Fatal Crash Probe Delayed in Joliet Area
A Joliet woman died when a southbound semi cut across the parkway and collided with her northbound car on Highway 41 near Highway 50. Driver Joseph Lessard remained hospitalized in Kenosha for observation, delaying police questioning and the probe. The husband and four children were injured. the driver of a following truck provided a brief statement. Sheriff deputies cited shock and unable-to-quit statements as the investigation proceeds after Lessard’s release.
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Joliet
Kenosha Hospital
Joseph Lessard
Chicago
William Raven
Louis Hildebrand
Milwaukee
Hildebrand
Lessard
Raven
Ike Seeks to Cut Artificial Controls
General Dwight D. Eisenhower stated he favored eliminating every artificial control unless there is an obvious necessity. He spoke at his campaign headquarters in the Brown Palace hotel to a Louisiana delegation and said he is against government controls where not required.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Louisiana
Brown Palace
Louisiana Group
UN commanders challenge Reds to new Korean offensive
General James Van Fleet said the United Nations would “pile them up on the barbed wire” if the Communists attack again as Gen Clark and Lt. Gen Barcus asserted UN air superiority over Korea. Reports note a MiG-15 victory and protests in Britain over bomber raids on power plants.
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Korea
United Nations
James A. van Fleet
U.S. Eighth Army
van Fleet
Tokyo
Mark Clark
Calrk
Glenn Barcus
Fifth Air Force
Manchuria
North Korea
Britain
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Clark
Soviets Slow Interzone Traffic On Berlin Highway
Soviet border guards delayed German trucks for up to 10 hours at the Marienborn checkpoint on the Berlin to West Germany route. West Berlin police report 80 to 100 trucks lined up awaiting clearance and American and British MPs were barred from the highway again.
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Berlin
U.P
West Germany
West
West Berlin
Soviet Zone
Marienborn
Schmitt Enters Wisconsin Senate GOP Candidacy
Merrill attorney Len Schmitt announced his bid for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy. He called for a campaign of common decency and integrity, attacking McCarthy's record and methods and claiming McCarthy has produced no evidence for his Communist charges.
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Merrill
Wis
Leonard F
Len) Schmitt
United States
Schmitt
Wisconsin
Joseph R. McCarthy
GOP
Jim Dan Hill
McCarthy
Hill
Superior State College
Texas
Madison
Superior Evening Telegram
University of Wisconsin
Lincoln County
Walter Kohler
Senate
MacCarthy
Start VFW Parley In Wisconsin Rapids
A van guard of early delegates arrived for the annual encampment of the Wisconsin state Veterans of Foreign Wars. Opening session of the three day convention will be held tomorrow as 1,800 delegates meet jointly with the Auxiliary.
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Wisconsin Rapids
State
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Pentagon officer Brig. Gen. Brink commits suicide
Brig. Gen. Francis G. Brink, 58, former MacArthur liaison and Indo China aid chief, shot himself in the Pentagon. Army intelligence cited overwork and illness, autopsy pending, no note found. Brink had been in Washington for talks with Indo China leaders and was to return to Indo China. He leaves a wife Florence and a daughter Mrs. W. W. Wells of Falls Church Virginia.
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Washington
U.P
Francis G. Brink
Indo-China
Douglas MacArthur
Pentagon
Brink
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
A. Magruder MacDonald
District of Columbia
Capital
Jean LeTourneau
Donald R. Heath
U. S
Paul Conlin
W. W. Wells
Falls Church
Wells
MacArthur
Pacific
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S. Army
China
J. Lawton Collins
Collins
Indo- China
Storm claims third victim in Wisconsin Minnesota rage
A violent wind storm sweeping across southern Minnesota into Wisconsin killed Henrietta Mordick 57 on a farm near Somerset in St. Croix county. The storm toppled houses and barns, with earlier fatalities in Centuria Polk county.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Indian Head
Henrietta Mordick
Somerset
St. Croix County
Miss Mordick
Centuria
Polk County
Rioting feared as Acheson honored at Oxford
Police reinforcements rushed to central Oxford to curb possible Communist demonstrations while U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson received an honorary degree from Oxford University.
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Oxford
England
U.P
U. S
Dean Acheson
Oxford University
Rhee narrowly escapes assassination at public rally in Pusan
President Syngman Rhee faced a gunman from the Corps of Blood Justice as he spoke to about 6000 in Pusan on the Korean war anniversary. The weapon misfired and the assailant, Ryu Shi Tae, was seized by police and bystanders. Rhee resumed the program as security investigated and ongoing political feuding with the assembly continued.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
U. S
John Muccio
Herbert Harmon
Hampstead
N. Y
F. William Tench
Honolulu
Harmon
Tench
Ryu Shi Tae
Corps of Blood Justice
Taegu
United Nations
Ryu
Muccia
China
Kim Woo Bong
North Korea
National Assembly
Assembly
Acid Riots in Tokyo Mark Japanese Korean War Anniversary
Tokyo saw a 3,000 strong riot as acid was hurled at police and journalists. Thirty policemen suffered serious burns and one British soldier, Pvt. Jim Logan, disappeared inside Shinjuku station amid clashes with Japanese students and Koreans. In Osaka, 45 police were injured and 99 Reds arrested.
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Tokyo
U.P
Shinjuku Railway Station
Pvt
Jim Logan
Tsuneo Saito
Nippon Times
Eiji Miyazawa
P.A.N.A
Saito
Miyazawa
Syngman Rhee
Japan
Osaka
Itami Air Base
Attlee Attacks Yalu Raid Controversy in Commons
Labour leader Clement Attlee charged that the United States kept Britain ignorant of Yalu river power plant bombing plans in Korea. He warned the raid could imperil a truce and risk a wider war, calling it the war’s biggest single raid as Churchill and Eden listened in Parliament.
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London
U.P
Clement R. Attlee
House of Commons
United States
Britain
Yalu River
Korea
Attlee
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Field Marshal
Earl Alexander
Yalu
Lord Alexander
Far East
Anthony Eden
New York
Alexander
Eden
Parliament Building
Germany Urges Allied Protection of Border Zone
Bonn West Germany asked Allied forces to guard its boundary with Soviet occupied Germany to stop further Communist provoked border incidents.
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Bonn
Germany
J.P
West Germany
Seek Probe Into Liquor Industries
Washington calls for a full scale justice department inquiry into the liquor industry after House subcommittee hearings. Reps Chelf and Keating question antitrust probes and accuse big distillers Schenley Seagram National and Hiram Walker of pressuring independents. Julian Van Winkle testifies he could not obtain fire insurance for his warehouses due to Schenley blanket coverage.
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House
Justice Department
Chelf
D-Ky
Keating
R-N.y
House Judiciary
Stitzel Weller Distillery
Shively
Kentucky Bourbon Makers
Schenley
van Winkle
Congress moves to urge Truman use of Taft-Hartley law on steel strike
The House and Senate push to have President Truman apply the Taft-Hartley law to stop the three week steel strike. A 190 to 133 vote adopted an amendment requesting action rather than a direct order, amid sharp debate over the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats in control.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Rep. Brown
Ohio
Rep. Wolcott
R-Mich
Spence
D-Ky
Congress
CIO
Allied Industries
Rep
Multer
D-N.y
McCormack
Mass
Byrnes Files Papers for GOP Run in Eighth District
Madison reports Rep. Jona Byrnes of Green Bay filed nomination papers with the secretary of state seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in Wisconsin's Eighth District.
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Madison
Jona Byrnes
Green Bay
Congress
Wisconsin Weather Report Reflects Unseasonable Heat
Yesterday in Wisconsin the heat was extreme and humid with scattered showers and a violent windstorm. Forecasts predict continued warmth with clouds and storms tonight and tomorrow, lows near 70 and highs around 90. Noted readings included 96 at the sewage plant and 61 elsewhere.
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Wisconsin
Kenosha
Nash Motors
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