Senators accuse obstructionists delaying labor bill
A Republican senator charges a small group of Democratic obstructionists with blocking passage of a labor bill. The dispute centers on substituting a milder measure for the GOP bill as leaders push for a vote this week amid talk of a presidential veto.
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Washington
Senate
Hugh Butler
Claude Pepper
Fla
Republlican
Dean Acheson
United Nations
Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
High Court Upholds Freight Rate Order
The Supreme Court upheld the Interstate Commerce Commission's 1945 freight rate equalization order in a 7 to 2 decision led by Justice Douglas. Dissenters were Justices Frankfurter and Jackson. The ruling affects class rates, directing a 10 percent increase in northeastern states and a 10 percent cut elsewhere, except west of the Rockies.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
William O. Douglas
Felix Frankfurter
Robert H. Jackson
Ldu
BS -R
Testea
Morthe
Wie
New England
Western Railroads
Ohio, Potomac
Mississippi Rivers
Rocky Mountains
ICC
New York
Delaware
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Michigan
New Jersey
Ohio
Wisconsin
Douglas
South
Kenosha County Opens New Home for the Aged
Open house draws over 400 visitors to the Willowbrook building as Kenosha County unveils its remodeled home for the aged. County officials note strong public reception and state welfare praise calling the facility among the finest in the state. The special committee plans to turn over the building to the county at tonight’s board of supervisors meeting at 7 30.
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Kenosha County
Willowbrook Group
J. C. Niederprim
Alvin Nielsen
Nielsen and
Niederprim
Board of Supervisors
Milwaukee issues report on phone bill credits
Wisconsin Telephone Co. announced credits totaling 1 434 300 to state telephone subscribers after a 31 day strike. Vice president John O Day said about 375 000 of the companys 5 000 subscribers in 55 communities would receive credits on their next bill.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Telephone Co
John O'Day
15-20 Year Term For Armed Bank Robbery
Mark Jorgenson of Austin Minnesota received a 15 to 20 year sentence in the Wisconsin state reformatory at Green Bay after pleading guilty to armed robbery in the Edgar State Bank holdup on November 29. Judge Gerald J. Boileau presided.
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Wausau, Wis
Mark Jorgenson
Austin, Minn
State Reformatory
Green Bay
Gerald J. Boileau
Edgar
Wis
State Bank
Dean Acheson Resigns as Undersecretary of State
President Truman accepts the resignation of Dean Acheson as under secretary of state effective June 30. Robert A. Lovett, ex-assistant secretary of war, to succeed him. Lovett to be nominated soon. Acheson to return to private life and law practice in New York. Truman lauds his public service and offers future advice if needed.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Dean Acheson
White House
Robert A. Lovett
Acheson
Lovett
Senate
WLIP Debuts In Kenosha With 11 Hours Of Broadcast
Radio station WLIP began broadcasting in Kenosha on a Sunday debut with 11 hours of entertainment for rural and city listeners. About 400 visitors toured the Kenosha National Bank Building studios as WLIP announced a daily schedule from sunrise to sunset except Sundays starting at 8 a.m. A 240 foot antenna and 1050 dial position supported excellent reception across the county amid a last minute rush to air when doors to the bank building were locked before air time.
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WLIP
Kenosha
Kenosha National Bank
Bank Building
Richard Driscoll
Winnie Ruth Judd Recaptured After 12 Hour Flight
The so called Trunk Slayer, Winnie Ruth Judd, was recaptured after a 12 hour flight. Authorities tracked her movements across multiple states before detaining her again.
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Winnie Ruth Judd
Burglars Take $550 in Jewels At Residence
Kenosha police report a Sunday night residential burglary at George Ebner 3019 Roosevelt Road. Entry by storm window and kitchen window pried. several rooms and attic ransacked. Jewelry valued at about $550 stolen including a pink gold bracelet with diamond, pearl pieces, watches, pins, earrings, and a wristwatch. Continued on Page Eight.
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George Ebner
Roosevelt Road
Ebner
Amos Vollbracht
Reynold Houte
Kenosha
Brass Company Grants 11 1 2 Cent Wage Increase
About 1,400 members of Brass and Copper Workers Local 19322 AFL won an 11 1 2 cent-an-hour raise retroactive to April 28 after contract talks with D C Rowell, plant superintendent of Kenosha American Brass. The deal also adds six paid holidays, bringing the total to 15 cents an hour.
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Brass and Copper Workers Local 19322
AFL
D. C. Rowell
Kenosha American Brass Company
American Brass Company
Brass and Copper
Rowell
Brass Company
Eagles Club
Brass and Copper Workers
Notorious killer Winnie Ruth Judd captured after escape near Arizona Biltmore
Winnie Ruth Judd, the so called trunk murderess who killed two women in 1931 and shipped their dismembered bodies to Los Angeles, was recaptured about 12 hours after she escaped a Phoenix state hospital. She was seized near the Arizona Biltmore hotel and brought in by patrol car.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
State Hospital
Arizona Biltmore
Sheriff's Office
Los Angeles
Larson
Wealthy widow shot at Suffolk Downs in Boston
Beatrice Simon, 55, wealthy concessionaire for Samuel B. Simon Inc., was shot dead in her Suffolk Downs office by nephew Edward Shane, 44, who then killed himself. Police say a family feud over the million dollar business motive. Shane had been a key figure in the enterprise tied to Boston Garden and Rockingham Park.
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Boston
U.P
Beatrice Simon
New England
Suffolk Downs
Edward Shane
Shane
Simon
Klub
Track
Joseph L. Ferrari
Ace State Police
Shanes
Sam Simon
Salem
Simons
Enterprise
Highway Crash Injures Six in County and City
Six people suffered serious injuries in a two car collision Sunday on Highway 41 near Highway 50. Clifford Frasheski, 20, and Dorothy Friese, 19, were injured. Chester Obukowicz, Victoria Obukowicz, Ignatius Obukowicz and Marion Obukowicz were among four Milwaukee residents treated at Kenosha hospital. Additional accidents on Highway 50 left three more injured, including James Cox and Rollin Van Warmer in a sideswipe near Coopers road and Peter Herr in a separate Saturday evening crash.
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Leo Sikora
Chester Obukowicz
Milwaukee
Clifford Frasheski
Thirty-third Avenue
Floyd Hughes
James Marshall
Frasheski
Dorothy Friese
Thirty-sixth Avenue
Obukowicz
Victoria Obukowicz
Ignatius Obukowicz
Marion Obukowicz
Kenosha Hospital
Highway 50
James Cox
Thirty-eighth Street
Rollin van Warmer
Waukegan
Coopers Road
Mary Holmes
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Cox
van Warmer
Peter Herr
Pleasant Prairie
Cooper's Road
Herr
James Burton
Sidney Riffkind
Twenty-second Avenue
Ben Newman
Twin Lakes
Cardinal
Leo J. Marion
Twelfth Avenue
Newman
Highway 41
Ray Wuerzberger
Racine
Primo
Page Eight
Allis Workers Battle Police In Ball Game
Milwaukee police clashed with Allis-Chalmers workers during a Milwaukee Industrial Baseball League game. The AC team exploded for 12 runs in the seventh inning to beat the caps 12 to 0.
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Allis
Milwaukee
U.P
Allis- Chalmers Company
Greek Aid Bill Approval Will Not Affect Troop Withdrawal
A Foreign Office spokesman said congressional approval of Truman’s Greek aid bill will not trigger an automatic withdrawal of British troops from Greece. The two issues are not necessarily interrelated. Britain plans to pull its economic mission from Athens in July.
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London
Truman
Greece
Foreign Office
Britain
Athens
Guard Faces Sea Lion Escape Aboard Train
A rail way guard on an eastbound express to New Jersey fought three rebellious sea lions that broke from cages in Illinois. W. A. Sartwell hid behind freight boxes with a loose board for protection as the animals snarled and snapped for hours. Lincoln Park Zoo director R. Marlin Perkins and staff recaged the bewhiskered attackers at Dearborn station before the trio continued toward Camden, N. J.
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Chicago
U.P
New Jersey
W. A. Sartwell
Sartwell
George McGuire
Santa Barbara
Cal
Means Brothers and Ward
Dearborn Station
Zoo
R. Marlin Perkins
Lincoln Park Zoo
Perkins
Camden
Steel Shortage Shuts Major Auto Plants
Detroit dispatch reports a critical steel shortage forcing more plant closures. General Motors shut its Fisher Body division plant No 1 at Flint and the Detroit Fleetwood plant after already cutting output at two sites. Briggs Manufacturing laid off 17,000 workers last week with 2,200 more to follow. Packard Motor Car plans two day layoff for unspecified number starting May 19.
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Detroit
U.P
General Motors Corporation
Fisher Body Division
Flint
Detroit Fleetwood
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Packard Motor Car Company
May Garsson war fraud trial details emerge in testimony
Washington testimony shows Julius G Raynes gave Mur ray Garsson a 1000 dollar check in 1942 to secure an army commission. Prosecutors say May took bribes totaling 55000 from the Garssons and Freeman. The check allegedly funded an option on Cumberland Lumber Co in Preston burg Kentucky linked to wartime favors. The trial aims to summon Royall and Petersen as new witnesses.
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Washington
Julius G Raynes
New York
May
Raynes
Garsson
Murray
Henry
Joseph F. Freeman
Garsson Washington
Cumberland Lumber Company
Prestonburg
Garssons
Kenneth C. Royall
Howard Petersen
Merger urged for two Wisconsin state departments
A joint legislative committee recommended integrating the two departments now under the state treasurer into the Wisconsin department of taxation. The report proposes transferring the beverage and cigarette tax division and considers moving the oil inspection bureau as feasible.
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Madison
Wis
State Treasurer’s
Wisconsin Department of Taxation
Joint Legislative Committee
Griffenhagen
Oil Inspection Bureau
Joint Committee On Finance
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War Department
Armed Services
G. I
Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson
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U. S. Air Lines
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Adolph J. Sabath
Treasury
UN American Activities Committee
Hollywood
High Court
President Truman
Mary Jane Truman
Martha E. Truman
Grandview
Mr. Truman
Free Palestine State
Syria
Lake Success
N.Y
Holy Land
Palestine
Faris el Khoury
General Assembly
U.N. Palestine Inquiry Commission
Jewish Agency For Palestine
U.N
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Moshe Shertok
Grand Imufti
Jerusalem
Shertok
el Khoury
Mufti
Cairo
Jewish Agency
Evening News
Arizona
Judd
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