Berlin Rail Strike Ends as Big Four Agree Trade Pact
The Berlin rail strike neared end after a Soviet American accord and a four-power draft of a Germany trade treaty. Western commanders and labor leaders planned Sunday acceptance of terms, with wages boosted and no reprisals promised, paving the way for resumed East West commerce.
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Berlin
Council of Ministers
Paris
Notiic Medinam
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Paris Council of Foreign Ministers
Clerical Letter Defies Czechs Rallying Catholic Action
Archbishop Josef Beran signed a clerical letter defying government decrees as priest Antonin Mandl, secretary of Catholic Action, was seized. The move followed state plans to form a government-controlled Catholic Action amid church tensions in Czechoslovakia. The letter, approved by bishops at Olomouc, vows no submission to church engravement.
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Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Catholic Action
Antonin Mandl
New
Beran
Olomouc
Local Weather Outlook for La Crosse Area
Partly cloudy warm and humid conditions to favor La Crosse and vicinity. Sunday will reach near 90 degrees with mild breeze and possible humidity spikes.
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Top Demos Heading For Corn Belt And Vote-Getting Spree
Truman administration plans a two day Des Moines farm conference with leaders like Barkley Brannan Tobin and McGrath to mobilize farm vote for 1950. The event aims to push a Brannan farm plan offering high returns to farmers and cheap food for consumers amid overproduction and falling prices.
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Truman
Des Moines
Iowa
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Tobin
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Foreign Ministers Dine as German Deadlock Persists
At Paris a dinner with Andrei Vishinsky and U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson followed hours of talks on German unification. The Big Four failed to advance a German treaty or Berlin conundrum with Austria discussed as an alternative.
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Andrei Vishinsky
Moscow
Dean Acheson
Germany
Vishinsky
Foreign Ministers Council
Kremlin
Acheson
Philip C. Jessup
Robert Murphy
Charlies E. Bohlen
Robert Schuman
Ernest Bevin
Berlin
Austria
Ambassador Stuart Heads to Shanghai on Diplomacy Mission
U S Ambassador J Leighton Stuart departed on Saturday for Shanghai for a three day visit becoming the first diplomat to travel to Shanghai since Reds occupied Nanking on May 24 and signaling renewed U S engagement in the region.
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Nanking
U.S
J. Leighton Stuart
Shanghai
Night riders threaten woman at cross in Birmingham and cafe
A 42 year old white woman reported robed attackers dragged her from her home on Friday, threatened to burn her at a stake, and said they were the law themselves. In a separate Brookside cafe incident, robed riders threatened the owner but caused no injuries.
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Ala
Erie
Hugh McDonal
Brookside
Steve Marshiar
Marshlar
Flag Day Parade Planned in La Crosse
La Crosse observes Flag Day next Tuesday with a parade and Riverside park program under Elks lodge No 300 sponsorship. Units assemble at 6 30 p m at court house square, parade to Riverside park, and a park program with Logan high school band, Boy Scouts, and dignitaries including Marshall Batho and Everett J Hoch.
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Riverside Park
Elks’ Lodge No. 300
Court House Square
W. Ahlstrom
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Main
Anderson Memorial
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Ellis’ Lodge
Hoover Criticizes New Era for Substituting Security
Former President Herbert Hoover, in Delaware Ohio, denounces a new era that puts security ahead of self reliance. He warns security spares risk but robs the joy of competition and personal achievement during the installation of Arthur S. Flemming as president of Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Delaware
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Arthur Sherwood Flemming
Ohio Wesleyan University
Death by own action added to Coplon trial
Morton E. Kent a 48 year old Harvard graduate and former government employee died by his own hand after slipping into the Potomac. Police say he paddled off alone after taking a canoe to picnic and was found with his throat cut near a rocky isle. Coroner labeled it death by own action as FBI data slips tied him to Judith Coplon espionage case.
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FBI
Judith Coplon
Morton E. Kent
Harvard
Kent
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Dist
A. Magruder MacDonald
Coplon
Archibald Palmer
Tracy's Wife Critical After Suspected Barbiturate Poisoning
Helen Lee Tracy 37 wife of actor Lee Tracy was in critical condition at St. Clare's hospital after a coma was found in her hotel suite. Police say a doctor diagnosed suspected barbiturate poisoning with barbital as the sedative factor.
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New York
Helen Lee Tracy
Lee Tracy
St. Clare’s Hospital
Du Pont Director Robert R. M. Carpenter Dies at 71
Robert R. M. Carpenter, longtime director and former vice president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., died Saturday in Memorial Hospital Wilmington at age 71.
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Del
Robert R. M. Carpenter
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co
Memorial Hospital
Dog Lover Ordered to Stop His Hound Music
Des Moines judge confines Henry W. Clayton to halt the pack of coon hounds he keeps in his backyard describing their howls as a public nuisance. The court orders cease within three days to end the “music” heard by neighbors night and day.
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Des Moines
Henry W. Clayton
Clayton
C. Edwin Moore
Truman urges world aid and Europe rearm plan mixed
President Truman called for rearming Europe and asked Congress to aid needy regions. Senators Taft McKellar Connally varied in reaction, with McKellar proposing a billion-dollar cut. Truman spoke before about 12,000 in Arkansas and drew about 100,000 along the parade route.
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Truman
Europe
Congress
Washington
Taft
Ohio
GOP
McKellar
D-Tenn
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Defense Johnson
Sid McMath
Arkansas
Harry H. Vaughan
Marvin Potts
Gary Tackles Assault Case and Crime Drive in Gary
A Gary crime commission delegation met Mayor Eugene Swartz to discuss police reform after the beating death of 18 year old Betty Fialkowski. The chair said no conclusions were reached while police seek the assailant. The group urged reorganization and stronger protection as Gary women begin a crime prevention drive following a prior murder.
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Swartz
Mary Cheever
Welfare and School Plans Endorsed by Wisconsin Republicans
Republican campaign workers at the Wisconsin convention urged broad improvements in state government welfare and education services. A resolution backed larger appropriations and reorganization, while Rennebohm warned tax costs. Delegates also endorsed district reapportionment and condemned the Democratic national administration for an economic crisis.
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Oscar Rennebohm
Wisconsin Republican Party
Harold Damon
Wau
Republican
Isconsin
Rennebohm
Republican State Legislative Caucus
Oscar A. Rennebohm
Resolutions Committee
GOP
Eooly
Delbert J. Kenny
West Bend
Joseph J. Walsh
Potosi
Wisconsin Rural Schools Association
Delegates Endorse Party Endorsement Plan at Wisconsin Meet
The Republican voluntary organization voted to endorse state candidates and a U S senator in primaries. Harvey Wrigley led the push for mandatory endorsements amid noisy proceedings with few votes against. Milwaukee and Sun Prairie delegates mostly supported the change, aiming to curb machine politics.
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United States
Republican Voluntary Machine
Harvey Wrigley
Sen
Jess
Richland Center
Miller
Julius Spearbreaker
Waupaca County
State Capitol
la Crosse
Milwaukee
Milwaukean
W. J. Morgan
Wilbur J. Renk
Sun Prairie
GOP
Chicago quartet crowned 1949 SPEBSQSA champs
The Mid States Four of Chicago won the 11th annual SPEBSQSA international quartet contest Saturday night in Buffalo New York earning the national title and top honors.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
Truman Returns to Washington From Little Rock Flight
President Truman landed in Washington at 6 40 p m after flying from Little Rock Arkansas aboard the Independence. He said the 21 mile per hour tail wind helped the plane reach about 321 miles an hour and the trip lasted slightly over three hours. Miss Margaret Truman greeted her father at the airport and he gave her a blue stuffed donkey souvenir from the 35th division reunion.
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Truman
Little Rock
Ark
Independence
Margaret Truman
35Th Division
Yucatan Indians Earn Their Brides
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Tribune
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