Tragedy As Muskegon Area Family Dies In Lakewood Fire
A mother Mrs. Claude Clover and eight of her children perished when an oil stove exploded in their Lakewood home north of Muskegon. A roomer August Taskey also died. Two sons survived badly burned. Howard Clover, 17, survived and said others may have been at school. The blaze destroyed the frame house early morning.
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Muskegon
Mich
Here
Claude Clover
Lakewood
August Taskey
Clover
Grand Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Howard Clover
Howard
Ward
Fourth Day of Senate Filibuster Enters Its Endgame
Southern senators pressed a lengthy filibuster with renewed vigor as Republicans adopted a hands off stance. Senator Langer of North Dakota sided with Dixie lawmakers opposing a rules change to curb the filibuster. Senator Lucas of Illinois reversed a plan for a debate elimination petition, warning he might be accused of choking off talks too soon.
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Washington
Senate
Langer
North Dakota
Lucas
Ill
Sparta police judge Fanning runs for Monroe county judge
Sparta police judge Henry C. Fanning announced today his candidacy for Monroe county judge after eight years on the Sparta force. He said he seeks to bring judicial experience and local know how to the Monroe County bench.
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Sparta
Wis
Henry C. Fanning
Monroe County
Ford Presses Informal Talks With CIO Over Contract
Ford Motor Co asked the CIO United Auto Workers for early informal contract talks citing an unsettled economy. The letter questioned the UAW's $100 monthly pension proposal for 106,000 Ford workers and floated wage cuts or higher car prices to fund pensions. Ford warned against a further general wage increase and noted postwar demand has faded. The 1949 contract expires July 15 with a 60 day reopening possible in mid May.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
Ford
UAW
Auto Workers Union
Ford-Uaw
Vote to lift council salary cap approved
Madison action by voice vote allows cities with city manager government to pay council members more than $200 yearly. Western Europe plans for quick emergencies noted. Ben Hogan’s condition worsens after crash. Father Divine case heads to trial over inherited $600,000 from a follower. Third cousins challenge the will.
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Senate
Assembly
Albany
N. Y
U.P
Court of Appeals
Father Devine
Mary Sheldon Lyon
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Spellman Leads Seminary Students at Calvary Cemetery Grave Digging
New York Cardinal Spellman directed 37 seminarians through snow at Calvary Cemetery to dig graves for 1,020 delayed burials amid a seven week strike by cemetery workers. He faced strike-breaker taunts as 290 workers, all Catholics, protested, saying the cardinal misuses students as labor.
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New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Calvary Cemetery
Seminarians
Cardinal Spellman
United Cemetery Workers
CIO
Henry Cauley
New York City
John J. Ferns
Dunwoodie Seminary
Ed Ruggieri
Ruggieri
China Peace Talks Set to Start Around March 15
Premier Sun Fo announced in Nanking that peace talks with the Communists are expected to begin in Peiping around March 15. He said a Red leader had told him verbally that date would be opportune for the conference, but he declined to name the Communist leader.
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Nanking
Sun Fo
Peiping
Sun
Arnall to Speak at Wisconsin March 20
Ellis G. Arnall former Georgia governor will address the University of Wisconsin on March 20 according to the university union committee.
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Madison
Wis
Ellis G. Arnall
Georgia
University of Wisconsin
Union Forum Committee
Highway Overhead at 41 and 50 Faces Rejection
The highways committee reported unfavorable to a joint resolution to build an overhead at the 41 50 intersection. Chairman Hugh Harper said the panel would recommend rejection, noting enforcement and danger at other 41 cross streets, with action due on Friday or next Tuesday.
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Assembly Highways Committee
Assembly
Hugh Harper
Highways Committee
Harper
Highway Commission
Kenosha
Darien
Walworth County
Racine Senator Edward Hilker Hospitalized in Madison
State Sen. Edward F. Hilker 67 of Racine is very low at Wisconsin General Hospital after entering two weeks ago for treatment of a diabetic condition. A former Racine mayor, he served five terms in the assembly and was elected to the senate in 1942, serving on the finance committee and proposing to repeal state taxes on oleomargarine.
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Madison
Wis
Edward F. Hilker
Racine
Wisconsin General Hospital
Hilker
Assembly
Senate
Barbed Wire Encloses Russian Repatriation Mission
U S army engineers ring the Russian mission with barbed wire and floodlights to prevent possible smuggling and to compel departure with offered transport. A Russian officer asked for a newspaper as authorities cut water and dig up a street to sever supply lines.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Army
Edward L. Covak
Duluth
Minn
Stars and Stripes
Covak
Sterling A. Wood
House Group Backs 15 Month Rent Extension
The House Banking committee voted 23 to 2 to extend rent controls 15 months beyond March 31. The bill allows hardship relief, recontrols apartments in residential hotels, and permits treble damages for illegal charges by landlords. It also bans further voluntary 15 percent lease increases.
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Washington
U.P
House Banking Committee
Brent Spence
Paul Brown
Tighe E. Woods
Spence
Chase
Woodhouse
Conn
Woods
Assembly Votes Tax Division Move 88-10 in Madison
The Wisconsin Assembly passed 88-10 a bill to move beverage and cigarette tax and oil inspection divisions from the treasurer’s office to the Department of Taxation. Gov. Rennebohm backed the measure. treasurer Warren R. Smith opposed, calling it an organized effort to prejudice his office.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Assembly
State Department of Taxation
Senate
Fred Pfennig
R.kenosha
Rennebohm
Warren R. Smith
Eisner
Cross Plains
Engebretson
Beloit
Lamb
Milwaukee
Lueck
Hamburg
Luedtke
R.-Wausau
O'Connell
D.-Milwaukee
Rohan
R.-Kaukauna
Steffens
R.-Menasha
Stone
R.-Baraboo
Westfahl
Sally’s Trial Delayed as Witness Arrival Loops
The treason trial of Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally was adjourned until tomorrow to await the delayed arrival of a defense witness from Germany.
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Washington
U.P
Mildred
Sally) Gillars
Germany
Forrestal Expected to Step Down as Defense Secretary
President Truman is poised to accept James V. Forrestal’s long pending resignation and name Louis A. Johnson to the defense post. An exchange of letters between Truman and Forrestal and the secretary’s release is prepared for publication.
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Washington
Truman
James V. Forrestal
Defense
Louis A. Johnson
West Virginia
White House
Forrestal
Roosevelt
Johnson
Democratic Finance Committee
Kenneth Royall
Highway Scales Weighty Problem By Frank Von Arx
A Wisconsin state traffic patrol scale near the Illinois line weighs trucks entering or leaving the state. One in ten trucks were overloaded last year, with 260 of 2,426 weighed found overcapacity and cited. Officers cite manpower shortages as the primary obstacle to regular enforcement.
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Milwaukee
Highway 41
Illinois State Line
State Traffic Patrol
Homer G. Beil
William J. Philip
Kenosha County
Bell
Wisconsin
Philip
Homer Bell
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