Chicago fire folds Skid Row hotel in brutal cold disaster
A blaze at The Barton men’s hotel on Chicago’s West Side killed 22 with 12 more injured as frigid conditions hampered identification. Officials launched an immediate probe and planned a full-day search of the icebound wreckage. Fire may have started from a crippled man’s rubbing alcohol bottle.
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Tourists still throng to visit Lincoln tomb after 90 years
Springfield report notes Lincoln’s death 90 years ago sparked national interest. Crowds viewed his funeral in the White House and Capitol Rotunda. The Lincoln monument in Oak Ridge cemetery, completed in 1874, features a 117 foot spire and a bronze statue with scenes of Union forces.
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Larkin G. Mead
Tachens Evacuation Finished Red Chinese Fleet Off Islands
Taiwan dispatch reports Red China massed armed junks off Matsu amid Chiang Kai shek evac of Tachens assisted by U S forces. The Tachens and surrounding areas emptied after six days of frantic removal of 40 000 plus civilians guerrillas and Nationalist troops. US 7th Fleet guarded the evacuation as destruction and fires lit the night sky.
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Fred Waters
Big Sun Hat
Five Injured In 14 Vigo County Auto Accidents
Law enforcement warned motorists in the Wabash Valley to avoid icy spots on bridges tracks and hills as the weekend storms kept highways hazardous. Seven injuries were in Vigo and surrounding counties with cases including John Greenwade Verlin and Jackie Kiblinger Ralph Eakes and others in multi vehicle crashes on State Highway 63 and U.S. Route 40.
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Lafayette Avenue
Jackie Kiblinger
Carpenter
Taylor
Kiblinger
Vern Watson
Terre Haute
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Ralph J. Eakes
Gulin
Ells de Bord
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Roy M. Edington
West Terre Haute
Hotel Adolphus Fire Destroys Clubrooms in Dallas
Dallas February 12 A mysterious blaze gutted part of the second floor of the 1250 room Hotel Adolphus leaving eight hurt among about 2000 occupants and 400 employees plus 150 firefighters. Smoke filled corridors as clubrooms melted away and water damage spread through the stylish hotel.
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Train Derailment Near Sauk Centre Injures 40
In subzero weather the Western Star passenger train derailed near Sauk Centre Minnesota injuring 40 of 190 onboard none seriously hurt. Cause traced to a broken rail near West Union ten miles away. Soldiers helped free passengers and kept order as buses evacuated riders.
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Rainstorm Triggers Maine Train Wreck Near Kennebec River
A Boston to Bangor passenger train left a rain gouged roadbed during a storm in Augusta causing a storage mail car and a milk tank car to plunge down a 15‑foot embankment into the Kennebec River. No more than minor injuries among 114 passengers and 6 crew. Four passenger coaches slid off the rails, with one resting against an embankment in a water-filled ditch.
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Retail meat prices fall below 1954 levels in Chicago
Chicago on February 12 reports from the American Meat Institute show retail prices for the four top meat cuts this week averaging lower than any time in the past year. Pork leads the decline with a drop of 10 to 26 percent from a year ago, while sliced bacon runs about 22 cents per pound cheaper in Chicago and similar nationwide.
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American Meat Institute
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Weather and tide report for the day
The forecast notes fair and cold conditions with a noon reading. Sunrise at 6 46, sunset at 5 75. River stage shows 0 5 feet and is stationary.
Terre Haute Area Weather Report
Local conditions show yesterday's high of 5 and a low of 0 with trace precipitation. Forecast calls for mostly fair and very cold conditions in Terre Haute and vicinity tonight and Sunday, with a low near zero and a high Sunday of 13. Indiana-wide, continuation of cold today and tonight with a rise on Sunday. Temperature readings at 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. both 13.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Worst Cold Wave Grips Most Of U S
An arctic air outbreak blankets the eastern two thirds of the United States. Temperatures plunge from Canada to the Gulf, with near zero readings in the Southeast and subzero in some spots. At least 25 deaths attributed to cold and snow, plus several fire deaths from a Chicago hotel blaze, a Brownwood nursing home fire, and a Kennebunk cottage fire.
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Pilgrimages to Honor Lincoln Mark Civil War President’s Day
In Springfield on February 12 1947 pilgrims gather for the 146th anniversary programs honoring Abraham Lincoln. The American Legion leads the 21st annual Lincoln Tomb pilgrimage at Oak Ridge Cemetery with Seaborn P. Collins speaking at wreath ceremonies. Veterans of Foreign Wars join one event as well. Six rooms in Lincoln’s 1844 to 1861 home are opened on the second floor, the sole house Lincoln owned.
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Seaborn P. Collins
National Legion
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Hoover Commission to report accounting on tax spending
Washington reports the Hoover Commission will present its first report to Congress on Monday focusing on Civil Service as part of a broad, roughly 20 document program to map where tax money goes. The bipartisan panel, created in 1953, aims to cut waste and boost efficiency across government operations.
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Legislature Debates School Aid Issue in Indiana House
INDIANAPOLIS Feb 12 The main state budget bill moves to the Indiana Senate intact while a proposed cut in school aid from 156 million to 143 million triggers a major House debate. The 65 to 6 vote passed the bill as lawmakers argued over the aid distribution system and its impact on local schools.
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Vance M. Waggoner
R.rushville
Pflimlin Chooses A For Posts In New Cabinet
Paris Feb 12 Pierre Pflimlin began forming his cabinet with key backroom talks with political leaders. He met President Coty and plans to present a full list early next week aiming to win National Assembly approval. Mendes France backed him, boosting his chances though socialists held back on full coalition yet kept doors open.
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National Assembly
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Rene Coty
Elysee Palace
France
Radical Socialist Party
Pierre Mendes- France
Mendes-France
North Africa
Catholic Popular Republicans
Antoine Pinay
Pinay
Hearst Jr Interviewed Bulganin in Kremlin
William Randolph Hearst Jr visiting American publisher interviewed Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin in the Kremlin today.
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William Randolph Hearst, Jr
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Reds Inaction Brightens Hope For Cease Fire
Washington February 12 Faint official hopes for a cease fire between Communist and Nationalist China grew after Reds refrained from fighting during the evacuation of the Tachens Islands. State Department experts warned not to read too much into the conduct as it could let Reds seize the islands without an assault. The Tachens operation was completed and U S forces would stay alert for any sign of Communist concentration to attack Formosa. The 7th Fleet remained ready.
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China
Tachen Islands
State Department
Tachens
U. S
Formosa
U. S. 7Th Fleet
Maid Confesses Mistress Slaying in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills police report Mrs. Peggy King the maid admitted killing Mrs. Katie Hayden, 71, with an ax after a work dispute. She broke down during 90 minutes of questioning and took a lie detector test showing signs of deception. Hayden was found dead in her kitchen with a bloody ax nearby after six workers heard screams in the estate backyard.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Peggy King
Katie Hayden
Clinton H. Anderson
I Want To Apologize Matusow Accuses Senator McCarthy
Harvey Matusow, ex Communist and FBI informer, testifies that Senator McCarthy encouraged him to make false statements during a heated campaign. He cites affidavits to Times and Time magazines and recalls apologizing to Bishop Oxnam for an October 1952 speech accusing him of support for Communist fronts. Roy Cohn dismisses Matusow's claims.
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Harvey Matusow
FBI
Joseph R. McCarthy
R.-Wis
Matusow
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
Milwaukee
Torney
Cohn
New York Times
Time Magazine
G. Bromley Oxnam
Washington
Libertyville
Nationalists Leave Tachens To the Reds
On February 12 amid evacuations by the U.S. Seventh Fleet over six days more than 25,000 Chinese Nationalists fled the Tachens 200 miles north of Formosa. The islands lie deserted except for rats as the last ships pulled away leaving a silent, emptied archipelago.
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U.S. 7Th Fleet
North Island
Air Force Grounds B-57 Jet Bombers
The Air Force grounded all B-57 jet bombers after two crashes this week. The B-57, a light tactical bomber, flies over 575 miles an hour. The move, described as a precautionary safety measure, comes as Glenn L. Martin Co. investigates the accidents in which three airmen were killed.
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Air Force
Glenn J. Martin Co
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