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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1950
Page
6
A commentary notes General Motors wage settlements shape labor management stability for five years and strain small businesses. It argues bigger firms gain leverage in pensions, while rising government costs and inflation burden workers and producers, with caution about future tax and social security changes.
The Whitsuntide parade by 509,000 East German Communist youths proceeded Sunday in Berlin with West German police and Allied troops ensuring order. The youths sang and jeered at American imperialism, but no force to remove Allied forces materialized despite Russian insinuations.
The piece notes renewed Western resolve after the crisis in Berlin. It asserts Communists failed this time as during the airlift, while American and British firmness secured a psychological victory. It cites plans for rearming Western nations and pooling French and German industrial resources, signaling a shift in Europe.
In a broad call for rigorous use of informants, The David Lawrence Dispatch argues that state’s evidence from former communists aids law enforcement. It notes FBI cooperation with Bentley Chambers and Budenz and cites the Gold and Fuchs cases as examples of how corroborated tips help prosecutions despite political pressure and secrecy.
The piece outlines the Wisconsin State Committee on Water Pollution created to tackle polluted streams and lakes. It details progress from 28 basins, treatment plants, industrial waste studies, and pulp mill recovery efforts, while noting 55 municipalities still dump raw sewage and the 1949 laws increasing funding and staffing to advance the program.
A WKTY radio program offering prizes for listeners who recognize numbers read on air led to a complaint from a caller who mistook 580 for a dial reference. The mixup arose when the five digit phone number 2 8047 matched the on air cue and the phrase five eight zero.
Secret testimony before the Tydings committee reveals Jim McInerny describing White House pressure to indict Amerasia defendants. He recounts a 1943 special Saturday court session, efforts to secure guilty pleas from Philip Jaffe, and a $2500 fine outcome while defending DOJ actions amid 4th amendment issues.
Washington announces a sweeping reform of military justice to standardize procedures across all services and modernize language. The new code, effective May 31 1931, provides juries of enlisted men, civilian lawyers for defense, and a three civilian judge military appeals court with 17500 pay for each judge.
May Peacock, longtime La Crosse Tribune columnist, became the second local staffer to win promotion to the Associated Press main office in New York, following George Zielke by a year and a half. The piece notes Notre Dame graduates and local sports triumphs, with brief mentions of other historical milestones.
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