Slain 14YearOld Margaret Byrne Found In Cheboygan
State police probe brutal slaying of Margaret Byrne 14 found in a grave pit near Cheboygan Michigan. Postmortem showed strangulation as cause. initial belief of head blow discarded. Missing since July 14, reported July 27 by parents Alfred and Mrs Byrne. they thought she was with grandmother in Onaway or planning to visit Missouri.
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Cheboygan
Mich
Brunet Margaret Byrne
Margaret
Harold Black
Lansing
Alfred Byrne
Everett Bennett
Onaway
Missouri
Log an man identified after fatal Great Northern collision
Logan, an on and off resident of the County Home, was struck by the Great Northern streamliner near Highway 33 Overhead in La Crosse. Sheriff Roy Samp son led inquiries with Undersheriff Vern Lamp and deputies. Dr. George D. Reay reported no inquest. Logan’s body was identified by his estranged wife Mrs Viola Wright Logan and transported to Viroqua for burial.
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Roy B. Sampson
Sampson
Logan
Fred Siemund
Siemund
la Crosse
Viola Wright Logan
Great Northern Railroad
Chicago
Minneapolis
Great Northern
Burlington
Twin Cities
Robert Mellen
Wood St
John F. Dwyer
George St
la Crosse City
Vern Lamp
Edward Stokes
Roy Wenger
George D. Reay
Olena Strumslund
Josie Aberg
Viroqua
Miss Wisconsin Miss America hopeful earns $5000 scholarship
The 1953 Miss Wisconsin candidate, Miss Huston, a 1951 Central High School graduate, is awarded a $5000 scholarship to study at any school of her choice. She is a singer, cellist, artist and former Saks Fifth Avenue model, plans pharmacy study if crowned Miss America. She enjoys swimming, bicycling, and follows the Chicago Cubs. a La Crosse native, already part of a Minnesota pageant lineage.
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America
Huston
Central High School
Bewty
New York City
Saks
Fifth Avenue
Ere
Gundersen Clinic
Cindy
Chicago Cubs
Miss Huston
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Kathryn Clark
Minneapolis
J. G. Clark
Caledonia St
Minnesota
Atlantic City
Union Leader Fined for Picket Line Incident
Emil Muelver, president of Local 1113, United Electrical Workers Union, was fined 350 for disturbing the peace after rushing a car on a picket line at Marathon Electrical Manufacturing Corp. Two women alleged abusive language as they left the plant at quitting time. The judge noted possible vile language but fined for the disturbance. an appeal was planned.
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Wausau
Emil Muelver
United Electrical Workers Union
Marathon Electrical Manufacturing Corp
Muelver
Wayne Schlosser
Dies As Result Of Fall On Farm Load
Joseph Peske aged 80 died from injuries suffered when he fell from a grain load at a Curtis town farm. The accident occurred Sunday and he died Thursday in Marshfield.
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Joseph Peske
Curtis
Weather Forecast: Fair Skies With Rain Showers North East
The latest government forecast calls for mostly fair skies in the extreme northeastern corner Friday night and Saturday. Showers and thundershowers are expected in the southern Rockies Texas and most of the Mississippi Valley. A cold front from Canada will bring cloudiness and cooler temperatures with lows near 50 in the northern Plains. New York 68 Miami 78 Duluth 48 Chicago 65.
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Rockies
Texas
Mississippi Valley
Canada
Plains
New York
Miami
Duluth
Chicago
Bismarck
Boston
Denver Dubuque
Galveston Huron
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Knoxville
LA Crosse
LA Crosse Airport
Él Madison
Memphis
Milwaukee Minneapolis
New Orleans
St. Louis
Washington
State Expects To Meet Bids For Hay Crop
Wisconsin reports ample hay to meet droughtstricken southern states needs. Department officials note a surplus unseen before and say offers pour in from across the state. Prices range from 15 to 24 dollars loaded from southern Wisconsin, declining with shipping costs northward. County agents compile and distribute inventory to buyers. farmers should list surplus with county agents rather than direct to the state office.
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Madison
Wisconsin
State Department of Agriculture
Donald McDowell
Myron Goodell
Goodel
McDowell
Mississippi
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Goodell
Politicians Push for Youth Vote and Women’s Role
The speaker argues for 18 year old voting rights and highlights women’s political engagement. He cites the Democratic national convention and figures like Mrs. Ind ia Edwards and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. He notes women balance housework with radio and TV informed participation.
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Reuss
India Edwards
Eleanor Roosevelt
League of Women Voters
Three Belles Sail HM Foudroyant in Historic At-sea Ride
Three sailorettes from the Girls' Naval Training College at Portsmouth take the rigging of H M S Foudroyant. Built in 1817, the Foudroyant remains the oldest royal sailing ship still afloat and active in naval heritage.
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Britain
Girls’ Naval Training College
Portsmouth
H.M.S. Foudroyant
Foudroyant
Chicago and South St. Paul Livestock Markets Report
Swift & Co. sets hours for buying and discounts for cattle and hogs. Hog prices steady with varied weights. cattle ranges across dry fed steers yearlings and cows. Calves and lambs steady. Chicago hogs, cattle, and produce prices listed with weight bands and classifications.
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Swift & Co
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
USDA
U.S
South ST. Paul
Minn
South Dakota
Weather Record For Midwest States Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa
Weather summary from the U S Department of Commerce notes cooler tonight with partly cloudy conditions. Showers are forecast for northern and eastern portions of Wisconsin and extreme eastern Iowa. Saturday brings generally cooler but fair or partly cloudy skies across all three states with a warmer period in northwest Minnesota in the afternoon.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
River Forecast From Hastings to Guttenberg Drops Ahead
The Mississippi River is forecast to continue falling for several days with average daily declines around 0.2 foot in the upper segment and about 0.4 foot from Lynxville south to Prairie du Chien. Dam gates are being lowered in most of the district.
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Hastings
Guttenberg
Mississippi
Lynxville
Prairie du Chien
Television Dancer Hospitalized With Polio in Milwaukee
Ginka Vogel, 29, a TV dancer and mother of two, is a polio patient at South View Isolation Hospital. She remains optimistic saying she will be dancing again in the fall. Vogel hosted a morning show on WTMJ-TV called Figure Fun and had shown exercises for staying trim.
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Milwaukee
Ginka Vogel
South View Isolation Hospital
Ginka
Wtmj-Tv
Dismissal Motion Filed in Mosinee Robbery Case
WAUSAU Atty. Robert Altman filed a motion to dismiss charges against Felix Wendt 37 Milwaukee one of four men tied to a July 26 home robbery of Mr and Mrs Leo Zmyewski near Mosinee The motion follows an investigation of Wendt's account and whereabouts at the time of the crime.
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Wausau
Robert
Altman
Felix Wendt
Milwaukee
Leo Zmyewski
Mosinee
Wendt
Grandson Wounded In Action In Korea
Mrs. T. T. Hanson and Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Johnson report their grandson Sergeant Raymond D. Lynness was seriously wounded in Korea on July 18. He writes from Osaka Army Hospital in Japan that he has four bad wounds and several minor ones.
Widow keeps boarding house in Lincoln Ill at 90
Ella Jones, widow of a former Lincoln mayor, maintains an eight room boarding house at 90 Lincoln in Ill. She travels with crutches, cooks meals, and fires the furnace. A resident for 80 years, her father was a Union soldier who died in battle. Her husband died in 1903 after securing Carnegie aid for the public library.
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Lincoln
Ill
Ella Jones
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
New York City
Andrew Carnegie
Adopting State Fishing Rules for Wisconsin 1953
The Wisconsin Conservation Commission approved fishing regulations for 1953 with few changes and set dates for black bass muskies walleyes and northerns. They will also hear northern counties about the deer refuge system this fall and approve land acquisitions for state forests and a state park totaling 80 acres in Vilas, 155 acres in Sheboygan, 90 acres in Waukesha, and 179 acres in Walworth with expenditures from $800 to $40,000.
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Fish Creek
Wis
Conservation Commission
Conservation Congress
Northern
Sdeer
Wawger County
Flambeau River State Forest
Sheboygan County
Kettle Morain State Forest
Waukesha County
Walworth County
Bigfoot Beach State Park
Dead Racine Corporal Honored With DSC
The nation’s second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, will be presented posthumously today to Mrs. Margaret Kirkorian for her son, Army corporal Jack Kirkorian, killed in Korea. The ceremony at Fort Sheridan honors his January 23, 1951 action suppressing an enemy bunker under heavy fire. wounded, he returned to his lines and died eight days before turning 24.
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Racine
Margaret Kirkorian
Jack
Korea
Fort Sheridan
Jack Kirkorian
Wisconsin La Crosse Fair 4 H events and judging details
The La Crosse fair continues with 4 H demonstrations and roving judging. Cattle shows include showmanship in the arena near Badger Street, with a long standing competition drawing crowds and expert commentary. Flowers grains and produce were praised by judge Ben F Rusy as the best in years. Judging of sewing baking and other projects carried into Friday with a health officer sanitizing booths and the fair sprayed for insects daily.
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Ben F. Rusy
University of Wisconsin
la Crosse Fair
Health Department
Fairgrounds
Edward Peters
Wisconsin campaign notes intertwine tax critique and McCarthy debate
Wisconsin politicians bash Republican tax policy and McCarthyism while planning stances for the 1954 race. Proxmire decries tax favoritism harming farmers and homeowners as Kohler defends reapportionment. Schmitt threats debate and unveils a 25 hour radio marathon to press campaign issues. Reuss and Fairchild push moral standards and Senatorial bids. Kenosha group forms to support Fairchild.
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Kohler
Schmitt
Tomah
William Proxmire
Abbotsford
Wisconsin
John Byrnes
Denver
Eisenhower
Byrnes
House
Ways and
Internal Revenue Bureau
Department of Justice
Gerald T. Flynn
Racine
Reuss
Thomas E. Fairchild
Dane County
Spring Prairie
Fairchild
U.S
Gov
Sen. McCarthy
McCarthy
Republican Voluntary Committee
Eagles Hall
Madison
Kenosha County
Fairchild For Senator
John Madison
James Morris
Frank Sullivan
Kenosha
Tennessee election shifts tilt of Senate leadership
The Tennessee primary ousted Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar, prompting a post election reshuffle in top Senate posts. Hayden or Bridges would lead Appropriations depending on control. McKellar’s exit opens paths for Georgia’s Walter George or others under a Democratic majority, while Republicans name Bridges or Taft and Tobey as possible chairs with seniority guiding assignments.
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Washington
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tennessee
Senate
McKellar
Appropriations
Hayden
Bridges
Walter F. George
Georgia
Sens
Richard B. Russell
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Patrick McCarran
Nevada
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wyoming
GOP
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Charles W. Tobey
New Hamp
Shire
Alexander Wiley
Wisiconsin
Eisenhower denounces Communist tactics in GOP stance
Ike condemns such appeals as Communist tactics in a statement endorsing a Minnesota GOP resolution urging all Republican candidates to reject them. The move follows pledges of support from Taft backers in several states. Bertha Adkins notes focus on mobilizing women voters for November.
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Minnesota
GOP
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Len B. Jordan
Idaho
George T. Hansen
Utah
Eisenhower
Hansen
Taft
Bertha Adkins
Maryland
Resignation signals push for stricter non political standards
The 42 year old Malone, a Southwest oil and gas lawyer, is described as a leader among younger bar members. His appointment likely will be followed by the firing of at least two district attorneys. The Chelf committee has urged removal to aid the department’s goals.
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Washington
Malone
Southwest
Bar Association
Chelf
Wisconsin seeks new principal for Wisconsin School for Girls
The State Bureau of Personnel announced a search for a principal at the Wisconsin School for Girls in Oregon. Applicants must file before August 21. The new administrator will succeed John F. Holmes, named superintendent of the Wisconsin Center.
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Madison
State Bureau of Personnel
Wisconsin School For Girls
Oregon
John F. Holmes
Wisconsin Center
INSP Revenues Rise For First Half Of 1952
Northern States Power and subsidiaries report operating revenues of 50,212,646 for the first six months of 1952, up 5,149,307 from the prior year. After expenses, taxes and preferred dividends, common stock dividends and surplus total 6,247,505, 56 cents per share on 11, 698,633 shares.
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Northern States Power Company
Minnesota
Iron River Pioneer sold after long editor career ends
Peter J. Savage sold the Iron River Pioneer to Chester Brown of Duluth ending an editorial tenure that spanned most of the paper’s 64 year history. Savage, 76, has edited and published the weekly and also serves as a municipal judge.
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Iron River
Wis
Peter J. Savage
La Crosse Tribune Missive History Note
The La Crosse Tribune is listed as a second class matter, entered at the La Crosse Wisconsin post office on June 23, 1904, under the 1872 act. This confirms its official postal designation and filing date for archival records.
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la Crosse
Wis
Fourteen Reds Given Five Year Smith Act Terms
In Los Angeles a federal judge imposed the maximum five year prison term and a 10,000 dollar fine on fourteen leading California Communists under the Smith Act of 1940. The defendants, including Russian-born Frank Spector, vowed innocence and pledged appeal. Spector, a former party founder dating his entry to 1919, faces deportation proceedings.
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Los Angeles
California
Russia
United States
William C. Mathes
Frank Spector
U. S
Communist Party
Spector
Los Angeles County
Kohler Approves Road Projects Across Counties
Governor Kohler signed highway contracts for Richland County 2.1 miles on State 80 south of Richland Center with Ryan Brothers of Janesville for 229,257 dollars. Washburn 2.9 miles on State 70 west of Sawyer County line with Koshak Brothers of Park Falls for 117,116 dollars. Florence 15.36 miles on State 70 east of Nicolet National Forest with county for 89,979 dollars. Columbia 2.81 miles on State 146 near Doylestown and a new Crawfish Creek concrete bridge with Phillip Kaiser of Portage for 77,184 dollars.
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Madison
Kohler
Richland County
Richland Center
Ryan Brothers
Janesville
Washburn
Sawyer County
Koshak Brothers
Park Falls
Florence
Nicolet National Forest
Columbia
Doylestown
Crawfish Creek
Phillip Kaiser
Portage
One to three year term for drunken driving death
LADYSMITH Wis Vernon Kloster 47 of Eau Claire was sentenced to one to three years in state prison at Waupun after pleading guilty to causing the death of 82 year old John Saxer by driving while intoxicated. Judge Don Sterlinski handed down the sentence after the district attorney noted three prior drunken driving convictions in Eau Claire County. Kloster will be transferred to the prison today.
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Ladysmith
Wis
Vernon Kloster
Eau Claire
Waupun
John Saxer
Saxer
Kloster
Rusk County
Don Sterlinski
Roger Young
Refund checks totaling 450000 sent to Wisconsin Tele Co subscribers
Milwaukee and 13 other cities receive refunds totaling more than 450000 for periods from November 1947 to July 1949 when Wisconsin Public Service Commission-ordered temporary rates were charged. Milwaukee accounts for over 235000 of the total with the remainder going to Manitowoc Little Chute Baraboo Cedarburg Delavan Eau Claire Hartland Hurley Kenosha Oconto Falls Pewaukee Waukesha and West Bend.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Manitowoc
Little Chute
Baraboo
Cedarburg
Delavan
Eau Claire
Hartland
Hurley
Kenosha
Oconto Falls
Pewaukee
Waukesha
West Bend
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Truman Blames Congress For Inaction In Cost Of Living Fight
Truman continues from the page special session urging action against the rising cost of living. He contends Democratic lawmakers share responsibility, while Republicans offer minority opposition. O Mahoney predicts a further rise but doubts large moves during the presidential campaign, urging wait until after the election and a new Congress is seated.
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Truman
O'Mahoney
Bulgaria Seen as Key Soviet Satellite Force Invasion Route
The Bulgarians are described as strong fighters among Russia's satellite troops. The Kremlin is said to be modernizing and strengthening its satellites, including Bulgaria, with jet aircraft. Bulgaria is a main invasion route from Central Europe to the Mediterranean, a Soviet target, while Greece and Turkey anchor allied defenses in Europe.
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Russia
Kremlin
Bulgaria
Europe
Mediterranean
Greece
Turkey
Balkan
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