Macwhyte Workers Strike After Offer Rejected
About 500 UAW CIO Local 960 members at Macwhyte walked out after rejecting a company offer that included a wage raise, health coverage changes, and increased sickness benefits. The walkout halted the north side wire rope plant with pickets at all gates as top management huddled and no new talks were scheduled.
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Uaw-Cio Local 960
Macwhyte Company
Polonia Hall
George C. Wilder
Macwhyte
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Uaw-Cio
Kenosha
Local 960
Earthquake Kills One Injures Three in Japan
A strong quake struck Shikoku island killing Ikuo Hirose a 42 year old laborer and injuring three others. Police report he died from blood loss after stones fell during the tremor.
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Japan
Tokyo
Shikoku
Ikuo Hirose
Weather Update Predicts Cooler Relief After Heat Wave
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy cooler weather with showers and scattered storms tonight. Daytime temperatures reached 90 at the sewage plant, 98 at American Motors, and 97 downtown with highs around 98 Tuesday and a low of 75 after midnight as a cold front begins moving in from northern Wisconsin.
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American Motors
Wisconsin
Kenoshans
Kohler Clay Arrives Amid Narrow Labor Clash
Workers at Kohler Co. confront a clash as eight clay cars are moved into the grounds by railroad crews while CIO United Auto Workers strike continues. Union picketing persists three miles from the plant and a mayor proposed embargo is rejected by the conciliation service chief. Prices rise as Milwaukee milk deliveries go up one cent a quart to 21 cents.
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Sheboygan
North Western Railroad
Kohler Co
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Rudolph Ploetz
Federal Conciliation Service
Ploetz
Milwaukee
Wisconsin State Amateur match play opens at Kenosha CC
The Wisconsin State Amateur golf championship begins with 31 qualifiers including defending champion Bob Johnson as play starts at Kenosha Country Club. Johnson leads Walter Atwood 3 up through 12 holes before Atwood narrows to one up after a birdie on 17, then Johnson wins 1 up on 18.
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Kenosha Country Club
Bob Johnson
Milwaukee
Johnson
Walter Atwood
Blackhawk
Madison
Ed Karpowicz
J. R. Evans
Columbus
Karpowicz
Jack Allen
Maple Bluff
Glen Crane
Meadowbrook
Bob Wick
North Hills
Jim Levenhagen
Curt Jacobs
Oconomowoc
Steve Caravello
Nakoma
Steve Bull
Racine
Bob Silver
Atwood
Tom Stouthamer
Westmoor
Beau Melik
Talbott Quits Private Job Amid Ethics Probe
Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott told Senate investigators he is ending his $60,000-a-year stake in Mulligan & Co. to protect the air force. President Eisenhower said he will study the record to decide if Talbott violated ethics, noting no fraud or illegality is alleged.
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Washington
Air Force
Harold FE
Talbott
Senate
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Paul B. Mulligan & Co
Mulligan
Geneva
Heat Wave Forces Auto Plant Shutdown in Kenosha
Extreme heat grips Kenosha as temperatures near 100 degrees shut down the American Motors plant at 11 a.m. and keep workers home in shifts. A two month old Kenneth Lee Hadley Jr. dies, with coroner ordering a post mortem to probe heat related factors while officials note possible overwhelming infection.
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Kenneth Lee Hadley Jr
American Motors
Simmons Company
American Brass
Kenosha
William Raven
Kenneth Lee Hadley
Little Kenneth
Kenneth Hadley
Apt
E-2
William Rauen
Rauen
Drowning Death of Michael Webster at Kitchen River
Michael Webster age 10 drowned Tuesday while playing below a dam in York Wisconsin with his twin Marvin and neighbor Gloria Humphrey nine. The trio were in about three feet of water near the Humphrey farm when Michael stepped into a hole. Rescue attempts failed.
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York
Wis
Michael Webster
Kitchen River
Marvin
Gloria Humphrey
Jackson County
Humphrey
Michael
Roy Webster
Israeli Plane Shot Down In Bulgaria
Greek authorities report Bulgarian anti aircraft guns shot down an El Al Constellation near the Greek border. 57 or 58 aboard with at least three Americans among the dead or missing. Israel investigates with a possible inquiry commission. crash occurred near Petritsia in Bulgaria during Vienna to Tel Aviv flight.
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Bulgaria
Athens
Greece
J. Sheinbaum
Katz
London
Tel Aviv
Israel
Constellation
Foreign Ministry
Jerusalem
Sofia
Macedonia
el al
Petritsia
Lydda
Warsaw
Vienna
Schechat
Paris
el al Airlines
Tsibalovo
U. S
Pan American Airways
Eisenhower road program rejected by House vote
The House rejected President Eisenhower's 38.6 billion road-building program funded mainly by 30 year non-treasury bonds. In Wisconsin Madison polio incidence rose to 112 for 1955 with 40 new weekly cases. Peiping announced Wang Ping Nan named ambassador to Poland to attend the Geneva talks on a Formosan cease fire.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Treasury
Madison
Wisconsin
Tokyo
Radio Peiping
Red China
Wang Ping Nan
Poland
United States
Geneva
Pilot Survives Jet Crash at Lowry Air Base
Lt. William T. Adams of Jena Louisiana survived a crash of an F 86 jet on takeoff at Lowry Air Force Base. He suffered serious but not life threatening burns and was taken to the base hospital. Adams, an air training officer at the temporary Air Force Academy site, walked from the flaming wreckage. Investigators planned an immediate probe to determine the cause.
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Denver
Lowry Air Force Base
William T. Adams
Jena
Adams
New Air Force Academy
Lowry
Lowry Field
Barbara Bersham
Chrysler Near Pact Prompts Premature Agreement Talk
Negotiators for Chrysler Corp and the CIO United Auto Workers resumed bargaining on a new contract. A joint statement said reports that an agreement is near are premature and negotiations continue.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Boy 6 Reports Branding by Older Boys in Des Moines
Des Moines police investigate after a six year old boy says three older youths branded him with a hot spoon. The boy alleged the act followed fear he would reveal that the dogs had drowned.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Police Today
Eisenhower backs Geneva plan for peaceful air over US
President Eisenhower said he would allow peaceful foreign planes to fly over any US area to carry out the Geneva proposal for exchange of military blueprints and aerial inspection if Russia agrees to the same terms. He spoke at a Geneva summit press conference stressing Geneva gains and noting no immediate peace era. He also said Dixon-Yates details will be disclosed to Congress and that Sherman Adams offered full cooperation to Armstrong's SEC account. He added personal talks with Georgi Zhukov highlighted a new inspection concept.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Geneva
Russia
Dixon- Yates
Joseph M. Dodge
Congress
J. Sinclair Armstrong
Securities and Exchange Commission
Sherman Adams
Adams
Senate
Armstrong
SEC
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Adolphe Wenzell
New York
Dixon-Yates
Zhukov
Georgi Zhukov
U.S. presses China to prove peace talk with cease-fire
The United States proposes in Geneva that Red China prove its peace talks by agreeing to a Formosa cease-fire and freeing 51 Americans jailed in China. President Eisenhower and aides plan advance talks with Red China as Britain India Burma back the move, while Congress discusses implications.
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U.S
Washington
Iwi
United States
Red China
Formosa Straits
John Foster Dulles
U. Alexis Johnson
Czechoslovakia
Geneva
Britain
India
Burma
Congress
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Senate
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Macwhyte’s
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Peter Hannes
Elmer Seeger
Joseph Sheehan
George Pinzger
Joseph Korbel
John Schmitt
Francis Singer
Harold Thompson
Sam Rizz0
Company
E. G. Knoedler
A. M. Naysmith
R. B. Whyte, Jr
E. S. Rubjerg
W. R. Kuessow
J. B. Chamberlin
Kohler
Joseph Finnegan
Washington, D. C
Midwest
Evening News
Chicago
Simmons Beach
Chrysler
Boy
Lations Committee
Formosa
George
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