Ford and UAW edge toward deal on unemployment aid
Negotiations near a deadline centered on Ford's offer to supplement laid off workers' state unemployment. Ford signaled acceptance of the union's guaranteed annual wage concept in principle but diverging reports on the exact payments persisted.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto
Ford
UAW
General Motors Corp
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Four Men Rob Cleveland Bank Branch in Daylight Heist
Four masked men robbed a Cleveland Trust Co. branch in Cleveland Ohio shortly after opening hours. They mingled with customers outside before entering and masked their faces with black stockings and produced guns. No shots were fired and they fled in a waiting car with about $60,000.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Trust Co
Eisenhower Flies to Gettysburg Farm in Small Plane
President Eisenhower traveled to his Gettysburg Pennsylvania farm today in a small twin engine aircraft marking the first time a sitting president flew in a craft with fewer than four engines. He had flown smaller planes before becoming president but not since January 20 1953.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Father of Seven Dies in Night Car Crash
Loren H. Schlagel 40, of Paris Township and Rt. 2 Union Grove, was killed when his westbound car left Hy. 43 near the Des Plaines river bridge and struck a three foot thick hickory tree. He left AMC workers and seven children, wife pregnant, no witnesses, coroner’s report with no inquest.
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Paris
Loren H. Schlagel
Rt. 2
Union Grove
Schlagel
American Motors
Hy. 43
Kenosha
Sheriff's
Gerald Sonquist
DesPlaines River
Harold Schultz
AMC
Kenosha County
Sonquist
Dale Voight
Richard Schenning
Robert Johns
Eugene Schend
William Raven
Wisconsin Senate Eyes Pay Increases for Top State Officers
A bill from the Joint Finance Committee proposes higher salaries for Wisconsin’s governor, treasurer, secretary of state, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction and lieutenant governor. Increases would take effect for officers elected in 1956 and assume office in 1957, with staged payments for the lieutenant governor. The Senate adjourned after a brief session with only bill introductions.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
Joint Finance Committee
Senate
Baby Thought Dead Now Back to Life
A mortuary attendant found life in a four months premature baby girl believed dead. The infant, born to Mrs. M. C. Dupree, was rushed to a hospital and reported improved early today. Father notified after the osteopath said she was dead.
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Houston
M. C. Dupree
Communist Artillery Hits Two Nationalist Islets Near Amoy Bay
Taipei reports night shelling of two Nationalist islets in Amoy Bay by Formosan Communist artillery. No casualties or retaliatory fire were noted in the Defense Ministry briefing.
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Taipei
Formosa
Amoy Bay
Nationalist
Defense Ministry
Wisconsin Weather Outlook From Partly Cloudy To Rain
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions prevail in Wisconsin with little temperature change. Tonight lows expected 62 to 68 and highs 82 to 88 with Kenosha dipping cooler. Thursday high 67 and night low 54 at the sewage treatment plant. rain totaling .05 inch earlier today.
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Wisconsin
Kenosha
American Motors
Air Force Captain Admits Falsifying Tax Returns in Early 1950s
Washington—Air Force Captain Raymond Wool told the Senate Investigations Subcommittee he falsified his federal income tax returns for 1951, 1952, and 1953. He also denied taking bribes as a procurement officer while under oath, as IRS probes continue into graft in armed forces uniform equipment contracts.
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Washington
Air Force
Raymond Wool
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Armed Forces
Internal Revenue Service
Wool
Subcommittee
McClellan
D-Ark
Shelby
Ohio
Armed Services
Bonn Plans Shelters for New Buildings
West German government announced a civil defense plan costing 285.6 million dollars. It requires air raid shelters in all new buildings in towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants.
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Bonn
Germany
Citizens Eye Restrictions on Speech in Kenosha Council
Kenosha residents oppose a proposed ordinance titled Rules of Council that would limit public speech at council sessions and impose strict police oversight. The measure, prepared for final reading Monday, includes written sign ups, five minute limits, decorum rules, and restricted discussion, with a public hearing scheduled.
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Kenosha
Rules of Council
Atty
Robert Baker
R. Merrill Rhey
Council
Black River Falls Traffic Resumed Amid Flood Threat
Rain drenched Black River Falls Wisconsin saw rail and auto traffic resume late Thursday. A creek overflow closed Hy 12 and Chicago and North Western tracks flooded. One way traffic opened on the Chicago to Minneapolis route as trains crawled back to service.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Chicago & North Western
Chicago-to-Minneapolis
Senate Approves 32 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
The Senate cleared President Eisenhower's 32 billion dollar foreign aid program, speeding it to the house after fending off all attempts to cut the total. For the first time in five years the authorization passed without any money reductions, while moves to require a larger portion of aid as loans rather than grants were defeated.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Clues Elusive In Priest Slaying In Chicago
Police continued to search for leads in the stabbing death of Rev. John Chiramal a 40 year old Indian born Roman Catholic priest founder of Boys Town in India who died at Mother Cabrini Hospital. He collapsed at the Little Sisters of the Poor residence after telling Sister Emily he had been attacked and robbed.
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Chicago
John Chiramal
India
Father Chiramal
Mother Cabrini Hospital
Little Sisters of the Poor
Near West Side
Boys Town
Rotary International
United States
Albert Dismaracis
Senators End Kohler Strike Talks After Brief Hearing
A two hour Senate labor subcommittee hearing failed to settle the 14 month Kohler Co strike in Wisconsin. UAW CIO secretary treasurer Emil Mazey urged arbitration and job restoration, while Kohler’s Lyman Conger refused any agreement requiring reinstatement of all strikers or arbitration writing the contract. Mazey said 2,200 of 3,600 Kohler workers remain on strike.
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Washington
Kohler Co
Wisconsin
Senate
CIO
United Auto Workers
Kohler
Sen
Neely
D-W. Va
Buffalo Arms Co
Akron
N. Y
Sen. Ives
R-N. Y
Uaw-Cio
Emil Mazey
Lyman C. Conger
Mazey
Ives
Conger
National Labor Relations Board
Ciouaw
Anastasia Sentenced In Tax Evasion Case
Albert Anastasia of Murder Inc was sentenced in Camden New Jersey to one year in prison and fined 10000 dollars on each of two income tax evasion counts. Judge Thomas Madden ordered the sentences concurrent, giving a single year’s imprisonment. The judge followed the U S attorney's recommendation despite a plea for suspension.
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Camden
N. J
Albert Anastasia
Murder, Inc
Triggerman
U. S. District Court
Thomas M. Madden
Anastasia
Madden
U. S. Atty
Raymond del Tufo
Anthony Calandra
Collision in Michigan Takes Six Lives
Six men died and another was seriously injured in a two car crash on U S 23 one mile south of Standish in the Saginaw Bay area.
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Michigan
Standish, Mich
U. S. 23
Standish
Saginaw Bay Area
India Editor Forecasts Move Soon On Prisoner Release
Times of India editor J C Jain said 11 American airmen remain jailed in Red China and are likely to be released within 24 hours. He cited a Hong Kong source as confirmatory, noting four fliers were freed earlier and that the men held include Maj William H Baumer and Capt Eugene J Vandi among others. A Missoula wife described her husband Elmer Llewellyn’s letter as hopeful and promising a June Christmas.
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Manila
Red China
Times of India
J. C. Jain
Hong Kong
Freedom
Jain
China
William H. Baumer
Lewisburg
Steve R. Kiba
Akron
Ohio
John W. Thompson
III
Orange
Eugene J. Vandi
Clayton
N. Y
John K. Arnold Jr
Montgomery
Ala
Wallace L. Brown
John W. Buck
Armathwaite
Tenn
Harry M. Benjamin Jr
Worthington
Minn
Howard W. Brown
St. Paul
Elmer F Llewellyn
Missoula
Mont
Daniel C. Schmidt
Boise
Idaho
Llewellyn
Convicted Murderess Executed After Delayed San Quentin Gas Chamber
Barbara Graham was executed in the San Quentin gas chamber after a frantic sequence that delayed the sentence twice. In Detroit, President Walter Reuther said talks between Ford and the United Auto Workers over a fund to help laid-off workers have reached the critical stage.
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San Quentin
Calif
Barbara Graham
Detroit
CIO
Walter Reuther
Ford
United Auto Workers
Two Year Old Die in 60-Foot Window Fall
Milwaukee reports a tragic accident as two year old Eric G Rule falls from a fifth floor apartment window to his death. He is the son of Marine Captain and Mrs Gallagher Rule. Authorities investigate the fatal incident.
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Milwaukee
Eric G. Rule
Gallagher Rule
San Antonio Lieutenant Reaches Final Round in British Amateur
Air Force lieutenant Joe Conrad of San Antonio Texas advanced to the final round of the British Amateur golf championship by defeating Phil Scrutton of England today. The match outcome leaves Conrad poised for the title as he overcomes the English competitor.
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St. Anne's
England
Joe Conrad
Air Force
San Antonio
Tex
Phil Scrutton
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