Japan Ban on Communists Signals U S Role in Occupation
The United States led move to outlaw 24 top Communist Politburo members in Japan under General MacArthur as Tokyo politics tilt against Moscow aligned radicals. Elections show the pro occupation ticket winning while Communists win one seat amid clashes and a military court verdict on assault against American soldiers. The text notes pressures shaping a possible peace treaty and the aim to keep Japan allied with U S military and economic backbone.
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Red Politburo
MacArthur
Stooges
Soviet
Russia
Yoshida
House of Councillors
Moscow
Japan
China
Veterans Administration Announces Forthcoming Life Insurance Dividend
The VA reveals a second dividend on veterans life insurance premiums to be mailed next year. Unlike the prior payment based on 1940 to 1948 accumulations, this distribution rewards policyholders current on premiums. Future dividends depend on ongoing surpluses, with calls for potential reforms seen as risky by VA officials.
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Veterans
Veterans Administration
Armed Services
Veterans’ Insurance
Russian blunder ends Soviet claim to Ruhr control
The piece argues the Kremlin bungled German Ruhr dealings by vetoing elections, blocking promised East food shipments, and breaking the Allied Control Council. Western powers now refuse any Russian influence in Ruhr management, a major loss for the Soviet Union and a warning against further blunders.
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Kremlin
Germany
Western Germany
Ruhr
Soviet Union
Domestic Policy Bows To International Steel Cartel
The article argues US policy shifts toward the Franco German steel cartel, with Britain likely to join later. It notes export limits, potential British veto rights, and the US government backing for cartelization as part of economic integration, affecting domestic steel capacity and nationalization concerns.
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Washington
United States
America
Truman
Europe
Far East
India
Latin America
Britain
Germany
Italy
Wisconsin party machinery fades into extra legal ranks
In Milwaukee end of formal state party committees looms as practical operatives push extra legal methods. Democratic and GOP leaders Jerome Fox and Wayne Hood say statutory bodies are nearly dead while a few duties remain, like nominating polling officials and filling rare ticket vacancies.
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Republican
Democrat
Wyngaard
Wisconsin
League of Women Voters
Oshkosh
Jerome Fox
Chilton
Democratic Organizing Committee
Fox
Wayne Hood
la Crosse
Messrs. Fox and Hood
Court rulings advance equality for Negroes across voting travel education
A Washington memo outlines decades of U S Supreme Court decisions expanding civil rights for African Americans. It covers voting in the South from 1927 to 1949, property covenants struck in 1948, travel on trains and buses, and equal access to higher education from 1938 to 1950, with the court insisting segregation cannot prevail where state services are provided. The summary notes the 1896 principle that segregation requires equal treatment and highlights the ongoing erosion of Jim Crow through targeted rulings.
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Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
South
Texas
U. S. Court of Appeals
South Carolina
Modern Dairy Co. Opens at New La Crosse Location
Ten years ago the Modern Dairy Co. announced a public opening at its new address 1303 South Seventh Street on Sunday. Other items note violin and piano pupils performing, sewer work progress in Pine Street, Dr Werner Hager from Berlin visiting, and a Pettibone island dance with forty couples.
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Modern Dairy Co
South Seventh Street
Rudolf Kvelve
Louise Knudson
Kvelve
Pine Street
Werner Hager
University of Wisconsin
Alonzo Hauser
E. Wyona Hauser
Cameron Avenue
Hager
Berlin
Germany
Adolph Gundersen
Pettibone Island
WKBH
Radio Commission
Washington
WKBC
Birmingham
Ala
Hello to a Stranger Brightens a Summer Day
A narrator recalls greeting a blind woman on a sunny June day and reflecting on how a simple hello can share the day’s beauty. The piece urges friendliness despite fear of rejection and notes how small acts of kindness ripple through ordinary life.
Pearson Admits Taft Differences. Denials and Accusations Analyzed
Drew Pearson revisits his railing against Senator Taft and others who labeled him a liar. He contrasts Taft’s denials with contemporaneous reports by AP and others, recalls Stimson’s Navy base denial, and notes taft’s shifting stance on McCarthy charges and political pressure.
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Washington
Taft
McCarthy
Bill White
New York Times
GOP
Wisconsin
Ed Hankinson
The
Ray Lahr
Phil Potter
Baltimore Sun
Dave McConnell
New York Herald-Trib
Lattimore
Ohio
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the Common
James Marlow
the Nation Today
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la Crosse Tribune
St. Francis School of Nursing
United Cigar Stores Co
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Viking
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S. A. Boyd
YMCA
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R. L. Bangsberg
Chaseburg
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Walter Bay
Drew Pearson
Senator Taft
Congressman May
Peapsone
State Department
Henry L. Stimson
Manchuria
Stimson
Hoover
Chile
Mexico
U. S
White House
Herbert Hoover
Pacific
Senator Russell
Georgia
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