Full Fashioned Tells of Serious Plant Problems
Rich ard Edge president mails to all employees and preferred stockholders a background on Kenosha Full Fashioned Mills dire circumstances. The firm began in 1939 with 700000 capital from employees and RFC and bank loans. Under capitalization, the plant faced possible closure within six months. Through teamwork and modernization the company expanded and survived, but in 1948 nylon hosiery demand collapsed causing price drops and payroll cuts. The salaries of the President and Vice President were reduced by 34 to 35 percent and work schedules cut.
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Kenosha
Richard Edge
Kenosha Full Fashioned Mills, Inc
Kenosha Full Fashioned Mills
RFC
First National Bank of Kenosha
Allen- A
Nationalist Communist Fighting Flares Again in Central China
News dispatches report renewed fighting between Nationalists and Communists in central China. Nationalist setbacks were recorded as Red troops press toward Changsha, the Hunan provincial capital and Nationalist stronghold, after a two month stalemate.
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Canton
China
Red
Changsha
Hunan
Los Alamos Public Relations Chief Missing In New Mexico
Los Alamos N M public relations director H Tracy Snelling 37 vanished under mysterious circumstances. Police say he has been missing since Wednesday and a statewide alert centers searches in Santa Fe and Albuquerque as authorities seek his location and safety. Snelling formerly reporter for the Wall Street Journal and has two children.
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Los Alamos
N. M
H. Tracy Snelling
Snelling
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Carroll Tyler
Atomic Energy Commission
AFC
Alamogordo
Dean Wilson
July 28 Hearings Set in Steel Labor Dispute
A fact finding board announced hearings will begin July 28 in New York to review a steel labor dispute. The White House organized the meeting and will host an initial session two days earlier to arrange procedural matters with CIO United Steelworkers and steel industry representatives.
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Washington
New York
White House
Carroll Daughterty
CIO
United Steelworkers
Box Office Heist at Suburban Airway Theater
Two young bandits robbed the Suburban Airway theater last night and took 125 dollars in the box office. Police hunt for suspects.
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Milwaukee
Suburban Airway
Decatur Debates Official OK for Eighter From Decatur Sign
Decatur Texas council weighs approval of a larger Eighter From Decatur sign near the rail station. Local business owners support it citing tourist traffic while some residents oppose the sight and its dice lore. Historian Cliff D Cates notes the phrase originated from Ada a girl at Waggoner ranch inspiring the nickname.
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Decatur
Texas
Eighter
Wise
North
Syl Hardwick
Hardwick
Cliff D. Cates
Wise County
Ada
Waggoner
Cates
Wisconsin Weather Turns Warmer Amid Showers
Weather outlook shows cloudy skies and warm temperatures across Wisconsin with light showers in the west and central regions. Forecasters expect cooler air to move in the northwest today and the southern half tomorrow as rains spread from the southwest. highs in the mid 80s with a 93 degree high yesterday at Prairie du Chien and 84 in Kenosha at noon.
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Wisconsin
Prairie du Chien
Land O'Lakes
Kenosha
Priests Defy Prague Government Over Beran Case
In Czechoslovakia priests refused government orders to desert Archbishop Beran and the Vatican. Across the country they read a resolution pledging loyalty to church authority, denouncing state actions as schismatic and defending religious freedom amid church state tensions. The reading occurred in Prague churches including St. Vitus Cathedral.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Vatican
Prague Catholic
St. Vitus
Beran
Army Pay Raise Bill Approved by Senate Panel
The Senate armed services committee advanced a military pay raise on a 9 to 1 vote. The measure, costing about $300 million annually, would lift pay across ranks from 3 percent for enlisted personnel to 37 percent for brigadier generals.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Uniformed Services
House
Senate
GOP
Harry P. Cain
Russia
Truman
Harry H. Vaughan
White House
Mr. Truman
Ball Star Jackie Robinson Defends Negroes’ Patriotism
Jackie Robinson told the House committee that Negro Americans would fight for the United States against Russia or any enemy. He said discrimination fuels resentment and that the fight against Communism should not blur the fight for democracy, noting Negroes were stirred before and will remain so after the Communist Party, unless Jim Crow ends.
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Washington
Jackie Robinson
Paul Robeson
Brooklyn Dodgers
House un-American Activities Committee
Russia
Robeson
United States
Baseball Star
Robinson
Top Economic Job To John Steelman U.S. to Plug Up Weakest Spots
President Truman appoints John R. Steelman to coordinate federal spending to reduce unemployment. He will direct 10 to 15 billion dollars in procurement and direct spending, focusing on areas with high joblessness, while denying new emergency appropriations.
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John Steelman
U.S
Washington
Truman
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Multiple Traffic Crashes Injure Several In Wisconsin Area
Injuries were reported from a series of crashes in Kenosha County and surrounding areas. Henry A. Johnson, 19, Bristol, suffered head and neck injuries after his car went out of control on Highway 50 east of Highway 45 at 5 30 am. Michael Machulis, 59, Milwaukee area resident, was driving on Highway 45 when his car struck a tree, suffering cuts and bruises. Joseph Subick and Gus Gurski, both Kenosha residents, suffered back injuries and possible rib fractures. Francis Prystalski, Genoa City, sustained a fractured wrist and leg lacerations in a collision at Country Trunk F and FF. Dante Cervetti and Martin Ehlert were hurt in an(auto truck) collision on Highway 50 near Paddock Lake. Donald Chaput’s infant son also sustained a cut lip in a separate crash involving his father. Deputies transported the injured to local hospitals.
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Billup Browne
Eugene Schend
Francis Sabourin
19Th Ave
Joseph Dodge
Rena Dodge
Rose Sabourin
Nettie Gallatin
Sabourin
Katherine Gallatin
Edward Gallatin
Henry A. Johnson
Box 23
Bristol
Highway 50
Highway 45
Albert Bornhuetter
Harold Bastrup
Edward Krok
Bastrup
Krok
Mike Machulis
Robert Huebner
Genoa City
Alfred Oetting
Kermit Schreck
Prystalski
Burlington Hospital
Paddock Lake
Dante A. Cervetti
Highwood
Ill
Martin R. Ehlert
Wilmot
Billups Browne
Robert Wallace
Kenosha Hospital
Donald Chaput
Eugene Chaput
52Nd St
Donald Farrington
Rt. 1
House Defers Action On Bird Hunting Stamp
The house deferred action on a bill to raise the federal migratory bird stamps from $1 to $2 to fund waterfowl resources development. The measure would also authorize the acquisition and development of wildlife management areas where hunting would be allowed.
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Washington
House
Callahan Sets Pace in Wisconsin Women’s Golf Qualifier
Marian Callahan, former Madison champion, toured Maple Bluff Country Club in 81 to lead the early finishers in the 36th annual state women’s golf championship qualifier.
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Madison
Wis
Marian Callahan
Maple Bluff Country Club
Youth Confesses Slaying Magoffin County Couple
State police said 20-year-old Newby Whitt signed a statement admitting the July 3 shotgun killing of Mr and Mrs Charles Williams a Magoffin county farm couple. He said he planned for several days to kill and rob Williams and earned a $5 bill.
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Louisa
Newby Whitt
Charles Williams
Magoffin County
Rob Williams
Wisconsin Weekend Accidents Claim Thirteen Lives
A weekend spree of Wisconsin accidents left thirteen dead across the state. Drownings occurred at Pine Lake near Hurley and Friendship Lake, a car crash near Elkhorn, a motorcycle crash on Highway 32, a fire in Tomah, a train collision near Arnott, and other fatal events in Green Lake, Oconto, Chippewa, and Manitowoc counties. Survivors include a 10-year-old boy, Walter Gravedoni, from Hurley.
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Wisconsin
Alec Gravedoni
Delphine
Hurley
Pine Lake
Walter
Gravedonis
Omaha boxer Vince Foster dies after truck collision
Vince Foster a Pipestone county mid dleweight prize fighter died in a highway crash near Pipestone Minnesota. He was killed when his car struck a truck trailer at 1 50 am. A female passenger Ruth Newcome of Helena Montana also died. Two other passengers were seriously injured. Sheriff Harman Heesch said the car rammed the rear of the truck driven by William Smith 26 Pipestone.
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Pipestone
Minn
U.P
Vince Foster
Omaha
Here
Foster
Ruth Newcome
Helena
Mont
Harman Heesch
William Smith
Truman Sends Congress His Military Plan
President Truman submitted a detailed military reorganization plan to Congress to act as insurance if lawmakers do not legislate. The plan tightens Defense Secretary Louis Johnson's control over the services, creates a deputy secretary and three assistants, keeps the services as separate executive departments, and would take effect in 60 days unless vetoed or adjourned.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Defense
Louis Johnson
Louis Johnson's Control Over the Army, Navy and Air Force
Barn Destroyed Near Janesville in Early Morning Fire
A large barn on the Marshall Mani farm three miles west of Janesville burned to the ground around 5 a.m. Loss was estimated at 18000 dollars by the Rock County sheriff's department. Mani saved two cattle as 400 bushels of oats 40 tons of baled hay and nearly eight tons of loose hay were lost.
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Janesville
Wis
Marshall Mani
Mineral Point Road
Rock County Sherif
Mani
Hannah K. Schmidley
Held for Killing Priest Found Dead in His Cell
New Orleans reports Frank Bates a 42 year old African American charged with murder in the slaying of a Catholic priest died in parish prison last night. Prisoners heard him mumbling about 2 am but found him dead at 5 am. Coroner's inquest ruled death a heart attack.
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New Orleans
Frank Bates
Parish
Bates
Haigh pleads insanity in nine acid killings case
Handsome John George Haigh told police he killed nine people and drank their blood before dissolving bodies in acid. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of Mrs Olive Durand Deacon and described the killings of McSwann family and Dr Archibald Henderson and wife in a dramatic court statement.
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Lewes
Eng
John George Haigh
Haigh
Olive Durand-Deacon
David Maxwell-Fyfe
Crawley
William Donald McSwann
London
McSwann
Donald
Amy McSwann
Archibald Henderson
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