Yalu Bombing Signals U S Tough Stance in Korea
Allied fighter bombers and Navy planes hit four of five North Korean hydroelectric plants along the Yalu region. The strike targeted Suiho Changjin Songchon facilities with direct hits on all five lights. The operation, described as 100 percent successful, marks a formal U S shift in policy amid stalled armistice talks.
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Yalu River
Air Force
Changjin Reservoir
Songchon River
Korea
Navy
U. S. Eighth Army
Washington
Suiho
Ehal
Allied
Screening Protested Over Koje Island Prisoners
North Korean Gen Nam Il warned the United Nations that continuing prisoner screening on Koje Island could prolong the Korean War. Maj Gen William K Harrison said the U.N. cannot deny freedom to individuals as about 45 000 prisoners are being screened to decide if they wish to go home.
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Koje Island
Nam Il
William K. Harrison
Kore
U.N
Southern Illinois Weather Summary
Hot humid conditions persist in southern Illinois with a forecast for mostly fair skies. Overnight low around 74 to 78, highs near 95 yesterday, 93 by noon today, and 83 at 7 a.m. today. Precipitation around 0.25 inches between yesterday morning and today 7 a.m. Winds measured seven miles per hour. Sun rises 4:34 a.m. and sets 7:28 p.m. Crab Orchard Lake 3 inches below spillway. Little Grassy Lake level with spillway today.
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Illinois
Local edition text fragment summary
Regional newspaper page fragment notes sections including area national local editorials social sports movies and classifieds from Southern Illinois Publication. The readable lines reference page designations and publication details without a coherent event or person.
Ban Lifted On Color TV Manufacture
Washington reports the government lifted the color television ban for home and theater use. The NPA allows limited production by firms proving color TV will not hinder defense output, with few manufacturers likely to resume. CBS was the last major maker in 1950s color TV.
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NPA
Henry H. Fowler
Columbia Broadcasting System
Charles E. Wilson
CBS
Chicago
Ross D. Siracusa
Admiral Corporation
FCC
Atomic Plant Plans in Ohio Valley With Big Price Tag
The Atomic Energy Commission aims to build a new atomic plant probably in the Ohio Valley at an estimated cost of 1 197 350 000 dollars. It also seeks to spend about 1 000 000 000 dollars to expand two existing plants and two others under construction as part of a broader push tied to President Truman’s request for 3 191 000 000 dollars for a stepped up atomic weapons program. The proposals were disclosed in testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee on a supplemental appropriations bill.
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The
Atomic Energy Commission
Ohio Valley
Truman
Congress
House Appropriations
Stevenson’s Hospital Stay Extended One Day
Gov Adlai E Stevenson remains in Passavant Hospital after a minor operation. A spokesperson said discharge was postponed to Wednesday while the Illinois governor heals. The hospital reported he is coming along fine after a small stone was removed from the ureter bladder tube.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Passavant Hospital
Stevenson
College Draft Deferment Policy Outlined by Selective Service
Washington June 24 AP The Selective Service announced a policy clarifying summer deferments for college students. A student may receive one deferment for completing an academic year two semesters or three quarters. Summer term work may count and full-time summer courses affect eligibility. If no summer courses exist the student may remain deferred until fall and finish the academic year deferment.
Mutiny by 200 Black prisoners at Georgia work camp
In Savannah on June 24 AP reports two hundred Black inmate prisoners mutinied at a state road work camp. They defeated five trustees and set fire to a dormitory. Warden L C Burns said order was restored by 9 am with very slight damage.
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L.C. Burns
Du Quoin State Fair Adds Auto Thrill Show Eight Day Run
The 1952 Du Quoin State Fair extends to eight days from Aug 24 to Sept 1 for its 30th anniversary. An Aug 24 afternoon auto thrill show features Lucky Lee Lott’s stunt act, with nightly revues Aug 25–31, a Labor Day grandstand revue, and nightly Society Horse Show Aug 25–29. The Grand Circuit Harness Race meets Aug 25–29 precede Editors’ luncheon honors for regional radio editors.
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du Quoin
Lee Lott
Ins Penn
Missouri
Indiana
Snail
Price Control Fight Looms As Act Expires Soon
The Defense Production Act granting wage and price controls expires next Monday. Republicans and Southern Democrats push to let the act die while House debates extending it. Rep Brent Spence vows opposition and Rep Henry O Tallle supported a harsher lift on price controls for nonrationed goods.
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Brent Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Bomber Crash Kills 11 Near Mildenhall England
A U S Air Force B 50 medium bomber with 11 aboard crashed shortly after takeoff from RAF Mildenhall near Bryant May Bottom in Suffolk. A police spokesman said there were no survivors. An Air Force official stated the flight was a routine training mission.
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Mildenhall
England
Suffolk
Bryant May Bottom
Lattimore Not Planning Trip Debunked by FBI
The FBI says a Washington Post report that Owen Lattimore planned a trip to an Iron Curtain country was a fabrication. The State Department had moved to stop Lattimore from leaving the United States pending clarification.
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Wasington Post
FBI
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
State Department
Customs
Johns University
Baltimore
Senate
Three Men Sentenced in Horsemeat Fraud Case
Three men Matt Kilaersch of Oak Park Charles R. Koemund of Hinsdale and Robert Klotz of Chicago were each given nine month prison terms and fined 750 after being convicted by a Federal Court jury for selling mislabeled horse meat.
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Chicago
Matt Kilaersch
Oak Park
Charles R. Koemund
Hinsdale
Robert Klotz
Davies in Hospital in New York
former U S ambassador to Russia E Davies, 75, has been a patient at Columbia Presbyterian for the past three days, according to today’s disclosure from AP.
MacArthur Sought as Taft Running Mate in GOP Race
With 1206 GOP delegates named and two weeks to the convention, Taft leads Eisenhower in pledged votes as discussion grows about General Douglas MacArthur possibly taking second place on the ticket. Democrats near completion of 1230 delegates as Kefauver urges anti filibuster plank. Eisenhower voices peace stakes, Taft gains Illinois votes to reach 477 against 383 for Eisenhower.
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Ohio
Robert Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Taft
Chicago
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Indianapolis
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Senate
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Louisiana
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Maryland
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Pennsylvania
Hershey
Illinois
GOP
Associated Press
Senate Labor Committee Approves Seizure Bill for Steel
The Senate Labor Committee approved the Humphrey Bill to let the President seize the strike-paralyzed steel industry. A broader Morse proposal would grant seizure power over any defense-vital industry with congressional veto, aimed at averting strikes.
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Senate Labor Bill Committee
Humphrey
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Sen
H. Humphrey
Dminn
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
Senate
Wrice
Labor Committee
Million Dollars Ready for Republican Drive
Boston June 24 A P Sinclair Weeks national finance chairman of the Republican Party said the GOP nominees of the Chicago convention will have about one million dollars on hand for campaign purposes more than ever before Weeks said the goal of the three national committees the Republican National the National Congressional and the National Senatorial this it is 4 800 000 compared with four million dollars in 1948
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Sinclair Weeks
National Finance
Republican Party
GOP
Chicago
Republican National
National Congressional
Indiana Delegates Favored Stevenson At Democratic Convention
Indiana Democratic delegates poised to back Governor Adlai Stevenson for the presidential nomination at Chicago. Twenty-two full votes named in district caucuses and eight half votes to be chosen, totaling 30 delegates with 26 votes. Schricker seen as likely U S senator contender and Stevenson backer.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Henry F. Schricker
Stevenson
U. S
Schricker
Wil
Liam E. Jenner
Charles Skillen
Associated Press
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
State Committee
Chicago
26 Autos Salvaged From Sunken Barge
Golconda Ill June 24 AP the first week of the latest salvaging of 150 new cars from the Ohio River resulted in recovery of 26 A blind diver Bert Cutting 57 of Mattoon leads the recovery for the blind owner of a salvage firm Thomas Strickland Sr of Moline An earlier salvage effort by another firm failed
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Golconda
Ill
Ohio River
Bert Cutting
Mattoon
Thomas Strickland Sr
Moline
Cicero Police Fined in Civil Rights Case
The Cicero police chief Erwin Konovsky and officers Rolland Brann and Frank Lange were fined a total of 2500 by Federal Judge Walter J. Labay for denying the civil rights of Harvey Clarke Jr. during a July riot over a Black family moving into the all white suburb. Konovsky was fined 2000 and the two patrolmen 250 each. Nicholas Berkos the Cicero town attorney was convicted of conspiracy and faces sentencing June 28. Mayor Henry Sandusky Fire Marshal Rodor Wes Janecek were found innocent.
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Chicago
Cicero
Walter J. Labay
Erwin Konovsky
Sgt
Rolland Brann
Frank A. Lange
Harvey E. Clarke Jr
Konovsky
Nicholas Berkos
Cicero Town
Henry J. Sandusky
Rodor Wes Janecek
CIO Union Strike Slows U S War Material Flow
The 23 day old CIO United Steelworkers strike slows delivery of defense goods. Laminte cement for jet testing cells moves from Buffi to South Bend, while finished steel remains blocked in warehouses and mills. Production cuts hit Yeder and Willys-Overland as the union pushes to move materials by week’s end.
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U. S
CIO
United Steelworkers
Buffi
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Yeder, Company
Columbus
Willlys-Overland
Cleveland
Promise of Truck License Reform From Illinois GOP
Illinois Republican platform at the state convention pledges immediate reconsideration of the 1951 truck license law to remove inequities and inconsistencies. A Stratton adviser suggested changes would be minor. the law aimed to align truck taxes with passenger car costs per ton mile and projected a $20 million increase in 1952 fees.
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Illinois
Armory
67Th General Assembly
William G. Stratton
Stratton
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ilinois
Taft
Chicago
U. S
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Pekin
Morris
Robert R. McCormick
C. Wayland Brooks
Leslie Arends
Melvin
Euclid B. Taylor
Winifred Henry
le Grange
R. Douglas Stuart
Lake Forest
James
Lake County
Walter Provine
William Erickson
GOP
Atah
Phyllis Schlafly
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