County Detention Needs Highlighted in Wisconsin
Juvenile authorities push for a dedicated detention home in Kenosha and discuss statewide reforms as wartime case rises prompt action. The bill would allow 16 and under youths in segregated jail sections by court order, with regional homes proposed to share costs amid ongoing shortages.
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Kenosha
Wisconsin
Juvenile Judges Association
National Probation Association
District of Columbia
Battle Over Portal Pay Claims Spurs Senate Debate
Senate Democrats moved to block a GOP bill outlawing portal pay claims and backed a substitute by Sen. Pat McCarran. The dispute centers on wage-hour, Walsh-Healy, and Bacon-Davis back pay rules with a two year filing limit for future claims.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Pat McCarran
Scott W. Lucas
Judiciary Committee
House
McCarran
Speed Rescue of Tanker Survivors
Thirty crew members clung to the fore and aft sections of the tanker Fort Dearborn as search planes from Midway combed the Pacific for 12 men who abandoned ship in a lifeboat. Three vessels, including a passenger liner, stood by the stricken ship about 1100 miles north of Hawaii as the Hawaiian sea frontier expected rescue within the day.
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Honolulu
U.P
Fort Dearborn
Midway
Pacific
Hawaii
Hawaiian Sea Frontier
Heil Heads Board Milwaukee Firm
Former Governor Julius Heil elected chairman of the Heil company to succeed the late Herman W. Falk who died last month. Joseph F. Heil, son of the new chairman, had assumed the presidency from his father in 1946.
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Milwaukee
Julius P. Heil
The
Heil Company
Herman W. Falk
Joseph F. Heil
Coopers Scholarships Honor Kenosha High School Seniors
Coopers Inc awards two four year textile scholarships at Kenosha High School on April 26. Winners chosen for scholastic ability character leadership and interest in textiles. The firm backs North Carolina State College program and guarantees summer employment during college. Previous winners Dwight T. John reports strong progress from 1946 scholars Earl Dicks and Donald Anderson.
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Coopers, Inc
North Carolina State College School of Textiles
Kenosha High School
Kenosha
Ralph Cooper
Coopers
Cooper
North Carolina State College
Kenosha Mill
Earl T. Dicks
Donald C. Anderson
Dwight T. John
Vandenberg questions Congress on Greece Turkey aid
Senator Vandenberg at a Republican conference outlined a questionnaire he says top officials must answer in public hearings before foreign aid to Greece and Turkey is acted on. The list probes UN status, possible U.S. troops in the Mediterranean, and the impact on American and international affairs. He urged top candor and suggested Secretary Marshall discuss the crisis with Stalin at a Moscow meeting.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Congress
Greece
Turkey
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Republicans
Truman
Wherry
Neb
United Nations
Mediterranean
Marshall
Stalin
Moscow
Millikin
Colo
Senate
House
Rep. Lodge
Conn
House Foreign Affair Committee
State Acheson
Patterson
Navy
Forrestal
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Irish Call for Outside Help on St. Patrick's Day
In Portland Oregon an Irish St Patrick s Day dance is planned at Norse Hall with the Van Hoomin Ss orchestra, seeking additional outside help for the event.
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Portland
Ore
van Hoomi
Labor Shortage Hits Kenosha Factories Hard
A Kenosha survey shows critical labor shortages across several plants. The Nash-Kelvinator plant cites 500 workers needed immediately and plans to hire 2,000 more for long term production. About 300 Case workers have shifted to Racine, with some returning to that plant or leaving Nash.
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Kenosha
Case
Racine
Nash-Kelvinator
Nash
Estranged Wife Killer Admits Gruesome Killing
Detroit police report 42 year old Octavio Finatti admitted to beating his estranged wife to death after a window entry during a furious struggle in her apartment. Det James L Flynn said the man bludgeoned her after she refused reconciliation.
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Detroit
A.P
Octavio Finatti
James L. Flynn
Finatti
Bookkeeper Finds 92800 Dollars in Basement Cache
Benjamin Lieberman a 44 year old bookkeeper and his wife found 92800 in a corrugated box in a dark cellar. The money in tens twenties and fifties was turned over to the director of public safety. Detectives reported the couple are in a nervous state and cannot discuss the find while authorities seek rightful ownership.
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Philadelphia
Benjamin Lieberman
Lieberman
Liebermans
James H. Malone
Charles Steinberg
British Miners Agree To Five Day Week
The National Coal Board and Miners Union agreed that British miners would work a five day week beginning May 5. The plan followed a bitter debate inside and outside the Labor government during the fuel crisis.
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London
U.P
National Coal Board and Miners Union
Wisconsin Governor Walter Goodland Laid To Rest In Madison
Wisconsin holds a solemn farewell as Walter S Goodland dies at retirement age after four years as governor. He lies in state in the Capitol rotunda then is to Racine for Masonic services and burial. remaining ceremonies recall his long public career and family. Nikolai Novikov departs New York for Moscow on special orders awaiting further word from Washington.
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Oscar Rennebohm
Marvin Rosenberry
State Supreme Court
Madison
Wisconsin
Walter S. Goodland
Wis
U.R
Walter Samuel Goodland
Waddana
Dadaw
C.B. Lester
Francis Bloodgood
St. Andrews Church
Racine
Goodland
Racine Masonic Temple
Belle City Lodge
Graceland Cemetery
H. T. Ferguson
Wilden F. Whitney
State Public Service Commission
Elmer Barlow
Willard R. Dean
N. J. Frey
Benjamin H. Roderick
Clara Kimpel
Earl Roethke
Rudyard
John
Appleton
Florida
Nikolai V. Novikov
United States
Scandinavian Airlines
New York
Moscow
Novikov
Washington
Truman
Congress
Greece
Turkey
Year Pact With Philippines Signed for Long Term Bases
A 99 year agreement creating five major American military bases and additional posts in the Philippines was signed at Manila. The U S army will base at Fort Stotsenberg in Pampanga, the navy at Leyte Samar Guiuan, Subic bay, Tawitawi, and Sangley Point Cavite, with ten smaller base areas. Amb McNutt signed for the United States and President Roxas for the Philippines. The pact allows provisional UN Security Council use of bases in international security.
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Manila
Philippines
Council of State
Malacanan Palace
Security Council of the
United Nations
Paul V. McNutt
United States
Manuel Roxas
Philippine Republic
U. S. Army
Fort Stotsenberg
Pampanga
Luzon
Navy
Leyte- Samar
Guiuan
Subic Bay
Tawitawi
Archipelago
Sangley Point
Cavite
Vet Council Favors Bonus for Wisconsin Veterans
The Wisconsin Veterans Council backed a state Assembly bill to create a rehabilitation and adjustment fund with a 60 percent surtax on war veterans. Jack Spore, state adjutant of the American Legion and council secretary, cited support from Legion GAR United Spanish War Veterans Army and Navy Union Disabled American Veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars and Military Order of the Purple Heart.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Veterans’ Council
Jack Spore
The
American Legion
Council
Legion
GAR
United Spanish War Veterans
Army and Navy Union
Disabled American Veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Military Order of the Purple Heart
House Labor Group to Probe Possible Perjury
The House Labor committee ordered an investigation into possible perjury at hearings on labor legislation. Rep Kennedy seeks perjury charges against Harold Christoffel and Robert Buse of Local 248 United Auto Workers in Milwaukee, on strike at Allis-Chalmers. Hartley said the probe may extend beyond two individuals and could have open hearings in Milwaukee if needed.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Rep. Kennedy
D-Mass
Harold Christoffel
Robert Buse
Cno-United Auto Workers Union
Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers Company
Hartley
R-N. J
McInerney
McCann
Justice Department
Allis- Chalmers
Christoffel and
Buse
West Allis
Wis
McCann and McIinerney
Walter W. Cenerazzoo
American Watch Workers Union
Congress
Cenerazzo
Local group forms to aid displaced persons
A lunch meeting at the American Legion clubhouse of Kenosha heard Curtis Johnson of the National Committee on Displaced Persons outline a plan for a city wide committee. The goal is a representative body of all religions and civic groups to address the displaced persons issue with a future meeting within a week. Johnson urged United States leadership to admit more displaced persons to sustain humanitarian and democratic prestige. He noted UNRRA and army efforts have returned over seven million home, but over a million remained in camps in Germany and Austria at the start of 1947.
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Europe
American Legion
Curtis Johnson
National Committee On Displaced Persons
United States
United Nations
Johnson
UNRRA
Germany
Austria
Prospects Dim For Talks on Chinese Crisis
Moscow reports show prospects dimming for Big Three talks on the Chinese crisis with China present. Molotov asked for informal discussions while Marshall signaled willingness to exchange reports only if China participates. Bevin likely to follow similar stance as Moscow awaits China’s designated representative.
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China
V. M. Molotov
U. S
Greece
Turkey
Europe
Truman
George C. Marshall
Ernest Bevin
Marshall
Moscow
Bevin
Molotov
American Lieutenant and Geisha Girl Die in Hinomachi Tragedy
Japanese police report a U S air force lieutenant stationed at Tachikawa Air Base and a young Japanese geisha girl died by their own hand in a former geisha house in Hinomachi a village about ten miles from Tokyo. The incident was confirmed today.
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Tokyo
U.P
Hinomachi
Tachikawa Air Base
Widows of Nazi Leaders Face Denazification Trials
In postwar Bavaria the widows of Adolf Hitlers top henchmen face denazification court cases. Officials list Frau Hermann Goering and Frau Hans Frank among those indicted as Nazi profiters, with trials in Starnberg and Nuernberg connected to their husbands.
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Munich
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Nuernberg
Bavaria
Denazification Ministery
Wom
Hermann Goering
Neuhaus
Frau
Hans Frank
Poland
Starnberg
Wilhelm Frick
Hitler
Interior
Werner von Blomberg
Erich von Ludendorff
Mt Clemens Pottery Workers Appeal Portal Pay Ruling
Mt. Clemens Pottery Co employees today appealed to the Cincinnati circuit court of appeals the decision denying portal to portal pay. The appeal follows U. S. District Judge Frank A. Picard’s ruling last month limiting salvage of a nearly six billion dollar labor claim. Edward Lamb, attorney for workers, filed notice with Clerk George M. Read and renewed objections to U. S. Attorney General’s intervention as the case advances toward potential Supreme Court review.
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Detroit
Mt. Clemens Pottery Co
Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
U. S. Supreme Court
Frank A. Picard
U. S
Portal
High Court
Edward Lamb
George M. Read
Lamb
Jury Convicts Woman Murderer in Oregon Case
In Vale Oregon Red-haired Gladys Broadhurst 40 faced life imprisonment for killing her sixth husband Dr Willis Broadhurst 51 The nine men and three women jury found her guilty of first degree murder and recommended life imprisonment not the death penalty The crime was carried out by Broadhurst’s ex chauffeur and the jury accepted the plan as her involvement.
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Vale
Ore
U.P
Gladys Broadhurst
Willis D. Broadhurst
Broadhurst
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U.S
Coopers Textile
Sen. Vandenberg
Candor
Capitol Hill
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S. D
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Mr. Truman
Goodland Service
Iucdimtile Wwueay
Piasowe
Vet Council
House Labor Group
Irving G. McCann
James M. McInerney
Criminal Division
Conference of Foreign Ministers
Air Force
Mt. Clemens
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