Kenoshan May Succeed Duffy on U.S. Bench
Milwaukee federal district post candidates include Judge Edward J Ruetz as a possible successor to Judge F Ryan Duffy. Tehan to vet nominees with Truman expected to fill the seat within weeks. Ruetz would keep his Milwaukee municipal judgeship if offered. Other contenders cited include Kehoe Cronin Becker McCauley Wasielewski Bitker Saltzstein Fox Swietlik and Swietlik.
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Edward J Ruetz
F. Ryan Duffy
Federal District Court
Milwaukee
Robert E. Tehan
Wisconsin
Democratic National
Friends
Judge Duffy
Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Senate
Duffy
Tehan
Ruetz
Truman
John D. Kehoe
U. S
Green Bay
Timothy T. Cronin
Carl R. Becker
William J. McCauley
Thad F. Wasielewski
Bruno V. Bitker
B. F. Saltzstein
Jerome P. Fox
Chilton
Gerald Clifford
Francis X. Swietlik
Marquette University Law School
USO Committee Adopts Standby Plan for City
In Kenosha a war time USO committee meeting at the Kenosha Youth Foundation heard Capt. R W Coe report a drop in Great Lakes leave crowds and naval stance against further USO expansion. The committee adopted a standby policy and will stay in contact with Great Lakes authorities ready to react if conditions change. Members present included L O Denyes City Manager Axtell and W B Tower with ex officio observers.
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Kenosha Youth Foundation
USO
A. E. Axtell
W. B. Tower
Kenosha
L. O. Denyes
Great Lakes
Coe
Naval
Lake Shore
Milwaukee
Chaplain Coe
Denyes
Axtell
Lawrence Baldwin
Edward J. Ruetz
Charles N. Miller
Ralph Alderson
A. C. Grosvenor
Community Fund
Jessel S. Whyte
Egyptians Seek Release of 3 000 Troops at Faluja
Egyptian negotiators began talks to free about 3000 troops trapped by Israeli forces at Faluja in the Negev desert. The discussions, overseen by UN mediator Dr. Ralph Bunche, aim to halt offensives during armistice negotiations and respect national security commitments.
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Rhodes
Faluja
Palestine
Negev Desert
Holy Land
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
Clark proposes drastic spy law changes to curb treachery
Attorney General Clark asks Congress for unprecedented wartime style powers to press espionage charges retroactively and tap wires for evidence. He endorses a bill reflecting FBI Army and Navy intelligence input from an interdepartmental panel after a long federal grand jury and HUAC inquiry.
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Congress
New York City
House UN- American Activities Committee
Marshall Heads to Puerto Rico for Vacation and Spying Law Push
Marshall and Mrs. Marshall depart Pinehurst by plane for a rest in San Juan Puerto Rico staying weeks at the Tenth Naval District quarters. He continues health recovery after kidney surgery and President Truman urged the trip as his resignation nears January 20.
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Pinehurst
N. C
George C. Marshall
Walter Reed Hospital
Truman
Fall of Tientsin to Reds a Blow to Chinese Nationals
Durban turmoil sparks race riots between natives and Indian immigrants in Union of South Africa. More than 300 killed, 400 injured, and $1 million in damage as rioting spreads from Durban into suburbs. Police and reserves deployed. state of emergency considered.
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Tientsin
Reds
South Africa
Durban
Union of South Africa
Johannesburg
F. C. Erasmus
Pretoria
Shanghai
Two Children Die in Minnesota Farm Fire
A farm home near Judson, Minnesota, burned early today killing Joan five and Larry seven. Their parents Floyd Roberts and his wife 33 and another child were hospitalized after Roberts smashed upstairs windows to drop the children to neighbors.
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Mankato, Minn
Here
Joan
Larry
Floyd Roberts
Judson
Roberts
Nancy
Japan and Germany establish direct radio link today
Japan and Germany begin a two way overseas radio telephone service, marking the first direct communications since World War II. The new link connects Tokyo and Berlin, signaling a thaw in postwar relations between the former axis powers.
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Tokyo
Japan
Indonesian Guerillas Claim Gains on Java Front
An underground broadcast said Indonesian Republican guerrillas slashed into the Cheribon communications network and drove the Dutch from Parjitan on Java's south coast.
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Batavia
Java
Cheribon
Parjitan
$996 Funeral Raises Cold Case Question
Hurley Wisconsin mourners say Simolke was buried after a Chicago find with 11 children and 25 friends identifying the body. The family paid $996 for a funeral while police pursue the mystery of who paid and why.
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Hurley
Wis
Simolke
Chicago
Jennie
South Side
Tapestry for Stalin in Bratislava for 70th birthday
Prime Minister Stalin will receive a large tapestry in Bratislava to celebrate his 70th birthday on December 21. About five thousand Slovak women have begun hand embroidering the piece, weaving Slovak folk symbols into the gift.
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Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Stalin
Kenosha Firefighter Relics Collectorairs Historic Tools
Peter Pirsch 83, president of Peter Pirsch and Sons, preserves a 200 year old leather water main from Winchester and a Boston leather bucket. His collection includes a German made smoke mask used in 1899, a pewter two foot trumpet for fire chiefs, a kerosene lamp marked with the fire company number, and a hand drawn pre 19th century fire cart.
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Peter Pirsch
Peter Pirsch and Sons Company
George Washington
Kenosha
Pirsch
Winchester
Our
Boston
U. S
Germany
Yesteryear
Missing cash bag spurs wide hunt in Waukesha
Postal inspectors and sheriff’s officers rushed to verify a report that a bag with about 80 000 dollars was found or misplaced. The pouch from Waukesha National Bank to the Federal Reserve in Chicago disappeared after unguarded moments at the Soo station.
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Waukesha
Wis
U.P
Chicago
Waukesha National Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Elmer J. Holmes
Holmes
Soo
Clarence Stankowski
Harold Owens
Owens
Jankowski
Hol
J. John Thompson
Springfield, Ill
N. H. Albert
East St. Louis
Ill
Frank McGree
Milwaukee
Soo Line
C. V. Whitchurch
Fall of Tientsin Shocks Nationalist China
Red forces under Lin Piao seized Tientsin after a brutal artillery barrage, routing Nationalist defenders and pushing toward Tangku and Taku. Radios from Shanghai and Nanking confirmed the fall, signaling potential further advances as Mao Zedong unveiled peace terms amid cabinet meetings.
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Lin Piao
Manchuria
North China
Robert Smyth
Berkeley
Calif
U. S
Smyth
Broad Victoria Road
United States Information Service Office
Tientsin
Nanking
Peiping
Fu Tso-Yi
Mao Tze-Tung
Chiang
James D. White
Associated Press
Airborne unit begins voyage home from Japan
Maj. Gen. William M. Miley and 40 dependents depart Yokohama aboard the General Buckner as the advance detachment of the 11th Airborne Division en route to Camp Campbell Kentucky.
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Yokohama
William M. Miley
General Buckner
11Th Airborne Division
Japan
Camp Campbell
Midwest braced for colder weather and blizzards
United Press reports a new blizzard and cold wave sweep the Dakotas with a Midwest wide chill by Sunday night. Rain and fog stretch from Texas to the Great Lakes with glazing conditions warned in Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Dakotas
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Texas
Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago Weather Bureau
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
East
Mukwonago Man Killed As Car Strikes Tree
Mukwonago Wisconsin Erving C Jensen 43 of Mukwonago was killed when his car crashed into a tree on Highway 15 near Mukwonago last night.
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Mukwonago
Mukwonago, Wis
Erving C. Jensen
Highway 15
Here
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U.S
Fes
Harry
The
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Alben
Barkley
Clark
Washington
Marshall
Puerto Rico
United States
Dominic J. DiFiore
John D. Steele
Portland
Steele
Evening News
White
Mao
Chang Chien-Hua
Chiang Kai-Shek
United Press
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