Petrillo to Ban Music Over Networks Next Year
AFL-CIO union head James Petrillo announced plans to stop recording and network broadcasts by the end of the year. He said network music would end February 1, 1948, arguing stations should stand on their own. He warned mass unemployment for musicians amid current industry practices.
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Washington
James C. Petrillo
AFL American Federation of Musicians
AFL
Petrillo
House
Stadio
NBC
New York
C. Fisher
Tex
Edison
Pet Fillo
Fireworks Ban Becomes Law Across Wisconsin
Governor Rennebohm signs a statewide fireworks ban effective January 1, allowing only public displays by licensed groups. Violators face fines up to 500 dollars and jail time. The measure also shifts liability to parents for actions of minor children.
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Oscar Rennebohm
Governor can remove D A for failing to report gambling violations
Madison Wis ii Atty Gen John E Martin ruled Gov Rennebohm can remove a district attorney from office if the county official fails to file quarterly gambling violation reports. The ruling clarifies under the Thomson anti gambling law that DAs must report complaints and dispositions, but no report is required if no complaints exist.
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Madison
Wis
John E. Martin
Rennebohm
Martin
Flying Disks Sighted Across 39 States Reported
Pilot recounts chasing a pearl gray clam shaped craft with a plexiglass dome that tore apart in his prop wash over the Tobacco Root mountains in western Montana. Reports describe flying disc sightings expanding to 39 states and Canada with a Cambridge Massachusetts mother noting others whirling at high speed unseen by Harvard observers.
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Bozeman
Mont
U.P
Tobacco Root Mountains
Montana
Baird
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Canada
Cambridge
Mass
Kingsport
Tenn
Oak Ridge
Legislation Allows Ex-GIs to Cash Terminal Pay Bonds
Washington lawmakers push two major measures in a tight docket. The house passes terminal pay bonds cashing for 9 million veterans after September 1, potentially $1.8 billion in bonds, with two-thirds vote required under suspension of rules. The same session targets a $4 billion tax cut and army navy unification debates continue in the senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rules Committee
Gasoline Tank Blast Rocks Sawyer Michigan
Explosion of two large gasoline tanks rocked Sawyer Michigan prompting evacuation of the business district. Flames menaced a third storage unit with no reports of casualties.
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Michigan
Sawyer
Mich
Wisconsin joins growing I saw flying saucer club
United Press reports Wisconsin residents witnessed multiple flying saucers over Milwaukee Janesville and surrounding areas. Sightings described as gold to silver shifting color with tails. one observed object landed in a priest’s yard but proved to be a curved metal saw blade and not a disc.
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Wisconsin
Joseph Brasky
Grafton
Wis
Holy Name Church
Wilmot
Erwin Rottman
Frank Phifer
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
William Humphrey
Janesville
Nationwide
Club
al Sievert
Howard Roth
Tempted Fate Too Often at Milwaukee Bar
Walter Isadore slept at his favorite Milwaukee tavern over the weekend. A helpful bartender woke him to return a wallet containing $150 after the first nap. On the second nap the wallet disappeared, and Isadore did not recover it.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Walter Isadore
Isadore
Miners Set to Strike Tuesday Amid Wage Pact Snarls
Washington reports at least 60 percent of the nation’s 400000 soft coal miners likely to strike Tuesday as last minute legal tangles stall a general wage pact. Captive mines supplying steel face possible walkouts as bargaining stalls threaten midnight deadlines.
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Washington
Northern and Steel Company
South
Midwest
Far West
John L. Lewis
Northern Steel Company
Scientist Otis Caldwell Dies in New Milford
Dr. Otis W. Caldwell longtime science administrator and former Columbia University professor died Saturday in New Milford Conn. He served for a decade as general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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New Milford
Conn
Otis W. Caldwell
Columbia University
American Assocition For the Advancement of Science
Holiday traffic sees few accidents in county and city
Despite heavy holiday travel, county and city police logged only scattered injuries in nine city crashes and three in the county over the weekend. Notable incidents include Herbert Kolmos, 23, of Kenosha, injured when his southbound car hit a culvert on Highway 41, and Chester Mathison, 35, of Waukegan, and his wife injured when a curve on Highway 50 overturned their car near New Munster. A separate late report noted damage when Bernard Rempaul, 24, Racine, was crowded from the road onto a power line pole on County Trunk E near Lily Lake.
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Sheriff's Department
Herbert Kolmos
Kenosha
Highway 41
Highway 43
Billups Browne
Albert Bornhuetter
Kenosha Hospital
Chester Mathison
Waukegan
New Munster
Browne
Bornhuetter
Mathison
Anita
Silver Lake
Lily Lake Road
Bernard Rempaul
Racine
Harry Schmalfeldt
Ernest Oberhofer
Illinois
Wisconsin
Ellen Rasmussen
Sixty-first Street
Twenty-second Avenue
John Zukowsky
Sixty-second Street
Helen C. Raven
Twenty-sixth Avenue
Housing Meet Set for Tuesday
City manager A E Axtell s office will host a Tuesday afternoon meeting to discuss financing the conversion of 241 dwellings to provide more housing for Keno shans. George Anderson chairs the Housing Authority with contractors and bank representatives invited and C R Nicolazzo of the inspection department attending.
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Kenoshans
A. E. Axtell
George Anderson
Housing Authority
C. R. Nicolazzo
Report Editor Saw Discs on June 23
Wapakoneta Ohio June 23 newsman Richard L Bitters editor of the Wapakoneta Daily News says he and his wife saw several flying discs the night of June 23 two days before similar reports surfaced in the Pacific Northwest. He delayed publishing the story for two weeks.
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Wapakoneta
U.P
Richard L. Bitters
Wapakoneta Daily News
Bitters
Niwo
Pacific Northwest
Wardens Sweep Lakes Here for Fish Violators
Conservation wardens and a supervisor held a day long survey in Kenosha county during the Fourth of July period. Nine wardens arrested 13 violators on charges including non resident fishing without licenses and possession of undersized bass. Four defendants pleaded guilty, others forfeited bonds. cases listed for Friday in Municipal Judge Edward J. Ruetz court.
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Court of Municipal
Edward J. Ruetz
Kenosha County
Robert Winnie
Wisconsin
Winnie
Czech Representative to Attend Paris Conference
The Czechoslovak government decided in a closed session to accept an invitation to the Paris conference on the Marshall proposal, despite Soviet rejection, according to semiofficial circles.
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Paris
Prague
Cost of Living Rises for Yonkers Police
Yonkers police officers face higher living costs after the public safety commission rules they must cover all goods and meals including fruit from street vendors.
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Yonkers
N. Y
U.P
Commissioner of Public Safety
Truman asks to admit displaced persons to U S
President Truman asked Congress to admit a substantial number of Europe's displaced persons as immigrants. He urged special emergency legislation, noting about a million survivors remain in western Germany Austria and Italy. He cited northern Baltic Poland Russian Ukraine and Yugoslavia as major origins. He stressed this is an emergency measure not a general immigration policy change.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
United States
Germany
Austria
Italy
Poland
Russian
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
Swanboat Sally Hatches Ducklings in Public View
Public garden swanboat hosts Swanboat Sally a mallard duck who hatched eight ducklings on the boat deck in June. Concession worker Robert Tukey built the nest beside the swan and Sally laid an egg daily, while Sally and mate Joe swam with the brood as lessons were planned.
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Boston
Sally
Duck Island
Robert Tukey
Income tax cut bill moves to floor after fast rules vote
Washington The house rules committee sent the new income tax reduction bill to the floor for two hours of debate and likely passage tomorrow. The plan offers 10.5 to 30 percent cuts starting January 1 with an expected six month total tax relief of about 1.7 billion dollars and 5 billion for debt retirement. Republican leaders expect to override a Truman veto. Senate action planned by weekend.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Truman
Rules Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means
Senate
Knutson
R. Minn
Rules
Congress
Rep Cox
Byrd
W. Va
Lightning Sets Barn Ablaze on Sluzynski Farm
A barn on Adolph Sluzynski’s farm near Route 3 Highway 43 west of Highway 41 was struck by lightning during a Saturday storm, destroying the barn and a corncrib and causing an estimated loss up to 15000 dollars. Somers volunteers fought the blaze for two and a half hours. nearby residence and outbuildings were spared. Deputy Floyd Hughes and Leo Sikora spotted the fire at 11 p.m.. rain totals reached .59 inches with a 10 minute downpour at two inches per hour.
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Adolph Sluzynski
Floyd Hughes
Leo Sikora
Somers
Frank Vilen
City Sewage Treatment Plant
Plan Quota System on Atom War Preparations
The United Nations considered feasibility of a quota system to limit each country's atomic activities. The plan was advanced by Atomic Energy Commission members as a compromise between rival U S and Soviet proposals.
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Lake Success
United Nations
The
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
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