Wage Increase at Allis Chalmers Plants Across Nation
The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co announced a voluntary general wage increase of five cents an hour for about 22,000 employees not yet raised, retroactive to April 15, 1944. La Crosse plant will gain about 909 workers. total cost around $6 million, with pay period adjustments starting December 15 and checks by December 31. The move does not affect current labor agreements and expands to six plants in Wisconsin Indiana Pennsylvania Massachusetts and California.
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
la Crosse
Allis-Chalmers
West Allis
Wis
la Porte
Ind
Norwood
Yamashita Tribute Items Signal Allied War Pride
Yamashita and officers receive gifts in a ceremony noting campaigns in Singapore and the Philippines. Lieutenant Colonel Walter C. Hendrix praises Yamashita as a fit wearer of a large leather belt. Majors A Frank Rees and Milton Sundberg receive ceremonial gifts amid the Manila death sentence ruling for Yamashita’s troops. The U S Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to refrain from intervening in the case.
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Clarke
Altoona
Singapore
Walter C. Hendrix
A. Frank Rees
Cambridge
Mass
Milton Sundberg
New York City
Yamashita
Washington
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Manila
Plan for Secretaries Meeting Aims at Big Five Talks
London reports Foreign Secretary Bevin may announce a meeting of foreign ministers from the United States Britain Russia France and China. In Washington Secretary Byrnes declined to discuss possibilities of such a five power meeting.
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London
Foreign Office
Ernest Bevin
United States
Britain
Russia
France
China
Washington
Byrnes
Charge Woman Chased Husband With Car In Paterson
In Paterson New Jersey Geneva Humphrey 47 was jailed on murder charges after driving at her husband Hugh Edwin Humphrey 43 through an alley and pinning him to a cellar door. Prosecutor assistant Jasper Kirchner said jealousy over an affair sparked the killing.
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Paterson
N. J
Geneva Humphrey
Jasper G. Kirchner
Passaic County
Hugh Edwin Humphrey
Singar
Kirchner
Humphrey
Private Rental Housing Built Between 1937 and 1940
Built by private enterprise between October 1937 and March 1940, 163000 units, or almost one third, were built for rental.
Plan Maps For Sure Of Tourists
The Northern Great Lakes area council, formed to promote tourism in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Ontario, will issue travel maps as part of a unified program to attract visitors. The council, organized July 4 at Mackinac Island, Michigan, voted yesterday to issue the maps and named a committee to nominate permanent officers.
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Milwaukee
Northern Great Lakes Area
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Ontario
Mackinac Island
Mica
Tojo Called Indisputable War Criminal by Kido
Tokyo reports Marquis Koichi Kido, once close to Emperor Hirohito, labels former premier Hideki Tojo an indisputable war criminal in an interview. He calls Prince Fumimaro Konoye a borderline case and opposes trying Hirohito. Kido, 56, says by Japan’s view he is not guilty. He was named in a new list of nine war crimes suspects issued by General MacArthur.
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Tokyo
Koichi Kido
Hirohito
Hideki Tojo
Fumimaro Konoye
Privy Seal
Kido
MacArthur
Byrnes Defends Officials in Senate Testimony
Byrnes defended loyal government service members as he disputed Hurley’s accusations against Atcheson and Service. He cited a 1945 telegram and a 1944 memorandum to counter claims of improper advising to MacArthur in Tokyo. Chairman Connally said Hurley would be recalled to elaborate his Iran policy charges.
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Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Marshall
Germany
Philippines
Japan
Malaysia
Siberia
Byrnes
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Hurley
Dean Acheson
Iran
Atcheson
General MacArthur
Tokyo
State Department
Service
Four Veterans Win Ride Home With Magic Carpet Fleet
Four La Crosse veterans from the Pacific war are returning to the United States aboard navy ships from the Magic Carpet fleet. The group includes AMM2c Ernest Domine Lieut jg Edmund J Quinn Pfc Earl J Kaufmann and S Sgt Donald P Loveland with addresses in La Crosse.
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la Crosse Navy
Army
Public Information Office
United States Pacific Fleet
Navy
Mississippi Street
Naval Vets
Earl J. Kaufmann
Liberty Street
Donald P. Loveland
Cass Street
U. S. Army
Green Lashes Strategy Of GOP Leaders
Illinois Gov. Green delivers a hard hitting speech to national GOP committeemen in Chicago at the Stevens hotel. He urges an end to a record of failure and tactics of double talk while seeking greater national recognition for 1948. Illinois county chairmen backed his stance amid tensions with an eastern bloc.
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Chicago
Illinois
Green
Stevens Hotel
GOP
Bond Drive Over Top Despite Low E Bond Sales
The treasury said the victory loan exceeded its $11 billion target with $12.288 billion in sales. Corporate purchases reached $8.076 billion and individuals $4.212 billion, but only $1.165 billion came from E bonds, 58 percent of the $2 billion E bond goal. the drive closes tomorrow midnight with accounting through December 31.
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Washington
The
Treasury Today
Surgery May Save Life Of Blue Baby
Michigan City Indiana reports baby Janice Marie Hayden known as the blue baby will be sent to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to see if heart surgery can save her life. Doctors warned she may not live to age three next February 8.
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Michigan City
Ind
Janice Marie Hayden
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Baltimore
Ray Hayden
William A Heser obituary notes life and survivors
William A. Heser age 59 of 2101 Charles Street died in a local hospital after a lingering illness. He is survived by his wife, one son Arlin of La Crosse, a daughter Mrs. Orville Schaller of La Crosse, his mother Mrs. Cora Heser of Tomah, three sisters, and four grandchildren. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 1 m at the Nelson funeral home with Rev. S. J. Lambright officiating and burial in Tunnel City Cemetery. Friends may call at the Nelson home Saturday evening.
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William A. Heser
Charles Street
Arlin
la Crosse
Daugher
Orville Schaller
Cora Heser
Tomah
Wis
Frank Philipp
Rena Schultz
Beloit
Ray Coleman
Lampson
Nelson Funeral Home
Rev
S. J. Lambright
Tunnel City
Nelson Home
Veterans Train Exhibit Showcases War Gear and Pictures
A traveling exhibit continues through December 16 featuring Marine combat gear, weapons, and uniforms from World War II campaigns in the Pacific. Displays include mortars, machine guns, Bazooka rockets, Bayonets, field equipment, radios, and captured Jap arms. Veterans attend a noon luncheon and a 6:15 p.m. dinner at the Stoddard hotel. The train tour started November 2 and travels from La Crosse to Dubuque via Dubuque.
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Pearl Harbor
Victory
Solomons
Marshalls
Marianas
Philippines
Guam
Tinian
Saipan
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Stoddard
Dubuque
la Crosse
Ordination of Four Priests in La Crosse Diocese
Four deacons will be ordained priests in the La Crosse diocese by the new coadjutor bishop Most Rev John Patrick Treacy at St. Joseph's Cathedral at 9 15 a m Saturday. The ordinands are Eugene A Comiskey Carl J Dockendorff Alfred F Hemmersbach and Charles H Herberts. Dockendorff will sing his first solemn mass December 11 at Holy Trinity parish La Crosse. Comiskey will offer his first mass at St Mary's Tomah at 11 a m Sunday. Hemmersbach's first solemn mass is at St Mary's Norwalk Tuesday at 10 30 a m with multiple assistants. Herbers will sing his first solemn mass December 12 at Bloomington with multiple assistants. All are graduates of Aquinas high school and St Mary's seminary Baltimore among other institutions.
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Diocese of
la Crosse
John Patrick Treacy
St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Eugene A. Comiskey
Carl J. Dockendorff
Alfred F. Hemmersbach
Charles H. Herberts
Dockendorff
Bernard Joseph Dockendorff
Holy Trinity Parish
Holy Trinity Church
C. W. Gille
Philip Seinfelder
Norbert P. Dall
Edgar C. Kolfenbach
New Vienna
Aquinas
Aquinas High School
Loras College
Dubuque
St. Mary’s Seminary
Baltimore
Comiskey
St. Mary's Parish
Tomah
Peter P. Comiskey
St. Mary’s
John B. Brudermanns
Hugh Michael Carroll
St. Louis
Joseph N. Bach
Edward F. Hartung
Mauston
St. Mary’s School
Salvatorian Seminary
St. Nazianz
Wis
Kenrick Seminary
Hemmersbach
Peter H. Hemmersbach
Norwalk
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Ridge
St. Lawrence's College
Mt. Calvary
St. John’s Seminary
Collegeville
Minn
St. Mary's Seminary
Herbers
Bloomington
Frank Herbers
William Braun
Joseph Henry
Hubert Crubel
Leander Koopman
St. Mary's School
Herbert
St. Boniface's High School
Grange backs subsidy elimination and price adjustments
The Wisconsin state grange approved a resolution to end all subsidies and adjust farm prices so producers earn production costs plus a reasonable profit. The 1946 convention site was awarded to Appleton after concluding its annual gathering in Marinette.
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Marinette
Wis
Wisconsin State Grange
Grange
Appleton
Milwaukee man found guilty of first degree murder
Guilty verdict returned against Meyer Gordon death case. Thom as Nolden, 37, convicted after a six hour municipal court jury deliberation. Judge Herbert Steffes granted motion for new trial brief by attorney James Dorsey. sentencing deferred pending the motion. Snakes note irrelevant line about venom.
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Milwaukee
Thomas Nolden
Meyer Gordon
Herbert Steffes
Nolden
James Dorsey
Steffes
Dorsey
Baby Stolen in Chelsea As Ransom Demand Emerges
Six month old Ronald Carlan was abducted from his carriage nine days ago in Chelsea Massachusetts. Police report a ransom of more than $1000 was demanded from the infant's mother Mrs Rose Carlan by an unidentified woman who promised to call again possibly tomorrow. James Carlan the father and Mrs Carlan issued a 26 station radio appeal explaining feeding and care for the infant who had a cold. Sailor father who has never met the child. rewards totaling 3750 dollars offered for return.
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Chelsea
Mass
Ronald Carlan
Rose Carlan
John J. Kirby
James Carlan
Carlan
Conservatives Balk At Loan For Bretton Woods Plan
London reports two Conservative MPs Robert Boothby and Christopher Hollis moved to disapprove the 4.4 billion dollar United States loan and to oppose ratification of Britain’s Bretton Woods participation. Labor officials push for swift approval by end of next week amid negotiations with the United States. Boothby warned the loan would restore the gold standard, end the sterling area, and weaken Britain’s economic control. Australian Prime Minister J B Chiefly said Canberra is not committed to the world trade proposals linked to the loan but is ready to negotiate, with Britain updating Australia on progress.
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London
United States
Britain
Robert Boothby
Christopher Hollis
Boothby
Hollis
Canberra
J. B. Chiefly
Australia
Konoye Refuses To Meet Visitors In Japan
Prince Fumimaro Konoye reportedly refused to meet any visitors including Saburo Kurusu. Asahi says Konoye expected arrest and says he directed his best efforts for friendly relations with the United States. he promises the truth upon returning to Tokyo.
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Karunzawa
Japan
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Asahi
Saburo Kurusu
United States
Konoye
Tokyo
Postwar Prosperity Tied to Merchants Adkins Says
H W Tommy Adkins told 1300 La Crosse County merchants and shoppers at the Vocational school that postwar prosperity rests with American business. He urged new ventures and expansion, warned that sales will be the postwar front, and praised competition and free enterprise as keys to lower prices and higher buying power. The visit included Milwaukee officials who presented a citation to La Crosse Chamber President Tabbert.
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America
H. W
Tommy) Adkins
Merchants Committee
la Crosse County
Frank Sisson
la Crosse
Adkins
Milwaukee
Trade Promotion Committee
Split Personality Killed Nurse in Mansfeldt Trial
Dr Joseph Catton, a psychiatrist for the defense, testified that one half of Annie Irene Mansfeldt's split personality wanted to kill and did kill nurse Vada Martin on October 6 in San Francisco. The ninth day of the society matron's murder trial featured the defense expert's view of her mental state.
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San Francisco
Annie Irene Mansfeldt
Vada Martin
Joseph Catton
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Kaneohe Bay
Pacific
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India
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Tojo
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Reeve
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Europe
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Committee For Economic Development
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Nice Jonathan
PHONE
Auto Body Shop
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