Oshkosh Council hires milk sanitation chief and reorganizes police
In a brisk City Hall session the Oshkosh Common Council appointed Paul Kerrifan milk sanitation chief and delegated hiring power to the street superintendent. They also reorganized the police department and rejected a beer license transfer for the Catholic War Veterans clubhouse near Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church by a 10 to 6 vote. Aldermen debated church proximity, permit concerns, and a proposed parking lot while a formal ballot was urged on the transfer.
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City Hall
Oshkosh
Fred Lentz
Voss
Robert Luedtke
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
Michael Billmeyer
Ninth St
Ald
Raymond Brusius
T. K. Kozuszik
Eau Claire
Health and Welfare Committee
J. E. Washburn
Arno Nonweiler
Ex-Senator Wagner Dies At Son's Home
New York obituary notes Robert F. Wagner 75 died at his son Robert F. Wagner Jr. home in Manhattan after 23 years in the Senate. A New Deal Democrat he opposed Taft Hartley. authored the Wagner Act of 1935. Funeral Thursday at St. Ignatius Loyola Church Manhattan with burial Calgary Cemetery.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
United States
Wagner
Robert F. Wagner Jr
Borough of
Manhattan
Senate
St. Ignatius Loyola
Calgary
Germany
New York State
Wisconsin and Minnesota Weather Summary and Observations
The report notes mostly fair weather in Wisconsin with increasing clouds and light rain southeast tonight, warmer in the southeast, and scattered showers in central areas on Wednesday. Minnesota is fair and cool tonight with partly cloudy conditions and light showers in extreme southeast on Wednesday. Temperature highs 54 to 63 in Wisconsin and 60 to 70 in Minnesota. lows 32 to 48. observed rainfall 0.02 inch, and a year-to-date total of 4.50 inches.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Fox River
Menasha Dam
Buckstaff Observatory
Senate Near Final Vote On Tidelands Bill
The Senate rejected several amendments and moved toward a final vote on the tidelands bill after five weeks of debate. It spurned an attempt to allow states to develop minerals in public lands within borders and upheld federal control on others. Final action will go to conference and then to President Eisenhower for signature, with coastal states gaining clear title to tidelands to seaward boundaries.
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Washington
Senate
George W. Marione
R-Nev
Herbert H. Lehman
Sen. Estes Kefau
California
Texas
Louisiana
House
White House
Eisenhower
Florida
Supreme Court
Bomb Aimed At Nehru Found On Rail Line Downgraded
Bombay government called the object on the railroad track near Kalyan Station a harmless firecracker. Earlier reports claimed a live bomb meant to wreck the Amritsar Express as Jawaharlal Nehru traveled back to Bombay from a farmers tour.
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Bombay
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kalyan Station
Wehria
Dulles Opposes Forcing Trade Halt With Reds
Secretary of State Dulles told a congressional panel that pressuring allies to cut all trade with Communist nations could weaken U S leadership and would risk unduly restricting allied trade even in non strategic goods. The exchange followed Sen McCarthy’s demand for a clear stance on Red China trade.
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Washington
Dulles
Congressional
United States
McCarthy
Sen.McCarthy
R-Wis
John M. Leddy
Kenneth R. Hansen
Harold Stassen
Thurston Morton
State Department
Syndicate Smashed by Agents at Manila
Government security agents smashed a nationwide counterfeit warrants syndicate based in Manila and Hong Kong. The Central Bank announced that a nine month investigation led to 22 ring members arrested.
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Manila
U.S
Hong Kong
Central Bank
Eisenhower proposes 5.8 billion foreign aid for defense needs
President Eisenhower urged Congress to approve a 5.8 billion foreign aid program for the coming fiscal year to bolster free nations against Soviet aggression. He said defenses cannot be relaxed until the USSR shows peaceful intent, with about 40 percent of Indo China and related conflicts funded by the U.S. and allied nations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Nations
Harry Truman
Soviet Union
Senate
Free Europe
Indo-China
Formosa
Harold E. Slassen
United States
Indo- China
France
Stassen
Harrison accuses Communists of smokescreen in talks
UN armistice chief Lt Gen William K Harrison charged the Communists with a negotiating smoke screen and said there was no sign they truly desire a Korean armistice. He urged Nam I to accept Pakistan as neutral custodian of 46,000 Red prisoners or risk a talks breakup.
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Korea
United Nations
William K. Harrison
Pakistan
Harrison
U.N. S
Nam I
Nam
Panwunijom
Dixie Tornado Toll Rises Across South East
A week of tornadoes and storms across the South leaves 144 dead and thousands homeless from Texas to the East Coast. Five tornadoes hit Mississippi and Tennessee injuring six, while Louisiana floods exceed damages of 22 million dollars. Volunteers brace Deweyville levees along the Sabine River as heat lingers on the Pacific coast and light snow falls in Colorado and Wyoming.
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Atlanta
Southland
Texas
Atlanta Weather Bureau
Dixie
North
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
Knoxville, Tenn
Julia Rose
Alcoa
Pacific Coast
Kansas
New York
Astern
Colorado
Wyoming
Reds Hired by U S Paper In Germany Probe
Senate investigators grilled Theodore Kaghan deputy director of public affairs in Germany about a U S Public Affairs Division newspaper hiring Communists financing a Red publisher and spending about 59000 on a pro Communist book. other witnesses cited a Red front member and a 300000 mark subsidy to a publisher for Communist literature. Kaghan denied being a Communist while acknowledging past associations and memory gaps.
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Washington Senate
Theodore Kaghan
U. S. Public Affairs Division
Germany
Kaghan
U.S. High Commission
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
J. Juliae Epstein
New York
Hans Wallenberg
U.S
Die Neuve Zeitung
Red Front
Freda Utley
British Communist Party
U.S. Information Service
Roy Cohn
Subcommittee
State Department
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Communist Party
Laborites Gain In England Elections
London report says the split Labor party shows a net gain of 11 seats in week-long municipal vote results. Conservative candidates hold ground with 20 gains and 20 losses. Labor gains come mainly at Liberal and Independent expense.
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London
Labor Party
Britain
Winston Churchill
Liaborites
Thc
Fasts 79 Days Claims World Mark In Hunger Diet
Mrs Foster of Johannesburg a housewife began a water and soda fast that she said would last 79 days. She claimed the world record but had lost 48 pounds, from 294 to 226, while aiming to continue the fast to ease arthritis attacks before adding milk.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Cornela Foster
Defiant Brooklyn Teacher Calls HUAC Circus Over Red Ties
David Flacks a Brooklyn schoolteacher and 26-year veteran rejected questions on Communist party membership before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He called the hearing a circus and refused to answer, citing constitutional rights. His wife Mildred also declined to respond. Artie Shaw appeared and said he attended Communist meetings in Hollywood in 1946 as an observer.
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Artie Shaw
New York
House Un-American Activities
Los Angeles
International Sound Phite
House Un-American Activities Committee
David Flacks
Brooklyn
Dorothy K. Finn
Flacks
Velde
Kit Clardy
R-Mich
Mildred
Shaw
Llollywood
Job Is Easy For Jewelry Thieves
A New York jewelry salesman reported $20 000 in merchandise stolen after leaving his car unlocked for five minutes. Sebastian Jongelings, 56, said he found three men transfer cases from his unlocked auto to another vehicle and drive away. He had visited Beloit jewelers and Kenosha stores that morning before the theft at an auto sales agency.
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Kenosha
New York
Sebastian Jongelings
Jongelings
Beloit Jewelers
Republicans Deny Security Hurt by Military Cuts
Washington Republicans reject claims that Eisenhower’s plan to trim 200000 armed forces weaken real security. Defense officials say the 1954 fiscal year would see manpower fall from 2.5 million to about 3.3 million, with possible deeper cuts if Korea ends, and a total spending reduction of about 2.1 billion dollars.
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Washington
Republi
Eisenhower
Truman
Pentagon
Homer Ferguson
Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee
Rep
Dames EB. van Zandt
House Armed Services Committee
van Zandt
Boy Believed Drowned Revived By Doctor Heart Massage
A three year old boy named Guy Martin who reportedly drowned in Wolf River near his home on the Menominee reservation was revived after Dr E A Jasionowski massaged his heart for about an hour and administered adrenalin. He was listed in very critical condition at a Keshena hospital.
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Keshena
Wis
Guy Martin
E. A. Jasionowski
U.S. Public Health Service
Guy
Wes
Ley Martin
Wolf River
Jasionowski
100000 Reds Shifted to South China
Formosa 1% Chinese Nationalist news agency reports that 100,000 Chinese Communist veterans of the Korean War have been moved to South China near the Indochina border in recent weeks.
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South China
Formosa
Indochina
Warships And Dive Bombers Pound Wonsan
Four warships and carrier based dive bombers attacked the east coast port of Wonsan in one of the heaviest assaults of the naval siege. The New Jersey joined Bremerton Twining Colohan in shelling the harbor while carrier aircraft targeted strategic sites around Wonsan. The 16 inch guns reportedly destroyed a main observation post and heavy artillery movements by the Reds were noted as a challenge to friendly forces.
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Seoul
Korea
Wonsan
New Jersey
Bremerton
Twinng
Colohan
U. N
Navy
Fifth Air Force
Bulgarian Troops Seize Gamma Island Again
Defense Minister Panayotis Canellopoulos says Bulgarian forces under fire from Greek troops have occupied Gamma island in the Evros River between Greece and Bulgaria. Greece maintains Gamma as part of its territory. Bulgarians held it briefly last August before withdrawing after Greek firing and a UN protest.
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Athens
Greece
Panayotis Canellopoulos
Gamma
Evros
Bulgaria
United Nations
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