Minnesota Weekend Traffic Toll Reaches Seven Lives
Seven people died in Minnesota traffic accidents over the weekend raising the year to date toll. Notable losses include William Taskey in Duluth and Calvin Miller a four year old in St. Paul. A Willmar area collision killed Mrs. Blomberg and Frank Ebsen with injuries to several others.
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William Taskey
Duluth
Dale W. Padden
Calvin G. Miller
St. Paul
Cecil McClanahan
Willmar
Arthur Blomberg
Frank Ebsen
Reville
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Elden Schmidt
Marietta
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Donald Hopkins
Minneapolis
Fridley
Evelyn Wouk
Richard Justin
St. Joseph
Little Falls
Alvin Langsdorf
Charles Bisbee
Onawa
Iowa
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Mark Bisbee
Drownings Raise Minnesota 1954 Toll to 36
Minnesota recorded 36 water deaths for 1954 as five more drownings occurred over the weekend. Edward Ciebiera 24 drowned at Mountain Lake after a capsized boat incident on Beaver Lake near Ellendale. Others dying were 48 year old man from Manchester after a boat upset, 6 year old Jaszawski in Robbinsdale sewer excavation, Charles LaRocque in Theodore Wirth Lake, and 16 year old Wilbert Lee in the Red Lake River with a companion.
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Manchester
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Robert Jaszawski
Robbinsdale
Charles LaRocque
Minneapolis
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Wilbert Allen Lee
Willard Lee
Crookston
Red Lake
Young Lee
Sherman Tollifson
Van Fleet May Visit Islands
Taipei reports Gen. James A. Van Fleet may visit key Nationalist held islands off the Red China coast during his Orient survey for President Eisenhower. Chinese sources say he lands in Formosa around June 26 for talks with Chiang Kai-shek and other Nationalist leaders.
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Rasmussen enters DFL governor race in Minnesota
Paul Rasmussen, a Railroad and Warehouse Commission member and Farm Labor figure, announced his candidacy signaling a two man DFL governor contest. Orville Freeman, the party's prior standard bearer, was endorsed at the Albert Lea convention in April. Rasmussen urged ending wasteful government and costly programs in mental health conservation and state institutions.
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Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Farmer-Labor Party
Rasmussen
Orville Freeman
Minneapolis
DFL
Albert Lea
Letter from Briggs Forges Korea Speculation in Seoul
Diplomatic sources speculated on a letter reportedly delivered by U.S. Ambassador Ellis O Briggs to South Korean President Syngman Rhee. Briggs flew to Rhee's summer home in Chinhae amid uncertainty over Geneva peace talks and a possible U S backed buildup of Korean forces. Briggs visit came just before the return of retired General James A Van Fleet.
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Pork Chops Spark Walkout at Cincinnati Drive-In
Non union car hops walked off their posts at a Cincinnati drive-in protesting pending discipline of an employee who allowed workers to bring pork chops and cook them on restaurant stoves. About 40 workers quit including waitresses and kitchen staff. an assistant manager faced a one week suspension for permitting women to eat pork chops brought from home.
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Fire crews respond to lightning strike at Patrick Cawley home
Austin firemen were called to 611 Park at 10 59 p m Friday as a bolt of lightning damaged two fuses. There was no fire.
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Montgomery Ward Heir Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances
Montgomery Ward heir Thorne, grandson of a Ward executive, was found dead in his Chicago studio amid a revised will naming his fiancé Maureen Ragen as chief beneficiary and executor. Coroner McCarron noted four needle marks and ordered organ analysis while investigators questioned Ragen's family in Birmingham, Michigan.
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Racing News Service
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McCarthy Feud Didn't Lower Army Morale
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Army chief of staff, said the Army McCarthy dispute did not lower morale. He noted responsible action in Maj. Irving Peress case and declined to name officers or detail punishment. Ridgway spoke in San Diego en route to his mother in San Francisco.
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Weekend appearances by Humphrey Bjornson and Freeman
Senators Humphrey and Bjornson and Freeman spoke in Minnesota over the weekend. Freeman criticized broken farm promises and urged fair treatment of rural voters while Bjornson attacked inflation under Truman and defended Eisenhower era economics. Humphrey urged belief in equality as America's weapon at a Swedish American event and a Good Neighbor Day festival in Hendricks.
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Man 83 Finds Relief from Arthritis Pain
An 83 year old man reports relief from arthritic pain after using Pruvo, noting improved finger movement and easier knee joints within days. He credits triple acting formula with Amer ica's No 1 anti arthritic medication plus Salicylamide and Vitamin C. Trial size offered at $0.50 with money back guarantee from the Pruvo Co. Available at Holtz Pharmacy.
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Iowan Added to FBI's 10 Most Wanted List
David Daniel Keegan of Sioux City named on the FBI’s ten most wanted list for the murder of William Edwards at a Mon damin farmhouse during a robbery on February 22. He faces unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and transporting loot totaling 9000 dollars in cash and 8300 dollars in savings bonds. Accomplices were captured and given life sentences.
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Iowa
FBI
David Daniel Keegan
Sioux City
William Edwards
Mondamin
Keegan
Logan
Kingsley
Specialist Sees Atomic Power for Airplanes
Government atomic specialist Robert Le Baron predicted a United States plane powered by nuclear energy within six to seven years. He chairs the Military Liaison Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission and spoke mainly in a News and World Report interview on peacetime atomic uses. He noted atomic airplanes are under development on a longer timetable than the nuclear submarine set for testing this summer. Yeast is living material and its spores are often found clinging to dust in the air.
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Robert LeBaron
United States
LeBaron
Atomic Energy Commission
News and World Report
One Life Lost in Iowa Floods and Evacuations
Floods across northern Iowa and Nebraska prompt evacuations as one person dies and dozens of homes are evacuated. Des Moines and Fort Dodge report rising rivers and road closures while hundreds flee rising floodwaters.
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Paris in the Springtime U S Soldiers Prefer Germany
Paris dispatch notes that nine years after World War II American soldiers and tourists often prefer Germany to France. It cites Germany’s rebuilt cities, dynamic growth, and a sense of purpose as the reason Americans feel more at home, while France remains cautious and self-doubting.
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Ludgwig Erhard
Grain stocks reach April 1954 high in corn oats barley
The United States stored 66.5 million tons of corn oats and barley in April 1954, about ten percent above the previous year’s record, signaling a strong crop hold.
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