Defense chiefs discuss postwar unification at Newport
Secretary Forrestal and the joint chiefs met at the Naval War College Newport R I for a high policy discussion on America's defenses. The session, modeled on the Key West conference, aimed to unify the armed services amid inter service rivalry and debates over strategic air power command.
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Ecretary of Defense
Forrestal
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Naval War College
Newport
R. 1
America
Key West
Congress
Hear What the Spice Saith to the Churches
A religious quotation from Revelation 3 20 urging ear to hear the divine message. The brief verse emphasizes listening to Christ’s call to openness and faith.
Chiang Has A Plan
Chiang Kai-shek returns to Nanking with a refreshed reform package aimed at stabilizing China’s economy. The plan envisions a gold yuan, price and wage controls, and import quotas to balance foreign trade, along with registering overseas assets for private and national use. Shanghai financiers doubt its viability, citing lack of metal backing and potential asset sales to fund the currency. They warn without strong enforcement the reform may fail and hurt Chiang’s popular support.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Kuling
China
Shanghai
Shanghai Exings
Chiang
How's Your Heart A public health note on heart disease risk
An editorial urges awareness of rising heart disease mortality, noting over 50,000 deaths, three times cancer and eleven times tuberculosis. It cites 3.7 million Americans with heart ailments and high blood pressure, recommending medical exams, lifestyle changes, and stress reduction. It ends with a weather-forecast jab.
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Sax
Edson warns anti inflation measures likely limited
Peter Edson argues that treasury and Federal Reserve actions will not curb inflation significantly. He notes Regulation W mainly controls durable goods on installment plans, with minimal impact on overall consumer prices. He cites housing inflation, restricted credit, and the cost of living as larger risks for the coming year.
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Washington
NEAS
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
McCarthy-Wolcott
Aitic
World Council of Churches assembly at Amsterdam
About 1,500 delegates from 150 Protestant and Orthodox churches in 2 nations attend the Amsterdam meeting. Notable attendees include Charles P. Taft and Joan Foster Dulles. Speakers urge that Christianity offers the true hope for peace and truth in a troubled world, contrasting freedoms in the United States with Russia and satellites.
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Davenport
Amsterdam
World Council of Churches
Charles P. Tait
Joan Foster Dulles
Dre
John A. Mackay
Princeton Theological Seminary
Christian Church
United States
Russia
Church
Striking unions face back-to-work at Lens Co in Dayton
The Lens Co strike in Dayton ends with 11 workers cleared for rehire after arbitration talks while the union loses ground and the town questions the strike tactics. Gov Earl Warren and Lt Gov Arthur Coolidge comment on national direction amid regional tensions.
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Akron
Ohio
Seacon-Journal
Lens Co
Dayton
National Guard
Wisconsin political hints on federal judges and governor race
Notes from a Milwaukee political desk discuss Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin as a potential U S circuit court of appeals nominee if Dewey wins the presidency. Walter Kohler Jr is floated as Wiley's possible successor in a special seat. other names and state issues, including taxation scrutiny of auto dealers, bond ideas for soldiers and various party maneuvers, fill the rest of the page.
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Mavison
Wis
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Wiley
U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Dewey
Janary
Walter Kohler, Jr
Sheboy- Ban
Republic
Tan
State Department of Taxation
W. D. Carroll
Soldiers’ Sons
Gov. Goodland
Milwaukee
Wallavetes
Congress
Rep
Kerster
A. J. Biemiller
Harvey Higley
GOP
State Voluntary Committee
Oscar Rennebohm
Ralph M. Knamel
Ten Years Ago in The Tribune Files Visit and staff changes recalled
The Tribune recalls ten years ago: Mr and Mrs August Sill and daughter Jeanne arrived from Los Angeles to visit Mr and Mrs Gustave Sill at 2322 17th Place. Liggett drug store appoints Tom Kimball manager, succeeding Kendall Macho. Tommer rosse, UW football star, signs with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Twenty years ago: Mrs William Drake returns from Grand Rapids and Milwaukee with family updates. Miss Verah Mears to Lockport IL to teach, Miss Clara Mears to Mills College. Thirty years ago: Chester Pieper and Perry Siteland played in a tennis show, auto mechanics school trip, county ballots. Forty years ago: Jain Rusche wins state tournament second prize. Senator Isaac Stephenson on tour. city railway tracks relaid with rail replacement planned.
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August Sill
Jeanne
Los Angeles
Calif
Pittsburgh Pirate
Art J. Rooney
la Crosse Tribune
Willam Drake
South Fifth Street
Grand Rapids
Mich
C. BE. Drake
Milwaukee
P. E., Drake
Birs
H. A. Wittland
Tyson
Gillette Street
Leo Weintyre
Avon Street
Edna W. Brown
Washington, D.C
Twin Cities
Lakes
Wisconsin
Brown
Wittland
Treasury Department
Washington
Verah Mears
Lockport
Clara Mears
Mills College
Oakland
Beverly Hills
Chester Pieper
Perry Sle+teland
Jules Vernon
Lawrence Gronert
Frank Tomsicek
Clarence Evenson
Arthur Tanke
Indianapolis
B. A. Jolivene Jans
Jain Rusche
T. Stendel
Chilton
United States
Isaac
Two From Area Are Sentenced
Sparta Wis Special report youths aged 19 were sentenced to one year to 15 months at Green Bay reformatory. Leonard Gilbertson of Black River Falls, 19, jailed for taking Tom Hobson’s car from Sparta and abandoning it at Black River Falls without consent. Donald Vander Schaaf, 19, Sparta, guilty of taking a gun valued at 79 dollars from the Van Kirk home Aug 15. sentence suspended and paroled. Agnes Oliver, 29, Tucson Ariz, shoplifting charge. sentenced to one to two years, later reduced to six months to one year.
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Sparta
Wis
Sprecher
State Reformatory
Green Bay
Leonard Gilbertson
Black River Falls
Tom Hobson
Hopson
Gilbertson
Wau- Kesha
Jackson County
Donald Vander Schaaf
van Kirk
North Court Street
State Department of Public Welfare
J. J. Goodmer
van der Schaat
Banger
Agnes Oliver
Tucson
Ariz
Torah
Taychedan
Farmer Struggles to Give Away 400000 Cabbage Heads
Kraut lovers in Nanticoke reports farmer Henry Bobbin offering 400000 surplus cabbage for free at a local park. Only a few residents collected about 500 heads. Bobbin laments the difficulty of giving away surplus produce.
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Nanticoke
Henry Bobbin
Bobbin
Qualy
It Happened in Politics Max Hall chronicled two-house elections
Washington chronicles strange cases of politicians holding multiple offices. Sparkman and Garner achieved dual elections on same days, Garfield shifted from house to presidency, and Huey Long swapped governor to senator. The piece traces how such overlaps occurred and explains rare overlaps in U.S. political history.
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Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
John Sparkman
Alabama
John Nance Garner
Texas
United Staes
James A. Garfield
Ohio
House
United States
Garfield
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas
U. S
Ievenyor
James M Curley
Boston
Eh Kw Yh
Unusug
Curley
Huey Pl Long
Louisiana
Sparkman
Parkman
Jyne
John Bankhead
Democratc
Ballon
Garner
U.S. Senate
Robinson
U.S
Drinking linked to half of fatal accidents study cites
Chicago report on the 194B Accident Facts yearbook of the National Safety Council shows that one in five drivers in fatal crashes in 1947 had been drinking. Special studies note that even light drinking raises crash risk, heavy drinkers are 55 times more likely to cause an accident, and a quarter of adult pedestrians killed were drinking.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Beat the Heat Then Snowslide Claims Milk Driver
In Kansas City 95 degree heat gave way to danger as 31 year old milk driver Arthur F Stockman was buried by an ice snowpile in his dairy ice room while retrieving artificial snow. Co-workers rescued him before loss of consciousness. His wife notes he did not complain about the heat during the ordeal. Brazil pursues a weekly paid day of rest for workers not paid monthly or fortnightly.
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Banas
Kansas City
Arthur F. Stockman
Stockman
Yesterdey
Brazil
United States backs western Europe union idea
Washington approves France led move toward an advisory western European parliament seen as a step toward a United States of Europe. The plan aims to bind Western nations for mutual defense and economic strength, with Britain’s hesitation tied to Commonwealth ties and the current crisis.
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Washington
France
United States of Europe
Western Europe
U. S. State Department
Britain
Europe
Atlee
British Commonwealth
Iteo
United States
Sui
Wold
England
Western
Brian Am
Adlien
Answers to Questions From The Haskin Service
A reader questions column from The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau provides facts on Edison’s diary priority for the phonograph, how electric fans cool by comfort not temperature, sweetbreads as thymus or pancreas of calf, Sen Taylor’s horseback ride starting Oct 26, 1947, Sickles defense case, and Hains Paint named for Lt. Col. Peter C. Hains.
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la Crosse Tribune Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington D. D. C
Sen. Taylor
Idaho
Los Angeles
Mount Vernon
Washington
Congress
Sen. Taylor Rede
Everyday Science Q&A and facts from The La Crosse Tribune
A pasted reader column features questions on weather, geography, chemistry, and history with concise answers. Topics include hurricane window openings, Irish sod at Madison Square Garden, WWII grenade timing, Colleen Moore doll house exhibit, religious belief among US college students, beer aging, and word origins, followed by Tribune staff credits and subscription details.
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Colleen Moore
L. Weem
Ford Museum
Dearborn
Mich
United States
C.E.D. A
Council of Church Boards of Education
Washington, D. C
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