Bull and Larson lead after 18 holes in state amateur semifinals
Racine Meadowbrook golfers Lief Larson and Steve Bull hold 1 up leads over Bil ly Schaller and Bill Ploetz after the morning 18. Larson carded 72 to Schaller 73 while Bull stood 72 and Ploetz 76. The afternoon session resumes with 36 holes total for the semifinals.
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Lief Larson
Steve Bull
Kenosha Country Club
Larson
Milwaukee
Billy Schaller
Bull
Madison
Bill Ploetz
Schaller
Racine
Meadowbrook
Ploetz
Tommy Adamson
Kenosha
Rick Rowbottom
Beloit
Adamson
Ed Garvey
Burlington
Gary Rosenberg
Green Bay
Rowbottom
Garvey
Roger Eberhardt
Sheboygan
Prentice
Marty Garrity
Shawano
Dick Schultz
Kenoshans
Eisenhower housing bill faces House hurdle in stalemate
The President’s plan for federally assisted low rent public housing meets resistance as the House weighs a substitute bill from Rep. Wolcott. The administration seeks 35 000 units annually with slum clearance ties, while the substitute offers no public housing provisions. FHA would gain four billion in new mortgage insurance authority and extend repair programs, with higher loan limits and rental project ceilings.
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Eisenhower
House
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
House Rules Committee
Federal Housing Administration
Banking Committee
FHA
Convent Destroyed in Dubuque Fire
A blaze swept the Mount Carmel Convent in Dubuque Iowa injuring at least eight firefighters. Fire crews battled the flames for hours as residents watched from the street.
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Dubuque
Ilowa
Mount Carmel
Hot Humid Weather Persists With Scattered Thunderstorms
The weatherman forecasts two more hot humid days with tonight and Saturday partly cloudy and hot. Lows near 68 to 75 tonight. highs 90 to 95 in the northeast and 95 to 100 in the southeast on Saturday. Sunday outlook shows partly cloudy hot humid with scattered storms. Kenosha saw cooler temps today yet high humidity with noon readings around 81 to 86 and highs around 84 yesterday.
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Kenosha
Americar Motors
Tragic Hanging Accidental Death of 8-Year-Old Boy
In Mount Vernon Indiana an eight year old, James Everett Cameron, told playmates he would hang himself and tied a rope to a tree limb. He looped the other end around his neck and suddenly slipped strangling before his mother could be summoned.
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Mount Vernon
Ind
James Everett Cameron
Joe Poole
Rail Crew Refuses to Cross Picket Line in Sheboygan
North Western freight train refuse crossing CIO picket at Kohler plumbing plant in Sheboygan. Five pickets halt 7 am crossing as crew backs cars to yards without disorder. Two shipments of Norwegian clay had earlier been moved from Montreal by supervisory crews. more clay cars await delivery.
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North Western
Kohler Co
CIO
Union Avenue
Union
Montreal
Canada
U S to Launch Earth Satellite for Science
President Eisenhower approves plans for the world’s first man made satellites sized like basketballs. Projects aim to study the earth’s upper atmosphere with instruments, cost about 10 million dollars, and involve international scientists in 1957 to 1958 research.
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U. S
Earth
Swift Globe Unmanned
Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
James C. Hagerty
UAW to Be Arraigned on Campaign Act Charges
The United Auto Workers will be arraigned in Detroit on four federal counts alleging illegal use of union funds to back Democratic candidates in the 1954 election via UAW sponsored TV programs. Walter Reuther and Emil Mazey will appear with their attorney. Mazey calls the indictment a Face-saving move by Summerfield and Feikens.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Michigan
UAW
Walter Reuther
Emil Mazey
Mazey
Arthur Summerfield
John Feikens
Polio cases rise in Outagamie County draw
Fourteen new polio cases were reported Thursday, raising the Outagamie county total for the season to 67. Local health officials urged vigilance and vaccination campaigns to curb the spread.
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Appleton
Outagamie County
Wagner Urges Higher Minimum Wage at Eagles Meet
Milwaukee and New York City Mayor Robert Wagner told Eagles delegates that the U S should raise the minimum wage from 75 cents to 1 25 an hour. He argued current legislation lags behind rising rents and prices. In New York City breadwinners for a family of four must earn about 80 a week to cover essentials. Portraits were dedicated for 23 figures in the Eagles Hall of Fame.
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Polonia Hall
Milwaukee
New York City
Robert Wagner
U. S
Wagner
New York
Sen
New Eagles Hall of Fame
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Warren G. Harding
Jack Dempsey
Jim Jeffries
Tommy Gibbons
Connie Mack
Jim Thorpe
Earl Warren
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FBI
Msgr
Edward Flanagan
Boys’ Town
Col
Francis Gabreski
America
Oil City
Gabreski
Israeli diplomat visits Sofia crash scene amid Bulgarian obstruction
The Israeli charge d affaires in Sofia tours the El Al crash site in Greece where 58 died, including 13 Americans, as Bulgarian guards bar an Israeli investigation. The U S and Britain plan protests and demand indemnities, amid talk of wider international action to prevent future incidents.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Israel
United States
Britain
Washington
London
Russia
Five Months Needed To Air Charges In Mine Mill Case
Washington officials forecast at least five months to air charges by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. that the Independent Mine Mill union is under a Communist clique’s control. Brownell asked the Subversive Activities Control Board to rule, with hearings possibly starting this fall and running into 1956. The petition targets the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, alleging three years of Communist influence.
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Washington
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Atom-bomber crashes in Peterborough killing four
A Valiant atomic bomber struck a power line on takeoff in Peterborough England and crashed in a fiery explosion. Four crew members were killed in the accident.
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Peterborough
England
Bulgaria Delivers Protest Note Over Israeli Airline Attack
The United States issued a protest note to Bulgaria via Swiss diplomats demanding indemnities for the 13 American victims aboard the Israeli airliner shot down by anti aircraft fire. The note follows Bulgaria’s destruction of the plane and cites Moscow as likely embarrassed by the incident. Fifty eight killed. Bulgaria acknowledges regret but responsibility remains unsettled despite potential top level orders.
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Washington
United States
Red Bulgaria
Sofia
State Department
Bulgaria
Moscow
Weather Forecast Alarm From Tokyo Scientist
Dr Hideo Nishio a 42 year old science instructor at Kei University Tokyo warned that world temperatures will rise each year for the next 250 years.
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Tokyo
Hideo Nishioka
Kei University
CIO and Alcoa Officials Meet Over Wage Talks
United Steelworkers and Aluminum Company of America executives meet in Pittsburgh seeking a wage settlement before Sunday midnight. About 41,000 Alcoa production workers face possible strike if no deal is reached.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Aluminum Company of America
Shawano Man Arrested in State Bank Burglary Case
Harold F. Zahn of Shawano County was arrested by FBI agents at a farm pump house attic after a bank break in at Bonduel State. He was unarmed, fled initially, and was jailed for questioning. The stolen pistol and blue 1955 Ford sedan were traced to the incident.
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Shawano
Shawano County
Bonduel State Bank
FBI
Harold F. Zahn
Rt. 2
Zahn
Interior Dept Reports Duck Baiting Fraud Denial Charged
Rep. Henry S. Reuss accuses California duck baiting program of fraud while in Chicago negotiators press Kohler strike talks, noting no appreciable change after 16 months.
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Washington
Interior Department
California
Henry S.S. Reuss
D-Wis
Chicago
Kohler
Democrats say surtax reform would end need for new tax
William Proxmire of Madison argued Thursday night that tax reforms proposed by Democrats would render the recently enacted 20 percent state surtax unnecessary.
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Green Bay
Wis
William Proxmire
Madison
Dulles Opposes Atlantic Union Convention Proposal
Secretary of State Dulles wrote to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing a Senate resolution urging Eisenhower to invite NATO members to name delegates to a convention to study a defense economic and political union. Supporters say the measure requests only consideration, not immediate creation of a union.
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Washington
Dulles
Congress
Eisenhower
U S Loses Longshore Boss Bridges Deportation Fight
Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman ruled that Harry Bridges was never proved to have lied about Communist ties when naturalized in 1945. The decision ends a 16 year government bid to deport the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union president, with three earlier attempts having failed.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Louis E. Goodman
Bridges
U. S
Australia
Goodman
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Hungarians Escape to Austria Seek Asylum
Three Hungarian men crossed into Austria aboard a home made tractor tank and passed a field of land mines and barbed wire on the Hungarian frontier. They requested political asylum from Austrian authorities.
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Vienna
Austria
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