Memorial Day Reflections on War and World Tensions
Memorial Day services in Kenosha at Library Park honored war dead with a sober tone amid worries about the atomic bomb and the US Soviet rift. Rev. George B. Wood fused tribute with warnings, noting how nations at war of ideas threaten peace while life handling and infrastructure falter at home.
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Library Park
Russia-United States
Kenosha
VFW
Drum and Bugle Corps
CYO Band
Army
American Legion
George B. Wood
St John's Episcopal Church
Milwaukee
82Nd Airborne Division
Cobat
Berlin
San Francisco
Russia
America
United States
Wood
Second Airliner Tragedy in Two Days Kills 53
United Press reports a second airliner disaster within 48 hours claiming 53 lives. Investigators, crews, and relief workers converge at the crash site as nations mourn and seek causes.
Brakeman Killed By Streamliner On Tracks Here
Frank O'Hearne 53 Chicago Northwestern brakeman died when he stepped from a freight onto a northbound track and was hit by the southbound Northwestern 400 at Kenosha station. Witness Harry O'Brien said the train was slowing to stop as the accident occurred. O'Hearne’s body was moved to a Chicago funeral home. The crash prompted investigation by Coroner James A Crossin and police.
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Frank O'Hearne
Chicago
Northwestern Railroad
Northwestern
Forty Sixth Street
James A. Crossin
O'Hearne
Kenosha
King Dowell
George Funk
O’hearne
Green Bay
Ishpeming
Mich
Milwaukee
Harry O'Brien
Harry Condon
Kenosha Station
E. E. Farrell
Truman Signs Bill for Relief Funds for War Devastated Nations
President Truman signed a 350 million dollar foreign relief bill for war devast ated Europe and Asia with total Congress approval May 21. The measure allows funds for Italy Greece Hungary Austria Poland China and Trieste with at least 15 million for the UN Childrens Emergency Fund. An executive order assigns broad relief administration to Secretary of State Marshall while administrators for the funds are to be named. Richard F Allen of the Red Cross is named as a likely head of relief funds administration.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Asia
Charles G. Ross
Marshall
Congress
Italy
Greece
Hungary
Austria
Poland
China
Trieste
United Nations Children's
Turkey
Richard F. Allen
Red Cross
Milwaukeean Found Dead in Cemetery Car
A 58 year old Milwaukee man Gustave F Stein was found dead in his car by his wife’s grave in a Taylor County Cemetery. Coroner Dave Ruesch said a garden hose connected to the exhaust suggested possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Stein was president of the Stein Construction Company of Milwaukee.
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Medford
Wis
Taylor County
Dave Ruesch
Gustave F. Stein
Stein
Stein Construction Company
Milwaukee
Memorial Home project planned by Kenosha Veterans Council
Fritz Beckman announces a Memorial Home campaign to fund a $15,000 residence for a Kenosha veteran paralyzed by a World War II combat wound. Peter Dahl chairs the committee as plans include elevator and ramp access on property owned by the veteran’s mother, with an architect’s plan in progress.
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Fritz Beckman
Kenosha
Veterans’ Council
Beckman
France
Kenosha Veterans Council
Peter Dahl
Council
Baron Von Trapp Dies Father of Trapp Family Singers
Baron George Von Trapp aged 67 died Friday in Stowe VI. He commanded a German submarine fleet in World War I and gained fame later as the father of the Trapp family singers. He was born in Zara Dalmatia.
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Stowe
Baron George von Trapp
Trapp
Zara
Dalmatia
Bees Swarm After Truck Overturns on Highway 108
A Utah highway scene near Santaquin drew attention as 108 bee hives spilled from a overturned truck. Driver Joseph Yack of Neola guided the swarms back, though the insects briefly struck cars and homes.
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Santaquin
Utah
Joseph Yack
Neola
Coal Contract Talks Delayed In Washington
Negotiations between John L. Lewis and soft coal operators in the north and west were suspended indefinitely after a 35 minute wage conference. Ezra Van Horne said the meeting was adjourned by joint assent as talks stall ahead of mine return to owners on July 1. Separate talks for southern producers began last week.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
North
West
Lewis
Ezra van Horne
Ohio
van Horn
United Mine Workers
Navy
N. H. Collisson
Southern Coal Producers Association
Milwaukee Man Admits Attack On Young Girl
A 45 year old Milwaukee man with prior sex offense history admitted attacking a six year old girl in a garage Sunday night. Bernard Scheutzmann Jr. denied rape but said I must have done it after eight witnesses identified him. The girl remained in critical condition with a skull fracture and police planned rape and attempted murder warrants.
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Milwaukee
Rudolph Glaser
Glaser
Bernard Sylvester Scheutzmann, Jr
Scheutzmann
Children’s Hospital
John Polcyn
Soviet Arctic Research Plans Include Nine Expeditions
The Soviet news reports Russia will dispatch at least nine Arctic expeditions soon. An air expedition will reconnoiter the ice in June, while other teams will study soil formation, plant development, and micro organisms that have been frozen in suspended life for centuries.
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London
Russia
Arctic
Magician Convention Delivers Unlikely Sideshow Wonders
A Chicago magicians convention features a parade of tricks from a liquor bottle illusion to vanishing birds and a two yard sausage link theft gag. Notable moments include Bert Allerton, Arnold Furst, the Great Blackstone, a skunk guest, a rabbit named Oscar, and a witty elderly spectator praising the sleeves’ bird cage vanish.
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Chicago
U.P
Bert Allerton
The
Mystics
Missus
Arnold Furst
Oscar
Great Blackstone
Wedding Party Killed by Train Near Munster Indiana
A wedding party of seven, including bride Juanita Graham 17 and groom Chelsa Graham 20, along with the bride’s parents Greta and Kenneth Brock and siblings Greta 15 and Kenneth 5, were killed when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad holiday special en route to a photography session. The collision occurred at a railroad crossing. the car was carried 400 yards along the track before stopping.
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Munster
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
U.P
Chicago
Juanita Graham
Chelsa Graham
Dyer
Raymond Brock
Greta
Kenneth
Highland
Graham
P. T. Parker
Logansport
Madison Woman Fatally Struck by Car in Crosswalk
Seventy nine year old Margaret Kav anagh of Madison was fatally injured yesterday after being struck by a car driven by John Ripp. She died several hours later. Dane County coroner Dr. David Atwood said a decision on holding an inquest would be announced later today.
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Madison
Wis
V.P
Margaret Kavanagh
John Ripp
David Atwood
Dane County
Relatives Seek Identification in Major New York Air Crash
In New York relatives seek to identify 40 people killed when a United Air Lines DC-4 crashed near LaGuardia during a late Thursday takeoff for Cleveland. Nine others survived, six in critical condition, as officials cite a sudden wind gust and storm conditions as the probable cause.
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New York
la Guardia Field
United Air Lines
Cleveland
J. A. Herlihy
Civil Aeronautics Board
Maryland
Herlihy
Driver Held After Wausau Auto Death
Police in Wausau Wisconsin arrested 22 year old Charles E Hanson of Schofield after a motor vehicle collision that killed 46 year old Alvin R Kalk. Kalk died at Wausau hospital from a skull fracture and other injuries. Hanson faces a driving while intoxicated charge as coroner plans an inquest.
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Wausau
Wis
A.P
Charles E. Hanson
Schofield
Alvin R. Kalk
Kalk
Hanson
John W. Hildensperger
Holiday traffic toll low as two hurt in Kenosha area
Police report seven city and county crashes during the Memorial Day period ending midnight with two injuries. A Racine couple in a single wreck on Highway 42 near the county line at 2:19 a.m. left one man with chest and knee injuries and a woman with minor cuts. another driver skidded on a soft shoulder along Highway 41, knocking over signs and trees. An unrelated incident involved a Bain family near the city garage after a side swipe. Minor damage occurred in Petrifying Springs park parking and a bicyclist was struck on Thirty-ninth Avenue. No parade mishaps reported.
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National Safety Council
Eastern Airlines
Havre de Grace
United Air Lines
la Guardia Field
New York City
Kenosha
Emil Clausen
Milton LaViolette
Charles R. Gibilian
Ellen Smith
Gibilian
Billups Browne
Leland Chartier
Donald Sanger
Paynette
Wis
Highway 41
Wilmot Road
Center Parkway
Clarence Bain
Harrington Avenue
City
Bain
Albert Thom
Thirty-ninth Avenue
Thirty Ninth Avenue
Seventy-seventh Street
Britisher Keeps Promise To An American Soldier
Reginald J. Stranger, former Southampton mayor, visited Chambersburg to honor Sgt. Paul S. Shimer the millionth Yank to sail for Europe in WWII. He gave Shimer’s daughter Patricia Ann a 4000 dollar trust fund and the town rewarded Stranger with 3000 dollars for Southampton’s needy children, plus plans for next Christmas apples. Stranger and wife depart after a Franklin County tour and Wilson College luncheon.
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Chambersburg
Pennsylvania
Reginald J. Stranger
Southampton
Eng
Paul S. Shimer
Stranger
Shimer
Tricia Ann Shimer
Memorial Square
Germany
New York
Franklin County
Wilson College
Four-Engine Plane Crashes In Maryland
A four engine Eastern Air Lines DC-4 crashed near Port Deposit Maryland killing all 53 aboard. Witnesses recalled an explosion and a tail section detaching. Debris and bodies covered a 20 by 75 yard area as investigators and Civil Aeronautics inspectors worked to determine the cause.
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Port Deposit
Eastern Air Lines
Here
United Airlines
LaGuardia Field
New York
Maryland
Bainbridge Naval Training Station
Civil Aeronautics
Eastern Airlines
Newark
N. J
Miami
Fla
Susquehanna River
Plane Crash in Japan Kills 40
Forty bodies are recovered from a four engine C 54 crash on Mt Fuji’s forested slope. The dead include eight officers 28 enlisted men and four civilians. Eight crew were aboard from Korea to Japan. Identification awaited next of kin.
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Tokyo
U.P
Mt. Fuji
Here
First Cavalry Regiment
Hadana
Korea
Japan
Army
Seoul
Philip A. Adler
Detroit News
Mystery Explosion Hits Chemical Plant in Naugatuck
An unexplained blast at the Naugatuck Chemical Co. division of U S Rubber in Naugatuck Conn. blew off a roof and shattered the benzol unit. Damage was estimated at 200000 to 300000 dollars. Fire followed the explosion, but no one was in the plant at the time.
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Naugatuck, Conn
U.P
Naugatuck Chemical Co
U. S. Rubber Co
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Macomb
Frisco Railroad
Florida
Memphis
Tenn
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Indiana
James A. Hard
Rochester
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Bill
Baron von Trapp
Joseph Schalla
Adolph Kraemer
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