Giants Complete World Series Sweep In 7-4 Win
The New York Giants defeated the Cleveland Indians 7-4 to seal a four game World Series sweep, becoming the first NL team in 40 years to sweep. Don Liddle started for the Giants while Bob Lemon pitched for Cleveland as the game featured multiple Indians errors and decisive Giants hits including Mays and Mueller.
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Cleveland
New York Giants
Cleveland Indians
Giants
Bob Lemon
New York
Don Liddle
Lockman
Dark
Westlake
Mueller
Mays
Wertz
Indians
Thompson
Irvin
Williams
Westrum
Lopez
Lon Warneke
Liddle
Hegan
Dente
Hal Newhouser
Lemon
Hank
Ray Narleski
Gruenther Predicts Heavy Soviet Rebuff If Attack Is Made
Gen Alfred Gruenther, supreme allied commander, told reporters in Washington that Russia would be beaten very badly if it attacked Western Europe now. He predicted a reasonably good chance to stop a Soviet onslaught within three to four years with West German troops and atomic weapons, as Eisenhower and Dulles oversee London talks on a defense alliance against communism.
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Lenver
Alfred Gruenther
North Atlantic Defense Forces
Russia
Europe
Gruenther
Eisenhower
London
West Germany
France
Eiisenhower-Gruenther
Mendes- France
Dulles
United States
Argyle Mayor Denies Madison Man Police Chief Appointment
Argyle mayor Lavassor denied a report that James T. Crary, a Madison man, was appointed Argyle police chief. Albert Moen remains chief, with term expiring in May, and no village board action on a change was discussed.
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Argyle
Madison Man
C. A. Lavassor
Madison
Lavassor
Evening Times
Albert Moen
James T. Crary
University of Wisconsin Life Saving Station
Crary
Argyle Village
Lavasser
Moen
Lafayette County
Lawrence James
Corn Support Prices Higher
The Agriculture Department set 1954 crop corn support at 1.62 a bushel in designated commercial areas and 1.22 outside, highest ever. Commercial-area rates reflect 90 percent of parity with 834 counties across 22 states under varying county levels. noncommercial areas stay at 75 percent of full rate.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
County Agricultural Stablization and Conservation
Oppenheimer Reelected Institute Head at Princeton
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, once key to wartime atomic bomb work, was reelected director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, amid security concerns. He and all officers were reappointed after a trustees meeting.
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New York
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Institute For Advanced Studies
Princeton
N. J
Institute
Herbert Maass
Oppenheimer
Police Thwart Threats at Maryland High School
Police actions stopped threats against Negro students at a Maryland high school amid a white-advancement protest. Four men were fined for disorderly conduct, and some Negro students were escorted to safety. 36 Negro students enrolled in a 1,780 pupil high school this year. New Milford Del high school saw attendance return to normal after removing 11 Negroes, with potential transfer to Dover.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Delaware
Baltimore
Southern High School
Leon Thompson
Jack Zimmerman
Milford
Del
Dover
J. Leon Tarburton
East St. Louis
Fire destroys Levenick barn in Madison County area
A lightning sparked blaze destroyed a 144 by 34 foot barn on Everett Levenick’s Lyons farm near Rock Grove, with hay and straw inside. The neighboring silo also burned, while 58 cows eight calves and a bull were safely removed. Marvin Grimm and family had just left for breakfast when smoke appeared. Fire departments from Brodhead and Albany assisted, no loss estimate given.
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Brodhead
Lyons
Everett Levenick
Madison
Albany
Marvin Grimm
Ronald
Rock-Green County
Rock County
Turner Hall Bowling Alleys Dedication Set Tomorrow
Andrew Sulzer announces a ribbon cutting to open eight new alleys at Turner Hall with a 2 PM ceremony. A 3 PM match pits Monroe Chevron Enterprise against Schwoegler’s Bireley’s from Madison as Miss Ida Casanova rolls the first ball.
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Turner Hall
Andrew Sulzer
Kegler
Monroe
Madison
Emmett
Robert Trickel
Ray Fritz
Helen Burkhard
Monroe Chevron Enterprise
Schwoegler
Bireley
Herbert Goecks
Wally Miller
Robert Mueller
Wally Speich
Share
Jogerst
Wisconsin Cities Eligible for Defense Industry Aid
The Office of Defense Mobilization listed five Wisconsin cities Racine Kenosha LaCrosse Beaver Dam and the Superior Duluth area as having substantial unemployment. They will gain access to additional federal tax benefits for firms creating defense plants in 51 major cities and 94 smaller communities with labor surpluses.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Office of Defense Mobilization
Racine
Kenosha
LaCrosse
Beaver Dam
Superior Duluth
ODM
Samuel W. Tait Dies in Montpelier Indiana
Samuel W. Tait aged 56 magazine writer and author of The Wildcatters and former editorial writer for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette died Friday in Montpelier Indiana.
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Samuel Tait
Montpelier
India
Samuel W. Tait
the Wildcatters
The
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette
Nevada GOP seeks court action to block Senate race
Nevada Republicans press for court action in 17 counties to remove the U S Senate race from the November ballot. The Nevada Supreme Court declined to rule, and Ernest Brown was appointed to McCarran's seat with Brown and Alan Bible as possible contenders if an election occurs.
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GOP
Associated Press
U. S. Senate
Nevada Supreme Court
Pat McCarran
Nixon
Eisenhower
Connecticut
Norwalk
Conn
Adalai Stevenson
America
Rockford, Ill
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Stevenson
Congress
Charles Russell
Reno
Ernest Brown
McCarran
Brown
Alan Bible
Bible
Supreme Court
High Court
Mitchell
Six Charged With Sedition in Louisville Case
A Kentucky grand jury indicts six people for advocating sedition tied to an alleged Communist plot in a white neighborhood dynamiting a Black man’s home. One additional suspect faces dynamiting charges. prosecutors criticize local papers and WHAS for material they deem obstructive.
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Louisville
Friends of
Commonwealth
A. Scott Hamilton
Carl Braden
Courier-Journal
Andrew Wade IV
Wade
Hamilton
Braden
Anne
Louise Gilbert
Larue Spiker
Gilbert
Vernon Baun
I. O. Ford
Baun
Courier- Journal
Louisville Times
WHAS
Byrd May Lead U S Antarctic Expedition For Supply Study
President Eisenhower announced a small Navy directed expedition to the Antarctic to map, gather data, and study supply problems for a potential 1957-58 international geophysics program. The mission will last four to five months, will not establish bases, and Adm Richard E Byrd is rumored to head the effort.
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Adm. Byrd May Head
Antarctic
Denver
Eisenhower
United States
White House
U. S
South Pole
Russia
Soviet Union
Richard E. Byrd
Wisconsin primary American cheese markets hold steady
The State Department of Agriculture said Wisconsin primary American cheese markets stayed steady to firm this week. Supplies of large and small styles moved readily, small styles balanced with needs, and prices were largely unchanged with some fractional gains on longhorns. Production of all dairy products rose with tighter fluid milk, while U S cheese production for the week ending Sept 23 was 15,450,000 pounds, down 3% from last week and below year ago and five-year average levels.
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Madison
State Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
U. S
Three Youths Awarded Evening Times Carrier Honors
Three young paper carriers Jerry Waelti William Boyd and Alan Babler received Outstanding Newspaperboy certificates at a noon banquet at the Swiss Wheel restaurant The awards honor service courtesy honesty perseverance promptness citizenship and scholarship presented by Rodney O Kittelsen district attorney The event marked Newspaperboy Day and National Newspaper Week with a theatre party at the Goetz following the dinner
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Evening Times
Swiss Wheel
Monroe Evening Times
Jerry Waelti
Juda
William Boyd
Monroe
Alan Babler
Inland Daily Press Association
Rodney O. Kittelsen
Walter J. Kohler
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Illinois Central Railroad
Kittelsen
Goetz
Uranium Tunnel Site Sought Here
Two Middleton men visited Monroe this week seeking a site to build a uranium tunnel. They tried to rent near the square but the owner refused. The status of such tunnels remains unclear and authorities consider legal action against a Lone Rock operator.
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Middleton
Monroe
Brazil prepares for elections with federal troops on alert
Brazil mobilizes 15 million voters for local, state, and congressional elections as federal troops are asked to maintain order in 158 municipalities. Parachute troops stand by to respond to any trouble.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Belgian Chief Reports Progress at Nine Power Talks
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak said after an afternoon session that an agreement exists on a system to control West German rearmament. The nine power conference in London was nearing a breakthrough with Mendes France and Adenauer showing concessions and plans for a declaration to end occupation of West Germany.
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London
France
Paul-Henri Spaak
Spaak
Lancaster House
Nine Power
West Germany
West European Defense Alliance
Pierre Mendes-France
Konrad Adenauer
Mendes- France
Adenauer
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Anthony 7
Eden
Mendes-France
NATO
Germany
Dulles
Brussels
Britain
United States
Hensel
Thousands of Korean Women Protest U.S. Troop Withdrawal
More than 1,000 South Korean women gathered near the American embassy in Seoul to demonstrate against the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea. The white clad group followed the pattern of prior anti withdrawal protests.
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Seoul
Korea
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Emmert Jogerst
Senate
Commerce Secretary
Commerce
Weeks
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Treasury
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