Eisenhower to Confer With Taft On Legislation Agenda
President elect Eisenhower will lunch with Senate GOP leaders including Robert Taft to discuss the new administration's legislative program. Topics include wage price controls and possible rule changes, with further talks on civil rights, filibusters, and farm policy.
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New York
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
James C. Hagerty
Commodore
Hagerty
Taft
Sens
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Eugene D. Millikin
Colorado
GOP
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Milton Young
North Dakota
Congress
Bridges
Georgia
Martin Durkin
Fisenhower
Weather Outlook For Southern Illinois
Cloudy conditions dominate Southern Illinois with pockets of rain possible by Tuesday afternoon. Warmer tonight and mild Tuesday with lows 34 to 38 and highs 46 to 50. Temperatures from yesterday and today recorded. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake readings noted below spillways.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Northern Illinois Daily Free Press listing intro
Evening edition of The Daily Free Press published by Southern Illinois Publications, Inc. at 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois with second class matter status under postal law dated March 1878.
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Monthern Illinoisan
Southernlinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Illinois
Linote
Ender
Wealthy Texas rancher dies in deliberate plane crash
Ollie William Cox, 23, owner of Double Heart Hereford ranch near Sweetwater, Texas, radioed he would crash his yellow plane into a gravel pit and died after a 6,800 foot dive. Friends pleaded and CAA studied a tape of the exchange to seek motive. Cox said he could not face it and claimed nobody could help him. His wife was pregnant, and relatives cared for their child after the crash.
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Texas
Ollie W. Cox
Sweetwater
Tex
West Texas
Ollie William Cox
Hereford Ranch
Here
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Cox
Karen
Kay
Economy Test Seen By Sawyer
Washington December 29 Charles Sawyer and a team of government and private economists forecast a strong economy in 1954 and 1955 with a possible downturn in 1956 The report credits safeguards against a downturn and says the chief risk is fear not weakness It predicts defense spending peaking in 1953 54 then easing to 40 50 billion while spendable income may rise about 7 percent
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Washington
Charles Sawyer
Sawyer
Mrs Dorothy K Smith to Stand Trial in Tokyo
The court martial of Mrs Dorothy K Smith, accused of murdering her colonel husband, will begin January 5 in Tokyo. She is the daughter of General Walter Krueger, noted Pacific War hero and former Sixth Army commander.
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Tokyo
Dorothy K. Smith
Funeral Next Sunday for Queen Alexandrine
Denmark enters a week of official mourning after Queen Mother Alexandrine dies at 72. Dowager queen reigned from 1912 to 1947, died twelve days after surgery and five days after her 73rd birthday. A simple state funeral is planned for Sunday.
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Denmark
Alexandrine
Christian
Palmer To Head Conservation
Glen Palmer a 59 year old Yorkville insurance man was named director of the State Conservation Department by Governor elect William G. Stratton. Palmer succeeds Leonard Schwartz of Edwardsville with Stratton taking office January 12. Stratton kept Lewis E. Martin at assistant director. Martin 40 rose to his post under Schwartz and has served since 1935.
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Springfield
Glen Palmer
Yorkville
William G. Stratton
State Conservation Department
Palmer
Leonard Schwartz
Edwardsville
Stratton
Lewis E. Martin
Martin
Schwartz
William J. Stratton
Chicago
Navy Flying Boat Crashes in Sea of Japan
A four-engine Navy PBM flying boat crashed about 50 miles east of Kosong off Korea’s east coast Friday night. Ten of 14 crew are dead or missing. four survivors were rescued by a U.S. destroyer. Cause believed mechanical trouble.
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Tokyo
Navy
Sea of Japan
U. S
Kosong
Korea
Civilian atomic use hinted by experts and officials
AEC officials and congressional taps discuss civilian atom use with a two to five year horizon for small pilot plants and larger plants within a decade or more. Projections show limited power, production of plutonium for bombs, and uncertain profitability for industry.
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Sterling F. Green
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Camp Ellis Named as Possible Atomic Plant Site
Rep. Harold Velde says the Atomic Energy Commission is considering placing a plant at Camp Ellis Illinois near Lewistown in Fulton County The AEC may decide by March 1 1953 after talks with Washington officials in Pekin authorities report.
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Pekin
Harold Velde
R-Ill
Atomic Energy Commission
Camp Ellis
Ill
Army Training Center
Lewistown
Fulton County
Velde
AEC
Washington
MacArthur Rejects Truman War Claim Over Far East Ouster
General MacArthur denounces President Truman's remark that he was ousted for seeking all-out war in the Far East. In a statement circulated by Courtney Whitney, MacArthur says his aim was to end the conflict, not widen it, and cites potential casualties and risks of prolonging the war.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Far East
MacArthur
United Press
White House
Washington
Roger Tubby
Tubby
Courtney Whitney
Jobless Benefit Funds Hit New Record in 1952
High employment and more workers covered by state unemployment insurance raised funds for jobless benefits to a record eight billion four hundred million dollars in 1952, the Labor Department reported Sunday.
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Washington
Labor Department
McCarthy Plans Inquiry Into U S Colleges
Senator Joseph McCarthy announced a new probe into American universities to uncover Communist influence. He warned of opposition from educators but framed the move as a necessary effort to root out Communist thinkers in higher education.
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McCarthy
U.S
Washington
Joseph McCarthy
Wis
Congress
U. S. News & World Report
Senate
Harold Velde
R-Ill
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Velde
Reds Launch Ground Assault on Central Front
Chinese Reds attacked Allied positions on Rocky Point near Snip Ridge before midnight. About 200 men moved in two platoons then company strength as gunfire echoed over the Kumhwa Ridges for five hours before Reds pulled back under massed Allied fire.
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U. N
Rocky Point
Snip Ridge
Kumhwa
Heroic Ship Captain Denies 2 Million Offers
Captain Kurt Carlsen of the Flying Enterprise says he has rejected more than two million dollars offered to capitalize on his experience. He arrived Sunday night on the ill fated ship, noting he is a ship captain and has written over 10,000 thank you notes rejecting offers. The Enterprise sank off the coast of England on January 10 after days of valiant efforts.
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Kurt Carlsen
England
British Atom Spy Freed From Prison
Wakefield England December 29 AP The Western world s first convicted atom spy Dr Alan Nunn May was released today for good behavior He never publicly admitted passing atomic secrets to Russia and remains an avowed Communist.
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Wakefield
England
Western
Alan Nunn May
Russia
Aluminum Trailers Aid Illinois Trucking Weight Limits
Dudley McAllister reports Champaign Urbana truck operators adopt aluminum trailers to gain 3 000 to 4 000 extra pounds per trip. Robert C. Stout of A A Stout and Son endorses the lighter trailers, noting higher initial cost but lower maintenance and repainting savings. A standard aluminum trailer runs about 8 000 dollars versus 6 000 for steel, with durability proven on yard lots.
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Dudley McAllister
Champaign-Urbana
Robert C. Stout
A. A. Stout and Son
Stout
Aluminum Trailers Cut Weight Boosts Haulage Profit
The Stout firm reports aluminum wheels and bodies cut trailer weight by about 1 000 pounds per unit after replacing steel panels. Aluminum makes up 95 percent of the metal in trailers, enabling higher legal loads and greater profits. The company hauls bleachers across 46 states, with recent shipments to Orlando Florida and Roswell New Mexico from its 200 mile core area.
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Stout
Orlando
Fla
Roswell
N. Mex
Holiday traffic toll sets all time high during Christmas
Final United Press tally shows 581 highway deaths over the Christmas period, with seven plane, 79 fire, and 97 other accident fatalities, totaling 764. Texas records the worst state toll amid dramatic crashes and a patrolman killed in Illinois.
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United Press
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
The
Safety Council
Texas
Hawley
Tex
Arlington
Flying Fox
Albert Lea
Minn
Dearborn
Illinois
Kanakakee
Glen Gagnon
US Navy lists casualties from 1952 Korea war attacks
The Navy reports 16 US sailors killed and 55 wounded in 1952 Red attacks. Twenty one ships were hit off Korea, with the tug Sarsi lost to a mine in August. The fleet maintained a blockade and struck targets inland and along the coast.
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Tokyo
Korea
Navy
Nation needs 325000 classrooms but funds fall short
The U S Office of Education says the nation needs 325 000 new public school classrooms. Raising money by usual means covers only about half of the estimated 10 million dollar cost for facilities needed by Sept 1 to relieve overcrowding and replace obsolete schools.
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U. S. Office of Education
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