Hodge Faces Fall From Illinois Governor Bid Amid Scandal
Orville E. Hodge once seen as a top GOP governor hopeful resigns as state auditor after revelations of 42 warrants totaling 544000 dollars and possible further losses. Lloyd Morey to replace him. Hodge’s Springfield and Granite City lifestyle highlighted amid downfall.
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Lloyd Morey
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Washington University
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Drake Hotel
Chicago
McKeon Defense Opens Denying Wrongdoing at Night March
The defense for S. Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon opened proceedings at a general court martial in Parris Island denying any wrongdoing for the night march that led to the drowning of six recruits. Atty Emile Zola Berman argued that McKeon’s training methods were part of Marine tradition and that he was innocent of charges including involuntary manslaughter and oppression.
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Matthew C. McKeon
Emile Zola Berman
New York City
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Bineman
McKeon
Charles B. Sevier
Jacksonville
Ill
Sevier
Maggie Meeks
Savannah
Pvt
Thomas Hardeman
Defense
Beaufort
S.C
Berman
San Diego
Calif
Arrest Ordered in Illinois Auditor Hodge Funds Case
In Springfield, Edward A. Epping, top aide to Illinois state auditor Orville E. Hodge, was charged with embezzlement as deputies seized papers from Epping’s apartment. Hodge resigned under fire amid reports of mishandled state funds totaling hundreds of thousands, with warrants issued and investigations expanding under Attorney General Latham Castle and State’s Attorney George Coutralion.
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Orville E. Hodge
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Ill
Arthur Fitzgerald
George Coutralon
Illinois
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Latham Castle
Sheriff's
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Coutralion
William G. Stratton
William Stratton
Servicemen Benefit Bill Advances from Congress
Congress sent to the White House a bill to reform military survivor payments and integrate servicemen into Social Security. The measure raises VA widow benefits from 87 to 122 166 dollars monthly by rank, places servicemen under Social Security, ends the Korea era 10 thousand dollar life policy, and takes effect January 1 1957 with an initial cost around 458 million dollars.
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Senate Help For Pan American Games Approved
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution by Sen. Bender to spend five million dollars to finance the Pan-American games in Cleveland in 1959. The measure passed unanimously on Tuesday.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cleveland
Sen. Bender
Ohio
Driverless Car Kills Dayton Man in Driveway
Dayton police report George Long, 58, of Dayton, was killed when his car rolled backward after he parked in his driveway. Investigators say he left the car in neutral with the emergency brake off and walked away, the vehicle dragging him across the street into another driveway where his body was found beneath the wheels.
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J. W. Kohler
George Long
Kohler
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Protection Trinity Completes Social Security Expansion
Washington Democrats hailed a Senate passage of a Social Security bill expanding retirement and disability benefits. The 90 to 0 vote included 250,000 would-be disabled recipients at about 75 dollars monthly, with age 62 for women and 50 for total disability, while later changes set reduced rates for early retirees and widows.
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D-La
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D-Okla
Senate battles over Eisenhower spending controls on Aswan Dam
Senate Democrats push to require prior approval by the Appropriations Committee before funding the Aswan Dam. A parallel move seeks advance consent for defense spending on missiles and housing for servicemen. Egypt seeks Western financing, while Dulles warns executive not bound by committee language.
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United States
Cool Canadian Air Grips Miami Valley With Mild Highs
A fresh mass of cool Canadian air moves into the Miami Valley and is expected to linger. Forecasters predict mostly fair, cool conditions with a high near 80 and a low around 65 today and tonight, followed by partly cloudy skies and warmer weather Thursday with a chance of thundershowers in the evening and a high near 85.
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Man Tumbles Off Roof Kills Dad
Cleveland police report Rada Krasnovich aged 74 was killed Tuesday night when a ladder knocked him to the ground as his son Robert 32 toppled from a roof peak. The father steadied the ladder for the son who was on an extension ladder checking a television antenna. The son dropped a hook ladder and fell when the ladders slipped.
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Honest husband gets last word from wife
McCook Nebraska apr notes a cafe operator, Lyle Modrell, received a dollar by mail with a wife’s confession about a July 3 overcharge. The letter, mailed while on the road, claims the wife spoke up late about a waitress error and asks for closure on the matter.
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Lyle Modrell
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Senate Split Over Trade With Reds in Paris Accord
The Senate Investigations subcommittee divided over free world trade with Russia. Majority fault Harold E. Stassen as evasive and accuse the Eisenhower administration of not choking off East West trade. minority calls report unfair. Paris 1954 accord relaxed embargoed items to Russia amid administration reluctance.
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Ohio
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D-Nc
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Stassen
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Weeks
Congress
U. S
Israel Buys Russian Oil
Moscow reports a two year contract boosting Soviet oil sales to Israel to 18 to 20 million dollars. Russia sold Israel seven million dollars worth of oil in the past year. The agreement marks the first Soviet concession to Israel in recent times.
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Russia
East Germany Tied Closer to Moscow by New Trade Pact
Moscow promises East Germany more trade and aid, including a planned atomic power station and halved Soviet troop costs. The accord tightens East German dependence on the Soviet Union and follows a Kremlin banquet where Khrushchev mocked Western democracy. West Germany rejects unification talks and Bonn rules out direct gains with the East.
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West Germany Troop Reduction Aims at Unification Hopes
A joint statement urges Britain France and the United States to cut garrisons in West Germany with the goal of eventual troop recall. It links East and West German plans to conscript for NATO to hindering unification. The note notes Soviet troop withdrawal and cites 400000 Soviet troops in Germany. Premiers Bulganin and Grotewohl signed in the Kremlin Marble Room as Grotewohl departs.
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