Peace In China Impossible Says Marshall and Stuart
Gen George C Marshall and U S Ambassador John Leighton Stuart said peace in China seems impossible amid ongoing civil war and clashes involving Marines and Communist forces. They warned that key issues blocking a general cease fire may keep the conflict from a democratic settlement in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanking
China
George C. Marshall
U. S
John Leighton Stuart
U.S
Chiang Kai-shek
Chou En-lai
Marshall and
Stuart
Izvestia Raps US China Peace Efforts as Illusory
Izvestia accuses the United States of two faced meddling in China claiming that mediation by Gen. Marshall and Ambassador Stuart is illusory while Washington backs one side and hinders peaceful progress. It blames foreign interference for guiding Chinese reactionaries toward dangerous paths.
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Moscow
Izvestia
China
United States
George C.) Marshall
John Leighton Stuart
Night Club In Milwaukee Robbed By Masked Duo
Two masked men armed with revolvers robbed the Cardinal Club in Milwaukee early Saturday. They tied proprietor Ed Behn and three patrons, forced the safe open, and escaped with about $2,000 including $125 from the register, $580 cash, $1,000 in war bonds, and remaining cash from patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Ed Behn
Cardinal Club
Behn
Sae
Weather forecast for La Crosse and vicinity
Fair and cooler tonight with a low around 55. Sunday stays fair and quite cool with a high near 78.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Six Killed As Planes Crash At State Fair
Six people die when two attack bombers collide during an airshow at the North Montana State fair in Great Falls. Lt. Arthur Pelletier of Cleveland and Dorothy Mae Szabo a Montana State University student identified among the dead. Army panels probe the crash as a horse barn burns, seventeen horses perish and two are destroyed after the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Mont
Herbert Taylor
Payette
Ida
Joseph Bouman
Jordan
Bilbo Admits Klan Ties
Senator Bilbo of Mississippi acknowledges membership in the Ku Klux Klan while disavowing sympathy with its actions He says he attended one meeting and left because he did not share its views He also disputes lynch law claims and defends his past record as governor against v oters’ suppression tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Theodor
Bilbo
Dmiss
Ku Klux Klan
Mississippi
Lawrence Spivak
American Mercury
Ernest K. Lindley
Newsweek
Cecil B. Dickson
Gannett Publications
Bert Andrews
New York Herald Tribune
Spiva
Klan
Arnall
Andrews
Panic Spreads In Quake Stricken Southern Areas
Panic grips the Dominican Republic as six days of earthquakes and tidal waves kill 73 and leave 20,000 homeless. New tremors rattle Bahia Escocesa while coastal towns like Matanzas and Puerto Plata lie ruined. Red Cross camps insufficient. Roads and bridges washed out hinder food aid. at least 39 dead and 139 injured in Bajio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Republic
Bahia Escocesa
Scotch Bay
Matanzas
Puerto Plata
Batey
Samana
Sanchez
Red Cross
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Julia Molina
San Francisco de Macoris
Atlantic
Bajio
Snake Bite Victim In Better Condition
Bernard Rumsey of 319 Cass Street improved after blood transfusions for a rattlesnake bite near Bangor. Six donors supplied types O 4 and B 3 serum. The snake bite serum saved his life after a stock shortage in La Crosse, with serum obtained from neighboring towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Rumsey
Cass Street
Bangor
Rumsey
la Crosse
Post Office Sees Delay in Terminal Leave Pay Forms
La Crosse post office has received no official notice of terminal leave payment application blanks. Postmaster W. M. Dvorak said an announcement will be made when blanks arrive and advised servicemen to wait for the notice before inquiring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
W. M. Dvorak
Dvorak
H. J. Hassell
Burlington
Omaha
Wisconsin Board Won’t Reopen Fuller Housing Contract
University of Wisconsin regents declined to reconsider awarding two campus housing contracts to the George A. Fuller Co. of Chicago and New York. The firm had a letter of intent from a July meeting vouching for immediate work, with projects totaling about 1.8 million dollars for 120 units and a dormitory addition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
F. J. Sensenbrenner
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
Wisconsin
Sensenbrenner
J. Harry Green
Janesville
Associated General Contractors of America, Inc
Regents
George A. Fuller Co
Chicago
New York
Milwaukee
Fuller Company
Fuller
Green
Ask
John D. Jones, Jr
E. B. Fred
J. J. Schmitz
Edward Hoepner
Eau Claire
Mark Cullen
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
52 Fired In Surplus Sales Office Shake-Up
Washington reports a wholesale shakeup of the War Assets Administration electronics division with 52 consultants dismissed. Director Robert M. Littlejohn announced a reorganization aimed at faster sales of surplus radio and radar gear. George H. Moriarty named new division head as contracts with agents change to avoid storage for profit and ensure fair commissions. The effort targets clearing 75,000 batches of unused Army Navy radio and radar equipment.
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Washington
War Assets Administration
WAA
Robert M. Littlejohn
Robert S. McCurdy
Field Office
Wiley
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Sen. Wherry
R-Neb
Congress
Littlejohn
James A. Mollison
George H. Moriarty
Army
Navy
Final Weekend At 1946 Inter-State Fair
The 56th annual Inter-State Fair nears closure with two grandstand races on Sunday for a 200 dollar purse each. Dick Mack and circus acts headline a day of events, dairy queen contest, and weekend fireworks despite variable weather.
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County Dairy Queen
A. D. Sanial
Fair Association
Dick Mack
George Joseph
la Crosse
Far West
Middle West
la Crosse County
Iron Lung sent to Minneapolis for polio emergency
The iron lung owned by the La Crosse Jacettes and county highway patrol was transported to Minneapolis to aid the polio emergency there. Plans were finalized to move the trailer to Minnesota University hospital after a call from Wisconsin state rep Palmer F Davgs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Jacettes
County Highway Patrol
Minneapolis
Minn
George Halverson
la Crosse Jacettes
Minnesota University Hospital
Palmer F. Davgs
Wisconsin
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Carl Smith
Erling E
la Crosse
St. Francis Hospital
Burlington, Milwaukee and Northwestern
M. P. Ayars
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee Lines
Chicago
Deer Lodge
Montana
Aberdeen
S. C
Omaha
Despairing Widow Topples Gravestone to Die at Husband’s Grave
Ruth Allen Barber, grieving four years after Homer Barber’s death, toppled a tombstone onto her head at his grave in Youngstown. Coroner Dr. David Belinky said she had been missing since Wednesday and appears to have attempted the act twice, suffering a compound skull fracture that caused her death.
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Youngstown
Ruth Allen Barber
Homer
David A. Belinky
Smoke House Fire Slightly Damages Point Fish Plant
Stevens Point Wisconsin fire officials said a small blaze at the Point Fish Company smoke house caused minor damage to one wall when an employee tried to burn papers nearby. Fire Chief Carl E Maslowski reported no injuries.
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Stevens Point
Wis
The
Point Fish Company
Carl E. Maslowski
Ats
British Officer and Enlisted Man Killed Near Kohat
An official report says a British officer and an enlisted man were killed when their truck was fired upon near Kohat in the Peshawar area on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
Kohat
Peshawar
La Crosse Receives National Pedestrian Safety Citation
La Crosse earns a national pedestrian protection award for 1945 in the 25,000 to 50,000 population class. Mayor J. J. Verdota accepts the special citation from A A A board chairman H L Brindley who praises police and safety officials and calls for continued accident prevention efforts and strict traffic law observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
la Crosse
American Automobile Association
T. H. Brindley
AAA
J. J. Verdota
Dwight H. Kennedy
R. C. Salisbury
Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Division
Herman F. Rick
Ll. H. Brindley
la Crosse Aaa
Brindley
Tragic Drowning Body Found In Lake Kegonsa
The body of Jane Alme 21 of Stoughton was recovered after she apparently fell from a rowboat and drowned in Lake Kegonsa. Dane county sheriff's officers reported the finding on Saturday.
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Madison
Jane Alme
Stoughton
Lake Kegonsa
Dane County Sheriffs
Leather price boosts spark talk of higher shoe costs
OPA raised ceilings on leather by up to 30 percent while distributor margins for leather were increased to restore March 31 profit levels. Goat and kid leather saw a 30 percent jump as export prices climbed, with OPA noting the impact depends on a shoe industry earnings survey and promising only moderate overall increases. Reconversion chief Steelman urged a Justice Department probe into suspected industry withholding of hides.
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Washington
OPA
John R. Steelman
Justice Department
Britain to intercept ships to stop illegal Zionist immigration
A Whitehall source says Britain will warn next week that ships suspected of carrying illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe may be intercepted and searched by Royal Navy units. A cabinet statement will outline a European clamp-down on such immigration. In Jerusalem, tension rises as security measures tighten and a wave of arrests and evacuations disrupts daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Europe
Royal Navy
Foreign Office
Jerusalem
Pal
Palestine
Carter L. Davidson
Public Works Land Office
British Overseas Airways Offic
King David
Airways
Molotov Walks Out As Tsaldaris Presses Albania Invite
Paris peace conference scene as Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris denounces Albania invitation while Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov stalks out of the session. Italian Premier De Gasperi urges easing Trieste terms, warning the hard treaty could threaten independence. Tito’s envoy accuses Greece of aiming to partition Albania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Constantin Tsaldaris
Greece
Albania
Molotov
Tsaldaris
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Trieste
Yugoslavia
de Gasperi
Foreign Ministers Council
Istrian
United Nations
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
George Bidault
Vishinsky
Mosha Pijade
Pirade
Balkans
Marshal Tito
Albany
Burglars Loot Barber Shop At Stoddard Hotel
Thieves broke into a barber shop in the Stoddard Hotel owned by Carl Klawitter through a basement window late Friday night or early Saturday. They stole merchandise and cash including a golf bag and 15 golf balls tied to Klawitter, towels, two vibrators, combs, tonics, and $1.50.
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Stoddard
Carl Klawitter
Klawitter
la Crosse
Duck Hunters Limit Correction Issued by Tribune
The La Crosse Tribune corrects a typographical error stating the coming season duck possession limit is 14, not seven. The daily bag limit remains seven.
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la Crosse Tribune
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Peiping
Peiping-Tientsin
Ride
UNRRA
Tientsin
Carrol Deyoe
Jehol
Deyoe
Lngulf
U. W
John R. Ward
Iron Lung
Mate
Chamber
U. N. Control
Duck Hunters
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