Seventh Division advances in Korea near Pangnim
American Seventh Division pushes north on central Korea front, six miles north of Pangnim, as Reds withdraw under air attack. Second Division moves 18 miles north of Chechon. 10th Corps advances on mountain spines amid renewed Red resistance and heavy mud. General Almond reports severe enemy losses while noting supply challenges and looming mountain defenses ahead.
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Tokyo
Japan
U. S
Eighth Army
Korea
Pangnim
Changjin
Hungnam
Chechen
10Th Corps
United Nations
U. N
Edward M. Almond
Red
Seoul
Pyongchang
Haanhung
Hoengsong
Almond
10Th
Chechon
Bradley says 250000 Americans in Korea now
General Omar N. Bradley testified before the House armed services committee that about 250,000 Americans in all services are fighting in Korea. He did not give a breakdown by service and warned the force could be enlarged if the situation worsens while noting the need for universal service and long term reserve training.
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Korea
Bradley
Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Armed Services
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House Armed Services Committee
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Weather Summary and Lake Levels Report
Cloudy with mild temps and light wind. Tonight cloudy and windy with low 40s to 45. Tuesday mild with high 45 to 50. Precipitation 0.04 inches in the 24 hour period. Humidity near 83 percent at 10 am. Wind averaged 37 mph between 7 am yesterday and 7 am today. Sunrise 6:40 am. sunset 5:47 pm. Crab Orchard Lake 14 inches above spillway. Little Grassy Lake 2 feet below spillway today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
New Special Education Building Opens At ISNU
A dedicated facility at Illinois State Normal University will be dedicated March 2 to train teachers for handicapped children. The 600 student capacity site will host 25 experts for training 300 teachers in classes for the physically different.
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Normal
Illinois State Normal University
Index and Editorials Lead Today's National Page
The edition presents the national news and editorials with the index area guiding readers through sections on local and women’s pages. Sports and classifieds follow, with a lighter comic page to close.
Prince Mdivani Reported Missing by Wife Fearing Foul Play
Prince David Mdivani 48, the sole surviving Mdivani brother, is missing. His wife Mrs Virginia Sinclair Mdivani, adopted daughter of oil magnate Harry Sinclair, filed a missing persons report claiming he left their Sunset Boulevard home last Friday on business and has not been seen since. Mdivani married his present wife in 1944 after marrying actress Mae Murray.
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Prince David Mdivani
Mdivani
Virginia Sinclair Mdivani
Harry Sinclair
Sunset Boulevard
Iveneing
Mae Mugray
Rescues Son By Miracle In East River Incident
In New York on February 26 AP reports 51 year old Martin Byrne, who cannot swim, saved his six year old son Bruce from drowning in the East River. The boy fell into an open manhole and was carried by a 100 foot drainpipe into the river before Byrne entered the manhole, traversed the drain, and swam nearly 100 feet to retrieve him and return to shore.
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Martin Byrne
Bruce
New York City
New York
Byrne
Senate probes Bohannon plea tied to large RFC loan
John B. Skiles testified Bohannon discussed obtaining influence for an 10.1 million RFC loan to Texmass Corp. Skiles recalled a Dallas Christmas party where Bohannon mentioned a “nice fat fee” if he could sway William R. Boyle Jr. or E. Merle Young, while Young denied any deal.
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Washington
John B. Skiles
Dallas R.F.C
Dallas
Ross Bohannon
Texmass Corp
Skiles
Senate
Bohannon
E. Merle Young
Young
Senate Banking Subcommittee
R.F.C
William R. Boyle, Jr
White House
Donald Dawson
Wage Ceiling Boost Nears Final Signoff
The Economic Stabilization Agency headed by Eric Johnston is expected to sign a 10 percent catch up wage formula with possible upward relaxation for most earners. Escalator boosts stay valid to June 30 if contracts predate the wage‑price freeze. Aides caution against broader reform. board disputes linger and reorganization plans may follow.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Economic Stabilization Agency
Johnston
Wage Stabilization Board
Cyrus S. Ching
Barbara Goalen Aims For U S A Allure And Freedom
Barbara Goalen Britain’s top cover girl, wants to avoid constant on view and move to the United States. A widow with two young children, she rose to prominence in three years, now freelances and earns about 2000 pounds yearly. She admires American manners and nylons.
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London
Barbara Goalen
Britain
Barbara
Susan
Roger
United States
Energy Plant Hires 2000 for Paducah Site Hiring Surge
A Energy Plant near Kevil Kentucky reports 2000 workers employed with large scale hiring planned in 15 to 20 days. Byron Nelson of F H McGraw Construction cites 12000 total construction jobs by September 1 as weather slows work but expects a speed up. Union referral guides manual laborers while clerks apply via plant or state agencies.
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Paducah
Kevil
Byron Nelson
F. H. McGraw Construction Co
Nielson
McGraw
Kentucky Ordnance Works
Evan Dale
Southern Illinois District Council of Laborers
Bower
Joppa
Ill
Kentucky
South Carolina Fugitive Captured in Springfield
Nathan Tolliver Corn, a murder sentence fugitive from the Columbia penitentiary, was captured in Springfield yesterday. FBI agent James Poster said federal and local officers took Corn off a bus after a tip from Southern Illinois. He had escaped prison on February 2 and faced unlawful flight charges.
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South Carolina
Springfield
Columbia, S. C
F.B.I
James Poster
Poster
Corn
Southern Illinois
Warns Against Troop Limits in Europe Defense Debate
John Sherman Cooper warned before Senate committees that restricting U S ground troops to Europe could destroy European confidence and amount to the greatest surrender in history. The debate pitted Wherry’s hold up against Connally and Russell plan backing joint U S and NATO defense.
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Washington
John Sherman Cooper
State Department
Congress
U. S
Europe
Cooper
Kentucky
Senate Foreign Relations and
Armed Services
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
North Atlantic
Western
Joppa Boiler Contract Let For Atomic Energy Plant
A New York firm Combustion Engineering Superheater Inc. won a contract to build four boilers for an Atomic Energy Commission power plant near Joppa Illinois. President Joseph V. Santry said each boiler will output 2 150 psi steam to reach 163 000 kilowatts and burn natural gas or pulverized coal. At full coal power the four boilers will consume 7 500 tons of coal per day. The Joppa plant is to be built and run by Electric Energy Inc. Construction began earlier this month.
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New York
Atomic Energy Commission
Joppa, Il
Joseph V. Santry
Joppa
Electric Energy, Inc
Senate Votes Rent Control Extension to June 30
The Senate banking committee approved a 90 day stopgap extension of federal rent controls to June 30. Chairman Burnet Maybank said hearings next month would consider adding a federal rent control section to the Defense Production act to meet defense needs after June. Under current law controls expire March 31 unless communities vote to continue them. those opting in keep ceilings until June 30.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Burnet Maybank
DS. C
Maybank
Broadway writer Margaret Mayo dies at 67 in Ossining
Margaret Mayo, famed Broadway playwright and former actress, died at Ossining hospital aged 67 after a spinal fracture. The widow of producer Edgar Selwyn, she retired after World War I with a fortune once estimated at two million dollars, wrote hits like Baby Mine Twin Beds and Polly of the Circus, and led a troop entertainment unit during World War I.
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Ossining
N. Y
Margaret Mayo
Broadway
Ossining Hospital
Edgar Selwyn
Miss Mayo
Theatre League
U. S
Illinois and St Louis area called hub for illegal gambling
A witness told the Senate crime committee that Alexander and Pulaski counties in Southern Illinois are the hub for illegal gambling prostitution and liquor. Byron Connell former Pulaski county state’s attorney testified that prostitution in Cairo is organized by a syndicate with ties to East St. Louis Peoria Mount Vernon and other Illinois cities. He noted a 1942 resignation and a narrow 1946 election loss. The testimony traced 1920s gang activity the Shelton Birger and Egan gangs and current remnants involved in legitimate businesses while labor links to gangsters remain.
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St. Louis
Senate Crime Committee
Alexander
Pulaski
Illinois
Byron Connell
Mound City
Pulaski County
Estes Kefauver
O‘tenn
Cairo
East St. Louis
Peoria
Mount Vernon
Connell
Joseph A. Wren
St Louis
Shelton Gang
Shelton
Chicago
Egan
Mny
Coort
Raid on Cairo clubs uncovers dice table and gear
Two constables and a deputy sheriff raided three Cairo clubs over the weekend. They seized a dice table at El Patio and found a buzzer system, a wire ticker tape machine, a money box, and $800 at the F. A. F. Club. The state attorney plans informations against the owners.
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Cairo
John J Brown
el Patio
Brown
Willard Ransom
Charles ‘‘Rocky”’ Rothschild
Wade’s
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East River
Prince Mdivani
West Los Angeles
Calif
Son
R. F.C
Charles E. Wilson
Valery Gibson
The
Associated Press
Winston Churchill
American South
Nathan Tolliver Corn
Joppa Boiler
Combustion Engineering Superheater Inc
Alexander, Pulaski Counties
Wref
Ku Klux Klan
Birger
Shelton Mob
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