Bilbo says he did not receive any of $25,000
Senate war contracts inquiry probes a $25,000 contribution from war contractor F. T. Newton to Bilbo’s 1942 Mississippi campaign. Bilbo testifies he never took a dollar, while witnesses say the money funded the Doxey campaign and Mississippi defense workers’ homes to influence votes.
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Washington
Theodore G. Bilbo
D-Miss
Mississippi
Bilbo
Senate
Mead
Ferguson
R-Mich
F. T. Newton
Wall Doxey
Doxey
T Arms
Forrest Jackson
Jackson
Miss
Robert Gandy
Senate War Investigating
Gandy
Edward Terry
Terry
Newton
Thieves Active In London Fog
London endures a dense fog that snarls traffic and halts transport as Scotland Yard investigates a series of burglaries. The Marquise De Zahara, American born widow of a former Spanish minister, reports $22 000 in jewels stolen at Victoria station while police tie a mysterious woman in slacks to recent robberies and a similar loot of $32 000 from Irene G Roberts.
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London
Scotland Yard
Marquise de Zahara
Victoria
Betty Byrne
Paris
United States
Washington
Bagshot
Irene G. Roberts
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Pvt Dennis Steine 25 Dies in Mansfield Train Crash
Pvt Dennis La Verne Steine 25 of Ettrick Franklin was identified among 13 dead in a three way train crash at Mansfield yesterday. He served three months in the army with a signal corps unit and was en route home for a seven day delay from Camp Stoneman Fort Dix. He leaves a widow or siblings and is survived by his father Samson and several brothers and sisters. Funerals not yet scheduled.
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Darrell
Dennis
Fort Dix
Cedric
Vilas
Wisconsin CIO meet resumes after chaotic session in Wausau
The Wisconsin state CIO convention resumes after a violent clash between right wing faction and the incumbent group. The day sees postponement of rule debates until John Brophy arrives while national rulings redefine local voting and representation.
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Wausau
Wis
Wisconsin State Cio
Robert Buse
John Brophy
National Industrial Council
Brophy
Accadegue
F. J. Michel
CIO
Wisconsin
National Cio
Atlantic City
Walter Cappel
Weather outlook for Le Crosse area tonight and Sunday
Increasing cloudiness and continued cold tonight with a low around 15. Light snow begins late tonight and continues Sunday. A touch warmer Sunday with a high near 28.
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le Crosse
Five Wisconsin Soldiers Die in Mansfield Train Crash
Fort Dix confirms 13 soldiers dead in a three way train wreck at Mansfield Ohio. Wisconsin casualties include Pvt. Bernard L Hoppenjan 18 of Cuba City and Pvt. Walter E Mueller 19 of Milwaukee.
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Fort DIX
Cornelius T. Morris
Wisconsin
Mansfield
Bernard L. Hoppenjan
Cuba City
Leo B. Hoppenjan
Walter E. Mueller
Milwaukee
Azerbaijan Province Re-Established as Soviet Rule Falls
Thousands filled Tabriz streets as government troops reached Azerbaijan capital walls four hours after arrival. Dem jaj insists show: ousted Democratic party members captured, shops reopen, crowds wave shah imagery. Soviet-backed province collapses after two days of heavy gunfire and disintegration of the local government and army.
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Tabriz
Iran
Azerbaijan
Forecast Light Snow For City This Weekend
Light snow is forecast for La Crosse and vicinity as a weekend weather system moves in. Friday’s low was 12 and the day’s high reached 21. Saturday night will dip to 15 and Sunday to 28 degrees. An ice jam forms near Wabasha while river pools from Hastings to Guttenberg remain frozen. A broad Arctic air mass extends from Canada to the Atlantic coast with subzero readings in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Hastings
Guttenberg
Weather Bureau
Wabasha
Canada
British Columbia
Georgia
Kansas
Missouri
Tennesessee
Alabama
Atlantic Coast
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Iowa
U W Law Professor Gets Hawaii Post
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach announced Nathan P. Feinsinger University of Wisconsin law professor as special conciliator in a Hawaii sugar refinery strike and longshoremen pay dispute.
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Washington
Secretary of
Schwellenbach
Nathan P. Feinsinger
University of Wisconsin
Hawaii
Arrives For Wedding Finds Fiancé Killed In Fall
Ilma, a 20 year old stenographer arriving at Hillsgrove airport for a reunion with Ernest R. Anderson, 22, learned he died Wednesday in a fall from scaffolding. The couple planned to wed New Year’s Day. Anderson’s mother disclosed the tragedy.
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Providence
Ilma
Hillsgrove
Ernest R. Anderson
Atlanta
Anderson
Ernest
Council Buys 56 Voting Machines for Cash and Cuts Costs
La Crosse council voted to pay cash for 56 voting machines, borrowing 58,366.49 from a street fund that earns no interest. the move avoids higher carrying charges and saves about 9,781 dollars. The plan includes a one percent cash discount from Automatic Voting Machine Co and a three year repayment. The session also renamed two school board members, approved a base hangar contract for Fanta-Reed Air Service, funded a ward housing project study, and directed fire safety inspections of tall buildings.
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Common Council
J. C. Houska
Mississippi Valley Public Service Company
Houska
Automatic Voting Machine Company
Jamestown
N. Y
William Rossiter
Alf Gundersen
Otto Zielke
Arthur Teachout
Fanta-Reed Air Service Company
Fanta - Reed
Wadhams Oil Company
la Crosse Housing Authority
Ward Avenue
Ways and Means
Harry Newburg
la Crosse
Aachen Battlefield New Hub Of Allied Smugglers
Aachen emerges as a smugglers hub with more than a million dollars of illicit goods crossing the German Belgian Netherlands frontier monthly. Allied soldiers and local authorities collide with jewelery furs radios and cigarettes moving in and out through mined borders and clever routes.
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Aachen Battlefield
Aachen
Germany
Ardennes
Haertgen Forest
Gence
Belgium
Brussels
Trempealeau Youth Dies Of Diphtheria
Eight year old John Wason of Trempealeau died at the La Crosse isolation hospital after a severe diphtheria case. He was born November 9 1938 in Centerville. Private funeral services will be held at Evergreen cemetery Centerville with Rev. George Marshall officiating. Survived by parents Dwight and Mrs Wason two sisters Dora Lee Joan and two brothers James and William and grandmother Mrs Ruby Hammond.
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John Wason
Dwight Wason
Trempealeau
la Crosse Isolation Hospital
Health Department
Evergreen Cemetery
Centerville
George Marshall
John
Dora Lee
Joan
James
William
Ruby Hammond
Risk Chief Denies Charges At Home Insurance NY
Harold V. Smith president of the Home Insurance Company of New York rejected state examiners' charges of irregular extra payments to top executives. He called the issue a dispute over allocation methods while defending the firm's basic accounting since 1853.
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New York
Harold V. Smith
Home Insurance Company of
State Insurance Department
New York State Insurance Department
Smith
George E. Allen
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Plaza
GOP Reece Aide Resigns from National Committee
Miss Marion Martin resigns as assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee effective January 1 and plans to return to Maine. Reports say the move follows a payroll severance affecting Brownell-era appointees. Other Brownell aides John G. Adams G Don Louden and liaison man John A. Danaher also face staff changes.
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Washington
Marion Martin
Republican National Committee
Herbert Brownell
Martin
Maine
Reece
Miss Martin
Friends
National Committee
John G. Adams
Young Republicans
Brownell
G. Don Louden
Columbus
Ohio
AFL
Labor Tribune
John A. Danaher
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Shawano County Leader seeks permit for Wis radio station
The Shawano County Leader Publishing Co requested FCC authority to operate a new Shawano Wisconsin radio station on 550 kilocycles with 100 watts night and 250 watts day power and unlimited hours.
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Washington
Shawano County Leader Publishing Co
Communications Commission Authority
Shawano
Wis
Wyatt idea may grant housing priority to non veterans
White House policy makers weigh expanding housing eligibility to non veterans with steps to reserve old units for veterans. Proposals include raising the new home sales cap from 10 000 to 12 000 and adjusting rental ceilings from 80 to a regionally set average, while potentially removing individual home sale ceilings.
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Washington
Wilson Wyatt
John R. Steelman
Philip B. Fleming
Office of
Wyatt
Raymond Foley
National Housing Administration
Frank R. Creedon
White House
Truman
Federal Housing Administration
UN approves world arms cut plan and trusteeship setup
The United Nations General Assembly unanimously approves a global arms reduction plan including atomic weapons and sets up a trusteeship council to govern non self governed territories. Mexico and Iraq win seats on the council on first ballot, with Britain France Belgium Australia and New Zealand as administrators of eight former mandates.
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New York
General Assembly of the
United Nations Today
Mexico
Iraq
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Australia
New Zealand
League of Nations
United States
Russia
China
Security Council
Assembly
L-Nation
James F. Byrnes
V. M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Molotov
United Nations
Britain
America
U. S
U. N
Trusteeship Council
Byrnes
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Iucal Ot Bilbo
Quitman
Collins
Mississi
Ross Collins
Senate War Investigating Committee
Washington, D. C
Théodore G. Bilbo
Pvt. Steine
Ettrick
Spencer
Ruel Young
Keith Hardie
Enya Stone
Franklin
State Cio
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
West Allis
J. J. Case Co
Kenosha
Tilford Dudley
National Political Action Committee
Dudley
PAC
Edward Curtis
Associated Press
Clifton Daniel
New York Times
Christopher Sykes
London Daily Mail
Tehran
Democratic Party
U. W. Law
Council
Judiciary Committee
Planning Commission
15Th Place
16Th Street
the Tribune
Aix-la-Chapelle
Risk Chief
GOP
Miss Marion Martin
Carroll Reece
ASK
Shawano Radio
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