Court Rejects Move To Save Puerto Rican
The Supreme Court refused to halt executions of Oscar Collazo and Tomoya Kawakita amid rulings on President Truman's steel seizure. Collazo, linked to the Blair House attempt, and Kawakita, a Nisei treason convict, face only executive clemency to avert death. Both are cited with historical context including Kawakita’s wartime camp abuse and prior cases.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Truman
G. I
High Tribunal
Oscar Collazo
Blair House
Collazo
Tomoya
Kawakita
California
Los Angeles
Calexico
Calif
San Quentin
United States
John Brown
Torrington
Conn
Virginia
Harper’s Ferry
Brown
Weather Summary For Crab Orchard Lake Area Tonight And Tomorrow
Cloudy with little temperature change predicted tonight through Wednesday. Low tonight 64 to 68, high Wednesday 85 to 88. Yesterday’s high 83, low 50. Precipitation 0 inches in the past 24 hours. Wind averaged 0.7 mph. Sunset 7:20 p.m., sunrise 4:34 a.m. Crab Orchard Lake 2 inches below spillway today, Little Grassy Lake 1 inch below spillway today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Higher Truck Fees Delayed by Supreme Court Action
Springfield report states that unless the U S Supreme Court orders further delay, license fee increases from 1951 will start Thursday. A June 5 stay by Chief Justice Daily delays collection while truckers seek federal review of constitutionality. The dispute centers on about 20 million dollars at stake for Illinois truckers in 1952.
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Springfield
United States Supreme Court
Joseph E. Daily
Illinois Supreme Court
Justice Daily
Frank M. Pfeifer
Edward J. Barrett
Clem Smith
Sangamon County
Smith
U. S
Washington, D. C
Ase Field
Illinois
State Supreme Court
Kane County
Geneva
Barrett
Captives Protected U N Won't Force Reds Return
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison told armistice negotiators in Munsan Korea that the United Nations command will not force prisoners of war to return to communism. He said the demand to return POWs to a life they deem repugnant would be met with refusal, as North Korean Gen. Nam Il stood firm that all prisoners be returned, by force if needed.
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Munsan
Korea
William K. Harrison
U.N
United Nations Command
Nam Il
Cornell forgives reinstates 25 students over fake war bulletins
Ithaca N Y June 3 AP Cornell university reinstated 25 students who admitted taking part in a radio broadcast of phony war bulletins. A faculty committee on student conduct had suspended them a year but lifted the suspensions last night. The action allows seniors among the group to graduate with their class Monday instead of in 1953.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
WVBR
Miners Trapped as Echoes Reported in Ironwood Cave‑in
Rescue crews in Ironwood Michigan searched the Penoke iron ore mine for five trapped miners after a cave in buried a sub level near the 29th or main level. Faint tapping sounds were heard but could not be confirmed as coming from the men.
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Ironwood, Mich
Penoke
Sabath Undergoes Major Liver Operation
Chicago June 3 AP reports Rep A J Sabath 86 dean of the House underwent a serious operation to correct a liver ailment. Hospital authorities said the operation was successful and Sabath was in satisfactory condition.
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A. J. Sabath
House of Representatives
Sabath
Publication imprint for Southern Illinois Press edition
Evening edition of the Southern Illinois Press published by Southern Illinois Publications Inc at 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois. Entered as second class matter at the Carbondale post office under the March 1878 act.
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Southern Illinoisan
Ree Press
Southern Ilinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Ilnois
Illinois
Electricians and Teamsters clash at Joppa steam plant
About 2 600 AFL construction workers returned to the Joppa steam electric installation after a near riot sparked by a truck-driving dispute between electricians and teamsters. Dozens were injured, several vehicles were damaged, and construction backed by Ebasco was halted until night shift resumed to supply power to the adjacent Paducah atomic energy site.
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AFL
Joppa Steam Electric
Ebasco Services Inc
Ebasco
Paducah
Eisenhower warns air power main future war factor
Washington dispatch reports Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at a Pentagon news conference stating air power will dominate future war and challenging anyone to show how the foot soldier could be eliminated. He recalled postwar moves to separate air power from ground forces and warned of Communist subversion while stressing Korea and Indochina’s strategic importance. He discussed Europe’s vulnerability if it fell to communism and noted his transition from five star general to civilian candidate for the Republican nomination.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Robert A. Taft
U. S
Billy Mitchell
Carl A. Spaatz
Air Force
Korea
Indochina
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Radio Berlin siege as British seal off station
British military police ringed Radio Berlin with barbed wire and besieged the Russian operated station in the Soviet sector. About 50 British and 50 German officers guarded the barricade as crowds watched. The action followed Communist seize of fringe areas aimed at sealing off West Berlin from the Russian zone. The red transmitter continued broadcasting mostly music from within the Red held section.
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Berlin
Germany
Radio
West Berlin
Free Berlin
Red Radio
Black-Square
Berlin-Himstedt
West Germany
Koje Guards Wound Four in Korea Prison Clash
North Korean POWs at Koje Island defied guards by refusing to strip for a fence check. Guards fired riot guns, wounding four inmates as two were hospitalized and two treated by fellow prisoners. Casualties for the past 24 hours reached one dead and seven wounded.
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Koi Island
Korea
P.o.w.s
Red
Haydon L. Boatner
Koje
Gardener Arrested in Montebello Drug Bust
Montebello California police arrested 38 year old Charles Edward Calkin last night while he watered his garden. Officers found 80 marijuana plants in the garden.
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Montebello
Calif
Charles
Edward Calkin
Rhee’s Moves Seen Dangerous Amid Korean Crisis
In Pusan on June 3 AP reports President Truman told Syngman Rhee he was shocked by South Korea’s political crisis. A note to Rhee was delivered. Truman urged immediate steps to ease tensions as the U N troops and material defend democracy. Martial law around the provisional capital was proclaimed and the National Assembly may be dissolved. Assembly members jailed by police quit work for lack of quorum.
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Pusan
Korea
Truman
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
U. S
Rhee
United Nations
National Assembly
Hen Lays Radioactive Eggs in Study of Cholesterol
A hen named Hilda, used as a living tracer, is fed radioactive acetate at the Worcester Foundation to study cholesterol as it relates to human metabolism, aging, arteriosclerosis, and possibly cancer. Scientists Dorfman and Schwenk use Geiger counters to measure radioactivity in shells, yolks, and whites.
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Associated Press
Shrewsbury
Mass
Hilda
Worcester Foundation For Experimental Biology
Ralph I. Dorfman
Foundation
Erwin Schwenk
Dr. Schwenk
26 000 Miners Laid Off as Steel Strike Expands
Pittsburgh June 3 AP 26000 coal miners who feed steel furnaces have been laid off as the steel strike widens. Production dropped from over 300000 tons daily to a tiny fraction while thousands of railroad workers face furloughs. President Murray orders 650000 steel workers to walk out without a contract. Supreme Court rules the April 8 seizure unconstitutional. Truman weighs options, including Taft Hartley 80 day injunction or new legislation. Leaders urge quick talks as defense needs fall.
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Pittsburgh
Supreme Court
Philip Murray
C.I.0
United Steelworkers
Murray
U. S. Steel Corp
Minnesota
Hibbing
Minn
C.I.O. Steelworkers
Preston
Truman
Congress
High Court
Sen
Herbert Lehman
D-Lib-Ny
Phi Ip Murray
Dod
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Co
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Agricultural Transportation Association
Charles F. Mansfield
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Harrison
Cornell
Cago
Ike
Red ‘Radio
Gardener
Dorman
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