Nine Identified In Atlantic Air Crash Off Ireland
Galway reports all nine victims identified after a Transocean airliner with 58 aboard crashed into the Atlantic off Ireland. Forty nine survivors were saved, and American officials joined the full crash investigation. Ra dioman Herbert Asbel of Brooklyn among the deceased. Corody: Italian immigrants aboard en route to Venezuela from Rome.
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Galway
Ireland
Transocean
Atlantic
Venezuela
Rome
Herbert Asbel
Brooklyn
N. Y
Shannon
Laurgina Cerabona
Nab Racine Youths After Store Robbery
In Kenosaha Wisconsin two Racine boys aged 12 used .38 pistols to rob a Sweet Shop. They forced Herman Swangon to hand over money from the cab box then fled by taxi. Police traced them to the bus station where Detective Boswell found one boy attempting to draw a gun.
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Kenosaha
Wis
Herman Swangon
Herman
John Boswell
Secretaries Discuss Smaller Military Budget Plan
Washington reports a smaller military budget under discussion for the next fiscal year starting July 1. Secretary Johnson declined to specify how much smaller. The current year budget sent to Congress was 14.268 billion dollars, while total defense appropriations awaiting action total about 15.9 billion.
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Washington
Defense
Johnson
Truman
Congress
AFL Sees No Low Mood Over Propaganda Campaign
The council is holding its quarterly meeting here as officials refocus on wage policy amid a broader political debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sion
Woman 102 desires second life as tobacco store owner
SAXONBURG Pa Grandma Susan Stewart 102 says she enjoys life and would start over, choosing a tobacco store business instead of being a housewife after many years of living she would do it again with new career plans.
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Saxonburg
Susan Stewart
Beery Leaves Cash and Bonds in Estate Record
Wallace Beery left 750000 in cash in a safe deposit box and over 600000 in government bonds as part of a 2 million estate. The actor died aged 64 on April 15 and willed most to his adopted daughter Carol Ann and others, while disputes arise with former wife Mary Areta Foyt and film actor Gloria Schumm over paternity and disinheritance of an 18 month old child.
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Wallace Beery
Gloria Schumm
Beery
Hoffman Warns European Nations Fail to Export for Dollars
Paris report says Marshall plan chief Paul G. Hoffman told OEEC delegates that European countries are earning too few dollars and must increase exports to meet the dollar shortage. He cited little evidence of facing the issue, declining to name specific nations.
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Paris
Marshall Aid
Paul G. Hoffman
U. S
Euopean Economc Cooperation
OEEC
Hoffman
Europe
Bus and Dairy Truck Crash Injures Nine in Milwaukee
A Milwaukee collision between a city bus and a dairy truck left nine people injured, including driver Jack Roth 32 trapped and freed by firefighters with head and body injuries. Passenger Betty Helminiak 26 an expectant mother sustained a possible brain concussion and other injuries. She was listed in good condition at Johnston emergency hospital.
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Milwaukee
Jack Roth
Betty Helminiak
Johnston Emergency
Madison commission approves farm telephone service merger
The Public Service Commission authorized Spring Farm Telephone Co of Sheboygan County to discontinue service. Twenty subscribers will be served by Commonwealth Telephone Co. The commission denied Chicago and North Western Railway permission to abandon its station at Silica. Local businesses rely on Fond du Lac area service.
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Madison
Wis
Spring Farm Telephone Co
Sheboygan County
Public Service Commission
Commonwealth Telephone Co
Chicago and North Western Railway
Silica
Fond du Lac
Miners Escape Fire After Underground Blast Near Springfield
In Peabody Coal's vas mine northeast of Springfield Illinois a underground fire trapped miners. More than 240 escaped through emergency shafts after a motor car crash sparked the blaze. Six miners were ill from the smoke and six required treatment at a hospital. One man Walter Lederle 57 remained hospitalized. Rescue teams brought gas masks to the surface and the operation lasted over five hours with limited exits and pacing evacuations.
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Springfield
Ill
Peabody Coal Company
Vas
Walter Lederle
Freezer Gift Hearings Highlight 1947 Truman Affair
Testimony in the investigation delves into the 1947 shipment of home freezers to Mrs. Truman and other Washington notables. Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman’s army aide, says donors claimed the items were experimental models with no commercial worth. Other witnesses discuss alleged White House influence from the Connecticut firm Deering-Milliken and possible government contract leverage. A lobby altercation at the Mayflower hotel involves William P. Rogers and Charles Patrick Clark as the inquiry continues.
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Harry Truman
Washington
Harry H. Vaughan
Vaughan
Truman
Maj
John F. Gay
Waitt
Connecticut
Gay
Deering-Milliken
White House
Mayflower Hotel
William P. Rogers
Senate Investigating Committee
Charles Patrick Clark
Clark
Rogers Sa
Rogers
Harry Vaughan
Albert J. Gross
Milwaukee
Robert Quirk
Cudahy
Wis
Wisconsin Delegation Splits on Celler Anti-Trust Bill
Wisconsin lawmakers split on the Celler anti trust bill with a 223 to 92 approval. Support came from Davis Withrow Zablocki Bemiller Hull and O Konski while Smith Keefe and Brynes opposed. The measure would bar corporations from absorbing rivals by buying their assets.
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Washington
Wisconsin
House
Davis
Withrow
Zablocki
Biemiller
Hull
O’konski
Smith
Keefe
Brynes
Youth Found Sane in Wisconsin Murder Case
Robert McGregor a 17 year old parolee from Waukesha Wisconsin has been found sane by three state psychiatrists. Circuit Judge Glenn W Jackson said McGregor faces a first degree murder charge in the death of Emil Nordbeck a West Allis businessman whose body was found near Crystal Falls July 3. Arraignment set for August 22.
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Crystal Falls
Mich
Robert McGregor
Waukesha
Wis
Glenn W Jackson
McGregor
Emil Nordbeck
West Allis
Nordbeck
Jackson
See No Rain For Territory Weather Forecast
Temperatures in the middle or high 80s are expected in La Crosse and vicinity with little rainfall in sight. Meteorologist D. Sanial predicts fair conditions for Tuesday night and Wednesday with a low near 66 and a high around 85. Monday night’s low was 64 and daytime high 88, while Superior and nearby areas saw a 78 degree cooldown from a one inch rain. No appreciable rain fell elsewhere.
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la Crosse
D. Sanial
Superior
Bernard White
Milwaukee
Welfare Worker Drowns In Shallow Lake After Hemorrhage
Lucia Clow 45 executive secretary of the Family Service of Milwaukee drowned at Lake Michigan in Oostburg after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while wading to swim. Witnesses saw her slip into less than two feet of water about 50 feet from shore. Donald McCreddy of Milwaukee pulled her from the water within five minutes. Autopsy by James F Hildebrand, Sheboygan County coroner, concluded hemorrhage caused the death though drowning occurred while she lay helpless in shallow water.
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Oostburg
Wis
Lucia Clow
Family Service of
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Miss Clow
Donald McCreddy
Sheboygan
Sheboygan County Croner James F. Hildebrand
Crow
Wife Of MacArthur's Nephew Becomes U S Citizen
Elena Paule MacArthur, 29, wife of Bowman McCalla MacArthur and Russian born, took the U S citizenship oath in Washington. They met in Shanghai where she resided while he served, and they married in New York two years ago. She expressed happiness after the ceremony before Judge Richmond B Keech.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Elena Paule MacArthur
Bowman McCalla MacArthur
Shanghai
MacArthur
New York
U. S. District Court
Richmond B. Keech
Death toll in Korea reaches 72 in ten days of fighting
The Korean army said 72 soldiers are known dead after sporadic clashes over the past 10 days. Fighting has been confined to a mile long mountain front between Communist north and Republican south Korea 70 miles northwest of Seoul.
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Seoul
Here
South Korea
UW Adds Specialist To Home Economics Extension
A specialist in home furnishings joined the University of Wisconsin home economics extension program on Tuesday. Alice Kelly, formerly a two year home demonstration agent with the California extension service, becomes part of the Wisconsin faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Alice Kelly
California Extension Service
Wisfaculty. Consin
Yale scientists link polio cases to new noncrippling virus
Yale University researchers say many cases labeled poliomyelitis may be caused by a newly identified virus first reported by New York state health officials. Isolated during last summer's outbreak, the virus infected people in New England and the South but produced no lasting harm.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
New York State Department of Health
Yale
New England
North Carolina
Texas
The
Society For Experimental Biology and Mediport
Joseph L. Melnick
United States
New York
Gilbert Dalldorf
Grace Sickles
State Health Department At
Albany
Marshall Plan Seen As Dividing Europe
French Socialist Andre Philip told the Council of Europe’s Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg that the Marshall plan aid and its OEEC are dividing European economies. He urged rapid steps to unify Europe’s economy to avoid catastrophe as the Council holds its initial meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strasbourg
France
Andre Philip
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
OEEC
Europe
Philip
Council of Europe
Consultative Assembly
Assembly
Escapes From Wreck With Only Cut Ear
Ed ward Fiblin, 75, escaped a wreck when his car rolled into Lake Muskego near Waukesha Wisconsin. He was working on the car at his summer home when it started rolling downhill and pulled him into the lake as he reached for the brake. He sustained a badly cut ear from the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukesha
Wis
Edward Fiblin
Lake Muskego
Here
Fiblin
Purse Snatchers Use Scooter For Getaway
Chicago police report a teen trio on a motor scooter snatching a purse from Florence Johnson on a north side street. A boy about 14 grabbed the purse containing $10 and fled with two other youths who sped away on the scooter.
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Chicago
Florence Johnson
Famous Gallagher Shean line on actor Al Shean tombstone
Lawrence Shean, son of the late actor Al Shean born May 12 1868, disclosed the inscription will quote the famous line Absolutely, Mr Gallagher Positively, Mr Shean misquoted here as inscribed at his tombstone. He died Friday and was buried Monday after services at Riverside Memorial chapel.
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New York
Mr. Gallagher
Shean
al Shean
Lawrence Shean
Mr. Shean
Riverside Memorial Chapel
Golf Shoes Stolen After Unloading Car
R. E. Lucey reports two suspects in a car stole golf shoes from his yard at 1 p.m. Sunday after he unloaded his car returning from vacation. He placed the shoes on the ground before entering the house. A man and a woman drove away with the shoes.
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R. E. Lucey
North 24Th
Lucey
Gimbel Boss Sees Prices Leveling Off
Bernard F. Gimbel, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc., told Milwaukee readers that prices may level off but not drop sharply. He warned the dollar will not buy as much as it once did.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gimbel
Milwaukee
Bernard F. Gimbel
Gimbel Brothers, Inc
New York
Independent oil firms cut premium gas price to 20.9 cents
Milwaukee reports at least four independent firms reducing premium grade to 20.9 cents a gallon across more than 100 stations. Ethyl price trimmed by two independents to 22 cents or less while major companies stay at 29.6 cents. Clark's Super Gas leads with 50 stations selling premium.
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Milwaukee
Clark
Super Gas
Re-Elect Officers At Wisconsin Brewery and Soft Drink Council
Officers of the Wisconsin State Council of Brewery and Soft Drink workers were reelected at a Saturday conference. Ervin La Budde of Appleton was named president, Laverne Koenen of La Crosse vice president, and Roland J. Hidde of Manitowoc executive secretary. Edwin F. Otto of Wausau was reelected to the executive board, and Frank Heibernig of Eau Claire was named trustee at large.
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Wausau
Wis
Wisconsin State Council of Brewery and Soft Drink Workers
Ervin la Budde
Appleton
Laverne Koenen
la Crosse
Roland J. Hidde
Manitowoc
Edwin F. Otto
Frank Heibernig
Eau Claire
Pilot Killed in Danville Crop Dusting Crash
John W. Cawley 42 of Milwaukee died after his crop dusting plane crashed about 200 feet into the Will Acton farm near Henning twelve miles northwest of Danville. He passed away about 45 minutes after the crash occurred Monday shortly after takeoff.
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Danville
John W. Cawley
Milwaukee
Will Acton
Henning
Why Did I Go A Five Percent Trip To Capital
Robert Quirk, Milwaukee cabinet maker, testified before a Senate committee investigating five percent schemes. He answered five questions on a one and a half minute witness stand then flew home. Quirk and Albert J. Gross discussed cabinet shipments and wartime materials, noting prices and the fate of freezers linked to Major General Harry H. Vaughan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Robert Quirk
Washington
Senate Committee
Quirk
Quirk Company
Senate
Harry H. Vaughan
Albert J. Gross
Gross
Vaughan
Mrs. Truman
Little White House
Independence
Fourth anniversary of Japan surrender observed in Tokyo
Tokyo marked the fourth anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allies with no direct reminders of wartime collapse. Citizens were instead told about the progress Japan has made since the war.
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Tokyo
Japan
CIO Rent Law Test Gets Hearing Tuesday
The state CIO challenges Wisconsin rent law in federal court with a three judge panel set to hear the plea that the law fails to meet federal takeover requirements. The CIO contends the federal provision allowing state seizure of rent controls is unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Loyalty Board Dismissals Reach 62 in 1947-Report
Washington report shows 62 federal employees dismissed for doubtful loyalty and 29 denied job opportunities out of 9,987 cases handled by government loyalty boards since their March 1947 establishment, per Civil Service Commission loyalty review board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Loyalty Review Board
The
Civil Service Commission
Olson couple at 58th Photographers Association convention
Mr and Mrs L E Olson of 502 Mainstreet attend the 58th annual Photographers Association of America convention in Chicago Illinois from August 15 to 19 in session.
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L. E. Olson
Mainstreet
Tographers’ Association of America
Chicago
Blended Milk Price Set for Chicago Deliveries
The Federal milk market administrator announced a uniform blended price of 3.38 per hundred pounds for milk delivered in the Chicago area during July. The July price rose 17 cents from June 1949 but fell 1.33 from July 1948. Class 1 price 3.546, Class 2 3.246, Class 3 2.965, Class 4 2.965. July receipts in the 70 mile Chicago zone reached 291.9 million pounds, up from 253.9 million the previous year.
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Chicago
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AFL
Bellows & Co
ED Phillips & Sons Distributing Corporation
la Crosse, Wisconsin
Celler
Pitzner
Tech
Mein
Brench
George Street
Ruth Nichols
Trans-Ocean Airlines
Korea
Frank
California
Bartlett
U. S. No
Gallagher, Shean
Barron
Horschlers’ Prescription Pharmacy
Fifth Ave
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