Wisconsin vets urge special session for state bonus plan
The Wisconsin Association of County Veterans Service Officers asks Gov. Rennebohm to convene a special session to repeal rehab and housing loan programs and to use funds for a veterans bonus. The group, representing 71 counties, cites about 350 000 eligible veterans and notes current housing programs have yielded little aid.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Association of County Veterans Service Officers
Rennebohm
Veterans’ Rehabilitation
Veterans
Oscar N
Wisconsin
Veterans’ Aid
Markus
Budget Must Be Balanced Says Snyder Before Congress
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder told a Senate House subcommittee that the federal budget should be balanced now while avoiding public discussion of tax increases. He tied the deficit to a 5 billion tax cut and noted 43.5 billion in projected expenditures this fiscal year, urging spending cuts and adequate tax rates.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Congress
Senate
House
Douglas
D-Ill
Truman
Senate House
The
Treasury
Europe to Get Billion Dollars Worth of Arms
The 12 nation Atlantic alliance unanimously approves a broad defense plan for Western Europe with the United States, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg assigned detailed planning duties. France expected to receive the largest share of arms and equipment authorized by Congress, while the US focus includes strategic bombing, Atlantic naval power, and land actions after initial resistance. Johnson returns from Paris to brief President Truman and Secretary Acheson on the plan.
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Washington
Europe
Louis Johnson
Paris
Truman
State Acheson
Johnson
Atlantic Alliance
France
Congress
Defense Committee
North Atlantic
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Britain
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Atlantic
Atlantic Council
Pelny Aniing
The
Alliance
Acheson
Coal Spokesman Questions Lewis Three Day Week Policy
Pittsburgh report cites George H. Love of coal operators as saying John L. Lewis actions are destructive to the industry and workers. Lewis extends a three day work week to 400000 soft coal diggers and 80000 anthracite miners until new contracts are signed, with a 30 to 35 cent per ton cost sought by Lewis.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
George H. Love
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Love
Pennsylvania
UMW
Mississippi
COAL
McDaniels Awaits Trial In Trempealeau County
Leslie McDaniels age 33 bound over to circuit court on charges of breaking and entering at night with intent to commit larceny. He, wounded by a shotgun blast after a tavern break in, awaits April term as his companion Ernest Culver confesses. witnesses testified in Whitehall before Justice P M Paulson.
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Whitehall
Wis
Leslie McDaniels
P. M. Paulson
Trempealeau County
McDaniels
Sheboygan
Ettrick
Ernest Culver
Madison
Centerville
Culver
John Quinn
Lester Dick
Mene
Albert Severson
Edwin Ireson
Charles Keilholtz
James Wall
M. N. Daffinrud
Borreson Farm
Justice Paulson
Steam blast kills two men in Eau Claire
Forrest Gorton, 57, a city water works employee, died Friday night as the second victim of a steam blast that sent three men to the hospital. Eldon Davey, 30, died of burns, and Norman Hendrickson, 38, remained hospitalized. The workers were scalded Wednesday while using steam and chemicals to clear a well casing.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Forrest Gorton
City Waterworks Employe
Eldon Davey
Norman Hendrickson
Electrical Union Hopes To Regain CIO Rights
The CIOs new electrical workers union finishes its founding four day convention in Philadelphia. Leaders say the drive will purge political adventurers loyal to Sovietism and restore bargaining rights for CIO affiliated workers in the industry. James B. Carey, acting leader, cites American democracy backing the movement.
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Philadelphia
CIO
New Electrical Workers Union
James B. Carey
Hoover condemns cheap politicians as talkers on economy
Former President Herbert Hoover told a New York dinner that cheap politicians talk about government economy but fear to act. He cited four anti reorganizatio n groups including citizens aged 21 to 65 who demand taxpayer support and oppose reforms from the Hoover commission. He criticized departments that resist change and citizens who react negatively to any reorganization.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Hoover Commission
Greater
Attorney General Moves Assistant to La Crosse Murder Case
William A. Platz, 39, an assistant attorney general of Wisconsin, arrived in La Crosse to aid in the prosecution of A. O. Larson charged with the murder of Dr. J. E. McLoone. Platz, a 12 year veteran and UW law graduate, met with local prosecutors and will represent state interests in La Crosse’s first killing case since 1936.
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Tribune
Arnold O. Larson
William A. Platz
Wisconsin
Dist
John S. Coleman
Robert D. Johns
la Crosse
A .O. Larson
J. E. McLoone
Platz
Atty
Thomas E. Fairchild
Oscar Rennebohm
Dist. Atty
Coleman
Rennebohm
Fairchild
Madison
Attorney General's Office
Law School
University of Wisconsin
Johns
Eau Claire
William Grimm
Claire E. Larson
William Platz
Atty. A. E. Sheridan
Roland J. Steinle
Platt
James E. McLoone
Mabel Crash Case Settled in Fillmore County Court
A jury in Fillmore County district court awarded William Hayes of Cresco $500 in an April 28 accident with Jacob Lund of Mabel. Judge Martin Nelson presided. verdict announced by jury foreman Dale Ruesink after testimony from Lund and other local witnesses. Court adjourned until Monday with first case on the docket being Larson versus Anderson and Jarvis Anderson.
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Preston
Minn
William Hayes
Cresco
Jacob Lund
Mabel
Fillmore County
Martin Nelson
Dale Ruesink
Spring Valley
Kenneth Hall
Clifford S. Larson
Gilman
Jarvis Anderson
Lund
Hayes
la Crosse
Ray L. Westerlund
A. C. Christensen
N. Stunde
Amos Moore
Fred Miner
Oscar Krenzke
Ninnsota Highway
Million Dollar Hotel Fire Destroys Sapulpa Building
A four story Sapulpa hotel fire caused about 1 million dollars in damage and threatened upper floor guests. Fire Chief Bill Collyer reported no known deaths but several guests may have been trapped. Fifty three guests were registered as firefighters battled the blaze near adjoining structures.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Bill Collyer
Collyer
Win- Sapulpa
Tulsa
CIO Counsel Will Appeal Rent Ruling
A federal court backed Wisconsin's rent control law and allowed states to assume federal controls. The CIO plans to appeal, citing a related Illinois case on appeal. Edith Shimek's petition argued loss of a $3,900 overcharge claim with the federal office closing.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Max Raskin
Wisconsin Cio
Illinois
Congress
National Cio
Edith Sh‘mek
Milwaukee
Tighe Woods
Alcohol still seized on farm near Randolph
State agents from the division of beverage and cigarette taxes reported the seizure and destruction of an alcohol still on a Columbia county farm near Randolph. No arrests or charges will be filed as the still was not operating and those involved could not be identified. Equipment including mash barrels a processing tank gas stoves and coil tubing were destroyed by agents.
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Madison
Wis
State Division of Beverage and Cigarette Taxes
Randolph
Columbia County
Weather outlook for La Crosse region
Cloudy and windy with rising temperatures as light snow begins at sunrise. Saturday includes light to moderate snowfall and warmer highs around 35 degrees. Low tonight near 30 with Saturday’s high around 35.
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la Crosse
Ood
Wife's Mother Testifies in Larson Murder Trial Here
Mrs. Herman Kriewald, mother of Larson's wife, testified that Larson spoke of killing Dr. James E. McLoone after Jimmy Larson's funeral on February 18, 1944 and later stated the doctor ought to be killed. The state also brought in Judge Steinle's courtroom rulings on outside assistance and tracked McLoone's suspected route before the murder.
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J. E. McLoone
Arnold O. Larson
Larson
Eleanor McLoone
Margaret Meyer
Dakota
Minn
Elizabeth Funke
James E. McLoone
Herman Kriewald
Nola
Kriewald
Jimmy Larson
Dr. McLoone
McLoone
Kraft
Steinle
Lutheran Hospital
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