Smear Tactics Alleged By Taft Supporters in Pierre
South Dakota primary battle over 14 Republican delegates centers on accusations of smear tactics and an expense paid Paris trip. Former Gov. Mickelson leads Eisenhower slate denying any free rides for delegates to consult with the general, while Taft’s Ingalls calls the trips bribery-like and notes campaign ads linking Eisenhower to Truman Acheson and Wall Street.
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Pierre
S.D
Paris
South Dakota
George T. Mickelton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Mickelson
Associated Press
David S. Ingalls
Taft
National Eisenhower Committee
Ingalls
Eisenhower
Denver
Washington
Taft Committee
Truman
State Acheson
International Bankers
Wall Street
Rail Worker In Critical Condition After City Tavern Shooting
Don ald J. Colburn a 27 year old St Paul railroad man remained in critical condition six days after being shot three times in a love triangle dispute at the OK Tavern La Crosse. Assistant District Attorney Philip G Arneson said Colburn was in a coma and cannot be spoken to. Oscar Flaten a 44 year old La Crosse photo finisher shot Colburn with a .32 caliber pistol last Sunday night after arguing over Flaten wife Orvella Colburn is married and the father of one. If Colburn dies Flaten faces first degree murder charges already pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity to assault with intent to commit murder.
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Donald J. Colburn
St. Paul
la Crosse
Asst. Dist. Atty
Philip G. Arneson
Colburn
Oscar Flaten
OK Tavern
Copeland Ave
Flatens
Coast Guard Tow Saves Disabled Navy Plane Off Miami
A Navy PBM made a forced water landing 65 miles southeast of Miami after an engine failed. A 38 foot Coast Guard boat towed the crippled aircraft while nine crew sat on the wings. 24 aboard, including 15 Navy personnel, were rescued with no injuries. The tow secured in Dinner Key channel as a 20 foot work boat attached the line.
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Miami
Fla.p
Coast Guard
Navy
Herbert Nydahl
Canton
Merele Clemens
Findlay
Clemens
Nydahl
Dinner Key
Rain Dampens Local Memorial Day Parade in La Crosse
Rain fell through most of the morning as thousands watched La Crosse Memorial Day parade from King Street and West Avenue. The 45 minute procession proceeded despite wet conditions with bands, students, and bare foot marchers. Many cemeteries services were canceled or moved indoors due to weather.
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la Crosse
King Street
Market Square
West Avenue
State Street
Forest Avenue
Washington and Longfellow
Lincoln Junior High School
Ward Christian
Oak Grove Cemetery
Aquinas High School
Catholic
Woodlawn
Campbell
Riverside Park
Blessed Sacrament Church
Oak Grove
Martyr's Day demonstrations sweep Japan and Korea violence
Demonstrations linked to a May 30 uprising spread from Tokyo to Osaka and Hokkaido with police clashing against protestors including Koreans, students, and workers. Three rioters were killed in Tokyo when acid and oil bombs were hurled at a police station.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Central Committee
Japanese Communist Party
U.N
Koje
Kore
Associated Press
William C. Barnard
National Rural Police
Osaka
Nara
Sapporo
Sendai
Tthe
Hiroshima
Fu- Heo
Hokkaido University
Korea
Koje Island
East Germans call for sabotage to block Bonn pact
Berlin reports say Walter Ulbricht and Gerhart Eisler urged extreme national resistance and widespread strikes to prevent ratification of the Bonn West German peace treaty with the Big Three. Allies protested East German actions along the Iron Curtain and urged resumption of patrols on the Berlin frontier.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Germany
Red
Iron Curtain
Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Bonn
Gerhart Eisler
Red Manifesto
United States
England
France
Vassily I. Chuikov
Clearing Skies Forecast For Sunday In Wisconsin
Overcast conditions lingered into Saturday from a damp Memorial Day with showers statewide. Meteorologist A D Sanial predicts clearing Sunday as lows drop to 45 and a high near 68. La Crosse reports 0.34 inch rain and Green Bay 0.83 inch, with thunderstorms in southern and western Wisconsin and elsewhere in the Midwest.
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A. D. Sanial
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Green Bay
Midwest
Van Fleet Says U N Can Withstand New Korean Push
Gen James A Van Fleet told reporters in Seoul that Communist forces in Korea outnumber UN troops by about 24 to 1 but he does not expect an immediate offensive. He warned on Koje Island POW camps and vowed massed Eighth Army power to crush any new attack with determined force.
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Seoul
Korea
James A. van Fleet
United Nations
U.S
Eighth Army
Koje Island
Koje
van Fleet
North South Honor Belle Boyd Grave Ceremony
A Wisconsin Dells parade honored Belle Boyd a Civil War spy who died in 1900. Residents placed red roses on her grave despite a 52 year tradition of no flowers on that soil. American Legionnaires schoolchildren Winnebago Nation and flags joined a ceremony led by Mrs J W Phillips of Richmond Virginia Daughters of the Confederacy attended.
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Wisconsin Dells
Wis.p
Belle Boyd
South
American
Virginia
J.W. Phillips
Richmond
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Miss Boyd
John Battles
Jeweled Crowns Taken From Catholic Church
Two jewel encrusted crowns valued at $100000 were stolen from a Brooklyn church shrine painting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child. Police said burglars sawed through a bronze grill surrounding the centerpiece and the crowns were insured for the amount.
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New York
Regina Pace
Brooklyn
14 Die In Mexican Train Bus Collision
Toluca Mexico fourteen people were killed and twenty one were injured when a train struck a bus at a grade crossing about forty five miles northwest of Mexico City. No train passengers were hurt.
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Toluca
Mexico
Mexico City
Korean War air battle yields mixed results
Seoul reports sabre jet pilots shoot down enemy jets over Northwest Korea while Allied ground forces inflict damage on Red flanks. Fifth Air Force notes no Allied planes lost last week, reversing a prior 5-4 Red advantage. six MIG 15s were downed in the past week.
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Seoul
Korea
Iwo
Allied Artiller
Fifth Air Force
Escapees at Large From Ohio Penitentiary
Four prisoners remained at large after a mass breakout at Ohio Penitentiary. Nine convicts escaped last night, including two murderers who seized a guard and fled through a dormitory window. A fifth escapee was later captured in a Columbus rail yard.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Memorial Day Observed Amid Global Communist Tension
The Memorial Day observance in the United States and abroad sits against a backdrop of Communist unrest in Europe and Asia. Americans mark the holiday with wreaths, speeches, and three day weekends while conflicts persist in Korea Indochina and Japan. Red-led protests erupt in Tokyo and Tokyo police quell mobs as U. S. personnel honor fallen soldiers in Arlington and overseas. General Clark urges devotion to the cause for which the dead fought.
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Europe
Asia
America
United States
Japan
England
France
Italy
Germany
Sweden
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
President Truman
Far East
Korea
Indochina
Tokyo
U. S
Kobe
Mark Clark
United Nations
Walter S. Gifford
Red Police Seize Hamlet On Berlin Outskirts
Communist Volkspolizei seized the hamlet of Buergerablage near West Berlin and ordered 43 families to evacuate. Western authorities say the move is part of a broader push to seal Berlin from the Russian zone, with reports of similar actions around Steinstuecken and across fringe areas as patrols are turned back on the Berlin Helmstedt Autobahn.
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Berlin
Buergerablage
Free West Berlin
Berlin-Helmstedt Autobahn
Volkspolizei
People’s Police
West Germany
West Germ
French Cops Raid Reds' Headquarters
Armed Paris police seized Communist party HQs and local offices as authorities widen a crackdown on Reds. At dawn steel-helmeted officers forced entry to the Central Headquarters on Rue de Chateaudun and the Central Committee on Rue Lepelletier as Reds burned documents and 400 police gathered. Duclos, in prison, faces charges of plotting against state security amid riots linked to General Rideau’s Allied command.
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Paris
Communist Party
Rue de Chateaudun
Central Committee
Rue Lepelletier
France
Red
Jacques Duclos
Duclos
Matthew B Ride
Eisenhower
General Labor Confederation
CGT
S(ee
Bright Meteor Flash Reported Over Pacific Northwest
Residents from Seattle to Vancouver reported a bright meteor flash at 12 36 am. Pilots from Trans Canada Airlines and United Air Lines described a brilliant explosion with orange and blue hues near the Canadian border. The event follows another meteor explosion over Seattle on May 11 and similar sightings across Eastern Washington Oregon and Northern California.
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Vancouver
B. C
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Canadian
Mickey Milliken
Trans- Canada Airlines
Victoria
Ken St. John
United Air Lines
John Cordell
Wash
Oregon
Caliornia
Free Trips Stir Ike Campaign Backlash and Policy Debate
Eisenhower faces a political squall as Republican and Democratic factions protest a plan for delegates to visit him at three locations with expenses paid by local groups. Taft Kefauver aides denounce the idea as bribery and urge federal scrutiny. Eisenhower signals a gradual transition from uniform to civilian status while maintaining a restrained campaign stance.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Estes Kefauver
Abilene Kan
New York
Denver
Memorial Day Toll Tops Two Hundred As Weekend Ends
Memorial Day weekend traffic and accident tolls climbed past 200 with 149 fatalities on the roads and 32 drownings reported by mid holiday. The National Safety Council estimated 35 million autos on the road and warned the final toll could reach 310. Auto deaths in 1951 stood at 37,500. four months into the year showed 10,650 highway deaths.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Weather outlook for La Crosse area tonight and Sunday
Fair tonight and Sunday with cooler tonight. Low around 45 tonight and high near 68 on Sunday. Forecast covers La Crosse and surrounding vicinity.
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la Crosse
Ruthless Ana Pauker Reported Out As Red Boss In Romania
Washington reports indicate Ana Pauker, top Romanian Communist official and ally of Stalin, has fallen from party and potentially government posts. Vienna papers echo loss of power, with speculation on a purge within Romania’s political leadership.
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Ana Pauker
Romania
Frank O’brien
Washington
Thas
Joseph Stalin
U.S
Bucharrest
Lucretia Borgia
Catherine de Medici
Poli
Ian Communist Party
Vienna
Eisenhower Leaves France for U S Political Bid
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flies from Orly to stake a claim in the Republican presidential race after a year and a half as NATO’s supreme commander. He thanks France and its people, vows lasting peace, and will land in Newfoundland then Washington before entering politics. He is succeeded by Gen. Matthew Ridgway as supreme commander.
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Paris
Eisenhower
United States
Europe
Orly Field
France
Stephenville
Newfoundland
Washington
Matthew B.ridgway
Rene Pleven
Former La Crosse Mayor Testifies In Secret Hearing
Former La Crosse mayor Charles Beranek and eight current police officers testified Thursday in the third hearing of a John Doe investigation into an alleged relationship between gamblers and the La Crosse police department. Testimony focused on the 1936 to 1946 period as the district attorney and Judge Roy Ahlstrom supervise private sessions with about 29 subpoenaed witnesses.
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la Crosse
Charles Beranek
John Doe
John Bosshard
U.S
Forrest J. Clark
Emmett Loughan
Richard Pfennig
Alois Weiland
Gregory Yehle
William Boma
James Christie
Ahlstrom
Bosshard
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