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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
2
A four alarm fire raged along the Washington waterfront early today injuring eight firefighters and damaging several buildings. William Kennedy heads the District of Columbia department of weights and measures which super- serves the area.
A fire at the Municipal Fish Wharf near the Potomac riverfront caused about 20000 in damage. Seven firefighters and a mother were treated for minor injuries as flames spread along a wooden causeway linking seafood restaurants and storage houses before being controlled in under two hours.
Madison Man John E. Can field of Madison Wisconsin was elected second vice-president yesterday as the Public Utilities Advertising association ended a two-day convention.
Adolfo Ibanez Boggiana aged over 60, president of the Chilean chamber of commerce and head of a leading coffee importing firm, died on Tuesday in Vina Del Mar Chile.
Honolulu Hawaii. Governor Ingram M. Stainback's emergency fact finding board is to finish its public trial of the eight week longshoremen strike today. The group will present findings to the governor, but no party signals likely to accept any recommendation for settlement.
A Pacific typhoon battered southern Japan killing 193, injuring 85 and leaving 1,092 missing as 466 ships believed lost and 698 damaged. The Aoba Maru sank off Yamaguchi with 134 aboard, including a Cincinnati investigator. no American casualties were reported. The storm disrupted crops, railways, and roads, with extensive home demolitions and floods.
Two Milwaukee lobbyists Milton T. Murray and Arthur J. Balzar, both Petco Corp. representatives, were charged by Dane County District Attorney Robert W. Arthur with violations of the state lobby law. They allegedly lobbied on a contingent basis to pass a bill lifting a 2000 gallon limit on gasoline transport to filling stations, a measure signed by Gov. Rennebohm on May 20. Murray also faced charges of false statements of expenses.
Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance reports delinquent real estate tax sales by counties and Milwaukee reached 2.58 million dollars in 1948, up 448 thousand from 1947, marking a second year of recovery after a period of decline. A Britannica note about how a baby chick learns to eat is included in the article.
A Kenosha woman long suffered stomach bloat headaches and spitting up acid after meals. After using INNER-AID she reports no gas or spitting up and regular bowels with improved headaches. INNER-AID is described as a 12 herb compound sold at drug stores for 23 cents.
Bendix Aviation in South Bend enters its ninth week of walkout as Local 9 CIO United Auto Workers resumes negotiations only if talks will restart. governor Schricker's immediate settlement plan is overwhelmingly rejected. A bottleneck in North Germany stems from insufficient power.
Munich reports a denazification court adding ten years to Baldur von Schirach's existing twenty year sentence for war crimes. He remains imprisoned at Spandau. the court also confiscated his property. The original 20-year term was handed by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Beer history notes a link to water purity and early brewing by housewives.
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