Army and Navy Get Same Building Lumber Priority
The government cuts army and navy priority to the same as veterans for building materials. Officials headed by Wilson Wyatt and John D. Small extend limits to overseas projects, require 80 percent housing lumber reserved for priority orders, and freeze residential hardwood flooring. The move aims to push materials to housing as veterans seek homes this winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Navy
Housime
Wilson Wyatt
OPA
Paul Porter
Leesville
Wyatt
John D. Small
Pacific
Veterans Administration
Perth
CPA
National Retail Lumber Dealers Association
H. R. Northrup
Association
Autumn Chill Grips Central Midwest With Low 40s
Temperatures plunged across the middle west with readings in the upper thirties to mid forties. Land O Lakes Wisconsin posted 26 degrees as La Crosse neared a historic August low. 10 am reads 62 with 68 to 70 forecast. A cold air mass from Canada dominates with a warm front expected over the Rockies by weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle West
Land O’ Lakes
Wis
la Crosse
A. D. Saniel
Canade
Rockies
Ask Guilty Verdict For 5 Nazi Groups
American Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd urged the Nuremberg tribunal to convict five Nazi created or Nazi perverted organizations the Reich cabinet political leadership corps SS elite guard SA brown shirts Gestapo and the military high command He argued that removing these bodies would have prevented much of the Nazi crime and that none will evade punishment for crimes committed in a political state name The statement was made as Dodd acts as executive trial counsel for Justice Robert H. Jackson the US chief prosecutor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
International War Crimes Tribunal
Nuernberg
Reich Cabinet
Political Leadership Corps
SA Brown Shirts
Gestapo
Military
Weather update for La Crosse area cool tonight
Local weather report notes generally fair skies with unseasonable cool conditions. Overnight lows around 44 in the city and 40 in rural areas with a high near 68 expected on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Sportsmen Plan Group To Fight Drawdowns
Sportsmen from Wisconsin and Minnesota border counties form a plan to oppose U S Army Engineers pool drawdowns on the Mississippi River. They will organize an Anti Drawdown Congress with 15 county representation to push federal conservation control. Funds of 10000 dollars will be raised via bazaars and picnics to finance the campaign as meetings proceed through October in Winona and surrounding counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
Wisconsin
Minnesota
U. S. Army Engineers
Mississippi Valley Sportsmen's Association
Congress
Winona
Houston County
Carroll's
la Crescent
la Crosse County
Hokah
Caledonia
Mississippi
Robert Verdota
Edward Dumas
Russia Blocks UN Applicants at Security Council
At Lake Success New York on Thursday Soviet Russia blocked Ireland Trans- Jordan and Portugal from UN membership saying they lack normal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The move drew sharp questions from Paul Hasluck and Herschel V Johnson as Russia refused to explain its stance. Afghanistan's application remained the only one not opposed.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Soviet
Russia
Ireland
Trans- Jordan
Portugal
United Nations
Andrei A. Gromyko
U. N. Security Council
Soviet Union
Paul Hasluck
Herschel V. Johnson
United States
Gromyko
Johnson
Albania
Outer Mongolia
Afghanistan
Hasluck
Trans-Jordan
Bread Ration Continues in USSR Amid Drought
The Soviet government announced that bread rationing will continue next year due to drought reducing crops in wheat producing regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Indians Retain Old Fishing Privileges
Indians from the Yakimas Umatills and Warm Springs tribes won the right to continue salmon fishing on the Columbia river using spears and nets, defying state laws in Washington and Oregon. The ruling allows continued traditional methods at the ancient fishing grounds, reaffirming tribal privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalles
Ore
Northwest
Washington
Oregon
Columbia River
Yakimas
Umatills
Warm Springs
Truman weighs high post for La Follette during Bermuda trip
President Truman, enjoying a Bermuda vacation, discusses possible government roles for defeated Wisconsin senator Robert La Follette. Proposals include assistant secretary of the treasury or a Federal Reserve board post, as aides consider fit and isolationist criticisms.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Truman
Washington
LaFollette
Senate
Congress
la Follette
Senate Finance Committee
State Department
Navy
Foreign Relations Committee
Aif
White House
Ministers Meet To Accelerate Paris Parley
British, American, Soviet, and French foreign ministers meet in Paris to revive the peace conference. Australian proposals on the Italian frontier are rejected 13 to 6 by the Italian commission amid charges of missing documents and hasty committee work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Britain
Russia
United States
France
Georges Bidault
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Bidault
John A. Beasley
Mont Cenis Plateau
Beasley
Belgium
Brazil
Greece
Netherlands
South Africa
Australia
Wincenty Winsiewicz
Commission
Winiewicz
State May Cut Road Program Due to Cost Pressures
Madison Wis Special says rising bid prices from contractors and scarce materials will curtail state highway construction. The highway commission chair indicates most bids will be rejected for excess costs, limiting new contracts this year and possibly delaying expansion until spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
James R. Law
State Highway Commission
Law
Gov. Goodland
Expect Ship Strike Pact Ends Shipping Tie Up
Federal conciliator Noel Fox said the Great Lakes maritime strike would be substantially settled by mid next week as Interstate Steamship and International Harvester reach tentative agreements with the CIO National Maritime Union. Contracts under negotiation would cut the 56 hour week to 48 at sea 44 in port and 40 for lap time at both ends of the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Noel Fox
Great Lakes
Cio-National Maritime Union
Fox
Interstate Steamship Co
International Harvester Co
Confessed Degnan Murder To Do Away With Myself
Chicago police release an undated jail letter by William Heirens claiming three murders were confessed to end his own life. The letters, confiscated from his cell along with two to his parents and one to Joan Slama, accompany Heirens's Aug. 6 confession to killing Suzanne Degnan Frances Brown and Mrs. Josephine Ross. He said the motive was to ensure conviction and the electric chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Heirens
William Tuohy
Joan Slama
Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Frances Brown
Josephine Ross
Tuohy
Degnan
George M.S
Inquest Planned for Caledonia Death of Karl Krick
Caledonia Minn special report: coroner announces inquest next Thursday at 9 a.m. into the death of Karl Krick 65 who died after being found unconscious in the Rolfing garage. Krick employed there and last seen Sunday evening. Survives include a nephew and two nieces in Minot North Dakota. Funeral plans pending.
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Caledonia
Minn
Karl Krick
Rolfing
John W. Potter
Houston County
Krick
William E. Murphy
Michael Hurley
M. M. Sullivan
William Poppe
Harold Abbott
A. T. McCormick
George Kelly
Potter
State Fish and Game Commission
Milton Rolfing
Hubert Frank
Theodore and
Isabell Krick
Minot
N. D
Condition Of La Farge Youth Improves After Illness
The seven year old La Farge youth stricken Sunday with a sudden illness that claimed two siblings is improved enough for release from La Crosse hospital. Vernon county district attorney M N Daffigrud offers no solution yet as autopsy reports from the state toxicologist in Madison are awaited. Ed ward Jr three and Edna Mae five, Gaylord siblings, died Sunday. An investigation is ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaylord Lisney
la Farge
la Crosse Hospital
Viroqua
Vernon County
M. N. Daffigrud
Gaylord
Edward, Jr
Edna Mae
Madison
Allis Chalmers Raises Wages for Bargaining Unit
F J Papenfuss works manager of Allis Chalmers Manufacturing announced a 13 1 2 cent per hour wage increase for all employees in the bargaining unit represented by Local 1424 CIO. The raise, to take effect June 7, follows a prior five cent per hour increase last fall and equals the 18 3 4 cent post V J Day national pattern. Papenfuss notes the union had not accepted the prior offer and encloses a notice to all employees in the unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Papenfuss
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
CIO
Papenfuss
Robert Ludvik
Polio Outlook in Wisconsin Hints Prolonged Peak
State health officials report no imminent set up in poliomyelitis cases if patterns repeat past years. September remains peak with cases rising through next month. total 451 since August 1 and 556 in 1945 for reference. Harland Harris 34 of Galien Mich died after polio infection. Several cities delay school openings and Racine records ten polio cases as Kenosha cancels Labor Day events.
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Wisconsin
State Board of Health
Madison
H. M. Guilford
Bureau of Communicable Diseases
Guilford
Racine County
Rusk
Burnett
Harland Harris
Galien, Mich
University of Wisconsin
Ashland
Kewaunee
Cumberland
Rice Lake
Kenosha
Manitowoc
Janesville
Racine
Controls Delay Lifts Prices On Beverages And Meat
OPA keeps meat price ceilings for live cattle to begin September nine while live animal ceilings rise about five and a half cents a pound for beef and two to three cents for pork from June thirty levels. The cabinet plan faced opposition from CIO leaders who condemn Anderson as profiteering mouthpiece. Substantial subsidies resume for slaughtering as ceilings apply by Sunday to slaughterers and packers with further steps for wholesalers and retailers by September nine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Clinton Fr. Anderson
Congress
Paul Porter
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Anderson
Roy L. Thompson
Decontrol Board
New Orleans
Porter
New York
Thompson
Governor appoints Ko pitzke to state board in Wisconsin
Governor Goodland announced he appointed Leonard E Ko pitzke of Marion Wisconsin as president of the Wisconsin Cheesemakers association and as an officer of other dairy groups to the state board of agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Goodland
Leonard E. Kopitzke
Marion
Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ Association
State Board of Agriculture
NLRB orders election on representation for L. T. Jones workers
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered an election on September 5 to determine if production and maintenance employees of L. T. Jones company in Menominee Michigan wish to be represented by the CIO United Auto Workers union for collective bargaining.
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Minneapolis
National Labor Relations Board
L. T. Jones Company
Menominee, Mich
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
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John Steuart Curry
University of Wisconsin Department of Rural Sociology
Curry
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Wood
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Serge
The
Associated Press
John Thornton
State Farm Board
Esther Jackson
Nashville
Tenn
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Wiesbaden
Germany
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