Murder Trial Shifts as Bruno Renews Damaging Testimony
Anthony Bruno, 32, ex prizefighter and associate of the Farinas in the Kenosha incident that left Mike Farina dead and Joe Farina wounded, reversed his earlier statements. He testified that none of the defendants were at the slaying scene and that four Chicagoans may have committed the murder. He admitted lying previously, saying fear for his life prompted the change.
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Anthony Carmen Bruno
Mike
Joseph Farina
Kenosha County
Joe
Bruno
Eugene Sullivan
the Farinas
Joe Farina
Sullivan
Farina Sullivan
Vpage
Congress Shies From Court Dispute Over Roosevelts Picks
The article outlines tensions in the Supreme Court between Hugo Black and Robert Jackson, with Jackson’s accusations heightening calls for inquiry. It notes Vinson’s pending nomination to chief justice, support in Congress, and the Roosevelt-era friction shaping court politics amid the nine-old-men era and past proscriptions of New Deal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Congress
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Hugo Black
Robert H. Jackson
House
Senate
Harold Burton
Truman
Democratic
Rosevelt
Black
Alabama
Ku Klux Klan
Jackson
Neumnberg
Italians Clash in Rome as Republicans Push Reform
Thousands of Italian Republicans and monarchists battled in the Piazza Del Popolo as police and troops restored order. At least 12 people died and 100 were wounded nationwide amid the crisis over Italy’s move from a monarchy to a republic.
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Rome
U.P
Piazza del Popolo
Italy
Carabinieri
Taranto
Humbert II
Alcide de Gasperi
Naples
Ex Gl Arrested In Jewel Case
Washington reports Roy C. Carlton a former enlisted man was arrested by federal agents at his home in Jilgore Tennessee in the Kronberg castle jewel theft case. An army officer said Carlton’s participation was believed minor and he is a previously unnamed former technician noted in the inquiry. Three army officers including a WAC captain and her husband remain held in connection with the case involving theft of crown jewels valued at 1.5 million.
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Washington
War Department Today
Roy C. Carlton
Kronberg Castle
Army
Carlton
Jilgore
Tenn
Aubrey Thomas
War Department Public Relations Bureau
Sth
Wac
War Department Suspends Army Demotions
The War Department suspended today the demotion of army officers and said about 1,800 colonels may not be reduced as previously ordered. The pause comes after revised estimates of peacetime army needs altered the demotion schedule announced in April.
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Washington
War Department
House Ways and Means backs higher Social Security tax
The committee voted to raise the Social Security tax from 1 to 1.5 percent on employees and employers, effective January 1. If approved by both houses the annual Social Security collection would rise from 1.3 billion to 2.0 billion dollars.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Grandmother Valedictorian Heads YMCA High School Class
Mrs Helen Kotin aged 46 from Chicago is named valedictorian of Central YMCA High School. Tonight 82 graduates will receive diplomas at commencement exercises.
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Chicago
Helen Kotin
Central Y.M.C.A. High School
Veterans Night Highlights Kenosha County Conservation Club
The Kenosha County Conservation Club hosted veterans at a special meeting at the Union Club. W J Palmer outlined wartime fish stocking across county lakes and streams, with reports on game conditions, rifle unit activities, and the Highway 50 game farm. Attorney Judson W Staplekamp gave the keynote on the club's history and wartime conservation goals, urging veterans to join ongoing efforts. Volunteers are urgently needed to prepare pheasant pens for this year’s farm quota.
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Union Club
Kenosha County Conservation Club
Kenosha County
W. J. Palmer
Palmer
Wisconsin
Highway 50
Judson W. Staplekamp
Staplekamp
Ben Zander
Brooklyn Celebrates 300th Birthday With Quiet Observance
Brooklyn marks three centuries since Dutch settlers bought Flatbush and Breuckelen with beer and brandy, tracing growth from a village to New York City’s largest borough. The piece recalls early battles, Whitman, Coney Island, and the Trolley Dodgers, noting festive flags without parades.
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New York
Greenpoint
Gowanus
Gravesend Bay
Ebbetsfield
Flatbush
Coney Island
Brooklyn
Bub
Moiie
Joe
Jaycees Install Officers Hear State President
Oral Vandenberg was installed as Kenosha Junior Chamber of Commerce president at a women’s night dinner in Friedens Lutheran church community building. New officers include George Becker as first vice president Bob Wellman as second vice president Emory Mischler as treasurer and Jack Ward as secretary. Ward received the president’s pin from Walter Canavan who was toastmaster. An address by Wilfred J. Winetzke of Wausau, newly named Wisconsin Junior Chamber of Commerce president, outlined six state projects for the year including promoting Wisconsin as a vacation state youth activities and annual community awards. Winetzke noted 15 Jaycee groups are forming to join 31 clubs already active. the national body plans to form an international Jaycee entity this year. He had been named Wisconsin president at the Stevens Point convention in May. George Epstein was named national Jaycee director from Wisconsin and is state extension chairman. Vandenberg also appointed local Jaycee committee chairmen including Don Cook.
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Oral Vandenberg
Kenosha
Canavan
Jaycees
Wilfred J. Winetzke
Wausau
Wisconsin Junior Chamber of Commerce
Badger Jaycees
Wisconsin
Winetzke
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
United Nations
Stevens Point
George Epstein
Lansing A. Wilcox
GAR
Alma Cheesman
Milwaukee
E. G. Kaestner
Milkee
Sons of Union Veterans
Otto T. Steffensen
Mihailovic Testifies British Mission Directed Chetnik Actions
Gen Draja Mihailovic told a three man Belgrade court that a British liaison mission in Yugoslavia instructed him to destroy Tito’s partisans. He described 1943 German relations as haphazard and requested a secret session to reveal British directives via Col William Bailey. The court denied the secret hearing and pressed him to proceed.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovic
Tito
Moscow
Mihailovic
William Bailey
Bulgaria
Bailey
Gram
Jim McFadden
Jim Steinmetz
Shooting Stars Fly Across U S in Five and a Half Hours
Three jet propelled army Shooting Star planes completed a cross country flight from California to Andrews Field Maryland in about five and a half hours.
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Andrews Field
California
Bevin Hints at Separate Treaties Without Russia
The education board disallowed a $586 medical expense claim by Frank Lupi after his son Gino Lupi, 16, was badly hurt in a Kenosha High School industrial arts class incident. The board found no extreme negligence by staff and approved new teacher hires while postponing other actions.
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Frank Lupi
Twenty-second Avenue
Gino
Kenosha High School
Board of Education
Robert V. Baker
Gino Lupi
A. E. Freeberg
Program Is Highlight of GAR Convention
The four day GAR encampment closed with a standout program in the High school auditorium drawing near 1000 attendees. Highlights included flag presentations, musical numbers, and the Little Theater’s Civil War era play On Hallowed Ground.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Hallowed Ground
Little Theater
Paul Davis
Lincoln
White House
Appomattox
Lees
Bevin Defends Britain Policy at Labour Conference
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin argued for his foreign policy at the Labour party conference. He criticized delays in peace treaties as indefensible and rejected plans to divide Europe, insisting Britain would not attack Russia and warning against new camps. He pressed for Middle East settlement of Palestine and defended his diplomacy against party criticism.
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Bournemouth
Ernest Bevin
Labor Party
Russia
Bevin
Britain
Foreign Office
Spain
Palestine
Europe
Stettin
Albania
Stalin
Molo‘tov
New York
General Clark protests Russian air targets over Austrian airfield
Gen Mark W Clark, U S member of the Allied Control Council for Austria, protested twice to the Russian command against target practice by Russian fighter planes over the American airfield at Tulin Austria a burst was fired at a red flag atop the American radio tower during the incident
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Vienna
Mark W. Clark
U. S
Allied Control Council For
Austria
Russian Fightre
Tulin
Bring Back Daddy Club Sends Turtle Gifts to Congress
Members of the House military committee received turtle boxes from Milwaukee’s Bring Back Daddy Club amid calls to extend the draft. The gifts, attached slogans urging automatic discharges after 18 months and a one year extension, prompted a quick committee reaction as one turtle was adopted.
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Daddy Club
Himt
Washington
House Military Committee
Congress
Milwaukee
Twelve Die as B 29 Crashes Into Smoky Mountain Peak
A B 29 from McDill Field Florida crashed into Clingmann Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg Tennessee. Twelve men aboard were killed with nine bodies recovered by noon. Weather clear and no distress reported before dawn. The bomber last contacted Knoxville at 2 16 a m EST on a routine flight.
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Gatlinburg
Tenn
McDill Field
Fla
Clingmann Dome
Great Smoky Mountains
Here
McDillfield
Army
Army Air Base
Greenville
S. C
Knoxville
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Senate Naval Affairs Panel Clears Sullivan Nomination
The Senate Naval Affairs committee voted unanimously to approve John L. Sullivan of New Hampshire as undersecretary of the Navy. The action advances the nomination with strong support and reflects confidence in his candidacy.
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Senate Naval Affairs Group
Sullivan
Washington
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
John L. Sullivan
New Hampshire
Navy
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