Illinois House near windup date as filibusters delay 600 bills
Illinois House battles to finish work by June 30 as two filibusters stall actions on about 600 bills. Rep. Alan Dixon demands full readings while Rep. Corneal Davis blocks Senate bills. Democrats push a higher school aid figure and a revised corporation tax plan amid stalled fair employment practices bills.
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Associated Press
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Illinois
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Belleville
Corneal Davis
Chicago
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General Assembly
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106 Mental Patients Riot at U S Medical Center
Springfield inmates, 106 mentally unstable prisoners, seized five guards and tried to breach a 36 inch wall at the U S Medical Center in 10 North ward. Police and guards with gas masks surrounded the wing as negotiations and threats continued through the night.
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Springfield
U. S. Medical Center
Glenn Hendrix
Russell O. Settle
Ion
Senate moves to outlaw Communist Party in Illinois
Springfield June 23 AP the Illinois Senate approved a bill making Communist Party membership a felony with up to 20 years in prison and a $10 000 fine. The measure passed 35 to 12 and goes to the House where anti subversive bills have stalled in the past.
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Communist Party
Illinois
Senate
Paul Zeigler
D-Carmi
Zeigler
Daily Worker
Bishop Zuroweste Heads to Vatican for Ad Limina Audience
Bishop Albert R. Zuroweste of Belleville Illinois met Pope John XXIII in a private audience at the Vatican apostolic palace. The ad limina visit, required every five years, reports on diocesan affairs to the pope.
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Albert R. Zuroweste
Belleville
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590-Foot Arch Planned for St. Louis Riverfront
Groundbreaking starts on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St Louis to build a 590 foot stainless steel arch over the riverfront. The first phase costs 30 million dollars and relocates elevated tracks on an 82 acre site with plans for a park and observatory, targeting completion by 1963 for Louisiana Purchase and St Louis anniversaries.
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Mystery of Superman Death Raises Questions in Hollywood
Hollywood investigators probe whether George Reeves killed himself and why the bulk of his estate went to Toni Mannix wife of MGM official Eddie Mannix. Reeves mother hires attorney Jerry Giesler to pursue the suicide question while Reeves's fiancée Lenore Lemmon receives nothing in the will.
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Eddie J. Mannix
Loew’s Inc
MGM Studio
Galesburg
Ill
Jerry Giesler
George
Helen Lescher Bessole
Lenore Lemmon
Robert Condon
New York
Santa Monica
Miss Lemmon
Mexico
Arthur Weissman
Mannixes
No Retreat in Berlin Talks Warns Herter Plan
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter signals a firm Allied stand in Berlin as six weeks of Geneva talks fail to ease East West tensions. He will outline a united refusal to concede in a nationwide speech at 8 p.m. CDT, with Eisenhower backing and potential TV telecasts.
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Herter
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West Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
State Department
Senate approves $1 million prison funding in Illinois site plan
Sen Lyndon Johnson proposes building the prison in Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge and secures a $1 million appropriation. Rep Kenneth Gray says the Senate approved the amount for a maximum security prison to be located in Southern Illinois, with House support at $2 million and a conference to hammer a compromise. A plans statement from James Bennett and Gray is expected soon.
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Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
U. S
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Washington
Kenneth Gray
Dwest
Atomic Spy Fuchs Flies To East Berlin
Atomic spy Klaus Fuchs left Wakefield prison by police escort for East Berlin aboard a Polish Airlines plane. He is 47, served 9 years of a 14 year sentence for spying on British and American atomic secrets for Russia, and may join his 84 year old father Emil Fuchs in Leipzig.
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Klaus Fuchs
East Berlin
Fuchs
Emil Fuchs
Leipzig
Wakefield
Russia
Weather Outlook for Southern Illinois
Cloudy conditions prevail with partial clearing later. Forecast calls for scattered showers and thundershowers tonight and Wednesday. Lows in the 60s, highs in the 80s, and upper 60s forWednesday night. Yesterday’s high 86, low 70, precipitation 0.38 inches. Sunrise 5 32 a m, sunset 8 33 p m.
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Governor Long to Permit Witnesses in Mental Hospital Case
Attorney Joe Arthur Sims said he will call Governor Earl Longs wife as a witness Friday as Long seeks habeas corpus release from Southeast Louisiana Hospital. A hearing is set for 10 am before Judge Robert Jones with possible testimony from Lt. Gov. Lether Frazar and secretary Wilma Lockhart. A diagnosis suggested paranoid schizophrenia.
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Joe Arthur Sims
Louisiana
Earl Long
Sims
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