Twenty Seven Miners Die in Illinois Blast at Old Ben No 8
In West Frankfort Illinois twenty seven miners were killed when a gas explosion ripped through Old Ben Coal No 8 mine. Federal inspector William Gallagher Evansville Ind said gas ignition caused the blast as rescuers recovered 26 bodies and one injured miner died. The dead were brought to the surface and placed in the emergency morgue at the central junior high gym.
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West Frankfort
William Gallagher
Evansville
Ind
Old Ben Coal Company
Central Junior High School
Harold L. Walker
Illinois
Mines and Minerals
Centrelia Coal Company
Arthur Fritts
William W. Lamont
UMW
Dwight H. Green
Illimneois
Chicago
California
Green
Walker
Centralia
State Mines and Minerals Department
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Safety committee objects to rock dusting practice
The Old Ben Coal Company No. 5 shaft faced a miners safety committee objection weeks earlier over rock dusting during working shifts. The AFL United Mine Workers Local 959 notice dated May 23 remained on the bulletin board when the explosion occurred yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Frankfort
Old Ben
No. & Shaft
AFL United Mine Workers
Visas Refused for Three U.S. Congressmen in Moscow
Moscow denied visas to Rep. Kersten and colleagues Owens and Kennedy delaying a U S congressional visit to study education and labor. Kersten urged immediate removal of excess Russians in the United States amid housing shortages and diplomatic friction with the Soviet Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Kersten
U.S.A
Goodlas B. Cornell
Washington
Moscow
Congress
Soviet Union
United States
Nikolai V. Novikov
Rep
R-Wis
House
Russia
State Department
Owens
R-Ii
Kennedy
Dmass
Yuri M. Bruslov
Marshall
Wiley Honors Women Memorial in Service Tribute
Washington Senator Wiley plans to introduce legislation to create a memorial honoring the service women of the last war. The move frames recognition for female veterans and their contributions to the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wiley
Wis
Christoffel Freed Awaits Hearing After Bond Granted
Milwaukee twist. Christoffel Freed 34 a UAW CIO official was indicted by a DC grand jury for perjury. He was freed on 5000 bond by U S Commissioner Floyd E Jenkins. An adjournment of his removal hearing to July 31 was granted at the request of Dan Sobel, attorney for UAW CIO local 248. Arraignment originally set for Aug 1 in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Harold R. Christoffel
Uawcio
District of Columbia
U. S
Floyd E. Jenkins
Christoffel
Dan Sobel
Uaw-Cio
Washington
Juggling of Contract Cost U S a Million
Acting Comptroller General Frank L. Yates told Congress that Froemming Brothers Inc. used a combined selective price contract to raise profits and increase fees. The 1943 44 contracts merged in Dec 1944 to favor the builder, costing the government nearly 1 million in potential savings and over 675000 in profit on 14 vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frank L. Yates
Congress
Maritime Commission
House
Commission
Froemming Brothers, Inc
Milwaukee
Yates
Froemming
Froemming Brothers
Cheesemakers Hold Marshfield Meeting On Quality Program
Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association and National Cheese Institute will meet in Marshfield Tuesday night August 5 for factory operators and cheese dealers to discuss problems in the quality improvement program according to Executive Secretary George L Mooney.
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Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ Association
The
National Cheese Institute
Marshfield
George L. Mooney
Truman Declares End Of 175 Emergency Statutes
President Truman signed a Senate joint resolution that makes 175 war and emergency laws inoperative. He noted some extraordinary powers remain under study and asked the Attorney General to continue review of the remaining statutes.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Clark
Jesse Jones May Be Called as Witness
Senate investigators hint Jesse Jones could testify on white house pressure to award a 40 million wartime plane contract to Hughes and Kaiser. A subcommittee opens hearings on planes that never delivered as Ferguson weighs documents from Roosevelt files and possible testimony from Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jesse Jones
White House
Howard Hughes
Henry J. Kaiser
Roosevelt
Senate
Ferguson
R-Mich
Jones
Secretary of Commerce
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hughes
Hollywood
Kaiser
Army
Navy
Hughes-Kaiser
Defense Plant Corporation
RFC
Michigan
Muskrat Found in Drain After Street Work
Gordon Bussers at 1614 8th Street reported a muskrat blocked a drain during repairs. Workmen found the rodent in the system and say it entered from the street drain headed for the basement and died before escaping. Appropriate funeral rites were held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Bussers
8Th Street
Dutch Isolate Central Java Amid Java War Developments
A Dutch source states the first phase of operations to isolate central Java from the republic has ended. Republican leaders claim guerrilla actions will keep Dutch advances precarious, while the next step is to clear resistance in eastern and western Java and set up new administrations. An Indonesian communique says republic forces reached Semarang on the north coast. Dutch casualties reported as 32 killed 41 wounded seven missing.
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Batavia — (P
Java
Jogjakarta
Associated Press
Harris Jackson
Semerang
Death of Mrs Ursula Legler After Fall at 86
Mrs Ursula Legler 86 died after a fall at her New Glarus home and hospital admission at 3 00 am. She had lived with her niece Mrs Henry Kubly for four years and left two grandchildren. Funeral set for Sunday at Zentner funeral home with Rev W G Stuckey officiating. Burial in church cemetery. She was born October 10 1860 in New Glarus to Sara Blumer and Jacob Freitag. Surviving siblings include John Jacob Freitag Henry and several sisters. Her husband Jacob Legler died in 1937 and a son David in 1926. She belonged to the Swiss Evangelical and Reformed church.
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Ursula Legler
St. Clare Hospital
Sara Blumer
Jacob Freitag
Jacob Legler
New Glarus
Installment Buying To Be Unrestricted
Washington reports a likely return to unrestricted installment buying by November. President Truman may lift price controls on time payment purchases soon, with compromise legislation passing the House and awaiting Senate action. The Federal Reserve also predicted a lift of restraints, echoing Truman’s June pledge to remove curbs absent new law.
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Washington
Truman
House
Senate
White House
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
4-H Girls Model In Junior Dress Review At Green County Fair
More than 100 4-H club girls are expected to participate in a junior dress revue at 2 30 p m Friday Aug 1 at the Green county fair announced Miss Mamie Tillema county home agent. Alice Davis will judge the entries in the morning with all entrants performing in the afternoon revue and evening awards. O G Kimball will speak as awards are expected in club work.
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Green County Fair
Mamie Tillema
Alice Davis
Dane County
O. G. Kimball
Green County
W. R. Schuetze
Eva Galusha
Walter Day
Monroe
Floral Hall
Plymouth Exchange Values and Cheddar Sales Report
Plymouth exchange shows cheese values up percent with 12 cars of cheddars traded and 34 sales. Unfilled bids include 5 cars cheddar junior grade at 32 percent and 2 cars single daisies at 37 and 36 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
WDE
Wiley proposes Wisconsin cheese market news service
Senator Wiley introduces a state cheese market news service as part of the agriculture appropriation. The program mirrors cotton, wheat and corn services and will start with cheddar reports before expanding to other cheeses. It covers prices and movement at assembly points statewide and posts trading figures from the Wisconsin cheese exchange at Plymouth. It will operate jointly by federal and state agriculture departments with a $13,750 appropriation.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Wiley
Wis
Agriculture Department
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Plymouth
Agriculture Departments
Four-H Representatives Chosen For Dodgeville District Contest
Green county 4-H representatives for a district demonstration contest at Dodgeville on August 8 were to be selected at Monroe high school. More than 20 events were judged by R W Hurley and Miss Alice Davis, with demonstrations to be repeated during Green county fair week.
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Green County
Dodgeville
Monroe High School
R. W. Hurley
Dane County
Lafayette County
Alice Davis
4-H
Racine Couple Killed in Electroliner Collision
An 81-year-old man Julius Johnson and his 63-year-old wife Carla, both residents of Racine, were killed when their car was struck by a southbound electroliner and pushed a city block early last night.
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Racine
Julius Johnson
Carla
Senate Ends All-Night Session With GOP Conceding
An 18 hour and 12 minute Senate session ended at 6 12 a m with Republican leaders conceding defeat in pressing for an inquiry into Attorney General Clark over Kansas City vote fraud charges. The effort to delay adjournment failed as Democrats held firm and a brief Greek Turkish aid bill was set aside. McCarran defended the president as Republicans argued the Clark probe could influence the 1948 elections.
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Jack Bell
Senate
Clark
Kansas City
Kenn
R-Mo
Congress
Wherry
Neb
GOP
Taft
Kemp
McCarran
D-New
Missouri
Fifth
Truman
Enos A. Axtell
Roger C. Slaughter
Slaughter
Axtell
Albert Reeves Jr
Pendergast
Soldiers End Stay In Arctic Chamber
Two soldiers concluded a 10 day stay in a 25 below zero Arctic chamber to test a rations kit at Wright Field. Master Sgt. Harold Buffinbarger of Osborn and Cpl. Harlen Plummer of High Point are to remain on special rations for five more days before 30 day furloughs begin.
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Cpl
Harlen Plummer
High Point
Harold Buffinbarger
Osborn, O
Air Corps
Wright Field
Dayton
Osborn
Aero-Medical Laboratory
Refugee ship Return to Zion nears Palestine as violence rises
The Return to Zion, a refugee ship of 400 illegal immigrants, was reported by Haganah to be close to Palestine waters with British destroyers pursuing. Haganah said Britain plans martial law to quell a Jewish violence wave that has left at least 10 dead and 75 wounded in nine days.
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Jerusalem
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Springfield
Ill
Icenhower
VFW
Ieenhower
U.S. A
Comptroller
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Elyria
Cleveland
New York Central
Fifth Avenue
Toledo
Harry T. Hines
Toledo, O
Central
Schuetze
Ida Meythaler
W. C. Maske
Priscilla Blumer
E. N. Churchill
Adolph Levy
George Goetz
Plymouth Exchange
Sen. Wiley
Arctic
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