Europe Prepares Unified Western Army against Russia
European nations including France Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg West Germany and Italy will initial a draft treaty to form a 1,250,000 man western defense army under the North Atlantic Pact. The plan assigns political control to a council assembly and commissioners with formal signing likely May 20 after resolving funding headquarters duration and voting rules.
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Paris
U.P
Russia
Germany
France
U. S
North Atlantic Pact Supreme Command
Council of Ministers
European Assembly
Board of Commissioners
West Germany
European Defense Community Council
McCarthy Says Subcommittee Cannot Find Its Chief Witness
Senator McCarthy told a reporter he offered help to locate his chief witness as a Senate rules subcommittee plans public hearings on expulsion. the hearings will probe his 1948 $10,000 Lustron housing booklet payment and claim of improper acts. He declined to name the witness.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wis
Senate Rules
Gillette
Iowa
Subcommittee
Sen. Benton
D-Conn
Congress
Benton
Lustron Corporation
Robs County Treasurer, Hardly Worth Trouble
An intruder forced entry into the Portage county treasurer’s office last night but left a $400 safe untouched. A janitor found a forced transom and an open door this morning. only 15 cents had disappeared from a drawer.
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Stevens Point
Portage County
Eisenhower Invited to Speak at Purple Heart Convention
An invitation was sent yesterday to Gen. Eisenhower to speak here on June 8 at the state convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
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Waukesha
Gen
Eisenhower
Military Order of the Purple Heart
Wisconsin Weather Sees Cloudy Skies and Scattered Showers
Rain moved north from Illinois overspreading southern Wisconsin with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures near normal. Yesterday's highs were 50s to 60s across the state, Grantsburg hit 66, Kenosha reported 52/41 with noon at 48. The outlook calls for occasional showers in the south, then partly cloudy and cooler Saturday.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Grantsburg
Kenosha
Sister Kenny Returns to U. S.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrived at Los Angeles International airport from Australia to attend medical conferences across the United States. She said she returned to present her findings to the profession so the medical community can unite against polio.
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Los Angeles
Calif
U.P
Elizabeth Kenny
Los Angeles International Airport
Australia
United States
Molly Shortz
America
Pan American Airlines
Bones Thought Human Belong to a Turtle
Milwaukee police rushed the medical examiner after a man unearthed bones in his yard that appeared possibly human. Jack Pickford identified the bones as those of a snapping turtle.
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Bones
Milwaukee
U.P
South Milwauke
Jack Pickford
Commander Juin to Lead Six-Nation European Army
Paris reports Marshal Alphonse Juin of France will command a six nation European army comprising French German Italian Dutch Belgian and Luxembourg troops as announced today. Rail unions seek stay of no strike order to allow appeal to Supreme Court. challenge seizure of railroads as unconstitutional. States bordering the Great Lakes discussed a feasible interstate compact to control lake levels amid property damage. Milwaukee area about two weeks gasoline supply due to oil strike per survey.
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Paris
Alphonse Juin
France
Cincinnati, O
U.P
Federal Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Chicago
Great Lakes
Milwaukee Area
Milwaukee
Senate panel OKs McGranery as Attorney General
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Federal Judge James P. McGranery of Philadelphia to be attorney general by an 8 to 4 vote. Ferguson indicated opponents may file a minority report and fight on the Senate floor. McGranery was nominated by President Truman to succeed J Howard McGrath. Wiley was absent.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
James P. McGranery
Philadelphia
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
McGranery
Truman
J. Howard McGrath
McCarran
D-New
Ferguson
Sens
Watkins
Utah
Jenner
Ind
Hendrickson
Sen
Wiley
Rwis
Construction Strike Near End
Milwaukee reports progress as AFL Operating Engineers consider a tentative wage deal with Associated Public Works Contractors. AFL Laborers and AFL Truck Drivers unions have already ratified the proposal ending a 25 day construction strike.
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Milwaukee
WUP
Milwaukee Area
AFL Operating Engineers Union
Associated Public Works Contractors
AFL Laborers Union
AFL Truck Drivers Union
Police officer says he was set to meet then gun went off
Chicago police lieutenant John Canning admitted planning a three way meeting with Joan McColl and his wife when the blonde companion allegedly slipped his pistol from its holster and killed herself. A bar maid supported the tale. the weapon was later handed to police after being loaded.
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Chicago
U.P
John Canning
Canning
Joan McColl
John J. Nolan
Ralph Thorpe
West Side
Michael Moretti
Army Unveils Its Powerful Atomic Gun
Army Secretary Frank Pace describes a 75 ton mobile atomic artillery piece with two engine cabs, capable of 35 mph on highways and cross country, fitting into amphibious landing ships, offering weatherproof long range accuracy and devastating close support for ground troops.
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Army
Frank Pace
Pace
Nearly Loses Life In Retrieving Purse
Five year old Bobby Specht nearly drowned in East Twin river while trying to recover a playmate s dropped purse. His father Paul Specht 45 heard the cries and jumped in to save him pulling him to shore within five minutes. The boy floated a blue cap as a marker while rescuers arrived.
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Michicott
Wis
Bobby Specht
East Twin
Bobby
Paul
Specht
Red Negotiators Await New Orders In Korea Talks
Communist truce negotiators stall for direction from Pyongyang Peiping and possibly Moscow after a brief session. North Korea accuses the UN of coercing 100000 prisoners and internees, while the UN insists on repatriation only for those who refuse.
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Pyongyang
Voice of North
Dodd
Panmunjom
Korea
U.P
William P. Nuckols
United Nations
Peiping
Moscow
Nam I
China
North Korea
C. Turner Joy
Allied
Nam II
Seek Method To End Strikes
Washington. The House Armed Services Committee seeks views from organized labor on halting strikes in defense industries. After two days of discussion no concrete proposals emerged from administration, industry, or labor. A bill would require an 80 day injunction to stop a threatening strike and, if unsettled, place plans and unions under receivership with work stoppages made illegal.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Howard W. Smith
California
Wage Stabilization Board
Nathan Feinsinger
Congressional
WSB
Truman
Feinsinger
Chicago
Retailers’ Association
Reserve Officer Bribery Case Ties Family Demand to Tactics
Detroit U P report details Gordon Cook a 28 year old air force reserve officer who paid 100 to avoid active duty after failing a July 1951 physical. He says wartime sacrifice matters but peacetime family needs come first. Indicted along with Cook are Joseph Crowley Edward Kanick and M Sgt Luther Bradley. Staunton tavern owner Martin Haase charged as collection agent for bribes ranging 15 to 150.
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Detroit
U.P
Gordon Cook
Luther R. Bradley
Staunton, Ill
Cook
Bradley
David
Scott Air Force Base
Ill
Joseph A. Crowley
Indianapolis
Edward L. Kanick
Chicago
Martin H. Haase
New Threat To Korean Oil Supply
The oil strike risks spreading to California and threatens oil flows to Korea. The CIO Oil Workers International Union gave a notice to Shell Chemical in Pittsburgh California, 263 workers voting on a possible strike. Government actions curb aviation gasoline sales as wartime shortages loom.
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California
Korea
U. S. Supreme Court
CIO Oil Workers International Union
Shell Chemical Company
Pittsburgh
Calif
Oscar Chapman
Truman
Junior Jet Scientist Injured in Basement Experiment
Milwaukee reports 14 year old Thomas Dryja injured in a jet propulsion project gone wrong. He ignited a metal mocked nozzle with sulphur matches in a home basement, causing an explosion that left him with severe cuts to his lips and left hand and he was hospitalized.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Thomas Dryja
Thomas
Graft Witness Says He Named Higher Officials
Ex bookie Harry Gross testified in a departmental trial of five policemen that he told authorities the names of higher men involved in the graft scandal. He suggested some may have taken payoffs and criticized Brooklyn District Attorney Miles F. McDonald for not including those figures in indictments. Gross, jailed since last September, linked his testimony to the collapse of the trials of suspended or retired officers.
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New York
Harry Gross
Gross
Brooklyn
Miles F. McDonald
McCarthy Debate Divides Wisconsin Town
About 300 residents in Appleton heard a newspaper editor and Henry Reuss, a Milwaukee attorney, clash over McCarthyism. Editor John Chapple praised McCarthy as a historic savior alongside Washington and Lincoln while Reuss criticized his record as a jurist and urged Chapple to name Communist officials. The event, sponsored by the Outagamie County Democratic Organizing Women’s committee, spotlighted national tensions in a local setting.
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Wis
U.P
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
John Chapple
The
Ashland Press
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Reuss
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Republican
Senate
Wisconsin
Reuss
Chapple
State Department
Joe McCarthy
America
Washington
Lincoln
Outagamie County
Democratic Organizing Women’s Committe
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