic weapons.
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International News Service
Washington
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John OD. Hickerson
Mild Weather Forecast For Arizona This Week
The United States Weather Bureau extended forecast predicts generally fair and mild temperatures across Arizona through Sunday. Phoenix expects sunny skies with a high near 73 today and a low around 43 tomorrow morning.
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Arizona
United States Weather Bureau
Phoenix
Phoenix Weather Bureau
Sky Harbor
Flagstaff
Grand Canyon
B-36 Bomber Feared Down On Alaska Flight
An undisclosed source reports a B-36 six engined bomber ditched in Queen Charlotte Sound after icing and engine fire on a flight from Eielson AFB Alaska. 16 aboard, mission toward Carswell AFB Fort Worth. Coast Guard dispatched seaplane, McChord secrecy observed. Names of crew not released.
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Queen Charlotte Sound
Here
British Columbia
Eielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Alaska
McChord Air Force Base
Mackay Radio
Phoenix
Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth
Queen Charlotte Island
Vancouver Island
Eighth Air Force
Col. Cech. Scott
Eielson Field
Fire kills Mrs. Valentine in San Francisco blaze
In San Francisco on St Valentine Eve 39 year old Mrs Ellen Valentine died after a fire swept through her room last night. The victims name appeared in early wire reports, and authorities investigated the cause as firefighters battled the flames throughout the building.
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Mrs. Valentine
San
Francisco
Ellen Valentine
Economic Clinic verdict awaited on Graham Greenlee needs
A panel of experts in Safford today prepared to decide on the economic educational and recreational needs and advantages of Graham and Greenlee counties. Highlights cited include road construction airport and irrigation upgrades plus expanded hospital and hotel capacity and larger Gila Junior College. The Greenlee mining payroll and Graham County crops were noted as strong assets while road links and infrastructure were listed as primary bottlenecks.
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Safford
Graham
Greenlee
Graham County
Greater Arizona, Inc
Paul Merrill
United States
Klondyke
Greenlee County
John Fishburne
Gila Junior College
A. A. Hall
Flagstaff
Levi S. Udall
H. D. Lines
Economic Planning Division
Arizona Highway Department
Lois Rogers
Arizona Education Association
James A. Rork
Arizona State Employment Service
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