McMahon Warns Russia Builds Secret Atomic Plant
Sen Brien McMahon warns U S risks atomic attack if UN delays a global inspection system He claims Russia is secretly building a plant behind the Urals and urges international control to prevent a sudden bomb threat and to know who produces bombs and when.
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Sen. McMahon
Russia
Washington
U.P
Brien McMahon
Conn
Ural Mountains
United States
Senate
United Nations
McMahon
Black Market Sugar Ring Busted In Michigan
UPI reports OPA and treasury agents arrested 29 year old Sebastian Vermiglio in Detroit after a 11 hour surveillance. Vermiglio, named by police as a leading counterfeit felon, allegedly sold sugar to stores using forged ration stamps and possessed 1000 pounds of sugar, $1000 cash, and counterfeit stamps.
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Detroit
UPD
OPA
Michigan
Sebastian Vermiglio
Ohio
Ena
Wisconsin
Vermiglio
Tony la Rosa
Treasury Department
Toledo
Milwaukee
Government asks Supreme Court to uphold Lea Act
The United States appeals to the Supreme Court to validate the Lea Act, challenging a Chicago federal judge’s ruling that the law aimed at curbing James Petrillo and the AFL violates the First Fifth and Thirteenth Amendments.
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Washington
Belated WWI reunion ends in tragedy in Nashville
Thomas James Jackman of Lamont Iowa, a blacksmith, traveled to Nashville for a 28 year delayed WWI reunion with infantry buddy Walter Mims 51 a tubercular hospital patient. While they laughed in Mims home living room Jackman suddenly gasped and died before medical help arrived.
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Nashville
Tenn
U.P
Thomas James Jackman
Lamont
Iowa
Walter Mims
Mims
Jackman
Group Urges Higher Pay for Kenosha Teachers
The Independent Good Government Committee of Kenosha endorses the Board of Education’s plan to add funds and adopt a new salary schedule to start next September. Chairman John Murray releases a letter urging the city council to approve the funding, stressing education as essential to maintaining Kenosha’s standing and staffing quality amid teacher exodus. Continued on Page Thirteen.
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Board of Education
Independent Good Government Committee of
Kenosha
John Murray
Good Government Committee
Council
Independent Good Government
Mak
Bargain Rights At Allis Chalmers Kept By Local 248
Milwaukee report says Local 248 of the CIO United Auto Workers retains bargaining rights at Allis-Chalmers in West Allis after a voting dispute. UAW polled 4122 votes, Independent Union 4014, 116 for no union, with 50 ballots challenged. R. J. Thomas called the result a victory and urged immediate negotiations to settle the strike. The Independent group claims Wisconsin law bars bargaining with a nonmajority.
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Milwaukee
U.P
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Allis-Chalmers
UAW
Walter E. Petersen
Independent Workers of Allis-Chalmers
Walter Geist
Wisconsin
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
West Allis
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Independent Union
National Labor Relations Board
R. J. Thomas
UAW International
Allis Chalmers
Thomas
Walter E. Peterson
Independent
Cunningham to Speak Over Jerusalem Radio
General Sir Alan Cunningham, British high commissioner for Palestine, announced he would address the people tonight on Jerusalem radio.
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Cunningham
Jerusalem
U.P
Alan Cunningham
Palestine
American Writer in Britain Back in Kenosha with Bride
Frederic W. Doerflinger, son of Mr and Mrs Fred Doerflinger, returns to Kenosha with his English wife Elisabeth Grey after four years in England. A former war correspondent and International News Service cable editor in London, he served in Navy and Army intelligence and flew with 8th Air Force missions, earning recognition for frontline reporting.
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Frederic W. Doerflinger
Fred Doerflinger
Forty-fifth Street
Kenosha
International News Service
London
Eny
Britain
Doerflinger
England
University of Wisconsin School of Journalism
Kenosha Evening News
Chicago
Milwaukee
Navy
Army Intelligence
8Th Air Force
Russia
Berlin
United States
Frederic
Elisabeth Grey
Deaths, Traffic Crashes in Kenosha Injure Two
Police report three weekend crashes in Kenosha county with high property damage. Two men, William E. Duke and Reuben F. Henning, suffered head cuts when Duke’s car hit Hugo Lupi’s vehicle and crashed into Morrow Hardware. Duke was fined for drunken driving. Henning fined for intoxication. A second crash on Seventh Avenue damaged a residence porch, Kaumeyer charged with reckless driving.
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Kenosha
William E. Duke
Tenth Avenue
Reuben F. Henning
Twenty-second Avenue
Duke
Hugo Lupi
Sixty-fifth Street
Sixty-third Street
Morrow Hardware
Henning
Kenosha Hospital
Sixty Third Street
Lupi
George Trottier
Seventy Sixth Street
Trottier
Edward J. Ruetz
Carl Orgish
Raymond Gleason
Franklin Hill
Hen Ining
Sixth Avenue
Seventh Avenue
Carleton Kaumeyer
Winthrop Harbor
Seventy-fifth Street
W. E. Patneaude
Kaumeyer
Patneaude
Eight Injured In 15 Collisions Over Week-end
The weekend traffic toll rose as eight people were hurt in 15 Kenosha area accidents. Notable crashes included George Gregerson’s southbound car striking a cab at Fourteenth and Sixty-eighth streets injuring Matilda Gregerson and Tony Granitto. Betty Manderfield was cut in a second collision involving William Koehl’s car. A third crash involved Mark Moriarty hitting a stopped train. he was fined for driving without a license. A separate late Friday clash saw Joe Morrison’s and Mrs Phillip Bleicher’s cars collide on Seventh Avenue. The report notes further collisions and directs readers to Page Five.
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Kenosha
Fourteenth Avenue
George Gregerson
Sixtyninth Street
Sixty-eighth Street
David Livingstone
Thirty Second Avenue
Matilda Gregerson
Sixty-ninth Street
Gregerson
Kenosha Hospital
Tony Granitto
Betty Manderfield
Racine
William Koehl
Fifty-eighth Street
Peter Sebellc
Sixteenth Avenue
Koehl
Fifth Avenue
Sebelle
Thirty-fifth Street
Mark Moriarty
Third Avenue
Northwestern Railroad
Moriarty
Seventh Avenue
Joe Morrison
Thirty-first Avenue
Phillip Bleicher
Eighteenth Avenue
Morrison
High Court May Get Tojo Case
Defense attorney David F. Smith claims the fate of Hideki Tojo and 26 other Japanese war crimes defendants may rest with the United States Supreme Court. He seeks dismissal of the indictment and expects three days of motions as the tribunal president directs arguments on individual cases. He argues the conspiracy to violate international law was not proven and that hearsay evidence prejudices defendants.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
United States Supreme Court
David F. Smith
Smith
Washington
Secretary of War
MacArthur
International Tribunal
Supreme Court
William Webb
Tribunal
Pearl Harbor
United States
Evelyn Barker
Dov Bela Groner
Groner
Lancaster
Helen Friedman
Privy Council
Britain
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Ralph Windham
Tel Aviv District Court
Dairymen's League Fined for Milk Price Fix Scheme
Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe fined the Dairyman's League Cooperative association $25,000 and four officers $1,000 each after guilty pleas to manipulating the New York butter market to fix the January 1947 milk price.
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New York
Alfred C. Coxe
Dairyman’s League Cooperative Association
Lincoln and Slavery Credit Split Quoted Historian Claims
Dr Paul Angle of the Chicago Historical Society says Abraham Lincoln did not end slavery, crediting Illinois Congressman Lionel Trumbull who introduced the 13th amendment as the mover of permanent freedom. Angle states Lincoln was not involved.
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New York
Paul Angle
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Angle
Chicago Historical Society
Lionel Trumbull
Illinois
Trumbull
Lincoln
Fires Devour Brenner Mansion Causing $20000 Loss
Two fires swept the 16 room Brenner residence at Lake Shangri La Chicago causing about $20000 in damage to the building and contents. The first blaze damaged the living room and carpeting during a 3 hour effort by Antioch and Bristol firefighters. A second fire erupted later that evening prompting deputies to respond as flames were seen pouring from the structure.
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F. L. Brenner
Chicago
Brenner
Lake Shangrila
Antioch
Bristol
Kenosha County
Royal Dutch Airliner Crashes in Copenhagen After Takeoff
Royal Dutch Airlines officials rushed to Copenhagen to probe a deadly crash yesterday. The disaster claimed the lives of American soprano Grace Moore Swedish Prince Gustaf Adolf and twenty others.
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Royal Dutch Airliner
Copenhagen
Royal Dutch Airlines
Grace Moore
Sweden
Prince Gustaf Adolf
Senate panel weighs rent hike plan as housing shortage looms
Senate Republicans push a 15 percent rent increase and extend rent control to end of 1947. Hawkes and three colleagues argue private industry must lead housing recovery while Foley and Creedon urge government caution. The DC-3 crash in Sweden kills Miss Moore, beloved singer, amid national mourning for Prince Gustaf Adolf.
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Washington
Senate Republicans
Hawkes
GOP
McCarthy
Wis
Cain
Wash
Malone
Nev
Raymond M. Foley
Frank R. Creedon
Herbert A. Nelson
National Association of Real Estate Boards
National Lumber Manufacturers Association
CIO
Nelson
Sweden
Gustaf
Holland
Bernhard
Juliana
Netherlands
Boy Scout Movement
Gustaf Adolf
Karl Gustaf
Sibylle
Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
Louise
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Miss Moore
Slabstown
del Rio
Tenn
Congress tax cut aims hit by personal injury suits
Rep. Knutson of Minnesota, a GOP leader opposing the tax cut push, said the plan cannot proceed if personal injury lawsuits remain unresolved. He cautioned legal actions could stall lawmakers seeking to lower individual income taxes.
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Washington
Rep. Knutson
R-Minn
Congress
Portal
Steel Corp Proposes Contract Change to CIO Workers
U.S. Steel Corp proposed a new contract to the CIO United Steelworkers today outlawing the closed shop and providing penalties for failure of the union to meet its responsibilities.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
Grace Moore Dies In Copenhagen Plane Crash At 45
Opera star Grace Moore died at 45 in a Copenhagen plane crash while on a concert tour. She had just finished memoirs and may be buried in Tennessee, with funeral plans awaiting word from her husband Valentin Parera in Europe.
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Grace Moore
LaGuardia Field
Europe
Kastrup
Copenhagen
Denmark
Ee Men Tee Preternees
Hague
Miss Moore
Sweden
Valentin Parera
New York
U.P
Tennessee
Believe Slayer to Give Self Up
A person believed to be the Black Dahlia slayer offered to surrender to police on Wednesday in a taunting letter to the Los Angeles Examiner. Homicide Capt. Jack Donahoe called the note legitimate while Police Chemist Ray Pinker found no fingerprints on the card mailed in downtown Los Angeles. The message warned, Here it is Turning in Wed Jan 2 10 a.m. Had my fun at police Black Dahlia Avenger.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short
Los Angeles Examiner
Homicide
Jack Donahoe
Ray Pinker
Black Dahlia Avenger
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