Eagles Ballroom Fire Causes Half Million Dollar Loss
A Milwaukee blaze at the Eagles Million Dollar Ballroom likely started by a discarded cigarette caused about 500 000 in damage. About 200 firefighters fought the blaze in zero temperatures. no one was injured. Water from the brick five story building froze on the street as crews contained the blaze to the second floor ballroom near the bandstand. First alarm at 3 6 a m. Fire under control by morning.
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Milwaukee Eagles Club
Unifax
Milwaukee
Edward Wischer
National
Order of Eagles
Wischer
Sunrise Flash Over Nevada Test Reveals Largest Atomic Device
The 1955 Nevada series produced a predawn flash from a 500 foot tower detonation, seen across several western states including California and Oregon. Air Force Navy and Marines aircraft supported Exercise Desert Rock VI with 550 soldiers and 25 Marines nearby. no casualties were reported. The blast produced a 40,000 foot mushroom cloud with no immediate radiation impact on populated areas.
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Las Vegas
Nev
California
Nevada
Klamath Falls
Ore
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Phoenix
Ariz
Mexico
Los Angeles
Atomic Energy Commission
Air Force
Navy
AEC
Ground Zero
Fred W. Sladen
Department of Defense
Los Alamos
N. M
Livermore
Calif
ABC
Limestone
Residents Displaced By Fire In Racine Home
Mrs Melva Webb and her two year old son Gregory with Miss Royce McKinley are staying with neighbors after a Sunday fire destroyed their Racine flat. Fire officials estimate damage at $3000. no one was injured.
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Racine
Melva Webb
Gregory
Royce McKinley
Wisconsin’s oldest resident Robbie Boyd of Steuben 105
Prairie Du Chien reports Robbie W. Boyd is 105 today, regarded as Wisconsin’s oldest resident. He lives alone in a one room house near his son Richard and enjoys listening to his studio. An open house marked the birthday with family ties spanning 29 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren.
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Prairie DU Chien
Robert W. Boyd
Wisconsin
Boyd
Richard
Steuben
Truce Commission Labels Israel As Brutal Aggressor
Truce commission labels Israel as brutal aggressor amid sparse turnout in Wisconsin spring primary election. Voters weigh nominees for April 5 local offices including judges and mayors with races in scattered communities. A lone Democratic candidate, William W. Ward, faces three Republicans in the 10th Senatorial District special election.
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Truce Commission
Israel
Madison
Wisconsin
10Th
Warren P. Knowles
New Richmond
William W. Ward
Robert P. Knowles
Brothers
le Roy J. Hagemann
Ellsworth
Selmer W. Gunderson
Spring Valley
Buffalo
Pepin
Pierce
St. Croix
14 Die In Formosa C54 Crash
A U S Air Force C54 transport crashed in Formosa near Taitung while en route from Okinawa. All 14 aboard are feared dead as searchers reach the wreckage high in the Hengchun region. The squadron based in Tokyo had been carrying a replacement engine for a grounded plane in Hong Kong.
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Taipei
Formosa
U.S. Air Force
Okinawa
Hong Kong
Taitung
Couse
Tokyo
Hengchun
Air Traffic Control Center
Arabs Consider Neutralist Arab Military Alliance
Egypt and Syria announced a planned new neutralist Arab alliance with a joint military command and economic unity. Saudi Arabia pledged full support as prem iers and defense ministers from Arab nations would meet to finalize the pact, inviting Iraq if it disowns its Turkey pact. Lebanon and Jordan sought more time. Israel was not named.
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Ihe
Arab League
Iraq
Turkey
Saud
Riyadh
Lebanon
Jordan
Yemen
Libya
Khaled Lel Azem
Damascus
Egypt
Gaza
Israel
Leach
Testifies Few Stocks Out Of Line In Hearings On Market
James E Day of the Midwest Stock Exchange told the Senate Banking Committee that very few stocks seem out of line despite an 18 month market rise. He and Ronald E Kaehler of the San Francisco Exchange described the two largest exchanges outside New York. Day urged analyzing stocks by book value earnings per share and yield rather than broad market averages.
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Washington
James E.day
Chicago
Midwest Stock Exchange
Ronald E. Kaehler
San Francisco
Fulbright
D-Ark
Day
Man Identified as Earl Wampler Dies in Chicago Restaurant
A man around 50 identified by papers in his wallet as Earl Wampler of Racine Wisconsin died of a heart attack early Sunday in a Northwest Side Chicago restaurant.
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Chicago
Earl Wampler
Racine
Wis
Northwest Side
Chicago Pair Identified in Milwaukee A P Robbery
Milwaukee police identified two Chicago men as the gunmen in a Friday A and P supermarket holdup that netted about 14 000. Michael Messina 45 and Frank Amerino 44 were caught after a chase in northern Illinois. all cash was recovered. Both are held on 25 000 bail and face armed assault and robbery charges. A gun found in the car will be checked for a link to a prior Jan 21 tavern keeper shooting. A third man suspected of driving the getaway car is being sought.
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Milwaukee
Michael Messina
Frank Amerino
Ilinois
U. S
Floyd Jenkins
Sleepwalking burglar questioned in Holyoke break in
Bradford P. Borden of Greenwich Connecticut, 22, faces breaking and entering charges after police found him in a Holyoke home. He claimed a nap led him from Northampton to Downey’s living room, suggesting sleepwalking as a possible cause.
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Holyoke
Mass
Bradford P. Borden
Greenwich
Conn
Francis A. Downey
Borden
Northampton
Downey
Downey House
Four Die In Blaze At Summer Cottage Near Silver Lake
A fire destroyed a six room summer cottage near Silver Lake in Wilmington Massachusetts. Victims are John Mead 30 his wife Ruby 35 John R Stephens 26 a boarder and James R Fratton 50 a merchant seaman who had visited the cottage Saturday and stayed over.
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Wilmington
Mass
Silver Lake
John Mead
Ruby
John R. Stephans
James R. Fratton
Red Cross Opens County Fund Appeal For 30000 Members
La Crosse County launches the annual Red Cross fund appeal with 1000 volunteers calling households to secure 30000 memberships for those 18 and over. The campaign marks Blood program support with the theme Make a Deposit on a Pint of Blood as volunteers cover every city town and school district in the county.
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Red Cross
la Crosse County
The
la Crosse
W. L
Woodie) Richeson
Richeson
Gas Oven Explodes at River Forest Store Kills Five
An explosion in the bake shop of the Wieboldt Department Store in River Forest, a Chicago suburb, killed five men and critically injured another. The blast bent walls and shattered the four story building, as a baker below described the tremor. Four victims were workers installing a new two pan gas fire oven, the fifth a store engineer.
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Chicago
River Forest
Wieboldt
Wasye Dimytrosz
White House Aide Pledges Gas Consumer Protection
A White House aide assured Rep. Davis that the President will protect gas consumers when considering proposals to free gas producers from Federal Power Commission regulation. Davis urged delaying action until a conference. Bills from gas states would end FPC rate regulation before gas enters interstate commerce. A Supreme Court ruling involving Wisconsin upheld FPC regulatory authority from wellhead.
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White House
Davis
R-Wis
Federal Power Commission
Eisenhower
Power Commission
Supreme Court
Wisconsin
The
Deaf Blind Couple Fights For Their 2-Week-Old Son
In Akron Ohio Judge Russell Thomas ruled the Hathaway family may keep their infant with no foster placement required. Welfare officials sought court guidance on potential foster care due to the couple’s handicaps and the judge cited public support and court guidance as reasons the child could be raised by the Hathaways with help.
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Akron
Ohio
Russell Thomas
Harold Hathaway
Wellfare Department
Leo Mulhearn
Hathaway
Georgia
Stow
Israel Charged as Brutal Gaza Attacker by UN Body
The United Nations Mixed Armistice Commission ruled Israel deliberately attacked Egyptian forces in Gaza, killing 38 Egyptians and eight Israelis. The decision, backed by Egypt and the UN chair, questioned Security Council action and noted Israeli regular army involvement. Egypt blamed Israel while an Egyptian counter-claim was dismissed. Border protests increased as refugees urged arms, and UN observers' families were moved for safety.
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Caza
Egypt
U.N. Security Council
Israel
U. N. Mixed Armistice Commission
Gaza Strip
Commission
New York
Security Council
Edson
L. M. Burns
Canada
U. N. Palestine
Lhhief
Gaza
Palestine
Truce Commission
U. N
Francois Geicomaggi
France
Ghomaggi
Burns
Russia
Government House
Jerusalem
Dulles Reports To President On Asian Tour
Secretary of State Dulles submits a two week, 26 000 mile tour report to President Eisenhower. He praises courage and love of liberty in seven Asian nations and links progress to U S power. He cites Manila Pact Southeast Asia defense and the Taiwan and Nationalist China treaty as part of broader defense ties with Australia Japan Korea and the Philippines.
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Washington
Dulles
Eisenhower
Asia
White House
U.S
Far East
Pacific
Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia
Taipei
Formosa
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
South Korea
Philippines
Weather Outlook for La Crosse Area Tonight and Tuesday
Mostly cloudy conditions and light snowfall possible tonight. Temperatures fall to 10 to 12 degrees with a Tuesday of cloudy skies and warmer temperatures around 32 degrees.
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