Justice Dept Cleanout Aim Of Brownell
Atty General designate Herbert Brownell plans a large housecleaning at the Department of Justice after taking office January 20. He will dismiss anyone tied to government scandal and overhaul policy-making officials, Washington attorneys, U S attorneys, and marshals. He prioritizes cases on communism and subversion, tax fraud, and antitrust, aiming to raise the office to a higher level.
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Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Helena
Hawaii
Herbert Brownell
Department of Justice
Brownell
Department
Washington
U. S
Dwight Eisenhower
Illinois liquor dealers seek Dram Shop Act revision
About 20 000 Illinois retail liquor dealers convened a statewide dramshop conference in Springfield on December 11. They urge the 1953 Legislature to strip the phrase in whole or in part from the act, limiting liability for tavern keepers. Other goals include age identification cards by county clerks and transfer of liquor license value upon death or sale.
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Springfield
Illinois
Jack Batuiello
Alton
Jess Boyle
Belleville
Mildred Muzzarelli
Granite City
Vid M. Wilson
Ilinois Licensed Beverage Association
Weather Synopsis for Southern Illinois Regions
Cloudy and cold conditions expected in Southern Illinois with partly Kloudy tonight and Friday. Winds remain light as temperatures dip to 28-34 tonight and peak around 36-40 Friday. Yesterday’s highs reached 58 with morning low 35 and today’s early 27. Crab Orchard Lake sits 20 inches below spillway and Little Grassy Lake 3% feet below spillway.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Southern Illinois Daily Free Press publication note
Uplifted from the Carbondale Illinois area, the Southern Illinois Daily Free Press is listed with circulation and publication details. The item notes second class matter status at the Carbondale post office and references March 1878 acts.
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Southern Ilinoisia
Southern Tilinoie Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale Illinois
Carbondale
Illinois
Newspaper May Decline To Publish Letters in Campaign
Tulsa District Judge Elmer Adams dismissed Judge Baker Wall's $10 000 suit against The Tulsa Daily World ruling a newspaper may refuse to print any item. Wall, a supporter of Adlai Stevenson, said he would appeal to Oklahoma Supreme Court claiming humiliation for missing his letter.
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Tulsa
Okla
Elmer Adams
Oklahoma
Tulsa Daily World
Baker Wall
Sallisaw
Supreme Court
Voice of A Free People
Adlai Stevenson
Truman
Wall
the World
Republican National Ticket
Adams
Counon
State Cancels Road Plan Amid Highway Revenue Fears
Illinois cancels an eight million dollar highway contract letting scheduled for December amid questions on truck license fee revenue. Officials say cash balance safety and potential court rulings drive the halt, with the 1951 two cent gas tax rise due next month and legislative action expected next year.
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Illinois
Charles P. Casey
Rtment of Public Works and Buildings
U. S. Supreme Court
Nationalist Plane Crashes near Taipeh Killing 31
A Nationalist Chinese Air Force transport crashed into a mountain near Taipeh on Monday, killing 31 people. Among the dead are 26 airmen, plus two women and three children who were dependents.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Air Force
Drain Quarry For Children
Naperville workers drained a deep 90 foot quarry to recover two missing children Jean Peterson aged 6 and Edward Rosenstiel aged 3. Police and volunteers labored with pumps to empty an estimated 44 million gallons of water while families watched and waited near the site.
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Naperville
Jean Peterson
Edward Rosenstiel
Floyd Rosenstiel
Mary Peterson
UN Keeps 12 Security Risks In U N Work
A State Department official testified to a Senate subcommittee that 12 of 40 Americans labeled bad security risks by the United Nations still hold their jobs there. He added two more were blackballed, bringing the total to 14. The UN has fired 18 Americans on loyalty grounds, with a three month average lag to discharge.
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State Department
Department
United Nations
John D. Hickerson
U.N. Affairs
U. S. Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
The
World Organization
Hickerson
Herbert O’conor
D-Md
Homer Ferguson
R-Mich
U.N
Trygve Lie
United States
U. S
Heavy Attack Routs ROKs On Western Front
Chinese Communists launched a major assault on the Western Front at Little Norihill driving South Korean defenders from the area for a second time in 17 hours. Frontline reports say 3,000 Reds joined the attack as artillery barrages and fierce counterattacks unfolded with both sides suffering.
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Little Norihill
Associated Press
Milo Farnell
Little Nori
Critical Parents Lose Spelling Match With Student Team
Members of the local Parent teachers Association couldn’t spell some words they criticized public schools for not teaching. Coulee Dam high school sophomores challenged them to a spelling match this week and won 10 to 6.
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Parentteachers Association
Coulee Dam High School
Truman moves to replace Wage Stabilization Board members
President Truman announced plans to replace all industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board before week’s end and to appoint a successor to Roger Putnam as economic stabilization administrator. He signaled a broader extension of controls beyond April 30 while facing labor and business opposition.
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Washington
Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Roger Putnam
Putnam
Michael V. DiSalle
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
National Association of Manufacturers
R. A. McDonald
National Production Authority
Walter Reuther
CIO
AFL
Eisenhower
Irman Archibald Cox
WSB
NAM
Charles R. Sligh Jr
Four Arrested In Racial Case Indictments
A woman civic leader Mrs. Helen Russell and three men linked to Ku Klux Klan groups were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of lying in a terrorism probe. William Glenn Orwick Harvey George De Rosier and Arthur Freeze Udgreen faced $1,000 bonds each as they awaited court action.
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Ku Klux Klan
Liberty
Helen Russell
Edison Center Civic Association
William Glenn Orwick
John B. Gordon Klavern
Hialeah
Harvey George de Rosier
Arthur Freeze
Grand Jury
Investiman Catholic Churches
Jewish Village Negro
Carver
Greater Miami
Navy R7V-1 Super Constellation Flies 340 MPH
The Navy reports its R7V-1 Super Constellation has passed nine weeks of strength tests at Lockheed in Burbank. The 113 foot plane’s fuselage was stressed with ingots and external pressures to match 175000 pounds. It uses a turbo compound engine with a jet for cruise speeds of 340 mph or more, about 50 mph faster than piston-only craft.
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Washington
Navy
America
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Burbank
Calif
Railroad Commission Allows Gulf, Mobile and Ohio to Drop Trains
The Kentucky Railroad Commission on Wednesday granted permission to the Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad to discontinue local passenger trains 1 and 2 between the Kentucky Illinois line and the Kentucky Tennessee line.
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Kentucky Railroad Commission
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Truman blasts MacArthur and Eisenhower in press conference
President Truman rejected a White House meeting with General MacArthur and President-elect Eisenhower and accused both of demagoguery. He demanded MacArthur report after Japan, questioned Eisenhower’s Korea plan, and challenged any peace proposal from the generals.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Eisenhower
Korea
MacArthur
Japan
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
Wake Island
Germany
Sen
Arthur W. Wakins
Utah
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