Italian Red Is Shot in Rome Sicily Bloody Aftermath
Milan and Rome exploded in violence after Antonia Pallante shot Paolo Togliatti, Italy's top Communist, as he left the chamber of deputies. Police used force to disperse mobs, tanks and armored cars deployed, De Gasperi called a special cabinet session, and the attack triggered nationwide strikes and political turmoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome—i
Palmiro Togliatti
Italy
Rome
Milan
Alcide de Gasperi
Wala Antonia
Re Pallante
Chamber of Deputies
Togliatti
Leonildelotto
de Gasperi
Piazza Colonna
Interior Ministry
Viva Togliatti
Senate
Vatican
United States
Russia
Student Slays Wave Officer in Lovers Quarrel
Seattle university art student Vernon S. Allen shot and killed 41 year old Lt Cmdr Margaret S. Jones, the Navy’s top Wave officer, then fatally wounded himself. Brill said the motive appeared to be a lovers quarrel as Allen fired from a nickel plated sawed off .32 revolver at Jones who was in a car with her sister Esther.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
U.P
13Th Naval District
King County
John P. Brill
Brill
Vernon S. Allen
Margaret S. Jones
Miss Jones
Allen
University of Washington
Harborview Hospital
Esther
Actor Sues for 250000 over Woody Woodpecker Laugh
Veteran actor Mel Blanc claims he originated the Woody Woodpecker laugh and seeks 250000 in damages. He filed a suit alleging theft against Walter Lantz, Castle Films, and the songwriters and publishers of the Woodpecker Song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Mel Blanc
Woody Woodpecker
Blanc
Bugs Bunny
Porky Pig
Walter Lantz
Woody Woodpecker Song
Castle Films
Ramey Indriss
George Tibbles
Leeds Music Corp
Buzz Bomb Tests Planned Off Santa Rosa Island
Extensive buzz bomb tests will be conducted off Santa Rosa Island near Panama City Florida on July 16 and July 22, announced by the Eglin field air force base public relations office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama City
Fla
Santa Rosa Island
Eglin Field Air Force Base
School Board Reorganization and Budgets Touted in Kenosha
Kenosha school board re elected officers at the 1948 49 organization meeting. New three year terms went to Saf tig Leonard and Lencioni. Contracts awarded for coal fuel oil and exterior painting to McNeil Fuel Badger gas including costs per ton and per gallon. The board approved a one year oil treatment for bins and heating equip ment and planned a September orientation for new teachers. A $7 774 burner contract for Lincoln elementary was confirmed. A city map showed 108 new homes in six subdivisions and crowding concerns in Grant district. The board allowed use of high school gyms for Veterans event logos. A summer census counted 11 527 youths aged 4 to 19 in Kenosha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Joseph C. Hamelink
Frank Siver
Ella Powers
Paul Saftig
Orville Leonard
Daniel Lencioni
McNeil Fuel Company
Fourteenth Avenue
E. C. Glerum
C. H. Lockwood Oil Company
Sheridan Road
Potente Decorating Company
Sixtieth Street
Lincoln Junior
Kenosha High School
Weiskopf School
Durkee School
Gastaldi Decorating Company
Fifty-seventh Street
Kenosha
American Foundry and Furnace Company
Milwaukee
Lincoln Elementary
F. E. Conner
Kenosha Housing Authority
Grant
Centennial Council
Conner
City Council
McKinley
Bonnie Hame
Soviet Reply to Western Demands on Berlin Blockade
Secretary of State Marshall disclosed receipt of a Soviet note delivered by Alexander Panyushkin marking a response to July 6 protests over the Berlin blockade. Moscow signaled no quick east‑west breakthrough as Taegliche Rundschau mocked the western protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Marshall
Berlin
Taegliche Rundschau
Soviet Union
Panyushkin
London
Paris
State Department
Moscow
Russia
Israeli Troops Capture Ras Al Ein Water Source
Israeli forces seized Ras Al Ein nine miles northeast of Tel Aviv ending Arab threat to Tel Aviv and halting shelling of Petah Tikva. In Lydda and Latrun area Jewish units pressed westward toward Jerusalem and captured Suba. Egyptian raids damaged Haifa El Affale. UN Security Council actions anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Jerusalem
Ras al Ein
Tel Aviv
Holy City
Lydda
Arab Legion
Jerusalem-Tel Aviv
Latrun
Suba
Haifa
el ‘Affale
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Stern Group
Rehovot
Palestine
Negba
Julis
Gaza
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Security Council
United States
Bonds Awarded For Vocational School Issue In Kenosha
Harris Trust and Savings Bank won 750000 in bonds at 2 percent with 10427 premium. Including premium, the true interest rate is 1.86 percent. Bonds mature 1963 with principal repayments starting 1954, funded by annual payments of 15000 until 1954 and 75000 thereafter. City debt expected to be 1696000 by Dec 31 1948. Other bids ranged from 1.85 to 2 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris Trust and Savings Bank
Chicago
Kankakee
Wall Street Journal
State Department of Taxation
Board of Equalization
Council
Northern Trust Company
Kenosha National Bank
Harriman Ripley Co
Halsey-Stuart and Co
First National Bank
Continental Illinois National Bank
Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtiss
Kenosha Bank
City of Kenosha
Wisconsin farmer claims gold strike confirmed by UW metallurgist
Clay ton Seever of New Auburn claims he found gold in Barron county. Prof Edwin R Shorey of the University of Wisconsin confirmed the samples contain gold though exact value remains undetermined. Seever plans to dig a 200 foot ditch and build sluice gear to extract nuggets. Nearby, two other prospectors also staked claims but no rush developed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Auburn
Wis
Clayton Seever
Barron County
University of Wisconsin
County Register of Deeds
Edwin R. Shorey
University of Wisconsin Mining and Metallurgy Department
Shorey
Seever
Malcolm Solberg
Dover Farm
Heide
Kenosha County
Nash Motors
Crossin
Nash Plant
Denmark
America
Thomas B. Jeffery Company
Nash Motors Company
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
International Machinist's Union
St. Mary's Lutheran Church
Anna Haus
Stanford
Douglas Stuart
Philadelphia
R. P. Munz Livingston
N. J
Christian J. Heide
C. P. Heide
P. C. Heide
Nels Nelsen
Two Boys Rescued From 600 Volt Third Rail
Chicago rescue after six year old Eugene Mullen and eight year old Charles Benbow fell onto a 600 volt third rail on the L line. An electrician pried them free with a flagpole and they were revived by artificial respiration. Hospital attendants said they would recover from second degree burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Eugene Mullen
Charles Benbow
Eugene
Charles
L” Line
Ebon Frank
William Donati
Frank
Canadian Railroad Strike Ends In Wage Settlement
Ottawa Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell announced a Canada wide rail strike is settled with unions agreeing to a 17 cent per hour wage increase retroactive to March 1. The dispute would have affected 150000 workers and had been planned to begin at 6 a.m. tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Humphrey Mitchell
Warren to Take Two-Week Vacation With Family
Governor Warren and his family will take a two week vacation in Sacramento before the Republican vice-presidential nominee begins campaigning. The trip follows a telephone call from Thomas E. Dewey urging rest, with a possible later conference in New York with Dewey not unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
Warren
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Philadelphia Sessions Set To End Tonight
Philadelphia Democratic National Convention proceedings run from morning to evening with calls to order by Rep Rayburn, prayers, anthems, and speeches by Lucas Whitney Dawson Cummings Myers Maw and McMahon. Nominations for president and vice president and roll calls proceed with no halt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Sam Ray Born
Texas
Marshall L. Shapard
Mount Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church
Phyllis Hoyland
Scott W. Lucas
Illinois
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
William Dawson
Ilinois
Homer Cummings
Francis J. Myers
Pennsylvania
Platform and Resolutions Committee
Rep. Rayburn
John D. Lindsay
The
Presbyterian Church
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Herbert W. Maw
Utah
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
United States
J. Howard McGrath
Fall From Runway Kills Workman at Wilton High School
Norman Raabe 31 died when he fell 13 feet from a runway while performing construction work at Wilton High School in Wisconsin. Coroner M. J. Lanham ruled no inquest will be held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Workman
Wilton
Wis
Norman Raabe
Wilton High School
M. J. Lanham
Embattled Southerners Win Extra Debate Time at Democratic Platform
Southern delegates won extra time to argue the civil rights plank as the Democratic convention moved toward naming the Truman Barkley ticket. The debate on the platform was extended to an hour after Dan Moody of Texas protested, while speakers praised the party and attacked the Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Dan Moody
Texas
James Roosevelt
A. F. Whitney
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Arkansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Virginia
Alabama
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Washington
Barkley
Convention
Dixie
Comparison of 1948 GOP and Democratic platform planks
The piece contrasts Democratic and Republican stances on civil rights taxation housing foreign aid labor and inflation. Democrats demand federal action to end discrimination, expand housing and a $0.75 minimum wage, while Republicans push anti-lynching laws tax relief continued, limited housing aid, and reform of labor laws without wage mandates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Congress
Simmons Wage Deadline Nears
Labor talks between Simmons company and Federal Labor Union 18456 drag toward Thursday as a 30 day contract notice expires. About 2,000 union members voted July 2. over 90 percent backed a strike if no agreement is reached. Company says negotiations continue with no settlement yet. Union officials offered no comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simmons Company
Federal Labor Union
Eagles Club
Motorist Killed Fixing Tire on Highway 69
A hit and run driver struck two men changing a tire 10 miles south of Albert Sea Minnesota on Highway 69. The dead man was Alfred Ness of Lake Mills Iowa and the injured man was Carl Juveland of Lake Mills Iowa, hospitalized in serious condition at Naeve Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Sea
Minn
UPI
Here
Freeborn County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pallante
Cominform
Alben W. Barkley
Leslie Biffle
P. James Pellecchia, Jr
Newark
New Jersey
Pellecchia
Wisconsin
Gov. Warren
Kenoshan
Lake Michigan
John M. Heide
Route 4
Haines Avenue
James A. Crossin
Sheriff's Department
Jacob Kriger
Box 189
Eugene Schend
Frank Odar
Congress
Platform Committee
House
Sam Rayburn
Perma
Democratic Party
Labor
Simmons
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!