State Accidents Claim 14 Lives Across Wisconsin
A weekend of Wisconsin accidents left 14 people dead and several injured. Victims included Neal P. Dunn, 31, Milwaukee County Board member, killed when his car hit a tree near Dundee. Others died in crashes on highways near Milton Junction Mt. Horeb and Waukesha County, plus drownings on the Mississippi River and Wisconsin River. Additional fatalities involved a child scalded by grease, a stairway fall, and a tavern operator in Barron County. The report notes multiple fatalities across Grant, Trempealeau, and Vilas counties with motorist and boating accidents, plus a fatal auto crash near Manitowoc.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Neal P. Dunn
Milwaukee County Board
Dundee
Fond du Lac
Marvin Christianson
Beloit
Rock County
Milton Junction
Genevieve Palm
Edgerton
Clifton Taylor
Cameron
Barron County
Highway 53
Leland Bortle
Norvan Bortle
Centerville
Trempeleau County
Bortle
Air Force
Herbert Wehrenbrecht
University City
Wausau
Christine Marie Malliett
Ben Malliett Jr
Appleton
Balkan Trio Signs Pact to Bar Russian Influence
Yugoslavia Italy and Greece signed a military pact aimed at welding a Balkan wall against aggression by Russia and its Cominform satellites. The alliance was signed by the foreign ministers of the three powers. Lincoln Journal sports editor Walter E. Dobbins, 51, died after a long illness.
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Balkan
Bled
Yugoslavia
Italy
Greece
Russia
Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb
Walter E. Dobbins
The
LincOln Journal
Monroe teen earns trip to national road-e-o winner
Nathan F Brand 18 a Monroe native and Monroe High School 1953 graduate leaves tomorrow for Washington D C to compete in the national teenage road-e-o sponsored by the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce He won the Monroe event May 23 and the Wisconsin state contest June 6 at Waukesha He aims to win the 1250 scholarship prize plus additional awards and a life membership in the safe driving club Brand is a UW Madison sophomore to be and will depart by plane with his brother Franz W Brand assistant district attorney The contest combines tests driving skill and road checks with final awards on Friday
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Wisconsin
Nathan F. Brand
Franz Brand
22Nd Avenue
Washington, D. C
U.S
Waukesha
Monroe
Brand
Nat G. Preston
Monroe High School
University of Wisconsin
Monroe Jaycees
Washington
Safe Driving Club
Franz W. Brand
Madison
Milwaukee
Capital
Washington Armory
Judge Orders Release Of Prohibition-Era Kidnapper Touhy
Federal Judge John P. Barnes freed Roger Touhy a 55 year old convicted kidnapper and gangster from Stateville Prison after a 458 page ruling found he lacked proper counsel. Release hinges on a $10,000 bond by Touhy family members. government plans appeal. Touhy kidnapped John Factor on July 1, 1933 and received earlier sentences totaling 199 years.
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Shicago
John P. Barnes
Roger (the Terrible
Touhy
Iiely
John
Jake
Florence Chadwick Fails in Strait Swim
Victoria British Columbia ran daily news reports Florence Chadwick failed in her attempt to swim the Juan de Fuca Strait. After about five hours of swimming she was taken from the water chilled and slightly ill. Strong rip tides and currents hampered her progress and she had swum roughly seven miles toward her goal.
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Florence Chadwick
Victoria
B. C
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Miss Chadwick
Gamma Globulin Program Starts at St Clare Hospital
The Green County polio program opened at St. Clare Hospital with seven physicians administering gamma globulin injections to children under 16 from noon to 2 p.m. The first group, A and B names, included the Babler children of David, 11, Susan, 6, and Cynthia, 1. The effort, supported by the Green County Medical Society and Police Chapter, runs through Aug. 17 with volunteers aiding.
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St. Clare Hospital
Leland L. Lamboley
Green County Policy
Alvin H. Babler
16Th Street
David
Susan
Cynthia
E. C. Hamilton
Sherman Hodgson
W. D. Stovall
Brodhead
Frank Stiles
John Irvin
James Weir
Paul Lucas
Monticello
W. G Bear
Russell Owen
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Office of Civilian Defense
Green County Medical Society
Green County Police
Green County
Colombian Plane Falls In Azores Kills 30
A Colombian Constellation crashed near the Azores early today, killing all 21 passengers and nine crew. Madrid Barajas Airport spokesmen identified an American crew member, Herbert Hopkins, as an engineer. no home address was provided.
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Madrid
Barajas
Herbert Hopkins
Club Agent Resigns From Green County 4-H Role
Leslie F. Huber resigns as Green County 4 H agent effective after Dec 1 1951 and plans to become farm manager in Waushau starting Sept 1 He will aid 50 to 200 farm families under an experimental farm and home improvement position with the extension division in Marathon County He succeeds Lester Van Loon and is a Medford native UW Madison graduate 1949 He married Ellen P Brooks in May 1953 and they have a daughter Lynn Ellen.
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Green County
Leslie F. Huber
Wausau
Huber
County Board Agricultural Committee
Marathon
Lester van Loon
Waushara
Rib Lake
Medford
University of Wisconsin
Jealous Suitor Kills His Rival in Baraboo
Baraboo 40 year old handyman admitted shooting Gilbert Williams aged 49 of Minneapolis near the home of widow Stella Anderson two miles northeast of Baraboo. District Attorney Harland Kelley said Jimmy Lee Roper confessed he bought a .22 rifle after finishing work Saturday and fired toward Williams but did not intend to kill or hit him. Williams arrived in Baraboo Friday and was a friend of Anderson’s deceased husband. Williams was arrested near Necedah after a police radio broadcast.
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Gilbert Williams
Minneapolis
Harland Kelley
Sauk County
Jimmy Lee Roper
Williams
Stella Anderson
Here
Kelley
Roper
Williams Williams
Baraboo
Anderson
Necedah
Emilie Dionne laid to rest in Corbeil funeral rites
At Corbeil Ontario the Emilie Dionne burial and funeral drew hundreds as a white rosary joined the light blue crepe dress. Four surviving sisters Yvonne Annette Cecile and Marie sobbed through the committal while Dr. Rosario Fontaine said Emilie died by asphyxiation during an epileptic seizure.
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Callander
Ont
Emilie Dionne W
Corbeil
Yvonne
Annette
Cecile
Marie
W. H. LaFrance
Marie Dionne
Corbeil Church
Emilie
Rosario Fontaine
Quebec
Fontaine
Davis Man Dies in Accident North of Davis Illinois
A Davis Illinois man, Nelson Larson Jr., 26, was killed when his car left a town road seven and one half miles north of Davis at 2 30 am. A passenger survived in satisfactory condition at Freeport hospital. In other incidents, 18 year old Harry Saxer of Monticello and two Galena residents were injured in crashes on highways near New Glarus and Schuetzel corners. Police reported an arrested operator for DUI and noted fence and vehicle damage across multiple farms.
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Davis
Ill
Nelson Larson Jr
Larson
Freeport
Prairie du Chien
Monroe
Harry Saxer
Monticello
New Glarus
Gerald Wilkinson
Galena
Schuetzel’ Corners
Highway 11 West
Robert Floyd
Kay O'Dell
Floyd
Harold Doerson
Warren
Doerson
Wilkinson
Justice Court
John E. Whalen
Apple River
William Schuetz
Ays
Whalen
David Burrows
Grant Puckett
Janan Opia
Stock Market Mixed as Aircrafts Strength Lifts Some Stocks
The New York market sagged modestly in the afternoon after a turbulent week, with aircraft makers and several large names trading higher. Losses appeared for Studebaker Packard and others while U S Steel General Electric and Eastern Air Lines showed weakness. no deaths or obituaries included.
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New York
Lockheed
Grumman
Sperry
General Dynamics
Oliver Corp
Zenith Radio
American Tobacco
U. S. Gypsum
Johns-Manville
Paramount
20Th Century-Fox
Western Union
Studebaker
Packard
U. S. Steel
Republic Steel
Liggett and Myers
General Motors
Goodrich
Radio Corp
American Telephone
General Electric
Southern Railway
Cities Service
Eastern Air Line
Mrs Henry Kubly Dies at 77 in Monroe Wisconsin
Mrs Henry Kubly 77 widow of Henry Kubly died today at St Clare hospital Monroe after three year decline immediate cause heart seizure She traveled to Switzerland in 1953 with son Raymond Kubly daughter in law and daughter Sophia Dettwiler Formerly Sophia Dettwiler born Monroe Jan 27 1877 married Jan 30 1900 to Henry Kubly The Kubly family prominent in cheese business Surviving sons Raymond Glen H and Forrest L and daughter Mrs Fritz Burial at Greenwood follows services at St John s Church Wednesday at 2 p m with Rev Paul Kehle officiating The Swiss Colony Lakeshire Marty and Fritz plants to close for rites
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Henry Kubly
Wisconsin
St. Clare Hospital
Clifford M. Fritz
Switzerland
Bachtalen
Langenbruch
Sophia Dettwiler
Kubly
Monroe
Jacob
Christine Schaffer Dettwiler
Davis School
Henry Kubl
P. A. Schuh
St. John’s Church
Clarno Township
Jefferson
G.U.G.G
Royal Neighbors
WRC
Raymond
Lakeshire-Marty
Borden's
Glen H
Forrest L
Fritz
Henry
Carl Dettner
Anna Ruby
Shriner-Neushwander
Paul C. Kehle
Greenwood
Fritz Dry
West Germany strike paralyzes metal plants nation wide
West Germany faces a spreading strike wave that froze the metal industry as picket lines formed around hundreds of plants in Bavaria. A night shift walkout involved about 220000 workers, threatening production and economic activity across the region. Red China blasted U.S. policy on Formosa and warned against interference in its liberation efforts.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Bavaria
Centennial Green County Fair closes after record turnout
The Centennial Green County Fair ended with record five day attendance of 39,627 and new single day marks of 10,891 on Friday and 12,073 on Saturday. Officials called the event highly successful though financial results are still being tallied.
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Louis R. Wolleson
Vernon
Bumpy
Hap Hazard
Monroe
Mich. Fair
Green County Police Association
Milton Schroeter Resigns as City Engineer
Milton Schroeter, engineer at Monroe, submitted his resignation effective Oct. 1. He handed the notice to Mayor Brooks J. Dunwiddie and the board of public works. The mayor will seek a successor as Schroeter departs to take highway work with another firm, name undisclosed.
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Muon
Scarvenr
Monroe
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Board of Public Works
Dunwiddie
Schroeter
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Ralph Elmer
York
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Larry Lindgren
Arbur Marsh
Mt. Horeb
Clara Everson
Carl O. Knudson
Richard J. White
Ellenboro
Grant County
Mississippi River
Potosi
al Klaas
King’s Dam
Wisconsin River
Tomahawk
Weinberg
Centennial County Fair
C. Dor
Azores
Ellen P. Brooks
Lynn Ellen
Ontario
Area
Wuuw8tock
Stoughton
Wis
William Woodstock
Evansville
Rock County Temperance Union
Stoughton Hospital
Joe Meredith
Evansville. Ie
Formosa
Tokyo
Red China
State Dulles
Preston Lambert
Twin Tones
Wolleson
Milton Schroeter
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