Seven New Records Set at Annual City Swimming Meet
At Recreation Park Pool 71 youth swimmers competed as seven new meet records and one pool mark were established. Sandra Simpson led with wins in three events and the junior girls diving title, while Barbara Davis and Bill Barmore set multiple records in open class.
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Recreation Park Pool
Sandra Simpson
Jane Stauffacher
Maxine Share
Sandra
Dorothy Davitte
Barbara Davis
Bill Barmore
Judy Kubly
Hazel Howard
Bill Tenatsch
Ken Steinman
Gene Davis
Leo Hilfiker
Joanne Elmer
Ruth Share
Dan Courtney
Lawrence L. Kitchen
City
Maureen Bruni
Bill Ienatsch
Virgil Bowman
Doris Tschudy
Fred Kundert
Ken Davis
Currie and White Deny Spy Charge Before Panel
Roosevelt aides Lauchlin Currie and Harry D. White testified they gave no secret information to Soviet agents and denied disloyalty. Witnesses faced questions on espionage links as the committee pressed for perjury probes and public file access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lauchlin Currie
Harry D. White
Detroit
Ferguson
R-Mich
Truman
Senate
New York
Thomas
Lamarine
U. S
George M. Fay
Justice Department
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Currie
United States
Miss Bentley
White
Molotov
Ambassador Smith
President Truman Praises Girl Scout Movement at World Conference
President Truman lauded the Girl Scout movement as a basis for international peace and understanding. He joined Canada’s Prime Minister W L MacKenzie King and Brazil’s President Enrico Dutra in sending greetings at the 12th world conference of girl scout and girl guide leaders. He called the movement one of the most vital causes to which anyone can subscribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooperstown
N. Y
Truman
Girl Scout Movement
W. L. MacKenzie King
Canada
Enrico G. Dutra
Brazil
Madison Man Hurt In Auto Collision
Dr. W. S. Larson of Madison received a bruise above the right knee and chest pains after a head on crash at highways 79 and 39 during the noon hour yesterday. The other driver was Roger J. Hanson, 15, Blanchardville. Both cars were towed by wreckers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Larson
Madison
Department of Agriculture
Roger J. Hanson
Blanchardville
Committee of 13 Attacks Friday the 13th Myths at Museum
The American Museum of Natural History in New York opens the first U.S. exhibition on superstition prejudice and fear lasting 13 days. Visitors pass under a ladder umbrellas broken mirrors a black cat may wander in and a sign notes superstition harms people not cats. A proposed calendar with 13 months 28 days per month is shown to argue the date is arbitrary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Committee of 13
American Museum of Natural History
Retired Warehouse Veteran Dies at 75
Gottlieb Schneeberger age 75 of Brodhead died this morning at Green County Home Argyle road after May 12 care. He was a 35 year Kraft affiliated cheese industry veteran and former carrier, cellarman, truck driver. Survived by two daughters and several relatives with services at Shriner Neushwander funeral home and Greenwood cemetery.
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Gottlieb Schneeberger
Brodhead
Green County
Argyle Road
Coplien
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Kraft
Monroe
Henry Seeger
Orfordville
Ernest Aeschlimann
Wauwatosa
Henry Aeschlimann
Black Earth
Albert
John Hirshbrunner
Caroline
Shriner-Neushwander
Greenwood Cemetery
P. C. Kehle
St. John’s Evangelical and
Two Farm Youths Face Larceny Charge
Two Green county youths aged 20 and 16 were held by the sheriff's department for Lafayette county authorities on a larceny charge. They allegedly borrowed a battery at a Belmont filling station to start their car and took it to Mineral Point to sell it.
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Green County
Sheriff's Department
Lafayette County
Belmont
Mineral Point
Wallace disavows Reds in NBC campaign speech
Henry Wallace declares his progressive party will not tolerate anyone who preaches overthrow of the government by force or violence. The third party presidential candidate spoke last night in his first official campaign address on NBC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
REDS
New York
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
NBC
Injured Soviet Teachers Seek Asylum in U.S. Shelter
Washington reports the state department offering asylum to two Soviet school teachers involved in congressional spying probes. Moscow protests U.S. actions and alleges kidnapping, while U.S. officials deny Soviet claims and promise full fact-finding. Ambassador Smith and Lovett stress individual rights and deny any government role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
United States
Molotov
Walter Bedell Smith
Department
Michael J. McDermott
Moscow Radio
McDermott
Moscow
Smith
Lovett
Lamarine
Samarine
Oksana Stepanova Kosenkina
Yakob Lomakin
Russians Evacuate Berlin Command as Four-Power Era Ends
Russians pull out of the allied four power kommandatura in Berlin and lower their flag completing the division of the city from their view. An army spokesman reported two U S C 54 cargo planes crashed on landing at Tempelhof but crews were not seriously injured.
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Berlin
Kommandatura
Tempelhof
U. S
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Walter Bedell Smith
GOP Confident Midwest in November Election Returns
A. T. Howard, Nebraska GOP chair, told Chicago headquarters opening that 17 of 20 midwest and rockies states are in the Dewey-Warren column with six trouble spots and three doubtful states. He noted plans for a midwest work clinic with state chairmen and a meeting with Gov Warren and Gov Dewey to align campaigns and senate races.
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Chicago
Midwest
Rocky Mountain
A. T
Bert) Howard
Nebraska
GOP
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Albany
Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Utah
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Howard
Senate
George B. McKibbin
U. S
Berlin
Freeholder recounts hiding Soviet teacher nine days
Harry Schibanoff a New Jersey farmer tells Philadelphia Evening Bulletin how he protected Samarine and his family for nine days in Freehold. He says Countess Alexandra Tolstoy arranged refuge and denies any armed group or illegal activity. He expresses loyalty to the United States and its government.
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Freehold
N. J
Harry Schibanoff
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Michael I. Lamarine
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Soviet Union
Schibanoff
Alexandra Tolstoy
New York State
U. S
Ellen Taussig
Alexandra
Samarines
Kosenkina
FBI
Samarine
Russian teacher leaps from Soviet consulate in New York
Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina, injured after leaping three stories from the East 61st Street Soviet consulate, rejects move to another hospital. Police plan to turn over findings to the New York district attorney and U S attorney. She identifies Vice Consul Chepurnykh amid custody dispute and says she was kept prisoner.
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Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
New York
Yakov M. Lomakin
William O’dwyer
New York County
U. S
Washington
Zot I. Chepurnykh
William Dyczko
Michael E. J. Ledden
Yakov Lomakin
Ledden
Lomakin
Chepurnykh
East 61St Street
Fifth Avenue
Valley Cottage
N. Y
Russia
Foundation Leader Outlines UW Drive
Basil I Peterson of the University of Wisconsin foundation outlined a centennial year campaign to raise 5 000 000 dollars. He met with Judge Harold J Lamboley and local officials to arrange a committee to handle the 19 000 Green county quota and to discuss funding for public service activities scholarships equipment for research and adult education not covered by state funds.
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Basil I. Peterson
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Peterson
Harold J. Lamboley
Marshall Peterson
Roger Elmer
Rudolph P. Reger
Roy F. Burmeister
Arthur C. Benkert
Lamboley
Green County
Hearing on Passenger Fares Set in Milwaukee
Milwaukee will host a public hearing September 8 on Kenosha Motor Coach Lines Inc request to raise passenger fares, as announced by the state public service commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Milwaukee
Kenosha Motor Coach Lines, Inc
State Public Service Commission
Rev L A Brown Named New Bethel Pastor
Rev Lawrence A. Brown named new pastor of Bethel Evangelical United Brethren Church by quarterly conference. Presided by Dr George McAhren. Brown, Wisconsin native raised near Ithaca, has served in Indiana White River conference for five years. He will assume Sept 6 after two weeks back in charge.
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Lawrence A. Brown
Bethel Evangelical United Brethren Church
Quarterly Church Conference
George McAhren
Fennimore
Brown
Wisconsin
Ithaca
Richland Center
White River
Indiana
Bonebrake Seminary
Dayton
Tylor University
Upland
Ind
Rev. Brown
Janitor in Degnan Case Receives Damage Award
Desere Smet a 35 year old janitor who was questioned in the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping case settled a $50,000 damage suit against 11 policemen. The settlement was announced by his attorney Allen A. Freeman who refused to disclose the amount.
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Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
Desere Smet
Allen A. Freeman
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Faye Stauffacher
Judy Fry
Carolyn Benkert
John Bruni
Barton Voegels
Tom Marti
Fay Stauffacher
Carolyn Benkett
Michael Bellahan
John Hammer
Eileen Esterly
Ruth Dwyer
Bob Turner
Victor Chambers
Mary Robertson
Linda Jane
Linda Jane Blanchard
Tommy
Atlanta
Currie and
G. Schneeberger
U.S
Alexander S. Panyushkin
New York Supreme Court
Mrs. Kosenkina
L. A. Brown
New Bethel
Indiana Church Conference
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