Truck Strike Threatens 75 000 More Jobs in St. Louis
AFL truck drivers in St. Louis stage a three day strike drawing 75 000 potential layoffs and up to 25 000 weekly in area firms if unresolved. About 2 700 drivers started the action Monday with 360 firms affected and railroads curbing inbound freight to single carload shipments as talks continue without clear progress.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Motor Carriers Council of St. Louis
AFL
John P. Butler
AFL Teamsters Union
St. Louis Area
Wabash Railroad
Committee Giv es 2 to Eisenhower in Texas dispute
The national committee faces a clash over Texas delegates amid claims that Taft delegates were stolen and pro Eisenhower supporters push for seating after the first ballot. Dewey says most Texans share Eisenhower views as the Fourth of July showdown looms.
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Taft
Eisenhower
Dewey
Texas
National Committee
Hospital Admissions and Discharges At Two Illinois Hospitals
Good Samaritan Hospital lists admissions including Guy Benton Blu Ford, Mrs Otis Foley, Cora Yearwood, Kenneth Downes, Darrell Houseworth of Waltonville, Sylvester Ratajczyk of Scheller. Discharges include Mona McRae and infant Stewart Duncan, How tard Cantway, Elaine Bullock, Mary Starr, Charles McKee, Bessie Schmitt, Opal Reinlein, Kenneth Downes, Sylvester Ratajczyk of Scheller. Jefferson Memorial Hospital reports admissions of Caroline Catron Wayne City, Tom Brown RFD 3, Marie Shell McLeansboro, Wayne Warren 1320 South 22nd, Evelyn Poyner Hershel Poyner Granite City, Eloise Martin 2415 College, Einer Garrison Opdyke, Jane McCormick Wayne City. Discharges include Freda May Webb and daughter Charlotte Kay, Betty Thomas and son Robert Lee Jr, Charlene Smith and daughter Marilyn June.
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Good Samaritan Hospital
Guy Benton
Blupford
Otis Foley
Cora Yearwood
Kenneth Downes
Darrell Houseworth
Waltonville
Sylvester Ratajczyke
Scheller
Mona McRae
Stewart Duncan
Howtard Cantway
Elaine Bullock
Mary Starr
Charles McKee
Bessie Schmitt
Opal Reinlein
Sylvester “Ratajczyk
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Caroline Ca“tron
Wayne City
Tom Brown
RFD
Marie Shell
McLeans“boro
Wayne Warren
South 22Nd
Evelyn Poyner
Hershel Poyner
Granite City
Eloise Martin
College
Einer Garrison
Opdyke
Jane McCormick
Freda May “Webb
Charlotte “Kay
Betty Thomas
Robert Lee Jr
Charlene ‘Smith
Marilyn June
Births at three area hospitals reported
Mr and Mrs Max Garrison of Opdyke welcome a son Arthur LeRoy born at 9 p m Wednesday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital weighing five pounds nine and one fourth ounces. Otis Foley of Oakland welcomed a daughter born at 2 30 p m yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital weighing five pounds thirteen ounces. Mr and Mrs Derbert Scott of Cherry welcomed a son born at 6 05 p m yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital weighing six pounds seven ounces.
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Max Garrison
Opdyke
J Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Arthur LeRoy
Otis Foley
Oakland
Good Samaritan Hospital
Derbert Scott
Oy Cherry
Acheson Begins Five Day Brazil Visit
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson starts a five day official visit to Brazil to strengthen ties with the United States and its largest Latin American ally.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
U.S
Dean “Acheson
United States
Paris school chief sues for job back in Illinois
Ir on Eaton, former superintendent of Community School District No. 4 at Paris Illinois, sues in Circuit Court to regain his 6000 dollar annual post. He says his ouster violated the Teachers Tenure Act and that he was moved to a 3700 dollar teaching post via subterfuge. He seeks reinstatement and cites the board’s alleged actions by president Clayton Marrs secretary Roscoe Walls and several board members.
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Associated Press
Paris
Othel R. Eaton
Eaton
Clayton Marrs
Roscoe Walls
Roy Curl
Edward H. Gumm
John Stanley
Robert Davis
Mayo Hiddle
Car Hits Tree West Of Mt Vernon Wreck Injures Couple
A Granite City couple were injured when a car went out of control on Route 460 four miles west of Mt Vernon and struck a tree. Merea Poyner, 51, suffered fractured ribs and Evelyn, 42, shoulder injuries. They were admitted to Jefferson Memorial Hospital at 3:00 a.m. with Mr Poyner listed as fair and Mrs Poyner in good condition. State Police Sgt. Tom Leffler investigated.
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Granite City
Mt. Vernon
Merea Poyner
Evelyn
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Lattimore, IPR Probe Ties to Treasury, Davies Perjury
Senate internal security subcommittee says evidence from an 18 month probe of the Institute of Pacific Relations shows Communist penetration of the Treasury Department during World War II. The report accuses Owen Lattimore of aiding Communist causes and lying on at least five points and recommends perjury actions against Lattimore and John P. Davies Jr.
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Associated Press
Washington
McCarran
D-New
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Treasury Department
Institute of Pacific Relations
IPR
U. S
Far East
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
John P. Davies Jr
State Department
Rural Firemen Control Two Field Fires Near Mt Vernon
Mt Vernon rural firemen answered two calls yesterday afternoon. At 12 30 pm they reported to Everett Graham's home two miles north on the Salem Road where a field fire menaced outbuilding and a wheat field and was controlled. At 7 11 pm they went to Floyd Bryant's home three miles southwest on Opdyke Road to contain another field fire.
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Mt. Vernon
Everett Graham
Salem Road
Floyd Bryant
Opdyke Road
Stratton reports surplus in treasury operations
Springfield Ill State Treasurer William G Stratton says he has spent 53529 less than the amount appropriated to operate his office during the fiscal year ended July 1 He credits sound business methods and real economy as the answer to the surplus Stratton the Republican nominee for governor noted the surplus in a statement
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Springfield
Ill
William G. Stratton
Stratton
Police Court fines William Corder for reckless driving
William Russell Corder was fined 55.40 dollars yesterday before Judge W. Q O. Page on a reckless driving charge in police court.
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William Russell Corder
W. Q O. Page
Traffic death toll in Mt Vernon tops eight in year
Police records show eight people killed and 87 injured in 508 traffic accidents in Mt Vernon from July 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952. The period averaged 4.4 accidents daily with one injury every four days and one death every 45 days. From January 1 to June 30 there were 244 accidents, four killed and 45 injured, with June recording 29 accidents and five injuries. two hit and run cases were reported.
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Mt. Vernon
Andy Webb
Webb
County School Board to Meet and Organize Jefferson County
Jefferson county's first County School Trustees, elected last April, will meet at 7:00 p m next Monday in the office of Sidney S Hirons county superintendent to organize. The seven members list includes John A Kirk Roscoe Harper Ed Champ David Earl Hanes Jr Keith Mills Orville Donoho and Ralph Taylor. They will elect a president and assign terms of two four and six years. Sidney S Hirons serves as ex officio secretary. The new board does not replace township trustees.
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Jefferson County
Sidney S. Hirons
Illinois
John A. Kirk
Mt. Vernon
Roscoe Harper
Spring Garden
Ed Champ
Casner
David Earl Hanes, Jr
Field
Keith Mills
Farrington
Orville Donoho
Webber
Ralph Taylor
McClellan
Sidney 8
Hirons
Reds shell Doughboys on T-Bone Hill
In Korea near Old Baldy and T-Bone Hills Communist artillery pounded Allied positions while patrols skirmished along the front. Allied warplanes, reemerging after days aloft, hit supply lines behind the front as Reds probed outposts near Yonchon and Old Baldy. By 6 pm Wednesday 3,783 Red mortar and artillery rounds were counted on the sector.
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Seoul
Korea
Old Baldy
T-Bone
Yonchon
U. N
Eighth Army
Father of Mt. W. Resident Dies
A. E. Morris aged 69, father of Mrs. Mary Lakey of 322 North Eighth Street, died early this week at his home in Anderson Indiana. Mrs. Lakey traveled to Anderson to attend the funeral services.
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A. E. Morris
Mary Lakey
North Eighth Street
Anderson
Ind
Dora L Risley Funeral Today
Funeral services for Dora L Risley were held at 2 00 p m at Pulley Funeral Home with Rev T H Dorris officiating. Burial followed in Oakwood cemetery. Risley 78 of 417 Opdyke Avenue died Tuesday night. Survived by husband Fred two daughters Lesta Bruggen Belle Rive and Iva Newman Mt Vernon a son C E Risley Peoria a brother
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Dora L. Risley
Pulley
T. H. Dorris
Oakwood Cemetery
Risley
Opdyke Avenue
Fred
Lesta Bruggen
Belle Rive
Iva Newman
Mt. Vernon
C. E. Risley
Peoria
Four Girls Drown in Memphis Pond Tragedy
In Memphis Tennessee four young girls Norma Crank 12 Joyce Crank 9 Bobbie Jean Hudson 7 and Gloria Hudson 9 perished after wading to a pond. Footprints led from piles of clothes to the 12 foot deep water as mothers raised the alarm. Divers retrieved the bodies within 90 minutes. The victims were local Kerrville residents.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Norma Crank
Joyce
Bobbie Jean Hudson
Gloria
Kerrville
Auto traffic death toll projected for Fourth of July weekend
The National Safety Council estimates 430 traffic deaths will occur on U.S. highways during the three day Fourth of July period from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday as about 40 million passenger vehicles crowd streets and highways nationwide. It urges extra caution to keep the toll lower.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Safety Council
Car and Truck Collide at Tenth and Newby
A car and a truck collided at 12 10 a m at Tenth and Newby. No injuries were reported. Driver of the truck was Donald Earl Wilson address 1025 North Seventh Street and driver of the car was Ed B Linxveler of Chicago.
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Tenth and
Newby
Donald Earl Wilson
North Seventh Street
Ed B. Linxveler
Chicago
Child Electrocuted Near Pleasant Plains
Five year old Sir Shirley Carroll Roberts died after touching a fence charged by a storm. She was the daughter of William A. and Mrs. Roberts, residing on a farm near Pleasant Plains.
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Pleasant Plains
Shirley Carroll Roberts
William A. Roberts
May Richardson Dies at 76 Near Wayne City
Mrs May Richardson wife of J P Richardson died Wednesday at the Belle Prairie home in Wayne County She was 76 years one month and two days Funeral services are set for 3:00 p m Saturday at Olive Branch church near Wayne City The body lies in state at Combs Chapel Wayne City until 4:00 p m Friday then goes to the family home Survivors include her husband and four sons Harry Dahlgren Frank Mt Vernon Clyde Manteno and Ora Cisne
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Register-News
Wayne City
May Richardson
J. P. Richardson
Belle Prairie
Olive Branch
Combs Chapel
Charles Traylor of Monticello Ark
Charles Traylor of Monticello Ark, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Charles Traylor
Monticello, Ark
Eight Die In Winnipeg Bus Disaster
Eight persons were killed and 20 injured when a Winnipeg bound Greyhound bus crashed into a semi-trailer truck about 14 miles south of here. One passenger was listed in critical condition. A partial list includes Mrs. Gertie Mabry, 71, of Illinois, with fractured ribs and serious injuries.
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Winnipeg
Greyhound
Here
Gertie Mabry
Russia vetoes germ warfare inquiry at UN
Soviet Russia vetoed an American proposal for an impartial probe into Communist germ warfare charges. The Security Council voted 10 to 1 for an investigation in Red China and North Korea by the International Red Cross, with Soviet delegate Malik arguing the Chinese and Korean Communists should be included in the debate. Gross said Malik’s veto proved the charges false.
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United Nations
Russia
Security Council
Red China
North Korea
International Red Cross
Jacob A. Malik
U. S
Ernest A. Gross
Malik
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