24th Joppa Walkout Ends as 1000 Return to Power Plant
The 24th stoppage at Electrical Energy Inc. Joppa steam plant ends at 7 am with 150 ironworkers and others resuming work. About one third of the 3,000 on the $87 million project are back, after losses near $1 million. The group rehired 53 fired foremen amid a stalled dispute settled after an eight hour Paducah meeting in heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joppa
Electrical Energy, Inc
Irvin Cobb
Paducah
International Ironworkers Union
Truce talks stall as generals flag optimism fades
Gen James A. Van Fleet said Communists never wanted peace in Korea and would have reached a deal in 10 months of negotiations. He declared the Allies would win whether settling on the battlefield or at the conference table, insisting the U S Eighth Army can out fight or outfit them. Today's session lasted 15 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
James A. van Fleet
U. S. 8Th Army
Weather Summary: Cooler, partly cloudy with scattered showers
The report notes a cooler night with increasing cloudiness on Wednesday and scattered showers in the far west late Wednesday. Overnight low 50 to 58, high Wednesday near 67. Temperatures show a 7 a.m. today reading of 70 and yesterday’s noon at 93 with 0.00 inches precipitation from yesterday 7 a.m. to today 7 a.m. Humidity around 59 percent at noon, wind averaging 2.2 miles per hour between 7 a.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today. Crab Orchard Lake slightly above spillway and Little Grassy Lake level with spillway today.
Daily Illnoisan Carbondale edition imprint
Evening edition notice from Southern Illinoisan The Daily Press by Southern Witnois Publications Inc. lists address 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois and post office second class matter under March 1878 act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illnoisan
Iree Press
Southern Witnois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale Iilnois
Carbondale
Illnois
Paris Fashion Show Highlights Bikinis And Sheer Beachwear
Paris May 6 Jacques Heim unveiled a provocative mid season collection featuring beam bra tops barely covering the bust and hips. Models wore translucent open work lace over bathing shorts with siren sarongs and raffia fringe plus strapless one piece sculptured swimsuits and sheer nylon skirts over black swimwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Jacques Heim
Heim
Gambling Tax Held Invalid
Philadelphia May 6 AP a six month old federal law requiring gamblers to buy a 50 tax stamp was ruled unconstitutional by U S District Judge George A Welsh. The decision came on an appeal by Joseph Kahriger one of seven men charged with failing to buy the stamp. The ruling did not address the 10 percent tax on earnings provision. The case marks the first judicial ruling on the tax since it took effect November 1 1951 and followed a long challenge reaching the Supreme Court which refused to rule on constitutionality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
George A. Welsh
Welsh
Congress
Joseph Kahriger
Kahriger
U. S. Supreme Court
Hayes L. Combs
Washington
U. S. District Court
Supreme Court
Bleing
Rhumba King Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane Cancel Dominican Trip
Miami Beach on May 6 reports Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane mooning on the beach. They scrapped plans to fly to the Dominican Republic amid the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fla
Xavier Cugat
Abbe Lane
Dominican Republic
Ridgway to depart for Europe as supreme Allied commander
Gen. Matthew B Ridgway will leave the United States for France on May 24 to assume the post of supreme Allied commander in Europe replacing Gen Dwight Eisenhower. Gen. Mark W Clark will arrive Wednesday to succeed Ridgway in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgway
Europe
Tokyo
Japan
Matthew B. Ridgway
United Nations
United States
France
Dwight Eisenhower
Mark W. Clark
Ruling May Hike Prices of Food
A court ruling could raise wholesale and retail price ceilings for many food items under the Capehart amendment. The Justice Department will be asked to appeal to the Supreme Court after the emergency court of appeals held the amendment covers grocers as well as manufacturers, potentially boosting prices on cereals syrups oils canned goods and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Stabilization
Justice Department
Emergency Court
Supreme Court
Capehart
Safeway Stores, Inc
O.P.S
Safeway
Orient No 2 Mine To Reopen At West Frankfort
Orient No 2 mine at West Frankfort, where a December explosion killed 119 miners, will resume production on or about May 12 on a reduced tonnage basis. About 1,100 workers previously operated across three shifts. the mine will use a division of time system with shared workload. Cleanup crews have worked since January, and ventilation has been updated per Federal Mine Inspector recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orient
West Frankfort
Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co
Airline Pilot Leads Rescue In Lake Michigan
Trans World Airlines pilot Capt. Jess E. Henslee on a Washington to Chicago flight spotted SOS signals from a disabled 25 foot cabin cruiser three miles off South Sixty third Street in Lake Michigan. He alerted Chicago Midway and coast guard rescuers saved three men and the boat crew unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trans World
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Coast Guard
South Sixty Third Street
Jess E. Henslee
T.W.A
South Bend
Ind
Henslee
Chicago Midway Airport
New Targets In Tax Probe
Washington May 6 AP House tax scandal investigators switch to new targets after failing to obtain talk from former revenue commissioner Joseph D Nunan Jr Three to four new charges of mishandled tax cases were reported next on the agenda of the Ways and Means investigating subcommittee The probe was described as a cleanup operation in the long running inquiry Nunan faced questions about 1945 to 1950 financial transactions including 161609 in cash and checks and declined to answer about possible crimes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Joseph D. Nunan Jr
Ways and Means
Revenue Bureau
Nunan
Adrian de Wind
Heat reaches 93 in Carbondale on May 5
Carbondale swelters with a 93 degree high marking a May record. Weather observer Harold Hill, tracking temperatures since 1948, notes the prior May 5 high was 89 in 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Mercury
Harold Hill
U.S
Carbondale Sewage Treatment
Hmcury
Civic Leader Accused of Embezzling in Perth Amboy
William C. Horley, 50, vice president of First Bank & Trust Co, is charged with embezzling more than 450000. Prosecutor Alex Eber says bad investments and stock market speculation drove losses as Horley sought to cover shortages. He is free on 25000 bail awaiting grand jury action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyt
Kan
Johnson
Perth Amboy
Barker
William C. Horley
First Bank & Trust Co
Middlesex County
Alex Eber
Horley
Eber
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Community Chest
Red Cross
Boy Scouts
American Institute of Banking
Allied planes raid North Korea rail hub Sunchon
Allied warplanes bombed the Sunchon rail junction 25 miles north of Pyongyang in a day long saturation attack. Four fighter bomber wings with Sabre Jets guarded the area as repeated strikes hit the vital line linking Sunchon with the Manchurian border and the front lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunchon
Pyongyang
NATO Approves West Germany Defense Guarantee Plan
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formally approved plans to give West Germany full guarantees of Western defense machinery after agreement on a European army protocol. The action follows a principle approval at Lisbon last February and comes with the NATO council endorsing the protocol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West Germany
N.A.T.O. Council
N.A.T.O
Lisbon
Carrier Wasp Limps to Port After Collision
The battered carrier Wasp arrived in New York harbor at 6:30 a m with 61 Hobson survivors aboard. Survivors will testify at a naval court of inquiry into the April 26 collision with the Hobson as relatives waited at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The ship, bow broken, will stay in Gravesend Bay for two days before drydock at Bayonne New Jersey. Hobson crew will receive 30 days survivor's leave after testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasp
Hobson
New York Harbor
Naval Court of
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Gravesend Bay
Naval Shipyard
Bayonne
N. J
Naval
Mother duck delays TWA plane at Idlewild Airport
A mother duck and eight ducklings crossed the Idlewild airport taxi strip delaying a Trans World Airlines flight from Pittsburgh. The birds held the runway briefly as the plane arrived, prompting ground crew to halt taxiing until the family crossed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Trans World Airlines
Pittsburgh
Russell Says He Won’t Lead Southern Walkout
In Miami on May 6, Sen. Richard B. Russell declared he will not head a Southern revolt at the Democratic national convention, a major development in Florida’s first presidential preference primary in 20 years. He faces Sen. Estes Kefauver, who has already won Democratic support in eight states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard B. Russell
Florida
Russell
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Gray Whales Return Noted by Scripps Oceanography
UC Scripps Oceanography reports a six annual count of 880 gray whales along the Lower California coast during winter migration from the North Pacific. Dr. Carl L. Hubbs notes possible population as high as 3000. hunting proposals are being considered with continued protection favored for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Jolla
Calif
Pacific
University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
North Pacific
Bering Sea
California
Mexico
Carl L. Hubbs
Scripps’ Department of Marine Vertebrates
Japan
Hubbs
Californe
Sanday
Gifford C. E
Wilson says Wage Stabilization Board should lose authority
Charles E. Wilson testified before a House labor committee that the Wage Stabilization Board went beyond its limits in the steel case He argued steelworkers deserve only a nine cent catch up wage increase and warned broader wage hikes risk inflation or unemployment The steel recommendations issued March 20 placed steel workers ahead under the 1951 wage base exception theory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Wilson
Wage Stabilization Board
W.S.B
Mobilization
Wilson
Peration
House Labor Committee of Operations
McGranery Seizure Views Discussed in Senate Hearing
Judge James P. McGranery testified before the Senate judiciary committee on presidential power in emergencies. He said the Constitution allows actions to preserve life liberty and property, and stressed the President is bound by law. Senator O Connor pressed him on authority for seizure of the steel mills during strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James P. McGranery
Seas Dnetuenks Co Imeneiaaiate
McGranery
Senate Judiciary Committee
Herbert O’conor
Also Mentioned on This Page
Munsan
Crab Orchard Lake
Today's Index
al Johnson
Topeka
Rev
Howard L. Brumme
Philadelphia
Cugats Honeymoon
Orient No
North Korean
Seoul
Macea A. Thomas
New York City
Catholic Laymen’s Union of
Thomas
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Miami, Fla
WSB
Kage
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!