Convict Repeats Daughter Plea Amid Boston Prison Siege
A 16 year old girl pleaded with her father Theodore Green and three other convicts to surrender with 11 hostages at Massachusetts State Prison. A 30 ton Bulldog Walker tank arrived from Ft Devens as the stand off continued with guards and inmates held in the Cherry Hill section. The mutiny began at 5 am Tuesday and involved threats of executions if demands were not met.
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Boston
Massachusetts State Prison
Toby Green
Theodore
Teddy) Green
Toby
Cherry Hill
Ft. Devens
Massachusetts
Os M. Whitney
Teddy
John J. O’brien
Attr
George Fingold
Green
O'Brien
State Correction Department
Fingold
Christian A. Herter
Fritz Swenson
Joseph A. Flaherty
Walter A. Balben
Greene
Worker Falls Eleven Floors to Death at Milwaukee Site
Felix Casper of Waukesha, 61, an Otis Elevator Co. employee, died after losing balance and plunging 11 stories from a platform in an elevator shaft at the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building in Milwaukee. Foreman John Haglund of Thiensville witnessed the fall and attempted to intervene.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Felix Casper
Waukesha
Otis Elevator Co
John Haglund
Thiensville
Casper
Haglund
Police Break Up Hamburg Mob Attack at Rightist Meeting
Police in Hamburg used clubs and water hoses Tuesday night to disperse a mob attacking a rightist gathering marking the 84th anniversary of the German empire's founding.
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Hamburg
Germany
Death of Dr Richard A Sheppard Follows Family Tragedy
In Cleveland Ohio Dr Richard A Sheppard head of the Bay View Hospital group dies after pleurisy a day after his son Dr Samuel H Sheppard was convicted of second degree murder for the bludgeoning death of his wife Marilyn Sheppard. The elder Sheppard founded the hospital after World War II. The family has faced a string of deaths and a jail cell news reports note the son cried upon hearing the news. An autopsy is planned to determine the elder Sheppard's exact cause of death.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Wup
Richard A. Sheppard
Sheppard
Bay View Hospital
Samuel H. Sheppard
Sam
Curahoga
Mike Ucello
Seam
Jatlers
Marilyn Sheppard
Dr.Sheppard
Wisconsin Assembly Bill Shifts Tax Deadline to April 15
Lawmakers move to push the Wisconsin personal income tax deadline from March 15 to April 15 aligning state rules with new federal tax laws. The 73 to 25 vote in the Assembly followed Democrats split on the issue with the measure awaiting Senate calendar action. Easter falls on April 10 this year.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Assembly
Senate
Interim
Legislative Council
State Tax Department
Start Relief For Scotland
Royal Navy and Air Force launched a large relief operation in northern Scotland with jet fighters bombers and carrier helicopters. RAF bombers and scout planes joined Sea Hawk squadrons to sweep valleys and locate distress signals while delivering food and supplies to isolated communities amid heavy snowfall and freezing conditions.
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London
U.S
Navy
Air Force
Scotland
Royal Air Force
France
Germany
Parole Denied for Trotsky Slain Murderer Jacques Mornard
The Interior Ministry in Mexico City refused parole to Jacques Mornard the man who murdered Leon Trotsky in 1940 deeming him too dangerous to release.
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Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
Interior Ministry
Jacques Mornard
Six Cents Awarded in $135000 Milwaukee Gas Case
A Milwaukee Circuit Court jury awarded two plaintiffs six cents each and nothing to a third in a $135,000 suit against Alliswaukee Gas Light Co. Crivitz sued over an April 25 1951 explosion at the Klassa home. The verdict found negligence in installing a pressure regulator but ruled the women not seriously injured.
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Milwaukee
Leo Klassa
Anna Lepianka
Crivitz
Allwaukee Gas Light Co
Klassa
Lemanka
Kiassas
Nationalists Hit Chinese Vessels In Punitive Raids
Nationalist air forces bombed Communist ships off Amoy and Swatow in retaliation for Red attacks on Yikiangshan and Tachen islands. The raid followed a major strike on Tachen defenses, with Nationalist garrisons promising to fight to the last man and U S officials weighing potential actions.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
Amoy
Swatow
Yikiangshan
Tachen
Torchens
Red Aly
Chiang Kar - Shek
Des Bastion
Farmoca
United States 7Th Fleet
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Tachen Islands
Matsu
Quemoy
Pescadores
Eisenhower backs UN cease fire effort in China conflict
President Eisenhower said he would like the United Nations to seek a cease fire between Nationalists and Red China. He noted the UN could not be certain of halting fighting but should be used to promote negotiations. He stressed that freeing American prisoners remains an essential goal.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
United States
Dulles
Eisenhower
Hammarskjold
Fiyers
Red China
United Nations
Joan Foster Dulles
State ‘Department
Peiping
William F. Knowland
Calif
New York
Henry ‘Cabot Lodge
U.S
U.N
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jDelles
Dag
Congress
Hammarrskjold
White House
Farmnes
Red
Formosa
Spencer Mows
Taipei
Dag Hammarsgeld
Pewiman
Knowland tCali
Knowland
Wolf Ladeynsky
Tidal Wave Hits Port Wrecks Four Vessels
A tidal wave probably triggered by an underwater quake wrecked four ships and damaged waterfront buildings at the provincial port of La Vela Venezuela. No casualties were reported.
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LA Vela
Venezuela
Costa Rican government patrols clash with rebels near Santa Rosa
Government patrols overtook fleeing Costa Rican rebel forces along the Pan American Highway near Santa Rosa and claimed a three mile advance on a 20 mile front. Communiques spoke of resounding victories, while foreign observers called the claims propaganda. toll read 55 dead and 239 injured, with leaders predicting a victory celebration in San Jose on Thursday.
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NS Jose
Costa Rica
Santa Rosa
Nicaragua
San Jose
Weather summary for Wisconsin and Minnesota
Fair and colder in Wisconsin with a light east wind tonight and a slight warm-up Thursday. Minnesota sees fair conditions, a bit warmer west tonight, with low temperatures from zero to ten below in the north and near ten above in the southwest. highs reach the mid to upper teens or around 30s in the southwest. The Randall gauge reports a y inch rise at Menasha dam and a trace of snow for the period.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Fox River
Menasha Dam
Buckstaff Observatory
Ban on Soviet Photo Activity in the United States
The United States bans Russians from photographing or sketching U S military installations seaports and other strategic facilities. The move follows similar tit-for-tat steps after Russia restricted travel for Americans and tightens rules for Soviet citizens abroad and Americans in the Soviet Union.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
United Wates
Nixon Pumps Gas For Polio Fund Visit
Vice President Richard Nixon, famed for growing up near a filling station, pumped gas at a Washington station to raise funds for the March of Dimes. His first customer left with a full tank and the bill unused, but Nixon later ensured the polio fund would receive profits from two local stations.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
March of Dimes Polio Fund
Nixon
Ior
Polio Fund
Caunns
Posshis
Nugent Returns $1000 Sent For Defense Fund
Maj Ambrose Nugent, prisoner of war in Korea, thanks Morril and national supporters while returning $1000 and asking no further financial aid. His daughter says another $?000 was returned as the initial lawyer could not enter the case. A defense fund goal of 2500 was started last month after the lawyer quit. $797 remains with committee to decide its use.
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Merrill
Ambrose Nugent
Korea
Leroy Meier
Nugent
Atformer
Fort Sill
Okla
American Legion Post
Johnson
Korean Major Confesses Threatening Gen Taylor in Taegu
A disgruntled Republic of Korea Army major, Kim Ji Ok, admitted he threatened General Maxwell D. Taylor with a loaded 45 caliber pistol to push U.S. military aid for Korea. He denied aiming to assassinate the American general. The incident occurred at RO K headquarters in Taegu as Taylor was briefed by officers led by Army Chief of Staff Chang Il Kwon. Kim was overpowered before firing. The RoK government said he confessed and is under mental evaluation.
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Seoul
Maxwell D. Taylor
Korea
Kim 1Hi Ok
Republic of Korea
Taegu Taesiday
ROK
All US
Sround
Far East
Kim
Taylor
United States
U.S
Army
Chang Il] Kwon
Driver dies after collision with school bus in Belgium Wis
A car driver, Hilbert Huenmak, 44, of Oostburg Route 1 died en route to hospital after a crash with a Belgium school bus on Highway 141 northeast of Belgium Wisconsin. The bus carried 12 Belgium students and driver Alvin DeBruine, 46, of Cedar Grove, escaped injury.
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Belgium
Wis
Here
Hilbert Huenmak
Oostburg
Cedar Grove
Alvin DeBruine
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