Hunt and Senate Seek Quick Hearing on MacArthur Korea Plan
Senator Hunt urged an extraordinary Senate Armed Services Committee session to review General MacArthur’s Korea peace ideas. President Truman rejected inviting MacArthur and Eisenhower to the White House, criticizing both as divisive. Senator Russell chairs the panel and Senator Stennis backed a briefing, urging discreet peacemaking before any public plan. Eisenhower plans a meeting with MacArthur in Korea.
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Washington
Sen
Hunt
D-Wye
Senate Armed Services Committee
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
MacArthur
Eisenhower
White House
Korea
Korean War Zone
Capitol Hill
Russell
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Senate
Far East
Congress
Stennis
Sen. Stennis
D-Miss
New
Gen. MacArthur
Aldermen Rename School Board Member in City Action
The Common Council elected Everett Woehrmann secretary of the La Crosse County Chamber of Commerce to join the board of education, replacing Mrs. Perry Freeman as her term expires. Three other board members were re elected, while four candidates were nominated for a future vacancy. The move leaves the board without a woman member for the first time in years and reduces North Side representation to one seat.
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Common Council
Board of Education
Everett Woehrmann
la Crosse County
Woehrmann
North Side
Ernest Candahl
Shelby
Campbell
Donald Skappel
S. 25Th St
Council
Dulles and Lodge Urge Freedom Work At Home
Eisenhower aides John Foster Dulles and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr urged a spiritual revival to make freedom work at home to deter communism abroad. Dulles pressed private effort over government and called for stronger U. N. and end to discrimination while stressing a defensive military policy and moral renewal.
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Denver
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
National Council of Churches of Christ
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
R-Mass
United Nations
U.N
U. N
International
America
U. S
Blood drive response boosts city donors for Dec bloodmobile
Red Cross officials praised strong donor turnout for the December bloodmobile visit to the city. Allis Chalmers led with 104 donors, helping goal 450 pints while offsetting a 216 pint shortfall from the prior visit. Other contributors include Bordens 24, Auto Lite 24, State Highway 9, and more. Donor registration available at Red Cross Blood Headquarters, Room 104, Federal Building.
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Red Cross
Allis Chalmers
Bordens
Mathy Construction
State Highway Department
C. B. Rich Company
Northern States
la Crosse Library
Auto Lite
Legion Auxiliary
WKTY
Elite
Burlington Railroad
Red Cross Blood Headquarters
Federal Building
City Police Officer Suspended By Chief Over Years of Charges
Patrolman James Christie was suspended from the city police force by Chief George Long. The suspension follows a set of charges filed with the police and fire commission by City Atty Fred Steele acting as an elector, describing the charges as various and spanning several years. A meeting of the commissioners and Christie is planned for next week to determine further steps.
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James Christie
George Long
Police and Fire Commission
Fred Steele
Police and Fire
Christie
Dust Spies Or Lose U. S. Funds, Wiley Tells U.N.
In La Crosse an inquest jury finds 18 year old John Martell negligent in a fatal crash after his car with faulty lights allegedly drunk hit two men. Witnesses and officials describe the accident scene and blood alcohol reading of 2.40. He pleaded innocent to criminal negligence and is held on $5,000 bond with a preliminary hearing set for December 22.
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John Joseph Martell
la Crosse
la Crosse County
Atty John Bosshard
George D. Reay
Martell
Glenn Dodge
St. Cloud St
August Kries
French Island
Ernest O. Hanson
Hanson
Milwaukee
Reay
William Boma
Boma
Long sentence for Walljasper embezzlement case in Wisconsin
John F. Walljasper a 62 year old La Crosse man was sentenced in circuit court to not less than five nor more than 15 years in state prison for embezzling more than 10 000 over a decade as manager of Community Sales Company of La Crosse He restituted funds from house sale a farm car and other properties leaving losses to local investors about 134 000 The judge noted a continuing list of offenses and denied leniency The sentence was stayed to Dec 29 if a 10 000 bond is posted and a 2 500 bond was canceled
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John F. Walljasper
la Crosse
Waupun State Prison
Lincoln Neprud
Walljasper
John Bosshard
Community Sales Company of
Wisconsin Audit Bureau
Bosshard
Neprud
State Department of Public Welfare
Milton T. Murray
Milwaukee
Murray
Iowa
Wisconsin
Atomic Subs May Launch Missiles Then Hide Under Ice
Navy replies confirm atomic submarines can launch guided missiles with nuclear warheads and evade detection by submerging under polar ice. Officials note Nautilus could dive deeper and stay underwater longer, with air supply solutions and crew endurance under study.
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Washington
Western Hemisphere
Eurasia
U. S
Navy
Russia
Canada
Wallin
Bureau of Ships
Grace M. Norbeck Dies Former La Crosse Resident
Grace M. Norbeck, formerly of La Crosse, died at her daughter’s Philadelphia home. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 PM at Oak Grove Mausoleum with Rev. F W Hyslop officiating. Burial in La Crosse. services arrive Saturday night. Survivors include daughter, son Carl of Buffalo, brother Walter Medary, and four grandchildren.
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Grace M. Norbeck
la Crosse
William S$. Scull
Philadelphia
F. W. Hyslop
First Congregational Church
Oak Grove Mausoleum
Carl
Buffalo
N.Y
Walter Medary
Mrs. Norbeck
J. S. Medary
Davis, Medary and Platt
J. S. Medary Saddlery Company
Timothy Burns
Europe
Chicago
Medary
S. 13Th St
Expected To Name Envoy To Formosa
Diplomats forecast Ike will appoint an ambassador to Nationalist Formosa. John Leighton Stuart resigns as ambassador to China, health failing, after service since 1946. Stuart hoped health would improve but will not travel soon.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Formosa
United States
White House
John Leighton Stuart
China
Stuart
U. S
Truman
Peiping
Eisenhower Relaxes in Honolulu Before Korea Plans
President elect Eisenhower enjoyed Hawaiian sunshine in Kaneohe after a Korean tour. He planned at least 18 holes of golf, talks with John Foster Dulles and Gov. McKay, and aimed to avoid public clashes between Truman and MacArthur over Korea.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Honolulu
Waikiki
Kaneohe
Pearl Harbor
Helena
Hawaii
New York
Korea
Eisenhower
Truman
Gen
MacArthur
Marine Corps Air Station
Oahu Island
John Foster Dulles
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Interior
Ike
Guam
Far East
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Travis
Senator Wiley attacks U N security and State Department
Sen. Alexander Wiley threatened to curb U S funding to the United Nations unless security at the U N Secretariat improves. He blamed the State Department for inadequate information and said many suspected subversives remain on the U N payroll. The U S funds about one third of the U N budget and since 1946 contributed 560 million dollars.
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United Nations
N. Y
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
United States
U. N. Secretariat
Wiley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
U.N
American State Department
U. S
International Organization
U. N
U. N. Assembly
Wisconsin Republican
State Department
John Hickerson
McCarran
Senate Internal Security
Lie
Hickerson
Weather forecast for La Crosse area tonight into Saturday
Cloudy with occasional snow flurries tonight. Clearing and colder late tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and somewhat warmer. Low tonight 14 degrees, high Saturday 33 degrees.
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la Crosse
Nations seek to build NATO in Europe without four strong anti Red armies
An American official notes that Sweden Switzerland Spain and West Germany could field 65 first line divisions and major air forces to strengthen NATO defenses against the Soviet threat but many nations resist including neutral Sweden and Switzerland and anti rearmost Germany faces French concern.
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NATO
Europe
Paris
Russia
Sweden
Switzerland
Spain
West Germany
Nor
France
Germany
Matthew B. Ridgway
Western Europe
Girl Arraigned In Death Case At Camp McCoy
Dolores Stone age 17 of 321 Ferry Street La Crosse Circuit Court pleads innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to third degree murder in the beating death of Cpl Frank Walla 42 Seward Neb at Camp McCoy Aug 13 196? The court hears the plea and seeks confinement near the community while awaiting trial Stone previously committed to Oregon Woman's Reformatory. Also charged are six others including Harold Dale Miller who pleaded guilty and received a withheld sentence.
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Dolores Stone
Ferry St
la Crosse
Miss Stone
Lincoln Neprud
John Bosshard
Bosshard
Oregon Woman's Reformatory
Cpl
Frank Walla
Seward
Neb
Camp McCoy
Harold Dale Miller
Albany
Wis
Dolores Vinson
Stoddard St
Oregon Reformatory Hospital
Bee
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Kries
Jerome Brieske
Robert Rice
Oak Point Tavern
Hunter's Bridge
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Wright
Robert Clement
Market St
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