RF C Director Admits Favoritism in Loan Case
William E. Willett testified before a Senate banking subcommittee that he left usual procedures to assign an examiner as a personal favor to C Edward Rowe, who later became an RFC director. The loan to Harrington Richards Arms Co. was for 300000 and Rowe owned the firm.
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Reconstruction Finance Corp
R.F.C
William E. Willett
Senate
C. Edward Rowe
Willett
Harrington & Richards Arms Co
Worcester
Mass
Rowe
Paul Douglas
Dill
Judge Rowe
R.F.C. Board
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Link Marion man to plot to kill Truman investigated
Secret service agents probed a Marion Illinois man Richard Lee Eairheart 21 for possible intent to harm President Truman after a February 6 conceal weapon arrest in Frederick Maryland He reportedly told a hitchhiker he was bound for Washington to finish the job and sought to see the president The case ties to the November assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican revolutionaries and involves court testimony and a six month suspended sentence tied to the weapon charge It lists his addresses as 302 Granite St Marion and Creve Coeur Illinois.
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Fredrick
Secret Service
Illinois
Truman
Richard Lee Eairheart
Washington
Eairheart
Granite
St. Marion
Iil
Creve Coeur
Ill
Thomas S. Glass
Army
Page Bain
Hagerstown
Bain
Ft. Meade
Frederick
W. W. Corbin
State Group Finds Pension Fund Savings For IPA C
The Schaefer commission report reveals the Illinois Public Aid commission funds full pension contributions for IPA C staff beyond federal rules. Federal authorities agreed to share future pension obligations at 75,000 yearly and cover 50,000 in back contributions, Powell said.
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Springfield
Schaefer
Paul Powell
Vienna
Illinois Public Aid Commission
I.P.A.C
Powell
Weather Summary for Today and Tomorrow
Partly cloudy and fair tonight with little temperature change. Low tonight 30 to 35 high Friday 45 to 55. Humidity 82 percent at 8 a.m. precipitation 0 inches in the past 24 hours. Wind averaged 1.58 mph over 40 miles of observed travel. Sunrise 6:45 a.m. sunset 5:42 p.m. Temperatures listed for Wednesday include 34 at 7 a.m. and 54 high.
Wild unruly son Richard Lee ran away from Marion family
Mrs. Eairheart of Marion, a washing worker widow, says her son Richard Lee was a wild unruly boy always in trouble. She has seen him little since he left home at 14 and last heard from him in Peoria early this year.
Students Demand School Reopening in Victory Pep Rally
Suburban Southport high school reopened after a bus delay caused by muddy roads. Students urged Trustee Nelson B. Swift to resume classes so they could attend a pep rally before facing Indianapolis Washington High in sectional state basketball action.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Southport High School
Nelson B. Swift
Southport
Indianapolis Washington High
Army to clarify guard call up plans in coming moves
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor announced at a news conference that the army plans to call up more national guard and organized reserve units at company and battalion size but does not expect to activate additional guard divisions unless a world crisis worsens. He said the earlier statement would be clarified to reflect this flexibility.
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Washington
Army
Maxwell D. Taylor
$40,000 Fire Destroys Garage At Frankfort
A Bonifield Brothers Freight Line garage south of West Frankfort was destroyed by a three and a half hour blaze. Damage was estimated between $35,000 and $40,000 with the garage, warehouse and offices burned. no city water supply forced mutual aid from Zeigler and Johnston City fire departments.
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Bonifield Brothers
West Frankfort
Bonifield
Russell’s Park
Bonifields
Zeigler
Johnston
Johnston City
Nape Ee
R. A. Bonifield
Metropolis
Southern Illinois University Chooses New Symbol Effort
An SIU student committee held a Spring Festival election to select a school symbol. The Egyptian urged Southern Flyers as a modern, easy to pronounce option. Wayne Mann chaired the panel. Lou Diamond was elected Spring Festival chairman while symbol ballots were delayed for counting.
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S. I U
The
Wayne Mann
Lou Diamond
Madison
Rebels steal ballots in symbol contest at Southern
Yesterday afternoon an unofficial count showed three names led the field for Southern's new symbol but none gained a majority. The ballots disappeared from the Alumni Services office and a note signed A Rebel declared them burned. Mann will chair a committee meeting to decide the next step.
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Mann
Alumni Services
Special Committee
Southern
Rail unions push government seizure of profits to force settlement
A railway labor leader urged the government to impound rail profits while under federal control to spur a settlement in a two year old dispute. Roy O. Hughes of the Order of Railway Conductors testified at a Senate labor committee inquiry, stating collective bargaining has failed and railroads are avoiding accepted channels. The dispute began in 1949 with 40 hour week demands and has expanded to include four unions as talks continue.
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Washington
Roy O. Hughes
Order of Railway Conductors
Senate Labor Committee
Hughes
James E. Murray
D-Mont
Murray
Hubert A. Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Labor Committee
White House
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginmen
Eisenhower Best Dressed in America
The National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers named Gen Dwight D Eisenhower the best dressed man in America both in and out of uniform. The list of ten also includes Bob Hope Thomas F Murphy Ed Herlihy Phil Rizzuto Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Dan Seymour Gregory Peck Edward Fields and Jan Murray.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers
Robert B. Underwood
Richmond
Bob Hope
New York City
Thomas F. Murphy
Ed Herlihy
Phil Rizzutto
New York Baseball Yankees
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Dan Seymour
Gregory Peck
Edward Fields
Jan Murray
Indiana House Bans Communist Party in State
Indiana House approves a bill to outlaw the Communist party with a 91 to 0 vote. The unanimous action was taken in Indianapolis as of February 22.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Communist Party
Southern Illinois University President Receives Freedom Award
Dr. D. W. Morris, president of Southern Illinois University, wins a Freedom Foundation award for his commencement address A Charge to the Graduates. The 1950 awards include a fourth place prize a medal and 100 in addition to two first prizes for Rev. Edward Gates sermon Time is Running Out and Inland Steel Company film In Our Hands.
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D. W. Morris
Southern Illinois University
Freedom Foundation
Dr. Morris
Foundation
Edward D. Gates
First Presbyterian Church of
Peoria
Inland Steel Company
Chicago
Bradley urges broader power sharing with free nations
Gen Omar N Bradley says the United States can share ample strength with allied free nations until they are self sufficient. He notes communism makes lightening the American military burden unlikely while praising NATO as stronger than a Soviet satellites league. Freedoms Foundation awards $100,000 to 800+ Americans and groups in a ceremony near Valley Forge.
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Valley Forge
Omar N. Bradley
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
League of Soviet
Bradley
Freedoms Foundation
George Washington
Joppa Plant To Boost Area Coal Demand
Urbana February 22 AP Two million tons of coal yearly will be burned at the Joppa power plant in Massac County boosting Southern Illinois coal demand says Dr. M M Leighton head of the state geological survey The plant slated for completion in 1935 will use one fifth of Illinois utilities coal and will produce 625000 kilowatts of power Electric Energy Inc of St Louis will build it to supply power for a new federal atomic plant in Kentucky
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Urbana
Joppa
Massac County
Southern Illinois
M. M. Leighton
State Geological Survey
Illinois
Leighton
Southern
Electric Energy, Inc
St. Louis
Federal Atomic Plant
Kentucky
Indictment of Delaware Professor in Atomic Research Case
A 34 year old assistant chemistry professor from the University of Delaware, Richard N. Lewis of Newark, is indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing Communist party membership on an Atomic Energy Commission personnel security questionnaire. The form, prepared in Schenectady in 1948, related to possible assignment to the Knolls laboratory near Schenectady operated by General Electric for the AEC. A warrant was sent to the FBI in Wilmington, and the maximum penalty on conviction is 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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Communist Party
Richard N. Lewis
Newark
Del
University of Delaware
Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis
F.B.I
Wilmington
Schnectady
N. Y
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Schenectady
General Electric Co
A.E.C
United States and Canada to Unite Civil Defense Plans
American and Canadian officials say they have agreed on a plan to combine civil defenses as if there were no border. The accord aims to enable cooperation across Windsor Detroit Vancouver Seattle and adjacent provinces and states.
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Windsor
Detroit
Vancouver
Seattle
Allied push grinds 60 mile front in Korea battle
Allied forces drive northward in a 60 mile rainswept front across central Korea in operation Killer. American, British, Australian, New Zealand, and South Korean troops press toward Reds near Wonju Pyongchang Hoengsong Chuchon amid mud, mines, and heavy weather.
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Tokyo
Japan
Korea
Wonju
Douglas MacArthur
U.N
Reds
Five Nations
U. S. Air Force
Marine
Navy
Yangpyong
Seoul
Pyongchang
U. S
Chipyong
Chuchon
Pyonchang
MacArthur Resumes Daily Communiques Under UN Command
General Douglas MacArthur today resumed his daily communiques covering ground air and naval operations as United Nations commander in Korea. The move sparked immediate speculation that MacArthur was asserting his authority.
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Tokyo
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
MacArthur
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