Inter-State Fair draws crowds despite heat and crowds
Cooler weather and a large turnout marked the 65th annual Inter-State Fair. William T. Collins Carnival on midway attracted visitors with grandstand shows and a Sunday children's day. Horse pulling contest drew farmers and city folks. exhibits moved out by Sunday evening. premiums and 4-H checks issued.
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William T. Collins
Wisconsin
Fair
Carnival Company
Fear Missing Woman Has Been Slain
Kansas City report on the search for Wilma Allen, a wealthy automobile dealer’s wife and mother of two, last seen Thursday afternoon during a shopping trip. Blood stained clothing and her car were found, husband doubts kidnapping, police discount sighting of two men dragging a woman near a lake.
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Kansas City
Wilma Allen
Allen
Eugene Pond
Allens
Pilot Heroics Save 68 as Plane Crashes Near City
Northwest Airlines Stratocruiser driven by Capt. George A. Stone lands at Midway Airport with props not reversing. The craft veers off runways, crashes through a fence, and stops near Central Avenue, evacuating 68 aboard without fire. Copilot Ralph Gray and crew praise Stone's control and left rudder use to avert tragedy. A nearby car narrowly avoids the plane, and two women are hospitalized for shock.
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Midway Airport
Chicago
Dam
Northwest
Alries
George A. Stone
Minneapolis
Stone
Central Avenue
Ralph Gray
Minneapo
Braniff
George Meyers
Youngstown
Ohio
Meyers
Walter Urges Subversive Tag On Rosenbergs Group
Rep Walter urges Attorney General to list the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenbergs Case as subversive. Hearings tied Communist activity to the Rosenbergs case with 21 witnesses. The national committee folded in 1953 after a New York HQ dispute and fundraising use.
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Save
Rosenbergs
Washington
D-Pa
Atty
Gen
Brownell
National Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee
Julius
Fthel Rosenberg
House Committee
FBI
Boston
Mass
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Mich
Chicago
Save the Rosenbergs
The
New York City
Harap
Jewish Life
New York
David Alman
Emily
Englishtown
N. J
Medics Say Fliers Are Physically Okay After Rescue
Eleven U S airmen, released by Communist China, are reported to be in completely good physical condition after medical exams. Maj William H Baumer of Lewistown Pa suffered a leg wound and frost bite, while others focus on recovery in a large Far East hospital. Air force officials plan a Sunday press conference as intelligence teams question the men about their time in China.
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Lewisburg
Baumer
Far East Air Materiel Command Base
Red Cross
Air Force
Red China
Hong Kong
Tokyo
U.S
China
Japan
Cox
Alaska
United States
Washington
Airman 2.C
Daniel C. Schmidt
Redding
Calif
Schmidt
Two Hollywood Actresses Suzan Ball and Carmen Miranda Die
Hollywood mourns Suzan Ball and Carmen Miranda. Ball died at 21 after a long cancer battle fought since 1953, surviving amputation and a return to acting before cancer returned. Miranda died at 41 in Beverly Hills after a strenuous day of performance, famed as the Brazilian Bombshell with a vibrant career in film and television.
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Carmen Miranda
Hollywood
Miss Ball
Valiant Suzan
Beverly Hills
Miranda
Richard Long
Miss Miranda
David Sebastian
Durante
Screen Actors Guild
Long
Santa Barbara
Calif
Palm Springs
Tucson
Ariz
Buffalo, N. Y
Howard D. Ball
Portugal
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Lee Shubert
Landy Denied Navy Commission Plans Oil Tanker Sail
Landy a U S Merchant Marine Academy graduate with high honors, denied a naval reserve commission due to his mother's Communist past prepares to sail as an able bodied seaman aboard the Sun Oil tanker Texas Sun on a 30 day voyage. He may reapply for a commission within six months. The case draws criticism from Senator Lehman who calls the Navy decision illogical. Landy intends to study admiralty law at Yale after the voyage.
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Kings Point
N. Y
Eugene W. Landy
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Naval Reserve
Sandy
Admiralty
Carteret
N. J
Sun Oil Co
Texas Sun
Texas
Landy
Navy
Deborah Landy
Bradley Beach
Communist Party
Yale University
Admiralty Law
Naval Reserve Commission
Herbert H. Lehman
Liberal
Navy Department
Weather outlook for La Crosse area tonight and Sunday
Considerable cloudiness tonight with local showers in the evening ending before midnight. Sunday will be generally fair and cooler with a low around 68 tonight and a high near 84, as temperatures ease through the day.
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la Crosse
Vetoes Strike Public Housing Bills in Wisconsin
Gov. Kohler vetoed two bills limiting public housing passed by the Legislature. One required voter referenda for future projects. the other gave Milwaukee council power to liquidate housing authorities. Milwaukee officials and unions warned of stalled slum clearance and delayed projects.
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Madison
Milwaukee
Kohler
Swent
Governors Day at Camp McCoy review by governors
Saturday brings Governors Day at Camp McCoy as 9,000 Kansas Missouri National Guard troops march in review before Governor Fred Hall and Lt. Governor John McCuish of Kansas and Lt. Governor James T. Blair of Missouri.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Kansas-Missouri National Guard
Fred Hall
Kansas
John McCuish
James T. Blair
Missouri
Legislature Urged to Probe Labor Era Intimidation
The Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce urged lawmakers to examine alleged intimidation and monopolistic labor practices in the state. The letter, sent as legislators prepare to return in October, cites picketing, boycotts, and threats tied to unions, urging action to protect business and public order.
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Madison
Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Wisconsin
County Library Move Recommended to 12th and La Crosse
The County Board building and grounds committee urged moving the county library to 12th and La Crosse streets. The plan, approved by the Library Board, follows a July vote to relocate from 4th and Vine with preference to West Salem and a July 28 library board meeting.
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12Th, la Crosse Sts
County Board Building and Grounds
County Library
12Th and
la Crosse Streets
County Library Board
4Th and Vine Streets
West Salem
Duck crop better than last year at this time
In western Canada the waterfowl nesting season shows a good first hatch. Chief Naturalist Bert W. Cartwright says conditions across the range are finitely better than they were at the same time last year.
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Winnipeg
Nea
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Bert W. Cartwright
Nationwide Appeal For Nurses To Aid Polio Effort
Boston Health commissioner Dr. John H. Cauley urged a nationwide nurse call to handle rising polio cases in New England. The six state tally neared 1,000 with 26 new Boston cases, 301 in the city and 773 in Massachusetts. New England total reached 1,005 as five Salk inoculated youngsters in New Hampshire contracted polio. officials stressed no Boston epidemic but urged precautions.
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Boston
New England
John H. Cauley
Cauley
John B. Hynes
Boston Health Department
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Maine
Joseph Reardon
State Health Department
Trane Talks To Resume On Tuesday
Negotiations at Trane Co. resume Tuesday at 9 a.m. led by Commissioner W. H. Burtz of the Federal Mediation Service. 1,760 employees of the Trane Employees Union 18558 have been on strike since last Monday. Local 1115 Tool and Die Makers and Local 44 office employees are affected or observing picket lines with orderly behavior reported.
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Trane Co
D. C
Toolland Die Makers Local 1115
Rose Garden Witnesses and Backseat Talk
A narrator recalls car chat with two daughters in 1955 about a shooting. Jenny claims innocence and garden alibi while Becky presses for details. Jenny jokes she will stay in the rose garden as a possible witness, and the scene shifts toward returning to school for summer’s end.
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Chatchee
U.S.A
Becky
Jenny
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