Mrs. C. W. Nash Dies After Short Illness at 83
Mrs. Jessie Halleck Nash 83 wife of Kenosha auto magnate Charles W. Nash died in a Beverly Hills California hospital after a week of heart illness. In Kenosha she was a civic social leader and partner in philanthropy. Born June 26 1864 in Genesee County Michigan she married Nash in 1884 and accompanied him through his rise in the auto industry. The Nashes moved to Kenosha in 1916 and stayed until 1940. Continued on Page Seven.
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Nash
Beverly Hills
Cal
Jessie Halleck Nash
Charles W. Nash
Kenosha Automobile
Nashes
Kenosha
California
Genesee County
Mich
Ransom
Mary Hutt Halleck
Burton Township
Mt. Morris
Flint
Durant-Dort Carriage Company
Buick Company
Nash Motors
Thomas B. Jeffery
City Council Debates Beach Erosion Plan And Parking
City officials discuss a proposed 3.2 million erosion protection system with Rep. Lawrence Smith and Col J O Colonna. They consider a joint survey by city and federal officers costing 3200 and hear about license limits and parking concerns at Kenosha parks.
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Lawrence Smith
Racine
J. O. Colonna
Milwaukee
U. S. Army District
James Webb
Indonesia Urges UN Action Over Dutch Indonesian War Effort
Sjahrir argued in the Security Council that Dutch military moves aim to destroy the East Indies Republic and rejected Dutch talks as insincere. He appealed for UN investigation and arbitration while Batavia reported drastic retaliatory measures against Indonesian forces as Russia urged a council commission to resolve the conflict.
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Lake Success
East Indies
Security Council
Soviet Union
United States
United Nations
Sutan Sjahrir
Sjahrir
Jogjakarta
Batavia
Russia
Council
Tropical Storm Forms Southwest of Key West
The weather bureau reports a tropical storm developing in the Gulf of Mexico about 150 miles southwest of Key West. It moves slowly west at eight mph and intensifies with winds at 40 to 50 mph near the center. Squalls extend over 200 miles to the east and north.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Key West
ODT Lifts Embargo On Coal Shipments
The Office of Defense Transportation lifted the partial embargo on United States coal shipments to Canada. The move ends the Wednesday midnight restriction on shipments via the Canadian National Railway to speed return of freight cars held in Canada.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation Today
United States
Canada
Canadian National Railways
Dominion
U. S
Cadiz Blasts Kill Over 500 In Spanish Port
Cadiz, Spain, reports say more than 500 killed and thousands injured in a night of torpedo and mine explosions. Shipyards Larrinaga and Echevarrieta were hardest hit as fires raged and parts of the city were leveled. Hospitals overflowed and rescue operations continued through the night.
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Sevilla
Spain
U.P
Cadiz
Larrinaga
Echevarrieta
Larrinaga and Echevarrieta
NLRB Anticommunist Affidavit Rule For Unions
The NLRB under Robert Denham rules all AFL and CIO officers must sign anti Communist affidavits before unions can seek NLRB services. The rule, tied to Taft Hartley, extends from top officers down and may bar CIO executive board actions pending rulings. Some CIO unions may defy, while others await board guidance.
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Washington
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Denham
AFL
CIO
NLRB
AFL and
CIO International
Ben Gold
New York
International Fur and Leather Workers Union
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
$1,000,000 Kenosha School Building Plan Unveiled
The Kenosha Board of Education presented a 1 million dollar expansion plan to the City Council citing low bond rates and rising costs. Proposed projects include a new McKinley elementary school replacing portables, expanded McKinley junior high housing, and an industrial arts and home economics facility at Kenosha High School.
Admiral King Remains in Serious Health Outlook
Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King aged 68, wartime head of the navy, remains in serious condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Doctors reported no change in the last 24 hours after he was admitted last Friday with slight evidence of a mild stroke.
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Washington
Ernest J. King
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Navy
Bethesda
Two Girls Just Playing Make Shambles of House
Norma Eppehimer and Charlotte Eppehimer nine and eight respectively admitted to police they were playing when they broke into the Dobson home in Louisville Kentucky. They smashed kitchen dishes milk and food on the floor damaged clothing and furniture and even released the mule. Detectives removed them to the Children's Center while grandparents H L Eppehimer offered to pay all damages.
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Louisville
Norma
Charlotte Eppehimer
John Dobson
Dobson
Charlotte
City approves parking meters in LaCrosse district
LaCrosse Wisconsin council approved installation of meters in the business district with a tie-breaking vote by Mayor Charles Beranek. The decision was reached after a council vote that required the mayor's ballot to break the tie.
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LaCrosse
Wis
U.P
Charles Beranek
Hitler's Doctor Convicted at Nuremberg Trial
An American war crimes tribunal found Dr Karl Brandt Adolf Hitler's personal physician guilty of crimes against humanity in Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp victims. The four man court headed by Judge Walter Beals declared Brandt directly responsible for high altitude and freezing experiments malaria mustard gas sea water and sterilization tests that killed many. Sentences to be passed Thursday.
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Nuernberg
Karl Brandt
Adolf Hitler
Walter Beals
Washington
S. S. Medical Corps
Telford Taylor
U. S
Brandt
British Cabinet Meets in Crisis as Ambassador Returns
Lord Inverchapel, the British ambassador to the United States, cut short a leave to fly to Washington where revision of the Anglo-American loan agreement is being discussed amid an emergency conference in London.
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London
U.P
Lord Inverchapel
United States
Washington
Tire Makers Charge Price Fixing Faces Federal Probe
Federal charges allege that 19 defendants from Goodyear General Tire U S Rubber and Firestone conspired for 12 years to fix tire prices. Executives defend current prices as near or below pre war levels and vow to fight the case. A separate Los Angeles civil suit seeks to break Technicolor Kodak ties and free processing.
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New York
E. J. Thomas
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Federal
District of
William O'Neil
General Tire & Rubber Co
O'Neil
Herbert E. Smith
U. S. Rubber Co
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Federal District Court
Los Angeles
William C. Dickson
West Coast Antitrust Division
Technicolor Motion Picture Corp
Fastman Kodak, Co
Technicolor
Kodak
Man Killed When Train Hits Truck at Merrill Crossing
Edward Eegner, 40, of Pine River, was killed when his loaded gravel truck was struck by a Milwaukee road passenger train at a grade crossing in Merrill Wisconsin. The vehicle wrapped around the diesel engine, Eegner was thrown about 150 feet, and died at the hospital. He leaves a wife and seven children.
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Merrill
Wis
U.P
Edward Eegner
Pine River
Milwaukee Road
Eegner
Fegner
Merrill Hospital
Burglary Oddity Sparks Neighborhood Quiz
Mrs. Nellie Hagans reports burglars in her neighborhood acting in reverse. The front door was forced but nothing was taken. Instead the thieves left behind a stash: two suits five sport coats five pairs of trousers and four shirts stored in a closet.
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Washington
Nellie Hagans
Heat persists as relief delayed for Kenoshans
Milwaukee weather chief Howard J. Thompson warned of little change tonight and Wednesday with cooler conditions possible by Friday. Temperatures statewide will stay in the 90s except Milwaukee, where lake breezes ease heat. Winds shifted yesterday evening causing a late cool snap. Green Bay and Wausau saw rain. Prairie du Chien hit a 104 high, Milwaukee tied a 97 Aug record. A cold air mass from Alaska was expected to reach North Dakota late today.
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Kenoshans
Howard J. Thompson
U. S
Milwaukee
City
Thompson
Racine
Green Bay
Wausau
Prairie du Chien
Middlewest
Alaska
Canada
North Dakota
Gulf States
U S to Train Greek Sailors for War Duty
Dwight Griswold announced a U S Red Cross mission to set up an office in Salonika. Greek crews will sail to the United States for brief training before returning with six gunboats from the U S Navy.
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Athens
U.S
Dwight Griswold
American Red Cross
U. S
Salonika
United States
Greece
U. S. Navy
Double Vision Fish Cuatro Ojo Found in Guatemala
Smithsonian biologist Dr. Robert B. Miller reports a nine inch Guatemalan fish named Cuatro Ojo with split horizon eyes that lift above water for aerial and sub surface vision. The fish are wary and hard to catch. researchers hunted them at night with .22 pistols and lantern light.
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Washington
Guatemala
Robert B. Miller
Smithsonian Institution
Miller
City Officials Plan School Visits as First Step in Building Program
Kenosha officials will meet with the board of education and tour city schools before financing a planned million dollar school building program. The plan calls for a new elementary school at McKinley, a 600 seat addition to McKinley junior high, and a high school annex for industrial arts and home economics with a cafeteria. The board cites war shortages, improving material costs, and low bond interest as favorable factors and notes debt-free schools with $70,000 in debt retirement due in three years.
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Chicago & North Western Railway Company
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Washington Park
Park Department
Simmons Field
Industrial Arts
Kenosha High Se
Board of Education
McKinley
Joseph Hamelink
Kenosha
Temporary State Treasurer Named in Wisconsin
Gov. Rennebohm of Wisconsin appoints J. L. Sonderegger 32 of Madison as temporary state treasurer to complete the term of the late John M. Smith. Sonderegger, a CPA and UW graduate, will be bonded and serve until a permanent successor is named, with duties including paying state payroll and thousands of fair day checks.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Oscar Rennebohm
J. L. Sonderegger
John M. Smith
Sonderegger
Rennebohm
University of Wisconsin
Smith
Milwaukee
Wage boost for Wisconsin tax chief Wegner
Gov. Rennebohm signed a bill raising State Tax Commissioner Arthur E. Wegner’s salary from 7000 to 8500 dollars a year. The increase was achieved by abolishing and recreating the post to sidestep a law prohibiting pay raises during a term.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Arthur E. Wegner
Oscar Rennebohm
Wegner
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C. W. Nash
Michigan
Colonna
Kenosha Wholesale Beer Distributors Association
Wisconsin Gas & Electric Company
Joseph Lourigan
State Industrial Commission
Gilbert Petzke
Lake Geneva
Indonesia
ODT
Evelyn Byne
Eft
Carol Constantino
Information Division
Civil Service Commission
San Severino
San Jose
Jerez Dela Frontera
Capitol
Congress
Homelink
Joseph C. Wamelink
Hamelink
McKinley Junior High School
Kenosha High School
Ken
Jane Page
Wilmette
Chicago
Orchard
King Unchanged
Hitler
Firestone
Rochester
N. Y
Eastman
Thomas J. Haig'srave
Federal Trade
Day
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