U S Proposes Immediate Ministers Talks on Germany Treaty
Secretary Byrnes urged a four power meeting to draft a German peace treaty with Britain France Russia and the United States. A 21 nation peace conference was floated for July while Austria was kept off the June 15 agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
U. S
Byrnes
Foreign Ministers Council
Germany
Britain
Russia
France
United States
Toverty Ulalt
Washington
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Truman
China
Tsien Tai
Ruhr
Saar
Rhineland
Italy
Austria
Kenosha School Board Awards 30980 in Contracts
The Kenosha Board of Education awarded maintenance work contracts totaling 30980 for summer construction in public schools. American Foundry and Furnace of Milwaukee received two contracts for heating and ventilating at Weiskopf and Deming elementary schools, and Edward T. VerHalen Co. secured acoustical treatment for the high school gymnasiums and swimming pool. Bids and deadlines were noted, with other bidders and amounts listed, and total war savings details updated alongside teacher resignations and six new hires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Kenosha
Joseph C. Hamelink
American Foundry and Furnace Company
Milwaukee
Weiskopf
Fiftieth Street
Deming
Sixty-second Street
Edward T. VerHalen Co., Inc
Weiskopf and Deming
John Zinane
South Side Hardware and Plumbing Company
Sheboygan
Insulation Service, Inc
Edward T. Ver- Halen, Inc
A. P. Koehl
Public Schools
Lincoln Junior High School
Koehl
Draft extension halves exemptions anger Truman and Senate
Teenagers and fathers won exemption from the draft under a 45 day extension of Selective Service. The Senate passed the House measure hours before expiry, drawing criticism from President Truman and Secretary Patterson. Inductions of underage youths were halted, while the army faces retention of drafted men two years and possible failure to meet manpower goals.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
America
Truman
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Robert P. Patterson
White House
War Department
Army
Hershey
Polish Peasant Leaders Held in Widespread Raids
Moscow reports say security police arrested district and local Polish Peasant party leaders on charges of underground activity and armed attacks. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is named as national party leader and former Polish premier in London. Police closed party headquarters and raided homes finding firearms grenades mines and subversive literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Warsaw
Polish Peasant Party
Peasant
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Edward Osubka-Morawski
London
Peasant Party
Polish Public Safety Ministry
Senate Banking panel approves one year price control law extension
The Senate Banking committee voted to extend the price control law for a full year beyond the June 30 expiration date. The House had previously approved only a nine month extension with several restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
House
Planes Spray DDT Over San Antonio
San Antonio hopes for fair weather as planes dust DDT on garbage dumps and infected areas to halt a paralytic outbreak. Two Army training planes tested the spray on swamps and the city dump. seven more planes were to join them today, after four deaths were attributed to the illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
U.P
Air Out Of Tires Pleasures Ends In Pump Duty
Oshkosh Wisconsin youths admitted to police they let air out of tires on several parked cars. Officer Walter Loppnow helped round up the trio and supervised as each youth inflated the tires back to normal pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oshkosh
Wis
Walter Loppnow
Bristol Youth Killed in Highway 45 Crash Near Bristol
William Towers Eichinger Jr., 21, of Bristol Route 1, died after his car struck a detour barricade and an open concrete culvert on Highway 45 near Bristol shortly after 1 am. The Navy veteran was injured severely with fractures and internal injuries and died at Kenosha hospital at 3:10 am. Coroner ruled accidental. no inquest.
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Highway 45
Bristol
William Towers Eichinger Jr
Bristol Township
Sheriff's Department
Eichinger
Bristol Village
Kenosha Hospital
Sheriff's Squad One
Harry Schmalfeldt
Kermit Schreck
Billups Browne
Eugene Schend
Albert Bornhuetter
George Liesemann
Route 1
James A. Crossin
Kenosha
William T. Eichinger
Bradford High School
Wilmot High School
Board Adopts Guidance Plan For City Schools
The Kenosha Board of Education adopts a guidance program aimed at helping students in the upper grades through a year long study by 40 teachers and principals. A central guidance committee will direct the plan with school level committees handling local issues. Counselor roles include classroom and counseling duties with one counselor per 125 junior high pupils and one per 150 high school students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
Board of Education
Kenosha High School
Security Council weighs ultra privacy rules and top secret access
The United Nations Security Council considers new rules for private deliberations and selective disclosure of top secret intelligence. A U.S. resolution to block Albania’s bid for U.N. membership is up for debate. A Spain dossier on Franco’s regime dominates a council subcommittee session.
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New York
Security Council
Council
United Nations
United States
Albania
U.N
Committee of Experts
U. S
Experts’ Committee
Il-nation Security Council
Vately
U. N
Spain
British Loan Gains Strength in House Fight
The 3.75 billion dollar British loan gains support from both parties as Rep Clair Luce and Rep Sparkman indicate likely passage. Speaker Rayburn predicts victory while the Treasury secretary Vinson testifies that credit aids Britain and world commerce and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clair Boothe Luce
Conn
Rep. Sparkman
Alabama
Rayburn
Texas
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
Britain
Several Million Red Army Men to Be Demobilized
The vanguard of several million Red Army men will be demobilized between now and September and have begun arriving in Moscow and other large Soviet cities. Special food ration bureaus clothing stations and employment agencies have been set up to aid the new arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Red Army
Soviet Union
Four Milwaukee Men Face Murder Charges In Farina Slaying
Four Milwaukeeans including the Mandellas Lampone and Fazio were arraigned on charges of murder in the first degree and assault with intent to commit murder for the March 13 highway slaying of Mike Farina and wounding of Joe Farina. Judge Gehl denied motions to sever trials and habeas petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mandella
Jerome Mandella
Dominic Lampone
Louis Martin Fazio
Mike Farina
Joe Farina
Mandellas
Lampone
Fazio
Edward J. Gehl
West Bend
K. T. Savage
Eugene Sullivan
Milwaukee
Sullivan
Gehl
Mike Farino
Joe Fazino
Highway 41
Highway 43
Jerome
Central Iranian Forces Reach Border in Azerbaijan Claims
Reports from Tabriz radio say central Iranian government troops reached the Azerbaijan border today. Premier Pishevari of the northern regime vows defiance while praising Premier Ahmed Qavam and their fighting army as undefeatable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
Tabriz
Azebaijan
Pishevari
Ahmed Qavam
Reds Cut Tientsin Mukden Rail Line in Manchuria
Reported by United Press a force between ten and twenty thousand Communist troops severed the vital Tientsin Mukden rail corridor outside Shanghaikwan. Nationalist and Soviet sources describe rail bridges blown and lines cut with rebels advancing toward Shanghaikwan and Suichang while Soviets withdraw from Manchuria and Port Arthur stays under treaty terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mukden
U.P
Tientsin-Mukden
Manchuria
Great Wall
Shanghaikwan
Port Arthur
Chiensuo
Kaoling
Suichang
Pensihu
Antung
Coal operators reject Lewis plan for seven percent payroll levy
Washington report says soft coal operators rejected John L. Lewis demand for a seven percent payroll levy to fund a welfare fund for mine workers, calling it a new social theory. Operators suggested a jointly financed hardship fund under an independent agency. government conciliators noted no immediate breakdown of talks as Lewis pressed for the fund and control by the United Mine Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
Truman
Lewis
United Mine Workers
The
Red Cross
UMW
Gilead
Edward F. McGrady
Charles O'Neill
White House
Charles G. Ross
America
Judge Throws Defendant to Floor in Gary Courtroom
Superior Judge Homer E. Sackett left the bench and grappled with Virgil Underwood, tavern owner, in a divorce case in Gary Indiana. Underwood allegedly struck a woman witness. Sackett restrained him, then jailed him for contempt and fined him 200 dollars. Deputy sheriffs escorted Underwood from the courtroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Ind
Homer E. Sackett
Virgil Underwood
Black Oak
Joseph Melzer
Underwood
Richard S. Kaplan
Witneses
Wood
Melzer
Kaplan
Sackett
Fire destroys clergyman’s home after deadly highway collision
A midnight crash involving a gasoline tanker and two other vehicles near Poplar Grove, NL, killed tanker driver Kenneth Wright and seriously injured drivers Robert Boyer and Carl Montgomery. The Rev. N H Nesmith and his family escaped by leaping from a window as flames engulfed the pastor’s home. Firemen from three towns battled the blaze as telephone poles and trees burned along 100 feet in both directions. Nesmith leads the Poplar Grove Federated church and Boone County Ministerial Association president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poplar Grove
N. H. Nesmith
Kenneth Wright
Rockford
Mr. Nesmith
George
Josephine
Nesmith
Thomas
Robert Boyer
Carl Montgomery
Belvidere
Fred Smith
Louisiana Supreme Court Denies Delay in Willie Francis Case
The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to intervene in the state’s planned second execution of Willie Francis, 18, who survived an electric chair attempt at St. Martinville on May 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
Willie Francis
St. Martinville
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U.S
Frank Zokaitis
Arvid W. Johnson
William F. Rademacher
Zokaitis
Johnson
Rademacher
F. E. Conner
C. L. Mason
Catherine Burgess
Alice Germinaro
Dorothea Coleman
Frank Harvell
John R. Redstrom
Coleman
Redstrom
Jeanette Sugden
Gerald Dietrich
Jean Byrd
Clara Dougherty
Har
W. H. Fraser
Order of Railroad Conductors
T. C. Cashen
Switchmen’s Union
C. J. Goff
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Democrats
Farina
Paul R. Skelton
McKinney
Nurenberg
Stars and Stripes
Reds
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