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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1954
Page
1
Japan's Diet chaos after Thursday riot threatens to postpone Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's world tour again. Police break up fights as lawmakers clash over a two day extension to approve a police bill with 50 injured and legal questions looming.
France names Gen Paul Ely as military and political head in Indochina, replacing Gen Henri Navarre and Maurice Dejean. Ely, 56, returns from a Far East survey and linked to plans for stronger defense amid Viet Minh threats around Hanoi.
The Metropolitan Opera declined a $100,000 bequest from McNair Ilgenfritz because its artistic integrity is not for sale. Ilgenfritz, a Philadelphia real estate man who died in April 1953, left the money on condition it produce one of his two operas, Phedre or Le Passant, which the Met staff found not up to their standards.
Local forecast calls for fair and cool conditions in Southern Illinois tonight. Saturday remains fair and warmer with a high in the upper 70s and low around 53 overnight.
Vietminh forces scored two major gains near Hanoi. At Cho Moi, 60 defenders fell after weeks of siege, threatening the Haiphong Hanoi supply road. In Ouanphungha, 3,000 rebels overran a seminary where hundreds died in brutal street to stairwell combat.
In Baddesley Clinton England June 4 an elderly nun Sister Antony of the Bare Foot Order burned herself to death in a convent outbuilding. A coroner's court at the convent ruled death by her own action while of unsound mind.
Dr. H. H. Donahue, state mental health director, reports tests on Indians show no physiological responses on lie detectors. Full-bloods allegedly defy polygraph theory with graphs that stay flat, while mixed-bloods exhibit definite reactions.
Severe monsoon rains in the Galle district 70 miles south of Colombo forced about 2 000 people from their homes. Floods swept away houses and uprooted rubber trees in Ceylon.
U S District Judge Roy W Harper sentenced four communists to five years and Dorothy Forest to three years for conspiring to advocate overthrow of the government by force. Names include William Sentner James Forest Marcus Murphy and Manewitz with Dorothy Forest also jailed. The defendants had been free on bond after conviction on Smith Act charges.
Washington June 4 AP Senator McCarthy agreed to permit use in the Army hearings of his monitored telephone calls with Army officials and Pentagon officials. Welch and McCarthy said all monitored calls between Pentagon officials and senators including McCarthy should be in the public record.
The Joe Must Go Club led by Leroy Gore says 375000 signatures gathered for a recall of Sen. McCarthy are short of the 403000 required by Wisconsin law. They must be postmarked by Saturday and approved by the attorney general. organizers promise signatures will stay secret unless the total is met. Gore notes support from Democrats and labor, and vows to jail if forced to reveal signers.
Los Angeles AP June 4 Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. urges Congress to speed anti-Communist measures echoing Eisenhower's pledge to use full government power against the Communist threat. He cites wiretap, union leadership removal, and espionage penalties as proposed tools while defending selective security screening of 2,500 to 3,000 workers since 1953.
President Eisenhower’s housing program ahead of a Senate House conference on public housing. Senate approves liberalized FHA credit, slum clearance, and up to 35,000 new public housing units annually, while House rejects that provision. Conference to begin two weeks hence with Capehart named to the panel.
Gov. Stratton proclaimed June 17 as Book Binding Day in Illinois to mark the opening of a new Jacksonville book binding plant. The ceremony highlights state support for manufacturing and local employment opportunities.
Egyptian archaeologist Zakaria Goneim reports discovery of a rock tomb at Sakkara near Cairo believed to be Pharaoh Sankhet's, dating about 3000 B.C. The alabaster sarcophagus is six feet long. inside may lie a solid gold coffin. The find, announced Thursday night, is touted as the most significant since Tutankhamun's tomb.
The president of a Tokyo women's university announced the destruction of 48 freshmen waist up nude photographs. He apologized to the students, who, with their parents, protested the pictures arranged by two faculty members studying the female physique.
The Senate passed a bill to remove a restriction on railroad retirement benefits affecting about 38 000 retirees or beneficiaries. Senator Cooper said the measure would revoke a law that reduced benefits by the Social Security amount owed to a retiree. The proposal drew support from four railroad unions and opposition from about twenty unions of workers in other railroad jobs.
Chicago observers faced unseasonable weather as June cooled to the low 50s with over two inches of rain in three days. North winds gusting to 60 mph whipped coastal drizzle that sent the University of Chicago meteorological society gathering to shelter.
Mrs Mary M Meyer aged 102 died at her Peoria home. She had been a widow since 1878.
Five crew members of a Japanese freighter reported to be suffering radiation sickness after passing within 1,200 miles of U S hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific. Doctors said the men are recovering, marking the first ship to report such effects since the Lucky Dragon incident last March.
The May 26 Bennington aircraft carrier explosion death toll rose to 102 with the death today of Alton Lee Robinson, a stewart's mate seaman from Cleveland. Seven crew members remained on the critical list at Newport Naval Hospital, including Harold J. Pennington of Hoopeston, Illinois.
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