11 Aug 1954
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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1954
Page
1
President Eisenhower said the United States cannot sever diplomatic relations with Russia and emphasized a strong free world structure. He rejected preventive war and supported continued engagement while commenting on Gen. Mark Clark and global tensions.
Saturday target date for announcing Baguio conference plans. Nations aim to declare support for a united action program under the UN Charter for Southeast Asia Western Pacific. Conference to last a week or less. work to be completed before UN General Assembly opening Sept 21. Diplomats note two plans to bring Indochina Laos Cambodia Viet Nam into the Initial Southeast Asian Treaty Organization.
The Senate approved a House version of a bill to grant federal immunity to witnesses whose testimony investigations of subversive activity require. The measure allows courts to grant immunity on request of a congressional committee with attorney general approval and covers witnesses invoking the Fifth Amendment. Refusing to testify after immunity can lead to contempt penalties.
President Eisenhower declared the government cannot tolerate a cessation of work in atomic plants. Mediation efforts aimed to avert walkouts at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky as CIO workers at Paducah plan to strike Thursday morning.
In Lima the government charged former war minister Zenon Noriega with masterminding Tuesday’s secret revolt and going into hiding. A communique said Brig. Gen. Ernesto Baez and others acted on Noriega’s orders as rebel forces seized a telephone exchange and radio station at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday before the revolt ended without bloodshed.
The Wood County Board voted Tuesday to build a new courthouse in Wisconsin Rapids at an estimated cost of 1 390 768. The new building will replace the old courthouse erected in 1881. No construction date is set.
In Rabat, nationalist clashes in Morocco during this "month of revenge" raised the toll to 75 dead and 244 wounded in the first 11 days of August. Two Moroccans died in a clash with a security patrol at Fez, and a chauffeur was wounded in the city during Aid El Kebir festivities.
Partly cloudy tonight with scattered showers in the southwest half and cooler conditions. High Thursday around 75 with varying winds from the north and northeast. Forecaster notes include morning readings 59 at 7:30 am and fair conditions, Menasha dam observations show a slight rise since Tuesday. One year ago temperatures were much warmer.
Senator Homer E. Capehart said the Justice Department is preparing indictments in the Federal Housing Administration irregularities. He predicted many prosecutions nationwide within six months as grand juries study cases, with potential charges including tax evasion fraud and collusion. The Banking Committee will resume hearings later this month with a six week cross country tour.
Three year old Sharon Yacko was returned unharmed to her mother by Father Vincent Frahlich after being left at the priest’s doorstep Tuesday night following a four day kidnapping from Barbara Given and Orphanage in North Bergen New Jersey. Authorities said she is safe though one report noted a mild illness. Over 100 investigators including FBI agents had searched for Sharon since the disappearance last Friday at 10 30 p m when a nun bed check found her cot empty.
News brief from Saigon notes a cease-fire took effect at 8 a.m. local time after eight years of fighting. Armored patrols and police checked identities, while helicopters hovered over Saigon to prevent anti-French demonstrations. No cease-fire violations were reported.
Brig. Gen. Herbert D. Vogel won Senate approval to join TVA board as a director and be named chairman. His nine year term begins around September 1, with a $15,000 annual pay. Vogel, then Army division engineer at Dallas, will take office about Sept. 1.
Berlin report says Otto John, in his first public appearance after fleeing the Iron Curtain, charged that the United States and West Germany made secret agreements as part of the European army plan. He claimed German generals aim to use the pact to dominate Western Europe and align with the East, urging parliamentary disclosure of secret clauses.
George Patrick McKinney, 27, described as a self-styled medical student, was captured in Jacksonville after a Floral Park bank heist. He allegedly posed as a medical student, lived under an alias Wade Patrick Johnson, and had fled with about 200000 dollars. He had worked at Duval County Medical Center and claimed three years of medical studies at McGill University. Authorities credited a tip and a photo lineup for identification.
Vandals broke into three schools and damaged nine downtown offices, with $265 in damage at the Vocational school the heaviest. They destroyed books and supplies, ripped uniforms, ransacked desks, and vandalized washrooms with acid and ink. Washington school lost windows and records. Central High had rooms sprayed with acid. No theft reported. Local officers and FBI commented on unrelated bank robberies and weapons found in a suspect’s room.
A Senate committee member predicted the six man panel will drop the charge that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy made an unwarranted attack on Gen. George C. Marshall. The measure faces hearings beginning August 30 as the group weighs 46 complaints against McCarthy. McCarthy said cross examinations would be kept to a minimum to start fall election speeches. He also announced closed hearings on Communist infiltration of defense plants would resume.
Guatemala’s ruling junta dissolves political parties, Communist unions, and front groups backing the ousted President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. The decree targets four parties, five labor unions, and three front outfits in a sweeping move.
Appleton reports the death of Eugene Rander, 42, of Route 1 Kaukauna, son of P. Eugene Rander, from injuries after being struck by flying concrete during blasting for the Kimberly Bridge over the Fox River. The incident occurred yesterday during preparatory work for the bridge rehabilitation.
After six hours of debate the Senate approved the farm bill 62 to 28, delivering a significant legislative win for the Eisenhower administration. The measure moves to a House-Senate conference, with dairy price supports expected to be the central issue and resistance to raising butter supports to 80 percent of parity.
Milwaukee 7 The defen dants in an alleged two million dollar oil lease fraud were identi fied Tuesday night by U.S. Atty. Timothy Cronin as William Hors iting Sr., and his son, William Jr., operators of the Horsting Oil Co., Chicago. Cronin said the attorney for the two promised they would appear voluntarily at theU. S. marshal's office here Thursday. Indictments against the Horstings were returned by a federal land jury at Milwaukee Monday but they were not manned then. Cronin said at that time the defendants devised a scheme to defraud investors by making material misrepresentations of fact to investors and that they employed the United States man to further sch He said the defendants were accused of the sale of securities to certa Micwaukee residents as well as other investors all over the country. Cronin said Wisconsin residents lasted about $200,000 in these curies but the total of all investment excess of two mil lion Creditors of the Horsting firm filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against it in 1952. Atty. Bernard Hoban of Chicago, coun sel for the firm, said a financial reorganization plan has been fi. He said the company has been under control of 'musters appointed by U.S. District Court at Chicago for the last 212 years and that the alleged offenses must have occure red prior to that time. Hoban said the Horstings have good producing of wells and eventually will pay all their bills.
Tokyo health authorities launched a campaign offering a bounty for flies to curb disease spread. On the first day children collected 40,000 flies for 10 yen per 50, delivering them to a single office.
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