Government asks Hawaiian strike talks in Washington or New York
The U S conciliation service chief Cyrus S Ching said he would meet opposing silo representatives in Washington or New York for mediation. He urged renewed efforts to settle the 114 day Hawaiian dock strike which has crippled the island economy and halted sugar and pineapple exports and food imports. The CIO union and stevedoring firms are in talks. strikers seek a 2 to 2 1/2 cent wage raise and firms proposed up to 14 cents.
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Washington
New York
Cyrus S. Ching
U. S. Conciliation Service
Honlulu
Hawaii
Haowali
CIO International Longshoremen
Acg~ Enate
Refugees Protest Outside Relief Minister’s House in New Delhi
About 400 refugees in rags squatted before the relief minister Mohanta Suxenn in New Delhi demanding immediate rehabilitation and recovery of abducted women from Pakistan. They stayed through the evening shouting slogans as July rains flooded their quarters and left them homeless.
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New Delhi
Pakdatan
Mohanta Suxenn
Harold L. Vance Birthday and Studebaker Career Outline
Harold L. Vance was born August 22, 1890 in Port Huron Michigan. He began at Everett Metzger Flanders then joined Studebaker as a mechanic’s apprentice earning a cent an hour. He rose to stores and purchasing, became production engineer at Bethlehem Steel in 1918, returned to Studebaker as assistant to the president, became board exec by 1935 and president in 1948.
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Harold Lines Vance
Port Huron
Mich
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corp
Everett-Metzger-Flanders Co
Studebaker
Vance
Bethlenhem Steel
Eigiemar
Madison Col A Smith Dies at 79 Former Counsel
Col A H Smith 79 longtime Wisconsin conservation department counsel died Sunday in a Madison hospital. A Shorewood Hills resident born in Manston he practiced law in Elroy and Merrill serving as Lincoln County district attorney. WWI colonel with the 120th Field Artillery later on state real estate board and conservation counsel. Survived by wife two daughters son and brother funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Madison
Wia
A. H. Smith
Wisconsin, Conservation Department
120Th Field Artillery
Smith
State Real Estate Board
Conservation Department
Roy
Jul'ana) Luberg
Russell
Dorthea) Nelson
Phil Smith
Wright Field
Dayton
Sidney Smith
Sparta
Trevethon Named Executive Secretary of Soodwill
Executive MILWAUKEE-1 Percy J. Trevethon formerly with Morgan Memorial Boston was named executive secretary of Soodwill Industries of America. He was chosen as active head of the social service organization at the weekend session of the biennial delegate assembly.
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Milwaukee
Percy J. Trevethon
Morgan Memorial
Boston
Soodwill Industries of America
Stilts mishap leaves grandparent with injuries
A 60-year-old grandfather attempting to teach his granddaughter Judith Ann Porter seven to walk on stilts slipped on a rug. His right hand crashed through a bookcase door, eight stitches were required and his knee was also wrenched during the accident on Saturday.
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Wuvis
Lloyd Warren
Judith Ann Porter
29 Year Old Mother Wins Stop The Music Prizes
A 29 year old mother of two won 26000 dollars on the Stop the Music radio show after correctly naming the mystery melody Buttered Pease with help from a house guest Randall Pappenfort retrieved a Kansas City Star article to aid identification. Her husband Carson Pappenfort supports the prize as timely as their son Robert William age 2 faces brain surgery for a condition from a fall last year.
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Columbia
Dorthe Pappentort
Missouri Highway Department
American Broadcasting Company
Kangaa City
British Break Up Nylon Smuggling Racket
London authorities announced the disruption of a nylon stockings smuggling scheme moving over 10 000 pairs from New York to Britain. Parcels labeled as matzos hid the contraband with three boxes per parcel, two containing matzos and the third stuffed with stockings.
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London
British Customs Office
New York
Britain
Tne
Customs Office
Parcela
102 Women Set To Tell Off Congress At Washington
Watertown New York reports Mrs. Mary Hollis Ackley aged 102 plans to go to Washington to “straighten out a few things” after celebrating her birthday. She is the widow of a Civil War veteran and expresses strong political wishes.
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Congress
Watertown
N. Y
Mary Hollis Ackley
Washington
Sunny
Polio Panic Casts Shadow Over Families And Fear
New York Associated Press report outlines that polio panic harms children as much as the disease. Dr. Hart Van Riper and Dr. Harry Weaver present facts to debunk myths, noting polio is rare in any clear form and home is the most common danger while emphasizing practical precautions and disease basics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Frema Herence Reporter
New York
Hart E. van Riper
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
van Riper
Harry M. Weaver
Foundation
Fay
Offender Goes Back To Prison In Leavenworth
War veteran Frederick W. Wage, 33, a former Army private, returned to Leavenworth federal prison after hitch hiking from Tacoma Washington. He had been released May 20 1947 on a writ of habeas corpus for a 20 year sentence after an army court martial in Germany in 1945 for rape. The sentence was later reduced by clemency and the Supreme Court upheld a reversal of his release. Wage reported to prison as ordered.
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Leavenworth
Kas
Federal
Frederick W. Wage
Tacoma
Wash
Wade
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Germany
Army
Wiley Says Italy Makes Good Comeback
WAUKESHA Wisconsin Senator Wiley told 29th annual St. Bartolomeo festival that ERP aid to Italy in the last fiscal year curbed inflation and ended rationing. He cited exports rising to near 1938 levels and praised Premier De Gasperi for cooperation toward European self sufficiency and political Western world collaboration.
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Waukesha
Wis
Italy
Sen
Wiley
Wisconsin
St. Bartolomeo Society of
de Gasperi
Ioward
Inner-Aid: New Herbal Remedy Claims Fast Gas Relief
An anonymous testimonial from a local man touts INNER-AID as a powerful herbal formula with twelve medicinal juices that cleanse the bowels ease stomach gas and relieve bloating. He says after using INNER-AID his upset stomach waned his waistline dropped and meals became pleasant. Sold by all drug stores.
Five Percenter Culprit Is People
Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley told Kiwanis delegates that the real culprits in the five percenters mess are people themselves and the weak morals in government payrolls. He warned American society has fostered influence selling by permitting a bloated, tangled government and urged cleansing the federal payroll and eliminating conditions that breed five percenters.
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Appleton
Wis
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Kiwanis International
Wiley
Mother and son die in Connellsville area fire
A mountain home fire in Roger's Mill 13 miles east of Connellsville killed Hazel Porterfield Hall 30 and her nine month old George after she ran back inside to save him. Husband Woodrow 35 suffered serious burns aiding seven other children Martha 10 Everett 6 Ruth 15 Paul 16 and Richard 2 who escaped with injuries. fire blamed on kerosene explosion used to start the kitchen fire.
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Connellsville
Hazel Porterfield Hall
George
Roger's Mill
Woodrow
Martha
Everett
Ruth
Paul
Richard
Connellsville State Hospital
Deaths Saturday News Briefs in Chicago and Scotland
In Chicago J Fawin W Boergel 93 former vice president in charge of traffic for the Milwaukee railroad is noted as dying. In Inveraray Scotland Diarmid Campbell 77 duke of Argyll refused to permit telephone or radio in Air 1 00 year old castle.
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Aucciated
Chicago
Jfawin W. Boergel
Milwaukee Railroad
Inverarary
Scotland
Miall Diarmid Campbell
Duke of Argyll
Indoor X-ray Health Drive Targets La Crosse Workers
State board of health mobile X-ray unit arrives in La Crosse to screen indoor workers from Monday to Oct 13. The schedule includes La Crosse Breweries, Lin Northern Engraving, La Crosse Rubber Mills, and Trane Co plants with 1 to 3 p m Monday first stop. Volunteers, led by Mrs. W L Cress, will have results sent to family doctors.
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State Board of Health
le Crosse
Crosse Bretac
la Crosse
la Crosse Medical Society
City Colley of Health
Garland Weidner
Weldner
W. L. Cress
Wisconsin Anti-tuberculosis Association
Gible
Ihs
la Crosse Breweries, Inc
Lins
Northern Engraving and Manufacturing Co
Soldier Hurt In Fall At Camp McCoy
Soldier William A. Smith was injured in a back injury after falling from an embankment near Front and State streets. He was moved by police and military ambulance from a local hospital to Camp McCoy for treatment. Separately, Frank Stangl aged 81 from 334 Fifth Avenue South was hospitalized after a fall at the Bodega Lunch Club.
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Wiliam A. Smith
Camp McCoy
Smith
Frank Stangl
Fifth Avenue South
Bodega
Rooms Needed for Vocational School Students
John B. Coleman director of the Vocational and Adult school announced that several rooms are needed for both boys and girls attending this fall. The school no longer has access to the Hixon house, so residents with rooms for rent are asked to call 743.
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John B. Coleman
Hixon House
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Col. A. Smith
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Trane Co
A. S. Evans
WKTY
Timekeeper
John Hancock
la Crosse Laundry
Cecil Brown
Chrysler
Conte
le Beautiff Oyler Hee
Ry Floyd
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Ammrien
Firat
Ena
R. C. Co. Cheney CO
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