Nixon Fund Report Prompts National Debate
An expected public report on the $16,000 California senator Richard Nixon expense fund dominated early coverage. Adlai Stevenson and Dwight D. Eisenhower weighed the issue as Nixon faced questions over private campaign money and potential influence. The story followed Nixon’s assertion the disclosures were a leftist smear and Eisenhower’s close aides withhold calls for Nixon to step down pending an accounting.
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NIXON
Richard M. Nixon
Marysville
Calif
California
Stephen A. Mitchell
GOP
AP Witephoto
Washington
Richayl M. Nixon
Adlain Stevenson
Dwight
Eisenhower
Pasadena
Dana C. Smith
Smith
Nixon Nixon
New York
Stevenson
Sen
Richard Nixon
Dana Smith
Missouri
St. Louis
OBrien Fined $200 by Wisconsin High Court
Wisconsin Supreme Court fined J E O'Brien, 72, Fond du Lac attorney, $200 plus costs for contempt. He has 10 days to pay. He may appeal, but only to the same court. He apologized earlier in the day for actions at a prior bar appearance.
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Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
J. E. O' Brien
Fond du Lac
High Court
O'Brien
Ingh
L. J. Felienz Sr
Felienz
Fairchid
Marin
Fairchild
CDA to Stockpile 1,200,000 Units of Plasma as Reserve
The Civil Defense Administration plans a 1.2 million unit plasma stockpile for emergency use after a multi city attack. The agency projects 714 million casualties in the first raid, with five million surviving the initial 24 hours, and calls for nearly three million pints of whole blood donations to build the reserve.
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CDA
Washington
Federal
Civil Defense Administration
United States
Horlick Racine Plant Reopening Next Week
Horlick Companys malted milk factory in Racine, closed two weeks by a strike, will reopen in about a week after local 352 UAW CIO members voted Friday to accept a mediated settlement. It includes a 3 cent hourly wage raise, a 3 to 5 cent adjustment, and company pension contributions totaling $125 monthly at age 70.
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Racine
Horlick Company
Uaw-Cio
Sraud
Chinese Reds Repel Allies On Old Baldy Crest
Heavy fighting rages in Korea as Chinese forces repel a U N patrol on Old Baldy Hill and seize another western front hill. U N troops counterattack to within 100 yards before being driven back by artillery and mortar fire while U N planes strike with rockets and bombs. North of Panmunjom a Chinese company drives U N defenders from jailow hill in a night assault as four Allied held hills are defended. Reds suffer about 300 killed and wounded in two failed efforts on Finger Ridge and another 200 on an outpost east of Pukhan. News also covers Chaplin applying for a reentry permit and Government action to bar entry pending a hearing, amid longstanding leftist associations and a Mann Act case.
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Seoul
Korea
U.N
Old Baldy Hill
U.S. Eighth Army
Old Baldy
Chorwon
Panmunjom
Eighth Army
Finger Ridge
Pukhan
Earmnanes
Chaplin
Associated Press
United States
Harry Crocker
Menominee
Mentary School
Édue
Oona O'Neill
Cation
Eugene O'Neill
Melvin-East
Oak Hazel
London
McGranery McGranery
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Joan Berry
Miss Berry
Congress
Los Angeles
Lloyd E. Wright Jr
Larson Named State Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Larson, 50, was named commissioner of the state Motor Vehicle Department by Gov. Kohler. He succeeds Ben L. Marcus who died recently and had served as acting commissioner since Marcus' death. A 27 year department employee, Larson led the licensing and registration division since 1947 after starting as a junior clerk in 1925. A Lake Mills native and University of Wisconsin graduate.
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Madison U
Melvin
Larson
Kohler
Ben L. Marcus
Marcus
Lake Mills
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh Community Chest Sets 1952 Goal at $900000
Oshkosh board announced the 1952 drive must reach $900,000 by November 1 or the Community Chest will dissolve and the 14 member agencies will conduct separate campaigns. President R. K. Schriber Jr. said the goal is the highest ever and urged public cooperation to meet the initiative.
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Oshkosh Community Chest
Community Chest
R. K. Schriber Jr
Walpriga
Naign
Community Chest Board
Oshkosh
Schriber
Chaplin Faces Order Against Return to United States
Charles Chaplin now en route to Europe faces a government order barring his return to the United States until officials decide if he can reenter under immigration laws. No reason given. Justice Department silent. Chaplin, 63, born in England, long associated with leftist causes, indicted in 1944 and acquitted on related charges.
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Washington
Charles Chaplin
Europe
United States
Atty
Gen. McGrancry
Justice Department
Chaplin
England
U. S
Air Force reports losses in Korea air war period
U.N. Thunderjets destroyed 19 troop huts south of Sunchon and 10 west of Haeju. One B-29 Superfortress failed to return from the Sept 12-13 strike on the Suiho power plant on the Yalu River. Nine other Allied planes were lost that week, with 16 MIGs shot down and overall MIG toll for September rising to 47.
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U.N
Sinchon
Haeju
Korea
Old Baldy
Suiho
Yalu
U. N
Ike to Make Radio Speech in Milwaukee
Dwight D. Eisenhower was slated to deliver a nationwide radio speech from Milwaukee on October 3, via CBS network with WISN as the transmitter. GOP officials gave mixed signals, noting no official time or site beyond tentative plans for the Milwaukee Arena, and suggesting possible appearances in other Wisconsin cities if campaigns move forward.
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Milwaukee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
WISN
Columbia Broadcasting System
Eisenhower
Republican Party
Jack Rouse
GOP Voluntary Committee
Madison
Wisconsin
Rouse
School board letter seeks East Side site for building
The board sent a Friday letter to Mayor Ernest R. Siewert City Council members and City Clerk Roger Kliss in an effort to save the East Side location for school building use. The same day a building committee meeting at the Vocational School reviewed the letter and heard about Merrill Elementary addition drawings from Chicago Turn to SCHOOL on Page 4.
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Ernest R. Siewert
Common Council
Roger Kliss
East Side
Merrill
Chicago
McCarthy to Share Platform With Taft in Racine
Sen Joseph McCarthy will share the platform with Sen Robert Taft in Racine on September 25. Taft will speak for Republican presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower and McCarthy will deliver a brief talk.
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Racine
Joseph McCarthy
Robert Taft
Ohio
Dwight Eisenhower
McCarthy
Weather and frost in Wisconsin and Minnesota reported
United Press weather notes forecast fair and cool conditions across Wisconsin and Minnesota with scattered frost in favorable areas. Low temperatures range from the mid thirties to lower sixties, while observatory readings indicate a 62 degree maximum and 44 degree minimum, with precipitation figures cited for the month and year.
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Leach
United Press
Wisconsin
Liien
Minnesota
Hitch
Northwestern
Tina
Randall Sauge
Buckstaff Observatory
Plummer Restates Four-Laner Pledge
Harold Plummer new state highway commissioner restated a pledge to build a four-lane Highway 41 from Milwaukee to Green Bay at a noon luncheon with Oshkosh leaders. He vowed no political spending and said funds would come as traffic needs dictate, noting Highway 41 carries the heaviest through traffic.
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Milwaukee
Green Bay
Oshkosh
Athearn Hotel
Harold Plummer
Heme
Plummer
Transportation Division
Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
Caudle Describes Influence in Tax Case Hearings
In Washington hearings, former justice official T. Lamar Caudle testified that congressmen used influence to obtain hearings or conferences for friends and clients in tax matters. He named Rep. Robert Doughton, Sen. Harley Kilgore, Sen. William Langer, and former Sen. Claude Pepper among those who conferred with him on cases.
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Washington
House
Justice Department
T. Lamar Caudle
Congress
Cardle
Robert L. Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Harley M. Kilgore
D-W. Va
William Langer
R-Nd
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Two Killed as U S Jet Explodes Over Fukuoka
A U S F-34 Thunder jet on a test flight exploded over Fukuoka in southern Japan. The pilot and a Japanese civilian were killed. Wreckage scattered over a wide area knocking out communications and destroying a building. The pilot's name was withheld by the U S Air Force.
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Tokyo
U.S
Hope Dimly Seen to Avert Soft Coal Strike
Washington reports a strike threat by Northern soft coal miners may be averted as John L. Lewis and Union leaders near an interim deal with Moses group. Some mines planned overtime to keep running while terms for a 1.30 dollar daily raise and 10 cent per ton welfare grant emerge amid pressure to generalize across the industry.
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Washington & John L. Lewis
Northern Soft
Lawis
United Mine Workers
Harry Moses
Northern
Bituminous
Reesonation
Lewis
Moses
Pennsylvania
Mississippi River
Indiana
Chicago
Truce Talks Adjourn For Another Week
In Panmunjom talks the eighth straight week held no headway on prisoner exchange as North Korea and the United Nations clashed over responsibility for the war. General Nam Il insisted on returning 116 000 captives to North Korea and Red China, while the Allies refused to repatriate prisoners against their will.
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Munsan
Korea
U. N
Panmunjom
William H. Harrison
Morrison
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Xke
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Horlick Racine
A. A. Anderson
Oshkosk Chamber of Commerce Transportation Division
Harvey R. Abraham
Leon Morrissey
Winnehaga County
J. E. Gillum
Chamber
Ike
Taft
Hudson River
Cornwall
N. Yn
Sonden
Caudle
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