Death takes former Senator Irvine Lenroot
Former Wisconsin senator Irvine Lenroot died after a two month illness at his home. He would have turned 80 next Monday and served as a key Republican leader in the 1920s. Funeral plans were set for Friday with burial in Superior, Wisconsin. He is survived by his widow Eleanor von Eitz and daughter Katherine Lenroot.
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Washington
Irvine L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
United States
GOP
Warren Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Harding
Lenroot
Superior
Wis
Eleanore von Eitz
Katherine F. Lenroot
Children’s Bureau
Social Security Administration
Clara Clough
Miss Lenroot
United States Court of Custom and Patent Appeals
Horatio Alger
Lars
Fredrica Lenroot
Sweden
Wisconsin Senate Backs Constitutional Amendments For Housing Aid And Tax Powers
The Wisconsin Senate unanimously approved a resolution to amend the constitution to allow state aid for veterans housing authorities, with the plan heading to the assembly and then the April 5 ballot. A second unanimous measure would permit taxation of federal land in Wisconsin.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Senate
Assembly
Supreme Court
Senate
Wisconsin
Sen
Schlabach
LaCrosse
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Schl
Taxpayers
Roger W. Gerling
Kenosha Taxpayers, Inc
John Armstrong
Juneau County Taxpayers Alliance
Thomas Mills
Jackson County Taxpayers Alliance
Joint Judiciary Committee
Molinaro Cites PSC Raw Deal Bus Rule
Wisconsin lawmakers Molinaro and Kendzierski call for a five member public service commission representing labor industry small business farming and the public The plan would replace the current three member PSC and base representation on voting districts or geographic areas
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Molinaro
PSC
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Public Service Commission
George Molinaro
Kenosha
Casimir Kendzierski
Milwaukee
Cardinal Bus Company
Commission
Tyrone Power Wedding in Rome Sparks Rioting Crowd
Tyrone Power and Linda Christian wed at Santa Francesca Romana in Rome with a wild mob shouting Linda and forcing police and a riot platoon to guard the church. The ceremony by MSGR William Hemmick drew Bari witnesses and a Vatican audience followed before a reception at Ambassador Dunn’s home.
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Rome
Linda Christian
Tyrone Power
Hollywood
Santa Francesca Romana
Colosseum
Linda
United States
James C. Dunn
Power
Msgr
William Hemmick
Washington, D. C
Miss Christian
Mendelssohn
Signor
Leone Miglievich
George Ornstein
United Artists
Tyrone
Vatican
Dunn
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
Rosa Blanca Welter
Annabella
California
Powers
Wind Machine Aids California Citrus Frost Defense
Robert J. Zievers of Pomona unveils a 31 foot wind machine that saves citrus in California by circulating a rotating wind stream. Installed cost is 1500 dollars with 15 cents per hour electricity. during the coldest nights it runs alongside conventional heating and smudging with only negligible damage reported.
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Robert J. Zievers
Carl Zievers
73Rd St
California
Zievers
Pomona
Cal
Kenoshan
Kenosha
High School
Marquette University
Kenosha Man Hurt In Milwaukee Train Crash
A Milwaukee collision left 13 injured when a North Shore train struck a car driven by 19 year old Neil Boucher and a second vehicle hit spectators at the scene. Arent was hospitalized with unspecified injuries.
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Willard
54Th St
North Shore
Milwaukee
Neil Boucher
Boucher
James Pierce
Arent
Veteran Waupaca GAR Leader Dies at 61
Col. William Anthony Holden longtime Grand Army home commander in Waupaca Wisconsin died today from a heart ailment after a week of illness. A veteran of World War I and II, he served with the 128th Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Division. He was born in Sparta Wisconsin.
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Waupaca
Wis
William Anthony Holden
Grand Army
Holden
128Th
Sparta
Weathermen Attend Meeting In Snow Clampdown
About 200 meteorologists at the 101st American Meteorological Society session faced a snowy sleet shower. An enterprising reporter found only about one quarter carried galoshes rain coats or umbrellas, leaving sidewalks slushy and wet.
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New York
American Meteorological Society
1919th Graders Will Graduate At Rites Friday
Ninety one ninth graders will graduate from Lincoln Washington and McKinley Junior high schools in ceremonies Friday. Lincoln will dramatize junior high days with 79 graduates presenting scenes including a monitor meeting and a school dance. Washington will honor figures Clara Barton Booker T Washington Helen Keller Ludwig Van Beethoven and Abraham Lincoln with a skit Success Through Effort and music. McKinley will graduate 65 students in a variety program featuring music solos poems and recitations led by president Fred Bistrick and Dolores Pocan of the 9B class.
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Lincoln
Washington
McKinley
Lincoln Junior High School
Wilson's
Pasqually’s
Clara Barton
Booker T. Washington
Helen Keller
Ludwig van Beethoven
Abraham Lincoln
Marilyn Juhnke
Robert Costen
Alessandro Savaglio
Eugene Thomas
Mariiea Kraemer
Robert Mackey
McKinley Junior High School
Fred Bistrick
Dolores Pocan
GOP Faction Moves to Oust Scott as Chairman
A Maryland Republican Jacob France proposed at an open GOP meeting that Hugh D. Scott Jr. be ousted as national chairman. France accused Scott of aiding Gov. Dewey and manipulating the committee by naming an executive panel after authority was given. He questioned Scott’s plans for 1952 and urged resignation to avoid turmoil.
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Neb
U.P
Republican National Committee
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Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Scott
Jacob France
Maryland
Harrison E. Spangler
Iowa
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Pennsylvania
Carroll Reece
Taft
J. Russell Sprague
Mason Owlett
Owlett
Sprague
Hugh
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Jake
Reece
Senate
Walter Hallanan
West Virginia
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Ohio
Minnesota
Roy E. Dunn
Minneapolis
Tennessee
Wisconsin Faces Treacherous Weather Across State
The state endures rain sleet snow and fog with Kenosha County receiving the heaviest snow. Fog and freezing rain complicate travel from Rhinelander to central and northern sections as crews address hazardous spots. Temperatures dip to four below in the Superior Duluth area while Milwaukee tops at 30. More snow and sleet expected tonight and Friday.
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Wisconsin
Howard Thompson
Kenosha County
Rhinelander
Superior- Duluth
Milwaukee
Missing B-29 From Dakar Flight Believed Lost
U S Air Force headquarters says a B 29 with 15 aircrew and personnel aboard is missing on a flight from Dakar French West Africa to England. Rescue efforts underway as search continues for the aircraft and crew.
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London
U. S. Air Force
Dakar
French West Africa
England
Blind Woman Burned To Death at Luxemburg
In Luxemburg Wisconsin Barbara Rank a 77 year old blind woman died after her clothes caught fire as she attempted to remove ashes from a kitchen stove.
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Luxemburg
Wis
U.P
Barbara Rank
40 Hour Week Returns at Simmons Bedding Plant
Simmons bedding equipment factory resumes a 40 hour workweek after a temporary 35 hour schedule following a order downturn. About 70 workers were laid off, many recalled as new orders came in. Other local plants report mixed schedules, with American Brass and Nash Kell among those at 40 hours while Tri Clover maintains full week production.
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American Brass Company
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Macwhyte Company
Frost Company
Tri-Clover Machine Company
Kenosha
Cudahy
Tri Clover
Congress Considers Voluntary Racial Relocation Program
A bill by Senator Russell proposes a multi billion dollar voluntary program to move up to 1.5 million Black families from the south to the north and white residents in the opposite direction. The plan would create a federal relocation commission to facilitate cross racial migration with state consent and would fund 500 million dollars for the current year and 1 billion dollars annually for the next four fiscal years.
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Washington
Congress
Senator Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Racial Relocation Commission
Proposes Higher Age on Beer Sales
Donald C. O'Melia of Rhinelander urged raising the beer sale age to 21 to curb juvenile delinquency. As president of the Wisconsin District Attorneys association, he spoke at the winter conference, predicting lawmakers will likely approve an amendment. Current law sets 18 as the minimum age.
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Milwaukee
Donald C. O’melia
Rhinelander
O’melia
Wisconsin District Attorneys Association
School Operation Shifted at Waukesha Boys School
The state board of public welfare ordered the Waukesha Boys school to resume operations on Gov. Rennebohm’s recommendation. No change in staff will occur despite low morale and stricter inmate conduct.
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Madison
Wis
State Board of Public Welfare
Public Welfare Department
Waukesha Boys School
Rennebohm
A. W. Bayley
Duffy Nomination Advances to Seventh Circuit Seat
The Senate judiciary committee approved the nomination of U.S. District Judge F. Ryan Duffy to a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
U. S
F. Ryan Duffy
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Canadian Communist official seized by FBI in New York
FBI agents arrested Sam Carr former organizing secretary of the Canadian Communist party in a basement apartment at 115 West 74th Street New York. Hoover said Canadian royal commission found Carr active in recruiting Soviet agents for wartime spying on atomic matters and defense secrets.
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Washington
U.P
FBI
Sam Carr
Communist Party
Carr
West 74Th St
New York
J. Edgar Hoover
Royal Commission
Canada
Retired Admiral David Foote Sellers Dies at 74
Washington U S Adm. David Foote Sellers a former commander in chief of the U S fleet died today at the Naval hospital aged 74. He had suffered illness for some time and was admitted in September. Sellers saw action in the Spanish American War the 1899 Samoan campaign the 1903 Philippine insurrection and commanded the battleship Wisconsin in the Atlantic during World War I.
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Washington
U.S
David Foote Sellers
Naval Hospital
Sellers
Wisconsin
Landlords Threaten Mass Evictions Across Major Cities
President Truman dismissed wholesale evictions as a poor tactic in protest against rent control. He cited Tulsa as the spark and said Federal Rent Director Woods may seek remedial action. Over 20,000 families faced possible eviction as owners in eight cities threatened to quit government rent controls.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Tulsa
Oklo
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Great Oil Center
Oklahoma
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Detroit
Denver
Minneapolis
Grand Rapids
Oklahoma City
Chicago
St. Louis
Madison
Wis
Lincoln
Neb
Philadelphia
Carthage
Tulsa Property Owners Association
American Property Owners Association
William Schmidt
APOA
Omaha
Milwaukee property owners back Tulsa plan to repeal rent controls
Milwaukee property owners will vote Monday on sending eviction notices to about 5000 tenants to protest rent control. The Milwaukee Property Owners Association board urged members to join the Tulsa plan, led by president Joseph J. Ott, who said the action reflects dissatisfactions with current conditions and a rebellion against tyranny.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Milwaukee Property Owners Association
Tulsa
Joseph J. Ott
Truman Forum Details World Aid Plan and Poll Doubts
President Truman outlined a plan to aid underdeveloped regions with U S expertise, to unfold over four years. He asked Congress for an extra 1 million dollars for disaster relief, partly for the storm battered West. He dismissed polls’ reliability and invited Canada’s Prime Minister to Washington in February for a short visit. He defended his reception at inauguration and noted no snub toward those in the parade.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Louis St. Laurent
Canada
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Racine Judge Endorsed for Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat
The Racine County Bar Association endorses Municipal Judge Elmer D. Goodland as a candidate in the April election for the Wisconsin supreme court seat to be vacated January 1 1950 by Chief Justice Marvin B Rosenberry.
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Racine, Wis
Racine County Bar Association
Elmer D. Goodland
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Goodland
Marvin B. Rosenberry
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