Truckers Protest Fee Increases Threaten Illinois Revenue
Springfield June 21 Truckers plan to pay the new Illinois truck license fee increases under protest amid a possible Supreme Court ruling on the 1951 act. Attention centers on an estimated 20 million dollars for 1952 and potential legal challenges from the Midwest Authorized Truckers Association of Illinois led by James Dunber.
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Springfield
Illinois
Edward J. Barrett
U. S. Supreme Court
Borden Firm
Chicago
Barrett
Midwest Authorized Truckers Association of Illinois
James Dunber
Midwest Authorized
Bat
Old Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Ee Ae
Attorney General's Office
Sangamon County
Washington Law
United States
Scott W. Lucas
Weather Outline for Southern Illinois and Local Lake Level
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with slightly cooler temps. Low tonight 65 to 75 and high Sunday 85 to 95. A weather note records 47 miles of wind over 24 hours at Moore Pit and 2 mph average. Sun set 7:28 PM, rise 4:34 AM. Little Grassy Lake level with spillway today.
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Illinois
Daily Press Index and sections listing for March 6 1878
The page outlines the Daily Press editions with sections for area and national news Local news Editorials Social news and classified ads across pages 2 3 4 5 6 10 and 11 12 The issue notes evening publication with no edition on Sundays and holidays and credits South at act of Merch 6 1878.
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Euuthern
Soath
State Admits Bar Against Lattimore Trip
The State Department ordered Owen Lattimore barred from leaving the United States while it investigates reports he was arranging a visit to the USSR or satellites. A Johns Hopkins spokesman said Lattimore might be asked to teach in India for an academic year if the offer materializes.
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State Department
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Sen
Ruman
Ussr
Customs Bureau
U.S
Johns Hopkins
University of New Delhi
India
Kentucky couple welcomes fourth set of twins in five years
A Kentucky couple in Barlow welcomed twin girls at St. Marys hospital in Cairo. The babies arrived 13 minutes apart weighing four pounds two ounces and three pounds ten ounces. Mrs. Lester Batts noted they are running out of money.
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Kentucky
Lester Batts
Barlow, Ky
St. Mary’s Hospital
Cairo
Allies Repulse Heavy Attack On T Bone Hill
U S 45th Division inflict heavy losses on a reinforced Chinese regiment during a five hour battle west of Chorwon in Western Korea. The attack, part of a major artillery barrage, left about 600 Reds killed or wounded as U S troops held outposts on T Bone and adjacent hills.
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U. S. 45Th Division
T-Bone Hill
Korea
Chorwon
T-Bone
U. S
Eighth Army
Murphysboro Man May Head Eagles Ed Sullivan Probable Choice
Ed Sullivan 53 of Murphysboro was slated to become state president at the Illinois State Eagles convention in Herrin. He was elected first state vice president, succeeding the late Frank Johnson. Sullivan has 25 years in Eagles work and 30 years in Murphysboro. He runs Able Dry Cleaners and Furriers and is active in civic affairs. New officers to be installed Sunday at 10 a.m. with five aeries cited for Damon Rents Cancer fund contributions.
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Ed Sullivan
Murphysboro
The
Eagles
Herrin
Sullivan
Frank Johnson
Canton
Able Dry Cleaners & Furriers
Eagles Serie 670
Board of Education
Elks Lodge
Lions Club
House Bill Would Lift Most Controls
The House tentatively voted to lift price controls on most consumer goods and drastically reorganize the Wage Stabilization Board, with a big vote on inviting the President to invoke Taft-Hartley injunctions in the steel strike. The Senate and House measures push the Defense Production Act extension through changes, while the WSB would now be mostly public representatives with Senate confirmation and no role in labor disputes.
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Washington
House
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Henry O. Talle
Iowa
State Loses Cigaret Case
Three Randolph Park Tobacco Company officials Thomas Lavin Jr Jacob Horowitz and John Nuzzo were cleared of charges in a cigaret tax fraud trial. A state raid had seized 67 cases bearing counterfeit Illinois tax stamps and linked the defendants to a larger counterfeit racket.
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Chicago
Illinois
Thomas Lavin Jr
Berwyn
Jacob Horowitz
John Nuzzo
Oak Park
Randolph Park Tobacco Company
Cig
Randolph Park
Joppa Plant Walkout Sparks Sporadic Labor Dispute
A spokesman says 40 to 50 laborers walked off the Joppa steam power plant job in a dispute over layoffs. He calls the stoppage sporadic and says workers will return Monday. The broader context includes prior electrician visits and a violent truck-driving dispute.
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Ebasco Services Inc
Joppa
Evan Dale
Southern Illinois
Dale
Taft Sees Path to Nomination With Ike Unity at Chicago
Sen Robert A Taft predicted he and Gen Dwight D Eisenhower will agree on a foreign policy plank at Chicago to avoid a party split He accused Eisenhowers camp of pressuring Taft delegates in New York and New Jersey He cited John Foster Dulles as drafting the platform aid to unity taft leads with 467 pledged delegates to Eisenhowers 392 in AP tally
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Associated Press
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Dulles
Denver
Dwight Eisenhower
Texas
Nevada
Sen
Robert Taft
Washington
Illinois
Michigan
Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Gen
Draft Prospects May Choose Service Branch
The Defense Department made permanent a policy allowing draftees to choose their service branch before induction. Previously, inter-service agreements blocked volunteering after pre-induction physicals, a practice that varied monthly. Now the Army remains the only branch still relying on drafted men.
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Washington
Defense’ Department
Army
Stevenson Harriman loom as Democratic ticket option
Washington sources report President Truman privately favors a Stevenson Harriman Democratic ticket with Harriman potentially in second place. Stevenson remains reluctant to accept a nomination, while regular party leaders weigh him as the best bet to block Kefauver and beat the Republicans in November.
Demand Probe of Germ Charges at U N Security Council
The United States demands a sponsored inquiry into Soviet germ warfare charges. Presented to the U N Security Council, the proposal would likely be vetoed by Russia, with China and North Korea possible refusals to allow access. The Red Cross plan faces Communist rejection as biased.
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United States
Russia
U. N. Security Council
Council
China
North Korea
U. S
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Fire Cave In Kills 20 Japanese Miners
Ten miners died in a fire at Edo pi in southern Kyushu on Friday night with one injured. Kyodo News Agency also reports ten more miners found dead at Matsuo sulphur mine in northern Honshu after a cave in on Wednesday.
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Edo Pi
Kyushu
Kyodo
Matsuo Sulphur
Honshu
FBI Seeks Knetzer in Nationwide Manhunt
The FBI asks the public to help locate Robert L. Knetzer, accused of fleecing hundreds of customers in a million dollar auto scheme. He escaped from the Springfield Illinois city jail four days ago with an accomplice posing as a U S marshal. He conducted the postwar car business in an alfalfa field at Edwardsville Illinois. The FBI says he took large deposits for future deliveries that were never made and a nationwide wanted notice warns he may be armed and dangerous.
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Washington
FBI
Robert L. Knetzer
Knetzer
Springfield
Ill
Edwardsville
Stevenson to Decide Monday on Presidential Bids
Washington reports say Illinois Governor Adlai E. Stevenson may declare availability for the Democratic presidential nomination after personal issues were resolved. Sources note Stevenson plans a possible run if Taft secures the GOP nomination, though he has repeatedly stressed running only for reelection as governor.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
White House
Stevenson
Truman
Senate
New York State
Paul E. Fitzpatrick
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
GOP
Gov Stevenson denies three romance reports
Springfield Illinois June 21 AP Gov Adlai E Stevenson denied Friday night reports he is romantically linked to Dorothy Fosdick daughter of Harry Fosdick. He joked about being married to three ladies and apologized for any embarrassment to the women involved.
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Springfield
Ill
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dorothy Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Drew Pearson
Stevenson
Pearson
Illinois 4-F Rejections Mirror National Averages
Selective Service officials report that Illinois draft eligibles are rejected at 9.8 percent, below the national average of 11.6 percent. Across the nation 1,443,315 of 12,416,199 men from 1948 to April 30 were classified 4-F, unfit for service, with South Dakota lowest at 6.5 percent and South Carolina highest at 21.4 percent.
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Selective Service
Illinois
South Dakota
South Carolina
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Seoul
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Joliet
South Chicago
Fred Baughman
Stevenson-Harriman
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