Truck Drivers Form Co-Op For New Rural Community
Nash Motors drivers and shop workers organize Par Ken Farm Home and Business cooperative to buy 240 acres along Highway 41 near Racine Kenosha county line. The venture funds a farm truck farm filling station restaurant grocery market and real estate development. Charley Williams Nash Motors transport chief helped spark the effort with the drivers.
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Evening News
Parden Farm
Home and Business Co-Operative Association
Highway 41
Kenosha
Co-Operative
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Alfred Pischke
Grover Ammerman
Dan Fraser
Jake Minch
Charley McWilliams
McWilliams
Fraser
Pischke
Minch and
Seaman Body
Milwaukee
Nash Motors
Milwaukee-Kenosha
Racine-Kenosha County
Par Ken Farm, Home and Business Co-Operative Association
Par
Paris Township
Kenosha County
Victor Zanio
Eight Former Nazi SS Officers Convicted by U.S. Tribunal
Eight former SS officers were convicted by an American tribunal for the Nazi genocide program and sentenced to 10 years to life. Six defendants, including one woman, were acquitted. The jurists found seven men guilty of murder and crimes against humanity while five others were convicted as members of the SS. The court read the brutal verdict and listed charges including kidnapping racially pure children and forcing evacuation of hostile populations for slave labor.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Ulrich Griefelt
Heinrich Himmler
Rudolf Creutz
Griefelt
Herbert Huebner
Werner Lorenz
Heinz Brueckner
Third Reich
Dewey Sees New Hampshire Victory as Encouraging
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey hailed his New Hampshire presidential primary win over Harold Stassen as encouraging and heart warming. He said the broad support for the Republican nomination showed New Hampshire voters recognize the gravity of national issues and the need to restore unity and strength. Dewey carried six of eight delegates, surprising some observers who expected at most five.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold Stassen
New Hampshire
Dewey
Stassen
New York
Chicago
New England
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Stassen Sees Strong NH Showing. Aims at Wisconsin
Harold E. Stassen said his New Hampshire primary showing was strong and did not derail his national campaign. He noted that 2,000 more votes would have yielded more delegates and said the race moves to the Wisconsin primary on April 6 as he travels from St. Paul to Philadelphia for a speech.
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Chicago
U.P
Harold E. Stassen
New Hampshire
Stassen
St. Paul
Philadelphia
Wisconsin
Frank Sulloway
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Minneapolis
Oshkosh Painters Strike Ended With $150 Hour Wage
Oshkosh workers reach a settlement after a painters strike with a wage agreement of 150 dollars per hour. George Blitz, business manager of AFL Local 145, announced the news.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Oshkosh Painters
George Blitz
AFL
McCarthy Forecasts Dewey Withdrawal From Races
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin predicted Dewey would pull out of Wisconsin and Oregon Republican presidential primaries. He noted the New Hampshire results gave Dewey six of eight national convention delegates and said Dewey cannot risk competing in the Midwest.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Wisconsin
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
Oregon
New Hampshire
McCarthy
Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Midwest
Husband Threw Eggs Wrapped in Plate in Divorce Testimony
Mrs. David May received a divorce after describing a scene in which her musician husband threw eggs at her with a plate wrapped around them. She recalled the court she forgot to mention the plate and testified he sometimes shined a sunlamp in her face hoping to force a confession of infidelity.
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Los Angeles
David May
Wisconsin Gas Rate Increase Hearing Scheduled in Madison
Wisconsin Public Service Commission secretary Edward T. Kaveny announced a rate increase hearing for Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company set for April 13 in Madison at 10 a.m. The hearing will review the utility's books and practices, with related investigative expenses charged to the company. Affects Racine Kenosha South Milwaukee Watertown Fort Atkinson Oconomowoc Whitewater and other southeastern Wisconsin communities.
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Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company
Edward T. Kaveny
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Madison
Kaveny
Racine
Kenosha
South Milwaukee
Watertown
Fort Atkinson
Oconomowoc
Whitewater
Wisconsin
Nourse Hints of Danger in Steel Price Increases
Chairman Edwin G. Nourse of the Council of Economic Advisers warned at the White House that a $5 per ton rise in semi finished steel last month could be potentially dangerous amid broader inflation risks. He noted it was too early to judge the full effect.
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Washington
Edwin G. Nourse
President's Council of Economic Advisers
White House
Nourse
Truman
Masaryk Czech Foreign Kills Self by Leap From Window
Dewey wins first New Hampshire presidential primary round sweeping six of eight delegates and leading in urban and rural areas. Stassen, Eisenhower presence noted. Truman unopposed for Democrats. Dewey gains three at large delegates led by Blood and Dale, Upton close behind. Sulloway secures fourth. Stassen calls NH showing a start, with Eisenhower ballot votes small. Primary sets tone for 1948 race.
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New York
New Hampshire
Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Truman
Mass Meeting To Launch Big Safety Drive
Kenosha Safety Council plans a year long campaign with monthly safety slogans and broad community involvement. A national safety expert will speak at a forthcoming mass meeting as sponsors are sought to finance and organize county wide efforts to reduce accidents and hazards.
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Kenosha
George Nugent
Safety Council
Nugent
National Safety Council
Filipino Leader Dies Adviser on Mining H. Foster Bain
Dr. H. Foster Bain aged 76, adviser on mining to President Roxas and former director of the U S Bureau of Mines, died Tuesday in Manila. He was born in New York City.
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Manila
H. Foster Bain
Manuel A. Roxas
Quezon
U. S. Bureau of Mines
New York City
Doscher resigns from Kenosha Manufacturers post
William F. Doscher, community relations director since April 1945, will leave his Kenosha Manufacturers Association post Monday to pursue public relations fundraising in Milwaukee and Chicago. President J. W. Quarles says a successor will be announced soon to maintain the program’s national acclaim. Doscher has served in local civic groups and as a Navy PR officer in World War II.
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William F. Doscher
Kenosha Manufacturers’ Association
Milwaukee
Chicago
J. W. Quarles
Association
Quarles
Doscher
U.S
Community Fund
Patriots Fund
Mental Hygiene Society
Kenosha Little Theater
Paterson
N.J
John Price Jones Corpo
Five Directors Elected to KYF Board for 1948 Term
The Kenosha Youth Foundation named five new directors for three year terms at a board meeting last night. New trustees are Jessel S. Whyte Thomas Montemurro Maurice Gordon Leo Vaudreuil and Joseph V. Quarles Jr. A report by President Denyes highlighted KYF’s seventeenth year of service and sizable 1947 activity including 953 adult members 1494 youth in gym and swim classes 884 boys in 72 clubs and a Youth Center serving 695 teens. The foundation plans to elect new officers at the next board meeting in 1948 and noted the ongoing balance challenge between youth programs and adult activities.
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Kenosha Youth Foundation
Jessel S. Whyte
Thomas Montemurro
Maurice Gordon
Leo Vaudreuil
Joseph V. Quarles, Jr
R. B. Whyte
James T. Wilson
Rogers Palmer
Charles N. Miller
R. Y. Cooper
R. P. Cavanagh
R. S. Kingsley
W. W
Carl W. Johnson
L. O. Denyes
L. H. Jensen
Denyes
Kenosha
KYF
Middlewest
Cab Driver Kept Two Households Six Miles Apart
Gastonia North Carolina taxi driver Monroe P. Adams 28 pleaded guilty to bigamy. He admitted maintaining two households six miles apart for three years by deceiving wives about his work schedule. Judge George Patton gave a suspended five year sentence, a $200 fine plus costs, and ordered him to return to wife one and their two children. Wife two seeks dissolution of the marriage.
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Gastonia
N. C
George Patton
Monroe P. Adams
Cramerton
Cold Weather To Last Another Day In Wisconsin
Wisconsin endures record cold as federal forecaster Howard J. Thompson predicts continued low temps tonight and tomorrow with subzero readings in the north. Snow is possible in extreme south. highs may rise modestly by Friday while cloud cover increases northward. Local readings include Superior minus 23 and Milwaukee minus 6 to 2 degrees above zero, with statewide icy wind chill and a nationwide contrast of frigid conditions in the Rockies and Great Lakes region.
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Wisconsin
Howard J. Thompson
Federal
Milwaukee
Park Falls
Mercury
Thompson
Superior
Kenosha
City
Wausau
la Crosse
Green Bay
Lone Rock
Madison
Beloit
Rockies
Plains
Great Lakes
Grand Forks
N. D
Goodland
Kans
California
Chennault Testifies On Aid to China
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault told the House foreign affairs committee that military aid to China would curb Russian aggression in Europe. He warned that withholding aid could set the stage for a World War III and estimated a three year cost between 1.5 and 2 billion dollars.
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Washington
Claire Chennault
House Foreign Affairs Committee
China
Europe
Flying Tigers
Chennault
Finland Delivers Reply To Stalin Pact Request
Finland sent its reply to Stalin's proposal for a friendship and military pact to the Soviet minister in Helsinki Gregori Savonenkovy. Secretary of Foreign Minister Carl Enckell delivered the message and was expected to lead Finland's Moscow delegation as Premier Mauno Pekkala, ill for some time, could not travel.
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Helsinki
U.P
Finland
Josef Stalin
Gregori M. Savonenkovy
Carl Enckell
Moscow
Mauno Pekkala
Masaryk Eludes Coup Critics With Self Inflicted Death
Prague Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk 61 died by leaping from a bath window at Cernin Palace in what officials called a moment of nervous breakdown amid the Communist seizure. His family cited protest against the coup. The government canceled a commemorative event and lowered flags to half mast as authorities consider funeral plans and a successor. Masaryk was son of Tomas Masaryk, founder of the republic.
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Jan Masaryk
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Cernin Palace
Masaryk
Vaclav Nosek
Loreto Square
Nosek
Thomas Masaryk
Republic
Foreign Office
Eduard Benes
West
Benes
Sesimovo Usti
Fire damages Newton Cross residence on Sixtieth Street
A morning blaze at the Newton Cross residence 1702 Sixtieth street caused $5500 damage. Fire originated from an overheated basement hot air pipe and spread to the first floor, driving two men from upper rooms while a third was rescued from the porch roof. Firemen knocked out the fire before it reached the second floor. building damage was $4500 to structure and $1000 to contents.
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Newton Cross
Sixtieth Street
Taft Supports Cut in ERP Funds Declares Year One Limit
Senator Robert Taft says he will back reducing European Recovery Program ERP aid to about 4 billion dollars for the first year as he lines up against Senate President Arthur Vandenberg who advocates 5.3 billion under the Foreign Relations Committee plan.
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Washington
U.P
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Taft
Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Charley
Concord
N. H
Robert O. Blood
Charles M. Dale
Robert Upton
Republican State Committee
Manufacturers
Stalin
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