Flood Death Toll Rises Across Oklahoma Nebraska Manitoba
Floods from two days of rain swelled across Oklahoma Nebraska and Manitoba. Drowned Hazel Dalen and Jack King near Shawnee Oklahoma, with 26 dead in all. Thousands fled homes as creeks and rivers breached barriers. Manitoba evacuees crowded Winnipeg while Red River waters inundated large areas and rail service ferried refugees to safety. Authorities planned mass evacuations if needed and river levels remained high.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Manitoba
Canada
Hazel Dalen
Jack King
Shawnee
Okla
Wau- Ja
Pauls Valley
Winnipeg
Red River
Minnesota
Floodwood
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Hugo Erickson
Mississippi River
Mayesville
Duncan
Lexington
Oklumgee
Haskell
Wagoner
Muskogee
Center Will Hold Opening Tomorrow
The Madison community center opens tomorrow evening at 7 30 with L L Kitchen city recreation director announcing tours of the remodeled building south of the armory leased from John Sager. Robert Hurd will speak as youths perform music and a movie on recreation airs. lunch follows by city youth council park board members.
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Monroe
L. L. Kitchen
John Sager
Robert Hurd
Madison Community Center
City Youth Council
Park Board
Sager
Butterworth Heath Named Envoy Posts to Sweden and Indochina
President Truman intends to nominate Butterworth as ambassador to Sweden and Donald R Heath as envoy to Indochina. Nomination likely to reach the Senate next week. Heath previously served as minister to Bulgaria.
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Wasmingwwn
W. Walton
Butterworth
Truman
Sweden
Senate
Asia
Donald R. Heath
Bulgaria
Indochina
Niece Dies in Flood Near Beatrice Nebraska
Mrs. Ernest Svoboda of Beat Rice Nebraska, niece of Mrs. A W Reasa and Mrs. Charles Zee, drowned Monday in a flash flood while returning from an Omaha dental convention. Their car was swept from the road 12 miles from home. The other three occupants were saved. Funeral services will be at Beatrice tomorrow.
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Ernest Svoboda
Beatrice
Neb
A. W. Reasa
Brodhead
Charles Zee
Monroe
Flood warnings issued as storms hit Oklahoma to Indiana
Thunderstorms spread across Oklahoma and western Texas with light rain eastward through eastern Kansas Missouri to southern Indiana. Heavy rainfall blamed for potential rises. Milwaukee Weather Bureau issued flood warnings for the Mississippi River from Ada Wing Minn to La Crosse. Crests projected at 13.5 feet at Winona 12 feet at La Crosse late Saturday, and 15.2 feet at Prairie du Chien by Tuesday.
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Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Indiana
Milwaukee Weather Bureau
Mississippi River
Wing
Breathing Hard, Brooklyn Contractor Dies In Deep Well
Domi nick Attec, 49, a Brooklyn contractor, was trapped 20 feet down a garage well after a cave-in Tuesday. He endured 27 hours as rescuers pulled him out burned, crushed, and exhausted. Five hundred people prayed outside while city water bans complicated the digging. He died minutes after being lifted, authorities saying exhaustion and shock were fatal.
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Dominick Attec
Atteo
Brooklyn
First New Lights Glow on Square
The first two of 28 new ornamental street lights on the public square burned last night. The poles are 26 feet six inches tall with incandescent bulbs and fixtures that direct light downward. The O T Havey Co. installed them to replace old poles, aiming for even illumination of the 11th street and 16th avenue intersection.
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Public Square
11Th Street
16Th Avenue
O. T. Havey Co
Wisconsin airports named in CAA 125 project list
The Civil Aeronautics Administration recommends 125 Wisconsin sites for action including Monroe Brodhead Darlington Shullsburg Edgerton and Platteville. Some would be Class 1 ports with runways up to 2,700 feet, others Class 2 fields. Funding depends on Congress.
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Monroe
Brodhead
Darlington- Shullsburg
Edgerton
Platteville
Wisconsin
Civil Aeronautics Authority
CAA
Congress
Wire Monroe
Darlington - Shullsbury
Tobacco City
Lafayette GOP Candidates Set for County and State Seats
At a Lafayette county Republicans meeting in the courthouse two state offices seek new/retained seats. Incumbents include state assemblyman C Monson and state senator M J Olson both facing challengers Henry Youngblood and M P Peavy respectively. Local officials announced as incumbents include Clerk of Court Robert Michaelson Sheriff Homer Curry and Coroner Joseph Connolly not seeking reelection.
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Darlington
Lafayette County
Court House
C. Monson
Wiota
Henry Youngblood
Woodford
Monson
Youngblood
M. J. Olson
South Wayne
M. P. Peavy
Glenn H. James
Eden
Iowa
Robert Michaelson
Roy O'Neil
Shullsburg
Register of Deeds
O. C. Sharer
Joseph Connolly
Kennedy May Rebuild Monticello Woolen Mill
Howard Kennedy owner of the Monticello Woolen Mills says he will likely rebuild after a Monday morning fire. Insurance adjustors will inspect this afternoon and salvage is doubtful due to the heat. A May 31 district Republican caucus was set in Elkhorn to decide endorsements for Congress.
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Monticence
Vaimes Specu
Howard Kennedy
Monticello
Elkhorn
Green County
Student Slayer Gets Life in Ohio
James D. Heer, 21, a freshman at Ohio State, was sentenced to life in prison for second degree murder in the killing of fellow student Jack J. McNeown after a homecoming party intoxicated by liquor at a fraternity house. Judge John R. King called for discipline among 22,000 students and reminded that rules protect the student body.
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Columbus
James D. Heer
Ohio State University
Heer
John R. King
Jack J. McNeown
Judge King
Ohio State
Delta Tau Delta
King
Ohio
Wisconsin cheese market steady as trade slows in state data
Market notes indicate Wisconsin American cheese prices hold steady while demand remains very light. Reports show selling prices at assembly points with limited activity and slow trade across varieties including daisies and leghorns with prices around 32 to 35 cents per pound.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Truman Defends Public Power Drive at Grand Coulee
President Truman denounced private power opposition while affirming a nationwide push to develop low cost public power on major rivers. He argued benefits from public investment should go to the people and vowed to defeat selfish interests and critics of rural electrification and dam site transmission. The dedication speech at Grand Coulee dam framed public power as essential and cost based.
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Grand Coulee Dam
Wash
Truman
Grand Coulee
Nebraska
Washington
Oregon
Pure Milk Co op Board Blasts Dairy Price Violations
The Pure Milk Products co operative board of directors charges Wisconsin processors with flagrantly violating the federal dairy price support program. It adopted a resolution demanding an immediate stop to purchases from offenders unless prices are raised. General manager William C. Perdue notes private plants pay farmers below the supported price.
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Reman Ee Ever Oeeth
Pure Milk Products Co-Operative
Wisconsin
William C. Perdue
Big Co-Op
County Achievement Day Plans Set for May 18
Green county Homemakers club will hold the annual achievement day at the high school auditorium next Thursday at 1 p.m. One thousand club women are expected. Featured will be Robert Burkhard with an illustrated travel talk on Europe. State Line Troopers and Spring Grove 4-H performte two plays. The Homemakers present Who Gets the Car Tonight with cast including Abplanalo May Babler Bergmann Augsburger. Mrs OLearys Cow features Audrey Roberts Mary Stabler Tom Roberts Shirley Roshei sen Shirley Rueff Margaret Roberts and Russell Pinnow. A Canadian cruise movie will be shown and Swiss numbers performed by Leo Gempeler Barbara Gempeler. Monroe FFA quartet will sing.
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Green County
Mamie Tillema
William May
Browntown
Robert Burkhard
Monroe
University of Wisconsin
Europe
State Line Troopers
Spring Grove
Mmes
George Abplanalo
Fred May
Bruce Babler
John Bergmann
John Augsburger
Leo Gempeler
Barbara Gempeler
Monticello
Monroe Ffa
Bomb Supplies For Allies Urged
Washington reports U S military officials discuss arming North Atlantic allies with atomic bombs. Debates focus on quick western Europe defense, possible deterring Soviet aggression, and risks of weapon transfer or leakage. Opponents warn bombs in allied hands risk capture, political shifts, or leakage to Russia.
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Washington
U. S
North Atlantic
Congress
Britain
France
Western
Europe
Russia
Friends
All Aircraft Warned On Crossing Border
A wartime alert instructs all aircraft crossing the Canada United States border east of Lake Michigan to file flight plans, preferably IFR, to aid identification and safety. The CAA broadcast the warning via teletype and in-flight notices, urging pilots to ensure proper clearance before border crossing.
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Canada
United States
Lake Michigan
CAA
Canadian
87Th
U S Hints Russia Plans Confessions From Lost Plane Crew
A U S official says Moscow may soon produce an alleged confession from a crew member of the American navy plane lost in the Baltic on April 8. He cites American knowledge that four Russian fighters fired from the rear, the attack occurred over the Baltic more than 30 miles from Russian-occupied coast, and the plane was on fire before it hit the water.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Baltic
Russia
U. S
Baltic Sea
Goetz Firm Buys Seven More Lots
Goetz Theaters Inc sells seven parcels along 21st street at Monroe Country club entrance to expand Goetz Acres. Purchases from Mrs Walter Johnson Fred Benkert and Leon Hoffmeister. Utilities sewer water planned Aug 1–15. road widening of country club road to precede new home construction. Subdivision now exceeds 15 acres between rail line and 21st street east of 17th avenue.
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Goetz Theaters, Inc
21St Street
Monroe Country Club
C. J. Goetz
Goetz Acres
Country Club
17Th Avenue
Walter Johnson
Fred Benkert
Leon Hoffmeister
Goetz
Country Club Road
Readstown Bus Collision Injures Two U S Officials
A Readstown high school bus collided with a car six miles from Viroqua injuring two U S Department of Agriculture employees. John E. DeBeer 50 Spirit Lake Ind in critical condition. Charles Showalter 56 Burnettsville Ind hospitalized with broken ribs and cuts.
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U.S
Viroqua
John E. DeBeer
Spirit Lake
Charles Showalter
Burnettsville
Ind
Mines Shut Down When Tieup Halts Freight Movement
Chicago Unemployment mounted swiftly as coal mining and other industries began feeling the effects of a strike by locomotive firemen. Railroads furloughed tens of thousands, with 14 major mines in western Pennsylvania closing and 4,460 miners idled. Up to 200,000 rail workers could be idle if the walkout continues, disrupting a third of national rail passengers and a fifth of freight. Federal mediators remained in Chicago but sessions were not scheduled.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
Southern Railway System
Santa Fe
Wesern Pennsylvania
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Western
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
C. F. Weigele
West Division
E Union
Soern Railway System
White House
New York
Southern
Pennsy
Harrisburg
Chesapeake and Ohio
Detroit
Toledo
Columbus
Grand’ Rapids
Boston and Albany
Boston
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
St. Louis
New Haven Railroad
Colorado and Southern
Colorado
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Lafayette Gop
Kennedy
Louis B. Stauffacher
Emanuel G. Stauffacher
Times
Osu
Pure Milk Co-op Board
Burkhard
Polk Street
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Goetz Firm
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