Senate Labor Bill Hearings Open as Portal Pay Issue Stirs
Senate panels moved toward sweeping labor laws. The labor committee set hearings for January 23 to craft legislation by March 1, while the judiciary panel weighed bills to bar or curb portal to portal back pay suits. Senator Capehart warned that over 4.9 billion dollars in suits threaten many firms with bankruptcy. President Truman invited the Big Six to a White House conference on legislative matters. House Democrats assigned members to committees as the Senate weighs continuation of two special panels amid party divisions.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate Judiciary Committee
Capehart
R-Ind
Wiley
R-Wis
Truman
White House
House Democrats
Tecumseh Park in danger as gales aid in mid Atlantic
The 7163 ton Canadian steamer Tecumseh Park, badly damaged 490 miles southeast of Argentia, seeks port with two SOS calls. the crew of 41 is safe as army transport Gen M. L. Hershey and rescuers stand by with tug support. Meanwhile the Boston trawler Belle and her 17 aboard remain missing after five days in the stormy North Atlantic.
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Boston
U.2
Tecumseh Park
Stas
U. S. Coast Guard
Argentia
Newfoundland
U. S. Army
M. L. Hersley
Coast Guard
Ingham
Nipmuc
Foundation Franklin
North Atlantic
Grand Banks
U S Steel and CIO Postpone Negotiations
Negotiations between the CIO United Steelworkers and U S Steel Corp were postponed by mutual agreement until next week. No reason was given and it was not disclosed which side requested the delay.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
CIO
United Steelworkers
U. S. Steel Corp
Six Million Year Old Ice Featured in Waldorf Cocktails
Crystal clear ice from the Mendenhall glacier in Alaska was used to chill cocktails at a dinner party hosted by Thomas H. Beck, chairman of Crowell-Collier Publishing, flown 3,300 miles by a transport plane to the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
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New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Mendenhall Glacier
Alaska
Thomas H. Beck
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
James E. Tully Announces Candidacy for County Judge
James E. Tully, longtime Kenosha attorney and former municipal judge, declares his candidacy for the county judgeship to be filled in the spring election on April 1. A Kenosha native, he trained at Marquette, was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1913, and has served as court commissioner and juvenile judge. He is married with seven children and active in local and state bar associations.
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James E. Tully
Kenosha
Joseph H. Tully
Peter Fisher
Fisher
Tully
Marquette University
Wisconsin
E. B. Belden
Australia Proposes UN Disarmament Commission
Australia proposed at Lake Success that the United Nations Security Council create a disarmament commission and accelerate consideration of atomic energy control.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Australia
United Nations Security Council
Officials Fail in Efforts to Settle London Strike
London transport workers rejected official overtures to end a walkout that paralyzed the docks and threatened the city’s economy. About 65,000 engaged in the strike as 17,000 stevedores quit, with sympathy walkouts spreading and foodstuffs tied up despite military efforts to move them. The strikers’ committee agreed to meet again, while the TGWU leadership warned the situation remains unchanged and a broader walkout loomed.
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London
U.P
London Transport
London Docks
Thames River
Transport and General Workers Union
Arthur Deakin
TGWU
Midlands
Poland to Run Election in Its Own Way
Poland’s communist backed provisional government told the United States it would conduct Sunday's parliamentary elections without regard to Western opinions. It rejected Western charges of voter suppression and intimidation as unfounded and said free elections would be upheld despite Potsdam and Yalta guarantees.
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Warsaw
Poland
United States
Britain
America
U. S
Arthur Bliss Lane
Foreign Ministry
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Evanston Hero Turns Out to Be Burglar in Disguise
At the Cradle in Evanston a 19 year old, William Thomas Quirk, claimed hero status after pulling a burglar from a theft scene. Police later learned Quirk had entered the home to steal items and only found his way into the nurse’s room by accident. The nurse Dorothy Schacht reported the incident and credited him before the truth emerged.
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Evanston
U.P
Dorothy Schacht
William Thomas Quirk
Quirk
Miss Schacht
Dan Drieske
Rival Claimants to Governorship Set Up Offices in Capitol
The Kenosha board of education approved a new teacher salary schedule with higher maximums and annual increments. It increased pay scales for several groups and seeks $21,000 from the City Council to fund the raises for the last four months of 1947. An emergency appropriation would be needed if the changes take effect this year.
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Georgia
Capitol
Board of Education
City Council
N P Mischler Long Ill Dies At Hospital
Nicholas Peter Mischler a 70 year old Kenosha funeral director died at 5 30 this morning at St Catherine s hospital after years of ill health He leaves many friends and business colleagues and lived at 4211 Seventh avenue Mischler a Kenosha native spent his life shaping the community He was born April 2 1876 and held multiple civic and fraternal roles including police service undertaker license holder and active member of St George church Knights of Columbus and several local societies Continued on Page Eleven.
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Nicholas Peter Mischler
Kenosha
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Seventh Avenue
N. P. Mischler
John
Margaret Zimmer Mischler
Kenosha High School
Sterling Bicycle Works
Simmons
Frost Manufacturing Co
Mischler
E. G. Miller
Miller and Stanton
Stanton
Johnson’s School of Embalming
Milwaukee
Margaret H. Belting
John and
Gertrude Belting
St. George Church
Holy Name Society
St. Michael's Benevolent Society
Catholic Order of Foresters
St. Joseph Society
Knights of Columbus
Elks, and Eagles Clubs
Kenosha Chamber of Commerce
Wisconsin Funeral Director and
St. Catherine's Hospital
Arnall Refuses to Yield Georgia Governor Post
Ellis Arnall refuses to turn over the Georgia governorship to Herman Talmadge amid a collision with a rival administration. Arnall names Col. R. W. Collins adjutant general and seeks federal recognition as the state’s military forces converge at the capitol while Talmadge asserts control with the national guard ready.
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Georgia
Herman Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Talmadge
Arnall
Col
R. W. Collins
State Guard
Marvin Griffin
Griffin
Patterson
Collins
FBI Charges Textile Fraud In Washington Case
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of George A. Gormley and Louis V. Dionne on fraud charges tied to forged documents at a War Assets Administration textile sale in Alexandria Virginia. Textiles valued at 144000 were recovered from a New York storage firm, traced from a trucking terminal.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
War Assets Administration
Hoover
George A. Gormley
Louis V. Dionne
WAA
Alexandria
Washington, D. C
New York
Republicans Favor Continued Excises On Luxury Goods
Republican tax managers approved keeping wartime excise rates on liquor furs and jewelry. The move blocks an automatic 1.5 billion dollar rollback on July 1 and aligns GOP lawmakers with President Truman on the first major tax issue for the 80th Congress. They also push to cut individual income taxes by 20 percent, a plan opposed by the president.
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Washington
Truman
Ice Fishing Rules Spark Kenosha County Debate
Kenosha County Conservation Club members wrestled with long running ice fishing regulations during a Union building session. Fishermen urged a March 1 season for pan and game fish and night fishing, while State Warden Robert Winnie stressed law enforcement and Sander read a Fish Management Division letter outlining potential impacts on northern and walleye populations.
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Kenosha County
Illinois
Wisconsin
Robert Winnie
Phil Sander
Edward Schneberger
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Sander
Court Decision On Lewis May Take Weeks
The nine supreme jurists today tackle if government could haul John L. Lewis into court last November over a strike breaking action. Justices may decide by Saturday who writes the opinion. a ruling on fines totaling 3 510 000 for contempt is also pending. The session ended after Justice Jackson urged pursual of a jurisdiction question.
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Lewis
Washington
John L. Lewis
Supreme Court
AFL United Mine
Fred M. Vinson
First Bi Partisan Meet With Big Six Scheduled
President Truman will hold his first bi partisan legislative conference with the new congressional big six tomorrow at 9 a m at the White House. Four Republican leaders will join with Democratic minority leaders Senator Barkley and Representative Rayburn in this White House gathering.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Barkley
Rep. Rayburn
Tex
State's Financial Picture Brighter
Madison Wisconsin budget bureau estimates a general fund surplus of 16459355 by June 30, an improvement over last year's 12850391 balance. Budget Director E C Giessell cited a brighter outlook than last October when warnings of a potential 6 to 7 million shortfall were issued.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin
State Budget Bureau
E. C. Giessell
Four-Year-Old Boy Wears Full Set of False Teeth
Evanston Illinois reports a four year old boy with total anodontia wearing a complete denture set crafted by Northwestern University Medical School Pedodontia. Dentures, made of plastic with 20 teeth, may require updates every two years as jaw growth continues. The cause is unknown but thought hereditary, rare in women.
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Evanston, Ill
Northwestern University Medical School
Dental School
The
George W. Teuscher
Shearer Resigns as Wisconsin Senate Caucus Chairman
Sen. Conrad Shearer of Kenosha quits as Republican caucus chairman after disappointment over not securing the Education and Public Welfare Committee chairmanship. Ed Hiller of Racine elected to lead the caucus while Shearer remains in the group and steps down as senate president pro tempore.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Edward Hiller
Racine
State Senate
Conrad Shearer
Kenosha
Shearer
Senate
Education and Public Welfare
William Freehoff
Waukesha
Committee On Committees
Robert Robinson
Beloit
Education and Welfare Committee
Free Palestine Leader Arrested as Unwanted Visitor in Britain
Johan J. Smer tenko vice president of the American League for a Free Palestine was arrested and jailed as an unwanted visitor after arriving at Croydon Airport on a chartered flight from Paris. Immigration authorities met him on arrival.
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London
Johan J. Smertenko
American League For A Free Palestine
Britain
Paris
Croydon
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Atlanta
National Guard
Benton Odom
Richard B. Russell
Herman
Chicago
Justice Frankfurter
John F. Sennett
Justice Jackson
Sennett
Jackson
Court
Sonnett
Frankfurter
Big Six
Free Palestine
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