Covered Wagon Welcomed Here for Savings Bond Drive
A Utah covered wagon toured Kenosha to spotlight U S Savings Bonds as a path to financial security. Felix Olkives urged saving as a patriotic service while R S Kingsley announced a $675,000 Kenosha goal with 43 percent reached and a July 15 finish. John Omernik praised local records and encouraged pushing the campaign over the top.
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Utah
Kenosha
U. S
Felix Olkives
U. S. Treasury
Olkives
R. S. Kingsley
John Omernik
U. S. Treasury Department
Milwaukee
California
Treasury Department
Holy Name Men Schedule Rites At Lake Front
Kenosha Holy Name socie ties plan an outdoor holy hour at 2 30 Sunday June 12 at Lake Front stadium Archbishop Moses E Kiley of Milwaukee will celebrate the benediction on a special altar Rev Charles Verhalen will direct St Mark s robed boys choir and the CYO band will provide music A crowd of 15000 is expected with prayers for Peace and Harmony Among Nations and Reparation of Injury to the Blessed Sacrament
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Holy Name Societies
Kenosha
Lake Front Stadium
Moses E. Kiley
Milwaukee
Civic Center
Washington Bowl
St. Mark's Robed Boys’ Choir
Charles Verhalen
CYO
Peter Niccolai
Italian-American Society
Raymond Leng
F. J. Morgan
Robert Stahl
Julius Ventura
Edward Meiers
Robert Flatley
Albert Luciani
Stanley Sturger
Frank Simo
William Andreucci
M. J. Schmitt
Knights of Columbus
George Gehring
Joseph DeBerge
Earl Mayen
O. E. Wettengel
Italian Actress Alida Valli Charged in Divorce Suit
Hollywood California Italian film star Alida Valli faces charges of cruelty in a divorce action filed by musician Oscar De Mejo. The dispute centers on the dissolution of their marriage with legal proceedings proceeding in California courts.
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Hollywood, Cal
Alida Valli
Oscar de Mejo
No Interim PSC Appointment Across Wisconsin
Madison Gov. Ren nbom is blocked from making an interim appointment to the state public service commission. The attorney general ruled such appointments invalid when the legislature is not in session. Timothy Brown had been appointed on interim terms but must now face Senate confirmation and stay within the fixed membership rules through 1951.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
State Public Service Commission
Senate
Timothy Brown
Alaskan Highway Trip Costs 396 Dollars for Family
Washington delegate Bartlett recounts a 11 day car journey from Washington to Alaska via Dawson Creek. He notes gravel roads, 1560 mile route, five lodging days, gas stations every 40 miles, and $396 total including three new tires. He advises late July or August for mild mosquitoes.
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Washington
Alaska
Bartlett
House
Wisconsin
Dawson Creek
British Columbia
Fairbanks
Minneapolis
Thinks Monkey Fair Return for 10 Billion dollars
Frank J. Mulkern, national director of the Izaak Walton league, argues in a letter to the House Appropriations Committee that Marshall Plan countries should repay U S aid by sending animals to U S zoos. He says for 10 billion dollars they should at least get a monkey.
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Washington
U.S
Frank J. Mulkern
Izaak Walton League
United States
U. S
House Appropriations Committee
Mulkern
Russia seeks four power German control and Ruhr under big four
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky urged restoration of four power governance in Germany and a German state council with economic and administrative duties. He proposed Ruhr valley be placed under the big four and neighboring countries, including Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg Poland and Czechoslovakia with German economic bodies. Britain said the United States opposed these proposals. He also pressed reintroduction of a four power Berlin control system and a state council under allied oversight. The Potsdam era Allied Council had dissolved last year after the Berlin crisis.
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Pink Marble Palace
Paris
Ernest Bevin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Dean Acheson
Philip Jessup
U. S
Russia
Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
Ruhr
Vishinsky
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Poland
Czechoslovakia
United States
Berlin
Allied Control Council
Allied Council
Governor Signs Loitering Ban and Other Measures
Gov. Oscar Rennebohm signed a loitering ban prohibiting under 18s from loitering in beer taverns unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. He also approved tougher truck overloading penalties, rural school safety zones for bus loading, reallocation of national forest crop income to towns for roads and schools, 60 day case decisions by the public service commission, a ban on using white canes by the non blind, and a 10 foot stopping rule for cars near blind pedestrians.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Oscar Rennebohm
Rennebohm
Public Service Commission
Klaus Mann Dies in Apparent Sleep Aid Overdose
An official said Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann, died in Cannes of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. He passed away Saturday hours after being found ill at his brother Michael Mann's home.
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Cannes
France
Klaus Mann
Thomas Mann
Michael
Three-robber holdup at Janesville Thorp Finance Co
Three armed men robbed the Thorp Finance Co in downtown Janesville, taking 975 dollars from the safe and 150 in small bills. Police traced leads across Dane and neighboring counties with similar heists linked to other finance offices, while suspects fled by car and were briefly questioned in Monroe before release.
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Janesville
Wis
Thorp Finance Co
Dane
Walworth
Jefferson
Green
Illinois
Household Finance Corp
58Th St
Kenosha
Zion
Ill
Simmons
Bernard Poole
Thorp
Rosemary Dorr
Approval for enlarged Wilmot district
Public meeting at Wilmot high school drew over 200 residents as the county education panel weighs enlarging the Wilmot Union Free district to include all areas west of Highway 41. Citizens from Paris and Bristol townships favored joining for better education while concerns about location and building costs linger.
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Highway 41
Wilmot Union Free
Bristol
Paris
Wilmot School Board
County School Committee
George Taylor
Taylor
Ray Brehm
Twin Lakes Civic Association
George Price
Union Grove
Wilmot High School
Horace Fowler
Alfred Schmidt
Salem
Randall
Wheatland
Brighton
Burlington
Knowles
First Defendant Testifies In U S Reds Trial
John W. Gates editor of the Daily Worker testified he did not advocate violent overthrow of the U S government. He described his conversion to Communism and said he joined the party in Youngstown Ohio in March 1933.
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New York
John W. Gates
U. S
Gates
The
Daily Worker
Youngstown, O
Ford Asks Meeting Tomorrow On Speed-Up Issue
Detroit U P Ford Motor Co asked the CIO UAW to meet again tomorrow to discuss the union’s surprise offer to arbitrate the speed-up issue that triggered the 20 day old strike. The company said it was gratified the union agreed to an arbitrator but it claimed the question was not properly stated for a competent third party.
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Detroit
U.P
Ford Motor Company Today
CIO
United Auto Workers’ Union
UAW
Ford
Prince Aly Khan Rita Hayworth marriage denied in Paris
France's Justice Ministry refused a special dispensation for a marriage at the prince's chateau. The couple would have wed Friday at Vallouris city hall near the Riviera residence, as announced. In Missouri a St. Louis attorney testified that Dr. Robert Rutledge Jr demanded 200 to 250 dollars for an operation on his wife, in a case linked to Byron Hartman's death.
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Paris
Ministry of Justice
Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Prince’s Chateau
Vallouris
Prince’s Riviera Chateau
Cedar Rapids, Sr
St. Louis
Robert C. Rutledge, Jr
Byron C. Hartman
Milton Moldarsky
Hattman
Crop Storage Bill Passed by House amid Price Support Financing
Washington The House approved a compromise measure 158 to 28 giving the Commodity Credit Corporation authority to acquire storage facilities for crops tied to loan programs to sustain farm price supports.
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Washington
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Atomic security breach at Hanford questioned by Senate panel
The AEC faced questions after two bars of uranium vanished from the Hanford plant and remained undetected for months. Rear Adm. John Gingrich proposed the test, and security officer Schumann is named in the incident. Lilienthal defended isotope shipments abroad, while Strauss opposed on security grounds.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Hanford
Wash
Senate
AEC
Russia
Lewis Strauss
Lilienthal
Carroll L. Wilson
Commission
Wilson
John E. Gingrich
Schumann
Assembly Passes College Merger Petition in Madison
Madison docket notes a petition from Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce urging Eau Claire State Teachers College be merged into the University of Wisconsin. The assembly sent it to the education committee, which will also review a higher education integration bill unifying UW system entities.
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Madison
Wis
Eau Claire State Teachers’ College
University of Wisconsin
Assembly
Pritchard
R. Eau Claire
Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce
House
Stout Institute
Wisconsin Institute of Technology
American Soldier Charged With Montmartre Murder
Private Fred Edelbaum, 20, a New York native serving in the U S Army, is charged with the murder of Elizabeth Borik a Hungarian woman found slain in a Montmartre hotel on May 13. Trial expected to begin June 15 in Paris.
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Paris
Fred Edelbaum
Elizabeth Borik
Montmartre
Edelbaum
New York
Weather shifts to cool, fair skies across Wisconsin
A cold front lowered temperatures to near freezing in many areas of Wisconsin. Howard J. Thompson predicted fair and cool conditions tonight with slight warming and cloudy skies tomorrow. Downtown noon reached 55 degrees, Lows last night 48, rainfall 0.07 inches. Prairie Du Chien high 71, Land O Lakes low 33, light showers statewide with 0.19 inches reported in the north.
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Wisconsin
Howard J. Thompson
Milwaukee
Prairie du Chien
Land O’ Lakes
Bashful Roy Redfield Sets Fire to Barn to Learn If Family Home
Seattle police report 18 year old Roy M Redfield said he started a barn fire to learn if his brother and sister were at a neighbor’s house. He confessed Lysol style, fearing social interaction.
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Seattle
U.P
Roy M. Redfield
Howley orders ultimatum in Berlin rail clash
U S Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley demands Soviet controlled railway police withdraw from all American sector stations in Berlin. West Berlin police to restore order after rioting that left two dead. Britain and France hesitate to endorse expulsion. violence prompts Western actions and letters between officials.
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Berlin
U. S
Frank L. Howley
Howley
West Berlin
Zoo
Reichsbahn
Reichbahn
Willy Kreikemeyer
Johannes Stumm
Alexander Kotikov
Safe Thefts Baffle Milwaukee Officers
Milwaukee sheriff deputies widened the search for the county's famed safe expert after a 650 pound safe was stolen from Wauwatosa. The safe later turned up in Waukesha County about three hours after the burglary was reported by a newsboy. It held about 200 dollars in cash and weekend receipts for Marquette Cooperative Enterprises. The spree of safe break ins has puzzled Milwaukee police for weeks as safes are opened, hauled away, burned, or decoded.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Milwaukee County
Wauwatosa
Waukesha County
Marquette Cooperative Enterprises
Truman Health Plan Fails to Clear Congress This Session
Congressional leaders expect adjournment by July 31 or August, making action on President Truman's health program unlikely. Senate priorities include reciprocal trade, labor law, and NATO treaty ratification, while Taft opposes national health insurance. Civil rights prospects remain uncertain.
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Washington
Wup
Truman
White House
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Congress
Lucas
Robert A. Taft, O
Republican Policy Committee
Taft
Socialist Party
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
N. Y
Powell
Augustine B. Kelley
FEPC
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Clinton, Ia
Joseph Simmons
Janesville Gazette
Rock County
Monroe
Bristol Favorable
Rita
Rutledge
David Lilienthal
James B. Conant
Harvard University
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