Ripon Hosts GOP Centennial Celebration in 1954 Tone
Ripon prepares for a centennial celebration of the Republican party with President Eisenhower to light a 10 foot freedom flame via remote or telegraph, marking the 1854 meeting that birthed the party. Leaders from Wisconsin and Midwest GOP circles attend plus a rally at Ripon College Little Theater.
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Eisenhower
Ripon
Midwest
Washington
Allan Earle Bovay
Republican Party
GOP
Leonard Hall
Ripon College
Little Theater
College Union
Hall
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Joseph R. McCarthy
Sullivan Barnes
Sioux Falls
S. D
Winnebago County
Hugh R. Moore
Neenah
Bovay
New York
Congress
Kansas - Nebraska
Territories
Jackson
Mich
Republican Education Foundation
Austrian police defy Soviet anti Molotov poster demand
Interior Minister Oskar Helmer says Austrian police will ignore Moscow demands to tear down an anti Molotov poster plastered on billboards in Austria’s Russian zone. The stance reflects tensions between Vienna and the Soviet Union over propaganda in occupied areas.
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Vienna
Austria
Oskar Helmer
Weather summary for Wisconsin and Minnesota issued by AP
Cloudy windy and mild with showers tonight in Wisconsin. Friday skies cloudy and colder with a few showers or snow likely. low tonight 35 to 45. South to southwest winds 20 to 30 mph, shifting Friday. Minnesota: cloudy with showers tonight mixing with snow northwest. Friday snow north and west, showers to snow flurries southeast. highs mostly in the 30s. Also reports from Buckstaff and Menasha dam notes: maximum 48, minimum 20, no precipitation. month deficiency 0.41, year-to-date deficit.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Huth
Minnesota
Randall Gauce
Fox River
Menasha Dam
Buckstaff Observatory
Igi
Probe Killing Of 11 Jews By Gang of Arabs
Israeli investigators and U N observers probed a massacre in the Negev desert in which 11 Jews were killed by a gang of Arabs. Survivors include a woman and child. attackers reportedly came from near the Jordan border. Israel filed a complaint to the Israel Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
U.N
Negevi Desert
Beirut
Lebanon
Jordan
Syria
Moshe ‘Sharett
Israel Army
Beersheba
Negev
Lonely Scorpion Pass
Uni
Armistice Commission
Picket Lines Breached By Longshoremen
New York workers at five Manhattan and Brooklyn docks return to work in a wildcat strike. Police report no rapid relief of the port shutdown as 800 pickets clash with longshoremen and authorities. Mayor Wagner calls for a crackdown while Brooklyn Army piers resume cargo handling.
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New York
AFL
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Robert F Wagner
New York-New Jersey Waterfront Control Board
Brooklyn Army Piers
Port of Embarkation
Siaten Island
Hydrogen bombs and power urged as breakthrough claimed
Rep Van Zandt said scientists unlocked a logjam in hydrogen and atomic power accelerating weapons and civilian energy. A hydrogen explosion March 1 was three to four times heavier than expected, perhaps 600 times Hiroshima. Sources say the US is stockpiling deliverable H bombs amid ongoing committee briefings.
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Washington
van Zandt
R-Pa
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Pacific
United States
W. Sterling Cole
R-Ny
Eisenhower
Cole
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
House Faces Vote On Tax Cut Plan Split Over Exemptions
Washington reports a House showdown over tax cuts with Democrats pushing to raise exemptions from 600 to 700 dollars a year while a GOP reform bill would ease taxes for all. President Eisenhower calls the move an election year deal, while AFL leader Meany attacks the dividend relief proposal.
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Americans For Democratic Action
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Meany
AFL
George Meany
Molotov Heads Soviet Delegation at North Korean Reception
In Moscow the Tass news agency reported Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov led a delegation of prominent government officials to a North Korean reception. The event honored the fifth anniversary of the Soviet North Korean cooperation pact in economics and culture hosted by Ambassador Lim Hi.
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Moscow
Tass
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Lim Hi
Police Guard Lodge Dewey Wagner in New York FBI tip
New York police deployed more than 200 officers to Gracie Mansion Waldorf Astoria and Roosevelt Hotel guarding Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Thomas Dewey and Robert F. Wagner Jr. after a tip from a State Department official about Puerto Rican Nationalists planning to kill high profile figures. The warning follows past threats to Lodge. The guard was described as routine with no widespread alarm.
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New York
United Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert F. Wagner Jr
House of Representatives
Washington
Gracie Mansion
Waldorf Astoria
Roosevelt Hotel
Lodge
Dewey
Puerto Rico
Congressional
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
State Department
French Hold Dien Bien Phu Amid Forest Fires In Indochina
French defenders besieged at Dien Bien Phu ringed by fires as Viet Minh forces mass for a new assault. Heavy air attacks and napalm followed, with French bombers striking back and Red Cross planes hit amid escalating savagery.
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Hanoi
Indochina
UPI
Dien Bien Phu
Vorguyen Giap
China
Red Cross
Tien Bien Phu
Alward
Henr Navarre
Dien Bien i Phu
Tassanebe
Japs Segregate Ships and Fishermen in Radiation Drive
Tokyo reports radioactive levels on the Shunyo Maru after the Bikini Atoll test. Japan orders all Pacific fishing craft to enter designated ports for radiation checks. Twenty three fishermen burned by radioactive ash remain under medical observation as markets face tuna shortages and authorities inspect vessels with Geiger counters.
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Bikini
Tokyo
U.S
International Soundphoto
United States
Japansee
Pacific
Marshall Islands
Agriculture, Forestry and Welfare
Tokyo Bay
Bikini Atoll Testine
Solomon Islands
Groum Zero
President Eisenhower and MacArthur Meet in Washington
In Washington, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur, longtime Army colleagues, plan a White House meeting amid speculation they will discuss Indochina. MacArthur, now Remington Rand board chair, was dismissed as Far Eastern commander in 1951 by former President Truman.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
White House
MacArthur
Indochina
Remington Rand
Far East
Eisenhower
White Houses
Defense Department
Congress
Truman
Art. Tary
Test Pilot Killed In Jet Plane Crash At Nellis AFB
At Nellis Air Force Base Nevada test pilot Joseph A Lynch died in a jet trainer crash after takeoff when a wing struck the ground during a roll. The same aircraft had assisted Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in recent days as he visited Los Angeles and achieved speeds faster than sound, making him the first royal to crack the sonic barrier.
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Nellis Air Force Base
Nev
Joseph A. Lynch
Prince Bernhard
Netherlands
Prince Berthard
Prince
Los Angeles
Berner
Irishmen Are Very Handsome Ike Declares and Irish Agree
President Eisenhower receives a gold medal as an honorary member of the Sons of St Patrick at a Friendly Sons of St Patrick dinner. He jokes about Irish beauty and recounts stories of St Patrick and the Shannon while deflecting questions about his name. The crowd of Irishmen reacts with laughter and curiosity at his remarks.
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Washington
Dent Exsenhower
Evsenhower
Thy Sons of St. Patrick Day Aght
Ike
St. Patrick
Eisenhower
O'Eisenhower
White House
H.bernans
McCarthy
Wilson says McCarthy found no new subversion cases in services
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and aides testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy uncovered no new subversion cases in the armed forces beyond those already known. Wilson cited 20 loyalty or security risks among 51 drafted medical men to be commissioned or discharged, and urged the panel to step back from the Army McCarthy dispute.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Wilson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense Department
Congressional
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Congressional Committee
Services
IFBL
Tootell Approved As FCA Governor
President Eisenhower approved Robert Tootell of Pullman Washington as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration. Tootell, a Pierce County native and Republican, is a former director of the Washington State Agriculture Extension Service.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Robert Tootell
Pullman
Wash
Farm Cre Administration
Tootell
Pierce Crime
The
Sky
Federal Farm Berard
Washington State Agriculture Extension
Strcce
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Adm
James P. Holloway
Air Force
Asst
Lee "White
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Stevens
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