Army Eyes Annexing National Guard in Military Overhaul
A defense advisory panel urged drastic policy change to allow the army to annex the National Guard, doubling the army’s size and replacing traditional training with a single federal reserve force for national emergencies. The six member board chaired by Assistant Army Secretary Gordon Gray argued guards cannot currently participate effectively in major combat operations. Secretary of Defense Forrestal commissioned the study last November.
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Washington
National Guard
Special Defense Department
Army
Ee Ee
Uniommk Altostary
Armed Services
Gordon Gray
of Defense
Forrestal
Wisconsin deer season decision delayed by commission vote
Milwaukee news reports the Wisconsin conservation commission postponed a deer season decision after a three hour meeting. A three to three vote blocked both antlered and antlerless options, with debate over reducing the deer herd and a possible antlerless only five day hunt. Some commissioners favored more radical reduction while others backed existing policy. A resumption of deliberations and potential compromise were planned for the next month.
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Milwaukee
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Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Wisconsin
Fish and Game
Rennebohm
Aberg
Madison
Smith
Wausau
Moreland
Hayward
Riege
St. Croix Falls
Molstead
Hunt
Wautoma
Owers
Will Fight Proposal Faces National Guard Resistance
Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh, president of the National Guard Association, said states and the National Guard will never accept federalization. He pledged to fight P.L. to revise policy allowing the army to annex the guard, warning the guard will contest the move at every turn and even in Congress. Walsh, Minnesota adjutant general, telegraphed the statement to association headquarters.
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Washington
Ellard A. Walsh
The
National Guard Association
National Guard
Walsh
Congress
Minnesota
Defense report sparks Iowa guard dispute over annexation proposal
Brig Gen. Charles H. Grahl defends the Iowa National Guard stance as the advisory board signals opposition to annexation. The panel urges modern war readiness with a small peacetime force and an energetic national militia ready for rapid overseas or domestic deployment to deter conflict.
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Guard JT
George Washington
Milwaukee officer attacks federalized national guard plan
Maj. Gen. Ralph Immell condemned Secretary Forrestal’s plan to federalize the national guard as a step toward militarization and an invasion of state rights. He praised the 32nd Division’s battle record and warned veterans their unit would not be taken over in peacetime by the federal government.
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Milwaukee
Ralph M. Immell
Forrestal
National Guard
United States
Local Weather Report for La Crosse Area
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with local thundershowers on Thursday. No major temperature change with a low tonight of 63 and a high on Thursday of 84. Water temperature at the municipal swimming pool on Wednesday was 68 degrees.
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la Crosse
Mui
Health Officer Resigns for Colorado Post
City Health Officer J Burris Perrin announced his resignation effective Oct 1 after one year in the post. Perrin will move from La Crosse to Sterling Colorado to direct the northeastern Colorado health district. The board granted Public Health Nurses Myrtle Olson and Louise Hiskey indefinite leaves to pursue graduate study in public health nursing.
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la Crosse City
Board of Health
City Board of Health
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la Crosse
Sterling
Colo
Northeastern
Colorado Health District
Myrtle Olson
Louise Hiskey
Mayor Granted $1000 Expense Account Amid City Strain
Inflation pushes city costs and mayoral duties. the Ways and Means Committee moved to establish an official expense account. The legal question was resolved with a ruling that the plan is lawful, awaiting Friday night council approval.
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Common Council
Council
Ways and Means
City Pipes
Fred Steele
Day At Centennial Celebrations Highlight Milwaukee Events
Milwaukee centennial events offer a choose your day theme with categories like Chicago and Illinois Day History and Pioneer Day Wisconsin Youth Day Purple Heart Day Beloit Day and Marinette Day. Rex Mays wins major auto race prizes as 18 year old George Weidman Jr. wins junior Holstein show with Chip Homestead Ollis. A 13 year old from Saukville sets a record in the lost and found booth.
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Milwaukee
Chicago
Illinois
Wisconsin
Beloit
Marinette
J. Company
Frank P. Zeigler
Lawrence Timmerman
Rex Mays
Glendale
Calif
Mays
George Weidman, Jr
Ozaukee County
Chip Homestead Ollis
George
Lea
Chi
Mueller
Saukville
Jol
New Jefferson School Plans Get Approval
The 1949 city council tentatively approved a plan for a new 650000 dollar Jefferson school with room for about 600 students and an auditorium and gymnasium. Officials may skip the auditorium and gym at first to reduce costs and expect construction to start in April 1949.
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New Jefferson
Jefferson
Board of Education
Carl Schubert
Rexford Mitchell
Teachers College
Mitchell
Western powers freeze East German accounts in West Berlin
Western military governments ordered Berlin banks to block transfers from western sector accounts without military approval. The move followed Deutsche Notenbank's demand for east-west currency restrictions, while Symington and Vandenberg visited Berlin to discuss the airlift. Western officials accuse the Soviets of limiting information by restricting publications. food shortages in the Soviet zone grow as blockade persists.
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Deutschenoten Bank
U. S
W. Stuart Symington
Wiesbaden
Hoyt Vandenberg
Air Force
Curtis LeMay
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
Symington
Tempelhof
Nimitz Sees Narrow Path to Peace If Power Holds
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz told 350 naval reserve officers that the United States could enjoy a long period of peace if it remains militarily strong. He said the nation is on the way to strength and could stay out of war until the United Nations functions as intended, adding he is not a pollyanna but does not expect war with the Soviet Union.
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San Francisco
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Naval Reserve
United Nations
Soviet Union
Concert by La Crosse band at Copeland Park Wednesday
The La Crosse concert band will perform a concert on Wednesday at 8 p m in Copeland Park.
Wisconsin Approves 30 Day Duck Season Start Oct 15
Milwaukee Wis Now official 110000 water fowlers may hunt next October as Wisconsin approves U S Fish and Wildlife Service season. Duck shooting runs 30 days from Oct 15 to Nov 13 with eight daily possession and four bag limit plus one wood duck. Goose bag remains four while coat bag drops to 15. Woodcock season starts Oct 1 and lasts several days.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
U. S. Service
J. A. Riegel
St. Croix Falls
Rose Offers To Run Metropolitan Opera
Billy Rose offers to take over the financially troubled Metropolitan Opera and promises to restore profitability. He would streamline productions while preserving opera traditions as the Met faces cancellation of the 1948 49 season amid union demand pressures. Officials plan talks with artist and opera worker unions to revisit the shutdown plan.
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New York
Billy Rose
Metropolitan Opera
Met
Metropolitan
The
Opera Association
Babe Ruth Reported In Critical Condition
New York reports Babe Ruth in critical condition at Memorial hospital with higher temperature and pulmonary complications. He has been ill for nearly two years after a neck operation in 1946 and public appearances tied to his foundation are noted.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Homerun King
Memorial Hospital
Ruth
French Hospital
City Eyes Off Street Parking Purchase With Meter Funds
The mayor's special committee and a Chamber of Commerce panel meet tonight at 7 30 to decide how to invest the $23 875 in parking meter funds to acquire off street parking sites. They plan action as funds accumulate about $4 000 monthly. Mayor Beranek urges immediate use of the money and to move ahead quickly.
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Chamber of Commerce
C. A. Beranek
Taft says Truman had anti inflation powers all along
Senator Taft asserts President Truman could have curbed inflation earlier by using anti inflation powers and criticizes the administration for not acting on credit limits and cost controls. He cites the treasury rate rise as proof Truman failed to act and heads to Murray Bay Canada.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Treasury
Truman
Republican Congress
Murray Bay
Canada
Federal Reserve Bank Board
Houston polio death and Wisconsin case rise
Houston reports its second polio fatality as Stanley Halvorson 27 dies at a Rochester hospital after illness since August 5 A second Houston youth is treated in La Crosse while Carroll Anderson 17 from Swede Bottom becomes the third local polio case Other details note Halvorson WWII service and funeral arrangements with burial at Lutheran Stone church. Anderson is recovering from a sore throat and polio symptoms after attending a La Crosse fair.
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Minn
Stanley Maynard Halvorson
Rochester
la Crosse
Carrol Anderson
Stanley Halvorson
Halvorson
Allis-Chalmers
Crosse
Lutheran Stone Church
Orrin Anderson
Edward Halvorson
Evangeline Senn
Origi
Wisconsin reports two polio deaths and nurse shortage appeal
Milwaukee health commissioner Dr. E R urged more nurses at South View isolation as two polio deaths were reported in Wisconsin yesterday. Page 2 details polio coverage and the official appeal for staff.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
South View Isolation
E R
Former Military Officer Clams Up On Red Query
Washington the Capitol hill spy hearings moved to the Russian embassy when a confessed wartime Communist spy named an embassy official as the pay off man who once slipped her 100 twenty dollar bills Elizabeth Bentley testified that Atol Gromov first secretary of the embassy paid her two thousand dollars in October 1945 She said the FBI had found no major discrepancy in her evidence and the committee kept Bentley on the stand after Henry H Collins Jr denied being a spy.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Marshall
United States
Elizabeth T. Bentley
House
American Activities Committee
Anatol Gromov
FBI
Miss Bentley
Miss Benteley
Henry H. Collins, Jr
Mitchell Seeks Lease Extension for Veterans Housing
President Rexford Mitchell asks the city council to extend the lease on the fairgrounds site housing for State Teachers College veterans’ units to June 1951. He argues demand will continue at least another year and a half, noting a relocation deadline tied to a 1946 Lanham act project and pending state transfer of ownership.
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Rexford Mitchell
Common Council
Fairgrounds
Mitchell
Ste
la Crosse Street
Normal School Board of Regents
Board of Regents
Colfelt
Cotta Mae
Chell
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