Europe Deluged as Hurricanes Flood Coasts
European disaster climbs past 850 dead across Netherlands Britain and Belgium with 400s tolls in the UK as floods breach dikes. Canvey Island reports up to 100 drowned as hospitals flood and rescues rush by sea and air amid mounting misery and wrecked homes.
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Netherlands
Europe
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Britain
Belgium
Thames
King’s Lynn
Tilbury
Canvey Island
London
Montana Man Speaker Here For Bosses Night Banquet
Orvin B. Flare, former president of the Montana Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be the main speaker at the local Jaycee Bosses Night banquet at the Hotel Stoddard Tuesday at 6 30 p m. Flare will receive honors and special guests include Green Bay Packers players. Tickets from Jaycee members. Milo Knutson will be toastmaster.
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Montana Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee
Stoddard
Flare
Big Timber
Mont
National Americanism
USJCC
la Crosse
Big Timber Jaycees
Americanism Committee
Montana
Green Bay Packers
Rudy Rebhan
James Brindley
DSA
Milo Knutson
Weather forecast for La Crosse area stays mild
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Low Monday night 12, high Tuesday 25.
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la Crosse
British Probe Ship Disaster Sinks off Ireland killing 132
The British government opened an inquiry into the Princess Victoria disaster in the Irish Sea. Of 176 aboard, 44 survived from Stranraer to Larne voyage. The 2694 ton ferry sank after a gale drove a deck door open, cutting lifeboats and trapping many in icy waters. Captain Ferguson reportedly went down with the ship.
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Irish Sea
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Scotland
Larne
British Railway System
Princess Victoria
Angus
Nelson
James Ferguson
Victoria
Snow hampers air search for 2 missing fliers
In Madison southeastern Wisconsin is buried in light snow hampering a search for two Air Force pilots missing since Saturday night after a routine training flight. Capt Hampton Boggs and 1st Lt Donald Van Ells were in a six plane formation when a sudden storm forced a landing.
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Hampton Boggs
Harris
Okla
Donald van Ells
Milwaukee
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van Ells
Truax Air Field
R. G. Stanton
49Th Air Rescue Squadron
Selfridge Field
Mich
Billy Mitchell Field
Otto Kemp
Little Muskego Lake
Waukesha County
Truax
Kenneth Holker
Chicago
Oregon
la Dane County
Genesee
Kemp
432Nd
Harry W. Shoup
Howard Mattes
Shoup
Merit Award Presented To Local History Society
The La Crosse County Historical Society received an award of merit from the American Association for State and Local History in Washington, D C. The honor recognizes funding of the book A History of La Crosse Wisconsin 1841 1900 by Sanford Hirschheimer Fries.
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la Crosse County
Ridgway Denies Fed Up With NATO Job
General Matthew Ridgway rejected press speculation that he plans to quit as supreme allied commander in Europe. In a Sunday night communiqué from his Paris area headquarters he said he has had no such ideas and does not currently.
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NATO
Paris
U. S
Matthew B. Ridgway
Europe
Russians Possess 4500 Planes In Far East Says Weyland
Gen. O P Weyland head of U S Far East Air Forces says Russia has about 4500 war planes in the Far East, with a strong medium bomber force able to strike any Japanese city. He notes Chinese Reds field about 2500 combat planes, most supplied by Russia, while American forces are outnumbered but can be reinforced quickly. He favors immediate counter offensive action against hostile air bases with powerful weapons and says a ring of Russian bases surrounds Japan. He rejects claims Allied planes over Manchuria in a controlled flight as propaganda.
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Far East
O. P. Weyland
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Philippine Sea
Weyland
Groundhog Sees Shadow Predicts Six More Weeks Of Winter
The Groundhog in the Coulee Region saw his shadow signaling six more weeks of winter. The Weather Bureau noted sunshine briefly Monday noon and forecast partly cloudy conditions for La Crosse Tuesday with a high near 25 and a low around 12. Snow depths varied across Wisconsin and Minnesota amid a recent cold spell.
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Weather Bureau
Woman Killed in California Former Ona laska Nurse
Mrs. Paul Stollenwerk, formerly of Ona laska, was killed in San Jose California when she stepped from a bus into traffic. She had lived in California four years and previously resided 16 years in Ona laska. Survived by husband Peter and two daughters Carolina and Paula, with Paula married to Richard McKillip.
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Wis
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San Jose
Calif
Stollenwerk
Main St
la Crosse
Calfornia
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Carolina
la Crosse State College
Richard
Paula) McKillip
Alexandria
Minn
Queen Elizabeth to Lead World Commonwealth Tour
Buckingham Palace announced a royal tour starting in November with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. They will sail from Jamaica via Bermuda and the Panama Canal, then cross the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia, with stops in Fiji and Tonga.
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Australia
Fiji
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Plane on North Atlantic ferry flight vanishes with 39 aboard
A Skyways four engine troop ferry plane with 39 aboard is reported down 359 miles east-southeast of Gander Newfoundland. No trace exists after 12 hours as gales hinder rescue efforts. Royal Canadian Air Force Lancaster leads 11-plane search while two U.S. Coast Guard cutters push through heavy seas. The craft was en route from the Azores to the West Indies carrying British troops.
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N.S
North Atlantic
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London
Gander
Mld
Azores
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U.S. Coast Guard
Lonladon
West Indies
Milk Price Drop May Spell Danger To U S Farmers
Representative Hays a dairy farmer from Ohio warns that January milk prices fell for the first time in memory from 12 to 20 cents per hundredweight. He says the decline breaks a long standing seasonal trend and could threaten farmers already paying high costs for machinery and inputs.
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U.S
Rep
Hays
Washington
Ohio
Five Downtown Buildings Burned in Geneva Fire
Fire destroyed five downtown buildings in Geneva Illinois on Sunday night leaving five families homeless. Damage was estimated at thirty thousand dollars. The two story structures included one house and several business and residential buildings.
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Geneva
Speech Draws Mixed Reaction From Congress
Reaction to President Eisenhower’s State of the Union address varied in Congress with Republicans praising the message while some Democrats criticized specific points. Representative Allen called the New Deal over and recovery of sane governance, and Representative Spence warned of a wage and price spiral if controls end. Representative Martin lauded the speech as clear thinking and global policy leadership.
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Eisenhower
State of the Union
Truman
Kansas City
Rep
Allen
Ill
House Rules Committee
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Martin
R-Mass
House
Congress
Far East
Europe
Eisenhower Demands End to Secret Deals and Free China Moves
President Eisenhower addressed Congress in a broad State of the Union speech advocating a balanced budget, end to price and wage controls by April 30, and civil rights progress. He denounced past secret understandings, urged nullification of deals with the Soviet bloc, and announced freeing Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists on Formosa to strike Communist China, while warning of higher prices as controls end. The speech drew strong bipartisan reactions and international attention, including Churchill and Eden’s expected Formosa stance.
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Congress
Seventh Fleet
China
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yalta
Truman
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House Rules Committee
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Digest of President's State of the Union Message
Summary of Eisenhower’s address to Congress touching foreign policy goals, defense, economic measures, civil rights, immigration, social welfare, aging programs, farmers, labor, and natural resources with focus on free world initiative, defense needs, budget balance, and civil rights advances. The text notes the 7th Fleet policy on Formosa, civil defense, and calls for reform of Taft Hartley and farm support programs.
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