Polar Bear swims in frigid Lake Michigan in Milwaukee area
Kenosha resident Emmet Perrin a Simmons Co. employee for 38 years swims daily in icy Lake Michigan for 30 minutes as a noon lunch ritual. The 60-something diver says cold baths keep him healthy, dislikes hot water, and plans to keep diving each morning whenever possible.
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Perrin
Kenoshans
Emmet Perrin
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Kenosha
Simmons Co
Molotov Presses for German Unity Amid Western Veto
Molotov again pressed East West German unity at the Big Four talks as the United States Britain and France rejected any participation by the Soviet controlled government. The three Western powers insisted on free elections in both German states as the first step toward a new all German government.
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Berlin
V. M. Molotov
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Zone
United States
Britain
France
East
West Germany
Still Seek Compromise On Bricker Treaty Issue
Washington reports Republican leaders struggle to craft a bipartisan Bricker amendment compromise as fears rise it will return to the Judiciary Committee. Senate leaders including Knowland push to settle on the floor while Bricker signals little chance of a deal and Eisenhower cautions compromise.
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Senate
Bricker
Judiciary Committee
William F. Knowland
Knowland
John W. Bricker
R-O
Congress
GOP
Eisenhower
Diesel Train Crashes into Crowd in Egypt Near Cairo
A diesel train rammed a crowd in Kafr El Zayat near Cairo, injuring many as authorities report heavy casualties. The town is in lower Egypt about 50 miles north-northwest of the capital.
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Cairo
Egypt
U.P
Mohammed Naguib
Kafr-El-Zaiyat
Lower
State Employment Service Denies Unemployment Figures
Albert Shipley, manager of the State Employment Service, denies his office informed UAW-CIO Local 72’s full employment committee that 2,400 Kenosha residents were on unemployment. He says SES handles job placement and based its estimates on 80 percent of jobseekers registering locally, and notes the union’s Washington trip and letter to Senators Wiley and McCarthy.
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Albert Shipley
State Employment Service
Uaw-Cio
Shipley
Jack Beni
Washington
Kenosha
Sens. Wiley and McCarthy
Lawrence Smith
Racine
SES
Polio fund drive urged in Kenosha Sunday
Kenosha Evening News carriers will canvass homes starting at noon to raise money for the 1954 March of Dimes campaign. Volunteers aim for a $35,000 county goal to help infantile paralysis treatment, having collected $13,300 so far. After the canvass, boys return cans to the News office and attend a local movie as guests.
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Kenosha County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
O. T. Steffensen
Kenosha
National Foundation
Jealous milkman confesses Detroit murder of executive
John Lang the milkman, 53, known as the Jack of Diamonds, confessed to shooting John W. Mattson, 53, traffic manager for Atlas Steel Co., at Mattson’s desk after learning of a six year relationship between Lang’s partner Estelle Jameson and the executive. Lang said he bought the deer rifle before Christmas and fired through a window as Mattson worked late.
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Detroit
U.P
Detroit Steel Company
John Lang
John W. Mattson
Atlas Steel Co
Estelle Jameson
Mattson
Lang
Safari for 800 seeks elusive critter in Cogan House area
A hunting expedition of 800 from Williamsport Pennsylvania, aided by airplanes and a Red Cross unit, seeks the so called critter of Cogan House township. The creature thought to be a black panther a mountain lion or a large bob cat has kept game away from Bobst mountain. A $300 prize plus 100 pounds of dog food rewards are offered for the one who bags it. Three aircraft and 50 dogs join a wide coalition led by Lycoming County Judge Charles Scott Williams.
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Williamsport
Red Cross
Cogan House Township
Bobst Mountain
Trial of Five Alleged Communist Leaders Opens in St Louis
Testimony begins Monday in the case against William Sentner James F Forest Dorothy Forest Marcus A Murphy and Robert Manewitz charged with conspiring to overthrow the government by force. A 12 member jury and four alternates were selected for a trial expected to last three to five months.
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St. Louis
William Sentner
James F. Forest
Dorothy
Marcus A. Murphy
Charleston
Robert Manewitz
Los Angeles
Admiral Henry Wilson Dies at 93 in New York
Admiral Henry Braid Wilson Retired, a Spanish American War hero and World War I naval commander in France, dies at 93 in New York. Survived by wife Ada Chapman Wilson daughter Ruth married to Patrick J. Hurley and son Henry B. Wilson Jr an oil executive.
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Henry Wilson
New York
U.P
Henry Braid Wilson
France
Ada Chapman Wilson
Ruth
Patrick J. Hurley
Henry B. Wilson, Jr
Italy's 11 Day Cabinet Falls in Parliament Vote
Italy's 11 day old cabinet of Premier Amintore Fanfani falls as the chamber rejects his bid for confirmation by 303 to 260 with 12 abstentions. Monarchists and Neo-Fascists join leftist opponents. Christians and Republicans support him. Crisis risks general election and Western defense implications.
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Rome
U.P
Amintore Fanfani
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Fanfani
Christian Democratic
Christian Democrats
Luigi Einaudi
Cesare Merzagora
Senate
Christian Democratic Party
Alcide de Gasperi
Giuseppi Pella
Butter Surplus Sold to Candy Firm for Experiments
The agriculture department sold 30 000 pounds of surplus butter for 25 cents a pound to The Wilbur Suchard Chocolate Co Lititz Pa for a candy making experiment to blend butter with cocoa butter to ease a confectionery shortage.
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Washington
URJ
Agriculture Department
Wilbur Suchard Chocolate Co
Lititz
Powerful Egyptian leader Faad Serag El Din jailed fifteen years
Cairo court sentenced Faad Serag El Din, once a top political figure, to 15 years for spreading corruption. The ruling highlights ongoing anti graft efforts in Egypt's political arena.
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Cairo
Egypt
Faad Serag el Din
Secret H-Bomb Lab Revealed at Livermore
The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed for the first time today that a hydrogen bomb laboratory operates at Livermore California under University of California oversight. The 15th semi annual report notes 1 500 scientists and technicians. Teller and others developed the 1952 hydrogen device here and future tests are planned at Eniwetok Bikini.
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Washington
U.P
Livermore
Cal
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
AEC
University of California
Commission
Edward Teller
Teller
Eniwetok-Bikini Proving Ground
Pacific
House
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Los Alamos and
Sandia Laboratories
New Mexico
Stoughton Pedestrian Dies After Car Struck Crossing Street
Mrs. John E Hofstad, 71, of Stoughton, died Friday night after being struck by a car while crossing a street. Coroner Joseph Bloodgood ruled the death accidental, marking the first pedestrian fatality in a Stoughton traffic accident since 1944.
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Stoughton
John E Hofstad
Dane County
Joseph Bloodgood
Hofstad
Secretary Stevens Arrives Here from Hongkong
Manila reports that U S Army Secretary Robert T Stevens arrived by air today from Hongkong to begin a stay in the area.
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Stevens
Manila
U.S
U. S. Army
Robert T. Stevens
Hongkong
Senate panel cites critical shortage in military reserves
A Senate armed services committee report says all services face a serious manpower shortage in reserves, worsened by calling inactive reservists including WWII veterans to Korea. It cites understrength units, training gaps, pay issues, and public resistance to reserve duty, with particular flags over air reserve pilots and older airmen.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
National Guard
Air Force Reserve
Air Force
Navy Air Reserve
Frigid Canadian air chills Wisconsin with subfreezing temps
Frigid air from Canada pushed into Wisconsin Friday night dropping readings to 10 degrees at the sewage treatment plant and 13 in Grantsburg with highs near 38 earlier. Morning temps ranged from 10 to 14 across locations as a gradual warmup was forecast for Sunday with zero to five below tonight and 15 to 22 above Sunday.
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Canada
Wisconsin
Grantsburg
Nash Motors
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Lefty) O’doul
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