Britain Binds to Fight for Six European Allies Pact
Britain agrees to automatic and immediate military aid to six European nations if they are attacked, backing efforts toward a unified European Defense Community. The pledge would apply once the EDC treaty and its unified army take effect, strengthening commitments to defend France Belgium The Netherlands Luxembourg Italy and others.
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London
Britain
Europe
European Défense Community
EDC
Ritain
France
Belgium
Thetherlands
Luxembourg
Italy
Foreign Office
Cool Weather Outlook for Next 30 Days
The Weather Bureau forecasts mid-April to mid-May will be cooler than seasonal in most of the eastern half of the country while warmer than normal in the west. Precipitation is expected to be above normal from the Appalachians eastward and in the Gulf states, southern plains, and Ohio Valley, with abnormal rainfall in northern inland western mountain states.
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Associated Press
Washington
Weather Bureau
Texas
Nearrmal
New England
Great Lakes
Mountain States
Appalachians
Gulf States
Southern Plains
Ohio Valley
West Coast
Firemen Make Two Runs Early Today
The city fire department was called twice within 15 minutes, first at 8 a.m. to 2702 Cherry for minor damage from faulty wiring, and then to the Weld apartment unit where faulty wiring triggered an alarm and minor damage was reported.
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Wielt
Convicts Hold Four Hostages In Prison Mutiny
Rioters kept ten hostages including four older men as unrest spread. Two ill captives shown heart trouble reports. medicine and food were handed into the locker area through a window. Doak, ex-Michigan state prisoner, speeding arrest and kidnap events linked to a 1946 case. Oak later captured. Air Force reports continued issues with fliers under court martial and pay forfeiture.
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Int
Doak
Michin State
Eaton
Oak
Editor Speaks To Dinner Club At King City Meeting
James B. Pond editor of Program Magazine and famed lecturer will address the King City Dinner Club at the Masonic Temple tonight. President J. L. Buford announced Pond will speak on A Sal magundi of Happy Memories, sharing illustrated tales of his world travels and lecture career.
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James B. Pond
King City
Masonic Temple
J. L. Buford
Pond
Deaths and Funerals John H Vogel Dies at 83
John H. Vogel 1305 South 16th street died at Jefferson Memorial hospital at 1 15 a m today aged 83 years two months and 29 days. He was a retired freight car worker born January 17 1869 in St Charles Missouri and married to Carolina Halbruegge who died in 1935. He was a Faith Lutheran church member. Funeral 2 p m Saturday at Lutheran church St Charles with Rev Robert Foelber. burial in Lutheran cemetery. Surviving are one daughter Blanche Florentine Vogel Feldman of Mt Vernon and a sister Lizzie Hal.
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John H. Vogel
South 16Th Street
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Mr. Vogel
St. Charles
Carolina Halbruegge
Vogel
Faith Lutheran Church
Lutheran
Robert Foelber
Lutheran Cemetery
Blanche Florentine Vogel Feldman
Mt. Vernon
Lizzie Hal
Yank Planes Cut Enemy Railways
U S fighter bombers cut North Korean rail lines in 52 places and claimed 10 Reds killed near Sariwon with 17 more in close support actions. Air Force also destroyed two anti aircraft weapons and six field pieces as Allied forces faced probing jabs and night bombardment along Munsan and Dongju in Korea.
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Associated Press
Seoul
Korea
U. S
Fifth Air Force
Sariwon
Haeju
North Korea
Munsan
U. N
Va Red
Dongju
Local births celebrate seven new arrivals this week
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Osborn welcome Kenneth Lee at Good Samaritan Hospital weighing seven pounds ten ounces born at 1:30 p.m. yesterday. Durand Meeks and spouse greet Michael Durand at Jefferson Memorial Hospital born at 2:25 a.m. today, seven pounds ten and a half ounces. Lawrence Isabelle and partner welcome a six pound nine ounce daughter at Good Samaritan Hospital born today at 10:23 a.m. unnamed. Coy Lance and Imogene Peterson announce Ronald Gene born at Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin weighing nine pounds two ounces. Imogene is the Petersons’ daughter.
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Kenneth Osborn
South 18Th Street
Kenneth Lee
Good Samaritan Hospital
Durand Meeks
East Perkins Street
Michael Durand
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Itr
Lawrence Jerome Isabelle
South 9Th Street
Coy Lance
Waltonville
Marshall Browning Hospital
du Quoin
Ronald Gene
Lance
Imogene Peterson
Guy Peterson
Architects Meet in Mt Vernon Southern Illinois Chapter AIA event
Architects from East St Louis Alton and Belleville attended the Southern Illinois Chapter AIA spring meeting in Mt Vernon last evening a dinner at Hunts Coffee Shop presided by J G Gatewood Principal speaker Carl E Wuerpel Chicago technical director for Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company spoke on Man ufacture and Use of Masonry Cement Wuerpel author lecturer and authority on Portland and Masonry cements serves as West Point NYU engineering instructor and US Army Corps of Engineers adviser He will speak in London next September at the International Symposium on the Chemistry of Cement
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East St. Louis
Alton
Belleville
Southern Illinois Chapter
American Institute of Architects
Mt. Vernon
Hunt
J. G. Gatewood
Carl E. Wuerpel
Chicago
Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company
Tulane University
West Point Military Academy
Graduate School of Engineering
New York University
United States Corps of Engineers
Wuerpel
American Concrete Institute
American Society of Civil Engineers
London
England
Rich President of Mt Vernon Grade School Board Elected
Marlin Rich was elected president of the Mt Vernon grade school board as the board organized for the year. He had previously been president by voter election but was named only a member in the April 12 election under the new state law. Robert Krebs was re elected secretary.
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Marlin Rich
Mt. Vernon
Mr. Rich
Robert Krebs
Jefferson Memorial Urges Elevator Drive for Hospital
Jefferson Memorial reports a hospital drive to install an elevator. It notes births 1429, patients 18049, X rays 12549, ECGs 648, visitors 292670. The hospital is nonsectarian and receives no government aid. Contributions may be sent to the hospital or Mt Vernon banks.
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Mt. Vernon
Gideon S Brown Dies in Florida
Gideon S Brown former Opdyke resident dies in Winter Park Florida. He was husband of Ada Hunt and brother of Laura Brown. Survived by a sister and two brothers. services planned with burial in St Charles Missouri after remains leave Myers chapel.
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Gideon S. Brown
Florida
Laura Brown
North Sth Street
Winter Park
Fla
Brown
Opdyke
Ada Hunt
Bender Says He Won't Run Again
CHICAGO April 16 Riley Alvin Bender aged 61 a three time loser in Illinois Presidential primary elections says he has given up and will not be a candidate in 1956. Bender a Chicago hotel manager polled about 22000 votes in the Republican Presidential preference primary April 8. In 1948 when he was the only Illinois Republican entry his vote was 324029. In 1944 in his first bid for the GOP Presidential nomination he received 37575 votes.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Riley Alvin Bender
Illinois
Bender
Fire Threatens Gas Storage Tanks Near Benton Road
Rural fire units responded at 2 05 p m to the home of Robert J Carlton on Benton road. Firemen contained a grass fire that for a time threatened the Jefferson Service Company gas storage tanks. The blaze was extinguished with no damage reported.
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Robert J. Carlton
Benton Road
Jefferson Service Company
Hospital Notes of Jefferson Memorial and Good Samaritan
Admission and discharge records list patients across Jefferson Memorial Good Samaritan Dix Belle Rive Waltonville and surrounding areas. Notable entries include Mrs Azalia Lile Mrs Joan Meeks James Lynn Willis Elizabeth Schwartz Pauline Anthis Elizabeth Brown Viola Harris Nell Hindman and infant Lindell Ray.
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Jefferson Memorial
Azalia Lile
Salem
Joan Meeks
Mary Riddle
Ashley
Clarence Walker
Olney
Myrtle Buchanan
Wayne City
Good Samaritan
James Lynn Willis
Elizabeth Schwartz
Pauline Anthis
Elizabeth Brown
Viola Harris
Nell Hindman
Gertrude Puckett
Hope Watkins
Mildred Runnels
Jessie Cobb
Dix
Eliza Hatchcraft
Belle Rive
William H. Bender
Reba Ann Petty
Waltonville
Lindell Ray
Meetings and conclaves of local Masonic bodies
A special meeting of Andrew D. Webb Chapter No. 160 is set for Wednesday April 16 at 7 30 p m to confer Fifth and Sixth degrees. Patton Commandery No 69 holds a stated conclave Thursday April 17 at 7 30 p m with a pot luck supper at 6 30. AMVET Auxiliary meets in the club room at eight o'clock Thursday evening. all members are urged to attend.
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Royal Arch Masons
Andrew D. Webb
Rufus H. Irwin
H. P. Cecil N. Levin
Sec’v
Patton Commandery No. 69
John T. Page
E. C
Cecil N. Levin
AMVET
Amvet Club
Sixth Day of Hit and Run Pickets in Illinois
In Illinois on April 16 Bell Telephone exchanges in at least eight communities faced a sixth day of hit and run picketing by Western Electric Company workers. Pickets appeared in 46 towns, with 46 towns over time and line presence varying. Western Electric employees, CIO CWA members, strike in 43 states for higher wages. Local service at Decatur and Springfield with dial systems was said to be unaffected. substitute operators would maintain normal service elsewhere. Bell employees not on strike.
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Chicago
Apil
Milnois Bell
Western Electric Company
Illinois
Western Electric
CIO Communications Workers of America
Decatur
Canton
Beardstown
Springfield
Petersburg
la Salle
Aurora
Glencoe
Bell
Cio-Cwa
Earthquakes Jolt Central Oklahoma Again
Two tremors struck around midnight and 12:05 a m felt in El Reno Oklahoma City and nearby Union City central Oklahoma no damage reported The series began a week earlier with a quake that shook buildings in seven states.
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Associated Press
EL Reno
Okla
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Union City
Midwest
DuQuoin Adopts Chiefless Police For Cost Saving
Du Quoin implements a chiefless police force starting today as a cost saving measure. The city’s treasury has been strained since February with wages delayed, and negotiations aimed at trimming the force from four to three. The ex-chief retired yesterday and the union criticizes the arrangement, signaling ongoing protests.
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Duquoin
Local pilots make cross country flights today
Ross Bennett an inspector with the State Department of Aeronautics flew to the local field from Springfield. Joseph Obotande of Belleville piloted a cross country flight to the area. A. W. Rea flew to Indianapolis, Indiana today.
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Ross Bennett
State Department of Aeronautics
Springfield
Joseph Obotande
Belleville
A. W. Rea
Indianapolis
Ind
4-H Club Formation Meeting at Oak Grove School
4 H news: a meeting at Oak Grove school Friday at 7 30 p m to organize a 4 H club for boys and girls. Entertainment planned.
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Oak Grove
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