Weekend Traffic Toll Totals 14 Accidents Five Hurt
Police report fourteen city and county traffic crashes over the week-end injuring five people, none seriously. Notable incidents include a southbound Graham vehicle collision near Alford park with four aboard injured and treated at St. Catherine’s hospital, plus multiple fender benders and a drunken driving arrest in Riverview.
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Kenosha
Frank T. Graham
Gurnee
Gene DeFrang
Sixth Avenue
Alford Park
DeFrang
John Mullery
Graham
Walter Graham
Frank Graham
Geraldine Gray
Milwaukee
Theresa Cibulskis
Chicago
Taft Unhurt as Plane Crashes in Maine
U S Senator Robert A. Taft escaped injury when the single engine Stinson plane carrying him and Maine Senator Owen Brewster crashed on the ice of the Kennebec river near Vassalboro Maine. The plane was damaged but Taft Brewster and pilot John Clark emerged unharmed and walked several miles to Waterville as authorities investigated the incident.
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Vassalboro
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Maine
Kennebec
Taft
Stinson
Owen Brewster
John T. Clark
Horace A. Hildreth
Augusta
Brewster
Clark
Maine Aeronautics Commission
Waterville
Bangor
Hildreth
Old Town
Truman Approves Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program Extension
President Truman today signed legislation extending the national synthetic liquid fuels program for three more years. The bill authorizes 30 million dollars, with 1 million set for research to recover more petroleum from depleted or stripper oil fields.
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Washington
Truman
Primary Ballot Seeded By Heavy Registration Surge
More than 1 000 residents registered by the deadline boosting expected turnout for the Tuesday primary in Kenosha. There are 27 535 eligible voters as polls open at 7 a m and close at 8 p m. Voter choices include council, school board, and justice of the peace with incumbents and challengers named. Police warn taverns to close until voting ends at 8 p m.
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Kenoshans
Olkives
James Webb
Howard G. Coates
Nash Motors
California
American Legion
Unions
League of Women Voters
Stanley G. Haukedahl
Grant to Dental School Aids Cancer Teaching Programs
The federal security agency announced a $5 000 grant to the Marquette school of dentistry as part of 31 cancer teaching program awards funded by the National Cancer Institute of the U S Public Health Service.
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Washington
Marquette School of Dentistry
Federal Security Agency
National Cancer Institute of the
U. S. Public Health Service
Aid to Greece Must Continue Warns Marshall
Secretary of State Marshall told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that halting aid to Greece would bring swift and tragic consequences. He urged continued $275 million in military aid for Greece and Turkey, warning totalitarian leaders would press democracies if action lapsed and noting Greece offers some hope despite the danger.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
Greece
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Turkey
Europe
U S Warns Italy of No Aid If Communists Win
The state department told Italy today to expect no further U S assistance if the Communist party wins the April 18 Italian elections. Spokesman Michael J McDermott said the Communists have rejected participation in the European recovery program and the United States cannot believe they will prevail.
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Washington
U.P
State Department
Italy
U. S
Michael J. McDermott
Swedish Newsman in City Sees European Pessimism
Oscar Soderlund of Stockholm Tidningen visits Kenosha amid Midwest trip for Swedish Pioneer Centennial coverage. He says Europe faces difficulties assimilating Czechoslovakia and notes Denmark Norway and Holland recovering from war. He praises Kenosha Evening News plant and enjoys local hospitality.
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Oscar Soderlund
Stockholm
Tidningen
Kenosha
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Soderlund
United States
Denmark
Norway
Holland
Soderland
Sweden
Midwest
Rent Control Split In House Banking Committee Debate
The House Banking Committee split into three factions over rent control as debate opens. Democratic minority urges decontrol fears higher rents. Republicans warn of political rent manipulation. Presidential and Senate moves shape continuation of federal controls set to expire.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
House
Frederick C. Smith
Ohio
Buffett
Nebraska
Banta
Missouri
Fletcher
California
J. Howard McGrath
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
Housing Committee
Senate
Accidents Take Five Lives Across Wisconsin Over Weekend
Five people died in Wisconsin accidents as warm weekend weather drew motorists onto the roads. Julie Nelson and her daughter Gabriel, both 31 and 5, died when their car hit a tree on Highway 106 near Hebron. Nelson’s other two children were injured. A second crash near Menomonie killed Gordon Debee, 24, and seriously injured his sister Jean, 17. Laverne Gerth, 22, sustained bruises in a rear end truck crash near Irvington. Robert Noll, 24, was killed in a head on collision on Highway 41 in Waukesha county with Adele Arner, 21, riding with him sustaining minor injuries. Frank Michalski, 40, died from injuries after being struck by a bus in Milwaukee Saturday night.
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Robert Kresal
Tenth Avenue
Henry Bonn
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fourth Street
Nineteenth Avenue
George Petersen
Harvey Osborn
Joseph Perrone
Fifty-third Street
George C. Friedl
Sixtieth Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Alex Aull
Riverview
Ill
William Kexal
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Sixty-third Street
Michael Bruno
Joseph Smolinski
Aull
Kexal
Thomas Arneson, Jr
Sixty-fifth Street
Twenty Second Avenue
William Burke
Racine
Julius Clausen
Fiftieth Street
Bruno and
Smolinski
Arneson
Burke
Wisconsin
Julie H. Nelson
Gabriel
Highway 106
Hebron
Jefferson County
Nelson
Andrew
Julia
Fox Point
Milwaukee
Gordon Debee
Jean
Menomonie
Laverne Gerth
Irvington
Dunn County
Robert J. Noll
Waukesha County
Adele Arner
Noll
Frank Michalski
Lost Licenses Reported in Wisconsin for Jan February
The Wisconsin state motor vehicle department reported 2,176 drivers' licenses were revoked or suspended in January and February for violations of state laws. The action affected residents statewide and included various categories of violations.
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Madison
Wis
State Motor Vehicle Department Today
Meyers Gets 20 Months To Five Years In Prison
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers is sentenced to 20 months to five years after a federal jury found him guilty of suborning perjury. He was accused of pressuring Bleriot Lamarre to lie to Senate investigators about wartime plane parts business profits. Lamarre pleaded guilty and faces sentencing.
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Washington
Bennett E. Meyers
Senate
Alexander Holtzhoff
Meyers
Holtzhoff
Airforces
Bond
Robert T. Bushnell
Bleriot Lamarre
Lamarre
Baltimore
Dayton
Midnight Strike Looms At Major Meat Packers
Two large meat packers Swift and Co and Cudahy Packing Co rejected a CIO proposal for arbitration over wages and major contract clauses. Union president Ralph Helstein demanded a nine cent hourly increase retroactive to Jan 12, with 100,000 members poised to strike at midnight across about 100 plants. A Taft Hartley emergency route through President Truman offered potential delay of 80 days for fact finding. Meat shortages could hit retailers within two weeks though household supply might remain similar to wartime levels.
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Chicago
Swift and Co
Cudahy Packing Co
CIO United Packinghouse
Armour & Co
Wilson & Co
Ralph Helstein
AFI
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen
CIO
President Truman
U. S. Conciliation Service
Truman
Meat Industry
Judge Overrules Political Spending Ban in Labor Case
Federal Judge Ben Moore ruled the Taft Hartley Act ban on union political expenditures unconstitutional. He dismissed the indictment against the CIO and CIO President Philip Murray, calling the ban an unconstitutional abridgment of freedom of press and speech.
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Washington
Ben Moore
CIO
Philip Murray
Moore
West Virginia
Kenosha Youth Wins Regional Legion Oratorical Contest
Kenosha high school senior Lloyd Ogilvie won the regional American Legion oratorical contest in Milwaukee. The 1947 rating holder will represent southeastern Wisconsin in the Wisconsin finals March 22 at Kenosha High School after a crowd of 300 plus attended. Ogilvie’s speech defends civil liberties under the constitution. John Davies accompanied Ogilvie from Kenosha as local leaders urged Kenosha residents to participate.
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Lloyd Ogilvie
Kenosha High School
American Legion
Milwaukee
Ogilvie
Wisconsin
Marquette
Messmer
Legionnaires
Frank Greenya
Wisconsin Department of the American Legion
John Davies
Kenosha
Resuscitation Expert Faces Tragedy at Home
Robert A. Gasco from Berkeley's fire department rushed home Sunday to find his three year old son Roger strangling on a penny balloon. Gasco and a physician tried to save him but failed. The father said it was his first such loss after hundreds of cases.
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Detroit
Robert A. Gasco
Berkeley
Roger
Gasco
Waukegan Columnist James Woodman Dies at 77
James Woodman, 77, longtime columnist for the Waukegan News-Sun, known for the feature "A Bit of Verse," died today in Waukegan Illinois. His writings were familiar to Lake County residents.
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Waukegan, Ill
James Woodman
The
Waukegan News-Sun
Woodman
Lake County
Tenement family seeks bath in Waldorf lodging
Richard Earl Cox a veteran with a wife and two children moved from a crowded bathless tenement to the Waldorf Astoria hotel paying 12.60 a day for a room and offering to cover up to 40 a month himself if agencies find rest. The hotel will decide on action while Cox and his family dine in cafeterias and carry groceries to their room.
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New York
U.P
Richard Earl Cox
Waldorf-Astoria
Cox
the Waldorf
Michael
Romania
Coxes
Government Budget Surplus Tops 5 Billion for First Time
The government's surplus reached 5,076,475,494.60 today, the first time income exceeded spending by over 5 billion. Tax collections fuel the surge, though the total may still fall short of President Truman's year end estimate.
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Washington
Truman
Walkout Hits Eight States as Miners Walk Off
More than one third of U S soft coal miners quit to press John L Lewis for $100 monthly pensions. Early totals show over 155000 idle in eight states including West Virginia Kentucky Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Alabama Indiana and Tennessee with major pits in western Pennsylvania and Ohio idled. Major steel firms like U S Steel Jones Laughlin and Republic report mines closed and output cut. Union locals express firm backing for Lewis while signaling no work tomorrow.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
Alabama
Indiana
Tennessee
U. S. Steel Corp
Western Pennsylvania
Republic
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Muse
Four Workmen Die in Louisville Plant Blast
An explosion at the International Harvester Farm Equipment Company test building in Louisville Kentucky killed four workers and injured at least 26 others. The blast destroyed a 150 by 75 foot brick and steel structure where engines were tested and fire followed the detonation. Eyewitness accounts described girders cracking and workers hurled through flames as fire crews contained the blaze.
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Louisville
International Harvester Farm Equipment Company
W. L. Foster
Crooked
Red Cross Distributes 800 Measles Serum Vials
Peter Murphy announced distribution of 800 vials of human serum globulin in Madison Wisconsin to health authorities for use by physicians hospitals and clinics to modify and prevent measles in Wisconsin. The serum was delivered to health authorities for immediate use.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Peter Murphy
Red Cross
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