Petrillo Acquitted Of Violating Lea Act
AFL Musicians chief James C. Petrillo was acquitted of violating the Lea anti racketeering act after a three day bench trial. Judge Walter J. La Buy ruled prosecutors failed to prove guilt and Petrillo’s request for extra musicians was not a unlawful threat. Petrillo and his attorney hailed the decision as vindicating his position and the act as dead.
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Chicago
James C. Petrillo
AFL Musicians ‘Union
Lea
Walter J. la Bay
Petrillo
Daniel Carmell
AFL
WAAF
la Buy
Judge la Bay
Supreme Court
Carmell
Fire at Lima Center destroys mill and stores
A blaze in Lima Center Wisconsin destroyed the Meisner lumber yards the Reese general store and living quarters and the Cadman feed mill. Fire Chief Ben Kraeplin said the loss may reach 100000 with power and phone lines damaged. No injuries reported and Earl Reese family escaped safely from above their store.
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Lima Center
Wis
U.P
Whitewater
Ben Kraeplin
Meisner Lumber Yards
Reese General
Cadman
Ammuniti
Kraeplin
Earl Reese
Reese
Fifty Children Escape Fire at New Lisbon School
More than 50 pupils ages six to 13 escaped unharmed as fire destroyed the American Elm school near New Lisbon Wisconsin. The two teachers Mrs Isabel Nichols and Mrs Mary Ormson evacuated all children and saved them from harm. The building equipment and personal belongings were destroyed.
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New Lisbon
Wis
U.P
American Elm
Here
Isabel Nichols
Mary Ormson
Fire Claims Life of Mexican Laborer in Abandoned Boxcar
In Kewaunee Wisconsin Leon Rodriguez a Mexican laborer died in a blaze that consumed the abandoned boxcar where he lived Firemen found his body at the scene marking a fatal fire incident with a solitary victim and no immediate information on cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kewaunee
Wis
Leon Rodriguez
Pauley to Quit Army Position In Public Clash With Stassen
Edwin W. Pauley, former Democratic national committee treasurer and ally of President Truman, prepared to resign as assistant to the secretary of the army for procurement and mobilization. He criticized Harold Stassen for pressuring his record in commodity trading and vowed to press further questions as Stassen testified about Pauley’s market dealings.
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Washington
Edwin W. Pauley
Harold E. Stassen
California
Democratic National Committee
Truman
Army
Royals
Pauley
Stassen
Senate Appropriations
Royall
Army Department
Senate
Graham
Wallace H. Graham
FBI Arrests Five in Legal Arms Inquiry
The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced arrests of four persons in connection with an attempted illegal shipment of explosives to Palestine. The case cites coordinated actions by U.S. authorities and Palestinians in New York and the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI
New York
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Palestine
Bank officers named at Kenosha meetings
A series of stockholders meetings elected officers for the First National Bank of Kenosha Brown National Bank and Kenosha National Bank and named heads of Northwestern Loan and Trust company. At First National Lynn T Hannahs was named president and chairman James W Blair executive vice president Bruce Eastman vice president Paul Zielinski vice president Harry C Stine vice president W A Nelson cashier W C Gitzlaff assistant cashier G J Gehring assistant cashier James T Wilson re elected chairman of the board with directors J R Anderson J W Blair R P Cavanaugh A C Grosvenor Lynn T Hannahs Joseph Johnson G S Lance and J S Whyte. Brown National Bank officers elected include Lynn T Hannahs president William Thurn vice president Ed Haubrich vice president and cashier F W Wight assistant cashier Nels E Olson assistant cashier. Brown National board re electees were Lynn T Hannahs E Haubrich Russell H Jones G S Lance A M Neergaard Charles Pfennig William Thurn and J T Wilson. In the stockholders meeting of the company William C Crosby was re elected chairman and William Thurn renamed president and treasurer with Lynn T Hannhess vice president Marie M Ludwig secretary Leo M Brickley continuing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
First National of Kenosha
Brown National Bank
Kenosha National Bank
Northwestern Loan and Trust Company
First National Bank of Kenosha
Lynn T. Hannahs
James W. Blair
Bruce Eastman
Paul Zielinski
Harry C. Stine
W. A. Nelson
W. C. Gitzlaff
G. J. Gehring
James T. Wilson
J. R. Anderson
J. W. Blair
R. P. Cavanagh
A. C
William Thurn
Ed Haubrich
F. W. Wight
Nels E. Olson
Brown National Bank Board of
E. Haubrich
Russell H. Jones
G. S. Lance
A. M. Neergaard
Charles Pfennig
J. T. Wilson
William C. Crosby
Lynn T. Hannehs
Marie M. Ludwig
Leo M. Brickley
Racine Man Named Assistant U.S. Attorney
Ellis J. Hughes of Racine was appointed assistant U S attorney in Milwaukee by United States Attorney Timothy T. Cronin. Hughes previously served as chief enforcement attorney for the OPA and fills the vacancy left by Leonard Bursten’s December resignation in the local U S attorney's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Ellis J. Hughes
Racine
U. S
United States
Timothy T. Cronin
Hughes
OPA
Leonard Bursten
U. S. Attorney's Office
Seven Word Telegram Costs Woman 440 Dollars
Mary A Benjamin bought a seven word telegram at auction dated June 15 1864 from President Lincoln to General Grant. It read You will succeed God bless you all with Lincoln signature.
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New York
U.P
Mary A. Benjamin
Abraham Lincoln
Ulyssess. Grant
Lincoln
Get Automobiles Off Streets to Aid Plows Plea
City Manager A E Axtell urged Kenosha motorists to remove cars from streets at night during snowstorms to ease snow removal and reduce fire and street department hazards. He cited fines, existing ordinances, and examples from Chicago and Milwaukee as authorities push bans on street parking during storms. Objections include fire hazards plowing delays and higher removal costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Axtell
Axtell
Frank Grasser
Kenoshans
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kenosha
Library seeks mule reassembly guide from Fort Myers pupils
Congress Librarian Hopes kids at an Iowa School in Fort Myers Florida will follow a Smithsonian bone chart to reassemble a mule found as bones in woods. Milton M. Plumb Jr sent the bone chart and awaits word on progress from the class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Library of Congress
Iowa School
Fort Myers
Fla
Milton M. Plumb, Jr
Detroit
Plumb
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Mr. Plumb
Wallgren Grants 60 Day Stay for Jake Bird Murder Confession
Gov. Wallgren of Washington grants a 60 day stay of execution to Jake Bird a 45 year old man who confessed to 29 murders spanning the Midwest Wallace claims Bird's tale could link to 14 other killings Tacoma prosecutors say Bird seeks to delay execution and that authorities believe his accounts are an escape bid.
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Olympia
Wash
U.P
Mon C. Wallgren
Dwight Green
Illinois
Jake Bird
Middle West
Tacoma
Chicago
Kenosha
Lake Minchinan
AVAIL
Patrick Steele
Bird
Steele
United Press
Ard
Bertha Kludt
Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla
New York
California
Hades
Japan
Sherman Lyons
Dwight H. Green
Washington
Evanston
Ill
Wallgren
Joseph Henry Marsh
Green
Lillian Galvin
Edna Sibirski
Southern Michigan Penitentiary
Treasury chief urges repayment of Marshall plan aid
Washington held that the United States should require repayment in every practical way for Marshall plan loans. John W Snyder testified before the Senate committee that 20 to 40 percent of a 6.8 billion dollar 15 month down payment could be extended as long term loans to 16 western European nations, reducing the US cost to about 4.2 billion over the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
ULP
Treasury
John W. Snyder
United States
Europe
Snyder
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
U. S
National Advisory Council
Vandenberg
Congress
Lewis W. Douglas
Britain
Douglas
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Robert B. Chiperfield
Illinois
City authorizes land-based alternate water main
Following a harbor water main break that cut service for half an hour, City Manager A E Axtell and City Engineer Robert M Smith approve a 60000 outlay to fund a new 24 inch feeder main on land from Fiftieth Street and Fourth Avenue across Simmons Island Park to Sheridan Road. The dry land line aims to prevent future outages by bypassing harbor mains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Axtell
Robert M. Smith
H. T. Rudgal
Water Department
Kenosha
Simmons Island
Fourth Avenue
Fiftieth Street
Simmons Island Park
Forty-fifth Street
Forty-fifth
Sheridan Road
Fiftieth
Lew Heller
Public Service Commission of
Wisconsin
Truman cites inflation as chief threat and seeks standby powers
President Truman warned Congress that inflation endangers prosperity and urges swift enactment of standby price, wage and rationing powers. He pressed for a $40 per person cost of living tax cut funded by higher corporate taxes and called for restrained wage demands and price cuts by business. He outlined 1948 goals: 3 percent production gain, 59 million jobs, and a broad welfare and conservation program to shield the nation from depressions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Gandhi's Second Day Fast Aims at Hindu Sikh Muslim Unity
Mohandas K. Gandhi continued his 24 hour fast in New Delhi for communal peace in India. Doctors report a fairly good night as Gandhi, 78, seeks nonviolent unity among Hindu, Sikh and Muslim. He met briefly with Nehru and Patel to discuss methods to achieve heart unity while rejecting force.
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New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Delhi
Patiala
Gandhi
Sushila Nayyar
Jivaraja Jehta
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian Subcontinent
Pakistan
Krug Aims 60 Day Freeze If Congress Grants Powers
Secretary of Interior Krug said he would order a 60 day freeze of coal fuel oil gasoline and other petroleum products if Congress grants stand by price control power. He told the Senate Banking committee that allocation and rationing authority could require allocating and possibly rationing fuel oil and gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (P
Krug
Congress
Senate Banking Committee
Mercury Plunges as Eight Below Hits Kenosha
A sharp cold wave sweeps across the nation with Kenosha registering eight below at night and five above by late morning. The week brings frigid air from Wisconsin to as far as Louisiana and Texas, with Park Falls at 20 below and Land O Lakes at 25 below the record. California reports minor quake relief with cold remains.
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Kenosha
Wisconsin
United States Coast Guard
International Falls
Minn
California
Park Falls
Land O’ Lakes
New Orleans
San Antonio
Tex
Louisiana City
Six Die in Montana Shack Fire
Six people perished in a tarpaper and wood shack blaze in Billings Montana. Firemen found four men and two women inside after breaking down the locked door. All victims apparently suffocated.
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Montana
Billings
Mont
U.P
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Ilere
National Foundation For
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Congress Librarian
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Cleveland
Bull Run
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New Jersey
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