Wisconsin’s White House Race Heats Up With Five Days Left
In Madison and Milwaukee area stops three Republican candidates campaign aggressively as Stassen’s delegate gambit draws attention. Kefauver attacks McCarthy while Taft mocks Warren and Stassen as hybrid candidates. Warren brings family to Janesville as Zimmerman notes no write ins and no personal appearances by Eisenhower or MacArthur.
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U.P
Wisconsin
Harold E. Stassen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Fred Zimmerman
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Eisenhower
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Douglas MacArthur
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Taft
Milwaukee
Wilson Drops Plan for Top Steel Parley
Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson scrapped a high level meeting of officials on a steel strike set for April 8. He then met privately with price and wage control executives and gave no immediate announcement on next steps. Wilson spoke 20 minutes with Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam and separately with Nathan P. Feinsinger, WSB chairman. Ellis Arnall was slated for a later talk.
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Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
Roger L. Putnam
Nathan P. Feinsinger
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Stassen Outlines Goals in Wisconsin Trip
Harold Stassen spoke at the Eagles club about sharing Wisconsin Republican delegates with Eisenhower and his plan to counter Taft influence. He defended a Stassen–Eisenhower ticket and pressed economic restraint, labor- friendly policy, and a new foreign policy to fight communism.
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Fire Injures Sixteen in Chicago Rooming House Blaze
A three story near north side rooming house fire injures sixteen people including seven children. Tenants escaped via bedsheet ropes and a courtyard leap. Hilda Placencia 13 remains severely burned at Passavant hospital with uncertain prognosis. The Chacon family suffered injuries after leaping from third floor with others. Albert Brown alerted responders and was later released.
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Passavant Hospital
Perseverado Chacon
Gilbert
Angelica
Victor
Underwater Philippines Volcano Hurls Rocks High Into Air
Manila Evening News reports the underwater volcano near the Philippines erupting with rocks launched 3 000 to 4 000 feet into the air. Survey party notes ongoing volcanic activity and potential hazards to nearby communities.
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The
Philippines
Manila Evening News
Soviet airport crash kills dozens near Moscow
Sources say a plane inbound from Odessa crashed into a military transport at Tula airport outside Moscow after overshooting the runway. The disaster reportedly left more than 70 dead.
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U.2
Soviet Control Commission
Moscow
Odessa
Black Sea
Tula
Yale Professor Labels Lattimore Principal Stalinist Agent
Yale professor Dr. David N. Rowe testified before the senate internal security subcommittee that Owen Lattimore is probably the principal agent of Stalinism among American Far Eastern specialists. The remark marked a sharp allegation in the anti communism era.
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Lattimore
Washington
Owen Lattimore
David N. Rowe
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Wisconsin Temperatures Rise to Near Seasonal Averages
Weather notes show spring-like warmth returning in Wisconsin after a three day cold spell. Milwaukee forecasters expect temperatures to dip below normal tonight before a warming trend tomorrow. Grantsburg remains the coldest spot at seven above, while Kenosha records a noon temperature of 41.
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Grantsburg
Kenosha
Battle Erosion Near Manitowoc Strips Highway 42
A Lake Michigan battle to protect a half mile of Highway 42 between Manitowoc and Two Rivers uses seven county truck crews dumping boulders and large rocks to halt shoreline erosion. The lake stood three feet from the roadway after last weekend's storm, and the project will last several weeks under the state highway commission.
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Manitowoc
Nash Motor Essay Contest Honors Kenosha Growth
A city wide Nash Motors anniversary essay contest offers 410 in prizes for 5th to 12th graders. Entries up to 250 words explore Nash’s role in Kenosha's growth, with divisions for upper elementary, junior high and senior high.
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Florence B. Nelson
Charles Knickrehm
High
Carl Young
Lincoln
Mary Connelly
McKinley
Mabel Dagsgaard
Washington
Emma Posey
Herbert Upright
Columbus
Elwood Dyke
Durkee
Japan approves record postwar national budget in Tokyo
Tokyo budget approval sets national outlay at 2.3686 billion dollars the largest since World War I. Defense allocation totals 503.389 million dollars drawing major controversy within the budget package.
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Flaming Airliner Safe Landing In Wheat Field
A Braniff DC-4 with 50 aboard ran one engine aflame and landed in a Kansas wheat field. Chief Pilot Jack Stanford directed a near perfect descent as passengers escaped. one injury reported, passenger Jesse Watts with a leg scrape. The aircraft was en route from Denver to Oklahoma City.
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Jack Stanford
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Stanford
John Beakley
Dallas
Tex
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Oklahoma City
W. C. Bill McPhail
Colorado Springs
Colo
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Western Baseball League
Jesse Watts
Greensboro
N. C
Denver
Senator Bridges Intervenes in $7 Million Tax Case Probe
Washington U P Senator Styles Bridges said his move in the Klein liquor dealer tax case was aimed at quick proper government action. He claimed no personal interest and cited a friend’s report of injustice while denying any involvement with the companies. Grunewald, the mystery man, faced contempt questions as Bridges denied direct ties to the case.
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Bastrup
Milton LaViolette
Eugene Schend
LaViolette
Schend
Zievers Case Proceeds In County Court Trial
The trial of former district attorney Urb an Zievers continues with state testimony on the second charge alleging failure to investigate the 1947 Meldahl death and to prosecute Miller for negligent homicide. Witnesses recount inquest details, coroner findings, and statements by Zievers and colleagues as jurors assess duties in office.
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Miller
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Jay Glerum
Harold Bastrup
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Bastrup
Chester Strande
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Ike to Resign From SHAPE in May Reports Say
The Chicago Daily News reports General Eisenhower will resign as chief of SHAPE soon, planning to explain that his political position requires leaving before the Republican convention. He is expected to return to the United States in the latter part of May.
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Europe
United States
Truman flies back to Washington after Florida vacation
President Truman returns to Washington from Key West where he has spent three weeks in the sun and good health. He will move into the White House today to authorize a five million dollar rebuilding program that was planned after he left in November 1948.
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Fla
Truman
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White House
Farmhouse Fire Claims Eight Lives in Rockwood Area
A farmhouse blaze at Rockwood, eight miles south of Somerset, Pennsylvania, killed eight people including six children. Only 10-year-old Franklin Whipkey survived by jumping from a window as the fire swept through the three story home of John Whipkey, a retired coal miner and father of fourteen. Neighbors recall the fire starting about 7 a.m. in the residence.
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Rockwood
Pennsylvania
Franklin Whipkey
John Whipkey
Bomb blast in Italy kills four and injures twenty two
Four children were killed and 22 others injured, several critically, when a woman attempting to liven the religious event threw a bomb at a bonfire near Foggia Italy.
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Foggia
Here
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