Slugging Parking Meter User Pleads Guilty in La Crosse
La Crosse defendant Eugene R. Brink, 30, admitted using slugs in city parking meters at Third and Jay streets. He was fined $25 and costs after pleading guilty to using slugs while authorities note he sometimes mixed slugs with nickels to obtain hours for pennies.
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la Crosse
Eugene R. Brink
Ward Avenue
Clarence Koblitz
Brink
Third
Jay Streets
Koblitz
United States
Abduction Follows St. Paul Holdup Fail
A gunman abducted an 18 year old St. Paul girl after a failed holdup. Five hours later police arrested a 35 year old former Wisconsin man found sleeping in his car by a highway. The victim said she was twice raped. companions identified the suspect as the kidnapper. The man claimed to be Carl Eugene Stout of Eugene Oregon.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Wisconsin
Pat McDonald
John Baum
Carl Eugene Stout
Eugene
Ore
Ashland
Wis
Duluth
Truman praises democracy and warns against fear
President Truman argues that civilization can rise to greater heights despite global dangers. He notes democracies learn from fierce debate, while warning Russia that US public discourse shows strength, not weakness, and recalls postwar foreign aid to defend recovery and liberty. He heads to St. Louis for Phi Beta Kappa honors.
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Truman
Phi Beta Kappa
Scholarship Society
St. Louis
Russ
Russia
Governor Lauds Legislature’s Welfare Drive and Education Progress
Rennebohm notes that the party drew banner men and women who believe in good government and will work to achieve it. He cites the 1949 legislature’s work in education, state building, and public welfare, particularly mental hygiene, as reasons Republicans deserve re election.
Writers jailed for contempt of Congress in Washington
Hand cuffed together Hollywood writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo were jailed Friday. Each was sentenced to a year for contempt of Congress with a possibility of sentence reduction by federal judges.
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Washington
Hollywood
John Howard Lawson
Dalton Trumbo
Storm Damage and Power Outages Across Monroe County
Widespread storm damage prompted city crews to clear debris from West avenue and Cass street area overnight. Power and telephone lines were out until repairs by linemen, with Norwalk Cataract and Hersheyville reporting outages. Rainfall totals included Sparta 1.03 inches, La Crosse 0.89, and the airport 1.08. A Kansas tornado injured five on Thursday. La Crosse forecasts call for cooler, fair weather with a 52 low Friday and 70 high Saturday.
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West Avenue
Cass Street
Park Department
Monroe County
Norwalk
Cashton
Hersheyville
J. W. Mohr
Monroe County Telephone Co
Mohr
Garth Tourville
Sparta
Northern States Power Co
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Associated Press
Park Falls
Lone Rock
Blair
Hillsboro
McPherson
Kansas
Wisconsin Gubernatorial Endorsements Complicate Primary Scene
The piece surveys the Wisconsin Republican delegate fight for governor and attorney general, naming Higley Bubolz Kohler and Nicol as leading contenders. It notes tensions within party factions, possible brokered deals, and McCarthy’s absence from endorsements ahead of the convention. Mentions Rennebohm Wiley and Stassen links.
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Wisconsin
Higley
State Legion Department
Republican State Committee
Bubolz
George Smith
Nicol
Kohler
Thomas E. Coleman
Madison
Republican Party
Ugo Murray
Milwaukee
Metropolis
J R. Durfee
Antigo
L. R. Watson
Warren Knowles
Richmond
Senate
Harold Stassen
Philadelphia
Coleman
Knowles
Stassen
Sen. McCarthy
Sen
McCarthy
Alexander Wiley
Winona Livestock Prices and Hours by Swift & Company
Swift & Company lists buying hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday for the Winona livestock market. Quotations hold until 4 p.m. Cattle with excessive fat will be discounted and those arriving after closing are weighed and priced the next morning. Condition affects paying prices.
Spartan County Court Rules on Crossing Dispute and Local Charges
In Sparta Wisconsin Judge Lambert Hansen granted a temporary restraining order allowing farmer Lawrence Ziegler to cross neighbor John Mohring’s field to reach his soybean crops, citing a 40 year implied right amid a gate nailed shut by Mohring. The session also lists marriage licenses and a detailed volley of police court cases including drunken driving fines and vagrancy actions.
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Sparta
Wis
Lambert Hansen
Hansen
Lawrence Ziegler
John Mohring
Ziegler
Mohring
la Crosse
Donald Tanke
South Fourth Street
Anita Schreier
Loomis Street
Charlies and Sill Streets
Barlish
Division Street
Rotnours Grocery
Third
Market Streets
Alfred Scheel
Leo M. Pyle
Hartford
Wisconsin
Carroll Beaver
Milner
Carl Koch, Jr
Jackson Street
16Th Street
George Kihm
Maple Street
Fourth Street
Ellsworth Dahl
South Third Street
Robert Dotts
South Eighth Street
Edward LaSeure
State Street
Charles Miller
Kellogg, Minn
McCarthy Claims State Dept Files Show Spring Cleaning
Senator McCarthy says state department security files were cleaned and distributed documentary material on Jessup and others. He attacks Owen Latimore and Acheson as soft on communism, cites a New York grand jury indictment of William Remington to question government anti communism claims.
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State Department
McCarthy
Jessup
Owen Lattimore
Louis Budenz
Lattimore
Milwaukee Journal
Budenz
Acheson
Poland
China
Republic
Pacific
New York
William W. Remmington
J. Howard McGrath
Remington
Commerce Department
Gold and Two Suspects Indicted in Atom Spy Case
A Brooklyn grand jury indicted Harry Gold and two unidentified persons on charges of atom spying against the United States. The indictment names John Doe alias John and Richard Roe alias Sam, noting their true names are unknown. Gold was arrested in Philadelphia on May 23, with espionage information mentioning a John Doe agent for the Russian government.
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Washington
Brooklyn
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
United States
Justice Department
Gold
John Doe
John
Richard Roe
Sam
Crackup on Mississippi River Bridge Causes $350 Loss
Police reported a two car crash on the Mississippi river bridge at 12:13 p m Friday with estimated damages totaling 350. Chester Sanford of 1509 South 22nd street suffered 300 in damage to his car after stopping to pick up passengers while traveling west. Frank J Davy of 307 South 19th street driving a second vehicle collided with Sanford.
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Mississippi River
Chester Sanford
South 22Nd Street
Frank J. Davy
South 19Th Street
Dane County DA Seeks State Office
Dane County District Attorney Robert W. Arthur announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for attorney general in the fall primary election. He plans to run in Madison Wisconsin and seeks statewide office.
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Dane County
Madison
Wis
Dane
Robert W. Arthur
Wisconsin Democratic committee to hold platform hearing
The Wisconsin Democratic organizing committee said it will hold a platform hearing in Milwaukee on Saturday. The session precedes the party convention scheduled for Eau Claire June 16 17 and 18.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Democratic Organizing Committee
Milwaukee
Eau Claire
Annual Lawn Party at La Crosse Home for Children
The La Crosse Home for Children hosts a Sunday lawn party from 3 to 6 PM at 609 South 11th Street. Music and entertainment fill the program as the event invites public attendance to raise funds for a new fire escape.
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la Crosse
South 11Th Street
Children of the Home
Mother of 3 Killed in Wisconsin Railway Collision
Mrs. Frank Leiber, 32, of Fitchburg, was struck and killed Thursday night by a Northwestern railway train as she walked home from a farm four miles south of Madison. She was a mother of three children.
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Madison
Wis
Frank Leiber
Fitchburg
North Western Railway
Here
Leiber
Rent Boosts Reported To Local Office
More than a dozen tenants reported rent hikes to the La Crosse housing authority seeking aid to relocate. Five renters from one property owner faced boosts from 20 to 50 dollars starting in June across five dwellings, with water paid by tenants and improvements optional. An older adult relief recipient saw a rise from 12 to 30 dollars, another from 15 to 45, and two families in a double house saw rents go from 32 to 50.
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la Crosse Housing Authority
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Bourbon
Fitzgerald
Amy
John A. Murphy
South 14Th
Gysbert van Steenwyk
South 11Th
Thurs
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Tribune
Gus Schilling
Kotnour
Third and Market
Alex Nicol
State Assembly
Thomson
Vernon Thomson
Richland Center
Donald J. Martin
Martin
Joseph R. McCarthy
America
Winona Livestock
Swift & Company
Hnhvu.s
William Rose
Seattle
Wash
James S. Bednard
Bond
Joseph Tisthammer
R. 1
State Road
Adrian Frey
Wallace R. Johnson
Onalaska
Harvey A. Schrader
Caledonia Street
Spedting
Donald Squire
William Brandan
Wilton
Paul Babbitt
Kenneth Fleck
Chicago
Oates
USDA
F.o.b
U. S
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California
Tydings
Communist Party
Congress
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Howeer
McMahon
Lucas
Ohio
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Chicago & NW
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Chicago, R. I. & Pac
Ohio Oil
Mass. Ing. Tr
Owens Inl. Glass
No. States Power
Comwealth Edison Packard Motor
Cleveland Clift
Congoleum-Nairn
Pan Am. Airways
Northwest Banc
Edison
Paramount Pictures
Sears Roebuck
Paragon
Shell Oil
Prentiss-Walters
General Electric
Simmons Co
Ray-O-Vac
General Foods
Sinclair Oil Salway Steel
General Motors Socony-Vacuum
la Crosse Tel
General Time
Southern Pacific
Goodrich
Lits
Goodyear Spiegel Standard Brands
Abbott Lab
Nor
Iron Ore
Standard Oil
Cal
Allied Chem. & Dye
Nor. Ry Pt
Ind
Allied Stores
Greyhound
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Allis-Chalmers
Homestake Mining
Starrett
L. 8
Hood
Union Carbide Am Tobacco
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Nickel
Union Pacific Am
Tel. & Tel
United Airlines
Jewel Tea
United Aircraft
Armco Steel Anaconda Copper
Johns-Manville
U. S. Rubber Armour & Co
Kennecott
Kimberly-Clark
U. S. Steel
Western
Broue Geforce
Ras Town
Neumann Monument CO
la Crosse, Wis
St. Dial
McKenzie Eres
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