Oshkosh Hosts 85th Kiwanis Convention Weekend Start
Oshkosh prepares to host about 1000 Kiwanis members for the 85th Wisconsin Upper Michigan district convention at the Raulf Hotel. Activities run Sunday through Tuesday include memorial service at First Congregational Church, speakers from the Milwaukee Braves and Kiwanis leaders, a governor’s banquet, and a final fellowship luncheon with Dr Alfred F Haake as guest speaker.
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Oshkosh
Milton W. Seefeld
First Congregational Church
Glenn Pound
University of Wisconsin
Breese
Mogers
J. A. Breese
Oshkosh State College
Oshkosh Kiwanis Club
Apollo
Breese Weakdent
van Nuys
Soraoae
Masonic Temple
Kiwanis
Jackson A. Raney
Kiwanis International
Indiana State School For the Deaf
Indianapolis
Ind
Harold Goodnough
Milwaukee Braves
Raulf
American Legion
Oshkosh Public Museum
Paine Art Center
Reuben K. Youngdahl
Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
Minneapolis
Minn
Youngdahl
Luther Youngdahl
Minnesota
Raulf Hotel
Alfred F. Haake
Park Ridge
LAY Kiwanis
Wisconsin-Upper Michigan
Kiwanis ‘International
Glenn R. Fadner
Harry W. Bruegger
E. A. Clemens
A. F. Denham
Robert L. Bork
Zara W. Miller
O. R. Jones
Northwestern
Plans for Exchanging POWs in Korea Begin
In Panmunjom the prisoner exchange starts at 5 am next Wednesday with 12 763 Western service members to be freed, including 3 313 Americans. North Korea’s Lee Pyung U said 1200 will be processed per hour for four hours daily, beginning Aug 5, as the UN returns prisoners.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Freedom
Lee Pyung U
Joint Committee For
United Nations
Robber of Bank weeps as judge sentences Archambeault
Patrick Archambeault pleaded guilty to the Newton State Bank robbery in Manitowoc. Judge Harold Mueller sentenced him to 15 to 18 years in state prison for the $7511 theft after a swift capture following a pursuit. Archambeault wept as the sentence was pronounced and was taken to Waupun.
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Manitowoc
Patrick Archambeault
Harold Mueller
Archambeault
Waupun
GOP Must Now Depend On Sen Morse After Taft Death
Washington reports Sen Robert Taft's death shocks the capital and leaves Republicans with a dwindling Senate. Sen Wayne Morse of Oregon hints a vote to keep Republicans in power, risking a 48 48 tie with a potential Democratic replacement by Gov Frank Lausche. Nixon page 5.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
Senate
Wayne Morse
Ind-Ore
Morse
GOP
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Congress
Morsey
Richard L. Nixon
Explosion At Chicago Sun-Times Building
An explosion struck the Chicago Sun-Times building Friday night, reportedly from a black powder bomb in cardboard. The missile was hurled at the wall. no injuries or damage reported. Police bomb squad investigators probing the incident.
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Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
One Life Lost In Maine Forest Fire
A spectacular forest fire in Banford Maine killed one fireman on a foggy road. The blaze burned six miles by two miles, threatening dozens of homes as 600 firefighters from 73 Maine and New Hampshire communities battled to contain it. Deputy Forest Commissioner Austin Wiking called it the first Maine woods fire death while fighting.
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Maine
Banford
Iona
New Hampshire
Austin Wiking
Main
McMichael Hearing Studied For Possible Perjury Action
House investigators said the Justice Department would study possible perjury action after witnesses accused Rev. Jack Richard McMichael of deceptive statements at U S hearings. McMichael denied the charges calling the accusers perjurers as the two ex Communists testified he had been a Communist in the 1930s. The hearing featured heated exchanges and claims of evasive answers.
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Washington
House
Justice Department
California
Jack Richard McMichael
Upper Lake
Calif
House Un-American Activities Committees
Clyde Doyle
Velde
RTN
Ngs
Manning Johnson
Leonard Patterson
McMichael
Johnson
Taft to lie in state with Capitol memorial service
The nation will honor Sen. Robert A. Taft with a state memorial in the Capitol rotunda on Monday with President Eisenhower attending along with top government officials. The service marks a rare tribute in the Capitol and follows days of arrangements by Senate leaders and the Taft family. Taft, 63, died of cancer in New York, and his body will be taken to Cincinnati for burial as his four sons supported his wife Martha in Georgetown.
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Washington
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Capitol
Eisenhower
Senate
Taft
GOP
William F. Knowland
Harris
Ohioan
House
Jack Martin
Richard M. Nixon
Sherman Adams
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Legler
Charles A. Halleck
William ¥. Knowland
Eugene D. Millixin
Cole
John W. Bricker
Mark Trice
Martin
Cincinnati
New York
Martha
Georgetown
Congress
White House
Labor
Martin P. Durkin
Commerce
Sinclair Weeks
Congressional
Durkin
Soviet Charge US Planes Shot Down Russian Liner
Moscow says United States fighter planes invaded China and shot down a Russian airliner near the Yalu, killing 21 aboard. The Soviet note to U. S. Ambassador Bohlen demanded punishment of those responsible and warned of further actions.
U S Officials Dispute Soviet Plane Shootdown Claims
UPI reports U S officials dismiss Soviet accounts of two recent air incidents as deliberate lies. State Department rejects Russia’s protest over a Soviet destroyed passenger plane, claiming it was shot down near the Yalu River after a reconnaissance B 50 was downed off Siberia. Capt Ralph Parr and co pilot Capt John Roche are named in the disputed events.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
China
U. S
Charles E. Bohlen
Andrei A. Gromyko
Washington
State Department
Yalu
John Roche
North Korea
Ralph S. Parroff
Siberian
Otto P. Weyland
Far East
Apple Valley
Calif
Sabre
Taokro
Parr
Roche
Tokyo
Panmunjom
Russia
Vladivostok
Chinese People’s Republic
Tass
Bohlen
UPI
U. 5
Siberia
Korea
Ralph 5S
John E. Roche
Washington, D. C
East Zoners Defy Sullen Red Guards
Berlin reports show 150 000 workers from the Soviet Zone marching into West Berlin defying border guards to claim American food parcels. The mass crossings raise the risk of a Soviet halt to bread deliveries as organizers promise continued movement toward the West sectors.
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Berlin
Germany
West Berlin
Russien
U. S
Soviet Zone
Jet overruns Truax runway. no injuries reported
A U S air force T-33 training plane overran Truax Field runway Friday after landing and crashed through a fence near Highway 51. The pilot was John A. Ward and passenger 2nd Lt. Harvey Washington. both uninjured though the aircraft was damaged.
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Madison
Air Force
Truax Field
Highway 51
John A. Ward
Harvey Washington
Eisenhower
Duluth
Ming
Truax
Labor
Ian
Fate of Bill To Hike Debt Limit
Washington leaders debate a proposed 275 billion dollar debt ceiling increase as Senate Democrats gain edge after Taft and Tobey deaths. The House backed the President 239 to 158 amid looming deadline. Humphrey warns payroll risk if the limit isn’t raised. House and Senate leaders scramble to resolve the crisis.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate Finance Committee
House
Halleck
Indiana
Senate
Charles Tobey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Ir Committee
Sen. Taft
Sen
Knowland
California
Taft
Korea
Dulles
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
H. Alexander Smith
RNJ
Russell
D-Ga
Finnce
Milwaukee Grade School Fire Leaves Big Loss
A four alarm blaze struck a Milwaukee grade school early today causing about 85,000 dollars in damage. A lightning strike during a thunderstorm hit Clarke Street School, igniting the roof and triggering heavy flames. Firefighters fought the fire for about 30 minutes, later keeping the blaze confined to the roof as they continued work to extinguish remaining hotspots.
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Milwaukee
Clarke Street
Urtag
Air Force To Bring Toth Back From Korea For Trial
The Air Force bowed to a court order and will return former airman Robert W. Toth from Korea to face charges in the United States. He will be brought to Pittsburgh for a habeas corpus hearing challenging the legality of his arrest on a Korean slaying case. Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff ruled the arrest violated rights, and the ruling was upheld by the Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Washington
Air Force
Robert W. Toth
Korea
United States
Toth
Federal District Court
Alexander Holtzoff
Circuit of Appeals
Holtzoff
Wisconsin Weather Forecast With Showers and Heat
Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms today tonight and Sunday. Warmer in extreme southwest today and in the southeast tonight. Highs in the 80s in southwest and elsewhere, with lows around 68 to 74.
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Wisconsin
Mera Lakeen
Corte
Aoutheest
Morthwesters Observatiees
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FOW
Sen. Morse
Nation's Capitol
Red
U.S
Yalu River
Benste
Benate
Abe Scher
National Labor Relations Board
Oak
Herman Me
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