Wisconsin Phone Strike Ends As Workers Ratify Settlement
Wisconsin telephone workers end a 21 day strike after voting 2964 to 560 to ratify a one year contract. Wage increases average 3 to 4 dollars weekly, with eight Milwaukee exchanges still picketed. Long distance service runs at reduced levels. local calls return to near normal in most areas.
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Telephone Guild of Wisconsin
West Exchange
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Sheboygan
Appleton
Guild
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Union Vote Ends Phone Strike in Racine Kenosha Counties
The Wisconsin Telephone Guild chapters in Racine and Kenosha voted 149 to 16 to end the strike and restore telephone service in the two counties. Long distance calls resumed this morning. local calls were affected mainly during repair delays. Kenosha manager J H Keating thanked subscribers for cooperation during the walkout.
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Kenosha
Wisconsin Telephone Guild
Simmons Union
J H. Keating
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Truman Plans Visit to Gettysburg for Memorial Day
President Truman will visit the Gettysburg battlefield to take part in Memorial Day services on May 30. Secretary Charles G. Ross announced acceptance of the invitation extended by Pennsylvania's congressional delegation several weeks ago.
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Washington
Truman
Gettysburg
Charles G. Ross
Pennylvania
Marshall Named Honorary Class Member at Wellesley
Secretary of State George C. Marshall received an unusual honor as an honorary member of the class of 1948 at Wellesley College in Wellesley Massachusetts. The reading shows Marshall as a former army chief of staff joining the female class as an honorary member.
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Wellesley
Mass
George C. Marshall
Army
Wellesley College
Oklahoma lawmaker held after shooting fellow senator
Oklahoma City reports Rep. Jimie Scott 35 was jailed on assault with intent to kill after firing at Sen. Tom Anglin 64 in the state senate chamber. Anglin was wounded but stable. Scott fled, was captured in the washroom. Both men from Holdenville. The dispute centers on a divorce and property settlement.
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Oklahoma
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Jimie Scott
Tom Anglin
Holdenville
Scott
Anglin’s
Anglin
University Hospital
Irene Tucker
War Assets Admin Bets Gadsden Ordnance Works Lease
Washington reports the War Assets Administration announces the lease of the Gadsden Alabama Ordnance Works to Allis-Chalmers Company of Milwaukee Wisconsin for the manufacture of tractors and mechanical cotton pickers.
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Gadsden, Ala
Allis-Chalmers Co
Milwaukee
Wis
War Assets Administration
Jurors Find Driver Negligent In Traffic Death
A coroner's jury found Adolph De Cesaro grossly negligent for failing to stop after Ignatz Szacywka was struck at Fifty fifth street and Sheridan road. Szacywka died Sunday at St Catherine's hospital from internal injuries. De Cesaro posted bond and awaits municipal court action.
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Ignatz Szacynka
Eighteenth Avenue
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Sheridan Road
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James A. Crossin
Ignatz Szacywka
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DeCesaro
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Frank Shannon
L. M. Rauen
Grant Tyler
Joseph Smolinski
Michael Bruno
Burnell Goodman
Joseph Strubel
Rauen
Szacywka
St.Catherine's Hospital
Kenosha Hospital
Despised Crow Takes Champion Status in Dr Gross Study
Washington reports Dr Alfred Otto Gross, a scientist, claims crows can be trained as sociable pets that imitate human speech and laughter. He notes large 1927 crow killings near Dempsey Oklahoma and Rockford Illinois, calling bird life destruction met with mixed reaction.
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Washington
U.P
Paa
Howdy
Alfred Otto Gross
Dempsey
Oklo
Rockford
Death Claims Ernest Marlatt Kenosha Editor at 55
Ernest F. Marlatt, 55, editor of the Kenosha Evening News, died. The prominent journalist led the paper and contributed to local civic life, leaving a vacancy in its editorial desk.
Sudden Heart Attack Claims Kenosha Editor Marlatt
Ernest F. Marlatt 55 editor of the Kenosha Evening News and secretary of Kenosha News Publishing Co died at his home after a sudden heart attack. He entered his office this morning then fell ill and died at 11 15 a m with his wife Mary present. His son Ernest Eugene was in Indiana. The report notes Marlatt’s long civic service in Wisconsin journalism and his prior roles in education and the military. The obituary follows details of his birth May 24 1892 Columbus Indiana and career at DePauw University Harvard postgrad work. He arrived in Kenosha in 1917 and became editor of the Kenosha Evening News in April 1925.
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Greencastle
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Annie Collins Marlatt
Connersville
Harvard University
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Waveland, Ind
Manilla
Camp Taylor
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Wisconsin Associated Press
Long Distance Strike Near Settlement Amid Labor Talks
After 32 days of walkouts the long distance union moved toward a settlement with wage increases of 2 to 5 dollars per week. Assistant Secretary John W. Gibson said the agreement signals potential quick resumption of service and covers 20,000 members of the American Union of Telephone Workers pending executive board and member approval in New York.
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U.S
John W. Gibson
Labor Department
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Long Lines
American Union of Telephone Workers
New York
Truman Remarks On Price Cut Call
President Truman expressed satisfaction with public reaction to his plea for lower prices. He cautioned that only time will tell whether the nation has passed the peak of inflationary prices.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Kenosha County Opens Model Home for Aged Sunday Inspection
The Willowbrook building at the Kenosha County Home will be open for public inspection Sunday May 11 from 2 to 5 p.m. Officials will tour the facility Saturday. occupancy starts Monday. Capacity 42 with emergency 18. Superintendent Isabel Bernhardt leads a staff including Hazel Berry Fred and Mrs Fred Wilson Lee Snyder Nona Lorenzen Christine Smith Catherine Naef Veronica Milau skis Amelia Pabst.
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Margaret Truman to Give Concert in Pittsburgh
Margaret Truman daughter of the president will give a national concert debut in Pittsburgh at Syria Mosque on May 20 Tom Beegle manager of Beegle Concerts announced he received Miss Truman's signed contract today He said the Pittsburgh appearance begins a series of personal appearances across the country
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Syria
Anonymous donor gifts 270 to memorial library fund
A letter bearing four cents postage due arrived at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. Officials, already raising 110000 for a memorial library honoring war dead, opened the envelope to discover 270 dollars in cash from an anonymous donor.
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Truman Marks 63rd Birthday Still Optimist
President Truman, on his 63rd birthday, voiced confidence that lasting peace will come and that United Nations will play a vital role. He cited two years since victory over Germany, urged Congress to consider universal military training, and defended his stance on prices and Myron Taylor as envoy to the Vatican. He emphasized he would not withdraw Taylor until peace is secured.
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Andrew May’s Son Testifies in War Fraud Trial
Robert May testified that two $1,000 checks cashed at the Capitol in 1944 by Andrew J. May were political contributions. The government charges A J May obtained the funds to intercede with army authorities for favored treatment for a Freeman son, and for E A Feldman, a California war contractor, who are on trial with May.
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Andrew J. May
Kentucky
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Joseph F. Freeman
May
E. A. Feldman
California
Tavern owner with shotgun nabbed intruder at tavern
At Clem and Chet's tavern on Seventh Avenue an intruder was confronted by co owner Chet Zeihen who woke to a window commotion. The man Raymond H. Kraning of Fourteenth Avenue claimed he had no gun and was taken to police, while the piggy bank burglary remained unsolved.
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Zeihen
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Jewish State Appeal Made to United Nations
Dr Abba Hillel Silver urged the UN General Assembly to relax British immigration limits to Palestine and end the 1939 White Paper policy. He argued Britain violated the mandate and that a Jewish homeland would spur rebirth in the Near East amid Europe’s displaced Jewish population.
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Palestine
United Nations
Holy Land
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League of Nations
Silver
Near East
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B-17 Crash Lands Off Gulf. Three Rescued
A B-17 from Elgin Field, Fla with seven aboard crash landed five miles offshore in the gulf during a routine training flight. One engine was on fire. Three men were rescued while four others are listed as missing. Authorities search for the missing crew members.
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