Severe cold wave moves into Midwest and Midwest states
A new severe cold wave from northern Canada moves into Minnesota and the Dakotas tonight and spreads to Indiana and Michigan by tomorrow night. Sub-zero readings appear from the Dakotas to New England. California expects heavy rain and snow. PG&E urges voluntary brownouts to ease power drain as a broader fuel shortage recovery lags. About 300,000 workers idle from fuel shortages. Detroit, Ohio, Pittsburgh, and Indiana regions affected with potential delays in gas deliveries and re opening of plants contingent on oil arrivals and milder temperatures.
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United Press
Canada
H. L. Jacobson
Chicago Weather Bureau
Minnesota
Dakotas
Indiana
Michigan
Jacobson
Weather Bureau
New England
California
Bakersfield
West Coast
Light and Power Company
James Black
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
Detroit Automobile Center
Henry Fink
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Plenty Snow Stops Flying in City
Snowfall of up to three inches blanketed the city with some melt as temperatures rose above freezing at midday. Grounded planes and zero visibility halted commercial flights at Hulman Airport while police warned that sidewalks must be kept clear of snow and slush under city ordinance enforcement.
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United States
Hulman
City Hall
Fire kills couple as Aledo tavern burns explosively
In Aledo Illinois on February 4 a fire destroyed Slim and Corkys tavern and the adjacent Quinn Brothers grocery. Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Bergstrom, co proprietor of the tavern, died as flames and an explosion swept through the buildings. Fire crews from nearby towns battled the blaze, which started near a coal stove and may have involved an oil stove on the second floor. The fire was controlled about 6 30 AM with damage pegged at about 100000 dollars.
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Aledo
Ill
Kermit Bergstrom
Bergstrom
Slim & Corky
Gladys Anderson
Miss Anderson
Mrs. Bergstrom
Viola, Joy
Quinn Brothers
Berry Fined In Tax Evasion Case
Nashville, Feb 4. Arge L. Berry longtime head of the AFL International Pressman's Union was fined 10000 in Federal Court on a plea of nolo contendere to income tax evasion. Judge Elmer D Davies sentenced the 65 year old labor leader to a year and a day in prison, suspended. Berry testified at trial and the charge claimed $2587.25 evaded for 1939. He paid $185.81. Earlier he pleaded innocent to further charges for 1940 and 1941, which the government accepted and dismissed.
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Nashville
Tenn
Arge L. Berry
A.F.L. International Pressman’s Union
Elmer D. Davies
United States
Berry
Woman and boy die in south side garage fire
Chicago, Feb. 4. A fire that destroyed a small south side garage where seven people lived killed a woman and a six year old boy as they slept. Fatally burned were Mrs. Birdie Smith and Nor Mongon. Norah Mongon, 25, suffered serious burns. The boy's mother and her three other children escaped uninjured. Police said the blaze started after an oil stove exploded.
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Chicago
Birdie Smith
Nor Mungon
Norah
Stockyards
Airlines tied up by strike
Miami in February reports 145 AFL pilots grounded 22 National Airlines planes over safety concerns. Behncke cites two nearly unanimous strike votes and ongoing maintenance worries, while airline officials call it a smokescreen tied to a two year old pilot discharge. No wage dispute is claimed by the pilots.
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Miami
Fla
A.F.L
National Airlines
Newark
N. J
Chicago
David L. Behncke
Air Lines Pilot Association
New York
New Orleans
Florida
Behncke
CAA
National Mediation Board
Miners Fund Trustee Out
Thomas E. Murray resigns as impartial trustee of the United Mine Workers welfare fund over an uncompromising split with John L. Lewis and Ezra Van Horn. He cites failure to set pension rules and monthly payments, proposes an experimental plan, and urges the contract parties to resolve differences in national interest.
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New York
Thomas E. Murray
United Mine Workers’ Welfare Fund
John L. Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Murray
Lewis
van Horn
Fund
House Vote Expands G I Education and Training Aid
The House approved larger monthly allowances for veterans in college and for on the job trainees. The college bill would raise single veterans to 75 dollars, married with one dependent to 105, and those with two or more dependents to 120. The measures now go to the White House and to conference.
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Washington
House
White House
Truman
Senate
Meade
Kentucky
Bank Robber Gets Five Year Sentence
Forrest W. Cooper, 26, of Ellettsville, was sentenced to five years in Federal prison for the December robbery of Paragon State Bank. Court also heard guilty pleas from Donald Richardson on juvenile delinquency, with other co defendants receiving prison terms for related crimes. The robbery netted about $2,082 before the suspects were captured days later.
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Indianapolis
Forrest W. Cooper
Ellettsville
Paragon State Bank
Robert C. Baltzell
Cooper
Baltzell
Donald M. Richardson
Bloomington
Richardson
Charles A. Sartore
Evansville
George N. Wedding
Henderson
Irish Premier's Rule at Stake in General Election
Dublin voters cast ballots in a high stakes general election to decide if Prime Minister Eamon de Valera’s Fianna Fail can retain control of the government. A 147 seat Dail, 406 candidates, six parties, and the rising Clann Na Poblachta threaten De Valera’s majority. results due Friday as campaigning centers on partition and unity.
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Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Eire
Clann Na Poblachta
Republican
Sean McBride
de Valera
Dail
Poblachta
MacBride
Ireland
Northern Ulster
Fritz Kuhn Escapes Dachau Internment Camp
Fritz Kuhn, former leader of the German American Bund, escaped from Dachau last night, American authorities report. He had been deported to Germany in 1945 and was awaiting trial in Bavaria for his Nazi party ward chief role.
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Munich
Fritz Kuhn
United States
Dachau
Kuhn
Bavaria
Germany
U. S
Dramatic bid to curb oil exports over fuel shortage
United States Congressmen from shortage regions back a plan to impose 60 day oil export limits with stiff penalties. Rep John W Heselton would embargo shipments to some countries and cap others at one twelfth of their 1934 38 base. Canada exempt as it reduced imports already. Penalty up to 10000 fine and two years jail.
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George E. Reedy
United Press
Washington
John W. Heselton
Mass
Canada
Dominion
Heselton
New England
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Arrests of RSS leaders after Gandhi assassination rise
In New Delhi, authorities say sixty RSS leaders including its Delhi chief have been arrested since Gandhi’s murder as the government cracks down on extremists. Protests erupt as newspapers linked to Mahasabha are burned and socialists press for Patel’s resignation and broader cabinet representation.
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United Press
New Delhi
Rashtriya Sevak Sangh
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Hari Chand
R.S.S
Mahasabha
Gandhi
Poona
India
Sardar V. Patel
Jai Prakash
Patel
Congress Party
Narain
Jawaharlal Nehru
End Hunt for British Plane
Air force officers halted the search for the British South American Airways plane Star Tiger after five days, saying there is no hope of survivors. SOS signals ending in Tiger were heard from Antigua and along the Atlantic coast, but officials doubt the authenticity of the messages and suggest an amateur created a personal code.
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New York
Air Force
British South American Airways
U. S. Army
Coolidge Field
Antigua Island
S.O.S
Leeward Islands
Caribbean Sea
Ohio
Military
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Atlantic Seaboard
Azores
Bermuda
Sir Arthur Coningham
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Atlantic Division
Air Transport Command
Weather summary for February 4 by U S Weather Bureau
Cloudy with snow and a temperature record for February 4. Local conditions at 6 30 A M show a temperature of 31 degrees with a high yesterday of 35 and a low last night of 31, precipitation 0 15 inch. River stage at 1 8 feet. Sunset 5 14 P M Sunrise 6 55 A M.
Weather Outlook For Terre Haute And Nearby Areas
Cloudy with occasional snow tonight and Thursday. Temperatures only slightly lower, about 25 tonight. Indiana forecast shows cloudy tonight through Thursday with occasional snow in the south portion, mainly rain near the Ohio River. Illinois mirrors cloudy conditions with little temperature change, and rain or snow near the Ohio River.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Ohio River
Illinois
Temperature Street Thermometer Reading Report
Local item notes a street thermometer readings at 9:00 am 32 degrees and at 2:00 pm 35 degrees in the town. No further context or accompanying details provided.
Solons Block Truman Plans In Inflation Fight
Senator Sparkman declares most of President Truman's anti inflation requests doomed as Senate banking panel kills meat rationing bill. Full committee to vote next week on stand by powers for rationing and wage price controls while House panel reopens rent questions with Tighe Woods.
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Washington
Sparkman
D-Ala
Truman
Alabama
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Banking Committee
Tobey
R-N. H
Tighe Woods
Woods
Wolcott
R-Mich
Kidnap Victim Held Prisoner Aboard Sea Vessel
In Tampa on February 4 a food firm sought federal aid to free Elmer Fruehauf vice president of Sea Horse Frozen Foods from the company vessel seized at Key West. The ship master Marvin Jack Miller allegedly overpowered Fruehauf when he boarded to discharge him and the boat remains at sea provisioning by other ships. The petition says Fruehauf is held prisoner and Miller intends to scuttle or plunder the vessel.
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Tampa
Fla
Key West
Sea Horse Frozen Foods, Inc
St. Petersburg
United States Marshal
Coast Guard
Elmer Fruehauf
Marvin Jack Miller
Fruehauf
Miller
Fruehaus
High Seas
Fort Wayne Man Killed by Hit and Run Auto
Herbert C. Cecil of Fort Wayne was killed when struck by a motorist in a hit and run incident on the pass road just west of the city before daybreak. Police reported fresh snow marks show the car carried him about 140 feet before he was dropped.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Herbert C. Cecil
Cecil
Budget groups agree on 2.5 billion cut in Truman plan
Washington February 4 budget makers agreed on a 2.5 billion dollar cut in President Truman's budget. The move could leave a potential surplus of about 10.1 billion for tax and debt reduction but may not permit the full 6.5 billion tax cut. The subcommittee's recommendation will go to the full committee Friday.
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Truman
Congressional
House
Senate
House-Senate
Styles Bridges
Bridges
Sen
Walter F. George
Foreign Relations Committee
Woman Shot Ex Husband After Divorce Declares Murder
East side woman Jeanette Oder, 46, invited police in, confessed to fatally shooting her ex husband Harvey Broglin, 35, a bartender. Officers found Broglin in a neighbor’s yard after Oder described planning, firing three times following a contentious divorce and prior telephone harassment.
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Indianapolis
East Side
Jeanette Weaver Oder
Harvey S. Broglin
Oral McClain
Lawrence Smith
James Conroy
Conroy
Smith
Broglin
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