Price calls Eisenhower Korea plan a sham campaign ploy
Representative Price of Illinois denounces Eisenhower era proposals as window dressing in the Korea stalemate. He criticizes training South Korean divisions and relying on the Seventh Fleet, warns of false hopes and urges bipartisan foreign policy efforts.
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Washington
Price
D-Ill
Eisenhower
Korea
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
House
U. S. Seventh Fleet
China
U. S
South China
Chiang
Formosa
Governors Shivers Byrnes invited to White House talk
Sen. Taft announced that Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas and Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina will join a Feb. 26 White House conference on federal aid policy. Also invited is Gov. Alfred K. Driscoll. The meeting delegates discuss a proposed commission on state and federal relations and tax revenue division.
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Shivers
Byrnes
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Allan Shivers
Texas
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Alfred K. Driscoll
New Jersey
Weather forecast for Southern Illinois turns rainy
Cloudy skies turn warmer with rain late tonight. Thursday remains cloudy with rain. Low temperatures tonight 35 to 40 degrees. Thursday high expected 50 to 60 degrees.
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Illinois
Weather and lake levels at Crab Orchard and Little Grassy
Yesterday low 32 at 7 am 39 high at noon 53 today. Sun rises 6 47 a m sets 5 40 p m. Crab Orchard Lake 19 inches below spillway today. Little Grassy Lake 40 inches below spillway today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Unclear OCR: Southern LiMvoisau Daily Press Item
Fragmentary text from a Carbondale area notice mentions public sale and local officials. Limited readable names include West Sale and Minots Ga. Carbondale references appear ambiguous due to transcription errors.
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LiMvoisau
Vree Press
Blishea
Eee Publica Lnc. Vy
Saat West Sale Oem Ae Carbondale Minots Ga
Carvongaiy Silnete
Ander Portets Ot Maseb
Cat Bill Quickly Killed in Illinois Senate
Springfield Feb 18 AP The 1953 cat bill to prohibit running at large of cats and kitten abandonment was killed 6 to 5 in the Senate Committee on Fish Game and Parks. Sen William G Knox sponsored the measure backed by the Feline Society of America and denounced as a time waster by Sen Milton Mueller who argued enforcement would fail.
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Springfield
Illinois
Senate Committee On Fish, Game and Parks
Sen
William G. Knox
Chicago
Feline Society of America
Milton Mueller
Highland
Mueller
Woman Turns 80 With Ice Skating Birthday Party
Akron special report notes Mrs Sadie Woods will celebrate her 80th birthday with a skating party at Cleveland Arena on Monday. The four foot ten inch, 106 pound widow says skating is easier than walking and has taken up the sport at age 68 after a fall on icy pavement last winter.
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Akron
Sadie Woods
Cleveland Arena
Six Testify In Jelke Case In Vice Trial
Pat Thompson and Nancy Hawkins were reported as next witnesses for the state in the Margarine Jelke vice trial. The two would be the fifth and sixth young women to testify against 23 year old Minot F Jelke as material witnesses in the case before Judge Francis L Valente with an all male jury. The trial centers on accusations Jelke induced witnesses into prostitution and lived off earnings of Miss Ward. Hawkins, a 23 year old Indiana native, was among early witnesses in the probe into high priced vice activities.
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Pat Thompson
Nancy Hawkins
Case Society
Minot F. Mickey Jelke
Francis L. Valente
Suw
Valente
Eelic
Jelke
Miss Thompson
Pat Ward
Merenerite Cordova
Miss Ward
Miss Hawkins
Indiana
Wide Vice
Eisler Denies West Flight in East Berlin Speech
Gerhart Eisler, longtime East German Communist leader ousted by the ruling party, addressed a gathering Tuesday night at the Soviet House of Culture in East Berlin denying rumors of his flight to the West.
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Gerhart .Eisler
East Germany
East Berlin
Soviet House of Culture
Sabre Jets Down Seven MIGs Near Pyongyang
U S Sabre jets destroyed seven Red MiG-15s in strikes around Pyongyang as air forces pressed a two-front assault over the Korean peninsula. The tally in five days reached 35 MiGs destroyed or damaged, with Capt Manuel J Fernandez of Miami credited as the 26th ace of the war after reporting two additional kills.
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Seoul
Peb. 18
U. S
Sabre
Korea
Manuel J. Fernandez
Miami
Lent opens after Mardi Gras death in New Orleans crowds
In New Orleans the Mardi Gras celebration ended with a fatality as a 17-year-old Tulane University freshman, Phil Warren Stratton Jr., was killed when hit by a truck during the Rex parade. Church bells tolled Lent’s start signaling 40 days of fasting and penance.
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New Orleans
Rex Lord of Misrule
Orleans
Phil Warren Stratton Jr
Tulane University
Moline Writer Named Superintendent in Conservation
Lynn Callaway of Moline has been named superintendent of the education division in the State Conservation Department. Callaway, 48, has worked for the Moline Dispatch since 1928. He was sports editor from 1930 to 1944 and for the last 10 years wrote an outdoor column.
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Springfield
Lynn Callaway
Moline
State Conservation Department
Callaway
Moline Dispatch
City Cigaret Tax Proposed by Illinois Commission
Illinois cities may add one penny to existing cigaret taxes to fund local government costs. A second proposal would let cities levy five cents on transient hotel rentals. The report to the Legislature is due in about a month. A. L. Sargent notes Chicago-led interest and precedent elsewhere.
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Springfield
Illinois
A. L. Sargent
Illinois Municipal League
Chicago
Sargent
Cold Month Forecast Wide Eastern U S Below Normal
The Weather Bureau forecasts cooler than normal temperatures for most of the eastern half of the nation from mid February to mid March, with New England and Gulf Coast near normal. The Southwest is expected above normal, while other western areas stay near normal. rainfall likely higher than average in the Pacific Northwest and Atlantic seaboard, with drier conditions Oklahoma to Southern California.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
New England
Gulf Coast
Pacific Northwest
Atlantic Seaboard
Oklahoma
Texas
California
Twin four year old twins drown in lake during lessons
Four year old twins Bill and Leslie Robson drowned in a 15 foot man made lake in Tampa Florida while attempting to swim unsupervised. Their mother Mrs Jack Robson arrived and dove repeatedly as two adults unable to swim tried to reach them with poles. Firefighters recovered the bodies from the cloudy water.
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Tampa
Fla
Bill
Leslie Robson
Jack Robson
Minor earthquakes rattle Finley Tennessee
Two more minor quakes hit the Northwest Tennessee town of Finley on Tuesday Feb 18 rattling red houses oil and windows but causing no damage officials said.
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Tennessee
Finley
Tenn
U.S. Shuns Israel and Aids Egypt in Middle East Pivot
The Eisenhower administration reportedly sidelines Israel to avoid straining Arab relations. Seven Arab nations warn that more aid could threaten the Arab Jewish truce. Officials plan limited U S dollar aid and weapons shipments to Egypt to bolster defence against communism and entice Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime to align with the region.
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Eisenhower
Israel
State Department
Middle East
Egypt
U. S
Presthier
Mohanne Naguib
Sed Middle
Eas
Federal Grand Jury Delays Finnegan Inquiry
A federal grand jury inquiry into possible perjury in the James P. Finnegan trial has been postponed in St. Louis. Finnegan was a former internal revenue collector there. The delay affects the ongoing investigation timeline.
Marines raise 1100 for babies of fallen gIs
In Long Beach and Los Angeles, members of the 1st Marine Division collected 1100 in savings bonds for the infant sons of two fallen Marines. Pvt. John Robert Elwell and Pvt. Robert R Gutierrez died in Korea after a hill assault that killed 16 in their company.
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Long Beach
Calif
Betty Ann Elwell
Los Angeles
Amalia Gutierrez
1St Marine Division
Korea
Elwell
Gutierrez
Don Blanchard
Bruton
Rudy
Gutierrez and Elwell
Cpl
Robert Neal
Elkhart
Ind
Mother rescues four as residence burns
A 41-year-old mother, Rosalie Smith, saved three children by tossing them to a passer-by before leaping from a second-floor window with a fourth child. Mrs. Smith suffered first and second degree burns, treated at City Hospital. One child, 3-year-old Nathan, had a minor scalp wound. Passer-by Frank Esselmann caught Nathan, Linda, 2, and 11-month-old Alice, assisted in the fall of Mrs. Smith and Fred, 4.
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St. Louis
Rosalie Smith
City Hospital
Nathan
Frank Esselmann
Linda
Alice
Boost Proposed In Police Wages Across Illinois Cities
A bill from three Republicans in the Illinois General Assembly would raise police salary floors in dozens of cities. The proposal sets minimums from 300 to 350 dollars monthly, affecting towns from 5 000 to 150 000 residents, with supports from the Police Benevolent Association and Senate sponsors Clyde Trager Everett Peters and Lottie O Neill. The measure seeks talks with Governor Stratton in about two weeks to gauge support.
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Springfield
Illinois General Assembly
Police Benevolent and Protective Association of
Illinois
Clyde Trager
Peoria
Everett R. Peters
St. Joseph
Lottie Holman O’neill
Downers Grove
William G. Stratton
Knetzer Sentenced Five Years and Fined
Robert L. Knetzer, once a leading Edwardsville auto dealer, was sentenced by Federal Judge Casper S. Platt to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for hiding assets from creditors. The judge denied a request for a new trial as the business empire collapsed amid creditors.
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Springfield
Robert L. Knetzer
Casper S. Platt
Edwardsville, Ill
Knetzer
Igh
Ban
Group Report Demands No Tax Cut Delay in Budget Plan
A House Ways and Means report urged tax cuts precede spending cuts and warned delaying tax trimming could harm the economy. President Eisenhower insisted any tax relief require a balanced spending plan, with potential veto threats over policy clashes within the GOP.
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Washington
Cappo Longpeed
Sigpeensly
Salutteedi Vilyan
Eisenhower
House
Reed
White House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Martin
R-Mass
Ohio
Taft
Jority
Eisenhow
Senate
Saad
Truman
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