5,000 Witness Guard Ceremony At McCoy
The Wisconsin National Guard impressed crowds at Camp McCoy as Gov. Oscar Rennebohm reviewed the 32nd division now expanded to 6,000 men. More than 5,000 spectators watched officers and troops parade, while veterans and young enlistees showcased new weapons and equipment amid a ceremony highlighting postwar civilian soldiers.
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Oscar Rennebohm
Wisconsin National Guard
Camp McCoy
Hugh Fanning
la Crosse
Jim Dan Hill
Rennebohm
Harry William
Charles
Wis
People of Wisconsin
Oscar A. Rennebohm
Fifth Army Command
Juegos
Pacific
Europe
National Guard
McCoy
Steel Fact Finding Board to Open Public Hearings
The steel labor dispute board will start public hearings on July 28 in New York with an organizational meeting at the White House. Chairman Carroll Daugherty said the delay to July 28 gives both sides time to prepare evidence, and a preliminary meeting will be held two days earlier to arrange procedural matters. The board, appointed by President Truman, may weigh postwar wage boosts and pension plans, with final recommendations due by August 30.
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Washington
New York
White House
Carroll Daugherty
CIO United Steelworkers
Ablic
Samuel I. Eoumioan
Truman
Rosenman
New York City
Rotary Electric Steel Company
Detroit
CIO
United Steel Workers
John R. Steelman
Carroll R. Daugherty
Northwestern University
David L. Cole
Paterson
N. J
Samuel I. Rosenman
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Polio Strikes Area as Death and New Cases Rise
A polio victim died in a local hospital Sunday night, with 3 new cases reported in La Crosse and surrounding areas. The dead boy, 13, was from Westby, and a 2½ year old, a 25 year old, and a five year old from Spar ta are hospitalized in isolation. Two Whitehall children tested negative, while neighbors of a polio patient undergo precautionary checks. City health officials urge minimal night calls to doctors as cases climb and swimming is halted for Westby youths.
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Ee Tryeve Flugstad
Burton Flugstad
Westby
la Crosse
Sparta
Whitehall
Frederika
Hans Haugen
Clarence Haugen
Linda Estenson
Earl Estenson
Camp Decorah
Viroqua
Garland Weidner
la Crosse Tribune
Weidner
Polio Epidemic Hits Centralia Area Prompting Emergency Center
Illinois health officials declare an epidemic after one polio case per thousand residents and rush a volunteer corps to open an emergency polio center in a remodeled Kenney foundation building. About 55 beds from Chicago are being moved, with more help expected as cases spill across the community. Federal assistance may be sought to determine the outbreak cause while patients are treated at St. Mary's in East St. Louis and a St. Louis hospital. In Michigan, 13 new infantile paralysis cases push the statewide total to 120.
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Centralia
Illinois
G. N. Welch
Sister Elizabeth
Chicago
Welch
Union Studies Bus Proposal in Northland Greyhound Strike
A 22 member union executive board reviewed a confidential company proposal to settle the 82 day strike of 1 305 Greyhound employees across eight states and part of Canada. Details remain secret, to be shared with 500 Minneapolis and St Paul strikers at a meeting.
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Minneapolis
Northland Greyhound Lines
Canada
Minneapolis and
St. Paul
Minneapolis-St. Paul
AFL Amalgamated Bus Employes Union
Seminar Urges Nurses to Attend Polio Session
Miss Dorothy Anderson supervisor of public health nurses urges all city nurses to attend a polio seminar at St. Francis Hospital on July 20 at 2 p m.
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Dorothy Anderson
St. Francis Hospital
Priests Defy Red Threats In Prague Church Spurning Government
In Prague Catholic priests reject government orders to desert Archbishop Beran and the Vatican. They read a resolution at morning masses pledging loyalty to church authority, denouncing Catholic Action as schismatic and claiming signatures were obtained by fraud. The move followed threats from Justice Minister Cepicka who pled for state control of church appointments and property.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Vatican
Prague Cathlic
St. Vitus
Beran
Justice
Alexei Cepicka
Cepicka
Cepicks
Klement Gottwald
Arm Severed, Man Dies in Freak Midwest Accident
Walter Summers, 35, Lindstrom Minnesota, a former New Richmond Wisconsin resident, bled to death in his car after a bale of hay fell from a passing truck severing his left arm which was resting on the door. Police identified the victim. he died before aid arrived.
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Taylors Falls
Minn
Wisconsin
Walter Summers
Lindstrom
New Richmond
Wis
Mers
Summers
Robinson Defends Nation, Denies Robeson Critique
Jackie Robinson testified before the House committee defending American democracy and vowing Negroes would fight against enemies. He dismissed Paul Robeson’s claim that Blacks would not fight a war against Russia, urging unity against communism and racial discrimination. He argued white and Black Americans must resist all threats to democracy.
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Jackie Robinson
U. S
Washington
Paul Robeson
Brooklyn Dodgers
Neto
Majoreagles
House
UN American Activities Committee
Russia
Robeson
United States
Baseball Star
Robinson
Ttg
Steel Flows As Though Nothing Happened
Pittsburgh reports steel from furnaces flowing after a week of strike threats. Mills began idling ahead of the 60 day truce urged by President Truman with Philip Murray and the United Steelworkers, but the shutdown was not uniform across the industry.
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Pittsburgh
Truman
Philip Murray
Clio-United Steelworkers
Sunday Rain Helps Coulee Area Warmth Relief
Sunday rain cooled southwest Wisconsin with La Crosse .46 inches and Viroqua .31. Temperatures rose to 89 in La Crosse and 93 in Prairie du Chien while thundershowers dropped heavy rainfall in Ellsworth .70 inches and about half an inch in Lancaster and Prairie du Chien.
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Wisconsin
la Crosse
Vernon
Trempealeau
A. D. Sanial
Prairie du Chien
Blair
Ellsworth
Lake Geneva
Aito
Lane O’lakes
Lancaster
ECA Approves Tobacco Bay for European Recovery Plan
The Economic Cooperation Administration approved $26,838,000 for U S tobacco purchases for Marshall plan use. Nine western European countries share the grants with the United Kingdom receiving part of a $40,868.00 allocation. other funds include $9,000,000 in sugar for the UK. Satens leads with $10,283 in tobacco financing, bringing total ECA commitments to $5,970,812 for Europe. An additional $100,000 covers transport charges for aid to China.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration
United States
Latin America
United Kingdom
U. S
Satens
U S Should Lead In World Disarmament Urged
The American Friends Service Committee urged the United States to lead in world disarmament by placing atomic weapon stock under UN seal and halting concentration of fissionable material. It also called for resuming normal exports to Russia and satellites to aid East West peace.
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Philadelphia
American Friends Service Committee
United Nations
Quaker Organization
Russia
Bug Ends Show as Insect Disrupts Bloomer Girl in Dallas
In Dallas on Sunday a bug halted the second act of Bloomer Girl. Star Nanette Fabray suffered hysterics and could not continue the operetta was canceled. State Fair casino managing director Charles R. Meeker Jr explained Fabray fears insects since childhood and that costumes were sprayed with DDT for open air performances. No insects had interrupted six prior shows.
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Dallas
Tex
Nanette Favray
Charles R. Meeker, Jr
State Fair Casino
Congress Asked to Fund Grasshopper Fight in West
Senators Hunt and Humphrey urged $3.5 million in the third deficiency bill to back Operation Grasshopper. The plan funds aerial application of poison bran to control waves of grasshoppers threatening Wyoming Montana Utah Arizona the Dakotas and Minnesota. Farmers fear an invasion and widespread ruined grasslands as the pests move westward.
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Washington
Congress
Middle West
Hunt
D-Wye
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate Appropriations Committee
Wyoming
Montana
Utah
Arizona
Dakotas
Minnesota
Department of Agriculture
Togliatti Attacks Vatican Decree as Tactic
In Rome Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's leading Communist, told 2500 followers that Communists can be good Catholics too. He called the Vatican excommunication decree a tactic dragged from the darkest ages of humanity. He warned against entering the consciences of militants where faith and convictions prevail.
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Rome
Vatican
Palmiro Togliatti
Italy
Army contract probe continues as generals suspended
An army contract inquiry remains under way in Washington after the suspension of Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman and Alden H. Waitt. Secretary Gordon Gray ordered the probe to proceed amid Senate findings of improprieties and irregular procurement practices. Rep. Shafer urged President Truman to suspend Maj. Gen. Harry H. Waugh as well.
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Washington
Truman
Sidenes
Inspector General’s
Secretary of the Army
Gordon Gray
Herman Feldman
Quartermaster General
Alden H. Waitt
Chemical Corps
Senate
Gray
Shafer
R-Mich
Harry H. Waugh
Ray
Feldman
Army
Waitt
Retired Banker Dies in Two Rivers Station
George Dell Prentice aged 66, a retired vice-president of the Marine National Exchange Bank in Milwaukee, died at a Two Rivers filling station Sunday.
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Two Rivers
Wis
George Dell Prentice
Marine National Exchange Bank
Milwaukee
Unification Plan Offered to Tighten Armed Forces
President Truman submitted a military unification plan to Congress to strengthen the defense secretary’s role and speed action. He seeks both legislation and a fallback 60 day effectivity, noting Congress will have a vote if adequate laws aren’t produced. The Senate has already approved measures aligned with his aims.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Defense Johnson
Senate
House
Bridges Seeks Arbitration Over Hawaii Longshore Strike
Harry Bridges head of the straying International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union says Hawaii ports will stay shut until an arbitration board is appointed by President Truman. The 79 day strike halts stevedoring crucial for sugar pineapples and other shipments. James P Blaisdell defense argues for arbitration as a bargaining principle and warns of complete union domination in Hawaii. Senate committee weighs Knowland and Downey bill to authorize a presidential arbitration board.
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Washington
Harry Bridges
Hawaii
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Bridges’ International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
James P. Blaisdell
Bridges
Term Union
Blaisdell
Stainback
Senate
California
Knowland and Downey
Explosion Forces 8 Abandon Cabin Cruiser on Black River
Eight youths fled a 22 foot cabin cruiser after an explosion near Causeway yard on the Black River shortly after 1 a m The Hopkins ownership boat valued about 1500 was a total loss as flames swept the craft All eight survived reaching shore with help from a passing boat Firemen arrived at 1 32 a m and found the vessel partially burned on shore with interior flames extinguished by bucket water application.
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Black River
Falries
Donald Mueller
Jerald H i
William Schultz
Land Smith
Jerald Hopkins
Melba Muth
Joanne Johnson
Mrs. Hopkins
Milne Street
la Crosse
Hopkins
Causeway Yard
Top battle in 1950 elections looms over Truman budget
Republicans, led by Senator Brewster, frame Truman spending as red ink risk in 1950 campaigns. Democratic leaders McGrath and Byrd defend a middle path, arguing for balanced budgets and cautious recovery. viewpoint clashes reflect party contrasts ahead of the elections.
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Washington
Truman
Brewster
R-Me
McGrath
Ode Island
Pensacola
Fla
George
Georgia
Byrd
Virginia
Congress
Council of Economic Advisers
America
GOP
Haigh Trial Opens in England He Faces Murder Charge
John George Haigh pleads not guilty to murdering a wealthy widow accusing him of shooting her, dissolving her body in acid. His lawyer says Haigh is insane, seeking a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Lewel
England
Debonair
John George Haigh
David Maxwell-Fyfe
Nuernberg
Haigh
Stop Paying Taxes on Idle Property Lot Ad
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