Missing County Radio Tower Sparks Board Investigation
County supervisors debated the disappearance of a 100-foot steel radio tower and a small frame shanty once housing county police gear on the E L Stone breaker farm. A county clerk said the gear is unused since FM switch and a buyer for both structures exists. The matter was referred to the district attorney for investigation with a committee report due next meeting.
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Peter Harris
Mew
Guerpurcics
UIT Bnctuls Luice
Sheriff's Department
E. L. Stonebreaker
Richard Lindgren
Edward Kertz
Kertz
Lindgren
Urban Eppers
E. V. Ryall
State
University of Wisconsin
Pension Committee
Finance Committee
Pleasant Prairie
Salem
Silver Lake Village
Somers
Mob Burns Black Homes as National Guard Reins In Groveland
National guard troops returned to Groveland Florida to protect Black residents after mobs burned three houses in a fear-filled weekend. Sheriff McCall asked Gov. Warren for armed troops. officers deployed 25 guardsmen plus troopers to restore order as 400 Black residents fled. Three of four accused Black people were arrested and jailed. one suspect remained at large.
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Groveland
Fla
U.P
National Guard
Fuller Warren
W. W. McCall
Lake County
McCall
Here
Jimmy Herlong
Leesburg
Wisconsin heat wave easing with cooler forecast
The latest heat wave in Wisconsin abated as temperatures failed to reach 90 degrees. Readings dropped with some areas like Green Bay and Blair reporting almost half an inch of rain and a chilly night, while Kenosha stood at 80 at noon.
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Wisconsin
Land o’Lakes
Ellsworth
Prairie du Chien
Green Bay
Blair
Kenosha
Bevin to Take Rest at Continental Health Resort
A Foreign Office spokesman announced British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will depart this weekend for a 14 day rest at a continental health resort. Officials say the vacation is by order of his medical advisers and intended to aid his health.
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London
Foreign Office
Ernest Bevin
Planes Strafe Rebel Armored Cars in Guatemala Revolution
Government air units attack rebel armored cars in Guatemala City on the second day of the uprising against President Juan Joel Arevalo. Rebels resist as clashes intensify in the capital and surrounding areas.
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Guatemala City
U.P
Juan Joel Arevalo
Lions International City plan unveiled at Lions convention
Plans for constructing Lions International City on land along the Lincoln highway south of Chicago were outlined at the 32nd annual Lions International convention. Detest II skippered by Cletus J. Well ing of Detroit won the class A cruising cup in the Chicago Mackinac race on Mackinac Island Michigan.
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New York
Lions International
Lincoln Highway
Chicago
Mackinac Island
Mich
U.P
Detest II
Cletus J. Welling
Detroit
Governor Signs New Tax Bill in Wisconsin
Governor Rennebohm signed a 25 percent surtax on personal incomes and raised cigarette tax from two to three cents per pack to raise about 19 million dollars for 1949 and 1950 public welfare and education aid. He also authorized the state highway commission to establish controlled access highways on 500 miles of major trunk routes with public hearings to set traffic thresholds.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
State Highway Commission
Wisconsin
Bus Route Hearing Delayed as New Manager Seeks Overhaul
The city council moved to postpone Wednesday's bus route extension hearing to August 22 after Fred C. Worden announced he will assume management of Kenosha Motor Coach on August 1 and will revisit the system with the council. Worden urged a fresh start with expanded service and more stops, opposing skip stops, while council members split on the delay.
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State Public Service Commission
Fred C. Worden
North Shore
Kenosha Motor Coach Company
Worden
Nicholas Wade
Wade
Lourigan
Council
Company
27Th St
14Th Ave
North Shore Line
PSC
City Bus Hearing Postponed to August 22
City Manager A. E. Axtell announced receipt of word from E. C. Wood of the PSC that the bus hearing set for tomorrow morning is rescheduled for August 22. If the plan to re route buses is approved by the council, the hearing will be cancelled and a meeting with company representatives will occur before August 10 to consider the proposal.
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A. E. Axtel
E. C. Wood
PSC
Axtell
Kenosha council weighs water project and dock bid
The council considered a $482000 Somers Sanitary District water and sewage plan serving 266 homes with city cooperation. Edward E. Gillen Co. won a $24460 bid for 200 feet of steel dock north of the Kenosha Yacht Club. Debates over North Shore Line PSC hearing postponement continued.
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Edward E. Gillen Co
Milwaukee
East Harbor
Kenosha Yacht Club
Somers
Kenosha
Lake Michigan
Sanitary District
No Trial Run Of Farm Plan
A Senate agriculture subcommittee formally dropped the administration proposal for a trial run of the Brannan hog plan. The House debated farm legislation as a Democratic Republican coalition rejected a compromise on Brannan's subsidy scheme.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture
Brannan Farm
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Truman Sees Success of U S Peace Crusade
President Truman spoke from Soldier Field promising the United States peace crusade will succeed as tensions rise in the Soviet orbit. He urged action to grow jobs and output while preserving European recovery and warned Communists against coercion and force.
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Truman
U.S. Peace Crusade
Chicago
Soldier Field
Imperial Council
Free Nations
Washington
White House
Galloway Calhoun
Tyler
Tex
Ararat Shrine Temple
Kansas City
Supreme Court Jurist Frank Murphy Dies at 59
Detroit, April 13 1890 to 1940 era note: Justice Frank Murphy, long served on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1940, died at 6:45 am in Henry Ford Hospital after a coronary occlusion. He led a storied career from Detroit mayor to governor general of the Philippines and U.S. attorney general, noted for liberal dissent and devout democracy.
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Detroit
Frank Murphy
United States Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Henry Ford Hospital
Murphy
Supreme Court
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The
Philippines
Michigan
United States
U. S
Roosevelt
Harbor Beach
Mich
University of Michigan
University of Detroit
Recorder’s Court
Groom Is 91 Bride Is 80 Honeymoon City Hall Wedding
A 91-year-old great great grandfather marries an 80-year-old bride in Los Angeles. Albert R. Hummel says he had long wanted the union and they rode a streetcar to city hall for the ceremony. Elizabeth R. Buddeke expresses affection, saying she loves him and would not trade him.
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Los Angeles
Albert R. Hummel
City Hall
Elizabeth R. Buddeke
Hummel
Shriners Parade Through Chicago To Soldier Field
Shriners in a five hour promenade along Michigan Avenue to Soldier Field drew about 15 000 marchers in Arabic styled attire with 1000 units and circus acts. The event featured bands, clowns, camels, and mounted patrols from temples across North America culminating in a speech by President Truman.
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Chicago
Shriners
Michigan Ave
Soldier Field
Truman
Lake Front Boulevard
Mystic Shrine
North America
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