Reds 9 Miles From Hanoi Threaten Haiphong Supply Route
Communist forces seized a defense post nine miles east of Hanoi on the Haiphong lifeline, imperiling supply traffic though French command says routes remain open. Giap massed divisions in Phu Tho and planned a mid June push as French air power and reinforcements battled to hold the delta line.
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Hanoi
U.P
Haiphong
Indo-China
Vo Nguyen Giap
Giap
Phu Tho
Red River
Chonoi
Yung Yen
Bac Nin
Delta
Dien Bien Phu
Communist Vietminh to field Russian equipped air force
A Chinese Nationalist news agency reports Vietminh forces in Indo China will have a Russian equipped air force by year end. The forecast frames growing Soviet military influence in Southeast Asia amid Cold War tensions.
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Taipei
Formosa
Vietminh
Indo-China
Weather outlook with showers and cooling trend
The forecast calls for scattered showers in southern Wisconsin Wednesday afternoon or night. Skies clear tonight with a low of 44 to 48 and a Wednesday high of 62 to 68. Today felt cooler after a Monday high of 87 with temperatures at Nash Motors 63 and 55 downtown by noon.
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Wisconsin
Nash Motors
Toll of Memorial Day weekend highway crashes reaches new high
Nationwide weather stayed fair while a record Memorial Day weekend traffic toll rose above 540. Ninety five drownings and dozens of other accidents added to 542 total deaths, with Wisconsin and California among the hardest hit states. The National Safety Council adjusted its forecasts as authorities credited safety efforts and a White House conference on highway safety.
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Great Plains
Midwest
National Safety Council
Council
Ned H. Dearborn
White House
Eisenhower
Wisconsin
Illinois
California
Michigan
Ohio
New York State
Florida
Indiana
Proxmire Challenges GOP on Finances
Milwaukee candidate William Proxmire attacks the Republican platform on state finances citing falling revenue and rising spending. He urges concrete budget planks and action in the next legislative session stated in a radio address here Sunday.
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Milwaukee
William Proxmire
Proxmire
Five Chicago youths die in Trevor train crossing crash
Five young people from Chicago died when their car collided with a northbound Soo Line freight train in heavy rain at a Trevor crossing. Victims were Joel Seres 19 Mary Ann Czarny 19 Delores Jefferson 17 Casper De Stefano 23 and George Kostoff 4. Eye witnesses reported high speed and no braking with the wig wag signal operating. The disaster echoes Memorial Day crash trends across the nation and remains the worst Wisconsin highway tragedy since 1953.
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Trevor
Chicago
Soo Line
Joel Seres
Mary Ann Czarny
Delores Jefferson
Casper de Stefano
George Kostoff
de Stefano
Waukegan
Charles Dexter
George Terrill
Rt. 5
Burlington
Dexter
Terrill
Marshall Simonsen
Antioch
Victory Memorial Hospital
Minneapolis
Fond du Lac
National Safety Council
Kenosha County
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
75Th St
Chicago & North Western
Seres
Raven
Kostoff
Kenosha Driver Denies Guilt in Traffic Death
A 27 year old Kenosha motorist Frederick Schantek entered innocent pleas to negligent homicide and drunken driving charges related to the early Sunday death of Alfred Ziks of Milwaukee. Bond set at 2000 with June 30 preliminary hearing. 200 bond for drunken driving with trial set June 24. Ziks died after sustaining head and leg injuries at 1 a.m. on 7th Avenue and 5th Avenue intersection opposite the Hollywood theater where he and Robert Milasius were struck while crossing. Police and rescue crews responded. Milasius remains critically injured.
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Kenosha
Alfred Ziks
Milwaukee
St. Catherine's Hospital
Ziks
Robert Milasius
7Th Ave
Schantek
5Th Ave
Holywood Theater
Charles Lees
Joseph Greenwald
John Zapf
Fire Department
Barney McGivern
Bennington Air Officer Disagrees On Origin Of Blast
Cmdr. John W. Fair, air officer of the carrier Bennington, told a navy board of inquiry that his personal view is the first explosion stemmed from the ward officer's pantry in the forward part of the ship, not the port catapult. He criticized prior testimony asserting the catapult room as the blast center.
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Quonset Point
R. I—U.p
Bennington
Cmdr
John W. Fair
Navy Board of
Fair
Coast Guard Searches for Missing Captain After Fall
Coast Guard crews dragged the St. Marys River 42 miles east of Sault Ste Marie Ontario for Captain Lloyd W. Smith aged 62 of Cleveland Ohio who fell from the freighter James E Ferris yesterday. A crewman saw him in the water and alerted rescue teams but no trace was found.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
U.P
U. S. Coast Guard
St. Mary’s River
Here
Great Lakes
Lloyd W. Smith
Cleveland
James E. Ferris
Coast Guard
Smith
Eisenhower seeks extra defense funds for military construction
President Eisenhower asked Congress for an additional defense appropriation of 1.1 billion dollars for military construction. Senator John L. McClellan urged an administration decision on whether lawmakers are entitled to security information obtained via theft if committees cannot compel it by subpoenas.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
U.P
John L. McCellan
D-Ark
United Nations to discuss Thai peace team for Indo China
The United Nations security council will meet Thursday morning to consider Thailand's request for a peace observation team in the Indo China area.
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United Nations, N. Y
U.P
United Nations Security Council
Thailand
Indo- China
Seek Assailant In Milwaukee Pool Hall Death
Milwaukee police today sought the assailant of John Lee Lewis age 30 who died Sunday after being struck on the head with a pool cue during an argument over a debt at an adjoining pool table. A witness said the attack occurred during the dispute.
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Milwaukee
John Lee Lewis
Lewis
Box of Schine papers shown in McCarthy hearings
A large brown box of files belonging to Pvt. G David Schine was brought into the senate subcommittee room during the McCarthy hearings. The box held Manila folders with papers from Schine's work as unpaid civilian consultant and later on special army passes. Cohn, Jenkins and Mundt discussed screening the materials to protect informant identities and classified CIA and State Department information. McClellan pressed for security, warning against pilfered documents and noting FBI director Hoover’s involvement.
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Washington
U.P
army-McCarthy
Pvt
G. David Schine
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate
Schine
Army
McCarthy
Roy M. Cohn
Subcommittee
Brown
Cohn
Ray H. Jenkins
Jenkins
U. S. Information Service
End
Dave Schine
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
McClellan
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
State to Eliminate Highway 32 S Curve
The state highway commission plans to remove the dangerous S curve on Highway 32 south of Kenosha. Harold Plummer states surveys and plans will lead to elimination as a major construction project. Local officials pressed for tree removal lighting and more signs, but the commission favors a full solution and clearance for work as the season allows.
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Kenosha
State Highway Commission
Harold Plummer
Commission
Highway Commission
Harold Herzog
Plummer
Death Takes H M Pauley Former Kenosha utility executive
Harrison M Pauley 65 retired Kenosha division manager of Wisconsin Electric Power and Wisconsin Natural Gas died in Tucson Arizona after months of illness He began in 1907 with utilities later joining Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company in 1916 He moved to Kenosha in 1924 and retired October 1 1953 Following retirement he settled in Tucson He was active in civic affairs including Chamber of Commerce Kiwanis and civilian defense during World War II.
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Harrison M. Pauley
Wisconsin Electric Power Company
Wisconsin Natural Gas Company
Kenosha
Tucson
Ariz
Pauley
Streator
Ill
Asa Bigelow Pauley
Milwaukee Electric Railroad and Light Company
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Board of Directors
Civilian Defense Organization
Kiwanis Club
Page Nime
Plane Crash Kills Nine at Duluth Airport
A C 47 air national guard plane carrying 14 men from the Indianapolis Speed Way race crashed during final approach to Duluth Municipal Airport. Nine were killed, five injured, all from the Duluth area. Cause unknown.
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Duluth
Minn
U.P
Air National Guard
Air National Guardsmen
Air Force
National Guard
D. C. Ott
Duluth Municipal
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Wayne Volk
Herzog
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