Di Salle Quits Price Job to Run for Senate
Michael V. Di Salle announces he will resign as price stabilization head to seek the Democratic nomination for United States Senate in Ohio. He plans to leave after talks with President Truman and may stay until a successor is named, with the Ohio primary set for May 6. Di Salle has served as OPS Chief since December 1950 after resigning Toledo mayoral post.
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Associated Press
Washington
Michael V. di Salle
Price
United States
Ohio
Salle
Senator Bricker
di Salle
Truman
White
White House
I Salle
Toledo
Negro Confesses Slaying Waitress in Illinois
East St Louis police announced ex convict James Thomas Purdy, 22, a laborer, signed a statement admitting the rape slaying of 37 year old waitress Elizabeth Bunetich after she was found beaten in an alley. Purdy also confessed to an earlier attempted hammer assault. Bunetich died days later. another woman was hospitalized. Purdy held for coroner.
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Associated Press
East ST. Louis
Ill
Elizabeth Bunetich
James Thomas Purdy
Purdy
Charles Carney
Miss Bunetich
Continue Probe Of Finnegan Case
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23 The president of Zenith Radio Corp. Eugene F. McDonald Jr. of Chicago will testify this week as a federal grand jury widens its inquiry into James P. Finnegan former Internal Revenue Collector. The probe focuses on a $50,000 fee paid by Zenith. Finnegan, to be tried March 3 in federal court on bribery and misconduct charges, remains hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Zenith Radio Corp
James P. Finnegan
Internal Revenue
Zenith
Eugene F. McDonald, Jr
Chicago
Finnegan
Booster Group Elects Officers in Cardboard County Booster
Southern Illinois Inc. elected Lawrence J. Wohlwend as president in a mail election. W. Lyerla became board chairman, J. W. Hayton treasurer, and Roland Murman secretary. The booster group plans its 12th annual meeting at Lake Benton Thursday night.
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Associated Press
Carbondale
Southern Illinois Inc
Lawrence J. Wohlwend
Marion Auto
W. Lyerla
Herrin
J. W. Hayton
Carterville
Roland Murman
Johnston City
SII
Lake Benton
Billy Graham Describes Role as Messenger Boy
Evangelist Billy Graham told an audience of 5700 he is like a Western Union boy delivering the message of God to Americans. He called the message repent and noted revival topics include sin and later conversion with emphasis on faith tonight.
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Washington
Billy Graham
Graham
Gov Adlai Stevenson Talks With Truman In Washington
Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois met with President Truman at Blair House discussing politics and the West Frankfort mine disaster. No details were released as to the exact topics. Stevenson hinted at seeking a second term as governor while speculation about a possible presidential run continued.
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Associated Press
Washington
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Truman
Blair House
White House
West Frankfort
Ill
Congress
Federal Bureau of Mines
Stevenson
New York
Springfield
W National Urban League
U S Casualties Top 104000 in Korea Report
Washington reports U S battle casualties in Korea reached 104,644, up 261 from last week. The Defense Department lists totals by service with 1,708 missing and 190 fatally wounded, 1,391 returned, and 174 known casualties.
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Associated Press
Washington
U. S
Korea
Defense Department
Eighth Horsemeat Scandal Firing Rocks Illinois
SPRINGFIELD IL Jan 23 Ralph M Kirkbride a Blandinsville state foods inspector was fired amid the probe into illegal horsemeat sales He was the eighth inspector dismissed in ten days and served Warren Henderson Hancock McDonough Adams and Schuyler counties He was fired for refusing a lie detector test The department has questioned 20 of 34 inspectors to date.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Ralph M. Kirkbride
Blandinsville
Kirkbride
Warren
Henderson
Hancock
McDonough
Adams
Schuyler
Roy E. Yung
State Agriculture Department
Department
Censor's Wife Receives Surprise Call From TV Scene
Maj Joseph A Dries Allied censor in Mun san Korea telephoned his wife in Glen Burnie Maryland during a trip to Tokyo. She answered and heard a scream then silence. Their eight year old son Chris exclaimed Daddy you're on television. Mrs Dries had glimpsed her husband in a film made last week at Panmunjom.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Joseph A. Dries
Truce
Munsan
Korea
Glen Burnie
Patterson Had Premonition Of Sudden Death
Former Secretary of War Robert Patterson died in a Newark New Jersey airliner crash after canceling a train trip home from Buffalo where he was on a court case. The Glens Falls native, 60, once led procurement for World War II and served as Undersecretary and later Secretary of War under Hoover and Roosevelt.
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Associated Press
New York
Robert P. Patterson
Elizabeth
N. J
Patterson
Buffalo
N. Y
Truman
Henry L. Stimson
Hoover Patterson
Glens Falls
Hoover
U. S. District Court
Roosevelt
U. S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Washington
Army
Piggy Bonds for Kids Proposed to Fight Coin Shortage
A congressional committee urges selling piggy bonds purchased with kids pennies to boost juvenile thrift and ease coin shortages from defense program metal use. Rep Sieminski says the bonds would cost 3.75 in pennies and pay 5 in ten years.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congressional
Treasury
House Appropriations
Rep. Sieminski
D-Nj
Churchill Looks Back as He Boards Queen Mary Homeward
Prime Minister Winston Churchill sails for home aboard the Queen Mary after 18 days in the United States and Canada. He waves to hundreds at New York as Bernard Baruch and his daughter Sarah bid farewell while the 77 year old statesman puffs a cigar and smiles.
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Associated Press
New York
Winston Churchill
United States
Canada
Bernard Baruch
Churchill
Sarah
Hospital Notes Names Admitted and Discharges
Jefferson Memorial admitted Mrs. Dorothy Henry and others including Mrs. Geraldine Cook and Carl Denham with several residents listed by location. Discharged: Mrs. Dorothy Cates. Good Samaritan admitted infants and children such as Brenda Jean Trotter and James O. Lahey Jr. Discharged: Mrs. Helen House and several others plus infant Richard Eugene.
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Jefferson Memorial
Dorothy Henry
RFD
Geraldine Cook
Dahlgren
Katherine Werner Huff
Bruford
Carl Denham
Macedonia
Dorothy Cates
Good Samaritan
Brenda Jean Trotter
Wayne City
James O. Lahey, Jr
Opdyke
Magpie Qualls
Salem
Lawrence Bock
Helen House
Gracie Fields
Norma Jean Jennings
Alma Ellis
Antoinette Sadler
Richard Eugene
Deaths and Funerals of W. B. Foster 94 in Danville
W B Foster 94, former Ina and Mt Vernon resident, died at 8 30 am at his daughter Mrs Sam Mariages Danville home. Body to be taken to Ina for funeral services. Friends may call Fry Funeral Home from Friday evening. Funeral services Saturday afternoon at Cumberland Presbyterian Church Ina. Born Ina 1857 to William and Cynthia Clinton Foster. He married Emma Amanda Lloyd, who survives.
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W. B. Foster
Ina
Mt. Vernon
Sam Mariage
Danville
Fry Funeral Home
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Mr. Foster
William
Cynthia Clinton Foster
Emma Amanda Lloyd
Arab student seeks free education after Arkansas State arrival
Shukri Mohammed El-Khatib, a 20 year old Arab from Israel, arrived in Jonesboro seeking a free education after a misread prospectus. The Jonesboro Rotary Club voted to cover his $300 tuition for a year and a local couple offered housing until March 1 along with a local businessman providing $50. He arrived with only 10 dollars left and is currently a guest in the men's dormitory as officials review the case.
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Associated Press
Jonesboro
Ark
Arkansas State
Israel
Shukri
Actress Regains Home Title in Bid for Pardon
In Los Angeles on January 23 actress Madge Meredith won back ownership of her home after a court settled a messy dispute. The judge ruled that former manager Nicholas Gianaclis wrongfully prompted a deed rather than a mortgage for a $5112 loan five years ago and awarded Meredith $11370 for rent from December 6, 1946. Merlin Ledlie and friends plan to push for a full pardon, citing Meredith's three year prison term for conspiring to kidnap Gianaclis and his bodyguard.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Madge Meredith
Joe Ledlie
Hollywood
Miss Meredith
Nicholas Gianaclis
Thomas J. Cunningham
Gianaclis
Verne Davis
Earl Warren
Wilson predicts Buck Rogers era in weapons outlook
Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson told the American Institute of Electrical Engineers that the United States must begin planning now for weapons of 1960 and 1970. He described a coming Buck Rogers era defined by atomic-fission power, supersonic tech, and advanced electronics.
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Associated Press
New York
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Marriage License Granted for Dustin and Hagedon in St Louis
John Edgar Dustin and Verna Yionn Hagedon of St. Louis filed for a marriage license. The record notes their names and residence as part of the official public notice.
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John Edgar Dustin
Verna Yionn Hagedon
St. Louis
C R McDaniel Dies Near Kell at 67
Co R McDaniel, 67, died suddenly at 8:00 this morning at his Kell area home. Funeral services will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Panther Fork church with burial in the nearby cemetery. The body will lie at the family home after 1:00 p.m. Thursday for viewing by friends.
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Co. R. McDaniel
Kell
Panther Fork
Foster Family Obituary Fragments Mention Three Sons and A Daughter
The notice lists three sons W D Foster of Normal Illinois C R Foster of Ashland Oregon and J T Foster of California and three daughters Mrs Marriage of Danville Mrs Russell Gray of California and Mrs H W Arnett of Blackwell Oklahoma plus a sister Mrs Nora Kirk of Lesser. follows with mourning details.
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W. D. Foster
Normal, IL
C. R. Foster
Ashland
Ore
J. T. Foster
California
Sam Mariage
Danville
Russell, Gray
H. W. Arnett
Blackwell, Okla
Nora Kirk
Lesser
Boy Kills Dad in TV Show Dispute at Home
Mt. Clemens Michigan January 23 15 year old son shot and fatally wounded Deputy Sheriff father John Sikon 45 in what police call an argument over a television show at their home Four of the family's six children were present and the boy Gerald 15 later said he acted after his father rebuked him for coming home late He told neighbors he knew he was wrong and prayed with the family before authorities arrived.
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MT. Clemens
Mich
John Sikon
St. Joseph Hospital
Harley Ensign
Gerald
Ensign
Media Sikon
Sikon
Bethel
New Baltimore
Simon
Joan
Thomas
Firemen Called Twice Yesterday in Mt Vernon
Mt. Vernon firemen were called out twice yesterday afternoon on minor grass fires which caused no damage. At 1 10 p m they were called to 215 Opdyke Avenue and at 3 40 p m to 906 south 13th street.
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Mt. Vernon
Opdyke Avenue
South 13Th Street
Eisenhower Europe unity plan draws praise in Congress
General Eisenhower urged a European unity convention as a step toward lasting security. Senators from both parties lauded the move while weighing its impact on a potential presidential bid. A 14-member congressional group had recently urged tying further aid to progress toward unity.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces In Europe
SHAPE
Eisenhower
Truman
State Acheson
Russia
United States
Kefauver
D-Tenn
McMahon
D-Conn
Illinios
Wiley
R-Wis
GOP
Foreign Relations Committee
Ike
Case
R-S. D
U. S
Births in Jefferson Memorial Hospital Patricia Jewell born at 1 48 A M
Mr and Mrs Mack Henry of Vernon RFD 4 announce the birth of a five pound nine ounce daughter named Patricia Jewell at Jefferson Memorial Hospital at 1 48 this morning. Mr and Mrs William Cook of Dahlgren announce the birth of a six pound two ounce daughter at Jefferson Memorial Hospital at 8 33 this morning. The child has not yet been named.
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Mack Henry
Vernon Rfd
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Patricia Jewell
William Cook
Dahlgren
Icy Roads Hit Northern Illinois Highways
The Illinois Highway Division reported most roads in the northern half of Illinois icy today. Pavements were slippery north and west of a line through Quincy, Lincoln, and Chicago. Ice was also spotted on highways as far south as Kankakee and Joliet, while other areas remained clear.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Illinois
State Highway Division
Quincy
Lincoln
Chicago
Kankakee
Joliet
Turner Boehm Post AMVETS Meets for Election Night
Regular meeting of Turner Boehm Post No 4 AMVETS is at 7:30 this evening in the Amvet Club Room. All members urged to attend. Following will be the annual election of Jefferson County Amvets officers for the coming year. Refreshments will be served. Rebekah Lodge 296 meets Thursday at 7:30 pm in the I O O F Temple. Members urged to attend. visiting Rebekahs welcome.
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Turner Boehm
Amvets
Amvet Club
Jefferson County Amvets, Inc
Varnell Rebekah Lodge
I. O. O. F. Temple
Air liner crashes into city killing many
A jet plowed into the city causing a deadly blaze near Batting High School. Residents mourn as rescue workers pull mangled bodies from debris. Albert Ragone, 34, searches for his wife Anne, 30, and two children Emily and 14 months, amid the ruins. Newark Port Authority declined to comment on relocation demands.
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Newark
New York
Albert Ragone
Anne
Emily
Robert
Hosiery Sale Open At Mount Vernon Textile Co Store
Mount Vernon Textile Co at 408 South 12th Street offers all kinds of hosiery for men women children and infants plus slippers. Hours daily and Saturday from 10 a m to 4 p m.
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Mount Vernon Textile Co
12Th St
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