U.S. Officials Describe Armistice Package as Final
U S officials labeled the Korea armistice proposal fair and final with UN backing. Deputy Defense Secretary Foster said no further concessions were planned though details could be discussed with the Reds. Alternatives including a naval blockade or attack on the mainland were not finalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Korea
William C. Foster
United Nations
Foster
China
Kee
Weather outlook with warm, thundery showers tonight
Showers and cloudy conditions prevail tonight and Thursday with occasional thunder showers. A bit warmer tonight with low 60 to 65 and Thursday high around 84 to 88. Precipitation minimal and winds light. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake levels noted near spillways today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crab Orchard Lake
Grassy Lake
Hobson Survivor Recalls Night of Hobson Wasp Collision
Edwin E. Lankowski, 25, boiler technician first class from Charleston, recounts the Hobson sinking after colliding with the carrier Wasp on April 26. He survived hours in the water, later rescued five miles from the scene as 176 sailors died, and joined 61 survivors ashore to tell their story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wasp
Hobson
mid-Atlantic
U. S. Naval Hay
New Surmvor
Edwin E. Lankowski
Charleston
S. C
Vandenberg Warns of Soviet Long Range Attack
Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg warned that within two years the Soviet Union would possess the means to launch a long range atomic attack on the United States. He urged opposition to defense budget cuts as Congress reduced military funding by about six billion dollars and ordered a four billion cut in new funds. Vandenberg spoke as he entered surgery. his deputy read the testimony to a Senate subcommittee in his absence. He said the U S still retains slight superiority due to its range bombers and atomic weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Sweaters Today
Soviet
Russia
Pentagon
House
Congress
Defense
Vandenberg
Senate Appropriations
Defense Department
Nathan F. Twining
United States
Frankfort Inspector Faces Hearing on State Charges
State Mines Director Walter Eadie set a May 16 hearing in Springfield on charges against State Mine Inspector James Wilson of West Frankfort. Eadie seeks to remove Wilson for allegedly failing to submit proper inspection reports and to appoint a hearing officer. He noted a formal charges letter is being sent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Eadie
James Wilson
West Frankfort
Eadie
Wilson
Springfield
Jail Ex Benton Man for Perjury
George Burnett, 26, formerly of Benton Illinois, was sentenced to one year in jail for false testimony before the Cook County grand jury investigating the February 4 slaying of Charles Gross. He admitted giving a false account that cast suspicion on Thomas Matthew Burke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Burnett
Benton, Ill
Thomas E. Fluczynski
Criminal Court
Burnett
Cook County
Grand
Charles Gross
West Side Ward
Thomas Matthew Burke
Cicero
Burke
Thomasville
Florida
McLeansboro
Kluczynski
Southern Muocsan Press edition publication note
Southern Muocsan The Wally sree Press edition published evenings except Sundays and holidays Southern Illinois Publications Inc 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois Entered as second class matter at the post office at Carbondale Illinois under the act of March 1878
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Muocsan
Wally Sree
Southern Illinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Ilinois
Illinois
Oil Workers Unsure on Ending Nationwide Strike
Denver report on May 7 states the union coalition directing about 90 000 oil workers delayed any decision to resume work pending a Washington meeting with the Wage Stabilization Board next Tuesday The strike impact reached Alaska with military flying significantly curtailed and aviation fuel cutting 30 percent for civil use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Wage Stabilization Board
Alaska
Washington
O. A. Knight
Oil Workers International Union
C.1
W.S.B
Knight
P M W backs Douglas for President in editorial
The Progressive Mine Workers newspaper endorses Senator Paul H. Douglas as the man needed for president. It says labor wants a White House ally who is fair minded and will support labor's just and rightful demands. The editorial predicts Douglas would sweep the nation if nominated by the Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Progressive Mine Workers
Paul H. Douglas
Dill
Labor
White House
Douglas
Jean Arthur Dodges Cameras On England Vacation
American film and stage star Jean Arthur began a three month vacation in England and asked photographers not to take her picture She wore dark glasses and clipped hair saying she is ugly without Hollywood makeup and asked privacy during her trip.
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Jean Arthur
England
Russell Hands Kefauver Loss In Florida
In Florida's presidential preference primary Russell edged Kefauver amid strong farmer support. Russell led 50.7 to 46.0 percent with 235,728 to 249,862 votes from 1380 of 1682 precincts. Holland led in the Senate race. McCarty closed on Odham in the governor’s race. Swan and Acker eyed a GOP runoff. Write ins included Eisenhower.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Russell
Holland
William A. Gaston
Jacksonville
Dan McCarty
Fort Pierce
Brailey Odham
Sanford
Harry S. Swan
Miami Shores
Bert Acker
Charles E. Compton
Miami Beach
Carroll S. Shaw
Shaw
Compton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft Sweeps Ohio Primary in Landslide Victory
Ohio voters handed Sen. Robert A. Taft a sweeping win for all 56 Republican delegates as Sen. Estes Kefauver secured about 24 of 54 Democratic nominations. The day featured a Stassen challenge and strong Eisenhower potential backing, with Taft leading overall in the delegate race and Charles P. Taft winning the Sea Goesee nomination.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Estes Kefauver
Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kefauver
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Florida
Robert J. Bulkley
Bulkley
Associated Press
Eisenhower
Charles P. Taft
Frank J. Lausche
Six Illinois Students Suspended After Dormitory Incident
The University of Illinois suspended six male students after an attempted raid on a girls dormitory. The suspensions, announced by President Stoddard and Dean Fredurner, allow hearings, with possible dismissal for willful property destruction or forcible entry. One student was slightly injured. a police sergeant was struck by a flower pot but unharmed. Two students, Kenneth Evans Fairbanks and Burton Bernard, were fined $50 each by a Champaign magistrate.
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University of Illinois Today
Stoddard
Dean Fredurner
Sgt
E. L. Decker
Champaign
Ken‘neth Evans Fairbanks
Burton’ Bernard
Chicago
Atomic Blast Lights Up Sky Over Yucca Flat Test
A nuclear detonation 75 miles away at Yucca Flat lit the pre-dawn sky of Las Vegas at 6 15 a m local time. Observers in Los Angeles saw a quick blink. no shock or sound was reported here. An atomic cloud formed briefly as AEC aides warned nearby residents to expect a shock.
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Las Vegas
Yucca Flat
Los Angeles
Desert
Atomic Energy Commission
St. George
Utah
Here
Caliente
Nev
A.E.C
Nevada
Carbondale Centennial Concert Postponed to Next Week
Carbondale's first centennial concert scheduled for tonight on the Illinois Central tracks lot is postponed. The Southern Illinois University band is tied up with ROTC activities, delaying the event to next week.
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Carbondale
Ilinois Central Sona Pokes
Southernlinois University
Bookseller Arrested Over Four Book Titles Window
In Bratislava a bookstore owner displayed four banned Russian titles in a window and was swiftly arrested, according to Vienna's Wiener Kurier. The titles listed were We Want to Live Far From Moscow In the Shadows of the Sky Under a Foreign Flag.
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Vienna
Austria
Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Wiener Kurier
Moscow
Allied warplanes rip Korean railway lines in multiple strikes
In Seoul on May 7 Allied air forces report ripping up two Red rail lines in 340 gaps and continuing today with 104 gaps opened on the main line north of Pyongyang. Carriers Valley Forge and Princeton pilots added 170 more cuts on an 80 mile east coast segment centered on Hamhung. The destroyer D H Fox captured three red sampans and 15 prisoners.
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Fifth Air Force
Red Korea
Pyongyang
Valley Forge
Princeton
East Coast Railway
Hamhung
Feinsinger warns of rash of strikes if wage board power cut
Feinsinger, head of the Wage Stabilization Board, testifies to Congress amid a wage board dispute over steel. He warns that stripping the board of settlement powers could spark industrial unrest in oil, iron ore, aluminum, and defense plants. He opposes a board with public majority and plans to quit by June 30 while the steel case heads to the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.S.B
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Washington
D. C
Truman
Nathan P. Feinsi
Congress
Wage Stabilization Board
Feinsinger
House Labor Committee
Charles E. Wilson
Mobilization
Wilson
Capitol
University of Wisconsin Law Scool
Madison Wis
Saat
Supreme Court
Steel Mills
Belfry Pilot Resigns at Travis Air Force Base
Air Force says pilot Taig was permitted to resign and paroled to his home area. details remain unclear as officials confirm the resignation from Travis Air Force Base in California.
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Belfry
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Taig
Caen
Wigley
Wichita
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New York Harbor
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Vors
Wirephoro
U.S
Des m. Aebioutey
Lankowski
Frankfort
Benton
P.M.W
Backs Douglas
London
W.5.b
James P. McGranery
Sen
Pat McCarran
D-Nev
Senate Judiciary Committee
McGranery
Philadelphia
U. of 1
Seoul
Navy
D. H. Fox
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