Five year old girl killed after being struck by car in Williamson county
Barbara Sue Harris aged five of near Ferges in Williamson county died after a car driven by Woolard Kennedy struck her as she ran from a driveway onto the road at 8 05 P M Thursday. Kennedy said he was going about 45 miles an hour and could not stop in time. The child died at Herrin hospital at 8 20 P M from multiple injuries. No charges were filed against Kennedy. Funeral arrangements pending at Frick funeral home Marion Illinois.
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Barbara Sue Harris
Ferges
Williamson County
Woolard Kennedy
Corbin Street
Springfield
Kennedy
Mary Harris
Herrin
Benton
Frick Funeral Home
Marion
Harris
Creal Springs
James
Gene
Johnston City Road
Gana Hijacks Elks Slots in LaPorte Raid
A gang of seven or eight men hijacked 15 slot machines from the La Porte Elks Country Club two miles northwest of La Porte at 8 30 am. They herded the custodian Ray Walters chef and two girls into the dining room while moving the machines to a small truck. An estimated several hundred dollars may have been in the machines.
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LaPorte
Ind
Elks Country Club
la Porte
Ray Walters
la Porte County
The
Millikin Home Burns Nine Miles North Of Pinckneyville
Fire destroyed a Millikin residence and contents nine miles north of Pinckneyville on Thursday. Charles Millikin, father of Southern Illinois University star Tom Millikin, found the ruins at 3:30 p.m. Insurance covered only part of the loss. About 40 hunting dogs belonging to the family were released from nearby kennels to prevent spread. the kennels were spared.
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Pinckneyville
Charles Millikin
Millikin
28 Feared Lost in Indian Boat Sinking
Twenty eight young Indians on a pleasure trip are feared drowned after a sailing vessel sank in the Gulf of Cambay off Bhavnagar during a monsoon gale. Only two bodies have been recovered.
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Bombay
India
Gulf of Cambay
Bhavnagar
Anti Cold Ads Barred From Claiming Cure
Five major antihistamine makers announced they will stop advertising that their products cure or prevent colds. They may say the drugs ease cold symptoms and are safe when used as directed. The FTC actions target misleading claims under federal fair trade laws. Firms: Bristol-Myers Co Anahist Co Whitehall Pharmacal Union Pharmaceutical Grove Laboratories. Trade names: Resistab Anahist Kriptin Inhiston Antamine.
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Washington
Federal Trade Com
Mission
F.T.C
Bristol-Myers Co
Anahist Co. Inc
Whitehall Pharmacal Co
New York
Union Pharmaceutical Co. Inc
Montclair
N. J
Grove Laboratories Incc
St. Louis
No One Eats While Homer Works Divorces Wife
Homer Gilbert Clements faced divorce after his mother-in-law testified he kept a strict diet of cookie and meat portions to deny his wife meals while he worked. Mary Clements was granted the divorce.
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Homer
Detroit
Homer Gilbert Clements
Mary
Truman vetoes basing point bill to fix delivery prices
President Truman today vetoed the basing point bill which would let individual businessmen absorb freight charges and set uniform delivered prices. He said the measure would obscure rather than clarify existing pricing laws.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Local Weather Outlook For Fair Cooler Weekend
Cooler locally with thunder showers tonight. Saturday mostly fair and cooler with a high near 80. Overnight low 65 to 70. Thursday brings a low around 64 and a high near 94. Latest sun times and humidity noted. precipitation zero in the latest 24 hours.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Grassy Lake
State Police Raids Questioned by Grundy County Judge
Grundy County Judge William G. Peacock questioned the legality of state police raids as 89 slot machines two crap tables one roulette wheel and a bookmaker outfit are readied for destruction. The contraband valued at 2500 to 5000 dollars was seized in raids May 26 by 100 state policemen in Grundy Iroquois and Daviess counties. Seven Gables tavern near Morris yielded 32 machines.
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Morris
William G. Peacock
Grundy
Iroquois
Daviess
Seven Gables
Low Peach and Annle Crops Forecast in Illinois
Illinois apple and peach crops are forecast to be far below normal in year. The State and Federal Agriculture departments say apples will be about half and peaches about two thirds of normal. Weather conditions and hail damage hurt pollination and production in southern areas.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Union
Jackson
Johnson
Sparta Youth Star Farmer Named Illinois Star Farmer
Robert Holloway 16 of Sparta won the Illinois star farmer award at the 22nd Illinois Future Farmers of America convention. He led a field of five finalists and hails from a 160 acre Sparta area dairy farm with Jersey and grade cows while serving as Sparta High School leader and athlete.
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Champaign
Robert Holloway
Sparta
Illinois
Illinois Future Farmers of America
Holloway
James Murphy
Dundee
Marlin Kleckner
Pearl City
Eugene Trautvetter
Warsaw
Francis Moody
Catlin
Don Holloway
Sparta High School
Foreign Investments In Germany Legalized
Western Germany now allows foreign investments again and lifts the ban on foreign capital. Investors may buy real estate or listed securities using foreign mark bank accounts, but no date is given to repatriate profits.
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Berlin
Germany
Drowning of Atrell Locke Shocks Murphysboro
An 18 year old Murphysboro youth, Atrell Locke, drowns in an abandoned brick plant pond north of Murphysboro while swimming with friends. The body was recovered about an hour later, and funeral services are planned for Sunday. The drowning marks the third local fatality in a month and part of a series of area drownings.
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Murphysboro
Atrell Locke
Atrell M. Locke
North Eighth Street
Jackson County
Locke
Brick Plant
Jay Watson
Willie Neal
Leonard Tomlinson
Eugene Locke
Gm&o
Murphysboro Paving Brick Company
Free Will Baptist Church
H. Edmonds
Tower Grove
Jackson Fur
Carbondale
Southern
Illinois
Paul Foster
Mt. Carbon
Frank Henry
Harry Switzer
Union County
James R Richard Collier
Benton Lake
Illinois lawmakers brace for city aid tax debate
Springfield June 16 AP Illinois legislators prepared for a special session likely to spark a clash over taxing powers for cash-strapped cities. Gov Stevenson urged restraint by cities and the state, while Chicago leaders pressed for funds to cover essential needs. The session aims for a July 1 finish as bills on local licensing payroll taxes and prop tax limits surface.
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Springfield
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Martin H. Kennelly
Chicago
Stevenson
House
Senate
Kennelly
Illinois Municipal League
Dragnet Catches Two More Suspects in Spy Ring
The FBI arrested David Greenglass 28 in New York City and Alfred Slack 44 in Syracuse linked to the Klaus Fuchs spy ring. Dr. Sidney Weinbaum 52 was seized in Pasadena for falsely denying Communist ties. Harry Gold is named as the intermediary.
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F.B.I
U. S
Klaus Fuchs
Russia
New York City
David Greenglass
U. S. Army
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Syracuse
N. Y
Alfred Dean Slack
Fuchs
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
England
New York
West Coast
F.b.1r
Sidney Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Weinbaum
Pasadena
Institute
Jet-Propulsion Laboratory
London
Gold
Greenglass
N.M
New Mexico
Slack
Kingsport
Tenn
Oak Ridge
Communist Party
Sydny Empson
Richard B. Hood
Los Angeles F.B.I
Caltech
44th GOP Committee elects Brown chairman Sanders secretary
Clyde A. Brown of Pinckneyville was elected chairman and John C. Sanders of Murphysboro was chosen secretary of the Republican Senatorial Committee for the 44th district. The district includes Jackson Perry Randolph Washington and Monroe counties. The meeting in Pinckneyville was the first of two regular sessions for two-year terms. The next session in January 1952 will decide how many candidates the party will nominate for state representative from the 44th district.
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Clyde A. Brown
Pinckneyville
John C. Sanders
Murphysboro
Jackson
Perry
Randolph
Washington
Monroe
Frank W Thomas Ex-Chicago Exchange Leader Dies at 80
Chicago mourns the death of Frank Wright Thomas a retired stock broker and former president of the Chicago Stock Exchange He also served as governor of the New York Stock Exchange until his retirement in 1929 at age 80.
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Chicago
Frank Wright Thomas
Chicago Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Wright
Two Creal Springs youths held in $460 burglary
Two Creal Springs boys Freddie Hill 17 and Bruce Malroy 16 are jailed in Williamson county on burglary and larceny charges after confessing to stealing about 460 from the Joe Turner home. They hid the money in a pickle jar buried in a woods near the house and later moved it to another location. The theft occurred May 28 as the Turners began buying fishing gear and clothes. the suspects were arrested Wednesday and confessed Friday. Malroy is the brother of Steve Malroy 22 charged with setting fire to a service station.
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Creal Springs
Williamson County
Freddie Hill
Bruce Malroy
Robert Holbrook
Joe Turner
Holbrook
Malroy
Hill
Turners
Steve Malroy
Evening Star Suspects Sought After $15000 Club Holdup
Patrons of the Evening Star night club were urged to view photos of two suspects arrested in Fresno California. Sheriff Thomas O Keefe said James A Scott and Carl Morris Evans carried $600 and a diamond ring and may be linked to other burglaries as they traveled from the Midwest.
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Evening Star
California
Thomas O’keefe
Perry County
Fresno
Cal
O’keefe
James A. Scott
Carl Morris Evans
West Coast
Midwest
New York World Telegram Sun to Miss Two More Issues
The New York World-Telegram Sun will not publish today or tomorrow after a strike by about 400 members of the C S American Newspaper Guild and AF of L mechanics. Executive Editor Lee B Wood says this is the fifth day the paper has been off the air due to walkouts over higher wages and contract benefits.
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New York
New York World-Telegram & Sun
Lee B. Wood
World-Telegram & Sun
C.S
Seger Sanity Hearing Nears End In Decatur
In Decatur Illinois on June 16 up the sanity hearing for Carson Seger 20 Alton was nearly finished with a jury of nine men and three women to decide his fate for the April 1949 slaying of Howard Heininger. Dr James F McFadden testified Seger lacks the intelligence to grasp the death penalty and the case’s purpose.
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Decatur
Ill
Carson Seger
Alton
Peter Seger
Seger
Curtis Chapman
White Hall
Menard State Penitentiary
Jerseyville
Howard Heininger
Chapman
Beeen
James F McFadden
Canton
Murphysboro Piano Sold Through ABC Classified Ad
Mrs Crisenberry placed a $1 ABC classified ad in the Southern Illinois to sell an upright piano. The ad drew about 14 calls from Gorham Murphysboro Carbondale and nearby rural routes, with inquiries under Household Articles.
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Gana
Elks
William Thacker
Today's Index
Atrell
Abovt
Watson
Crawshaw Ambulance
Atrell Locke, Sr
Lyndall
Yvonne
Seth
Lois Ann
Carmen Locke
Mae Dell Givhans
William O. Locke
John Tidd
Misssippi
Chester
Tidd
F.B
Dragnet
Associated Press
AL Slack
Armed Forces
Quantico
Marine Corps
Robert L
Dennison
GOP
ABC
R. G. Crisenberry
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