Angered Residents Protest $20 Million Liquor Racket Probe
About 75 Southern Illinois residents attended an Illinois Commerce Commission hearing in Marion on proposed rate increases for the Illinois Commercial Telephone Co. Testimony by Olney officials and merchants from Anna Jonesboro to Olney cited slow local connections and poor service.
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Southern Illinois
Illinois Commerce Commission
Illinois Commercial Telephone Company
Marion
Chamber of Commerce
Anna - Jonesboro
Olney
Charles E. Hasler
Joan H. Carter
Roy Wilkins
Anna Jonesboro
Snyder E. Herrin
Herrin
Zeigler
Cambria
Lan Haney
Johnston City
Kenneth Powless
Carrier Mills
David Warford
James R. Zimmer
Hurst
Frank Pfeifer
Springfield
G. Norman Kennedy
Claude Roth
Chicago
Yanks Break East Central Red Defenses In Korea
American units on the east central front shattered the main Red line after repelling five Communist counterattacks. Col. William R. Quinn praised light U S casualties as Marines and Army units advanced amid windy conditions near Hoengsong and Hongchon.
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Tokyo
Japan
William R. Quinn
U. S. Seventh Division
Eastwest
Pangnim
Wonju
Quinn
United Nations
Hoengsong
U. S. First Marine
U. S. Army
Hongchong
Hongchon
Ammul Creek
A. P
Stan Swinton
Fifth Air Force
Red Barracks
North Korea
Pyongyang
Red Capital
Weather Forecast and Lake Levels Report
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with rain likely on Wednesday and cooler temperatures. Low tonight around 35 to 36 with a high Wednesday reaching 45 to 55. Precipitation measured at 0.02 inches in the 24 hour span. Humidity near 79 percent and wind averaged 1.75 mph. Crab Orchard Lake sits 14 inches above spillway and Little Grassy Lake 25 feet below spillway as of Monday.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Wage Rise Plan Faces Board Reassembly After Quits
Washington reports Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston will back a 10 percent catch up wage increase but recalls the wage board to consider changes. The three liberalizing points include preexisting wage escalator clauses, fringe benefits, and inequity remedies. Meanwhile, NP A issues new maintenance material priority orders and tightens natural rubber use to stockpile, with blends of synthetic and natural rubber and specific product limits.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Johnston
Ex-Convict Develops Army Carbine Parts in Prison and After
David Marshall Williams, once imprisoned near Caledonia North Carolina for murder, developed the short stroke piston and floating chamber principles while jailed. He later worked with Winchester Arms and earned royalties from 60 patents, shaping the Army carbine and military training weapons.
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New York
U. S. Army
David Marshall Williams
Caledonia
N. C
Korea
Williams
Godwin
Winchester Arms Co
North Carolina
Senate approves free G I Insurance for armed forces
The Senate passed by voice vote a bill to provide $10,000 of life insurance at no cost to service members on duty since last June 27. It advances to conference with the House which previously approved a similar bill that ends after discharge. The Senate plan allows continuation with premiums like National Service life insurance.
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Senate
House
National Service Life Insurance
President Term Limit Set By New Constitutional Amendment
Washington reports the 22d Amendment limits future U.S. presidents to no more than two elected terms and a maximum of ten years in the White House. Harry S Truman is exempt. Utah and Nevada have ratified, bringing the total to 36 states. The amendment, ratified by the states and now part of the Constitution, can be repealed by the same process.
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Washington
United States
Harry Truman
White House
Truman
Utah
Nevada
Congress
Franklin Roosevelt
General Services
Jess Larson
Maine
Michigan
Iowa
Kansas
New Hampshire
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Delaware
Vermont
California
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Ohio
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Missouri
Connecticut
New York
Virginia
Mississippi
North Dakota
South Dakota
Amendment 7th and Other Constitutional Changes
The piece notes that the 22d amendment limits Presidential terms and calls it the seventh change since Reconstruction. It highlights foundational amendments abolishing slavery and equal rights, and mentions the 18th and 21st amendments as repealed or inoperative. Other listed amendments include the 16th through 20th, detailing tax power, direct Senate elections, women’s suffrage, and term start changes.
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Washington
Congress
U. S
Husband Tames Wife With Sledge Hammer Bond Set
A Dallas man received a $50,000 peace bond after admitting to striking his wife with a sledge hammer during bad weather. The wife, hospitalized with head injuries, faces further jail time if the bond is violated. The judge warned of a harsher sentence for a repeat offense.
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Dallas
Texas
Justice of the Peace
W. FE
Richburg
Solon Indicted For Profits On State Contracts
Solon James J. Adduci—an Illinois House veteran and Republican from Chicago’s West Side—was indicted by a Sangamon County grand jury on charges of corruptly profiting from state contracts. The four counts accuse commissions tied to envelopes used by the state auditor’s office, including $5,490 in commissions on a $21,316 sale and two contracts dating from 1949 and 1950, with a possible $1,000 fine if convicted.
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Springfield
James J. Adduci
Ilinois House
Sangamon County Grand Jury
Chicago
Adduci
Dewitt Crow
General Assembly
George P. Coutrakon
Grand
Central Envelope & Lithographing Co
Coutrakon
Michael de Torve
Assembly
State Auditor’s Office
Joppa Project Strike Halted
Protests by 30 Joppa residents over hiring in a $90 million Electric Energy plant halted work for three hours. Workers returned after unionists listened. pool director said 20 Joppa men already hold union cards and more will be included in the labor pool serving a 2000 construction job budget linked to a federal atomic project nearby.
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Joppa
A. F. of
Paducah
Cairo
Metropolis
Evan Dale
L. Pool
Syndicate Ships Liquor Into Dry States Across South
Tennessee Tax Commissioner Clarence Evans says the Kefauver crime committee will be asked to investigate a 20 million dollar illicit liquor operation centered in Cairo Illinois. He cites undercover investigations by Alabama agents and a Cairo syndicate supplying bootleggers in Mississippi and other dry regions.
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Tennessee
Clarence Evans
Kefauver Crime Committee
Evans
Cairo
Ill
Alabama
South
Oklahoma
Uur
Illinois
Kefauver
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate
United States
Revenue and Tax Commissioners
J. S. Palmore
Mississippi
Palmore
Cairo Officials Deny Knowledge of Syndicate
Cairo authorities deny knowledge of an illicit liquor syndicate claimed to gross about 20 million dollars yearly. State's Attorney Michael O'Shea cites six to eight Cairo wholesale firms in interstate commerce with no local complaints. Police Chief Earl Shepherd Jr says investigators found no evidence of illegal activity and notes liquor is shipped out of state with taxes disputed in court. A temporary injunction against the revenue department was issued in Cairo circuit court last December.
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Alexander County
Cairo
Michael O’shea
Earl Shepherd, Jr
Tiis Department of Revenue
Revenue Department
France Urges Russia To Accept Parley Bid
Paris government calls on the Soviet Union to accept Western powers invitation to set an agenda for a Big Four foreign ministers meeting on world peace issues.
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France
Russia
Paris
Soviet Union
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Roy Boley
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Leon Zwick
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Zwice
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Becauue
Charles R. Lee
Public Health and Safety
Yanks
Linda
Tippy
Mrs. Gordon Converse
Needham, Mass
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Collie
National Production Authority
N.P.A
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H. T.’ Peoples
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Nashville, Tenn
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