Nationalists Burn Tachen Fortifications at Withdrawal
Chinese Nationalist troops dynamited pillboxes and buildings as the Tachen Islands evacuation neared completion. U S Navy reports indicate most fortifications are blown, with the armada expected to sail for Formosa by Saturday.
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Taipei
Formosa
U. S. Navy
Tachen Islands
Defense Ministry
Forrest Edwards
U. S
Edwards
Tachens
Princeton
Yu Shan
Pishan
Washburn
Chiang Kai-shek
South Formosa
C Central
Formosan
Keelung
U. S. Foreign Operations Administration
Nanchishan
Nationalist Island
China
Cold stretch grips Southern Illinois with brisk weekend
Mostly fair skies give way to very cold air across the region. Tonight ranges from zero to five below, with Saturday's highs only five to ten above. Saturday night may dip near zero. Yesterday’s low was 41. Temperatures for today show a 32-degree high at 6 pm yesterday and at noon today. Crab Orchard Lake level holds with spillway today while Little Grassy Lake sits one inch below spillway.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Weather Notes Runoff Roads Clear Across Illinois
Road report indicates Southern Illinois mostly clear with ice in central areas. Conditions vary with drifting snow and packed ice extending across Illinois.
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Illinois
Central
Iteuhees "Ilinois
Norway Family Offers Home for Orphaned John Hunt
The 11 year old orphan John Hunt, left with $25 after his mother died January 3, receives a possible adoption offer from Norwegian relatives. A Chicago foster placement and a welfare fund preceded a March 10 Family Court hearing to review adoption proposals and any additional relatives.
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Norway
John Hunt
Chicago
Aslaugh Hartun
Fana
Bergen
John
Vote No Return For Sangamo
Sangamo Electric Co workers walked out Thursday after a contract expired January 22 and will hold a strike vote Sunday at Marion Junior High School. About 900 employees deserted the plant while only maintenance staff remained to protect machinery.
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Sangamo Electric Co
Marion
John Morgando
International Association of Machinists Grand Lodge
Marion Junior High School
Soviet Court Shakeup Reports Six Judges Relieved
Moscow radio said six members of the Supreme Court of Soviet Russia were released from duties and seven new judges elected to the body. Decrees signed by Marshal Voroshilov dated February 7 named the replacements as parliament sat to approve Malenkov's resignation. The court has more than 70 members and 35 assessors.
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London
Moscow Radio
Supreme Court of Soviet Russia
Klementi Voroshilov
Supreme Soviet
Voroshilov
Supreme Court
Georgi Malenkov
Nikolai Bulganin
Mallenkov
Malenkov
Duel Over Clothesline Ends In Two Dead
In a back porch dispute over a clothesline Edwin Robinson 47 and Harry Bonner 52 were armed and shot at each other. Both men died at the scene. Robinson's wife 48 was wounded by a bullet. Police reported the incident occurred Thursday night at the same building.
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Edwin Robinson
Harry Bonner
Robinson
District 109 Opens Bids for New Murphysboro School
Bids for a four classroom school with kitchen and a general purpose room will be opened at the Jackson County Courthouse in Murphysboro at 8 p.m. Monday. The project, on the former Sharon School site, is part of district consolidation approved last spring with an $86 000 bond issue secured from Chicago bond firm McDougall and Baden.
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Community Consolidated School District
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Omer Jones
Sharon
Chicago Bonding Company
McDougall and Baden
Fire Station Burns as Volunteers Battle Blaze
Ogdensburg Wisconsin February 11 AP volunteers fought a Thursday night fire while their fire station burned down leaving the station empty and extensive damage reported.
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Ogdensburg, Wis
Illinois Supreme Court slated to hear test tube baby case
Illinois asks high court to overturn Superior Judge Gibson E. Gorman's December ruling that children born by artificial insemination are illegitimate. State's Atty. John Gutknecht said reversal would remove stigma on scientifically conceived Illinois children and both sides seek a higher court decision.
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Illinois Supreme Court
Chicago
John Gutknecht
Cook County
High Court
Gibson E. Gorman
Gorman
Illinois
Gutknecht
Pflimlin Seeks Support To Become France Premier
Pierre Pflimlin a member of postwar French governments and West German rearmament advocate sought backing to become France's new premier. Assembly circles gave a friendly reaction and observers rated the 48 year old Alsatian lawyer as having a good chance to win sufficient backing.
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
France
Assembly
Record of extreme cold across Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois faced a brutal cold wave with temperatures from 1 to 5 below zero near Carbondale and in rural areas. The region logged its coldest day since February 1951, yet highways remained largely clear with about 95 percent of roads free of snow and ice in 14 counties. Checked areas north of East St Louis showed drifting snow and ice, while northern Illinois endured heavier snow and ice.
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Carbondale
Marion Veterans Hospital
Southern Illinois
State Highway Department
Chester
Redbud
Waterloo
East St. Louis
Randolph County
Effingham
Exra
Central Illinois Public Service Division
Marion
General Telephone Co
Roy Ramsey
CIPS
Buda Youth Pleads Innocent to Murder
A 15 year old, Richard Allen Rosenow of near Buda, pleads innocent in Bureau County Circuit Court to murder charges in the Dec 28 killing of Harry Whipple and his wife Adah during a home robbery. His brother Dale, 17, faces burglary charges with a Feb 21 hearing. younger Francis, 13, also charged. The Rosenow family farmed southeast of Buda.
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Princeton
Richard Allen Rosenow
Buda
L. A
Bureau County
Harry Whipple
Adah
Whipple
Richard
Dale
Francis
Dale Rosenow Sr
Mechanical Know How Pays Man Extracts 160 000 Quarters
Los Angeles police say Charles Heiser used mechanical skill to steal about 160000 quarters from coin operated washing machines over 18 months. He faces 1 to 15 years in Chino prison. Judge David Coleman called it one of the most amazing cases he handled. Heiser built a device to open locks in any position and warned he would not reveal details. He told investigators he had shared the secret only with James Scarberry who later went into similar thefts. Heiser’s profits were gambled away. the washing machine box operator W E Bloomfield says he hopes the secret stays hidden and that the scheme gave him ulcers.
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Charles Heiser
California
Chino
Heiser
David Coleman
James R. Scarberry
Scarberry
W. E. Bloomfield
Icy weather causes lane breaks and crashes across region
Bondale reported no trouble while Marion Water Supt Earnest Brown noted one broken meter. General Telephone said two Murphysboro rural lines broke from cold and a Du Quoin Bondale tow line snapped. Four injured in a Rt 3 crash near Gorham as icy highway sent car into a semi trailer. Nellie Rushing treated as good at St Andrew's Hospital Murrysboro.
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Carbondale
Chicago
Rt. 3
Gorham
Warren Grammer
St. Andrew’s Hospital
Murrysboro
Nellie Rushing
Belknap
Charles Rushing
Bertha Mann
Allin
Dorothy Schnaare
Grand Chain
Grammer
Schnaare
William Birdsong
Memphis
Tenn
Chester Hospital
Elmer Reardon
St. Louis
Reardon
Tough on Cupid Arrows Ban Signed for Youths under 16
New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner signed a law prohibiting the sale of hunting arrows to children under 16, aiming to curb weapon access. The measure adds restrictions to local commerce and follows safety concerns raised by officials.
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Cupid
New York
Robert F. Wagner
Negroes Call Protest Strike In Johannesburg
A call went out to thousands of Johannesburg's Negroes to strike against the latest segregation scheme. The African National Congress sent runners to slums urging nonwhites off jobs Saturday or Monday. Over 100 families were evicted with around 60 000 to be moved in seven years, a strike could paralyze the city though penalties under South Africa's laws include the lash. The 350 000 nonwhite mine workers would likely be unaffected due to restricted compounds.
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Johannesburg
African National Congress
South Africa
Tito Won’t Join Blocs in Quest for Peaceful Path
Yugoslav President Tito said Yugoslavia will refuse to join any bloc whether Communist or Western and will pursue an independent course to support peaceful policies. After a 73 day tour of India, Burma and Egypt he spoke at Rijeka warning that blocs bring conflicts and that arms races threaten humanity.
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Alex Singleton
Burgsra
Yugoslavia
Tito
India
Burma
Egypt
Adriatic
Rijeka
Drop Of 50 Degrees Seen For Florida
A cold wave swept the nation with subzero readings across interior states and deep freezes from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. The Miami area was forecast to drop 50 degrees from the day’s high, while Illinois rural schools closed due to snow drifts and ice on roads.
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Florida
Miami Area
Winter Storm Paralyzes Central Illinois Roads and Air Travel
Cold air from a major snowstorm left Central Illinois cut off by drifted highways and slick roads. Temperatures plunged to 12 below, with up to seven inches of snow downstate and three to five inches in Chicago. Traffic slowed, trains stalled, and Midway diverted arrivals briefly before normal service resumed.
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Illinois
Weather Bureau
State Highway Division
Bradford
Chicago & North Western
Midway Airport
Milwaukee
Detroit
Indianapolis
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