Scholarships Urged for 300000 Non Veterans
President Truman's commission on higher education urged federal scholarships to cover college costs for more than 300,000 needy non veterans. The plan follows GI bill models to expand adult education and equal access across states, aiming to end segregated and discriminatory admissions and broaden opportunities in higher education.
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Washington
Truman
Commission On Higher Education
Commission
South
George F
The
American Coomal On
Anderson Reveals 771 Grain Market Traders List
The article notes a list of 771 large grain market traders, with references to long and short futures positions. It mentions October 31 1986 details, Senate inquiries led by Senator Bridges, and examples of long and short contracts in oats and cottonseed.
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Anderson
Bridges
R-Nh
Senate Group
Pauley
Winter Weather Forecast Hits Wisconsin Area
Midwest forecast warns motorists of glazing and freezing rain late today into tonight. In Wisconsin towns like La Crosse and Brice Prairie airport, temperatures hover near the low 20s with some spots at five above, as northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin regions brace for a wintry mix and colder Tuesday.
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Wisconsin
Mercury
A. D. Sanial
Brice Prairie
la Crosse
Chicago
Weather Bureau
Ilinois
Iowa
Illinois
Newspaper Executive Killed In Helicopter Crash
Portland officials report the death of C. Sam 33 and Ambrose M. Cronin 43 in a helicopter crash and explosion. C. Sam is the founder's grandson and Cronin is president of the Electric Distributing Co. both prominent Oregon business figures.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
C. Sam
Ambrose M. Cronin
Electric Distributing Co
Increasing clouds bring late snow for Le Crosse region
Weather forecast for Le Crosse and vicinity calls for increasing cloudiness tonight with some snow late tonight and continuing Tuesday forenoon. Expect a low around 15 degrees tonight and a colder Tuesday with a daytime high near 20 degrees.
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le Crosse
Dr. W. Remer Dies At Home After Long Medical Career
Dr. William H. Remer 70 of 424 South 1lth street dies at home. He led Vernon County and Tri County Medical societies, retired 1941 after long service. Veterans and sportsman, survived by widow Grace Erixson and niece Mrs Ray Sieger, funeral Tuesday at John P. Bird chapel, burial Wednesday in Butternut cemetery.
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William H. Remer
South 1Lth Street
Wisconsin
Vernon County Medical Society
Tri-County Medical Society
Monroe
Juneau
Vernon Counties
Remer
Pile
Wisconsin State Medical Society
American Medical Society
Fifield
Homopathic Medical College
Chicago
Park Falls
Wis
Chaseburg
Ray
Ruby) Sieger
Remerssi
Badger Lodge No
A. M
F. W. Hyslop
John P. Bird
Congregational Church
Butternut
British Labour Campaign Against Communist Infiltration
Britain’s Labour party launches a drive against Communist influence within the party and unions. Morgan Phillips warns of sabotage while Communist Daily Worker brands the move a U.S. plot to split unions in France Italy and Britain. Moscow radio denounces Marshall Plan as war like Goering and Schacht referenced in four year aid programs for Europe.
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London
Britain
Labor Party
U. S
France
Italy
Morgan Phillips
Communist Daily Worker
U. S. State Department
American Federation of Labor
Phillips
Paris
Communist General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Communist Party
Cominform
Moscow Radio
Truman
Congress
Marshall
Moscow
United States
Germany
Goering
Hitler
Hjalmar) Schact
Europe
Schact
Berlin
Reichsbank
Plan to Strike By Western Union Averted
A potential pre Christmas telegraph strike by Western Union workers was stopped as differences between the company and three AFL unions were sent to a federal fact finding panel for decision in 50 days. The panel will decide wage timing and wage profit study terms, leaving the core wage dispute to future negotiations.
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Washington
AFL
Bell Telephone Companies
Cyril C. Ching
Ching
Commercial Telegraphers Union
Telegraph Employee Union of
Atlanta
Telegraph Workers Union of
Dallas
Congress to draft its own Marshall plan for Europe
Republican leaders signal a smaller bipartisan recovery plan than the administration’s 17 billion request. Speaker Martin says Congress will tackle the program when it convenes January 6, with the Herter bill guiding hearings. The Herter proposal favors a bi partisan eight member board while Truman’s plan centralizes control under one administrator.
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Washington
Congress
Martin
R-Mass
Herter
Truman
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Three Chicago Youths Captured After 80 MPH Chase
Three Chicago youths James Curtain Melvin Johnson and Frank Wadelski were captured by Jackson County deputies after an 80 mile per hour pursuit along highway 12. They had robbed Eau Claire men and stolen a 1935 Ford near Fall Creek. The suspects were jailed and later transferred to Eau Claire officials.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Jackson County Sheriff's Department
Chicago
L. S. Hollenbeck
Eau Claire County
Eau Claire
James Curtain
Melvin Johnson
Frank Wadelski
Fall Creek
Hollenbeck
Elmer Davis
Earl Puls
Highway 12
Rinks Open With Exceptions Due to Ice Conditions
Park superintendent Henry W. Streicher says skating is allowed on all city rinks today except Emerson and Lagoon. Lagoon is unsafe and no rink has good ice. flood plans await colder weather for winter playfields.
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Henry W. Streicher
Emerson
Streicher
Army Reserve Office Closed for Holidays in La Crosse
The Army Reserve office in room 312 of the Federal Building will be closed Christmas and New Year’s days. Capt. William T. Whittington, head of the La Crosse army reserves, announced Monday.
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Army Reserve Office
Federal Building
William T. Whittington
la Crosse
Large Scale Fighting Report in Jerusalem Heightens Palestine Death Toll
Reliable private sources report morning fighting between Arab and Jewish forces near Yazur on the Jerusalem Tel Aviv route. Across the Holy Land the unofficial death toll rose to about 420 since the UN partition decision, with numerous casualties in Safad Haifa Tulkarm and Jericho as Arab and Jewish factions clash.
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Jerusalem
Yazur
United Nations
Holy Land
Hagana
Tel Aviv
Robert Stern
Palestine Government
Public Information Bureau
Manchester Guardian
Chicago Tribune
London
Tulkarm
Safad
Upper Galilee
Palestine
Palestine Police Force
Haifa
Jaffa
Middle East
Housing Board Seeks Aid for 52 Veterans Homes
La Crosse housing authority approved applying for aid under the State veterans housing act to build 52 homes on the Salzer airport plat. The act allows 10 to 15 percent subsidies but the constitutionality is in doubt, with a test case planned for a state supreme court ruling. Also, lot laying must precede plot recording, delaying FHA loan guarantees and spring completion.
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Salzer Airport
la Crosse
Salzer
FHA
Housing Authority
WLBL Returns to Full Power After Tower Collapse
State radio station WLBL resumed full operation today after its transmitter tower collapsed at Auburndale last February. The Stevens Point station announced restoration of broadcasts across its coverage area.
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Stevens Point
Wis
WLBL
Auburndale
Hopes Dim For Finding Body Of Weckler Girl
Sheriff Loren E. Marshall reported the search for Georgia Jean Weckler in the Wisconsin River near Blue River was becoming hopeless. Divers said shifting sands could bury the body three to five feet deep while lighted probing continued and dredging equipment was slated to be used. The child disappeared May 1 from her Fort Atkinson farm after allegedly being kidnapped and killed by Buford Sennett and an unnamed companion who reportedly tossed her body into the river.
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Blue River
Wis
Loren E. Marshall
Wisconsin
Georgia Jean Weckler
George Lehmann
Hugo Schmidt
Buford Sennett
Virgil Robinson
Richland County
Sennett
Dist. Atty
Francis Garity
Jefferson County
Fort Atkinson
Four Die In Traffic Crashes Over Weekend
Four people die in Wisconsin traffic crashes during the weekend. Walter C. Jensen, 63, of Racine County, was struck on Highway 42. Frank F. Lindner, 51, and his wife Adeline, 48, were injured when their car hit a bus near Milwaukee. Peter R. Flasch, 21, of West Bend, died in a collision with a North Western train near Barton. Minnie Paulsen of Silver Lake died. her two children Lawrence 10 and Clarence 20 were injured in a Soo Line crossing crash near Silver Lake.
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Wisconsin
Walter C. Jensen
Route 1
Racine
Frank F. Lindner
Milwaukee
Adeline
Peoria-Rockford Lines
Peter R. Flasch
West Bend
North Western Railroad
Barton
Minnie Paulsen
Silver Lake
Kenosha County
Lawrence
Clarence
Soo Line
La Crosse Social Security Office Closes for Holidays
The La Crosse Social Security office in room 306 of the Federal Building will close Wednesday afternoon under a presidential proclamation. It will reopen the day after Christmas and operate the days before and after New Year’s.
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la Crosse
Atomic Bomb Ballet Comes to Kure For Occupation Forces
A Hiroshima ballet troupe will perform in Kure Japan for British occupation forces this Sunday. The program titled The Story of the Atomic Bomb and Its Aftermath will recount events surrounding the blast and its consequences.
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Kure
Japan
Hiroshima
Satira Receives Fifteen Year Prison Sentence in Havana
Patricia Schmidt also known as Laura was sentenced by the Audi encia court in Havana to 15 years plus a 5000 indemnity for the yacht slaying of her lover John Lester Mee of Chicago. Prosecutors sought longer terms but judges delivered 15 years after a trial weekend.
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Havana
Patricia (Saura) Schmidt
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Audiencia Court
Mee
Lester E. Mee
Wilmette
Toledo, Ohio
Miss Schmidt
Toledo
Ohio
Laura
Gustavo Reno
Patricia
Post Office Sees 157 500 Cancellations Over Weekend
Postmaster Wenzel M. Dvorak reports 157 500 cancellations at the local post office on Saturday and Sunday, bringing December’s first 21 days to 1 182 945. Receipts total 47 294 56, compared with 55 921 27 last December. With 11 days left in December 1947, Dvorak believes the 1946 total may be surpassed.
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Wenzel M. Dvorak
Dvorak
Young Robber Steals Kiss And Cash From Candy Store
A 16 year old robber slugged a candy store attendant in Philadelphia then escaped with $35 after taking money from a cash register. Juanita Gifen was treated for a head wound and described the assailant as flustered as he fled dropping some of the money.
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Philadelphia
Juanita Gifen
Hold Spartan After Shooting
Carl Bloede, 84, is jailed in Monroe county on a charge of threatening to shoot Al Rasmussen during disputes over filling operations south of Bloede’s property for a building for International Harvester. A bullet was fired from a .22 rifle. Bloede allegedly shot through his roof and vowed to shoot Al Rasmussen. He was to appear before Judge O. W. Sprecher.
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Sparta
Wis
Carl Bloede
Monroe County
al Rasmussen
Bloede
International Harvester
Jack
Harold Rasmussen
C. A. Lehman
Lehman
O. W. Sprecher
War Memorial Rites Held In Australia
Thousands of Australians attended war memorial services as 1,800 U S soldiers bodies were loaded aboard the troop ship Groucher Victory for return home.
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Australia
Sydney
U. S
America
United States
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Baf
Lazar M. Kaganovitch
Russia
Council of Ministers
Kaganovitch
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Butch) Bublitz
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