Iowa Hotel Fire Claims 16th Victim in Dubuque Disaster
The Canfield hotel blaze killed 16 people with 23 still missing and 15 hospitalized. Investigations led by the state fire marshal, the county attorney, and the coroner. Coroner Dr S Leonard ordered a three member jury inquest after reversing a prior ruling.
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Canfield
Dubuque
State Fire Marshals Office
S. Leonard
William Canfield
Mercy Hospital
Red Cross
Zach Cook
American Red Cross
Twelve Bodies Recovered From Panama Plane Crash
Searchers scaled jungle slopes to Taboga island and removed 12 unidentified bodies from the U S Army C54 wreck. The four motor plane carried 23 aboard when it crashed on Toobga island near Panama City at 11 13 am Sunday. Names to be released after identification and notification of relatives.
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Panama City
U.P
Taboga Island
Panama
Toobga Island
Pacific Ocean
Morrison Field
West Palm Beach
Fila
Albrook Field
John S. Owen
Wrecked Plane Halts in Farm Home Bedroom
A pilot and his passenger crawled from a wrecked airplane into a bed yesterday. The plane and the bed were inside the second story bedroom of a farm home near Earlville. Neither occupant was seriously hurt and Oswald Steinke family members on the first floor were unharmed.
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Earlville
Here
Gast
Oswald Steinke
Kenosha
Chester Nuerstoki
Eighth Avenue
Sixtieth Street
Eighteenth
Nineteenth Avenues
M. C. Letsom
Nuerstpki
Kenosha Hospital
W. J. Regner
Seventy First Street
LaVerne Gibson
Thirty-sixth Avenue
Sheridan Road
Andrew Eucalano
Kenosha High School Alumni Hold First Postwar Reunion
About 500 Kenosha High School alumni gathered Saturday for the first postwar reunion. Chester S. Hubbard led the event, with an afternoon of class reunions, an organ recital, and an evening banquet at the First Methodist Church. Officers were elected. Meyers became president and Exton earned a trophy for class representation.
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Kenosha High School
Chester S. Hubbard
First Methodist Church
Methodist
Frank Wehner
James Barden
James W. Meyers, Jr
Ray Burgess
Clara Carter
John Strom
Elmer Pedley
E. W. Scheckler
Ko T. Savage
Ellsworth Riel
Charles Radford
Nannette Exton
Miss Exton
Rehearsals begin for Kenosha massed chorus on Thursday
Announcement states rehearsals for the massed chorus for Kenosha Homecoming Fourth of July will start next Thursday at 7 30 p m at the Historical and Art Museum. A second rehearsal follows June 20 at the same time. Choirs from St Thomas St Matthew's First Methodist First Presbyterians St Mary's Grace Lutheran the American Legion chorus and Barber Shop chorus plus Bristol M FE church join. Clyde Parnell to direct with Genevieve Klevickis and Holger Sorensen as soloists. Volunteers urged to attend both sessions.
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Kenosha
Historical and Art Museum
A. J. Peters
St. Thomas
St. Matthew's
First Methodist
First Presbyterians
St. Mary's Lutheran
Grace Lutheran
American Legion Chorus
Barber Shop
City of
Bristol M. FE
Clyde Parnell
Milwaukee
Centurama ‘Chorus
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
Genevieve Klevickis
Holger Sorensen
Bridegroom Drowns as Boat Capsizes on Pewaukee Lake
In Waukesha Wisconsin Robert Caspar aged 26 drowned last night when the boat he shared with his bride of nine days overturned on Pewaukee Lake. Mrs Caspar and another couple were rescued from the accident scene.
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Waukesha, Wis
Robert Caspar
Pewaukee Lake
Ready Made Meal Boon For Brides And Bachelors
Post war dining advances bring frozen ready meals to households. Dinner trays include meat vegetables and potatoes on a pulpwood plate with plastic finish. Cooks prepare meals to ship frozen to 20 degrees below zero and heat in 30 minutes.
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Washington
Naval Air Transports
Lightning Blamed for Richmond Fire Loss
Lightning early today caused a blaze in New Richmond Wisconsin destroying a building housing the Doughboy Industries administration offices cereal factory and printing plant with an estimated loss around 200000 dollars.
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Richmond
Wis
U.P
Doughboy Industries
Army Silent on Developments in Jewel Robbery
The army refused to discuss new developments in the Hessian crown jewels theft, valued at 1.5 million, with Major David F. Watson under arrest in Germany and confined. Brig. Gen. George S. Eyster said Watson’s exact link to the case is not disclosed while the War Department tracks a discharged GI and an active-duty officer tied to the gem scheme.
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Washington
Rhineland
War Department
David F. Watson
Burlingame
Calif
Germany
Frankfurt
Watson
George S Eyster
USS Army
Europe
Army
Jack W Durant
WAC
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Col. Durant
Durants
Park Official Dies After Long National Park Career
J Ross Eakin, 66, longtime park administrator and former superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from 1931 until retirement, and earlier led Glacier and Grand Canyon National Parks, died Saturday in Johnson City Tennessee.
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Johnson City
Tenn
J Ross Eakin
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Glacier and Grand Canyon National Parks
Gen Mihailovic on Trial in Yugoslavia for Treason
Gen Mihailovic faces treason charges at a trial in Yugoslavia. The courtroom proceedings highlight the wartime resistance leader's alleged collaboration with enemy forces and the implications for postwar Yugoslav politics.
Mooseband to Play at Wisconsin Moose convention
The 80 member Mooseheart high school band will perform at the Wisconsin Moose association convention in Kenosha July 4 7. Conducted by Frederick N Schwarz the group known as a four time national high school band contest winner will give a 430 pm Fourth of July concert at the Kenosha Moose club grounds and march in the Victory parade. Norman Bourdage veteran speaker young 20 will address attendees before the program. Clay Smith Ramon Hayden and Barbara Warner are featured soloists with a 12 piece program including Fillmore King marches Mendelssohn polonaise Chopin and an Alec Templeton piece.
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Mooseheart
Wisconsin Moose Association
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Frederick N. Schwarz
Norman Bourdage
Pacific
Bourdage
Alec Templeton
Clay Smith
Ramon Hayden
Barbara Warner
Truman to Send Message on Case Strike Control Bill
Speaker Sam Rayburn said President Truman will send a congressional message tomorrow on the Case strike control bill but did not reveal if the message signals veto or approval.
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Truman
Washington
Sam Rayburn
Tex
Congress
Banquet and Meeting Highlight Wisconsin GAR Encampment
A banquet honoring the Grand Army of the Republic sponsored by the Woman's Relief Corps will start at 5 30 tonight at the Eagles' clubhouse. An official meeting follows at 8 15 p m in the high school auditorium marking the eightieth annual Department of Wisconsin GAR encampment.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Woman's Relief Corps
Eagles
Department of Wisconsin Gar
Farina Murder Trial Opens as Four Milwaukee Men Face Jury
Four Milwaukeeans charged with first degree murder and related assault go on trial before Judge Edward J. Gehl in Circuit Court. Jury selection begins after motions for separate trials are denied. Defense seeks count election. prosecutors and defense undergo thorough voir dire as case proceeds.
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Mike Farina
Joseph
Edward J. Gehl
Louis Fazio
John Mandella
Jerome Mandella
Dominic Lampone
Gehl
Eugene Sullivan
Milwaukee
K. T. Savage
Jerome
John Mandeltla
Lampone
Sullivan
G. A. Strangberg
Tito Charges Mihailovic Treason and Allied Meetings
Belgrade reports Yugoslav government opening a treason trial for Gen Draja Mihailovic. Indictment alleges he collaborated with Axis forces, ordered attacks on Partisans, and involved British and American officers in liaison and talks in 1943–44. It details meetings with Neubacher and McDowell and claims Allied officers discussed his movement.
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Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Draja Mihailovic
Yugoslavia
Peter
Mihailovic
Cairo
Alexandria
Greece
McDowell
Pranjina
Germany
America
Focsi
Serbia
Neubacher
Sterker
Hans Neubacher
Balkans
Axis
Tito
Ostojic
Chetnik
National Liberation
Bailey
Supreme Command
Mihhailovic
Missing K9 Sergeant Geronimo Veteran Paratrooper
Denver police search back yards and alleys for Geronimo a veteran K9 sergeant with 15 combat jumps from the 507th paratroopers who vanished last week. His handler Kenneth C Williams a paratroop veteran and Jenver university student describes their long friendship since 1942.
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Denver
Geronimo
K9 Corps
Kenneth C. Williams
Jenver University
Williams
Panions
507Th
George
England
Roosevelt
New England Storms Kill Fifteen Citizens and Wreck Property
A Saturday night series of electric storms raged across New England causing fifteen deaths, including nine in Massachusetts, and about a million dollars in property damage. Winds up to 80 mph felled trees, snapped lines, and shattered glass while hail battered Middlesex and Essex counties. Thousands lost electricity as lines and telephones remained down into the night.
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Boston
U.P
New England
Massachusetts
Middlesex
Essex
Weather Bureau
Senate Panel OKs Snyder for Treasury Post
The Senate Finance Committee approved President Truman's nomination of John W. Snyder as secretary of the treasury. The vote was unanimous in a closed session, filling the vacancy left by Fred M. Vinson, nominated for chief justice.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Truman
John W. Snyder
the Treasury
Snyder
Fred M. Vinson
The
United States
George
D-Ga
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