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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
2
Honolulu endures a 39 day waterfront strike that halts ocean commerce and tightens food and supply lines. The ILWU demands higher wages while employers reject arbitration and a fact finding board. Navy relief brings medicines and essential goods as a sugar strike looms.
Peterson's Ointment offers fast relief from piles with a cooling soothing formula. It relieves itching quickly and has served thousands for 40 years. Available at druggists in 40c boxes or 60c applicator tubes, with money back guarantee.
The Harvard Lampoon, Harvard University's undergraduate humor magazine in Cambridge Massachusetts, offered three dollars to the sophomore who finishes the year at the bottom of the class without being expelled from the college.
Atlantic City reports that AMA leaders expressed no shift in their stance against compulsory health insurance. Dr. R L Sensenich and Dr Elmer Henderson affirmed the board muzzling Fishbein does not soften opposition to socialized medicine.
A U S military government court in Frankfurt acquits nine Germans accused of possessing a 2300 gram block of natural uranium. The ruling states that uranium in its native form is not automatically war material, while noting processed uranium is used in making atomic bombs.
Captain Robert W. Metcalf the last American serviceman in Australia departed for Washington aboard a Pan American World Airways clipper. Metcalf 36 a native of Elmira New York completed six years and five months of service in Australia and New Guinea without a state side leave, likely the longest uninterrupted Pacific duty with MacArthur forces.
Walter Perry a 43 year old life term inmate at Charlestown prison crafted a tunnel six feet long six feet wide and nearly as high over months. The opening was hidden under a linoleum mat with a trap door of eight bricks. Items found included two axes hammers a flashlight license plates and a plaster head model. Meanwhile Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park spans 58 000 acres along the Little Missouri River in North Dakota.
The Navy issued a directive mandating equal treatment for Negro sailors and Marines with whites across enlistment, training, promotion, and duty. It requires nonsegregated housing and facilities, expands Negro recruitment and ROTC participation, and allows stewards to switch branches. Secretary Louis Johnson rejected Army plans but urged a more liberal program by June 20.
A 10 pound baby sea lion drowned at Griffith Park Zoo yesterday while its mother taught it to swim. The incident was reported by UP and notes the animal’s death occurred during a swimming lesson.
A railroad worker was bound over to circuit court on a first degree murder charge after Tony Cervantes, 20, a chicken farm employee, was fatally stabbed in a bar. Alvarez waived preliminary examination at arraignment before County Judge Roscoe Luce and returned to jail to await trial.
William Fike, 47, charged with first degree murder in the death of Madison attorney Herbert Siggelko. He is to be arraigned in circuit court tomorrow after authorities say he beat the attorney to death with a car crank in woods near New Lisbon on May 26. Lilian Conery, 56, of New Lisbon, is identified as a companion and a separate case involves a prior arson conviction.
A female suspect pleaded innocent yesterday as an accessory to the crime and remained jailed pending trial in circuit court. A 15 year old New Lisbon boy who drove the automobile containing Siggelko and two others was charged as a juvenile delinquent.
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