Eisenhower backs amending Taft Hartley not repeal
In prepared AFL speech in New York Eisenhower endorsed realistic amendments to the Taft Hartley Act while opposing repeal He warned against weakening workers rights and urged keeping core principles like collective bargaining the right to strike advance notice of strikes contract enforcement and union finances reporting Stevenson favors repeal and Democratic stance toward a new act ahead of a convention endorsement context notes Truman critique of GOP plans and AFL position.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American Federation of Labor Today
AFL
GOP
America
Eisenhower
Truman
Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson
Executive Council
Fair Spell Lulls State Toward Fall
The Associated Press reports pleasant Wisconsin weather with temperatures mainly in the 70s. Readings ranged from 67 at Park Falls to 80 in several cities, with cooler spots like 39 at Wausau and 42 at Blair and Eau Claire. A light thundershower was noted near Grantsburg.
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Associated Press Fair
Prairie du Chien
Park Falls
Wisconsin
Janesville
Darlington
la Crosse
Lone Rock
Madison
Watertown
Green Bay
Wausau
Superior-Duluth
Blair
Eau Claire
Ellsworth
Lancaster
Grantsburg
Eight Die As Train Hits Car in Texas Crash
In Austin eight people died when their car was struck by a freight train late Tuesday night. Justice of the Peace Robin Forrester tentatively identified all eight from car papers and clothing but cautioned some identifications may be incorrect. Six appeared to be from one family. another was a soldier at Fort Hood and the eighth a teenage youth from San Angelo. The car was hurled about 125 feet. the engine lay 60 to 100 feet away on both sides of the right of way amid ground fog and thundershowers.
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Austin
Tex
Justice of the Peace
Robin Forrester
Thundershowers
Fort Hood
San Angelo
B. J. Guan
Oshkosh Man Dies After Gasoline Fire Accident
Richard Heinzl 83 dies from burns suffered when he poured gasoline on a bonfire to revive it. He was taken to Mercy Hospital and died at about 5 50 a.m. Survivors include two daughters, nine grandchildren, four great grandchildren, and a brother and three sisters. Funeral services set for Saturday at St. Vincent's Church with Rt Rev Msgr Aloys Bastian officiating.
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Heinzl
Mercy Hospital
Mary Voelkel
11Th St
Voelkel
Fire Department
Angie Weber
Austria
Theresa Plach
Oshkosh
Rothenbach Brothers Shoe Store
Aloys Bastian
Poklasny Funeral Home
Funeral Home
Unseasonable Thunderstorms Span Midwest to Carolinas
Pleasant mid September weather gave way to strong thundershowers sweeping from central Indiana into Illinois. Gusts reached 65 miles per hour at Quincy and Til, with storms also in the southern Rockies and the Carolinas. The coldest spot was Big Piney Wyoming at 28 degrees, while Cadillac Michigan logged 25.
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Vidi
Indiana
Illinois
Quincy
Til
Rockies
Carolinas
Big Pincy
Wyo
Cadillac
Mich
Weather summary for Wisconsin and Minnesota region
Partly cloudy tonight with increasing clouds and showers by Thursday in northern and central Wisconsin and Minnesota. Cooler with highs in the 60s to 70s and lows in the 40s. Observations note fair conditions at Randall and Menasha Dam with a 4 inch level river reading. Temperature records show a max of 76 and min 43 for the period, with no precipitation this month yet.
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Minnesota
Randall Cause
Fes River
Menasha Dam
Dean
Bockstaff Observatory
U S Citizenship at $11 a Person a World Buy
Washington report notes citizenship costs remain low at $11 for first papers while many resident aliens qualify for naturalization. About 250,000 new arrivals yearly, yet only 98,393 were naturalized in the year ended June 30. War brides may naturalize after two years.
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U.S
United States
United, States
U. S
Latvia
Estonia
America
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Wake Island Struck by Typhoon Winds and Flooding
Eyewitnesses report Wake Island devastation with 160 mph winds and heavy seas. About 700 residents evacuated to Honolulu as 80 people left on a C 97 Stratocruiser and four injured were flown to Kwajalein. Mothers comforted children in concrete bunkers while floods and wreckage forced long sheltering. no panic was seen as families sang and waited out the storm.
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Miss Hawk
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Military Air Transport Service
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Maynard Joseph Fontaine
Coast Guard
Thomas Albert Barker
Air Force
PBM Mariner
Barker
Jas
Flying Tigers
F. W. Moore
Denver
Blair Johnson
Los Angeles
Crooksville
Marine Cpl
Dave Gee
Walla Walla, Wash
Pearl Harbor
Nat Atoll
18 Midwest and West Coast Reds Are Seized
The Justice Department announced the arrest of 18 Midwest and West Coast Communist party leaders in a crackdown on plots to overthrow the government. Arrests occurred in St Louis Rock Island Charleston Detroit Seattle Los Angeles Portland Eugene Chicago Minneapolis and other cities. Among those seized is Helen Mary Winter wife of Carl Winter Michigan state organizer and described as active with the committee for amnesty for Smith Act victims. Each suspect faces charges under the Smith Act for conspiracy to advocate government overthrow.
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Justice Department
Communist Party
McGranery
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Missouri
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Michigan
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Rock Island
Charleston
Seattle
Detroit
Los Angeles
Portland
Eugene
Ore
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Minneapolis
Paul Miller Bowen
John Shields ” Baschbach
District Review Commission
Barbara Hartle
Retired Soldier Pleads Innocent In Hotel Shooting
Ervin Erickson a 50 year old Madison resident and retired soldier pleaded innocent to assault with intent to kill after four shots at a Stevens Point hotel barroom wounded Mrs. Fred Bauschelt and two locals Melvin Engerbretson and Harold Mohr. He was bound over on a $10000 bond and held in Portage County Jail. Erickson said Mohr was his brother in law he was angry with.
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Stevens Point
Ervin Erickson
Madison
Erickson
W. Ey ‘Atwell Jr
Ihe
Portage County
Fred Bauschelt
Milwaukee
Melvin Engerbretson
Harold Mohr
Mohr
Must Wait For Needed Funds Says Plummer
Wisconsin highway plans hinge on securing funds for a four lane U S 41 project. Highway commissioner Harold Plummer spoke in Fond du Lac vowing a four lane Milwaukee to Green Bay route. Ribbon cuttings marked sections near Oshkosh as work proceeds. Total project cost about 2.84 million dollars with 19 767 miles paved.
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Harold Plummer
Fond du Lac
U. S. 41
Plummer
Oshkosh
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Green Bay
Slinger
Highway Department
Allen L. Edgarton
Chamber of Commerce
That City
Winnebago
Edward J. Konkol
Madison
Washington l
Wisconsin Good Roads Assotorney
J. Howard Mcciation
Grath
Oshkosh Chambe Justice Department
Commerce
St. Louis
McGrath
House
Department
U. S
George Moore
Department of Justice
Missouri
Secretary of the Treasury
Seventeen Korean Children Die in Train Wreck
A locomotive boiler explosion derailed three coaches on a trestle near Oryu in Korea, killing about 17 children and injuring more than 200. US Army doctors and UN troops aided the rescue as Maj. Edwin Mercer reported numerous fatalities and amputations.
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Korea
Inchon
Seoul
Maj
Edwin Mercer
Nations City
Calif
Typhoon to Reach Aleutians After Wake Island Devastation
The Japanese Central Weather Observatory said tonight the typhoon that devastated Wake Island would likely wind up in the Aleutian Islands, signaling a long journey across the Pacific.
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Aleutians
Tokyo
Japanese Central Weather Observatory
Wake Island
Aleutian Islands
Leading U S jet ace bags his eighth MIG
Maj. Frederick Blesse, commander of the Fifth Air Force, shot down his eighth MIG-15 in Korea near Sakchu as Allied air power hit Red targets from the battlefront to near the Manchurian border. The September tally rose to 47 MIGs, with U S shooting stars over a Communist storage area and nearby rail targets.
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Seoul
Korea
America
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Frederick Blesse
U.S
Shooting Star
Korwon
Anju
Kowon
Air Force
U S Missing Bet on Bases in Spain Says Senator Long
Senator Lyndon B. Long, visiting from Washington after a 16 000 mile tour of U S bases in Greenland and Turkey, says the U S is missing a bet by not reaching a Spain base agreement to aid Western defense. He contends Spain would benefit and asks why talks have stalled, though he declines to disclose Spain's demands or sources. The report also notes continued fighting along the central front with raids on Communist lines near Capitol Hill and Finger Ridge and air attacks against supply routes.
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Sen
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Lal
Spain
Europe
U.S
Greenland
Turkey
Long
Capitol Hill
Finger Ridge
U. S
U. S. Eighth Army
Wisconsin Central Plans Main Base Move to Minneapolis
Wisconsin Central Airlines will establish its main administrative base at Minneapolis Wold-Chamberlain Field and move headquarters from Madison. The $2 million self-liquidating building program was agreed with the Twin Cities Airports Commission, with headquarters relocation to temporary facilities within four months. About 200 employees and most of the DC-3 fleet will transfer, along with shop machinery and equipment.
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Madison
Wisconsin Central Airlines
Wold-Chamberlain
Commission
Twin Cities
Donald A. Duff
Duff
Fatal car crash near Fort Atkinson kills teen
An 18 year old, John I Maloney of Lake Ripley, died Tuesday night when a car he rode in struck a tree off Highway 26 near the Mid City Airport. The other passenger, James Reese of Came lbridge, 18, was in critical condition at Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital.
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John I Maloney
Lake Ripley
Highway 26
Here
Mid-City
James Reese
Camelbridge
Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital
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