Union Grants Clearance For Armour Strike
Armour and Co. packing plants face reactions from CIO workers after a union approval for walkouts. About 8,150 of 30,000 UPW workers have walked out. five plants closed with three curtailments. Talks with a federal mediator were set as UPW seeks a 30 cent hourly increase and other benefits.
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Armour and Co
CIO
United Packinghouse Workers
Armour
UPW
Wilson
Swift
Cadahy
Cadalys
Vacationing Dentist Performs Emergency Arm Repair At Lake Camp
A vacationing dentist from Erie Pennsylvania used a fishhook as a needle and fishing line for future repairs to close a deep arm wound. Dr Eugene Engelbirger repaired severed tendons and sutured an eight inch bone deep cut in the left arm of Ernie La Douczur operator of a fishing camp sixty miles north of Ft Coulonge Quebec. The injury happened when a fan blade on a small gasoline engine broke off and struck the guide.
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Ft. Coulonge
Que
Erie
Eugene Engelbirger
Ernie la Douczur
Here
Weather outlook for Southern Illinois with warm, unsettled periods
Cloudy for Southern Illinois with partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures tonight and Thursday. Local thunderstorms possible in extreme west late tonight or Thursday. Low tonight 68 to 72, high Thursday about 90. Temperatures yesterday and today noted with lake levels Crab Orchard Lake 18 inches below spillway and Little Grassy Lake 12 inches below spillway.
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Iinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Local Evening Edition Published by Southern Illinois Publ
The lally Free Press edition published in Carbondale Illinois by Southern Illinois Publications Inc. operates evenings except Sundays and holidays. It is entered as second class mail at the Carbondale office under the March 6 1878 act.
Marine corporal guilty of district ridicule law violation
Frank Farkas a 25 year old Marine corporal from Flushing New York stationed at Quantico was found guilty of violating a Washington DC law that forbids signs ridiculing a vehicle. His attorney plans an appeal with sentencing set for August 19 by Municipal Court Judge Andrew J Howard Jr.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Frank Farkas
Flushing
N. Y
Quantico
H. Clifford Allder
Farkas
Allder
Andrew J. Howard Jr
New York
Mother slashes wrists after boy attack in Queens home
John Papkowich returned home to find his 3 year old son Johnny torn and bleeding on the couch. The boy told police his mother inflicted fatal wounds on him and then slashed her own wrists in the kitchen. Mary Papkowich, 33, survived with minor injuries. Johnny's condition remained critical at Queens General Hospital.
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John Papkowwich
Johnny
Papkowich
Mary
Hammer killer threatens Drake Hotel again in Chicago
Chicago police rushed four squads after a telephone threat from a caller claiming to be the hammer killer. He warned of another kill and directed officers to Room 414 of the Loop Hotel, where a body was found a week earlier, identified as Thomas Action, 35, of Birmingham.
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Chicago
Drake Hotel
Thomas Action
Birmingham
Ala
Loop
South Clark Street
Young ranchhand seized in babysitter slaying
Santa Ana Calif Aug 13 AP William F Rupp Jr 18 year old ranchhand captured after a five day hunt was booked in order of murder today in the slaying of a 15 year old babysitter Ruby Ann Payne. Deputy Jess Buckle said the youth admitted shooting Payne Friday after she resisted him. He surrendered quietly after being recognized in a cafe.
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Santa Ana
Calif
William F. Rupp Jr
Orange County
Jess Buckle
Ruby Ann Payne
Army Dodges Jap Charges
U S Army says no comment on a House committee report about millions in government jewels and precious metals missing during World War II and the Allied occupation. Records of custody were sent to Washington as occupation ended, and most allied personnel connected with custody had returned to the United States.
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U. S. Army
Parliament Committee
Washington
U. S
House of Representatives
Nagako
Ing
Bank of Japan
Blame Placed on Hobson Skipper in Atlantic Collision
A naval court of inquiry ruled the sole cause of the April 26 collision between the carrier Wasp and the destroyer Hobson was an unexplained left turn by Hobson commanded by Lt. Comdr. W J Tierney. Sixty one crewmen were saved while 176 died, and Tierney died in the crash hundreds miles west of the Azores during maneuvers.
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Naval
Mid - Atlantic
Wasp
Hobson
Comdr
W.J. Tierney
Tierney
Azores Islands
Stevenson Foes Attack Truman Visit During Washington Talks
Stevenson flew to Washington to meet President Truman and top officials. Eisenhower used the visit to attack Democratic aims and warn of federal meddling in elections. Nixon and Sparkman weighed in, calling the meetings a fatal misstep and signaling cross party disagreement.
John Brown Relics Found In Bank Deposit Vault
A lock of John Brown hair and a scaffold piece from his hanging were recovered from a Bank of America safe deposit box in San Francisco. The items belong to the estate of Mrs. Helen Meany Hubbard, who died recently.
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San Francisco
John Brown
Bank of America
Helen Meany Hubbard
Democrats Pick Dixon To Fill Stevenson's Shoes
Politicians move to fill the Stevenson vacancy after he became the Democratic president candidate. Seated figures include James A. Ronan, Dixon, and Fred A Cain among others in a party committee setting.
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Dixon
Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
James A. Ronan
Fred A Cain
Jackson
Nine Thousand Workers Walk Out in Revil Strike
The Rev il strike spreads as 9,000 workers join pickets at an atomic energy project near Paducah. About 1,900 pipefitters from W M Kellogg Co walkout Monday night, followed by 600 from McGraw Construction Co Tuesday, with union agent Louis Bradford calling the action unauthorized. Leo Loring from the international headquarters arrives to assist in settlement.
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W. M. Kelleg & Co
McGraw Construction Co
Louis Bradford
Kellogg
McGraw
Leo Loring
International
Paducah
Flying Cross Awarded To Pilot Who Sunk Red Tank
Lt. James F. Reed of Tulsa Oklahoma earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for directing artillery fire on a Communist Red tank crossing a frozen river last December. Three rounds bracketed the tank, broke the ice, and sank the vehicle, the 10th Corps announced.
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James F. Reed
Tulsa
Okla
10Th Corps
Reed
Cherry Ousts Gov. McMath in Arkansas Primary
In Little Rock on August 13 AP reports Judge Francis Cherry defeated Governor Sid McMath for the Democratic nomination in a runoff. Unofficial returns from 2040 of 2286 boxes show Cherry with 190 542 votes to 110 675 for McMath. Cherry, 43, from Jonesboro, gains power via a radio talkathon engaging voters for long hours.
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Sid McMath
Truman
Francis Cherry
Cherry
McMath
Chancery Court
Jonesboro
Reds Plot Infiltrating Scouts Warns Senate Witnesses
Senate investigators publicized sworn testimony by Harvey Matusow of Dayton Ohio detailing a Kremlin inspired plan to infiltrate the Boy Scout movement. He described using churches and youth groups to indoctrinate youth and form a rival Young Pioneers while citing incidents in Ohio Georgia and Brooklyn.
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Boy Scout Movement
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Kremlin
Harvey M. Matusow
Dayton, O
Ohio Commission On Un-American Activities
John
Martha Edston
West
Communist Party
Matusow
Young Pioneers
Boy Scouts
Wars
Herbert Romerstein
Brooklyn
N. Y
Communist Front
Romerstein
Young Communist League
American Youth For Democracy
Amerats 1
Nixon Attacks Stevenson On Truman Tie and Boss Control
Sen. Richard Nixon assailed Adlai Stevenson over meeting with President Truman to brief on carrying Truman policies. He charged Stevenson seeks to mobilize federal resources for his campaign and branding him captive to party bosses who backed his nomination. Nixon contrasted Stevenson with Eisenhower and cited perceived boss influence in Stevenson's campaign structure.
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Democratic Party
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Richard Nixon
California
Denver
White House
Truman
Sen
John Sparkman
Alabama
Richard =s
E. Stevenson
Nixon
Gov
Washington
Ilinois State Fair
Illinois
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Saito
Harry Truman
Wilson W
New
New Dalcratic Action
Wyatt
Stephen M Cellapodut
Jake Arey
Dixon Wins Democratic Nomination In Close Illinois Primary
Lt. Gov. Sherwood P. Dixon defeated Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett 469,616 to 425,375 to become Adlai Stevenson’s replacement atop the state ticket. Dixon pledged to heal faction rifts and run a steady campaign with Stevenson’s support noted but not guaranteed.
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Sherwood P. Dixon
Illinois
Dixon
Democratic State Central Committee
Adlai Stevenson
Edward J. Barrett
Barrett
Cook County
Chicago
Stevenson
Pulaeas
Springfield
Sega
Bne
New Democratic
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Teuman
Sale
Poesy
Sherwood Dixon
The
United Association of Journeymen
Plumbing and Pipefitters
Canada
J. M. Wooldridge
F. H. McGraw
Korea
Gov. McMath
Little Rock, Ark
Reds
Georgia
Bethel
Ohio
Charles Whalen
Associated Press
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