15 Million Purge Deaths Attributed To Chinese Communists
Assistant Secretary of State Robertson told Congress that since 1949 about 15 million Chinese have died from famine and state liquidations. He cited famine in 1959 and executions in public squares as part of the bloodiest pattern, and warned of ongoing crises in Asia.
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Washington
Walters
Robertson
Congress
Far Eastern
State Department
House Appropriations Committee
Department
Asia
Eisenhower
South Korea
China
Soviet Russia
Snow and Slush Across Wisconsin Roads
A light snowfall spread from the extreme northwest to the north and central regions, leaving one to four inches on the ground. Snow and drizzle kept highways wet and slippery from Green Bay northward, while southern routes remained wet with slushy patches.
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Albany
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Corn Picking Contest Set for State October Sixteenth
The National Mechanical Corn Picking contest will be held in Wisconsin October 16 at Tracy and Son Farms eight miles east of Janesville. Grant Ritter of Monroe, a director, said the date was set at a Cedar Rapids meeting and the Wisconsin entrant will be chosen in an on farm event on the same site.
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Wisconsin
Grant Ritter
Monroe
Ritter
Cedar Rapids
Tracy and Son Farms
Janesville
Ohio man confesses 1934 killing blamed on another youth
Anthony Derda, 29, confessed to police that he killed a boy near Pittsburgh in 1934 and allowed Henry Oberhelman to take blame. Derda, 11 at the time, said the victim was Steve Kotola and that Oberhelman was later acquitted. Kotola died. Oberhelman later died.
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Cleveland
Anthony Derda
Pittsburgh
Steve Kotola
Henry Oberhelman
Reis To Resume Bench Tomorrow
Aide to Circuit Judge Alvin C. Reis says the 62 year old judge will return to work Wednesday after hospitalization for a general rundown condition. Reis plans to attend a jury trial in his Dane County court and has denied resignation. opposition group in the Dane County Bar Association sought his resignation amid an alleged mistrial.
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Madison
Alvin C. Reis
Dane County Bar Association
R. D. Lewis
Reis
Association
Board of Governors
Lewis
Atty
D. W. W. Beckwith
Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet Planned Thursday
The third annual Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet will start at 6 30 p m Thursday in the Armory. A potluck dinner precedes awards for Pack 314 and notes on Pack 315. Local leaders and guests include Mayor Brooks J Dunwiddie scout executive Harry Miller Julian Kiechl KP lodge Rev Paul C Kehle and Richard H Bahr W W Wuetrich.
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Moose “Kitchen
Armory
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Harry Miller
U. S. Grant Council
Julian Kiechle
Knights of Pythias Organization
Henry Trumpy
KP Lodge
Paul C. Kehle
Richard H. Bahr
W. W. Wuetrich
Cheese Market Weak in Madison Demand Light
Wisconsin American cheese market on Tuesday shows weak demand and virtually no trade. Moderate supply presses small styles for sale with government as the sole buyer for cheddars. prices at state assembly points include 1 daisies 35 4-36 percent, longhorns 35-36, cheddars 3454-37, midgets 37-3934.
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Madison
FSMN
Wisconsin
Judge Expected To Sign Adoption Action In Portage
Judge Elton Morrison was expected to sign an order giving Mrs. Dorothy Tschudy legal custody of Jeffrey a three year old boy blocked from adoption by the Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare. The state attorney general’s office planned to seek a Supreme Court stay of execution as soon as the order is served.
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Elton 3. Morrison
Portage
Dorothy Tschudy
Monroe
Jeffrey
State Department of Public Welfare
State Attorney General’s Office
Supreme Court
Welfare Department
Tschudy
Oscar T. Toebaas
Madison
Tschu
William Platz
Rodney O. Kittelsen
Elmer Kaderlys Win Herd Award at Sheboygan
Elmer Monticello and Edwin and E J Kaderly Juda are among 11 recipients of the Progressive Breeders Awards for herd improvement. Wisconsin Holstein Breeders Association presented the honors at the state meeting led by national field man Charles C Brace. Awards recognize production, type, herd health and home bred animal development.
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S. Otto Elmer
Monticello
Edwin
E. J. Kaderly
Juda
Sheboygan
Wisconsin Holstein Breeders Association
Charles C. Brace
Land Rock
National Fieldman
Elmer
Eaderly
Walworth County Hospital
Elkhorn
W. D. Kyle Jr
Oconomowoc
Frank E. Cairns
Mazomanie
William H. Curtis
Treasurer Reminds Monroe Taxpayers
City Treasurer Helen Gempeler’s office in the Eugene hotel annex will be open all day Saturday to accommodate late taxpayers. It will be the final day for real estate and personal property settlements for those paying the entire amount now. Those who paid half in January have until July 31 to pay the second installment.
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Helen Gempeler
Eugene Hotel Annex
Bing Crosby denies report of Philadelphia hospital plan
Bing Crosby dismissed rumors he would enter a Philadelphia sanitarium for a serious operation. He said he is feeling fine and rejected the report as baseless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bing
Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Philadelphia
Jail Site Plan To Get Hearing Thursday Night
The Monroe public hearing convenes Thursday at 7 30 p m in City Hall to decide on a county backed jail near the highway shops. The planning commission will hear from First Ward residents and the county jail committee before recommending a zoning change to allow correctional facilities in the county shop area.
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Monroe
City Hall
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Planning Commission
First Ward
Olsen
Herman J. Schmitz
Clarence Franklin
Malcolm Muenich
Walter Stauffacher
Melchior Denny
Charles M. Smith
Louis R. Wolleson
A. L. Miller
Henry Rebly, Jr
Edward Bidlingmaier
Joshua J. Hoesly
Leo M. Ties
Lee Mitchell
Emmett J. Norton
Bruce M. Blum
Robert G. Rote
Roger L. Elmer
Milton J. Schroeter
Three Die Four Hurt In Louisville Apartment Fire
A Louisville blaze killed three residents and seriously injured four others in a multi unit apartment building opposite the WAVE-TV studios. The fire began at 11 25 p m and was extinguished about an hour later to the relief of watching crowds.
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Blaze
Louisville
Wave-Tv
Oaktron Plant Begins Output in Monroe Facility
Oaktron Industries starts first production at its Monroe plant. Output includes coil wound transformers for hearing aids and radio loudspeaker assemblies. William L. Rollins reports training underway, with full operation expected within weeks, using part of the Pleasure Bend facility.
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Monroe
Oaktron Industries, Inc
Pleasure Bend Recreation Center
Frank Wesley
Palos Park
Ill
Esther Hanson
Letha Whipple
Virgil Wilkins
DeLea Glenn
William L. Rollins
Times
Rollins
Oaktron
Pleasure Bend
Charles Buehler
Walter Speich
Oaktron Industries
Oaktron Electric Co
Tingley Park
Frank M. Wesley
Wesley
Stock Market Mixed With Small Gains and Declines
New York stock prices were mixed with many leading issues lower and only fractional gains. Declines extended to about two points, while higher bids appeared for New York Central Chesapeake and Ohio Paramount Pictures Loew s Allied Chemical American Car and Foundry.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Studebaker
Goodrich
Boeing
Douglas Aircraft
Anaconda Copper
General Electric
American Can
Southern Pacific
New York Central
Chesapeake and Ohio
Paramount Pictures
Loew’s
Allied Chemical
American Car and Foundry
Canada Votes to Raise Prime Minister Salary
Canada’s House of Commons approved a $10,000 annual raise for the prime minister and $5,000 for each of the 21 cabinet ministers. Prime Minister St Laurent’s salary will be $37,000 and ministers’ $27,000.
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Canada
Ottaway
House of Commons
St. Laurent
Labor Secretary Mitchell Visits Flint Amid AFL CIO Rift
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell toured Flint auto plants amid a violent AFL building trades dispute over machine removal rights. Police backed by 300 pickets watched as AFL Teamsters and CIO officials clashed over reception and cooperation. Mitchell spoke at a delayed Lincoln Day event hosted by Genesee County Republicans.
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Flint
Mich
James P. Mitchell
Labor
AFL
CIO
Mitchell
Genesse County Republican Organization
General Motors
Buick
Pick
Ets
Detroit
AFL Teamsters Union
Detroit Contracting Co
Swenson Rites Set Tomorrow
Donald A. Swenson 18 Monticello youth dies from traffic injuries suffered Sunday night near New Glarus. Services set for 1:30 p m at Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed Church in Monticello with Rev A R Achtemeier officiating. Burial at Oakland Cemetery Freeport. Pallbearers named from Monticello and Madison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald A. Swenson
Monticello
St Clare Hospital
Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed Church
A. R. Achtemeier
Oakland Cemetery
Freeport
Robert Durtschi
Edward Riese
Reno Tonsi
Zane Zurbuchen
Ernest Schneider Jr
Monroe
Edward Wirth
Madison
Highway 39
New Glarus
Gilbert Disch Jr
Avis Rude
Blanchardville
Alice Webb
Sonja Coplien
Ernest Schneider
Indian General Thimayya Leaves Korea After Prisoner Work
Indian Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, head of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, departed Seoul ending his task handling Korean War prisoner operations. He escorted 6000 Indian troops aboard the Jalburza as an 8th Army guard ceremony took place. No South Korean official attended.
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Seoul
K. S. Thimayya
Panmunjom
Thimayya
Tokyo
U. S
Ellis Briggs
Kenneth Young
Jalburza
8Th Army
United Nations
Seoul City
Ben Gold Trial Opens in Washington
Russian-born Ben Gold, president of the fur and leather workers union, goes on trial in Washington on charges of lying in a non Communist oath filed with the National Labor Relations Board in 1950.
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Ben Gold
Washington
The
Fur and Leather Workers Union
National Labor Relations Board
Pope Pius Faces Renewed Feeding Trouble At Vatican
Vatican sources report Pope Pius, 77, has had increasing difficulty taking food over the past two to three days. He has suffered for over a month from a gastric ailment with undisclosed details, and L Osservatore Romano cautions against hopeful recovery while noting he requires assiduous care.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
L’osservatore Raomano
Pope Pius
Soviet Generals Warn U.S. Leaders On Armed Forces Day
Moscow marked the 36th anniversary of the Red Army with sharp cautions to the United States. Marshal Sokolovsky accused American imperialists of plotting a new war and said Soviet forces are preparing for atomic age combat. Marshal Bulganin urged vigilance and mastery of modern weapons in a nationwide Armed Forces Day celebration with events and broadcasts.
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Moscow
Russia
Red Army
United States
Vassily Sokolovsky
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin
Two Rockton Hunters Found Safe in Canada
Two Americans from Rockton Illinois were found safe beside their damaged plane after a wolf hunting trip in northwestern Ontario. The plane with pilot Rex Buchanan and Ken Getchel was spotted 65 miles northeast of Kenora by an Ontario Central Airlines search plane. both men were not injured.
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Kenora
Ontario
Wilds
Here
Rex Buchanan
Ken Getchel
Rockton
Ill
Ontario Central Airlines
McCarthy Says He Informed Pentagon Chiefs on Communist Link
Senator McCarthy disclosed at a hearing that a woman named Annie Lee Moss, alleged as a Communist, worked in the Pentagon code room handling top secret messages. He asserted the Army and Secretary Stevens had been warned and that Democratic counsel Robert F. Kennedy participated for the first time in the hearings.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
Pentagon
Army
Stevens
Bob Stevens
Mary Markward
FBI
Annie Lee Moss
Communist Party
Francis P. Carr
Cohn
Markward
Moss
Valley Forge
Ralph Zwicker
New York
McCartyh
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sens
McClellan
D-Ark
Jackson
Dwash
Symington
D-Mo
Robert F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Dmass
Drive on HukS Opens Manila Front in Five-Pronged Assault
A five pronged air supported assault was launched against Communist led Huks who ignored a government surrender ultimatum. About 1300 Huks remain unconquered across the Philippines.
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Manila 1
Philippines
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Formosa
Red China
Japan
Korea
Ohioan
Elmer, Kaderlys
Herd
Red
Plan Commission
Howard P. Olsen
Swenson
Gene A. Dettwiler
12Th Avenue
India
U.S
Pentagon Chiefs
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