Campbell Honored By Wisconsin GOP
Oshkosh businessman W J Campbell was named Mr American by Senator Joseph McCarthy at a testimonial dinner in Milwaukee's Crystal Ballroom. The event drew 500 Republicans with Lt Gov George Smith and Attorney General Vernon Thomson praising Campbell for public service and education efforts.
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Miwaukee
W. J. Campbell
Oshkosh
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
GOP Clubs Inc
Crystal Ballroom
Hotel Schroeder
Campbell
Bill Campbell
Walter J. Kohler
George Smith
Republican Party
Board of
University Revents
Wisconsin and Minnesota Weather Summary and Observations
Partly cloudy with scattered showers in northeast Wisconsin and cooler northwest tonight. Tuesday mostly fair and warm with highs 80 to 93. Minnesota forecasts show cooler southeast tonight and partly cloudy Tuesday with possible thundershowers in the extreme northwest. observed temperatures include 88 at noon and a 64 low, with a trace of rain this month and a year deficiency of 2.05 inches.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Fox River
Menasha
Buckstaff Observatory
Fleming Trial Adjourned For One Week
Fort Sheridan Illinois UP The court martial of Lt Col Harry Fleming was adjourned for seven days to allow defense counsel Alfred Lafrance president of the Wisconsin Bar Association to study the case. Fleming 46 Racine Wisconsin native is accused of conspiring with Communist captors in Korea and of making enemy propaganda broadcasts while a POW at Pyongyang Prison Camp No 12.
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Fort Sheridan
Harry Fleming
Alfred Lafrance
Wisconsin Bar Association
Fleming
Korea
Lafrance
Army
Racine
Wis
No. 12
Pyongyang
Federal Pay Boost Vetoed By President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower vetoed a 5 percent pay increase for 1 500 000 federal workers saying it would cause uncertainty and add 112 million dollars in Post Office deficits. He cited administration recommendations for postal rate hikes and the Post Office Department’s current 400 million dollar annual shortfall.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Congress
Post Office Department
Oldest Red Cross Lifeguard Jonas Bur cham Dies at 92
Blair Nebraska report states Jonas Bur cham, oldest accredited Red Cross lifeguard in the United States, died Sunday at 92. A Magnolia Iowa native who learned to swim at age four in the Missouri River, he saved more than 100 lives during his career and swam until last year before a doctor ordered retirement from the high board.
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Blair. Neb
Jonas Burcham
Red Cross
United States
Burcham
High Board
Magnolia
Iowa
Missouri River
Newsman Sits on Raft to Raise Polio Funds
Local reporter Paul Barthelemy pledged to stay on a raft until $1,000 in emergency polio funds were raised and then vowed to remain aboard for another $500 after the goal was reached. He began Friday at the Paul Bunyan site in Bemidji Minnesota amid community support.
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Bemidsi
Minni
Paul Barthelemy
Nomi
Paul Bunyan
Eisenhower Report To Nation Tonight In Denver
President Eisenhower to address millions from KLZ TV in Denver outlining his legislative gains. He will speak from notes to avoid a long prepared text and highlight a chain of actions including farm policy Social Security extension foreign aid and anti Communist measures. He arrives after a Washington trip and has over 500 bills to review before Congress adjourns.
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Denver
Colo
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Senate
Klz-Tv 4
ITV
Robert Montgomery
Justice Department
Washington
Train wreck kills four as 13 cars derail near Lomax
The Santa Fe Chief derailed thirteen cars after leaving the Chicago to Los Angeles route east of Lomax Illinois. Four people died and 43 were injured with most hospitalized in Burlington and Ft Madison Iowa and Carthage. A broken equalizer on a rear track of a forward lounge car was blamed. rescuers cut into a chair car to free victims. Dozens treated on site. state victim identified as Edward Monty of Phelps Wisconsin.
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Santa Fe
Vicms
Burlington
Ft. Madison
Iowa
Carthage
Chicago
Lomax
Illinois
Henderson County
Dean E. Beals
Edward 5
Monty
Phelps
Wis
Honolulu
T. H
Deadlock Persists in Tioup Rubber Firms Negotiations
In Cleveland negotiations between labor and management at Firestone Tire & Rubber and Goodyear Tire & Rubber restarted but remained deadlocked with no settlement in sight. The two companies employ about 53,000 workers in 16 facilities nationwide.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Fire‘stone Tire & Rubber
Goodyear , Tire & Rubber
Chanute Air Base detains 30 airmen linked to Pachuco gang
At Chanute Air Force Base, Col Grover Wilson says 30 airmen are under arrest as suspected Pachuco gang members tied to violence and drug use. Los Angeles police Lt Robert Whitley reports gang signs and a history rooted in Los Angeles with chapters nationwide.
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Chanute Air Force Base
Gap
Col
Grover Wilson
Hical
Chanute
Pachico
Binod
Pachuco
B.E. Gates
Los Angeles
Robert D. Whitley
Los Annales Police
Air Force Base
Whitley
Bers
Pachuco Gang
Rosendale Postmaster Nomination Confirmed
The Senate confirmed nominations for Wisconsin postmasters including Lawrence T. Hoyt Rosendale Maurice W. Schacier Sauk City Irene Peterson Wilson Albert C Olen Woodville Burton M M Syverson De Soto and Herbert L. Lammer Genoa in a federal appointment move.
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Washington
Senate
Wisconsin
Lawrence T. Hoyt
Rosendale
Maurice W. Schacier
Sauk Cry
Irene Peterson
Wilson
Albert C. Olen
Woodville
Burton MM. Syverson
de Sota
Herbert L. Lanmer
Genoa
Mendes France Talks With Churchill on Western Unity
French Premier Pierre Mendes France met with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden at Chartwell to discuss the European army plan and reaffirm Western unity. Mendes France later left for Caen noting continued Allied cooperation despite Brussels conference setbacks.
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Mendes-France
Brussels
International
Westerham
England
Pierre Mendes- France
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Diggin Hill
Toval Air Force Stalion
Caen
France
Eden
Sarvs
Chartwell
Philippe Bodet
Churchill Carré
Brus
Three Die By Asphyxiation At Cleveland
In Cleveland Ohio three men died of asphyxiation at the central furnaces division of Am Wire consumule Steel. The superintendent George March 27 led the victims including Casimir Smeenski 47 and John J Schmidt 59. Witnesses said a valve on a Diast furnace released pent up gas and the rescuer team on a perch seven feet above ground was felled by the fumes.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Central
Consules Steel
George March
U S and Britain Open to End West German Occupation
Washington officials say the United States and Britain plan a swift end to the nine year occupation of West Germany if France rejects or delays a vote on the European Army plan next week. An early prossimo reappraisal of European policy is expected if Paris blocks the proposal, with Congress already authorizing exit and rearmament under NATO if the plan falls through.
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Washington
Britain
West Germany
France
John Foster
Dulles
Congress
Seek Slayer Sought After Tavern Stabbing in Milwaukee
Milwaukee police hunt for a man described as about 60 years old after a tavern argument over a woman ended in Henry Parker’s fatal stabbing. Parker and an acquaintance were asked to leave the bar Saturday. Parker died later at county emergency hospital after a passerby rushed him there.
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Milwaukee
Henry Parker
Parker
County
Vanished KLM liner with 23 aboard near Amsterdam
A KLM fourEngine airliner carrying 23 people including nine to twelve Americans disappeared 19 minutes from Schiphol. Reports say a collision with a transport plane over the Dutch coast prompted search efforts by British Dutch and U.S. forces. Responders scoured the North Sea hiring boats and deploying coastal patrols as hopes for survivors faded.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
KLM
Royal Dutch
Scheveningen
Trexel
North Sea
Ijmuiden
Holland
Royal Dutch Airlines
Schiphol
Shannon
Ireland
New York
British Coastal Command
Hull
England
United States Air Force
Britain
Alert Forces In Brazil To Prevent Coup
Rio de Janeiro troops including army divisions and naval ships were placed on standby to back President Getulio Vargas against a possible air force bid to oust him. Guards protected the presidential palace and police HQ while traffic was diverted. Political police seized radio stations to broadcast only official bulletins and music. A note by top air force officers calling for Vargas resignation sparked the crisis.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Getulio Vargas
Rio
Air Force
Army
Navy
Vargas
Royal Cruise Starts With Bang As Greek Destroyer Rams Pier
The Agamemnon collided with a pier in Naples during a royal voyage. King Paul of Greece and Queen Frederica remained uninjured and amused by the incident as rulers and ex-rulers mingled aboard. Prince George wore an admiral's uniform. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard also aboard. informality declared for the cruise.
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Bang
Rams Pier
Naples
Maly
Agamemnon
Greece
Frederika
Xnobody
Farouk
Egypt
House of Windsor
Paul
Prince George
King Paul
Queen Prederica
Queen Juliana
Prince Bernhard
Netherlands
Call for Draft Of 550 Doctors And 150 Dentists
The Defense Department asked Selective Service to furnish 550 physicians and 130 dentists next December. This is the first physician call since last June and the first dentist call since February. Of the physicians, 100 go to the Army, 230 to the Navy, and 200 to the Air Force. All dentists will be assigned to the Air Force.
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Washington
Defense Department
Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
Braniff Plane Crash Near Mason City kills eleven
A Braniff Airways DC3 crashed near Mason City Iowa as it searched for a landing in a severe hail storm. Eleven people died and eight were injured among 19 aboard. Pilot William Pickering and co pilot W B Wilde were killed. The stewardess Bettie Ann Truly survived. Farmers aided rescue as bodies and wreckage lay across two blocks.
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Mason City
Iowa
Braniff Airways
Memphis
Tenn
Minneapolis
Minn
Iowa City
William Pickering
Braniff
Hives
Oklahoma City
Okla
Hampton
Leo Jones
Jim Atkinson
Sheffield
Harold Marquardt
Five Children Die in Waterville Flash Fire
A two story Waterville Maine home burned and five children aged 13 months to seven years died. Neighbors and the father tried to rescue them but were driven back by flames. The fire started from a chimney backfire and the victims included Patricia 7 Daniel 6 Judith 3 Stephen 3 and Ann 13 months. The mother worked at Lockwood textile mill. All died from smoke inhalation with some burns.
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Waterville
Maine
Richard Vashon
Spence
Patricia
Daniel
Judith
Sephen
Ann
Paulce
Rancourt
Michaud
Lockwood
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Tioup
Terror
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Brazil
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