Red plan on Korea prisoner repatriation discussed
Allied truce negotiators await Washington guidance on an eight point North Korean offer to set up a five nation repatriation commission for 48500 prisoners who refuse to return. Eisenhower and Dulles warned the plan may be unacceptable yet worthy of a counter. India Poland Czechoslovakia Sweden would head the custody panel. Secretaries argued over neutrality and risk of Soviet satellite influence.
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Panmunjom
Washington
Korea
Eisenhower
India
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Switzerland
Sweden
Mark Clark
Far East
Panmiunjom
State Dulles
New York
United Nations Command
Red
Dewey Short
R-Mo
House Armed Services Committee
Georgia Chief May Have Mumps
Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge may have mumps after returning from a governors conference with President Eisenhower in Washington. Doctor Kells Boland will diagnose, while two associates have just recovered. The 40-year-old governor remains in bed at the executive mansion awaiting results.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
Eisenhower
Washington
Kells Boland
Talmadge
Capitol
State Adjutant General
Young Boy Drowns in Water Crock in Waureka
21 month old Douglas Mohr son of Mr and Mrs Reuben Mohr died after falling head first into a 20 gallon crock half full of water in Waureka Wisconsin He was missing for about 30 minutes before being found by his parents authorities reported the tragedy as a late Thursday accident with no clear signs of foul play
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Waureka
Wis
U.P
Douglas Mohr
Reuben Mohr
A-Bomb Tests Vary Targets at Nevada Lab
A powerful atomic blast over Frenchman Flat in Nevada touched off military and civil defense experiments. The AEC listed tests on structures underground and above, heat effects on textiles and cars, fabric protection for personnel, and pig flesh analogs. A 2,000-strong force observed the exercise while 15 congressmen watched nearby. The mushroom cloud rose to 30,000 feet and drifted northeast.
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Las Vegas
Nev
U.P
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Frenchman Flat
The
AEC
May Reconsider Integration Bill Moves Ahead
Madison lawmakers debate reviving a bid to integrate Wisconsin higher education. Representative Genzmer, who voted against the measure, moves to reconsider and allow another Assembly vote next week with no recorded objections.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Genzmer
Mayville
Swedish farmer joins UN unit in Korea to fight communism
Bertil Fritjof Harding a 32 year old farmer from neutral Sweden leads Group Fritjof a Nordic volunteer force that grew from WWII resistance to a UN linked effort in Korea He sold his farm and joined a UN unit reportedly to report back and push for peace while threatening to smuggle more volunteers if talks stall.
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Neutral
Sweden
Korea
U.P
United Nations
Bertil Fritjof Harding
Norway
Harding
Fritjof
Russia
U. S
Trygve Lie
Panmunjom
Europe
Word Battle Details In Hearings Between McCarthy and Wechsler
Transcript of April 24 and May 5 hearings shows McCarthy accusing editor James Wechsler of a phony break with communism while Wechsler defends anti Communist record since 1937. McCarthy says Wechsler writes do not prove a break. Wechsler calls McCarthy’s tactics brain washing to intimidate the press.
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Washington
McCarthy
R.wis
James Wechsler
Senate Investigations
Wechsler
New York Post
U. S
Young Communist League
Medic Faces 9 Federal Dope Counts
Dr. Harold L. Rose, 65, of Kenosha, indicted by a Milwaukee federal grand jury on nine narcotics counts. The case ties to prescriptions for morphine sulphate and aliases at vacant lots, a Hilltop trailer camp, Roosevelt hotel, and 7513 Sheridan Rd. Rose faces arraignment later. he had been free on bond since January.
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Harold L. Rose
Raffaele M. LaMacchia
19Th Ave
Rose
Italy
LaMacchia
Waupung State
Ellis J. Hughes
U. S
Frank J. Murphy
Kenosha
S. Habin
S. Halvin
Hilltop
Jack Kryle
Roosevelt Hotel
Kryle
M. Wbesher
Sheridan Rd
Muriel Boettcher
M. Becher
Robert E. Tehan
U. S. District Court of the Eastern District of
Wisconsin
Warm and sunny weather sweeps state with varied readings
Kenosha reports a warm sunny day across the state with noon temperatures of 74 downtown 77 at Nash Motors and 72 at the Sewage Treatment Plant. The region remained cool and cloudy near the lake while most areas trend warmer into Saturday with highs from 74 to 79.
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Kenosha
Nash Motors
British Bomber Tops Altitude Record
A British twin jet Canberra bomber climbed to 63 688 feet, surpassing the world altitude record by 4 222 feet. The flight was made Monday by W F Gibb assistant chief test pilot of Bristol Aeroplane Company, and announced by the Royal Aero Club.
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London
Royal Aero Club
W. F. Gibb
Bristol Aeroplane Company
Petition seeks Kohler to name Elmer Genzmer to highway panel
A petition circulated today asks Governor Kohler to appoint Assemblyman Elmer Genzmer of Mayville (Republican) to the state highway commission.
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Madison
Kohler
Elmer Genzmer
Mayville
State Highway Commission
U.P
State Historical Markers Commission
Dane
Milwaukee
Racine
American planes drop supplies to French troops
American civilian pilots using new cargo planes began parachuting emergency provisions to the main French Union defenses in invaded Laos, aiding efforts near Hanoi Indo China. The move comes as wartime logistics intensify across the region.
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Hanoi
Senate redraws districts as Milwaukee loss debated
The Wisconsin Senate agreed to consider reapportionment on a population basis, trimming Milwaukee County’s seat and adding a northern Wisconsin district. Amendments include reorganizing Milwaukee districts without removing a senator. Lawmakers also moved a rural school bus stop bill and numerous budget and labeling measures in a busy session.
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Madison
Senate
Milwau
Kee County
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Fire kills two in South Side Milwaukee rooming house
Milwaukee police cite two men, Edward Huebner and Martin Alstadt, dead in an early morning blaze at a South Side rooming house. Zenon Sawicki, owner, awoke his family and escaped but was forced from the building by flames. Damage placed at $3,000. smoke in bed suspected as cause.
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Milwaukee
Charles Nowakowski
Edward Huebner
Martin Alstadt
Zenon Sawicki
Nowakowski
May Seek To Boost Debt Limit
Washington reports the Eisenhower administration may ask Congress to raise the national debt limit for fiscal 1954. Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey said there is no prospect of balancing the budget this year and that security costs leave only 15 to 17 percent of spending reducible without touching defense. The current debt cap is 275 billion dollars, with the debt now about 265.583 billion, and unspent appropriations totaling 81 billion awaiting obligations.
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Washington
U.P
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Humphrey
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Truman
Ejisenhower
Navy
Prichard Named Secretary Treasurer of National Liquor Administrators
Minneapolis announces David H. Prichard director of the Wisconsin department of beverage and cigarette taxation was elected secretary treasurer of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators.
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Minneapolis
David H. Prichard
Wisconsin Department of Beverage and Cigaret Taxation
National Conference of State Liquor Administrators
Father Held in Kathy Death Accused of Murder
Miami police state autopsy shows Kathy Tongay died from a ruptured intestine caused by a blow. Ex Coast Guardsman Russell Tongay, 36, is charged with second degree murder after being released on habeas corpus. Kathy, a child swimming star, had previously survived a 1949 acquittal over mistreatment accusations.
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Miami
Fla
Russell Tongay
Kathy
Charles A. Sapp
Miami Homicide Bureau
Coast
Tongay
Sapp
Dade County
Victor Catherine
Chester Eldredge
Homicide Bureau
Bubba
Treasure Island Pool
Cabana Club
Russell Jr
Mississippi
England
English
Esther Williams
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Conn
Ground Observer Corps
David Minster
Virgulto
U.S
Branch Rickey
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Argentina
U. PS
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Bill
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