GM Contract Extended to Sunday Amid Auto Strike Tensions
The move ends a two edged strike threat as GM contracts were due midnight. Walter Reuther led UAW CIO negotiations and Ford settled, signaling broader union gains. Premature walkouts hit GM plants including 12,300 workers. Ford idle nearly 30,000. 3,500 GM at Power Glide plant walked out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auto Workers
CIO Electrical Workers Union
Electrical Workers Union
UAW
CIO
Walter Reuther
Ford Motor Company
Reuther
Auto Union
GM Council
General Motors
Fisher Body
GM Chevrolet
North Tarrytown
N. Y
St. Louis
Ford
Rouge
Dearborn
Kentucky Moves Toward School Integration
Kentucky advances toward compliance with Supreme Court rulings ending school segregation. An official says the Day law appears overruled, paving the way for a Negro student, Helen Caise, 16, to enter Lafayette High School for the summer term, the first in 51 years at a white school below college level.
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Lexington
Kentucky
U. S. Supreme Court
Helen Caise
Lafayette High School
Nehru Arrives in Moscow for Sixteen Day Russia Visit
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in Moscow today for a sixteen day visit to Russia aboard a special Soviet plane from Prague. He will meet Soviet leaders and discuss cooperation during the trip.
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Nehru
Moscow
Jawaharlal Nehru
Russia
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Salvo Sinks After Collision Off Swedish Coast
The Swedish freighter Salvo sank off the south coast after a collision with a Panamanian ship. The Windward Islands reported rescuing all 39 crew members of the 12,000 ton vessel.
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Karlskrona
Sweden
Salvo
Windward Islands
Legislature plans June 23 recess and October return
Republican leaders from both houses decide to wind up the 1955 session by June 23 and reassemble in October to finish unfinished business. A seven member steering committee will select priorities, with Assemblymen Catlin Lesser Young Marotz Ludvigsen Panzer Rogan and Porter named.
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Madison
Assembly
Senate Gop
Mark Catlin Jr
R-Appleton
GOP
Catlin
Lesser Young
R-Fond du Lac
Marotz
R-Shawano
Ludvigsen
R-Hartland
Panzer
Oakfield
Rogan
Ladysmith
Porter
Bloomington
Milwaukee Worker Fatally Burned by Molten Iron
Milwaukee reporter notes 36 year old Peter Dziondziakowski who had escaped a Russian slave camp died after molten iron splattered on him at Universal Bundle Corp. A second worker Anton Migucz, 49, also burned, suffered third degree injuries as a one ton ladle tipped due to a broken cable while Dziondziakowski moved the ladle on an overhead carrier.
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Milwaukee
Peter Dziondziakowski
Dziondziakowski
Anton Migucz
Universal Bundle Corp
Dziendziakowski
Miguez
Employment Sets Record for May
Washington reports May employment rising by 1,000,000 to a record level for the month. Unemployment dropped by 473,000, one of the largest declines for May. Total employment reached 62,700,000 with unemployment at 2,489,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor and Commerce Departments
Taylor Returns Home With Army Chief of Staff Aspirations
General Max D. Taylor en route home to become U S Army chief of staff says free forces in Asia are numerically stronger and better equipped than the Communists. His remarks come amid global tensions and strategic assessments of Asia.
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Hong Kong
Maxwell D. Taylor
U. S. Army
Asia
AMC Seeks End to Pattern Settlements With UAW
American Motors Corp. says ending pattern settlements with the CIO United Auto Workers is imperative this year after Ford’s guaranteed semi annual wage deal. The Nash and Hudson maker plans to resume its own UAW talks soon and will pursue 1955 agreements aligned with its economic realities distinct from Ford or General Motors.
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American Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
American Motors
Nash and Hudson Autos
Kelvinator
UAW
American
Geneal Motors
Ford
Regiment Lands on Okinawa to bolster Marines
The 9th Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division began landing on Okinawa today. The reinforced unit, transferred from Japan, is self sustained and estimated at about 5,500 men.
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Naha
Okinawa
9Th Marine Regiment
3Rd Marine Division
Japan
Eisenhower warns against hype over Big Four cure at West Point
President Eisenhower told the West Point audience that the Big Four conference cannot miraculously heal a world plagued by ignorance and fear. He warned the peace effort may take generations and urged stern resolve to stay the course despite tempting smiles from foes. He awarded diplomas to 469 graduates and discussed leadership beyond rhetoric.
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West Point
N. Y
JPR
Eisenhower
America
Blackshear M. Bryan
Weather forecast and temperatures for Kenosha
Fog lingered in Kenosha with partial clearing by noon. Tonight expected partly cloudy and cooler, with a low around 50. Wednesday shows partial sun and scattered showers, highs near 68. Noon readings: 58 at the treatment plant, 62 downtown, 64 at American Motors, 24 hour rainfall totaling .17 inches. Yesterday’s high 65 and low 52.
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Kenosha
American Motors
Darien Man Strangles Wife. Confession Leads to Murder Charge
Virgi Lins, 29, of Darien confessed to strangling his wife Julena, 33, after arguing over money and education. District Attorney Erwin Zastrow says a warrant for second degree murder will be issued. Lins attempted suicide but survived. Julena taught at Salt Box country school near Darien. the couple had two young sons.
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Elkhorn
Wis
Dist. Atty
Erwin C. Zastrow
Virgi Lins
Darien
Julena
Lins
Zastrow
Salt Box
Fairbanks- Morse Co
Beloit
Leon Gosso
House Okays New Postal Pay Measure
The House voted 407 to 1 to approve an average eight percent pay raise for about 500,000 postal workers. The bill costs roughly 165 million dollars annually and returns to the Senate for concurrence in two minor clarifying amendments, ending over a year of Congress Eisenhower pay dispute.
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Washington
Cole
R-N. Y
Senate
House
Congress
Eisenhower
House Post Office Committee
White House
Polio Vaccination Push Gets Fresh Vaccine Approval
The U S government cleared about one million doses of Salk vaccine for immediate distribution to aid polio immunization. Lilly will ship to New Jersey, Maine, Montana, North and South Dakota, and later to eight southern and western states for second doses. A booster is planned after seven months as the nation prepares for the summer polio season.
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Washington
U. S
Leonard A. Scheele
Eli Lilly & Co
Indianapolis
National Foundation For
Lilly
New Jersey
Maine
Montana
North
South Dakota
G. Foard McGinnes
National Foundation
Atlantic City
N. J
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Arizona
New Mexico
Foundation
Racine Boy Dies After Bleeding From Rare Blood Type
Raymond Lopez Jr. of Racine died at a hospital in Racine Wisconsin from bleeding caused by cuts suffered in a traffic accident a month earlier. Doctors said his blood type O negative is rare and donors were insufficient to stop the hemorrhage.
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Racine
Wis
Raymond Lopez
G. Racine
John N. Lopez
Raymond
New Corporation for Old Folks Aims Small, Part-time Jobs
Chicago report on Senior Achievement Industries forming a nonprofit to employ retirees over 60 in production and sales of ceramics wood and metal. Projects to subcontract for big firms with elderly management planned. pay modest but value placed on usefulness and status. Joseph Wexman explains they seek not full success but steady part-time work to restore retirees confidence.
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Wexman
Committee On
Wieboldt Foundation
University of Chicago
David ¥. Sonquist
Corporation
Fort Atkinson Clerk Wounded in Overnight Holdup
A Fort Atkinson hotel clerk Don King was wounded seriously after stopping an attempted holdup near midnight. Monroe County deputies arrested a man at a Brodhead garage around 6:30 am, after police spotted a car matching the getaway vehicle. The suspect is jailed for questioning.
Thrown From Truck Claims Juneau Man in Dodge County
Fred Thieman a 37 year old resident of Juneau was killed Monday when the gravel truck he drove left the road on Hy 28 near here and he was run over by a front wheel authorities said Thieman was beneath the wheel at the moment of the accident and died at the scene in Dodge County Minnesota/ Wisconsin line report may vary but confirms fatal route crash during curve mishap
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Mayville
Wis
Fred Thieman
Juneau
Dodge County
Thieman
Here
Coast Guard Rescues Two from Burning Fishing Boat
The Coast Guard rescued two men from a burning fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean off Atlantic City New Jersey today after the vessel caught fire at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Coast Guard
Atlantic Ocean
Madison Assembly Debates Proposed Gasoline Tax Hike
Madison Wisconsin assemblymen began debate on a proposed 20 million dollar increase in gasoline taxes but decided to hold party powwows before bringing the measure to a vote. Washington The Senate Labor Committee today approved a bill to raise the 70 cent hourly minimum wage to one dollar.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
London Strike Ends as Rail Workers Accept Peace Formula
London engineers and firemen reach accord to end a 10 day national rail walkout. In Atlantic City, Surgeon General Scheele testifies that Public Health Service evidence supports a hypothesis that Cutter Laboratories polio vaccine contained infected virus.
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London
Britain
Atlantic City
N. J
Leonard Scheele
American Medical Association Today
U. S. Public Health Service
Cutter Laboratories
Fliers Reach Home After Prison Camp Trek
Three American airmen completed the final leg of their long journey home from Chinese Communist Prison camps, returning to Omaha, Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
Kenosha debates airport land deal and gag rule delays
Kenosha City Council authorized the city manager to negotiate for the Somers township land purchase for a 242 acre airport at a total cost of 115000 with state funds possible and federal aid hoped for. The council also deferred action on streamlined meeting rules blamed as a gag and refused to swap the 80th Street site for 78th Street.
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Kenosha
Somers Township
78Th St
Sunnyside
80Th St
Richard Custer
State Aeronautics Commission
Congress
Custer
House Appropriations Committee
Nicholas Wade
George Molinaro
Mearil Borneman
Chamber of Commerce Air Service Committee
Council
Manitowoc
Watertown
Albert Aiello
Midtown Businessmen’s Association
52Nd St
Gordon McAleer
Shirlee Lake
Earl Morton S
Wade
McAleer
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John S. Bugas
Walter P. Reuther
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Taylor
AMC
U. S. Military Academy
Hobby
CBS
DuMont
Mutual
NBC
ABC
CBS Radio
NBC. TV
New Corporation
Chicago
Joseph Wexman
Fort Atkinson
Flyers
Areonautics Commission
R. Merrill Rhey
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