Deaths Homer Peyton Dies At Age 57 Wayne City
Homer C Peyton 57 a former Wayne City resident died at 1 30 am in Jonesboro Illinois He was a government road supervisor Funeral services set for Monday at 2 pm Richardson Chapel Wayne City with Dr Cameron Harmon officiating Burial will be in Thomason cemetery He was born September 27 1897 in Jefferson County son of U C and Missouri Esmon Peyton Survived by wife Marie Williams his mother and siblings Otto of Elgin Ohio Muetzel Makato Minn and Rose Anderson Mt Vernon The body will lie at Richardson Chapel for viewing Sunday afternoon
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Homer Peyton
Wayne City
Homer C. Peyton
Jonesboro
Peyton
Richardson Chapel
Cameron Harmon
Thomason Cemetery
Mr. Peyton
Jefferson County
U. C
Missouri
Esmon) Peyton
Marie Williams
Otto
Elgin, T
Clara Muetzel
Makato
Minn
Rose Anderson
Mt. Vernon
Child Pronounced Dead On Arrival At Hospital Here
Karla Spotanski two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Daniel Spotanski of DuBois Ill died on arrival at Good Samaritan Hospital at 4 50 am. She was first brought to the hospital at 11 pm yesterday. Coroner Roeder cited a heart condition and epilepsy as the cause. The body was sent to Kringer Funeral Home in Ashley.
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Karla Spotanski
Daniel Spotanski
DuBois
Good Samaritan Hospital
Roeder
Kringer
Ashley
Charge Killing Man Deprived Him Of Rights
An East St. Louis patrolman, Joseph Bonner, 31, was indicted by a federal grand jury for depriving Everett Farrow of his constitutional rights by shooting him on November 16, 1952 during a tavern disturbance investigation. Bonner had been charged by a St. Clair County grand jury in December 1952 but not tried. state authorities reportedly planned no trial. The federal offense carries up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
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Associated Press
East ST. Louis
Joseph Bonner
Everett Farrow
Bonner
St. Clair County
Rouenter
Edward G. Maag
U. S
Richard T. Carter
Decatur Man Among Alaska Crash Victims
An Army sergeant from Decatur Illinois was among ten killed when a C47 crashed into Lithman Island near Kodiak. Sgt. 1/e John M. Claxton, wife Nina Rose Claxton of Ft Richardson, was aboard the aircraft en route from Elmendorf to supply a 4 million dollar air raid station on Sithman Island. Also dead were two Army men three Western Electric representatives and four Air Force crew members.
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Associated Press
Kodiak
Alaska
Decatur
Ill
Lonely Lithman Island
Kodiak Island
Elmendorf
Anchorage
Sithman Island
Illinois
John M. Claxton
George L. Claxton
Nina Rose Claxton
Ft. Richardson
Western Electric Co
Air Force
Indict Mt. V. Man For Mails Theft
John Henry Stratton of Mount Vernon was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of stealing four wrist watches from the mails. The watches were mailed to a store in Evansville, Indiana, and Stratton was unknown at the Mount Vernon Post Office.
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Associated Press
Stratton
Mt. Vernon
Charles Simmons
Two Cases Up In County Court
Two cases were heard in county court here yesterday by Judge Charles Jones of McLeansboro in the absence of Judge Dale Andrews. Arthur Taylor, 50, of Kell, pleaded innocent to a charge of driving while intoxicated. No trial date was set. Dewey Shick pleaded guilty to an assault charge and was fined $5 and costs.
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Charles Jones
McLeansboro
Dale Andrews
Arthur Taylor
Kell
Dewey Shick
Evening Radio Schedule With Noted Personalities
A dense radio timetable lists 2:00 Percy Faith Music, 2:30 Monitor with Danish Concert, 3:30 Billy Graham, 4:00 Dr. McGinnay, 6:00 News Broadcast and Rin Tin Tin, 7:00 Juke Box Jury and News & Comment, 7:30 Playhouse and Enchanted Concert, 8:30 Gary Crosby, 9:30 Sammy Kaye, 10:00 Music Hall broadcasts and Billy Graham, with several mentions of public figures and programs across a long evening schedule.
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Percy Faith
Oral Roberts
Aba Music From
Britain
Aba
Wyatt—abe
Dr. McGinnay
Abe Bandsatand
Billy Graham
Abe
Nick Carter
Abe Rin Tin Tin
Gene Autry
Ebe
Abe Public Prosecutor
Mba
Summer Playhouse
Eba
Sparta
Ebs News
Abe Studio
Mbs
Ebw
Cbs Newa
Miss Brooke
Abe West Point
Abo
Gary Crosby
Rudy Vallee
Cbs
Walter Winchell
Sammy Kaye
Mbe
Afusic Hall
Che Ews
Abe Billy Graham
Mba Fibber
Molly
Aba Gildersleeve
John Dorr
Obs
Abe Littis
Serbie Monitor
Nka
All Nets
Evening TV Schedule with Western, Drama, and Music Shows
Television programs listed with times and titles for a single day, noting delays and standard time adjustments. Includes Face the Nation, Camera Three, The Lucy Show, Roy Rogers Film, You Are There, The Pride of Family, and multiple DuMont and ABC offerings, followed by late-night News and variety programs.
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Obe
Nbe
DuMont
Abe
Frank Baxter
Nation
Oaba
Buster Crabbe
TV Playhouse
Walter Winchell
Abs
Robt. Cumminge
Evening TV Schedule Relayed in Daylight Time
Listings show a mix of programs with networks and hosts from Kukla and Friends to Steve Allen Tonight and Montgomery Theater. Adjust for DST minus one hour. entries include Gene Autry Film Flight 7 and This Is Hollywood plus various musical and variety programs across peers and networks.
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Kukla
John Daly
Abe
Matt Dennis
Nbe
Cba
Perry Como
Cbe
Burnsa & Allen
Cha Caser
Reader's Digest
Cbs Opera
Whiting Girls
Eba Fee Wee King
Abo
Montgomery
Ethel and
Albert
Ebe
DuMont
Steve Allen
Abo TV
Gene Autry
Horace Heidt
Cbhe
Hollywood
Steve Alien
Nbt
Cavalcade of
Peete
Rasyea
Marriage Licenses Granted in Mt Vernon and Nearby
Robert Donald Stone and Don ell Levall both of Mt Vernon. Harold Glenn Davis Mt Vernon and Dorothy Jean Bundy Alexandria Va. Harley W Mount Jr and Darlene Taylor Kell. Bernardt Hildeband and Varine Laura Adams both of Belleville.
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Robert Donald Stone
Donell Levall
Mt. Vernon
Harold Glenn Davis
Dorothy Jean Bundy
Alexandria, Va
Harley W. Mount, Jr
Darlene Taylor
Kell
Bernardt Hildeband
Varine
Laura Adams
Belleville
Dispute over Lewis and Clark history notes
Los Angeles reports a dispute over ownership of Captain William Clark's preserved field notes from December 1803 to April 1805. The notes surfaced in St Paul, were authenticated by the Minnesota Historical Society, and involve claims by Hammond heirs, the society, and the U.S. government, with legal actions pending.
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Los Angeles
William Clark
St. Paul
Minn
Missouri River
Pacific Northwest
Minnesota Historical Society
John Henry Hammond
Sophia W. H. Foster
Hammond
Uncle Sam
Justin Turner
West Los Angeles
American Manuscript Society
Gen. Hammond
First Trust Co
The
Historical Society
Trust Company
Jefferson
Golders Sst
U. S
Rankin
Alway
Turner
Clark
Divorces Wife With 3 Kids To Join Marines
Walter Sheets of Portsmouth Ohio divorced his wife Nancy Ann to attempt rejoining the Marines. With dependents he could not enlist, but after the Scioto County common pleas court finalized the divorce last Friday he reenlisted for four years using the papers. The couple planned remarriage and Nancy said she would join him wherever he is stationed.
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Cincinnati
Walter Sheets
Portsmouth
Ohio
Corps
Sheets
Nancy Ann
Vickie
Steffi
Tommy
Nancy
Scioto County Common
Minor Accident At Fourth And Main In Mt Vernon
A minor two car collision occurred yesterday at Fourth and Main in Mt. Vernon with no injuries. Ronald Adcock 16 of 205 South Third Street and Donald Mullinax 416 Castleton collided when Mullinax emerging from Fourth Street struck the left rear fender of Adcock's westbound car.
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Mt. Vernon
Ronald Adcock
South Third Street
Donald Mullinax
Castleton
Fourth and
Main
Adcock
Main Street
Mullinax
Fourth Street
Birth of James William Barbie at Jefferson Memorial
Mr and Mrs William Barbie of 1805 Cherry welcome a son born at 12 11 this morning in Jefferson Memorial hospital. The newborn weighs three pounds one and a half ounces and is named James William.
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William Barbie
Cherry
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
James William
California Mystery Hose Buries Self In Ground
Downey California man George Di Peso reports his plastic garden hose has sunk into the lawn and keeps descending, now 13 feet deep with no water action. He and neighbors pull and tug in vain as the hose stretches and bends the hydrant pipe. Dr Inan Campbell of Caltech says it’s unexplained and advises digging to see what’s at the other end. Di Peso considers a sprinkler system.
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Peso
di Peso
di Pesa
Inan Campbell
California Institute of Technology Geology Department
She Thinks 16 Children Are Enough
In Sidney Nebraska Mrs Eraila Hernandez aged 45 gave birth to her 16th child this week. Her husband Frank wants five more children but she says 16 are enough. The family lives in a four room house and eight children are at home. The oldest child is a 27 year old daughter who is married and works at an ordnance plant.
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Sidney
Neb
Eraila Hernandez
Woman Waives to Grand Jury in Dayton Bigamy Case
In Dayton Ohio Judge Cecil FE Edwards presiding in Municipal Court, Mrs Lou Jones faced a bigamy charge. Asked if she would waive to the grand jury, she turned to the crowd, raised her arm, and waved several times as the judge questioned her.
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Associated Press
Dayton
Ohio
Cecil FE. Edwards
Lou Jones
Tnd
Weather snapshot from multiple U S cities
A fragmented forecast lists many cities with conditions. Chicago and Detroit show clear skies while Des Moines and Milwaukee are cloudy. Denver and Kansas City report clear to cloudy. Boston, Cleveland, Fort Worth and others vary between clear and cloudy with several typos and garbled entries. The line ends with a temperature reading of 72.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Detroit
Des Moines
Grand Rapids
Indianapolis
Marquette
Milwaukee
Helena
Albuquerque
Los Angeles
Denver
Kansas City
Boston
Actress Isabel Bonner Dies On Stage At Carthy Circle
Los Angeles actress Isabel Bonner 47 collapsed during a hospital scene in The Shrike on Broadway and in Los Angeles. Stage manager said heart attack. post mortem planned. Husband Joseph Kramm, author of the play, planned to fly from New York after the death. Bonner had a long Broadway and TV career in radio dramas and stage productions.
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Los Angeles
Isabel Bonner
Carthay Circle Theater
Henry Staudigl
Miss Bonner
Staudigl
Dane Clark
Clark
Ann
Standig
Ann Downs
Joseph Kramm
New York
Nora Drake
Philco Playhouse
Studio One
Omnibus
Armstrong Circle Theater
Suspense
Show of Shows
Colgate Comedy Hour
Ford Theater
Schlitz Playhouse
One Man Holds Up LA Market in Major Cash Heist
In a Los Angeles grocery store a gunman robbed the proprietor of 3600 cash and 66000 in traveler’s checks. Police arrested 20 year old Jack A Merritt, a former employee, after a cab driver alerted them and a chase ended with the loot recovered. Merritt was booked on armed robbery investigation.
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Associated Press
Lous
Jack A. Merritt
Merritt
Herbert E. Scoffield
Warm Humid Weather Across Central East with Cool West
The Eastern half of the nation remained warm and humid with morning temperatures in the 70s to low 80s from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic. The western Great Lakes cooled somewhat while Montana saw a July frost at Mullen Pass. Needles California reached 85 as thundershowers swept the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. Northern regions stayed in the 60s to low 70s with Appalachians cooler, and the Rockies and Pacific Coast in the 40s to 50s.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
Montana
Mullen Pass
Needles
Calif
Mississippi Valley
Mid
Appalachian Mountain
Rockies
Pacific Coast
Hospital Notes From Good Samaritan and Jefferson Memorial
In Good Samaritan Hospital admissions include Marion Anderson Lucille Zapp Beaucoup Thomas Wall Della Sandy. Discharges list George Shehorn Lorene Weirather Denham Rich Rightnowar. Jefferson Memorial records admissions Earl Tate Harry Ayers Bea Vogel Eunice Barbie H P Trotter Clacy Ayers Dahlgren. Discharges name Jack Cain and daughter Diane Ruth Kay Bigham William Sanders Rose Underwood Dahlgren.
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Marion Anderson
Lucille Zapp
Beaucoup
Thomas Eugene Wall
Della Mae Sandy
George Leslie Shehorn
Lorene Weirather
Carl Leon Denham
Herman Harold Rich
Adam Francis Rightnowar
Jefferson Memorial
Earl Tate
Harry Ayers
Bea Vogel
Eunice Barbie
H. P. Trotter
Dahlgren
Clacy Ayers
Jack Cain
Diane Ruth
Kay Bigham
William Sanders
Edward
Rose Underwood
McLean Flies to St Louis and Moline Round Trip
Donald McLean flew to St Louis Missouri and Moline Illinois and back yesterday with Carl Buerkle and Don McLean aboard the trip noted in local aviation news.
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Donald McLean
St. Louis
Moline
Ill
Carl Buerkle
Don McLean
Travelers depart for destinations from Battle Creek and beyond
Returned from Battle Creek Michigan last night, Larry Forrestal flew to Columbia Georgia this morning. Mr and Mrs Bob Smith and children flew to Mt Pleasant Michigan today.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Larry Forrestal
Columbia
Bob Smith
Mt. Pleasant
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Livingston Prescription Drug Store
N. 10Th Street
Travelers Cafe
Bernard Stein
Hammond Organ
West Ashley Wye
Bank of Friendly Service
Johnson’s Insurance Agency
So. 10Th Street
P.O
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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