Wisconsin Faces Record Cold as Nation Freezes
The report notes Wisconsin as the coldest state with Gordon at 54 below zero and La Crosse at 15 below. It describes widespread subzero readings, historic lows, and winter deaths, while forecasting relief with a warm front and another polar blast ahead.
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U. S
Howard J. Thompson
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Wausau
Eau Claire
Superior
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Lone Rock
Racine
Madison
Lake Geneva
Beloit
Harriman Opposes Easing Rent Controls Extension
Washington officials testified on extending rent controls beyond February 29. Secretary Harriman warned easing would raise living costs and pressure wage demands, while supporting continued controls to curb profiteering and inflation. He noted rents are a major consumer expense and urged careful extension limits amid mixed Senate views.
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Secretary of Commerce
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Senate Banking
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R-Wash
Congress
Truman
Maybank
Fulbright
Ark
Sparkman
Ala
Senate Banking Committee
Senator Bricker
Ohio
Knutson Tax Bill Veto Would Be Upheld, Says Demo Expert
Rep. Coughton predicts Congress will sustain a veto of the Knutson bill to slash income taxes by 5.6 billion annually while noting the plan would cut revenues. Treasury and GOP officials debate the bill’s impact and potential veto overrides as primary politics unfold.
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D-Nc
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Treasury
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Close City Hall Library Mellen Wis 14 inches
City authorities in Mellen Wisconsin order the closing of City Hall and the library amid structural concerns. Officials notify residents to use alternative facilities and services during the shutdown period.
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Mellen
Wis
Mel- City Hall
Weather Outlook for La Crosse Area Tonight and Sunday
Increasing clouds and not so nice tonight with a low of minus eight in the city and minus fourteen in rural areas. Sunday will be mostly cloudy with a rising temperature reaching twenty two. Light snow is expected Sunday night.
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la Crosse
VA Targets Doctors Accused Of Chiseling Veterans
VA medical director Dr. Paul Magnuson said he will prepare a list of suspected doctors and send it to the American Medical Association which will forward names to state societies. He aims to expose and remove any physicians padding bills for veterans treatment.
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The
Veterans Administration
American Medical Association
Paul Magnuson
AMA
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Child Actress Missing in Hollywood Wide Search
Authorities widened the search for 14 year old Jacqueline Horner after reports she boarded a bus bound for San Francisco and may be headed to Buffalo New York to relatives. Horner left home Tuesday following a family squabble with her mother Mrs Clara Horner and did not reach the planned stop at her private teacher's residence three blocks away.
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Jacqueline Horner
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Buffalo
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Clara Horner
Fire at regional army HQ blamed on sabotage
Rio de Janeiro war ministry says communist sabotage caused a fire that damaged part of the regional army headquarters in northeastern Brazil. Two suspected saboteurs, former Communist party members, were arrested.
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Greek forces free hostages in Mount Paranassos clash
Dispatches report Greek national forces recaptured 80 insurgents and freed more than 200 peasants in Mount Paranassos. Liberal MP Lukas Koutsopetalos remains under heavy guard after being kidnapped four days earlier by guerrillas.
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Lukas Koutsopetalos
Mount Paranassos
Loutsopetalos
Fire Claims Three Children in Danville Home Blaze
DANVILLE IL A three alarm fire destroyed a Snyder area home six miles northwest of Danville. Three children Marguerite Marrow 13 Gladys 9 and Sandra 5 died in their beds while parents John Marrow 49 Hazel 37 and another child 8 were treated for third degree burns. Two other children John Jr 15 and Linda Lou 3 escaped unharmed Delores Marrow 19 was away. Coroner said overheated stove caused the fire.
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Snyder
Here
Marguerite Marrow
Gladys
Sandra
John Marrow
Hazel
John, Jr
Linda Lou
Delores Marrow
John Cole
Vermillion County
Truce Signed By Indonesia on Renville Aboard
The Dutch and the Indonesian republic signed a cease fire aboard the U S Navy transport Renville off Batavia Java ending weeks of fighting in Java Sumatra and Madura A UN committee aided the talks presenting six political principles including a plebiscite and a demilitarized zone outlines accompany the agreement Analysts expect formal ratification Monday as both sides agreed informally to the six additional principles and provisional Dutch control of productive areas during the interim
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United States
Richard C. Kirby
Australia
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
United Nations
Security Council
Floor Collapse Kills Seven At Funeral
Rome dispatch reports a floor collapse during a funeral in Arigento Sicily killing seven and injuring sixty many severely.
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Rome
Arigento
Sicily
Wreckage Found Of C45 Plane In Wisconsin Snowstorm
The 137th air force base reports the C45 plane wreckage located near Somerset Wisconsin. Pilots Col Charles A Miller and Sgt Joe Thompson both from Omaha Nebraska parachuted to safety after the aircraft ran out of fuel during a snowstorm.
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Minneapolis
137Th Air Force Base
Somerset
Wis
Charles A. Miller
Joe Thompson
Omaha
Neb
Railroad strike deadline looms as talks fail
Washington reports President Truman may appoint an emergency fact finding board to study the looming rail strike. In Cleveland three operating brotherhoods threaten a Feb 6 walkout unless given a 30 percent wage increase and 44 working rule changes. Robertson says 238 000 members could halt 240 railroads and yards nationwide. talks began Nov 24 with mediation efforts failing.
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Truman
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D. B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Frank P. Douglass
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Chicago
Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers
Douglass
Whitney
PCA
A. F. Whitney
Progressive Citizens of America
Brotherhood of Railroad
Henry A. Wallace
Evacuation of British in Canton Area
British women and children were evacuated from Canton after rioters sacked the British consulate. Six Britons were injured, and eleven women and children arrived in Hong Kong by plane. Hong Kong Airways canceled Canton flights to repurpose planes for evacuees. The plan targets 100 evacuees.
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Hong Kong Airways
British officials doubt Canton consulate fire was Communist inspired
An informed source said Saturday the British embassy doubts the Chinese government claim that the burning of the British consulate at Canton was inspired by Communist elements.
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Nanking
Canton
Gandhi near end of fast for peace in India
Four physicians reported Mohandas K Gandhi reached the hundredth hour of his fast for peace on Saturday. They said he was cheerful and very much alive to events around him, but increasingly feeble and often resting with eyes closed.
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India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
49 Jews reported slain in Judean hills in fresh fighting
Arab sources say up to 49 Jews were killed overnight in the Judean hills between Bethlehem and Hebron as a mixed group heading to Kfar Etzion was hit by machine gun fire. A reliable Arab executive source said identify cards for the victims were brought to his Jerusalem office.
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Jerusalem
Judean
Bethlehem
Hebron
Kefar Etsyon
Wallace Vows to Stay in Race for President
Henry A. Wallace told reporters in Chicago at the Progressive Citizens of America convention that he is in the race to the end as a third party candidate for president. The PCA planned formal endorsement but not a third party nomination.
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Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Citizens of America
PCA
Wallace
Ruhr Strikers Back On Jobs In Duisburg Muelheim and Dlaken
Ruhr workers resume duties in Duisburg Muelheim and Dlaken after Friday mass strikes over food shortages. Trade unions report promises of aid from US and British zones easing tensions and set a Jan 23 meeting to review relief progress amid looming hunger fears.
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Germany
Ruhr
United States
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Taegliche Rundschau
Reds Chide U. S. Stars After Banning Films
In Budapest the Communist paper Szabad Nep said goodbye to Hollywood stars banned in Hungary. The interior ministry banned films featuring Robert Taylor Gary Cooper Adolphe Menjou Alan Jones George Murphy and Robert Montgomery. All but Jones testified before the House committee on un American activities in Washington.
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Hungary
Szabad Nep
Ministry of Interior
Robert Taylor
Gary Cooper
Adolphe Menjou
Alan Jones
George Murphy
Robert Montgomery
Jones
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Washington
Train Derailed Near Gulfport In Five-Car Wreck
A Louisville and Nashville streamliner the Hummingbird derailed about five miles west of Gulfport Mississippi. Five cars went into a shallow ditch. Passengers remained in coaches awaiting buses to Gulfport. A club car porter was injured and treated in Gulfport.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Six Shillings Sails to Port After Sinking Alarm
The 125 foot motor ship Six Shillings radioed a sinking condition 43 miles southeast of Carysfort near Miami Friday night. It arrived at its destination early Saturday under its own power with Coast Guard reporting the incident.
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Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
Carysfort
Change in Bond Issue Figures for La Crosse Auditorium
La Crosse Chamber of Commerce auditorium committee reduced the bond issue figure to a minimum of 875000 for a municipal auditorium, excluding Mary Sawyer will revenues. The petitioned figure will be circulated Monday. President Ray mond E Plamadore urged mayor to call a special common council meeting to read the new petition and invite delegations from interested groups.
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la Crosse
Mary Sawyer
Raymond E. Plamadore
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Charles A. Beranek
Common Council
Plamadore
Denies Bases Are Sought in European Recovery Program
Secretary of State Marshall stated that the European recovery program before Congress does not provide for or contemplate U S military bases in exchange for economic aid to European nations. The remark follows European concerns over misquotations of Forrestal's Senate testimony.
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Marshall
Congress
United States
State Department
Europe
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Forrestal
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Glenn Marsh Freed On Murder Charge Faces Muhrlein Trial
Husky Glenn Marsh, 27, acquitted of murdering Vernon Anderson, 28, and smiling at jail as he awaits trial on a separate charge of murdering Grant Muhrlein, 52, Anderson's father in law. The jurors found him not guilty of the Anderson killing, but he still faces the Muhrlein case related to a love affair with Katherine, 28.
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Rockford
Glenn Marsh
Vernon Anderson
Marsh
Anderson
Grant Muhrlein
Katherine
Muhriein
Smuggling Suspected in Northern Australia Gold Flights
Interior Minister Victor Johnson told newsmen that unidentified planes using deserted northern territory air strips may be smuggling gold to the Orient. The claim points to covert air activity linked to mineral shipments and international trade routes.
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Canberra
Australia
Victor Johnson
Northern Territory
Steam Leads Diesel In Towboat Race
In Memphis the steam boat Kadoka led the diesel Helena in a Mississippi River towboat race from New Orleans to St Louis. At 6 a.m. CST Kadoka held a 42 mile edge, about 404 miles below Memphis near Angola Louisiana.
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New Orleans
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