Truman to Study Coal Fact-Finders' Report Before Action
President Truman will study the three member fact finding board's report on the coal strike before taking further steps. He will review documents on a Williamsburg Virginia trip where he also receives an honorary degree from William and Mary. The board found facts but made no settlement recommendations.
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Truman
Washington
White House
Charles G. Ross
Williamsburg
William and Mary College
Ross
Justice Department
Ballots Ready For Spring Vote Next Tuesday
County Clerk John C Niederprim and City Clerk B A Herrmann announce ballots for the spring election are prepared and distributed to city and rural polling places. Voters in Kenosha and two villages will choose trustees, with city council, board of education, justice of the peace, and presidential primary delegate contests on the ballot.
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John C. Niederprim
B. A. Herrmann
Kenoshan
Board of Education
Justice of Peace
Boards of Trustees
Felix Olkives
J. M. Herrmann
Vernon Christensen
Nicholas Wade
Joseph Greenwald
Edward Fechner
Roger F. Schmitz
Edward N. Rice
Paul Saftig
Orville Leonard
Daniel C. Lencioni
Jessie Wolcott
Charles Anderson
Paul Ll. Whiteside
Silver Lake
Twin Lakes Villages
Silver Lake Village
Francis Reiter
Arthur Hodgson
Reighold Faber
Tom Jester
Lyle Kerkhoff
Frank Martin
Leslie Skinner
Twin Lakes
August Rasch
James Knoch
Frank Platts
Edward Preisser
John C. Neiderprim
Kenosha and Racine Protest PSC Bus Decision
City leaders in Kenosha and Racine blast the Public Service Commission for denying Cardinal Lines through service from Kenosha to Madison. City Manager A E Axtell accuses the PSC of backing the Northland Greyhound monopoly while ignoring testimony from fifty four southeastern Wisconsin residents and traffic experts. The Cardinal firm files for rehearing as council weighs a protest resolution and noted the PSC hearing was not conducted in person.
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Kenosha
Racine
Oscar Rennebohm
Public Service Commission
Cardinal Line
Sea Wanada
Danina
Madiena
Poe Lee
BNF
AVR
Renee Tee
Francis Wendt
PSC
Northland Greyhound
Wisconsin
James Webb
Cardinal
Philip H. Porter
Madison
A. E. Axtell
Cardinal Lines
Bryan
Ashley
Northland-Greyhound Bus Company
Midland Coach Company
U S Letters to Italy Protested
Rome reports Communists and left wing Socialists urged the government to halt letters from the United States urging Italians to vote against the Communists in the upcoming April 18 election. The protest, to the all party election truce committee, said such letters amount to foreign interference. The committee rejected the protest for lack of jurisdiction.
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Rome
United States
Italy
All Party Election Truce Committee
Pius
Social Movement Party
Enlistment of Europeans Urged by Senator Lodge
Senator Lodge urged immediate voluntary enlistment of 50 000 Europeans in the US army. The plan would screen volunteers and make them eligible for citizenship after five years. It aims to reduce draft needs and kickstart universal military training.
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Washington
United States
Senator Lodge
Mass
Lodge
Senate Armed Services Committee
Europe
Morgenstierne Denies Russian Trade Treaty Plans
Wilhem T Morgenstierne Norway's ambassador to the United States stated he has no knowledge of any Russian proposal to Norway concerning trade treaties or agreements. He made the remark in Madison Wisconsin during a press conference today.
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Madison
Wis
Wilhelm T. Morgenstierne
Norway
United States
Kenosha Protests Racine Dumping In Lake Michigan
City manager Axtell notified Racine Mount Pleasant and a trailer camp of open dumping into Lake Michigan at the Larsen road area. Kenosha cites post-storm debris on its beaches, costing an estimated $5,000 to clean, with dairy bottle caps from Racine County found among the trash. Axtell says Kenosha will pursue legal action to halt the dumping and has sent copies to health and engineering offices.
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Lake Michigan
Kenosha
State Board of Health
U. S. Army Engineers
Milwaukee
A. E. Axtell
Racine
Mount Pleasant
Harvey Hansche
Lake Shore
Axtell
Ed Lewis
Larsen Road
Byrne Murr
Racine County
Progressive
Borden
Harmony
Marigold
Skewes
Westfield
U. S. Engineers
Wisconsin
Pheasants Released as Breeder Stock in Kenosha County
Conservation Warden Robert Winnie and the Kenosha County Conservation club released 175 mature ringneck pheasants to replenish breeder stock. The birds arrived from the state farm at Poynette and were distributed to all townships with no injuries reported. An additional shipment for public shooting grounds near New Munster is expected in April, forecast to plant about 40 pheasants.
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Robert Winnie
Kenosha County Conservation Club
Winnie
Poynette
Milton LaViolette
Joe Beyers
Hugh Johnson
W. T. Marratt
Ford Ott
Clem Tilton
Guy Loftis
Lee Perry
Pleasants
New Munster
Cairo Haifa Train Blown Up in Palestine
The Cairo Haifa train on the Palestine coastal plain was blown up at Binyamina twenty miles south of Haifa. Twenty four people were killed and sixty one injured as the engine and four coaches derailed. The train was en route to Haifa and a government spokesman said few if any British casualties were expected.
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Jerusalem
Cairo-Haifa
Palestine Coastal Plain
Binyamina
Haifa
Palestine
Truman Urges TVA Plan For Emergency Power Increase
President Truman directs TVA to draft a program to boost power output for emergency needs. He orders TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp to outline a plan for a vast new electricity supply to serve aluminum, chemical, and other defense plants.
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Washington
Truman
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Gordon R. Clapp
Truman signs weak rent law broadening controls to 1949
The new rent control measure goes into effect at midnight covering about 50 million Americans and extending modified controls to March 31, 1949. President Truman says it will hold rents to reasonable levels though not solve the problem and urges timely congressional action on housing. The bill creates a federal court to review local board rent decisions and allows up to 15 percent increases by agreement through 1949.
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Lewis
Sherman Minton
Minton
United Mine Workers
Welfare and Retirement Fund
Washington
Truman
Tighe Woods
Raymond M. Foley
House
Commerce Department
House Cuts 1.3 Billion From Foreign Aid Bill
Lawmakers advanced the foreign aid measure with a 112 to 61 vote but faced continued debate over program length and total cost. Rep. Vorys managed the bill while Rep. Vursell urged a 1.3 billion dollar cut, calling the plan a world wide WPA. The Senate moved separate aid bills as talks continued.
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Washington
House
Rep
Vorys
Ohio
Vursell
Vursell (R-Ill
Senate
China
Finns Attack Red Minister Amid Police Criticism
In Helsinki parliament and the press press the interior minister Yrjo Leino faces charges of Communist infiltration of the police. Leino travels to Moscow with a Finnish delegation to Moscow to negotiate a potential friendship and treaty with Russia. Parliament will hear his response on return, weeks away.
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Helsinki
Finland
Yrjo Leino
Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Juho K. Paasikivi
Dewey Opens Two Day Wisconsin Tour With Kenosha Stop
New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey flags his two day Wisconsin tour starting in Kenosha at 10 30 tomorrow morning. He then heads to Racine for a noon luncheon and Milwaukee for an 8 15 pm speech broadcast nationwide. Dewey battles MacArthur Stassen for Wisconsin 27 delegates while Willkie’s absence shapes the race.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Vernon W. Thomson
Richland Center
Carl Bloomquist
Superior
Edward J. Brown
Germantown
Edward F. Hilker
Racine
Norris J. Kellman
Galesville
Albert J. O'Melia
Rhinelander
Julius Spearbraker
Clintonville
Douglas MacArthur
Fred R. Zimmermann
Milwaukee
William J. Campbell
Oshkosh
Roy F. Farrand
Delafield
Madge R. Goodland
Phillip F. LaFollette
Madison
Charles D. Madsen
Luck
Edward J. Schmidt
Manitowoc
Harold E. Stassen
Loyal Eddy
Wauwatosa
George Greeley
Walter J. Kohler
Kohler
Arthur Lenroot, Jr
East Superior
Joseph R. McCarthy
Appleton
Melvin J. Olson
South Wayne
Wilber N. Renk
Sun Prairie
Charles H. Pfennig
Kenosha
Dewey
Alfred L. Godfrey
Elkhorn
Charles E. Lyon
Stassen
John H. Matheson
Janesville
Grant A. Ritter
Beloit
MacArthur
F. Lee Dechant
New York
North Western
Wisconsin
Davidson
New Hampshire
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Crowds in Stockholm dispersed by police amid riots
Crowds gathered in Stockholm's southern district last night seeking renewed riots but were dispersed by police who arrested 20. The arrests raise total to 78 detained in demonstrations since last Friday.
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Stockholm
WUP
Delavan Man Sentenced After Bouncing Welfare Check
Francis C. Geitner, 22, of Delavan Wisconsin on probation for worthless checks, gave the State Department of Welfare a 25 dollar check that bounced. He was sentenced yesterday to one to two years in the state reformatory.
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Waukesha
Wis
Francis C. Geitner
Delavan
State Department of Welfare
Geitner
State Reformatory
Adequate Bomb Supply Claimed By Congress Witness
Congress heard from atomic energy chief David Lilienthal that the United States has an adequate supply of bombs and continues production. The House Appropriations Committee recommended full support of the commission with an additional 150 million dollars. Senators also weighed use of atomic weapons to shorten war, with Senator Hickenlooper favoring strategic use to save lives.
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Washington
United States
Congress
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
House Appropriations Committee
Lilienthal
Commission
Keefe
Wis
America
Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee
Hickenlooper
Immigrant Leads Town Revival In Langeloth Pa
Gus Bar bush, a Burgettstown resident who started as a dishwasher 36 years ago, bought the 800 job zinc plant and 261 homes in Langeloth for several hundred thousand dollars. He secured a $200000 loan from Burgettstown National Bank to acquire the property including the community hall church school and park. He plans to attract new industry and improve the park and baseball diamond as the town’s future.
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Langeloth
Gus Barbush
Gus
Burgettstown National Bank
Zinc Company
Anary Reaction On Aid to Spain
Reaction from London Paris and Rome greets U S House move to add Franco Spain to ERP. Senate conferees unlikely to accept the amendment. Vandenberg opposes the step as Britain signals a fight. Paris and Rome gauge implications for elections and anti Communist forces.
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Anary
Spain
United States
House of Representatives
London
Paris
Rome
Senate
House
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Foreign Relations Committee
Oshkosh Woman Second Fatality in Auto Crash
A second Oshkosh woman died from injuries after an automobile crash Monday at a Highway 41 intersection. The deceased include 64 year old Mary Kuehn, a passenger in the car driven by her 37 year old son Clarence, and Sabina Witt, 62, of Oshkosh, who died shortly after the collision with a truck.
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Milwaukee
Oshkosh
Mary Kuehn
Clarence
Sabina Witt
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