Jewish Radio Rally Daring Haifa Protest Against Deportations
In Haifa a clandestine Jewish rally protested the deportation of refugees to Cyprus. A ring of steel guarded the harbor as crowds gathered behind barbed wire with the Voice of Israel urging residents to join. British ships remained near the harbor amid fears of uprisings and renewed deportations.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Cyprus
Voice of Israel
Fenice
Mount Carmel
Empire Heywood
Empire Rival
Haganah
Stern Gang
W Underground
Calcutta Riot Toll Reaches 250 Dead and 1600 Injured
Rioting between Moslems and Hindus in central Calcutta escalated with arson looting and stabbing. Casualties were estimated at 250 killed and 1600 injured as troops and police struggled to restore order amid curfews and road closures.
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Calcutta
Reuters
Frederick Burrows
Bengal
India
Wisconsin Faces Large Job Shortages Across Regions
Wisconsin's employment service reports a surge in demand with 16 100 workers needed by September and 5 100 by November mostly for construction. A survey of 825 establishments since May shows a 12 600 worker gain with veterans making up about 55 percent, while area notes reveal regional imbalances in offices, factories, and trades.
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Madison
U. S. Employment Service For
Wisconsin
Appleton
Eau Claire
Fond du Lac
Green Bay
Janesville
Kenosha
la Crosse
Manitowoc
Milwaukee
Oshkosh
Racine
Sheboygan
Stevens Point
Wausau
Wisconsin Rapids
Marshfield
Flyers Set for Tri-State Breakfast Flight to La Crosse
About 400 planes from Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa will land at La Crosse Airport between 8 and 9 am forming the first tri state breakfast flight hosted by the La Crosse Flyers association. WCAC and comparable numbers from Iowa and Minnesota participate with 150 planes each.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin Civil Air Corps
Minnesota
Iowa
la Crosse Flivers’ Association
WCAC
American Legion
William Bumford
Howard A. Morey
Wisconsin State Aeronautics Commission
L. L. Schroeder
Lester G. Orcutt
Iowa Aeronautics Board
J. J. Verchota
la Crosse Group
Robert Cline
Neal Feuerhelm
Ruth Rebhan
Last Man's Club To Meet Saturday Night
The Last Man's Club of the 121st machine gun battalion 32nd division World War I will hold its annual meeting Saturday at 6:30 PM at Carroll's in La Crescent. A meal will be served and officers will be elected.
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Les Terribles
Carroll's
la Crescent
Steamer Benjamin Milan Reports Fire 500 Miles East of Newfoundland
The coast guard said the steamer Benjamin Milan sent a radio message on Saturday claiming it was on fire about 500 miles east of Newfoundland.
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New York —i
Coast Guard
Benjamin Milan
Newfoundland
Weather Outlook for La Crosse Area Tonight and Sunday
Partly cloudy with local thundershowers tonight and Sunday. Much cooler spell. Lows near 65 tonight. highs around 82 on Sunday. Local area forecast covers La Crosse and surrounding vicinity.
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la Crosse
Child Fatally Burned in Patch Fluid Explosion
Four year old Joan Lesperance of Pound Wisconsin died from burns after a can of patching fluid exploded. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs George Lesperance and survived by eleven sisters and four brothers.
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Marinette
Wis
Joan Lesperance
George Lesperance
Pound, Wis
Forty Greek Communists Die in Two Gendarmerie Clashes
Reports from Volos say about 40 Communist band members were killed and 50 wounded in two major confrontations with gendarmerie near Karyai and Aghia. In the first fight 21 died including the band leader and 50 were wounded. in the second seven hour battle 19 were killed and an unspecified number wounded. Additional clashes yielded four more bandit deaths. Press dispatches noted 18 more killed when attacked by monarchist villagers at Morava.
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Athens
Volos
Karyai
Aghia
Morava
Japanese Rear Admiral Kills Wife and Children then Himself
Rear Adm. Shiro Sato, wartime commander in the New Guinea area, killed his wife and two children as they slept early today and then shot himself. He left a note saying he felt degraded by defeat and asked for the bodies to be disposed of like cats and dogs.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Shiro Sato
New Guinea
Surplus Land Gifts Probe Expands to Army Losses and Gifts to Schools
A House committee widened its inquiry into government surplus goods to include destruction of army equipment and gifts of real estate to new educational institutions. The panel also suspended its probe of war brokers after citing promoter Benjamin Franklin Fields for contempt.
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Washington
House
Benjamin Franklin Fields
Great Illinois flood leaves Pearl with heavy damage
A 54 mile wind squall and record rainfall devastated northern Illinois and neighboring towns. A levee burst near Pearl caused three dozen homes to fall, 250 residents homeless, and thousands of tons of sand and water devastated the town. Across the river, East St. Louis and Belleville saw over 1,000 homeless, with 400 rescued from Washington Park. Weather across the state brought heat relief with showers and cooler forecasts for the region.
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Illinois
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Pearl
Pike County
Steve Hoover
Illinois River
Hoover
East St. Louis
Belleville
Ill
Coast Guard
Washington Park
Wisconsin
Racine
Wausau
Watertown
Dalton
U. S. Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Neenah
Weather Bureau
Crowds Jam Viroqua Streets For Parade
At least 30 injured when a Chicago to Madison Greyhound bus left Highway 12 east of Madison. The bus ditched, struck a culvert, and rolled onto its side near city ambulances. 37 passengers were aboard and several injuries were serious.
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Madison
Chicago
Highway 12
Sheriff's Office
George Okins
Mortimer
Minn
Okins
Ralph Zuber
Superior
Wis
Melvin Janzen
Beloit
Carrie Parks
Johnstown
James Crowley
West Chester
Ill
Daniel Crowley
George Anagous
Belleville
Harold Loveland
Lawton
Mich
James Williams
South Holland
Larero la Bred
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Stephan Mullaney
Minneapolis
Marcella Mullaney
Darwin Mayfield
Poor Job 37 Percent Public Finds No Pat On Back For 79th Congress
A Princeton survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows 37 percent view the 79th Congress as doing a poor job after its term ended. Only about 63 percent rated the performance good or fair, with many citing wartime challenges and reconversion as factors. The article notes 18 percent offered no opinion and references voter sentiment across the nation.
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79Th Congress
Princeton
N. J
Congress
Downington
Pennsylvania
Commissioner Porter Dies Six Days After Son
Claude R. Porter 74, of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1928, died in Washington after a cerebral hemorrhage. He passed away six days following the death of son George B. Porter, a 54 year old Washington attorney, who choked to death at a San Francisco hotel. Funeral services for the son were held earlier, with the father's death announced after.
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Washington
Claude R. Porter
Interstate Commerce Commission
George B. Porter
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Wife of Racine Woman Killed in Auto Truck Collision
Mrs Estella Ruth Arena 43 of Racine Wisconsin died when her car collided with a truck two miles south of Ada Ohio today. Her husband Louis Arena is in Memorial hospital Lima in fair condition.
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Ada
Estella Ruth Arena
Racine
Wis
Here
Louis
Memorial Hospital
Lima
Doctor Flown To Ship With One Man Dead, Second Seriously Ill
A coast guard operation reported one fatality and another seriously ill aboard the troopship Newbern Victory about 400 miles east of New York. A coast guard–manned army bomber departed Floyd Bennett Field with medical supplies, while Salem, Massachusetts, sent a physician by air to assist.
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New York
Newbern Victory
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Here
Cmdr
A. J. Hesford
Shipping Strike Shuts Great Lakes Ports In Third Day
The CIO NMU strike against Great Lakes shipping enters its third day with leaders seeking broader walkouts. About 100 of 400 flag cargo ships are idle per Detroit headquarters, with unions targeting all NMU crews and seeking cooperation from unorganized or AFL-represented sailors.
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CIO National Maritime Union
Great Lakes
Detroit
Five Lakes
NMU
AFL
Visitors Arrive for Viroqua Centennial Parade
VIROQUA Wis Special The city experiences its centennial big day with thousands arriving for a 10 30 a m parade that spans downtown streets. Residents from far and wide witness marching bands 4 H clubs and vintage floats amid a packed scene. The crowd totals about 4000 along one block reported by Sgt William Boma as the parade rolls past ox drawn wagons and celebrants.
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Viroqua
Wis
Maine
California
la Crosse
William Boma
Vernon County
Vernon’ County
Wind Squall Levels Crops Across La Crosse Area
A violent wind, 54 mph, with heavy rain felled trees and damaged lines in La Crosse and surrounding towns. A Chaseburg area school was destroyed by lightning and a residence struck. Power and telephone service were disrupted. repairs continued overnight. Storm area extended to Vernon and neighboring counties with significant crop damage reported in West Salem and Viroqua. Temperature plunged from 92 to 70 as rainfall totals approached 2.67 inches in Viroqua.
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Milwaukee
Fond du Lac
Fond du Lac County Fair Grounds
Omro
Green Lake
Brandon
Ripon
Neenah
Lancaster
Prairie du Chien
Green Bay
Oshkosh
Arlington
Blair
Watertown
Madison
Plymouth
Dalton
Janesville
Lake Geneva
Joseph Michalewicz
Cassell
Wausau
Edgar
Wis
Chaseburg
la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Riverside Park
la Crosse Telephone Corporation
Wisconsin Telephone Company
West Salem
Sparta
Viroqua
Galesville
Black River Falls
Whitehall
Minnesota
Hastings
Winona
Lansing
Bangor
Adolph Nuttelman
Onalaska
Hamilton Cemetery
Enterprise
William Grosskopf
Taylor
Winona- Merillan
Melrose
North Bend
Sanial
Dr. Trond Stabo Dies. Norwegian Vice Consul
Dr. Trond Stabo, 76, Norwegian vice consul for Iowa since 1917, died Friday of a heart attack at his summer home near Hayward Wisconsin. Educated in Oslo, he came to America in 1895, lived in Spring Grove Minnesota, then Decorah Iowa, where he served as emeritus Luther College trustee and former president of Decorah State Bank. He is survived by his son Nels E. Stabo and granddaughter Marijlyn of New York.
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Hayward
Wis
Trond Stabo
Iowa
Here
Oslo University
America
Spring Grove
Minn
Decorah
Stabo
Luther College Board of Trustees
State Bank
Nels E. Stabo
Marijlyn
New York
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Joseph F. Carroll
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FBI
Start College
Barton K. Yount
Finley Peter Dunne, Jr
Weston
Mass
Pearl, Ill
The
Associated Press
Tribune
Anderson Memorial Bandshell
Carl Witzke
West Avenue
Park Department
Donald Moody
Robbinsville
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Frank Cull
Ypsilanti
Helen Cull
W. C. Kersenbrock
Brantwood
Clifford Schultz
Stephanie Gatz
Eleanor Panozzo
Lucille Panozzo
Virginia Panozzo
Peggy Joseph
Buffalo
N. Y
William Ward
Franklin, Ky
Joseph Stone
Clarksville
By George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Farmer “Bee
Union
Standard Oil of Indiana
Bethlehem Transportation Company
Joseph Curran
CIO
Philadelphia
U. S
Westby Band
Westby
Coon Prairie
Camp McCoy
L. L Heidorn
Second Armored
Heidron
Readstown
la Crosse Erickson
Heileman
la Crosse Troop
Rochester
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