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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
1
Rep John Byrnes opened the National Young Republican Federation session in Milwaukee urging a strong peaceful, productive America. Gov Frank Carlson criticized federal spending and urged education to curb ignorance while pledging to elect a Republican president to curb Washington bureaucracy.
European resentment over American policy puts Washington in a tough spot as it seeks a new economic recovery plan for Europe. Officials, including Secretary Marshall, argue Europe must draft a program to put itself on its feet while Washington offers aid to the fullest. Europeans’ response to U S guidance and eastern western European tensions shape the approach as debt and barriers persist two years after V E Day.
Considerable cloudiness tonight and Saturday with occasional local showers. Warmer Saturday. Low tonight 55 degrees. High Saturday 82 to 84 degrees.
Henry Streicher the park department superintendent says workers began filling the municipal pool today. Two to three days will be needed for water to warm enough for swimming with a hoped opening day around Tuesday.
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Budapest reports quote Matyas Rakosi praising the coup that ousted Premier Ferenc Nagy as a feat solved without foreign press interference. The U.S. State Department condemns the events in a note to Russia, while Hungarians seek news in cellars and whisper to avoid informants.
Senator Taft accuses President Truman of creating the basic conditions that push prices higher. He outlines a five point program showing the administration’s policies have increased costs. Truman called Taft’s economic views fallacious and dangerous in a Thursday broadcast.
La Crosse Traffic Bureau elected Allie Larkin president and Francis J. Duffy vice president. Francis D. Shirven became treasurer and Clarence E. Tanke secretary. W. P. Roellig will represent La Crosse on the combined traffic board with Winona. Frank Sisson and George W. Hoel are alternates.
A light seaplane attempting takeoff from the Ohio river crashed into a north side residence. Three people aboard were killed including two men and a woman, and the impact set four homes on fire. Local firefighters contained the blaze.
House Democrats denounce failure as Republicans push the halved budget cut past the halfway point in 1948 spending, citing a reduced war department cut and a new airplane fund. The $5.28 billion bill moves to the senate with $435.8 million less than the Truman estimate, prompting contention over true savings and accounting tricks.
Senator Taft says final congressional approval of the union curbing labor bill is likely by nightfall despite Democratic opposition. House Republicans back the measure, which bars the closed shop and union shops without a worker vote, and creates new mediation rules and penalties for strikes. Senator Morse remains opposed, pledging to support a veto if needed.
The Aquinas high school commence ment exercises conclude week Friday at 8 p m in the Vocational school auditorium. Most Rev John P Treacy coadjutor bishop of La Crosse will present diplomas to 192 graduates. Paul Noelke Milwaukee lawyer and Aquinas 1932 graduate is main speaker. Eleanore Rossiter valedictorian and Louise Leibl salutatorian will address the class.
Tomoya Kawakita 25, a Calexico native, is jailed without bail as a wartime foreman at a Honshu prison camp. FBI traced him after ex GI Tomoya Bruce identified him in a Los Angeles store and noted his car license. Prosecutors expect hearings June 11 with up to 160 former servicemen ready to testify about mistreatment.
Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves told a Senate subcommittee that a fuller FBI report on Kansas City primary election irregularities might have led to a grand jury investigation. He noted he only received a synopsis from U S Attorney Sam Wear and questioned the handling as the panel probes Justice Department actions. The Kansas City affair centers on alleged fake ballot counts and missing ballots amid a 1948 primary contest won by Enos Axtell over Rep. Roger Slaughter.
Mary Jane Taylor of Red Mound Wisconsin marks her 105th birthday on a Vernon county farm. The long lived, glasses-free elder reads newsprint with sharp vision while her son Homer Taylor tends corn and harrows fields. She keeps cold baths and daily newspaper rituals.
United States approval of satellite peace treaties assigns sole responsibility to Soviet Russia for any delay in pulling Red Army troops from Hungary. Senate ratification strengthens U S position against the Hungarian coup, while Truman warns against Moscow. Immediate effects are expected to be limited.
The Independent Telephone Guild of Wisconsin opened its convention in Milwaukee focusing on affiliating with the National Telephone Workers union, the Communication Workers of America. Arthur B. Lefevre said delegates would be elected to represent Wisconsin at the CWA charter convention in Miami June 9 to 11. New guild officers will be named, a district business agent appointed, and a six month policy set.
Willing to release shortly were Shanghai students and newspaper reporters arrested in a roundup if no substantial evidence they were Communist agents. Several colleges had resumed classes after a four week strike over food, curriculum changes, and an end to the civil war that precipitated the arrests.
Monsignor Carlo Respighi, prefect of apostolic ceremonies and a noted prelate who directed all papal ceremonies, died Friday morning at the Vatican. His death closes a long career directing rites in which the Pope participated.
The State Department prepared a strong note approved by President Truman accusing Soviet authorities in Hungary of helping oust Premier Nagy and other cabinet members. The document calls for a joint investigation and warns of a United Nations appeal if responses are unsatisfactory.
The Army Air Forces have temporarily grounded all 194 C-54 Skymasters worldwide as a safety precaution to inspect tail fittings after reports of loose and sheared bolts. Planes to return to service in a few days. no C-54s were found in such condition in routine inspections.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen met in the New York governor's hotel suite. The two top GOP figures offered no comment to reporters after the hour long discussions on the party's 1948 presidential nomination prospects.
The British press association reported Churchill, aged 72, is expected to undergo an operation that could sideline him from public duties for about a month. Churchill's secretary offered no comment.
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