Plane Wreck in Paraguay Kills or Disappears Fifteen
A Brazilian airliner with 25 aboard crashed in fog near Asuncion. Fifteen were killed or unaccounted for, nine survived. Passengers included Time’s John Dowling. Torino coach Vessilio Bartoli survived with serious burns. Plane was en route Buenos Aires from London via several cities.
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Asuncion
Panair Do Brasil
John Dowling
Time Magazine
Buenos Aires
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Cuatro Mojones
London
Paris
Lisbon
Dakar
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Vessilio Bartoli
Italy
Torino
Panair
Pan American Airways
Europe
Latin America
Dale Dale to face tax evasion trial in Illinois
Dale of Carbrmdale is ordered to appear in federal court June 20 as he faces a July 11 trial on evasion of 104 656 dollars in income tax. U S Attorney John Stoddart Jr declined comment. defense attorney John Hoban cited scheduling conflicts. The case accuses Dale of not reporting contractor payoffs during his time as boss of 38000 AFL laborers in Southern Illinois. He was previously convicted in December of trying to extort 1 03 000 from a contractor for a power plant in Joppa and of extorting 7500 from a subcontractor. A bill of particulars alleges 153 841 received from contractors over six years in return for labor peace.
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Evan Dale
Carbrmdale
U. S
Hoban
Dale
AFL
Ilinois
Joppa
Indianapolis Woman Killed Near Vandalia
An Indianapolis woman Mary Naughton about 65 died in a two vehicle crash on U S Route 40 five miles east of Vandalia. Her daughter Mary A Johnston 42 of East St Louis was driving the car. Johnston and her three children were injured and taken to Fayette County Hospital Vandalia. The truck was driven by Harold Eugene Stine 16 of Brownstown.
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Indianapolis
U. S. Route 40
Mary Naughton
Mary A. Johnston
East St. Louis
Harold Eugene Stine
Brownstown
Johnston
Fayette Centy Hospital
Pleasantly Warm Weather Forecast For Friday
Sunny and pleasant conditions expected with Friday highs in the low 80s and comfortable nights in the upper 50s to low 60s. Yesterday reached 78 while seas and times show sunrise at 4 34 a m and sunset at 7 27 p m with lake levels near spillway today at Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake.
Illinois Adventurer Slows Down No More Wars
Harold Whitey Dahl the famed mercenary pilot now operates DEW radar line freighters from Mont Joli to Frobisher Bay Coral Harbor and Fort Chimo across northern Quebec and Canada. The Champlain, Illinois native, 45, once saved from a firing squad after a Francoist appeal, reflects on a career spanning Swissair Venezuela and the Royal Canadian Air Force. He plans to write his life story while continuing to fly for cash and thrills in the Arctic.
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Manoir St. Laurent
Harold
Whitey) Dahl
Francisco Franco
Mont Joli
Frobisher Bay
Coral Harbor
Fort Chimo
Franco
Edythe Rogers
Europe
Dahl
Canadian
Arctic
Canada
Harold (Whitey) Dahl
Turnpike Bills Sent To Floor
The Illinois House moved five bills aimed at limiting Toll Highway Commission powers from the Roads and Bridges Committee to the calendar. One bill would reduce the commission to three members, with governor and public works director removed as ex officio members. Other measures grant Legislature power over location decisions, set up review procedures, and restrict use of tax funds for connecting highways.
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Illinois House
Toll Highway Commission
Toll Road Commission
Lung Cancer Deaths Rise in Advanced Counties
The World Health Organization reports a 30 to 80 percent rise in lung cancer deaths since 1949 in the world's medically advanced counties.
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Geneva
Wadd Health Organization
British Sub Blast Feared Fatal To 13
The Royal Navy submarine Sidon blew up and sank in Portland Harbor. Thirteen men were feared dead, seven injured, with survivors rescued. The blast hit the torpedo department as the sub prepared to leave port. the Sidon was launched in 1944 and helped occupy Hong Kong after Japan’s surrender.
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Sidon
Portland Harbor
G. B. Fawkes
Hong Kong
Girl Dies After Staple Ingestion At Home Near Jonesboro
A 4 year old Union County girl Diana Elizabeth Thompson died after swallowing a staple at her Jonesboro area home. She was admitted to Union County Hospital Tuesday evening and died Wednesday morning following surgical removal. Surviving are her parents Norman and Mrs. Thompson, a brother James and two grandparents. Funeral at 2 p m Friday at the home with burial in Jonesboro Cemetery. Norris and Son Funeral Home in charge. No inquest.
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Union County
Jonesboro
Diana Elizabeth Thompson
Norman Thompson
Union County Hospital
James
Hattie Thompson
Anna
Flossie Woolridge
Bob Burton
Jonesboro Cemetery
Norris and Son Funeral Home
Russian Women Offer $2000 to Austrians for Marriage
Viennese paper Weltpresse reports Russian women with Soviet occupation troops in Austria offer up to 2000 Austrian shillings to Austrians willing to marry them. They want to stay after the Soviet withdrawal per the Austrian state treaty.
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Vienna
Weltpresse
Austria
Mock atomic raid outlines massive casualties in alert drill
The Associated Press reports Operation Alert simulated a hydrogen and atom bomb attack on 61 U.S. cities. New York City shows 991,258 dead, Chicago cites a successful test, while Los Angeles and San Francisco are listed with high fatality totals.
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Civil Defense
Val Peterson
New York City
Brooklyn
New York
New Jersey
New England
Chicago
Kansas City
New Orleans
Buffalo
N. Y
Flint
Mich
Detroit
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Mock Attack Simulated H Bomb Strike Hits Chicago and St Louis
The report outlines a hypothetical five million ton H bomb detonating over Chicago at 2 20 pm and a smaller bomb over St Louis at 2 45 pm in a statewide drill named Operation Alexi. It estimates 199 000 deaths and 177 000 injuries in the two cities with large evacuations and dust moving southwestward over Illinois.
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Kanass City
St. Louis
Chicago
Murphysboro Woman Pleads Guilty to Extortion
A Murphysboro woman and former licensed foster mother for girls under the Illinois Youth Commission was sentenced to three days in the Jackson County jail and fined 300 dollars and costs for extortion. She admitted threatening to expose alleged misbehavior involving a 15 year old in January to extract 200 dollars from a tavern operator. The case prompted removal from the Youth Commission list and raised concerns about supervision of girls in her care. She is to be released from jail late Saturday afternoon.
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Murphysboro
Illinois Youth Commission
Jackson County
Ethel Brown
St., Murphysboro
Peyton Case
Brown
John Gilbert
Youth Commission
Gilbert
Mrs. Brown
West Seeking Unity At Talks
The Western Big Three foreign ministers met in New York to align strategy for talks with the Russians in San Francisco and Geneva. Dulles, Pinay, and Macmillan spoke of peace and unity as they prepared for a summit framework with Molotov and leaders Eisenhower Eden Faure Bulganin in Geneva.
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San Francisco
Geneva
Antoine Pinay
Harold Macmillan
U. S
State Dulles
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Boston
V. M. Molotov
Switzerland
Eisenhower
Eden
Edgar Faure
Nikolai Bulganin
Labor Peace Methods Discussion Tonight
Arbitration procedures to prevent strikes will be discussed at a Southern Illinois Labor Relations Council meeting tonight at 7 30 pm in the student Center Southern Acres. Council Chairman Bill Westberg said invited guests include E T Simonds of Simonds Construction Co Carbon dale and O M Hudgens of Mitchell Construction Co Herrin.
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Southern Illinois Labor Relations Council
Bill Westberg
Carbondale
Southern Acres
E. T. Simonds
Simonds Construction Co
O. M. Hudgens
Herrin
Mitchell Construction Co
Little Stinker puzzle entries flood in by deadline
Fans competed to beat the Stinker as 5,843 puzzles were turned in this week. Zeigler and Carbondale residents led with 150 and 100 entries respectively. No poems or plays were received by the deadline.
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Zeigler
Carbondale
Cobden Trucker Unhurt, 2 Die
Two Kankakee men were killed in a head on collision with an automobile and truck near Peotone Wednesday night. Victims were John T. McIntyre 23 and Joseph Barranby 39. Truck driver Orval Camden 48 of Cobden was hospitalized in shock with good condition.
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Kankakee
Peotone
John T. McIntyre
Joseph Barranby
Orval Camden
Cobden
St. Mary’s Hospital
Oklahoma City Hit By Destructive Wind Gusts
Wind gusts up to 107 miles per hour lashed Oklahoma City this morning wrecking communications at the Weather Bureau. Hail measured about one half inch, with three and a half inches of rain causing minor flash floods. No injuries reported. Nearby Scott City Kansas also struck by wind and hail with property damage.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Scott City
Kansas
Pitched battle erupts in Buenos Aires near Government House
Bombs pounded Government House area at 3 26 p m Buenos Aires as Peron forces battled in downtown. Dozens of blasts and heavy smoke from Plaza da Mayo district raised fear of many victims amid offices in the area.
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Government House
Peron
Plaza da Mayo
Juan D. Peron
Vatican
Rosario
Argentina
Radio Mitre
Plaza de Mayo
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