Red Ink Stamps Limit Books For Illinois Students
Illinois Secretary of State Charles Carpentier orders red flag marks on many books in state libraries to bar underage readers. Pilgrim's Progress and Andersen tales were stamped with warnings and will require adult requests. other classics like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Good Earth also flagged. Staff stampings began as officials implement the plan to restrict objectionable material to adults amid earlier circulation withdrawals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Hans Christian Andersen
Charles Carpentier
Jules Verne
Jane Erve
Wuthering Heights
Illinois
Secretary of State
Andersen
Carpentier
State Library
Stampede Toll At Allahabad Kumbh Mela Rises
At Allahabad during the Kumbh Mela stampede, 341 bodies recovered and reports estimate total deaths near 500 with about 000 injured. Among the dead are 252 women, 49 men, and 40 children as a crowd of three million pilgrims surged by the Ganges and Jumna rivers. The disaster followed a clash involving naga sadhus and beggars along the procession route.
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Allahabad
Ganges
Jumna
Russian Gesture Moves To Revive East West Trade
Moscow February 4. The Soviet government offered to place contracts worth 400 million pounds with British industry for delivery 1955 to 1957. The memorandum to 32 British business visitors lists tankers ships plants power stations and rail equipment plus docks boilers and more. Minister Kabanov said trade development would benefit both sides and strengthen relations through direct British Soviet business contacts.
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Moscow
London
Ivan G. Kabanov
Britain
Russia
Kabanov
Great Britain
Soviet Spy Rastovorov Recruited by Beria Converts to U.S. Side
Tokyo reports Lt Col Yuri Rastovorov once Beria’s courier and top Red spy in Japan has defected to the United States. American sources say he sought asylum Jan 24 and began cooperating with U.S. agents at Okinawa. Described as dashing and American-leaning, he contacted U.S. operatives after Beria’s execution and implored protection as a political refugee.
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Yuri A. Rastovorov
Soviet
Russia
Red
Japan
Lavrenti Beria
Secret Police
Rastovorov
Beria
MVD
Moscow
Far
Rostovorov
U. S
Okinawa
Tokyo
Ratovorov
Weather Outlook For Southern Illinois Fair and Warm
Fair conditions continue tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Low tonight 33, high Friday 54, low Friday night 33. Temperature readings show yesterday's low 34, 7 am today 44, 6 pm yesterday 39, high yesterday 42. Sunrise 7:03 am, sunset 5:23 pm. Crab Orchard Lake 17 inches below spillway today. Little Grassy Lake 19 inches below spillway today.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Fleeing Intruder Branded Bandit By Chinese Laundryman
In San Francisco a Chinese laundry proprietor Song Lee, 37, resisted two bandits who invaded Wednesday night. He helped police by giving a clue leading to the arrest of Henry Leong, 19, found dazed in a vacant lot six blocks away with a .32 pistol. A hot flat iron branding marked Leong on the forehead.
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San Francisco
Song Lee
Henry Leong
Song
Stratton Says Fox Violated U of I Rules
Springfield Feb 4 Gov William G Stratton said James L Fox former head of the state division of foods dairies and standards violated University of Illinois rules by making a political speech on campus Fox claimed Stratton fired him over alleged Chicago hoodlum influence in soft drink trade Stratton denied politics in his remarks praising the foods division under Lowell D Oranger and noting reforms and inspections Fox described the division as a political cesspool and cited the horse meat scandal Fox and Stratton also discussed Illinois National Guard reorganizations noting the 33rd division changes and personnel shifts the governor indicated minor unit location adjustments may occur and no major changes to plans.
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O. T. Banton
Southern Illinoisan
Springfield
James L. Fox
State Division of Foods, Dairies and Standards
University of Illinois
William G. Stratton
Fox
Stratton
Adlai Stevenson
Charles W. Wray
Fox Tuesday
Lowell D. Oranger
Executive Mansion
George F. Ferry
Chicago
Harry L. Bolen
Cairo
Illinois National Guard
33Rd
Ferry
Bolen
Paul McDonald
Homer
44Th
McDonald
Camp Lewis
Washington
Richard L. Jarvis
130Th Infantry
Chicago Faces Mad Dog Scare Worst In 18 Years
Chicago clamps down on rabies outbreak as police and sheriff units hunt stray dogs in South Side districts. Two rabid dogs bite nearly two dozen people, and a child dies. A mongrel and a large German shepherd are among rabid bites prompting muzzles, captures, and urgent hospital treatment.
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Chicago
South Side
Cook County
John E. Babb
Robert J. Carroll
Peter O’brien
Mar
Health Department
Chinese Reds wete 21 Yanks
Panmunjom Feb 4 AP Twenty one Americans who spurned their homeland for communism attended a Chinese New Year party at Kaesong. Communist correspondent Wilfred Burchett said local Koreans and Chinese girls attended and there was plenty of Chinese wine. He said they will likely depart for Red China. Fifteen anti Communist Koreans were turned back to the Allies by the Indian command, likely handed to South Korea, as the United States was a belligerent in the Korean War.
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Panmunjom
Kaesong
Wilfred Burchett
Red China
Burchett
South Korea
America
United States
Forged Bonds Tied to Bank Collateral in St Louis
Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis examined banks and found forged bonds worth 270000 used as loan collateral. The forgeries involved Kerr McGee Industries securities, the Oklahoma firm led by Senator Robert Kerr. A vice president, William E. Peterson, cautioned such frauds were uncovered during routine exams.
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St. Louis
APA
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
William E. Peterson
Federal Reserve Bank
Kerr- McGee Industries
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
New Bricker Plan Faces Senate Treaty Power Clash
Washington February 4 AP A four way split in the Senate stiffened barriers to any constitutional amendment on treaty powers as Bricker R Ohio seeks limited treaty scope and congressional control of other international changes. Senate factions led by George D Ga and Knowland Cal push for votes on revisions while Kefauver D Tenn heads a small bloc opposing new constitutional action. The outcome remains unresolved as dissension among proponents and opponents persists.
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Senate
Sen
Bricker
R-Obio
Sen. George
D-Ga
Presider
Eisenhower
Knowland
California
GOP
White House
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Ten Year Old Herrin Left Shoe Tops White Elephant Contest
Attilio Calcaterra of Herrin won $50 for the top entry in the Southern Illinois White Elephant contest with a ten year old left shoe. Winners include J E Ledbetter Cambria second prize $25 and Mrs Charles Connelly Murphysboro third prize $10 plus assorted $1 prizes for quirky items from Carbondale Murphysboro Anna and Royalton.
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Attilio Calcaterra
N. 20Th St
Herrin
E. Ledbetter
Cambria
Charles Connelly
Minton St
Murphysboro
Oliver
David Craig
Matt Hall
Carbondale
SINU
Juanita Garagiola
Margaret Sabine
John Crawford
Anna
Merce
Calcaterra
Southern Llinosan
Retired Printer, 99, Has Drawn $30,000 In Union Pensions
Louis De Witt, 99, of Round Lake, became the International Typographical Union’s one millionth pension recipient. He received a $100 February check from Don Hurd at Chicago Local 16 headquarters. Since 1920 he has collected $17,223 from the international and $12,881 from the local.
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Chicago
International Typographical Union
Louis DeWitt
Round Lake
DeWitt
Don Hurd
International Union
The
International
Stratton drops all candidate caravan plan in Illinois
Gov William G Stratton abandoned his plan for an all candidate caravan in the Republican primary saying there are too many Senate candidates to make the plan workable. He noted the constraint of long talks and short speeches and that every candidate will go it alone. Some candidates welcomed the change while others objected to being pressured into the series by party leaders.
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Springfield
William G. Stratton
United States Senate
Senate
Republican State Central Committee
Unionist Arrested Business Agent Charged With At tempt to Murder
Hartford February 4 AP A 37 year old AFL officer free on six thousand nine hundred dollar bond on two counts of assault with intent to murder a union laborer and his wife Earl Fines assistant business agent at Hodcarrier and Common Laborers Local 338 named in complaints by Charles Heath and his wife Heath says Fines fired three shots at him as he drove to work and two more at his home and his wife who came out of house. Heath a Local 338 member said union trouble existed
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Hartford
AFL
Earl Fines
Hodcarrier
Charles Heath
Marguerite
Steve Jacoby
Heath
Fines
Jacoby
Mine Relief Cut Assured by CIO Unit Trustees
A spokesman for the CIO United Mine Workers welfare fund said there is no present prospect that scheduled reductions in relief payments to disabled miners or their survivors will be cancelled or modified. Trustees led by UMW president John L. Lewis voted Jan 20 to suspend benefits after March 31, saying federal and state agencies are responsible for such payments. Pensions to retired miners are unaffected. disabled miners will still receive medical aid, artificial limbs, and training. The cut removes the $30 monthly maintenance for the disabled miner and the $10 monthly per dependent. widows retain $1,000 death benefits but lose future $30 maintenance for themselves and $10 for dependents.
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Washington
CIO
United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
UMW
John L. Lewis
Train Kills Elephant on Kenyan Railroad Track
In Mombasa Kenya on February 4 a bull elephant crossing a railroad line was struck by a train fatally. The train escaped damage and no passengers were harmed.
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Mombasa
Kenya
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Pilgrim Progress
New Delhia
India
Berna
Animal Welfare League Shelter
U of I
Stratton, Fox
Garet O'Brien
Auillio Calcaterra
Graydon Young
Kessel
Edith Tule
Royalton
Ralph Giddings
Ella Hughes
Craig
Marmon Auto
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