22 Killed In Long Island Train Crash Rockville Center
A Long Island Railroad electric train crashed head on after passing a red stop signal. At least 22 people died with over 14 injured. Rescue workers used torches axes and crow bars to reach trapped passengers as a temporary morgue was set up near a Negro church. Authorities reported dozens more lay in the wreckage as crowds gathered near Rockville Centre Nassau County.
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Rockville Center
Rockville Centre
Nassau County
Long Island
Mies
Manhattan
Econ
Paul Back
Debria
Three Plead Guilty To Spying For West
In Budapest three defendants including a British accountant Edgar Sanders and two Hungarians pled guilty to sabotage and spying for the West. They admitted aiding American or British officials to obtain secret Hungarian economic and military information while seeking to cut Hungary's industrial output. The case ties to ITT officials and a former U. S. detainee Vogeler.
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West
Budapest
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
Vogeler
Voegier
International Telephone and Telegraph Co
U. S. State Department
Washington
Istvan Justh
Edina Doery
Imre Geiger
Standard Electric Works
Zoltan Rado
Ministry of Heavy Trade
Edgar Sanders
The
Standard Co
Jozef Cardinal Mindszenty
Mindszenty
Vilmos Olthy
Hunpart
Soviet
Rusia
Voscier
Spe
Churchmen Back Taxation Aimed at Equality Debate
Protestant churchmen from across the United States supported extensive taxation to reduce inequalities in a Detroit panel at a six session conference on Christians in the economy. The vote, by lay and clergy, favored using tax measures if no discrimination exists, with a separate pledge to ensure access to medical and health services for all people.
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Detroit
Mich
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ Inmerica
Victor Reuther
C.S.O
United Automobile Workers
Frank W. Rising
Automobile Parts Manufacturing Association
America
Atomic energy chief stresses speed of hydrogen bomb plans
Laventhal, former IS Atomic Energy Commission chairman, urges rapid completion of a gaseous diffusion plant and hydrogen weapon development in a wartime setting. He notes urgency in a letter to Senator Holland and cites Washington operations and the need for timely progress at the Great Oak Town plant.
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Lilienthal
Washington
Trispans
Stussia
David EB
Laventhal
IS Atomic Energy Commission
Holland D-Flad
Eatie
SOLON
Great Oak Town
Atomic Works
Byrd Urges New Attacks On Fair Deal Policy
Senator Byrd, a conservative Southern Democrat from West Virginia, pushed opposition to President Truman’s Fair Deal. He criticized ongoing programs and signaled readiness to rally against the Truman agenda, arguing the administration’s proposals threaten broader Republican attacks and political tensions in Congress.
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Byrd
Washington
Truan
Forielem
Truman
Sky-Happy Blonde Rampages Aboard Small Chartered Plane
A chaotic in flight scene unfolds as a woman causes a panic mid flight from New York to Washington. Copilot Sallee and pilot KLOH struggle to restrain her while trying to land safely at Washington National Airport. The woman allegedly attacked crew and attempted to seize controls as the craft dipped and dove over several minutes.
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Agin
New Fork
Elf
Ming
Sallee
Washington
Sai
Salen
T. C
Bol Odom
Kloh
Pulet Dutanonich Otich
Noid
Washington Nations
Viethos
Willie Jane
Ome
Jieveq Het
Mase Peice
Frost
Ceray Gables
Fla
Saliew
Cas Angeles
Jane
Floods Leave 39,000 Homeless Across Eight States
The Associated Press reports widespread floods with about 39 000 people displaced as Mississippi River plains flood. Louisiana Mississippi Arkansas see rising waters threatening towns like Marksville and Jonesville while guardsmen set up tent camps and evacuations continue into March. Northern winds push snow across eastern Montana the Dakotas and Minnesota as mild conditions prevail in the central and western regions.
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Associated Press
Canada
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
St. Francis
Cache
Ouachita
Missouri
Kentucky
Marksville
Teans
Jonesville
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Bank Holdup Nets $40 000 In Cash
A three man gang robbed a Washington branch at gunpoint yesterday stealing about $40,000. About $25,000 was in singles. Police towed an abandoned money bag car for fingerprint tests. The robbers, all white, used no masks and fled in a dark four door sedan.
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Washington
Maryland
Moon
Hamilton National Bank
Shepherd Park
H. R. Bauckman
Sikotra
Mina Margaret A. Siffer
Shea
Terrific Blast Heard In Russian Finland
Unconfirmed reports from Kirkenes Norway say a huge explosion occurred on Russian soil near Salmijarryk in the Peisamo area. Power was cut for about 30 hours in Salmaijatasi as the event was noted from the post World War I peace terms.
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Russian
Finland
Oslo
Norway
Kirkenes
Salmijarryk
Peisamo
Finsand
Soviet Union
Derailments Delay Penn Station Trains
Derailments near Penn Station caused widespread delays for thousands of homeward bound suburban travelers and a carriage headed for the South and West. Officials reported considerable track and viaduct damage but no injuries.
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Penn Station
Ee York
Pennsylvania Station
Supplies Continue To Dwindle In New York State
Albany reports coal rationing to persist until mines resume flow. State coal coordinator Bertram D Tallamy notes emergency machinery remains active despite John L Lewis orders. Eight counties face two days or less supply. anthracite two weeks and bituminous one week. Inter state Commerce Commission grants railroads permission to halt confiscation of coal marked for utilities and hospitals. Central Railroad reports 180 carloads seized en route, assigned to eastern dealers. Brownouts for advertising displays to begin tomorrow. Governor Dewey warns of potential catastrophe if strike continues.
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Albany
New York State
Bertram D. Tallamy
Tallamy
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Tha
Interstate Commerce Commission
York Central Railroad
New York
Pennsylvania Fields
Eastern
Central
Avis
Eact
Dewer
Shortage May Force Work Holiday At Cluett Factories
Cluett Peabody & Co faces shutdowns due to coal shortages delaying miners’ return. Waterford bleachery could halt if supply does not improve, with River Street plant potentially shut by March 13. About 175 workers at the bleachery and 3,000 at the River Street facility affected amid rationing impacts.
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Cluett
Harold C. Ellis
Troy
Charles T. Powers
Legent
Cluett, Peabody & Co
Line
John L. Lewis
Waterford
River Street
Powers
Bollera
John J. O'Brien
Cluek
Peabody Peteondel
Pope Criticizes Knowledge In Revelations Of Hateful Science
The Pope denounces knowledge of hateful chemical processes and warns that public opinion is suppressed by totalitarian regimes. He laments a world where liberty is banished and voices of rulers dominate, urging an awakening against abuses of force that curtail religious freedom and thought. The statement, prepared for Catholic journalists, was published due to the Pope's hoarseness.
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Vatican City
Pius Kil
Vatican
Observatore
Romano
Konrad Cardinal von Preysing
Berlin
East German
Weather hampers B 36 rescue search
Winter weather hampered the search for five missing air crew from an abandoned B 4 craft at McChord Air Base. Five men were missing after parachute jumps over Princess Royal Island near the British Columbia coast while twelve others were rescued from the heavily eroded island.
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McChord Air Base
Wash
Princess Royal Island
British Columbia
Abe Lincoln Draws Back Pay
President Truman signed a bill awarding back pay of 865 dollars to Abe Lincoln a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee at Fort Defiance Arizona his wife Elena B Lincoln received 348.33 dollars The funds were withheld from their pay for quarters not furnished by the government
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Washington
Truman
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Fort Defiance
Ariz
Elena B. Lincoln
Zaisser To Head New Red Gestapo In East Germany
East Germany moves to establish a state security ministry led by Wilhelm Zaisser a training chief of 45 000 preparedness troops who will run a secret police network likened to the Gestapo Western sources call it the Red Gestapo The cabinet approved the promotion and the one paragraph law granting near unlimited power to the ministry with plans for widespread informer networks similar to those under the Nazi regime.
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Beylin
Wilhelm Zaisser
Zaisser
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Red Gestapo
A.D.N
Cabi- Meck
Zaismer
Volkspolizei
People's Police
Volkskammer
People's ‘Chamber
Snowball Outburst Costs Salesman 821.89
Keene, XH GP-11 cost a manchester vacuum cleaner salesman 21.89 yesterday to throw a snowball at a woman on a fire floor of a two family house. Joan Dwyer 22 admitted entering upstairs and striking a window. Judge Lane found Dwyer guilty of hurling the snowball through the window of the downstairs woman. Fine and costs totaled 2.89.
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Keene
Manchester
Joan Dwyer
Howard B. Lane
Dwyer
Lane
Rnagtt
Chinese Red Leaders Leave Moscow for China
Chinese Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai departed Moscow yesterday heading home. Soviet Deputy Premier V. Molotov announced a treaty of mutual air and friendship, signaling continued negotiations between Moscow and Nanjing.
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Mao Tre-tung
Chow Enlai
China
V. M. Mole
Mao
Morcow
Ingrid Leaves Hospital After Eventful Visit
Ingrid departs hospital details remain unclear as a past event with medical context and accompanying companions are mentioned in a garbled OCR phrase. The report references a person named Ingrid and a hospital setting but lacks concrete dates places or outcomes.
Views Clash on World Government
Washington legislators heard intense debate on world government and world peace. Rep. Lawrence H. Smith and Cordell Hull were cited on risks to the United Nations, while James P. Warburg warned of an inevitable move to world government. Senators and witnesses weighed resolutions aiming to end big power vetoes and adopt global governance.
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Washington
Everbody
Senate
Lawrence H. Smith
Wisconsin
Cordell Hull
United Nations
Smith
James P. Warburg
Senate Foreign Relations
Earth
U.N
Clare E. Hoffman
R-Mich
United States
Atlantic Union
Tobey
R-N. H
U. S
Pelley Sues State Officers From Behind Bars
Former leader of the Silver Bhats Legion sues five North Carolina officers alleging harassment and obstruction. The filing seeks damages of 847,500 for deputy abuses and cites legal actions tied to his brief imprisonment. Local and federal authorities are referenced regarding the ongoing case and potential hearings.
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White
Trire
Manas
Cheechill Broadcast Ends Conservative Drive
Fragmented text reports a broadcast event and political aims with unclear names and places. It mentions attempts at taxation, BBC ties, and a time reference, but details are garbled. The readable fragments point to a political media initiative ending a conservative push and ongoing efforts elsewhere.
Miners Coal To Chief's Edict
Washington reports no real progress in fast détente talks between John L. Lewis and soft coal operators. Lewis urged 370000 idle miners to return to work Monday in the interest of the union while a government contempt threat hung over the dispute. Talks resume at 10:30 am with daily meetings planned as mediation proceeds.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis Hau
U MW
Cole
White House
Opere Ntors
Lewis
Miners Welfare Fund
Taylor
FCC Ponders Paid Radio Laughers
The FCC chairman Wayne Coy told a House subcommittee that prize givings on radio may soon disappear, easing regulatory burdens. Testimony discussed extending scrutiny to hosted laughing gimmicks and potential standards for on air humor, with questions about future legal litigation.
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Washington
Wayne Coy
Federal Communications Commmission
House Appropriations
FCC
I Gore
DC -Tenn
Gore
Humar
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