Congress Rejects Half of Truman State of the Union Proposals
Congressional leaders criticize President Truman's tax increase request while pushing reduced spending as the budget nears 42.1 billion dollars. Lawmakers indicate limited chances for military draft expansion, Taft Hartley repeal, and other agenda items, focusing instead on social security expansion and aid to non Communist nations. Republican signatories assail the president as aiming for socialism and a dismantling of American competitiveness.
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Truman
Congress
80Th Congress
Washington
Trial Ordered in Edna West Child Welfare Case
Municipal Judge Ruetz ordered Miss Edna West to stand trial next Tuesday on a charge of operating an unlicensed child welfare agency after a 45 minute hearing. The case, which began in October and was adjourned for 30 days to allow compliance with state welfare rules, centers on 24 youngsters at the West institution with 21 deemed uneducable.
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Edward J. Ruetz
Edna West
Camp Lake
Miss West
Industrial Commission
State Department of Public Welfare
Harry Carlson
Wisconsin Telephone workers seek wage clause reopening
Arthur E. Lefevre, president of the CIO Communication Workers of America Wisconsin division, announced at Madison that the union asks to reopen the wage clause in the current contract. A 30 day reopening notice was filed with the company, the state labor board and the National Labor Relations Board.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Arthur E. Lefevre
Milwaukee
Lefevre
Wisconsin
CIO Communication Workers of America
State Employment Retions Board
National Retions Board
Chamber warns against pressure sales of natural gas
The Kenosha Chamber of Commerce cautions residents about aggressive out of town salesmen selling gas conversion units for homes. It notes unreliable equipment, poor service, and urges buyers to verify dealers and local service backing before contracting. Conversion work will begin in the southwest area Monday, per Wisconsin Gas and Electric manager H. M. Pauley.
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Chamber of Commerce Today
Kenoshans
Charles Dilday
Chamber
Milwaukee
Kenosha
H. M. Pauley
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company
45 Additional Mine Operators Seek Court Injunction
Forty five mine owners groups asked the NLRB to force miners back to full work weeks by court order. They filed unfair labor practice charges against John L. Lewis and urged Denham to compel bargaining and end the three day week. President Truman resisted invoking Taft Hartley powers.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
Illinois
Far West
Bethlehem
Republic, Jones and Laughlin
Inland
Crucible
Armco
Robert N. Denham
NLRB
Lewis
United States Steel Corp
Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers Association
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Truman rules out arms aid to Formosa after conference
President Truman announced a hands off policy toward Formosa, promising no military involvement or bases and stating the United States will continue only economic assistance. He said the U.S. has no predatory designs and will not aid Chinese forces on Formosa, with existing fertilizer and basic material aid continuing. The statement comes amid Capitol debate on Far East policy and resistance to military action.
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Washington
Truman
Formosa
United States
Mhine
Rweeeeayu Jer
United State
China
Capitol
Herbert Hoover
Taft
Ohio
Japan
Cairo
Roosevelt
Churchill
Britain
Chiang Kai-Shek
Republic of China
Far East
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mr. Truman
Kenosha Moves Into Third Phase of Sewer Construction
Kenosha city moves into phase three of its sewer program under public works guidance. Ten streets from 31st to 38th Avenues in the 52nd to 63rd Street area will get gravity and relief sewers to curb basement flooding. No assessments will be charged to adjacent property owners.
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Kenosha
Public Works Department
52Nd St
63Rd St
31St
38Th
Robert M. Smith
52Nd
36Th
60Th St
61St St
Smith
32Nd Ave
K.D
65Th St
42Nd Ave
Forest Park
79Th St
18Th Ave
Kirschner Highlands
U S Paper Confiscated by Czech Government
Prague reports the Communist led government confiscated the Czech language bulletin of the United States Information Service containing the U S note ordering Hungarian consulates closed in Cleveland and New York. The government also expelled a 26 year old Californian on a Czech scholarship.
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Prague
United States Information Service
U S
Cleveland
New York
Cold and Floods Hit Wide Areas
Cold weather and floods swept across the nation from southern California to the Midwest. Freezing temperatures damaged citrus and vegetables in southern California while floods left dozens homeless and caused multiple drownings across Illinois Indiana Missouri and Kentucky. Records set in eastern cities contrasted with arctic blasts in the plains as temperatures swung wildly.
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Illinois
Villa Grove
Ill
California
Dixieland
Indiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
Charles T. Hardy
St. Louis
Bourbeuse
Gerald
William J. Phelps
Lebanon
Ind
Steelville
Midwest
Arctic
Montana
Iowa
Rocky Mountains
Spencer
Mason City
Washington
Norfolk
Mayo Clinic Plans 10 Story Expansion in Rochester
Mayo Clinic announced plans to build a new 10 story facility in Rochester to nearly double capacity from about 85 000 to 150 000 160 000 patients yearly. Construction to begin by August 1 1950 with completion in three to four years at an estimated cost of 12 million dollars. The cross shaped complex will occupy a block and replace the two story Mayo Foundation museum of hygiene and medicine now on the site.
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Rochester
Mayo Foundation Museum of Hygiene and Medicine
Labor Celebration Opens Centennial of Samuel Gompers
The American Federation of Labor launches a centennial birthday observance for Samuel Gompers with a banquet tonight. Vice President Barkley and AFL president William Green head the speaker lineup as more than 1,000 guests were invited.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Barkley
William Green
AFL
Doctor Denies Murder Charge At Mercy Death Arraignment
Dr. Hermann N. Sander pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder indictment in the mercy death of a 59 year old cancer patient Abbie Borroteo. Bail of 25000 was continued with order to refrain from practicing medicine until after trial likely in spring. The case sparked nationwide interest as the state board of registration contemplates revoking Sander’s medical license.
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Manchester
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
New Hampshire
Harold E. Wescott
William L. Phinney
Abbie C. Borroteo
Arthur S. Healy
Sander
Harold L. Wescott
Wescott
State Board of Registration In Medicine
Atty
John S. Wheeler
State Board
Wheeler
Phinney
Board In Registration
Truman Plans National Public Power Program
President Truman said at a news conference he is working on a program to provide power across the nation where feasible. He seeks to develop the St. Lawrence power project and seaway but will not make it a separate program, insisting the whole country should benefit.
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Washington
Truman
St. Lawrence Seaway
St. Lawrence
Frigid Wisconsin Weather Clamps Down Across State
A mass of arctic air moves into Wisconsin with lingering cold tonight. Eau Claire reports 21 below zero, Kenosha hits 12 above, and highs drop to five above in the southeast and 10 below in northern areas. Noon in Kenosha shows 21.
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Wisconsin
Howard Thompson
Eau Claire
Kenosha
California Girl Survives After 107 mile Death Race
A 14 month old girl from Berrien Center Michigan inhaled a bean that blocked her airway after a toy bean rolled home. Ambulance trouble in Gary East Chicago and oxygen shortages delayed care but she reached Chicago and underwent immediate bronchoscopic surgery saving her life.
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Chicago
Wayne Aigood
Berrien Center
Mich
Patsy Ann
Francis A. Bowerman
Eau Claire
Gary
Ind
Bowerman
Williams and Burns Undertaking
East Chicago
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Senate Democrats shun irrelevants amendments
Senate Democrats agreed not to offer irrelevant amendments to any legislation including a bill to repeal oleo taxes at this session. Mrs Alger Hiss completed testimony at her husband’s second perjury trial in New York on the fourth day of court.
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Washington
Senate
New York
Greek coalition government falls after rout of guerrilla revolt
Athens reports the coalition government collapses following defeat of communist guerrillas. Premier Alexander Diomedes sent his resignation to King Paul as ministers quit en masse amid political crisis. In a separate dispatch, Wisconsin Telephone Co. aims for profits of 8.389 million dollars annually, per AT&T treasurer Donald Belcher before the Public Service Commission.
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Athens
Greece
Olingiod Sotey
Alexander Diomedes
Paul
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Donald Belcher
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
State Public Service Commission
Belcher
A. T. and T
Lewis Summoned In Damage Suit
Richmond court summons United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis to appear January 13 for a hearing on a 500000 dollar damage suit. The Laburnum Construction Co alleges a mob of union men threatened workers on two Kentucky projects after an unsuccessful bid to gain recognition for the United Construction Workers Union.
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Richmond
U.P
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Laburnum Construction Company
Kentucky
United Construction Workers Union
Milwaukee Woman Dies After Fall in Alley
Mrs. Cora Schultz, 45, of Cudahy, died from a skull fracture suffered in a Wednesday fall in an alley. The medical examiner noted a preexisting heart condition.
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Milwaukee
Cora Schultz
Cudahy
Conductor of Lutheran Hour Reported Recovering
Dr. Walter A. Maier, conductor of the international Lutheran radio hour, was reported recovering today from a heart attack suffered last Thursday. Attendants at Lutheran hospital described his condition as satisfactory and improved.
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St. Louis
Walter A. Maier
International Lutheran Radio Hour
Lutheran Hospital
Pauline Coggs to Speak at Kenosha Brotherhood Week Dinner
Pauline Coggs of Milwaukee prominent in civil rights will keynote the first annual Brotherhood Week dinner sponsored by Kenosha's Committee on Human Rights at the Eagles Club on February 15. Coggs taught sociology at Wisconsin Madison and at Wellesley and Howard. active in the Madison League of Women Voters YWCA and NAACP. worked with Urban League NYA and Office of Civilian Defense. cited in 1944 for outstanding race relations work alongside Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt.
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Kenosha
Committee On Human Rights
Eagles Club
Pauline Coggs
Milwaukee
Governor's Commission On Human Rights
Coggs
University of Wisconsin
Wellesley College Institute
Howard University
Madison League of Women Voters
YWCA
Madison
American Association of Social Workers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Chicago
Washington
Urban League
National Youth Administration and Office
Franklin Roosevelt
Brotherhood
B’nai B'rith
B'nai B'rith
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Optimists
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Frederica Bardwell
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Ruetz
Denham
White House
U.S
U. S
The
Associated Press
Ilinois
Mayo Clinic
Louis E. Wyman
Long
Hermann Sander
Mrs. Hiss
Says Phone CO
Lutheran Radio Hour
B'nai Brith
Chamber of Commerce
M. E. Baker
J. V. Quarles
Harry Chemeron
Jenkins Brown
Dan Cooney
Cooney
Rachael Milhaupt
Frances Hasenberg
V. J. Lucarelli
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