Steel Workers Spurn Offers Of Two Firms
CIO United Steelworkers officials spurn offers of 10% and 10.25 cent hourly wage increase as wage talks stall. Inland Steel and U S Steel had proposed across the board hikes with small per-class increments. Union plans to strike at midnight Thursday if no agreement is reached affecting about 600 000 workers.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Inland Steel Co
U. S. Steel Corp
David J. McDonald
William G. Caples
Inland Steel
U. S. Steel
John A. Stephens
U.S. Steel
Inland
Bank Robbery Trial Set for Sept 12 in Springfield
Clifford E. Hubbard of Collinsville faces a six count federal indictment for bank robbery with four counts carrying possible death penalties. Hubbard pleaded innocent before Judge Briggle to the charges. The May 1 attempted robbery of the Kampsville bank ended in a crash that killed bank cashier Harry Waldhouser and Hubbard’s alleged partner Thomas Underwood. Waldhouser’s wife Lela was injured.
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Clifford E. Hubbard
Collinsville
Kampsville
Hubbard
Charles GC. Briggle
Harry Waldhouser
Thomas Underwood
Washington Park
Waldhouser
Lela
Weather updates for Southern Illinois region
Fair and cool conditions with a cool night in Southern Illinois. Tuesday brings partly cloudy skies, with overnight lows near 60 and daytime highs around 80. Yesterday's highs reached 76 and current readings sit around 68 at 6 am. Sunrise at 4:36 am and sunset at 7:29 pm. Crab Orchard Lake level reports one inch above spillway and Little Grassy Lake one inch above spillway today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
19 Leaders Released in Argentina Revolt Aftermath
Argentina freed 19 Radical party leaders detained since the June 16 revolt against President Peron. Four others remained jailed. Police in Buenos Aires Province arrested two Communists and two Radicals on rumor charges as tens of thousands of Catholics prayed in damaged churches during the second Sunday after the uprising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Radical Party
Juan Peron
Eva Peron
Chamber of Deputies
Congress
Peronistas
Ike To End Trip Tonight
President Eisenhower ends a six day northern New England tour with a return flight to Washington after a Maine clambake at Senator Margaret Chase Smith home. He fished six hours on Sunday in the Magalloway River at Little Boy Falls and will meet Governor Ed Mundie Muskie at Showhegan.
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Parmachenee Lake
Maine
Eisenhower
Edmund S. Muskie
Showhegan
Margaret Chase Smith
Muskie
New England
White House
Secretary of State Dulles
U. S. Navy
Lisenhower
Magalloway River
Little Boy Falls
Earth Fall Kills 2 Boys Buried in Queens Excavation
Two boys buried alive when a dirt wall collapsed at a Queens housing project excavation Sunday night. Police and rescuers worked as passers by helped dig through the wet earth. Billy Cotton, 5, and Nathaniel Brown were saved, while Billy’s brother John and Angel Matos died. The boys’ mother, Evelyn Cotton, collapsed at the scene.
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New York
Hove
Queens
Billy Cotton
Nathaniel Brown
Billy
John
Angel Matos
Evelyn Cotton
Henry Favors Branch Four Year UI in Chicago
Dr. David Dodds Henry, new UI president designate, cites population rise as a reason to study establishing a four year U of I branch in Chicago. He spoke after visiting Navy Pier and Champaign facilities during a two day tour and news conference.
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Henry Favors
New UI
Chicago
David Dodds Henry
University of Ilinois
U of I
Henry
New York University
Champaign
Lloyd Morey
Pier
Little Stinker Puzzle Fans And Prizes
Ninety four entries were received for No 38 compared with 66 last Monday. Fans must paste entries on the back of post cards to add ten percent to a prize for the correct solution. This week's sword game is worth 450 dollars. A Murphysboro woman voices worry that she works hard yet gains little and keeps hoping for the Stinker champ prize.
Vandalized South Side school blazed as juvenile trouble blamed
Three law enforcement agencies announced a joint drive against juvenile violence as the interior of Doolittle School on the South Side was battered and burned. Fire Marshal Eugene Brennan estimated two fires and other damage at 27,000 with most classrooms entered by breaking doors.
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South Side
Fourth Division
Eugene Brennan
Doolittle
Brennan
Cook County
Joseph D. Lohman
Timothy |Connor
Sparkler Ban Advances in Illinois Senate
A bill banning most sparklers awaits final action in the Illinois Senate after passing the House last week.
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Senate
Korea Claims Red Air Build Up In North
Seoul reports North Korea has 580 aircraft including MIG15 jets and a fighter bomber force, with 15 bases active and two under construction. The ROK cites two defected pilots as source and says 500 pilots and 25 000 men serve in the air force, with more trained in China by Russian advisers and more planes arriving by rail.
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Seoul
North Korea
Republic of Korea
ROK
Red China
Talks Open At Chrysler
Chrysler Corp opens new contract negotiations with the CIO United Auto Workers in Detroit on June 27. The union seeks a guaranteed wage plan plus wage and pension increases, enhanced benefits, and a full union shop for about 130,000 hourly workers, with coverage expiring August 31.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
House approves extension of higher debt limit
The House voted 226 to 56 to extend the temporary six billion dollar increase on the national debt limit to July 1, 1956. The measure keeps the legal debt ceiling at 281 billion dollars and sends the bill to the Senate for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
Illinois Legislature Heads Toward Final 1955 Session Days
Illinois lawmakers resume work to dispose of major bills as the 1955 regular session winds toward its June 30 deadline. Key actions target three tax measures a city gross receipts tax use tax expansion of the sales tax base and broader exemptions. Broyles antisubversive bills loyalty oaths and other measures face stiff House debate alongside plans to enlarge state police, raise wages, and fund a Chicago convention hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Illinois
House
Senate
Downstate
Illinois Toll Road Commission
Chicago
Broyles
Independent McGovern Is Vote-Free In Granard Council Race
John McGovern, an independent candidate in Granard Town Council elections, received zero votes over the weekend. He quipped he voted for the other candidate, calling it the decent thing to do.
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John McGovern
Wheat Farmers Back Tight Controls For 1956 Price
Washington June 27 farmers vote 7742 percent to keep marketing quotas for the 1956 wheat crop at about 30 percent below peak production and support price 1 81 a bushel under the flexible price system. Over 328000 participated and about one million were eligible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Benson
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower
Congress
Brand New Church In Louisville Without Members
Sam Gafford built an $8,000 Pentecost Power house church with no congregation or minister. He mortgaged his home to fund the project seeking a church free of money influence. A preacher will be hired only if attendance grows.
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Sam Gafford
Gafford
Helen Keller Birthday Observed At Arcan Ridge Home
The 75th birthday of Helen Keller is celebrated with tributes as friends Polly Thomson and editor Nella Braddy Henney help her manage a flood of gifts from a world that admires her life overcoming deafness blindness and muteness. Keller plans a quiet day with Bible reading a stroll and correspondence.
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Arcan Ridge
Helen Keller
Polly Thomson
Miss Helen
Miss Polly
Mass
James Adams
Nella Braddy Henney
Miss Keller
Easton
Conn
Unclear fragment mentions Tuscumbia birth and busy return
Fragment references a birth in Tuscumbia Alabama and increasing messages since last week. Polly Thomson asks for less fuss and notes they have been busy since returning and must get unpacked.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Polly Thomson
Helen
Nationalist trainer lost near Matsu Islands
An AP report from Taipei says Chinese Communist MIGs shot down a T33 trainer near the Matsu Islands within two hours of a Red air attack on a commercial amphibian plane. The Catalina PBY crewed by 1st Lt. John J. Goodrich was reported wounded but later denied. the plane's wing spar and left wing were damaged.
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Taipei
Formosa
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Matsu Islands
U. S. Army
John J. Goodrich
Rayne
Chen Kuo-min
Pinehill
Tungchuan
White Dog Island
Matsu
U. S. Military Assistance Advisory Group
MAAG
Stations Urge Kept UHF Island in Peoria
FCC hearings in Washington consider keeping Peoria as an UHF island to block VHF entry. Attorneys Jack Blume and Marcus Cohn argue adding VHF would hurt existing WEEK and WVTH operations and favor more UHF outlets instead.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Peoria, Ill
Island
Jack Blume
West Central Broadcasting Co
Peoria
Blume
Marcus Cohn
Hilltop Broadcasting Co
WVTH
Evansville
Ind
Madison, Wis
Hartford
Cohn
Commission
United States Stamp Auctioned in London for 1500
A handmade United States five cent stamp from 1846 fetched 1500 pounds in London. The seller was Sir Nicholas Waterhouse of Eggingham, with a private Australian collector the buyer.
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United States
Nicholas Waterhouse
Eggingham
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Ets
Rudolph
Deer
Ava Gurganus
Jamesville
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Ava
Wilbur Gurganus
Ike
Earth Fall
Murphysboro
Korea
MI6
Granard
Ireland
By Ovid A. Martin
Brand New Church
Louisville, Ky
Cynthia Lowry
The
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London
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