Graham sells Senate Group Of Grain Deals
Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham’s broker testified that under written instructions his wheat trading account remained open until Nov 25 1947 seven weeks after President Truman criticized grain speculators. Graham said he assumed full responsibility for trades and that all commodity dealings closed by Dec 18 1947 with a profit in commodities but a net loss in stocks. He claimed Truman did not know he was in the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Truman
Harry Brisker
Bache and Co
Senate Appropriations Committee
Anderson
Ferguson
R-Mich
Brisker
Grah
Uncluttered Look Emerges In Spring Fashion Show
California fashion stylists unveil the uncluttered look for Milady's spring and summer wear. 130 California apparel creators show a move toward simple lines and casual grace with skirts 12 to 14 inches from the floor, retaining a provocative swish.
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Los Angeles
California
Milady
Name Probe Board In Railway Dispute
President Truman created an emergency board to investigate a dispute between the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway and its employees represented by the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America. The order says the dispute threatens transportation within Illinois and Wisconsin.
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Washington
Truman
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway
Union of Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employee of America
Illinois
Wisconsin
Local Weather in La Crosse Tonight and Tuesday
Partly cloudy and continued cold tonight with lows around 2 in the city and 5 to 8 below in surrounding areas. High Tuesday expected near 18 with frigid conditions likely continuing into midweek.
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la Crosse
Oil Committee Operates Here for Hardship Oil Aid
Citizens' fuel oil committee formed at a Saturday mayoral meeting is now active. Nine hardship cases approved for oil, two denied. Applicants should first contact their usual dealer, then visit the Chamber of Commerce office between 1 and 5 p.m. to apply, with only immediate danger of running out and dealer unavailability qualifying.
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Citizens’ Fuel Oil Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Everett H. Woehrmann
Woehrmann
Chamber of Fee
Workman Survives 80-Foot Fall at Plant
Axel Hermanson 55 of Minneapolis fell eighty feet while working on an elevator installation at the Northern States Power plant on the French island. He was rushed by police ambulance to a local hospital where he remained unconscious at noon but not deemed in critical condition. He suffered a fractured right ankle, cuts and bruises, with possible internal injuries. employed by Lagerquist Elevator Co. of Minneapolis.
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French Island
Northern States Power Company
Axel Hermanson
Minneapolis
Hermanson
Lagerquist Elevator Company
Labor chief ties wage talks to price controls
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach told the Senate Banking Committee that if Congress holds down prices labor unions will ease wage increase demands. He urged enactment of the administration wage price control legislation. Earlier the American Veterans Committee urged limited rationing and price controls but opposed standby power to control wages.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
Congress
Senate Banking Committee
American Veterans Committee
Truman
Agreement on Farm Policy Nears in House
Republican and Democratic farm leaders near agreement on major principles for a long-range agricultural policy in Washington. They back abundant production price supports soil conservation crop insurance and rural electrification with potential annual price support extensions if full accord remains elusive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Hope
R-Kas
Truman
Congress
Frank Beranek Fined for Illegal Sugar Coupon Use
Frank Beranek, 55, of La Crosse Wisconsin was fined 2500 dollars in federal court after pleading guilty to possession and distribution of unauthorized sugar. Investigators said he distributed at least five pounds of sugar in Minneapolis and St Paul using illegal coupons.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Frank Beranek
la Crosse
Wis
Beranek
Minnene St. Paul
Skating Rinks Open As Hood Street Rink Flooding Commences
The park department announced all La Crosse rinks are open Tuesday except the Hood street rink which is being flooded.
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la Crosse
Hood Street
Park Department
Man Recovering From Dog’s Gunplay
Ponti a Michigan man Bernard Blay a stablehand is recovering from a bullet wound blamed on a dog not his own An English setter knocked a gun from a table as it leaped at a food cue and the revolver fired injuring Blay He had been caring for the dog owned by Earl W Parsons of Birmingham Michigan according to sheriff’s officers.
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Pontiac
Mich
Bernard Blay
Blay
Earl W. Parsons
Birmingham
Dramatic Rescue Of 46 From Blazing Funeral Ship
All 46 survivors from the army transport Joseph V. Connolly were saved after 11 hours in the North Atlantic. The crew and one passenger were picked up by the Gen. R. E. Callan and Union Victory after a daylong air and sea search aided by aircraft from Riley Field Bermuda. The ship burned from stem to stern, fire starting in the engine room, as it carried empty caskets to repatriate American war dead.
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New York
Army
Joseph V. Connolly
North Atlantic
Connolly
R. E. Callan
Black Diamond Line
Union
Ley Field
Bermuda
Callan
Europe
Benjamin A. Bostelman
New York City
Charlies H. Col
Youth Admits Slaying Girl Eight With a Knife
Harold Beach Jr., 22, confessed to Baltimore police that he killed eight year old Sheila Ann Tuley in Cleveland on New Year’s Day. The slaying occurred as she was on her way to buy cigarettes for her father. Beach described no motive beyond a fleeting impulse and said he wanted to see his mother. He was arrested while changing a tire at a filling station where he worked.
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Baltimore
Sheila Ann Tuley
Cleveland
Harold Beach, Jr
Edward J. Tuley
Henry J. Kriss
Beach
New York State Institution For Poopee
Kriss
Sheila Ann
City Master Plan Meeting Outlines La Crosse Future
City plan commission will discuss a long range La Crosse master plan at a Wednesday 7 30 p m meeting in council chambers. Mayor C A Beranek invited civic clubs to send reps as the first step toward a long term program detailing streets schools recreation centers a civic center parks and a municipal auditorium for council and public approval.
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City of la Crosse
City Plan Commission
C. A Beranek
Plan Commission
Common Council
Citizens
Nazi Woman Guard Sentenced To Death
Sofie Nietzsche Sudeten German former guard at Auschwitz was sentenced to death by a Czechoslovak court for crimes against humanity. She was convicted of torturing women prisoners.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Sofie Nietzsche
Oswiecim
Auschwitz
Five Die In Plane Crash Near Washington DC
An Eastern Airlines DC-3 carrying five aboard crashed near the Potomac south of Washington while preparing to land at Reagan National Airport. The wreck killed the pilot Paul J. Saltanis of Great Neck New York and four others, with four injured. Weather included a 1400 foot ceiling and four miles visibility with light rain and fog.
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Washington
Eastern Airlines
Here
Houston
Tex
Boston
Washington National Airport
Maryland
Potomac River
Paul J. Saltanis
Great Neck
N. Y
Marshall plan would cut US food exports says Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that total food exports under the Marshall plan would be smaller than in recent years. He cited a shift as the European recovery program advances with more abundant foods and fewer scarce exports, predicting less noticeable effects for U.S. consumers.
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Washington
Anderson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Seek Way To Uphold Legality Of 2 000 Invalidated Divorces
Pulaski chancery Judge Frank Dodge sought a legal remedy after the Arkansas supreme court ruled that a 1947 law creating a second domestic relations division was unconstitutional. The special division led by Judge Ruth Hale issued about 1 750 divorces, with many recipients remarried and living elsewhere while the ruling affects all acts of that division.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Pulaski Chancery
Frank Dodge
Supreme Court
Arkansas
Griffin Smith
Special Division
High Tribunal
State Aeronautics Commission seeks 3 million for airport aid
The Wisconsin State Aeronautics Commission asks the 1949 legislature for 3 million dollars to aid local airports and match federal funds. The request includes a possible deficiency appropriation for Jan 1 to June 30, 1949, and a salary raise for the director from 5 000 to 7 500. The commission also urges updated laws to align with federal rules and to boost timber and forest measures via swift study and woodlot planting experiments in Rock county with a plan to expand if successful.
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Madison
Wis
State Aeronautics Commission
Thomas K. Jordan
Legislative Council
Knowles
New Richmond
Jordan
E. B. Fred
University of Wisconsin
Ernest Swift
Conservation Department
The
Aeronautics Commission
Council
Commission
Swift
Conservation Commission
Rock County
Fire guts Taylor building forcing two families from night clothes
In Taylor Wisconsin a fire destroyed most contents of a brick building housing the T. J. Hanson Red and White grocery, Mrs Mae Johnson variety store and Woodhull produce. Two Taylor families escaped in their night clothes with no injuries as firefighters from six towns battled the blaze beginning at 5 30 a m. The fire appeared to start in the back room of the Hanson grocery.
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Taylor, Wis
Taylor
T. J. Hanson
Mae Johnson
Woodhull
Barge Sends Distress Call Near Alaska Coast
An 86 foot self propelled barge with about nine crew members sent a distress message after hitting a small island south of the Alaska peninsula. It reported sinking about 40 miles southwest of Cold Bay near Phin Point Deer Island area as Cedar cutter moved to aid from a separate rescue mission.
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Seattle
Alaska Peninsula
District Coast Guard
Cold Bay
Ketchikan
Phin Point
Deer Island
Coast Guard
Unimak Island
City Turns Parking Meters Into March of Dimes Collection Points
Spartanburg South Carolina will use parking meters as receptacles for coins during the March of Dimes drive starting Thursday. Dimes will not register in meters, so all 10-cent donations will support the fund to fight infantile paralysis. City council approved the plan.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Calls Special Council Meeting For Thursday
A special meeting of the common council will be called for Thursday night to consider action on federal and state aid street projects for La Crosse. Mayor C A Beranek said Tuesday. Also on the agenda are bids for installation of water and sewer mains in the Salzer airport plat.
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Common Council
la Crosse
C. A. Beranek
Salzer Airport
La Crosse Braces for Cold Wave With Subzero Temps
A cold spell grips Wisconsin as La Crosse records a Tuesday high of 15 above zero and a low near one above. At 10 am the city logged five above while Duluth to Park Falls saw a 12 below minimum. Warmup possible Thursday, then more cold and light snow Friday.
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Vail
A. D. Sanial
la Crosse
Duluth
Park Falls
United States
Northwest
Samal
Most Likely To Succeed Student Sets Fire At College
Susquehanna University freshman Joseph Sladek Jr. of Wildwood New Jersey is charged with arson for setting fire to the administration building twice to avoid classes. He pleaded guilty before Justice Fred M. Machmer and was held for Snyder County court.
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Selinsgrove
Susquehanna University
Joseph Sladek, Jr
Wildwood
N. J
Snyder County
Justice of the
Fred M. Machmer
Aid To Europe Program Target In Budget Cuts
Republicans launch a drive to cut about 5 billion from the Truman budget, targeting the foreign aid program as the main line item. The plan aims to trim funding for universal military training and other authorized or proposed programs while defending defense and veterans spending.
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Europe
Washington
Truman
Taber
Senate-House Budget Committee
Congress
Gandhi Begins Peace Fast for India’s Harmony
Mohandas K. Gandhi, frail at 78, starts a life risking fast in Delhi to force communal peace. He rejects last-minute pleas for a 15 day pause, saying the fast ends only when communities hearts realign without external pressure. Disciples fear non Muslims may blame Muslims if he dies, risking further violence.
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New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Delhi
Gandhi
UN Partition Committee Meets Amid Secret Talks
The United Nations Palestine partition commission gathers for secret discussions as British and Zionist delegates wait for motions and bids from five nations regarding the partition plan at Lake Success.
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UN Partition Committee
SEC Schedules Jan 22 Hearing on Wisconsin River Wet Company Sale
The Securities and Exchange Commission set a hearing for January 22 on a proposed 13.5 million dollar bond and stock sale by the Wisconsin River Wet Company.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wisconsin River Wet Company
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Senate Group of Grain
Oscar van Patten
Coldwater
W. W. Nerhood
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Penn
Oil Committee
Workman
March of Dimes
Senate
House
William F. Arbogast
New Yorker
SEC
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