Wisconsin passes veterans housing amendment in special session
Wisconsin lawmakers vote 92 to 2 in the assembly to amend the constitution to allow state funding for veterans housing only. Senate approval came earlier. two more steps remain including voter approval next spring and a 1949 legislature review. The move relies on a liquor tax increase funding and aims to subsidize local veterans housing projects.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Senate
Supreme Court
Oscar Rennebohm
Theodore Jones
Lake Mills
Charles Westfahl
Milwaukee
Rennebohm
Lyall Beggs
Elmer Genzmer
Mayville
Beggs
Admiral Jones to Visit Kenosha Reserve Station
Rear Admiral J C Jones Great Lakes Ninth Naval District will visit Kenosha Naval Reserve Division 9 210 for a pre commissioning inspection. The event brings midwest naval officers to Kenosha for golf and a buffet at the Kenosha Country Club with a large accompanying staff from Great Lakes and Milwaukee. The inspection site on Simmons Island prepares for the August 29 commissioning of the Kenosha training center.
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J. Cary Jones
Great Lakes
Ninth Naval District
Kenosha Naval Reserve Division
Kenosha Navy League
Mid-West
Kenosha
Kenosha Country Club
F. L. Conklin
Naval Training Station
State Navy League
Irving Seaman
Milwaukee
State Council
R. A. Shoneker
Jessel Whyte
B. M. Hill
Kenosha Navy League Council
G. G. Lyon
Racine
E. A. Reubel
Harold E. Long
Naval Training Center
Simmons Island
Kenosha Training Center
Adm. Conklin
M. W. Comstock
H. J. Grassie
C. S. Ingrid
A. L. Warburton
G. M. Bains
Naval Air Reserve
R. G. Missicky
Truman to Deliver Session Message Before Congress
The White House announced President Truman will address a joint session of Congress next Tuesday at 10 a.m. CST to press anti inflation legislation and related measures. He will discuss aid to education, a higher minimum wage, and displaced persons policy while consulting with Republican leaders and Gen. Lucius D. Clay.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Lucius D. Clay
U.S
Berlin
Clay
U. S
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Dewey
Berlin Crisis May Go to United Nations
Berlin east west dispute likely to be referred to the United Nations for settlement before a showdown among western powers. The American Association for the United Nations urged bringing the Berlin crisis to the UN if direct talks fail, warning that an incident in the Berlin zone could ignite another war.
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Berlin
Lake Success
N.Y
U.P
United Nations
American Association For the United Nations
United States
Sumner Welles
Franklin D Roosevelt
Robert Patterson
Association
British rationing ends next Sunday
London announces the end of bread and flour rationing with food minister John Strachey stating rationing will cease next Sunday in Britain.
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London
John Straehey
Milwaukee Journal Targets Police Links to Gambling Racket
The Milwaukee Journal alleges that police officials, from patrolman to detective, colluded with Charles Smoky Gooden and Cornelius Ard in a Negro district gambling operation. District Attorney McCauley authorized a John Doe probe into Milwaukee city and county gambling after the newspaper’s six photo exposure and editorials critiquing police tolerance.
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Milwaukee
Charles
Smoky) Gooden
The
Milwaukee Journal
Harvey L. Neelen
William J. McCauley
John Doe
Milwaukee County
the Journal
Gooden
Cornelius
Big Hand
Ard
6Th Ward
Wisconsin
British Parliament to adjourn session on July 30
London reports the British government will adjourn rather than end the current parliament session on July 30 to remain available for rapid emergency action if needed.
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London
U S S Lapwing trains crews in Ninth District service
The U S S Lapwing YMS 268, a 256 ton minesweeper, serves as Kenosha’s naval reserve flagship training crews for Mine warfare. Commissioned in 1943, it served in San Pedro shakedown, Pearl Harbor, Guam and Leyte, then Okinawa and Tokyo Bay before postwar mine clearance. Gun use is prohibited on the Great Lakes under treaties, so trainees rely on drills and imagination.
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Kenosha
Naval Reserve Division
Ninth Naval District
San Pedro
Pearl Harbor
Minecraft Pacific
Guam
Leyte
Seventh Fleet
Japan
YMS 268
Okinawa
Tokyo Bay
Canada
Great Lakes
Kenosha Naval Reserve Division
U. S. S. Lapwing
Lake Michigan
Top U S Communists Face Indictment and Bail
Six leading Communists including William Z Foster and Eugene Dennis were indicted for conspiring to overthrow the U S government. Bail of 5000 each was posted in treasury bonds by Robert W Dunn for Foster and five others. a seventh and an editor are in custody or sought.
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New York
U. S
Communist Party
William Z. Foster
U. S. Treasury
Robert W. Dunn
Civil Rights Congress
Vincent L. Leibell
Foster
Eugene Dennis
John Williamson
National Labor
Jacob Stachel
New York City
Benjamin J. Davis
Henry Winston
Carl Winters
Michigan State Council
Detroit
John Gates
Daily Worker
Truman
New Party
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Communist National Headquarters
Lower Manhattan
Davis
Harlem
Grand Jury
National Board
Winston
Irving Potash
CIO Farriers Joint Council
Robert G. Thompson
New York State
Gilbert Green
Chicago
Ill
Gus Hall
Cleveland
Ohio
Stassen Dewey Lunch Meeting Discusses Campaign Strategy
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen met at the governor's farmhouse in Pawling New York for a luncheon and porch talk on campaign strategy. Dewey's press aide said a statement will follow. Taft previously met Dewey in New York, with further meetings planned with Vandenburg Martin and Halleck later in the month.
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Pawling
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
James C. Hagerty
Dewey
GOP
Stassen
Philadelphia
Robert A. Taft
New York
Taft
Arthur Vandenburg
House
Joseph Martin
Charles Halleck
Congress
Racine Woman Killed In Home Explosion
Mrs Pauline Steinke aged 57 was killed in a home explosion in Racine Wisconsin. Coroner James Heibering and Fire Chief Rudolph Anderson reported the blast lifted the roof and demolished walls and floors of a five room frame house. Her husband Ernest and daughter Arlene 24 were away at the time.
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Racine
Wis
Pauline Steinke
James Heibering
Rudolph Anderson
Andre Marie Named Premier Designate in France Crisis
President Vincent Auriol tapped radical Socialist Andre Marie to form a new government after the Schuman cabinet fell. Marie plans consultations with prospective ministers as Bidault Ramadier and Reynaud discuss urgent policy amid political turmoil. Soviet precautions against an armored train through Berlin heighten tension.
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Paris
U.P
Andre Marie
Vincent Auriol
Auriol
Marie
Robert Schuman
Georges Bidault
Bidault
France
Paul Ramadier
Paul Reynaud
Berlin
Telegraf
Lucius D. Clay
Frankfurt
Washington
Clay
Robert Murphy
Russia
American Superforts Fly From England in Undisclosed Mission
Several B 29 aircraft from the 60th Air Group arrived in England over the weekend and began a flight today on a mission not disclosed to the public.
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Marham
Eng
U.P
England
Chronology of Key German Cold War Events
Timeline recounts major milestones from Berlin 1945 to 1948 including Soviet and Western actions. Highlights include May 1945 Berlin fall, June 1948 rail and road blockades, and Western Allies planning a separate government for western Germany.
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Berlin
WUP
Germany
Red Army
Molotov
West
Britain
U. S
Moscow
London
Soviets
United States
Great Britain
U.S
France
Benelux
Ruhr
Allied Control Council
Kommandantura
Marshall Seeks peaceful solution in Berlin crisis
Secretary of State Marshall stated the United States will seek an acceptable solution to the Berlin crisis and avoid war. Gen. Lucius Clay will confer with Marshall as White House officials coordinate new diplomatic moves including a three point policy and a note to Moscow.
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Wellington
Marshall
United States
Berlin
Russia
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
Clay
White House
Truman
Moscow
Washington
Robert Murphy
Curtis E. LeMay
U. S. Air Force
Europe
Wisconsin to Begin 18 to 25 Draft Registration
Wisconsin will start registering men aged 18 to 25 for the draft with about 191000 expected to register and 40000 to 50000 eligible for drafting. The state will have 80 local draft boards and a five-man state appeal board, Dane County two boards, Milwaukee nine. Courtenay, nominated by Gov. Rennebohm as draft director, says Washington has assured Truman’s approval. Registration runs Aug 30 to Sept 18, staggered to ensure accurate statistics.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Bentley Courtenay
Courtenay
Dane
Milwaukee
Oscar Rennebohm
Rennebohm
Washington
Truman
Selective Service
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Ralph Tate
Washington, D. C
Ed O’brien
Bellevue
NEA
U.S.S
United States Zone
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Western Germany
Royal Air Force
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Hannover
Perleberg
Schoenewalde
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Schuman
Leon Blum
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Charles de Gaulle
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