Reformatory Rioting Halted By Tear Gas
A brief dining hall riot at the Sheridan Reformatory ended with tear gas. Two inmates described as troublemakers were sent to LaSalle County jail. About 120 of 200 inmates were in the hall. damage estimated at 400 dollars. Donald Randolph and Cornelius Ritchie faced potential destruction of state property charges.
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Sheridan Reformatory
Clarence Farber
LaSalle County
Farber
Chicago
Clayton C. Harbeck
Ottawa
Donald Randolph
Cornelius Ritchie
State Penitentiary
Storm Kills 35 in Africa Tornado Hits Albertynsville
A tornado near Johannesburg South Africa Sunday night killed an estimated 35 people and injured more than 400 in the Albertynsville mud and brick settlement. Witnesses described a blast like wind sweeping a mile square suburb of 5 000 residents, with houses collapsing and residents buried or struck by debris.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Albertynsville
Oklahoma church raids blamed on subversives
Tonkawa Oklahoma December 1 AP a State Crime Bureau agent and Baptist minister doubt the vandal gang that broke into five churches last weekend was merely prankish youths. They suggest a subversive group or a deranged mind may be involved. On a wall the phrase go to hell appeared. Ministers and townspeople plan to nab the vandals with state help.
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Tonkawa
Okla
State Crime Bureau
Weather Brief With Temperatures and Lake Level
Snow and sleet mix with rain ending late tonight. Lows near 26 to 30, highs 30 to 35 Tuesday. Lake level 21 inches below spillway and 4 feet below spillway. sunrise 7 a.m., sunset 4:37 p.m. Yesterday’s temps shown as 32.
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Crd
Eisenhower Adds Aldrich and Dulles to Foreign Team
President elect Eisenhower names Winthrop W. Aldrich as ambassador to Britain and John Foster Dulles as secretary of state designate. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to lead the U S delegation to the United Nations, Harold E. Stassen to head the Mutual Security Agency, with Gen Lucius D. Clay also due to meet the President.
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Arthur Vandenberg Jr
John Foster Dulles
Winthrop W. Aldrich
U. S
Great Britain
Sen
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
United Nations
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Lucius D. Clay
Columbia University
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Arthur S. Flemming
Milton Eisenhower
Rockefeller
Flemming
Ohio Wesleyan University
Office of Defense Mobilization
Pennsylvania State College
Aldrich
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Lodge
American U. N
Harvard
Chase and of New York
Chase Salempany
Telephone and Telepany
Metropolitan Lite Company
Westinghouse Corp
New York Central Rairoad
The
Discount Corp. of
New York
Southern Uboosay. The Daily Free Press excerpt
The item lists publication details for The Daily Free Press from Carbondale Illinois. It notes edition timing evenings except Sundays and holidays and credits Southern Illinois Publications Inc at 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois. It also confirms second class post office status under March 1878 act.
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Southern Uboosay
Daily Free Press
Southern Minois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale Minois
Carbondale
Ilinois
Taste For Alcohol Inherited Whether You Are Man or Mouse
University of Georgia nutrition associate professor Dr. Leonora Mirone reports mice studies showing alcohol preference is habit forming and may be inherited. Alcohol drinking increases desire. offspring of alcoholic mice outdrink their parents.
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Amens,a
Vee
Leonora Mirone
University of Georgia
Eight Convicts Escape Western State Penitentiary
Eight armed convicts overpowered staff at Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh and escaped by sliding down a 70 foot wall on a rope made of bedsheets. A ninth man briefly fled then surrendered. a tenth was captured on the roof. One fugitive, Cormack F. McNelis, 39, was later arrested in McKeesport. Police statewide hunted for the others.
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Pittsburgh
Towmerende
Western State Penitentiary
McKeesport
Steel Company
Draper Urges Aid For Europe In Wartime Policy
William H. Draper Jr. urges continued American military aid to Europe until the Western defense buildup is complete. He says economic aid should be temporary and highlights boosting trade, investment policy, and currency relations to sustain free world economies. Draper has served as President Truman’s chief economic adviser in Europe.
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William H. Draper Jr
U. S
Europe
West
British Broadcasting Corporation European Service
Draper
Atlantic
Kremlin
America
Free World
President Truman
Sister Kenny Buried Today in Australian Cemetery
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, polio specialist, is buried near her mother's grave in Nobby Queensland after a 10 day illness. She died Saturday at 66. Mourners filled Toowoomba’s Neil Street Methodist Church with officials including Charles Carlson, U S consul general in Queensland.
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Sydney
Australia
Elizabeth Kenny
Nobby
Toowoomba
Neil Street Methodist
Charles Carlson
U. S
Queensland
French Rule Gets Support In Saar
In Saarbruecken, the French-backed government won a clear majority in parliamentary elections with 55 percent of valid votes for the Christian People's party led by Johannes Hoffmann. The Social Democrats were second with 33 percent. Communists 9 percent. Democratic People's party 3 percent. Turnout was 93 percent of eligible voters, with 24 percent of ballots invalid or unmarked.
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Saarbruecken
Saar
Germany
Christian People’s Party
CVP
Johannes Hoffmann
Social Democrats
Democratic People’s Party
France
Illinois soil tests cover over 1.3 million acres on 29 thousand farms
The University of Illinois reports soil tests in 1951 on 1,341,707 acres across 29,435 farms. Madison County led with 1,311 farms tested, followed by Washington with 968 and Marion with 834 tests.
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Urbana
University of Illinois Today
Illinois
Madison County
Washington
Jand
Marion
House Begins Campaign Cost Investigation
Washington December 1 AP House investigators summon major party leaders for first hand accounts of rising campaigning costs in the video era. Rep Clarence J Brown leads the early hearings with figures suggesting national spending far exceeds the three million dollar annual legal limit.
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House
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Hale Boggs
Boggs
Wife Found Dead in Open Grave Beside Husband
Mrs. Anne Bowring, 66, long visited her husband’s grave, went missing four days, and was found dead in an open grave beside him by her daughter. She appeared to be asleep, having apparently moved a plank aside to lie beside her spouse, then covered the grave.
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Anne Bowring
Refinery Blast Probed Seven Die at Pure Oil Numble Nederland
Officials of Pure Oil Co. investigated a refinery explosion at Nederland Texas that killed seven men in the control room of a 200 foot high cracking unit and injured three others. The blast, felt in Beaumont and Port Arthur, left twisted beams and a towering inferno. D H Kyle 36 of Nederland died Sunday.
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Nederland
Tex
Pure Oil Co
Max Sniffen
Beaumont
Port Arthur
D. H. Kyle
Marine's Letter Cut Short In Korean Front Bunker
A 21 year old Marine in Korea, soon after learning his wife had a son, writes a letter in a front bunker. A Communist mortar shell hits outside, a fragment severs his jugular and he dies on the dirt floor. Navy Hospital Corpsman John E. Kearney and Lt. Thomas Stephens attempt aid as gunfire rages.
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Korea
Navy
John E. ‘Kearney
Woodside
N. Y
Kearney
Thomas Stephens
Granite City, Ill
Winnie Rath Judd Escape Tangles Arizona State Hospital
Phoenix report says at least five hospital staffers implicated in Winnie Rath Judd escape. Superintendent Dr. M W Cosway cites outside help and possible firings while Gov. Pyle may order an investigation. Judd captured after escaping through a window and hiding in an empty house.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona State Hospital
Trunk
Winnie Rath Judd
M. W. Cosway
Conway
Los Angeles
Howard Pyle
Baptist Pastor Burns Page of Revised Bible in Temes Church
Rocky Mount North Carolina December 1 AP a Baptist minister burned a page from the revised Bible during a small service because the word virgin is removed from a passage Less than 200 witnesses watched as Rev Martin Luther Hux ripped out a page and set it ablaze outside the Temes Baptist Church He denounces the revision as the master stroke of Satan and a plan by modernists to deny Jesus Christ divinity and the virgin birth
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Rocky Mount
N. C
Temes
Martin Luther Hux
Hux
Jesus Christ
Three Die In Fire At Small Home Tragedy
Saturday a fire destroyed a two room house killing three children of Mary Coleman and Earnest Coleman whose ages under three. Fire Chief Herbert Bush cited an overly heated coal stove as the probable cause.
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Mary Coleman
Myrtle
Earnest
William
Herbert Bush
International jurists back Lie firings on Communist ties
A 50 page UN panel opinion endorsed Secretary General Lie's authority to fire staff who are active American Communist party members or who refuse to answer questions about espionage or subversion. The three jurists William de Witt Mitchell Sir Edwin Herbert and Paul Veldekens issued a unanimous verdict amid McCarran hearings in New York.
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United Nations
Trvgve Lie
Lie
International Jurists
U. S
U. N
American Communist Party
U. S. Grand Jury
Senate
William de Witt Mitchell
New York
Hoover
Edwin Herbert
London
Paul Veldekens
Catholic University of
McCarran Senate Subcommittee On Internal Security
International Monetary Fund
Legion chief urges truce deadline and pushes offensive plan
American Legion national commander Lewis K. Gough urges the United Nations to set a deadline in Korea peace talks and then launch a full-scale offensive if terms fail. He backs Gen. MacArthur’s bombing above the Yalu, China's blockade, and invasion of southern China with Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists.
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Lewis K. Gough
American Legion
United Nations
Gough
Douglas MacArthur
Yalu River
Red China
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Month's Jet Score 23-4 in November Air Battles
Fifth Air Force reported November air battles against MiG-15s with a score of at least 23 to 4. Allied aircraft also damaged 3 035 Communist supply trucks on North Korean roads. Clouds and rain limited air action while Marine Corsairs hit targets near the West Coast and near Red positions on the Western Front.
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Seoul
U. S. Sabre
Fifth Air Force
North Korea
Marine Corsairs
Mother and three children die in Sackett stove blast
A young mother and her three children were killed in a fire caused by a stove explosion in a two room hunting lodge at Sackett, near Ridgway, Pennsylvania. State police said Mason tried to start the fire with kerosene before the blast on the eve of deer season.
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Ridgway
Pennsylvania
Sackett
Mason
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