Ward reports hellish treatment by Chinese Reds aboard evac ship
Angus Ward the U S consul general and his 19 member party boarded the Lakeland Vic Victory at Tientsin after 13 months under Red surveillance and 28 days in a Mukden jail. Ward says he faced freezing conditions and a diet of six bread slices daily during captivity and that no Americans remain in Manchuria.
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Lakeland Victory
Tientsin
Angus Ward
United States
Mukden
St. Peter
Ward
Paul Sexton
Lakeland
Reds
Red
Franco Cicogna
Cicogna
Ukden
Peiping
Manchuria
Poor Richard Award Goes To ECA's Hoffman
The Poor Richard club selects Paul Hoffman economic cooperation administrator for its 1950 gold medal. Club president J D Spillan said Hoffman will be honored at the annual dinner in Philadelphia on January 17.
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Philadelphia
Poor Richard
Paul Hoffman
J. D. Spillan
Hoffman
Iowa University coed slain in rooming house
A University of Iowa senior Margaret Ann Jackson, 20, was found dead in the Empty Arms rooming house in Iowa City with bones broken in her neck after an alleged strangulation. Robert Bednasek, 24, her escort, was to be arraigned on first degree murder charges as authorities described the death as murder by strangulation. Jackson, from Burlington, and Bednasek, of Cedar Rapids, were psychology majors. the case includes notes of a one sided romance and sorority connections.
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Robert Bednasek
University of Iowa
Iowa
Iowa City
Robert E. Bednasek
Callahan
Bednasek
Miss Jackson
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
William E. Jackson
Iowa Parole Board
Kappa Alpha Theta
Olga Bednasek
Former Park Official Ritter Dies at 68 in La Crosse
George E. Ritter 68 of 212 South 23rd street died in a local hospital after a short illness. He served 25 years as superintendent of the La Crosse park department and 37 years with the department, retiring in 1945. He helped oversee Pettibone park under a separate governing board. Survived by wife Mathilda Streicher Ritter and two sisters. Funeral set for Wednesday at 8:30 am Dwyer funeral home and 9 am St. Joseph's Cathedral with burial in Catholic cemetery. rosary to be said Tuesday evening.
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George E. Ritter
South 23Rd Street
la Crosse
Ritter
Park Department
Governors Guard Association
City Ries
Ettibone Park
Pettibone Park Commission
Mathilda Streicher Ritter
Jack Radatz
Victor Larson
Port Edwards
Wis
Dwyer
St. Joseph's Cathedral
Peter Pape
Supreme Court Upholds 1949 Rent Measure
The Supreme Court affirmed the 1949 federal rent control act in a brief 8 0 decision. It overturned Judge Elwyn R. Shaw of Chicago who ruled the act unconstitutional due to a local option provision. The ruling leaves 14 million housing units under rent control and supports earlier high court precedents.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U. S. District Court
Elwyn R. Shaw
Chicago
Shaw
Justice Department
Department
Shaw’s
Douglas
Congress
Federal Housing Expeditor
Shoreline Cooperative Apartments, Inc
Shoreline
District of Columbia
Burgermeister Leaves Christmas Fund For Needy La Crosse Families
Louis Burgermeister 82 who died March 22 left a trust of about 10000 dollars to aid needy children and deserving families in La Crosse. Five hundred dollars plus interest will be used annually for clothing gifts and Christmas help through Family Welfare association a Red Feather agency.
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la Crosse
Louis Burgermeister
la Crosse Trust Co
Burgermeister
Ted Griffin
The
Family Welfare Association
Association
Red Feather
Antique Shop Gas Explosion Kills Five in Birmingham
A deadly gas explosion rocked the Mother and Son Antique shop at 720 North Woodward Avenue Birmingham Michigan killing five people including owner Edith Jones and her son Wilson Jones. Fire inspector Lee Carroll died during the search as flames spread across a three story wreckage with four others injured. Florence Jones was hospitalized in serious condition.
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Birmingham
Mich
Edith Jones
North Woodward Avenue
Wilson Jones
Lee Carroll
Ruth Bramson
Bloomfield Hills
Arthur B. Wilson
Dearborn
Wilson
Florence
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Pontiac
Detroit
Birmingham Fire Department
Avenine Carroll
Robert Pepperell
Burns Fatal To Child in Caledonia
Virginia Roerkohl aged three, who would have turned four on December 16, died Monday night in Caledonia hospital from burns suffered when her night clothes caught fire Sunday night. A babysitter at the Howard Roerkohl home found her upstairs room afire and wrapped her in a rug to extinguish the flames. Funeral services will be at St John the Baptist Catholic Church with Rev A E Kussle officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
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Caledonia
Minn
Virginia Roerkohl
Howard Roerkohl
Virginia
Jeanne Ellen
Kay
James
Thomas
Teddy
T. J. Roerkohl
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
A. E. Kussle
Calvary Cemetery
Error in car crash report misidentified driver
Earlier reports named Donald Hagen but police say Jay Frisbee attempted to pass a partially blocking train. A head on collision occurred Friday at 7 08 p.m. on Fourth near La Crosse street, with Frisbee listed as involved and NH railway crossing noting the incident occurred near North Western railroad.
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Fourth
la Crosse Street
Monay
Jay Frisbee
North Sixth Street
North Western Railroad
Donald Hagen
Mtd. R. 42
Internal revolt seen as downfall of Formosa
Informed sources say Chiang Kai shek's Formosa could fall to internal revolt rather than a mainland Red attack. Brit ish government stance on recognizing Red China appears to lessen the value of establishing a Nationalist capital on the island.
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Formosa
London
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Labor Defeat in Australia Landslide Sets New Government
Sydney reports the Labor government suffered a sweeping defeat in Saturday's election. The Liberal Party and its Liberal Country coalition partner are poised to command a solid majority in the House of Commons, with Labor trailing in the polls as counting continues. Senate results are seen as unlikely to block the new government's agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Labor
Liberal-Country Party
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Country Party
Senate
Culver Sentenced for Two Breakin Entries in Waupun
Ernest Culver, 32, was sentenced to two concurrent terms from one to 10 years in the state prison at Waupun after pleading to two counts of breaking and entering. The case involved a tavern burglary with an accomplice Leslie McDaniels, a shotgun shot, and a later car crash near Ettrick.
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Tribune
Ernest Culver
Culver
la Crosse
Charles N. Keilholtz
Whitehall
John C. Quinn
Keilholtz
Ettrick
Waupun
Robert Cowie
James Wall Tavern
Leslie R. McDaniels
Alvin Beirne Tavern
Clayton Casey
Beirne Establishment
Leslie Dick
McDaniels
Local woman wins first in La Crosse Tribune ad survey
Mrs Norton Wermayer of 918 Liberty St wins $25 for first place in a Tribune community ad survey, with second place getting $15 and multiple $1 honorable mentions. The contest runs weekly with new prizes and a final grand prize of $200 after 13 weeks.
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la Crosse Tribune
Norton Wermayer
Liberty Street
Wermager
Tribune
Wermayer
Record Cold Sent Day After Warm Sunday
A Sunday warm spell and record Dec temperature gave way to a cold front. Forecaster A D Sanial predicts near zero readings in the city and five below in the country as Monday clears and grows colder. Winds caused icing, power outages, and damage to Christmas decorations in Viroqua Black River Falls.
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Dakotas
Minnesota
Coulee
Gulf Ne
Mississippi Vally
A. D. Sanial
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Viroqua
Carl Ender
Black River Falls
Main Street
Michigan
Texas
Oklahoma
Pacific
Memphis
Tenn
California
Mercury
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Oklahoma City
Chicago
Canada
Iowa
Atlantic
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Weather Toll Grows With Cold Front Across Nation
A Minnesota cold front sent temperatures plummeting across Wisconsin and the Midwest. At least 35 weather related deaths were reported nationwide as fog, sleet and snow hampered travel, with Arkansas and Missouri sustaining major tornado damage and Garland Robbins, 60, killed near Providence.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
James Daly
R. 1
Portage
Highway 51
Milwaukee
Monay
Denver
Bismarck
N. D
Flagstaff
Ariz
Glasgow
Mont
Midwest
New York City
Arkansas
Missouri
Clinton
Beedee
Velvet Ridge
Cross Roads
Providence
Bradford
Garland Robbins
Provid
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ECA
Iowa University
George FE. Ritter
Bodega
Tng
Joseph
Radatz
Riley Powell
Grove Street
Paul O‘hearn
Melrose
LaVern Stelle
South 15Th Street
Clifford Jacobson
Olaf Hanson
East Oak Street
John Dresen
Market Street
Frank Keppel
Joe Gegenfurtner
Bert Gipple
Galesville
Edward Hilbert
South 19Th Street
Erwin Monti
South 13Th Street
Phete
Norton Wermager
Associated Press
Great Lakes Region
Buttrey’s
Florshop
Gamble’s Roller’s
Super Market
Leithold Piano Co
Continental Clothiers
W. T. Grant Co
Haddad Cleaners
la Crosse Laundry and Cleaning Co
Mader Clothing Co
Modern Laundry and
National Tea Newburg Clothing
Pitzner’s Cleaners
Terry’s Yerry Coal Co
Dah! Motors
Geo. J. Devine, Inc
Elfman Motor & Marine
Low Motors
Newburg Motors
Voigt Auto Co
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