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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1951
Page
1
Vatican decreed major excommunication for all involved in the Budapest arrest and trial of Archbishop Joszef Groesz of Hungary. Ridgway’s peace bid drew no response from Red China.
Search planes and ground crews scoured northern Colorado for a United Airlines Mainliner missing with 49 aboard. The DC-6, last heard at 1:46 a.m., was en route San Francisco to Chicago via Salt Lake Denver and Omaha. No sign of the plane despite reports of possible crashes near Loveland and Wellington.
Springfield notes a fragile fate for the gasoline tax bill as House and Senate recessed for lunch. A revamped conference committee failed to reach agreement, with three House Republicans resigning and a new panel named, amid disputes over a four cent versus five cent rate and township allocations.
An East St. Louis couple died in a crash near Cairo when their car struck a state maintenance truck. Lawrence Slickers, 48, died en route to St. Mary’s hospital. his wife Leota, 41, died shortly after admission.
Showers and thunderstorms planned tonight with cloudy skies across the southern central area. Little change in temperatures with lows around 60 to 66 and Sunday high near 80. Precipitation totaled 0.51 inches in the 24 hour period ending today. Crab Orchard Lake four inches above the spillway and Little Grassy Lake twenty one feet below spillway noted.
President Truman must decide by midnight whether to accept a temporary one month extension of the Defense Production Act and ban price rollbacks. Congress passed a stop gap measure extending controls through July, aiming to avert a total collapse of the program. The move delays a full two year extension and preserves limited powers for now.
In Fairfield Iowa region a tavern two miles south of town burned after a Thursday slaying. Louis Sons 49 a farmer was found shot in the burned tavern as Shelton gang ties flare anew. Ogie Pennington admitting he found the body after drinking with Sons, faced charges for drunken driving and received a light penalty.
Tokyo July 1 AP India declined to share the optimism of U N quarters over Ridgway's cease fire invitation. Communist responses were not encouraging with no word from the military commander after 16 hours. Pyongyang and Peiping broadcasts kept up war campaigning while Moscow papers accused anti Soviet hysteria. Ridgway pressed for talks aboard Jutlandia with no conditions, as South Korea demanded troop withdrawal and disarmament.
Britain warned Iran in a note that seizing British oil installations could have grave consequences. The note, signed by Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, came as the ICJ in The Hague opened hearings on a British bid to halt Iran's oil nationalization efforts.
Western Union Telegraph Co. announced a voluntary wage agreement with an independent union covering 6000 New York area employees. The deal provides a 16 2/3 cent hourly wage increase and does not address conditions outside the New York metropolitan region.
Warren Lee Irwin a 27 year old fugitive from Warrington Pa was trapped by New Jersey state police in a wooded Delaware River area after forcing Carolyn Baker a 17 year old Washington girl into a car. The girl was found in a stolen car abandoned by Irwin who fired at officers before surrendering. Irwin is wanted on charges of kidnaping and murder with FBI backing. He had fled from Warrington Pa after terrorizing his uncle George Brewer and his wife Martha and was traced through a series of car thefts and a long night of violence across Pennsylvania and New York before being cornered.
The trial of AP correspondent William N. Oatis will begin Monday in Prague, announced by the Czechoslovak Foreign Office via a foreign note received by the U S embassy. Oatis disappeared April 23 when secret police detained him as he parked his car, and he is held incommunicado on charges of activities hostile to the state and gathering information through illegal channels.
Carbondale 218 and 838 Hernia 315 and 316 Murphysboro 34 and 35 Rates listed on the Classified Page.
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