Balmy Weekend Picnic Weather Predicted Across Region
Weather outlook shows spring mild across the state with weekend picnic plan favorable. Temperatures ranged from the upper 50s to low 80s in Wisconsin with statewide highs of 81 in LaCrosse and Lancaster and lows near 36 in Superior Duluth overnight. Scattered showers noted in the southwest, general trend is above normal May.
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Weather Bureau
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Sormpen
Great Plains
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Atlantic
Bracewell to Leave Ward's Store After 16 Years
J M Bracewell, Montgomery Ward Co store manager here for the past year, resigns effective on or before May 19. He has bought a Ben Franklin department store at Hermann Missouri and will take over June 15. The Bracewells will stay until after high school graduation June 3. He has 16 years with Ward Co, 13 as manager, with prior posts in Plainview Texas Ann Arbor Illinois Dixon Streator Alma Park Canton Quincy and Peoria. The family resides at 821 18th Avenue.
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Self Grounded Flier Resigns From Air Force
Lt. Verne Goodwin, facing a two year prison term for refusing to fly, resigns from the Air Force. Officials announced his departure after his father-in-law Parker Cullom of Las Cruces N M said the resignation would be accepted for the good of the service. Cullom cited assurances from the Air Force judge advocate general Maj Gen Reginald Harmon.
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Reginald Harmon
el Paso
Shington
Milwaukee Truck Strikers Hit With Eight Cent Pay Hike
Milwaukee AFL Local 200 truck drivers compromise on an eight cent hourly raise after the Wage Stabilization Board cut a 16 cent award earlier. The board will decide by June 1 if an additional eight cents is allowed. Two thousand drivers will vote tomorrow, while sheriff deputies may escort trucks through picket lines.
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WSB
Taft Winds Up Ohio Campaign in Cleveland
Senator Robert A Taft returned to Cleveland to wind up his Ohio bid for the Republican presidential nomination as the state votes Tuesday with a full slate of 36 delegate candidates in the Ohio primary.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Fuel oil and gasoline shortages loom amid strike impact
Tieup hits AF planes fuel oil and gasoline supplies fair here as 22 AFL CIO and independent oil workers unions strike. Air Force cuts flying hours. aviation gasoline supplies tighten though no immediate shortages. Negotiations stall, unions seek 25 cent hourly wage raise and higher night differentials.
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Oil Workers International Union
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Denver
Young GOP Tells McCarthy To Run For Senator At Racine Rally
At the Wisconsin Young Republicans convention in Racine Senator Joseph R. McCarthy formally announced his re election bid in a five minute speech to about 300 delegates. He traced his 1946 Eau Claire decision to run and urged continued support from the Young GOP. Governor Kohler praised Republican governance contrasting it with Washington’s alleged graft and incompetence. A two man race for Young GOP chairmanship emerged with Charles Zepp and Lowell McNeill as leading candidates.
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Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
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Eau Claire
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Washington
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Waukesha
Charles Zepp
Alma
Lowell McNeill
Racine
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Taft
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Young Gop Group
Brief Korean Parley Reaffirms Red Refusal
MUNSAN Korea brief diplomatic exchange confirms North Korea rejects a UN package proposal aimed at easing tensions over a dead Brig Gen William P Nuckols. The terse note notes no progress and maintains stalemate in the parley conducted near Munsan.
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William P. Nuckols
United Nations
Eisenhower Briefed on Ballot Race and Far East Affairs
At SHAPE near Paris Eisenhower received a briefing on Far Eastern affairs and discussed the ballot race. General Lucius D. Clay and John Foster Dulles joined the lunch and briefing with Eisenhower. Clay, tied to the postwar Germany handover, is active in the Eisenhower for President movement. Dulles, a key foreign affairs adviser, is set to address the French Institute of Political Sciences next week.
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John Foster Dulles
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French Institute of Political Sciences
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Stock List Changes Hold Narrow Limits
New York stocks moved in a narrowly mixed range as traders waited for the White House steel conference outcome. Government, management, and workers in the steel wage dispute paused activity, with volume around 450,000 shares versus 550,000 last Saturday.
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New York
White House
Monroe to crack down on reckless driving by youths
City and police announce a get tough policy targeting reckless driving and speeding especially by high school aged youths. Police Chief Schwaiger says day patrols with two wheel motorcycles and three wheel motorcycles will cover key spots and school approaches. Mayor Dunwiddie pledges full backing as common parking lots and Recreation Park areas will see strict enforcement and fines for parents permitting unlicensed or underage drivers.
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Monroe
Recreation Park
Dunwiddie
Miss Perdue Places Second in Madison Beauty Contest
Miss Lillian Perdue, Green County court reporter and county Miss Recruiter for 1952, finished second in a Madison beauty pageant with 101 contestants. The event, part of the Army and Air Force recruiting section, was held at the East Theater with contestants dressed by a Madison department store.
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Green County
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Army and Air Force
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James C. Ridings
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Truman Defends Civil Servants as Critics Attack Him
President Truman, at the National Civil Service League’s 70th anniversary, accused Republicans of smear tactics and warned political gangsters who besmirch federal workers. He asserted loyalty checks could be used as intimidation and said he would not back down from attacks as elections approach.
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Truman
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McCarthy
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Milwaukee
Justice Will Probe Defense Cotton Deal and Coverup
The Justice Department is set to take over Senate inquiries into a defense cotton stockpile program. Sen Ellender plans to forward transcripts from hearings while Sen Aiken delays exposing two Cabinet members alleged to know of a coverup. The case centers on Clovis Walker and Egyptian associate Louisy Mansour selling 37 million dollars in cotton.
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Senate
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Ellender
D-La
Aiken
R-Vi
Clovis D. Walker
Louisy Mansour
Walker
Mansour
Egypt
Bethlehem Lutheran Church Dedication in Brodhead
Bethlehem Lutheran church to dedicate new additions with morning service at 10 30 led by Rev Huseby Chetek and a 1 45 afternoon session. Guest speaker Rev Carl T Thompson, choirs and Durand girls chorus perform. Congregation dates to 1880s and joined ELCA. Rev J A Berg helped with early services.
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J. A. Berg
Luther Valley
Brodhead
Brodhead Past
Bethlehem Lutheran
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
Carl T. Thompson
Mexico City Alerted For Rioting By Reds
An urgent dispatch reports authorities in Mexico City bracing for possible unrest as communist factions threaten to erupt in clashes, with police mobilization and public safety measures under review.
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Mexico City
Industry Given Sharp Warning To Settle Fight
President Truman warned steel industry leaders that the government will raise worker wages on Monday unless the industry reaches a settlement with the CIO Steelworkers. White House talks followed a decade‑long seizure and court fight, with a Supreme Court review looming on the legality of the government action. United States Steel said it would restart plants with assurances of no more strikes, as the court weighs whether the seizure was constitutional.
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Truman
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Supreme Court
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CIO Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Ellis Arnall
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Mills
Murray
U. S. Steel
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Gover
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