Eisenhower Wins Massachusetts Primary With Large Delegates Lead
Eisenhower tops Taft in Massachusetts GOP preference by over two to one and takes 29 of 38 delegates. He also finishes second to Kefauver in the Democratic vote. Massachusetts totals show a broad write-in field and a disputed interpretation of delegate binding.
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Boston
U.P
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Massachusetts
Robert A Taft
Taft
Eisenhower
Sen
Estes Kefauver
MacArthur
Warren
Stassen
Kefauver
President Truman
Dover
Stevenson
Massachusettes
Howdy Doody
Willie Sutton
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Basil Brewer
Second Protest Note Over Soviet Air Attack on Air France Flight
Western Allied agencies reported a second protest to the Soviet Union after two Soviet MIG jets attacked an Air France DC-4 near the Berlin-Frankfurt air corridor. Berlin said air safety notes and groundings followed as both sides blamed the other for the incident. commercial flights resumed over the Soviet zone with Allied aircraft flying prescribed routes.
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Berlin
U.P
Air France
East Germany
Frankfurt-Berlin
Germany
Pan American Airways
British European Airways
Berlin-Frankfurt
Wisconsin Civil Defense gets $388,886 for supplies
The Federal Civil Defense Administration tentatively approves spending 388 886 dollars for supplies and equipment for Wisconsin. The state civil defense office confirms the allocation and outlines use for Madison and other areas.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Wisconsin
State Civil Defense Office
Telephone Rate Boost Blocked Momentarily
Milwaukee and Madison officials blocked Wisconsin Telephone's 3.705 million rate increase for now. They asked the public service commission to reconsider its order and said the raise was unreasonable for Milwaukee and Madison. The new rates were to start yesterday but are held until the commission rules on the latest legal move.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Bank Robber to Make Public Confession in Topeka Church
An unidentified man who robbed the Hoyt state bank in 1948 plans a public confession at a Topeka church with a sheriff’s wire recorder present. The event, arranged with a pastor, aims at restitution while authorities caution about probable arrest and prosecution.
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Bandit
Topeka
Kan
U.P
Hoyt, Kan
Jackson County
Ernest White
Donald Sands
Holton
Hoyt Bank
Orin Williams
the Hoyt
Williams
Seward Avenue Baptist Church
Howard L. Brumme
Zimney Perjury Trial Receives Partial Read of Testimony
The state calls two witnesses by noon in the perjury case against Charles Zimney a 46 year old Wauwatosa beverage tax agent. Read portions show Zimney claiming Henry Rechlicz knew Stanley Miller earlier and introduced them first.
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Charles Zimney
Wauwatosa
Alfred Drury
Zimney
Henry Rechlicz
Stanley Miller
Grand Jury
Miller
Lakeshore
Rechlicz
Fred Mattingly
Mattingly
Beverage Tax Division
Timber Fires Tamed Across Minnesota and South Dakota
Rangers and volunteers fought timber and grass fires in Minnesota and South Dakota. A blaze scorched over 500 acres in the Superior National Forest near Ely, with rain hoped for to curb future outbreaks.
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Ely
Minn
U.P
Minnesota
South Dakota
Superior National Forest
Pan American Plane Missing Over Brazilian Jungles
A Pan American Clipper Good Hope disappeared en route from Buenos Aires to New York with 50 aboard. Search planes combed Brazilian jungles between Rio and Belem as crews hoped for a crash landing site. The incident prompted a nationwide steelworker walkout after a judge ended seizure orders.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
New York
Belem
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United States
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Barreiras
Bahia
Rio
Amazon
Atlantic
South America
Pan American World Airways
U. S. Navy
Air Force
Brazilian Air Force
Court Grants Mills Back to Owners After Seizure Ruling
U S District Judge David Pine ruled the Truman steel seizure illegal and ordered mills returned to owners. Government appeals are expected as 650,000 unionists walked out, cities reported widespread plant gate pickets, and the Taft Hartley option looms.
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USW
Philip Murray
Gary
Chicago
Ind
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Buffalo
Baltimore
Washington
U. S
David A. Pine
Pine
Truman
Holmes Baldridge
U. S. Court of Appeals
Baldridge
Justice Department
District of Columbia
Brewer's Widow Seeks One-Third Share of Estate
Milwaukee widow Mrs George Uihlein petitions to bypass her late husband’s will directing almost the entire 7 million dollar estate to her. She seeks a widow’s dower of one third before taxes. Hearings opened before County Judge Michael Sheridan as public administrator Urban Wittig warned the case raises legal questions with potential tax and federal implications.
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Milwaukee
George
Uihlein
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co
Michael S. Sheridan
Urban R. Wittig
Wisconsin Hottest April Temperatures Hit Record
The Weather Lane Rock posted 94 degrees yesterday tying Wisconsin’s April record. Other highs were 91 in Lancaster and 89 in Eau Claire with cooler readings near Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Milwaukee reached 68 while Kenosha stood at 57 at noon.
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Lane Rock
Wisconsin
Lancaster
Eau Claire
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Superior
Milwaukee
Kenosha
Oil Refinery Unions Strike Across Nation
More than 90,000 unionized refinery and pipeline workers went on strike as talks with the oil industry continued. The OWIU CIO urged 10,000 California members to stay on job to aid wartime efforts amid fuel shortages and city gas constraints in several states.
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Denver
San Francisco
Oil Workers International Union
CIO
California
Detroit
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company
End secrecy urged at welfare funds conference
A Wisconsin welfare spending conference of seven taxpayers associations urged an end to secret allocations. The group passed a resolution accusing authorities of concealing how 50 million dollars yearly are spent on welfare in the state.
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Wausau
Wis
Two Children Take Wild Ride In Little Chute Driveway
Bruce Romensko and Marvin Poppe, both youngsters from Little Chute, climbed into a parked car and watched it roll in reverse. The vehicle crossed a lawn, hit a yard bench, and slid down a terraced hill toward Fox River before stopping when a plastic clothesline got tangled on the bumper. Both boys, after about 350 feet of motion, were tired and put to bed by relieved mothers.
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Wis
Bruce Romensko
Marvin Poppe
Bruce
Romensko
Henry de Groot
Fox River
Marvin
Levees Patrolled At Muscatine Threatened Flooding
River observers warned the Mississippi would stay near crest for three to four days as Muscatine dikes are patrolled. About 250 families evacuated lowland homes while forecasters said levels remain around 21 feet for a week and flood stage could extend ten more days. Crested at 21.025 feet Monday as workers bolster dikes protecting 6000 acres of Illinois farmland.
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Muscatine
U.P
Mississippi
Illinois
Ore Carriers Ordered to Dock During Steel Strike
Milwaukee report says the Pittsburgh Steamship Company a US Steel subsidiary ordered 16 Great Lakes ore carriers to dock at Milwaukee for the duration of the steel strike. The vessels had wintered there and left the harbor earlier this month.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Pittsburgh Steamship Company
U. S. Steel Corporation
Great Lakes
Government asks to keep steel mills under federal control
The government urged the court of appeals to retain possession of strike-idled steel mills for six days while it takes the seizure dispute to the Supreme Court. A separate bill aims to prevent shutdowns by permitting receivers for companies and unions if needed. In Duluth, a dairy workers union and local dairies reached a contract ending a five day milk strike. Riot leaders Ward and Hyatt were secretly removed from Jackson Prison as a precaution.
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Washington
U.P
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Duluth-Superior
Duluth, Minn
U.2
AFL Dairy Workers
Duluth-Superior Dairies
Twin Ports
Jackson, Mich
Earl Ward
Jack Hyatt
Michigan
Kenosha Industries Report Limited Steel Strike Impact
Major Kenosha industries expect no immediate production cuts from the steel strike. Nash Motors says it is in a favorable position and may avoid effects for weeks, Simmons's E B McCaffery anticipates later impact, American Brass expects little disruption, and Snap-on Tools has steel on hand for one to six weeks.
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Kenosha
Nash Motors
E. B. McCaffery
Simmons Company
American Brass
Snap-on Tools Corporation
Steelwork resumes? Poststrike scenes during 1952 contract clash
Workers dropped tools and grabbed lunches as a tentative verdict forced a wave of reactions. The United Steelworkers sought an 18 14 cent wage hike and a union shop while industry balked. Truman seized the industry to avert a strike but federal courts blocked actions. Production sagged as plants cooled furnaces and coke ovens amid uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USW
WSB
Truman
Wheeling Steel Corp
Wheeling Steel
Steubenville
Ohio
Gary
Ind
Pro-Taft Republicans push slate at Mississippi convention
About 50 white Republicans stormed a state GOP meeting in Jackson and hurried through a delegate slate in three minutes. They disrupted a biracial black and tan gathering planned to name ten national convention delegates.
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Jackson, Miss
U.P
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