Eight Injured In City and County Traffic Crashes
Overnight traffic incidents in the city and county left eight injured and several vehicles damaged. In the city two drivers were hurt at 57th St and 19th Ave, and a driver and three other occupants sustained injuries in a Highway 41 crash near Bullamore Forks. Four Chicagoans were injured when Eric Baumgart’s car collided with a center parkway and caught fire. A drunken driving charge against Al Popiel followed a separate 56th St collision. A driverless milk wagon incident occurred at 60th St and 19th Ave.
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Highway 41
Henry Baumgart
Albert Baumgart
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Josephine M. Swanson
Waukegan
Patrick J. O'Donnell
Des
57Th St
19Th Ave
Harold Schultz
Oscar R. Taylor
21St Ave
Schultz
Taylor
Chris Nielsen
Rt. 2
Box 560
Racine
Schultz and Taylor
Kenosha Hospital
Robert Mura Jr
28Th Ave
Thomas Webb
14Th Ave
65Th St
Mura
Carl Johanson
Kenosha
American Brass Company
63Rd St
Joseph Cane
North Western Railroad
Glenn Schultheis
32Nd Ave
Cane
North Western
Schultheis
al Popiel
49Th St
Anthony Verpeunskas
56Th St
Sheridan Rd
Verpeunskas
Popiel
Joseph Frantal
Rt. 3
60Th St
Louis Blood
Fire guts Plymouth building in business district
Eight families are displaced after a two story blaze in a three story brick building on Mill street in Plymouth Wisconsin. Firefighters from six departments battled the flames for two hours with help from Sheboygan Kohler Elkhart Lake and Plymouth. The Wisconsin Public Service Corp office and Lange Bros Paint Store occupied the first floor. Cause under investigation.
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Plymouth
Wis
Mill Street
Walter Reinke
Reinke
Wisconsin Public Service Corp
Lange Bros
Olin Emley
Sheboygan
Kohler
Elkhart Lake
Revised Bus Fares Tentatively Okayed
City council committee of the whole tentatively supports a bus fare increase by Kenosha Motor Coach Lines with routes unchanged. Henry Bruner of Racine says student passes will be provided and a $1 student pass for 20 rides during school hours is proposed, with token pricing set at seven for 50 cents.
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Kenosha Motor Coach
Henry Bruner
Racine
F. E. Conner
Board of Education
Conner
Bruner
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Madison
Quinn Admits Signing False Name for 15 Export Licenses
Thomas P. Quinn of Jersey City testified he signed the name James A. McGuire to 15 export licenses Mrs. Senate investigators called forged. The case involves his nephew John A. Quinn and a New York broker Harry H. Levey who paid nearly 29 thousand dollars for the licenses. Senate investigators deride export controls as a farce and cite clerical errors sending 2 million pounds of lard export during a quota.
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Washington
Thomas P. Quinn
Jersey City
N. J
James A. McGuire
Senate
Quinn
John A
Jack” Quinn
John Quinn
Albert A. Sann
Thomas Quinn
Harry H. Levey
New York
Ferguson
Mich
J. Maxwell Dickey
Senate Small Business Committee
Commerce Department
Herman Slomin
United States
British Lose Temper Poster Campaign Aims to Protect Phones
London officials launched a don't lose your temper poster campaign after a spike in damaged telephones from slammed receivers. The initiative seeks to curb destruction and preserve communication lines nationwide.
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London
Two Waukesha Men Accident Victims
Two Waukesha men died in an early morning crash in Waukesha with three others injured. Victims were George Schultz 43 and Nelson Stuit 40 both of Waukesha. Driver John E Sexmith of Menomonee Falls and two passengers were hurt and hospitalized at Memorial hospital. Police say Sexmith lost control and crashed into a tree. the fatalities were the city’s first vehicular deaths of the year.
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Waukesha
Wis
U.P
George Schultz
Nelson Stuit
John E. Sexmith
Menomonee Falls
Memorial Hospital
Sexmith
Truman Off Louisiana Ballot Substitutes State Rights Ticket
Louisiana Democratic officials remove President Truman from the ballot in Baton Rouge and replace him with the State's Rights Democrats led by Governor Strom Thurmond. Truman may be voted only as a write-in.
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Baton Rouge
Truman
Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee
States’ Rights
Democrats
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
U.S. Officials Reject Russ Plan to Restrict Air Supplies
Lt Gen Leslie Groves testified to the House Un American Activities Committee claiming wartime leaks of atomic secrets may have reached Russia. He urged reading the Canadian spy ring report for obvious conclusions and noted many officials involved had not been fully loyal. The committee pursues a public hearing schedule amid ongoing espionage questions.
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Washington
Leslie R. Groves
Russia
Groves
Army
House
American Activities Committee
unAmerican Activities Committee
Darien
Conn
Remington Rand Company
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
McDowell
R-Pa
Hunts Missing Wife in City
Evelyn Gaustad a 21 year old mother of three left her La Crosse home for a North Shore train ride and has not been heard from since. Her husband Warren searched hospitals in Kenosha Racine and Milwaukee while authorities and her family organize efforts to locate her. She is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall 120 pounds with blonde hair wearing a white blouse black skirt and black shoes at the time she left. The missing woman arrived at her parents home by train the prior weekend and said delays kept her away. The family is caring for the three children Kenneth Randall and Emily as Gaustad searches for answers.
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Kenosha
Racine
Milwaukee
Evelyn Gaustad
John Ranchel
54Th St
Ranchel
North Shore Railroad
Warren
LaCrosse
Kenosha Pace
Anglican Bishop Seager Dies at 76 in Ont
The Most Rev. Dr. Charles A. Seager, 76, Anglican bishop of Huron and metropolitan of Ontario, died in London Ontario.
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London
Upkeep of Baby Increased by 12-Cent Cigars
Springfield report says Mrs. Lawrence Phillips has resumed giving 12-cent cigars to her 22 month old son Lawrence Jr. He began with cigarets a year ago and now has two cigars daily. The mother notes the child squawks if not supplied and always uses the ashtray.
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Springfield
Mass
Lawrence Phillips
Lawrence Jr
Community Fund drive gains clergy and agency support
Kenosha activates its 1948 Community Fund push with three KYF meetings of clergy employers and agency directors. W. B. Tower urges full civic cooperation and outlines plans for a September 26 Community Fund Sabbath and an October 15 fundraising deadline with 16 participating agencies.
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Dri
KYF
Community Chest
Fund
W. B. Tower
L. O. Denyes
David L. Phillips
W. W. Hammond
E. J. Ruetz
John Barrow
Lloyd Wilson
Earl Smith
Kenosha
Community Fund
Tower
Munity Chest Campaign
Kenosha County
Earl J. Smith
Barrow
United States
Boy Scouts
Thomas J. Kennedy
Carmelite Sisters Homes
Alfred Esselman
Catholic Youth Organization
Harry Chemerow
Girl Scouts
Margaret Pirsch
Kenosha County Mental Hygiene Society
George B. Price
Kenosha County Recreation Council
Felix Olkives
Kenosha Family Service
H. C. Hyslop
Kenosha Girls Club
Ralph Y. Cooper
Kenosha Hospital
A. J. Randall
Kenosha Tuberculosis Society
Conrad Shearer
Kenosha Visiting Nurse Association
Rogers Palmers
Kenosha Youth Foundation
Rev. K. D. Martin
Protestant Youth Council
Howard A. Gatley
Rescue Squad
Walter W. Hammond
Salvation Army
Edward J. Ruetz
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Move Follows Street Fighting In Tense City
In tense Berlin American officials rejected a Russian bid to restrict airlift deliveries. The move followed bloody clashes near the Brandenburg Gate where Russian troops and police killed at least one civilian and wounded many, amid protests against Soviet control.
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Tense City
Berlin
Brandenburg Gate
Russia
Rita Johnson In Critical Condition After Head Injury
Actress Rita Johnson 35 is rushed to hospital after a hair dryer toppled in her apartment causing a concussion and brain bleed. Doctors report her condition highly critical as detectives plan an investigation into the accident. The star, once considered Jean Harlows successor, had starred in The Big Clock and Sleep My Love.
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Hollywood
U.P
Rita Johnson
Jean Harlow
Lee Siegel
Siegel
Miss Johnson
Mary Ainslee
Miss Ainslee
H. D. Hover
Ciro
Love
Famed Jet Pilot in Crash Near Death
Capt. James P. Fitzgerald 28, renowned XS-1S fast-flyer, was near death from injuries after a jet trainer crash. Birmingham veterans hospital attendants reported his condition as very poor following emergency surgery in Van Nuys California.
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van Nuys
Cal
James P. Fitzgerald
Birmingham Veterans Hospital
First Polio Death Reported at Madison
Madison reports its first polio death of the season as Frederick V. Bland Jr aged 30 a Chicago native and University of Wisconsin medical student dies after a brief illness in a local hospital. He is survived by his wife and two children.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Frederick V. Bland, Jr
Chicago
University of Wisconsin
Kenosha Adopts Statewide Communicable Disease Rules
Health department announces new regulations replacing placards for measles chicken pox whooping cough and more. Rules set seven day premises periods for chicken pox and measles and adjust isolation and reporting for scarlet fever diphtheria mumps meningitis and food poisonings with statewide effective date.
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Kenosha
City Health Department
State Board of Health
Madison
Kenosha Board of Health
A. J. Randall
Health Department
Evacuation Urged as Camiguin Island Struggles with Gas Eruptions
About 13,000 Filipinos on Camiguin Island huddled in two ports awaiting rescue by ship as 77 years of inactivity ended with a tenth day of eruptions. The coast guard reported Sagay and Mahinog crowded with refugees amid rising explosions and chlorine gas. The U S Army transport General Weigel neared Manila to aid evacuations. Conservative daily tallies placed one to two thousand removed that day.
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Manila
Hibokhibok
Camiguin Island
Philippine Coast Guard
Anemone
Sagay
Mahinog
U. S. Army
General Weigel
San Francisco
Camiguin
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Germany
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Bulgaria
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Yesteday
New York City
Socialist Unity Party
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