Franklin House Wins Post On High Court Seat
Circuit Judge Byron O. House of Nashville is elevated to the 1st District Supreme Court, filling the Maxwell vacancy. With 698 of 702 precincts reported, House leads Republican nominee Frank P. Hanagan 51 306 to 39 558 in a special election. Juergens succeeds Wham in the Eastern Illinois District. House has practiced law in Nashville since 1926.
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Byron O. House of Nashville
Supreme Court
Ralph L. Maxwell
House
Frank P. Hanagan
Benton
William G. Juergens
Chester
Eastern Illinois
Fred L. Wham
Centralia
Nashville
The
University of Illinois
Beck Aid In Loan Is Told
Washington reports the 1st Supreme Court District covers 24 southern Illinois counties. Testimony linked a college classmate of Dave Beck Jr. to a $30,000 union funds loan for a Seattle business, arranged by Beck Sr. Portland reporters Turner and Lambert won the 1956 Broun award for their Teamsters Portland connections series. The hearings may run a year or more and cite leads in 29 cities.
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1St Supreme Court
Southern
Illinois
Senate
Dave Beck Jr
Teamsters’ Union _ international
Seattle
Ruhl
Beck
McClellan
D-Ark
Ruh
Wallace Turner
William Lambert
The
Portland Oregonian
Teamsters Union
Portland
American Newspaper Guild
Circuit Court Bills May Be Cut To Three
Springfield Feb 26 progress on circuit court bills. A House special committee recommended revamping into three measures addressing four, influx driven, districts, institutions, and redrawn districts. Proposals include a fourth judge for the sixth district Macon Champaign Douglas Pratt Moultrie Dewitt counties and a separate Sangamon area bill. A Simon bill would pair Madison Bond counties in one district and St. Clair Randolph Washington Perry Monroe in another, with Smith proposing Clinton in a different configuration. Senate leaders named its special joint committee members Sens Gray and Monroe.
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Robert W. McCarthy
Lincoln
Ora D. Dillavoy
Urbana
Macon
Champaign
Douglas
Pratt
Moultrie
Dewitt
Senate
George P. Johns
Decatur
Will County
Joliet
Sangamon County
House
Cook County
St. Clair-Madison County
Smith
Simon Bill
James W. Gray
East St. Louis
James O. Monroe
Collinsville
Army National Guard Training Compromise Reached
The Army and National Guard reached a compromise over active duty training for new recruits. The plan, backed by Rep. Overton Brooks, gives Guard youths 17 to 18 years a year to recruit with 11 weeks of active duty, completed before Jan 1. Recruits 18 and older with no prior service face six months, with a three year reserve commitment.
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Army
National Guard
House Armed Services
Overton Brooks
D-La
Full Armed Services Committee
Air National Guard
Cabinet backs Ben Gurion amid Gaza Strip dispute
Israel’s cabinet discussed Eban reports on the Gaza Strip Sharm El Sheikh withdrawal clash as Prime Minister Ben Gurion won a 72 to 29 Knesset confidence vote. He warned of a serious struggle and dropped insistence on an Israeli civil administration in Gaza.
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Abba Eban
Gaza Strip-Sharm el Sheikh
David Ben-Guri
Knesset
Gaza Strip
Gulf of Aqaba
Ben-Gurion
Israel
Straits of Tiran
U.N
Strip
Abdel Momen Rifa
Assembly
Sharm el Sheikh
Rifa’i
U. S
Jerusalem
Eldorado Art Center Fire Prompts Disaster Fund Plan
H G Boots Pack recalls the Eldorado Art Center as it burned destroying the pottery kiln and smokestack with $24,000 losses. Community leaders form a Disaster Fund chaired by Pack to rebuild better, with Arch Baker donating the original lots and plans for a new building by SIU artist Eugene Bunker.
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Pack
Eldorado Art Center
John Work
Southern Il
Linois University
Arch Baker
Eldorado Furniture
Baker
Eugene Bunker
SIU
Southern Illinois University
Eldorado
Court Voting Figure Under 20 Percent
Less than 20 percent of the 458057 registered voters in 24 Southern Illinois counties cast ballots in the First Supreme Court District election. With 17 small precincts unreported, 89621 votes were counted, about 19.8 percent turnout. Election cost estimated at 250000 dollars, about 2.07 dollars per voter.
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Ilinois
Supreme Court District
Weather Update for Southern Illinois
Mostly cloudy and colder with rain ending tonight. Wednesday will be partly colder with highs in the upper 40s and lows near 30. Yesterday reached 68 with 1.25 inches of precipitation since yesterday morning. sunrise 6 39, sunset 5 47. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake levels near spillway today.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Grassy Lake
Where's Boris? Morros Named Spy Trial Witness
Government counsel identify Boris Morros former Hollywood producer and music director as key witness in the spy trial of Jack Soble Myra Soble and Jacob Albam. Morros 62 unnamed whereabouts cloaked in mystery according to US Attorney statements.
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New York
Boris Morros
Hollywood
Soviet Union
Morros
Asst
U. S
Atty Thomas B. Gilchrist Jr
Paris
Vienna
Zurich
Switzerland
Chamber of Federal
Gregory F. Noonan
George Wolf
Jack Soble
Brush
Myra
Sobles
Jacob Albam
United States
Russia
FBI
New York City
Marines in Court as Sgt Rich Stands With Counsel
Marine Sgt William E Rich of Canton North Carolina appears beside his counsel Lt Charles Knowles of Miami Florida and Lt George R Guenther of Hamburg New York during a legal proceeding.
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William E. Rich
Canton, N. C
Charles Knowles
Miami, Fla
George R. Guenther
Hamburg, N. Y
Coty to Visit U S in June for White House Talks
President Eisenhower and French Premier Mollet met at the White House for about 90 minutes to discuss the Middle East crisis and reminiscences of World War II. They announced that French President Rene Coty will visit the United States in the first week of June.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Guy Mollet
Middle East
Rene Coty
France
United States
Mollet
White House
James C. Hagerty
U N Force Urged for Gaza Border Patrol
Canadian Foreign Secretary Lester B. Pearson proposes a four point plan to remove Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba area. He asks the U N to deploy emergency forces along the armistice line and to replace Israeli civil administration with a U N administration while safeguarding innocent ship passage through the Gulf of Aqaba.
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Lester B. Pearson
Gaza Strip
Gulf of Aqaba
Israel
Pearson
U.N
Egypt
U. N
Acaba
Bruce Gave Demos $1000 in Endorsement Sparks Senate Scrutiny
Senators Watkins and Case urged a review of David K. E. Bruce background as President Eisenhower nominates him ambassador to West Germany. Bruce, 59, a Maryland resident and former ambassador to France, gave $1000 to Democratic campaigns in 1956, raising questions about his neutrality on U S policy toward Germany and the free world. He would replace Leone Conant who resigned the Bonn post last month.
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Watkins
Utah
Francis Case
David K. E. Bruce
Eisenhower
West Germany
Bruce
Senate
Case
Germany
Free World
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Maryland
France
Truman
Leone Conant
Bonn
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Franklin
High
Justice Maxwell
Byron C. House
Beck Aid
O. T. Banton
Springfield
Brooks
Ben- Gurion
United Nations
H. G
Boots” Pack
Boris
Spy Case
Rich
Parris Island
S. C
Coty
U.S
U.N. Force
Border Strip
N. Y
Eban
Dulles
Dag Hammarskjold
Demos
Irks Gop
Adlai E. Stevenson
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