State's Holiday Accident Death Toll Reaches 14
Fourteen persons died in Wisconsin accidents as the state paused to welcome the new year. Traffic crashes claimed seven lives and fires or other incidents caused the remainder. Notable deaths included a drowning near Ashland after a car broke through ice on Chequamegon Bay and a fatal head on collision east of Madison.
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Wisconsin
Ashland
Wis
Chequamegon Bay
Mark Mesich
Glidden
Sylvester Schiltz
Mesich
Martha Knoke
University of Wisconsin
New Highway 30
Madison
Lancaster
Frances Slack
Highland Park
Iai
Milwaukee
Leif Leum
la Crosse
Robert Gary Alderton
Peter Alderton
Cascade
Sheboygan County
Plymouth Hospital
Baldwin Pape
Waukesha
Don Breitzen
Menomonie
Earl Howard
Eau Claire
Mondovi Hospital
Margaret Dionne
Green Bay
Margaret Woelff
Raymond B. Sulkowski
Superior City Manager Expected to Resign for Quincy
City Manager William J. Deegan Jr. is set to resign tonight to take a similar post in Quincy Massachusetts. Quincy reportedly offers $12,000 annually, surpassing Deegan’s $9,400 in Superior. His wife disclosed the plan last night.
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Superior
Wis
William J. Deegan, Jr
Quincy
Mass
Weather shifts as cold snap returns to Wisconsin
Cold front moves into Wisconsin with freezing rain changing to snow by midnight. Windy, near zero visibility on city streets as moisture stalls traffic. December totals reach 4.13 inches, close to June’s record wet month, while New Year weekend highs top 50. Statewide snow flurries forecast with subzero northern readings.
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Wisconsin
Kenosha
Illinois Coal Miners Idle
Illinois United Mine Workers largely refused to dig coal today but the state president ordered a return to a three day week next Monday. Hugo White said he wired locals with no contract to resume, while John L. Lewis offered no statement.
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Illinois United Mine Workers
Hugo White
Illinois
UMW
White
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Virginia
Kentucky
Alabama
Tennessee
Terre Haute
Ind
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
NLRB
Radio Aunt Jemima Dies After Illness
Miss Tess Gardella known as Aunt Jemima on radio and stage dies at 52 after diabetic coma. She weighed over 400 pounds and was taken by ambulance to hospital after sisters called a priest and doctor. In 1936 she won $115000 in a Brooklyn federal suit against NBC General Foods and Log Cabin for use of her professional name.
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New York
Tess Gardella
Jemina
Brooklyn
National Broadcasting Co
General Foods, Inc
Log Cabin Products, Inc
NBC
Mercy Slaying Grand Jury Debates Indictment
An all male county grand jury in Manchester, New Hampshire meets to decide if Dr. Hermann N. Sander should be indicted for a mercy slaying of cancer patient Mrs. Abbie C. Barreto. Petitions from 800 residents press to drop murder charges while lawmakers discuss legalizing mercy deaths.
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Manchester
N. H
UPR
Hermann N. Sander
Ray S. Sawyer
Sander
Abbie C. Barreto
Nashua
Candia
Goffstown
New Hampshire
Traffic toll of week end as fog shrouds city roads
Holidays end toll lists 10 injured in 31 city and county crashes. Includes six injuries in 12 county wrecks and multiple incidents on Highway 42 with drivers and passengers named. Kenosha and surrounding areas report additional injuries and several property damage collisions over the long weekend.
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Milwaukee
Lake Shore
Highway 42
Anna Buchman
49Th St
I. E. Bowing
3Rd Ave
James Marshall
Albert Bornhuetter
Leland Chartier
James H. Lois
18Th Ave
Henry Hesbeck
Norton Trailer Park
Lois
Joyce Bonaretti
23Rd Ave
Roger Morin
Edward Krok
Kenosha Hospital
Don Mertes
Chicago
Highway 41
Lawrence Mertes
Robert Wallace
Harold Bastrup
Mertes
Marvin Holtdorf
Antioch
James H. White
Salem
Highway 50
Brass Ball Corners
Holtdorf
Ronald Meyer
White
Wallace and
Krok
Truman to Outline Fair Deal Ahead of State of Union
Congress opens the 1950 session with focus on President Truman's fair deal agenda. Tomorrow he will deliver the State of the Union to a joint session, with networks carrying the address. A tax message and budget plan will follow, while deficit concerns dominate talks of spending cuts and revenue increases.
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Congress
Truman
White House
Congressional High Command
Capitol
Rayburn
Texas
Barkley
Senate
Lucas (Sr
House
McCormack
Mass
Republican Policy Committee
Republican National Committee
Taft
Ohio
National Presbyterian Church
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
National Health Insurance
Rep. Reed
GOP
1950 Welcomed To Kenosha In Typical Fashion
Kenoshans welcomed 1950 with orderly celebrations and ongoing routines. The year opened with weather fog and a flurry of “firsts” including the first baby John Raymond Huck and first twins William and Bonnie Haebig. First police arrest Edwin Nelson and first sheriff arrest Edward Richter followed. The county saw its first injury accident and first city fire at the Dayton hotel. A three year old contracted scarlet fever as the first illness. National Homes Corp filed for a prefabricated house permit for Marshall Cross. Marion Franz paid the first city tax. County Treasurer reports first delinquent parcel receipts since 1941. County Clerk Lindgren noted no marriage license applications by noon.
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Kenoshans
Kenosha
John Raymond
Robert Huck
Rt. 4
St. Catherine’s Hospital
William Haebig
Bonnie Hume
St. Catherine’s
Edwin J. Nelson
Rt. 1
Edward T. Richter
Burlington
National Homes Corp
Marshall Cross
25Th Ave
Marion Franz
14Th Ave
Walter Anderson
Richard Lindgren
Milwaukee Police Cut to 44 Hour Week
Milwaukee policemen begin the new year on a 44 hour week after a four hour reduction from last year. The change was approved by the common council.
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Milwaukee
Common Council
U S Holiday Toll Tops 400 Amid Cold Wave and Fog
A UPI survey shows 401 people died in New Year holiday accidents from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, with 246 traffic deaths and 94 from other causes. Severe weather and fog helped curb the toll as blizzards hit the plains and temperatures plunged in North Dakota and Canada. The New Year total compares with 611 Christmas deaths and 804 for the last July 4 holiday.
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WUP
United Press
East
Midwest
Plains States
West
National Safety Council
North Dakota
Bismarck
Jamestown
Williston
South Dakota
Minnesota
U. S
Snag
Yukon
Prince George
B. C
Canada
Defendant Blames Mule Train Diet for Rooming House Fire
Albert S. Shoucair 31 says he cannot recall starting the blaze at his rooming house but claims long hours of Mule Train records driven him to distraction. He testified in Washington court that the loud phonograph playing six hours daily contributed to the incident.
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Washington
Albert S. Shoucair
Maragon Indicted on Four Counts of Perjury
Washington U P Dapper John Maragon long connected to the White House faces a four count federal perjury indictment from a grand jury. The charges arise from Senate investigators questioning his finances business ties and a Greece mission. If convicted on all counts he could face eight to forty years in prison with no fine. Maragon, of McLean Virginia, said he welcomed the indictment and trial.
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U.P
John Maragon
White House
Senate
Maragon
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Senate Investigating Committee
Union Trust Co
State Department
Greece
Albert Verley & Co
Chicago Perfumers
McLean
Prisoners Escape From Cabell County Jail With Smuggled Gun
Two life term prisoners Bernie Martin and Edward Cravens escaped Cabell county jail in Huntington using a gun smuggled in by a 17 year old girl. They forced Jailer J D Mc Comas to release them and fled in a taxi after grabbing the driver’s $14. Police across three states joined the manhunt.
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Huntington
W. Va
U.P
Cabell County
Bernie Martin
Edward Cravens
J. D. McComas
Tom Harrison
China asks U S for military aid to Formose defense
The Nationalist government formally appeals to the United States for real military and economic aid including military help to defend Formose against the Communists. Also reports hearings on the Chicago North Shore railroad discontinuing commuter service and a fatal truck train crash near Ripon Wisconsin.
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U.2
United States
State Department
Formose
Chicago
Illinois Commerce Commission
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
North Shore
Chicago North Shore
Waukegan
Businessman to Become Benedictine Monk in San Francisco
Donald D. Foster a 50 year old businessman and state employee will leave wife and home to become a Benedictine monk. His wife May will stay to settle worldly affairs and may enter a convent. Their daughter Marjorie Jean is already a nun and teaches in a parochial school. Foster resigns from the state sales tax division and plans a trust fund for possible monastic requirements.
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U.P
Donald D. Foster
May
Foster
Marjorie Jean
Presentation Order
Edna
Daniel Marie
New York
State Board of Equalization
Benedictine
Man Dies In Explosion After Triggering 10 DynAmite Sticks
Provincial police said Rage Floor, 41, a Pembroke construction worker, apparently blew himself to death by sitting on a charge of 10 sticks of dynamite. No others were injured in the incident.
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Pembroke
Ont
U.P
Rage Floor
Fire Destroys Hudson Armory in Wisconsin Blaze
Flames swept the 50 year old national guard armory in Hudson Wisconsin destroying a basement supply of blank rifle ammunition and small mortar shells. There were no casualties and the blaze origin and total damage were not determined.
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Hudson
Wis
National Guard
Plane Crash Hurts 8 at Salt Lake City
A 21 passenger DC-3 of Challenger Airlines skidded after landing at Salt Lake municipal airport during a snowstorm. It tore a fence, smashed into a car injuring four people. One woman among nine passengers and three crew members was hurt. The car skid along a highway fence and the plane tipped on its wing in a field.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Municipal
Challenger Airlines
Taft and Hoover Urge Force to Protect Formosa
U S Republican leaders Herbert Hoover and Taft of Ohio call for armed force if needed to defend Formosa from Chinese Communists. They push a three point program including naval power and nonrecognition, signaling a shift as Congress returns to business and Truman weighs policy.
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Hoover
Formosa
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Ohio
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China
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Far East
GOP
Islands
Chiang Kai- Shek
Pacific
Asia
Knowland
R.calif
State Department
Administration
Senate
Whig House
Connally
D.-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Acheson
Republican Committee
Acheson
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