Boileau finds grounds for Sawyer mistrial
Milwaukee circuit judge Gerald Boileau rules there are grounds for declaring a mistrial in the bribery conviction case against Walter Sawyer, a Milwaukee automobile dealer. In Michigan, mutinous convicts threaten to release another hostage as they refuse surrender. In Washington, the House kills a bill to allow President Truman to appoint 23 new federal judges before leaving office.
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Milwaukee
Gerald Boileau
Wausau
Walter Sawyer
Block Truman
Washington
U.P
House
Truman
Eisenhower Sweeps Pennsylvania Presidential Primary
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower led the Pennsylvania popular primary by a half million votes and claimed at least five of eight Allegheny county delegates. Taft and Stassen trailed as write-ins boosted Taft in the Democratic contest and Eisenhower topped GOP turnout setting a primary voting record. Local Taft leaders blamed weak turnout and confused voters over write-in votes for the delegate race.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
Chicago
GOP
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Taft
Ester Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Truman
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Averell Harriman
Richard B. Russell
Alben Barkley
Robert Kerr
Joseph Stalin
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ernest Hillman
Ike Claims New York Delegates Amid Primary Victory
Ike supporters, led by Gov. Dewey and GOP State Chairman Pfeiffer, claimed most of New York's 96 Republican delegates as Eisenhower won seven of twelve GOP primary contests. Taft carried one. four winners were unpledged but organization backed.
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Abany
N. Y
U.P
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New York
NATO
Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
William L. Pfeiffer
Robert A. Taft
GAR Ranks Down to Four With Death of Ill Vet
The Union army's surviving members fell to four with the death of Douglas T. Story, 107, a private in company I of the 136th Illinois Volunteers. He died of bronchial pneumonia at Sawtell Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles yesterday.
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GAR
Vet
Los Angeles
Calif
U.P
Douglas T. Story
Story
136Th
Illinois Volunteers
Sawtelle Veterans Hospital
Wisconsin Weather: Cold Front Advances Across State
Cloudy skies in the south and clear in the north as a cold front moves east through Wisconsin. Lows ranged from 28 at Park Falls to 46 at La Crosse and Kenosha, while a 68 degree high marked the state's peak in La Crosse. Noon in Kenosha recorded 44.
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Wisconsin
Park Falls
International Falls
Minn
Grantsburg
Superior
Wausau
Eau Claire
Green Bay
Dalton
Milwaukee
Lake Geneva
Lone Rock
Watertown
Janesville
Lancaster
Madison
la Crosse
Kenosha
Crest Unhindered As Mississippi Reaches 21.2 Feet
Prairie du Chien Wisconsin endures record Mississippi crest of 21.2 feet, four inches above last year. About one third of the city remains submerged with 220 families evacuated from low areas. Upstream La Crosse fights seepage and sandbags while the river carries debris into a northern residential district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Mississippi
Ol’ Miss
Muskrats Seeps Flood Woes At La Crosse Causeway
In La Crosse Wisconsin flood trouble worsens as muskrats burrow into Lang Drive shoulders and pavement of a local causeway. Police battle the invading animals amid a closed season and plan an emergency request to the state conservation department for armed action.
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State Conservation Department
Federal grand jury indicts five in Wisconsin organized crime probe
Madison Wisconsin five indictments were returned by a federal grand jury probing organized crime in the western district of Wisconsin U S Attorney Thomas Fairchild said two indictments charged Albert J Kannenberg La Valle and Vernon Pheerson Amherst Junction with refusing to report for induction. A third indicted Philip Wermich Lac du Flambeau tavern operator with twice selling liquor to a Chippewa Indian. Details of the other two indictments were withheld pending arrest. The jury adjourned and will reconvene next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin
U. S
Thomas Fairchild
Albert J. Kannenberg
la Valle
Vernon Pheerson
Amherst Junction
Philip Wermich
Lac du Flambeau
Delials
Fairchild
Convicts Seize Prison Arsenal In Michigan Mutiny
Heavily armed mutineers at Southern Michigan prison barricaded Block 15 and ripped a tunnel into the arsenal as 600 state police moved in. Hostages held by convicts prompted a midnight peace bid from Warden Frisbie and a demand for Gov. Williams to sign any agreement. Riots caused $2 million in damage. one convict killed, at least nine injured. Five inmates were beaten. some expelled mutineers were seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mich
Michigan
Julian N. Frisbie
Gov. Williams
Earl Ward
Block 15
George Bacon
Ward
Frisbie
Japan France trade pact sets 1952 exports at 25 million dollars
Tokyo announced a Sino French trade agreement for 1952 under which Japan will export 25 million dollars of goods to France and receive 41 million dollars in French products.
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Tokyo
France
Japan
Costs Of Campaigns In Wisconsin Primary
Wisconsin April primary expense totals show $215,035 spent by clubs and delegates. Taft backers spent $101,172. Taft delegate payments $1,479. Warren and Stassen entities had varied expenditures. Kefauver and Kephauver supporters incurred smaller sums. other minor backers reported combined outlays of about $8,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin
Robert Taft
Taft
Secretary of
Earl Warren
Harold Stassen
Grant Ritter
MacArthur
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Jerome Fox
Chilton
Charles Broughton
Sheboygan
French Cabinet Awards Eisenhower Medal
Paris reports the cabinet approved awarding the French Military Medal to General Dwight Eisenhower. The decision marks a formal recognition of his wartime leadership by France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Senate hears Morse blast on steel firms and tax policy
Sen. Morse accuses steel industry and big business of pushing a feudal system and tax subsidies as he testifies on the steel dispute. Truman defends seizure. Knowland leads GOP bid to impeach. Senate votes and investigations rise amid wage and price control talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
Morse
R-Ore
Senate Labor Committee
America
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
Truman
House
Congress
Senate
Knowland
California
Senate Banking Committee
Troops Could Fight Under Atom Blast Test
The Atomic Energy Commission and Dr. Alvin Graves revealed that troops could attack a strongpoint directly beneath a high altitude nuclear blast and fight there for more than 30 hours without radiological harm, during the 27th American nuclear fission test as analysts evaluate tactical use for field troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Atomic Energy Commission
Alvin C. Graves
AEC
Truckers Reject New Milwaukee Wage Pact Amid Walkout
About 2 000 AFL truck drivers in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties rejected a proposed agreement to end their week long strike. Pickets blocked cartage firms and major highways while union leaders urged an end to the walkout as freight delays and potential embargoes grew. The wage board had cut a 16 cent rise to eight cents, yielding a $1.82 hourly rate. Local 200 officials pressed unions and employers to seek reversal and resumed talks.
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Milwaukee
U.P
AFL
Waukesha
AFL Truck Drivers Union
Frank Ranney
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Waukesh County
Talks at Panmunjom Stall Amid Artillery Barrage
In Panmunjom, Korean truce negotiators faced stubborn deadlock as shelling outside the 1,000 yard security zone rattled tents. Staff talks on guaranties and airfield limits produced no progress while prisoner exchanges remained unresolved and gloom grew.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U.S
Russia
Peiping
McFarland Predicts Defeat of RFC Liquidation Bill
Washington U P Senator Ernest W Mc Farland Democratic leader says he will do everything to beat a bill liquidating the Reconstruction Finance Corp and expects its defeat. He made the remark to reporters in Washington indicating Senate opposition to the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
Ernest W. McFarland
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Arizona Democrat
Nevada Test Reveals Precise New A Bomb In Fury Valley
Las Vegas reports detail a Nevada test where a 33 000 foot detonation produced a pinpoint blast center within 200 feet, exposing 1 500 troops and leaving only animal casualties. Observers compare the device to Bikini explosions for scale and risk, noting its exact timing and controlled yield.
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Las Vegas
Nev
U.P
Fury Valley
Nevada Hills
Nevada
Cial
Idaho
Frank Dorn
United Press
Hell
Earth
Ground Zero
Tax lien filed against Ross Fitch over cabaret taxes
A federal tax lien was filed in federal court yesterday against Ross C. Fitch a Racine restaurant operator. The lien alleges he owes 8189 dollars in cabaret taxes for the period from December 1942 through August 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Ross C. Fitch
Racine
Unreported Income Taints Former Internal Revenue Chief
Tax investigators testified that Joseph D. Nunan Jr. had about $176000 in unexplained income from 1944 to 1950 and $35383 in untraceable bank deposits by check. They cited $2577 interest on a house mortgage, $1541 taxable gains, and $97328 in cash deposits as unreported income. Nunan declined to testify due to illness and a heart specialist will review possible contempt action.
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Washington
U.P
Internal Revenue
Joseph D. Nunan, Jr
Andres Saldana
Saldana
Nunan
Robert W. Kean
R.-Nj
Kean
Adrian Dewind
House
Ways and Means
Second
New York
Cecil R. King
D.-Cal
King
Subcommittee
Federal Tax Collection Office
Adrian W. Dewind
Russian Navy Paper Claims Dunkirk Evacuation Helped Allies
Moscow reports Red Fleet explains Hitler ordered evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk to press for Anglo German accord against the Soviet Union. The piece portrays the move as aiding a broader anti Soviet alliance and cites Soviet propaganda aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Dunkerque
Red Fleet
Hitler
Soviet Union
Dynamite levee blasts flood lands near Orrick
In Richmond Missouri a dynamite blast breached a privately owned levee releasing Missouri river floodwaters onto about 2000 acres. Five families were displaced as holes 50 and 100 feet long poured water up to 12 feet deep. Prosecutor Dick Dale Jr reports several suspects and a grand jury to hear state destruction of property charges.
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Richmond
U.P
Orrick
Bay County
Dick Dale
Dale
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Sawyer
Southern Michigan Prison
Ike
John S. Langdon
United Press Staff
Carl Wahlstrom
Onalaska
Yucca Flat
Atom Bomb
Fox
Gop’s
Southern Michigan
Atom
RFC
Frank H. Bartholomew
Bikini
mid-Pacific
Bikini Lagoon
TNT
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