Wisconsin Assembly approves public records relief bill
The Wisconsin Assembly passed 49 to 38 a measure allowing public inspection of public assistance records but excluding names of relief recipients. The bill, already supported by the Senate, now awaits possible governor approval after a reconsideration motion.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
Walter Kohler
Arthur Peterson
Peterson
National Council of Churches For Christ
Holger Rasmusen
R-Spooner
Balk Over Spy Inquiry
Two former government economists Harry Magdoff and Edward J. Fitzgerald refused to say if they are now involved in espionage or linked to a Soviet spy ring. Testifying before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, they described wartime roles and ties to Henry Wallace, as the panel seeks a pattern of Communist infiltration in government.
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Washington
Senate
Harry Magdoff
Flushing
N. Y
Edward J. Fitzgerald
New York City
Magdoff
Henry Wallace
Fitzgerald
Wallace
Internal Security
Jenner
R-Ind
WPA
Press freedom envoy in Quito seeks reopening of papers
Jules Dubois of the Inter American Press Association arrived in Quito to urge President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra to reopen anti government newspapers in Guayaquil and release jailed owners and executives. Jorge Mantilla, a Quito publisher and freedom committee member, was freed in the same breakthrough. The government had closed La Nacion La Hora and jailed their leaders for allegedly inciting revolution.
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Quito
Ecuador
Jules Dubois
Inter-American Press Association
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Velasco
Guayaquil
la Nacion
la Hora
Jorge Mantilla
Dubois
The
Chicago Tribune
Traffic deaths rise in Wisconsin in April
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation reports 52 people killed in April traffic accidents, bringing the year to date total to 209. This compares with 222 deaths in the same period last year, and 63 fatalities occurred on state highways in April 1952.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Motor Vehicle Department
Wickham to face judge on murder charges next week
Myron C. Wickham 56, a milk truck driver, waived a preliminary hearing and is bound over to circuit court on two counts of first degree murder for the shotgun slayings of Beulah Wickham and Margaret Barry at Mike's Log Drive In on Hy 41. Circuit Judge Alfred L. Drury may hear the case Tuesday or Wednesday. Wickham confessed.
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Myron C. Wickham
Alfred L. Drury
Beulah
Margaret Barry
Mike
West 60Th St
Wickham
Marshall Simonsen
John Rutchik
Drury
Chicago
Marshall J. Baraz
E. J. Ruetz
Circuit Court
Chemical Explosion Survivor Near Death
One of 28 survivors of a $1,000,000 chemical plant explosion and fire near Peabody Mass lay near death today. The two story plant of American Polymer Corp was leveled by explosions. Seven other victims were hospitalized, two in critical condition. Scores of nearby homes and factories were damaged.
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Francis Donovan
Peabody
Mass
Donovan
Donald McCormick
Eft
J. Walter Green
Associated Press
U.P
American Polymer Corp
Bulganin Urges West to Back Words with Peaceful Deeds
In a May Day address from Moscow Red Square, Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin urged the United States and Britain to back peaceful statements with actions. He called for major arms reductions near the Soviet Union and warned that Russia would continue to ensure its defense until the West proves genuine intent for peace. The speech capped Moscow's May Day events, including a military review and workers parade, emphasizing pursuit of peaceful solutions by deed.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Churchill
Bulganin
Red Square
Russia
May Day Rallies Worldwide Mark Holiday Despite Clashes
Workers across the globe marked May Day with rallies and parades. In Tokyo 10,000 leftists clashed with 1,500 police after peaceful demonstrations ended. Berlin hosted rival East and West shows near the Reichstag while Soviet workers marched past Communist leaders. New York police banned the traditional march, approving a Union Square gathering instead.
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Free World
Japan
Berlin
Deadly Tornado Hits Warner Robins Georgia
A tornado struck Warner Robins Georgia killing 15 people and injuring 250 to 300. The storm damaged the air base and town with numerous homes flattened and buildings torn apart. One four year old child and the wife of an air force colonel died in a car wreck. a five year old boy died aboard an Atlanta hospital flight. More bodies could be found among rubble at the base and in the town.
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Warner Robins
Macon
Air Force
Atlanta
Robbins Air Force Base
14Th Air Force
Ripon
Wis
U.P
R. H. Licking
Ripon High School
Licking
Refugee Flows Between Berlin Zones Highlight April Moves
West Berlin absorbed 33,000 Russian zone refugees in April while 42,000 were flown out to final haven in West Germany, illustrating the cross zone displacement during the period.
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Berlin
West Berlin
West Germany
Marine Cpl Lione Peterson Returns Home With Apple Pie Parade
Marine Cpl Lione Peterson arrives in Black River Falls Wisconsin after being liberated from a Chinese prison camp He greets family in Millston and Black River Falls with an apple pie welcome parade led by the high school band He receives honorary memberships in the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and plans for more surgery at Great Lakes Naval Station He will appear on Horace Heidt radio show from Wisconsin Rapids hosted by the local Elks lodge.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Cpl
Lione Peterson
Peterson
Chicago
Millston
Here
Edward Peterson
Korea
San Francisco
Great Lakes Navel
Heidt
Wisconsin Rapids
Elks Lodge
Lynne Miller
Truck Driver Held as Suspect in 1952 Denver Slaying
John C. Holden 38, a Kenosha native and truck driver, arrested in East Denver for rape and questioned in the June 1952 murder of 18 year old Martha Martinez. Holden, alias Clarence Runyon, has a long criminal record and parole history with Sing Sing and Wisconsin parole. He stopped in Trinidad and Willow Run en route, and detectives traced his movements to Denver before and after the fatal stabbing.
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Kenosha
John C. Holden
39Th Ave
Denver
Colo
Holden
Martha Martinez
KAT
Trinidad
The
Tally-ho
Pennsylvania
Willow Run
Arthur J. Riley
Clarence Runyon
Sheriffs Office
FBI
New York Police
New York
Wisconsin Parole Board
New York Parole Board
Bill Tessin
Sing Sing
Transport Pilot Dies in Crash Near O’Hare Field
Maj. Floyd F. Fortin 33, assistant professor of air science at Northwestern University, died in an emergency landing crash of a C-47 northwest of Chicago. Co-pilot Capt. Jack E. Fox 31 and S/Sgt. Samuel E. England 32 survived and summoned help from O’Hare. The plane struck a barn-like structure about three miles from the field along highway 83 and Dempster Street in Cook County.
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Chicago
U.P
Here
O'Hare Field
Air Force
Floyd F. Fortin
Northwestern University
Jack E. Fox
Des Plaines
Ill
Samuel E. England
O’hare Field
O’hare
Highway 83
Dempster Street
Cook County
Weather shifts to sun then clouds in Kenosha
May opens with mixed skies as Kenosha reports a noon temperature 65 at the Sewage Treatment Plant and 66 at Nash Motors before clouds roll in lowering to 59. A Thursday rain dropped 0.4 inches. high 53, low 46. Tomorrow's outlook is cloudy with occasional rain and cooler.
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Kenosha
Nash Motors
Tax Slash Hopes Fade as Eisenhower Sees No Budget Balance
President Eisenhower said the administration cannot balance the budget for the next fiscal year, delaying any new tax cuts. Senators Taft and George warned there may be no reductions beyond planned levies, while House leaders voiced cautious optimism about possible spending cuts. Eisenhower slated a request for $812 billion less than Truman's proposed $72.9 billion in new appropriations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Sen. George
D-Ga
George
Harleck
Ind
House
Joseph Martin
R-Mass
Truman
Birds Nest Found on Mercy Hospital Window
Nurses at Mercy hospital Oshkosh report a pair of robins built a nest on a maternity ward window ledge and the mother robin is hatching three eggs.
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Oshkosh
Wis
U.P
Robin Redbreast
Mercy Hospital
Allies Press Reds Over Prisoner Exchange Holds
Panmunjom reports say Allied leaders bluntly warn that refusing to hand over 375 ill or disabled prisoners erodes sincerity in truce talks. Both sides clash over a neutral custody nation for about 48 000 non repatriated Red captives as Sweden is proposed but rejected by the Communists.
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Panmunjom
U.P
Sweden
Switzerland
North Korea
Adm
John C. Daniel
William K. Harrison
Korea
Harrison
Nam Il
Army to Buy 50 Million Pounds of Surplus Butter
The army agreed to purchase surplus butter from the agriculture department at 15 cents a pound. Police were sent to the United Press bureau in Buenos Aires after President Peron demanded an investigation of the three American news agencies represented there.
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ARMY
Washington
U.P
Agriculture Department
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United Press Bureau
Juan D. Peron
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Elmer Genzmer
Mayville
Genzmer
Supreme Court
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George C. Town
Waukesha
E. J. Wollschlaeger
la Crosse
Short Military Review
Donna
Donald B. Burton
Richmond
Pop
Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Ah Kuk
Georgia
mid-Georgia
Hits Housing Project
D. de S. Trenholm, Jr
Apple Pie
Cpl. Peterson
Minneapolis
Horace
Halleck
Seoul
Pyongyang
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