Three U S F 84 jets crash in Labrador and Atlantic search
Three U S Air Force F 84 jets crashed near Goose Bay Labrador while a fourth plane reported engine trouble and bailed out. One pilot was killed and another remains missing over the Atlantic about 100 miles south of Greenland. Surviving crew were rescued, with one in Goose Bay and another helped by a helicopter crew.
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Mid
U. S
Goose Bay
Labrador
U. S. Air Force
Atlantic
Greenland
Narsarssuak
Thomas Millett
Palmyra
Maine
Millett
1. S. Air Force
Siamese Twin Girls Die Soon After Birth
Siamese twin girls born two months premature to Mrs. Jessica Stickney at Home hospital in Lafayette died early this morning. They were joined at the side near the waist. Mrs. Stickney was visiting Delphi. husband Edwin Stickney was in Chicago and a medical student. The couple has no other children.
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Lafayette
Ind
Chicago
Home Hospital
Jessica Stickney
Dormitory Fire Prompts Safe Escape At Antioch College
A four story 100 year old women's dormitory at Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio burned Sunday night but 99 coeds escaped safely with some belongings. Firemen suspected faulty attic wiring though the cause remained undetermined.
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Yellow Springs
Antioch College
Weather report for Southern Illinois cites warm spell
Warmer for Southern Illinois with fair skies tonight. Tuesday brings increasing cloudiness and rain possible. Overnight low 32 to 40, high Tuesday 50 to 55. Previous conditions noted including temperatures from yesterday and today and lake levels at Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake well below spillways.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Murphysboro Man Dies After Route 13 Wreck
Harlan Worthen 27 died at St. Andrew's Hospital Murphysboro after his car left Route 13 at New Hill, plunged 35 feet. Sheriff cites guard rail impact and embankment. Inquest planned. Worthen survived by wife Vera Mae Jarrett and son Gary Lewis. He served in WWII Navy Air Corps and worked for Illinois Electric and Gas. Burial set at Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery.
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Murphysboro
St. Andrew's Hospital
New Hill
Worthen
Jackson County
Roy Carter
Sheriff Carter
Vsbuie
Alfred Baskin
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Baskin
Illinois Central Railroad
Edward Knowles
Mr. Worthen
Illinois Electric and Gas Company
Vera Mae Jarrett
Gary Lewis
Odes Worthen
William Ripley
Robert Wheeler Jr
Joe Genovese
U. S. Navy Air Corps
Crawshaw Funeral Home
Ed Weltge
Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery
Fatal crash claims Reinhardt and Paddick in two accidents
At Millstadt Alphonse Reinhardt 55 was killed when his car plowed into a ditch. In Lawrenceville Hospital Friday night Murl Paddick 17 of Sumner died of injuries from a skid into a culvert near Bridgeport. The driver Wilvin Rosborough 17 was injured.
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Millstadt
Alphonse Reinhardt
Murl Paddick
Sumner
Lawrenceville Hospital
Bridgeport
Wilvin Rosborough
Air Treaty Signed Between Norway and Japan
Norway and Japan signed a civil air traffic agreement today, formalizing cooperation and routes between Oslo and Tokyo with joint oversight and standards. The pact aims to ease travel and improve safety for flights connecting the two nations.
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Oslo
Norway
Japan
Tito Attacks Russia and Pope Over World Split
Belgrade reports Tito denounces the Vatican and the Soviet Union as trying to divide the world into two hostile camps. He tells 2,200 delegates at the war-born Peoples Front congress that Pope Pius XII’s actions threaten peace and freedom while Yugoslavia pledges to pursue peace.
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Peoples Front Organization
Tito
Vatican
Soviet Union
Pius XII
Illinois Legislature Addresses Krebiozen Controversy and Tax Bill
Illinois lawmakers schedule hearings this week on Gov Stratton backed bills including a constitutional amendment for treasurer term length, a state office building appropriation, and an absentee ballot measure for the disabled. A public hearing on a legislative inquiry into the Krebiozen controversy will feature Dr Andrew Ivy testimony while Dr George Stoddard prohibits related research at the U of I. Revenue debates consider repealing a tax fine and expanding the sales tax to services such as tailoring.
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Springfield
William G. Stratton
Krebiozen
Illinois
House
Stratton
Senate
Andrew C. Ivy
Ivy
University of Illinois Professional Colleges
George D. Stoddard
U. of I
House Revenue Committee
State Revenue Department
U S Open to Peace Talks as Korea Issue Reopens
U S welcomes any peace offer as Korea debate returns to the United Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. said Washington believes Russia may seek new terms while ready to debate any question, including a cease fire, a Big Five pact, and alleged U S subversion in Eastern Europe.
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U. S
Korea
U. N
U.N
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Assembly
Eisenhower
Ledge
U.S
Lodge
U.N. Assembly
India
Uranium Ore Find Reported by Three Prospectors
Three prospectors reported a new find of uranium ore today in Australia’s Northern Territory near Darwin. The discovery was announced February 23 by AP reporting on early field indications.
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Darwin
Australia
Territoy
Washington Learned Faith Trials Of Infant Nation Created Doubt
Hal Boyle profiles George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as stubborn leaders who stood for beliefs amid difficult times. The piece notes Washington’s reluctance to accept wealth or power, his solitary path, and parallels with Lincoln during the nation’s early hardships.
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Washington
CIO Steelworkers Contribute to Truman Library Gifts
The CIO and its steelworkers union gave 250000 toward the Harry S. Truman library at Grandview Missouri. The CIO contributed 150000 and the steelworkers union 100000, funds handed to Basil O’Conner, chairman of the library’s executive committee. The library will house former President Truman’s papers as a gift to the American people.
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Steelworkers Union
Harry S. Truman
Grandview
Basil O’conner
The
H S. Truman Library, Inc
Presiden Truman
Benny Hospitalized with Flu Sighting TV Film
Jack Benny missed Sunday TV appearance due to flu and sat up in a hospital bed to watch a film about himself. A spokesman said his condition is fine after he was taken to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital with severe stomach cramps.
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Jack Benny
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Dragline at Pinckneyville mine slips into pit
A massive 2 470 000 pound walk ing dragline at the Truax Tract Pyramid mine south of Pinckneyville slipped 30 feet into the pit Friday. Its 215 foot boom wrapped around a hill and will take at least three months to replace, officials said. Pokey Grear of Pinckneyville rode out the fall, with the cab at a 45 degree angle into the pit.
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Pyramid Strip
Pinckneyville
Pokey
Labor Mourns For Haywood Amid Union Leaders' Grief
Wilkes-Barre, February 23 AP labor leaders mourn Allan S Haywood re elected CIO vice president collapsed on platform during union gathering died shortly after. He was 64 and son of English coal miner. His death comes after the deaths of Philip Murray and William Green in the prior months and delays a planned CIO AFL merger meeting. Haywood's body travels by train toward Taylorville expected to arrive late this afternoon.
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Wilkes-Barre
Allan S. Hayween
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Haywood
CIO
American Federation of Labor
Labor
Philip Murray
Holdup Suspects Seized by Posse in Colorado
In Pueblo Colorado an armed man Louis Albert Sturgis and a woman Virginia May Iser were captured after a single shot ended a pursuit by a large posse. They face FBI charges for the $48 907 Robbery of the Rosedale State Bank Kansas City Kansas. The Fahnestock couple linked to the crime were found shot to death in a Kansas City car four days later. Sturgis listed as born in Detroit and previously convicted in Kansas City. He was paroled in 1952.
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Kansas
Louis Albert Sturgis
Virgine May Iser
U. S
Jack Jenkins
FBI
Rosedale State Bank
Kansas City
Kan
Fahnestock
Billie
Fahnestocks
Sturgis
Detroit
Missouri Re
Nationalist China Renounces 1945 Soviet Treaty
Chiang Kai-shek’s government declares the 1945 Moscow treaty void citing Soviet aggression. The move, an outgrowth of the Yalta framework, would end Russian rights to Dairen and Port Arthur and push Outer Mongolia toward independence from the Soviet orbit. U.S. officials call the action a gesture with unclear impact on naval blockades or mainland tensions.
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Associated Press
Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Free China
Russia
Moscow
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Port Arthur
George Yeh
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China
Soviet Union
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Outer Mongolia
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Wang Shihchieh
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Stalin
T. F. Tsiang
United Nations
U. S
Soviet Russia
Dutch Vessels to Reach St Louis on Weekly Caribbean Service
From Rotterdam five motor ships of 700 to 900 tons each will run weekly between Caribbean ports and St Louis within the next two months. Frank J. McDevitt of the St Louis Board notes the Dutch firm omen plans the schedule. Details reference a Rotterdam shipper and weekly dock calls.
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Ees Louis
Frank J. McDevitt
Mastygeban der Louis
Pest Aime Shi
Rotterdam
Cloied Hee Ko
Ee Eee Fren
Sestatget Ver
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