Subpoenas Served In Adverse Testimony Case Involving Police
Adverse testimony in Patrolman James Christie case against city officials was rescheduled. Subpoenas for March 3 and 4 were served on the Common Council special investigating committee and Mayor Henry Ahrens City Atty Fred Steele and Police Chief George Long.
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James Christie
Common Council
Henry Ahrens
Fred Steele
George Long
Christie
Thomas H. Skemp
Steele
Circuit Court
Alice Moore
Ahrens
Long
Lincoln Neprud
Police and Fire Commission
Fred E. Steele
Leonard Roraff
Special Investigating Committee
End of Rent Control Cleared For Camp McCoy Area
Wisconsin area including Monroe County loses rent control status as Defense Areas Advisory Committee removes it from the critical list. Base shutdown cited and Office of Rent Stabilization to decontrol. In Sparta, several businesses close or relocate including A and P Store and Marshall Wells. some staff find positions elsewhere.
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Camp McCoy
Wisconsin
Monroe County
Defense Areas Advisory Committee
Office of Rent Stabilization
Sparta
James Christensen
A and P
Bacon and Hanson
Marshal Wells
George Bickelhaupt
Sparta Junior Chamber of Commerce
Bickelhaupt
Preston
Minn
W. W. van Dell
Flint
Mich
General Motors
England
Plan Murder Trial Monday At La Crosse Court
Jurors notified to appear Wednesday in La Crosse County Courthouse are ordered by Clerk Carl F. Schnick not to attend until Monday March 2. A 36 person panel will yield a jury for third degree murder trials of Pvt. Thomas Reilly and Pvt. Wayne Kamp linked to the beating death of Cpl. Frank Walla. Both defendants plead innocent. they are jailed after failing to post 10 000 bonds.
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la Crosse
Carl F. Schnick
Thomas Reilly
Detroit
Mich
Wayne Kamp
Postville
Camp McCoy
Cpl
Frank Walla
Seward
Neb
National Guardsman
Reilly
Kamp
Robert E. Jeanis
la Crosse County
Lincoln Neprud
Bruce C. Woody
Chicago
Woody
Green Bay Reformatory
Neprud
Individual savings reach 19 billion in 1952
Washington report shows individual savings totaling 19 billion dollars in 1952, an increase of about two billion from 1951. Personal debt also rose, the department said, by 84 billion dollars.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Wisconsin Faces Tax Choice Over State Building Program
Madison lawmakers confront a $242 million appropriations bill that could either fund new state taxes or scrap a $17 million biennial building program for institutions. Observers expect the balance in the treasury to be too small, nudging lawmakers toward tapping reserve funds and delaying construction. Rising patient charges at state facilities are also under review as part of the budget mix.
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Madison
Wis
Legislative Joint Finance Committee
Wisconsin
Alfred B. Ludvigsen
Waukesha
Assembly
Arthur Lenroot
Superior
Ludvigsen
Lodge Charges Russia Started War In Korea
United Nations dispatch reports Chief U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. accusing the Soviet Union of initiating and sustaining the Korean War. He listed ten facts alleging Soviet planning, equipment, and support for North Korea and China, urging the world to confront Soviet responsibility.
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Russia
Korea
United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U. N
Soviet Union
Washington
Lodge
Eisenhower Holds Second Press Conference on Budget and Policy
President Eisenhower outlined the budget burden for the new fiscal year and discussed policy questions. He said he would meet Stalin if it could yield lasting peace, urged self enforcing accords, and cautioned against Communist influence in schools. He also referenced McCarthy probes, tax policy talks with governors, Alaska statehood, universal military training, and the Reciprocal Trade Act.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Stalin
Russia
U. S
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Voice of America
McCarthy
Alaska
Korea
Old State Department
Controls Lifted on Most Dry Groceries and Cigarettes
Washington reports the government lifted price controls from nearly all dry groceries and cigarettes, with only coffee and coffee concentrates kept under control. The Office of Price Stabilization also dropped store price posting requirements as ceilings are removed from cereals flour soups jams and similar items.
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Washington
Joseph Freehill
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Eisenhower
State and National Leaders Honor La Follette Burial in Madison
Washington reports the body of former Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. will be buried in Madison, Wisconsin with services planned at Grace Episcopal Church. His wife Rachel Wilson Young was summoned home after his suicide at their Washington residence. He leaves behind two sons, Joseph and Bronson.
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Washington
Robert M. la Follette Jr
Madison
Wis
la Follette
Bob
Grace Episcopal Church
John Keene
Senate
Walter Reuther
CIO
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civil Liberties Commission
U. S
Roosevelt
Britain
Rachel Wilson Young
Joseph Oden
Bronson Cutting la Follette
Referendum Set On Redistricting And Judicial Elections
Madison action completes referendum plan to place changes on the April ballot. The measure would let appointed Supreme Court and circuit judges run for full terms at the next election, altering current rules. Assembly consent followed Senate approval, ensuring two referendums including reapportionment.
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Madison
Supreme Court
Senate
Assembly
Weather outlook for La Crosse region turns mild
Cloudy and mild tonight and Thursday with possible snow or rain ending before midnight tonight. Low around 28 and high near 38.
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la Crosse
La Follette hailed as tireless public servant in Senate tribute
Governors and senators bid farewell to former Sen La Follette describing him as a devoted worker who carried on the La Follette Borah Norris tradition. Morse Capehart Humphrey Langer Mundt and Mundt praise his public service and defense of the people’s interests.
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Sen. la Follette
Kohler
Borah
Norris
Wisconsin
Sen
Morse
Ind - Ore
Sen. Capehart
R-Ind
Beb la Follette
Wiley
R-Wis
la Follette
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sen. Langer
R-Nd
Mundt
R-Sd
Senate
City Council Debates Teacher and Janitor Salary Increases
A special Common Council meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 p m to consider salary raises for teachers and janitors taken from the 1953 budget. Teacher raises would take effect next September with a $28 450 appropriation this year and janitors’ boosts would be retroactive to January 1 at $8 800. Also on the agenda are bids for a North Side bathing beach bathhouse.
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North Side
Young Bob La Follette inherits dynasty and dies in Madison
Robert M. La Follette III known as Young Bob, son of Fighting Bob, died by suicide in Madison. He led a political life tied to Wisconsin Progressives, serving as senator from 1925 to 1946 and aiding in party realignments. Burial in the family plot will follow services at Grace Episcopal Church.
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Madison
Bob” la’ Follette
Bob”’ la Follette
Philip
Wisconsin
Bob
Congress
la Follette
Senate
University of Wisconsin
Germany
Calvin Coolidge
Robert
Henry Clay
Progressive Party
GOP
Republican Party Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collier's Magazine
Joseph McCarthy
Resolution Aims to Repeal Oleomargarine Tax in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture co operatives vote 39 to 31 to remove the 15 cent per pound oleo tax to restore public favor for butter. The measure, introduced by Fred Harriman, argues better consumer relations and lower prices, amid dairy losses to vegetable fat substitutes. In Iowa, the House passed a colored oleo sale bill 63 to 44, sending it back to the Senate after amendments.
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Madison
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Co-Operatives
Fred Harriman
Shawano
Donald McDowell
State Department of Agriculture
McDowell
Wisconsin
Chicago
Otto Wirth
Antigo Milk Products Co-Operative
Des Moines
Iowa House
Iowa
House
Senate
Boom And Bust Beef Market No Joyride For Investors
Associated Press writer Don White reports the boom and bust in cattle prices hurting investors who chased fat cattle profits. The price slump follows huge cattle supply from drought and high feed costs, widening losses for farmers, stockmen, bankers, oilmen, and parttime cattlemen as Congress considers action ahead of 1954 elections.
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Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Congress
Eisenhower
Kansas City
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
Uvalde
Briscoe’s
Bee Beef
Bay boy killed in Arcadia engine-truck crash
James Fetting 15 was killed and his father Norbert injured when their truck collided with a Green Bay and Western Railroad freight engine at Arcadia west crossing at 4 35 p m The elder Fetting was thrown clear while James pinned in the cab He died en route to a hospital and the father was treated for multiple leg fractures An inquest probable with county coroner awaiting contact Funeral services will be held at St Johns Christ Lutheran Church Arcadia with burial in Glencoe Cemetery.
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Arcadia
Wis
James Fetting
Norbert Fetting
Green Bay and Western Railroad
West Crossing
James
Orange Crush
Ben Martin
Erenest Wanek
Fetting
la Crosse
Dist
John Quinn
Trempealeau County
Martin Weimer
Independence
George Glanzer
St. John’s Christ Lutheran Church
George Muedeking
Glencoe Cemetery
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Kroger
Sidney
Bank of Sparta
Co-Op Group
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U.N. Committee
New Trace Group
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Korean
India
U.N
Ike
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
A. Magruder McDonald
District of Columbia
Robert M
Joseph R. McCarthy
Milwaukee
Sears Roebuck & Co
United Fruit Company
Ween
Onene
Hal Boyle
Women's News
Father
The
Wiley’s
Coolidge
Ralph Immel
Glenn D. Roberts
Wellwood Nesbit
A. C. Bolt
Harry Southoff
Herbert Mount
John Thiel
Mayville
Clough Gates
America
Heart Association
Madison Grace _ Episcopal Church
William Groves
Lodi
Council
Gavin McKerrow
Pewaukee
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