Stevenson And Stratton Trade Blasts In Presidential Campaign
Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Stratton exchanged sharp public jabs over GOP hatchet man roles as Stevenson targets Nixon and Stratton defends Illinois record. Sen. Kefauver touts gains in New Hampshire and Minnesota as primary battles unfold with Stevenson and other candidates.
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Adlai Stevenson
William G. Straton
Illinois
Nixon
Stevenson
Stratton
Libertyville
Ill
Washington
Estes Kefauver
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Adlai E. Stevenson
Kefauver
Hubert H. Humphrey
Orville L. Freeman
Railway crossing tolls in 20 years reach high figures
The Interstate Commerce Commission reported 33 558 deaths and 86 278 injuries in railway grade crossing accidents over the 20 year period ending in 1954.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Weather notes show chilly day with scattered readings
Heavy clouds over the city at noon brought highs in the upper 30s. Readings ranged 37 to 38 degrees downtown and at facilities like American Motors and the sewage plant. Statewide lows near freezing with 3 above in Wausau and Superior. Roads slippery from snow as forecasts call for cloudy cold nights and a Saturday high of 20 to 30. Sunrise 6 14 a.m. sunset 5 50 p.m.
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American Motors
Wausau
Superior
Kenosha
State Motor Vehicle Department
Northeastern U S Hit By Floods Blizzards
The Northeast faced a late winter storm bringing floods blizzards and winds. Nine deaths were reported two in New York state and seven in Canada as the Allegheny River crest threatened Salamanca and Warren Pa. Evacuees numbered about 500 with hospitals and towns girding for continued high water and power outages.
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Canada
Salamanca
N. Y
New York
Warren
Fire Kills 12 From One Family in Oxford Pa
Twelve members of a single family were killed in a Thursday night fire that destroyed their two room tar paper home in Oxford Pennsylvania. An investigator suggested foul play as a possibility while state police and fire officials conduct a thorough probe. The victims were identified tentatively as the wife children and grandchildren of 36 year old John Twyman a truck driver from the bottoms area. Twyman appeared at the scene as the last bodies were recovered and told Patrolman Claude Swift he had just returned from Baltimore. Fire officials noted most victims were asleep and charred beyond identification. The home heated by coal wood and kerosene heaters may have been set alight by an overheated heater or an explosion.
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Oxford
Pennsylvania
Ernest Schneider
Chester County
John Twyman
Bottoms
Twyman
Claude Swift
Baltimore
Schneider
Robert Brown
Deportation Ordered for Archbishop Makarios and Three Leaders
British Governor Sir John Harding ordered the deportation of Archbishop Makarios and three other leaders of the Enosis movement in Cyprus. The quartet left the colony under emergency regulations amid recent violence, with destinations to be announced later.
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Cyprus
John Harding
Makarios
Union - With - Greece
Enosis
Demonstrators Demand Rhee Run for Third Term
Fifty thousand protesters gathered before President Syngman Rhee's mansion in Seoul and sat down to demand he seek a third term.
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Seoul
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Pigeon Drop Snares Milwaukee Woman For $2400
Milwaukee resident Mrs. Josephine Kuglitsch reported she was duped in a pigeon drop scheme. Two strangers in a downtown store told of locating 6000 dollars and proposed giving her one third in exchange for $2400 shown as proof of good faith. She withdrew the amount and waited 90 minutes outside the bank before contacting police.
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Milwaukee
Josephine Kuglitsch
Kenosha County Real Estate Developer Dies in Illinois Crash
William M. Ullrich 68, of Rock Lake, a Kenosha real estate broker and Rock Lake Highlands developer, was found dead in a wreck on Illinois Route 21 near Antioch. An autopsy cited a stomach hemorrhage as the cause. his death is Lake County's 18th traffic fatality of 1956.
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Kenosha County
William M. Ullrich
Rock Lake
Illinois Rt. 21
Petite Lake Rd
Antioch
Robert H. Babcox
Lake County
Babcox
Arnold Rowe
Sunshyne Guernsey Dairy
Kenosha
Rowe
Ullrich
Antioch Rescue Squad
Chicago
Wisconsin
Rock Lake Highlands
Harbor project hinges on three ifs in Kenosha plan
Federal harbor work for Kenosha depends on three conditions cleared by local owners facing the site. Army engineers in Milwaukee say action in April hinges on $3,000 local cash, cleared liability on west bank and bankruptcy on east bank owners, with project delaying at least a year if not.
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6Th Ave
50Th St
Kenosha
Milwaukee
West Bank
East Bank
Chief of Engineers
Army Engineers
Dunnebacke Co
Haas Coal and Dock Co
Nash-Kelvinator Corp
American Motors
UN Truce Unit Sees Progress In Middle East Tensions
UN truce supervisor Maj. Gen. E L M Burns said progress was made to avert an Israeli Arab war after three days of talks in Cairo. He flew to Israel as massed crowds in Cairo demanded the annihilation of Israel, heightening border concerns.
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Mahmoud Fawzi
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Hussein
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Jordan Valley
General Washington tip leads to $75,000 job with Convair
Retired Air Force General McNarney testified before a House subcommittee that he got a $75,000-a-year Concord weed job with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp through a tip from Stuart Symington. He said his hiring in 1952 had nothing to do with his defense of the R36 program in 1949. McNarney described a phone call and a tip that linked him to Floyd B. Odlum and an Indio, California number.
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Joseph T. McNarney
Consolidated- Vultee Aircraft Corp
Stuart Symington
Symington
Air Force
Missouri
McNarney
House Armed Services
Convair Division
General Dynamics Corp
Indio
Calif
San Diego
Floyd B. Odlum
Consolidated- Vultee
Odlum
Fascinating facts and oddities in Congress
The Congressional Record highlights anecdotes from House members about Ravenswood West Virginia dinners charging five dollars for all activities including singing and cooking. The piece cites Rep Burnside and Sen Barkley praising the town while Rep Grant notes National Peanut Week and Rep Abbitt shares roasted peanuts in the cloakroom. A joke from Rep Yates recounts an Irishman at Pearl Harbor enlistment asking for age 41 then correcting to 38 with his mother age.
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Congress
Congressional
House
Rep
Burnside
D-Wva
Sen. Barkley
D-Ky
Ravenswood
Rep. Grant
Ala
Grant
Rep. Yates
Yates
Pearl Harbor
Nixon Urged to Delay Final Decision on Nomination Course
The New York Herald Tribune reports authorities urge Vice President Nixon and GOP aides not to decide before August 20 to avoid constraining the Republican Nominating Convention actions opening that day in Chicago. Washington dispatch notes the delay aims to preserve Nixon's freedom of action.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
Nixon
Washington Dispatch
Senate wrangles over farm bill price supports linger
Senate debate on the farm bill stalled with a 54 41 vote against restoring higher price supports for cotton and other crops. Administration allies touted the tally as a win for Eisenhower as Democrats push for 90 percent parity and the soil bank plan to pay farmers who cut production remains unsettled. Humphrey accused the administration of a deal to aid reelection in three states.
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Senate
Eisenhower
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Rcolo
White House
Benson
Chicago
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau Federation
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Humphrey
D-Minn
Soil Bank
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Iowa
Hickenlooper
Iown
Capehart
Indiana
Dirksen
Illinois
Santee to Run in Milwaukee Indoor Track Meet
New York Justice Levey upholds injunction for Lt Wes Santee former Kansas miler and he will compete in Saturday's indoor track meet in Milwaukee. Also Senate votes to raise corn acreage from 43 to 51 million and extends life of a four member committee investigating a $2500 campaign contribution. Four Iowa girls receive 30 day jail term for staging a car chase with 28 caravans chasing nonexistent kidnappers.
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Senate
Francis Case
Independence
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