Strike Hits Paducah A Plant Walkout Traced to False Telegrams
A wildcat strike at the Paducah A plant halted construction as 4500 workers walked off. Company and union officials sought to resume second shift amid reports of fraudulent telegrams claiming Wage Stabilization Board wage increases, which were deemed illegitimate by both sides. An Evan Dale area representative indicated efforts to verify the misinformation and restore normal operations.
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Paducah
Wage Stabilization Board
Pump House
Resoe
Evan Dale
Heatwave Continues Across Southern Illinois
Warm and humid conditions prevail with a forecast of continued heat into tonight and Friday. Overnight low 75 to 80, Friday high 95 to 100, yesterday’s low 77 and noon temperatures near 74 to 85. Precipitation 0 inches. wind about 2 mph average. sunrise 4 35 a.m. and sunset 7 29 p.m. Crab Orchard Lake 3 inches below spillway. Little Grassy Lake level at spillway.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Grassy Lake
Atbera UMnotsan and Pally Oree Published Evenings
Disjointed OCR fragment notes prose coding and bolidage. Mentions Carbondale and Carbondate with a March date.
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Carbondale
Political Strife Rises in Cairo Over City Gambling
Cairo residents and officials seek alignment as reports of vice and graft surface. The Cairo Citizens' Committee accuses four leaders of the committee as the feud escalates with arrests of Walter Warden and another official amid license disputes and local police actions. Mayor Egbert Smith urges unity to end the strife.
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Cairo
Ohio River
Cairo Association of ‘Commerce
Walter Warden
Warden
Ford
Nu-Diner
Liberty
Egbert Smith
Southern Illinoisan
Unity
Loyalty Board Clears Hanson
Washington says Hialdore Hanson a State Department official once accused by Senator McCarthy of pro Communist leanings has been cleared by the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board. The announcement came via Conrad E. Snow who spoke at a secret Senate session. the released subcommittee report notes no specific charges were quoted. Hanson denied McCarthy's claim and said he remains an employee in good standing with the Point Four program.
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Hialdore Hanson
State Department
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Civil Service Loyalty Review Board
Conrad E. Snow
Loyalty Security Board
Senate Appropriations
Hanson
Civil Service Boards
Snow
McCarthy
Department
Russia Breaks Off Ties With Venezuela
Caracas reports Venezuela and Russia severed diplomatic relations after a diplomatic squabble. A 36 member Rus staff departed after the incident, leaving two Venezuelan carpenters unhappy over unpaid work.
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Russia
Venezuela
Caracas
Rusnight
Mine Trouble Looms as Troopers Sent for Rally
Gov. Lawrence Wetherby ordered extra state troopers to Manchester Kentucky to head off trouble at a United Mine Workers mass rally. The union aims to mobilize more than 6000 members in Clay and Leslie counties, the last non union stronghold in the Eastern Kentucky coalfields. Three UMW organizers were wounded in gunfire and a local committeeman's store was raked with machine gun fire in recent days.
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Kentucky
UMW
Manchester
Lawrence Wetherby
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Clay
Leslie
Five Rhee Aides Quit After Assassination Attempt
In Pusan Korea on June 26 five South Korean officials including Maj Gen Won Young Duk head of police and Rhee's bodyguard resigned citing failure to protect President Syngman Rhee after a botched assassination attempt during a public address.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Won Young Duk
Rhee
Clarence Ryee
No Immediate End Seen To Steel Strike
The 24 day steel walkout by about 650000 workers may last another week despite a potential court order to end the dispute. President Truman signaled no move on Taft Hartley after Congress urged action and a union shop dispute remains the chief obstacle to settlement. Rep Charles Halleck suggested a settlement within a week, citing high level sources.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Taft-Hartley
White House
Charles Halleck
R-Ind
Halleck
House Votes Rent Control End Sept. 30
The House voted to end federal rent controls on Sept. 30 except in critical defense areas and cities that request control. Controls would continue to March 31, 1953 in designated areas or municipalities. The vote was 144 to 113 with further action needed on the administration’s extender bill. The current law allows municipalities to keep controls unless they request discontinuance and expires next Monday at midnight.
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Washington
House
Magistrate Orders William Marshall For Trial On Secrets Charge
A magistrate's court commits William Mys Marshall to trial on charges of passing official secrets to a Russian diplomat. The closed hearing barred reporters and the public due to top secrets involved. Marshall, a former British Foreign Office radio operator who worked at Britain's Moscow Embassy, was arrested June 13 in Wandsworth with Pavel Kuznetsov of the Soviet Embassy. He remains jailed without bail awaiting Central Criminal Court proceedings within the week.
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William Mys Marshall
British
Foreign Office
Ing
Marshall Ic
Kremlin
Marshall
Central Criminal Court
Marshal
Britain
Moscow
Wandsworth
Pavel Kuznetsov
The
Taft says Dewey group runs Eisenhower campaign
Sen. Taft accuses Gov. Dewey’s GOP organization of running Eisenhower’s nomination bid. He doubts a Nixon style campaign could win in November and mocks Gallup as a propagandist. Taft defends his NY prospects and criticizes the Dewey camp’s influence.
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Robert A. Taft
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ohio
Eisenhower
Taft
George Gallup
Gallup
Dewey
Buffalo Evening News
Irving M. Ives
Ives
Dewey Organization
Allied air attack pounds fronts along 155 mile Korean line
Allied fighter bombers pounded Communist front-line positions from Seoul to the front, using bombs rockets and napalm. An ammunition dump was destroyed and 11 Red troop bombers four artillery pieces and an anti aircraft gun were reported destroyed by the Fifth Air Force.
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Fifth Air Force
Immigration Bill Goes Back Through Congress
Washington June 26 The McCarran Walter immigration bill vetoed by President Truman yesterday is sent back for a second trip through Congress. The measure is described as dangerous to moral leadership and peace.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Collazo Death Sentence Set For August
Oscar Collazo, who attempted to kill President Truman, had the execution date fixed for August in U S District Court. He was informed of the time for his death in the electric chair after losing appeals in a murder conviction of a White House guard. Collazo, silent during the brief proceeding before Judge F Dickenson Letts, was described as neatly dressed.
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Oscar Collazo
Truman
Collazo
White House
U. S. District Court
F. Dickenson Letts
Heat Grips East and South with 90s and 100s
Heat tightens its grip across the eastern half of the nation with Wednesday piping hot in hundreds of cities. Temperatures reach the 90s to around 100, while relief moves into the Northern Plains but not into the East and South. Three deaths attributed to the heat were reported in Ohio.
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South States
Plains
Virginia
Arkansas
Baltimore
Ohio
Truck Marathon Tests Road Strength Across Idaho
Engineers at the Idaho Highway Department plan a 1952 to 1953 truck load test using a 1 000 pound payload to compare road densities and base materials. The project, costing about 202000 dollars with 100000 more for testing, will study soil types representative of ten western states to identify roads fit for America's trucking industry.
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America
Fiat Chhins Soa
Idaho
Eisenhower May Head to Chicago for GOP Convention Campaign
Reports say Eisenhower will travel to Chicago to direct his presidential bid at the July 7 GOP convention. Delegates favor Taft 483 to Eisenhower 405 with 129 others, 189 undecided, as reshuffles occur in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania blocs. Eisenhower planned to speak on domestic policy in Denver tonight.
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Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Sen
Robert Taft
Eisenhower
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Denver
Taft
David Ingalls
GOP
Associated Press
Chicago
Pennsylvania
New Owls
Thessg Py
Denver Coliseum
Stevenson’s View on Presidential Nomination Remains Open
Governor Adlai E. Stevenson said it remains to be seen whether he would be available as a Democratic candidate for president. He spoke to reporters after a minor kidney operation at Passavant Hospital and declined to elaborate on his future political plans.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Passavant Hospital
Ava
Named Teachers' Trustee on June 26
Sarai Wilson of S field named as trustee of the State Retirement Staten. Wilson has sat on the board since 1946 and will complete the new term in 1956.
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Stevenson
Sarai Wilson
Sfield
State of’ Retirement
Staten
Wilson
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Tene Thompson
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Seoul
G. Bryce Bennett
Idaho Highway Department
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