Union Colliery Diggers Set to Return Tuesday
Union Colliery Diggers at the Du Quoin strip mine are due back to work next Tuesday after about 150 first shift employees left yesterday following a protest walkout over a welfare fund dispute. Two thirds of the night shift returned, and the mine will stay idled under a three day work week order until all walkout participants resume duties. Union officials noted Illinois operators are continuing welfare fund payments.
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Air United Mine Workers
Union Colliery Coal Co
du Quoin
Bulletin Board
U. M. W. Welfare Fund
John L. Lewis
Fred S. Wilkey
Illinois Coal. Operators Association
Chicago
Illinois
Misunderstanding Blamed for Walkout at Tinion Colliery
Springfield, Sept 1 UPI President Hugh White of District 12 UMWA said the walkout at Tinion Colliery Coal Mine near Springfield arose from a misunderstanding. He noted 150 first shift workers quit after newspaper reports said operators refused the 20 cent a ton welfare fund royalty. Second shift workers stayed, and the issue was resolved. Illinois operators have paid and will continue to pay the royalty as contractually required.
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Springfield
Ill
Hugh White
United Mine Workers of America
Aid
Tinion Colliery
Illinois
White
Mercury Dips In Midwest Records Cold Sep 1
Temperatures fell to near freezing across the Midwest with a wide cool air mass stretching from the Dakotas to Ohio and Arkansas. Chicago tied a Sept 1 record at 45 as showers spread from the upper Mississippi valley to the Great Lakes and beyond.
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Chicago
Midwest
Dakotas
Ohio
Arkansas
Iowa
Wisconsin
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
North Atlantic
Texas
California
Blythe
Calif
Sacramento
Anniversary Of War Finds Torn Europe
Berlin on the tenth anniversary of World War II reflects on the bloodshed and fear. The piece notes a divided Germany, Soviet influence east of the Elbe, and Western NATO plans with 110,000 troops in the west. It recalls Tito in Hungary, Yugoslavia’s fragile stance, and ongoing political strains.
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Europe
Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Elbe
Slovakia
Polish
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Moscow
Western
Yugoslavia
Tito
Balkans
Russia
China
Washington
New Strip Mine Opens Near Historic Big Muddy Seam
John Cox leads a new strip mining project near Mt. Carbon west of the Big Muddy seam site, promising five to six years of quality coal. The operation, using a gravity loading system and heavy machinery staged via Illinois Central rail, builds on Illinois’ first coal mine near Grand Tower with ties to Pocahontas-grade coal and local history.
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Big Muddy
Illinois
Mt. Carbon
John Cox
Herrin
Williamson County
Cox
Russell Stevens
Murphysboro
Stevens
Templeton Tunnel
Illinois Department of Highways
Carbondale
Grand Tower
Big Muddy River Bluffs
Here
Big Muddy River
Mississippi
Gulf Port
Missouri
Bean support levels down from 1948
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department set 1949 crop basic support prices for soybeans and edible beans, with green and yellow soybeans at 2.11 dollars and black brown and mixed beans at 1.91 dollars. Dry edible beans range 6.40 to 8.85 per hundredweight by variety and region, all below last year’s levels. Loans and purchase options run through Jan 31, 1950, with terms on moisture, grade, and maturity.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U. S
Legion Convenes Urges Tight Immigration and Civic Action
Philadelphia September 1 AP The American Legion's 31st national convention urged curtailing immigration while sticking to existing laws and quotas It backed area seminars to study Russian fifth column activities and urged citizenship oath to bear arms A self help plan for unemployment and community council led action was endorsed The election of a new national commander was the main item with nominations set for today and votes expected afternoon Other resolutions urged restoring Veterans Employment Service staff and recognizing firms employing handicapped veterans Support for the Ellender Boggs bill to criminalize court packing was opposed by the Legionary bloc
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Philadelphia
American Legion
United States
Legion
Legionnaires
Americanism Committee
Birmingham
Ala
Indianapolis
Ind
New York
San Francisco
U. S
Secretary of Labor
Veterans Employment Service
Three Day Week Enacted For Rail Workers Nationwide
Nearly one million railroad workers move to a five day week ending decades of six day schedules. Operating employees remain paid by mileage while non operating staff gain equal pay. Costs are offset by a four percent freight rate increase and factory wage benchmarks.
Senate hearings probe Vaughan intervention in Burton tax case
Drew Pearson testified that Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan telephoned the justice department in 1946 seeking intervention in oilman W. T. Burton’s income tax case. The Senate group recessed after Pearson’s testimony as Chairman Clyde Hoey planned further sessions. Truman said Vaughan would remain as army aide. McCarthy warned the inquiry was just getting started.
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Drew Pearson
Harry H. Vaughan
Justice Department
New Orleans
Senate
Pearson
Clyde Hoey
D-N.c
White House
Truman
Vaughan
W. T. Burton
William Helis
Burton
Peareson
James P. McGranery
U. S.S
Eastern District of
Pennsylvania
McGranery
Tom Clark
F.B.S
F.B.I
Col. C. J. Mara
Mara
New England Faces Heavy Rainfall Across Cities
One of the heaviest rainfalls on record drenched Boston with over two inches in two hours. The Weather Bureau in Portland reported three inches in six hours, the heaviest in 20 years, disrupting highways and rail traffic and flooding cellars. An additional inch was forecast before clearing tonight.
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Boston
Weather Bureau
Portland
Truman Sees Passage Of Fair Deal Program
President Truman predicted the Fair Deal will be enacted in full as he addressed a news conference. He expressed confidence that the 81st Congress will pass the remaining items at its next session, noting the two-part List Congress and the long way to go before the current session ends.
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Washington
Sept
Truman
Truman Calls Nerve War Slackening at Poland Anniversary
President Truman said the war of nerves between Communists and democracies is slackening significantly and expressed hope for surrender of democratic foes. He spoke at a news conference marking the 10th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
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Truman
Washington
Hitler
Poland
Senate Votes 75 Cent Wage Measure Near Passage
The Senate approved raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents per hour and the House had done so earlier. Final agreement hinges on reconciled coverage under the 1938 wage hour law, with about one million workers removed by the House and exemptions for roughly 250,000 in retail favored by the Senate. With a week’s recess and House vacation until Sept 21, talks will continue to resolve differences.
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Washington
Senate
House
Cooler and fair weather with warm Friday
The forecast calls for a cool tonight with a pleasant Friday, temperatures ranging from the mid 40s to mid 50s tonight and a high in the mid to upper 70s on Friday. It notes specific times for Wed temperatures from 57 to 82 degrees, sunrise at 5 26 a m and sunset at 6 33 p m, and spillway readings for Crab Orchard and Little Grassy Lakes with no current Missississippi River data at Grand Tower.
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Crab Orchard Lake Spillway
Little Grassy Lake
Grand Tower
Index of sections and pages of the day’s edition
A listing of the newspaper’s content by section with page numbers for national, local news, editorials, society news, sports, comics, classifieds, births, deaths, marriage licenses, markets and pictures. It guides readers to page locations for each category.
Street Car and L Train Collision in Chicago
Six people were injured, none seriously, when a westbound street car collided with an elevated line train at Lake Street and Pine Avenue on Chicago's West Side. The street car derailed. the front coach of the six-car elevated train was damaged. Passengers were taken to West Suburban and St. Anne's hospitals.
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Lake Street
Pine Avenue
Elevated Lines
West Suburban
St. Anne’s Hospital
Effingham Man Dies of Infantile Paralysis at 37
Arthur H. Hill, 37, of Effingham, died today in St. John's hospital from infantile paralysis. He had entered the hospital Monday in Springfield.
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Effingham
Arthur H. Hill
St. John’s Hospital
Peoria Widow Loses $2000 in Old Swindling Trick
An 84-year-old Peoria widow, Mrs. J. S. Boyum, told police two women swindled her of $2,000 after meeting in a department store. They claimed a purse containing $6,000 existed and proposed she invest as a token of good faith to share a later payout, a scam believed to be a repeat of a similar ruse in Peoria about a year ago.
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Peoria
J. S. Boyum
Miss America Bebe Shopp Returns From Europe
Bebe Shopp, 1948 Miss America, cups overall impressions from a month in Europe. She criticizes French swimsuits, dismisses falsies, notes European morality as vacation rather than crusade, and praises Italian hospitality. She recalls bullfighters in Granada and misses milk most.
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New York
Bebe Shopp
Europe
Miss Shopp
New Jobs in East St. Louis Area Promised
East St. Louis Ill Sept 1 Approximately 500 new jobs in the St. Louis area will be opened to non operating railroad employees by a 40 hour five day work week which begins today. That estimate was made last night by W C McGovern of East St. Louis chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway clerks. Shopmen signal men clerks maintenance workers and others not connected with actual operation of trains are affected by the shorter hours and a seven cent an hour wage increase negotiated throughout the nation last March.
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St. Louis
W. C. McGovern
East St. Louis
The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Nation's Polio Rate Declines
The Public Health Service reports a first break in the polio epidemic as autumn arrives. New weekly cases decline from 3422 to 3214 for Aug 20 to Aug 27, while the year’s total through Aug 27 reaches 20513, nearly double last year’s 11155, indicating 1949 may be the worst polio year numerically on record.
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Washington
Public Health Service
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