Pennsy Flyer Derails at 80 MPH Near Washington
ODENTON Md Feb 24 Seven cars of a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train at 80 mph leaped the track between Washington and Baltimore, with three overturning down an embankment. Five killed and more than 106 injured as 90 were taken to six Maryland hospitals and 59 remained hospitalized. Witnesses described a sudden brake grab and the diner car crushed. rescue crews recovered bodies including Alexander Nero 22 Trenton NJ and Thomas Reed Johnson 35 Baltimore. Continued on page 6 column 4.
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Odenton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Baltimore
Maryland
Seene Seene
Haebound
Aveemere Paul Sloane
Alexander Nero
Trenton
N. J
Thomas Reed Johnson
Alfred B. Haupt
Sydney Jackson
New York City
Arguments Over Garbage Contract Heard
The City Council referred the garbage contract to the franchise and contracts committee for study after Lavern Gibson won the award. Vice President Kelly presided with Nicoson and Busby absent. Raymond J. Kearns urged the council to consider the impact of a long running lawsuit by Samuel E. Beecher against terminating a contract he had held since 1951.
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Board of Works
Lavern Gibson
Ernest C. Nicoson
Charles Harrington
Robert X. Kelly
Kelly
Nicoson
Myron J. Busby
Raymond J. Kearns
Council
Kearns
Samuel E. Beecher
Sfatetember
Report 21 Die In Plane Crash
A Syrian Airways passenger aircraft crash near Damascus on February 24, 1942, kills 21 aboard. The Mediterranean region sees a string of air disasters with 50 British soldiers killed in Malta and 52 people perishing in a French plane crash near Cairo on a Sasigen to Paris flight.
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Damascus
Syria
Syrian Airways
Mediterranean
Malta
Cairo
Sasigen
Paris
Father Saves Son From Drowning In Cisterna
Indianapolis February 24 A father named Robert thirty two saved his five year old son Bobby Wright from an icy four foot cistern on newly purchased property. The boy fell in as they neared the abandoned cistern and the father plunged in head first to lift him out firemen assisted and both were treated for shock.
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Indianapolis
Bobby
Air Defense Filter Center begins 24 hour operation in Terre Haute
Terre Haute and Vigo County residents welcomed the Air Defense Filter Center at Sixth and Walnut to 24 hour operation starting 12:01 Friday. Seven civilian volunteers formed the first three hour watches led by Homer Evinger Laura Evinger Beverly McNeil David Payne William Roberts and H Hampton.
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Terre Haute
Vigo County
Sixth
Walnut Streets
Homer Evinger
Laura Evinger
Beverly McNeil
David Payne
William Roberts
H. Hampton
4671St
U. S. Air Force
Belleville
Midh
Lobbying Probe By Senators To Get Under Way
A bipartisan eight member Senate committee began a broad inquiry into political pressures lobbying and campaign contributions. Senator Lyndon B Johnson named four Democrats and four Republicans to the panel, calling it one of the most searching investigations in history.
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Washington
Senate
Aregan
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
D.-Tex
Johnson
Capehart Calls Senate Lobby Probe Silly and Ridiculous
In Chicago on February 24 Senator Homer Capehart said the Senate investigation of lobbyists is silly and ridiculous. He cited a $2,500 campaign contribution to Senator Francis Case and criticized spending $350,000 to uncover the origin of that amount. He argued Congressmen rely on lobbyists for legislative information.
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Chicago
Homer Capehart
R.-Ind
Senate
Capehart
Francis Case
Nebraska
Senate party ranks set on leadership amid committee bids
Senators Gore of Tennessee Knowland of California and others discuss leadership roles as a Democrat likely to head the group. Gore, chair of the Elections subcommittee, aims for a broad inquiry while Knowland defers to committee members for the chairman choice. Continued on Page 10.
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Gore
Tennessee
McClellan
Arkansas
Anderson
New Mexico
Kennedy
Len
Knowland
California
G.O.P
Bridges
New Hampshire
Thye
Minnesota
Goldwater
Arizona
Purtell
Connecticut
Johnson
Senate
Light Rain Weathers Indiana Flood Area
Light rain fell across Indiana with little flood risk despite rivers Ohio, Wabash and White swelling. Ohio River crested at 55.2 feet in New Albany. Temperatures ranged from 37 to 57 across regions with 33 to 45 lows. Showers and high winds forecast statewide.
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Indiana
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Wabash
White
New Albany
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
South Bend
Pesco
Lafayette
Terre Haute
Central
Thousands Walk To Work In Rain Across Montgomery
In Montgomery Alabama thousands of bus boycott protesters walked to work in the rain as a mass passive resistance event. Amid mass indictments 89 defendants pleaded innocent with trials set for March 19.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kidnap Killer Executed in Missouri Prison
Arthur Ross Brown was executed by gas chamber at the Missouri State Penitentiary for the kidnapping, robbery, rape, and murder of Wilma Allen, a 34 year old Kansas City mother. He admitted the crime in federal court and welcomed the death penalty. Two priests prayed as he was strapped in, and he uttered a final Hail Mary before the lever was pulled at 12:08 a.m. His criminal history stretched to 1941 with a California kidnapping conviction, and he was sought in Wyoming for an alleged sheriff’s shooting to aid his escape.
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Jefferson City
Arthur Ross Brown
Missouri
Wilma Allen
Kansas City
Brown
San Francisco
U.S
Burke Dennis
Mary Brown
Oakland
Calif
James D. Carter
California
Reformatory
Wyoming
Willard Marshall
Sheridan
Wyo
Weather Map Notes Showers and Cooler Outlook
The weather page reports showers and cooler conditions with a river stage of 10 feet and falling. Local data include yesterday's high of 49 and last night's low of 26, with precipitation totaling .64 inches and sunrise at 6:30 and sunset at 5:37.
Forecast for Terre Haute and Vicinity Tonight and Saturday
Showers and thunderstorms tonight followed by cloudiness and colder conditions Saturday. Low tonight around 40. Saturday highs range from the low 30s in the northwest to the mid 50s in the southeast with partial clearing Sunday. Temperature readings show 48 a.m. and 59 p.m. on the street thermometer.
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Terre Haute
Survivor recounts deadly Kosti jail crowding in Sudan
A survivor from Kosti details 190 Sudanese tenant farmers suffocating in a crowded prison ward. He says detainees were held without food or water after arrest, packed tightly in trucks to Kosti, with cries for air and water ignored by guards.
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Kosi
Sudan
Kosti
Juda
White Nile
U S Judge Retires From Seventh Circuit
U S Judge Earl Major announces retirement from the 7th U S Circuit Court of Appeals at age 65. He sends letters from Hillsboro Illinois to President Eisenhower and Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr.
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Chicago
Earl Major
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Hillsboro
Ill
Eisenhower
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Eisenhower health safer in second term says physician
Dr. Howard M. Snyder, Eisenhower's physician, said the president might be safer serving a second term after his heart attack. He noted medical watchfulness has intensified and cautioned health outcomes are uncertain for any future president. Continued on Page 10 Column 5.
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Thomasvile
Eisenhower
Howard M. Snyder
Denver
Snyder
Washington
Three Children Drown in Bacon's Swamp Indianapolis
In Indianapolis on Thursday two brothers Donnie Reasner seven and Steven Reasner six and neighbor Susan Jennessy five drowned after breaking ice while helping a pet terrier on Bacon's Swamp. Witness David Beckom six saw the incident as he ran for help to their mother Helen Reasner.
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Indianapolis
Bacon’s Swamp
Donnie Reasner
Steven Reasner
Susan Jennessy
David Beckom
David
Helen Reasner
Fists Swing Freely As Workers Clash At Plane Plant Gate
At Republic Aviation Farmingdale plant on Long Island about 300 non-strikers tried to enter for duty as 12,000 workers faced a picket line. A melee erupted, police arrested a dozen pickets, and union officials planned unfair labor practice charges while the company pressed for an injunction and offered a 5 cent hourly raise amid average wages of 2.23 dollars.
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New York
W.P
Republic Aviation Corporation
Farmingdale
Long Island
Alan Perl
National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
Edgar J. Nathan, Jr
Republic
Six Small Planes With 16 Aboard Found Safe
A group of 16 American missionaries in six small planes, missing since Thursday, were found safe near Niquero in Oriente province Cuba. One plane made a forced landing but no injuries occurred. After fueling and checks the group headed to Pilan and planned to continue to Jamaica this afternoon.
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Havana
Cuba
Niquero
Oriente
Rancho Boyeros
Pilan
Cape Cruz
Jamaica
Missing British submarine Acheron found after contact
The British submarine Acheron with 65 crew was reported missing off Greenland. An air search was called off after radio contact resumed via the minesweeper Coquette which reached the area between Greenland and Iceland.
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London
Acheron
British Air Ministry
Greenland
Admiralty
Reykjavik
Iceland
Drowns in Ditch Near Bluffton Boy Dies in Water Incident
In Bluffton area, 7 year old Larry Lee Leist drowned in a ditch in front of his home on Thursday. The tragedy occurred about 15 miles southwest of Bluffton, Indiana.
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Bluffton, Ind
Larry Lee Leist
Here
Federal Highway Faces Hard Fight and Tax Plan
Backers of the plan to tax motorists and truckers to fund a national highway program concede it is far from passage. The proposal cleared initial hurdles as House Ways and Means Committee tentatively approved tax features aimed solely at highway funding. Motorists and railroads oppose it, arguing it favors truckers. The plan would raise about 13 billion dollars over 16 years, via a penny a gallon fuel tax and three cents a pound tire tax, plus an 8 to 10 percent rise in truck and bus price excise taxes. taxes set to take effect July 1.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
House Committee On Un-American
Lillian Karasch
New York
Denver
War Labor Board
Jacob H. Krug
Washington, D. C
National Labor Relations Board
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Soil Bank
Police Seek Terrorist After Third Assault On Southside Women
Police intensify search for a man who accosted three southside women in 48 hours. The latest victim Mrs. Charlotte Chisler of Oak Street reported a struggle with a man in a dark old model car on South Fourth Street, forcing her to flee. Earlier, Mrs. Edward Firchall on South Fourth street and a 16 year old girl on South Third street reported similar attacks with injuries including a knife wound and cuts.
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Charlotte Chisler
Oak Street
Everly
Compton
Osborne Streets
Injured man dies after head on collision in Indiana
Paul E. Harrold 55 of Spiceland died in Henry County Hospital from injuries in a head on crash near New Castle two days after the collision.
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New Castle
Ind
Paul E. Harrold
Spiceland
Henry
County
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Pennsy
United Press
Montgomery City Lines
Martin Luther King Jr
Ralph D. Abernathy
A. W. Wilson
Eugene Carter
Jackson Knox
UO 8S Weather Bureau
U. S
Dr. Snyder
Nathan
Federal Highway
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