1952 Strike Record Worst in Six Years
Washington reports 4 950 work stoppages in 1952 the highest since 1946. Major stoppages totaled 34 with more than 10 000 workers each led by the CIO United Steelworkers. Construction faced the most strikes tied to Atomic Energy Commission projects. Man-days of idleness rose from 22.9 million to 55 million with about 3.5 million workers involved. wages were the dominant factor.
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Washington
Labor Department
Atomic Energy Commission
BLS
Four Topics For Churchill Before Eisenhower Talks
London reports Prime Minister Churchill will brief Cabinet members on his forthcoming meetings with President-elect Eisenhower in New York. Topics include British American tactics if Stalin and Korea moves require response, joining the Pacific Defense Pact, Far East strategy and Britain’s role, and implications of Eisenhower’s Korea trip for potential solutions. Churchill sails on the Queen Mary Wednesday morning.
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London
Churchill
Eisenhower
New York
Stalin
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
United States
France
Korea
Weather Brief For Southern Illinois and Nearby Lakes
Cloudy for Southern Illinois with partial clearing tonight and a rain risk along the Ohio River. Colder in the southern portion with a high around 42 and a low near 28 to 32 tonight. Earlier temperatures showed a high yesterday of 51 and a low of 26 with today’s noon at 43. Crab Orchard Lake sits 25 inches below the spillway and Little Grassy Lake four feet below. Sunrise is 7 19 AM and sunset 4 46 PM.
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Illinois
Ohio River
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Newspaper index and publication details
Today's index for Southern Illinoisay Daily Press edition notes evening publication except Sundays and holidays by Southern Illinois Publications Inc at 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois. It records postal status as second class matter under March 1874 act.
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Southern Ilinoisay
Sree Press
Southern Ilinois Publications, Inc
Wee Main Street
Carbondale
Illinois
Illinois Sets February Draft Quota at 3900
Chicago December 30 The Illinois selective service director announced a February quota of 3900 for 19 year olds to round out the states draft. Inductions for this age group will not begin until after the second week of February and exact numbers depend on local manpower reports. Illinois will supply 7.4 percent of the national February call of 53,000 men.
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Paul G. Armstrong
Illinois Selective Service
Armstrong
Illinois
Col. Armstrong
Washington
Rotation points raised for rear area troops in Korea
Tokyo December 30 rear area rotation points increase to 40 from 38 due to shortages of replacements. Front line troops retain nine months service and 36 points plus 4 monthly, near front 3 monthly, rear 2 monthly. Dependents in Japan earn one point monthly. Clark and Washington dispute over replacements. Pentagon had forced a prior 38 point change in October.
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Tokyo
Korea
Mark W. Clark
U. S
Japan
Clark
Far Eastern
Washington
Pentagon
Allies counterattack regain Chorwon posts
Allied troops on the Western Front recaptured frozen outposts near Chorwon after a night assault by a reinforced Chinese Communist company. An Eighth Army briefing officer said about 30 Communists were killed and 100 wounded in the exchange as about 225 attackers struck. Allied defenders withdrew briefly then stormed back with reinforcements to retake the positions.
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Seoul
Chorwon
Eighth Army
Kaufman Dropped From CBS Show For Jest
Playwright George S. Kaufman was removed from the CBS program This Is Show Business after noting on Dec 21 that no one should sing Silent Night. He said the remark was not anti religious but against overuse of the carol to sell commercial products.
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New York
George S. Kaufman
CBS
Kaufman
Stratton Names Cummins to Head Illinois Labor Dept
Gov elect William Stratton has appointed Roy F. Cummins of Chicago to head the Illinois State Labor Department. Cummins, 52, is an AFL Electrical Workers Local 134 member, electrical engineer and co owner of Chicago Electrical Supply Co. He will replace Fern Rauch as Stratton fills Cabinet posts before the Jan. 12 inauguration.
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Springfield
Elecr
William G. Stratton
Roy F. Cummins
Chicago
State Labor Department
Stratton
Cummins
AFL Electrical Workers Union Local 134
Chicago Electrical Supply Co
Fern Rauch
East St. Louis
Joseph Hodges
Peoria
Hodges
Peoria Trades and Labor Assembly
Peoria-Pekin Building Trades Council
Edwin A. Rosenstone
Cambridge
Illinois Commerce Commission
Rosenstone
Public Works and Buildings Department
Ben Schull
Marion
Robert Barrett
Richard Lyons
U S Planes Urged to Maintain Production Pace
Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg Air Force chief says cuts in plane output would be catastrophic. He notes Russia built five times as many aircraft in the last five years and the U S has only reached halfway toward a 143 wing buildup begun 29 months ago.
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Washington
Hoyt S$. Vandenberg
Air Force
U. S
Russia
Aircraft Industries Association
Illinois Teachers Call for $750 Million School Upgrade
James E. Pease of the Illinois Education Association estimated that about $750 million is needed to build new schools and modernize existing facilities in Illinois to handle growing enrollments. He noted a teacher shortage, citing 401 graduates versus 2,626 job calls, and urged raising the per pupil foundation from 160 to 200 dollars. The estimate was given at the 99th annual IE A meeting.
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James E. Pease
Illinois Education Association
Pease
LaGrange
Illinois
School Problems Commission
Association
Organization of
Bloomington
Truman Seeks 73 Percent Billion Budget Next Year
An administration source says President Truman will urge Congress to approve about 73 percent of a billion dollars in new appropriations for next year with total spending near 80 billion under Eisenhower. The current year deficit is seen around five to six billion, below prior estimates, as defense lag effects and tax collections align.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Eisenhower
Russia asks Britain to vacate Moscow embassy building
Soviet authorities demand Britain leave its Moscow embassy within three months and relocate to another site in the capital. Britain may move to a different building as offered by Soviet authorities.
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Moscow
Russia
Britain
Pilot Reveals Capture of K Bomb Spies
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, commander at Wendover Utah, says two foreign agents were arrested near the base while the Enola Gay crew trained for the 1945 Hiroshima mission. He notes the spies did not enter the base or obtain secret information and were handed to the Manhattan District. The remark came after a private screening of a film based on his experiences.
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Paul W. Tibbets
Enola Gay
Hiroshima
Wendover
Utah
Tibbets
Manhattan District
Pentagon
Air Force
Thomas Finletter
United States
Tibbes
Finletter
Nevada
Elgin Air Force Base
Fla
Lucy
Shanghaiing Exposes Cross State Detention Plot Involving Hill
The Alabama man Gerdis Hill, 21, says he was coerced at pistol point in Detroit and shanghaied to Ohio where he was jailed in Toledo. Michigan seeks Hill's extradition and a return to the South while Ohio demands investigation before any action. Authorities identify the Birmingham deputy Batson as involved, while Ohio officials say no extradition request was filed.
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Pistol Point
Detroit
Ohio
Michigan
South
G. Mennen Williams
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Gerdis Hill
Toledo
Hill
Williams
Alabama
Birmingham
Wilton E. Hogan
Batson
H. Brady Batson Jr
Ohio Highway Patrol
Financier Rubinstein Ordered Deported for Draft Dodging
Financier Serge M. Rubinstein, once dubbed Wall Street boy wonder, must surrender by 3 p.m. or forfeit a $1000 bond as Washington issued a deportation order based on a 1947 draft-dodging conviction. Rubinstein, elusive since the order, plans to appeal to the Supreme Court if needed, with prior appeals exhausted. He previously served 24 years for draft dodging and faced an acquittal in a U S Federal Court case over SEC violations.
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Rubinstein
New York
Serge M. Rubinstein
Boy Wonder
Wall Street
Old Russia
United States
Washington
Atty
James P McGranery
Fifth Avenue
Hollywood
Milton Golden
McGranery
Supreme Court
Airliner Missing in Philippines With Seven Passengers
Philippine Airlines reports a DC-3 passenger plane missing over Northern Luzon. Seven passengers and three crew members were aboard. Identified passengers include Marshall Nunn of San Francisco and Mary Ireton of near Cincinnati, both U S Information Service employees in Manila. The twin engined plane departed Laoag for Aparri this morning.
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Philippines
Manila
Philippine Airlines
PAL
Luzon
Marshall Nunn
San Francisco
Mary Ireton
Cincinnati
United States Information Service
Laoag
Ilocos Notre Province
Aparri
Three Die In South Side Fire At General Furniture
A Monday blaze at the General Furniture Company building on South Halsted Street killed three workers and left two more employees and two unknown customers missing. Fire Marshal Corrigan estimated damage at 100000 to 150000 dollars as investigators searched the ruins for a salesman and two women who were last seen in the basement after an explosion. The identified dead are Harold Kistner 54, Earl Hildebrand 55, and Elaine Spaka 26 with Alvin Kessel 55 listed as missing.
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Chicago
South Side
Michael J. Corrigan
General Furniture Company
South Halsted Street
Harold Kistner
Earl Hildebrand
Elaine Spaka
Alvin Kessel
Atomic scientist appeals clemency for Rosenbergs
Nobel laureate Harold U. U. condemned what he called unequal punishment for the Rosenberg spy team. He expressed amazement and outrage in a letter among about 200 filed by the defense seeking clemency for Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg.
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New York
Harold R. U
Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel
High Noon Named Best Film by New York Critics
The New York Film Critics Association selected High Noon as Best Film of 1952. They also awarded Best Actor to Sir Ralph Richardson for Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Best Actress to Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba.
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New York
Sir Ralph Richardson
Shirley Booth
U S Attorney Says Election Tied To Grand Jury Delay
Roy Cohn testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee that the November election influenced top Justice Department talks delaying a New York federal grand jury report on Communist infiltration of the United Nations. He said he was outvoted 4 to 1 at the October 8 meeting and that the grand jury later produced its report on December 2.
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Justice Department
New York
United Nations
Roy Cohn
U. S
House Judiciary
Justice and State Departments
Cohn
James P. McGranery
Grand Jury
McGranery
Ross Malone
Charles Murray
Myles J. Lane
G. Frederick Mulden
U. N
House
Secretary of State
Dean Acheson
Lynch Chosen Demo Leader In Illinois Senate
State Sen. William J. Lynch of Chicago was elected minority leader of the Illinois Senate by a 9 to 0 vote with three absentees at the Democratic caucus in Morrison Hotel. The 68th General Assembly convenes Jan. 7, 1953, and Lynch succeeds William J. Connors, also of Chicago, as party leader amid a Republican-leaning chamber. Richard J. Daly attended as vice chairman of the county committee and lauded Connors while noting the Democrats are a small minority in the Senate. Governor Adlai Stevenson praised Connors for leadership after the prior session.
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Chicago
William J. Lynch
William J. Connors
Illinois Senate
68Th
General Assembly
Lynch
Democratic Party
Morrison Hotel
Richard J. Daly
Cook County
Democratic County Committee
Joseph L. Gill
Connors
Ors
Adlai Stevenson
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Arnold Kleinfeldt
Lawrence
Kan
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Tomahawk, Wis
Carol
Cummins For Labor Office
U.N
Walter
Columbus
N. Y. Film
U.S
Vincent J. Burke
United Press
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