Elopers Face Police Quiz Over Milwaukee Murder
Kathleen Birmingham 17 and Milton Babich 19 were taken into custody after she claimed they married in Kalamazoo Michigan last Friday. They denied knowledge of Patricia Birmingham 16’s murder in Milwaukee, with Kathleen seized at a south side rooming house.
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Minneapolis
U.P
Kathleen Birmingham
Kathleen
Patricia
Milwaukee
Milton Babich
Kalamazoo
Mich
Babich
Wisconsin
Lawrence Papke
Edward Mazurkiewicz
Northwest Airlines
Chicago
Barber
Robert J. Barber
Adolph Kraemer
Michigan
Northwestern National Bank
House Rejects Senate Rent Control Amendments
The House refused to accept Senate amendments to a rent control bill and sent the measure to a conference committee. If no compromise is found, rent controls expire in about a week and the bill goes to President Truman for action.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate House Conference
Truman
Capitol Hill
Dr Rutledge Surrenders in Wife’s Adorer Murder Case
Dr Robert C. Rutledge Jr a 27 year old pediatrician from St Louis has ended a three month extradition fight and is jailed in Cedar Rapids awaiting trial for the murder of his wife’s bachelor admirer. He turned himself in to authorities yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
St. Louis
Robert C. Rutledge, Jr
Miners to Return Monday as Wage Talks Loom
The United Mine Workers announced a two week mine holiday ends next Monday on schedule. President John L. Lewis said production will resume and all members should be ready for work, praising 463,000 idled miners for their understanding amid wage negotiations in 1949.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
UMW
John L. Lewis
Washington, D. C
Lewis
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Mississippi River
Child Found Dead in Home in Fond du Lac
Police held 33 year old father Urban Strobel of Fond du Lac as investigation into the death of his 2 year old son Michael John Strobel continued. Coroner said autopsy found asphyxiation with fingernail marks on the throat. The body was found in a upstairs bedroom corner wrapped in a blanket.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
James Cahill
Michael John Strobel
Urban Strobel
Cahill
Joseph Murray
Louis
Urban, Jr
Strobels
Glenn Herbert
Strobel
Herbert
Mrs. Herbert
House Labor Committee Advances 1-H Repeal Bill
The House Labor Committee approved the administration bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley act with no changes on a 13 to 10 vote after a 15 minute closed session. One southern Democrat joined nine Republicans in opposition. voting irregularities and late arrivals affected reading of the measure. The identical bill passed the Senate Labor Committee, while opponents warn the House floor debate will invite amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.R
House Labor Committee
Wingate H. Lucas
Tex
Graham A. Barden
N. C
John S. Wood
Senate Labor Committee
House
Truman
Banking Committee
Samuel K. McConnell, Jr
Wood
Hugo Sims
S. C
Milwaukee Registers Largest Voter List in City History
The election commission announced the city’s registered voters reach 316,058 the largest total ever. The registration deadline had been yesterday.
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Milwaukee
Election Commission
Greece seeks US aid to guard northern Greek frontiers
Premier Themistocles Sofoulis asked the United States and other Allies for military help to prevent Communist infiltration at Greece's northern borders. He said the government would be grateful for such aid. Also, Wisconsin lawmakers kill a proposed little TVA and a constitutional study panel. In Wisconsin Sparta, eight witnesses testified in the first degree murder trial of James Jackson, who is accused of killing his father Earl Jackson on January 24.
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Athens
U.P
Themistocles Sofoulis
Greece
Sofoulis
Sparta
Wis
James Jackson
Earl Jackson
Delegation Split on Pension Bill Vote in House
Washington Wisconsin congressional delegation divided on shelving the veterans pension bill. Democrats Biemiller and Zablocki and Republicans Byrnes and Davis supported shelving while Hull Murray O’Konski Smith and Withrow opposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wisconsin
House
Biemiller
Zablocki
Byrnes
Davis
Hull
Murray
O’konski
Smith
Withrow
Warm But Damp Outlook Across Most of State Today
Clouds and rising temperatures dominate the forecast with scattered showers across most regions tonight. Temperatures run unusually high in the southern plains while a light snow fell near Superior in the north. Land o Lakes recorded 27 degrees, Madison 44 as yesterday's high.
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Superior
Land O' Lakes
Madison
Fighter Pilot Charles Neumann to be laid to rest in Kenosha
The remains of 1st Lt. Charles R. Neumann, a fighter pilot with over 100 combat missions in Europe, will be reburied in Kenosha after arriving Friday from the Chicago Graves Distribution Center. Born in Kenosha in 1918, he grew up in Balboa Canal Zone and died on a 1944 mission over German-occupied Italy. He is survived by a son, his parents, and a sister.
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Charles R. Neumann
Army Air Force
Europe
Kenosha
Chicago Graves Distribution Center
Neumann
Charles Neumann
73Rd St
Italy
Balboa
Canal Zone
Government Administration
Air Force
Charles W. Neumann
Homewood
Bernice Stoner
Early Spring Snow Storm Hits West and Plains
An early spring snow storm swept from Minnesota into the central Rockies with over a foot reported at Lander and six inches at Minot North Dakota. Snow belt extended into the Dakotas western Nebraska Montana Colorado and Wyoming affecting the region.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Rockies
Dakotas
Nebraska
Montana
Colorado
Wyoming
Lander
Minot
N. D
Book by Stalin Introduced at U S Reds Trial
The jury heard excerpts from Joseph Stalin's Foundations of Lenin claiming a proletarian revolution in the United States could occur without violent destruction of the bourgeois state. Louis Budenz testified he used such publications in party work and that a party manual aimed to establish a Soviet socialist republic in the United States through revolution. Budenz, ex Politburo member and Fordham professor, noted orders tied to a 1935 Moscow Comintern program.
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New York
Stalin
United States
Lenin
U. S
John F. X. McGahey
Louis Budenz
Communist Party
Budenz
U. S. Communist Party
Fordham University
Comintern
Moscow
Daily Worker
Racine Bus Fare Hike Approved By PSC
Racine riders will face higher fares as the Public Service Commission approved new rates for Racine Motor Coach Lines. Adult cash jumps to 10 cents. children three to nine pay five cents. tokens at four for 30 cents. weekly passes to 1.30. The change follows 1923 rate levels and targets a seven percent return amid a fleet upgrade plan.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Racine
Public Service Commission
Racine Motor Coach Lines, Inc
PSC
Aunt Kate Spellman 101 Dies After Brief Illness
Kathleen Spellman known as Aunt Kate dies at 101 in Kenosha Wisconsin after a long life in music. Born in Borris Ireland January 8 1848 she taught piano for years and served 47 years as church organist. Survived by sister Mary Gallagher brother Joseph Spellman two nieces and two nephews.
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Kathleen Spellman
Mary Gallagher
3Rd Ave
Miss Spellman
Kate
Borris
County Carlow
Ireland
Dauhter
Roderick
Kathleen D’arcy Spellman
United States
Joseph Spellman
Kenosha
Three Major Wisconsin Senate Bills Aim at Oath Cigaret Tax and Primary Reform
Wisconsin state senate introductions include a non Communist oath requirement for professionals and state workers, a three cent cigarette tax hike earmarked for mental health institutions, and a switch from open primaries to party conventions. Bills lodged by the state and local government committee and activists like Suel Arnold, Schlabach, and William J Campbell seek annual oaths, expected $2 million yearly from the cigarette tax, and July conventions with district caucuses to nominate statewide candidates.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Senate
State and
Suel Arnold
Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin
Gettelman
American Legion
Joint
Schlabach
R-Lacrosse
Wisconsin
William J. Campbell
Oshkosh
Secretary of State
Senate
First City Traffic Fatality of 1949 Sees 6 Year Old Timothy Nelson Die
Timothy Thomas Nelson six year old son of Mr and Mrs Alvin Nelson of 4013 14th Ave died at St Catherine s hospital after being struck by a car driven by Mrs Albert Molinaro 5152 6th Ave The accident occurred at 4 pm in front of 4607 Sheridan Rd The boy ran from the east curb into the path of the Molinaro car and the front struck him the right rear wheel passed over him He died shortly after arrival at the hospital Det Leo Zavacki and Coroner Jay B Glerum investigated The death marks the city s first traffic fatality of 1949 and the county s second Also survived by three brothers and two grandmothers born April 5 1942 in Kenosha
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Timothy Thomas Nelson
Alvin Nelson
14Th Ave
St. Catherine's Hospital
Albert Molinaro
6Th Ave
St. George’s School
Sheridan Rd
Timothy
Molinaro
Leo Zavacki
William L. Lindl
64Th St
Otto Kortum
Detroit
Alvin J
U. S. Navy
Alameda
Calif
Jerome
John
Gertrude Nelson
Fond du Lac
Anna Novak
Kenosha
Timothy Was
Bill Returned To Committee By One Vote
The House, in a 208 to 207 roll call, sent Rankin’s veterans pension bill back to the veterans committee after a recount. The chair asserted the move effectively kills the measure for this Congress. an amended version would pay a flat 10 dollars monthly at age 65 plus service-based extras, with income limits for eligibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Rankin Veterans
Veterans Committee
Veterans’ Committee
Rankin
D.-Miss
Rep
Teague
D.-Tex
Jacobs
D.-Ind
Rogers
D.fla
Stassen Replaces Truman as MIT Convocation Speaker
Harold E. Stassen will replace President Truman as the speaker at MITs mid century convocation in Boston Garden on April 1. The president canceled his appearance due to official duties.
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Stassen
Truman
Cambridge
Mass
Harold E. Stassen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Garden
Levee Breach Forces Louisiana Town Residents to Flee
The Mississippi River broke through a levee about three miles north of Port Allen near Baton Rouge causing rapid flooding of sugar plantations. Sheriff deputies and Red Cross assisted as water widened a 200 foot gap. Army engineers and coast guard dispatched boats and helicopters to aid evacuation and relief efforts.
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Baton Rouge
Mississippi
Port Allen
Baton
U. S. Army
Earl K. Long
Coast Guard
New Orleans
Galveston
Tex
Biloxi
Miss
San Antonio
Texas
Old Ladies Seek 900-Foot Dirt Road Link to World
Elizabeth New Jersey two elderly sisters Miss Wilhelmina Boyer 86 and Mrs Louise Toms 79 pleaded in court for a 900 foot dirt road they say is their only link to the outside world Neighbors dispute the road arguing it sits on their property A supreme court jury was to visit the roadway and their home It was the sisters second Elizabeth visit in 67 years and they recalled kerosene lamps coal stoves and homemade bread while noting changes in clothing styles.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Supreme Court
Wilhelmina Boyer
Louise Toms
William Boyer
Laurence Miller
Henry G. Glonka
Miss Boyer
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D.-Ill
Churchill
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Christopher Soames
Mary
Boy
Little Tva
Madison, Wis
United Press
West
U.S
Wisconsin Assembly
Gade
D-Racine
Frank Nussbaum
Los Angeles
Gerard “Raffles
Dennis
Nussbaum
Julius Bruck
Bill
Rep. McCormack
D.mass
Rayburn
Louisiana
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