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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1950
Page
1
Washington jurors were selected for Harold Christoffel’s second trial on perjury charges after a day and a half of selection. An eight-woman four-man panel was chosen.
A U S Air Force C 47 searching for a missing C 54 crashed in Yukon near Mount Caribou. Pilot Lt Charles R Harden and crew from Elmendorf Field Anchorage were injured or unaccounted as rescue teams and planes scoured 43 500 square miles.
Kenosha Motor Coach delays PSC ordered revisions to city bus network amid council protest over routes. Proposals include eliminating 14th Ave service, new Brown and Orange lines, and a 60 day trial for the 22nd Ave district. City reviews protest before forwarding to the Public Service Commission.
President Truman calls for seventy days of full coal production starting Feb 6 and a presidential three-member fact-finding board to issue recommendations within sixty days. The plan, to be released to John L. Lewis and coal operators, aims to ease hardship on miners and avert economic disruption while negotiations resume.
Police seek a suspect after six pistol shots fired from a moving car into the Nash Motors division foundry drop forge section on 60th Street. The bullets passed over about 40 workers, shattered 11 by 14 windows, and several holes were found. no bullets recovered.
The 740 ton German freighter Diamus sank near Langeroog in the North Sea. Eight crew members are missing while the British tug Rumania rescued an undetermined number of survivors. Diamus was traveling from Wismar to Antwerp. cause of sinking not yet known.
In Bridgeport Connecticut Carol Ann Paight 21 a college senior faces trial for killing her father Police Sgt Carl Paight 52 as he lay in hospital. Her mother Mary Nolan Paight testified that Carol could not have been of sound mind citing religious beliefs and fear of cancer as motivators. The defense seeks to prove temporary insanity explaining Carol froze at the news of her father’s incurable cancer and later fired one shot from his service revolver.
In Cucamonga California a $1,000,000 fire at Pioneer Vineyard association winery destroyed 1.5 million gallons of wine. Thomas B. Wyllie died after an 40,000 gallon vat explosion. 75 vats exploded and windows shook over a mile away as firefighters battled the flames.
Beloit Wis has been chosen as the host city for the Fraternal Order of Eagles state convention to be held June 21 to 24. State Eagles secretary Arthur Ehrmann Milwaukee advised Beloit aerie president John Burman that a poll of state officers selected Beloit as the 1950 convention city.
Federal mediation director Cyrus S. Ching rushes to Washington to lead peace efforts as a nationwide telephone strike threatens. Beirne of the Communications Workers of America says 100000 workers will strike in eight days unless a contract deadlock with Bell System firms ends.
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson reports for the first half of 1949 that the United States has progressed toward greater national security and permanent peace. He says prospects of averting another world conflict are improving as our strength grows, with armed forces unified into an efficient team backed by U S productivity.
In Lucca Italy a 30 year old housewife Maria Bianchi gave birth to quintuplet girls seven months premature last Saturday. Two were stillborn and the other three died within hours after birth. The mother is reported to be well by the hospital.
The CIO Communications Workers of America announced a nationwide strike of 100 000 Bell System workers for February 8 across 90 Wisconsin communities including about 500 Western Electric installers and sales staff. In Milwaukee 8500 CWA members with Wisconsin Telephone Co will not cross picket lines. Union officials expect over 200 000 non striking members to observe. The Wisconsin division nears mid contract renewal with wage talks set to begin February 7.
Philadelphia surgeons at a hospital disclosed a cancer patient received a metal jawbone substitute weighing six ounces. The three hour operation replaced the left jaw side using a vitallium replica and internal wiring, with no external scars.
A white snow cover settled over Kenosha with forecasted flurries and cold, while southern Wisconsin saw two to three inches of snow and a low near three degrees. By noon temperatures rose to 28, eight degrees above Monday's high, and tonight will drop to eight to 15 in the south with a warmup expected Wednesday.
The Atomic Energy Commission says weapons production and stockpiling rose this year, with a shift to an industrial scale operation. It reports new benchmarks in peacetime atomic research, plans on hydrogen forms studied, and record outputs of uranium and plutonium without endorsing hydrogen bomb development.
Two gunmen robbed the First Federal Savings and Loan bank in South Bend of $5713 at 9 10 am CST and fled on a Chicago South Shore and South Bend electric train. They were captured an hour later as they stepped off a train in Michigan City.
The French National Assembly delivered Premier Georges Bidault three swift confidence votes on the 1950 budget while a fourth ballot ended in an unprecedented tie, signaling tight parliamentary support.
Berlin Wisconsin constable Theodore Schrei aged 43 died when a 12 foot ladder tipped after a tree limb struck it causing him to fall. He was trimming a tree on Monday when the accident occurred.
Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan told the Senate agriculture committee that the government may dump and let rot part of 1949 surplus potatoes. He estimates 45.6 to 50 million bushels may be bought under price support, plus about 20 million already on hand, with diversion to livestock feed or alcohol likely but costly. The National Potato Council urged spending 10 to 12 million more to move potatoes into industrial channels.
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