End of German Trade Talks Leaves Wage Walkout Deadlock
Reported breakdown in Berlin as negotiators fail on key points. Trade unions threaten a general strike while authorities in Paris seek a foreign ministry briefing. The standoff centers on payment terms and wartime occupation powers, with no immediate resolution in sight.
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Berlin
Couner
Fereigany Miniatere
Paris
Fauyslins
West Trede
Germany
Ferby
Piris
Amiene
Lernyson
Undterk
Uiiten Gaye Prine
Bissi
Perlin
Warrant Served on Lobbyist in Dane County
Dane County deputy sheriff served five lobbying license warrants on lobbyist Torkel Leu Geiger, connected to Wise and Thee Birideleas. Beher We Arthie announced the action after an investigation into alleged state violations and misreported income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madino MW
Wis
Wielos
Ae State
Tebllst
Matas
Hoebeb Machison
Pipers
Coebels
Torkel
Diocese Rally Draws 15000 Catholics in Wausau Area
About 15,000 Roman Catholics from the La Crasse diocese gathered at Marathon County Fairgrounds for a rally led by a speaker denouncing religious persecution in Soviet countries. The event noted a cool Tuesday with a high around 58 and rising afternoon temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wausau
Wis
la Craase
Marathon Coins
Samilae
Faron
Sheen Elise
la Crosse
Vishinsky seeks limited postwar German agreement
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky met with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin in a private weekend talk to pursue a limited German settlement. The plan aims to resolve Berlin access, currency for Berlin, and East West trade, with a possible four power session adjournment and a future meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Dynan
Andrei
Vishinsky
Ernest Bevin
Germany
Big Four
Foreign Ministers Council
Vishinaky
Bevin
U.S
Dean Acheson
Roberts Schulman
Council
Berlin
Tard Vishinsky
Jail escapee recaptured in Wisconsin theft case
Freeport man Paice Sunday captured Roadie Metoft a 20 year old wanted in Wisconsin for car theft and jail escape he was held for Wisconsin authorities after being recognized as he left a train Metoft waived extras ofition and was recaptured near Ellsworth Wisconsin weeks after the auto theft tied to Mrs Norman Hunter Trompealban June 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Paice
Metoft
Wisconsin
Ellsworth
Wis
Minois Central
Paulroadd
Motoff
Norman Hunter
Trompealban
Maden Hook
Itnois
Forbles Minded
Wise Conshi
Elsworth
Wiss
Seere
Warrenton
Metott
Rilaworth
Mid-States Four Wins SPEBSQSA Title
Chicago quartet Mid-States Four captured the 48th SPEBSQSA international quartet title at the 1th annual contest in Buffalo New York. About 8 000 attended the memorial auditorium as The Clef Dwellers The Antlers The Songmasters and The Varsity Four followed in the finals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
IPI
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
Barber Shop Quartet Singing In America, Inc
Mid-States
Spebsqsa
Memorial Auditorium
Clef Dwellers
Oakland County
Mich
the Antlers
Flint
Michs
Songmasters
Lansing
Varsity Four
LaFassette
Ind
Shanghai Blockade Halts World Shipping
British and American sources on Monday denied arming Chinese Nationalists with mines yet noted the Nationalists had held a four day blockade keeping world shipping out of Shanghai. The blockade remained solid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Top U S earners in 1947 reveal big salaries and heavy taxes
Treasury records show National Theatres Amusement Co. president Charles P. Skourias top the list at 810000 for 1947. Betty Grable led female earners with 208000, while billionaires and executives from American Tobacco Colgate-Palmolive and Bethlehem Steel populated the top ranks. Tax bites rose with higher incomes, with single filers paying roughly 149000 on 200000 and about 675000 on 800000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
i-Fi
Treasury Records
Leo McCarey
Treasury
America
Skhouras
Agalh
Vege Js
Charles P. Skourias
National Theatres Amusement Co
Fox West Coast
Cory
Betty Grable
Miss Grable
Seton Porter
National Distillers Products Corp
William Randolph Hearst
Theodore Seltzer
Bengue, Inc
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel
A. Bryant
Austin Co
AEC Scientists Back Commission Oppenheimer Leads Defense
Nine scientists on the AEC scientific advisory committee told Congress the agency has a sound forward looking program. Dr J Robert Oppenheimer defended isotope exports for research and said no isotopes were sent to Russia though some went to Finland and Norway. He testified as the Senate house atomic committee reviewed AEC management amid calls for chairman Lilienthal’s dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Commission
Oliver W. DE Wolf
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
AEC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Congressional
Oppenheimer
Russia
Finland
Oppenhemmer
U. S
Hickenlooper
Police Probe After Man Says Bay View Officers Beaten Him
Milwaukee police chief orders inquiry into Edward Rakus claim of police brutality after a drunken driving arrest Saturday. Rakus, 23, alleged beatings. doctor reported a basal skull fracture, though hospital X rays were negative. Bay View Lt Lester Alexander said Rakus was boisterous in custody, breaking furniture and flooding his cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
John Poleyn
Edward Rakus
Bay View
Rakus
Al‘vin Shapiro
Lester Alexander
Four children die in farmhouse fire near Somerset
A pregnant mother, Alice Faidley, died from burns while funeral services for her four children were underway. The fire at Charles Faidley’s farm near Somerset, Pennsylvania, killed Mary Ann, Charles, Barbara, and Gilbert and left Alice in critical condition after she gave birth to a stillborn son. The minister and Mr Faidley were informed of her death during the services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset
Memter
Mary Ann
Charles
Barbara
Gilbert
Charles Faidley
Faidley
Alice
Faidley Hads
Brannan Appeals For Farm Plan Support In 1950 Talks
Secretary Charles Brannan urged unity for Truman farm policies at a Midwest Democratic conference aimed at shaping 1950 congressional campaigns. He warned a farm downturn could threaten democracy and touted his plan with government subsidies and marketing quotas to raise farm incomes and prevent a broader economic crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovida
Martin Des Moines
Charles F. Brannan
Monnay
America
Democratic Party
Brannan
Truman
Congress
Bief
Youth dies after being thrown from car in Decorah
Oswald Sanderson aged 23 died in a Decorah hospital after falling from a moving car east of Decorah on STH 9 during a firecracker incident. Driver Vernon Hanson and two unnamed youths were present. Sanderson suffered a fractured neck and burial is at West Paint Creek Lutheran Church. He was the only son of Otto and unnamed Sandersons. cousins recalled earlier drowning death of Clarence Sanderson in 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Oswald Sanderson
Otto Sanderson
Waukon
Sanderson
Vernon Hanson
Decoran Hospital
Clarence Webster
Herman Weiest
Waterloo
Reuben Meyer
Milton Duval
Ludlow Township
Rose Marie
West Paint Creek Lutheran Church
E. O. Baalson
Clarence Sanderson
Oswald
Laborer Faces Murder Charge in Sheboygan
In Sheboygan Wisconsin an 82 year old laborer was to be charged with first degree murder over the bludgeoning death of Mellita Geyer 20. Robert Hertensteiner was taken into custody after alleging two young men attacked him at a vacant lot where the fatal beating occurred. Autopsy was planned and the district attorney announced the charges after consulting with Police Chief Walter Wagner. Mrs Geyer was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Edwin Bartz of near Elkhart.
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Sheboygan
Wis
iJohn Buchen
Robert Hertensteiner
Mellita Geyer
Walter Wagner
Geyer
Edwin Bartz
Elkhart
Hertenstein
Willard Sonneburg
Six Children Die In Blaze In Firthcliffe Home
Six children died from burns and asphyxiation when a flash fire swept their house early Sunday while their parents were visiting friends nearby. The Zagorski children were Bertha 10 Albert 6 Patricia 5 Toni 4 Jeanette 2 1/2 and Catherine six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firthcliffe
N.Y
Alex Zagorski
Bertha
Albert
Patricia
Toni
Jeanette
Catherine
Motherly dog nurses kittens in rare condition
Panda the two spotted dog in Decatur, not a mother yet, nurses two kittens Mitzie and Bucky. Vets diagnose false conception, a rare affliction allowing milk production without offspring. The owner, Mrs. Vera Henderson, calls the kittens “spoiled green.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Panda
Mitzie
Bucky
Mik
Vera Henderson
Mishaps Claim 17 Wisconsin Weekend Deaths
Hat and humid weather drew thousands to Wisconsin beaches over the weekend and swelled the state's accidental death toll. The report lists 17 fatalities including six drownings on Sunday and names victims such as Beveral Duerkop 14 of Eau Claire James Holland seven of Madison Dolores Jacobs six of Keshena John McGann Jr 25 of Milwaukee and eight year old Theodore Karpowicz among others with details of where they drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Beveral Duerkop
Eau Claire
Chippewa River
James Holland
Madison
Vilas Park
Dolores Jacobs
Keshena
Keshena Falls
John McGann, Jr
Flag Day Observance Plans Parade and Park Program
La Crosse marks Flag Day with a parade beginning at 7 p.m. from the courthouse square, directed by Judge Noy V. Abistrom, moving east on State Fifth Avenue to Main and Riverside park. A 7:30 p.m. park program at Anderson Memorial band shell features the Logan High School band, a flag pledge, prayers, a flag history by Chaplain A C Wolfe, a scholarship prize award by Everett J Hoch, and an address by Marshall Yee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Park
la Crosse
Carl Bruha
The
Elks’ Lodge
Bruha
Court House Square
Noy V. Abistrom
State
Fifth Avenue
Fifth
Main
Anderson Memorial
Logan High School
B. W. Ing
Ellis
A. C Wolfe
Everett J. Hoch
C. J. Weigel
Marshall
Pape
Fumes Fatal To Iowa Child Five Dies After Bonfire Incident
John Fellows five year old son of Mr and Mrs John Fellows Sr died Monday in a Decorah hospital from smoke and fumes inhaled after a bonfire he was playing near Sunday evening. He suffered severe burns to his head shoulders and arms and received first aid at Waukon before the transfer to Decorah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterville
John Fellows
Mirs
Decorah Hospital
Waukon
Decorah
Super Report on Red Espionage Actions Since 1922
House un American Activities Committee investigators work on a comprehensive super report tracing Communist spying from 1922 onward. They aim to reveal wartime atomic research efforts and a Berkeley radiation lab Red cell linked to Frank Oppenheimer and J Robert Oppenheimer, with more hearings planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Fi— House
House un-American Activities Committee
Rus Siam
England
Frank Oppenheimer
University of California At Berkeley
Oppenheimer
University of Minnesota
Miners Rally as Lewis Orders Walkout Across Industry
Pittsburgh report notes John L. Lewis led 450000 UMW coal diggers in a one week walkout with plans for a share in the work system and higher pay. Talks with Southern Can Manufacturers Association continue as unions press for a 40 hour week and higher royalties while contracts near expiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Southern Can Pr Association
Walter R. Thurmond
The
Southern Producers
UMW
Bluefield
W. Va
Philadelphia
U. S. Steel Corp
Big
Mississippi
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
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Allan B. Kline
American Farm Bureau Federation
Elks
Iowa
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
Gea Rubsiane
Luke
Tate
Tribune
Cail
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