Thousands Attend Armed Forces Week Exhibit in Kenosha
More than 2,000 Kenoshans visited the Naval Reserve Training Center during Armed Forces Week with crowds expected to grow. ROTC cadets from Kenosha High School were inspected by Maj. Hacker aided by local officers and civic leaders, receiving several awards for yearlong achievements.
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Kenosha High School
Naval Reserve Training Center
Peter Rutkowski
Kenosha Reserve Officers Association
Harold Maurer
Richard Custer
John Decker
William Hacker
Col
William Schumacher
Armed Forces
ROTC
Northwestern Military and Naval Academy
Delavan
Harold Crutcher
Frank Harvell
Kenosha
Fred Borak
Kenosha Air Force Reserve
Dwight T. John
Ely
Reserve Officers Association
Elks Club
Peggy Ann Garner Weds Albert Salmi Here
New York actress Peggy Ann Garner aged 24 and actor Albert Salmi aged 28 were married yesterday in a city ceremony. The couple announced their union after a private service attended by family and close friends.
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New York
Peggy Ann Garner
Albert Salni
Ray-O-Vac workers plan Monday strike in Madison
About 400 Ray-O-Vac production workers in Madison voted Friday to strike Monday over a contract with demands for a 12 cent an hour raise and improved holiday vacation and arbitration clauses. Machinists had begun a parallel strike Wednesday with no set resumption date. Both contracts expired May 1. The production workers are in the Battery Workers Federal Union and the machinists in the International Association of Machinists.
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Madison
Ray-O-Vac Co
Battery Workers Federal Union
Machinists
International Association of Machinists
Opera to abandon 1956 57 season without new contract
The Metropolitan Opera Association says it will cancel the 1956 57 season if a new labor contract is not signed by June 30. The announcement highlights the dispute over terms and the potential impact on performances and staff.
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New York
The
Metropolitan Opera Assn
Man charged in arson of new home and insurance fraud
Robert Earl Jones, 29, of 1525 Sheridan Rd., arraigned in county court on a warrant charging arson and arson with intent to defraud. He allegedly admitted in a taped confession to setting the fire to collect on insurance after installing a gas furnace and a heater the day before the blaze. Fire crews found the home destroyed and investigators filed to determine cause. The case moves to municipal court after a preliminary hearing waiver.
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Robert Earl Jones
Sheridan Rd
William P. Schmitt
Floyd J. Hughes
Jones
Schmitt
Britain Guards Cabinet as Cypriot Gang Threatens
The Daily Express reports armed police guard British ministers amid plans by pro Greek Cypriot Eoka to avenge executions in Cyprus. Scotland Yard provides security for ministers including Selwyn Lloyd Alan Lennox Boyd Anthony Head and R A Butler while an arrest in Nicosia targets a key Eoka leader’s cousin.
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London
Cyprus
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Scotland Yard
Yard
Eoka
Greece
the Express
Nocosia
Andreas Savvides
George Grivas
Dighenis
The
Express
Selwyn Lloyd
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Anthony Head
R. A. Butler
House of Commons
Great Lakes Ship Strike Is Settled
A nine day port strike on the Great Lakes ended as wage agreements were signed by seven Lake Carriers Association companies and three unions. Seamen receive 16 percent gains and deck officers and engineers 19 percent. The conflict threatened wheat, ore, coal shipments and general inland traffic.
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Great Lakes
Montreal
HH. Carl Goldenberg
Rep. Smith Defends Ike Military Plans Over Critics
Rep Lawrence Smith Republican Wisconsin criticized critics of President Eisenhower's military strategy saying it would be inconceivable for the United States to fall behind.
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Rep. Smith
Ike
Washington
Lawrence Smith
R-Wis
Eisenhower
United States
Oregon primary returns show warted presidential race and senate update
Oregon voters report incomplete presidential write in results with Kefauver and Stevenson leading in the Democratic race. Eisenhower leads the Republican presidential nomination unopposed. U S Senate results show Hitchcock and McKay leading, Morse and Smith follow in partial precinct totals.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Kefauver
Stevenson
Eisenhower
U. S. Senate
Phil Hitchcock
Douglas McKay
Morse
Smith
Zoo Doe Escapes Fence Fails in Traffic Fatality
A white tailed doe escaped from Washington Park zoo, leaped an eight foot fence, and was killed after colliding with a car driven by 42 year old Carl Wold of Milwaukee. Zoo Director George Speidel confirmed the incident occurred about 45 minutes after the escape.
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Milwaukee
Washington Park Zoo
Zoo
George Speidel
Carl Wold
Nasser Defiant on Egypt Arms Sources in Speech
Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser declared Egypt is free to buy arms from any source and in any amount. He spoke to naval cadets promising to resist foreign limits on arms imports as reports link Egypt to purchases from China and Czechoslovakia amid Western tensions and a NATO meeting fallout.
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Nasser
Egypt
Alexandria
Gam Abdel Nasser
China
Red China
Paris
NATO
Israel
Ladysmith Man Convicted of Negligent Homicide in Four Deaths
Ladysmith 21 year old Leonard Kroening was found guilty by a Rusk county jury of negligent homicide for a crash last November. Prosecution said he drove at high speed while intoxicated. Sentencing set for June 18. victims named include Kenneth Anderson Sharon Kasper and Martin Gordoux.
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Ladysmith
Leonard Kroening
Rusk County
Kroening
Clarence Rinehard
Chippewa Falls
Kenneth Anderson
Thomas Kasper
South Milwaukee
Sharon
Martin Gordoux
Holcombe
Rally Breakup Under Ban Sparks Tear Gas Use
Police dispersed an opposition political rally defying a government ban during the election period. Troops deployed tear gas to break up demonstrators amid heightened tensions and restrictions on gatherings.
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Panama
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Denies Catlin Charges
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Catlin rejects two main charges of unethical conduct over pardons and parole cases as false. He claims fees were not excessive and that he never claimed undue influence with state officers. He notes many requests for pardons and parole he did not accept, and says he would not take a case unless clemency was deserved.
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Milwaukee
Mark Catlin Jr
Wisconsin Assembly
U. S. Senate
Catlin
Kersten
Howard Boyle
Senate
Alexander Wiley
Weather Update From Kenosha Notes Cold Start
Clear skies and low temperatures marked Kenosha today with warmer trend expected Sunday. Temperature at the sewage plant ranged 42 to 77 while the morning high reached 55 before dropping to 52. downtown and American Motors logged 53 as sunrise came at 4 28 a.m. and sunset at 7 08 p.m.
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Kenosha
American Motors
Nationalists Slay Three in Djidjelli Ambush Amid Trials
Arab and Algerian nationalists carried out a deadly ambush at Djidjelli, killing three Europeans including a farmer and his sister and injuring another soldier. In Algiers a French military court handed down death sentences to three nationalists for murder and rebellion, while Arab nationalists wounded a French army captain and a Moslem woman. French police conducted house to house searches as details unfolded.
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Algiers
Djidjelli
Bougie
Jean Blac
Roach Quits National Democratic Post as Routine
Indianapolis Paul M. Butler says William Neal Roach resigned voluntarily from the Democratic national committee post. Butler calls Roach departure a routine problem with no link to any convention personality.
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Indianapolis
Paul M. Butler
Democratic Party
William Neal Roach
Butler
Khrushchev Plans English Study Trip for Son Sergei
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev told British Ambassador William Hayter on Friday night he intends to send his son Sergei, aged 21, to England to improve his English.
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Moscow —i
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
William Hayter
Sergei
England
Alhambra father admits killing 9 month old son
Donald Bradshaw of Alhambra a brokerage clerk sobbed about killing his son Timothy Mark last April 21 in a fit of anger. He said he stuffed tissue in the baby's mouth after a spill during a crying bout. Bradshaw was booked on suspicion of murder.
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Alhambra
Calif
Ray Buhman
Donald Bradshaw
Los Angeles
Buhman
Bradshaw
American businessman leaves China after seven years
Charles Sydney Miner and his Chinese wife arrived in Hong Kong today aboard the British freighter Soudan from Shanghai. Miner, formerly of Washington, D C, had applied in November 1950 for a permit to leave China and had spent seven years in Shanghai.
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Hong Kong
Charles Sydney Miner
China
Shanghai
Miner
Washington, D. C
Probation Granted for Six Young Shoplifters
Six junior high girls ages 13 and 14 are on probation to Policewoman Sgt. Beulah Hartwig for shoplifting in downtown stores. They lifted dresses gowns sports clothes and jewelry from several shops in the past month with school authorities aiding the investigation.
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Beulah Hartwig
Meany warns of auto era displacing workers at Sinai Temple
AFL-CIO President George Meany told Sinai Temple's 50th anniversary crowd in Mount Vernon New York that automation will replace many human jobs as machines run machines. He urged adequate provisions and a fair share of rewards for workers during the transition while not opposing industrial progress.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Congregation of Sinai Temple
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Fifth Army
Crutcher
Roger Krahn
Ronald Nielsen
Frederick Schmude
Kenneth Tredup
Eugene Neau
Wisconsin Department, Reserve Officers Association
Krahn
Schmude
Virgil Dysart
Anthony Polentini
Richard Wright
James Lovell
William Laubenstein
John Merriam
Neau
Gabriel Sedloff
Warren Joerndt
Theodore Schmidt
Clifford Sykes
USS Ely
Great Lakes Naval Reserve
Coast Guard Station
Met
Somers
Doe
Czechoslovakia
Ernment
Republician
Charles Kersten
State Board of Bar Commissioners
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Waupun
Parole Board
Board of Public Welfare
Wisconsin
Warren Knowles
Knowles
ADA
Walter Reuther
Richmond
Lester Johnson
Black River Falls
Passerby
Roach
Dad
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