USW Rejects 10 Percent Wage Offers From Steel Firms
Pittsburgh: United Steelworkers officials reject wage offers of 10 and 10 cent hourly increases from Inland Steel Co and U.S. Steel Corp. The Wage Policy Committee meets to chart future negotations, with President David J. McDonald notifying 96 basic steel companies and iron ore mining firms of union aims.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Inland Steel Co
U.S. Steel Corp
David J. McDonald
U.S. Steel and
Inland
Chrysler Opens New Wage Talks With CIO United Auto Workers
Detroit Chrysler Corp begins contract negotiations with the CIO United Auto Workers as the third of the Big Three to face the union demand for a guaranteed wage plan. The talks include union shop, wage and pension increases, and expanded benefits amid a looming deadline.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
DAV to Meet Here in 1956
HIBBING Minn The Minnesota Disabled American Veterans will hold their 1956 convention in Austin and their 1957 session in Virginia The sites were chosen Sunday at the windup of the group's annual meeting Wilfred G Nimens Crookston was elected state department commander Mrs Helen Parks Albert Lea was named auxiliary commander Other officers named include Robert I Musech Hibbing Delbert Nelson Minneapolis L W Lacy Austin Frank Barstow Brainerd Vernon Olson Albert Lea Jerry Day St Cloud R T Flynn Minneapolis John Reinberger St Paul Mordecai Simon Minneapolis
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Hibbing, Minn
Minnesota
Austin
Virginia
Wilfred G. Nimens
Crookston
State Department
Helen Parks
Albert Lea
DAV
Robert I. Musech
Hibbing
Delbert Nelson
Minneapolis
L. W. Lacy
Frank Barstow
Brainerd
Vernon Olson
Jerry Day
St. Cloud
R. T. Flynn
John Reinberger
St. Paul
Mordecai Simon
Strangling of 10 year old at SP State Hospital
In Spadra California a 10 year old girl Linda Sue Kirk, patient since 1949, was found strangled with shoe laces tied around her throat in a children's ward of the Pacific State Hospital for the mentally retarded. Sheriff’s officers investigated the Saturday night death.
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Spadra
Calif
Pacific State Hospital
Linda Sue Kirk
Tito Accepts Soviet Invite
Belgrade radio announced that President Tito has accepted an invitation to visit Moscow. The report followed the Big Three western powers and Yugoslavia conference ending with a communique noting wide agreement on international questions and urging a strong independent Yugoslavia.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Minnesota man travels to Gander for triplet birth
Gordon Keith rushed to Gander Mid to reach his wife Ruth who left a transatlantic flight from Norway. The triplets born that night at a local hospital weighed just over three pounds each. Ruth Keith plans to return home soon with two older children Tordis and Bruce while the babies remain in Gander for care. Keith, a Windom publisher, had weather and scheduling delays trying to join his family.
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New York
Gordon Keith
Gander
Mid
Minnesota
Keith
Ruth
Norway
Mrs. Keith
New York Post
Windom
Minn
Scandinavian Airlines
Tordis
Bruce
Gander Hospital
Ruth Keith
Bruce Eric
Associated Press
Minnesota weekend traffic toll rises with five deaths
The Associated Press reports five weekend fatalities in Minnesota including Lloyd Pelley of St. Cloud killed when his car hit a tree at 12:30 a.m. Mrs. Pelley injured. Other victims: Leonard Cravens 18 and Marvin Miles 18 near Elbow Lake. Nels W. Lantto 70 near Mora. Kenneth Harris 15 near London. Minnesota's 1955 toll reaches 251.
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Associated Press
St. Cloud
Minnesota
Lloyd Pelley
Northern States Power Co
Pelley
Elbow Lake
Leonard C. Cravens
Marvin Miles
Young Cravens
Miles
Dale Mickleson
James Carlson
Fergus Falls
Nels W. Lantto
Carlton County
Desert jeep tragedy claims two lives near Twentynine Palms
Chester Bunker, 67, survivor of a desert trip with three companions, recalls a Jeep getting stuck in Amazon Canyon. Calvert Wilson, 49, died of exposure after walking out for help. James Thompson, 75, and Lyle Robertson, 49, perished near the vehicle as heat and thirst overwhelmed the party. Bunker and Robertson were rescued and hospitalized.
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Twentynine Palms
Calif
Chester Bunker
Bunker
Amazon Valley
James Thompson
Joshua Tree
Lyle W. Robertson
Cadiz Dry Lake
Six Killed When Jet Slices Bomber During Exercise
A Sabre Jet intercepted a British four engine bomber near RAMSTEIN Germany, slicing it in two and killing all six crew members. Lt. William Jr. Whitten of Chillicothe Ohio parachuted to safety with minor injuries. The incident occurred during the Carte Blanche atomic air exercise involving 3000 Allied planes. Lt. James C. Hopper of Greenwood Mississippi bailed out earlier when his jet suffered mechanical trouble.
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Ramstein
Germany
William Jr. Whitten
Chillicothe
Ohio
U.S. Army
James C. Hopper
Greenwood
Miss
Cologne
Walsh Plans 1957 Retirement as National Guard Chief
Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh, former Minnesota adjutant general and World War I era 34th Infantry Division commander, announced Saturday at Camp Ripley that he will retire in 1957 as president of the National Guard Association. He has led the association for seven years.
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Little Falls, Minn
Ellard A. Walsh
Minnesota
National Guard Assn
Walsh
Minnesota National Guard
Camp Ripley
Alliance Leader Guy Davis Dies at 65
Nebraska 4 H leader and pioneer Guy R. Davis, aged 65, longtime figure in the 4 H movement, died on Sunday in Alliance. He guided youth programs and inspired generations of young members and volunteers.
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Alliance
Neb
Guy R. Davis
Nebraska
Mundt Acknowledges Democrats Lack Issues for 1956 Election
Senator Mundt says Democrats in Congress back much of the Eisenhower program and may lack issues for next year's elections. He praises Majority Leader Johns as congenial and effective, but notes no major issues or organized opposition to aid their presidential candidate.
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Washington
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Congress
Johns
D-Tex
Mundt
Kangaroo on Rampage Stops Traffic in Baltimore Chase
A mother kangaroo escaped handlers after a TV appearance and roamed Baltimore for an hour. Children stared as she jumped high over cars while zoo attendants and six police officers pursued through Malden Avenue and Druid Park Drive. Arthur Moore was kicked and Ben Geary bitten before the animal was finally subdued. The kangaroo had recently kicked her joey from the pouch.
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Baltimore
Zoo
Malden Avenue
Druid Park Drive
Arthur Moore
Baltimore Zoo
Ben Geary
WAAM
Reducing the arms race in Europe eyed by Big Three
The United States Britain and France likely will urge at the upcoming Big Four talks that Russia consider a plan to reverse the arms race in Europe. Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay discussed the idea in recent days during visits to New York and San Francisco.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Europe
Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
New York
San Francisco
United Nations
V. M. Molotov
Alaska
Siberia
State Department
Molotov
U. S
Dulles Flies to Bangor for Secret Talks
Secretary of State Dulles heads to Bangor Maine for urgent talks with President Eisenhower on foreign policy issues including the by Russian fighters shooting down an American plane. He will also brief on the United Nations anniversary meeting in San Francisco. The trip was kept secret by the State Department and press officials declined to confirm details.
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Washington
Dulles
Bangor
Maine
Eisenhower
United Nations
San Francisco
New England
State Department
Lincoln White
U S Military Doctor Wounded In Red MIG Attack
Chinese Communist MiGs shot down a T33 trainer near the Matsu Islands within two hours of an attack on an unarmed commercial Catalina PBY. An American officer aboard the Catalina was reported wounded, but later said no one aboard was hurt as the plane landed at Taipei. The incident marked the first Red MIG presence south of Matsu.
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Taipei
Formosa
Nationalist
Defense Ministry
Matsu Islands
U.S. Army
John J. Good
Pinehill
Tungchuan
White Dog Island
Matsu
Blonde Sets Distance Mark for Water Skiing
Delores Kipple, 22, claims the long distance salt water ski crown after a 200 mile Miami to Nassau crossing on one ski. She rode 10 hours 25 minutes amid eight foot waves, collapsing in the surf at the end. Her feat surpasses the 1952 record by four miles.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Delores Kipple
Miami
Bruce Parker
Evie Wolford
Two Teens Drowned in Minnesota Weekend Incidents
Drownings of Kenneth Voshell 19 of Akeley and James E Drew 16 of Augusta marked a deadly Minnesota weekend. Voshell vanished at Walker municipal beach on Leech Lake as lifeguards prepared for the summer. his body was found near a diving raft. Drew disappeared Saturday night at Miller's Lake after a boat trip. his body was recovered about an hour later. A separate incident weeks earlier involved Fred Wilde 42 and Irene Wilde 40, resort operators on Clearwater Lake, who died when their boat struck a submerged object.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Kenneth Voshell
Akeley
Walker Municipal
Voshell
Leech Lake
Clyde Voshell
James E. Drew
Augusta
Minn
Miller's Lake
Chaska
Carver County Sheriff's
James
Robert
Fred Wilde
Irene
Clearwater Lake
International Falls
House Group Probes Reds in Hollywood
A three member House Un American Activities subcommittee opens a five day session into Communist activity in Hollywood and surrounding areas. About 40 witnesses are expected with at least 14 declining cooperation under the Fifth Amendment. The panel will also question witnesses in San Diego on July 6 and 7.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
House UN- American Activities Committee
Clyde Doyle
Calif
Frank Tavenner
San Diego
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John Moody
William G. Caples
Inland Steel
U.S. Steel
John A. Stephens
McDonald
Caples
Chicago
Highway 61
Mora
Oscar Juntenen
Lantto
Thomas W. McGregor
Kenneth Harris
London, Minn
Illinois Central
London
Amazon Canyon
Here
Calvert Wilson
California
Robertson
Thompson
Needles
Gen. Walsh
Big 3
Fke
U.S
By Spencer Moosa
Jess Ledbetter
Kennett
Harrison Clay
Flint
Mich
Blonde
Dolores
House
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