Gun battle at Chicago home ends in officer hailing bullets
A barricaded Ernest Craig, 28, fought 125 police for three hours in a Chicago flat on West Washington. Fire and gas forced a retreat, and Craig was shot and killed as he tried to escape through a narrow 18 inch passage. Several officers were wounded. The standoff began after Craig wounded a boy, Drake Atkins, during a dispute with a neighbor.
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Chicago
Ernest Craig
Craig
Marshal Pidgeon
Lloyd Nethergall
Drake Atkins
Lawrence Mack
Mack
Atkins
West
Washington Boulevard
Senate faces battered arms aid after House vote
After a 238 to 122 defeat in the House, the administration seeks Senate approval for Western European defense aid cut by 50 percent to 1.16 billion dollars. Greece Turkey Iran Korea Philippines retain full sums. China aid and other amendments fail.
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Washington
House
Senate
Harry Truman
Congress
United States
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Korea
Philippines
China
Southeastern Asia
U. S
Britain
Ireland
Russia
Bridges Agrees To Accounting For Pension Fund Fees
Sen Styles Bridges of New Hampshire promised a next month accounting of his 35000 dollar annual services as a trustee for the United Mine Workers pension fund. He told a reporter the move was to avoid political embarrassment and cited reports showing a 12000 dollar bill for actuarial studies charged to the fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Styles Bridges
R-N.h
United Mine Workers Pension Fund
Bridges
Senate Banking Committee
Glen Taylor
Didaho
Robert D. L’heureux
l’Heureux
Welfare Fund
Congress Must Act on Big Issues Says Lucas
Sen. Scott W. Lucas promises Congress will stay in Washington to act on prime issues including an improved farm income support program, liberalization of the Displaced Persons act, and raising the minimum wage to 75 cents an hour. He spoke in his weekly radio report aired over 29 Illinois stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Lucas
Washington
Scott W. Lucas
D-Ii
Senate
Illinois
McCarthy links Vaughan probes to White House aides
Senator McCarthy says Senate investigators are getting information about Maj. Harry H. Vaughan from people near the President and Vaughan in the White House. Mundt ties a 1945 Paris flight by three Chicago perfume firm agents to gifts of deep freezers to Vaughan and to Mrs. Truman. Vaughan and John Maragon are expected to testify when hearings resume next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Harry H. Vaughan
McCarthy
Vaughan
White House
Karl Mundt
Harry Truman
John Maragon
Allied Forces Conduct Joint Air and Surface Drills Off Honshu
British and U S forces engage in combined air and surface maneuvers off the southern coast of Honshu, Japan, as reported by Gen Douglas MacArthur's headquarters.
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Tokyo
U. S
Honshu
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Weather Brief With Rain And Temperature Outlook
Occasional rain tonight with cooler temps and gradual clearing Saturday. Lows tonight 60 to 65, highs Saturday 77 to 80. Thur temperatures show a low near 71 at 7 am and a high near 94 by noon. Spillway readings note Crab Orchard Lake at spillway Sunday and Little Grassy Lake 13 feet below spillway. no Mississippi River reading at Grand Tower.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Mississippi River
Grand Tower
Illinois Temperatures and Rain Forecast Across Regions
Weather summary indicates cooler tonight then warmer Sunday and cooler again Monday. Temperatures run near normal with highs around 3 north 6 south and lows about 5 north 63 south. Rainfall expected from 1 to 2 inches in the south and up to 4 inches in some northern areas with showers and thunderstorms tonight through Monday.
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Illinos
Index Area and Local News Page Plan
The note outlines the newspaper’s today’s sections across pages 1 3 4 5 6 7 7 10 11 12 including national local news editorials society sports comics classifieds births deaths marriages licenses markets and pictures. It serves as a contents map for readers.
Ingrid Bergman Faces Potential Film Farewell
Ingrid Bergman nears a possible final day of filming in Rome as she contemplates divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom and retirement. Her representative suggested Rossellini may persuade a return, with plans to rest starting tomorrow for a lengthy period while legal action for divorce looms.
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Ingrid Bergman
Peter Lindstrom
Robert Rossellini
Steele
Miss Bergman
Rome
Air Crash Kills 22 in England
A British European Airways Da kota transport plane crashed near Oldham 13 miles northeast of Manchester in bad weather. Twenty two of the 32 aboard were killed. The aircraft departed Belfast and last contacted about approaching Manchester. Survivors were treated at the scene as ambulances and doctors moved in.
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British European Airways
Oldham
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Manchester
Dow Valley
Yorkshire
London
Ex King Carol and Lupescu Married in Religious Rite
Former King Carol of Romania and Mme Elena Lupescu wed in a religious ceremony at the ex-monarch's Estoril residence. The Rev Hartinan Ivinovitch of the Romanian Greek Orthodox Church in Paris officiated the ceremony.
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Carol
Lupescu
Carol of
Romania
Mme
Elena Lupescu
Estoril
Hartinan Ivinovitch
Paris
Elena
Rio de Janeiro
Pope to Proclaim Assumption of Mary as Dogma
A high Vatican source says Pope Pius XII will proclaim the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin as dogma. The declaration likely comes during the 1950 Holy Year. Catholic teaching holds Mary was bodily taken into heaven, and its formal definition makes denial heresy.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Pius XII
Finland moves to crush red general strike
Helsinki reports the government acts to crush a Communist led strike. Police arrest leaders including Lahja Heikkilae in Kemi where 1500 lumberjacks fought police. 45,000 workers on strike with calls for further meetings despite bans. Government vows crushing defeat of Communists as anti Communist workers largely stay at work.
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Helsinki
Kemi
Yesterda
Eivil
Lahja Heikkilae
Finland
Kem
Red
Varjonen
Bunche Decries Senate Charges As Hysteria
Dr. Ralph Bunche denounces a Senate judiciary committee for circulating charges that the United Nations secretariat is terrorized by Communist agents. Speaking at a welcome home rally, he calls the testimony a witch hunt and criticizes government agency credence given to the claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Ralph Bunche
Senate Judiciary Committee
United Nations Secretariat
U.N
Palestine
Subcommittee
Pioneer Jazz Musician Paul Mares Dies at 49
Chicago obituary reports Paul Mares a cornetist and early jazz figure died yesterday at age 49. He arrived in Chicago in the early 1920s with George Brunis and formed a band with Leon Rappolo Jack Pettis Elmer Schoebel and others that played at Friar's Inn.
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Chicago
Paul Mares
New Orleans
Mares
George Brunis
Leon Rappolo
Jack Pettis
Elmer Schoebel
Friar’s Inn
Gas Bomb Explodes at Chicago Police Headquarters
A defective tear gas bomb exploded today at the Chicago Police Headquarters injuring one officer and temporarily blinding three others. The blast occurred during an investigation in a seventh floor office where the bomb had been tested after a gun battle with Ernest Craig, a 28 year old suspect slain after a three hour fight that also wounded ten others. Sgt. John Nelligan sustained burns to the chest shoulder arm and leg.
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Chicago
Ernest Craig
Police
John Nelligan
Chicago mother admits strangling six day old daughter
Chicago police report Dorothy Skeech 22 admitted killing her six day old daughter Susan after telling officers a Negro prowler attacked the family. The baby was found with a plastic diaper knot around the neck as Skeech described her motive from financial distress and husband’s unemployment. Skeech cited a supposed intruder and theft of a wrist watch but later confessed.
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Chicago
John Enright
Dorothy Skeech
Susan
South Side
Viola Venkus
William Hennessey
Skeech
Flier Dies After Metropolis Landing Crash
Staff Sgt. Willard Clairday aged 30 from Scott Air Force Base died at Fisher Memorial hospital Metropolis after his private BT 15 crashed on a landing attempt at Metropolis airport. Sheriff said wingtip snagged a tree during second approach causing the wreck near the runway. he was en route to Wright-Patterson Field Dayton Ohio and planned an overnight with his father at Temple Hill. State aeronautics inspector reported Clairday first missed hangers on the east side at about 7 45 p m lights were on and a truck helped align him for a second approach. The craft spun in and crashed between a highway and runway south end. engine buried in ground.
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Willard Clairday
Scott Air Force Base
Fisher Memorial Hospital
Metropolis
Herbert Goyert
Clairday
Wright-Patterson Field
Dayton
Ohio
James L. Clairday
Temple Hill
Dwayne Linton
Herrin
Southern Illinois
Linton
Train Derailment Near Mackinaw Kills Three
Three men died in a railroad freight derailment near Mackinaw Illinois as an open switch half a mile west triggered the crash. The victims, C E W Hyatt engineer Frank Chaney brakeman Roy Bein fireman all from Urbana and Farmer City respectively, were in the cab when the wreck trapped them. Conductor Clark Chamberlain was injured.
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Mackinn
New York
Indianapolis
Peoria
C. E. W. Hyatt
Urbana
Frank Chaney
Roy Bein
Farmer City
Clark Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Mackinaw
H. G. Cooke
Danvers
Ill
H. A. Powell
Galesburg Girl’s Birthday Party Ends Quiet Hospital Visit
Ellen Bloomgren, 17, of Galesburg, moved from an iron lung to a light-weight respirator at St. Francis hospital after a birthday party. Her fiancé John Heck, 20, placed a ring on her finger as her parents brought cake to celebrate despite her paralysis.
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Peoria
Ellen Bloomgren
Galesburg
John Heck
Elmer Bloomgren
St. Francis Hospital
Ellen
Fight It Out Steel Labor in New York
Republic Steel Corp president C M White testified before a three man fact finding board to avert a national steel strike. He argued that labor and industry must bargain and that strikes are a legitimate tool to reach results. White said a 30 cent an hour package by United Steelworkers would cost Republic about 38 million dollars annually.
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Republic Steel Corp
C. M. White
C.so. United Steelworkers
Republic
Cool Air Mass Covers Nation With Autumnlikely Weather
A nationwide cool air mass brought near normal temperatures across the country. Kinross Michigan observed 41 degrees, while most areas had fair skies. the lower Mississippi valley and New England coast saw scattered thunderstorms and Topeka Kansas logged the heaviest rainfall at 2.89 inches.
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Chicago
Kinross
Mich
Mississippi Valley
New England
Topeka
Kan
Suicide by self immolation in San Antonio
Jeptha J. Allen aged 50 saturated his clothes with gasoline and set himself alight yesterday in San Antonio. Justice of the Peace John N. Ogden returned an inquest verdict of suicide.
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San Antonio
Texas
Jeptha J. Allen
Justice of the Peace
John N. Ogden
Thirty-Five American Servicemen Escape Plane Crash
A transport plane plunged into St George's Bay near Harmon Field Newfoundland last night. Thirty five American servicemen escaped drowning as the aircraft went down at the U S base area.
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Stephenville
Mid
St. George’s Bay
U. S
Harmon Field
Newfoundland
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la Bergman
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Portugal
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