New V F W Head Is Chicagoan
Hugh Keable a 52 year old Chicago businessman and World War I veteran was elected Illinois commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He succeeds James R. Schmitz of Ottawa. Roy E. Frazier of Centralia was chosen senior vice commander and Carl Rosenbaum of Chicago is junior vice commander. Re elected were William M. Bollig Jerome H. Leviton and Dr George C Wood. The Rev Oscar Bohman Willard R. Butcher Harvey Shipp and Erwin J Everson were named other officers. The 1951 encampment will be in Kankakee.
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Rock Island, Ill
Hugh Keable
Chicago
Illinois
Keable
James R. Schmitz
Ottawa
Roy E. Frazier
Centralia
Carl Rosenbaum
William M. Bollig
Joliet
Jerome H. Leviton
LaGrange
George C.wood
Effingham
Oscar Bohman
Canton
Willard R. Butcher
Harvey Shipp
Erwin J. Everson
Oak Park
Kankakee
Methodist church names over 400 ministerial appointments
Detroit conference of the Methodist church announced more than 400 ministerial appointments yesterday and left several pulpits to be supplied. The Devil's Lake church near Ann Arbor was among those skipped.
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Detroit
The
Methodist Church
Devil’s Lake
Ann Arbor
Danish Orphan In New Home
A Danish orphan aged three and a half named Johnny arrives to start a new life with his adoptive family. The event marks a hopeful chapter for the child and his guardians as they begin integrating him into their home.
Flamingos at Hialeah Race Track Face Wind in Wake of Storm
In Miami on June 19 AP reports hurricane winds tilt the infield lakes at Hialeah race track, where flamingos form a windward wedge and shift with changing gusts. The scene accompanies a Danish foster child’s U.S. naturalization story linked to President Truman and a Danish family reunion in California.
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Miami
Hialeah Race Track
Bandits Hold Up East St. Louis Drive-In Take $2518
Six men robbed a suburban French Village drive-in theater and escaped with a 500 pound safe containing about 2518 dollars. Two workers, Jack Houlihan 19 and Fred Keck 17, were bound and gagged as the gang demanded the take and tried to remove a smaller safe from the concrete floor before loading the larger safe into a small truck.
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East St. Louis
Ill
French Village
Jack Houlihan
Fred Keck
Illinois
Ruth Mentor Brother Paul Dies at 85 in Virginia
Rev. Brother Paul C F X of the Xaverian order, longtime educator at St. Marys Industrial School Baltimore, and early mentor to Babe Ruth, died aged 85 at Sacred Heart Novitiate Fort Monroe Virginia. He guided Ruth during his youth and once rushed to New York to spur a slumping star who soon hit a home run record. He had been in frail health since 1947.
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Fort Monroe
Babe Ruth
Brother Paul
Xaverian Order
St. Mary’s Industrial School
Baltimore
Ruth
New York
Sacred Heart Novitiate
Vehicle Law Changes Sought Across States
At the 42nd Annual Governors conference in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia the council of state governments urged a uniform vehicle code covering administration licensing civil liability safety rules traffic signals and markings and speed. Highlights call for a separate merit staffed motor vehicle agency and adequate pay for employees. Licensing should include extensive examinations and unified statewide traffic courts with abolished fees and judges paid adequately.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Council of State Governments
Greenbrier
Senators Demand Ouster Over Lie China Policy
Two Republican senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Kefauver of California urged Secretary General Trygve Lie to resign or be ousted unless he withdraws his proposal to recognize Communist China. They called Lie a tool of communism and pressed the administration to act.
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Washington
Trygve Lie
United Nations
China
H. S. Bridges
New Hampshire
William K. Krifornia
Lie
Wild Ride Spurs Divorce Action
In Waukegan Illinois on Saturday June 19 Frances C Counley 34 says Merle Counley 37 abducted her and their two children forcing entry at gunpoint for a 10 hour high speed drive through Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin as fast as 90 mph He is jailed on assault with a deadly weapon charge Counley says the incident was a reconciliation effort and denies intent to harm his wifeAuthorities later seized him after the couple rode a train back to Illinois
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Waukegan
Ill
Frances C. Counley
Merle
Counley
Illinois
Wisconsin
Racine
Wis
Free Book Promises Help for Rheumatism in Missouri
An advertisement from Excelsior Springs Missouri on June 22 offers a free book on arthritis and rheumatism. The Ball Clinic promotes an enlarged work explaining why drugs fail and how relief may be obtained, with no obligation to respond. Readers are urged to write Dept 1252 to request the booklet today.
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Excelsior Springs
Ball Clinic
Dept
Xcelsior Springs
Missouri
Lewis Threatens Unity Unless UM W Gains Seat
John L. Lewis warned that real national labor unity requires the United Mine Workers to be included. He cited his mutual aid proposal as a catalyst for a CIO led general conference while AFL talks proceed. Lewis criticized press reports excluding UM W from planned discussions as harmful to national labor success.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
United Brewery
Detroit
Lewis
C.I.O
A.F.L
C.I.O. Lewis
Nun Beaten by Intruder at St Francis Convent
In Kansas City on June 19 AP reports an intruder attacked 26 year old Sister Mary Patricia Delaney of Nevada Missouri at the Sisters of St Francis Convent. She suffered four scalp wounds and a bruised arm. Police detained a man from the nearby priests dormitory for questioning. No theft reported.
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Kansas City
Sisters of St. Francis
Mary Patricia Delaney
Nevada
Hadacol advertised for nerve pains and stomach gas
An old Hadacol promotion claims the tonic helps deficiencies in Vitamins B1 B2 iron and niacin causing neuritis gas digestion and run down conditions. The ad cites Mrs Myrtle Wade of Martin Tennessee and urges doctor guidance with a money back guarantee and trial sizes priced at 1.25 and 3.50.
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Myrtle Wade
Route 1
Martin
Tennessee
The
LeBlanc Corporation
Fourteen Arrested in New York Poker Raid
New York police raided a pre-dawn poker game, arresting fourteen people. The group included fourteen women, most of them middle aged housewives.
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New York
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