Wright urges consumer strike as cure for housing woes
Frank Lloyd Wright argues in La Crosse that a nationwide consumer strike is needed to pressure producers and reset inflation. He says housing will be imposed on people and criticizes building codes while urging flexible standards that adapt to changing materials and methods. He also condemns wage slavery for veterans and calls for consumer power over needs.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
la Crosse
Stoddard Hotel
Talesin
Spring Green Wis
Wright
Victory Bond drive ends with La Crosse sales push
Retail stores in La Crosse pushed Victory Loan bonds as the drive nears its Saturday close. Individual purchases totaled 1 079 104 dollars and 46 percent, with overall sales at 2 264 499 dollars and 72 percent. County and local units report varied performance, with Onalaska and several villages exceeding quotas. National totals show 6 789 000 000 dollars raised to date, including 1 069 000 000 in E bonds, as the campaign concludes.
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la Crosse
U. S. Treasury Department
County War Finance Office
City of
Onalaska
Village of
Bangor
Rockland
West Salem
Barre
Burns
Campbell
Farmington
Greenfield
Hamston
Holland
Shelby
Washington
Treasury
Bowles Appeals For Controls On Building Prices
Chester Bowles price administrator urged Congress to set new controls on housing prices and on use of building materials to curb a wild rise in home costs. He told the House Banking Committee there is an immediate need to shelter homeless veterans with families.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Congress
House Banking Committee
House
McKellar
Senate
UNO
Bloom
D-Ny
Foreign Affairs Committee
London
Wheeler
Mont
Langer
Moore
Oklo
Revercomb
Wva
Shipstead
Minn
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Local Weather Forecast for La Crosse and Vicinity
Fair and warmer tonight with a low around 28 to 30 degrees. Thursday will be partly cloudy with a high in the afternoon near 40 degrees.
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la Crosse
Navy to discharge 38 year old reservists with dependents
The navy announced eligibility for discharge for reserve enlisted men and women aged 38 with at least one dependent before August 15. Wives count as dependents. About 35,000 would be affected, though many already qualified under the point system. Previously 42 year olds or older qualified regardless of points or dependency status.
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Washington
Navy
Winds Message Not Sent By Japan War Alarm
Congressional investigators disclosed that on June 7 1941 Franklin D Roosevelt declined to approve a British American plan for joint wartime operations if the United States entered World War II. The record shows Roosevelt’s aide said papers would return to the president for approval in case of war and notes Roosevelt approved a Canadian United States basic defense plan on August 29 1941. The inquiry found no evidence that Japan broadcast the winds message signaling a break with the United States prior to Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Senate-House
Pearl Harbor
E. M. Watson
War Department
U. S
William D. Mitchell
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Britain
Russia
Mitchell
Henry L. Stimson
Leonard T. Gerow
War Plans Division
George C. Marshall
Army
Gerow
Stimson
Marshall
Adm
Harold R. Stark
Japan
War Plans
Marshall - Stark
Stark
Thailand
Burma
Singapore
Far East
Wheeler
Congress
Willis
Rind
UNO Security Council
Senate
UNO
Murray Breaks With Truman Over Labor Policy
CIO President Philip Murray sharply condemns Truman proposals to end labor strife. He calls the plans abject cowardice and says they aim to weaken labor unions. Murray cites steel and GM refusals to grant wage increases and notes massive strike authorizations by steel and other unions.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
Harry S. Truman
United States
CIO
Murray
Truman
America
Work on Airport Delayed Dedication Plans Continue
Installation of lighting and equipment by contractors at the municipal airport on French Island continues. Plans call for project completion by December 15 and transfer of property from the Civil Aeronautics Administration to the city within 7 to 10 days after.
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French Island
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Citizens’ Committee
Municipal Aviation Board
White House Silent on CIO Attack
President Truman faces AFL and CIO divisions over labor law proposals. AFL leader William Green says the plan is unsatisfactory but sincere, while CIO Chief Philip Murray opposes the use of fact finding in major disputes. White House confirms ongoing board selections for GM and steel wage cases and says no decision yet on Midwest truck strike intervention.
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Aluminum
Murray
White House
NLRB
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor Today
CIO
Philip Murray
Truman
Green
AFL
Charles G. Ross
Ross
General Motors
Midwest
Truman Nominates Schoenfeld as Minister to Hungary
President Truman nominates H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld to be minister to Hungary, creating the first formal American diplomatic presence there since the war. Schoenfeld currently serves as Hungary's political representative in the country.
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Washington
Truman
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
Hungary
Schoenfeld
Negotiations On GM Strike Postponed Amid Picket Quiet
Detroit CIO Auto Workers suspend talks with General Motors on illegal picketing as union seeks a 30 percent wage rise. Walter Reuther cites absence out of town while Ford Local 600 plans a motorized picket line and UAW CIO delegates gather to hear President Truman’s call to return to work.
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Detroit
CIO Auto
General Motors
Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Reuther
Ford Local 600
Cadillac
Ternstedt
Chevrolet Forge
Chevrolet
Uaw-Cio
Truman
Citizens’ Committee
Robert E. Garrigan
New Council of American Business
Washington, D. C
C. E. Wilson
Uawcio
Chrysler Corporation
Dutra Takes Lead as Brazilian Election Narrows
Gen Eurico Gaspar Dutra holds a strong early lead in Brazil’s presidential race with 296,591 votes. Air Gen. Eduardo Gomes follows with 198,417 and Yeddo Fiuza far behind at 74,293, while Rollim Telles nets 2,931. Dutra’s backing comes from Getulio Vargas, while Gomes opposes Vargas.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Army
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Yeddo Fiuza
Dutra
Air
Eduardo Gomes
Fiuza
Rollim Telles
Getulio Vargas
Gomes
Woman Killed In Head On Collision Near Cornell
Mrs Beatrice Nuehring of Tony Wisconsin was killed when the car she rode in collided head on with another vehicle three miles northeast of Cornell on state trunk 27 last night. Five others including her husband Cletus were injured. Roy Stor dahl state traffic officer said the crash occurred on a straight dry highway and cause was not determined.
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Cornell
Wis
Beatrice Nuehring
Tony
Here
Nuehring
Cletus
Roy Stordahl
United States Proposes Central Agencies for Occupation Zones
Washington reports the United States has told France that the Big Three may set up central government agencies for the German occupation zones. Central agencies like transportation would run in the U S Soviet and British zones, while France would manage a fourth zone.
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Washington
United States
France
Germany
Reich
Russia
Great Britain
La Crosse Creates New Radio Broadcasting Firm
Articles of incorporation filed in Madison establish the La Crosse Broadcasting Company with $100 000 capital and 1000 shares of stock. Incorporators include Bernice Kaufman Mary Swee and R E Nietsch of La Crosse. The firm plans a radio station but has no immediate construction plans.
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Madison
Wis
Secretary of State
la Crosse Broadcasting Company
Bernice Kaufman
Mary Swee
R. E. Nietsch
la Crosse
Hale, Skemp and Nietsch
RADIO
Ruth Maurer Dies In East
Ruth J Maurer formerly of La Crosse died Monday in New York City after a heart attack in her apartment She founded the Marinello system of beauty culture and was a national authority in her field She was the widow of Dr Albert A Maurer who practiced in the La Crosse area and died three years ago Funeral services were held in New York and the body will be cremated with ashes interred in Forest Home cemetery Milwaukee
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New York City
Ruth J. Maurer
la Crosse
Goering Threats and 1938 Plan For Conquest Revealed
The trial evidence shows Hitler aimed to conquer seven nations by 1938 and lists air base plans for Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Lithuania Latvia Estonia and Austria dated May 2 1938. It also details Goering pressuring Czech leader Emil Hacha to invite German troops with threats of bombing Prague.
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Muernberg
International Military Tribunal Today
Hitler
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Austria
Hermann Goering
Prague
Goering
Rman
Neville Chamberlain
Hacha
Senate Approves $550 Million UNRRA Bill For Relief
The Senate passed a $550 million UNRRA appropriation by voice vote to aid war victims and fund active US participation in the UN relief operation. The measure limits presidential troop commitments to numbers and types, with broader troop use left to Congress.
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Washington
Senate
House
United Nations Organization
McKellar
D- Tenn
UNRRA
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Threaten Utilities Strike In France
Paris unions representing public service and utility workers issued orders to their 1,000,000 members to stand by for any call threatening one of the greatest strikes in French history. They condemned maneuvers against their salary demands as modest.
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Paris
France
Central Council of Public Service and Utility Workers
Aviatrix claims Bormann joined death pact with Hitler
Capt. Hanna Reitsch, who flew the last Nazi plane out of Berlin, told U.S. counter intelligence investigators that Martin Bormann joined a death pact with Hitler hours before Berlin fell. She described the final hours in the Reichskanzlei bunker and said she left on the Fuehrer’s orders. The army noted her account as probably the most accurate description of those last days.
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Oberursel
Germany
Hanna Reitsch
Berlin
U. S
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Fuehrer
Bormann
S. A
Sturm
Volkssturm
International Military Tribunal
Nuernberg
Reitsch
Goering
Himmler
Hurley accuses Atcheson of aiding Chinese Communists in China
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley testified that George Atcheson Jr. at the Chungking embassy sought lend-lease arms for Chinese Communists. Hurley said the arms were not given and noted Atcheson was recalled. He cited a State Department report and offered confidential documents for evidence.
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George Atcheson, Jr
Patrick Hurley
Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Chungking
Hurley
Atcheson
China
Secretary of State
Acheson
State Department
Tokyo
Douglas A. MacArthur
Connally
D-Tex
John S. Service
Service
United States
Stilwell
Bank Robbery Loot Reported In Newberg Wisconsin
Sheriff Ray Koth said the lone bandit robbed the Newberg State Bank yesterday morning through a first floor window and took between 700 and 800 dollars. The escape car was a 1939 dark green Ford Sedan matching a Hartford stolen vehicle report. The suspect was 30 to 35 years old, about five feet nine, wearing a dark hat and overcoat.
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Newberg
Wis
Ray Koth
Washington County
Newberg State Bank
Koth
Hartford
F. B. Isselman
Roth
British Deny Truce In Bandoeng Battle
British authorities denied an Indonesian nationalist radio report of a truce in Bandoeng. British Indian troops with tanks and artillery attacked an Indonesian held building in the summer capital. Fighting also reported in Ambarawa and Semarang with mortar shell fire on an airfield.
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Batavia
Java
Bandoeng
Ambarawa
Semarang
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Charlie
U. S. Steel Corporation
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R. J. Thomas
Walter P. Rether
United Automobile Workers
Lee Pressman
James Mades
Neil Brandi
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Vincent D. Sweeney
United Steelworkers
Thomas
UAW
Chrysler
Gen. Dutra
Ruth Maurer
East
Daniel DE Luce
Emil Hacha
Aviatrix
James F. King
Eva Braun
Goebbels
John Service
State Byrnes
Byrnes
Rep. Anderson
Calif
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