99 Lose Lives As TWA Plane Crashes in Egypt
A Trans World Airline Constellation airliner carrying 55 people crashed north of Cairo killing all aboard. Among the dead were 18 Americans and 11 other nationalities, with two Indian Nationalists en route to a United Nations meeting in Paris and Egyptian film star Lilianne Cohen aka Camelia. The wreck near Etay Baroud left only charred remains, prompting rapid transport of bodies to Cairo.
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Cairo
Egypt
Transworld
Constellation
Behaira
Etay Baroud
Star of
Maryland
T.W.A
Nile Delta
Bombay
India
Rome
United Nations
Paris
Lilianne Cohen
Camelia
Lana Turner
Middle East
Aubrey William Schofield
San Antonio
Texas
New York
Mother Finds Body of Son Floating in Lake
Rhinelander Wisconsin August 31 UP The body of 5 year old David Blucher found floating near a Lake Tomahawk resort dock after five days of searching by volunteers. Sheriff Melton Krouze directed the hunt and said the child likely drowned after falling from a dock and wedging between rocks or logs. Coroner G Onson ordered an autopsy to determine the death cause.
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Rhinelander
Wis
David Blucher
Lake Tomahawk
Walter Blucher
Melton Krouze
David
Howver
G. Onson
Local Weather Summary and River Readings
Cloudy conditions with rain ending tonight. Friday partly cloudy and warmer with a high near 80 and a low around 65. The Mississippi River rose 1.5 feet in 24 hours to 14 feet. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake were below spillways by 11 and 14 feet respectively. Humidity near 91 percent. 0.02 inches of precipitation. wind averaged 0.62 mph.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Mississippi River
Index Area Listing Promises Comprehensive Local Coverage
Nation page 1 highlights top stories while Local page 3 covers community events. Women’s News spans pages 6 and 7 with feature pieces. Sports on pages 11 and 12 covers games, standings, and highlights. Classifieds on pages 17 and 18 list ads and notices. Markets page 19 reports on prices and trends.
Rain Cancels Pace Stake At Du Quoin State Fair
Rain kept crowds down at the Du Quoin state fair and canceled the McMahon Pace Stake for 2 year olds. Officials said the race would be run tomorrow along with grand circuit events scheduled for Friday.
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du Quoin
Fathers Must Be Drafted Say Vinson
Washington August 31 AP Chairman Carl Vinson says the draft will be extended to married men with dependents. He notes without fathers draft boards cannot meet future calls to expand armed forces and supports lower IQ standards to induct more men. Maj. Gen. Hershey says about 90 percent are rejected as unfit and complains services are being too choosy.
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Washington
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House
Armed Services Committee
Vinson
G. I
I.Q
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Armed Services
Malik Mapping Final Blasts On U N Stand
Lake Success New York August 31 United Press Malik the Soviet head of the United Nations Security Council sought new non Korean agenda items in the closing hours of his month long term. He steered debate toward a Formosa invasion complaint and a Chinese charge of U S air raids in Manchuria while the council balked at including the Manchurian bombing claim.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
United Nations Security Council
Council
Korea
Malik
Formosa
United States
China
Formosan
Manchuria
U. S
Train Derailment Wrecks Santa Fe Run Near Lampasas
A Santa Fe passenger train derailed about 12 miles west of Lampasas Texas in pre-dawn darkness. Eleven people were injured, none seriously, with several treated on scene or hospitalized. The derailment affected three sleepers and multiple cars with the crew car overturned.
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Lampasas
Texas
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Houston
Jim
Henry Cunningham
Retired I. C. Officer Dies in Chicago Hospital
Shadrach Casper Draper aged 77, a 50 year Illinois Central railroad official retired in 1943, died in a Chicago hospital after a week of treatment for a broken leg. He lived in Omaha after retirement. survived by widow Hettie May, a daughter Mrs. George Sheean of Omaha, and two sons Lawrence and William, both of Chicago.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
Shadrach Casper Draper
I. C
Clinton, Tr
Draper
Omaha
Neb
Hettie May
George Sheean
Lawrence
William
Mercy Recommended for Grandmother-murderess
Tennessee Supreme Court affirms death sentences for Bet tie Burge and her son Sherman Burge in the throat-cutting murder of Mary Dean, a 30 year old Indianapolis waitress, but recommends executive clemency to spare them from the electric chair.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Supreme Court
Bettie Burge
Sherman
Burges
Mary Dean
Indianapolis
Veterans group urges purge of Johnson and Acheson
The Veterans of Foreign Wars urged President Truman to replace two cabinet members, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, with a near unanimous resolution at their 51st national encampment in Chicago. Delegates cited military unpreparedness and diplomatic blundering, with a dozen floor speakers naming the two officials, while opposition sought softer language. The convention backed Truman on Korea and Formosa, praised universal military training, and opposed importing Russian goods.
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Chicago
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Truman
Defense
Louis Johnson
Dean Acheson
Department of Defense
State Department
Johnson and
Acheson
Baird Helfrich
Illinois Democratic State Administration
Korea
Formosa
Richard Fisher Named Villa Grove Postmaster
Richard L. Fisher nominated as postmaster of Villa Grove to succeed W M Jones. Nomination sent to the Senate today by President Truman in Washington.
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Richard Fisher
Villa Grove
Washington
Richard L. Fisher
W. M. Jones
Senate
Truman
House Votes Spending Now On Defense
The House approved immediate spending of a 16.7 billion defense package, including a four billion dollar expansion of foreign military aid. The measure, passed by the House last Saturday, awaits Senate action with hearings underway. Secretary Acheson and Secretary Johnson urged rapid approval amid concerns over Allied rearmament and Communist threats.
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Washington
House
Congress
Clarence Cannon
DMO
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Dean Acheson
Defense
Louis Johnson
U. S
Johnson
Acheson
Registration in Schools Sept 5 for Carbondale Pupils
Registration for Carbondale grade school pupils opens at 9 a.m. Tuesday September 5 with classes starting September 6. Grades 1-5 register at their zone school, 6-8 at Lincoln Junior High. book rental fees vary by grade. Junior high students pay a $1 tower fee and can add 30 cent accident insurance.
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Carbondale
Clyde Winkler
Winkler
Lincoln
Watch Yanks Smoke 108000 Cigars Sent To Korean Front
Seattle reports 108000 stogies headed west for GIs in Korea via Port of Embarkation. Red Cross supplied all but 7500 of the shipment. private citizens plus Newark and Tampa contributed the rest. Cigars are described as scarce and shared like letters from home.
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Seattle
Wash
Hal Boyle
Korea
G.l.s. Associated Press
Boyle
Red Cross
Newark
N. J
Tampa, Fla
Gulf hurricane lashes Florida coast and supplies relief
A gulf hurricane struck near Mobile Alabama sweeping into Panama City Florida causing dock damage and mass evacuations. Two injured by a tornado in Apalachicola and high winds reached as far as Pensacola and Santa Rosa Island with limited damage overall. A second hurricane formed in the eastern Caribbean while a third moved north east of Bermuda. Storm impacts included power outages and debris across Mobile area and central Alabama.
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New Orleans
Mobile
Ala
Panama City
Fla
Carl Gray
Florida
Red Cross
Apalachicola
Carribbean
Weather Bureau
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Martinique
West Indies
Atlantic
Bermuda
Pensacola
Blakeley Island
Mobile River
Bayou la Batre
Alabama
South
Governor Names Day To Replace Hershey
Springfield Illinois August 31 Edward Dal 35 year old former administrative assistant to Governor Stevens will replace Henry Hershey as director of the state Insurance department tomorrow Hershey announced his resignation in July and would leave September 1 Governor Stevens office announced the appointment Day has been serving as assistant insurance director since July 17
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Springfield
Ill
Edward Dal
Stevens
Henry Hershey
State Insurance Department
Hershey
Stevenson
Day
Australian infantrymen reach Japan by plane
Australian infantrymen en route to join United Nations forces in Korea arrived in Japan by air on August 31. The arrival marks a step in the deployment of Australian troops to the Korean conflict under UN command.
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Japan
Tokyo
United Nations
Korea
Striking C I O Workers Threaten GE Plant Action
Striking C I O Electrical Workers threatened to flood GE's jet engine plant with water unless the company withdraws several hundred foremen billeted in five strike bound factories. The move targets the nation’s largest jet engine development facility as labor strife continues.
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Lynn
Mass
General Electric Co
Soldier’s Last Letter From Korea Reveals Longing to Live
Pvt. Bobby Gene Cover, 18, of Company G, 22d Infantry, died in Korea on Aug 11. In a letter to his aunt Miss Anna F. Cover, dated Aug 2, he wrote of near death in combat, outnumbered defenses, and his wish to return home, ending with a pledge to never leave home again. The family has not received full details of his death.
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Bobby Gene Cover
Korea
Anna F. Cover
North University Avenue
Cover
Pvt. Cover
22D Infantry Regiment
Reds Open Drive on Masan Front
Reds hammer northern front near Shmnyong and beat back a U S attack northeast of Waegwan. In the south American Negro and South Korean troops retook Battle Mountain as the bloody hill changed hands for the eighth time in two weeks.
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Shmnyong
U. S
Waegwan
Battle Mountain
Union Dispute Delays Two Area Construction Projects
A dispute between labor unions stalls two area jobs. The Central Illinois Public Service substation near Anna encounters delays as laborers clash with electricians over base digging and phases of work. Floodlight installation at Southern Illinois University’s stadium is eight weeks behind after a ruling favored electricians, which laborers refuse to follow.
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Anna
Southern Illinois University
Central Illinois Public Service Company
J. O. Jones
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
West Frankfort
C.I.P.S
Jones
American Federation of Labor
J. T. Dunlop
Dunlop
State Finally Names Baby Female Buffalo Springfield
Illinois officials select the Buffalo Rock State Park calf as "Bisonia" after a contest. Walter Gray, Springfield assistant city engineer, proposed the name and wins an all expense weekend at a state park.
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Springfield
Ill
Falo Rock State Park
Buffie
Sophie Tucker
Mary Todd
Walter Gray
Koreans War Pin-Up Parade Shines in Film Star Pick
Hollywood sources report the Korean war era pin-up trend continues with Merine selecting Joan Caulfield as “Our Nifty for Fifty” amid publicity.
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Hollywood
Merine
Joan Caulfield
Victim Seeks Stolen Cadillac and Bank Book
Byron B. Black a 52 year old public relations counsellor from Des Plaines Illinois offered a 25 reward for the return of his 1949 Cadillac and a black book stolen from in front of a St Louis bank yesterday The book contains records of his business with about 750 Midwestern banks over the last twenty years Black is staying at the Majestic hotel in St Louis
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St. Louis
Byron B. Black
Des Plaines
Black
Majestic
Navy reveals Benevolence toll and surviving crew
The navy reports 23 dead from the Benevolence sinking after a fog bound collision with the freighter Mary Luckenbach offshore. Five remain missing presumed dead, with 505 rescued and 492 previously accounted for. A coast guard board continues to question the Luckenbach crew.
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Navy
Mary Luckenbach
Coast Guard
Russians and Soviet Zone Sign Peace Treaty Pact Report
Berlin reports Die Welt claims Russia and the Communist government of the Soviet zone reached a peace treaty agreement. The terms would serve as leverage against Western Allies in Berlin, though other sources could not confirm and U S intelligence had no knowledge of it.
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Berlin
Die Welt
Soviet Zone
West Berlin
U. S
Two Divisions Attack Pohang as Front Near Pohang
North Korean forces launched a two division assault along the eastern front near Pohang as U S and South Korean troops fought to hold the port city. Reports from Masan say 15 dawn strikes and heavy artillery fire pushed UN forces back briefly before counterattacks reopened the road north of Pohang.
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Kigye-Pohang
U. S
Pohang
Taegu
Tokyo
Apan
South Korea
Naktong River
A.P
Stan Swinton
Masan
Red
Swinton
United Nations
Douglas MacArthur
Kigye
Sea of Japan
Korea
Kim I] Suthg
Two Persons Injured In Auto Accident
A three car smash up on the T00 block of South Illinois avenue at noon sent a fire truck to the scene and hospitalized two people. Phyllis Knight was described as seriously injured while Paul Bame had unspecified injuries. A Yellow Cab caught fire but its driver escaped injury. A Michigan tourist carload may have been involved.
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South
Illinois Avenue
Phyllis Knight
Paul Bame
Miss Knight
Bame
Michigan
Gaming Banned at Fair by Sheriff O Keefe
Perry County Sheriff Thomas O Keefe ordered two penny arcade games at the Du Quoin state fair closed. He said the devices were attracting heavy play from children and vowed no gambling would be tolerated on fairgrounds.
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Sheriff O'Keefe
Perry County
Thomas O’keefe
du Quoin
O’ Keefe
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Sahara Desert
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Miss Cover
Reds
North Korea
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