Wisconsin AG to Ask Court for Reapportionment Ruling
Wisconsin Attorney General John E. Martin will seek an original action before the state Supreme Court to force reapportionment of the Assembly and Senate after the 1940 census. He will ask the court to halt fall elections until the constitutional provisions are satisfied, with veterans Gaylord Nelson and Ervin Bruner backing the move as petitioners.
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Madison
Wis
State Supreme Court
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
John E. Martin
Martin
John A. Lawton
Charles Totto
Gaylord Nelson
Clear Lake
Ervin M. Bruner
Supreme Court
Fred R. Zimmerman
Assembly
Lawton
Totto
Friends of the Court
High Court
Supreme Court Issues Orders In Farina Case
The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued three orders in the Mike Farina murder case directing the defendants Mandellas and Lamponer to show cause why the circuit court judgment for trial should not be summarily affirmed. The orders follow a writ of habeas corpus motion denied by Municipal Judge Ruetz and place the case for trial in the circuit court, with an arraignment previously held.
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K. S. Savage
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
Mike Farina
John and Jerome Mandella
Dominic Lamponer
Circuit Court
State Supreme Court
Kenosha County
Eugene Sullivan
Wisconsin High Court
Savage
LaViolette
Edward J. Ruetz
Edward J. Gehl
Zorya Dies in Gun Accident During Cleaning
American officials report Gen. N D Zorya assistant Russian chief prosecutor at the war crimes trial was shot to death yesterday afternoon while cleaning his gun. Brig Gen Robert J Gill released a Soviet message by Gen Roman Rudenko stating the incident was an incautious firearm use and ruled accidental after investigation by Col Yuri Pokrovsky.
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Nuernberg
U.P
N. D. Zorya
Zorya
Robert J. Gill
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Gill
Roman Rudenko
Ussr
Rudenko
Yuri Pokrovsky
Union Protest Claims Milwaukee Train Crew Violations
Milwaukee officials from the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen accuse Milwaukee Road and Northwestern Road of running trains with unqualified personnel. Arthur Wolstenholme, chairman of Milwaukee Terminal Lodge 942, says charges will be filed under state law governing railroad crew qualifications.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Brotherhood
Milwaukee Road
Northwestern Road
Wisconsin
Arthur Wolstenholme
Milwaukee Terminal Lodge 942
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Prices on all fresh vegetables surge on Chicago markets
Fresh vegetable prices rose across wholesale markets in Chicago signaling an abrupt pinch in food supplies. The surge underscores shortages concerns as buyers brace for higher costs and tighter availability.
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Chicago
Dark strike outlook as nation faces paralysis and shortages
Washington John L. Lewis postponed a policy committee meeting to await clarification of miners status under the Smith Connally act as government seizure looms. Government officials pressed a contract path while rail disruption threatens further shutdowns and potential end to the two week coal strike truce.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Tomor
Union’ Policy Committee
Lewis
Policy Committee
UMWA
National Policy Committee
Krug
White House
Ben Moreell
Charles O'Neill
E. R. Burke
Ezra van Horn
Kenneth Spencer
George Campbell
Illinois
Harry Moses
Truman May Ask for More Strike Authority
Senate debate on labor legislation intensifies after Byrd reports Truman weighing a joint session appeal for extra powers to curb strikes. The 48 to 30 vote targets John L. Lewis and the coal strike with a 60-day cooling off plan possible if federal mediation intervenes.
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Truman
Washington
Byrd
D-Va
White House
Congress
Senate
John L. Lewis
Ball
R-Minn
Federal Mediation Board
President Calls High Government Leaders to Extraordinary Session
Washington officials said the government pressed mediation after two conferences on the railroad strike. A spokesman warned the situation looks dark as authorities seek steps to end the strike and avert industrial paralysis and potential food shortages.
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Washington
U.P
Association of American Railroads
Association
Truman
John R. Steelman
Congress
House
Senate
Railroad Strike Cripples Nation With Widespread Delays
The 4 p.m. EST shutdown halted most freight and passenger service, crippling mail delivery and delaying industry nationwide. President Truman convened leaders as Mediation efforts and emergency measures mobilized the Navy, Army, and airlines to move essential goods amid looming brownouts and food shortages.
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Harry F. Byrd
White House
Truman
House
Studebaker
Postoffice Department
Army
Navy
Seaboard
Improvised Train Crew Averts Bristol Yard Crash
Yardmaster R H Harkleroad says a southern railway streamlined train with an improvised crew struck a spike in the Bristol yards last night. He asserts slow speed prevented a wreck and that the spike could not have landed on the track accidentally.
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Bristol, Tenn
Southern Railway
Bristol
R. H. Harkleroad
Harkleroad
Missionary Flying School Planned Near Kenosha
Reverend Gilbert Howe announces a Missionary Flying school near Kenosha to train missionaries as pilots for work in hazardous regions. Tom Howlett will instruct, with two planes to start and a hangar planned. classes of 20 to 25 will receive a condensed three month course including night flying.
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Kenosha
Gilbert Howe
Tom Howlett
Howlett
Madison
Wisconsin Aeronautics Commission
Mr. Howe
Germ Spray Deemed Far Deadlier Than Atomic Bomb
Congress wrestled with frightening disclosures about germ weapons claimed to wipe out cities and crops. A secret US program, reportedly more deadly than the atomic bomb, was revealed during Navy appropriations hearings with unnamed committee members saying planes could spread deadly germs to decimate a city or wheat fields.
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Washington
Congress
Annanria
Tere Tee Reepee
House
Senate
Dakotas
Navy
Albert Thomas
Tex
Appropriations Committee
Thomas
Memorial Sunday Service Planned at St Marys Lutheran
The Memorial Day committee and the Kenosha Ministerial Association announce a special Memorial Sunday service at St Marys Lutheran Church on May 26 at 10 30 a m to honor the citys war dead. Rev Marius C Dixon will lead with special music and sermon. an American Legion detachment is expected to attend.
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Memorial Day Committee
Kenosha Ministerial Association
St. Mary’s Lutheran Church
Marius C. Dixon
American Legion
Stanley Hughes
Kenosha County
Red
Nash Cars Routed by Water to Buffalo Depot
Nash cars flowed onto a converted lake freighter at Kenosha harbor and sailed for Buffalo after loading 400 automobiles aboard the J. P. Wells. It marks the first water shipment of Nash cars in about ten years and six abreast across four decks. The vessel, 420 feet long with 4871 gross tons, will run between Detroit Cleveland and Buffalo under captain Elon Cahours with a 29 man crew.
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Nash
Kenosha Harbor
City
Buffalo
J. P. Wells
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Elon Cahours
Manitowoc
Detroit
Cleveland
Great Lakes
Drowns in Fall from Dock at School Picnic
Beverly Brooks 13 of Milladore drowned after falling from a dock during a school picnic at South Wood County Park Lake Wazeecha Wisconsin Rapids. The body was recovered about an hour later.
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Wisconsin Rapids
Beverly Brooks
Milladore
Lake Wazeecha
South Wood County Park
Four Day Meat Shortage Warns Institute Amid Rail Strike
The American Meat Institute warned that the nation could exhaust its meat supply within four days if current storage cannot be accessed. Some regions may run out in two days as trucks cannot replace trains for moving animals to slaughterhouses.
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Chicago
U.P
The
American Meat Institute
Meat Institute
Jean Ogden Chosen Homecoming Queen Entry by DAV Chapter
Disabled American Veterans Chapter No. 20 selects Jean Ogden as chapter representative for the Fourth of July Homecoming Queen contest. Ogden, daughter of Edson and Mrs. Ogden, is active in the Auxiliary, served as secretary, is conductress, and has rehab work in progress. She near Kenosha High School graduate and works as Hartnel store cashier on Roosevelt road.
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Jean Ogden
Miss Ogden
Jean
Edson Ogden
Thirtysixth Avenue
Kenosha High School
Macwhyte Company
Hartnel
Roosevelt Road
Order of the Purple Heart
Brownout Threat Looms for 21 States and DC
The Civilian Production Administration warned a compulsory brownout may hit twenty one eastern and midwestern states plus the District of Columbia next week unless railroads and coal mines operate by Monday. A drastic order draft calls for outdoor lighting cuts and a 15 to 20 percent drop in commercial electricity use with bans on nonessential current use including AC units. States eyed include Connecticut Maine Vermont Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York Rhode Island Virginia Maryland Kentucky Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Wisconsin.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Civilian Production Administration
Edward Falck
CPA
Office For Emergency Controls
Connecticut
Maine
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
Virginia
Maryland
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Wisconsin
New York Stock Exchange Announces Summer Saturday Closings
Governors of the New York Stock Exchange announced the exchange will close tomorrow, marking the last Saturday market before a five day week. Saturday closings will be the rule from June through September.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
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A. C. Grosvenor
Grosvenor
Post Office Department
Robert E. Hannegan
Rapid Transit
Marquette University
Racine
Comets
Northwestern
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