Jensen Lindgren Siebert Win in Primary Contests
County voters set a record with 19 909 casting ballots as Jensen won the Republican sheriff nomination with 4927 votes Siebert leads the second district assembly race 2799 to 1047 and 1027 for Mahoney Lindgren defeats Niederprim for Democratic county clerk with 3771 to 3069 Other items include write ins Raven 646 Ohmsted 1789 and party totals across offices. Kenosha and Walworth counts noted.
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Leonard J. Jensen
Matt Siebert
GOP
Assembly
Richard Lindgren
John C. Niederprim
William Raven
Ira Ohmsted
Jensen
Clarence J. Huck
Jesse R. Preston
William Stevens
Arthur Horne
Paul Polhemus
Lindgren
Niederprim
Conrad Shearer
Kenosha
Walworth
Frederick Pfenning
Sam Poerio
Harold Rasmussen
Leonard Jensen
G. A. Strangberg
Roger Gerling
Harold Schend
Floyd Pedley
Albert Hessefort
George Molinaro
Walter Anderson
Jay B. Glerum
Urban J. Zievers
Hugh Southmayd
People’s Progressive Party
Carl Benson
Benson
Kenosha County
Walworth County
Rennebohm
Immell
Lieuten
State May Arrest Cardinal Drivers Lines Bus Service
Cardinal Lines Inc proceeded this morning with plans to inaugurate direct Kenosha Madison bus service Thursday despite a state motor vehicle department order to instruct officers to prevent operations by making arrests.
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Cardinal Lines, Inc
Kenosha-Madison
State Motor Vehicle Department
Public Power and Cardinal Bus Clash Over New Schedule
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission pressed Ben L. Marcus to station patrols along the Cardinal route to block its Thursday start. Officials warned arrests on first trips to enforce the ruling as Cardinal plans five daily round trips Kenosha to Madison despite PSC objections. The political campaign also heated as Truman and Dewey traded sharp attacks over public power and reclamation.
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Motor Vehicle Department
Ben L. Marcus
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Cardinal
Chocolate Shop
6Th Ave
PSC
Marcus
Edward T. Kaveny
Commission
Kaveny
United Press
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Congress
Nevada
California
San Francisco
Oakland
Dewey
New Mexico
Patrick J. Hurley
Albuquerque
Cardinal Line
Cardinal Lines
Kenosha-Madison
Bus Company
Highway Department
Hunters Ready for Weekend Bowhunting in Wisconsin
Madison Wis reports that Wisconsin's 15 000 bowhunters can hunt as scheduled Saturday thanks to field reports from Will F Grimmer head of the game management division. He said rain has reduced fire hazard in the north after a dry spell since Sunday night and forest fire danger is eased by Jupiter Plavius.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Jupiter Plavius
Will F Grimmer
Conservation Department
Joint Note to Russia on Berlin Currency Issue
Western powers draft a joint note to Soviet Russia demanding a clear decision on the Berlin currency matter, announced by a French foreign ministry spokesman. The House committee hears testimony from Samuel J. Novick of Electronics Corporation of America amid the atomic espionage inquiry.
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Paris
Russia
Berlin
Washington
House on-American Activities Committee
Samuel J. Novick
New York
Electronics Corporation of America
Novick
Smith cruises to GOP nomination in Wisconsin first district
Representative Lawrence Smith wins easy nomination for re election as Republican congressman from Wisconsin s first district. In five counties Smith totals 28596 with Kenosha Racine Rock Walworth and Green tallying 6601 9049 6127 4649 and 2165. Marvin Finan trails with 8364 4006 across counties.
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Lawrence Smith
Wisconsin
Republican Congress
Smith
Ben Marvin
Edward Finan
Kenosha
Racine
Rock
Walworth
Green
Marvin
Finan
AT&T Long Lines Workers Call Pay Raise Unsatisfactory
Union spokesmen for 25 000 Long Lines employees condemned an offer of a six dollar weekly wage increase as unsatisfactory. The dispute centers on the proposed raise and its impact on salaries across the division.
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New York
Long Lines
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hurricane Aims For Rich Florida Crop Belt
A powerful hurricane slammed into south central Florida threatening vast vegetable, citrus and sugarcane crops. Levees protected Everglades area as winds reached 125 mph near Open water and Clewiston faced crop damage fears worth about 100000 dollars. The storm likely to move toward Melbourne then Merritt Island, with continued hurricane force and caution urged.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Lake Okeechobee
U. S. Army Engineers
Army
Clewiston
Okee
Okeechobee
Albert Broadfoot
Broadfoot
Melbourne
Atlantic Ocean
Merritt's Island
Weather Bureau
Maimi
M. A. Mounts
Palm Beach County
U. S
Miami Weather Bureau
Citrus
Margin tensions mark early UN session clashes
The report notes Vishinsky warn the United Nations could fracture if certain countries persist with policy, amid debates over membership rules and Balkan inquiries. Western powers plan a note to Moscow on Berlin currency issues, with Marshall Bevin and Schuman to meet again for Moscow reply.
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Paris
Andrei A. Vishinsky
United Nations
Argentina
Security Council
Russia
Poland
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Balkans Commission
V. M. Molotov
Germany
Berlin
U. S
George C. Marshall
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
Moscow
Community Fund Workers Begin Solicitation in Kenosha
The 1948 Kenosha Community Fund launches its employe division soliciting in factories retail businesses and firms with 10 or more staff. About 300 captains and lieutenants receive instructions and supplies as R B Whyte chairs the division and W B Tower and J W Quarles praise cooperation and stress campaign goals.
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Kenosha
KYF
R. B. Whyte
W. B. Tower
J. W. Quarles
Community Fund
Quarles
Howard Shankland
Kenosha County Community Fund
John D. Barrow
Lynn T. Hannahs
L. O. Denyes
Jessel Whyte
Special Prospects Committee
F. E. Conner
Roger Gerling
Evening News
Harold Rudd
36Th Ave
Whyte
Jacob J. Herrmann
Charles Werner
Diversified
Harry Stine
Hugh Rafferty
Homer Heeman
Rennebohm Wins Wisconsin Gubernatorial Nomination
Oscar Rennebohm, 59, drug-chain owner and Republican leader, defeats Ralph Immell to secure Wisconsin’s GOP nomination for governor. Carl W. Thompson, a young Democrat from Stoughton, wins the Democratic nod as he battles long odds in a state with historically few Democratic governors. Rennebohm leads in 60 of 71 counties with strong showing in Milwaukee and Dane counties.
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Oscar Rennebohm
Rennebohm
Ralph Immell
Carl W. Thompson
Stoughton
William Carroll
Thompson
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Ralph M. Immell
Madison
Immell
William D. Carroll
Prairie du Chien
Carroll
Henry Wallace
Henry J. Berquist
Rhinelander
Wallace
Berquist
Milwaukee County
Dane County
Walter S. Goodland
Goodland
Smith Martin Magic Names In GOP Voting
In Wisconsin Republican primary for state offices, Smith and Martin emerge as unlikely nominees. George M. Smith of Milwaukee, 36, and Warren R. Smith, a Milwaukee inspector, win lieutenant governor and state treasurer respectively, while Donald J. Martin secures the attorney general nomination defeating incumbent Broadfoot. Zimmerman leads secretary of state race. Democratic and minor party candidates run unopposed.
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Milwaukee
Smith
Martin
Wisconsin
George M. Smith
Canada
United States
Warren R. Smith
Milwaukee County Board
GOP
Donald J. Martin
John E. Martin
Supreme Court
Grover Broadfoot
Rennebohm
Fred R. Zimmerman
Socialist
People’s Progressive Party
Frank Panzer
Oakfield
Panzer
Senate
State County Boards’ Association
James L. Callan
Wauwatosa
William F. Trinke
Lake Geneva
Francis L. McElligott
Thiensville
Zimmerman
William H. Markham
Horicon
Andrew J. Rockne
Chester Roberts
Miles H. McNally
New Richmond
Thomas E. Fairchild
Shorewood
Defense asks 15000 draftees for December
Washington reports the defense department asked the selective service to provide 15 thousand draftees for the army in December. The figure is 5 thousand more than November’s first call and follows an announced plan to rise monthly from about 10 thousand toward 30 thousand next year. Pre induction physicals begin October 4 for registrants found acceptable.
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Washington
Defense Department
Selective Service
Army
Questionnaires Mailed To Young Kenoshans For Selective Service
Local selective service headquarters mails draft questionnaires to single men aged 18 to 25 who are non fathers and non veterans from Aug 30 to last Saturday. Return deadline is 10 days from mailing. forms must be completed in ink or typing and signed.
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Selective Service
Bevin Signals Recognition of Israel by UN Plan
London reports that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons the British government accepts Count Folke Bernadotte’s Palestine settlement proposals. The statement marks a reversal of Britain's prior position opposing partition and urging mutual agreement by Jews and Arabs.
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London
U.S
Ernest Bevin
United Nations
Israel
House of Commons
Count Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Bevin
Britain
Holy Land
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Colorado
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Denver
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CUBS
Giants
Bob Rush
Chicago
New York Giants
Andy Pafko
Rush
Jack Harvey
John Spence
Gren County
People’s Progressive Congress
Bert Davis
Green County
Vishinsky
Folke Bernadotte
Soviet Union
France
New Times
Herbert V. Evatt
Hungary
Paul Ruedermann
Hartsdale
N. Y
Earl J. Smith
Democrat
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