House OKs vast army air corps funding in defense bill
The House passed a defense appropriation including about 5.28 billion in the army air corps program with 280 million in next year contract authorizations. Rep Engel led opposition to a related amendment while Dirksen argued against cutting army pay, fearing reduced enlisted and officer strength next year.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Air Corps
Rep. Engel
R-Mich
Engel
Dirksen
Army
Arkansas Farmer Moves Home To Reach Electric Line
Washington reports the rural electrification administration documented a farmer in Arkansas who could not get power lines to his house. J. D. Murphree, 14 miles south of Newport, applied for REA service but a material shortage prevented extending the line half a mile. He then put skids under his house and moved it to the electric source using a tractor.
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Arkansas
J. D. Murphree
Newport
Ark
REA
City hearing Friday on La Crosse Country Club lease
Grounds and buildings committees of the common council will hold a Friday night hearing at 7 30 p m for those who object to renewing the city owned land lease to the La Crosse Country Club. The lease renewal has prompted year long debates and the park board shares oversight. only objectors will be heard.
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Common Council
la Crosse Country Club
Warren Smith
Country Club
Hixon
Coleman
Board of Park Commissioners
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
Park Board
Smith
Newsprint Shortage May Be Resolved Earlier
Chairman Clarence J. Brown of the House newsprint investigating committee said the newsprint shortage could be solved months earlier than originally anticipated. He spoke in Washington noting progress and optimism about solving the supply issue.
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Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
House
Special Businessmen Event Planned At Airport On Sunday
La Crosse businessmen will gather at the airport next Sunday for a free flight demonstration. Leo Schneider will showcase his Stinson Voyager four passenger plane with flights from 10 a.m. to sunset. Schneider tours to Detroit Chicago and Milwaukee for business and back the same day, often using air travel to relax with his family on weekends.
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Leo Schneider
Stinson
la Crosse
Schneider
Detroit
Chicago
Milwaukee
Robert Cline
Rice Lake
Wis
Canada
Sheriff Accused of Violating Law in Auto Purchases and Resales
Homer G. Bell of the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department told Milwaukee County District Attorney William J. McCauley that an investigation would indicate Sheriff George Hanley violated state law by purchasing and reselling eight new 1946 and 1947 model cars within three months. Deputy DA John S. Barry said the report prompts a DA inquiry for failure to register the vehicles at purchase.
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Madison
Wis
Homer G. Bell
Motor Vehicle Department
Milwaukee
William J. McCauley
George Hanley
Wisconsin
Bell
Hanley
Reputation Of Wisconsin Asylums Praised By Expert
Edna Nicholson of the Chicago Institute for the chronically ill and aged told the Wisconsin county asylums association that Wisconsin’s institutions merit higher praise. At the 46th annual convention M G McLeod of Menomonie was elected president, with Paul Widmann of Bay as vice president M J Hansen of Sparta as secretary and William Emmerton of Verona as treasurer.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Edna Nicholson
Chicago Institute For
Miss Nicholson
Wisconsin County Asylums Association
Middle West
West Coast
M. G. McLeod
Menomonie
Paul Widmann
Bay
M. J. Hansen
Sparta
William Emmerton
Verona
Wisconsin May traffic deaths rise to 64 in 1947
Wisconsin motor vehicle department reports 64 fatalities on state highways in May, bringing five month total to 250, with 270 deaths in the same period last year. Licenses revoked climb from 351 to 498, suspensions from 118 to 167, and courts ordered 1,962 revocations year to date.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Motor Vehicle Department
Ripon man killed in Fond du Lac auto crash
Lionel Krause age 20 of Ripon died when the car he rode in left the road and overturned in Fond du Lac on Wednesday.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Lionel Krause
Ripon
Searing fall kills Green Bay man at Algoma church
Orville J. Sears, 44, of Green Bay, died instantly after plunging 100 feet from the steeple of St. Marys Catholic church in Algoma while cleaning the structure.
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Algoma
Wis
Orville J. Sears
Green Bay
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Golfer Uses Four-Legged Caddy Brada the Doberman
Mrs. Edward Spalding of Lake Forest uses her year old Doberman Pinscher Brada as a caddy. Brada pulls a cart holding clubs, built from a child’s tricycle. The dog is trained to fetch balls and help locate them. Trainer Ludwig Gessner advised and taught Brada the tricks.
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Chicago
Edward Spalding
Lake Forest
Brada
Claims Bill Is Merger Says Senate Plan Unifies Services
Senator Robertson argues the pending army navy unification bill would merge military and naval forces under a secretary of national security. The measure, approved 12 to 6 by the Senate Armed Services Committee in his absence, includes clear merger lines despite a navy provision denying a merger.
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Washington
Robertson
R-Wyo
Wyoming
Senate Armed Services Committee
Two Arabs Killed in Holy Land Violence Amid Attacks
In Jerusalem the new wave of violence left two Arabs dead as bombs wrecked the Athlit railway station and damaged the Iraq Petroleum pipeline near Haifa. British authorities blame Jewish extremists for the bombings. Nearby Treaty Oak in South Bend Indiana recalls La Salle’s 1681 treaty with the Indians.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Athlit
Iraq Petroleum Company
Haifa
Treaty Oak
South Bend
Ind
la Salle
No Grounds For Prosecution In Kansas City Voting Fraud
FBI questioned only six persons as the Justice Department found no basis for federal charges in Kansas City voting fraud. J Edgar Hoover testified that the inquiry followed instructions from Attorney General Clark while a state grand jury indicted 78 people for election law violations and theft of ballots from a blown safe.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Justice Department
Kansas City
Senate
Clark
Sentence Veltre To Six Months In Jail For Delinquency
Chicago report says Frank A. Veltre 20 of Alverda Pennsylvania was sentenced in boys courts to six months in the county jail on two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of disorderly conduct. Police arrested him May 28 in a hotel with two 16 year old runaways from Oshkosh Wisconsin who are now under juvenile care.
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Chicago
Frank A. Veltre
Alverda
Veltre
Oshkosh
Wis
No Shutdown Expected In Coal Talks Across Regions
Morgantown West Virginia United Mine Workers and coal operators negotiations for a new contract have ended. Coal Mines Administrator N H Collisson expressed confidence that there will be no shutdown despite terminated talks.
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Morgantown
W. Va
United Mine Workers
N. H. Collisson
Iowa Floods and Storms Hit Central Regions
Cloud bursts and torrential rains across central and southern Iowa and parts of Nebraska caused rising rivers and widespread damage. Five inches fell in Plattsmouth while Des Moines saw three inches and Indianola five inches. Evacuation warnings were issued as river stages were forecast to rise seven feet above normal, with houses demolished in Massena.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Nebraska
Plattsmouth
Nebr
Platte
Missouri
Indianfola
Weather Bureau
Massena
Iowa-Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Assembly Passes Benzoic Acid Permit for Soda
Madison voters approved a measure allowing bottlers to use up to one twentieth of one percent benzoic acid in soda as part of a broader Assembly agenda. The session also advanced teacher salary minimums, a state press oversight proposal, a beer sale age near final passage, and prescription controls on certain medicines.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
Simmons
D-Mil
Waukee
Senate
State Bureau of Alcohol Studies
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