Final Effort To Avert Sugar Strike Narrows Deadline
An eleventh hour move by Conciliation Chief Edgar War- Ten failed to avert a looming sugar refining strike that could cut two thirds of cane sugar output. AFL CIO unions sought wage boosts in Boston New York Philadelphia and Baltimore while companies offered limited raises. Fact finding panel talks collapsed as strike set to begin.
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Edgar L. War- Ten
Washington
Amere Icen
National Sugar Refining Companies
AFL
CIO
Revere
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Schwellenbach
Lansing
Mich
Kalamazoo
Mych
Whiec Transportation
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Lewis
New Ragweed Hay Fever Drug Reported at Buffalo Meeting
At the University of Buffalo medical alumni gathering Dr. Carl Arbesman and Dr. George Koept described pymbenzamine, a new hay fever drug approved by the Food Administration. They reported improvements in a majority of 471 cases and expected general availability by July.
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Buffalo
WN. Y
Buffalo Medical Duman Association
Carl Arbesman
George F. Koept
Pure Food Administration
Arbesman
Trial of Nazi Guards To Begin Soon
Frankfurt report says U S army war crimes prosecutors will try Eduard Hermann Karl Schleker and Rupert Lang for roles in the Du lag 377 camp where over 1000 American POWs endured overcrowding starvation rations and brutal beatings in winter 1944 45.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Army
Eduard Hermann
Karl Schickler
Rupert Lang
Nobel laureate Thomas Mann admitted to Chicago hospital
Dr. Thomas Mann, Nobel prize winning author, was admitted to Albert Merritt Billings Memorial hospital in Chicago on Saturday and is reported resting quietly. Officials declined to comment further on Mann's condition, with his family in Los Angeles also unavailable. Mann, born in 1875, won the 1929 literature prize and lived in exile after 1933.
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Chicago
Thomas Menn
Albert Merritt Billings Memorial Hospital
University of Chicago
Mann
Hitler
Los Angeles
Local Weather Outlook Sunday Mild With Showers
Mostly cloudy and mild on Sunday with scattered showers. Highest temperatures reach around 75 degrees in the afternoon.
Army Plane Crashes Into Chicago Home Killing Two
An Army F-6 photographic plane crashed between a two story apartment and a frame house on Chicago's northwest side. The pilot First Lieut Arthur V Robitschek Jr 22 and passenger Albert Schultz 26 were killed. Two residents were seriously injured and five others lightly. Fire and gas flames engulfed the home and nearby structures as crews battled the blaze.
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Chicago —i
Army Air Corps
Pn Army Sixth Service Command
Arthur V. Robitschek, Jr
Chicago
Army
Albert Schultz
Virginia
Robitschek
GOP Review Flays Truman in First White House Year
The Republican National Committee assails President Truman for a year marked by confusion across international relations and domestic affairs. It accuses him of war with Congress and criticizes foreign policy as lip service without clear action.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Truman
White House
Congress
Mr. Truman
United Nations
Poland
Yugoslavia
Council of Foreign Ministers
Bulgaria
Russia
Argentina
UNRRA
Greek Regent to Remain in Post Says Sources
An anonymous source reports Archbishop Damaskinos will continue as regent of Greece. He had offered to resign after the March 31 elections but reportedly cabled King George II in London that he will stay on, despite the cabinet shift.
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Athens
Damaskinos
Greece
George II of
London
Plane Cuts Time From San Francisco To Melbourne
A 44 passenger Douglas DC-4 piloted by Douglas Aircraft Co. completed the San Francisco to Melbourne route in 36 hours 59 minutes, shaving 1 hour 6 minutes off the prior record of 38 hours 5 minutes. The flight went via Honolulu Canton Island Mandi and Fiji to Melbourne.
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Santa Monica
Calif
San Francisco
Melbourne
Australia
Douglas Aircraft Co
Honolulu
Canton Island
Mandi
Fiji
War Veteran Ralph Crogan Dies In Ettrick Crash
Ralph A Crogan 21 of Ettrick was killed when his car left U S Highway 33 near Ettrick and crashed into a bridge railing. A World War II radio operator for the 743rd field artillery he served overseas from 1944 in Rhineland Ardennes northern France and central Germany earning four campaign stars. He is survived by parents two brothers and six sisters.
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Ettrick
Wis
Ralph A. Crogan
Frenchville Bridge
U. S. Highway No. 33
Crogan
743Rd Field Artillery
Camp Roberts
Calif
Camp Gruber
Oklo
Europe
Third Army
Wales
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
Rhineland
Ardennes
William Crogan
Vilas
St. Charles
Minn
Stewart
la Crosse
Albert Gunderson
Harold Whalen
Kenneth Pederson
Arthur Hogden
Adolph Somsalla
Centerville
Stewart Casey
Eau Claire
Poland Mexico To Fight Franco Nazi Search Plan
UNRRA announced Argentina will back the world food relief effort as Col Juan Peron pledged support to aid famine victims in Europe. FIORELLO La Guardia urged a 25 to 35 percent wheat set aside for foreign relief, while U S Agriculture officials work on a possible order. Senators warned small firms face grain shortages as bake shops fear closures if mills shut down.
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Washington
Juan Peron
Argentina
UNRRA
Peron
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Francis B. Sayre
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Farrell
la Guardia
Clement Attlee
United States
Department of Agriculture
Columbia University
New York
Truman
Senate
Small Business Committee
Anderson
Midwest
UN Expected To Turn Down Franco Invitation
Poland and Mexico signaled willingness to oppose Franco's plan for a UN inquiry into German atomic bomb researchers in Spain. Delegates warned Soviet objections likely, while Britain and the United States urged broader scope beyond the bomb issue, noting Franco's条件 would bar five of eleven Security Council members from participation.
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New York
Poland
Mexico
United Nations
Spain
Security Council
Generalissimo Franco
Madrid
Russia
Council
China
Australia
Two Killed As Cycle Plunges Into Crowd
At a Charlotte fair grounds race track a speeding motorcycle left the track and crashed into spectators. Ray Putnam of Belmont the rider, and two spectators died with six others injured and treated at area hospitals.
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Charlotte
N. C
Fair Grounds
Ray Putnam
Belmont
La Crosse Tribune Launches Business Outlook Column
The La Crosse Tribune announces a new weekly column, Business Outlook, by J. A. Livingston. Livingston, a nationally known economist, will publish Sundays on page 21. He has led roles at Business Week and New York Daily Investment News and served on war production and reconversion efforts.
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la Crosse Tribune
Business Outlook
J. A. Livingston
Economist and Financial Authority
Livingston
Economist
Business Week
Outlook
Trend
New York Daily Investment News
Public Utilities
Financial World
War Production Board
War Progress
Army
Navy
OPA
WPB
Office of War Mobilization
Philadelphia
Spanish Treasure Ship Santa Rosa Found Off Key West
Diver Irwin Williamson said he rediscovered the coral sealed Santa Rosa galleon in 146 feet of water near Key West. The hulk yielded three marks from 1940 41 and showed wood planks crumble as the team explored for the famed Aztec gold rumored to be aboard.
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Miami
Fla
Santa Rosa
Irwin A. Williamson
Williamson
Key West
Carl Parsons
Birmingham
Ala
J. Lilley
Hungarian Training School Blast Kills Eighteen Soldiers
Eighteen Hungarian soldiers were killed and 27 wounded when a munition store exploded at an army officers training school in Budapest on Thursday, a government report released Saturday said.
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Budapest
County Board Holds Meeting At La Crosse Courthouse
La Crosse county supervisors meet in an organization session Tuesday at the courthouse to appoint a veterans service officer two asylum trustees and a county home trustee and to elect a chairman and vice chairman. The board will expand to 39 with Holmen village incorporation, affecting future sessions.
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Veterans’ Service
la Crosse
August Ranis
F. W. Storandt
Oren G. Brewer
William O. van Loon
Holmen
Holland
Bernard Zahn
Pearl Harbor probe unfinished prompts deeper inquiry
Republican senators on the Pearl Harbor committee said its inquiry is far from complete as hearings are suspended with little chance of resumption. Senator Brewster of Maine urged further exploration, especially at higher diplomatic levels, and questioned why a proposed modus vivendi with Japan was dropped in November 1941.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Brewster
Maine
United States
Jet plane races eyed for National Air Races in Cleveland
The National Aeronautics Association said special jet plane races may be held at the National Air Races in Cleveland over Labor Day weekend. The four day event, last staged in 1939, received official sanction Saturday.
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Washington
Cleveland
National Aeronautics Association
Girl Swallows 4 Inch Pencil in Berkeley Hospital Spree
Winifred Cooper a 21 year old payroll clerk at Western Union in Oakland swallowed a four inch pencil Friday after having it in her mouth. At Berkeley hospital X rays showed the pencil resting broadside in her stomach with the eraser. Doctors sent her home with diet instructions and periodic checkups to decide if surgery is needed.
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Oakland
Calif
Western Union
Winifred Cooper
Berkeley Hospital
Six In Family Die As Kerosene Blows Up While Kindling Fire
Detroit reports a Warren Township garage home fire that killed six members of the Rabalcaba family and injured others. Police say a kerosene stove blast occurred as father Angelo Rabalcaba lit kindling. The mother had just given birth hours earlier at a hospital.
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Detroit
Warren Township
Joseph Rabalcaba
Jesse
Trinidad
Petra
Andra
Angelo Rabalcaba
Carmen
Peter
Rabalcaba
Urges Set Up in OPA Abuse
Washington report notes a rising congressional revolt against OPA with Rep Hartley urging moderation to prevent destruction of price control. A 63-member House group formed to oppose inflation calls on citizens to influence their representatives on OPA powers.
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Washington
OPA
Rep
Hartley
R-Nj
House
Congress
Seek To Amend Gambling Law in Wisconsin
Hartwick C. Dahl, president of the Wisconsin Association of Club Managers, says the group wants to amend the Thomson anti gambling law to exempt non profit clubs. He notes no lobby exists and a Madison meeting May 2 may outline action. The association claims broad state coverage and lists officers from several cities.
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Kenosha
Wis
Hartwick C. Dahl
Wisconsin Association of Club Managers
Dahl
Association
Madison
Carl M. Gardner
Norbert Piel
Racine
Arthur Pett
Milwaukee
Harold Becker
Janesville
Riot at Tibolddaroc Flour Mill Near Budapest
The Vilagossag reports that more than 1,000 people rioted in Tibold daroc Friday injuring several policemen slightly. The crowd broke into a flour mill and carried away a large quantity of flour held by the food ministry.
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Budapest
Vilagossag
Tibolddaroc
Food Ministry
Gridiron Club Roasts Leaders At Semiannual Banquet
Washington coverage from the Gridiron club dinner lampoons President Truman and top officials, with sketches featuring Harold Ickes and Peter Pan Pauley. The satire targets world leaders and domestic figures, while Raymond Brandt is inaugurated as 1946 Gridiron president.
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Washington
Harold Ickes
Pauley
Gridiron Club
Truman
Statler Hotel
Stassen
Minnesota
Peron
Franco
James Caesar Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Nude Torso Identified as Woman About 50 in Oregon River
In Milwaukie Oregon a pathologist said the discovered nude torso is that of a woman about 50 after autopsy. Earlier reports had named a teen or 20s girl. five tugboat workers recovered arms and a thigh, with hands removed. Police plan to drag the Willamette River for the head left leg and right calf.
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Milwaukie
Ore
Willamette River
Warren Hunter
University of Oregon Medical School
Oregon City Falls
Fred Readsecker
Driver and Four Passengers Hurt In Bus Crash
A Chicago-Detroit bus left U S highway 112 and plunged 15 feet into an embankment near Hillsdale Michigan injuring the driver Lyman Eaton 37 of Chicago and four passengers Jennie Sloan Claire De Larey Dorothy Arazon and John Arazon all of Chicago. Ten passengers not hurt. The Deluxe Motor Stage Co bus tried to pass a car which swung out forcing the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsdale
Mich
Deluxe Motor Stage Co
Two Killed In Plane Crash At Alton Ill
Alton Illinois reports two men killed when a private plane piloted by 40 year old George Dintelmann and carrying 39 year old George Vancik crashed from about 200 feet while landing at Wadlow airport. Witnesses described a sudden plunge into a field near the airport after a 2 to 3 hour flight.
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Alton, Ill
Wadlow
Here
George Dintelmann
George K. Vancil
Alton
Ex Mrs Boyington Seeks Divorce in Seattle Suit
Mrs Helene Marie Gilbert ex-wife of famed marine flyer Gregory Pappy Boyington filed for divorce from George Lewis Gilbert a Seattle newsvendor. She cites mental cruelty and asks restoration of the Boyington name. They wed less than a month ago.
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Seattle
Helene Marie Gilbert
Gregory
Pappy) Boyington
George Lewis Gilbert
Seattle Newsvendor
Boyington
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