City Council Applauds City Manager Custer for 1952-53 Progress
Unanimous council resolution compliments City Manager Richard Custer and municipal staff for 11 major accomplishments since October 1952. The list includes street paving, storm sewers, a new fire station, health department reorganization, milk and housing standards, tax assessment reforms, breakwater work, law enforcement, UW study for industry, street planning, and a new job classification and salary plan.
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Richard Custer
Custer
Kenosha
Southport Park
University of Wisconsin
Weather Preview Warm Sunny Skies Ahead
Today brings mild, sunny conditions as spring nears. Temperatures reach the mid forties in several locations with nights near 25 degrees and highs 45 to 50 in the southern state. Crantsburg records the nation’s low of zero. Kenosha sees 24 for the night and 36 for Monday’s high.
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Nash Motors
Crantsburg
Kenosha
Bombers Crash in Kansas Killing Three
Two B-47 jets from Wichita air base collided over eastern Kansas. One crashed near the Ira Faust farm three miles east and two north of Overbrook. three bodies were recovered. The other reached Wichita with damaged tail. crews survived. Parts were scattered along a ravine and corn field. Civilian and air force officials searched for a parachute sighting. The crash happened about 9 am. the wreckage burned at 10:30 am.
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Overbrook
Kan
U.P
Wichita Air Force Base
Kansas
Ira Faust
Faust Farm
Air Force
Boeing Airplane Company
Lower Voting Age Proposal Clears Senate Committee
President Eisenhower’s bid to lower the voting age to 18 advances after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the constitutional amendment 7 to 3. Currently only Georgia allows 21 as the voting age and the measure requires two thirds in both houses and three fourths of state legislatures to become law.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Georgia
Senate
House
McCarthy Panel Votes to Hire Staff for Army Probe
Washington U P reports the Senate investigating subcommittee voted unanimously to hire a special staff and hold public hearings on army charges against chief counsel Roy Cohn.
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Washington
U.P
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate
Army
Roy Cohn
Military chiefs back new look program under Ridgway
Adm. Arthur Radford said in a Senate hearing that Army Gen. Matthew Ridgway supported the new look program last December but now seems not satisfied. The joint chiefs of staff spoke as Ridgway appeared to remain cautious about the plan's details and implications.
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Washington
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Mathew Ridgway
Senate
Eisenhower
Robert Stevens
Matthew Ridgway
Air Force
Harold Talbott
NEA
Phillies Trade Eddie Waitkus to Orioles in Waiver Move
Clearwater, Florida reports Eddie Waitkus, first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, was sold to the Baltimore Orioles of the American League for a price described as well in excess of the waiver figure.
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Clearwater, Fla
Philadelphia Phillies
Eddie Waitkus
Baltimore Orioles
Denmark to Send Delegation to Moscow on Trade Offer
A five member Danish delegation will travel to Moscow this week to explore selling more Danish goods to the Soviet Union. Denmark shipped about twenty thousand tons of butter to Russia in the second half of 1953.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Moscow
Soviet Union
Russia
Senate moves to unseat Chavez in New Mexico fight
Senate Rules Committee votes along party lines to urge dumping Sen Dennis Chavez amid a 13 month probe into alleged irregularities in the 1952 New Mexico senatorial election. If Chavez falls, Gov Edwin Mechem would appoint a Republican successor as the chamber weighs a vacancy ruling.
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Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Senate
Sen. Chavez
D-N.m
New Mexico
Patrick J. Hurley
Chavez
Edwin L. Mechem
Mechem
End of Colonies Debate Spurs Hemisphere Action
At the Inter American Conference in Caracas Panamanian and Brazilian delegates press for ending colonial rule in the Americas. The United States backs a broad hemisphere resolution opposing external intervention while Argentina seeks UN trusteeship for unready colonies and calls for elimination of colonial holdings.
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Americas
Caracas
U.P
Brazil
Argentina
United States
Guatemala
U. S
Panama
Panama Canal Zone
United Nations
Falkland Islands
Britain
British Honduras
America
Crash lands in Midland injuring three from airliner
A Continental Airlines Convair on a El Paso to Kansas City flight crash landed in a sand dune six miles east of Midland Texas. Eleven aboard, three injured none seriously. The twin engine 44 passenger plane snapped a wing after controls froze at 500 feet shortly after takeoff from Midland airport. Pilot Captain H E Persing reported the incident.
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Midland
Tex
U.P
Continental Airlines Convair
el Paso
Kansas City
Here
H. E. Persing
MacArthur to Replace Roosevelt Roads in Formosa
A bill presented to Nationalist China's National Assembly proposes renaming Formosan roads once named for Franklin D. Roosevelt in honor of General Douglas MacArthur. The proposal aims to honor the World War II commander on Taiwan.
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Taipei
Formosa
U. S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
China
National Assembly
Panthers on the loose in Los Angeles prompts citywide search
Police hunted a dangerous black panther reported escaped from Sky Roberts Shows after sightings near Fourth and Union. About 150 officers scoured alleys and rooftops while residents watched from windows, with some kids forming beating parties despite warnings. The panther, a color phase of the leopard, reportedly killed a hunter in Africa and Asia and was described as uncomprising and dangerous by its trainer.
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Wayne Roberts
Roberts
Africa
Asia
Carnival
Arizona
California
Sky Roberts Shows, Ltd
Sky Roberts
Fourth
Union Streets
Los Angeles
McClellan Pushes Public Hearings in Cohn Probe
Sen. John L. McClellan said the full Government Operations Committee should handle the Cohn affair, not the investigating subcommittee. He insisted all testimony on the issue be public and urged broader review, signaling support from Democrats on the panel amid closed discussions.
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Washington
U.P
Sen
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate
Arkansas
McClellan
Cohn
McCarthy
Army
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senator Douglas estimates 4.8 million unemployed
Waukegan Illinois on Monday Len Douglas Democrat of Illinois said the nation’s unemployed could be 4.8 million, about 1.13 million more than the government estimate. He called the 3.671 million figure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conservative and said it omits 300,000 temporarily laid off workers plus 800,000 who work under 40 hours weekly.
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Waukegan
Ill
Len Douglas
Douglas
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Indian govt bars alcohol at official embassy functions
New Delhi announced general instructions to all embassies abroad not to serve alcoholic drinks at official functions. Deputy Foreign Minister Anil K. Chanda told Parliament today.
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New Delhi
India
Anil K. Chanda
Dulles Asserts Ike's Authority To Retaliate Abroad
Secretary Dulles said President Eisenhower can retaliate against an attack on Paris or London without a specific war declaration, as with New York or Chicago, under the North Atlantic Treaty and the Inter American defense treaty. He framed deterrence as the promise of massive retaliation and stressed uncertainty about timing and location as crucial to policy efficacy.
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Washington
Dulles
Eisenhower
Paris
London
New York
Chicago
Canada
Turkey
United States
Lester B. Pearson
Saltonstall Denies Report Over Firing Relative
Boston reports that Senator Saltonstall denied claims he fired a relative. John Lee Saltonstall resigned as assistant general counsel in the Army Secretary's office when his term ended November 1. A aide said it was an administrative matter and denied familial ties, noting the relative is a second cousin once removed and a Democrat.
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Boston
Sen. Saltonstall
Madame Chiang Kai-shek Celebrates 53rd Birthday
Madame Chiang Kai-shek observed her 53rd birthday in Taipei Formosa as the wife of the Nationalist China president.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Eisenhower Aides Pledge Liberal Tariff Policy
Washington reports that four cabinet members including Secretary of State Dulles expect to assure Canada of a liberal tariff and trade policy. The American delegation plans closed talks with a senior Canadian group led by Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson.
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Washington
Canada
Eisenhower
State Dulles
Lester B. Pearson
Inquest Planned in Baby's Poisoning Death
Fort Atkinson Wisconsin Dr Hugo N Hunsader Jefferson county coroner said an inquest will be held to investigate the death of four month old Marguerite Guttenberg who died February 24 apparently from barbituric acid poisoning The sedative was given by mistake instead of a mild cold medicine A Milwaukee laboratory is analyzing the capsules with a report due later this week The inquest is scheduled for Thursday at 1 p.m.
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Fort Atkinson
Wis
U.P
Hugo N. Hunsader
Jefferson County Corner
Hunsader
Marguerite Guttenberg
Milwaukee
New Style in Gang Killing Two Bodies Found In Trunk
Chicago police reported an apparent new method in gangland killings. Two hoodlums Paul Labriola and James Weinberg were found strangled in a 1954 sedan trunk, no bullet holes visible, their bodies stacked face to face with hats in the back seat. The car was linked to Joseph Serentis as police hunted him.
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Chicago
Underworld
Lodge
Paul
Needle Nose) Labriola
James S. Weinberg
Grand
Harlem
Elmwood Park
Labriola
Weinberg
Joseph Serentis
The
Cook County Liquor Dealers Association
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