Missing mail pouch valued at seventy five thousand dollars
Postal inspectors reported a pouch containing about 75000 dollars disappeared last night in Waukesha while a mail truck unloaded for transfer to a Soo Line railroad station. Investigators said the train and stations were searched without results and the fate of the pouch remains unknown.
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Waukesha
Wis
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Frank N. McGee
Charles B. Whitchurch
Soo Line
Clarence Stankowski
Guy Harding
Holmes
J. Harold Marks
Marks
J. A. Thompson Springfield
M. H. Alberts
East St. Louis
Ill
Frank McGee
Milwaukee
Congress Critics Tout Tax Changes in Truman Budget Battle
Congress shows resistance to raising personal income taxes while pressing for budget cuts. President Truman reiterates a plan for 4 billion dollars in new taxes mainly from corporations, with a middle income bracket starting near six thousand dollars. Lawmakers from both parties debate how to balance the 41.8 billion dollar federal budget amid calls for economy and tax reform.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Truman
Congress
Doughton
N. C
Tax-Origination House
Ways and Means
Dingell
D., Mich
Eberharter
D., Pa
Racine Judge Seeks Supreme Court Post
Racine Wisconsin municipal Judge Elmer D Goodland 49 announced his candidacy for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Chief Justice Marven B Rosenberry retirement. Goodland has served as municipal judge since 1941 and practiced law 13 years after Marquette University graduation in 1928. He is married with two children and holds roles with the state board of juvenile judges the Wisconsin Welfare council and the state polio fund committee.
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Racine
Wis
Elmer D. Goodland
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Goodland
Marven B. Rosenberry
Marquette University
Proclamation Calls Kenosha to March of Dimes Drive
City Manager A E Axtell urges Kenosha residents to support the 1949 March of Dimes from January 14 to January 30 to aid the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in fighting infantile paralysis. The drive aims to fund prompt medical care and restore activity to afflicted children and adults.
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National Foundation For
United States
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Kenosha
A. E. Axtell
Mistaken for Burglar Ends in Fatal Shot
Whiteburg Kentucky sheriff reports 12 year old Grant Cornett Jr was shot to death after beating a house door while dogs swarmed. The shooter Lester Polly 35 surrendered saying he fired a .22 rifle through the door after no answer to who’s there.
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Whitesburg
Grant Cornett, Jr
Herman Combs
Combs
Lester Polly
Acheson Wins Senate Committee Approval for Secretary of State
Dean Acheson won unanimous approval from the SenateForeign Relations Committee and is expected to face quick confirmation in the Senate. Chairman Connally said the nomination will come up next week, with Taft and Capehart signaling support. Acheson defended his stance on foreign policy while pledging to carry out final administration decisions.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Connally
Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Acheson
Russia
Truman
Wherry
Nebraska
Taft
Ohio
Capehart
Ind
Odom Sets New Light Aircraft World Record En Route to New York
Bill Odom, 29, flying a Beechcraft Bonanza, landed at Oakland Airport after a forced landing from Honolulu to New York route. He set a world record for light personal aircraft with 6.5 to 9 liter engine displacement, covering 2,061.7 miles to 2,374 miles in 22 hours 6 minutes, with a final course via San Francisco before weather halted further progress. Official NA A recognition pending. CA A estimates suggest about 313 miles beyond the Russian record. Weather forced a detour and icing over Nevada halted the nonstop attempt.
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San Francisco
Bill Odom
Honolulu
New York
Oakland
National Aeronautics Association
Civil Aeronautics Authority
A. Goussarov
V. Giebov
Odom
Seattle
Golden Gate Bridge
CAA
Nevada
Reno
Nev
Seek to Boost Minimum Wage Across Industries
Washington reports Wage-Hour Administrator William R. McComb asked Congress for power to raise the minimum wage by 75 cents an hour for some industries. He proposed broadening the 10 year old law and adding millions of workers to the 22.6 million already covered. The top request is a general 75 cent minimum wage replacing the 40 cent level.
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Washington
Congress
William R. McComb
Consulate in Tientsin Damaged by Shelling
The American consulate in Tientsin China was damaged by Communist shellfire, the State Department said. A shell reportedly caused a terrific explosion at a Shell Oil Co installation in the city, which Communists claim to have stormed. Charles Bud Wilkinson flies to Norman Oklahoma after talks on UW football coach post.
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Washington
Tientsin
China
State Department
Department
Shell Oil Co
Milwaukee
Charles
Bud) Wilkinson
Oklahoma
University of Wisconsin
Wilkinson
Norman
Okla
Billy Mitchell Field
Madison
Warden Bennett Found Dead at Forest Park Home
Arthur A. Bennett former warden of the Pontiac state penitentiary was found dead in a relative's residence in Forest Park. Police said a heart attack caused death per Dr S Schreiber. they will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Chicago
Arthur A. Bennett
Illinois State Penitentiary
Pontiac
Forest Park
S. Schreiber
Reds Storming Into Tientsin
The Chinese Communist radio claimed Red forces stormed into Tientsin at noon after an all out assault that began two hours earlier. The broadcast said they rapidly exploited gains but did not claim full capture of the 2,000,000 person port city. Suburbs had been under siege for two weeks with shells daily.
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Nanking
Communist Radio
Tientsin
China
Peiping
Shanghai
Two Teens Attempt to Blow Up Philipsburg High School
Two 14 year old boys admitted stacking a 90 pound charge of hazardous material sticks in the main entrance of Philipsburg High School in Center County. Police said the youths were frightened away by two men before any explosion occurred.
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Philipsburg
Center County
Damp Weekend For Wisconsin Weather Shifts
A damp weekend is forecast for Wisconsin with sunny today turning cloudy tomorrow. Light rain or drizzle expected in the south and east, snow flurries in the northwest, and cooler temperatures there. Tonight remains fair and mild.
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Wisconsin
Howard J. Thompson
Thompson
Green Bay
Mercury
la Crosse
Senate Approves Pay Rise For President and Top Officials
The Senate approved a bill boosting the president from 75000 to 100000 and adding a 50000 tax exempt allowance, with the vice president and speaker raised to 30000 plus tax exempt expense funds. House action is expected Monday ahead of the January 20 inauguration.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truran
Barkley
Gages Lake Man Killed in Crash
Robert H. Card age 23 of Gages Lake Illinois died when his car was struck by a North Shore train near Waukegan. The auto was demolished and passengers were shaken as the train dragged the vehicle 800 feet. Card worked as a plumber at St. The rese hospital and is survived by his parents and wife Denise.
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Robert H. Card
Gages Lake
Ill
Waukegan
Card
Jesse Card
Bristol
Homer Wilson
St. Therese Hospital
Denise Card
Rebels clash near Worak mountains leaves many dead
In a village in the Worak mountains about 70 miles southeast of Seoul a clash left thirty or forty rebels dead and four civilian guards killed yesterday according to reports from the area.
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Seoul
Worak Mountains
Wisconsin Assembly Debates Budget Bill and Annexation Rules
Wisconsin lawmakers introduced a consolidation bill placing accounting and welfare bureaus under the budget department led by E. C. Geissel. The session included annexation reform measures and funding proposals for veterans housing, with hearings set and a broad slate of legislative council bills debated in both houses.
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Wis
University of Wisconsin, Teachers Colleges
Department of Public Welfare
State Budget Bureau
Wisconsin Assembly
E. C. Geissel
Legislative Council
Assembly
Senate
House
McParland
Cudahy
Sen. Schlabach
R.-Lacrosse
Department of Veterans Affairs
Sen. Buchen
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Buchen
Highway Department Board
Public Hearing Set on Wisconsin Power Rate Increase
The Public Service Commission announced a hearing in Madison on February 3 to consider Wisconsin Power and Light Co. applying for a one million dollar per year electric rate rise.
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Madison
Wis
Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
New Directors Named for Fund At Annual Meet
In the Kenosha County Community Fund annual meeting at the KYF building six new directors were elected. Fund President W B Tower reported a total of 15594782 in contributions and pledges and 17000 pledges in 1948. Holdover directors include Rev Ralph Altstadt Sam Block and others. officers will be elected February 10 at the KYF building.
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Kenosha County Community Fund
KYF
W. B. Tower
Tower
Edward Paulson
Kenneth D. Martin
Bruce Eastman
Barton Groves
George B. Price
Robert L. Grover
Alex Schaff
AFL
John Beni
CIO
Lynn T. Hannahs
Chamber of Commerce
R. B. Whyte
Kenosha Manufacturers Association
M. M. Schnurr
George R. Cady
Community Fund Board
Ralph J. Altstadt
Sam Block
F. E. Conner
Wilbur Larsen
E. R. Moore, Jr
Rennebohm Reveals Partial Use of Office Funds
Gov. Oscar Rennebohm told the legislature he did not spend all of the $6,000 appropriated for executive office expenses for 1947 49. He reported spending $4,215 from March 13 1947 through the session opening, noting the remainder was unused.
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Madison
U.P
Oscar Rennebohm
Rennebohm
Governor Rennebohm Proposes Record Wisconsin Budget
Governor Rennebohm asks the legislature for 139.8 million dollars for 1949-51 to run state departments, warns no tax hikes if budgets are followed, and trims requests by more than 28 million from the previous operating needs. The plan taps a projected 45.3 million dollar surplus for schools and buildings.
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Madison
Wis
U.2
Oscar Rennebohm
Rennebohm
Commission On Improvement of
Treasury
Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1948 Named
The United States Junior Chamber selects ten men under 36 for 1948 honors. Milwaukee mayor Frank P. Zeidler and Arkansas Governor Sidney S. McMath headline a group praised for civic progress, anti machine fights, labor reform, and notable public service achievements. The honorees include George A. Smathers, Lou Boudreau, Elvis J. Stahr Jr., Walter Cenerazzo, Richard Harris, Thomas Hasbrook, Mike Gorman, Charles Hufnagel, and Elvis Stahr Jr. The banquet will be held January 21 in St. Joseph Missouri.
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Tulsa
Okla
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Frank P. Zeidler
Milwaukee
Wis
Sidney S. McMath
Arkansas
Hot Springs
George A. Smathers
U. S
Florida
Lou Boudreau
Cleveland
Mike Gorman
Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Charles A. Hufnagel
Harvard University
Medical School
St. Joseph
Junior Chamber
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