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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1952
Page
1
President Truman's health commission urges social and government funding to train more health workers build hospitals and expand prepaid medical insurance. It criticizes doctors for fee splitting and isolation while urging nationwide support for research and maternal child health.
A phosphorus grenade exploded in The Royal Flush tavern on Columbus Avenue at 103rd Street after three servicemen argued with patrons. Marine Sgt. James Eugene McDermott died in hospital after being shot following the blast. 24 others were injured, eight of them Spanish-named, as police captured McDermott and one companion.
Circuit Judge Lincoln Neprud denied a motion to transfer 16 year old La Crosse girl Dolores Vinson to juvenile court. Attorney Reginald E. Nietsch objected and then pleaded innocent by reason of insanity for Vinson and asked to be relieved of counsel. The judge allowed a substitute attorney when Nietsch is unavailable.
Light snow or snow flurries to night and Wednesday in La Crosse and vicinity. It will be a little colder tonight with a low of 35 and a high of 33 Wednesday.
Rural subscribers of The La Crosse Tribune will have delayed service this week due to President Truman’s order designating December 26 as an additional Christmas holiday. Rural route carriers will skip their rounds on Thursday December 25 and Friday December 26, delaying all mail and packages for two days.
President Vincent Auriol accepted Premier Antoine Pinay’s resignation 16 hours after the move was announced in the National Assembly. The Catholic Popular Republican Movement abstained on a confidence vote, widening the split in Pinay’s coalition and signaling possible end of the cabinet.
Thirteen were killed and one fatally injured when a single engine plane struck a U S Air Force C 47 air evacuation transport during takeoff at a Western Korea base. The crash occurred on the ground as the escorting planetaxied. A Fifth Air Force investigation is underway.
Two Wisconsin airmen recount surviving a Moses Lake C-124 crash that killed 86 servicemen. A-2C Roger Strom of Sparta and A-2C Edward Hale Jr. of La Crosse were reassigned to different Globemaster planes 30 minutes before departure, avoiding the doomed flight.
Six inmates tunneled 200 feet under the Washington State Prison walls for months using a 15 inch diameter shaft. Seven escaped early yesterday. Ralph Courser, 45, was wounded in Portland and captured. Three others still at large as police pursue leads on a stolen car and possible accomplices.
Rep Flood said the incoming 83rd Congress will approve an inquiry into alleged Communist atrocities in Korea. He noted the Katyn Forest massacre report as a blueprinted parallel and urged a U N investigatory commission, while cautioning no new mistreatment evidence was found.
John Roosevelt, youngest son of the late President Franklin D Roosevelt, broke with Democratic traditions to aid Eisenhower. He said the meeting with the general was social and he sought no job with the new administration.
President elect Eisenhower remains noncommittal on backing legislation to create an FEPC with enforcement powers. A delegation of Negro clergymen pressed for action, but Eisenhower indicated opposition to compulsory legislation, preferring educational programs and promising a commission to study minority issues after taking office January 20.
La Crosse County district attorney ordered a crackdown on sales of beer and liquor to teenagers after a 15 year old was hospitalized for intoxication. Arthur Rogge of Art's Modern Market faced a preliminary hearing with plans for the maximum fine. An Onalaska tavern, Dew Drop Inn owner Emil Fritz, was fined $25 after a charge of selling to a minor was amended to allowing a minor to remain.
The city street department schedules snow removal for The Market Square and all city parking lots and South Avenue from Winnebago to Jackson Streets with parking banned after midnight. Police Chief George Long announces a 24 hour parking limit enforcement, with cars left long enough to be towed and impounded at owners’ expense to prevent snow buildup.
Broken clouds over North Korea as fronts hold. Temperatures rose from 13 to 15 degrees above zero in Central and East Central Front valleys, with no precipitation. The mercury reached about 40 degrees near noon.
Weather in the Coulee Region shows light snow and flurries, sleet, fog, and rain as forecasters note shifting conditions. Temperatures range 25 to 33 degrees with a past record December 23 1877 of 58 degrees. Traffic officials urge staying home as highways change rapidly.
Two Moscow store officials, V. Barinov and I. Khotuntsev, were sentenced to 25 years in prison with confiscation for marking up prices on men's suits and pocketing the profit. Press accounts identified them as head of the ready-made garments section and his deputy at Russian Republican Textile and Garment Trading Trust Store No. 1.
Derek Pickering, 47, facing a 2 pound fine for parking without lights, declares he will spend Christmas in jail. He held a party, prepared to drive to Birmingham to seek admission, but Coventry magistrates say formal surrender is required and no jail entry can be guaranteed before Christmas Day.
The police and fire commission reviewed the January 5 hearing plan for Patrolman James Christie suspended December 11 on gambling charge claims. The hearing in City Hall will begin at 9 a.m. with witnesses called under oath and open to the public.
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