Storms leave deaths across Midwest and West
Tornadoes strike Lincoln area while heavy snow kills a woman near Rose Lake and two others in a California river plunge. Snow and wind trap hunters in Idaho as the Rockies and Pacific coast regions endure severe weather.
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Midwest
Lincoln
Neb
United Press
Rockies
Plains
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Kansas
Nebraska
Denver
Idaho
Los Angeles
Oregon
California
Endurance Flight To End Today As Engine Trouble Develops
Yuma Oct. 10 AP The endurance plane City of Yuma with pilots Bob Woodhouse and Woody Jongeward nearing a 46 day stay plans to land at 3 15 p m aloft 1124 hours surpassing the 1008 hour record. Refuelings were reduced to three hourly after a magneto failure left only the left unit functioning.
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Yuma
Bob Woodhouse
Woody Jongeward
Two amateur fliers face landing after risky endurance flight
Pions said they would stay aloft until flying became dangerous, now reached. Ground mechanic Paul Berch warned magnetoes and spark plugs could fail any time, forcing a land. Civic reception planned with Mayor Anderson leading, Guardsmen, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars on site to guard the craft. The fliers wonder if they can walk after landing.
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Pions
Jongeward
Paul Berch
W. J. Anderson
National Guardsmen
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Bomber Vanishes With Five In Storm at Hill Field
Hill Air Force Base reports a B 17 bomber with five crewmen aboard disappeared in a driving rainstorm while en route from Albuquerque New Mexico to Hill. Contact was lost at 3 04 a m over Salt Lake City as terrible weather lashed northern Utah. Search planes await clearance once the storm eases.
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Hill Field
Utah
Hill Air Force Base
Air Force
Albuquerque
N. M
Hill
Hubert L. Stewart
Hill Base
Salt Lake City
Temperature Dives Coats Leave Closets
Arizona felt a wintry weekend with snow in the north and chilly readings. Phoenix dropped to 43 with a quick rebound to 63 by mid morning as the Weather Bureau predicted warming and increasing clouds tonight. San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff recorded a first Fall snow with 26 degrees. melt is rapid and ground remains bare.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Mercury
Louis R. Jarwitz
United States Weather Bureau
San Francisco
Flagstaff
Car Hot Thieves Swap License Plates In Chandler
Ralph J. Davis reported two strangers swapped his license plates onto a stolen car. They admitted the act and drove off in the vehicle, which matched a Chandler theft. Davis notified police.
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Ralph J. Davis
West
Sherman Street
Davis
Chandler
Three Crewmen Perish In Cargo Plane Crash
Weather conditions are blamed for a Slick Airways cargo plane crash near Cheyenne Airport. Three crewmen died, an embalmed unidentified body was found being transported for burial, and a dog body remains recovered. The flight originated in Denver with a Rock Springs destination.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Slick Airways
Rock Springs
Denver
Two Die As Borrowed Plane Crashes in Indiana Field
Noblesville Indiana, Oct 10 Two men died when a borrowed airplane crashed and burned in a field near Noblesville. The pilot, 27 year old Talmadge Middleton, and passenger Richard Meredith, 37, were identified by police. Witnesses said engine failure occurred on takeoff.
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Noblesville
Ind
Talmadge Middleton
Richard Meredith
Congress Adjournment Thwarted by Snarls and Courtesy
Washington October 10. Plans to adjourn Congress by Saturday faced delays from legislative snarls and senatorial courtesy. The Senate aimed to adjourn after a brief session honoring the late Senator Bert H. Miller Idaho. It risks time loss with a Farm Bill vote and disputes over immigration and social security expansions.
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Washington
Senate
Bert H. Miller
Idaho
Scott W. Lucas
Illinois
Truman
Alben W. Barkley
Governor Seeks Williams Resignation Overland Misfeasance Charge
Governor Dan E. Garvey said he will ask State Land Commissioner O C Williams to resign or face charges of misfeasance and nonfeasance after a conference in the governor's office. He said he provided Williams with an Attorney General report on Land Department operations.
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Dan E. Garvey
O. C. Williams
Williams
Garvey
Fred O. Wilson
Land Department
Huge Cotton Outlook Sets Control Stage
The Agriculture Department estimates this year’s cotton crop at 15,446,000 bales, up from a month ago, with large output prompting possible rigid marketing quotas for 1950. A Brannan decision is due by Oct. 15, with a referendum likely by Dec. 10. State yields and conditions vary, Texas leads production at 5.5 million bales, while lint yield averages 286.2 pounds per acre.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Charles F. Brannan
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Secretary Symington Says B 36 Obsolete in 1948 May
Washington Oct 10 A House Republican leader said Air Force Secretary Symington testified last year that the B 36 bomber was obsolete and that in May 1948 the Air Force planned to cancel many B 36 contracts. He said the Air Force would focus on the B 50 instead of the B 36, though a final choice for the bomber to carry the atom bomb remained undecided. Rep John Taber voiced the remarks after a closed Appropriations hearing and suggested Symington may be called to explain before Vinson’s Armed Services Committee as hearings resume.
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Pat McCarran
Nevada
Europe
Senate
House
Truman
Washington
INS
Air Force
Symington
John Taber
New York
International News Service
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Taber
Congress
Navy
House Armed Services Committee
Appropriations Committee
Taber
Four Shot To Death In Oak Knoll Home Near Fort Worth
Four persons were found shot to death today at a suburban Oak Knoll residence in Fort Worth area. Neighbors identified the victims as Mrs. Richard G. Finch about 33 Penelope Finch eight Allan Finch seven and the children's maternal grandmother Mrs Walker. Next door neighbor Mrs T C Hukill found the bodies when she went to check on the children she usually drove to school.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Oak Knoll
Richard G. Finch
Penelope Finch
Allan Finch
Walker
T. C. Hukill
Guests Flee Hotel Blaze
Chicago dispatch reports a Garfield Hotel fire drove more than 100 people out in nightwear as flames shot up 100 feet. Six firefighters were overcome and several residents affected though no other injuries were reported.
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Chicago
Garfield Hotel
Thousands Arrested in Czech Communist Roundup
Prague reports say a week long wave of arrests took thousands into custody in what Communist sources call the biggest crackdown since the party seized power. Contacts in Moravia Bohemia and Slovakia indicate a country wide drive with many lawyers doctors and small businessmen seized and sent to labor camps. Vatican Radio noted police surrounded the town of Svatyian Podskalon near Prague to use school buildings for arrests.
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Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Trdax
Brno
Bruenn
Moravia
Pilsen
Bohemia
Zilina
Slovakia
Vatican Radio
Svatyian Podskalon
Court Postpones Retrial of Hiss
New York Oct 10 The perjury retrial of former State Department official Alger Hiss was postponed until Nov 1. His appeal for a venue change from New York to Vermont will be argued in another court later today.
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New York
INS
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Vermont
Noted Baseball Managers Speak On Rivalry And Club Quality
New York Yankee manager Casey Stengel jokes about Burt Shotton lasting longer by five days as he praises the Mets club. Brooklyn manager Burt Shotton says the Yankees have a stronger ball club with more in World Series competition and acknowledges ups and downs. Hamburg reports Chancellor Konrad Adenauer denounces the Soviet Zone as a place where people vanish like Nazi era camps, denying it as democratic.
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International News Service
NEW York
Yankee
Casey Stengel
Burt Shotton
Brooklyn
Yankees
Hamburg
Germany
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Zone
Swanky Club Slot Machines Seized In Raid
Deputies seized seven slot machines at the Westerner's Recreation Association Club on South Seventh Avenue in a raid. Three men, two club officers and a bartender, were placed under technical arrest and likely charged with liquor license violations and gambling equipment possession. The club, described as open despite claiming to be private.
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Westerner’s Recreation Association
South Seventh Avenue
Vern LaMore
Maricopa County
Four Killed as Rock Island Train Plunges in Washout
A Rock Island Imperial passenger train fell through a washed out roadbed near Meade Kansas killing at least four and injuring about 75. The eastbound train from Los Angeles to Chicago with around 130 passengers derailed after the washout caused by overnight rain. Volunteers and local officials from Fowler Meade Liberal and surrounding areas assisted victims at the scene and in nearby hospitals.
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Ted Gardner
Fowler
Kan
Rock Island Imperial
Los Angeles
Chicago
Imperial
Phoenix
Southern Pacific Company
Gardner
United Press
Tom Glasscock
Kansas Highway Patrol
R. E. Johnson
Rock Island
Kansas City
Glasscock
Laborites Study Crisis in Britain Money Trouble
London AP report that October 10 details the economic high command of Britain’s Labor Government meeting to decide whether to weather a money crisis or call an early election. The discussion centers on sustaining finances and political stability amid market pressures.
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Laborites
London
Britain
Collier Urges Veto of Navajo Hopi Bill
Former U S Indian affairs chief John Collier urged a national drive to veto the $88 million Navajo Hopi Appropriation Bill. He said it does not fund new work, but undermines Indian rights by placing 65 000 tribal people under state law and courts risking water and property rights and long term development. The Institute of Ethnic Affairs backed the veto.
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New York
John Collier
United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Truman
Congress
Collier
The
Institute of Ethnic Affairs
Institute
United States
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