Congress considers price-boost probe of big corporations
Rep Spence urges congressional probe into recent price increases by major firms led by U S Steel with testimony possibly from steel officials. Walcott warns against branding industry. Porter says Congress wastes time and favors selective price controls if given power, with Capehart pressing for a broader freeze on prices across meats dairy metals and apparel.
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Washington—I
U. S. Steel
House Banking Committee
Rep
Spence
D-Ky
Walcott
R-Mich
Wolcott
Senate House Joint Committee On Economics
Paul Porter
Congress
Capehart
R-Ind
Porter
Truman
La Crosse Man Surrenders For Questioning In McLoone Case
A 31 year old La Crosse resident surrendered to police for questioning in the McLoone murder case. Police chief says he has given little beyond no comment and is being detained without charge. Interrogation continued as authorities review possible grudges and connections between the suspect, Chicago, and the victim.
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la Crosse
J. E. McLoone
Herman F. Rick
Rick
Chicago
McLoone
Carof
Weather outlook for La Crosse and vicinity
Generally fair and slightly warmer tonight with a low around 58. Warmer conditions with local showers tomorrow, high near 64.
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la Crosse
Trial of 16 Japs for Palawan Massacre
Yokohama reports that 16 Japanese are on trial before a U S Eighth army military commission charged with murdering 138 Americans at Palawan Philippines on December 14 1944. The case details a brutal massacre of prisoners at airfield work sites and escapes amid American advances in the Pacific theater.
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Yokohama
U. S. Eighth Army
Palasouthern
Philippines
Corregidor
Bataan
Palawan
Leyte
Philippine Government
New Polio Case in Milwaukee Raised Alarm
The 32nd polio case of the year is a six year old boy diagnosed at South View hospital. Twenty four victims were Milwaukee residents and there have been three deaths.
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Milwaukee
South View Hospital
Wisconsin CIO-PAC ousts seven labor leaders
The Wisconsin CIO political action committee expelled seven Milwaukee labor leaders for allegedly misinforming CIO members about the Wallace Progressive party. The national CIO-PAC opposes Henry A Wallace. Leaders named include Phil H Smith James De Witt Gus Tomlinson Allan Bjorklund Edmund Bobrowicz Paul Gardner and an unnamed Maritime union representative.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Cio Political Action Committee
CIO
National Cio-Pac
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
John M. Sorenson
State Cio-Pac
Milwaukee
Phil H. Smith
United Electrical Workers
James de Witt
Farm Equipment Workers
Gus Tomlinson
The
Fur and Leather Workers
Allan Bjorklund
United Public Workers of America
Edmund Bobrowicz
Congress
Progressive
Paul Gardner
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers Union
National Maritime Union
National Pac
Wallace
Wallace Party
DeWitt, Smith
Bobrowicz
Gardner
Mel Heinritz
Weckler Girl Search Fails at Wisconsin River Dive
A diver found cloth wire and a cement block on the Wisconsin River bottom but investigators say they do not link these items to Georgia Jean Weckler reported missing in May 1947. Buford Sennett, serving a life term for another slaying, admitted kidnapping and weighted her body into the river at Blueabout, while George Weckier financed the search.
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Boscobel
Wis
Wisconsin
Georgia Jean Weckler
Fort Atkinson
Francis Garity
Jefferson County
Buford Sennett
Georgia Jean
Blue
George Weckier
Thomas Jiles
Baraboo
Western diplomats seek basis for four power talks with Stalin
U S Britain and France dispatched top envoys to the Kremlin to interview Prime Minister Stalin in Moscow. Walter Bedell Smith and Frank Roberts led the western team with Yves Chacaigneau joining as French ambassador as the three powers press for a four power approach to Berlin and European security.
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Moscow
U. S
Britain
France
Kremlin
Stalin
Walter Bedell Smith
Specifl
Frank Roberts
Yves Chacaigneau
Roberts
Hugh Lunghi
Smith
London Star
Berlin
British Press Association
Truman
Attlee
Andre Marie
The
Star
Sens Inees
Aoemons
Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Daily Mail
Molotov
Marshal Stalin
Dixiecrats Attack Texas Governor Beauford Jester
Texas Dixiecrats plan direct attack on Gov. Beauford Jester as he opposes a statewide referendum on the presidency. Lloyd Price of Fort Worth, a States’ fighter, said he was drafting a brief for a meeting of the state committee amid the anti Truman faction at Texas’ four biggest county conventions Saturday.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Beauford
Lloyd Price
Forth Worth
Eg State Committee
Truman Seeks 11 Million Supplemental Funds
President Truman asked Congress to approve supplemental appropriations totaling 11,305,800 dollars. The White House said the funds are needed to implement laws from the rush of the regular session and to cover mandates where existing funds are insufficient.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
White House
Warships and planes search for missing flying boat
French Latecoere 631 flying boat with 52 aboard vanished after last contact 1,200 miles off Dakar on a Trans Atlantic leg from Martinique to West Africa. French warships, sea planes, and air craft join the Miami coast guard in a wide search as speculation centers on radio failure and sea landing.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Miami
Fla
Air France
Coast Guard
Paris
South Atlantic
Martinique
West Africa
Dakar
Air Force
Azores
France
Fort de France
Port Etienne
Mauritania
French West Africa
United States Coast Guard
Africa
Campbell
Port Deposit
Colombia
Milwaukee Legion Parade Draws 200000 In Honor of Veterans
About 200000 filled Kilbourn Avenue to view the American Legion parade marking the 30th Wisconsin convention. Brig Gen Upthegrove urged a facts based program shaping policy and research. Blatz Post 373 won the state band title with 9144 points, Beaver Dam led class B, and multiple trophies were awarded for aviation safety conservation and civic improvement.
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Milwaukee
Kilbourn Avenue
American Legion
Wisconsin Department
F. R. Upthegrove
Chanute Field
America
Blatz Post No. 373
Beaver Dam
Berlin Post
Wilcox Aviation
Iola Post
George Howitt Safety
Kenosha Post
Spaulding
North Shore Post
Shorewood
Donald Corcoran
Adams Post
Harvey V. Higley
Ron Post
Ndill
Waukesha Post
Oshkosh Post
Cooper
Eau Claire
Waukesha
Oake
Poysippi
James F. Burns
Cedar Grove
John Davis
Racine
Legion
Has Third Set Of Twins Within 27 Months
Akron Ohio report on the 30yearold wife of a chemical company official giving birth to her third set of twins in 27 months. The Summers family of Doylestown welcomed Charles and John, four pounds each, premature at birth yesterday. The first twins arrived May 26 1946, with the second and third sets following Sept 2.
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Akron
Charlies E. Summers
Doylestown
Summers
Charles
John
Thei Brothers
Prema- S
Reds Prepare Danube Pact andrei Vishinsky to present tomorrow
Russia circulated a proposed Danube river pact giving eastern European Communist states strong control over the Danube. Andrei Vishinsky, deputy foreign minister, will formally present the document tomorrow. The conference shows clear Communist unity as they outvote Western powers seven to three. Austria attends as an observer.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Europe
Andrei Vishinsky
Austria
France
Former Editor Names Golos As Key Red Figure
Former Communist Daily Worker editor Louis Budenz testifies before a senate subcommittee that thousands of Communists may hold federal jobs and that Hollywood funds the party. He describes a three-tier structure with an underground Washington lobby and a Moscow channel, naming Golos as head of a secret control commission and implicating figures linked to spy networks.
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Washington
Louis Budenz
Communist Daily Worker
Hollywood
Communist Party Treasury
Budenz
Fordham University
Senate
United States
Communist Party of the
Russia
Jacob Golos
Communist Party Control Commission
Golos
Elizabeth Bentley
Moscow
Ferguson
R-Mich
Midwest Daily Record
Chicago
William Weiner
Lemuel Harris
Wall Street
Charlies Crumbine
Communist Party
Gerhart Eisler
Eisler
House Committee
America
William Z. Foster
Jaan University
Newark
Vandenberg Rules Against Cloture On Poll Tax Debate
Senate presiding officer Vandenberg refused to shut off debate on the anti poll tax bill amid Southern filibuster pressure. Senator Taft appealed, but Robertson moved to continue Southern opposition as Wherry’s cloture bid sparked debate on Senate procedure. House and Senate panels pressed anti inflation measures with calls for investigations into price hikes by big corporations.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Robertson
D-Va
GOF
Wherry
R-Neb
House
Senate Banking Committee
Rep
Spence
D-Ky
House Group
U. S. Steel
Wolcott
R-Mich
Thomas B. McCabe
Federal Reserve Board
Paul Porter
Congress
Sao Satiennie Aos
Concert at Copeland Park Shifts to Tuesday Schedule
The La Crosse Concert Band will perform Tuesday at 8 pm in Copeland Park instead of Wednesday due to the Inter-State Fair opening on that day. Conductor D. R. Wartinbee leads the program as announced by the park department.
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Copeland Park
la Crosse
D. R. Wartinbee
Park Department
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