Three Die In Wisconsin Weekend Accidents
A spate of weekend crashes in Wisconsin killed three people and sent several others to area hospitals. Tony residents William Leonard 22 and Lester Lamoureux 22 died from head on collisions near Ladysmith and Tony while Frank Polle 70 perished in a highway 51 crash near Janesville. Police reported multiple injuries including Pennycook’s husband Pennycook 43 and others as the victims.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
William Leonard
Rusk County
Tony
St. Mary's
Ladysmith
VA. 7
Highway 8
Lester Lamoureux
Patricia Cornelissen
Edith Edmonds
Marjorie Edmonds
Calvin Canon
Sheldon
Peter Sybers
Lamoureux
Cannon
Richard Theesfield
del Schultz
Milwaukee
Eau Claire
North Lake Drive
Argentina Bars Bank Loans for Speculative Uses
Argentina announces a prohibition on bank loans for speculative purposes, aiming to curb high risk borrowing and stabilize financial markets. Banks will enforce restrictions and regulators will monitor compliance to prevent misuse.
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Argentina
County Boards Urged To Use Uniform System Of Accounting
Madison Wis A state senator and head of the County Boards association urged Wisconsin counties to adopt uniform cost accounting to curb losses from nonuniform systems. He cited highway work and machinery costs. Thelen urged tighter expenditure controls and county purchases. Over 200 representatives from 57 counties attended the opening session of a two day meeting.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Frank Panzer
Oakfield
The
County Boards Association
Panzer
State Highway Commission
A. J. Thelen
Association
Electors Meet to Cast Votes as Nation Awaits
The passage notes that electors were to be a council of the ablest men using independent judgment. In practice they pledge to follow the popular will. A 1928 law set electors to meet on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. this year that date falls today.
Car Crashes Into Home Near Kenosha Injuring Passenger
Early yesterday a Racine driver Harold Stanitas lost control of a car that struck the Alex Galdabini residence in Kenosha. Plaster fell in the living room as police and ambulance crews responded. About 100 onlookers gathered while a tow truck cleared the wreckage and an injured passenger was rushed to the hospital. A sleepy call later asked the police what happened to the house last night.
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Kenosha
Wis
Harold Stanitas
Racine
Alex Galdabini
Peecar
Galdabini
Charge 14 in Argentine Fraud Case
Federal police in Buenos Aires charged 14 people including close advisers to President Juan D. Peron with defrauding the government of at least 11 million pesos. The scheme allegedly used a loan for a non existent Italian aluminum plant, with 3.2 million pesos diverted as bribes to Argentine officials. Peron ordered the initial probe after suspicions involving the chief presidential bodyguard and the national five year plan coordinator. Two Italians linked to the deal are abroad and sought extradition.
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Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Federal Sata Cosas Palma Baltran
Italy
Argentina
Peron
Arisont
Former NLRB Official Pleads Guilty to Forging Vouchers
Edward J. Brophy former head of the Milwaukee regional NLRB office pleaded guilty in federal court to forging three travel vouchers. Judge F Ryan Duffy deferred sentencing as an investigation continues. Brophy transferred to New Orleans in 1947 after resigning September 9 and had earlier received 90 days for a drunkenness charge.
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Milwaukee
Edward J. Brophy
NLRB
F. Ryan Duffy
Brophy
New Orleans
House of Correction
Committee releases documents tied to state files claim spy network
Investigators say a dozen papers were stolen from state department files ten years ago to enable copying and sending information to Russia through an underground spy network. The panel met at 11 a m CST and noted a possible witness but none of the major figures appeared.
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State Department
Russia
Hiss Resigns as Endowment Head. Leave Granted
Alger Hiss submitted his resignation as head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace but trustees tabled it and granted a three month leave of absence. The move follows Hiss being accused by Whittaker Chambers of delivering secret papers to a Soviet espionage courier.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Carenegie Endowment For International Peace
Hiss
Whitttaker Chambers
Chambers
Pionage Courier
The
Endowment
John W. Davis
Holifield
D-Calif
Congress
Holitfield
Nixon
Justice Department
Altho
Grand
Whittaker Chambers
Bestou Tee
State Department
Burial notes for two WWII airmen from West Salem and Westby
Details of Stanley and Everett Lunde burial and service records. Stanley born 11 April 1925 in West Salem, educated there and in Westby, served after Aug 1943, buried in a Italian military cemetery after May 1944. Everett born 13 April 1923, West Salem, educated in Westby, air force bombardier, married Harriet Wiedoff, trained in Texas, served over Europe, survivors listed.
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Stanley
West Salem
Westby
Spencerian Business College
Milwaukee
Fort McClellan
Ala
Everett Lunde
la Crosse
Harriet Wiedoff
England
Duane Everett
Gordon
Eileen
Regional Names for Earthworms Variation Studied
A regional survey notes earthworms are called eel worms in Connecticut mud worms in New Hampshire and rain garden worms in Pennsylvania highlighting regional vernacular differences.
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Connecticut
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Reuter Seeks Kommandatura Reorganization Without Russians
Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter urged the three Western powers to reorganize the allied four power body without the Russians. The Social Democrat leader was elected in December 5 voting and the four power agency has been inactive since Moscow's last summer walkout. The U S Britain and France military governors plan to meet tomorrow at the kommandatura building.
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Berlin
Ernst Reuter
Kommandatura
U. S
Britain
France
Truman Wins Wisconsin Electors Cast Unanimous Ballot
In Madison the Wisconsin electoral college formally credited Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley with the November 2 election. Twelve Democrats delivered a unanimous vote for the ticket. att Gen Fairchild chaired the meeting and Carl W. Thompson served as secretary. A plea for voting for Gen Douglas MacArthur arrived by telegram from Tom Bright, Maryland MacArthur-For-President league.
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Madison
Wis
Harry S. Truman
Alben W. Barkley
Wisconsin
Atty
Omas EE. Fairchild
Carl W. Thompson
Stoughton
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Tomus Bright
Maryland
Milwaukee Boston Store Sold to Federated Department Stores
Federated Department Stores Inc acquires the Milwaukee Boston store and three other Wisconsin outlets in an exchange of 292,600 Federated shares for the Boston store net assets valued at about 8 million dollars. The deal adds an annual volume of 35 to 40.9 million dollars to Federated’s 1948 fiscal year total and follows previous acquisitions. The Boston store, founded in 1900, is a major Milwaukee retailer with assets listed at 8 million and annual receipts near 35 to 49 million dollars.
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Milwaukee
Federated Department Stores, Inc
Boston
Fred Lazarus, Jr
Federated
Andichard Herzfeld
Wisconsin
Svea Oshkosh
West
Federated Common
Foley’s
Houston
Tex
Halliburton’s
Oklahoma City
Herzfeld, Stone and Phillipson
Ward Named To State Highway Commission
William P. Ward a 35 year old state highway department engineer was named by Governor Rennebohm to the state highway commission to fill the term of the late D J Summerville. Ward will join James R Law and Mike Mack on a three member panel with a 6500 dollar annual salary. He joined the department in 1932, served in the Pacific theater, and earned a bachelor of science in engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1940.
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Madison
Wis
Wiliam P. Ward
State Highway Department
Rennebohm
Highway Commission
Ward
D. J. Summerville
Ladysmith
James R. Law
Mike Mack
Shipdton
Department
Menomonie High School
University of Wisconsin
Engineering Corps
Pacific
First U S Lighthouse Exposed to Sea on Minots Ledge
The Minots Ledge lighthouse near Boston was built in 1848, destroyed in the next year, and rebuilt in 1860 marking America's first sea‑exposed beacon.
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United States
Minots Ledge
Boston
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