Postal crews keep up with holiday mail in La Crosse
Postmaster Wenzel M. Dvorak reports record mail volume but says daily growth is spread out enough for workers to manage. Forty extra helpers have been added with more to come. Christmas cards to out-of-state destinations should be posted by Saturday, with air mail or special delivery advised for later postings. In La Crosse, mailers should send cards a week before Christmas. main post office and north side station windows stay open until 6 p.m. on December 16 for parcel post and stamp services.
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Wenzel M. Dvorak
la Crosse
Dvorak
Bride Kidnaped and Husband Slain by Ex-Suitor in New Mexico
In Santa Fe a bride and her husband were attacked as a 52-year-old ex-suitor Lucian H. Harris allegedly abducted Adelina Brown 24. Harris fled toward Los Alamos where a posse hunted him amid fears for Adelina whose fate remained uncertain after the shotgun ambush that killed Lancelot Chubley Brown Jr. hours after the funeral of her father.
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Santa FE
N. M
Lucian H. Harris
Los Alamos
Adelina Brown
Lancelot Chubley Brown, Jr
Nabor Lucero
Buried Coal Miner Reported Safe in Rock Slide
Rescue workers said John Wolti a 54 year old miner trapped after a rock slide in SELLECK Wash was alive after more than a day and a half. Joe Bertelli of the rescue crew heard Wolti's voice from the slide area confirming he was alive.
Chrysler Raises 1951 Car Prices Across Line
Chrysler announced higher price lines for 1951 model cars and trucks, with passenger cars up by 80 to 195 dollars and Dodge trucks up by 80 to 295 dollars, though exact percentage boosts were not disclosed.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Dodge
Obituaries for Tara Stumlin and Anna Ridgeway in La Crosse area
Mrs Tara Stumlin 82 of Lewis Valley near Holmen died at home Tuesday. Survived by two daughters, three sons, 14 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren. Funeral 1:30 p m Monday at Stumlin home then 2 p m Lewis Valley Lutheran Church. Rev E T Anderson officiant. Burial adjoining cemetery. Mrs Anna E Ridgeway 67 died Thursday at 1624 Johnson St. Born Nov 12 1883 Norwalk. Survived by three sons five grandchildren one brother Otto Andres La Crosse one sister Theresa Koch Norwalk. Member of La Crosse Chapter No 22 OES. Service 2:30 p m Saturday Dahl Funeral Home La Crosse Chapter No 22 OES in charge. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call Friday evening.
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Tara Stumlin
Lewis Valley
Holmen
John Stumlin
Clara Rourke
Stevenstown
Hilda
Melvin
Odell
Sigwald
Stumlin
Lewis Valley Lutheran Church
E. T. Anderson
Anna E. Ridgeway
Johnson Street
Norwalk
Merwin A
la Crosse
Lyle C
Fond du Lac
Gordon L
San Mateo
Calif
Otto R. Andres
Theresa Koch
Order of Eastern Star
Dahl Funeral Home
la Crosse Chapter No
OES
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bangor man Iver Peterson dies after lingering illness
Iver Peterson 90 longtime Bangor area resident dies at home after a lingering illness. Funeral services set for Monday at 3 0 p m at the Norwegian Lutheran church on Fish Creek ridge with Rev N Hjelmstad of Cashton officiating. Gilbertson Funeral home of Coon Valley in charge. Survivors include one son Palmer two granddaughters and two great grandchildren.
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Bangor
Wis
Iver Peterson
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Fish Creek Ridge
N. Hjelmstad
Cashton
Gilbertson Funeral Home
Coon Valley
Palmer
Death of Henry J. Grinnell at 66
Henry J. Grinnell aged 66 of 1903 Adams Street died Friday in a local hospital after a lingering illness. Funeral arrangements are in complete.
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Henry J. Grinnell
Adams Street
Oxnard Plant Approves A C Wage Increase Pact
The Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. said the CIO United Steelworkers local at the Oxnard California works accepted a wage increase totaling 10 cents per hour. Oxnard becomes the first of 14 local unions to approve the wage offer, with simultaneous meetings held in Oxnard La Crosse West Allis and other plants. The five year contract signed earlier this year will include the modification.
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Milwaukee
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Co
CIO
United Steelworkers
Oxnard
Calif
Oxnard Group
la Crosse
West Allis
Wis
Springfield
Ill
la Porte
Ind
Minor Accidents Reported In Monroe
Three vehicle collision on Wisconsin Street in Sparta injures passenger Melrose Waldon of Melrose. Dwayne Schmalz of La Crosse drives the first car badly damaged. Merle E Stoefel of Ontario damages front end in a separate skid into a bridge railing on STH 71 east of Sparta. Norman Reading of Duluth unnamed transport driver.
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Sparta
Wis
Merle E. Stoefel
Ontario
Wisconsin
Dwayne Schmalz
la Crosse
Jim Waldon
Melrose
Schmalz
Walden
Clark
Milton Mitchell
Norman Reading
Duluth
Sparta Civic Leader Jones Dies at 88
Thomas E. Jones, 88, longtime Sparta civic figure and former Monroe county supervisor, died Thursday night at his Sparta home after four years of illness. He served as Sparta city council president 1927, alderman 1922–28, and county board member 1930–32, and was active in the Odd Fellows for 40 years. Born September 2, 1872 in Fish Creek, he and wife Jane Evans married in 1893. They lived on a Bangor farm before moving to Sparta in 1897. he ran a machine shop for 27 years. Survivors: two daughters Ethel Mae Jones and Mrs. O. H. Bingman, and two grandchildren. Funeral by Lanham Mortuary.
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Sparta
Wis
Thomas E. Jones
Sparta City Council
Monroe County Board of Supervisors
Jones
Odd Fellows Lodge
Fish Creek
Edward R. Jones
Jane O. Evans
Bangor
Florida
Ethel Mae Jones
O. Il. Bingman
Western Springs
Ill
Lanham Mortuary
Forecast Cold Wave Tonight
A cold air pocket over the upper Mississippi valley Friday morning was to drive temperatures to five below in La Crosse and ten below elsewhere overnight. Meteorologist A D Sanial forecast increasing clouds and continued cold with a Saturday high near 15 above, then milder days ahead. Early Friday readings in Wyoming and Montana ranged from 16 to 30 while light snow and flurries spread across Wisconsin. Overnight lows fell to 15 below at Land O Lakes and three below at Mau Claire.
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Mississippi Valley
Mercury
la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Wyoming
Montana
Wisconsin
Associated Press
Land O'Lakes
Mau Claire
Newsprint Supply Drops In November
Newsprint stock for daily newspapers in November fell to 32 days on hand and in transit, a one day drop from October and five days below November 1949. The figure marks the lowest November level since 1946 and is 11 days under the 15 year average.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Association
East German law threatens death for West support
Berlin lawmakers pass a death penalty decree against those who back West policies. The East German legal committee called the measure holy and it takes effect at midnight Friday.
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Berlin
East Germany
Defense Dept Identifies 111 Korea Casualties
The Defense Department on Friday identified 111 additional U S casualties in Korea. The list reported 46 killed 52 wounded 7 injured in accidents and 6 missing.
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Washington
Defense Department
U. S
Korea
Strike Spike Forces Rail Disruptions Across Chicago and Midwest
The nationwide rail strike disrupted mail and freight, with embargoes on shipments from the Railway Express Agency in Chicago and St. Louis. Chicago area furnaces shut at Carnegie-Illinois, while post office embargoes affect parcel post and second class mail. Union seeks a 40 hour week at 48 pay, pressing presidential intervention.
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Oteet
Express
Railway Express Agency, Inc
Chicago
St. Louis
Washington
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company
Gary
Ind
South
Post Office Department
Air Parcel
Postoffice Department
Truman
Nab Two Workers For Kidnap Plot
Two Reno saw mill workers James Finnegan and Russell Finnegan were jailed on kidnap plotting charges. Henry Magayna, 24, claimed the victim was George Smith, 16, half-brother of Harold Smith who runs Harold's club. Their father Raymond runs a local gambling casino.
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Reno
Henry Magayna
George Smith
Harold Smith
Harold
Magayna
Finnegans
Autopilot Inventor Receives Colllier Aviation Award
President Truman awarded William P Lear the Collier Trophy for developing the F 5 electronic automatic pilot for jet fighters. The device enables jets to fly through adverse weather and land on runways with minimal human input, marking a major advance in aviation tech.
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Washington
Truman
Robert J. Collier
William P. Lear
Lear
White House
Milwaukee Beer Prices Up At Schlitz Brewery
The Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co announced a price increase for Wisconsin beer, becoming the fourth major Milwaukee brewer to raise prices. The rise is about 10 cents per case and takes effect December 22.
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Milwaukee
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co
Wisconsin
Coroner Appointment in Pierce County Named
Madison Wisconsin government announces Ralph F. Winberg of Ellsworth as coroner for Pierce County to fill the unexpired term ending January 1951 succeeding the late Roland Hoyer. Winberg was elected to the office last month and will assume the duties Friday.
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Madison
Wis
Ralph F. Winberg
Ellsworth
Pierce County
Rennebohm
Winberg
Roland Hoyer
Winona Livestock Prices and Chicago Market Report
Winona Swift & Co lists selling hours and pricing for hogs cattle calves lambs with closing rules. Chicago markets show salable hogs 11,000 head with steady to higher weights and cattle and calves largely steady to firm, plus grains and potatoes pricing in Chicago and South St. Paul livestock numbers and prices.
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Chicago
USDA
Chicago produce market unsettled prices and receipts
Live poultry receipts 29 loads with unchanged paying prices except heavy hens 1 cent lower per pound. Heavy hens 26 to 28, light hens 23 to 24, roasters 27 to 32, fryers 23 to 24, old roosters 18 to 18.5. Butter firm with 214,803 pounds received and wholesale prices steady. Eggs unsettled with 9,816 cases received and prices unchanged to five cents a dozen lower.
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Chicago
USDA
Bevin Says U.S. Ignored UK Korea Advice
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told Parliament the United States rejected London guidance to halt the UN push into North Korea about 100 miles north of the 38th parallel. He said London urged MacArthur to stop at a narrow waist of the peninsula creating a no man’s land before Manchuria.
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London
Ernest Bevin
United States
United Nations
North Korea
Bevin
House of Commons
MacArthur
Priest forced to wear crown of thorns at Buchenwald
Austrian Catholic priest Rev. Adreas Rieser testified in Augsburg that he was made to wear a crown of barbed wire at Buchenwald during his imprisonment. He said guards ordered prisoners to spit on him and he witnessed Elsie Koch egging on a guard to beat a prisoner until he collapsed.
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Augsburg
Germany
Buchenwald
Adreas Rieser
Elsie Koch
Push For Windup Of Tax Bill Writing
The Senate Finance Committee pushed to finish its multi billion dollar excess profits tax bill. Chairman George said the panel hopes to complete by nightfall or Saturday, with little chance of major cuts to the $3.4 billion first year revenue target.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
D-Ga
House
Snow blocks road travel in Britain across regions
Deep snow and the coldest December weather in 13 years crippled rail lines and blocked highway travel across the British Isles. In Somerset, gales whipped drifts 15 to 25 feet deep.
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London
British Isles
Somerset
Mrs. Florence Riordan Dies in Pulaski at 70
Florence E. Riordan 70 a noted business and club woman died in a Green Bay hospital after long service as secretary treasurer of the Pulaski Merchants and Farmers Tele Co since 1925 She and husband Daniel organized Pulaski first electric power company in 1920 later selling to Wisconsin Michigan Power and Light then running the telephone utility Surviving are her husband and two sons Robert Pulaski and Ray La Crosse Funeral services set for Monday
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Pulaski
Wis
Florence E. Riordan
Green Bay
Riordan
Pulaski Merchants and Farmers Tele= Co
Daniel
Wisconsin-Michigan Power and Light Co
Government seeks bail revocation for Alger Hiss
The government asked an appeals court on Friday to revoke the $10,000 bail of Alger Hiss, 46, a former high state department official convicted of perjury.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Patel, India's Strong Man, Dies At 75
India's Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhaj Patel known as the iron man who merged 600 princely states into one nation died in Bombay on Friday at the age of 75.
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Patel
India
Bombay
Sardar Vallabhaj Patel
Actress Ruth Roman to marry Mortimer Hall in Las Vegas
Actress Ruth Roman will wed Mortimer Hall, radio executive and son of Dorothy Schiff of the New York Post, in Las Vegas this weekend, according to her studio. Also noted is a bizarre line stating sugar cane can reach fifteen feet in height.
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Hollywood
Ruth Roman
Mortimer Hall
la Vegas
Nev
Hall
Dorothy Schiff
The
New York Post
KLAC
Los Angeles
Romulo Calls UN Ban on Red China Talk During Fighting
Philippine Foreign Minister Carlos P. Romulo urged the United Nations to refuse discussion of admitting Communist China while Red Chinese forces are shooting United Nations troops. No action was taken at once.
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New York
Philippines
Carlos P. Romulo
United Nations
China
No Injuries In Two Accidents Reported
County highway police logged two minor accidents Friday with no injuries. Lydia Ferguson of West Salem was hit while pulling from a farm drive by Thorwald Larson. Damages were limited to a running board. At Highway 14 a snowbound collision between an army carryall driven by Maj. William Wood of La Crosse and a Red Cross Bloodmobile owned by Richard Schmelzer of Madison caused light damage and no injuries.
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Lydia M. Ferguson
West Salem
Douglas Gasgill Farm
Gill’s Coulee
Thorwald Larson
Ferguson
Highway 14
Coulee
William Wood
la Crosse
The
Red Cross
Richard Schmelzer
Madison
Ford Plans To Hold Present Car Prices
Ford Motor Co. promised the government it will hold its present car prices for the next several months. The statement was made amid government scrutiny of automaker pricing practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Houston
Tex
Ford Motor Co
Driving While Intoxicated Fines Listed in Wisconsin Courts
In Sparta Emmett Johnson of Underwood was fined 75 dollars plus costs by Justice Henry Fanning for driving while intoxicated. In Whitehall Leo Schuh of Winona was arrested December 7 for highway intoxication, posted a 10 dollar deposit, owes 8.40 dollars costs, and forfeited the amount after failing to appear before Justice P M Paulson.
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Sparta
Wis
Emmett Johnson
Underwood
Henry Fanning
Whitehall
Leo Schuh
Winona
Lincoln
P. M. Paulson
Group Holds Nocturne Christmas Party at Linker Hotel
Central High School music group Nocturne hosted its annual Christmas party Thursday at the Linker hotel. Attendees enjoyed a dinner banquet and a music recital by Mr. and Mrs. Werther, Hupt Stummer. He performed violin while she played piano. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. William Baker.
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Nocturne
Central High School
Linker Hotel
Union Accepts Boost at Allis-Chalmers Locals
The CIO at Allis-Chalmers Co. Oxnard California is the first of 14 locals to accept a voluntary 10 cent wage increase, announced by the firm on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
CIO United Steelworkers
Allis-Chalmers Co
Oxnard
Calif
Works
Senate panel cites misconduct recruits as easy marks for spies
A Senate investigating committee says sexual misconduct cases make federal employees vulnerable to foreign espionage. It criticizes lax screening and says agencies, including the State Department, allowed many workers to resign for personal reasons rather than ban them from future federal jobs. Nazi and communist agents reportedly sought information by threatening exposure of abnormal sex activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
State Department
WCTU Ships Fruit Juice to Soldiers Overseas
The Ohio Women’s Christian Temperance Union sent a truckload of fruit juices worth 3000 dollars to servicemen abroad who dislike beer after breweries pledged beer donations to troops in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Women’s Christian Temperance Union
WCTU
Korea
Defense Budget Cuts Trim Atomic Energy Expansion
The budget committee pared the presidents request, shaving 210 million from the 1.05 billion atomic energy expansion for bomb production. Total defense allocations rise toward 42 billion for the year ending next June 30, with signals of further needs and possible extra 8 billion from Pentagon before year end.
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Budget Bureau
Atomic Energy Commission
Army
Navy
Air Force
Pentagon
Chinese Attack Near Sinsong Advances in Dark Predawn
Reports describe a predawn assault near Sinsong about six miles southwest of Hamhung with two Sinsong locations causing confusion. Chinese forces, estimated at regimental strength, pressed the attack through day and into the night.
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Sinsong
Hamhung
Hungnam
La Crosse Tribune Postmark Notice
The La Crosse Tribune appears as a second class matter at the La Crosse Wisconsin post office dated June 23 1904 under the 1879 act.
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