Six Die In Milwaukee Apartment Fire Near City Hall
A three story brick building near Milwaukee City Hall burned early Sunday killing four children and two adults. Firemen rescued 22 of 33 tenants as flames roared from the central stairwell and roof. Names listed include Davie Ress Ellen Root Keren Root Gerald Oscawicz Martin Jaraczewski Dorothy Kinney and Mrs Roscovius. Fire officials put losses at 75000 with several residents hospitalized but not in serious condition. Looting warrants were to be issued for two men found with jewelry in the burned building.
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First Battalion
Clarence Ehlers
Specia
Davie Ress
Ellen Root
Keren Root
Helen Roscovius
Gerald Oscawicz
Martin Jaraczewski
Dorothy Kinner
Roscovius Tod
Fie
Milwaukee River
Rudolph Glaser
Spectators praised for helping rescue in deadly apartment fire
Witnesses credit bystanders for aiding victims in a early Sunday fire that killed six. Emil Kirmsse, 64, pulled from the blaze, while a man caught three year old Sonia Seehausen as she was hurled from a second story window. Several accounts describe a bystander who shouted warnings and extended arms to catch the child before she hit the ground.
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Emil Kirmsse
Sonia Joan Seehausen
Gervis
Messner
Sonia
Verna Seehausen
Oshkosh Mother and Infant Die in Columbus Crash
The wife Gur 3 ,21, and her infant Lori Kay, 16 months, of Ian Oshkosh student at the University of Wisconsin, died early Sunday when a car skidded near Columbus and slid into oncoming traffic. Passenger Riessing, 24, was seriously injured, driver of the other car, Schnurr, uninjured.
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Lori Kay
Riessing
Excitement in New York After Car Wreck Leaves Family Safe
Seymour Ranares, 23, and Sundar were injured as a vehicle lost control and struck a tree near a hospital. The first motorist to arrive attended the newborn girl, patched Ranares's lip, and helped the father. Everyone survived though the car was damaged.
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New York
Seymour Ranares
Sundar
Aloe
Covier
Ranares
Moscow Unveils Five Year Plan To Boost Industry
Moscow announced a new five year plan aiming to surpass US industrial output and raise living standards. It prioritizes heavy industry with atomic energy expansion, targets 68 309 007 tons of steel by 1969, 2 000 tons of rolled steel, and aims for 651 000 cars, 420 000 refrigerators, 52 600 washing machines and 3 750 00 sewing machines, plus 22 million kilowatts annually from peacetime atomic plants and wage boosts of 33 percent for workers and 46 percent for farmers.
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Russia
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Legion Asks UW Statement On Subversives
Wisconsin American Legion executives debated three questions to the University of Wisconsin about subversive acts on campus tied to the Labor Youth League. They tabled a proposal to forward the matter to the national committee while seeking a public stance on use of tax funded facilities by Labor Youth League speakers and cooperation with the U S Customs Service on foreign periodicals in libraries.
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Roy Luberg
Toversity
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Budget at a Glance Highlights 1957 US Budget
The 1957 budget shows spending at 65.9 billion dollars, up 1.6 billion, with defense and atomic energy driving the increase. Revenues total 66.3 billion, up 1.8 billion, yielding a 300 million dollar surplus to reduce the national debt. Major outlays include national security programs at 404 billion, veterans benefits 4.9 billion, farm programs 3.4 billion, and domestic welfare including school aid 3 billion.
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Washington
Defense
Brink's Informer Enters Guilty Plea in Boston
Joseph O Keefe a former Brink s informant pleaded guilty to armed robbery and conspiracy in the 1950 Brink s holdup case. He implicated 40 others and was ordered held without bail for sentencing by Superior Judge Daniel D O Brien. Two suspects indicted in absentia Thomas Richardson and James Faherty were reported ready to surrender.
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Boston
Joseph
O'Keefe
Daniel D. O Brien
EBL Tolready
Suffolk County
Thomas F.richardson
James I
Lumberjacks Attacked by Venezuelan Raiders
Two groups of ten Venezuelan lumberjacks attacked this weekend, according to reports. Two lumberjacks were killed in the incident.
Plush Flight London Returns Feature Generals Home
British army post commander William Sutherland flew home from Tripoli aboard a British Overseas Airways flight. The six hour journey included stewards and a three seat lane. The trip was arranged when the aircraft, initially scheduled to return empty, found a passenger for the route.
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London
William Sutherland
Tripoli
Sutherland
British Overseas Airways
Eisenhower budget: 65.9 billion for 1957 seeks growth and peace
President Eisenhower presented a balanced budget proposing 65.9 billion dollars for fiscal 1957 to foster steady growth and defend the free world. He urged delaying tax cuts, citing projected surpluses and steady debt reduction, while outlining major spending in defense, agriculture, veterans, and foreign aid with emphasis on air power and missiles.
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Eisenhower
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Sme Sppeuguis
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Mc Eisenhower
United States
Russia
Willasness
Corn Hess
Pew
Air Force
Army
California flood threats loom as rivers rise across north
North California faces renewed flood danger as swollen rivers push toward levees around Yuba City and Butte Slough. Engineers warn the Feather River may top dangerous levels while communities brace after December breaches forced evacuations and continued fears persist along the irrigation canal.
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Maurer
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Riski
Butte
Yune City
Fearner
Nansral Bend
Yaba City
Yuba City
Yuba
Auto Crash in Libya Kills Oshkosh Man
Oshkosh man Stenley Waite, year-old son Waite, died in a wartime automo brain crash near Tripoli Libya. Waite, a Navy veteran and former Air Force stationed at Wheelus Base, was born July 29, 1931 in Oshkosh and was a graduate of Oshkosh schools.
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